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Aug. 9th Hour 1: Padres sweep the Pirates!
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Find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase, and invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet's Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. Woo! Wait, Friday, Friday, indeed here on Bennett Woods. Welcome in everybody, wrapping up the week here. And what a baseball team that we have. What a baseball team we get to cover and talk about all day. Thank you guys for being here. I see the chat is already filled with people. If you haven't followed us on YouTube, you should do that. You can watch us and you know, see what we're wearing, all the latest trends and things like that. You know, we're always trying to dress up and bring the heat every single day on the YouTube chat. Just go to youtube.com/searchbanandwoods. And it's kind of, it's a pretty cool little community that we've built in there. People are very active and most people, I'd say 95 percent of the people, and they're very nice. Now, some people will not be, and that's okay. Whatever makes you feel better, all right? I guess. I'm woodsy. That is Adam Klug, our fearless leader. And all I see is the top of his head. I can't see any, there he is. Hi, buddy. Good morning. What's up, guys? How you doing? I am doing excellent. You've seen a little frazzled. I'm not going to lie. What do I see in frazzled? I don't know, but you always seem frazzled. I need a calming influence is what I need. I need a better bedside manner. Look, better bedside manner. Yes, it's exactly right. There's just a lot of things I got to go through to prepare for the show. Yeah, it's a very, very busy show. Paul Reindel is out. He might be listening right now. He's sitting at the terminal at San Diego. What is it? Sky Harbor. And he's waiting to board his flight to the Bavarian village in Washington. Leavenworth, Washington. Leavenworth, yeah. That's right. And he's, I assume he's flying to Seattle and then has to drive from there to Leavenworth. Yeah. Benjamin Higgins. Good morning. Your friendly neighborhood sports anchor joins us as well. Hello to you. Hello. It's the old George Carlin bit. I mean, you really want to eat a place called the terminal snack bar. It doesn't sound good for sure. Why is it though, when you go to it, I can eat breakfast before a flight at home. Then I get to the airport and there's something in my brain that says to me, you better eat because A, it could be your last meal. B, you could be stranded. You could be sitting on the tarmac for hours. I always overspend and overeat at the airport before I go anywhere. You're not the only one. The lines in the morning, like it, you know, the coffee place are nuts at the airport because people feel like, what if I don't get a chance? What if we're sitting on the tarmac? That's it. Two hours. It's the tarmac, right? That's what scares the scary thing. Like, so I'll let you on the plane and then they won't let you off. Yeah. And I'll overstuff before I get on the plane, just in case we end up, you know, getting stuck out there and can't take off or whatever. Welsh writer says, I always got to get the airport beer. I'm not great with the airport beer. I'm really not. I don't really drink at the airport or on planes. I don't know why. I just don't like that feeling of I don't really like flying anyone. It really doesn't do anything to calm my nerves. But I don't know, man, the I always end up buying way too much stuff at the airport. In fact, forgot to tell you guys this. We flew out to Hawaii last week or whatever. And I was not super comfortable on the way out there. Now, the plane was fine. I had a good seat. Like everything was good. But I had one child on either side of me. So the entire six hour flight, I'm looking this way, craning my neck left, then craning my neck right. Oh, yeah, no, that's how you write your name for six hours. And we were did some workbooks. They they watched some iPad on the way out. But I'm craning my neck, I'm craning my neck the whole time. So I thought to myself, well, I'm going to buy one of those neck pillows that I see everybody wearing because I don't have one. Do you have one? I used to. I do not have one anymore because I found that they just don't work that well. So I go to I go to the gift shop in Kauai to get one. And I have no joke on this flight. I'm going to get settled in. I'm going to have my neck pillow and be good. So there was a $20 one. And it was the micro BD one. Yeah. And then there was the kind I used to have. Okay, so then there was a like what looked really, really nice in those $51 upgraded version. So I guess which one I went with. Yeah, of course I did. Now I grabbed it. I went up 10 because you're getting that one. I go, yeah, I mean, I mean, it's more money. So obviously it's better. Clearly, you're not I mean, right? If it's cost more money, it's better. So I go up, I get it. Well, I didn't I didn't test it. I get on the plane and I put it on. And I'm I'm a bigger guy, but I don't have a big ass huge net. I put this thing on it barely. There was a snap. And if you snapped it, it was like wearing a noose. So the first time I snapped it, I was like, I try to lean back on it. Then I found this, whatever it was covered in really gave an