Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
9am Hour - New Innings Rule Coming, The Reindl Report, + Padres Calls
Ben & Woods kick off the 9am hour talking about a potential new rule being discussed which would mandate that starting pitchers in baseball MUST go at least 6 innings? Then we get to The Reindl Report and Paul's top headlines of the day before we open up the phone lines to hear from some Padres fans before we get out of here on a Thursday! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 40m
- Broadcast on:
- 15 Aug 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
The final hour been a woods on a Thursday, but don't forget we still stick around for the round table coming up at 10 o'clock If we have time this hour was you sent us an ESPN piece by our friend Jesse Rogers Earlier today, and I thought this was just like What is gobble a good speculation But but he says that majorly baseball actually is is discussing it after all the changes they've already made are you surprised that? There's an actual move a foot that they could be Mandating six innings from starting pitchers Mandating if please don't wreck your car out there if you're listening to this while you're driving, please don't Why would why why would you do this? You have to carry the football 40 times a game? What is it like? If you haven't played fantasy football in the last 10 years games changed Yeah, right you used to I drafted Marshall Falk and won the league right now You have to have Marshall Falk his back up and his back up because you don't know who's gonna get the lion's share of the touch This is this is what it reminds me of if the NFL came out and said we have to you have to have our stars on the field more We want to you have to hand your ball off to your running back 40 times a game LeBron has to take 60% of your shots stop telling me how I can win baseball games in a hundred and sixty two You I got a hundred and sixty two games. I got a managed and now you're telling me I have to go with my starter for six innings. Well, we can go through some of the details a little bit later But I will say I'm gonna ask the skipper that's that the rules changes that were implemented the pitch clock the the bigger bases They're good for us. They're good for us The what they did is they've made baseball look more like it did correct You know when we were growing up, correct, they absolutely have it. I think they've worked But I think you still don't isn't that what this would do to pitchers going deep into games was what we are used to it Used to always happen and now starting pitchings a five inning Stint max sometimes less than that with openers and and now they act like they're relievers They come in for a guy's throwing in the 80s Bring someone else that's the thing man is and also You know, you're talking about teams with I mean, what did he knows what did, you know, just say Nathan Evaldi is a 20 million dollar a year starter Hey, man, you have to go six innings and you have to do it every fifth day. It just doesn't make any sense I mean you blue me. He says the recent changes are good. I agree with you. It's a better viewing experience for me It's really good at a 640 game when I got to get my ass to bed And I don't have to stay up till 11 coming here and talk about it get up at 4 a.m But River Ryan who just blew out his elbow the other day and is going to get Tommy John said it's the pitch clock I don't I don't know what it is But I've heard he's not the first player to say hey, man. These rules are kicking our ass a little bit We're not quite ready for it yet and They did say Jesse did say look yeah, it's it sounds radical But is it and they would also ramp up for a few years right one more point of context that is in the story If the league ever adopted this it would give teams players several years to prepare change training habits before implementing I Guess there's a couple different questions You should it might I Guess false view every pitcher should be preparing to go as much as he can yes Like well, yeah starting pitcher your preparation should try him I want to be a guy that can go go going deep is still a valuable skill I mean percent of Mike she'll say that all Listen to any manager talk about it save it and you know the ability to rest of bullpen not overtax your relief guys It's incredibly valuable guys who are innings eaters. You're still looking for those guys 100% the problem is if I'm one of those guys if I'm a starting pitcher in major league baseball And I know I get paid for getting outs and getting strikeouts And they don't really care that I only threw five innings you've like snow still getting paid even though We I know he threw no hitter But for the most part six inning guy max you're gonna go as hard as you can you're not gonna save anything in the first Second and third inning and risk getting Lit up because you're not throwing your best stuff just to try to go deeper into the games Why because if you do get lit up you get sent to the miners you don't get the big contract you throw really well and only go five innings They don't care they're gonna give you the big money anyway So there's no incentive for the pitchers to really try to throw deep into the games Let me answer Adrian's question quickly and we'll get to the rhino report if my picture goes out gets rocked for 85 pitches through three innings You still got to go out for three more. No. No, he does not. It's not