Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

6am Hour - Padres Get Series And Season Sweep Of The Pirates!

Ben, Woods, and Paulie are here for you on a Thursday morning! We start the show with a little foreplay as we hear about Ben's staycation and Woods and Paul's day down at Petco Park! Then Ben sets the menu for today's show before we get to our Padres Wrap-Up and dive into yesterday's 8-2 win over Pittsburgh as the Padres got both the series and season sweep of the Pirates! Listen here!

Duration:: 39m
Broadcast on:: 15 Aug 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

Oh, yeah, the sultry sultry sounds a berry white mix with the sultry sounds of Benin Woods Brings us to Thursday morning. Good morning everybody. It is we are Benin Woods. We're on 97 3 the fan You know that already maybe you're watching us on YouTube If you haven't done that yet, I do see a lot of people popping in every day going hey I hear you guys talking about the YouTube feed you're always mentioning people from there. I decided to check it out I love it. You guys are heavier than I thought you were things like that. It's really cool To see those every day, but yeah, you can go to youtube.com I like YouTube because you can get the facial Expressions you can see when like one of us is if it happens all of us when we're not paying attention or something You really get behind the scenes look, you know I'm down on my phone or you're on your phone texting or probably just doing something over there You can see all of it and I forget that we're on camera So you really have to you know, you got to mind your P's and Q's around here But it's a really cool way to watch but thank you for listening in any way you consume us Great great morning. Let's have a good time today. I'm woodsy. That's Paul Rhino. He's the executive producer. Good morning, Paulie Good morning. Good to have you here. Paulie and I had a great day down at the ballpark yesterday We can tell you guys some stories here pretty soon. We got some good ones. We usually do Ben Higgins your friendly neighborhood sports anchor joins us as well. Good morning Ben. Good morning to everybody It's good to be here. You can see me fall asleep not off occasionally on every stream every now and then I'm a little Just a little hungover this morning. I was wondering if we were going to get hung I have a few cocktails last night. What is a few three five five five five five. I wouldn't I wouldn't be here I would have called in hits it Five would be what did you have? Let's see. I had a sea breeze by the pool. Then we a sea breeze. That's great for Jews and vodka Yeah, and maybe some cranberry as well. Okay, sounds delicious a little tonic and then we went to canteen a mile Well, okay, I did both a an yay-ho and a mezcal as we had some great food there And then we went back and I did hold on and then and then yay-ho Neat yeah neat just hot yeah warm tequila in quality good tequila But hot warm tequila and you just sip it and enjoy it and then we went back for the the music and I had a couple of old Fashions and then that was that was my evening evening Is it safe for him to drive here today? It smells good. I'm okay. Like I said I was I was more than functional as we walked back to the room. I was fine, but I'm more than functional Still feel it a little bit this morning though. Yes any I'm telling you Five for me. I would not be here. I can hold mine. I can hold it. I Told you when I went to Hawaii. I had two cocktails the entire time. I was there - - what wasn't my tie? I ordered another my tie at the same night and I go I can't finish this I go I will I will fall down drunk Called me I called you giggling Dude and then I had a pina colada the pina colada dad and bar it was like bro I mean wow look at you stay cations going well though the Lafayette the read model is beautiful Our room is great right at the pool. We spent some time at the pool. It was perfect. We checked in room was ready Right as the game was stopped it up on our television It was ain't nothing before I knew it so I was like okay. I'm good I just you know sit by the pool cruise and I really didn't even have to pay that close of attention to the game and We had a great time. I mean really what a that place is a party though I mean all night everywhere. I mean it loud like yeah, I mean by the pool at night It wasn't that loud so we could sleep, but if you're in the main area, I like walked in around 10 was like the last time I was up cuz I I went next door to grab a couple of slices of pizza Luigi's As I walked through this I mean the place was absolutely packed with people. There's the bowling alley downstairs There's a 24 hour diner. We had gone to the the the room Lulu's Which is the music venue and watch the the band play for an hour or so, which was fantastic as well really great time Looking forward to day two today after the show in the round table to resume my