Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
9am Hour - The Reindl Report + Padres Go For The Sweep!
Ben & Woods kick off the 9am hour with The Reindl Report and Paulie’s top stories of the morning, including Dr. Dre saying he plans to try and qualify for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles…at age 63? Then the guys discuss the “most clutch” Padres players and where they surprisingly rank among all of Major League Baseball before we take a look at this afternoon’s series finale as the Padres go for a series AND season sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 42m
- Broadcast on:
- 14 Aug 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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Download the Instacart app to get free delivery on your first three orders while supplies last, minimum $10 per order additional term supply. I had to wrap up Brett Boone a little a little quickly there, but that's just because Brett's so good and can tell stories and talk baseball with us so much. But Odyssey Insider, Brett Boone calls presented by Granger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Granger has the right product for you. Call clickgranger.com or just stop by and I asked him about that 15 game winning streak part of that incredible 2001 Mariners regular season. And it ended with a loss to the San Diego Padres 6-3 with Bobby J. Jones outdoling the then undefeated Freddy Garcia and Trevor Hoffman getting the save and getting Brett Boone. I don't know if he struck him out or just got him out in the ninth inning, but I hope he didn't embarrass him with one of those changeups in that game when the Padres beat the Mariners. And then they have the 20 and 22. It's also the Padres who ended that one with an 11 to 9 win at Qualcomm Stadium at the time when they ended that 20 of 22 streak by the Mariners with a win that day. I love what he said about about about offie. Just like don't please don't embarrass me because that that's the pitch that can the slider to a righty and the changeup I think are the two pitches that really if you're late on a fastball you're late on a fastball. I mean it's yeah there's a heater I missed it, but you don't look like an idiot when you ass out swinging a slider or when when you start your swing and you're already done and that ball hasn't gotten anywhere near home plate because Trevor Hoffman just broke a broke a changeup. They really make you look like a fool. I think we're more understanding now that people like pitching ninja exists and you can see the um yes like the pitch that looks exactly the same the tunneling and all that tunneling going okay I totally understand why he'd swing at them because he just saw a pitch that looked exactly the same of course there's right in the wheelhouse that he took and then he throws the next one and it breaks four feet and he's swinging and he looks like a moron but of course looked exactly the same when the pitch released the ball. Yeah yeah it's incredible. Hey real quick a few months back we had a a couple in studio Kyle and his his wife and his wife has passed away she was ill when they came in and they brought us donuts and they wanted to hang out and and they did and they were incredible incredible people. Kyle's wife has passed away in June and this is their son Logan's seventh birthday today and it's his first birthday without his mom so uh Logan if you're listening happy birthday man we uh we are thinking about you and hope you have a great day and uh man Kyle our heart goes out to you guys are awesome awesome people and uh just I hate that you're you're going through this and um I want to wish Logan we all do a really really happy birthday if there's anything we can do uh to make his day better please let us know. It was so great to meet him. They had such a good attitude the whole family when they came in and that was uh that that's sad but it sounds like uh sounds like Logan has really good dad and yeah and hopefully they're gonna be just okay yeah tier ones are thinking about you this morning. Happy birthday Logan. Where do you transition from now? I don't know we go to go to the rondel report open Paul. Take this away. Go go Paul. I got a guy. Don't worry. Hey get things started here with our addition today's edition of the rondel report. Now tune to the tomorrow. Great. Welcome to the rondel report with Paul Rindel. Hi Paul. All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in major league baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing beyond? It's the rindel report. Hey Paul how you doing? Okay how are you? On 97.3 the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help please. That was good. Can I get a hole here? All right. I'd be very careful with whatever you're gonna say here Paul. Because you're our transition so. Yeah thanks for that guys. No I was already like starting to like choke up. I know it was very sad. And then yeah they were so sweet when they were in studio. Incredible. Kyle thinking about you Logan. Happy birthday. This rondel report is for you buddy. Yes. And Carrie was his watch name. Yes Carrie. She was great. Okay moving on. We will let's see. We'll start. If Logan wants to come in tomorrow and do my spot on the round table I'd be happy to offer that to him for his birthday. They're