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Aug. 9th Hour 4: Mike Shildt + Things Ben Likes
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All WNBA season long, you can count on us to bring you interviews with some of your favorite WNBA stars, analysis of all teams, and hot takes you can only find in this courtroom. Listen to Queens of the Court, a WNBA podcast presented by AT&T on the free Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, Pottery's fans, we're having fun now. Pottery's won 14 other past 16 games, 5 in a row, and open a three game series against the Miami Marlins tonight at 410 Pacific time, and it is time right now for our manager's report with Mike Schilt brought to you by San Diego County Credit Union. It's not big bank banking, it's better, and we're joined. And I didn't know this. By the greatest manager in the history of Pittsburgh. Yes. Mike Schilt, I just saw the stat this morning. Mike Schilt's 839 winning, 839 winning percentage at TNC Park, 26 and five is the highest of any manager at any park in Major League history. Well, congratulations on that, Mike, they must hate you in Pittsburgh. Hey guys, how you doing? Yeah. I've had teams play well there, that's for sure. That's awesome. Well, very happy birthday to you this morning. I will offer Ben has done this before. He has sang the Maryland Monroe version of Happy Birthday to some guests before. If you're interested, I can accommodate that for you. Well, if you was more aligned with the Maryland Monroe actually looking like there, that would be more than fine. That's very, very, it does, but it comes off as creepy. Yeah, the sentiment goes a much longer way. I know what Mike, I know what fans focus in on big moments like Jackson Merrill's home run from the road trip and the ninth inning and the clutch moments from your team. But what about you on a week like that, you know, five game winning streak as well as the team has been playing. What are the moments? What are the things that have stood out to you over this past week? Good question, let me process it, it's been a lot. I mean, one thing that resonated with me in reflecting because I got a question after the series in Pittsburgh about the series, which was, you know, there's a lot to unpack there too, but you know, just about the general series. I was like, you know, it's the one through 26, the contributions from everybody in our roster, not only in this past series, but you know, recently has been very, very important and a lot of contributions from a lot of different dudes, man. You know, I mean, the guys that have been contributing, obviously Jackson, big moments, pro for big moments, Manny, big moments, bogey, come back on a tremendous job, you know, rise does this thing, you know, he's been good, campy, that group's been good back behind the plate, so from a position player standpoint, you know, those guys have been tremendous, but, you know, that talked about the Solano, the David Cross's big two run home yesterday. Tyler Wade coming in for Kimmy, a little, you know, a little hurt and playing really well for two days and contributing to win, Bryce Johnson, you know, getting bunched down, making plays defensively, you know, doing a good job on the basis, you know, all those guys have been really big for us, you know, cronies, then able to get some big hits, so, you know, that contribution on the pitching side, yeah, Dylan's been great, clearly, Michael King, good to get him back, he got us through five the other day, water's been really, really consistent and steady for us and, you know, basket was affected for us yesterday as well and, you know, Martin Perez came in, big six innings, his first start and, you know, Brian, I mean, talk about big, big innings from Brian Hoeing, the first game in the, in the rain situation on opening game of the series against Pittsburgh and, you know, we lose seats after the first and Hoeing goes three plus and throws up a lot of goose eggs and, man, what a great job in the bullpen, you know, Scott, obviously a great addition, Adam, great addition, Moyo's been good, Estrada, you know, Yuki, you know, gave up home yesterday, these are really good for us, so, obviously, boy, being as guys have contributed across the board and, you know, everybody's doing their part. Yeah, there's no question, it's been, it's been so much fun to watch, Skip, I wanted to ask you, you don't have to take us through that wacky ninth inning the other night again, I know you've done it, heard your explanation for all of it, it was, it was kind of a new one for, for a lot of us, but I wanted to ask you this, now, I know you came out to make sure that nobody got thrown out because you didn't have anybody left on the bench, had the worst happen there, and let's say it's Manny, you know, playing third base and he was pretty, he was pretty vocal to the umpire and had the worst happen and Manny actually got run, who would you have put in and where would you have put them? I'll keep that state secret, I definitely got out there, you know, I mean, there was a few candidates, not many, I mean, you don't look at the bullpen's been used, right? It's got to be a starter, it's not