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After all, folks, they're only in the midst of the greatest 19 game stretch in franchise history. With that, we welcome you into going in Chris 201 as a time. Happy Monday to you, Chris. Hello, Tony Gwen Jr. Out at Petco Park where tonight the Padres will look to keep things rolling against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Matt Scrabby alongside here in the Odyssey Palace. And speaking of Jesse Agler who you just heard there, he will be joining us in this hour from Petco to get some of his thoughts on the Padres recent stretch of games. Tony Gwen Jr, you were on vacation last week. I'm almost thinking it's a good thing they lost yesterday. They may not have let you come back. Well, let's be honest. I was also on the on the trip where they went like seven and two against better teams. That's right. They're gonna let you back. But either way, it was nice to see them continue what they had started on this homestead, basically. And Padres are in a good spot. I mean, in terms of what they've done here in the last, what 19 games that would you say 19 game stretch 16 and three, equaling the greatest ever in the history of the team. Yeah. So they've obviously done some terrific work. They've opened it up a little bit and the wild card standing. They've closed the gap a little bit. And when I say opened it up, they haven't like separated themselves. But what did we say? You went enough series. You went like enough series in a row. All of a sudden, the winds start to separate themselves from the losses. And that's what the Padres done. Now, the other side of that coin is so have the Diamondbacks. They've pretty much been step for step. I mean, they're right in our armpit right now. They, you know, they they're they're there. They're right there with us. So same record. So yeah, they haven't been able to shake them. I mean, even the Giants are starting to play some good baseball. They're chasing down that third wild card spot. So listen, this is a lot. There's a lot happening right now. A lot of positive things happening right now. One being which that the Padres get one of their guys back today and Joe Musgrove starts tonight. Big, big, big to see him back. It'll be bigger to see him get through this start. Now you can start counting on him to be a part of this rotation. Offense has been terrific pitching. Not quite as terrific as the offense has been, but nonetheless, there is not a lot to be upset about when it comes to Padres. Yeah, they're averaging seven runs a game during this 19 game stretch, seven runs a game. Even if the pitching isn't very good, you can go 16 and three if you average seven runs a game. And the pitching by and large has been good. They didn't have a good weekend in Miami on the mound. But this is an amazing stretch and it's happened in all kinds of amazing ways. It seems like, you know, every time they're down to their last out, they come up with something. And they nearly did yesterday. And look, Hassan Kim has Jesse said in the clip, and it a home run since June, and he rockets one to the top of the fence there in left field. And look, I mean, by all accounts, you know, the umpires got together, got the call right. The rule is the rule. And you know, that's just so be it. Luis Campusano needed to come up there and get a base hit. And you know, he didn't. And you know, it just shows it's not supposed to really be this easy where every time you're down a couple of runs in the ninth inning, you just automatically win the game. That's not normally how baseball works. I believe in that trip, they had four games in a row that they trailed in the eighth inning and won. And that was the first time that's ever happened in franchise history. Yeah, you could take Jackson Merrill for three of them. And you can take Jackson for all of that. I'm kind of, I'm kind of holding off on him right now because I want to give him a segment to himself. I, you know, I've been battling personally with Bradford do little of ESPN.com for the last week, Tony. Personally, yes, ever since, well, ever since he ranked Jackson sixth in the NL rookie of the year balloting. And, you know, I tweeted that out yesterday. And now I have about 600 of my closest friends who are battling Bradford. Well, you know what, right? Great Tony, you don't know this about Chris. He's a major Twitter guy now. And Eric Hosmer actually quote tweeted Chris's tweet in which got in front of all the audience right there. Well, look, this is, this is a no brainer. I mean, he's playing it cool, but he's very excited. I was really excited. I got so many likes. I didn't know what to do with it. But, you know, here's the thing. I mean, the guy, you want to argue Paul skiing should win the rookie of the year. Fine. If you want to argue that Jackson is this and that fine. If you're going to honestly write for supposedly, you know, reputable publication, and you're going to tell me that the guy is sixth best in the league, I just, that was so beyond, you know, impossible for me to believe. And I do want to thank Scrabe. He tried really hard to get Bradford do little on. I didn't. And I don't want to say that Bradford do little