at least one more at least one more Well, so they say some some instances where a starter would be allowed to leave early might include 100 pitches give up for a more earned run So if you just don't have it they could take you out after four runs or you get injured But then they'd have to put you on the injured list so you can't just fake injuries to take pitchers out of the game I just don't know I Just it just don't it doesn't seem Feasible to me It just doesn't seem feasible. Do I miss the days of pitchers going out and gutting it gutting it out for eight nine innings? Yeah, man. I like that for sure Do I like a pitcher going out and throwing six innings of keeping us in a ballgame and then having the ass come in to shut it down? You know Adam Scott Suarez Yes, I like that too in the playoffs You know, I love having an ass in the playoffs to go out and get big big outs throughout the playoffs And we'll see how that works if we make it, you know, but I just Changing all doing all of these things to these managers Where you're now telling me I've got to leave I got to leave Ben Higgins in To get three outs. I have you have to face three. Yes. It's the Lou Gees the left-handed You know one guy out those guys slowed the game of baseball down, but how how many times did you really see it? I mean stop messing with the strategy. I Got to get through 162 of these man. You you got him. You got to help me out here I got to manage my way through 162 of these and then maybe the playoffs Now you're gonna get put more sanctions on me. I mean Some people would argue if your mic sure you're like hell yeah now I can sit back and relax for the first few things No, no you still got a monitor and you can still pull them after a certain amount stop messing I think with the strategy of management. It's just crazy to me like it's just not something I don't think it's something you can enforce Feels like a topic that's gonna be sticky for a while I think this is really being discussed in Major League Baseball, but interesting stuff I just don't understand the point too. I just really don't understand the point is it is it so bad in baseball? That you look at and you say Yeah, this has got to change just too many guys getting taken out in the third You know too many guys are leaving in the fourth. I don't know. I don't know, but I just I don't know And and ceasefire says maybe it's a it a strange way of trying to limit Tommy John's in order to go six you'd have to throw less max effort over a full season still seems very strange Yeah, I don't know what I'll tell you this cease fires. I Can promise you I can promise you Rob Manfred's not worried about the health of the pitchers Rob Manfred is worried about Game time length of game. That's his number one if he could get baseball games down to an hour and 20 minutes He would do it. I think Cali's all day makes a great point if they ever did this Since you would never need more than three innings of bullpen in a single game You probably could get by with less relievers and you go with a six or a seven-man rotation Yeah, you're only gonna pitch once this week So we know you're going at least six this inning and pitchers would they would build up innings by going deeper in their games But they pitch less often as well is that an unintended consequence where you're not essentially your star pitchers on the mound is often because Well, you know, you have to pitch them six or seven. So we're gonna put them on the mound less often Yeah, this is great Matt says I don't mind them incentivizing six innings like you lose your DH or something But to mandate it is absurd. Yeah, man. That's you I could probably be convinced in that even though I still think that's a little bit weird, but I that's better than you you have to do this and I'm sure Mike Sheil doesn't want any more mandates. We already know how he feels about the three batter minimum I think most managers feel that way as well. And that's it's a tough watch Pauli running a little behind here But if you want to get us started at least on the round the report go for it and get things started here with our Edition today's edition of the Rindel report now tuned into the mother greatest Welcome to the Rindel report with Paul Rindel hi Paul right two stories from the world of sports They've we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in major league baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed Are you laughing beyond? It's the Rindel report. Hey, Paul. How you doing? Okay? How are you on 97? Three the fan are you ready to bless the mood? I need some help please All right morning my friends morning, buddy. Uh, so saw a clip going around yesterday of Greg Maddox and Barry bonds and I go with this and It was a clip from an upcoming Documentary MLB network has a new doc coming out on Greg Maddox and It is called as this page refreshes here. It's coming out on Sunday August 25th It's called one of a kind and it's gonna be all about Greg Maddox Which is one of the most elite pitchers of all time? He was so fun to watch and so this clip that was going around they actually posted two clips But the one with Barry bonds and Greg Maddox, so they had them in separate locations at separate times Picture each of them sitting in a chair By themselves and they're handed an iPad and it was an at bat of Greg Maddox pitching to Barry bonds in 1998 Spoiler alert bonds headed over the wall. Yeah, as he did 750 times or