Gwynn & Chris On Demand
8.12.24 Gwynn & Chris 4 pm: The Big 5
But for a clock, welcome back to Gwen Anne Chris, Chris Ella, Tony Gwen Jr. He's down to Petco Park. He and Jesse Agler have the call tonight's game, Padres and Pirates. Gets underway shortly after six 30. No, no, Joe, Joe Musgrove returns to the mound for the Padres. His first outing in 77 days. He joins a Padres team that has won a remarkable 16 of its last 19 games. Why is that remarkable? Well, it matches the best 19 game stretch in franchise history. Padres have been playing baseball scrab for. Fifty five years. That's the best 19 game stretch I've ever had. And we've got to enjoy all of it. Hopefully they'll keep it going tonight because the race and the National League West is tight, tight, tight. Dodgers are on top. They will be in Milwaukee tonight. Diamondbacks, Padres, both three and a half back. Diamondbacks are home to the Rockies a little bit later on this evening, a little Chris versus the fans coming up here, play some trivia, a chance to qualify for a grand prize tonight's day. Resorts world Las Vegas, two tickets to carry under wood reflection. Actually, I think you get to see Carrie Underwood, not just a reflection. It's at Resorts World Theater by overwhelming demand. Carrie Underwood extends her Las Vegas residency reflection through spring of 2025. If you want tickets for 2024 or 2025, they're on sale now at axis.com. That's A X S dot com. Also, R W Las Vegas dot com or you can win a pair here in that classic radio game show known as Chris versus the fans. If you had one shot, one opportunity to take down the human almanac himself, how do you do? Now is your time. Listen to me, this guy, strangers. Now is your opportunity to win a prize. Well, I hope you know Jen for Chris versus the fans. Starts now on 97 three, the fan. All right, Chris, I actually have one more prize to add to the game right now. Really? Yes. Can I throw in a bonus? Yes, because I forgot to put it in the sheet. Huh? So if you win Chris versus the fans today, you will win that qualification to Las Vegas to see Carrie Underwood, who I do sing her a song in my head like every five minutes now. Which one? No, to stop digging your key into the side of her. Pretty little shoot up for a wheel drive. See, you know, I know the words too, yeah, you will win a pair of tickets to Def Leppard at Journey at Paco Park August 30th. Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster.com. So don't stop believing you can win journey tickets. Oh my God, people are just changing. People are scrambling for the for the button on their radio. Do you know what people tell you change the tell change the station? Stop singing. And you know what people say? Like, how could you sing on the air? Because you're not a good singer. And I know that I'm not a good singer. I'm like, this is the, that's the lowest of the bother things. Like it's when I go and say crazy things. That's what bothers me. Singing on the station is not a biggie for you. No, no, not at all. All right. Give us some rules, please. You have to make it through three questions. Each question will get more difficult. If you get the question right, you move on. If you get it wrong and Chris gets it right, you're eliminated. If Chris gets it wrong, then you move on to the next question or you win. Chris versus the fans is presented by SD fat loss. Lose 20 to 30 pounds in just 60 days. Visit SD fatloss.com to schedule your free consultation. All right. Let's get to our first contestant. I feel like we have a few first time players today. Let's sing. So let's go with Burt to start it out. Hey, Burt, how are you doing? Tip top. How are you doing? Tip top. Very good to reference to the the famous introduction by the old morning show there with Dave and Nichelle and those guys. Oh, don't they say? Yeah, every time everybody asks Dave Rickards how he's doing a tip top. Is this where you got this? How are you got that, Burt? Do you know? Probably. Burt is like, I don't know what you're talking about. Let's just play ball here. All right, Burt, are you ready to play? He's ready. If you are your first time play, let us know before you get into it. And you get the first question for free. All right. He would have. OK, he didn't. All right, Burt. Here we go. All right. Out of these three players, which did not hit 10 or more World Series home runs. Is that number one? Yeah, it's pretty easy. OK, Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio out of these three players, which did not hit 10 or more World Series home runs. Did not. I don't think that's easy. Should I ask him to make him out? He said Mickey Mantle. Mickey Mantle. Well, Mickey Mantle hit the most World Series home runs. So it wasn't him. I'm going to assume the zoom, the Babe did it. So I'll say Joe DiMaggio be my answer. Do I need to give him another question or no? I'm sorry, Burt. Sorry, Burt, your line drive hit the top of the fence and caramel off the left fielder and went over for a double. What can I tell you? If only they would fix the paddies. Some bad breaks out there. If only they would fix that. That was a bad break. Tough question, though. Number one. Sorry, it happens. Burt, try again. You might get an easier one next time. Chris, I have my fancy amazing sports trivia book back out. Some of these questions are coming from that book. Let's get to our next contestant. Chris, give me a number one through six. I'm going to give you a four. All right. Four is Dwayne. Dwayne. How are you doing? Hey, what's up? Not too much. Good to have you on Dwayne. You ready to play? Thank