Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
8am Hour - The Incorporator, Ghost Stories, + Bret Boone Calls In!
Ben & Woods start the 8am hour talking about nerves, and if they were ever so nervous about something that they vomited. Then we hear how Jesse Agler incorporated some lyrics from the song "Time After Time" into last night's broadcast and discuss Don Orsillo talking about his paranormal experiences from the past before we're joined by our buddy Bret Boone who joins the show each and every Wednesday morning! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 39m
- Broadcast on:
- 14 Aug 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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Download Instacart for free delivery on your first three orders. Offer valid for unlimited time, minimum $10 per order, excludes restaurants, additional terms and fees applied. We're halfway home on a Wednesday, Ben & Woods, 97.3. The fan, thanks so much for being here, talking pottery's baseball all morning, and now we're talking about vomit. Because why not? Tom Woods, he has Paul Reindel. He's the executive producer. Hello there, Paul. Good morning. Benjamin Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor, joins us as well. And I was texting with my wife. It happened to me twice. One of them, I remember pretty vividly. The other one, I don't. I can see it. And I remember running to the bathroom to vomit, but I don't remember what was the cause of it. But the first one came was walking up the ramp at Moonlight Beach. And it was when I had very first gotten to town. I was only in about a year, and there had been a little bit of drama on the show that I was on. And I remember getting a phone call, and it was kind of my first anxiety. I didn't really have anxiety before, and I was so overcome with anxiety and emotion. Oh, this is new. Yeah, it was really fun. It was not that fun feeling. So I leaned over the rail and vomited. So that was your work caused you to do that. Yeah, for sure. Did you think you were going to get fired? I thought the show was coming to an end and eventually it did. And that's it. I'd been here for a year. So I had changed careers and moved and everything else and settled in. And when that came down, I was, and luckily they wanted me bad enough to stay and, you know, continue to work and wouldn't be here without that opportunity, certainly. But that was not a fun feeling. I imagine adrenaline affects everyone differently. Hunter Green, yeah, this is twice. He's gone out on the mound and has been so amped up. He just broke just right in his glove. It's gnarly. I would. I hate that for him. But I mean, whatever he's doing is working. Because as you said, he's he's in the hunt for a saw young right now. And he was he was a very highly touted prospect that, you know, one of those guys, oh, he throws so hard, he just can't locate. Well, he's learned how to locate and he's doing well. Paul Skeen's effective. I'm not hearing as much about Hunter Green as I think we probably should, because like you're right, he had so much hype. Yeah, coming into the draft, they maybe them a little bit a little bit, a little bit. He got hurt. He wasn't immediate. Like he didn't just make an immediate impact. He didn't start the all star game six weeks later. Right. Right. He's been so good. But yeah, it's, um, it's just one of those things, man, where it's like, you know, I wouldn't wish anxiety on anyone. I mean, anxiety is just the worst. And you just, it's hard to turn your brain off. So, um, you know, that's why I recommend better help. Now, according to the internet, nausea and vomiting very common for athletes, especially those who participate in endurance sports, pitching is an endurance part of base. I don't think it's exhaustion though that he's causing him to vomit. No, it's nerves. It's adrenaline. And then some athletes find the nerves, make them nauseous. Other athletes who've talked about doing this before, Larry Bird, really, Lionel Messi, David Beckham, the nerves, his vomit, get it out and that move on. That's also, those are three guys that have the weight of the world on their shoulders. They have, they know that I can't go out tonight and lay a turd. I have to be Messi, Beckham and Larry Bird. I can't go out and be like, Oh, you pretty good game through six points, three rebounds. No, I've got, I got 33 12 and 15. Like I have to be Larry Bird. I have to be Messi. I have to be Beckham. So, uh, it's pretty interesting, pretty interesting. I've never thrown up before a big game, uh, or anything like that. That's what I did before a big battle. That's what it was like. We had like, we had a, a downstairs gymnasium under the main gym in high school where we could shoot around, get some workout in