Gwynn & Chris On Demand
8.14.24 Gwynn & Chris Post-Postgame Show
And first pitch swinging, Peralta sends one in the air to deep right. Dailon cruises back at the wall, looking up, good to go. How about a birthday blast for David Peralta, his second home run of the series. And now eight to nothing here in the third. The Padres continue to do no wrong. They roll the Pittsburgh Pirates today, eight to David Peralta, homers on his 37th birthday. It is so good now that even Austin Hedges is getting mentions on the Padres broadcast. Really? Austin Hedges was the last Padres to homerun on his birthday. Wow. Until today, we welcome you into Gwen and Chris, where the party just rolls on 4.46 is the time. This is our post, post game show. It's also known as the Scrabby Chronicles pregame show will be until six o'clock just hanging out with you for a little over an hour. I'm probably going to open up the phone lines, Scrabby. I don't know really what more to say about this Padre run right now. Sam Levitt just broke it all down beautifully on the post game show. They're not just playing well this season. They're playing as well as they ever have in the history of the franchise. They've never gone 19 and three before. They have never swept season series from two different teams in the same year. They've now done that. They have swept away both the nationals and the pirates and AJ Preller really should have played the lottery this year. He has been absolutely on fire. There has not been one single thing that Preller has touched that hasn't just gone beyond incredible. I mean, I don't know. Did anybody honestly expect Martin Perez? I wasn't even sure they would use him to start a game when they traded for him. I was like, really? That's like all you can get. So we'll put him on the roster. If nobody else can pitch, maybe we'll stick Martin Perez in there and see if he can eat up a couple of innings. It's ridiculous. This guy was two and five with a 5.20 ERA. Beyond that, he had a 1.65 whip. He had one of the worst walks and hits the innings, pitch ratios in baseball when he was acquired by the Padres. Did the Padres even give the Pirates anything for him? I don't even recall anything going the other way. It was almost just like here, we'll take him off your hands. The Pirates said, please take him. This guy, Martin Perez, not only two and five with a 5.20 this year, but 4.45 last year, he had a nice season in 2022. I'll give him that with Texas, made the All-Star team. But prior to that, 4.74, 4.50, 5.12, 6.22, 4.82, 4.3. The guys never been able to get anybody out, like his whole career, except for one All-Star season in 2022, and he comes to the Padres, he's unhittable, absolutely unhittable. He's got a 1.96 ERA, he's made three starts, he's won them all, and the Padres have won them all. This is the first time he was credited with the victory. He was traded to the Padres in exchange for prospect Ronald Rinaldas, Jimenez, and also cash $1.3 million. I think he's paid off the cancer rate. It's incredible. I mean, you look at the moves that AJ Preller has made this year, and this includes the Juan Soto trade, and I can even say it a day after Juan Soto hit three home runs yesterday. He did? I didn't even see that. He did. But the Padres got so much, I don't think Juan Soto himself, honestly, and you know, you guys know I'm not the biggest fan of Juan Soto, but let's leave that aside for a moment. I mean, statistically, he's an amazing ball player, et cetera, et cetera. I recognize his, you know, incredible talent. That still doesn't change the fact that he's not my favorite ball player. But even if he, even if he wore my favorite ball player, you got Michael King, what he do last night, 10 K's, shut outs, 10 K's, blew away the pirates. He had no chance to touch this guy, and Michael King is one of the best pitchers in the league, and he has been for the better part of three and a half months. You got Dylan Cease because of the trades you made with the Yankees, allowing Drew Thorpe, who's now injured and out for the year to go to the White Sox, and you get Dylan Cease, who is even better than Michael King. You got Randy Vasquez, who without whom you may not have made it through the months of June and July. Remember, it's only because you had Randy Vasquez that you even survived those two months without Musgrove and without Darvish. You'd have only had three starting pitchers, but you had Vasquez there. You got Kyle, he got Chiyoka. The legend continues to grow, almost on a daily basis, and that was just the one Soto trade. Cease, Arise, now the trade deadline, Tanner Scott, Brian Hoeing, Martine Perez. The only one of those three that's given up anything so far is Tanner Scott, which is crazy because he's the best one out of the three of them, that's right. Brian Hoeing has not yet