you. Yes, sir. All right. Here we go. How long? This is the question. Number one. Burt's going to be so mad at me. How long is one period in an NHL game? It's not a gimme first. Fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes. Sorry, Dwayne. That's 20. Sorry about that, Dwayne. Tough one. All right. That's a tough one for some people. People don't know hockey. Yeah, it's a funny thing. That's like the old story. If you would have ever asked, right? Remember when we said how long is a shift in a hockey game? Oh, yeah. So three minutes, four minutes. It's like 20 minutes. Yeah. It's like no. It's like 50 seconds. That's crazy. Yeah. All right. Go to number six down there. All the way at the bottom. Bobby. Bobby. How about me? Hey, how's it going, guys? Pretty good. Very good. I think the ball had a yellow line on the outfield. And if the ball hit that yellow line, it was a home run. So that fast would have had some sort of paint on it. That would have been a home run. Okay. So I will agree with if they had a big fat yellow line and then that was the ground rule, the ball hits the yellow line. It's a home run, but they didn't have a yellow line. So the ground rule there is that the ball has to be over the fence. Because each part can have different rules. Yes, they have different rules. We need to petition Miami to get a little yellow line on top of their wall. Bobby's still trying to get a victory yesterday. Bobby, I appreciate that because he brought proof that there are other baseball fields that have yellow lines. Yes, the yellow line is a factor. Petco Park could use a yellow line if you really want to know. It would be really ugly, but a long right field. The top of that is difficult to tell whether that's a home run or not. True. And if you had a line drive to the same spot that Kim hit that one yesterday at Petco Park, the very same thing could happen at Petco Park easily. Ball could hit the top, bounce off a field and go over. Sorry, Bobby, hold on. Because if that happened, that would be a double at Petco Park. It would be, but it would make sense to me because it wouldn't have ever left the park. But this never left the park either. It hit the fence and bounced back. Then it went over by the anyway. Bobby, play the game. Sorry, Bobby. Sorry, Bobby. We digress. I've had people send me pictures of the wall. Oh, I know, people are, you know, like you're going to change something. The game is over. I'm an easy person to get on board with stuff like this, but not today. Alright, Bobby. If you were playing golf, and on a par four, you have a score of three, what is that called? Oh, man, that's not that golf. Oh, so I'm never going to get that. I think it's out of bogey. Oh, no, apparently the number one questions are not working today, Chris. You know what this is. I get them all the time. No, you don't. Oh, birdie. I will say this when we get a birdie, we stop the round and congratulate each other. Yes, you should because those are very rare. Very tough to get for us. I've only had two birdies, maybe a handful of times in a round. I've had three birdies once. Yeah, birdies are fun to get, but you got to hit like all perfect shots to get that. Yeah, it's tough. I say three. Three, Evan. I'm just picking out people that are not getting the questions right so far. Evan. Hello. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Alright, Evan, change our luck here. Let's go. Here we go. Question number one. Let's go. How many majors are played during one golf season? That would be four. Yeah, here we go. We're in the question number two. We're rolling now. Here we go. Georgia was ranked number one in the first college football games released today. What team was number two? Ohio State. Ohio State is correct. The Ohio State University. Isn't there a guy from Carlsbad High School playing Ohio State now? I don't remember where he ended up going. He started at Alabama, and then he changed his mind or Nick Saban left or something. Yeah, I think he is in Ohio State. Don't recall what Julian. All I know is Julian didn't go to San Diego State. That's all I know. I was hoping to, you know, I hope he stole my money. I hope he's going to throw away Alabama. Yeah, Ohio State. Exactly. Alright, question number three. For the title, Evan. What recently passed away Major League Baseball Hall of Famer? He finished his career with three thousand five hits. That's a tough question, I think. But he recently passed away. He recently passed away. Yes. He recently passed away. There's only been thirty... Well, I can already tell the Chris knows the answer. That's not good. That's not good. Thirty-three guys have done it. Oh, man. So you got a one out of thirty-three. I'm going to say Willie Mays, even though I'm pretty sure he had way more than that. That might be really... Willie Mays is correct! You nailed it. Wow! Very good. Nice job, Evan. And let me ask you just real quick. Uh-oh. How many hits did you say Willie Mays had? This is from Baseball Reference, three thousand five? Yeah. Willie Mays had three thousand two hundred and ninety-three. So I'm not sure where you got this from. I'm personally asking, did he have any time in the Negro Leagues that weren't included in these stats? Very much possible. Okay. Very much possible. Because I looked very much possible. Yeah. Because I looked... They might have added to his total with the Negro League stats. But that would only be like... Well, that would be a hundred and something hits. That might be a couple hundred. Anyway, it's good enough for me. Uh, I'm looking up Willie Mays right now to see how many