talking in the chat. Can we get him some tickets again? I don't have any extra tickets to game but Logan. Adam if you're listening I'd like to give my spot to Logan for his birthday. Let him come in and chew it up chew the fat with Ben and hello and all those guys. Well I mean don't leave Kyle out if he wants to host and then Kyle yes. I'm not on staycation so I'm gonna be partly checked out anyway. That's true. That's true. That's done Paul. All right let's we still got a little bit of Olympics fallout. Everybody's still thinking and talking about the Olympics. Now we briefly talked about the closing ceremonies. They had the the handoff from France to the United States. Tom Cruise. All the production that went into that. Yeah. And then it turned into a concert on the beach. Had the Red Hot Chili Peppers. You had a Billie Eilish. I think they were in Venice or Santa Monica there on the beach and you had Snoop Dogg because of course he was getting paid like half a million a day for his Olympics coverage. I don't like the Olympics much but if you want to stroke me 500k a day I will be Lord. Welcome to the Olympics. It's your old pal woodsy why the Olympics simply the best Snoop got on stage. He performed a song and then afterwards you heard Dr. Dre's music and Dr. Dre came out and he performed with Snoop and so Dr. Dre was doing an interview. I believe this was yesterday with entertainment tonight and they asked him about the Olympics and as a an icon in Los Angeles he's going to be heavily involved in four years but he doesn't want to just be like a spokesperson kind of like what Snoop was. He wants to compete in the Olympics. Well he's not an Olympian. Brake dancing. He's not an Olympian. They asked him about that. He felt so he felt very bad for that Australian Brake dancer. She did it on purpose. She did it like why are we why are we feeling bad for some of this is I'm not actually a brake dancer. I'm just going to go out and break dance. Why are we feeling bad for them? Well Dr. Dre is 59 years old right now. He'll be 63. It's tough to be an Olympian at 63. And he guesses on what he would like to do. I really have no idea. Here's the idea. I'm trying to try out for the Olympics in 2028. I'm really good at it. Brake dancing? No, no, no, no, no. What are you trying out for? Where are you going to try out for? Archery. And you're being serious. I'm dead ass serious. Yeah. Okay. So where does this come from? Where did you pick up archery? I actually started playing around with archery in junior high, right? I stopped for a while and my son bought me a set up. I don't know if this is for my birthday or father's day or something like that. So I have it set up in my backyard. And I heard that qualifying for the Olympics is 77 feet. Not practice at 90. Damn. Yeah. Wouldn't that be interesting to go especially with it being here in LA and when it goes. Listen, I'm a little available, but I believe you. I believe you. I'm with me. Come on. I feel like I can do anything. So he said he practices at a further range than what you need for qualifying for the Olympics. I saw a video that was posted. He literally like he just walked up grabbed a bow and just boom. So he did? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't know if there was some confusion there because he said 70 feet and he practiced at 90. The Olympic archery is 70 meters, which is 230 feet. Okay. So he's about that's like three quarters of a football field that they're doing in archery. Unless he's unless he meant 90 meters as well. Maybe he did, but that's where would you find a range to be shooting arrows 90 meters away? That's a long way. You can't do that in the backyard. That's like I've seen his higher. Have you seen his? Dr. Dre probably has a pretty big backyard. Dr. Dre is worth 400 million dollars. I think if he wants to find an archery setup, where's he get it? Where's the guy? 400 meters. If I do 100 meters, no way. It doesn't make any Los Angeles. He may actually have it in his backyard. That is funny as hell that he thought it was feet. Hey, I can do this. He gets up there. He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, why am I so far back here? He shows up, you know, shows up in the local YMCA for qualifying and he's like, why is it so far? I can't even see the target. You know what? Never mind. Never mind. All right. That would be the greatest thing of all time. Now, this next story is interesting. I actually got in the car this morning and the show that's on before a CBS sports radio. Maggie and Pearl off. They had New York Post columnist Ian O'Connor on their show and I kind of jumped right into the middle of it. So I was kind of figuring out what's going on here. What are they talking about? Post columnist Ian Connor, Ian O'Connor has a new book coming out on August 20th, next Monday. And it is called Out of the Shadows, The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers. And the story, he tells the story from all different angles from Aaron Rodgers' friends, his parents, and it focuses on, I mean, we've talked about Aaron Rodgers a lot. And, you know, I think like him or hate him and I'm kind of in the ladder there. It's been really hard to like him, I think the last few years. He's an interesting cat. Yeah, I mean, he's a very interesting very, very