Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

8am Hour - Padres Lineup Construction + Jesse Agler Calls In!

Ben & Woods start the 8am hour by asking Paulie about his experience at the Foo Fighters concert last Wednesday night, before we talk about the Padres lineup construction and what things could look like if / when Fernando Tatis Jr. returns to the team. Then, at the bottom of the hour, Padres radio broadcaster Jesse Agler makes his weekly appearance on the show! Listen here!

Duration:: 45m
Broadcast on:: 13 Aug 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Zach with Clueger. First two segments, I think, and then I had to board and had you guys up on YouTube. I was waiting to board the plane and sounds good. Yeah, we felt pretty good. You know, I'm refreshed. I had the Hawaiian vacation. I felt I still feel very refreshed from it. Got you the first time you guys have ever seen me in shorts ever, right? Ever, ever. You look good. Maybe a little color on your legs. Very nice. Yeah. Very skinny legs. My wife said she would kill for my legs. So, yeah, Polly just had his vacation. You had your vacation. When's yours this week? I'm going on staking. Oh, staking. But you're still working. That's not a vacation. Well, I'm taking the rest of the week off television. Oh, television. Yeah. So, I'm only working with you guys. It just seems silly not to work. We're actually going to stay for the first time. We're going for two nights to the new Lafayette, the remodeled Lafayette Hotel in North Park. And we're going to stay there a couple of nights and check it out. And but it's like even closer to here than my house. So, so it's actually, it's like a shorter draw. It's a shorter draw. It'd be weird to not come and work with you guys. And I'm even closer than I normally am. That's true. So, I'm just going to get out on Thursday and not being there. But it was a shortened show for you guys. It was a very short show. I didn't feel that bad. Piece of cake. You had Foo Fighters tonight before. I let loose a little bit on Wednesday night. So, Kluger, Bald Rindel, our producer, our manager, he actually went to the show too. And I tried to get it out of him. Hey, like what did you think of the show? He's like, what'd he say? It was fine. It was good. They were great. They rocked. They rocked. Yeah, it didn't give me like a lot. They were good. Michael in our chat is our GM. And he said, that's dedication, Ben. Way to set the example. Oh my God. This bit. It's more peer pressure from wood. I didn't say a word. Not bad when I leave. Not one single word. I'm happy that I'm happy that you're coming to work. I mean, this is the easy job. I do have a couple of days off scheduled next month for a little golf vacation. I won't be here. Yeah, and I'll be here. Yeah, exactly. So, Paul, you went to Foo. It was amazing. See, he was just like, it was okay. It was fine. Yeah, it was good. It was like one of the best concerts I've ever seen. Sure. I mean, I'm biased. Huge fan of the Foo Fighters. Right. I'd never seen them before. First time I popped your cherry. Bro, it was unbelievable. It looked awesome. It was so sick. Yeah. I went with my buddy who had never seen them either. And he's a fan, but not like a long time hardcore fan. He goes like, they come out, lights go dark. They come out. And he's shredded for like five minutes before you even heard them utter a word. It was just Dave Grohl screaming into the microphone. And for those like five minutes, we were just sitting on the edge and they're like, Jaws on the floor. My buddy just looks. He goes, this is unreal. This is awesome. Yeah, this is awesome. They had, I don't, you know, everybody's name. The drummer's from Nine Inch Name. Josh Freeze. He's incredible. He's a real man. Bro, like when he was doing a drum solo, I got like feel it in my stomach and my body was just like shaking. It was so sick. How does that work? It does Nine Inch Nails not tour anymore. Did they trade him? Or like, is he on loan, like a soccer player? It's like, it's a gig for him, you know, and actually I think he's the full time guy now because Nine Inch Nails is, yeah, they don't, they don't put out music anymore. Trent Reznor does movie soundtracks and he's amazing. And I think, I think eventually we'll get more Nine Inch Nails at some point. I sure hope so. I did see a picture of Trent Reznor at Disney land yesterday, which for some reason spun me out. Like shorts and a black like collared shirt like I have on, I was like, ah, ah, he should be in a cave somewhere. He should not be at Disney land. It was really weird to say it's on earth. Yeah. There's Trent Reznor. It was like the saddest guy on earth and he's like, here I am at Magic Kingdom. Like it was very strange to me, but yeah, I was, I was, I heard they just rocked the house. So sick, man. It was such a great show. Zach's in the chat here. He says, I don't think I've been called a MF for so many times that he was at the show. Oh, he was Dave. Oh, Dave. He's like, got any old school MFers in the house tonight. And then what made me feel bad and like feel just old