major league baseball hits he had. And he had three thousand two hundred and ninety-three. He played three thousand and five games. Ah, there we go. There we go. We don't care. Evan, we don't care if Matt is completely wrong because he's often wrong. What we care about is you came up with the guy who died recently. So that's good enough to be correct. And win today's Chris versus the fans! Whoo! Um, yeah, that's embarrassing. Willie Mays had way more hits than that. He had more than I knew he had more. When you said Willie Mays, I thought he was right because he recently died. But I didn't think the number was right for Willie Mays. You know, I was going to guess somebody different. But it doesn't matter. Willie's got questions been in there for like three weeks. Yeah, well, it was wrong. It should have never happened. Flat out wrong. It should have never even made a light of day. All right. Good job, Evan. Stay on the line. Matt Scrabby will get to you. Make sure he takes your information down carefully because he's liable to screw that up as well. Uh, more Gwyn and Chris is coming up. And when we come back, I'm going to share with you my tweet that I sent out that got a record number of likes this weekend. I seem to have a little support in this Jackson Merrill for Rookie of the Year thing. We'll find out more about that when Gwyn and Chris rolls on. He's always good. You know, rather when 6 and 6 obviously, you know, grind out the final game. But the road trip come back here for three games, try to dominate. As far as what you were able to accomplish. I mean, how lacked the end of your field, how fun was it to be able to come up in those situations that seemed like you just believed as much as anybody else that you were going to be able to get it done? Yeah, I know. I was talking to one of my teammates the other day. And I kind of said that along the course of the year, I've kind of learned that playing for the win is more beneficial in my game than just playing for myself. You know, I feel like I've played to win and it's changed my mentality completely on this game and the family that I've built in here. So, you know, just going out every day and having fun trying to dominate and win. That's all I was taking right now. That is the guy that Bradford Doolittle of ESPN rated 6th in his current NL Rookie of the Year rankings. Welcome back to Gwyn and Chris for 20 as a time, Chris Ello. Tony Virginia and Matt Scrabe. I tweeted that out on Saturday morning Scrabe. You're proud of me because I included a photo of Jackson Merrill, which means I had to do a little extra work, you know, rather than just typing in a tweet, you know, like, yeah. I saw the photo. Yeah. I incorporated a photo in there. Yes. What I said is how these experts can even look themselves in the mirror is dot, dot, dot. Like, it's just, it's almost beyond words that somebody could be an expert in and work for a supposedly reputable, you know, spot ESPN. I consider them to be pretty reputable, but then you write something like this. Sixth. Anyway, Matt Scrabe replied. He was one of 577 people to do so. Wait, you had 577 replies. No, I'm sorry. I got likes. I got a reply. I got a lot of replies. You replied and said, you sent me a gift of a corgi of a corgi tapping his paws up and down on the grass, looking at the camera going, are we rioting? I don't know where you came up with that. I spent far too much time trying to find the perfect gift. That was a funny one. Nando said Bradford Fool little probably didn't even bother to check out the stats. Oh, God. He also swore. Okay. Tom Aztec for life sounds like do little is a complete. He swore. Let's see. Almost everybody swore here. Some of these are, you know, East Coast bias. A lot of that. Well, he does work for ESPN. I mean, I got a lot of replies. Bradford do little. A guy who has two last names. Some people try to make fun of that. Here's one I like from Radio H. Fryer. More like Bradford do nothing. Said to do little do nothing. But that was kind of cute. That was cute. You know, it wasn't bad. And to put this on the record. I have tried to get him on. Yes, we tried to get him on today. And he just didn't get back to us. I'm not going to say that he might be on vacation. He might be busy. We're not saying he's a boy. Andrew had a very interesting take on his name. Hey, Bradford. Do more. Wow. Very good, Andrea. Very good. Anyway, people were really upset. Padre fans. And I think you kind of have a right to. I mean, this is just a, you know, it's one guy's opinion. But I just don't get it. And screaming. I talked about it at length last week. You know, if you want to put skeins ahead of him. It's, you know, I get it. Skeins is skeins. He's the biggest story in baseball this year. Started the All-Star game. He's been really, really good. But I can't give it to you when you're putting Mason win and Shota Iminaga and Michael Bush and Tyler Fitzgerald all ahead of Jackson Merrill. And this was on Thursday that this article came out. Now I grant you since then Jackson Merrill's stock has risen even more. Yeah. Because he hit two more game tying home runs after this came out. But before this came out, he'd already hit three of them. Now he's hit five of them. I mean, his impact on this season has been undeniable. The fact that he leads every rookie in every offensive category is undeniable. Here's the only category he doesn't lead in. War. That's the only one that he doesn't lead in. Guess who leads there? Mason win. Guess who's next? Michael Bush. This is apparently the only thing I can think of as to how Bradford do little