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Padres rolled, well, they didn't roll. They came back. Three in the ninth, beat Pittsburgh, seven, six today. They got a little lucky. Got to be honest about that. Double play ground ball would have ended the game. Instead, bases loaded, throw by the shortstop. O'Neill Cruz missed the first base bag by a wide margin. Two runs came in on the play instead of the game being over and the Padres took a 6-5 lead. Luis Arise followed with an RBI double. Pittsburgh scored one in the bottom of the ninth against Suarez. But Robert finished it for his 25th save. Manny, a two-run homer, pro far, or not pro far today, was a Peralta. Two-run homer today. Pro far got hit by a pitch twice more today. Yeah. He's getting a little tired of that. He's getting pre-ticked off when I don't disagree. Yeah. I think he was hit four times in this series, including last night, where you thought he could have been out for a month. That's kind of crazy. He got hit last night. And, you know, look, the fourth time was a slider, so there was no intent. But you could only get hit so many times before you start getting a little bit mad at something. Yeah. And somebody, Pirates, come back here next week. Now, the Padres, you know, they just, they haven't really retaliated a lot this year. It's worked for them. So I'm not going to complain. I'm not going to call for them to go running around, start hitting everybody. But maybe I am. You know what I'm saying? Like a little part of you says you'd like to see, you know, the whole Washington National thing happened with pro far. And there was really no retribution other than beating the Nationals. Didn't they beat them all six times? Yeah. Yeah. I think that, you know, probably sent the message you wanted to send. I'm sure that's what Chilt's thinking, but God, I don't know. It's the hardest thing in the world for me sometimes, but yeah, you feel like a bigger person. Yeah. No, it's not easy for a lot of us to take revenge, but just to, you know, forgive the other person and move on. I mean, Manny's been hit a bunch. It seems like this year, pro far getting hit regularly now. Anyway, that's it is what it is. I know there's some people that want it. Some people say, just keep winning games. I say, get them back and win games. You know what I mean? But that's counter productive because then you're putting guys on base. Here's the funny. Here's the thing. The Padres, we looked it up today. The Padres have hit 43 batters this year as a staff. The Yankees have hit 73. Yeah. I don't know whether Aaron Boone is challenging the world, but that's a lot. That is a lot. Thirty more than the Padres have hit. And then we looked up like to see if the Padres have been hit way more than everybody else, but they haven't. No, Padres haven't been hit that I think 42 times or something like that. Anyway, it didn't matter in the end. Padres sweep the pirates moving in two and a half games of the Dodgers in the West. Arizona will try to keep pace with the Padres later on when they host the Phillies. Dodgers are idle today. Some other news to catch you up on. The United States men's basketball team provided some hope for those of us who really haven't been rooting for them to win the Golden Nettle. Like me? Like me? No. Oh, yeah. Never let them not win the Golden Nettle. You're a treasonous. Yes. The treason is out there. Serbia led by 13 going to the fourth quarter, but the U.S. outclassed them down the stretch. Steph Curry put in 36, including nine threes. LeBron, you know, the guy's one of the best ever for a reason, made some big plays, and B made some big shots. Durant, Serbia, which made 15 of 33s through three quarters, went 0 for 9 in the fourth. U.S. rallied for 95, 91 win. They'll take on France and Wendy. Wendy Yama for the gold medal on, I guess, it's Saturday. A couple of other quick notes. I mean, this is crucial. And it felt preseason week one is underway. The Lions have kicked the field goal. But the Giants just answered as I was speaking, Scrappy. Really? Touchdown. Giants. Cameron, the famous Eric Gray runs it in from 48 yards out. Whoever he is. I had him as at any time touchdown score tonight. Good for you. Well, you win. You cash in big. It was plus two thousand, two million to one. Eric Gray will score a touchdown. Whoever that is. Giants lead seven three over Detroit, Carolina, New England. Scoreless. All right, I told everybody, I promised everybody that by the end of this segment, you would all have a strong dislike for ESPN plus staff writer Bradford Doolittle. This isn't the first time I've picked on Bradford Doolittle. Oh, Bradford. Yeah. As Scrappy tells me, we'll probably never get him on the show. Well, I definitely don't want to get him