allowed a run in over nine innings of work. Jason Adam has not yet allowed a run in over seven innings of work. Martine Perez is at 1.96. AJ Preller should be running our country for heaven's sakes. The guy is on such a hot streak. He is on a hot streak. Everything he touches during the goal, he touches. Is it Midas, King Midas? I didn't mention even Donovan Solano or David Peralta, which are two big, huge additions. It's incredible. And these guys just continue to get the job done day in and day out. It's not just a, it's not just a contribution every now and again. They're there every day. I also want to take a moment before we get to the top of the hour and open up some of the phone lines, eight, three, three, two, eight, eight, eight, oh, nine, seven, three. We'll have an hour to talk with all of you. So if you want to chime in on any of this or just something that's going through your mind, I want to personally, personally extend a thank you to Jake Croninworth. And I'm going to tell you why because yesterday, Scrabby decided he was going to post a video of me explaining to all of you why Jake Croninworth still hits third and Jackson Merrill still hit sixth. You posted the video. Did you read some of the comments? Yes, because it was attached to my name. Oh, you people out there are merciful or merciless or whatever the word is. It was incredible. How stupid apparently I am. Here we go. Each of nothing I know about the sport of baseball, how the Cardinals bat Mason win high in the order where the Cardinals, how everybody Michael Bush bats high in the order where the Cubs, none of this was brought up in your arguments. Everybody just said, you know what? All these other rookies bad high in the order. And guess what? They're not winning any games. Jackson Merrill is in the perfect spot. Leave him alone. And thank you, Jake, for at least for one day, you know, making me look all right. Here's one. Here's one comment. You want to throw one in? I'm going to throw it too. Okay. It's a dumb way to look at it. Yes. Jackson, sure. Yeah. Jackson holiday Mason. There you go. All these guys. Yeah. All these guys bet high in the or bad high in the order. So why can't Jackson? I've had enough of crone strikeouts and weak fly balls with runners in scoring position. This was my favorite one. This was the first thing that I saw this morning on X. Okay. What a bad argument. What a bad argument. What a better pitch is hitting in front of a shadow. He needs to be moved up. The drop off for mail to HSK is too extreme. Okay. I just want to thank Jake for today. I'm sure tomorrow you tweet people will be right back on my case. Aren't you? How do you go back at them? I can tell you one thing. Yeah. Good for you. I can also tell you this. No matter what I say, it's not changing anytime soon. No. Jackson Merrill's going to stay in the sixth spot or the seventh spot or wherever it is that Mike Schilt feels comfortable using him. And Jake Cronin, we're just going to continue to bat in the middle of the order. So you guys are wasting your breath. God, leave me alone sometimes out there. No. I mean, Chris, this is just the deal. Yeah. It's just part of the job. Jake, my head. S.M.A. Wow. Good job. You should have just wrote back. S.M.H. or Dummy. Are we going to riot gifts that I sent you with your little corgi dogs? Yes. All right. Phone lines are open. 833280973. The Padre party continues. Of course, swings of the first pitch lines. It just fair down the right field line. It's going to roll all the way to the corner. Gonna worth his score. Manny's on his way. He's going to score. Throw home. No chances. He slides in. Heat first. Meryl into third. A two run triple and a six to nothing. Padre Lee. How does it go on to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates today? Easily. 8 to 2. David Peralta followed up that two run triple by Jackson Meryl with a two run homer. It was 8-0. Three innings in, four innings in today. Mitch Keller, one of the top pirate starters, was blasted around Petco Park today. Martine Perez, one of the starting pitchers that the pirates deemed they no longer needed. Because, evidently, they're just so loaded with great arms there in Pittsburgh. Pirates haven't won a game in about a month and a half. They've lost 10 in a row now. The Martine Perez revenge game. Yeah, but whatever. I mean, it makes no sense. You got a guy with a 165 whip and now he's pitching like, you know, he's never given up a hit before. Pirates go down 8 to 2. Pirates can't be stopped. I mean, the Padres can't be stopped. These can't. I mean, 19 and 3. Three in a row. They've won, what is it, seven, eight straight series now. And they've never won nine straight series in a row. Correct. But who's going to put that past them? The way they're going. They're going into Colorado and I