was he's like, all right, we're going to play another one for the old school MFers and he played, you know, one of their earlier heads. And you guys, I got one more old school song for you, old school mother Fers. And it was monkey rank. Right. I'm like, well, I mean, brother, that was hot when I was at college. Yeah. I was like 25 years ago, but it was so much fun. I don't stay for the end of concerts very often. I will. I'll check the set list. I'll see if I really need to stay for the, you know, kind of cheesy played out on course that everybody has to do these days, stayed till the very end, saw a million tier ones were there that night. It was so much fun. I love Woods, his idea that bands should start with their most popular songs and just go in order. And people can just leave as they find like, that really die hard to the ones they're going to stay. Yeah. For the really deep tracks that come at the very end and the people who just want to hear the hits, you know, they can stay for the first, you know, nine songs. All right. I've heard all the ones that I want to hear. I can go now and it'll really help with like traffic congestion as you're leaving the venue. This is mind blowing here. Tyler just said in the chat nine inch nails is going to be doing the score for the new Tron movie coming out later. And I said Trent or 90 snails. They said nine inch nails and they said they announced it at the big Disney convention. So that's probably why they were there. That makes me feel a little bit better. I don't want my, there's a work trip. Yeah. I don't want my, my dark hero, Trent Reznor, like, I don't need that from him. I need him to stay edgy and in all black. So that makes a lot of sense. Nine inch nails cover of it's a small world after all. Yeah. So weird, man. Seeing him there was like, I'm like, I know he's a human being. He has kids. He has a lot of kids. Like, I know that he's a dad, but I don't want to see him there. It just didn't make sense today. So that's going to be sick, dude. So sick. Awesome. Thanks for the update, fellas. Paulie, glad you're back and, and, and glad you got some, you know, relaxation time. Yeah. One time away and you, you missed a bunch of Padres wins other than a Friday. It's been continuing just close. One run wins or extra inning wins for the San Diego Padres over this last week, including last night, two to one over the Pittsburgh Pirates, a game that was sealed by a diving catch from Jackson Merrill with two outs in the ninth inning and the tying run on first base. Baldwin, if he gets past him, ties the game for sure and puts the go ahead run probably a third base, but he went for it and there's a little bit of discrepancy. Now where I saw the catch bot said it was a 64% chance, but in our chat, the baseball savant page, he looked up. He thought it was just a 10% catch probability. I would lean more toward 10%. I was not. I didn't think it was. I didn't think it was. That sounds much more. I think it was less than a 50 50 play that he made, but you know, all those are the two choices. 10% or 64% I'm probably into our 10 as well. But what goes into those calculations is very complex and I still don't totally understand it. It's like how far away you are from the from the ball, how fast you run, you know, how high the hard the ball is hit. It all factors into those catch probability numbers. Your eyes can tell you one thing and then the numbers don't make a lot of sense based on what you've seen. But I tend to lean toward, yeah, more of a 10% catch than a 64% catch made by Jason Jackson Merrill. Great catch either way. I just we just got a tweet from Shaney says, can you guys talk about the splits in hitting? Why do they struggle at Petco Park? Are they struggling at Petco Park right now? I know the record there are two games over 500 at Petco Park and like eight games or something nine games over 500 on the road. I know it was an issue earlier. I don't it's been the ammo for a couple of years. The ammo for a while. I don't I can't hit home runs there, but everybody else seems to be the head home runs. They're only affected part of their strains are early in the season. I think whenever you talk about splits, there's always a factor of even in a baseball season, which is a lot of games, but home games are only half of them. They can get skewed just by if you just happen to be hot during one homestand your home numbers look really good or you know, you had a road team who came in and they were hitting well all of a sudden. Well, it looks like the road teams are hitting well at Petco Park. This season as Paul said, yeah, early in the year road teams are hitting a bunch of home runs. Potters were historically Petco Park has not been a great hitters park. And you know, they've always tried to figure out exactly what it is. Usually you blame the weather, the marine layer, the ball doesn't carry and that my eyes tend to tell me that that's true. Would Kyle Higashiyoka's ball instead of a sack fly been a three run homer at a different park? Maybe I got him. Maybe yesterday. Something to 48 at home with a 315 OBP