the next day starter, because, you know, not to, and then you don't want to just put anybody out there, because who knows what can happen. So, but yeah, man, it was a, what a wild three games in Pittsburgh, I mean, you know, hard to unpack all of it. Yeah, that ninth, I mean, just want to make sure, which I did, I mean, he's got a good head on his shoulders, he knows the situation, but, you know, and he was right. I mean, they completely, you know, with on, not the umpires, just the setting of the clock in the first place, so that's what we intentionally walked eight, instead of reset and the clock to 30, they put it back to 15. And then it got, you know, Andy a little, they got the timing of everybody off about being engaged to the gate, and then, you know, Suarez again, thinking it's 30, because new hitter, next thing, you know, there's a ball, they give him credit, they got it right, but, you know, because of that, again, in a high level situation, man, he's like, "No, man, that's wrong." So, I go out, make sure Manny's good, make my point to them, stay out there, and it was an interesting trip, so to me. I just kept picturing who Matt Waldron playing third base or something in my mind, and I just said, "I wonder what Skip would have had up his sleeve, but, yeah, listen, you know, keep those, keep those trade secrets close to the vest in case you have to use them." You're talking about a fan. We watched Joe Musgrove play Left Field, a couple years ago, it was one of the moments of his life when he got out there, and that was, and, you know, if I know one thing, because we've talked to crony a bunch on this show, and I asked him, "How much do you lobby to the Skipper to let you come in and pitch in a blowout?" He goes all the time, all the time, and I could, man, if there's one thing I know about baseball players, they're never really happy with what they want to do a little bit more, so I was just kind of wondering, are there guys that are in here like Skip, let me hit, let me play second in a blowout or something like that. I don't get the, I don't, pitchers don't want to go on the field in a blowout. They used to lobby more for bats, but that was back when they were hitting, you know, and they were, they were into that, and they were hitting, you know, hitting every day, but now we don't, we don't play that game anymore, so nobody's lobbying for that necessarily. crony, different stories. [laughter] We knew it. Yeah. He wants out there, he's pretty pleased with his 0 ERA, career ERA, and he's quite candidly that the rules don't allow it anymore. I understand the genesis of it, but, you know, we were thin on pitch, and as I'm sure you know, especially yesterday, crony would have been an option like in a competitive situation, but by rule, we couldn't do it, you know, because it's got to be a false or a, you know, a, yeah, a run differential. So, you know, he was, he was in the mix. It's our manager's report with Mike Schilt, pot razor in Miami tonight, and we have talked about Jackson Merrill a lot, considering what this kid is doing at age 21 and how he's produced, but I also see, just from my perspective, that his teammates responding to him. He's got kind of an infectious attitude, just the way he carries himself. And I wondered, can a 21 year old in your mind be a leader on a team on a club house that's filled with veterans, guys, you've been around for a decade plus, like Manny and pro far, but feels like everyone responds to this kid pretty well. What are you seeing there? Definitely, he's earned rightfully their spec. You know, Todd, he said it even in spring training, which I thought was a nice tip of the hat and early this season, especially as early as, you know, as it was, he just said, you know, guys a baller, man, you know, you got to respect it. And ballers, no ballers, and that's just that works. And, you know, I was, you know, leadership, he's able to rise the tide with his affection, with his play and his passion for four-pointing. He loves to compete, and he also knows how to compete, and he's got the skillset to match it. So, you know, guys respect that. Jackson goes about it completely in the right way, got a tremendous amount of humility and put this head down. He goes and plays the game the right way, and that's really speaks volume starts club. And it does have, you know, the infectious energy brings, you know, helps guys, I believe. But, you know, just him being able to lead himself and make sure he's doing what he needs to do and goes about it in the right way creates a lot of cred for the guys that come out. I can do the skipper Mike Schilt here on Bennett Woods this morning. I wanted to get just kind of a general baseball opinion from you about the six-man rotation, which, you know, listen, I've seen teams employ it before. Don't know if you have in your career, in your previous stop, but, you know, with Joe Musgrove coming back, assuming he stays healthy and everything else, is that something that you would consider doing? Why, why not? Pros and cons as you see him have done it. It's all personnel based. As you would expect, Joe is coming back. We do have the personnel to be able to do it, but also we