put his rankings together. It does follow. It does follow the rankings follow the war stat. A little bit. Yeah, very much so. And so, you know, if you're going to put Tyler Fitzgerald in there, the guy hit 11 home runs in 24 games. It's impressive. No question about it. He was on pace for 80 home runs. But he only played 24 games. You can't give it to him over a guy that's been in center field every single day this year. And Paul Skeens in the last eight days while Joe Jackson Merrill has been winning an L rookie of the week. Paul Skeens has pitched four innings. Yeah. It's how he went and whatever three or four, you know, whatever he did the other night. My point is that's what Paul Skeens has done. And this is what, anyway, I'm preaching to the choir. Because we're right here in the middle of San Diego, where I think almost everybody is probably nodding their head in agreement. But, you know, I guess we've all taken it upon ourselves now to take it a little personally, you know, that we're getting overlooked and he's getting overlooked here. And he no way. We're the only ones who feel that way. Jackson Merrill has said many times he does not care. Told us on our very show during our interview with him 10 days ago. He does not care. He didn't say he didn't care. He said that he'd much rather win a World Series. Yeah. Okay. He also said that he wouldn't mind winning both. But he said that he, yes, that's not his goal as to win rookie of the year. His goal is to be the champ. Well, here's a direct quote from him being asked today by the media about the conversation. Direct quote from him. I don't care about any of that. My family is here. This is all I need. Well, which is a good thing to say. The guy has said all the right things all year long. I mean, it's part of the reasons why I think he'd be a tremendous representative. Yes. As a rookie of the year. This kid plays the game right. He respects the game. He reverses the game. He looks up to the guys he should look, look up to. He understands his role as a rookie. He's quiet. He goes about his business in this day and age of look at me. Right? Yeah. Two fingers pointing in. Yep. This is a breath of fresh air. And beyond that, he's really, really been good. I texted Adam and I were texting about Jackson Merrill this morning because, of course, we were because that's what we talk about these days. What you do if you're crazy. And I texted him. I said he is living the dream of every single little leaguer, high schooler, college player, ever just coming on the scene in your rookie year at the age of 21 and doing the damage that you've been doing. Now, the war thing, Adam also sent me over the weekend at like an explanation between the two wars because there's two, there's a fan graph war, there's a baseball reference war. The analytics numbers have grown on me. I do like some of them. But when a number is different using the same raw numbers, I don't understand that. I don't understand why people are ranking players due to something that's someone's calculation and not actual stuff that's happening. All I can need to tell you about the war statistic is that it says Michael Bush is a 3.2 and it says Jackson Merrill is a 2.4. And if you truly honestly believe, even if you live in Chicago, that Michael Bush is better than Jackson Merrill, you know, I've got bridge farmland, swamp land, whatever to sell you. When I was at Wrigley last week, I felt the, uh, the wind of Michael Bush swinging. Michael Bush did a few things this year. I'm not, you know, give him his do. He's out. All right. But Jackson Merrill's been way better. But the war says that Michael Bush is better. What does that tell me? The war is wrong. Yeah. Well, one, one war prioritizes defense and one war prioritizes offense, whatever they pride tries. They don't make a lot of sense. Let me ask this question real quick because we haven't gotten to it. But do you think that they need a pitcher rookie of the year and a position player rookie of the year? Because it's really too hard to compare the two. I don't think so. We can name it the Paul Skeens award and then the Jacks and Merrill. A pitcher can win MVP. A pitcher should be able to win rookie of the year, uh, then deal more Gwyn and Chris coming up. That's it guys. Our big five is next. Gwyn and Chris, 97, three, the fan, Scravie is so excited about today's big five that we have to get to it right now. I mean, right now you said you wanted it. Nice. But now I got to put it back in the computer because there's something wrong with it. There we go. There we go. All right. Right now. Where's it? San Diego. You looking for local sports talk? What the heck? See? They work. Chris, you can't find the open for no, I have the big five. It's just not playing. Let's try this one. There we go. It's that time of the show when we check on the latest in sports, only the most important topics and questions are brought to light. Stop what you're doing and listen. These news stories will astound and amaze you. The one, the only. Oh my God. Who the hell, Keshe? The big five starts now on 97, three, the fan. All right. First big five in a while, where all three of us are back together, so this should go swimmingly. This should love it. And we're going to get started with something that happened yesterday in the Padres game. I think everybody knows what I'm talking about. Number five. We saw a replay challenge come back and bite the Padres with Hasan Kim's home run being overturned and being called a ground rule double. And yes, they did call it correctly. The rule clearly states everything. Here's