know that everybody says, oh, the Rockies always beat us. Gives me pause. They really don't. They just beat the Rockies two out of three a couple of weeks ago. And the way the Padres are playing right now, the Rockies out of just roll over and allow the Padres to sweep through town easily. This is Gwen and Chris, Chris, Toni Gwen Jr., he did the ball game today. Matt Scrabie's alongside though, and he's getting ready for his own show, the Scrabie Chronicles, which come up after our show at six o'clock, we are going to get it to your phone calls. I'm just curious what's on your mind out there. Usually when the team is losing, usually when the things are scuffling, usually when some crazy managerial decisions are being made or somebody's over 10, or then all you phone callers have a whole lot to say. AJ Prolin needs to be fired. AJ Prolin needs to be fired. Mike Schill doesn't know what he's doing. The host of the show is an idiot. Those kinds of things. Well, that's the truth. That part's still true. Yeah. Even when the Padres are playing well, that part is still true. But yeah. You guys have plenty to say. So I'm curious if you haven't even to say, you know, when things are going as well as they ever have in history, franchise history, 55 years of baseball they've never once had this kind of a run ever. Well, I can tell by the phones that people are pumped up. Yeah, they seem like they're a little pumped up. I do want to give a rookie of the year update of Jackson Merrill today to run triple that you heard at the beginning of this segment about five nice catches in center field finishes up a huge series, Paul Skeen's update never got off the bench in the three games they were here. I hope you didn't. Please, please tell me that the rookie of the year is starting to change the momentum has changed. I'm seeing a lot more national people talk about Jackson Merrill as the winner. But here's the thing that you guys do that I can't stand. Why can't we have a up until this point Jackson Merrill is the winner Ken Rosenthal does the him in half like, well, I can't really choose a winner because the season's not over. Everybody knows you're not choosing the winner. Just say who you think is leading the way. Well, Bradford, you little said who he thinks leading the way and he had Jackson Merrill sixth in the balloting as little as six days ago. All right. Ben in national city. Why don't you be the first caller to a start us off here. The Padres are on an incredible role and they're 69 and 53. Whoo. Incredible. It was just 500. It seems like last week was 19 games ago. The 22 games. Thanks. Thanks, Chris. Now they're 19 and three. So that was three weeks ago. Hi, Ben. Hey, guys. How's it going? So I'm questioning for the group. It is so fast. The party's gone to base. We send a win. So once they win in Colorado, they're going to be a 70 wins. So they'll be the fastest the party ever been 70 wins. And I know this is a lot of too much thinking, but is there a possible chance? I'm not saying 100, but you guys think the party's going to make 90s wins just based off of the division and everything, but the party's going to do best playing under playing. Right. Thanks, Ben. I'll take a look at the Padres 1998 season because that was the greatest one in franchise history. And I'm assuming that team got to 70 wins quicker than this team is going to be able to get to 70 wins. And the reason I say that is the 1998 team by all rights should have been the franchise's first and only 100 win team, but they stumbled disastrously down the stretch that year. And so they ended up with 98 wins because they couldn't win a game in the month of September. And so, you know, that's, that's what I recall as far as, yeah, as far as winning 90, I think they're going to win 90. If they go 500 from here on out, they're going to win 90 pretty much 18 games over 500 is 90 wins. That's 90 and 72. They're now 16 games over 500 right now. So if they go 21 and 19 the rest of the way, which sure seems doable the way they're playing. Yes. 21 and 19 from here on out would get them to 90 wins. Pretty sure that's going to be enough to make the playoffs as far as where that puts them in the playoffs. I don't know. The Dodgers have, you know, answered the bell here. They've got bets back. They're getting Bueller back. He's pitching today. They just took out Milwaukee back to back games. The Dodgers seem like they realize the challenge is there and, you know, I think, look, somebody's going to end up with over 90. The Padres may have to go to 95 if they want to catch the Dodgers. In order to do that, you're going to have to go 26 and 14. You're basically going to have to play about 700 baseball the rest of the way if you're the Padres based on what they've been doing the last three weeks. It's certainly possible. I don't