also need to look up and recognize, you know, some basic math, right, like six starters that have been relievers. And so we also, if we know, if we feel confident, which we do, we cop some all our starters, but making sure they're going to be able to go deep and also keep our bullpen fresh in the way our bullpen is constructed right now. We have a lot of high leverage guys, a lot of one-inning guys. And so that's great. Our bullpen, we love our bullpen, obviously. But we're not structured right now for our bullpen to handle a six-minute rotation with seven guys. And then you get guys out of their roles a little bit more. So, you know, we've got a lot of games coming up. So it's, yeah, you go, okay, get the extra rest. We've been able to get Michael Ablow here recently. We didn't want it necessarily, but, you know, take it as a blessing in that, you know, he got to come back or, you know, he went 11 days in between starts. So that was a kind of turned out to be a built-in bloke rim. You know, we've had days off recently, got to get an extra blows, Dylan. Clearly, we didn't want to lose him after an inning in the first game of the series recently, but, you know, that's going to turn out to be a bloke rim. You know, Joe's coming back, you know, feel like he's pretty fresh. He's going to need to get built up a little bit, which is going to require more bullpen. So, you know, a lot of different moving parts to it, but that's the big picture in the more specific reason for what we're looking to do. All right. I got one more for you because I heard you talking about it after the game yesterday. And there's been kind of a joke among Padres fans the last, I don't know, 20-plus years about Padres hitting coach being one of the least job security jobs you can have in baseball. So I think it's worth mentioning talking about, yeah, who Victor Rodriguez is and what he's done for your club. I wasn't aware that you kind of went back so far with him. And I heard you talking about a victor after the game, and I wanted you to give a chance to kind of tell us a little bit more about your hitting coach and what he's brought to the table for your offense. Yeah, he's been fantastic. You know, yeah, I think number one is hitting coach, number two is manager and that sort of lifespan of Padres staff members, which we love to change both of us for a long time. But yeah, go way back with Victor, the 1980. Victor came up as a young player at 17 in AA. So he was on that Ethan Salas kind of track in AA, played second base in the team in Charlotte and won a suddenly championship. My mom was administrative assistant for that team, and Frances Crockett, and yeah, Victor was with her second baseman. I shot him to shoes every day at home and got a chance to meet him and spent a couple of years there in Charlotte. A couple of stops on his journey to the big leagues. And you know, that group, including Victor, has stayed really close. That group of players that came through there, that staff, it was just a really cool group. Experience was a really tight, tight league family. The players thought they were well taken care of, they enjoyed their time in Charlotte. It's been multiple reunions to that team that won that championship that I've been able to be a part of. So I've known Victor a long time and a lot of personal respect and kind of professional respect. What he brings, this guy, he's just got a beautiful way about him. He's got that common sense approach of something that's really hard, he's able to make something really hard simple. And that's hitting, he's able to connect with players. He's got a ton of experience personally, you know, having done it, but also more so. You know, professionally teaching and doing it, he's worked with some of the greatest hitters of, you know, our generation and some historically, when he was in Boston, you know, have the main Ramirez and Big Poppy and Pedroia, and of course, we had Bogey over there as well for 10 years. And then he goes over to Cleveland with Jose Ramirez, who just donned him and scored their fifth All-Star jersey out of respect for what he's done for him in his career. So Victor just, he's a real treasure asset to the organization. He's done a tremendous job and couldn't be more excited than both of them on the staff. You know, Mike, appreciate it. Hopefully a birthday dub for you guys tonight. And we'll talk to you next Friday when you're going to be back out on the road again already after a quick home stand against the Pirates next week. Good luck. Thank you very much. I got some good. I appreciate it. Mike Schilt, manager of the San Diego Padres, our manager's report brought to you by San Diego County Credit Union. It's not Big Bank banking. It is better. Good comment in the chat. Schilt might have one of the coolest success stories on his path to being a major league manager. No doubt. There's no doubt about it. His mom working in the minor leagues and him just getting in that way and doing every job possible. Yeah, that's pretty cool. To get through and rise the ranks to become the best manager Pittsburgh has ever seen. Ever. In the history of baseball. That winning percentage there is insane. It's