on the show because there has to be something said about how much you dislike his articles. It's not just me. Wait till I tell you what he wrote today. And you tell me how many people agree with me. I know. Now, first of all, this article is going to create controversy going in. So we know that. It's what it's his awards watch with two months ago in the season. So he's basically going through all the big awards in baseball with two months ago in the season and he's telling you who should win them and where everybody ranks. Okay. So we'll start the American League, front runner MVP, still Aaron Judge, but Bobby Whit Jr. closing the gap. He's been amazing. And Juan Soto third. So there you have that. NL MVP still show. Hey, he's been struggling. The guy that's closing in is Catell Marte. Really? Yes. He's getting MVP. He's got 29 home runs right now. Marte is number one. Number two on this list for Francisco Lindor. Three. Ellie Dayla Cruz, four. Jerks and pro far five, not bad. Again, it's jerks and pro far who we weren't really expecting to be in the MVP conversation. We've completely lost the actual meaning of MVP because Ellie Dayla Cruz. Mm hmm. Got like 60 stolen. He does. But he's the reason. What has done something like Jerks and pro far has put his team in a place where they're going to make the playoffs. The Reds. Who knows? Yeah. Well, any struck out like a hundred and eighty times this year. That's true. When Ellie Dayla Cruz hits the ball, it's a triple. Yeah. When he doesn't, it's a strikeout. He doesn't hit it very often. All right. But that's not why you're going to strongly dislike Bradford do a little because he has pro far fifth. Okay. Derek. Derek. I like to call him Tariq. I don't sound more worldly. I figured out why I call him Tariq because there is a game named Tarak, the dinosaur hunter back in the day. So there you go. Seth Lugo, former Padres second on this list, Garrett Crochet, third, please not crochet out of the running. Yeah. How is he even up here? Just for his attitude. Pitch full games anymore. National League, Cy Young, as of right now, according to Bradford do little, this is interesting hunter green of the Reds. That's an interesting choice. Maybe Bradford do little lives in Cincinnati. What about Dylan C's? Hang on. Chris sale a second. Zach Wheeler third. Paul Skeens is fifth just ahead of Dylan C's. Okay. All right. All right. You scared me for a second. Dylan C's is sixth. Michael King is ninth. He's in the top 10 there. Rookie of the year, American League front runner, Luis Gil Yankees. Don't really know any of these other guys. So don't worry about them. All right. Will your Abreu okay Austin Wells, hunter, Gattis. Okay. You never mind. Like I said, here we go now, National League rookie of the year. This is the one we've all been waiting for. Hold on. Let me get something for this. Who is Bradford do little thing? Is it going to be Paul Skeens or is it going to be Jackson Merrill, because it's a two player race for the NL award. And of course, Bradford do little goes with Paul Skeens. But that is not why you're going to strongly dislike Bradford do little. Here's why you're going to strongly dislike Bradford do little because after picking Paul Skeens as the front runner, Bradford do little ranks Mason win of the Cardinals second. I got some push back. I'm the rookie of the year. Yeah. Yeah. People are saying he should win it. Here's also why you're going to dislike Bradford do little because after Mason win, he has showed to Imanaga of the Cubs third after showed to Imanaga. He's got Michael Bush to the Cubs fourth. This is trouble. After Michael Bush, he's got Tyler Fitzgerald to the Giants that was disgusting. Bradford do little with a straight face writing in today's ESPN plus column. Seriously, you follow baseball? He has Jackson Merrill, six, what? That is insane. Now I will admit freely that we're in San Diego and we're looking at it through the San Diego goggles, if you will, and we love everything this guy has done. Well, what has he done wrong? Nothing. Exactly. How can he be six Jackson Merrill leads all rookies in average, home runs, RBI's, OP, whatever you want. I looked this up the other day. He also has turned the most double plays as a center fielder this year with four and he's played. He's played every day at a crucial position. Oh, by the way, that he had never played before in his life. You rank him sixth. That's crazy. That is crazy. Tyler Fitzgerald, when did he even come out? I don't know if it's Gerald has been ridiculous, but did he he's got 11 home runs in 24 games, but that is still a little much when you're going to rate him in 24 games ahead of Jackson Merrill. It's crazy. The only guy that, and I like Mason when Imanaga was a nice