slugging 421 OPS is 736 away, 281. So like almost 40 points higher, 335 OBP, which is a little bit 413, they're actually slugging less on the road than they are at home and 748 OPS at home or 748 OPS on the road as opposed to 736 at home. So it's not a, it's not a huge, huge number. You've got 81 bombs at home. They got 55 on the road. So yeah, it's not, it's not anything that I think is a jumping out at me, you know, and saying this is insane, 31 and 29 at home, 36 and 24, which is good on the road. Road warriors right now for the San Diego Padres. But is that, is that just correlation? Just right. They've played better on the road, not because they're on the road. Right. Happens to be the games they've played better. So their numbers look better offensively on the road. I don't know. Some guys say they just like hitting certain places. They like the background. They feel comfortable in those places. Last year, they made a big deal about the Ivy that they put on the fake Ivy that wasn't a great batters. But they took that off this year, I mean, some, some, some numbers to last night on the broadcast talking about the late, I mean, they're late, they're kind of a late arriving game. Well, that, yeah, that's, that's been a problem, not that we're looking nitpicking for problems, but not scoring against, or not scoring until the seventh inning. It's weird. You know, Woodford yesterday, Jake Woodford is not, I mean, it's not great. They've got the first time that they've taken a guy who's had a six, seven or eight ERA, made him look like a Cy Young candidate as a starter coming out of the blocks. They, they're not a team that gets off to a great start now. They score like as many or more runs in like the seventh and eighth innings than any team in baseball, but if you're relying on that too often, you're always then going to have to use your top relievers because you're not well ahead. Yeah. More offense early would be a very beneficial thing for, well, every team, but in particular, the pot raise right now. Well, and especially given the state of their pitching staff, right? And, and how nice would it be for, you know, Dylan sees to go out and throw a clean first and then, you know, come back and his team scores four runs for him instead of the other way around. You know, I think, you know, those numbers aren't crazy, crazy in one direction right now. And again, it's baseball. I do feel like things do tend to even out a little bit, but, you know, pitchers feel really comfortable in Petco Park and Woodford was no exception, but I, I mentioned it earlier. I think it bears repeating. This is a team that has an offensive philosophy that they've stuck to Ben. Would you agree? Since we've started covering the show, the team together, they have a philosophy, like a clear one, we are going to put the ball in play. Well, this year with Victor Rodriguez, this year, they have a philosophy. They've stuck to it. But the philosophy was designed with Petco Park in Mon, sure, it's a line drive park. They should, they should hit better at Petco Park than anybody else because of their philosophy. They should, but if they're hitting on the road better though, instead of a Petco Park, if they don't fall, if they're hitting the ball and putting the ball in play, but it doesn't find a hole or it doesn't fall, I mean, it's going to work against you. So I'm, I'm very hesitant to get on here and say, we need, you know, sweeping changes in the offense right now. Yeah, I'd love to see them score more and I'd love to see them more score more early. It will be, it will be interesting to see when and if Fernando Taty's junior returns. Yes. What Mike Schilt does with his lineup at that point, isn't it? It's so interesting. Is it simple? Is it what, what would you kind of do at this moment? So I'm seeing a lot right now, I got a lot of tweets last night, hey, ask Schilt why he continues to hit crony three, you know, cronies in a scuffling a little bit right now has hit some balls hard recently that have not fallen in, didn't have the world's greatest ABs last night. He's an everyday player. I think you're going to get ground down a little bit. Feels like they're getting him on that, the slider down low a lot, like you swinging over the top of the zone. But, you know, that happens to a lot of guys still, it's, you know, good. I mean, it's, there's a lot of red on his baseball savant page and he's still getting, you know, he's still hitting the ball and his expected batting average is a lot higher than it is. So I'm, and one of your strengths has been the length of your lineup and that includes Jackson Merrill deeper in the order as well. I thought about it last night when I watched, you know, the, then go down in order and I'm like, man, it's the second inning and I'm waiting to see our, our best hitter right now, really. Yeah. But you can't just say, oh, and Tati's comes back. We'll just drop Jake and we'll hit Tati's third because then you're very heavy, right handed. You're Tati's Machado Bogart. That's right. He's right. He's right. You can go. You don't want to set that up. Yeah. That's