interesting guy. And I think they talk about the ayahuasca stuff. But they talk about his family life, which has been public fodder now for like 10 years. Yeah, he's estranged from his family. Yes. Yeah. And it focuses on that. By the way, it's not uncommon. Talks about not uncommon. He dated Olivia Munn from 2014 to 2017. And it says here, depending on who you ask, their relationship was either the catalyst for Rodgers no longer speaking to his family or Assad used by the quarterback to hide the real reason for the fracture or by his family to hide the real reason. And it says Olivia Munn allegedly called Aaron Rodgers' parents and told them, "You can't see him anymore." Like they were coming to a game and or they went to a game and he had a bad game and then they were coming to the next one and she said, "No, he doesn't want you there. You're not allowed." And they still went and they did not see Aaron Rodgers. And then it says that Ed Rodgers' dad, he refutes this idea that Olivia Munn tried to help everybody reconcile and get back together. He said, "That's not even close to what happened." Olivia Munn's now with John Mulaney. She said that she was instrumental in mending the fences and Ed Rodgers says, "Yeah, that's a lie." There's no fences that have been mended though. Right. Right. It's very gossipy. I don't know. These books, I mean, it makes it sound like Rodgers went out and had a bad game and blamed his parents for it and decided, "You know what? I'm just never going to speak to my parents again. That should solve everything in my career. It's weird. It's weird." That's weird. It doesn't make any sense. And honestly, I used to consider myself an Aaron Rodgers fan. It seemed like I had a thoughtful approach to the game. And I really wouldn't mind all the quirky stuff that he's done, but he's so dang condescending about it all. He makes everybody else feel like, "Oh, I must be a complete moron because I don't agree with Aaron Rodgers." The way he talks about everything is just he seems so smug and superior about it. I mean, I liked his spiritual journey stuff. It was really interesting to me. And I think things like that can help. And the cave thing was... The darkness retreat was fascinating. Fascinating. Fascinating. I'm not for me, but there's definitely something there. But then he treats it all with the rest of us. You're an idiot. The rest of us are just we have an open to our eyes to the real world and what's going on. The funny thing about when he missed the mini-camps, he's like, "Yeah, I mean, I wanted to play football, but I wanted to go to Egypt more. He has to go to Egypt instead." I mean, there's something in there that I kind of respect. But how you do make a good point, he is just kind of jerkish about it. Just as Rodgers has a PhD in mansplaining. I do a lot of Ben's playing. You do, but you don't come off this. I hope I don't come off as condescending or arrogant as he does when he's doing it. Not at all. If you're an Olivia Munfant, I would stay away from this book. At least from the author's point of view and whoever he talked to throughout the book does not paint her in a good light. Like sending Christmas presents that the parents send Aaron and sending them back. We don't want these. Yeah. I don't know if I'll read it. I don't think I will. I don't think I will either. I don't care that much. No, to be honest. I don't read a ton of books anymore. I read books, but I don't think I will. I don't know if that's going to be one for me. Don't blow my hair back. Let me ask you, does Coca-Cola blow your hair back? Yeah. Do Oreo's. I get one of my vices. Blow your hair back. Yeah, another one of my vices. What does an Oreo Coca-Cola collaboration do for you? Not much at all. I don't really like, I never really like chocolate soda. I don't think, yeah, I don't think you don't want to put the Oreos in the soda. So how do you get the soda into the Oreo maybe? Oh, it's coming from both sides there. So we have Coca-Cola teaming up with Nabisco for not just an Oreo flavored Coca-Cola drink, but also a Coca-Cola flavored Oreo cookie. That I might try over the Oreo drink, right? With this, the icing maybe has a little Coke flavor. Cookies and cream essentially flavored beverage. So they say the beverage is a refreshing Coca-Cola taste with flavorful hints inspired by Oreos. And it's going to, it won't be Diet Coke or Coca-Cola. It's actually going to be a Coke Zero. Oreo. Somebody said Oreo. Corio. Corio? Corio? Corio. And then the cookie, the Coke flavored cookies says has the Coca-Cola inspired taste the fans know and love. One side of each Oreo is red, and then the white cream has red edible glitter mixed in. These will all be rolled out. The drink looks good. Next month, they're selling a frozen version of the drink at 7-Eleven and McDonald's like a "slurpy" and then they're calling it a Besties promo like Nabisco and Coca-Cola. No, okay. So the, the Cola flavors, that's, you don't, you know, I like those, I like Coca-Cola. I like those gummy Coke bottle candies. It's disgusting. God, the wax ones? Not the wax ones, no gummies, okay. The actual gummies, like the hair of old gummies. Yeah, those are pretty good. Cola bottle flavored. I like those ones. Do you like, are you a Coke guy? I used to be. I'm definitely Coke over Pepsi, but I've pretty