flash for April and May, Michael Bush, where the Cubs, I just don't get it. I don't get it. This is this is so you're trying to tell me that you're a baseball expert, ESPN is is basically posting you up as a baseball expert by giving you the job of breaking down these races. And then you do it and you tell me the sky should be sixth. That is just I can't believe it. I could stomach third. I can't say I can stomach second. That's it. And I had this argument all week with people on Twitter or X, whatever you want to call it. How many guys have done what Jackson Merrill has done in regards to playing almost every single day? And if you take Jackson Merrill off of the Padres, they're in a much worse way. I don't know how many wins you take away or anything like that. But if you put up Jackson Merrill against Mason, when you take Mason, win off the Cardinals, I don't think it's as big of a blow as it would be for them. Well, I think what he's. I believe what he's getting to is a Mason when play shortstop and that's a really important position. So is center field? So is center field. This is ridiculous. This is absolutely ridiculous. I can't believe that Bradford Doolittle qualifies as a quote baseball expert. The only guy that I would think that could say or write something this stupid would be normally Brian Kenny, someone on the chance that he's the next Brian Kenny. That's just, that's just, to me, that's just not paying attention to what's going on. That's all that is. I don't think I'm being, you know, no, with what he's been doing and how he has won games for the Padres. He has walked off home runs. He said, multiple, multiple, multi-home run games, they put another, they put another stat up on the board today. In the last 63 years of baseball, only three other guys, the age of Jackson Merrill have hit as many home runs in the ninth inning or later in one season than he has. He's had crucial home runs, walk off, tying game, tying home runs, ninth inning, extra innings. Jackson Merrill's been great. I haven't seen nation win play every day. I get it. I haven't seen Michael Bush Fitzgerald. Sorry. I can't give it to you in 24 games, even though you've been really good. It's insane. Jackson Merrill should be no lower than second. And we know we can make a hell of a case for him being first. As I brought up earlier today, he just helped the Padres win three games while Paul Skeens never left the dugout. And I understand here's the big, look, the best argument for Paul Skeens to win is that Paul Skeens is the pirates. He is. He's the face of the whole franchise. Jackson Merrill can play comfortably with stars like Manny Bogart's, you know, and on down the line. Fernando, et cetera, Jackson can just do his thing bat six or seventh and go quietly about his business. There's a lot more spotlight on Skeens and he, for the most part, has lived up to all the hype. So I, if you want to argue Skeens, I'm going to at least entertain your argument, but I'm not going to entertain an argument that has Jackson Merrill sixth, please. Yeah, that's not even, that's not even a, and I can't tell you what do little says about him here because he doesn't even mention him in the, uh, little write up that follows. So he doesn't even have a reason to put him six while he doesn't get to it. I mean, you know, I haven't heard this clip, but you guys had Jackson on last week. Maybe this will make everybody feel better. Yes, Matt Waldron seventh right behind Jackson Merrill. I'm sorry. Like I love it. But what? I don't know. I, this just makes no sense. Where did this article get published today? August 8th. So yeah, after what after he watched what happened last night with Jackson Merrill, I don't. Well, I'm going to give you what here's what I'm going to say and what Tony says all the time. I doubt Bradford do little saw what Jackson Merrill did. Oh, no, he's not doing his job. He did it on the East coast last night. So he should have seen it, but no one's watching the pirates unless Paul skeez is pitching. Well, this is, this is why this article right here, I'm hitting it. Oh my God. Stop. Wait, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. George is getting angry. It's this article right here is why Jackson Merrill's not going to win the award because I guarantee you there's a lot more Bradford do little's out there who just don't have a clue how valuable he's been. It's unfortunate, but you know what? Shame on them because you don't even need to see him. Just look at the statistics. He's number one in every category. Yes. He's hitting. He's hitting 40 points over the league average. He's first, as you said in Homer's, he's first in RBI's. He's playing a position. He's never played in his life until this year. He's played the most