whatever it was so There was a back and forth and it's them taking you through the at bat from the pitchers point of view and from the hitters point of view Here is a snippet of that clip that was going around and just Enjoy pretty good cutter that beat him I'm feeling okay about throwing that pitch So he's gonna try to float a change-up or some that little Floater away because he thinks I'm gonna speed up because they jam me The cutter beat him so I thought he would speed up by through a change-up and he spit on it I mean, that's a pretty good change-up right there and it was an easy take for him. I didn't even try I just knew it and now we're playing chess He knows he can't beat me inside Experiences taught me that he's probably looking in back then I didn't know it and most of the time I was always waiting for that 92 and back over the plate so I could catch him and I'm just praying for There it goes Can't come in the well twice buddy. You just can't do it And Greg knows because I always have this saying you cannot come in the penthouse without an invite I Mean that's a good pitch. Believe it or not. It's an executed pitch, but obviously it's the wrong pitch to throw That's one you got to put in the memory bank and try not to ever throw it right there again to him. I Mean he's the best in baseball and you can't make it easy for him That's the pitch he wants to hit so you have to make him hit something other than that I think that was one I finally said I got you now. It's unreal, man I watched it ten times I go I am all Somebody somebody put in the chat and they summed it up perfectly. This was baseball, erotica That's exactly what that was and I could watch ten hours of great hitters and great pitchers doing this exact same thing and genius idea It just It's the only level to that this works by the way doesn't work in little league doesn't work in high school Doesn't work in adult league doesn't work in the minors even really I mean MLB Major League Baseball is the only league where you can go. All right. I know what he's got. He knows what I like Here's what I think is going to happen and I knew the way he spit on this Dastardly change up Ben knowing it was coming was Unbelievable. They remember at bats the way I remember golf round. That's exactly right. That's exactly all the way back in the memory bank That's exactly right. I just call it up. I'm like, oh, yeah, this is what was going on here. I loved it But I was looking at this because of our conversation Greg Maddox he would go maybe once once a year he wouldn't go six innings Right like he'd have won five inning outing in April and pretty much every other start the rest of the year was six seven eight or nine For Greg Maddox back in the day. I mean he was a super efficient. He's a unicorn - and he was a unicorn Why don't guys throw like Nolan Ryan did well? Nolan Ryan was a unicorn. Why can't guys go the other way like Tony Gwen? Well, Tony Gwen was a unicorn You know, it's it's what separates the greats from the very mediocre It's great. I can't wait for that August 25th. It's Sunday five o'clock where MLB network, and then they are going to be airing one of Greg Maddox's best starts of his career. I'm all in Unbelievable try to wonder if he'd come on again. I could try try. That would be fun. He was great. They'll play After the documentary it's May 2nd 2001. He's going up against the Brewers. He threw a Two-hit 14 strikeout one-walk complete game shut out It's always my favorite Maddox quote I heard you probably heard it a million times of the one about Tony Gwen I was talking about sometimes hitters can pick up differences in spin They can identify pitches if there are different release points or if a curveball starts with an upward hump But if a pitcher can change speeds every hitter is helpless limited by human vision Except for that All right, we'll move on I got a video game baseball video game story here So last month college football 25 came out a lot of people were very excited about that It had been 11 years since people got the chance to play that game and it's been very successful in its Relaunch now do you guys remember this was a computer game not a Xbox or PlayStation game from the late 90s called backyard baseball? Yeah, no backyard baseball. I don't remember never played it never played it. It was Elite it came out in 1997 Start period for me. It was on a Macintosh and Windows that was the only way you could play it and it was Licensed with Major League Baseball, I guess or maybe that just wasn't even a thing yet in the late 90s but you could play as Barry bonds Ken Griffey Junior and you were on a sandlot field and they were as there were kids Yeah, you know Pud Rodriguez, I remember Randy Johnson and they were just like 12-year-old kids cartoon kids playing baseball and then they had their own Game characters. I've never heard of this everyone in the past my game playing prime But I do remember backyard baseball Pablo Sanchez was one of the Just regular generic characters. He was he was like 99 everything that he was really late So I'll put it up on the chat what it looked like Bring back a little nostalgia. There is there are rumors that this game could be making a comeback to the computer I don't you don't know Probably a video game would be my guest Xbox PlayStation And the likes maybe even Nintendo many are saying in the chat that Pablo was the best player they ever saw Yeah, any level in any league your dad