refused. No, but it just didn't happen responded. He hasn't, we didn't respond. Maybe he knows what's good for him. I don't know. Could see this is the reason you can't say he knows what I think he should come on in San Diego and at least and least explain, you know, what he was thinking when he wrote this, this article was dated August 8th. Now, you know, since then Jackson's hit two more tying home runs, but even without those, he'd already hit three and, you know, babbling in magical year. Anyway, that's what I wanted to say for the next segment. So let's talk a little bit about, you know, what's going on with what's coming up. Look, they're three and a half games out of the division. The other side of it, they're now four and a half games clear of the Mets for the wildcard. So they were actually closer to the Dodgers than they are to being out of the playoffs. But as you pointed out, Tony, there really is no time to rest. And I think that that's a good thing. You just get up every day and you have to go back to work because while the Padres have gone 16 and three, the Diamondbacks have gone 14 and three, even the Dodgers, if you look at the teams in Major League Baseball that were at the top of the heap, and I'm talking about the Yankees, the Orioles, the Guardians, the Phillies and the Dodgers, those were the five runaway teams in mid-July. Well, every one of those teams has a losing record since then, except the Dodgers, they're at least hanging in there at 500. So that's how the Padres have been able to close the gap. Dodgers did just sweet Pittsburgh. They're getting Mookie bets back. They're probably going to get Muncie back. But the so the thing is the Potters have to keep going here. They can't just say, hey, you know, we won 16 out of 19. So we accomplished everything we needed to because if they take a deep breath, they're going to find themselves in trouble again. So yeah, I think you're spot on. They definitely have to keep in the reality is it's more likely us as the fans on the outsider that have to keep our, you know, barons about us right now, because it's really easy at a 16 and four clip to start, you know, pounding your chest a little bit and now being what 12 games over 500? 13 games over 500 goodness. I think that's something that, you know, you certainly have. But I think those dudes in the club will say no that the reason why they've closed the gap on the Dodgers because they haven't been low focused on. They focused on winning game that they're playing in front of them. And so I expect them to continue to do that. It's hard to, because I'm not, I don't say these type of things very often something in the air in terms of this team and their ability to come back. And it's not just Jackson Merrill. It's it's somebody different seemingly on a nightly basis. Yes, Jackson Merrill has been a part of a lot of it. But and I've had a big part in a lot of it, especially those three that his home were basically either gave them the lead or tied a game to send them in the extras in which they got the lead. But it's just been different characters. It seems like all the time. And when you got different guys stepping up at different points as frequently as we've seen this PODRIG ball club do it, that that bodes well. And so it's not perfect right now. As we've talked about, you know, the pitching hasn't been wasn't great on that road trip, yet they still found ways to win. At the end of the day, it's about stacking doubles. You can worry about the everybody being their best version of themselves once you get into the dance. Right now, you just win them. However, you got to win them. And right now, the Padres are doing that as as best as good as anybody in the entire league right now, maybe besides the Diamondbacks. Diamondbacks are doing as well as the Padres, but I don't know. Yeah, the Padres don't have to take a backseat. And you know, you're right, Tony, when you talk about who's contributing, I mean, just go down the rock, go down the lineup. Just for just do that. Louisa rides as he contributing. Yeah, I'd say so. He's leading the National League in hitting. So I would say that he's contributing profile continues to do his thing. Wasn't as magical on this road trip as he's been. But I mean, the guy's human. Too busy trying to get out the way of the baseball. No kidding. He got hit by a pitch 30 times on this trip. Somebody please do something about that. Croninworth. Maybe he you can say he's been in a little bit of a slough. But I still think Jake's such a gamer. And he's got to be part of this thing. Solano hits a big two run home run yesterday to come back in the game. Machado's been there. Bogart's has been hitting about 500 since the all-star break. Merrill, we talked about Peralta. How many big hits has this guy had for you recently? Kim almost did it yesterday. And Hagashyoka at the bottom continues to be the most the most dangerous offensive catcher in the National League, which is, you know, something nobody would ever expected. So you're right. I mean, right up and down the lineup, it's been really something. And I hate to I hate to tell Mike Schulte's right when he's 100% right because it's a big old fat. I told you so from him