the thing is they got crony there because well, he's a veteran. He knows how to hit. He's in a slump right now. Yeah. But to have Jackson Merrill coming up in the six bodies, I mean, is it a ride? It's Tati's. And then pro far is the switch hitter three, maybe then many Bogart's the, then you got Jake and Jackson kind of stuck together near the bottom line up, which is two lefties. So how do you solve that? So then you get two righties, two lefty, you drop Zander to six. He's been playing so well and have Jake hit fifth or Jackson hit fifth and Jake hit seven. There's definitely some different ways that Mike Schiltz going to be able to go about this when Fernando Tati's junior, if and if he returns and just, you know, obviously don't know, but you know, hopefully he'll be back sometime in September. Yeah. I really don't know what you do. I'm sure Mike Schiltz thought about it. I'm sure Ajay Preller's thought about it. I'm sure they have a plan in place. I don't know what it is. I'm really fascinated to see where you slot him back in. Do you ease him in? Do you put him in the six hole? Seems weird. Seems super weird. But, but you have your best hitter right now hitting six. So, but then you still got four, five, six, right, right, right, right. Right. So then you're thinking, are seven, are we putting seven after Merrill? Yeah. I can't see a world where Tati's is hitting seven. No, can I? Nor can I. It's not like he was benched because he was struggling. He was actually doing fine. He was having a good season when he got hurt. He's the top three guy in your order. Yeah. I just, I'm also of the opinion guys, and this is an unpopular one, but when things are going well, I tend to not mess with it. I just don't. And, you know, I, you have faith in your players that they're going to come through. And crony does give you a good AB certainly, but yeah, I mean, he's in a bit of a scuffle right now, which happens, happens to the best of them. Every single guy on that team has scuffled this year. So maybe except for Jackson, he's been, his have been few and far between. All right. Going to check traffic when we come back, got an update on the story yesterday. We brought you in. Don't do this with Jaren Duran and the Boston Red Sox and a couple other baseball headlines for you. 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Follow Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. Future you will thank you. This season the W is going to new heights, and that means the queens are ready to take it to court and the court. Welcome to Queens of the Court, an Odyssey original podcast. I'm your girl Cheryl Swoops, and I'm Jordan Robinson, all WNBA season long. You can count on us to bring you interviews with some of your favorite WNBA stars, analysis of all teams, and hot takes you can only find in this courtroom. Listen to Queens of the Court, a WNBA podcast presented by AT&T on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Someone in the chat as we were kind of going through potential lineups, if and when Fernando Tatyse Jr. returns said well, drop all the ways arise to the ninth spot as like a second lead off hitter. So I hate lineups to talk makes me insane. The ways arise actually still leads the national league in batting. Now it's a it's a surprisingly low number. In fact, I think it was David Schoenfield wrote about it. The lowest ever national league batting champion in history was Tony Gwen's 3 13 average in 1988 that won the national league batting title that year. Right now, Louisa rise is at 303 and leads the the batting race. So he'd have to have a good solid last 40 plus games to get ahead of Tony Gwen's mark. Marcelo Zuna is second and I think it's a Tony and then maybe pro for those guys are all below 300 at this point. So you really have seen in the American League, it's a little highly Bobby with 347, I think the top six hitters and baseball are all three forty seven that's he's been on fire in the second half of the season for the season. The top six hitters in baseball are all average wise in the American league. Stephen Kwan. Yeah. Is one of them. Yeah. Vlad Guerrero is one of them. He's had a monster. Yeah. So but in the national league, it's barely 300 right now that leads the race, but it is still Louisa rise. No one is hitting better for average in the national league than he is, even though he has not had anywhere near a Louisa rise standard type season, he's very much in the picture and maybe even the favorite to win a third straight batting title. You ever see the movie, uh, Cobb with Tommy Lee Jones as Ty Cobb. You ever see that? No, you haven't. I know. I think I did. Yeah. I mean, maybe I did. It's all they paint. They paint the pretty ugly picture. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But he, I was watching it last night for whatever reason after the game and to fall asleep. Must have been really old for it to be like a young Tommy Lee. Yeah. Yeah. He still he looks kind of haggard. People all looked old. They did. Ty Cobb when he was 25 looked like he was 76 years old. He really did. I mean, there's pictures of you like, dude, how old, how old are you? I'm 26. Um, so in his final season, he at age 41, by the way, he hit 323 and was pissed and was like anybody that hits like this doesn't deserve to be playing baseball anymore. And that was 323 in his age 41 season. And he quit because that's such a low number and so below his standards, I thought that was really interesting. Yeah. Obviously the game's changed since 19, whatever, well, the lowest average ever to win a batting title on either league is Karl Yostremsky, who had 301 to lead the American League back in 1968, the era of the pitcher. Um, so will the National League batting champion finish above that or will we have our first ever to two 99 or two 98 batting champion this season? At the end of the day, as long as you win it, I don't really care what the number is. But yeah, look, obviously lineup construction is a very, very, um, good way to fill time on your four hour radio show. It really is. And I don't know the answer to what optimizes this San Diego Padres lineup in particular. I don't. Uh, but I do know that the better player, the more good players you have, it's, it's a good thing inherently, but I, I don't know man. I don't know where you had to teach if he comes back. I don't know what you do with crony. I, I'm of the opinion. What have they won? 17 of 19, 17 of 20, uh, tied with, uh, two other Padres teams for the best 20 game stretch and franchises. I tell you what I'm not doing. I'm not getting under the hood very much. I'm not. I call me crazy. I, I already saw this morning, well, just because it's working doesn't mean you're okay. But I just, this game doesn't, and I think my shield, I don't just don't think they work that way. I really don't. And, and I think he has a lot of faith in his guys and I think for good reason, they've given him a lot of reason to trust them. So I just don't see them messing with it very much. You're going to see guys moved around to get guys days off, but I just don't think you're going to see a lot of up and down the lineup and plugging guys in here and there and I'm not saying you're right or, or, and I'm wrong or, or he's right and, and, or wrong. But I just, that's just kind of how it goes with him. Just quick update on that. Don't do this story from yesterday. The Boston Red Sox and MLB did suspend outfielder, Jaren Duran, two games for throwing out that anti-gay slur at a fan during the team's loss on Sunday to the Houston Astros. That was pretty, pretty severe, pretty, uh, I mean, I don't even, two, two seems a little light. You end up losing 8,000 plus in salary based on his, uh, you know, fairly minimum $760,000 salary. They're going to donate that, uh, to the P flag, uh, parents, families, and friends of lesbians and gays organization. Um, and you said that the mayor of Boston wanted to like, give them talking to something as well. So anyway, that's an update on yesterday's don't do this story. Jesse Agler, we have, uh, come up with a song lyric for today's Incorporated and we will share it with Jesse and the rest of you when we come back with Ben Woods, a 97-3, the fan. Baseball is a lot of things. It is not boring. Join Rob Bradford on his podcast, Baseball Isn't Boring. Every day Rob taking you through the league spotlighting what makes the game fun, talks to players, managers, GMs, and reporters, all shining a light on America's pastime. Follow baseball isn't boring in the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. Yes. Padres baseball in particular has been the opposite of boring lately. Almost too exciting honestly, almost too exciting every single day. I'm ready for an easy victory. I'm ready for eight to one and not really having to sweat every pitch from the six through the ninth innings. Please. Thank you. I told you blowout squad, grit squad's amazing. So fun. You just wonder how long it can keep up and every time we say that they continue to grind it out and it's just really, it's been really special. Someone made the point. I think it was in the chat earlier this morning. Is this a good thing for when postseason time comes around and these are the kind of games you do have to play. I think it's something to say. I think it's a good, it's a good, it's a good, comfortable being uncomfortable late in the game. Yeah. It's true. Man over the last few years with no is is this is an even more interesting question. The Diamondbacks and the Padres being good and challenging the Dodgers in August and September. Is that actually a bad thing if you don't like the Dodgers because those guys are in literal cruise control mode for most of September every single year and we see how it works out for them in the postseason. So I don't know. It'll be interesting. Interesting to see how it all plays out. And we'll talk about all of this and more with the voice of the Padres Jesse Agler who joins us right after this check of traffic on 97 3 the fan. Not imagine for a play by play broadcaster though. Nothing makes your job better or easier or more fun than exciting close games because then you don't have to vamp for four