staycation Well today's national relaxation day and while you'll be sitting by the pool Relaxing I've got on here on national relaxation day. We're gonna do this show four hours We're gonna do an hour-long round table tough to be hung over on round table. Yeah, probably popped in your head After that, I'm gonna go to the dentist for two hours if you're cleaning and might get my this crown fix so and then just full-on parenting mode with a devil three-year-old and a 16 a six-year-old who acts like he's 16 these days, so you're very excited for national relaxation But I had my relaxation week in Hawaii and I still feel pretty good from that trip only on national relaxation day today No potteries game tonight. I mean you are home free. What do you what are you planning on doing? Oh gosh? I don't even know yeah Watched a movie yesterday that we thought we would maybe watch today with no Padres game You already watched it. We watched it last night. You're gonna watch it again. No, we watched we rented the new twisters No good I'm not surprised. I so when the twister or is it twisters twisters? It's this the new one guys. It's different and I asked my wife. I said is this a remake or a sequel she goes I think it's a remake Like Top Gun 2 is a sequel. That's a sequel. Yes, it was outstanding also had the same actor and pals in it Yeah, I said in twisters. I like them pal a lot. He's he's pretty good I do - I do I don't think I'd be friends with him in real life I didn't like twist twisters bro. He I looked him up on I googled him He is the next Matthew McConaughe busy young good-looking actor But he was born in Austin, Texas. Okay, he went to the Moody school at UT where? Matthew McConaughey blessed the mood the mood Acting I think y'all's help, please bless the moon. How you read? Come on everybody no Matthew. We do not want nobody wants to see we didn't know we were doing this I liked the original twister. I did it was fine. Yeah, I didn't like the the remake Wasn't great. All right, so you rented it last night. Why would you watch it again today? I don't want to we were going I'm saying we the plan was to watch it today. We were like oh, oh Let's rent this on Thursday when we don't have a Padres game to watch but you watch we watch it last night and you watch the whole thing Yeah, yeah No movie was starting. All right. What do you think real quick before it starts before we see anything good or bad She goes I think it's gonna be great. I heard good review I saw good reviews on it But then same people who also said that the new Roadhouse was really good and and I don't know man They're just kind of running out ideas Which is fine. I mean we're you know we do sports radio. They ran out of seven years ago They did I mean we run out of ideas it happens Creatively you get you get a little juice somebody asked if they get the bootleg version now you can rent it on Amazon It's on prime like it was just in theaters now. You can watch it at home. Yeah, I go all right So Glenn Powell is in top gun - yep twisters. Yep. What's the next spin-off remake? Movie that he's going to be in from the 90s breakfast clubs. I said weird sciences. Mr. Doubtfire. Yeah, mr. Doubtfire. Yeah It's just bad man. This is bad right now. There has not been a movie that's come out Maybe in the last five years that I've been like yes, and it delivered man brought back gremlins yet Yeah, it seems like one they can make with better special effects nowadays. I was popular give them time give them time But well, we were down at the ballpark. Yeah, I was wondering on what you guys went without me So how did it go see what did you talk to well? So we walked in you know and the thing about us is we Pauli and I and Ben - we have the ability if we wanted to We could go down there every single day, right if scheduled permitted if I was a single man with no family There's a decent chance I would Be in there a lot more than I am With school getting out at you know the time that it does and and responsibilities. I don't get down there very much now It's twofold. It's not only that's not the only reason I don't go down there. I also go down there because I don't Want to bother I don't want to go and be like Hey Jackson, so the rookie of the year. I know no one's asked you about this But how do you feel about winning potentially the rookie I it the thought of it makes my stomach turn So we just we go down, you know very very sparsely some people are very happy to see you when you're there like you like is always happy to see you Yes, I like the Wednesday day day day show pop in not every week It's you know once a month once every couple weeks now. It's very clear It's very very clear that we have a Corner that that is ours. We have a corner and in said corner is Jake Croninworth Kyle Higashyoka Jackson Merrill That's our corner. Yeah, I don't know that I've ever been anywhere I don't know that I've ever talked to anyone in any