former umpire Mike winners on with Sam Leather after the game yesterday, talking about the ruling. I understand it's confusing, but when the ball hit the wall and came back towards the field, by rule, it is no longer in flight. So I describe it this way. A player can't catch it. It's the same as if it's bounced on the ground when it starts coming back towards the field. So it didn't hit the top of the wall and continue out. If it had done that, then yeah, it would have been a home run, but it came back towards the field and then hit the left fielder and was sent over. So by rule, no longer in flight and then the fielder knocked it out of the park over the fence in that area. And now that made it a ground rule double. There's Mike winners, former Major League Baseball umpire, and love Sam's heart-hanging analysis. So Chris, do you like the rules of the rule? Do you like the current rule as it stands? I really don't. And I used to really like Mike winners and I thought he'd be a little more supportive. You think he's going to change the rules? Yeah, I think he'd be a little more supportive of the Padres there. No, I'm kidding about that. But no, I don't like the rule, you know, and not just because it didn't benefit the Padres. I think when it happened, I thought it was a home run. And I think, you know, a lot of people did, including the Padres, the ball's airborne. I don't really get how they arrived at this rule in the first place, to be honest with you. Seems to me if it bounces off a shortstop's head and goes over the fence, it's a home run. I don't know how they can say it. Didn't know how they can say it could bounce off his head. I know it's not the same thing, but to me it never touched the ground until it got over the fence. That's my interpretation of it is it never touched the ground until it got over the fence. And if the left fielder is stupid enough, like this guy was, to bat it over the fence, then sorry, pal, home run, and I probably would say the same thing if it happened to Jerksen profile, but I probably wouldn't say it with as much verve as I'm doing it now. I, yeah, I don't like the rule. I don't. I think, you know, much cleaner and clearer, because even Mike Winter said it's very confusing because we saw one replay that I think Ben Higgins tweeted out where the ball bounced straight up in the air and somehow back toward the fielder and he knocked it over and they did call that a home run. And so that was very confusing if you looked at that clip and looked at this clip. So I mean, to me to leave, you know, alleviate confusion where you can and say if the balls in play till it touches the ground, that's how I would do it. All right, Tony, do you like this current role as it stands? It doesn't matter if I like it, it's the rule, and I don't think it's a matter of change. Let's change the pick off move to let's, you know, because by rule that a lot of those should be box check swings. We need to actually invent a rule for it, you know, it's just it's one of those things that doesn't happen and very rarely happens in one case that it was called a home run. They got the call wrong. Is that the first time that umpires have ever got a call wrong? Nope. That happens all the time. No, I think this is just a shock because no one had ever seen it. No one had ever been a part of a game that's that it's happened and to be clear the whole they could say good thing, the ball didn't stop flight. It came down off his head and bounced over. So that's different than hitting the wall coming back in and then an action knocking it out. Either way, whether I like the rule or not, it is the rule and you know, everybody just have to get over it and hope for another. I'm over it. I'm over it. I'm not really taking it personally. I mean, the Padres lost the game. Farron Square. That's why I didn't ask. Did the Padres get screwed? Yeah, I don't think they lost, but I just think that to alleviate confusion is a good way to make rules. I think that's what the rules should be about. You know, can you name the last time it happened before? I don't know. Well, if it happens again, I want to know what's going on. You do. You know what happened. Now you've experienced. Yes. There you go. I think the confusion was that the microphone for the umpire was not working. That didn't help. That didn't help. By the way, I was listening to the game at that point. My man, Jesse was so frustrated as you can imagine. Yeah, I love it. It's so good. I know when the mic's not working, I know I'm going to get a Jesse rant out of it and it's amazing. All right. There we go. That's the rule. Number four. Much to Chris's dismay and disapproval, Team USA Men's basketball brought home the gold over the weekend and I should also say Team USA women did as well. Kevin Durant, however, feuded with some fans on X after his team narrowly defeated Serbia. The account tweeted at Kevin or tweeted out quote, Serbia just took the most talented team in the history of the planet to the wire with a medal on the line. Team USA was a 16 point favorite. The whole country should be proud talking about Serbia. Durant responded asking, where are you from? And then got into it with other fans because they were starting to get into it with Kevin Durant. I know this is confusing. Stick with me. He replied with quote, to all you nuggets fans, nobody gives a bleep who you all lame's believe is the best player in the league. Players got major respect for joke. We don't worship him like y'all do, but most are in awe of his brilliance, trolling you corn balls for rooting against us as a part of the