ear shade. Yeah, the inner inner of my neck. And so I ended up using it for about six minutes on the flight home. And then what I did, Ben, I wedged it between my knee and the side of the plane so that my knee wouldn't be rubbed raw against the side of the plane. So I spent $51 for a a knee knee guard. Did they just have the two options because you got to be careful. I've read about this before. It's for instance, like when you go to a restaurant and they have bottles of wine at the restaurant. Yeah. So oftentimes people will most likely order the second least expensive bottle of wine. That's the because ordering the least expensive one makes you look el cheapo cheap. So people then will go, okay, well, this one's 32. I'll get the $37. So I don't look cheap. So actually, that's the one that is the biggest markup on the wine list because they know that. So they will maximize their profit on the second cheapest bottle of wine, knowing that more people will order that than anything else on the menu because they're afraid to look cheap by ordering the cheapest one. So sometimes like maybe with neck pillows, they'll just charge more for no reason knowing and people won't want to get the cheap one. So let's make a cheap one and then charge more for it and people will pay it thinking they're getting better quality when they're not. You're actually maybe getting the worst quality wine when you get the second least expensive wine on the wine list. Well, all I kept thinking about on the plane was how good with those micro beads feel. Yeah, you should have just gotten the cheap one. But I was afraid you just get the $20 one. It's going to split open. There's going to be micro beads everywhere. I figured I get this $51 one. It'll be great. The raw, my neck was raw. Like I have some facial hair. I can't shave because the potteries aren't losing. So I was going to clean up the beard today. I can't. I don't want to mess with the street rally, roach, rally beer. What else? Right? Just kiss the roach. I didn't want to mess with the streak this morning. I said, I can't shave this. I can't even clean it up. I just got to let it roll. And that's kind of how I felt. And my neck is like still like irritated and raw from that stupid neck pillow. So hopefully Polly travels a little bit smarter than I did. But yeah, I didn't. I saw so many people on the plane and they were sacked out and they looked so cozy and comfortable. I got to get one. And it didn't, it didn't do much for me at all. Not it, not even a little bit. So I did not know that about the wine. Yeah. That's a, that's a, that's a, that's something to know. Now if you want to go and get something nicer, go ahead. You can probably find actually decent, better deal on the upper end of the wine list. Now you're spending more and you're probably getting a much better bottle of wine. But if you, if you want to go with a less expensive bottle, go with the cheapest one. It's probably the least markup. They want to have that option, but they know people don't order it because they don't want to look cheap. But like you said, like you said, you look cheap. You do. When you buy the $22 bottle of wine, you look cheap and your wife's going, she's also glancing at the wine list as you make your selection. Well, bit, once you tell her though, did you know that the, the cheapest bottle of wine is oftentimes better than the the second or third cheapest bottle of wine? I know this. And she'll say, that's just something that cheap people say. We got Craig in the chat said, let's talk Padres, Craiger. Three hours and 51 minutes, buddy. I'm telling you, you will get your fill. There's Paulie with the sarcastic get to the sports talk. Padres win again. They win again. And it was just the stupidest, stupidest game again. They are the most stubborn team in Major League baseball. They literally refuse to lose baseball games. They refuse to lose them. As a San Diego sports fan, I am not used to even over a, what is this? A three week stretch, essentially, of having my team just randomly find ways to win or having other teams actually just give us games on a silver platter. And we just take them like, okay, all right, we're trying to lose last couple of games and you will not let us lose. I want to give you one. We will give you one. We'll just take it. All right, fine. If you're going to give it to us, we will eventually take it as a win. Man, bro, I'm telling it though. I really am. I'm liking this, this spot that we're in right now, where the team just rolls out there and finds a way to win in many different manners. Term 44 in the chat since the Padres, or pirates did their best Padres 23 impression. I was at that series against Kansas City last year, where we just handed, handed the royals that I think was a sweep by the Royals. We get swept by the Royals last year, which was the one that really kind of, that kind of put me over the edge. I was at the games, we kicked the ball around so much we just handed them those games on a silver platter in the royals last year. We're not like the Royals this year. And I can just vividly remember going good God, man. Does anybody want to win a baseball game today and to see them go out there and win that game yesterday? Well, you guys saw it. I had to watch it later. I can tell that story when we do our Padres wrap up