insane. It's insane. That's a torrid. Schilt coming and they're like, oh, no, he's back. Yeah, he's back. He's back. He's like the Terminator of Pittsburgh. Incredible. Got some thoughts on what the skipper had to say. We'll react to that coming up next. Quick check of traffic. More better. What's coming up next on San Diego's number one sports station 97.3 the fan today's episode is sponsored by nerd wallet smart money podcast ready to expand your financial game. Nerd wallet can coach you on smart strategies like choosing investments, finding your next credit card and setting a budget that works for you. More major points towards your summer vacation by learning expert tips for choosing a high yield savings account and how to build wealth by investing in index funds slide into summer with smarter decisions in 2024 follow nerd wallet smart money podcast on your favorite podcast app future you will thank you. Nothing is more important than getting a good night's sleep. And when you don't get the rest, you need your whole day is thrown off. 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This season the W is going to new heights and that means the queens are ready to take it to court and the court. Welcome to queens of the court and odyssey original podcast. I'm your girl Cheryl swoops and I'm Jordan Robinson all WNBA season long you can count on us to bring you interviews with some of your favorite WNBA stars analysis of all teams and hot takes you can only find in this courtroom. Listen to queens of the court a WNBA podcast presented by AT&T on the free odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. I was impressed by a Mike Schultz ability to run down all 26 players on his roster which deservedly so they've they we talked about it earlier today they have really gotten contributions from everyone. It feels like it's a different guy every day that has stepped up and whoever's day it is today great fantastic but he'd like mentioned them all for this past week who are the who are the two starters that didn't start the series. Who are the two started a Waldron yep and Perez there you go those are the only two guys that didn't directly contribute to those three wins and they'll get their turn this weekend against my and maybe Carl Edwards junior but we didn't we didn't mention him you know you don't need to kick a guy when he's down that was a tough tough outing obviously and by the way I don't know if you saw this I've I saw it in the UT notes so Carl Edwards who was kind of the emergency they need up an arm guy yesterday woke up yesterday morning in Sugarland Texas at 4 a.m. had to drive to Houston to catch a 730 flight to Pittsburgh he didn't even get to the game until the second inning and then by the six he was in and trying to you know stem the tide on a pirates rally now he didn't do it he walked to give up a hit and it didn't work out but he was a guy who was stretched out enough whereas if Randy Vasquez had only gone three innings like he did in Baltimore recently they could have thrown him out there for three or four innings without damaging the rest of their bullpen they needed someone like that in the game and they didn't that five relievers who were down so they took their chances with Carl Edwards junior it didn't work out you know I don't know that he'll still be on the team today or if they'll make another move and bring someone else up I would suspect that they would but they'll also have some of the guys who were down yesterday back available like like hoeing and some of the other pitchers who had thrown a lot of innings they were able to get a bunch of guys the day off yesterday which will help them going into this series yeah I mean it's going to be it's going to be like this man it's going you know Carl Edwards junior that's a that's a that's a tough that's a tough outing for man I really I really did feel terrible for him I was also you know very angry in the moment that we that we couldn't get it out there but and that's you watching a baseball that stuff's going to happen I was bummed for him it was a really big outing needed to get and he didn't get the job done I don't know what that means for the future you know Alec Jacob is pitch really really well for this team but he'd been he'd throw a lot of pitches and and they thought it was the right decision and I don't know well who else would it have been I don't know you have to send someone down yeah he was he was one of his options he's got options he was unavailable now technically you can't bring him back right away unless someone goes on the injured list although someone always goes on the injured list at some point so you know he he'll have that opportunity and remember you still have wandy peralta on the injured list I'm not sure when when he's scheduled back but you get you signed him to a four year deal so you know wandy they still expect to be a part of this bullpen going forward as as much as it's been improved since the trade deadline he'll need a spot at some point it's a crowded bullpen right now it is yeah if it weren't for the the rain delay we wouldn't be talking about any of this yeah you know sees probably would have pitched seven eight