might say oh Mickey man Oh, let's baseball play ever The goat and so this woman Caitlyn Hendrix her bio just says MLB ambassador. She's got a 100,000 followers on tiktok or something like that She was snooping around and she uncovered a social media page titled backyard sports official and it was an Instagram page it had two posts including the backyard sports logo and then the the cartoon glove catching a baseball and Look anybody can make an account and add a picture to it. That doesn't necessarily mean anything, but the the sleuths did some digging and They believe that this page is legit the LinkedIn page for a guy named Ari Pinchot he owns the IP the intellectual property from backyard sports and his LinkedIn includes plans to revive the franchise Not just with baseball, but with several other sports as well So with you know baseball always trying to get more eyes Young eyes. This is you know the nostalgia. We talked about it earlier with twisters and What was that like 30 25 years ago? Yeah, the twister came out. That's all we're doing right now We're just bringing back. We're hitting that nostalgia People that were my age born in 1990. You played this game as a kid They think we'll get your money as a 34 year old adults Bobby Bullgreen is on the mound here against Jorge Garcia. It's giants against the wombats They know what they really need to bring back are those RBI baseball names that they made up On that that made it try to sound American whatever the Japanese program. Yeah, I was the real guys Wasn't it I thought that was they had some of the fake guys because I got the list here like Ray McStryff Ray McStryff. We've done. Yeah. Yeah, was that RBI baseball. I thought that was RBI baseball thought it was another one sleeve McDrykle Mike my truck Kangaroo baseball stars was that was I'm gonna be junior slugfest on Nintendo 64 was very good But backyard baseball on the computer was so much fun. I just never I never I 1997 I was and like one of my three or four colleges. I don't even remember where I was Start period 20 like 21 22 years old me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no chance. I was not sitting on the computer. I promise you Thank you guys. I gotta finish this back. Yeah, I was Yeah, these uh the those names were just a bunch of guys that were super high sitting around making up names in Japan So they were just combined like names of people like Glenn Allen mixin right was like Glenn Allen He'll Otis Nixon with an am I'm thrown in there just to mix it up I remember there was one guy I don't remember which brand if it was a sports or something There was a baseball game that I had on PlayStation or whatever at the time. They didn't have Barry Bonds. They like didn't have his licensing agreement that every other player. Yeah, except for Barry Bonds. You could say that there was a number 25 on the Giants Who was 99 everything good? Yeah, but it wasn't Barry Bonds Bobson Doug nuts. Yeah, he's on this list too. It was great Kevin Newgillney super mega baseball. All right Raul Chamberlain change your change chamberland with a gee so good be oh And we ran out of time, but apparently everybody's social security number has been hacked and very cool. All right, I mean It's out there. There's only so many 10-digit numbers out there. So they're all I mean just throw me 10 digits It's someone's social security. Well good luck getting your $300 credit card limit with my social security number have fun How cool I got a credit one card for $300 five Seven eight three oh four zero zero one three. I mean someone's out there Would you even know what to do with that with somebody's? No, no, I've got you now TV is mine like that But again enjoy my my debt that three hundred dollar credit one limit and please steal my identity Yeah, but if you do you get it all yeah life the kids the whole thing you take the whole if you take it you're taking all of it Some other guy sitting in here Who are you? I'm gonna. I just stole his identity. I don't have his job If you're gonna steal my identity, I didn't steal it take it off now. That's how you do it. That's the deal If you're in you're in a hundred percent Get a lot of housework to take care of a lot of things to do Who right now to job just wait time finish with my staycation. Yes. You can steal it if you want All right, we have some more tickets to give away to a journey and deaf leopard at Panko Park That is coming up in our next segment stay tuned after traffic here on 97 through the fan Got a little breaking a soccer news this morning According to reports on ESPN Maurizio Pocatino has agreed to become the new United States National team head coach instead of Greg Burr halter who was fired. Yeah, he's the successor to Greg Burr halter If you don't know Pocatino. He was the coach at Chelsea But has left the club earlier this year by mutual consent after one season in charge of Chelsea So Team USA getting the former Chelsea coach Maurizio Pocatino to take over the national team Which is not me? He'll have to be the guy going forward for the World Cup Coming up in the United States Mexico and Canada in 2026 So a lot will be writing on the new coach and the system that he implements and what he can do in the next two years to get the The team ready for the World Cup now. I will Reserve my comments on Mostly because I don't know what I'm talking about but I want to hear what Craig says if Craig Elstin's into it Then I'll he will I'm sure