at 635, but it happened again to me yesterday. If you follow me on Twitter or X, whatever I saw this, it happened again. They won, they won the first game in Kansas City for nothing and then lost. No, no, it was here. The one that's here. That's right here. Well, when the first one for nothing, then lost the next two by one running. Brutal, just brutal games, brutal games last year. So man, you know, I don't feel bad for the pirates at all, not even a little bit because of the way, basically because of the way that things transpired in the series. I was pretty hot yesterday when, when Pro got hit again, we'll talk about all of that. Might I say this? Finally, finally, someone on the San Diego Padres took it upon themselves to say enough is enough. I'm going to protect a guy that is 1000% been a superstar this year in jerks and pro far, pro far leaves that series beaten and battered getting hit four times. And it's, there's no excuse for it. I understand pitching inside, but man, at some point, like I think Mike Schildt said yesterday, enough's enough, man, enough is enough. So if you can't control it, you maybe shouldn't be pitching right there. And that's, he got, he got beat up, man, he got beat up this whole series. But I'm very, very happy to be able to come in here today and talk to you guys and, and you too, especially about what went down yesterday, just another crazy, crazy game that shouldn't have gone our way, but did. Well, I saw your tweets. So I wanted to ask you about what happened when the game was getting down to the nitty gritty. And once again, was he wasn't there for it, had to watch it later. So I'll ask you about that. We'll set the menu coming up in our next segment should be a good Friday. Of course, it's a fryer Friday. You know what that means? Mike Schildt sitting somewhere, maybe in a hotel room in Miami. Yeah, just waiting, eagerly anticipating our conversation this morning. I mean, it's got nothing, nothing bad to talk about. So not a damn shame should feel pretty good coming into our conversation today after the week they just had one would think yeah, that's, that's nine o'clock that we got a lot before that we will set the menu when we come back, get you ready for a Friday, Ben and Woods edition heading into the weekend. We got Bald Rindle, Adam Kluge here and should be a good one. Don't go anywhere. Kelly's got traffic and we are underway now on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 the fan. Nice. Today's episode is sponsored by Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast. Get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds. Nerd wallets experts will set future you up for success with dependable fact based insights. No financial misinformation allowed. Learn how to save on your summer vacation. Find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase and invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. It's the most anticipated WNBA season in history and you know what that means. Court is back in session. 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 teams 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. 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. That's why it's so important to choose the right mattress. Sleeping on a purple mattress is truly a unique experience because purple mattresses are made with a gel flex grid. The gel flex grid is an innovative material that moves with your body to relieve pressure in areas like knees and hips and support in others like your back. It feels soft where you want it and supports where you need it. Purple mattresses instantly adapt when you move. You don't sink in and get stuck like with memory foam. And thanks to over 1400 air chambers in the gel flex grid you will sleep cooler on a purple mattress. Purple has a wide variety of mattresses from the original purple mattress to the restore hybrid collection that combines gel flex grid with coils and the rejuvenate lux collection, the height of luxury with over 112,000 to five star reviews to prove it. Visit purple.com to find the perfect purple for you and enter code podcast 10 to get 10% off. So you're telling me that once again you did not see a Padres dramatic ending due to your your therapy session again. That's what that's what I got from the tweet. So what happened yesterday? Well you remember the last time. Yes. So my wife and I go to marriage counseling every two weeks, right? Just a little check in. Keep the good the lines of communication. Oh but it's a really good place to valve the lean instant oil change for your marriage. That's right. You go in you hey check in. What's he doing wrong? What's she doing wrong? It's nice. Courtesy check of the tires. That's right. That's great. It's been it's been amazing for us and we really love our our our therapists. She's great. And and so we go in. Now I'm watching the game at home and the kids were great. They were playing. I was really had time to watch the game and I was hoping you know what time the game start yesterday was 935 935 sessions at noon. So I'm like it's gonna be a little close. Get away day. Hopefully they play a quicker game. Yeah. So I get most of the game in and we get there and I'm watching on my phone as we wait 15 minutes early. So I'm watching on my phone and I get to the point of a Raldus Chapman against Mandy