before the game while like the JB game or whatever was going on. And so, had already kind of gotten the body moving and it was just, it was a big game. It's hot in the gym. We were in like the tunnel from the locker room into the main gym for like starting lineups and all that. And I started just getting so nervous. I feel like the heat gets me too. Like as soon as we go up for layup lines, I'm going to throw up on the corner. I'm going to get this out now. Yeah. I'll admit, I felt, um, I felt the stomach a little bit on the 18th. Holy yesterday, our batch. Yeah. I needed to make it. It was only like two and a half feet for Birdie to win. It came down to the last, the last shot. Uh, John Ashford have made his birdie. We were one up. So we needed a birdie to match or it would have been a half match. And you know, they didn't concede. They wanted to see it. It was like in that Rory distance. I mean, yeah, it can be missed, but, uh, calm my nerves and I dreamed it. How did you call them your nerves? Deep breath. I stick stuck with my routine. Have you noticed I have a pretty solid routine? Oh, what I thought behind, walk forward, twirl the putter wants right behind, no practice stroke and just right through. And that's I just stuck with a routine. Very good. Thank you very much. We are the winner of some imaginary money, right? Because we've never, we didn't see any of it. I kept waiting for my Venmo to pop up. We did get a honey, how much swag from from matchanella. We did. He was gonna give that to us either way, but now how much did we win? 20 bucks, 20 bucks, 20 dollar closeout. Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. Well, we'll look forward to that, Greg. Bobby, you know, Ty ranch in the in the chats is I almost threw up in my company's Gala night when I was going to introduce my work wife to my girlfriend. What's a work wife? Like you're my work wife. I oh, I am your work wife. Yeah. The person you spend a lot of time, you're close to work. Yeah, and Poly is too. Poly is like my work. Poly I'd say is like my work brother and you're my work wife. Yeah, does that make sense? Yeah. But it's different because it's not an inappropriate relationship, but it's a it's a deep and meaningful relationship. Very, but it's it's yeah, we're we're the same sex. And so if you have a work, well, that's a weird one to be like, hey, but why would you, but why would you be nervous about it, Bobby? I'm very curious about this. Something going on, maybe that he didn't want girlfriend to find out about. I don't know. Yeah, work. Obviously, we know what a work wife is. It's your your your best friend, female at work in the office, but there's just the three of us in here. Now, if we had a female on this show, Hannah, I think knows I would be very close with her. I would be talking to her every, as poly. I mean, phone calls you get from me in a day. Me and L. O. B. Only only two yesterday. Only two yesterday. Lauren when you had Lauren O'Brien was on your show. She was on my show. She's been on our show. She's insanely talented. She was kind of my work wife and I would spend like hours on the phone with her very not intimate in the sense of physical, but an intimate relationship confiding in her. She confiding in me. Now, Jay says work wife is someone you date if you were single, like that that's the person like you. All right. If it ever came to it, here it is. Here's the answer. I always talked about her. I just didn't tell my wife that well, she was really good looking. Ah, yeah. Who her? She's ugly. Downplayed it a little bit. Downplayed it a little bit. Like Ben's work wife, Kimberly Hunt. We sit next to each other at work. Yeah, because they're friendly. Billy Ray will feel wallet is already there. I mean, they're a little closer. They're anchors together. Brandon's as Kelly Danick is our work wife, but she's not in the same studio. Kelly's great. We don't really get to see her much. Yeah, we don't. And she feeds in her traffic reports from parts unknown. I always talked about her. I just didn't tell her. She was really good looking. Bobby, in the chat, just let us know. How did your wife take it? Oh, wait. No, his girlfriend, I think, though. That's why. No, the work wife introduced to the girlfriend, the actual girl. Oh, I thought it was. Yeah, the work wife to my real life. All right. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Let me know how that goes. There's a lot. But I'm sure there's been situations at holiday parties where, you know, oftentimes significant other doesn't meet work colleagues outside of holiday. That's the one time in the year where you actually mix business and personal life. Bobby says a very silent drive home. You should what I would have said. Hey, maybe we should all kiss and see how that goes and just throw it out there to diffuse the situation. I don't know that that would have helped. What do you mean? What do you think? She's actually, I guess I hadn't really noticed she was really attractive. But what if we all just kissed? Who's it? I just see everybody's inner beauty. I don't know. Yeah, I don't really, you're, you're, you're the only one for me. But if he is something that you wanted to do, I would support that. Who's Adam's work? I don't know. Like he would be any of us. Could be any of us. Probably me. Like Gwen and Chris, their work works spouses. I wonder who I probably wear them out. Like my wife wears me out the most. Yeah, me to had them. I'm probably, yeah, I'm probably his work wife. Yeah, be very. Is it extra sweet because it's against the dogs? It's extra sweet because you're my work wife. No, it's not. We get to go today, hang out with Adam, probably and I do. I'm going to be down at the Padres game today. If you see a say, make sure you say hello and they're going to go watch hopefully the sweep today. Jeff says I had a work wife once and when I talk about it to my girlfriend, it did not go well at all. Then I brought my girlfriend to a work thing that my work wife even worse. So apparently, this is a real thing that I was unaware of. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's just us in here, you know, especially keep it that way. Where our wives know, yeah, like my wife, your wife knows me. But we, yeah, we should just keep it that way probably as much as I would love to have like LOB here dominating the airwaves with us. You know, it's a, that's a, that's an interesting story. How did we get from vomiting to work wife? Oh, he said he was going to vomit. That's why he was going to vomit. Wow. Yeah, that's interesting. Interesting. Have you never vomited before a big thing? No, I really, you can be an anxious person. No, I'm not an anxious person. What do you mean? I'm an anxious person. You're yet you're a I'm anxious. I've told you, I have like the, like the Seinfeldian non vomit street going. I vomit for no reason whatsoever. I keep it down. I always, I always keep it down. Oh, even when I feel it bubbling up, I can, I can fight it back down. It feels so good to get it out though. And I always think I disagree. No, it sucks in the moment, but I hate the moment so much. I'd rather deal with it. You feel better. You feel better every time. I'd rather just fight it down. I don't want, I do not want to have that feeling of it coming back up. It sucks. I'm dying. I hate that. But then when you're done, you're good. Carlos says he's vomit free since 93. That's really good street. It's 30 plus years. Rafael says what I vomit on helicopter. I know I would vomit before, before I had to get on it, I would. Hannah says there's plenty of females I'd be chill with being your work wife. Plenty, I would not. Interesting. Very, very interesting. Uh, no, it was an interesting conversation. So, um, these comments, these comments are great, man. These are great. Coming up here in the second half of Ben and Woods, we have Brett Boone joining us on a big league Wednesday. He'll be with us at the bottom of the hour. Always enjoy our baseball conversations with Boonie. Did not mention it earlier, but we ask him about vomit. If he, yeah, I bet he's never fallen in. No chance. Uh, we will have another pair of tickets to give away to Def Leppard and Journey at Petco Park. Didn't mention that earlier, but the show is on August 30th. Tickets are on sale at ticketmaster.com, but you'll have a chance to win them coming up here. And, uh, we got Paul with his rival report and headlines and, uh, going for the sweep today, early game today, pod raise and pirates. It's a one 10 start getaway day for the pirates who, uh, fly back to Pittsburgh after the game. Hopefully with their season, uh, well, it's already kind of in tatters, but just put the nail in the coffin. Is that have they lost nine in a row nine? So they're going for the big Delta digit losing streak today. I hope to give it to them. I know we can do in the next segment. Oh, good. I'd like to play the Incorporated. We haven't gotten to that. Oh, yeah. And, uh, Caitlin in the chat asked Woods, would you vomit at the fister? I wonder if Don or Sillow vomited when he saw the ghost that he talked about on the broadcast. You guys missed this last night. It's elite, elite television last night. Good content from both radio and television broadcasts of the pod raise last night coming up next after Kelly's traffic from wherever Kelly is right now on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. We all belong outside. 