game. Deal with it. I love it. The last person tweeted a lot about US sports culture today, a lot of flexing for only just beating a nation of 6.6 million in a sport they invented. Something like Jokech fans are committing treason. Anyway, long story short, Tony, that was a long story. I had to, and you didn't make it short, I had to present everything, Tony has fandom turned into idol worshiping. Yes, it has. That's a great question there. Oh, I wonder where I got it from. I think it has. I watched this kind of back and forth on Twitter with Kevin, K.D. And you know, I have a lot of issues, I don't, you know, we've talked about, I don't generally like K.D. hopping on there and mixing that up, but I liked it in this case. And I just have a lot of problem with how this whole thing is, as it pertains to, it seems like just the USA men's basketball. They don't see it really anywhere else. And I think it has to do with the fact that NBA has grown in such a crazy way that there was a time where it felt like no matter what, Lakers, Celtics, whatever you name your biggest baddest rival. Once the dream team started playing together and, you know, those rivalries were probably stronger at that point than anything we have now, people were able to say, all right, let's put that aside, this is a country thing, let's, let's go ahead and, and, and pull for it. And it just bothers the hell out of me to see people like rooting against it. And then, you know, there's a lot of, there's a lot of different components to this that, you know, as a, you know, as we went through the whole, you know, kneeling before the flag and people feeling a way about that. But when it comes to, you know, the Olympics and somebody, a team representing their country, the thing that bothers so many people, yet you will be willing to go against your country in this particular case in terms of rooting against your country. It is, it's so, it's so backwards. And then the other thing is the fandom part, like the reason why I say that idolism has become such a big thing in sports is it's partly because of social media, it's partly because of how we intake a lot of the media stuff, but it's crazy to me, it's so easy. I guarantee what Kevin did was go to those people's accounts, they can all see there are nugget fans, every one of them, and all see that that's why they were rooting against their own country in this particular case. That is just, it irritates me. I don't know why it irritates me, it shouldn't, but yeah, I think it is. I think we've gone beyond fandom and it is, it's something different now, it seems like. I agree with you. Now, Chris, someone who doesn't really like this team whatsoever, who hates his country, wants the US to lose, has fandom turned into idol worship? I'm not, I'm, yes, the fan relationship with the players has gone off the rails. So, you know, that part of it, I, you know, I don't get, and taking these guys on, you know, on social media, just because they're trying to, they have their own agenda. I'm not a fan of that. I don't share Tony's hate for the people who weren't big fans of the United States basketball team. He never said hate. Just irritation. Okay. It's because you're one of them, Chris. Yeah, I am. But here's the thing, this team, for whatever reason, and I don't, can we come up with a reason instead of saying for whatever reason, we just don't like them just because they're on the cause they walked around just arrogant as hell. That's the best reason I got for you. But here's the other thing, and I'm going back to the old days, but, oh, here we go. The greatest moment in Olympic, the greatest moment in Olympic history would not have happened if the professionals played, and that was the 1980 US Olympic hockey team. But I do think that there are still a generation of people who think that the LeBron James is of the world, and the Kevin Durant's, and even the Curry's, and the rest of them, all have plenty of fame and fortune, and it would be alright if they got out of the way and let these other kids play. I just think that there's a lot of people who hold that against these guys through no fault of their own. I don't disagree with you on that, but it is nice to see a bunch of NBA players come together and ask them all, why did the NBA players get a chance to play? They originally got a chance to play, I'll be honest with you Tony, if I'm not mistaken because we didn't win the gold medal in 1988, and it was so important to us as a country the dream team had to win it, that we suspended our, you know, original rules. Now, I am willing to bet it wasn't the NBA players pushing to do this. No, I think you're right, I think you're right. It was the people who were like, alright, we lost, we don't like losing, this is America, we shouldn't lose. That's right. It's true that we shouldn't lose. Let's get the NBA players. And now that we have them, we're upset about it. There is a hypocrisy there for sure. Well, we could go on all day on this time. But that's what we can talk about forever. Yes. While the Padres are doing their thing, these pesky Diamondbacks are playing equally as well. Since June 1st, the Diamondbacks ranked number one in baseball and win percentage runs per game batting average on base percentage and slugging percentage. So Chris, are you more scared of the Diamondbacks or the Dodgers right now? I'm not really, I mean, I'm not scared. Okay. Here's the wrong word. I knew you were going to take that literally. Well, I'm sorry. I mean, I'm not. I'm not worried about either team right now. I mean, the Padres keep doing what they're doing. I