Machado Padres down one in the eight. Yeah. And I'm looking at it. I'm like whoo. Here we go. Payback. Here we go. Come on. Well then the door opens. It's time to go in and I'm like so I sit down on the couch in the room and a game still on the guy. I better turn this off and I turn it off. Now the last time we were there, Dylan sees through a no hitter. Correct. And I missed it because I was in there which again that's my main priority in life. It's my marriage and my family. Not upset about it at all. But I'm looking at this thing going. Hmm. I wonder what's going to happen. It doesn't look good right now. I did see Manny Kay and I went out crap. What? This is going to be a bummer man. Four nothing lead in the sixth and we can't hold on. That sucks. So we do our counseling. It's great. All of a sudden towards the end of the session, my phone sends me a notification Padres when seven to six. I looked at her and I go. They did it again. And my therapist started laughing because yeah, something happened the last time you were here. I go, yeah. He threw a no hitter. The second in history, in team history. And I said to her, I go, all right, now this is weird. I said, but if they make the playoffs, can I sleep on this couch? And she said, yeah, more than welcome to. I said, because if they make the playoffs, I'm moving in here and I will watch. Yeah. So rally, rally, beer, rally, rally, therapist couch. Whatever. There's something about that room that's magical. And so I missed it again. So then I go home and I click on channel 83 or 87, whatever it is. And it's doing the Padres music and it's just the logo screen. And then I see that they're replaying it at seven. And I'm like, I mean, I saw some highlights and stuff, but I wanted to see how it really unfolded. So my ass up last night at nine 45 watching the replay, eighth and ninth inning again, just to see how it all went down. And I just, I just can't believe it at this point, man. I just can't believe it. It's just incredible what they've been able to do. That's five straight for the first of all is, why don't you just record all the games and then you can watch them back at your convenience? It's probably a good idea. There's plenty of DVR space in the cloud or whatever. Nowadays, plenty of DVR space is a myth when you have two kids that record every episode of Bluey. My wife records every episode. Max it out at like 10 for them. You'll figure it out. You're probably right. But I couldn't believe it, man. And I just looked down. I didn't want, you know, I want to pay attention. I looked down. I went, Oh my God, they won 76. I can't believe it, dude. Well, first of all, you might want to schedule a new therapy appointment to tackle your crippling addiction to superstitions that you have that are going to start being a problem. If you keep adding on, I mean, not everything can be the reason the Padres are on a winning streak. The roach, the roach, the beard, the therapist, the couch, what else are you going to throw in there? Second of all, maybe the Thursday morning appointment when the Padres often play their East Coast games. And I don't think do they have any more? I know they're off next Thursday. You may be out of the woods at this point when it comes to the Thursday early games going forward. We go every other week. Yeah, which in every other week they've been on an East Coast road trip on Thursdays for the last month or so. So you've kind of locked yourself into the possibility of missing some Padres gaps there. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, listen, I'm just going to continue to do what I need to do. But there is something magical about that space clearly, because the last two times we had this incredible comeback victory. We had a no hitter from Dillon season. Yeah, your boy missed both of them. But I did go back and and check my work after and watch the game. And it was it was spectacular. We will talk about it coming up, setting the menu for you on a Friday. Our Padres wrap up as always hits you at 635 or so as we go through yesterday's seven to six win the early ups, the middle downs, the late thank you Pittsburgh Pirates up at the end. Seven o'clock hour take onwards. I also want to bring up the other great game I watched yesterday. That team USA serve you a men's basketball game. I don't know if you caught any of it. It really was. Hold on. What did you say? Did you catch any of it? No, I don't know if you caught any of it. I don't know if you caught any of it. I was watching me. I texted you to like turn it on, though. It was like a really good game. No, you guys were texting about what a great game it was. And I was watching Mets Rockies is what I was watching because I wanted to see if the Rockies could help us out. It was like a 10 one game, of course, but it's nothing after four battles in course field. You watched Mets Rockies instead of one of the best international basketball games probably that has ever been played. Oh, you are obsessed, man. There are other sports. I love baseball too. You are you have a problem. Maybe a therapist session about your crippling addiction to bad baseball games as well. I just I just I'm more into baseball than the Olympics too. It just doesn't do any. I'm not obsessed with the Olympics. It was truly a fantastic basketball game yesterday. I heard