innings in a blowout and try to come up with things to talk about. You just call the game and everybody's into it on the edge of their scene and we're joined right now by Jesse Agler here on 97 3 the fan. What a week. I mean I think we said that last week. But here we go again. What a week Jesse. A lot of fun, a lot of craziness but you know what guys before we talk baseball, bone to pick. Oh let's go. Oh I think I know where this is going. Reputations are important and you know you being associated with me, me being associated with you. That's a two-way street. Yeah. Like people and this is a great thing. You know they think of 97 3 the fan, San Diego's number one sports station. They think about Ben and Woods. They think about Jesse. They think about Tony and Ello everybody else right. So I'm in the Marlin clubhouse the other day and I'm trying to talk to a couple of the Marlin players who are from San Diego because I like to meet the San Diego guys around the league. Get to know them a little bit. Hey who'd you grow up liking you know all that kind of stuff. And I'm standing there. Now here's something to know about major league club houses, generally speaking, managers do not spend very much time in the players part of the clubhouse. It's sort of the players area. Managers are usually in their offices. You know they might fly by every once in a while but most major league managers spend very very very little time in the players part of the clubhouse. So I'm in there before the first game in Miami, I'm trying to meet Kyle Stowers right and talk to him. And as I take a step towards his locker, I am grabbed from behind by the very muscular manager of the Miami Marlins, Skip Schumacher and he goes, "Hey!" and I'm like, "Hey Skip, what's up?" And he goes, "You're boys." Meaning you. And he points to his shirt which apparently at one point was a Ben and Wood P shirt that he was wearing and it had been totally washed away. The letters had fallen off and I said, "Boy Skip, you must really wear that shirt out." And he goes, "I've watched it twice." And I said, "No, I don't want to necessarily take responsibility for this but I will pass it along to the boys." And yeah, he had me take a step. It's like on and down. And I had to hear about that the entire weekend. On and zids is what the shirt says because the lettering washed away now in our defense. I don't have a screen printing room at home where I'm personally putting my heart and soul merchandise into these. Here's what I've learned in life and in business. You are responsible for your stuff. We don't get to blame the distributor. We don't get to play, you know, with a little company that you guys use to print these things out. No, no, no. Your responsibility. Your name. Literally. We've already replaced it. We have Polly is sending Skip a whole new eight shirts. How sweet of that angel to be wearing that shirt anyway. I love it. Well, when you text that to me, I was mortified. I was absolutely mortified. I have the same shirt. I've had it for like three years. Can you wash yours? I've washed it more than twice. I just got him. I'm like, what are you using? Those are industrial laundry. Yeah. He's in the big bowl. Yes. Yes. Maybe that's what it is. Yeah. Also, perhaps his muscles have stretched out so much. I don't know if you would ever get that here. Yeah. Fat doesn't have the same effect on all the sin you hear. All of our logos are intact. No, it was awesome, man. I know how, you know, I've actually talked to Manny's wife about how, how nuts it gets for them when they go back down to Miami because he's from there. And everyone's like, I need tickets. I want batting practice. I need you to hit me ground balls. I want you to teach me how to feel ground balls. He's pretty under the gun. How about for you when you're down in Miami? I, so I've, I've kind of, you know, in a antisocial way of taking control of the situation. I mean, I just, I don't do anything anymore. You know, for the first few years back, I really did feel like I had a responsibility to different friends and family and, you know, you wear yourself out. And you know, this trip, I, I didn't, I didn't talk to anybody. I didn't text anybody back. I didn't call anybody back. I was hotel, ballpark, ballpark hotel. That was it, the entire three days. You know, also it's, it's August and it's baseball season and August and baseball season means you're exhausted. And I like, I just didn't have anything to give anybody. And I feel badly about that. I will raise my hands up and say, I am a terrible friend. And I will apologize for that to, you know, my loved ones back in South Florida. Like, I just don't have it. And right now, my energy is focused on this team and the two little people who were up at three o'clock this morning in my house. And that's it. Like, that's all I have. Like, there's, there's no extra energy. So, you know, bad friend, you know, not as bit of a friend as many as to his people because when I went back, there was, there was nothing outside of the ballpark that took place socializing. Now, I saw some people there, you