or he's like when I checked on Monday, he was one out behind. Who's the Rockies center fielder? Doyle. Doyle. He's one out behind Doyle for most innings played as a center fielder. You can't tell me that he's a sixth choice for rookie of the year. Emin Naga, like you said, great April, good May. He's fell off a little bit. I just cannot believe that. That's really hard to believe and it really irks me. You guys had Jackson on the show last week. Do you want to play? Yeah, let's hear what he had to say when we come back. I want to hear, I want to continue this conversation a little bit. What I'm looking for before I throw it to break is Bradford Doolittle's email address, but I don't see it here. You know, Taps wants to tell you, Chris, the worst part about this is that you paid to read. Who said this? Taps. Thank you, Taps. I feel much worse now. There's a growing theory too, actually, well, I'll just say this, there's a growing theory too that the Major League Baseball wants the Livy-done Paul Skeens thing to be like Taylor Swift Travis Kelsey. Problem is, Livy-done isn't as famous as Taylor Swift. Not even in the neighborhood, honestly. All right, there you have it. I told you you were not going to be a fan of Bradford Doolittle. I'm not. Morgan and Chris, we'll hear from Jackson Merrill and what he thought when he was on with us last week about winning the Rookie of the Year award, I'll give you a clue. I'm madder than he is about this last time I bet you are, but yeah, yeah. First traffic. Tired of fine lines and wrinkles, Derma Clara has the solution. Our 100% medical grade silicone patches are designed to naturally reduce wrinkles and improve skin texture. Safe, effective, and reusable, these patches deliver visible results in as little as 20 minutes and lasting results in just 30 days. More customers rave about their transformations. Plus, with our satisfaction guarantee, you can try DermaCareWiscFree. Discover the power of natural skincare@dermaClara.com and say hello to youthful radiant skin. No, it's oral series or nothing to me. I don't really have any other goals in this game besides winning, so, you know, obviously an award is cool, but it's really nothing compared to winning a World Series. You know, I'd love to do both. That'd be awesome. But. Hey, that was Jackson Merrill himself on with us last week, our fire Friday interview talking about what the Rookie of the Year meant to him. He said not much. I want to win the World Series. He did say it'd be great to win both. Yeah. But he's putting winning way ahead of an award winning and that's one of the reasons we like him. Welcome back to winning Chris Cressello, Mr. Scrabby today. I can't believe that you guys had Jackson Merrill on the one for our Friday. I'm not here. Sorry about that. I'm the biggest Jackson Merrill fan. I believe that's why they. I believe that's why they let us have him because they didn't want me to freak out because we were here. Because we were here. Yeah. Yeah. You know, we're going back to this Bradford do a little article for just a second. He's from Chicago, by the way. And I don't want to give you any, I think he is do a little mark mark on the right for Kansas City star according to the ESPN that I looked at. Anyway, neither here nor there. Here's why he ranks Jackson Merrill sixth, at least in my estimation. I mean, yeah, I haven't talked to him, but here's why he ranks him sixth. Jackson Merrill's war is 2.4. Just stick with me for a second. The guy he ranks second Mason win is 4.0. And that's even higher than skeens, who's 3.8 Michael Bush is 3.2, Imanaga is 2.6. All of the guys that head of Jackson Merrill on Bradford do little's list have a higher war. But my thinking is what I always think about war. It's a stupid made up statistic. And if you don't think it is, just look at those numbers right there. You're going to tell me that all of these guys are just look at it with your eyes, watch what you're watching. You're going to tell me that Michael Bush has had a better, more impactful season than Jackson Merrill. Well, Bush is 3.2, Merrill's 2.4. Bush must be that much better. Yeah. No, he isn't better. And that's why war is stupid, as far as I'm concerned, and I will always feel this way. Mason win has nine homers and he and 41 RBI's and he's hitting 282. Jackson Merrill is crushing him in every one of those categories. Jason Jackson Merrill even has more stolen bases 11 to 10. Mason win plays shortstop, Jackson Merrill plays an important position too on his team. And he never got to play it before this year. And how many game winning minutes do you remember from Mason win this year? I can't recall. I'm sure the Cardinals might be able to give us a couple. But I can give you a bunch from Jackson Merrill