other corner So when we walk in we basically I glanced over the corner. It was empty there was no Jake no Higgy no Merrill and I went well what the hell we gonna do so we talked to our beloved Dennis Lynn We talked to a couple of folks in the media. We talked to the big tall righty Bob Scanlon very handsome very tall Still very tall. We talked to our beloved Sammy Levitt and so that that was fun and then crony. This is wild then Jake Croninworth comes out of the shower wrapped in a towel and walks right up to my face Chowers before the game showers idea. I would too. Okay. Yeah, you want to you want to sweat clean I think that's how I feel as well walks right up to me and he goes I've got a bone to pick with you and my gut dropped now I thought to myself that you do the immediate recall And I'm like can't be anything he heard on the me going he needs to be out of the I've been the other guy saying They're not gonna mess with it leave him in the three hole. Don't mess with the the order. Just stop everyone stop So I'm like can't be like that. I go. What is it and he goes? You told me that when you had me on that you were gonna go to bat for me with Shilty about pitching I go I did he goes. That's not the information I heard what and I go well Did you listen and he goes no and I go well, why don't you listen instead of taking things? Second third hand. How about that? Why don't you try that one if you just listen? I go follow me on Instagram I'll send you the clip tomorrow. You'll have it You'll hear exactly that I told shilty on our interview let kronoworth pitch essentially right those trade secrets close to the vest in case You have to use them you're talking about a fan We watched Joe Musgrove play less left field. Yeah I feel like it was one of the moments of his life when I got out there and well And you know if I know one thing cuz we've talked to crony a bunch on this show and and I asked him how much do you lobby? To the skipper to let you come in and pitch in a blowout. He goes all the time all the time and I can man If there's one thing I know about baseball players They're never really happy with with what they want to do a little bit more So I was just kind of wondering are there guys that are in your like skip Let me hit let me let me play shortly a second in a blowout or something like that But now we don't we don't play that game anymore. So nobody's nobody's lobbying for that. That's a fairly crony different story Yeah, there you go. He wants he wants out there. He's pretty pleased with his year. Oh, you are a career a Yeah, so we're standing directly ask him you but you did bring it up and you know, so it's not wrong either He's very happy about his zero. You're a he said hey by the way Lois you're a in major league baseball history, then why would you want to go back? We can only go up at the state sit on it sit on it. So we're standing there talking to crony Well, guess who walks up behind us the skipper. Oh like she'll fellas. How you doing? She'll be how are you doing? How you doing doing good? She'll be good to see it and He said what's what's going on here? And I said well he thinks that I didn't lobby for him and She'll just kind of starts laughing and he goes yeah, you know him and his zero ERA and Jake said I'm literally the best pitcher of all time and I said all right well, you know I'm out of this conversation. I did my part. It was really fun. Then we also by the way crony turns around and he's got This brute remember when he got dotted. I think it was 97 to the back. Yeah, dude Then he it's obviously the size of a baseball It was purple and yellow and orange and green and black and blue. I was like I go good God dude He goes I go was that from the other night? He goes which one like one that massive? Oh dude I mean we just don't we just don't give them enough credit. We just don't a pro far's got like eight. Oh, I know right now So I saw pro far said hello to him. Daptama. I wish David Peralta a happy birthday And then we got to talk in the Kyle Higashyoka who's just the greatest guy of all time and he started in Talking about music with me, but it wasn't just music. It was about Gear well and I don't he mentioned that he loves Van Halen. Yeah, you asked crony Oh, who's your favorite band? It's Molly crew and Van Halen and then I love Higashyoka was like putting on his shoes And he just goes. Oh, hey speaking of Van Halen. Yes. What's he? I got a new amp? I got a new amp and he starts talking to me about gear Now I had to do the thing where I nodded along and pretended. I knew I don't know anything about here Nothing and he's telling me I don't like the tone on this and using this so I have to do this I got this tube amp and I'm like mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's so oh, it's so cool. Those are great Those are great from what I've heard. I didn't have the foggiest. You've got one. It's got an on and off But yeah, it's a crappy like acoustic am I he was talking to me then and I mean for probably what we say seven minutes Oh, yeah, I'd be sitting there going. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, really sure no way and I was a wreck I was like please then he's like yeah, I got this new foot pedal I love that model. That's a great. That's a great one makes you go faster. I did not want to hurt I guess we got the T three forty nine the TK fortune. You don't want the other one But he's such a good dude such a good guy So then crony did say to shilt hey, I'm d hing today. So if I can pitch You know, we need eight runs. What do we need? It was at one point. Wasn't it eight nothing? It's you need a Ten-run lead or an eight-run deficit eight-run deficit or a ten-run lead. So we we didn't quite get there But it was cool man. You know the guys you talk about Walking into a clubhouse with a different feeling then if you walked into that clubhouse a year ago today It was a whole different vibe. I mean completely now People weren't hanging from the the ceilings and dancing stuff, but you walked in and you saw a Really confident team. We talked to Reuben. We talked to Ben Fritz The pride that those guys you could feel the pride from Fritz. He talking about the bullpen We told Reuben about the new name of the back end of his bullpen, which is of course ass Adam Scott Suarez and he started dying laughing and goes. I mean you can't really can't really put that on a t-shirt I go I mean you can't but somebody will and I can wear it and probably if somebody wants to make an ass t-shirt I'm all about it like Let's bring it in that ass and get you know get out of this game when this game But it was a lot of fun man seeing the guys and saying hello, and it's just that's our little corner man That's where we like to matriculate to and everyone Everyone's playing really well and very very excited. I noticed it was it must have been mail day There because every single player's locker was stuffed full stuff of what looked like Fan mail and and and gifts that people had sent them like Jackson had this cool painting on his chair That was from Dylan Seast Dylan Seast painted that and he is placing it on different people's chairs for them to autograph it for him His own teammates. He painted this picture. I didn't get the story. Yeah, and they're all signing it. So sitting on a picture of I just a painting it was like a like an abstract painting. Okay. Yeah, no the one I saw was like a 16 by 20 Painting but it was like a baseball card. Oh Jack Jackson. Yes. Well, the other one that was sitting up against it waiting for a I saw that was Dylan Seast's that one was cool. Some of those guys keep a messy locker They really don't I'm not gonna call out any names, but I walk through it You got to clean this up a little bit. All right get fined for this But great day all around and obviously the results of the game were spectacular We'll talk to that talk about that today and and just exactly what the doctor ordered and a little kiss of the rally roach To keep the good vibes going here in San Diego Hang over Thursday throwback Thursday Set the menu when we come back. It's it's been a woods. Here's Kelly with the traffic on 97 through the fan Got a pretty busy throwback Thursday for you coming up on the program today. Obviously we will get into the Padres 8 to 2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates and our Padres wrap up in our next segment But it's also a throwback Thursday That means a game of real or fake chance to qualify for the trip to Las Vegas at 7 10 Don't do this at 7 20 and then because he was traveling yesterday Of the five-time all-star Adam Jones will join us at 7 35 this morning then in our eight o'clock hour our regular Thursday feature Our super polished yet to be named smart baseball weekly segment with Enos Sarah's from the athletic brought to you by seven-mile casino at 8 35 Ryla report at nine o'clock. We got more journey and deaf leopard tickets to give away on the program today as well And it just should be a nice Thursday. There really is a lot of positivity right now It's actually makes it harder it does to come up with like questions today for the round table from 10 to 11 o'clock will all be together for our round table pizza Padres round table and I realized well when things are kind of going iffy well even if it's 500 It's like there's plenty of discussion topics and questions and well should they do this or should they do that? You know the trade deadline is coming up this point. There's really no more moves to be made right? Well, well, well, you do have a little topic to bring up. I like it. I like it involving potential moves They could still be made on the show today It's a little early to start talking about like play-offs and yeah things like that. You don't want to jump the gun Where should the parade route? Little early that's a gun early on that