right now. He just talked about winning series at the beginning of this season. And we all said it was a roller coaster and we wanted to get off. And he looked at us and he said, wait a minute, we just won six series in a row. We just won 10 out of 11 or 10 out of 12. And everybody said, we don't care because it's a roller coaster and we're tired of the ride. Guess what went but guess what winning all these series is done. They've won seven in a row on the series now and look where they are because of it. So it's so funny you said that because I've I've gone down on the field after some of his he is actually he was bewildered at some at times about how we on the outside were dealing with the winning of the series and you know what felt like a roller coaster. Right. As it turns out, this is what he was striving for. And now we're starting to feel it. I think it was hard to feel early because the team was kind of right around 500. They'd be a couple games under over. They get swept. They'd fall like four under and they were doing this dance but they kept winning series in that time frame. They might have lost a series and got swept but they would bounce back when the next couple of series and what has happened is now they put what seven, eight, seven in a row. Seven in a row series of series wins together and all of a sudden you're looking at 13 over and that is the idea. That is why they call it a marathon. It's because it's a it's a slow it's a slow drip. It's a slow burn but here we are. Padre's playing some of their best baseball at the right. You know, it's almost at the right time. I'd like to see that this kind of run happen in September but Bakers can't be choosy. Here we are. Yeah, take it while you got it and keep it going as long as you can. As you said, Joe Musgrove returns to the mound tonight, 77 days that he's been sidelined with elbow issues. And if you want a little better news, how about this Dennis Lynn from the Athletic reporting today that you Darvish is throwing some live BP and that a return this season is quote still possible. It's not going to hurt anybody's feelings if you Darvish comes back in September and starts some games. So, you know, that's another thing that you can be hopefully keeping in the back of your mind and Fernando Tatis is, you know, another pretty good player that should be returning to this club here at some point. So you know, there's a lot of things to be really excited about right now. And just to cap it all off, Jackson Merrill was announced as the National League's player of the week. Fortunately, Bradford Doolittle did not have a say in the voting. So four home runs, 10 RBI's, 11 hits, four game winning, I mean, whatever, Jackson, can I get a Jack for a second? We're getting a lot of questions about the padding on the wall out there in Marlin's Park. Okay, depending on the wall doesn't matter, right? If it doesn't go over the fence, the ball, Mike Winters explained it and Mike Winters is a big five. Yeah, we're going to get into it a little deeper in the big five, but just real simple, if the ball bounced up in the air, straight up, in the sense that it is then ruled to be continuing in flight. And if it's tipped over the fence, it's a home run. But as soon as it bounces back toward the field of play, which that clearly did, that is the end of the ball in flight. But what about the padding that was hanging over the field? The padding, it was hit off the padding. The padding was a skew on top of the wall. No, no, it hit underneath. No, yeah, they're not they're not looking at the right thing. I'm just bringing up the chat. I know what you're saying. It clearly hit the padding on the facing of the fence and clearly bounced backwards toward the field. And then once it gets backward toward the field, the flight of the ball is considered done. And the only way it was knocked over the fence was by a player, therefore, a rule book double. I, you know, we'll talk about it more in the big five. To me, it's a little confusing, but they clearly got it right. So we just have to start another winning streak tonight to that end. We will talk more about tonight's game a little more about Jackson Merrill and his incredible heroics and how hard it must be to do what he is doing. But man, is it something fun to watch? 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At cj_greek he sent me a picture of said wall that he says is a skew. Yeah i don't know man it's just it's a tough it's a tough case to prove there i i don't know that those you know what cj you're right home run we're all flying back to miami let's finish the game what are you gonna do i didn't see the game live i was listening as i said in the car yeah to jesse and scans uh and i was right around um uh marietta tamekula area when it when it popped off oh man and uh did you hear me jump off the couch i jumped i actually jumped off the couch i mean my whole celebration for hosan Kim hitting a home run i don't think i've ever done that before but i was so excited i couldn't believe that they had honestly done it again i i i i had literally just turned to my son and said hey man dude this the way things have been going right you never know what could happen and