think it's realistic and I don't think it matters. I really don't think it matters. If you're the Padres right now, just keep stacking wins. Just keep doing it. Look up and see where you put you in the standings at the end. I don't think you have to really worry about it. Yeah, I quickly looked at when they won 70 games in 2022 and it was August 27th in 2021. They were also 70 game winners on August 27th. So this was pretty early. Yeah, this 1998 team did it on July 30th. Oh, well, there you go. Yeah, they were 70 and 38 that year. They were 32 games over 500 that year. Okay. And they had a 13 game lead in 2019. They didn't get their 70th win until September 22nd. Right. Well, they don't have it yet this year, but I got 69 and 70 appears to be on the horizon. Thanks Ben. Appreciate that. But to win the division, I think you're going to get 95 and take your chances. 26 and 14's asking a lot even with as well as they're flying right now. They're 19 and 3. Well, yes, but 19 and 3 if they continue that, they might as well just give them the World Series trophy now. I don't think that they're going to continue. But nobody's going to continue 19 and 3. I don't see any prolonged stretches of losses though. If they lose one, hopefully, hopefully you're around. Hopefully you're right. Art, next call here as we just kind of do a tour of the phones on winning Chris. No art. Hey, hey guys, this is a ton of fun, isn't it? It's really been a, been a part of the project and most good. No, I just going to say I agree with you. I hope everybody's enjoying it as much as we really should be. You know? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've heard there have been a project on my entire life, 59 years old. So you know, obviously they've been around 55 years. So most of my life have been a project and I can remember all those years. The only thing we had to root for was if number 19 was going to get in a batting championship or not and not much else. So 2020, 2022, we've got a lot of fun. 2024 seems a little special since the opening weekend in South Korea. It's been very, very special and looking forward to going out of the way guys. Let's go all the way. Just do it this year. How about that? Why not? They've got 30 come from behind wins. Man, I love that word. They have a bunch of those eight nothing comebacks. They've had magic thinnings. They've had magic performances from players who don't normally give you magic performances consistently. This season does have a feel to it, a different feel. 98, it's hard to remember and put myself in the middle of that season, but I will tell you, I mean, I was here and we all went through it. But the difference between this season and that season 1998, they ran away and blew out the rest of the division. It wasn't even a contest. Like I said, they were 70 and 38 at the end of July, they had a 13 game lead. They had no issues that year, right? Everything went their way. They steamrolled out of the gate in April. They took over the lead in May and they expanded it in June and by July the season was over. But what's different about that as opposed to this is this year, it feels like we really had to grind for almost four months to get to this wonderful streak that they have now. And that is, you know, maybe that builds a little more in your team. You know, we'll have to see how it all plays out at the end, of course, 98 is still kind of the season that every Padre team shoots for. But in one of these days, we're going to better it. So as art says, why not be this year? Why not? The rest of the national league, look, the Phillies are just in a total spin right now. Like I said, the Dodgers have, you know, passed them, they're getting a little healthier, but the Padres have handled the Dodgers this year, right? They've already won the season series seven to three. There's nobody. I know everybody said, well, what about the Diamondbacks? Yeah, Diamondbacks are 18 and three in their last 21. They're just as hot. Yes, they are. But don't tell me the Padres can't beat the Diamondbacks. They can beat the Diamondbacks. They can beat any of these teams in the national league. I hate to also say they could lose to any of these teams in a best of three or best of five series. I was going to say the team that that scares me if we're going to talk about that would be the Diamondbacks because they do kind of have the Padres number over the last couple of years and they're playing really well, but this team is a different team than what we've seen. The team that has really had the Padres number over the last few years is the Phillies. And even though they're, they're slumping right now, the Phillies are, they can't get out of their own way. They're losing to the, no, they just took, as I said, that they just took a six, five lead over the Marlins. They