one. So yeah, it was a lot of a challenge makes me sick especially after Mount Rushmore five cocktails coming up with topics for did the round table, so Mount Rushmore of Moments We've already done the moment did we did that in the first half of the season? I mean, it's almost like I speculated that the round table would run out of gas at some point in the middle of the season No, no, I came up with some topics should should still be a Decent round table today who that pizza is gonna hit good today for you as Dominic said that will be a little nice Sopper up her like one one. All right, so what do you actually we should do? hung over eating Now man, uh, yeah, hey listen, I'll take that any day of the week Coming in here talking about a ridiculous winning streak and another sweep. I'll take it. I love the positivity It's really fun. It it takes a lot of the negativity off of Twitter about Everything else, you know, this guy not getting the job done or that guy not getting the job done It's kind of hard to argue with the results right now and just yesterday was just so much of what we needed Pottery's literally have too many guys getting the job done right now They can't put them all in the lineup. Yeah guys that are getting the job done It's not a dolt league where we can bat 12. Yeah, I can bat if all my guys get I can bat 12 guys Really I got I bet in 13 last week. Everyone's still got five at bats So everyone gets to eat, but if you know one guy is getting the job done. It makes it makes it pretty Pretty difficult, but yeah, man. There's there's so many guys they talk to shilty about that after the game yesterday I think it was a J Casselville that asked the question and was like so, you know How do you how do you get contributions from all of these guys like guys come ready to play and it's their their pregame work It said he said it was crisp and sharp and we saw it We saw it down there guys getting working even though they weren't in the lineup So there is a good feeling right now around the San Diego Padres But you know there's a really good feeling around the Arizona Diamondbacks and last night's loss not with standing There's a really good feeling about the LA Dodgers actually hear that clip of Mike. So good about contributions in our Padres wrap I love that and that's coming up next get to that when we come back don't go away We got plenty of Padres talk ahead with Ben & Woods on San Diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fan I got up early this morning at the hotel. I had to go get my car and Big bouncer guy who was waiting there Must be a tier one cuz see he knew who I was but he said I'm a pirates fan Pittsburgh and I said oh you must hate Jackson Marley said well now that I live here I've also become a Padres fan and honestly, you know Padres are going places this year pirates aren't so I'm kind of happy The Padres are winning these games course. We we're wondering who are the pirates fans out there cuz the Padres are just murdered them Double digits now in a row. Yeah. Oh, that's a it's a tough one But Padres taking care of business against the the lower level teams in fact remember at one point this season I got this stat from the UT this morning. They were fought 15 and 20 against teams with a losing record since then 23 and four against teams with a losing record. So that is the mark That is the mark of a team that can really do something kind of fix that problem Well done. We will talk about the of the game with our Padres wrap up coming up first this hour on Ben & Woods is brought to you by Express employment professionals if your supply chain demands a flexible workforce higher with Express employment professionals with contract And full-time workers from Express employment you get the staff you need and manage contingent labor costs learn more at express prose calm That's express prose calm traffic and then I'll adjust these highlights of the 8 to win next year on 97 3 the fan I love winning man. I love I love Love winning you know what I'm saying? It's like better than losing. Oh my god. I'm so stiff Miss any of the Padres win yesterday Ben & Woods didn't what I proved we've got you covered with all of the highlights I like it with the Padres with It's the Padres wrap sent it by Hamou casino with rilling slots and tables in all the best rewards Hamou casino has all the fun. You're looking for Hamou casino fun above all else Give me a due damage Jay swings gets it in the air on a line deep to right towards the porch gonna go Three run homer for Jake Croton worth into the pet go porch And before the Padres have made an out here this afternoon They've got a three-to-nothing lead one pitch arise muscles into the air to shallow center field Taylor charging We'll die for him can't get there rolls behind him wade's gonna come in and score arise motoring into second base Well for Reynolds go chance RBI double the Lisa rise and a pudrey lead