it was a drama. Really exciting. I guess I'll just talk about that by myself for all you guys go and you know hit the water cooler for a couple of minutes. I have some eco water. So Cal take on woods at seven 10 chance to qualify for trip to resorts world carry under wood tickets. Don't do this at seven 20. I do want to get into you mentioned it, jerks and pro four and the response from the San Diego Padres. Also, I got into a I got into a bit of a Twitter war with I don't know why I usually I try to do this. I want to hear what the hell responding to Dodger fans, but I wanted something that was posted to go. I didn't want it to go unchallenged. So I challenged it. My mentions turned into a an absolute zoo last night. I had to pretty much stop looking at the mentions with all the Dodgers fans that were upset with me, but we can talk about comparing the impact of injuries in Major League Baseball. They are so nervous right now. They're so nervous. And how could you not be? How did any and I'd be lying to everyone listening right now? And I said, Oh, yeah, I knew we'd be two and a half out. And they're nobody. Everybody thought they're what would what would you have guessed the lead would be right now 10 10 12? Yeah, 100%. And it's two and a half. So Holy cow. I don't blame you for getting in there feels good sometimes. I got in there, talked a little bit with Dodger's fans. Second half of the show on a Friday, it's a grand old barbecue, sespa, this family barbecue, Friday, Jake Mintz is his turn this week. We'll talk to him at eight o'clock. A clug report should come your way at around 8 35. See what Adam brings to the table this morning. And then, of course, the managers report with Mike Schilt at nine o'clock. And then I get you ready for a weekend in Miami against Skip Shoebockers, Miami Marlins, team of destiny. They're not as bad as you might think. I mean, they're bad. They're bad, but but they're beating other teams, at least regularly enough that you're going to worry about this series as well. It's all I can say. There's not going to be a series for the rest of the year that I'm not going to be like nervous and sick about. Yeah, just so you know, because they're in a really, yeah, good spot right now. All right, we'll come back with our Padres wrap up next with Ben Woods on San Diego's number one sports station. Nice read a fan. You mentioned the YouTube chat this morning when we started and how you get to see what we're wearing. Now, you look at Adam, he's got a just a normal flack polo shirt on. I've got a normal blue polo shirt on and my AI smoke cowboy hat. Your shirt though, very cool. A new merch item from the Ben and Woods merch store, which you can check out a little election year Ben Woods 24 San Diego's choice. And I like the color to really, really like sweets. I really like this shirt a lot. Polly did a great job getting these things up. And it's really comfy and the color is fantastic. So yeah, that's about as much as we'll wait into the election. But Ben and Woods 24. Yeah, San Diego shorts, Ben dash and dash woods dot my spread shop, just put the thing in our link. It's in our bio. You can find it. You can find it on our social media channels. But go ahead, grab one for yourself while election season is underway. All right, we've got our Padres wrap up all the highlights of yesterday's yet again, dramatic win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Get to that right after Kelly's traffic here on 97 three, the fan. I love winning, man. I love winning. You know what I'm saying? It's like better than losing. Oh my God, I'm so stiff. Miss any of the Padres win yesterday. Ben and Woods didn't. What up crew. We've got you covered with all of the highlights. I like it with the Padres win. Yeah, yeah. It's the Padres wrap up presented by Hamul Casino with rilling slots and tables in all the best rewards. Hamul Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hamul Casino fun above all else. Yeah, give me a due damage. Two and two to pitch. Machado swing sits it in the air to deep left field. De La Cruz is back. He looks up this one. Good to go to run Homer, Manny Machado and the Padres strike in the first inning. Pro for a big clap is he rounds third. Little peak of the pirate dugout and Machado an awfully slow home run trot as the Padres take a two to nothing lead. Is he on one? Peralta swing sends it in the air deep down the right field line aiming for the pole. This one is going to go. Homer on David Peralta took game for the Allegheny River in right. A two run shot and freight train time here in Pittsburgh as the Padres doubled their lead four to nothing. They left handed batters grounded out twice. First pitch swinging ground ball through the left side and they said De La Cruz rounding 30 is going to score RBI single G1 Bay and a one run game here in the bottom of the sixth. Matsui ready the little lefty delivers and a ground ball tapped to the left of the mound and he charging it goes to the backhand through to first is in time. Matsui jumps in the air spins around and high fives Machado who just made a gold club play to finally bring the sixth inning to a close. He is running and a three two hit in the air to left center field that's way back. Joey Bart sends it towards the gap and gone a two run home run over the 10 side in left center