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Offer valid for unlimited time, minimum $10 per order, excludes restaurants, additional terms and fees apply. It only happens just a handful of times during the season. What I love when I'm actually in the car got the radio on and I hear the Incorporated live. It's such a good feeling. Yeah, I was having dinner with my boys and we were driving back and it was the I say the sixth thing. And I started here. I started hearing and I go, Oh, I think I think it's coming. And I was like telling my son here comes here comes the Incorporated. And I was right. So Paulie is going to set it up. Jesse Agler yesterday, our third week of song lyric Incorporated. And here's what we tasked Jesse with. So this one actually just came up organically today because you're playing take on woods. And this was our two second song. We thought this would be perfect for Jesse. So Paulie, if you would. If you fall, I will catch you. I'll be waiting. Time after time. A little bit of a little leading there, leading the witness, but you do, you do with it what you want. It's fun because there's like a few different ways. Oh, yeah, I thought that was a good one. Absolutely. All right. So yeah, sixth inning yesterday. I remember I looked at my I looked at my car at 823. I'm texting Paulie. I heard it. So he doesn't have to go searching for it in the morning. So here it was with Padres up to nothing against Pittsburgh Pirates last night. And and here's Jesse. Think back to that. No hitter. Great play. Jackson Merrill backing up his androbo guards Johnny on the spot. Team baseball. If you fall, I will catch you. I'll be waiting. Definition of having your guys back or front in that case, time after time. Oh my god. They're like working in concert. Nothing in one. I had to wait to finish it after Tony had his thoughts in there. So good. That was just that was brilliant. I really like the new direction of the Incorporated with the song lyrics. I think it is really, really giving it a boost of energy and a refresher. You needed to be here. And it's just incredible that he was able to do that. So, so, so, so good. But yeah, I was watching television last night and finally got the kids down and settled in. It was it was a it was tumultuous. We had lunches and garbage to take out on all this and baths and finally got them down. And I just plopped down. I went finally. All right. I'm kind of listening to it in the background. Sit down. Well, and they start talking about Mookie Betts. And they mentioned. Yeah, they're saying you guys believe in ghosts. He said Mookie Betts is not staying at the fister in Milwaukee because he's a scared. He's scared of the fister. Fister? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And he so he gets an Airbnb. And so somebody I think it was Ray and Ramona asked the question. Do you guys believe in ghosts? I told Scan this earlier before the game too. I was at a hotel which I don't think exists anymore. It was a triple A in Louisville executive suites. I don't think it exists anymore. But anyway, there were several things happening there over the years. The players are talking. Okay, I'm ready. So my ironing board. I was lying on the bed. Came off of where it was being held. Now it's usually in a closet. Came off and hit the ground and opened up completely. Like ready to be used. Led. So I tried to recreate it. I'm like, okay, I'm not going to make a big deal about this. That seems very unusual. There's got to be science. So I went over and I pulled it up and then dropped it like five times. We'd never do it again. Interesting. Yes. My question was, did the ghost start ironing? No, he could have brought a shirt over and a pair of slacks and got some work out of the ghost. Very helpful because I can't iron to save my life. I create creases that were not there before. He also talked about what he also talked about. A couple of the guys, I think it was when he was with the Red Sox minor leagues in one hotel would see an 1920s gangster like an old man in 1920s gangster. The Gatling gun. Like pinstripe soup. Yeah, see like suit suit suit and the fedora and the whole thing. I was rolling. So just a couple of comments and oftentimes like with the fister, it's at a hotel or the hotel Dell, but it's usually like an old historic hotel. Don said his was at the executive suites. Sounds like a chain hotel. It definitely was. It's an atom clue hotel. If there's an option to book us in a nice place for the executive suite, he's booking us at the executive suite. You don't usually hear about the haunted comfort in. No, no, usually don't. It's usually like, Oh, well, this, yeah, it's built on an ancient burial ground. It's built in 1870. So that's why that's why it's haunted. But then he started those irons though. Aren't they designed like when they come out to automatically unfold? But Don said he tried and couldn't get it to