in their their 12 o'clock sports fix Well, I probably have all the headlines and all right have some thoughts on the the hiring of this coach Yeah, I don't I don't know enough about you know It's just one season at Chelsea, but you know good enough to be a coach in the Premier League so so usually so usually well I would take Ted Lasso as the coach of the national team fair you do a lot worse You do a lot worse than Ted Lasso Ted Lasso. They said the future of Ted Lasso is in Jason Sudeikis's hands. Are we done? I think we're done. I think the last I thought it was over That's what I thought but they said it can come back if Jason Sudeikis is into it and I the last season was whatever, but Would you guys want another season? I'd watch it for sure. Yeah, I mean I'd watch you if I didn't watch it I got got the other day. I was scrolling and there was a movie poster for Netflix is a new movie coming out next month called Heisenberg oh about with starring Brian Cranston and the synopsis was he is rushed to the hospital and Is on life support and he's getting ready for his biggest escape ever And he pulls through I thought he died at the end of El Camino. It's been 10. Yeah, you're fine. If you haven't seen it Probably work in the seats. It's it's fake. Somebody's made it It's the worst I guess kind of open to interpretations. I'm sitting there thinking okay, I'm in it's the worst That's the worst when they get you like that our Paola Dominic one of our tier ones has arrived He's in town lives in Baltimore, and he brought us something today These are not famous for him on put him on the yeah, what are these? Yup, yeah, I don't have to hold this on you don't have you don't have all right? Welcome back to town. Yeah, they pod race fan where you were at Peko Park yesterday. You heard our cookie talk Oh, yeah, yeah earlier, and you brought us something. I've never seen these before I'm a little nervous. They're called Berge burgers B-e-r-g-e-r-s from Baltimore, Maryland and They look like in barrels probably hurt. Oh, he's had before okay. They look like moon pies So it's it's like a basically a delivery system for ganache. Oh Okay, so I like that I do like ganache hole My god, you try one right now me here right now You might need some milk. Holy crap Burger like Jake burger. These are unreal, man These are absolutely incredible. All right. Holy cow. They just like donut. I thought it was just like VG's chocolate donut I thought it was just the crab cakes that were the delicacy of the of Maryland, but apparently burgers cookies as well It's like a whole thing. Mm-hmm. Well quite coincidentally Dominic is just one of the tickets to Well, no, that's not fair. That's not fair. If you want to win the tickets to Def Leppard and Journey and Petco Park You have to call be the fourth caller eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three if you want to try calling in Dominic You're absolutely available to do that. It's coming up August 30th at Petco Park tickets are on sale now a ticket master dot-com But you can win a pair right now eight three three two eight eight Ninety seven three and then we are going to zero ninety seven three and then we're gonna eat some cookies Then we're gonna come back. We're have a final segment. We've got a weekend series against the Colorado Rockies coming up for your San Diego Padres and getting ready for a round table in just a few minutes as well all ahead on San Diego's number one dessert station ninety seven three the fan All right, congratulations to Miguel Miguel won our tickets for the concert coming up on August 30th Journey and Def Leppard at Petco Park everybody else. We will have one more pair to give away Tomorrow last chance to win this week again. You can get your own tickets at ticket master dot-com if you want to we got like 10 minutes after traffic coming up to finish the show You want to try to get online and talk some Padres baseball. We are certainly willing to do that eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three We haven't gone out to the phones for a while to get the pulse of the fans What are you gonna say other than things are great things are going really well right now don't change a thing? I'm sure Mike shilt would love to just push a button Freeze this moment in time and just say keep pitching like this keep hitting like this Keep playing defense like this and you do that Potters will have a very good chance to go all the way. Yeah, but that's not how baseball works No, it's not they will not they will not hold on to this for the rest of the season I will I will tell you that they were not 19 of 22 is not a sustainable pace going forward for the rest of the year the question is Can you play well enough to get yourself into the playoffs hopefully with a good seed and then after that? You just need to win Three out of five four out of seven going forward and get your way all the way to the end of October Yeah, and when the Padres, you know, look they're most likely gonna lose at least one series between now and the end of the year That's gonna feel like the world is I mean, it really will it really will they really will not finish the season with 20 consecutive series victories It's just not gonna happen Well, are we going to why not because yeah, I don't think anyone's ever done it I mean even the Mariners that year when they won 116 games. They lost some series through the year didn't they? Yeah, I think they waited and