much stopped drinking all sodas completely. That's one of the things that I've altered in my life. We've had to choose. Coke or Oreos? I'm taking Coke. No, I go with Oreos. I, I still have had Oreos. I can live, I can live without Coke. I can live without Oreos for the rest of my life. I cannot live without Coke. It's one of my main vices. Not as many as I used to have, but the ones I have now, I mean, Coke, I feel like drinking a lot of Coke. I don't drink a lot, but a couple of a week. I'm like, people are like, oh, it's mad for you. It's having like four cocktails. I'm like, I can't win. I tried Coke Zero. It's not bad. I can't like, I still can't drink anything. I like diet. I like it, but I can't drink anything diet. I instantly know if it's diet and go. I think Coke Zero's is pretty decent. I won't do Pepsi though. But I don't like when sodas do, I like, okay. So what's the, what's the acceptable alterations to your favorite soda? Cherry Coke. Cherry Coke Phenomenal. I like when you go to the restaurants or fast food restaurants. Yeah, they have the machine where you can do whatever you want. Whatever your brain can figure out. By the way, end of list. It's done. Just cherry. Jerry, I don't like vanilla. How about vanilla Coke? No, I don't like vanilla Coke. Like a diet Coke with vanilla. Delicious, right? But when they started to have orange, raspberry, and no. Dr. Pepper does like strawberries and cream, Dr. Pepper? I don't want that. I don't like a lot of fruit in my dreams, except for Jerry. I think we can all agree on this. Thank you. Thank you, Paulie. D.D. says slow sports day. Yeah. Thanks for our D.G. Thanks for asking. Yeah, very much. What does he want us to talk about? NFL preseason action? Probably. Shirley temples are good, L.S.M. What are the 49ers going to do with Brandon? I, I heard he's staying. See, we're never going to show up to these nuts. We just talked about Aaron Rodgers for like five minutes. Yeah, we just talked about Aaron Rodgers. Sports. And Dr. Dre. More pod race coming up. One more game on this very short home stand. Well, we'll be there. And we got to give away a journey. Def leopard tickets coming up as well. After traffic here on 97.3, the fan. We all belong outside. We're drawn to nature, whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to, or the succulents that adorn our homes. Nature makes all of our lives well better. Despite all this, we often go about our busy lives removed from it. But the outdoors is closer than we realize. With all trails, you can discover trails nearby and explore confidently. With offline maps and on trail navigation, download the free app today, and make the most of your summer with all trails. Worried about letting someone else pick out the perfect avocado for your perfect impress them on the third date guacamole? Well, good thing Instacart shoppers are as picky as you are. They find ripe avocados like it's their guacamole line. They are milk expiration date detectives. They bag eggs like the 12 precious pieces of cargo they are. So let Instacart shoppers overthink your groceries so that you can overthink what you'll wear on that third date. Download the Instacart app to get free delivery on your first three orders while supplies last. Minimum $10 per order, additional term supply. As much as we talk Ponderay's baseball, four hours every day, plus watching the games every night, plus round table, plus the round table, weekends, I mean, you know, our life is fairly Ponderay centric as I know a lot of the tier one's lives are. I'm always shocked of the things that I don't know about the San Diego Ponderay's. And this just came into my feed during the break. And I certainly was not surprised by the number one player on the list. But it's a list of major league baseball players ranked by their OPS in high leverage situations. Saw this. There's three Padres who have an over 900 OPS in high leverage situations. Paul, you have any idea who's number one? Said one more time. The highest, the best Padres, their best players in the league in high leverage situations. So, you know, runners on, close and late. Who's doing well? It's pretty obvious. Jerkson's number one in the league. In the league, his 1627 OPS is like 500 more than Cal Raleigh, who's number two. Ian Happ is number three. Number four is also a San Diego Ponderay. Jackson Merrill. Hey, it's been in the news lately with a couple of high leverage home runs. Big situations. Jackson Merrill. One thousand eighty nine. You could have given me 10 guesses as to who's the third Ponderay on this list. And I would not have gotten it. Kyle Higashyoka. That would make sense. Bryce Johnson. Not him. Manny Mitchell. No, not Manny. Not Xander. Louisa rise. Not Louisa rise. Oh. Hassan Kim. It's Hassan Kim. He's got a 946 OPS in high leverage situation. Okay, interesting. That's a surprise, everybody. Who, uh, seen more. Hassan Kim. Slander. We need that. On social media among Padres fans this year than ever before. It's, look, okay, let's just have it. Let's have an honest conversation about it. There's a, a, a faction of Twitter in general. And it, this is not Padres exclusive. It's the Mariners. It's the Marlins. It's the Braves. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who it is. There's a faction of people that will horn in on someone and we're just roast them. Then that person starts doing well. And then people like me go, oh, how you feeling now? Right. And it's this big circle. Yeah. Okay. So then they move their, their sites to another player that may be scuffling. Jake Croninworth has been one recently and Hassan Kim has been one for a while. You know, once you get past the trade deadline, it's a bit of a futile exercise because you have what you have, right? It's like my, it's like when you tell our kids, you get what you get and you don't throw a fit. I use it 50 times a day, especially when I'm feeding them. You get what you get and you don't throw a fit. This is the team we have. They made some improvements. Could they have done more? Maybe. That's for another day. This is the team we've got. They're playing really well. I don't really horn in on guys anymore. There's been a few over the, the six years we've been doing this together. Benny, then I've gone, you got to get that guy out of here. He cannot, he's not doing the job. He's never going to do the job. Some of them I've been right on. Some of them I've been wrong on, but Puss on Kim and now crony has kind of slid into that, that role of, why is he hitting in the three hole? Why is he, well, he had at one point last time, I was talking to our buddy Andy on Twitter and he goes, you got to get crony out of three. I go, he just got to hit just now. Now he got picked off. He didn't get picked off, but I see he's got 20% of the potteries hits right now. It goes back to the enjoy the ride. Enjoy, try to enjoy the ride as much as you can. I know these, the one thing I don't see from this team and if I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong. Does anybody look at a player and see a lack of effort from one, can you name one player right now on the San Diego potteries that isn't giving it their role? I can't either. Can I have said that before? No, this is the team that I've seen bust their ass. Sometimes a little too much, sometimes trying to do too much, because you're giving max effort every single day and they're winning way more than they're losing. What else can we ask for? What else could we possibly ask for as fans of a team? More blowout wins. I signed me up. I'll pay for that right now, but they are giving you everything they got every single day. And that's pretty refreshing to see. By the way, players behind Hassan Kim in the high leverage situation list this year, Freddie Freeman, Aaron Judge, Shohei Otani, all behind Hassan Kim. You know who's been one of the absolute worst players in the clutch in baseball this year? Who? 495 OPS. Shohei. Bryce Harper. Oh, Harper. Bryce Harper has been one of the least clutch players in baseball this year. I mean, listen, we don't hear a lot about that, do you? When October, you say that. And yeah, it's like, you're still not pitching to him in a big moment. Right, right, right. In the playoffs, like don't tell me, oh, well, the metrics say it. And I just, I, that's where I get a little bit. Well, even when yield versus advanced numbers. So remember early in the season when Manny was dying. I mean, he was slumping hard. Delbo is killing him. They were still intentionally walking him. They still were, they were still making moves. They were pulling their lefty starter out, you know, maybe in the fifth inning to get this 97 mile an hour throwing right-hander to get in to take Manny on. And I, there's, he, I saw so many pitching changes early in the year that I went. They're still walking him. Who was it? I think, I think it was Dave Roberts put him on once. Uh, there was a couple of instances where like, you're putting him on, man. He's not hitting anything right now. But it's like Bryce Harper, you're not, why would you let them beat you if you didn't have to, you know, as bad as he's, you know, slumping or not clutch or whatever you want to say. Um, no, man, I just, it, those numbers are nuts to me. And I'm, you know, really what it boils down to is I'm just so happy for jerks and pro-far. What a monster, monster season for him. And Jackson Merrill, I mean, those guys getting the job done. Nobody, Chris, I heard Chris Ello say this yesterday. I mean, the contributions you've gotten from those guys are absolutely fantastic and way more than you expected. I need to show refresh and the Juan Soto trade in retrospect. Remember Juan Soto was going to be a free agent at the end of this year. He's had a great year. Had three more homers yesterday, but to have jerks and pro-far Michael King and Kyle Higashioka. And not, not to even mention Johnny Brito, Randy Vasquez who've given the pottery some important innings and Drew Thorpe who helped you get Dylan Cease. I don't know you can ever say you won the Juan Soto trade. You gave up Juan Soto. He's been incredible. But for what the Padres needed this year, it worked. It's been much better for the Padres to have all of those other pieces than just having one Soto because they wouldn't have had a place for jerks and pro-far. And they wouldn't have had the pitching that they needed. They wouldn't have had Kyle Higashioka's incredible power surge here this summer. All these things that they've gotten from that Juan Soto trade are more valuable to the Padres this year than Juan Soto and his 30 plus home runs would have been. That's, I