forward and nothing another little Q will cost the Pirates left handed batter of course swings of the first pitch lines at just fair down the right field line It's gonna roll all the way to the corner run a word to score man. He's on his way He's gonna score row home. No chances. He slides in feet first Meryl into third a two run triple and a six to nothing Audrey Lee and first pitch swinging for all to sense one in the ear to deep right Daylock cruises back at the wall looking up gonna go How about a birthday blast for David Peralta his second home run of the series and now Eat to nothing here in the third baseball schedule on full display On one hit in the air to deep left field pro far is back kind of twisting around He will jump and it's gonna be over the fence a home run for Joey Bart got it about three or four rows up over the left field wall number 11 for the former giant and the Pirates will not be shut out for a second consecutive day Eight to one here in the sixth and here's the O and one Kind of holefe in the air to right field long run Peralta towards the line gonna have to play it on a hop The cruise will come home from third base everybody advances one station And RBI single for Isaiah Kiner Folefa and now an eight to two game here in the ninth And I went to again to Connor Joe. He takes and strike three call filthy slider from Moraine home and the ball game is over Audrey's sweet the Pirates here in 2024 They have now won 19 out of their last 22 games and they outscore the buckos 13 to 3 In taking three straight here at pet go Yeah, you know what we talked Quite a bit ace about the contributions from the entire 26 we again on display today Wait, he goes out Grafts two knocks Gordon run makes a good, you know does a good job in the base run and play You know full bore ready to score and that ball in a rise You know Reynolds comes in clean inning So we're getting the contributions that we want and are grateful for from our all our club Padres with their 69th win of the season nice moving a season high 16 games above 500 They have won 19 of 22. That's the best stint in franchise history And an eighth straight series victory that already clinched that but make it another sweet for your san diego ponterays who continue To absolutely roll and as as jesse said three runs before you made an out and it turned out to be enough for the entire The entire win because the pirates only got to the entire game Nice job by martin perez again in his third start as a pod rate Five in a third innings five hits just the one earned run I think he's given up four solo home runs accounting for all four runs and his three starts That he's allowed gets his first win with the pod restruck out eight he strikes out more than I always Expect him too. Yeah, because he's not you know, he's not a flamethrower That that that pitcher that breaking ball has been very effective And I want to I want to throw all the praise in the world on on rubin de abla for what he's done, but martin perez actually said Actually figured it out the last start in pitsburg where he threw like six shut out innings And I just kind of rolled with it once I got here to san diego obviously they've helped fine tune and he's he's given a lot of credit To rub it he has but but technically he said I kind of I kind of figured it out before I even got here And it's just kind of been rolling through once I once I joined the san diego pod race There's a lot of things about this gig that I am massively grateful for every day And there's just one little thing that I got to see yesterday that I'd never really seen before As we were they were about to close the clubhouse Poly now we're kind of standing by the logo and I just kind of glanced over to my left and it was rubin And it was campy and it was martin perez sitting at this table big giant box of donuts I did not I was going to ask somebody if I could have one but I didn't know I thought I'm glad you could you imagine can I get one like I am so sorry about I'm so sorry the three that was that would be your contribution eating one donuts so no one else did I'll eat all of them keeping them fresh and fit healthy and ready to go for the game correct How did you game all the way? I ate all the donuts in the pod race clubhouse, but I will say this that box of donuts sat empty But the donuts it did not sit it sat full no one no one got any so they're they're very focused But that wasn't the cool moment the cool moment was seeing those three Over there putting their heads together going over the charts the plan that was cool And it was just a brief little thing that I got to see kind of walking out the door But I went oh yeah the meeting they did the the meeting right there about how are we going to attack these guys? What are we going to do pretty cool stuff and uh martin perez I mean I was watching the slo-mo of some of these changeups and stuff last Yesterday phenomenal just a