literally until like September it was that they've won a lot of series there That's true. I watched that I always go back to the last dance and I watched them the 72 and 10 season for the Bulls again 72 wins out of 82 I mean anything is possible and this team the way they're playing right now, man I'm certainly not gonna count them out of anything Miraculous what we what they've done a really good job at is avoiding that the dreaded five-gamer You know the five-taper where you just you do feel like the world is ending you keep that up man You keep doing, you know, even close to what you're doing. They're gonna be in really good position All the phone lines are blinking. So let's take a couple of calls coming up right after this check of traffic good 97 3 the fan All right, let's go out to a Chad Chad. Welcome to Ben and woods on 97 3 to fan. Good morning. How are you? Good morning. I'm good. How are you guys good? Thank you? I've been listening to you guys for a really long time now both my dad and I Listen all throughout the day between you guys and then any else and then of course Gwen and Chris And we you know love the the whole breakdown of the way that so the weekly Daytime goes because it I mean all day long every day of the week. You've got something Fresh to listen to and something like a different unique perspective and it makes it really nice because I've got delivery So I'm out on the road all day long every single day and it gives me Something to pay attention to I hear about all the trades and everything like that But my question to you guys is when you're winning So many games in a row and so many games out of a out of a group of games I myself find that I I tend to pay a little bit less attention To the detail because I feel like the pressure is off So whereas before when we were around 500 trying to fight for a wild card spot You're listening to every single second of every single thing you can get your hands on because you want to know Oh, are we gonna get there? Are we not are we gonna do this or we not but now with all these wins? We I feel like with the pressure off We have a little bit more freedom with our time to listen to whatever we want to do or talk about whatever we want To do do you agree with that or how do you throw a hundred a hundred percent? I mean this job is We've heard it before Just a little behind the curtain You guys are cheerleaders. You need the team to win. You need them to win for your ratings and your money, and a nope nope, honestly You could believe me or I don't care the worse they play the better we do That's just the fact of the matter and and I don't want that I don't want to see them ratings I'm happy with if they never lost the game because I don't like to come in here and I what I don't like to do is Talk about Baseball in a football setting and I think a lot of people still watch baseball like they're watching the NFL And it's just it's not made for that and so I totally get what you're saying We start to show every day lately going well. What else can you say about these guys except they're kicking it? I like for example We have Mike Schiltz on tomorrow. I Don't have the foggiest idea of what to ask this man tomorrow not the foggiest How's it going? great Cool fantastic now that I suggest not asking about his bullpen. I'm not yeah I mean that one did right, but I just it's just it's so much fun When they're winning it's it rips my stomach out when they're in the middle of a five-game losing streak It really does chat. I really appreciate he actually he kind of Mike Schiltz at our radio station He did he did like if she'll like a full run down first I listened to the Ben & Woods from six to ten and then it's then anything else to get on crony He had a three-room home and yeah, I love it and Gwen and Chris And I like like how they all broke it down. It was very Schiltz ask, but I I hear it both ways obviously if um If they lose too much there is like, okay, I'm get tired of the same old thing Oh hundred percent the old rollercoaster. They were on is beautiful for us in the first half of the season It really is, but I hate it personally keeps everybody on the edge of their seats the entire way through But now that we're late in the season though There's always something to talk about in terms of the playoff chase, you know Trying to get peak performance at the right time of the year. How long can you keep this up keep it sustained? I mean people panicked about the bullpen usage a couple of days ago even when things were going well You're looking for things that could still then go wrong going forward. So I don't think it ever really ends I I do like hearing people talk about the how well it's going for the Padres though I love turning into a national show and hearing them talk about the Padres as a relevant team and how well they're doing If you know if they got body the night before I don't necessarily want to hear Steve Phillips or you know Jeff Passen talking about the Padres and what's going wrong, but I love when they're talking about what's going right with the San Diego Padres So there's always a mix of everything. Yeah. I mean look and nothing is ever perfect. We in any walk of life You can you can hit the company record with with a quota and sales, but could you have done better? The answer is yes. The answer is always yes You can the can the Padres do better than they're doing right now. Yeah, they can't they can't are there better