think that's pretty clear. Yeah, no doubt. So win, lose, whatever. It's worked out well for the San Diego Padres. So the funny thing is, and then after this year, whatever you keep, you wouldn't have had Juan Soto after this year. They're talking, so it was 45 plate appearances. Manny has 43. Batting average is only 200, but his slug is, no, it's up. Yeah, 200, 697, 83 weighted runs created. It's a below 100 average. So that not been great in the clutch. Arise has been pretty good. Jake has been pretty good. 109 WRC plus. Nando in the limited time, 222 WRC plus Solano 150. And these are pretty good numbers, man, for these guys. I think Solano and Fernando and Peralta haven't had enough at bat for this list. Manny's two short, Arise's three short, Jake's five short. So yeah, I mean, those guys have carried this team. It's been pretty cool to see. All right, we've got some tickets to give away. We have tickets for Def Leppard and Journey at Peko Park on August 30th. Be the fourth caller right now, 833-288-0973 to win your pair, or get your own tickets at ticketmaster.com. It's Def Leppard and Journey at Peko Park on August 30th. 833-288-0973. We'll come back. Look at the final matchup of the series, of the season against the Pittsburgh Pirates of the homestand, all wrapping up this afternoon, coming up next year on 97.3 The Fan. Congratulations to Tom on the concert tickets to Def Leppard and Journey at Peko Park, assuming we'll have more tomorrow. These are weekly sort of things. Paul, not sure. Yes, we will. We will have more tomorrow. All week long. So if you didn't win today, tune in tomorrow. Maybe we'll give him away at a different time tomorrow. Maybe on your toes. You can do a bit where I pour some sugar on you. Oh, I get it because the Def Leppard song title. It's kind of messy and sticky. A little bit. Then I have to go to the bathroom and clean it all up. Yeah. You just went to the bathroom, didn't you? Just a couple minutes ago. I dodged a bullet. I dodged a real bullet, you guys. Might not be what you're thinking, but Woodsy will explain after a check of traffic here on 97.3 The Fan. I really liked your teas there. You just went to the bathroom, didn't you? In a normal way. Like number two. No, it's not unusual for either of us to use the restroom during the show. It actually is unusual for Paulie to ever use the restroom during the show. You spooked when I see him. Something different between being your 30s and 40s, apparently. Yeah, almost 50s. And being able to hold it for four hours is just... Oh, God. Yes, there's a difference there. I did not poop. This is not poop talk. It's not. It's not knowing someone else who's in the bathroom with you. Correct! I dodged a huge, huge bullet. I guess it kind of is poop talk, because I didn't see this person in the bathroom, and he's walking by right now. I go to the bathroom again. He was just in there. He was just in there. Hey, are you okay on him? No. Oh, he's just getting a paper towel. So I told you guys, when I was in Hawaii, we went down and had some Hawaiian barbecue, and I was eating some ribs. And I guess I got a piece of bone in there, and I cracked my tooth. There's like part of my... I think it's crown missing. So I need to get that fixed. I also had a cleaning scheduled for yesterday at 11 a.m. And it had been on the calendar for a while. So we were supposed to play golf without him, Jones. So I canceled. I moved it. I moved it to Thursday, tomorrow, at 11 a.m. Completely forgetting. That doesn't work. Completely forgetting that we had the 97-3, the fan roundtable. Brought to you by roundtable pizza. How could you? Commercial free. I'd been out of the game for so long, Paulie. I was on vacation. We had to go on island time. I was on island time. We had a game last week. There was no roundtable. No roundtables. It's been a while since you've been at a roundtable. So I just forgot that we had it. So I called and rescheduled my dentist appointment. So then I was sitting here, and I just realized, oh my God, I just remembered we have a roundtable, and I have a dentist appointment. So I had to call back. So I go, I was going pee, and then I also made the phone call, kill two birds with one stone. Which is weird. You couldn't just wait until after you were-- No, because we had two minutes left. I had to go number one, and I had to do this thing before we got back on the air. You don't want me sitting here while we're on the air going, oh, yeah, yeah. That's true too, right? And I certainly don't want you sitting here going number one. Right, exactly. So that's your options. So I go in and I'm like, yep, I'm so sorry. I totally forgot. I have an extra hour of work tomorrow, and it's at 11. And there's no way I can be down there by 11. Can we move it? And she said, no problem. How about noon? I said, great, no problem. So 12 o'clock tomorrow, I'll be at the dentist. What I didn't realize is that big boss man, or a little boss man, as it were, was sitting in one of the stalls, listening to my every word. Now, he heard me in there talking, and he came in. And he goes, you know, I was kind of waiting for you to, like, trash me on the phone call whenever you were rescheduling. I was waiting for you to start pounding me about it. And I said, no, no, no. I would never. As I said, many, many times, I