on our side. I don't want to put Mason win down. What I'm trying to get to is he's a 4.0 and Merrill's a 2.4. And just the eye test should tell you that that war, those war numbers are stupid. Yeah. When you when you look at it like that, like if you're going to be breaking your rookies of the year by war, then you're I don't think you're actually doing your job because you need to be able to. I think you had to be able to have a little more depth to your, you know, your knowledge and to your research. And I don't know how Jackson Merrill's war is so low because of the walk off home runs. Yeah, I don't get it. I guess his OPS might be a little slow. That's what I'm saying. The war is stupid. I'm sorry. The war is stupid. What else can I tell you? But there's so many people who put everything on it, including an ESPN national writer who's looking at the rookie of the year and basically is giving the rankings based on war. Yeah, that's not that's not you're not doing any giving me any knowledge there. You're just regurgitating a statistic. And the whole thing with the Paul skeens in his war, yeah, he's been great, but like I really do feel genuinely strong that Jackson Merrill does it every single day. It's way more difficult to do what Jackson Merrill's done be as consistent as he's been this year, not really even go into a prolonged slump. I think it was like six games that he had earlier this year. It's just like I don't understand why these things can't what why these people can't just put aside the popularity of a player to actually call out the player who's the best. Jackson Merrill could end up winning the rookie of the year award. But I think it's unlikely and articles like this or why I think it's unlikely. I think it's already Paul skeens is to lose because they've already crowned him. Matt Snyder, who is as big of a pottery fan as there is, told us that schemes is going to be almost impossible to be. Yeah. So did Alden Gonzalez. Yeah. These are national guys who I believe both respect what Jackson Merrill has done quite a bit more than do little does. They'll still tell you that schemes is probably going to get it. But you know what else there is to say? There's seven weeks of baseball to the whole true, a lot still that can happen. So all right. All right. All right. I want to know. Sorry. The Brian Kenny thing. Everybody wants us to bring up the fact that he asked the Padres, the Mets, and one other team to rebuild earlier this year and all of the teams that he has to rebuild are leading the wild card race. The Cardinals was the other one. Yeah. And it's like what do you just say things that just do you just say things because you want it to go viral because you want people to hate it. I don't get it. I'm not willing to be that person. Brian Kenny. Can I? I can't say it. No, please don't. Bad guy. Okay. Come on. Ah, what he did to Joe Musgrove tells me that right then and there. And the fact that he didn't have enough courtesy to apologize, it's all I need to know about the guy. Yeah. All right. More going in. The scoreboard is rolling in the national footballing spring training action for the NFL 14 three giants putting it on the lions tonight, but I who said the lines were going to be good this year. Everybody. But the Giants are just beating them down tonight's grave. I think the Lions are going to take a step back this year, but you know they're not. I think they're going to take it. You hope that they take a step back this year. And I think so. That's all you can dream about. I know. Um, the other game, seven nothing New England over Carolina got a love spring training football. It's five thirty nine is the time, Chris. Hello, Mr. Scrappy and Tony going junior on big. One thing we had a nice time with a little earlier today was our visit with our guy Kirk Kenny from the San Diego Union Tribune, it's probably on his way to eat dinner and check fillet right now, but he was on with us earlier getting us ready for the San Diego state Aztec football season. Yeah, fan fest this weekend on a snap dragon stadium. The snappy. I didn't get down there. Scrappy. You know, I've been on the field down there before now because I ran the flag out for the rugby game. So I'm, you know, I'm an official, you know, on turf kind of guy down. How did you feel? Did you feel like you were some sort of, uh, godly? No, I just felt like I didn't want to fall down and trip and embarrass myself. That's true. It's fake turf. Or is it real grass? I don't know what it is. A fast track. That's all I'll say. It's like a season. Well, it seems as like it's, um, as hard as this table, like there's no kid to there's no. It's got to be. Hey, I don't think it's artificial turf. I think it's some sort of artificial turf really or