recreate and unfold itself in land. I'm assuming the fabric part is out, right? And then it falls and lands somehow and it's open and standing up. Or maybe, no, no, the fabric parts ends and folds out and then you just push it right back into it slot in the closet, right? But that's so that worked. That one could just be happenstance. But where it really got interesting is when he started talking about, he said, seeing knobs turn turning hot water on and off. He said he looked down and saw the knobs turning. Now that would be enough to get me. That would get me. That's horror movie stuff. That's horror movie stuff. And then Scanway did and was talking about some of his old teammates. And there was a hotel that they used to stay at. And essentially, he said, in the middle of the night, the middle of the night, the TV would turn on and start changing channels. And there would be loud bangings and things like that. And he said they would get up and check out of the hotel. Now I know you're a non-believer in it, but there's there was something going on. Those stories from Don last night killed me. Part of it is that I just want to be a non-believer because I don't want to have anything to worry about. Andros asking, because I'm I will be sleeping in a historic hotel tonight. We're doing our staycation. Oh, yeah. At the Lafayette and it opened in 1946. So I mean, if it could, I mean, that's that's 80 years that it's had to get haunted at some point with weird things happening. But hopefully there won't be any weird things that happen. Now, I've never heard of anything at the Lafayette. Not either. So I mean, I think you might be in, but you know, older buildings tend to also make more unusual sounds like creaky pipes and, you know, things that just happen as a building kind of settles in. It sounds spooky, but there's probably a rational explanation for why you're you're hearing those noises in the middle of the night. I mean, Mod basically said that he, you know, he'd heard those stories too, and he would just get in bed and sit up and say, if you want to get me, come and get me. I'm right here. And he said nothing. Which is take the bull by the horns. Take the bull by the horns. Yes. Very assertive. But man, those guys last night, they, Donnie had me rolling. Rolling was so good. All right. We'll come back. Rob Bonel join us on a big league Wednesday. We'll talk about baseball's pennant races and we'll ask Boonie how he feels about throwing up before games happened, haunted hotels on the road, all of that coming up next with Ben and Woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three, the fan. This hour on 97 three, the fan has brought to you by the farmer's dog, fresh human grade dog food from a healthier way to more energy. When you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog, the effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? None at all. It's just real food made for the help of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at the farmers dog dot com slash radio. We're going to talk with Brett Boone. He may or may not know. We have a couple of unusual questions for him. Yes. That is coming up right after a check traffic here on 97 three, the fan. We're joined right now by Odyssey MLB and center Brett Boone insider calls were presented by Granger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Granger has the right product for you. Call click Granger dot com or just stop by Brett. Also the host of the Brett Boone podcast, featuring the most notable names in MLB and around sports every week. And Brett, I will start with this topic that we had earlier in the show. Did you ever get so nervous like before a game that you threw up? No, no, we didn't think so. I didn't hear my ear, but not never throw up. We were watching Hunter Green last night. I believe it's the second time that he's taken the mound, grabbed the ball and just vomit it. You know, the nerves and not nerves. I would imagine it's just adrenaline, right adrenaline, maybe a little anxiety. Isn't that well? I guess that's nice to mind together. That's true. Yeah, I think it's something. I, you know, I think I had a teammate that used to do that. And it, I didn't think differently, although I just thought man, his body works in a weird way. I mean, I'm not going to say I was never never the subject of nerves, of course, of course, butterflies. I remember, you know, my first, when I went to the World Series and I think it was game three at the Old Yankee Stadium, you know, I went out before the game to get my sprints in like I did every single day my entire life and had been the Yankee Stadium 20 times. And it was something was different though. It was game three, I looked around and something came over me. It wasn't a throw up come