were down five to two, but my point being that the Phillies are still, you know, the, the one club out there, I would love to see the Padres seriously, just win the division and not have to worry about the Phillies. And I know that people worry about, you know, taking those three days off and, you know, all of these division champions, but I'd still rather try to make a run to the world series by winning two series than I would by having to win three. And, you know, if you just can keep playing great baseball, you could win this division. It would sure send a message to everybody that, you know, the Padres are like a real deal this year. I just, I just feel like that's a big thing. You know, I don't know if they can do it or not. The Padres are four and three against the Diamondbacks this year. So actually five and five. I just added that up really fast. Well, you are the math guy. I think it's five and five. So where do you want me to go? Let's go Riley. Hi, Riley. How are you? Welcome to the show. Hey guys. How are you? Good. Good. What's up? Quick question for you guys. So we kind of talked about like how good that AJ Prolers moves have been, how other guys have stepped up like Profar and Merrill, especially Robert Suarez, but how much of the success of the team this year do you attribute to Mike Schilt? I know like sometimes during the five game skid, we'd be like calling for his head basically. So I just want to know what you guys thought about him and how much of a difference that he's made this year. Thanks, Riley. I think he's made a, you know, here's the funny thing about Mike Schilt. Every year that he's been a manager, his team has gone nuts in the second half of the season after the All-Star break. And a lot of people kept saying that. Wait till after the All-Star break, whatever it is, Mike Schilt has a magic touch. I was going to say, what is it though? Why don't you deploy it a little bit early here? Yeah, it'd be nice to see some of it in April and May because Mike Schilt was driving all of us absolutely baddie the first couple of months of the season with his inability it seemed to recognize the inconsistent play of his team and his unwillingness, you know, to just say, hey, we're struggling here. We're struggling there. He somehow through all of it, all of the ups and downs of April, May and June, he meant remained agonizingly positive, agonizingly so. And I think a lot of us got real tired of him saying things that we just didn't believe. But the one thing that is held up is that after the All-Star break, he's caught the magic touch again. He did it with the Cardinals. He won the manager of the year in 2019 because he did it with the Cardinals. And it seems like every single time the Cardinals were totally out of it. In August and September, they'd go on a hot streak with Mike Schilt. And that's why nobody could believe he got fired in the first place. True. And now here he's gone 19 and four since the All-Star break this year. I think it goes a long way too that he with his whole agonizing, not recognizing that there are certain parts of the team that weren't playing well, I think for his players, he went up there and did the press conference and did not care what the media said, did not care what the fans said, no matter how quote unquote crazy we called him, he stood for his players. And I think that goes a really long way. Well, here's what he also did and whether he did it intentionally or not, I don't know. But in standing up for his players and by saying a bunch of things that drove all of us crazy, he took all of the attention off of his players and he put it on himself. He did. And we said that was maybe a theory, but looking back, it seems to be what he was doing, right? We sat here day after day after day and we're ripping Mike Schilt. We weren't even looking at the players who were struggling to perform. Like, how could he not see that this team is a roller coaster? That's right, we were all over him. Mike Schilt may have been, you know, just thinking ahead of us there. I really appreciate people too who stick to their guns no matter how crazy things get. Well, you would appreciate people that do that because I am that guy. You do that. Just to finish up your thought, Riley, I think, and I said it now for a week and a half. I think Mike Schilt deserves to be right there for manager of the year. And we don't know how it's going to finish, obviously Milwaukee has probably been the biggest surprise team this year, but the Padres have been right behind them in terms of surprising and the amount of success they've had. So I think Mike Schilt has a chance to win a second manager of the year award the way things are going right now. All right. Two different teams. That's pretty crazy. Yeah. What are we going to do about giving this prize