no sooner did i say that the crack happens at jesse's voice raises yeah and like when that when the when he said that it went down like the whole car like he was like the happiest they had been on this nine-hour car ride the whole time and then i and then as you know we started to get the uh the whole you know what was happening with the ball and you know i started to you know i i was very apparent that the mic wasn't working because you know i know my partner very well there's there's a couple pet peeves of his and they both have to do with the mic i think it's the announcing the mlb not announcing you know whatever happens and in fact they don't use the mic as much as they should anyway yeah he said checking with his buddies in new york his microphone has not been working today he was actually pretty calm at that point he was he was yeah but you get but as you know from a broadcast at that point as that situation go along you would not like nothing more than to be able to explain at least what's a piece of what's going on absolutely we all wanted to know honestly nobody i don't think anybody had honestly ever seen that they know really i mean if you had said you'd seen that before uh you'd have to go back to some you know game that we haven't had video of because i'd never seen it i wasn't a hundred percent sure i don't think anyone truly was there there's a reason why they say there's something that you've never seen happen yeah can happen any game and that was something and that's why everybody's feeling some type of way about is because there had never been anything that most of us had seen that would lead us to think you know what oh man this might just end up being a double because the ball flight all of that right i think a lot of us thought of me using hosey can say well i was thinking in the car as i was driving and then jesse mentioned it on the air yeah i'd like yeah that's certainly bounced over hosey's head off his head and went over but then after after hearing mike winners kind of come on and explain the the rule after the game you had a better understanding and i think ultimately the fact that the Padres didn't lose a game until until that one makes it all the the the easier way to kind of swallow it and move on from it that definitely can be a trivia question for sure yeah i saw your i saw your book there's great oh they were saying i was doing ad libs on the air so i had to show them it's the trivia book i even put this in the camera chris because uh you know what are you doing you're working on questions for chris for i'm running out of questions because it's good to know that good to know we're all focused on what the job at hand i'm here and i am the president okay i'm here and i'm president he said yeah but yeah that was um you know it is what it is that it wasn't a homer um jackson uh this time wasn't involved in it in terms of of he led off the inning by the way he did if he had homered to lead off the inning yesterday i think they would have just had to suspend the rest of the major league season and said there's something occult or something what's your what's your you love that stuff scraping this weird wild conspiracy some conspiracy no i just think jackson mails that good he is but i mean if he had done it again what five hundred six days it would have been a little bit hard to imagine it really it that's that's what's kind of leading me to say you know you just don't see that kind of thing happen like like that very often and typically it happens when there's something special happening right now and this dude is just i don't know it's it's it's pretty crazy it feels a lot like you know watching toddy come into his own um his first year in a different way you know it's not the flashy you know and ironically i think these this last week i think has put jackson you know we had been tapping this conversation about rookie of the year this has put him in that realm and it also helped that the dodgers kind of made paul skis look a little bit more normal than he had been and it's going to take a few more of those but that's certainly within the realm when you're talking about a pitcher who has kind of just easy pickings all the way through you usually hit a rough spot at some point he hadn't hit his jet and maybe that three run uh outing he had the last one against the dodgers is that but jackson did what he needed to do which was find a way to make him put himself on a national stage and when you hit either a game tying or go ahead home runs and three consecutive games or three out of four guess what come on a lot of people are going to be talking about it it helps also helps at his ball club had one however many straight so the padre's the way they played him particularly the way he has finished games has sorry i don't know if he saw me swatting at that fly that ran it in my face but um can you come over to our house tony we got a lot of flies in the kitchen too oh man don't give me started on that um but yeah man i think this this week has has put him in that conversation like legitimately in it padre's have not won a rookie of the year believe it or not since 1987 so bonito was the last one and it's getting real whether uh