artificial real grass, whatever that stuff is. It doesn't, I don't think it has the little black beads under it. Real grass. I don't know if it's that either. Is it Kentucky bluegrass? All right. Never mind. You shouldn't have asked me. All I know is it's grass and it's cut really short and it seems like you could go fast on it. That's my, that's my story. You go fast. Like Ricky Bobby. All right. It's my story. I'm sticking to it. I got nothing else to add other than this is traffic. And now after that, you'll find out according to two sources. Attitude 36 per need of grass is used. I don't know if that's sure or not, but that's the quickest I can come up with it. That's good. All right. Very good. All right. Let's hear about the Aztecs after traffic. From the 97, three, the Fenn traffic center. Here's Kelly Dannock. Gonna find the two left lanes blocked on Sapo 15 with a crash right before the 52 card motorcycle involved in that. Also collision on the Sapo 805 on or near the Palm Avenue off ramp and Sapo 67 Scripps Highway Parkway, a commission, certainly East County, West downside of the eight four alcohol and boulevard stall car in one of the middle lanes. I'm Kelly Dannock. When Chris San Diego's number one sports station, 97, three, the Fenn. All right. Let's hope things go that well for the San Diego State football team fan fest coming up this weekend. The season is upon us. That means our guy Kirk Kenny is upon us from the San Diego Union Tribune frequent contributor to this program, Kirk, before we get too far into it. How many days is the Chick-fil-A streak at now? Oh, I forgot about this. Oh, how could you forget about this? This is the most important thing ever. I knew you were going to ask. So I just totaled it up and it is day 1,131. Get out of here. So crazy, 1,131 days that Kirk Kenny has eaten at Chick-fil-A. Not counting Sundays, of course, because the, wow, it's closed on Sundays. Yes. You're saved there. But every other day of the week, Kirk Kenny has a meal at Chick-fil-A, establishing you Kirk as a perfect contributor to this show. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody as Looney Tunes as you belongs on this program. Yes. So did you get your commercial? Yeah. From Chick-fil-A? No, they don't like him. When are they going to get the good thing? You know what? It's a good thing on left handed because that seemed like a very much a left handed compliment. It did. It was a left handed compliment. Hey, you know me, Kirk, and you've known me a long time, as is Looney Tunes as they get. Yes. So we're happy to have you with us. You asked about-- Oh, yes. Wasn't there a commercial in the works or something? Yeah. Have you shown this yet? When can we look for it? What is this happening? I'm not getting it. I am not getting it. Liberty to divulge that. But you guys, it would be the first to know. Okay. You'll debut your Chick-fil-A commercial with Gwen and Chris. Kirk Kenny, 1,131 days in a row. I can't wait for those commercials when they're like, "Hey, when did you get the idea to come here every day?" Kirk Kenny is going to be the next famous guy like Jared was on Subway. Oh, someone is a-- Someone's-- I don't know if we want to go down that road. Yes, I know. I know. I know. It was a little nervous about going down that road there. Yeah, Jared's a whole mother story. Yeah, it turned a little ugly. Yeah. Someone said, "Do we have receipts to prove this number? We don't need to because the restaurant knows and celebrates us." They were-- Scrappy and I were at his 1,000th day we were. I mean, they threw him a party at the Chick-fil-A and you're right, Scrappy, the manager, the owner. I mean, everybody came out to celebrate Kirk on that. So yes, we don't need receipts. That's the most interesting thing is a free lunch, right? Well, look, I think we got one that day and we appreciate it very much. We did. Anyway, we digress. Yeah, well, we digress. Do you know where we're talking again? I don't know. This is what we seem to do best on this program. Aztecs football, of course. Oh, look, we had Coach Lewis on last week and it was good having him. You look, this guy, you can't help but be excited. Every time we talk to him, I think anybody talks to him. I mean, he's got people feeling upbeat and the whole program just seems that way from the day he took over till now, isn't it, Kirk? Yeah, it's very much a different vibe from the moment you step out there even in practice. There's music pumping and, you know, everything's fast, fast, fast for that Aztecs fast offense. So it's going to be, you know, it's been a lot of fun to watch. With all the winning that the Aztecs did over the last decade, you know, fans started getting a little bit complacent because they didn't see enough offense. And