phenomenal attacks the zone the whole thing in a total total competitor I don't know. I don't know, you know, let's just ride this wave of martin perez coming in and being a six inning seven inning shutdown guy Uh, I don't know how long it's gonna last. I don't care. He's been so good since he's gotten here Louisa rise had another a two hit game two for four rbi double in the second inning He's up to his league leading average back to three oh seven Always amazed that he's been doing this with a torrent thumb ligament. Yeah for the last month Jackson maryll two for four. You heard that two run triple in the third inning Another multi hit game for jackson the david peralta home run Two straight days with home runs for david peralta. I like the birthday blast call. That was that was good by jesse and ultimately Mike shilts strategy of using his high leverage relievers in the three nothing game on Tuesday Looks pretty smart in in retrospect because he did not have to go to his high leverage relievers yesterday Uh, brian hoeing shawn rental's pitch. They got a drink more a hone in for an inning after he was coming off the flu Shaky, but just try to get him some work there in the ninth inning after he had been battling the flu stuff look good And you know, so all those guys though, um, you know swarez adam Scott Yep, they're the back end of the bullpen plus um plus uh Any of the other guys didn't work now get two days off at least because of the off day today So a real chance to to kind of reset as you go into What is now? Maybe the last toughest stretch of the season coming up 18 games in 18 days Beginning in the toughest place for pitchers in matriolek baseball coars field against the team that has been your personal nightmare and nemesis what's that record? 44 and 78 or something against them. Uh, if you're how many I don't I Feel yeah four and six this year. You can still win the season series. You got to sweep them And they have played uh, they've played well against your san diego padre's now You won't face austin gomber the the personal nightmare steve carlton of In this series coming up But uh, I I have no illusions that these are going to be three easy games even though the rockeys are a last place team How many wins do we have 69? Um, okay good. Yeah, that's nice. It's very very nice now. What is 81 minus 69? 12 If they win 12 more games, that's 69. That's what that's what we all had Basically as our that's what they're gonna win. They're gonna win 81 games and boy They were on a pace for it. They were really really on a pace for it for a lot of the season Uh, it just can't be said enough How great this has been I'll ask you guys this we're a Pretty positive show. We like to get excited when the team's playing well I feel like we've done a good job there But I also feel like the fact that we're still kind of watching the other teams and what they've been doing I feel it has taken away Not from what the potteries have done But taken away your joy a little bit just because you almost never gain any ground on anybody And like it makes me Now yesterday you did get one big game on the dodgers on the dodgers to the milwaukee brewers Five to three to snap their five game winning streak. So you're now two and a half back Diamondbacks one again though. They never lose. They never just assume never long just assume the diamondbacks will win the rest of their games this season that'll Then when they do lose it'll be a nice surprise at some point, but they clobbered the Rockies for their sixth straight when they swept the Rockies So that's the standard that has now been set for the potrays This weekend, uh, so both teams two and a half back both teams continuing to leave the wild card race by Four games over the Braves who clobbered the giants and may have May have kind of put a stake in a lot of the giants hopes this season I saw a lot of grumbling about bob melvin from the bay area the old tweet that in hindsight You know Maybe when he was struggling with the san diego potteries that should have been a red flag last year that we shouldn't have been so eager To go out and hire a snatch him. No idea if any of this is bob melvin's fault this year with the san francisco giants But they were really disappointed with that series getting swept by the atlanta braves met swan So there's still six games behind the potteries and diamond banks the first team out Cardinals are slipping though. They lost to the reds. They're cardinals in the standings with the three game sweep Phillies won they snapped the four game losing streak. So You know most of the teams continuing to win and match the podrays in the pot in the playoff chase But I think the fan graphs now I mean, it's not a sure thing, but I think it's up to 95 is what they have as the podrays odds Uh to make the postseason if they go there's 40 games left woods if they go 20 and 20 That's 89 wins. That's 20 and 20, which is quite