look forward to the round table. I'm excited about it. I haven't been on it in a while. And we played golf with a guy yesterday in Matchanell, who said, I love the round table. And he told me, he said, Woodsy, I think you do a great job on the round table. And I said, well, that makes me happy. Getting a little positive feedback. I said, yeah, and plus Tony when Junior will be in, always love when he's in, because he hates you. So that's always fun to watch that dynamic. So I really did. Could you imagine me in there going, my idiot, stupid boss, scheduled this thing. I don't want to do it. Just ripping him and knew it as he's sitting in there. Just snickering him. Snickering in there like, you're dead. You're a dead man. So I did dodge a bullet there. The round table is happening tomorrow, 11 a.m. No, 10 a.m. Right here. To a level, to a level. And you do an excellent job on the round table. Thank you. I have a good time doing it. Yeah, everybody does. It's a lot of fun. It's just a long morning. Just a long morning, but it's very, very fun. So we will be back with the round table. Tomorrow at 10 o'clock after four hours of Ben and Woods. Wrapping up, you know, no game day tomorrow, but we do have a game this afternoon. One 10 first pitch. 1210 Ecowater SoCal pregame show with Sam Levin. You guys are heading down while I say head to staycation. You guys are going to go down to the game. Check out things that are going on here before the Padres hit the road. Match up today is Martin Perez making his third start with the San Diego Padres and facing his former team. Yeah, buddy. The Pittsburgh Pirates. So see how familiar they are with their ex teammate. Padres will be going up against right-hander Mitch Keller. Had a pretty good season. He's 10 and 6 with the 356 ERA. Now his last start, he got roughed up by the Dodgers. I was watching that one. Seven runs, seven hits, seven four innings. Let's keep those vibes going. That ended a streak though of five straight starts, in which he allowed two runs or fewer. Well, you know, he has been pitching fairly well recently, except for his last start. Well, and listen, you know, we've said about this team before. This, this, it's not, it's not super sustainable to wait till the six and seventh inning to score your runs, but you know, they did score one early last night when they probably should have had maybe a couple more. But sometimes the other team makes great plays. G1 Bay made a really nice play on the Manny Machado, sinking line drive or blue, whatever it was. And, you know, held them to one run. But we'd love to see them get off to a good start today. Martine Perez, knock on what has been outstanding since he's been here. We'd just like to see more of the same. Keep doing exactly what you're doing. And not a lineup that really scares you very much. Brian Reynolds continues to mash against the Padres, but you know, if you can keep him in check and, you know, see what happens. You get lefty, lefty with, with Reynolds, lefty with Teles. Yeah, I mean, there's their G1 Bay, like a bunch of lefties in the lineup. Do your, do your work today, man. And let's get this guy some runs early. And he needs to once again, probably do what he did in the first two starts. And he has six innings and seven innings for Perez. And with a likely limited bullpen again today, you know, after the whole discussion last night about using those high leverage relievers, would not be surprised if Tanner Scott is getting a blow, if Robert Suarez is getting a blow, that they can't go to those same guys every single day, even though, you know, Mike Shelton pushed back a little bit on the questioning. We played that audio somewhat, you know, the awkward exchange in the post game show, but, you know, Mike Shelton was right. He wanted to win that game, but now he'll, he'll figure out who's going. Now, hopefully Adrian Morajone, who's been out the last couple of games with the flu and unused, you know, is he back? Is he ready to go? Can they use him, Jeremiah Strata? Will he be ready? John Reynolds. You know, you're going to have to maybe rely on some other arms today. Yep, Yuki's ready to go. That'll be easier if Martine Perez can go another six or seven, like he did in those previous two starts. Very efficient. It's just 80 and 90 pitches. Gave up three hits both times. He's been fantastic. Really good competitor, man. Really loves, you can tell he loves to compete out there. He's always talking to himself after an inning. Like, I really like that pickup so far. It's the anti-rich hill from last year. Hopefully that, that continues today. And that dates back his last start with the Pirates, was six innings, four hits, no runs as well. So, three, a run of three straight, really good starts for Martine Perez. And the Potters really need one today. And then that gets them to an off day, travel day off day, where they're going to fly to Colorado. But not until later in the day, because Tony is going to be here. But that'll be a chance to reset the bullpen. And then you gear up because after tomorrow, it's not, you know, that, in that place is not the recipe for reset. Not really, but the day off is. The day off is. But then you've got three in Colorado, starting 18 games in 18 days. Could you pick a worst plate? Better to start there or finish