whatever and they'd have a rested bullpen because of that rain delay you know acts of God things beyond your control potter is we're in a tight spot yesterday in that game and somehow they still managed to win it so there really aren't any complaints here yeah I mean again I I it's so above my pay grade on on who comes up and who goes down and and you know whether it's the right decision or not I mean it the time will tell certainly but you know you picked them up for a reason now you're gonna have to figure out what to do with him is he is he you got to give him another shot don't you and you know if you have a six seven run lead don't you need guys like that you need guys that are able to eat those innings and had he gone out made a pitch got a guy to roll over goes out and eats a couple innings for you yeah it would have helped tremendously they won the game so I'm not going to complain too much about it but you know it's like everything you've seen these guys over the course of the season been earned their roles and I think in some cases I don't want to say lose their roles but maybe go back to a different role you know we've seen it happen so they're gonna be careful with how they handle all of these guys because again you know you don't want to burn everybody out before you get to October but you still got to get there I know Yuki Matsui wants to work his way back into more you know higher leverage roles and he got that big out to end the six and then of course gave up the home run and I know I think you know the collective memory of Padres fans maybe a little a little week here that I saw a lot of oh Yuki another home run I think he's only given up like three all year he's not a home run dispenser his ERA is like three point four and while he's had a couple of moments where he's given up in important spots runs that have hurt the Padres this year I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say that he hasn't there are 29 other teams that would happily take a Yuki Matsui and their bullpen right now they would so I'm not gonna I'm not even gonna get that upset about what happened with Yuki Matsui and the seventh inning yesterday no you know it's baseball you're not gonna shut out every opponent all day all night your bullpen will give up some runs it's going to happen and you got to find a way to win games and the Padres are doing a great job of finding ways different ways to win games every single day they also picked up some ground finally in the wild card race the Philadelphia Phillies doing the Lord's work beat the Dodgers twice and now and the four game winning streak of the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday with a six to four win last night that was by the way the third time the Diamondbacks have won four in a row since the all-star break they've gone four wins loss four wins loss four wins loss go ahead and don't start another four game winning streak today if you would Arizona Padres now game up on Arizona for the first wild card spot and two and a half up now on the New York Mets who are your new third wild card team for the first time the Atlanta Braves are no longer in possession of one of the playoff positions in the national league the Mets got two home runs from Peter Lanzo in a 9-1 win over the Rockies while the Braves had a miserable series at home they were routed by the Brewers 16 to 7 Milwaukee completing a three-game sweep and in that three-game series woods the Atlanta pitching staff gave up 42 hits to the Milwaukee Brewers in three games Adam as our resident Braves said what is going on with your your team don't do this so they it's simple injuries oh yes said that's not an excuse though no it is for this team Strider Akuna Alby's Michael Harris I mean the list goes on Reynaldo Lopez is an all-star he's on the on the IL goes on and on Sean Murphy's missed two thirds in the season yeah so I heard Brian Snicker may retire wouldn't you oh I hadn't heard that yeah after next season the next season he may be close to done as well but yeah no I said it in the round table like three weeks ago then I'm not sure the Braves are gonna I mean injuries injuries you can say they're not an excuse but they are absolutely no it's not an excuse it's a reason it's a reason it's an absolute reason why the Atlanta Braves aren't playing well well it's lawyer speak is what that is I mean if I'm if I'm a Braves fan I'm going well they're still just a half game out of a playoff spot despite all these injuries despite playing really poorly since the all-star break no reason you know maybe they could start playing well again at some point now they may get Alby's back but Akuna's done Strider's done they're not getting everybody back uh the question is do they have enough going forward and then the the Giants kind of want a wild one they're still hanging on the fringes um they were playing the Nationals both teams scored three in the ninth to force a 10th inning and then the Giants scored four on the top of the 10th and beat the Washington Nationals nine to five so that's your playoff update in the the nationally postseason chase with now sees the Padres alone on top of the nationally wild card