you know ESPN wants to recognize it or not here's a question i forgot to put in the big five actually it's from uh our guy arty who listens all that uh were you guys cheering for the dodgers to lose and paul skeins have a good night or paul skeins to have a bad night and just give the dodgers a win personally i was cheering for paul skeins to have a bad night and just give the dodgers the win but that was a question that's that's a real thought i mean you you're looking at paul skeins taking on the dodgers you could be like man i need him to shove today because podrons could pick up a game but on the flip side of that you could have been thinking man be nice see the dodgers give him the business here someone man jackson can start getting the kind of credit he deserves and well jackson told me that he wants to win the world series more than the rookie of the year award great point so with that in mind paul skeins you let us down side of the night he also said he would love to win both so dolce yes he did yes he did he did say like to win both let's get the break uh when we come back my partner jesse agler will join us next we'll get into that road trip that i was not on he went at the experience first hand and had some terrific calls on the way there uh morgue and chris on the other side tony bongenia was on vacation last week but he was a busy guy chris hello tony bongenia and matt scravey back win and chris 97-3 the fan tony did a whole bunch of work getting us ready for our fantasy football league i know everyone's padre crazy right now but yeah fantasy football is right around the corner scravey did as advertised change the name of his team two the champ is here because he won it last year by the way the champ is making the fantasy baseball playoffs for a second year in the race well the champ the champ may be here but chris hello just changed the name of his team to let's kill the champ wow that is violence violence i say come at you hard off with my head you put a target on your back so we're gonna come after you hard uh let's see just the agro's going to join us in just a bit from petco park fantasy football team owners by the way get ready for the draft with the reception perception whether in a pp in an a ppr league or not a little confusing there uh wide outs will make a break fantasy team so that's why you need to listen to a podcast that specializes in wide receivers don't get embarrassed this season with a new tattoo that your friends pick out on your behalf for finishing last i suppose listen to new episodes every tuesday and thursday and get ready for draft day follow reception perception on the free odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts jesse agler joins the program we are uh very fortunate to have him on he uh he is a frequent contributor to the program because every time we have an answer i need a question answered tony leans over and jesse answers it for us so we appreciate that but to get to have him on it's always fun he's on the morning show a lot but we don't get a chance to chat with him too often jesse back to miami this weekend uh is that still hold a little special place for you to go back home or have you been back enough now yeah no it really doesn't i mean it's weird like going back i mean you see some familiar people and there was like a a writer uh george richards who was filling in for a jacasvelle who wasn't on the trip uh that i i used to work really closely with because he usually covers the hockey team and i've known him for almost 20 years now he's a great guy i hadn't seen him in forever so like that piece of it is nice you know seeing people that i i used to know i guess but i mean it doesn't feel like home in any way shape or form san diego feels like home when we got off the plane last night at lynberg that felt like home not going back to miami and uh if you saw my tweet but my my dear old friend jeff darlington who's now at espn he uh it was perfectly timed i literally saw it as we're getting ready to take off and leave miami he tweeted a picture of an iguana in his toilet that had been clogging up their plumbing for the last few days and as if i needed any more reason to be like i don't miss florida well that was it literally that is literally that's all you need i may never go to florida again after hearing about that and by the way iguana might be best case scenario right it could be one of those burning items in that bad boy oh my goodness jesse uh pajre's continued what was a almost perfect homestan they go on the road and they almost put perfection there if not for the craziness that we saw in yesterday's game i mean what's been your take man they came home took care of business against the dodgers and rockies they go on the road and do the same thing take care of a pissberg pirate team that was at the time um in the mix of things and then they go to miami they almost had a sweep i mean this team is it seems like they're they're finding ways yeah i don't think there's any doubt right they're playing their best baseball of the year i think we we could have started saying that you know day two in cleveland yeah uh coming out of the all-star break you know they lost that first game in