field. The pirates lead for the first time today and now want to know to Higashiyoka the pitch swung on hit on the ground to the right side to his left kinder for left has it. The second one through to first frozen way. Bogart's had already scored. Now Merrill will come in. The Padres go in front it's six to five. Higashiyoka at second two down. Here's the three two arise swings in the air to deep right center field Bay with shallow. He's got to go back. It's going to be over his head and rolling up against the wall. Higashiyoka scores easily and RBI double for arise and the Padres add on it's seven to five. Really big lead at first base. Here's the O2 pitch swung on and missed rank three. Suarez slams the door and the Padres will sweep the pirates for the first time here since 2011. They will take out their brooms and swab the decks as they hold on for a seven six win to cap an absolutely loony three days here in Pittsburgh. Yeah grit squad strikes again just hunger for competition hunger for winning games. You know I can't say enough about it on display. On display at the end of games was just on display at the whole game which makes it special too. Make it 14 wins in 16 games five in a row for your San Diego Padres who are Roach five in a Roach for the San Diego Padres who are the hottest team in baseball. Yeah even the Diamondbacks lost yesterday. So they are red hot. Look look back before we talk about this game. Padres the first day after the all star break. You remember what happened they lost seven nothing. Yeah to the Cleveland Guardians to fall back to 500. That was on vacation then too. That's true. So since then they've they've picked up 12 games above 500 going from 500 going 14 and 2. So now they're 12 games above 500. Keep that in mind because if the Padres simply played 500 baseball the rest of the season now they would finish with 87 wins 87 and 75 if they just play 500 which would be quite a bit worse than they're playing right now. 87 wins I believe has been good enough to make the playoffs in the National League every single year of the three wild card era. Not saying that it will or won't this year but history has said that 87 has been good enough to get in in the National League. So the Padres are clearly on track to where they want to be. Now we've seen them collapse at the end of the season. We've seen other teams collapse. There's no guarantees here but you don't have to keep playing anywhere near as well as you're playing right now and you should be in good shape. So that's how important these last three weeks have been for the Padres to go from 500 to now 12 games above 500 changes the entire complexion of the rest of the season. The entire complexion of going forward. Now you're looking and staring down the Dodgers just two and a half games back in the National League West and you're thinking can we win a division title? Can we get a buy in the first round? The playoffs are simply don't mess up at this point and you should be a playoff team based on just what you've done over the last three weeks. It's remarkable. It really is when you think about it. It's remarkable and the last round table I think I was a part of we talked about the road trip that they were about to embark on to to Cleveland and then to Baltimore and all these first place teams and all these huge roadblocks in the way and we're all making these deals with ourself if we can kind of we could just win you know one in that series that'd be pretty good and two what they've done since the break is is spectacular and I think the other thing to notice is every single player on that team is contributing everyone is doing something to help them win a ball game every single guy right freaking you know even Bryce Johnson's OPS is like over a thousand his last whatever like in the limited time he plays made a spectacular dive the other night but he made a spectacular catch to start off the game everybody's doing something right now it's not just one guy carrying the team or two guys carrying the team it's everybody yeah and it feels like it's a different guy every day correct it's David Peralta a few days ago it could be Manny it could be one of the stars it could be Tyler Wade one day it's not going to shock you if anyone steps up and becomes that guy for that day and the Padres just continuing to absolutely roll yesterday of course Manny Machana got him off to a really good start making him pay for hitting Jerrickson again with the two run home run on the first inning off the list Ortiz it's not the first time of course Manny has made a team pay Washington Nationals remember it well his 18th of the season and somewhat quietly although getting a little bit louder Manny has become Manny and I don't know exactly when the switch got changed I think if you go back to now like late May he actually has a 934 OPS so the switch definitely kind of flipped it took a while to that's we you know what happens like her a little bit on and off it hasn't been an un you know a run that has not had some slumps yeah one just a week or so ago but for the most part Manny is back to being Manny and it makes such a huge difference in their lineup no question and the defense I mean it's it's when a guy is able to get healthy and again so many people were on him for for wanting to post and play it's the only way