know, that work in media or around, you know, the ballpark I've known for a long time. So I caught up with them, but I mean, there was, there was nothing outside of that. Right. Self-care is massively, massively important, Jesse. And you guys, I thought about you when I was in Hawaii and I told the fellas this, we did the, you know, the six hour trip over to Hawaii. I'm, you know, I ran and I'm 49 years old, but I got off the plane and my ass was hurting from sitting. My back was hurting. My knees were hurt. And I go, these guys, not you, but you, you and the players, but like, these guys do this all the time and then they got to go and they got to get their body ready, then they got to get their mind right. I will never think enough credit is given out to the players, you guys, the managers, the coaches for the grind of that season, the grind. I did one six hour flight and I got up and was like, Oh my God, dude. I needed a hot tub, anacol tub. I mean, it's, it's pretty nuts and that you guys do that all the time. It's, it's, it's to me, the thing that may, one of the things that makes baseball so special is it grind is the only word you can use, right? I mean, it's just unlike anything else in sports and I've had the opportunity to travel with an NFL team. I've had the opportunity to travel with an NHL team. And there's just nothing like this because of this schedule, because of the number of the games, you know, you're, you're never home for more than a week and a half. And then, you know, you're on the road, usually for about a week, maybe 10 days sometimes. And it's just ping pong back and forth, back and forth. And particularly with this newer schedule, the last two years now, you know, we're going east even more because you're playing, you know, half the American League teams on the road every year. So there's, you know, even more longer travel, fewer trips to Arizona, Colorado, LA and Phoenix, you know, or San Francisco, more trips, you know, to places in the central and the east. So it's, it's even more so now. And look, it's part of the deal. Every team does it. Some teams more than others, obviously the Mariners are kind of off on their own island up there in the Pacific Northwest, but I mean, it's not easy on anybody. And as you said, the players have a physical component to it that is just remarkable that they get ready and it's part of why guys like Manny takes so much pride in playing almost every day. There is a real thing to that because it is near impossible, you know, on this schedule to go out and do that. And so if you kind of set your mind to saying, hey, I'm trying to play X number or start, you know, X number of games in a year, like there is a real pride that should be taken with that. Because as you said, you know, it's not just your but hurts after getting off the plane. It's like, how many different time zones did we do? You know, where are we like, I can't tell you how many times of season I will wake up in a hotel and it takes me a good, like 30 seconds to be like, all right, where are we? And it's not because I was drinking the night before. It's just because like you really don't know where you are half the time. It's crazy, man. It's a wild thing. Yeah, Jesse Ackler, voice of the Padres is with us and Jackson Merrill certainly making your job fun. We've been playing all the calls of first the game tying home runs and you just have to ramp up the energy every time. But then last night out of the out of the blue, the game winning clinching catch with two outs in the ninth inning. What were you thinking? We heard your call, but kind of what were you thinking is the ball left? The bat? Did he? Did he have a chance at it? Should he have? I was thinking he's got to play this on a hop to keep the runner from coming around from first base, but now the move dies reaches down and he made the catch. I, you know, off the bat, I thought, yeah, and, you know, you have so many thoughts so quickly what you're doing this. And then the second I kind of looked up it just he had the, this is going to sound weird, but like the body language of a guy who's going to get there, like the way the strides were going and we're lucky because we have an unbelievable view, you know, from where we sit at Petco, so like really, really good look at, you know, the whole landscape and sort of where the ball is, where he is and able to track it. And he just from the first moment that I looked from the batter's box out to the outfield in my brain, I was like, oh, he's got a shot to get there. And it was obviously an extraordinary play, you know, he's, he's something else right now. I mean, you know, it's going to become redundant at some point and, you know, we're all saying it, it seems like every single day. But you know, I loved what, I don't know if it was pro for a Bogart, somebody was quoted the other day in the paper of like, it's not that he wants to win, it's that he hates to lose and there's a difference there. And I think all of us as fans, what could you ever love more than a key player, a very talented player who hates losing. That's it. We want