standings and remember if it comes down to the Padres and Diamondbacks right now they're they're tied they've both won five games in of their 10 there's three games left against Arizona that the last three at Chase Field in Phoenix to end the season winning that series could be huge because not only it would be a series win but a season series win whoever takes that one to come down to that that may end up being a huge series whether it's for a playoff spot or a home field advantage or even in a division race if the Dodgers and Diamondbacks and Padres are all fighting for the division though that could be an unbelievable last three games and and I think we should go to that I kind of do too I mean now it may be meaningless as well we don't yeah it could be but it may be that like the biggest three game series the Padres have played in the regular season since they swept the Dodgers to end the 1996 season and win the division just a short jaunt from here over to uh to Arizona I think we should probably make uh plans if that becomes now be a weekend series oh wood yeah it's I believe it's Friday Saturday Sunday to end the season if I'm not mistaken all right all right all right let's talk about it yeah that's a that's a big one all right final up our boss segment our boss is literally here of Ben & Woods got to be on time coming up next year on 97 through the fam wrapping up the week here with Ben & Woods and Adam Clue aka bald rindel because Paul rindel is on his way to a bachelor party weekend in that sin city mecca of leavenworth washington you have to feel pretty good if you're mrs rindel this morning yeah I mean it's not vegas or atlantic city right or like scott's dale yeah or i mean really anywhere where you can get in trouble leavenworth washington it sounds fairly tame up there it is a Bavarian town that is a lot of danish's and and such a lot of danish which is where it's good to me actually if i had a bachelor party now i would pick leavenworth so during the break i i asked woods well with poly go into a bachelor party i mean what's what's the wildest bachelor party or weekend you've ever attended and should i be asking you this on the air because of poly and woods gave the heaviest sigh it goes yeah i guess i guess i should probably share my bachelor party experiences so i have no idea what well i mean i can't i can't get into great detail but they've all been we need some detail i mean they've all i mean you can dance around it with the best of them so i i'm curious about woods is like number one bachelor party experience and we will uh we will try to open that can of worms right after want to but check traffic here on ninety seven three the fan out of my our but we're both looking at each other no one invites us to bachelor parties because we're the people who try to keep the fun from getting too out of control like we're the responsible people who are like hey we should probably wrap it up guys and you know hey think about tomorrow we got some plans we want to make sure we do it we're not fun bachelor party people but you've had your wilder side so spill it woods bachelor party woods what's the uh what's the story mine was your bachelor party rain we planned it uh a couple of guys on our baseball team uh and we planned it around our trip out to arizona to play in the adult ball world series like it's they they call it the world series it's all teams from all over the country it's really good competition and uh i'm not kidding you when i say we had twenty five guys in a mansion a giant giant mansion in scott'sdale it had a it had a back house that had like ten beds it had a huge master bedroom that they all gave me uh so this is designed for big party groups essentially and a huge pool huge spread and the whole team went out i think everybody stayed at the house except for a couple um of our older like married dudes and i mean it was we we partied all night every night and then played like two games a day every day and then would go party it was the drive home from arizona was the most excruciating experience of my entire life and when i showed up at home hannah looked at me now we won the world series too uh that that year we beat up really good team that you couldn't have been that you couldn't have partied that hard if you still have the ability to play good baseball at the same time the art my guys were incredible they were incredible and thrived in that environment i think but it was we would like we literally went out every single night we were there for four nights um no breaks no breathers everyone on a couple hours of sleep going out balling out and playing some really good teams um there's a picture of me somewhere of me we went to a convenience store and i was dead i mean i was dead and i got there's the big ice walk in ice cooler and there's a picture of me in the high schooler sitting on ice trying to just get my head right to go out and play a double header that day but it was incredible and so much fun and uh yeah it was wild it was it was as wild as as anything i've ever met but you mostly stayed at that mansion and did no you went out no you did but every night so you went out yeah we went out every single