I mean, we feel shot if they started, you know, just playing 500 ball right now would go what happened to you What happened to this team? 95 chance making the playoffs projected record 91 and 71 Okay. Yeah, I mean 91 wins would be that's 22 and 18. Yeah, very very reasonable. It gets you to 91 very doable Uh, no, and again, I'm not trying to play and that would actually be kind of a let. Yeah. Yeah, exactly And I'm not trying to throw cold water on anything uh, obviously anything's possible, but I I have loved every second of this don't get me wrong, but it is it is Paulie and I were walking at Paulie and I yesterday when we sat down before the game. I looked at Paulie I looked at my phone. I go just like this. I go f and three nothing diamondbacks already It's the first thing Paul. You're you're joking. You're kidding me And then yesterday I turned on the Dodgers Brewers games. I watched Walker Bueller Walk the bases loaded And then watched the Brewers get nothing out of it and was like you have got to be kidding me as the whole world against us Now the Brewers didn't end up winning that game, but yeah, man. It it doesn't It makes me very proud of what the guys are doing, but it's also like Isn't this isn't this just the way it goes you playing the best streak and franchise history and so we're so is everybody else that you need to lose I'm just trying so hard not to get too deep into the scoreboard watching me too. Me too, man September 1 it's on. I know right now just enjoy this run that the Padres are on you can't control Can't control it the diamondbacks winning or the Dodgers still winning You just there's nothing you can do about it until you're playing them. Yeah. Yeah, 100 percent, but uh, I'm I continue to just remain so impressed with what these guys have done Truly staggering Ben how you what uh you're did you become a fan of the San Diego Padres? I as soon as I can remember baseball probably 79 It's my first game right around 1980. It's been a long time There's been a couple of world series appearances. Yeah appearances What where does this team rank is it this this was this streak this the last I mean Would you say 21 out of 24 or whatever? What's what's the franchise record that they just said 19 to 22 that they've won So this team reminds me now when I in 1984 when I was very average first half of the season when I was nine You know, you didn't really know better But obviously it was special because they had never done it before they had never gone to the playoffs is 15 years They had never even been there so that was a very special season and you had the the Series with the Cubs and the playoffs and just the excitement around San Diego But there was not much of a race. They just played solid baseball most of the year To me, this reminds me more of 1998. That was a very magical Year for the San Diego Padres had Steve Finley's early grand slam walk-off winner and it did feel a bit like Team of destiny the way they played throughout the season. Um, can you let your mind go there? So it starts to go there as we have absolutely absolutely. This is this is I think from what I've seen so far one of the top three teams in pod race history now History will judge them on what they do in october assuming they get there And if they you know go to and done in the wildcard round, we're not going to have that fond of memories But in terms of a team playing together in good baseball I know they were just 500 basically at the all-star break, but this is definitely This is definitely one of those special seasons as a pod race fan. There's no doubt about it It's been very very special and um, I I think it's becoming a special season not just special Three weeks special run and I feel almost like I'm taking it for granted a little bit So I'm going to try not to do that. You know what I mean? I'm taking it for granted in that when we get down Uh a couple of runs. I'm like, I'm not worried I you know, I don't have that same angst that I've had because I've just really enjoyed the way that these guys have played the game a lot of credit to a lot of guys Uh in that club house the skipper the pitching coach the bullpen coach And of course the players who have just really been stubborn and and refused to lose it's been pretty cool And the formula for success is a rather simple one. Uh, this is also pointed out in the ut this morning Uh, they have been hitting better than anyone in the league 289 average over the last 22 games And they have been allowing fewer runs than any team in the league I'll do it 3.1 per game when you hit better than everybody and you pitch better than everybody You're going to win a lot of baseball games that way. That's gets good analysis. Hey, you remember mike shilt said Hey, we just need to marry up. We've been doing some hitting. We've been doing some pitching We just need to marry those things up. 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