wins, we want championships like, and, and to have a guy, you know, kind of emerging to play a significant of a role as he had, it doesn't just want to win because they all want to win. They're the most competitive people on the planet, but that one of the guys who is also one of the most competitive people on the planet can turn and say it's a little bit different even with him. I mean, that tells you an awful lot about, you know, who he is and what he's brought to this team. No doubt. I mean, there's so many, so much credit that needs to go out to so many people, Jesse. I mean, you could do a whole show of, well, Kyle Higashioko, we're nowhere without him. Jerkson Profar. We're nowhere without. I mean, on and on, Tyler Wade has been involved in some crazy, but I mean, truly it is when Mike Schultz says, you know, 26 guys, he truly means it. I mean, we went back over that last series when I got back in town and I went, no, everybody except for the two guys that didn't start on the mound, Waldron and whoever it was, everybody else contributed some way, it is how you have to win. There's just so much credit that needs to be given out for you when you watch this team. You know, Jackson Merrill aside, who have you looked to in the last couple of weeks and said, man, what a way to step up game changer type scene. I mean, as you said, it's been everybody at one point or another and that's the whole point, right? I mean, that's the kind of roster you need to get through the grind, to get through the marathon, you know, is the kind of roster where you have a Donovan Solano who can be five for 10 as a pinch hitter and hit a two run homer to, you know, to put them back in the game the other night in Miami who had a pinch hit walk off single, you know, earlier this year, you know, a guy like David Peralta and another guy like Bryce Johnson, like they're not necessarily going to set the world on fire, but they're going to give you more than enough in right field while one of the most talented guys in baseball, you know, is shelved with an injury in right field, you know, the starting pitching, the relief pitching, guys like Brian Holing, I was going to say Brian Holing, I mean, yeah, like that first game in Pittsburgh, the rain delay game where we're sees only got to throw the one inning, you know, Holing comes out, he provides the length, they still ended up needing to use, I think four or five more relievers after that. And then the next night was that utterly bonkers game, same thing. I think King went five and they had to use like five or six relievers after that, not that long ago had the Padres been in a position where they got one inning out of their starter on Tuesday, five innings out of their starter on Wednesday and had to use that number of relievers. They would have been sunk for a week afterwards, like we, how many times did we see that earlier this year, but now after the deadline, the depth that they put together in the bullpen, they went on a winning streak, that was, that was part of a big winning streak. That is not supposed to happen. Teams are not supposed to keep winning and winning and winning and winning after games like that and situations like that. That speaks to A, the depth of talent on this team and B, the sort of, you know, tremendous ability that Mike Rube and the Able of Ben Fritz have of navigating, you know, those kinds of waters and being able to like strategically make it work when really it shouldn't work. Like you shouldn't be able to have that kind of success coming out of games like that, but I mean, again, it's a really, really good team, it's a really, really deep team. You know, what, what matters now is maybe a little bit different than what matters in October and not to get ahead of myself, but it sure feels like they're built for both. And there's something very exciting about that. But we have a what's here for the first time for a song lyric, Incorporated, and it sounded like kind of settled in last week, really nicely, with Bob, you'll be with Tony tonight, our new Incorporated, where Jesse has to work song lyrics into the broadcast tonight. It's also my favorite because he doesn't even like music, but that's the best part. So this one actually just came up organically today because we were playing Take On Woods and this was our two second song. We thought, oh, this would be perfect for Jesse. So Paul, if you would, if you fall, I will catch you. I'll be waiting time after time, yeah, 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 what you want. It's fun because there's like a few different ways. Oh, yeah. We thought that was a good one. Absolutely. It's going to be fermented. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you very much. Tonight, 640 540 Eco Water SoCal pregame show with Sam Levin. Have a good one, Jesse. You're good. Thanks, buddy. Have the pod raise and the Incorporator moving on to the song lyrics. If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting time after time. Yeah, do with it what you will, whatever you will. 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