night went to bottled blonde and in Scottsdale and just we went there like three nights in a row and then we went another place it was bananas and everybody that was there it was nuts it was nuts so i've done some vagus ones that were out of control um it's just it's not fun anymore i just can't do it like i used to if i got married again which i don't think i would i will i don't what wouldn't do one hannah he loves you if that much he doesn't think he will get married again i mean you know i don't think i will right but i i don't i wouldn't do it again did you have a bachelor party i did i played golf golf trip to las vegas you that's what how many people i like doing just like four four other my buddy scott who was my best man um yeah i was just like the just a very small group did you do on clugger i did i went on a cruise with your buddies with my buddies oh that's fun so it's like all about drinking going to the pool went to a private island private island that's a good time my wife is in listening and she's in the chat she said cool steven what does that mean i said i probably wouldn't get married again i think she wants to hear i'm definitely not getting married again yeah i'm not what am i a fortune tell i have no idea she could leave me it's not that's not hasn't it's i'm not i don't hold all the cards here she could walk out the door today and you want to at least have the option oh yeah of course we're finding love for a third time and jacks said would have paid to be a fly on the wall at ben's bachelor party you why you would have fallen asleep dims out like a line out to sushi it was delicious and played golf and a little gambling and that was about it no yeah because you didn't we took you to your very first adult right place and so obviously i didn't do it in vegas yeah and you didn't go no on your bachelor party nope did you get drunk i had some sake for sure good amount of sake was consumed i'll be thinking for the rest of the day about the fly falling asleep at your bachelor party because he's so bored at your bachelor party he just fell asleep you why would you want to be a fly on the wall for that one that's definitely not going to be a fly on the wall for how many guys were at yours adam uh probably about eight maybe eight to ten yeah nepali's in it right now man he's still young he's got friends getting married for the first time ben and i have friends getting married for the third time uh you know it's it's it's an expensive proposition if the more friends you have the more expensive it gets i mean i remember like for my buddy bobby who is in chicago i had to i had to plan the whole thing and so i'm planning everything and then calling us hey you all you got to pay me like fifteen hundred dollars for this club and this dinner and all this it is what would drive me crazy and why no one ever asked me to plan a bachelor parties i know that you'd make all these plans then they'd all be thrown out the window after you you know you see what you plan you do too well no you go you party too hard the first night and no one wants to get up for the fun activities that i plan the next morning i can't i can't do it i you know the one night god exactly that's it i wouldn't it that's why i'd be the worst to take on a golf trip because we go we we play golf when we got there we party and then we'd have these tea times and be like i'm not going to i go on golf trips i want to play 36 right so i gotta be pretty responsible the rest of the time i probably would i probably would do that now now we're planning on we're planning a trip next year to go see the the pod rays on the road everybody's doing it we never do it we're going to do it as a show we're going to go to filly and i was getting some recommendations and places to stay and whatnot but i think it will be a tame trip because it'll be me you and poly and it's business it's kind of a business trip even though our company's not paying for it we're paying for it but it's still kind of a business trip i'm there so it's going to be a dream trip it will be tamed but i want to eat some good food is there some golf we should play out there ah yeah i live in philadelphia really good courses in pennsylvania i don't want to leave a two-hour drive or anything i mean who knows what uh right there's three of us maybe there's a tier one who's got a good course in filly that wants to uh play golf with us when we're out there yeah well we're going in in july so the more tier ones that are out there that'd be uh amazing so yeah that strum will be a guest or you kidding we'll be hanging with it we're not working when we're there we're going to go there and and enjoy the game maybe even two games we don't know yet i want to see ben run up the stairs like rocky one thousand percent see the liberty bell and uh but yeah very very excited for that next year i'm starting to plan at asap all right so uh ben apparently does not like bachelor parties that much but uh ben does like a whole lot of other things let's wrap up the week adam if you would please i like good juicy sweet strawberries i like a good marching band i like a good thin pancake i like a nickelback song or two i like a barbecue