cleveland and you were kind of like all right you know this is sort of how the first half ended that by the way is the last time they've lost back-to-back games final game against atlanta going into the break first game in cleveland coming out of the break they haven't lost back-to-back since then paris seven game winning streaks so like the numbers make it fairly obvious that they're playing their best baseball of the year but watching it i mean they are really playing their best baseball of the year and i mean six games in pittsburgh in miami beauty of baseball right not exactly a road trip we would have circled a couple of months ago is like hey this is going to be you know must follow baseball every single one of those games had something goofy going on and you know the least goofy game was the game with the rain delay in the second inning to start it off in pittsburgh and it only got crazier from there and i guess it kind of you know came to a head with that really unbelievably bizarre ball off the wall last night or yesterday yeah jesse agler the voice of the pardres right here on nine seven three the fan our guest uh jesse and uh tony tonight have the call poderson pirates and i i know you don't ever or i think you don't ever prepare before a game to say what i want to yell out if jack jackson maryll it's another tying home run tonight but what did you yell out i mean the guy did it almost every night i mean this is this is uncharted territory for a broadcast or i think to have something almost this incredible happen you know the cool thing about the game is it presents you with those moments it really does you know it it in a way reminded me sort of like as the individual version of the slam diego thing in 2020 you know just sort of this like well it can't possibly happen again and then it did and then the next day you're saying the same thing to yourself well obviously it's not going to happen tonight and then it did and and that's sort of what that run for jackson felt like when he came up yesterday in the eighth i heard this part i mean i heard how you set this one up i didn't remember what i said but i fully was like i mean it wouldn't be a surprise like it and you never want to say that about accomplishing something that remarkable because you always want to be surprised you always want to kind of have that perspective of like you're seeing something near miraculous but the reality was like he had just done it three straight days like why not do it again i mean it's it's the damnedest thing and i mean for for that kid at that age at this point in his career to be able to step up in moments like that and really not that he's putting the team on his back because they're getting a lot from a lot of guys as i know you've talked about but you know this is a team with some big dogs yeah and and for a 21 year old kid to be like hey i gotcha in the eighth and ninth inning you know over that many times over the course of a week and a half that's that's not something common i think you said something and it was leading up to the inning you said well you won't be you won't you be always you won't believe who's leading off the next inning yeah don't go away something along those lines let's let's let's stay on jackson because you and i've watched him all year and he has been as as even killed with a little bit of of bumps upward throughout the course of the season he hasn't really had a downtrodden spot i mean he had a little rough patch of like tenet bats where he wasn't doing he struck out the first four times i think of the first half of the season first five times and then from there it's just been like normal that's but that's a five-at-bat stretch let me ask you though when that was happening were you thinking in your head oh boy this could be it i wasn't i think necessarily thinking oh boy this could be it but it's like uh maybe this this this this the rookie thing is this he the wall might be coming we'll see yeah but he has stiff-armed it yeah um a lot of conversation around rookie of the year we're we're in august 12th still a quarter of the season to go um i would you say that this last week has squarely put him in a real conversation to to be at the top of the list if not you know significantly right behind uh paul schemes no doubt about it maybe it's my you know like uh brown and gold-tinted glasses or my pink and mint glasses on friday nights but like i i thought he was in the conversation a week ago you can see it right kind of elton john um pink and mint glasses the left eye is the pink tint and the right eye is the mint yes there you go and uh the shell of the glasses is gold um like i a week ago i would have thought yeah he's right there in the conversation with skeens and i do think uh that last this last week kind of vaulted him to another level you know i remember you and i having a conversation about him maybe was in june i don't know at some point earlier this year and there he had a stretch and i said some of you along the lines of like kind of felt like he leveled up in the last you know whatever period of time it was and that's i think what happened again in the last week he leveled up again and you know what this level is i don't