over me, but it was something different. So yeah, I think we all just handle whatever it, whatever it is, the nerves of butterflies, anxiety, whatever it is, I think we all have on it. Obviously, he likes to throw up. I don't know if he likes it, but that's what he does. Yeah, I don't know if he actually enjoys it. But yeah, I just think it's something he probably laughs about it like I can't control. It's just how my body just gets rid of these. That's amazing. When you like I said, I don't I don't think any differently up yet. No, we all handle it. We all handle it in our own way. Yeah, he's been really, by the way, by the way, did I hear you guys were giving out Def Leppard tickets? I'd like to put my name on the list. I as an Odyssey employee, I don't know if you can, but we can certainly ask the boss of the powers of the beat. I could drop the label for the first time. He's quitting. That's how bad you want to see Def Leppard going to win the tickets. I love Def Leppard. I got to see him. And they put me on the stage for the concert in Seattle back when I was playing. They're still this day, my all time. They're my all time guys. I love them. What's your favorite song? Good guys. Oh, I couldn't even pick one, but I'm going to go back to before pyromani. I'm going to go with high and dry dry, not pour some sugar on me. No more than several songs. Yes, but no, no, the new stuff's fine. But I'm a high and dry guy. Me too, not too. I could put that album on it just brings me back to seventh grade, getting ready for the dance. Nothing like it. That one and pyromani are for me. Did you throw up before the dance and seventh grade? No, he did not throw up before the dance. Brett Boone, dude. When you played as far as like nerves and stuff go, you're playing infield. Nothing better than getting the first pitch of the game, just six hopper right at you. And then it's done. It's over with. You know, waiting for that first one for me, as long as I played, getting that first one out of the way of the utmost importance, get the first one, make it clean and call it a day. I'll tell you, there's certain points in every season that there's those butterflies. And then the rest of them, they all run together. And you know, the Tuesday night in July, I could care less. No, it's just this is business as usual. That's what I do. But there's certain points in every season. I don't care how much experience I had down to my last year in baseball. And there's certain points. On a great year, you'll get nervous six times. So always the first about of spring training, always, didn't matter if I was a 14-year veteran, didn't matter if my rookie year, that first at bat in spring training. And it is a hill of beans. It doesn't matter. Nobody cares. Nobody's going to see it. But for my own well-being, I cannot embarrass myself to the first of that of you. I don't want to chase a break-and-ball of foot off the plate and start my season off that way. So as long as I just had an okay at bat, I don't care if I get a hit, just put it in play. Don't strike out. So that once I get over that, I'm fine. The rest of spring is a walk in the park. Opening day, if you're fortunate enough, having a great year, you go to the All-Star game, that first at bat in the All-Star game, you just want to get through it. You don't care if you want to get a hit. I always want to get a hit. I'm playing with a ball in the backyard. I want to get a hit. But I just don't, I want to save face. And then if your team is good enough to get to the postseason, always that first at bat in the postseason, just get it off on the right note. Because after that, it's easy. Opening day, it's just get through opening day. And then the season really starts on game too. You just want to get through opening day. So those are the points in every season. And like I said, it didn't matter if it was my first year or my last year. I always had those butterflies in those situations. Because believe it or not, that's what players, that's our biggest, biggest fears embarrassing ourselves. I used to tell Trevor that with that stupid change up each room. I said, I don't care if you get me out. I want to get a hit. But I'm not going to swing in this, that stupid change up by our foot. And, you know, it turns out most of my, my career at bats against Trevor started with a fastball away foreseamer just on a tee. Because I was so worried about the change up, I took it. So anyway, that's what, that's what players were, all you guys went behind the curtain. That's what players really care about. You don't embarrass yourself. It's funny too, because you, Mookie Betts just came off the aisle, his first AB, he embarrassed himself. He, he waved the pitch and fell over and the whole thing and everyone's going, I was