there. Start. Good question. I don't know the answer. They're both. Maybe that's a question. Drawbacks to both. Maybe that's an answer, a question for the skipper on Friday. If you had to choose your schedule, would 18 and 18, you can finish, you can start in Colorado, or you can finish in Colorado. What are you choosing? Now, no official announcement, but if the Potters stay on rotation, they'll have Waldron, Cease, and Musgrove over the weekend. Waldron who pitched really well in Colorado earlier this season. Yeah, didn't he have a rough first inning, and then Knuckle, I mean, he's done that a bit. That's pretty much describing how Waldron starts. But yeah, he had a really, really strong start in Colorado. The Knuckleball didn't, didn't mind that thin air at all, actually, in that start. So hopefully, you know, they won't have to go as deep, you know, as some teams do in their bullpen when they go to Coors Field. But that said, that's then, this is now today first. You want to finish strong against the Pirates. You already won eight straight series. Haven't done that since 2007. Crazy. You're going for the sweep, the series sweep, the season series sweep, and you've never swept two season series against teams before with six or more games, right? Was that franchise history? Yeah, franchise history. If they do the nationals and they do the Pirates again today, they'll have swept two season series here all, all essentially, right, since the all-star break. Yep. So yeah, really, really good stuff. Got to keep it rolling today, man. But offense would be nice. Offense would be-- Finance would be some of that. Would be really, really nice. They're grinding though. They were grinding. They got a tip. My hat to them. Do you like the grit squad? But would love to see the blowout squad today. Other matchups to watch. Obviously, the Dodgers have won five in a row. They'll try to sweep the Milwaukee Brewers. That's a five, 10-start Walker Bueller against Frankie Montas. Will the Arizona Diamondbacks lose one? They will host the Rockies. That's actually a 1240 game in Arizona. Tanner Gordon against Jordan Montgomery. And then wildcard raised Atlanta in San Francisco. Wrap up their series. That's a night game, 645. Grant Holmes for the Braves, Robbie Ray. Almost a must-win game, I would say, for San Francisco. They get swept in that series. That's a team they're trying to chase down. Atlanta's the one that they need to chase down to get a playoff spot. That's a pretty important game for Bob Melvin's Giants after losing the first two games of that series. You know, the guys we played with yesterday asked us both, what did you guys think of Bob Melvin? We said, we like Bob. We absolutely like Bob. Bob was always good to us. There is a pretty market difference, though, in the way that this team plays for Shilty and the way that things went last year. I mean, don't forget Bob Melvin got us to the NLCS. Like that can't, you can't. I guess you have to ask yourself, would this roster still be playing well if Bob Melvin was the man? It's a good point. It's a really good point. And the answer is, I have no idea. You don't know? But I do know that I will say this. As awkward as that exchange was last night, the Bob Melvin, like, mannerisms after a really close, tough game. It's not great, right? Yeah, just kind of the... That stuff, huh? I mean, this is, you know, wait a minute. Yeah, yeah, we had them do this. And yeah, I was like, oh man, you can see the difference. But the Giants, you know, again, we talked about it yesterday, too. They're kind of a scary team. If they get on a roll, they are kind of a scary team, to be sure, because of the starting pitching that they have, Blake Snell has been locked in, Logan Webb's nasty. But yeah, so we'll see how it all shakes out, but we need to get that dub today. Kiss the Roach, did you kiss today? I have not. I'm about to do it before the end of the show. Got it here. Here's your kiss. Woods did it earlier. I think I did it at the jump. I'll do it again. Give me one. Give me another taste of the rally roast. This guy is not letting us down. I mean, it's pretty much... Early on this 18 of 21 streak is where the Roach made his first appearance. Yes, later. So we're not going to stop a good thing. I believe it was Thursday, July 25th. Okay, all right. So not long after the All-Star break was over. It only played like three or four games. So yeah, maybe like two games into this streak of 18 of 21 when we first found the Roach. Wherever that Roach is, I hope he's doing well. He's dead. No, we killed him actually. This Roach, though, has been very... Big family out there. Shout out to his family. Annie and Elston are coming up next. Oh, don't miss their Padres deep dive. At 11 o'clock is always for Paulie, for Woods. I'm Ben. Have a great rest of your Wednesday from all of us here. At 97-3 the fans. How long, everybody? Trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again. With no sides and bullion as you're not so secret ingredient, you can skip the drive-through and do dinner at home. No taste combos provide a menu of delicious, affordable, and well-balanced meals that you can prepare in 30 minutes or less. Visit noir.com to get quick and easy recipe ideas for your home-cooked weeknight dinners. It's not fast food, but it's so good.