know i mean he's nationally player the week that's i guess what the level is that's something yeah big time and and i think you know if he wasn't already neck and neck in that conversation i think he is now absolutely and i said to sam on the pre-game show yesterday and and i i do believe this now though i didn't for a long time like the east coast thing is a thing and it's not nefarious it's not that the people in new york want to see the people in san diego fail it's that they're asleep when the people in san diego are doing their things and so for jackson to have that run even against the pirates in the marlins you know i think happening while people were awake in new york in philadelphia and chicago is is impactful and does make a difference in this conversation so well timed jackson uh very well time not that that's what anybody's thinking about that's the other part i do want to throw in here i believe the kid when he says like i'm not without a doubt without a doubt like i believe him and i think we should all you know maybe in in some ways take our cues from that because he's got bigger fish to fry as does this team he's doing things the right way that's what i've been really impressed with jackson uh and jesse uh now that we're august 12th if at any point did you start thinking this ever could happen to this team or did you think anywhere in the back of your mind through april may and june that we would be here yeah i really did you know i mean i look i i i have the benefit of sitting next to the most optimistic broadcaster you know he gets mad at me if i say anything yeah yeah you mean i know this about all the mlb broadcasters they tend to skew cynical around the league a little bit um so that helps is that i'm next to a guy who not only skews optimistic but knows more than most of those other guys all put together that's um about this game the way it is played the way it rewards you for playing it the right way so i wouldn't call tony a cheerleader because i think he's still very realistic and and clear ride about it all but i sit next to a guy who's not gonna let the cynicism of a losing five out of seven kind of knock you off balance and i think that does a lot for me it's taught me a lot about watching this game that's the best part of this job right i'm surrounded by people who have been surrounded by baseball in tony's case literally his entire life right and and so though i've watched baseball as a die hard geek fan you know for literally as long as i can remember you know having access to tony's knowledge and experience and the other people that we get to be around really helps me kind of paint the picture that i think deserves to be painted around a given team and there's an awful lot of talent here they play the game the right way and as as manny likes to say as tony likes to say the game will reward you when you do those things and and the approach offensively this year combined with the pitching that they've gotten they are doing it all the right way and uh they are feeling some rewards of that now my partner Jesse Ackler joins us here on gwen and chris and Jesse today uh the padre's you know quite frankly you get another boost in a shot in the arm they get uh joe musgrove back who hasn't thrown i think since may the end of may at this point um what type of what type of get is this for the padre's to have him come back in this rotation and i i also saw that you know you darvish is throwing some lives and uh it's not completely out of the question that he could return but what is uh getting a guy like joe musgrove who hasn't pitched since may on august 12 do for a ball clip more the merrier you know i mean it's kind of the easy way to look at it right like more is better in the in the case of pitching always um you know is it is it unfair to expect joe to tonight look like peak joe musgrove of course he might i mean he's got that in him he's joe musgrove but like you know you understand that for every guy that is added it just sort of pads your margin for error and your margin for injury and your margin for ineffectiveness you know after the trade deadline we said oh look you know this is the new bull pen for the padre's with you know these x number of new guys combined with y number of guys that were already here you know that doesn't mean that that's going to be the bull pen going into you know hopefully big time playoff series more things are going to happen good and bad uh you know between now and the end of the regular season in arizona the last weekend of september and so i think you know the more healthy available productive guys you have the better position you're going to be in and obviously when you're talking about joe and darvish there's a couple guys with very high ceilings jesse agler uh i tell you how did you like the story that mr posener wrote about you the cover piece in the union tribute i really liked it i think they're probably wanted to find that you probably i don't know if you're a little embarrassed or cheapish about something like that being in the front of the paper but i got to tell you something the story at the beginning was so hilarious to me about how you were talking baseball and you and somebody had