chicken pizza i really like those seeds i like a midnight buffet i kind of like the smell of soft scrub i like more of a small dairier i like cake i like it sheared i like both a hamburger and a cheeseburger i like clocks i like how i've kind of set up my life i like grasshopper pie oh no i like it creamy i like good firm banana i like just looking out at the sea i like eating i like moist i like curry i like big butts i like fried brussel sprouts i like more of a firm philid i like corn i like Nordstrom i do like musicals i like pepperoni i like nice hotels i like make getting a start today i like nuts i like steff curry i like that song i like squirt i like saki i like sandy agostate i like uh straight up paul abdul i like the beef and brockett i like to mix it up i like science experiments i like that song i like the crispiness of the waffle i really like cheese uh little lunch meat i like very straight lines i like cannelloni i like a well-crafted headline i like brown sugar i like maps i'll say i like just internal i like going to gold games i like diving into chores like sugar i do like better finger i like blue and silver not bad colors i like the time change i like major league baseball's new rule i like the radio i like geography i like the knuckle method i like skippy i like pie i like bob melton i really do i like jase tingler too i like this day i like being right i still do like movie scores i like good food i like maps i like when interviews can turn into organic conversation i do like a sofa's french red pizza i like having the wind go through my hair i think i like shows that the characters have an arc i like the full lettuce tomato onion experience as well i like those kind of burgers i like the big overflowing bag of fries i like those little smarties rolls i liked what i saw from selugo i like this competitive fire i like walking around between the different land steve curd though i like that i like living on the coast i like watching tiger still i like the idea of that matchup i liked what i saw in the pre-season i like the aloneness sometimes with texas hold them i like watching sanny to stay basketball i like those cashew buttered cashews i like cold clear sake i like a lot of things i like chick fillet sauce i just like rankings i like steve winwood i like high-gal poker i like to be informed on subjects i like chicago like tom petty i like the idea of another left-handed bad in the lineup for sure i do like a good matt damen film i like being on the same page i like broccoli i like brussel sprouts i like a lot of things i like this shirt i like wipe out i liked my arm one i like sandy and just stayed at home i like when a baseball player can be more than just a baseball player i like vanilla i like the atmosphere i like the felt on a poker table just kind of how it feels and your fingers when you're there i like rhubarb pie i like the window seat changing the subject i like that i like just a standard yellow peep i like how sanny able to explain right now i like finer things i like calling a game i like fiction more than non-fiction just like the cream i actually like playing golf with other people i've liked everything i've seen so far from mike shill i like mexican food i like just the solar system i do like steak i like specifics i like going to seven-mile casino during the day i like that people are there having a good time i like my new eating schedule i liked what i was eating i like the variety of the menu and sammy i do like a good midnight buffet it never talks to me it just never it always makes me like all right where's the rally roach let's say roach here i need to give it a kiss for the weekend yeah three games mmm adam would you like to kiss the roach we've got three games in miami four ten today i think it's uh one ten tomorrow and then ten thirty five on sunday so some earlier baseball here this weekend uh for you here at ninety seven three the fan and yeah i mean never going to complain about a series win but anything less than a sweep and we're going to feel like probably gave one away one way against uh skip shoe mockers miami marlin's they will play they will play tough yeah they will uh for skip i know that they don't have a lot of talent and i don't think he'd actually even be that offended if i he heard me say that they will play hard for it they traded it all the way they did everybody we have some of it we have some of it some of it but they don't have any of it left right and they'll play hard they will play hard but you know again we we talk about all the time the guys that are playing right now for miami been they're playing for jobs they're playing to get noticed they're playing to get traded they're playing to to be big league or you know they've beaten teams since the trade deadline not uh not more than you know a few of them so yep pod rays will have to come as well as they've played the last couple of weeks to keep it going yep all right that is it for us uh anne nelson are coming up next adam have a great weekend thank for sitting in we'll have italian paul and monday and then i'm clover real paul back on tuesday for steven 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