so that's Katie Wicker went out and hired a guy that's going to promise them offense. So we'll see what happens. Well, they open it up on the 31st of this month down at the Snap Dragon Stadium. Give us a little update on some of the positional battles of importance. I know you wrote something about the quarterbacks the other day and everybody wants to know who's going to be the signal caller. How's that looking right now? That's what Saturday's fans best will be kind of our first extended glimpse of the battle between Danny O'Neill, a true freshman from Indiana, and AJ Duffy, who's a sophomore transfer from Florida State, but who grew up local here in Southern California. So charting their progress will be interesting. I have to give it the advantage to Duffy just because he's been around call-up football for two years, but all indications are that Danny O'Neill's pretty talented too. So it's been a lot of fun to watch those two compete. Talking to Kurt Kenny here, San Diego Union Tribune, I want to talk about maybe you haven't been able to talk to Coach Lewis about this or off the record, anything like that, but Colorado seems like it was a nightmare last year to be at and he was there. He was removed as the offensive coordinator. Do you think that that kind of is going to help him be successful this year, prove to Dion, prove to people around college football that he is a guy who can be successful as a coach? I don't think he's out looking to prove something to them, I think what he has said so far is every stop you make in your career, you try and pick up things and learn some things. So I think he learned a few things there that he wants to embrace and others that maybe he doesn't. And mainly, here's this philosophy of running the ball around and taking what the defense gives you and going, you know, quick to line and putting the defense on its heels and that's what he'll look to do. With San Diego State now. Kirk Haney is with us. He wrote an article today in the paper, Scrappy, about our guy, your and mine's guy, Dale Sean Staley. How is he our guy? Well, I don't know, Kirk, if you were aware, but about three weeks ago, Dale Sean Staley came into studio for an hour, sat in with us, asked us a million questions, he had a couple of his teammates with him. And apparently he wants to get into sports talk radio someday, try to take our jobs. Really nice kid. He's from Kansas City, transfer from Northern Iowa. And from what I read the day seems like he's making a mark already on defense. Yeah, I've been seeing him make plays the just yesterday, I watched him pick off a pass and he made an impression when he transferred here in early for the spring and made an impression then and put him atop the death chart. And I think he's just continued to build on that. And he's a guy that I think is going to be a real playmaker for them and they're pretty excited about it. I had a good time talking with him the other day, especially, you know, I asked what do you think of San Diego? And he said he's a view guy. So he was talking about, you know, he loves, you know, being along the beach and maybe out of quiet evening, just listening to the ocean or growing, walking in the hills around town and going on a walk. So, you know, that's kind of refreshing just to hear that kind of perspective. Yeah. Well, he had, I'm sure he had a wonderful view at Northern Iowa, but Scrabie just spent Scrabie just spent six days in Iowa. So there must be something about Iowa that I know I don't know it took that long to get a carpet. So Iowa is actually more hilly than you would think and it has more vista points than you would think. No, no, no, I've been to Omaha 10 times and that's the Brassica bridge is Iowa and, and I'll never forget a couple of times they have big rain storms and it's like they need to find a place to pull the plug for the water will drain it. It was flooded for like two weeks. Okay. Well, that's why Scrabie and his family had a reunion, but we were in Duke, Iowa, Dubuque on the mighty Mississippi. So this is what they do anyway, baby family. So you just find where's the exact middle point of the United States? Is that how you guys decided to meet? No, my grandparents decided to pick the least excess part of the country to live in because it's like an hour and a half, one way to an airport, three hours of Chicago, all of this stuff. But yes, anyway, I heard they don't even have a yes pan there. No, finally, only our studio was the only was the last place. I did actually watch a lot of local news and Caitlin Clark is a superstar. Oh, yes. And Iowa. And she went to Des Moines, I guess, while we were there and she surprised a bunch of kids at a school and it was like, it was the biggest thing ever. It was crazy. Yeah. All