away? Because the phone lines are full. Everybody wants to talk to us and I want to talk to them. But I have a prize here. It's a pair of tickets to Def Leopard and Journey at Petco Park on August 30th. Tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.com. I'll tell you what I'm going to do. Tell you what I'm going to do. I have a plan. So I'm happy. Wow. I can't find. Oh, the dice? It's over there. If I don't have my dice. I was actually messing with it earlier because it says. Don't mess with the dice. It says Ben's Casino on it. And I never knew that. I think it's near Annie's computer, Woodson Annie's computer. Oh, thank goodness. I got my dice. I knew I didn't move it too far. I ought to have my dice. All right. What am I going to do? There are six people on the phone lines right now. Riley's done. So sorry. No. No. Riley just did his call. No, he can't. Well, open up his line. I'm telling you how we're doing this. Riley, thanks for the call. Wow. Chris, well done. I'm sorry, Riley. I tried to get you in on this. He's not in on it. All right. Whoever calls that line will be in on it. What I'll do when we come back, if you're still on hold, waiting to talk on the show, I'll roll the die. Whoever is the first caller on to talk will have the first crack at the tickets. Wow. That's it. And you're asking a question? No. It's just first caller that you roll. The dice will decide it. Okay. So if you're Sean, if you're Mario, if you're Will, if you're Kevin, if you're wireless caller, I've got to get one of your Jonathan, any of those six people stick around through the break. I will roll the dice. And if it comes up, your name, you'll not only come on the air, we'll chit chat, but you'll have first crack at the tickets. More Gwyn and Chris coming up after Scraeby gets us some traffic. All right. Welcome back to Gwyn and Chris. The news for the Padres continues to be amazingly good. They blow out Pittsburgh today, a two for their 19th win in the last 22 games. The news elsewhere in the National League West, so not as good Diamondbacks. They won again. They routed the Rockies 11 to four Dodgers are still batting in the top of the first inning in Milwaukee, and they've already scored three. So try as the Padres may maybe more. Nope. Nevermind. That's a three in the first for the Dodgers. So yeah, it's, you know, it's better than losing games and losing a bunch of ground. I mean, all you can do is win your game. There's not a whole lot you can do about the other guys. It was interesting. I did see the best three teams in baseball since the all-star break are all in our division. Padres Diamondbacks Dodgers, they have the best three records in all the baseball since the all-star break. So say lovey. Yeah, that's you know, that's all that is. But right now, Padres are playing as well as they ever have. They've never gone 19 and three in a 22 game stretch until now. They have never won nine consecutive series. You know, not only are they've won eight series in a row since the all-star break, they've swept four of those series. Remember when they couldn't sweep anybody. Yeah. At the beginning of the season that would didn't they go. I think they went the longest in all of baseball without a sweep. Now they've got four sweeps in their last eight series. It's another reason that proves to me that I cannot overreact early in the season. But you will next year. No, I. Yes, you will. I was thinking about this on the drive home. Pretty bit of money we got. You will overreact in April next year when the record falls to eight and 10. I was thinking about this on the drive home last night. I'm going to adopt every year the I will not look at the standings till August 1st. That's my idea because that worked out for me. You're going to know their record. It'll be eight and 10 and you're going to start whining about firing Mike Schilt and Tony's going to have a a cow have a heart attack. I'll tell you who's saying I told you so right now more than anybody else. Tony Virginia, Tony Gwen, Jr. Yeah. Well, he was the voice of reason the entire first half of the season when we tried to give up on the Padres and he kept saying last year they're going to come back. He even said at the end of the year, like, I have no idea what happened. The thing is, though, with Tony as as upbeat as he was the first part of the season, there's no even he expected them to do what they're doing now. There's nobody could have expected this. I mean, this streak is insane right now. What's going on? All right. Here's what's going to happen. We're coming up on the bottom of the hour. I'm going to roll the dice. Dice dice. You can say dice. It's a singular. It's a one thing. Yeah. I got one die. Here it is. I'm going to roll it up on line one through six. That person will come on the show. They can chit chat. They