to lean over into you know this is a baseball job and because you were talking about football uh was one of the classics of all time but i think it said a lot about you you're honest and um you know you've you've paid your dues to get where you are and i you know i think a lot of us appreciate that and that's why we appreciate you so thanks chris that's very nice you and but the story at the beginning can you tell me a little bit about that when you know what i'm talking about yeah yeah yeah so i was interviewing for a job with the dolphins um i had you know already at this point done a couple of years kind of hosting not those thoughts um the not hosting uh pre and post for the panthers the NHL team in the marlins and i had filled in doing play-by-play for the marlins this is like i'm like 24 years old um you know and and i'm like all right i got this like i you know i'm in like i'm a guy now in the major leagues of course that's not the case um and then you know the marlin switched radio stations i worked for the radio station because i was so i was kind of left out on alert anyway long story short i end up in this position where i'm interviewing for a job with the dolphins and it was going to be like a really big role and and something of a big break uh or at least a medium-sized break in my career and um it had been rescheduled what felt like a dozen times they kept saying oh no sorry we can't do it oh no sorry we can't do it and so finally i get a call i was like hey can you be here in 30 minutes and i was like yes of course because that's what you say when someone asks you that question when you're interviewing for a job but i was like sick on the couch with a flu and i like 103 fever so i just popped all this day quill i assume i showered although i don't remember and then i just sped down there as quickly as i could and so you know i show up in one of the first questions you know that i was asked in this interview with your team the Miami Dolphins Chris was you know what's your dream job which by the way is the best interview question you can ever ask anybody i ask people that all the time you know hey what's you know young people in the industry what do you want to do what's your dream um and so that was the question that got asked to me and even though i was interviewing for this job with an NFL team the Miami Dolphins i said oh i want to be a baseball announcer i love it and the guy says you know we are a football team right he's like yes if you know Jesse as well as i do that's really not that much of a surprise Jesse i will leave you with this one it's a it's a pretty quick one you and i will get a chance this the last week of the season the Padres will play the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks based on how this thing is shaping out as we speak that could be an epic week i mean this nationally west division and we thought it at the beginning of the season then we kind of like well maybe not after about halfway through but this division is legit it's up for grabs this is i think is a fan what you dream of maybe not as a fan you probably dream of winning the division by 30 games and having a very stress-free summer but like you know aside from that you dream of the whole thing coming down to a couple of key games head-to-head and you know we don't have those game 163 tiebreakers anymore so like it will be you know decided based upon how you play against these teams in the regular season Padres have already won the season series against the Dodgers i think the Diamondback one is still undecided although i should probably check that and yeah i mean it could all come down to that last week all i know Tony you and i are going to be in LA we are going to be in Phoenix and now that we're giving you like a six-week heads up everybody come and join us because i bet you right now tickets are available both spots for the Padres fans to come out there and if that fits your budget and you're calendared to see a couple of those games boy you could be in for something pretty special it's going to be a lot of fun the Padres have made it fun Jesse Agler has made it great for us for the last several years as the voice of the Padres thanks so much for coming on Jesse we appreciate your time as always thank you any time guys there he goes Jesse Agler the voice of Padre baseball yes listen to Jesse but don't listen to Jesse because when the football team asks you what you're playing your dream job is maybe i don't know maybe you should try the football answer he's still not the job i know a lot of people including myself that would not have told the truth and had questions like especially with that job like sitting in front he could have been the dolphin guy and who knows we might have won a super bowl or two with Jesse at the call he's like man i would love to play my playing guy for the Patriots yeah yeah that would have been a really good answer all right more going and Chris on the way good fun first hour Padres are having fun tonight it's the pirates more on that when we return tired of fine lines and wrinkles derma clara has the solution our 100% medical grade silicone patches are 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