he knows to how to do it and you know Ryan Cohen's in our chat shout out Ryan he said the the play from Manny yesterday and the throw from Jackson Merrill 100% saved that game and he's absolutely right Manny's defense has been pretty spectacular I know he mixed in an error in there in there the other day and cost him a run he ended up getting it back using his his brain to to do that in his baseball IQ but yeah man I'm really impressed with everybody Sandra Bogart deserves a ton of credit for the way he's played Jackson Merrill obviously you can't say enough good things about him jerks and pro far continues to be the heartbeat of this team but holy cow man it is it's really refreshing to see uh guys picking each other up and guys being able to flush it when something bad happens and rebound and and go out there and say so what and we're gonna get this back and the grit squad's great name for him uh all I think of when I watch this team is just the word stubborn that's it they're stubborn they're really really stubborn and and refuse to lose and it's really cool to see we think the grand scheme of things we're talking about a small sample size right we're talking about 16 games yeah 10 percent of the season but it's the way they're winning have you allowed yourself to recalibrate or change your expectations for this team based on this 10 percent sample size or is it just it gives them a cushion to play as Ben bladed out the record for what they'd have to do the rest of season was it changed things no 16 games what it's done for me is and I don't know if it's a personal thing or if it's just more faith in the team I don't get as uh when we get down I I fully believe oh yeah we're and Manny talked about it I think with with AJ Casabel yesterday and he goes I can't quantify it I don't have the words for you I'm not a writer right and he says there is something different but I really can't put my finger on it other than we are playing for each other we're picking each other up so he says and they've been saying this all year we just try to put ourselves in position in good positions and if we do that it's gonna come in our favor a little bit a little bit more we're gonna more things are going to even out for us if we just keep putting ourselves getting guys on base taking an extra bag whatever it may be moving a guy over if you will so they're putting themselves in those positions they don't win every game but man the more they think the more they can get themselves in those positions where something could happen the better off they will be and they've been absolutely right I think the answer to your question Adam of whether it changes your perception of the team or it's just a good you know or expectations from just squeaking into the playoffs and now expecting it and you talked about the world the answer is kind the answer is kind of both because the best teams in baseball don't play well all the way through 162 games they do this they have long stretches where they're right around 500 and then they get hot for a you know a three week period and they pick up 10 games to 500 then they play 500 ball or so for a while and then maybe they have another one where they pick up another 10 to 15 over a month because they played really well and all of a sudden they look at the end of the season and there are 26 games above 500 which would be like 94 wins and they're winning the division or they're getting you know the top wildcard that's that's how baseball works there's no team that just wins two out of three every series all the way through the year so the Padres finally had it they just never had it last year they never had that run where they could push themselves forward that we were expecting now they've had their run this year they don't have to as I said earlier they don't have to play out of their minds now to make the playoffs they can play 500 feel pretty good about their chances of getting in you know but if they keep winning series and I think I've got what 46 games left so when two out of three essentially go 30 and 16 I saw Ray said that's the target score the rest of the way that would get you to the 94 win mark will that be enough to bananas will that be enough to beat the Dodgers I don't know might be might not be I'll take it I'll take it though I'll take my chances if they could get to 94 that would be playing winning series baseball the rest of the way not as good as they've been playing the last three weeks but still a solid good baseball that target is very much in play I'd say well I'll tell you I mean it's weird because after this run they've been on it's going to be jarring the next time they lose a game it's going to be like wow it's during last Friday when they lost a game to the Rockies it was but it's gonna happen of course it's going to happen they're not gonna run the table but when I'm watching a game now and it's one nothing two nothing three nothing in the third I'm not biting my nails I'm really not I'm just interested to see okay are they going to stick to what's been working and they really have you're not seeing guys honestly try to do anything differently than what they've been doing all year that's been working for them again major major shout out to all of the people involved the I'm always going to give the players the most credit always but the