right. Back to the Aztecs team. Yeah. She is rock star with all the with all the focus on the offense Kirk. What about the defense? Are the Aztecs going to be that defensive team that we know and love or is the defense kind of taken back seat a little bit, even though they're never going to admit it to the offense, well, I think the offense can definitely get the headlines, but the defense looks like it'll be pretty good again. They've brought in several transfers. One thing I noted coming into camp is 16 of the 22 starting spots are on the depth chart coming into camp or taken up by transfers. So I thought that was pretty interesting and a particular area that they've added players is on the defensive line on the edges. And so I think that's an area to watch in this fan fest and in the first few weeks of the schools and some of those new games they're running on the edge. How about the skill players beyond the quarterback position, Kirk? I must say, you know, somebody watches every game and I didn't think anybody ever really grabbed hold and you kind of confirmed this when we talked last year, nobody ever really grabbed hold of that running back position. They never really established anybody on the outside wide receiver wise. Guys had, you know, some moments here and there. Are there new guys? Are there returning guys that are going to be better? Yeah, that's a position I was going to mention first. A kid Mark has Cooper is a transfer from Ball State, but he actually played for Sean Lewis at Kent State for three years before that. He is the nation's active rushing leader. And so he just transferred in in the last few months. And so it's going to be a lot of fun to see what he can do. He's listed atop a depth chart, sharing the starting position with Kenny Christian. So the running back room is loaded again, but we haven't really gotten a glimpse to see what all Marquez Cooper can do. So that's another thing we're going to be able to see on Saturday. This is kind of a weird question, but I'm a weird guy, so I'm going to go with it anyway. I always get worried when he starts like this. Matt Ariza is a punting for the Kansas City Chiefs. He got the starting job. He punted one the other day, I think 75 yards in the air or something like that, which is great for him. But what's the relationship between the school and Matt Ariza? Because he has been cleared of the things that he was accused of doing, but it puts the school in a little bit of a weird spot. Is there anything there or is it just something we're going to have to see as time goes along? I think the relationship is still good. I think they've congratulated him when he's been signed and it's still a good relationship. I don't know where exactly to go with that. No, I know. Things have been resolved. He's playing football again and I think everybody's moving forward. It's a good thing for sure. Kirk Kenny is with us, SaaS Tech's opening. Texas A&M Commerce is the first opponent, August 31st. I think a lot of people are going to want to come out, get a look at Sean Lewis's team, but I got to be honest, I think the game that I'm really circling is the next one, September 7th, when they're home to Oregon State, you're getting a team out of the Pac 2 to come in here and that to me can be a kind of a statement and you go out and you roll up some points against that team and maybe win that game, Kirk. What's the fanfare looking like for these first two home games? I just got an update today and I guess season tickets are approaching 10,000, which their goal was to hit 9,300 this year, so I think that's a good sign for them and it is a pretty good schedule. Both Oregon State and Washington State will be playing at Snapdragon. They face Cal on the road, but you're right, I think, obviously they should be able to handle Texas A&M Commerce pretty well, so I don't think they're going to pull out every trick of the playbook for that game, so what we see against Oregon will probably be more of the telltale sign, so what the team is going to be all about. Yeah, that's going to be September 7th, it's a night game, I think everyone's going to kind of circle the calendar for that second game, although, you know, look, I'm glad to hear the tickets are going well for the old one. Alright, if you want to hear the rest of that with Kirk, Kenny, there's like 10 seconds left. There was only 10 seconds left, but probably not worth your time, but you know any part of the show, including my rambling on about a dumb brad for do little is, all the wind people are in my DMs right now. Well, I didn't say when's a bad player, he's not that far ahead of Jackson Merrill. Oh, but sure, something's just so much harder to play. 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