also will have first crack at the deaf leopard. I mean, I think they're all going to walk the journey ticket. Maybe not. Maybe somebody says, I'm not a fan. I don't care. I don't want to go down to Petco. All right. You know, I don't know. All right. I'm just giving him a shot. All right. There goes the dice. There it goes. Line six. Ooh, Jonathan, Jonathan, the dice came up in your favor. Welcome to the show, sir. Oh, no. After all of that, Jonathan, are you there? Your phone number ends with 559. Say something. Hello. Hello. Oh, my goodness. I thought it heard something. I did hear. Oh, there he is. I waited just a little. Is this Jonathan? Is this you, Jonathan? Or is it somebody using Jonathan's phone? It's somebody using Jonathan's phone. Kinda. The car. Jonathan's car. Jonathan's car. All right. You're speaking with Aaron. Aaron. All right. Aaron, do you want tickets to go see Journey and Def Leppard at Petco Park on August 30th? You get first crack at them. My mom. So, yes. The answer is yes. All right. Your mom is going to be happy that you said yes. Hang on the line after after your call. Yes. Scrabie will get your info. You will win the tickets. Yes. Hang on that. Before that, what's on your mind, sir? All right. I got to talk to you guys. We traded for Martin Perez, right? I mean, he's been pitching out of his mind. These last three starts. Beautiful stuff. We love it, right? But we have a little dilemma. We had Randy Vasquez, you know, Matt Waldron, and we just got Muskrow back, and I'm looking at these numbers here. We have six starting pitchers. Are the Padres going to be running a six-man rotation? Are we going to be dropping one of these guys to the bullpen, to the minor leagues? How's this all going to work out? I don't understand. Got it. Yeah. Well, thank you. Don't go anywhere because they want to get your info. It's a good question, though. It is a good question. But I think Vasquez has already been sent to the minor leagues. He has, but yeah. They brought a burrito. Yes. And then they sent him back to the minor leagues. Yes. They brought in Carl Edwards Jr. and then they gave him Carl Edwards Jr. and they put him out. So right now, you got a five-man rotation, and that is Muskrow, and that is Waldron, and that is Martin Perez and Michael King and Dylan Sees. So that is your answer. You're going to go with a five-man rotation until further notice, until something else changes. That is where it is. Vasquez is not with the club right now. They do have somewhat of an embarrassment of riches at the moment. Here's the other thing that we should point out. Thanks, Jonathan. Good call. No. Aaron. I'm sorry, Aaron. On Jonathan's phone. Here's the other thing that we should point out. Do you know what tomorrow is? For the Padres? It's great. Not today. It is their last off day for three weeks. Yeah. After tomorrow, they play 18 consecutive days. They do. They could, if they so choose, just go with the five-man rotation and roll them every time. They can even bring Vasquez up to make one spot start and give everybody an extra day. Do we envision choices? Do we envision, at any point, Michael King, who's pitched more than he's ever pitched in his career, like maybe skipping his start so that they save his arm a little bit? Would you? No. Well, there's your answer. Well, at this moment, because of the way the vision is, here's the thing about pitching more innings than you've ever pitched before, Seth Lugo laughed at that ridiculous notion last year. Yeah, he did. And Michael King is laughing at it this year. Michael King is pitching better now than he has all season. I have no reason to do anything different with Michael King. Okay. Stay on the line, Aaron. What about Matt Waldron? What about him? He throws a knuckle ball. His arm's not going to wear out. He can throw it every day, all day. Okay. Stop worrying. Things are great. We'll take a break. We have a half hour left before the Scrappy Chronicles. Your phone calls on this great run of the Padres when Gwen and Chris continues, don't say I never take calls. All right. I just did a really cool spot for Spiro's Mediterranean cuisine. I hope you've ever done. Yeah. I don't think it aired. I don't know what happened. I didn't hear anything. I just talked for like a minute straight and talked about how very experienced Mediterranean five. Hi, Isaiah. How are you? Hey, how's it going? Pretty good, buddy. Pretty good. I just want to keep it short and quick. You guys are sure it's awesome. I just want to say go Padres. Everyone one through nine doing their job bench guys are picking it up. Let's take it all this year. That's all I want to say. Thank you guys. Thank you. I appreciate that. Very good. Yes. Yeah, one through nine is working right now. You can say it, but Isaiah's call right there. Pretty much