mean, you're asking as far as the Padres, who do you not want to face right now? Again, it's not my favorite question. I'm sorry. I don't care. I mean, in a best of five series, you know, depending on who lines up as the starting pitchers, those are probably the team that's going to scare you the most. And I don't know who the Dodgers, you know, three pitchers would be in a series as of right now health wise. And, you know, maybe don't even know the Diamondbacks would be because Carol Kelly's coming back now and they're getting Eduardo Rodriguez back. So, you know, both these teams are playing, you know, the Diamondbacks are playing great right now. That doesn't mean they're going to be playing this great in October. The Dodgers very well might be playing this great in October. So as of today, it's an easy question. I'm more nervous about the Diamondbacks as of the moment, but bets is coming back, Muncie looks like he's about a week away. Dodgers are going to be the truth before too long. Did you guys see the mean tweet that said, I found Max Muncie and it was a picture of a possum at Dodgers stadium. Tony, who are you more nervous to face right now? He gets a softer version of the question because you just ripped through it. I can't get two people going to answer this question. That's a really good question. Two in a row for you here, buddy. That's probably the Diamondbacks right now. They just won't go away. They're playing like equally as good as the Padres right now. Last hit, I think they're 9-1. Padres are 8-2. So yeah, man, this is shaping up to be a pretty fun closeout of this season, whether we're talking quite frankly, we could be talking about the division or a wild card at this point. Don't look now, but the Giants have a chance to get the last wild card spot, by the way. And all four teams from this division could make the playoffs. See, you know, Wes is, and we said this at the beginning of the season about that mistake and that this division had a chance to be really good and it was a slow start for the whole league, if we're being honest, for the whole national league. But it's kicked into gear and I think we're in for a fantastic finish, given that the Padres play all of these teams, even though I hate the schedule, it has worked out in a way. So the Padres standpoint, they kind of, I have to figure they're going to be in control of their own destiny with the teams that they're facing, you know, the last week of the season. And so, yeah, I would say right now is the Diamondbacks, man, they got healthy and they got going all at the same time. And so it's been a lot of fun to watch some baseball here in the last two and a half weeks. Those slimy snakes. Number two. All right, here's kind of a serious story. The Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball have suspended Jared Duran of the Red Sox. Two games after field Mike's caught him saying an anti-gay slur directed at a fan. So the fan was saying tennis racket, you need a tennis racket, which is funny. And it's clear as day. You can also clear as day. Were they were they in bot? We're there. Mmm. I'll check while we're answering, but I'll check while the fan was okay, where he said that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Jared Duran said the anti-gay slur. You can go look it up. I'm not going to play it. That maggot Chris why that bad literally why that bad I was trying to help the people out. I think they already knew that was at home to OK, so Jared Duran, his salary for the next two games is going to be donated to the Federation of Parents and Friends of lesbians and gays. And again, he's been suspended for two games. So as you can imagine, fans have feelings on this and some saying he doesn't need to be suspended at all. I'm saying two games isn't enough. Tony, does the punishment fit the crime? Uh, yeah, it does, it does at this point. I mean, I'd feel the same way if he dropped, you know, a racial epithet at that point. You know what I'm saying? Like, these things, we're, especially when you're representing a team in a league, you know, you can't, you don't have, you don't have freedom just to say what you want. I mean, that's kind of, you work for a company. They have their little, you know, real in like a job that's not major league baseball, right? You sign, you sign any nice company. That's a good company. Right? Yeah. They got little things in there that you got to sign on that contract. And a lot of that has to do with this kind of situation here that we're talking about. And so, you know, whether you agree or disagree with, you know, you know, that particular element, you know, in people who are of the, the lesbian and gay community, you could not lie. You can't say stuff like that. It's just, it's just that simple. Yes. Chris, does the punishment fit the crime? Do we know if he himself suggested that his salary be donated? I do not. I just saw it tweeted. What I would say is if he came out and said, I messed up badly, that was not me. I'm going to immediately donate my salary for a week, a couple of days, whatever. Then I would feel like a couple of game suspension might fit the crime because I would feel like he gets where he went wrong. Right. If he is just wandering around like, what's the big deal? Do you want to hear a statement that I might need to be a little harsher on the suspension? So yeah, let me hear. He said during tonight's game, I use the truly horrific word when responding to a fan. I feel awful knowing how many people I've fed into disappointed. I apologize to the entire Red Sox organization, but more