ways to optimize things? Sure, absolutely, but I feel pretty confident in saying That's they're thinking about that too I what I don't see from any of these players or management or anything is them kicking back Resting on their laurels. Yeah, where's Tatis is a good. That's a good one I do want to ask him about the the status of Fernando Tatis Jr. He is he was in Arizona for a little while he was here the other day Yeah, I did not see him yesterday. We were down there Polly, but I just It is fun to come in and talk about wins and it's fun to come in and talk about winning streaks. Does it always necessarily? Mean that you're gonna have better ratings when they win. No, the answer is unequivocally. No, no definitely not It's not how it works. Let's get a couple more in here is this Sean. Welcome to Ben and Woods 97 3 the fan. Hello, Sean Good morning guys. How are you good? Well, obviously we're feeling pretty good. You're feeling great, man It's obviously it's awesome. What we're doing and and I call me and talk to Chris. Do you have to do that? I think part of the reason we're doing this and it goes back to preller doing such a good job in Recruiting and trading and yeah, but it also has a lot to do with preller keeping his hand out of the cookie job I think this is the first manager. We've had in probably eight years that didn't have this Medling and what he was doing and it's very tough to succeed and I and I think that's part of what happened and I think he also changed I Think last year. I think well again for the last six years seven years the mentality of everybody wants to win so bad And they try so hard, but it's always hope there's a runner on base I got to bring him in with a home runner. I got to bring him in with a triple and then all of a sudden we strike out and That the culture changed. Let's actually play situation ball. I think it's made a huge difference and I think bringing in the new batting coach and more importantly Preller buying in and trading for Luis Arise Has made the biggest difference in what this team does on the I mean even if you look at the beginning of the season On the offensive side where was our roller coaster and all of a sudden Luis Arise came in and the dips got smaller and Now all of a sudden the dips are gone and it's because everybody had a living Example this is what we want to do guys. Oh, it does work and it's just been I think those are the biggest things that have helped us and As far as pitching goes Anybody we get every time we get someone nice that which he hasn't been doing good. We've got Ruben Ruby's awesome, man. Okay. Thank you, man. There's a lot of points. He made in that in that call Yeah, I mean and I agree with a lot of them But I have to point out that one month ago less than one month ago on July 20th So what is that twenty five days ago? It's a five hundred team Yeah, man long after Arise was here long after Mike shilted Instituteed his new culture and you know been playing small some small ball and doing it all it led to a 50 and 50 record Yeah, at that point the flat average Middle of the road baseball team well 25 days ago. I watched so what why did it all change? I know I'd give you the answer right now and I learned it from this is not Dodger loving because we are big Chris Rose fans But he has his Chris Rose rotation and Tyler Glass now who I I used to really really love I still think he's a I still think he's a really good interview Tyler Glass now was talking about it the other day With Chris Rose and he said Chris. It's very easy We win and when you win everything's great front office is great The the managers great the hitting coaches fantastic the pitching coach is great now the Dodgers. It's funny They actually have played like 500 baseball, but look at they're still in first place. So Tyler Glass now says when things start going poorly Everything gets picked apart everything Don't you feel like last year's Padres team all they needed to do was win some and everything would have been fixed no Question about oh the chemistry the bliss that I mean all they needed to do was one One four game winning streak at some point and it like it would have all been fixed Yeah, and they just never could do it could do it, but that's one extra inning game That's what they needed to fix it, you know, just a little run a week or two of some close wins like this and Everything would have been fine last year. There would have been no Bob Melvin talk There would have been no one so to talk everything would have been fine. Yeah, when it's never had that they never were given that chance winning cures literally everything in the organization people do not lose their minds on when you've won 19 of 22 We heard you know AJ and Bob were at loggerheads pretty early on the relationship No one heard anything about it in 2022. There we go in the mail. Yes, cuz you're winning So no one hears about those things when they're winning when they're losing. Oh, yeah, you hear about everything Yep, you start losing you start picking at everything as Jeter says in the chat, man. It is just It's it's been awesome. It's been awesome to see thanks for the calls guys Yeah, this hour on 97 3 the fan has brought to you by the farmers dog fresh human grade dog food from a healthier way to more Energy when you switch your dog's food to the farmers dog the effects can feel magical What sorcery is this not at all? 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