all you can say right now. They're just not a lot to be concerned about, even though you keep trying to find stuff over there. They're just. I can't find it though. They're just playing great. Tyler Wade steps in today. Two for three. It just doesn't matter. They could put I think they could put Rod in from the top deck. It is daughter softball came and Robert go two for four. I will say that I fire right now. What about this? It doesn't fly in the team right now, Chris. They're winning close games all the time and that we know that that can't sustain. What was the score today? Well, yeah. Today was with standing, but the last couple days they didn't stand me. They just it doesn't matter. I don't even know what standing was the right word, but they're winning eight to two today, but they won. But what three to nothing yesterday and then two to one the night before and then where were they there in Miami? They have won. I looked it up today. I think 37 games this year by one or two runs. It's okay. Means you're doing the little things right to win a lot of these close games. And it's also dare I say it after last year's debacle in close games. Water has found its level there. I said, wow, we finally got physics to work there, John at the top of the board. I kind of missed you, Sean. Sorry about that. Thanks for hanging in there. That's all right. Hey. So first of all, you know, the way that they do the whole rule on the sliding thing. If they have a Padres jersey, it's a block if anybody else it is. Well, you if you see this Dodger play, you'll you'll you'll know what we're talking about Sean. Yeah. I got it. No, I was going to say it first of all, it's also very good to hear you guys admit that maybe earlier in the season, everybody wasn't quite feeling quite as buoyant as we are right now. Yeah. And especially the round cables were a little rough for a while. And I think A.J. has obviously A.J. is a master when it comes to putting together the team. But I think he did two things this year that have made all the difference over last year. Number one, he kept his hand out of the cookie jar. I think he might still do what he needs to do without trying to play games. And he listened to the new hitting coach who I really think has been trying to break this. Everybody wants to try and save the day with hitting a home run and he got Luis Arise who was the embodiment of situational ball so that everybody could say, Oh, it really does work. Maybe we should try this because ever since Luis Arise has come, it has made such a huge difference in not, you know, we don't we don't see as many dropping on the track as they get caught because they just missed that home run. Sean, it's a really good call and a couple of really good points. The first one that you said was really good and has been overlooked all season. We haven't sensed. We don't know what's actually happening behind the scenes on a plane trip. We don't know. But we haven't sensed that A.J. Preller is meddling in Mike Schitt's business this year. Yeah. And we really sensed that last year a lot. Yes. Like Bob Melvin kept basically telling all of us, A.J. Preller won't leave me alone. Yeah. Yeah. We're not sensing that this year. Maybe A.J. did learn the lesson from last year. So that's a really good learn job lesson and you know what, like he's been out of the spotlight this entire year. I don't even see him at the field anymore. I know he's there, but he's been there, but he's much quieter. The other thing is Victor Rodriguez has got to be the coach in the history of the year. He's the Padre a new hitting coach. He's the first hitting coach that nobody's wanted to fire that I can remember in Padre history. Oh, well, that was not the case earlier in the year. Victor Rodriguez is he's doing wonders. He coaches are one of the most hated coaches in sports, and not right now. Not the Padres hitting. Well, now the Giants fans are saying, did the Giants hire the right guy and Bob Melvin and Derek Shelton of the pirates is being ran out of town now 20 days ago. The pirates were ahead of the Padres in the standings, but Paul Skeens. Not right now. Paul Skeens can't be the rookie of the year. If your manager gets fired, Cadre's role eight to two, Scrabby takes it from here. If you're online, it'll probably get to your phone calls. The Chronicles are next winning Chris tomorrow. Don't forget the round table tomorrow morning at 10. We'll see you then everybody on 97 three the fan trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again with nor sides and bullion as you're not so secret ingredient. You can skip the drive through and do dinner at home nor taste combos provide a menu of delicious, affordable and well balanced meals that you can prepare in 30 minutes or less. 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