buy-in that they've had with Victor Rodriguez I don't know much about Victor Rodriguez but I do know this he's the best hitting coach that we've ever had in and since we've started covering this team why because their offense is capable of punching somebody in the mouth when they need to and capable of stringing hits together and putting the ball in play not striking out a ton credit and credit to the players for buying in you know and credit to Mike Schilt for having them ready to play credit to AJ Preller for making some really savvy moves there's a lot of credit that needs to be divvied out but also you know I do have in the back of my mind like every baseball fan in 162 game season oh god what happens if somebody goes down what happens if you know you lose six in a row of course it's feasible of course it is so it will be jarring the next time they drop but it does feel different in past years when something happened like what having a say a 4-0 lead it's down to 4-3 and then Joey Bart hits that two run home or you think it's all trying to get through the bullpen and the bullpen is kind of spent your you go it's over you're still in that last year I'm turning the TV all home run every time yesterday I didn't even bad and I go this team's fine just one run it's fine now remember they they lost that game if O'Neill Cruz throws the ball on target in the ninth inning and and it would have been okay by the way it would have been okay had the hot rays lost that game so mad blowing a four run lead I know the bullpen was taxed I would have been I would have been pretty hot about you you've got you've got to understand though I was watching the game with with my son and they were up for nothing and they got to the sixth inning and Randy Vasquez had pitched really solidly the first five and I said to him though this is the most dangerous inning of the game before anyone had even reached base no question this is the third time through the lineup Mike Schildes trying to get Randy Vasquez through at least six maybe even into the seventh because of his bullpen but if he gets into trouble here they're probably gonna have to go to Carl Edwards jr because well they have Jason Adam they have Robert Suarez but they had five relievers down and Mike Schildes said that after the game so they're gonna have to go to the guy that they activated before the game and I've got no idea if he can get major league batters out or not they're hoping he looked decent in the minors but we got no there's no helper this could be a big inning for the pirates if I'm the pirates I'm circling this inning is my best chance to get back into the game and they did and it wasn't a surprise if you're if you're watching that game so Manny made the great play with uh Yuki Matsui when he came in to what a play to get out of that inning but then that caused you know then Yuki's got to come back for a second inning yeah after having pitched the day before we know that that's not his strength to do both of those things so it wasn't shocked when he gave up a home run in that situation and by the way Yuki's been really good he has been really good you're you were asking a lot of guys in that game of Carl Edwards of Randy Vasquez of Yuki Matsui just to get you hopefully close late in the game and thank goodness they were because they had a chance to still end up winning it in the end they were in position to take one that was handed to them that's all you're really looking for in a game like that when you've spent your bullpen uh so heavily the first two games of the series perfect great I mean I had no problem with him going to Carl Edwards junior at all I really didn't I saw Padres fans who were like what is Mike she'll do I had no problem with it man you needed what did you need and out you needed two routes yeah I don't think Randy Vasquez getting any outs in the six any outs in this maybe he got one I don't know he had one they had one yeah so he had a wild pitch I know Carl didn't get any yeah wild pitch two walks in a hit uh and you know it is just it's it's unfortunate and I saw people that thought Carl Edwards junior was upset about being taken out of the game no he was upset because he got called up to the big leagues and and did not execute at all not even a little bit and uh that's tough it's tough look for you to get the two out so Carl just needed one out and he couldn't get it yeah you need to one out and and I so I with a uh four one lead I absolutely expect him to be able to get him out and he didn't and so then you get punched in the mouth and you have to make some do some things you didn't want to do all right we can continue discussing that game we've got take on what's coming up in our next segment as well uh lots to get into here on a Friday more better woods on the way on San Diego's number one sports station 97-3 the fan nice today's episode is sponsored by nerd wallet smart money podcast get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds nerd wallets experts will set future you up for success with dependable fact-based insights no financial misinformation allowed learn how to save on your summer vacation find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase and invest in your next index fund make smarter decisions in 2024 follow nerd 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