importantly to the entire LGBTQ community. Our young fans are supposed to be able to look up to me as a role model, but tonight I felt far short of that responsibility. I will use this opportunity to educate myself and my teammates and to grow as a person. Yeah. Nice statement that somebody else wrote. I'll give him. You don't think, you don't think that he's sitting there? I really don't know. Can you type that out? No, I don't. That's the game. He came in there and said to the computer, you didn't think. I got to pour my heart out. Yeah. Little things. He's like, where's the AI generator? I think a week is good for a young Jared and, you know, hopefully Jared's just, Jared, I hope it's a mistake he doesn't make again. It's not a week. It's two games. I'm saying it. You asked me if the punishment took the crime. I'm giving him longer. All right. Here we go. Last one. Number one. I took my dogs and I just include my parents dogs at this point to Fiesta Island this weekend and they had a grand old time, they're jumping in the water, playing with the other dogs. Lucky looks like a moose while he's swimming and it's very cute. That's not the story, guys. The story is that my guy Lucky decided he was going to drink a bunch of ocean water. And so as we were walking back to the car, he threw up probably 10 gallons of water that he decided to drink. Ten gallons is a lot. I know. That's a lot. He's a big dog, but ten gallons. I'm exaggerating. Okay. He drank a lot of ocean water. You're trying to give the idea that he was really bloated, bloating water. Yes. He was flying out. So as we're walking back, he threw up. I weighed a little bit before I got him in the car, waited like 15 minutes to see if he was done throwing up. I thought he was done throwing up. So I put him in the car. It's maybe 90 seconds into my drive. He starts puking all over the back of the car again. So I put his mate towels down under him. It helped, but it didn't help and it was everywhere. Dog throw up in the crevices of the door and see is my nightmare, Chris. That's your worst nightmare mess in your car. In my car? Yeah. Your car, I can imagine, is actually like so clean, you can't find a molecule of dirt. Yes. A nightmare scenario in my car is a speck of dirt. I don't want anybody even dropping a fingernail in my car. That's my nightmare. No. Yeah. Look, I can only compare this to one other story and this is unfortunate because it involves my wife. She was one of the funniest ones ever. She was fine. But we went on a water skiing trip many, many, many years ago and her skiing is hard as we've talked about. And she got seasick on the boat and we had to wrap once you get seasick. Yeah. And once you're seasick, it's all low. It is. It's a wrap. You can't do nothing about it. But unfortunately, we had to drive back from Fresno to Los Angeles, which means we had to go over the grapevine, the grapevine. And it was so hot that you had to turn your air can, this is a day when cars didn't work as well. Yes. To turn your air conditioning off to get up the grade of the mountain. That's why they have those stops to fill up water in your radiator. No, no way. No, no way. Anyway, yes. It was a disaster. We caused her to throw up all over the car. And we took her straight to the emergency and she was fine. But that was, that's probably similar to what you had to go through. Yeah. I felt bad for a lot of it landed on herself, unfortunately. Ooh. Yeah. That's a tough one. So bad. That was, that was a hang with them if there ever was one. And when you walk into the emergency room and the doctor's like, ah, what happened to you? Yeah. All right. Tell me, what's your worst nightmare mess in your car? Oh, man. Because you got kids, which means there could be Cheerios, there could be French fries, there could be anything. Nasty human beings, dude. So, I don't know that I could come up with something. Just all of the above. Yeah. All of the above, you know, they like to, they'll, oh, okay, just how about, how about just some old fashioned like food that we stopped to get that they never take out the car? Oh, yes. Yes. My dad hated that one. Great. It's like a pet peeve now. I mean, drink up, drink up, or oh, here's my favorite. This is my favorite. And I don't know if it's nasty, but whatever sweet drink they had in the back, they leave it in the car and you know, the car gets hot and then it leaks through the cheap cup that they had. Nothing like boiling fanta orange sugar. And then it just turns into sugar stick. That's bad. All over the thing. That's, that's, that's the nasty one. Oh, I love all of this. Lucky was fine. Yeah. I was going to say what kind of, what kind of owner doesn't rush the dog immediately to the vet? Because he just, he just had water in his stomach. I tried that. Yeah, I did try dogs like throwing up 10 gallons. You're not taking one to the vet. As I was waiting for the light to change, I tried to push his head out the window, but it wasn't working. It was a disaster. Yeah. All right. That's it for the big five. Good job, everyone. We get back. We're going to get you set for the big showdown between the Padres and the pirates are next. Starting to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again. With North Sides and Bullion as you're not so secret ingredient, you can skip the drive through and do dinner at home. North Taste combos provide a menu of delicious, affordable, and well-balanced meals that you can prepare in 30 minutes or less. Visit nore.com to get quick and easy recipe ideas for your home-cooked weeknight dinners. It's not fast food, but it's so good.