smart enough, Brad. I've learned many, many years doing this. You don't run your mouth till the game's over. I, there was a lot of pottery fans going, uh huh, welcome back, Mookie. Well, next AB comes up and hits an absolute tank. And I just thought to myself, that's the, that's how you redeem yourself. It's, it is good to hear that these pro baseball players, they make money, they're sharp, you know, they're cool as hell. Everybody looks up to them. Yeah, man, they're, they get as nervous as the rest of us out there. The other question, we're as vulnerable, we're as vulnerable as insecure as anybody, you know, you know, we have that tough, tough exterior and look how cool we are in that swab and inside you're going, do I still got it? Do I still got it? They're human. Yeah, we have all the, we have all those insecurities that everybody else in. The other question is, in all your years of a team travel and hotels, did you ever have a paranormal encounter? On the road. No, no, no go stories. I'll tell you, I've done a few shows recently, and I hear the big topic is the puffister. Yes. Yeah. It is the puffister. It's not the fister with it. It's just absolutely one of our favorite places. It's probably the worst hotel on that big league surface. And for the, for the most part, you know, we all, all the team, you know, there's some, there's some, there's some changes. But for the most part, we all kind of stay whatever cities we go to. Most of the teams kind of stay in the same place. Now, when I was playing with the Mariners, we'd stayed a different place when we went to Dallas than maybe because of the relationship with the organization or whatever. But for the most part, we kind of stay in the same Hilton, the same Hyatt. So we all have stories and the fister was always kind of everybody would laugh. Oh, that was the fister because it's, it's supposed to be haunted. I never saw anything there. And now I'm not a disbeliever in it. I'm a believer in those evil spirits. Hopefully, I'd never see one. But no, I never ran in any problems. But I've heard a lot of stories that people have. And we talked last week talking to Brett Boone here on Ben and Woods this morning. So I had a little panic moment last night, booty. And I thought of you. So I've got fantasy baseball team and George Kirby is on my fantasy team Mariners. You really, really good picture. And I went to check my lineup and I went, Oh, you idiot. I forgot to start him last night. Oh my god. I didn't put him in gave up like 11 earned runs. But I was watching the M's over the weekend. And it was pretty to see what a rose arena has brought to that team has been pretty incredible, man. He has changed kind of and then watching Cal Raleigh. And those guys, I know we talk Padres. We talk Mariners too. But to see what a rose arena is that I think that was a really, really elite pickup for them. I think, you know, as far as the trade deadline go, I think the Padres made huge moves because they both are that bullpen and now arguably the best bullpen to get to Suarez. But I look at the Mariners too. They were in my top, you know, I made a ranking of who I think did the best. There were no blockbuster deals, as everybody knows, because none of the big time stars were available, really. But there were a lot of low key low key additions. I think the Padres did really well, but I think the Mariners did really well too. And it's not necessarily, they didn't get any MVPs. They didn't get any Hall of Fame closers. But I'll tell you, they made some sneaky moves. They got Garcia from Toronto, which replaces the Matt Brash, who went down with Tommy John. And there's really been a hole in that bullpen. I think you feel that you mentioned a rose arena. He's probably having his worst year in his big league career, but he's got a lot of experience. He's got a flair for the dramatic in the postseason. He's been there, done that. He's actually swinging a lot better than he did in the first two, three months. I mean, he was hitting 165. Yeah, phenomenal, definitely on the recovery there. But I think as much as, you know, I've been through this now about three, four years, I've kind of come to the other side. You know, when I first started doing this, I'd look at the modern failure and the celebrations, and I would just kind of, it was an eye roll, like, am I really watching this? But I've kind of, I've gotten to the point where I'm so used to it now. It's not an eye roll anymore. It's, hey, this is the way the game is these days. What I think a rose arena brings to that mariner team is a personality that can rival Julio Rodriguez. And Julio is obviously their young 23-year-old star that's really not having a good year. He's been on the aisle for a while, just came back. I think a rose arena veteran guy like that with a big personality, kind of in a way challenges Julio and kind of likes a little bit of a fire that, you know, who could out personality one another. So I think that's going to be a good thing for him. I also think that Justin Turner thing is huge from a club house. Yeah, you love the Turner move. You love the Turner. Oh, I love it. He's a JT Martinez type type guy. And he's a guy that just has a presence well respected in the game. 39 years old, been on a lot of great teams with the LA Dodgers. And I just think he's another great presence. So low key moves, but nevertheless, I think really effective. For the mariners to do it, Julio's got to get going. At some point, Cal Raleigh's been the guy. You know, he's hitting low average, but he's high power. Great, great backstop for that mariner team really handles that pitching staff. And, you know, for my money, the best pitching staff one through five in baseball really handles them well, but they're going to need, they're going to need roblaze has also been a nice addition coming over from the Watson Nationals. He does a really nice job for him. Crawford's still out on the aisle. They're short stopped. They need him back. But if all the pieces fall into place with that pitching staff, Seattle, like the San Diego Padres, if they get a seat at the table, they can do some damage in the postseason. It'll be interesting to watch. Talking to Brett Boone, insider calls brought to you by Granger. And Brett Padres have won for the first time in franchise history, 18 of 21 games. And I went back and looked at I figured I figured you'd gone through this and you did in 2001. The mariners won 15th straight and 20 of 22 late May early June. And I what do you remember about that about a team being as locked in as you guys were then as the Padres seem to be right now? Well, that was a mediocre month for us in 2012. We're used to winning 24th now. I'm kidding. That 2001 seat, it was different. We've talked about it before. It was a magic carpet ride. It was like nothing I ever have been through in my professional career. To that point, I was on some great teams in Cincinnati in '94, '95, a great Braves team in 1999. We won 100 and I forget we won 100, three out of four. But that's the adult team, one in one 16. It's like we never lost. And it's just a great feeling for the Padres to rattle this off, you know, when they're biggest star, if we talk teases down, and with not having a must go, not having a garbage, it's pretty remarkable. And I think this team's really coming together. They're at top at all the offensive categories in the national league or near the top. This is just a really good team. And you mentioned, and I heard you guys talking about the additions you made at the Allster, or at the trading deadline. It really bolts through that bullpen. And I think in today's game, 2024, I think that big time bullpen plays really big in the postseason. So the Padres showed that up. You got Musgrove back. He pitched four to, I think, four and a third the other day. He had no runs. I saw him getting interviewed last night in the Padres, went over Pittsburgh the second one. And he had really good things to say. And it didn't, you know, it kind of confidently saying, hey, I feel I felt great. It's great to be back. There was no indecisiveness in his voice. So it's paramount, I think, for the Padres to have Musgrove at the top of that rotation. He's been kind of the rock in the last three or four years in San Diego, and I have him back into feeling healthy. I know he didn't have any, he wasn't wavering like, oh, it felt kind of good. No, he said it feels good now. I'm ready to go. So that's, that's huge. They won nine of 10, along with the 18 and three. Man, they're knocking on the door to the LA Dodgers, three and a half back. The problem is right now, LA's not losing either. They won five straight diamondbacks of one nine of 10. So they're really not making as much hay as they should be with this run, but they put themselves in real good position to go to the postseason. And as we know, it's not about, you always want to win the division. You always want to, to raise that flag that you won the division. But in today's game, it's just not that important. No, get there. Get there. This poverty team is really good. And they're, they're making a big case. They're going to, they're going to have a chance. Yeah, we are at a time. Thank you. I love you. I appreciate it. And I'll share a little fact to it about that 15th winning streak for the Mariners on the other end. Again, thanks to Brett Bohn, rival report and more final hour of Ben Woods coming up next on 97 three event. That guy can talk a little bit. Nick gets me nervous. 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