Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

8am Hour - Jordan Shusterman, Players Weekend, + The Reindl Report

Ben & Woods start the 8am hour by catching up with our pal Jordan Shusterman from Cespedes Family BBQ Podcast and Yahoo! Sports as we do each and every Friday! Then the guys talk about Player's Weekend this weekend in baseball before we take a call from everyone's favorite, Steve In Coronado, before we get to an early edition of The Reindl Report! Listen here!

Duration:: 41m
Broadcast on:: 16 Aug 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

All right, we are halfway home on a Friday but in woods 97 3 the fan I've got the nervous pit in my stomach It comes with a series and course field I know I'm being really dramatic about it But yeah, man these games make me very very nervous. I really believe in the team It doesn't it doesn't shake my belief in the team, but I really don't like course field I really feel like the Rockies play their best baseball against us. So that's what we're looking forward to this weekend But we still have two hours left on the program. Got Mike show coming up in an hour Got Paul Rhino the executive producer is here and Ben Higgins your friendly neighborhood sports anchor joins us as well Go waiting on Jordan right now. He's running a little bit behind so just so just quickly Obviously the Padres are four and six against the Rockies this year Which means they would need to sweep the series to win the season series against the Rockies But it's unlikely that that will mean anything as they won't end up You know in any playoff tiebreakers with the Rockies the only Potential place where a tiebreaker could come into play. So they've already won the season series with the Dodgers We know that there's seven and three with three to play. So they've clinched that one They're five and five against the Diamondbacks with three left if they win that series They'll own all the tiebreakers whether it's a two-way tie or a three-way tie with the Diamondbacks and Dodgers The only way it could come into play if the Padres lose that series to the Diamondbacks And the Diamondbacks take the tiebreaker the season series tiebreaker and then it finishes in a three-way tie Between the teams and you've split so there's no they go to the next tiebreaker Which would be division record which would then make these games against the Rockies part of that three-way tiebreaker? That's all that's many steps down the road. Yes, but there is in a sense a little bit extra on the line in these games Just because they are NL West games. So now it's also we haven't I don't think we've even mentioned this It's a players weekend. Oh, yeah, which I feel like I haven't seen the Padres participate in players weekend in years I've remember like the old uniforms. They had like Hedgy was like hedgehog or something. Yeah, I just haven't seen them in recent years This is right up Jordan and Jake's It truly is before we bring them on. I just wanted to post this if you're watching on the YouTube stream Jackson Merrill MLB just posted Jackson Merrill is gonna have a glow-in-the-dark Light saber bat this weekend. Like he's actually he gets to use this in the game. It's a victus It really does glow-in-the-dark. Yeah, they won't be dark at the games. They'll have lots of lights on. Look at the handle too It looks like a natural lightsaber. That's pretty badass. That's cool I'll never forget my dad asking jerks in profile if Victus is a new Is that a new brand? Remember that? Didn't know the ask him but Pulled him aside Stopped him on his way by. Hey, this is a bath. It was a victus never heard of that. Is that new? Dad leave him the love fondling him So they'll have the best thing to ever have so they'll get to pick whatever they want on the back of their jersey again Players weekend like so like our next guest he might have like shoesti on the back of his jersey on players weekend And there he is. We've got Jordan Schusterman from SES with his family barbecue our weekly conversation Presented by Grannell barbecue. Good morning, Jordan. How are you? Hey guys, good to see you. Sorry. I was late. I was busy on my own podcast talking about the San Diego Padres One of the best games in baseball. Go back and go finish it. We were just talking as much about the Padres as you want Oh, I love your I haven't seen you in forever. I was in Hawaii. I've been gone I missed you. You're fantastic, and I love your at the bottom there. It's his number one Brian Hoing fan No, you're number your number two Brian Hoing fan. We love Brian. We love Brian. What a find what a grab from a J Preller I had heard some really good stuff about him before he got here and he has delivered so far Yeah, and the reason why I wanted to obviously spend 20 minutes this morning talking about Brian Hoing is like That is not it's not I mean, it's easy to say now right deck nine scoreless innings, whatever But I think one of the most Inducible things for the deadline of any team I said this about multiple teams just had us about the catalysts of it is that like relievers are out there to be half Yeah, and so it's not a small thing to just add another one to your trade and We understand that the reason why the trade package was so big was for Tanner Scott But it was also for a reliever in Brian Hoing who like while his numbers were pretty good Miami this year like with team control like that's part of that too Yeah, and if you can add capable guys It just takes so many pitchers to get through a regular season let alone what we're talking We hope we spent so much time about how does this bullpen so scary in October? You got to get there first and I think that he's helped kind of bridge the gap where the rotation As we know still certainly has some questions And I think that guys like him are so important for for bridging those those fuck fifth six and seven things You don't notice them as much because it's not the night, but it really is so important I think that was huge for them to get I just I remember growing up and the Yankees had a guy named Ramiro Mendoza And that dude was just so under the radar But when Ramiro Mendoza came in it was zeros and he hung zeros every time to get it to You know I don't have a repair or but like even more to get it to the set the Graham Lloyd Yeah, the Jeff Nelson's you know somebody went on at a bad start Ramiro Mendoza came in hung zeros Yankees come back Those guys are so undervalued Jordan. They're so undervalued some of the potteries didn't really have this year until they found Brian Holy yeah, he's he's the only one jumps out of my my mind right now, but I know that there are you know hundreds throughout baseball history Yeah, and especially because like you know, they had these starters like these these kind of swing man types where you thought they could fill those roles Whether it's a burrito or a Vasquez right, but it's like Sometimes that works out or like any L honestly before yeah trade like sometimes those guys work out But it's even better if they're already used to being relievers because then you're not just being like Oh, it's easy like this guy normally throws four or five I'll just have them throw two innings to build a game doesn't always work that easily, you know We do have a guy that's more used to being a reliever. It's it definitely helps So yeah, man, it's good that it's I think that that is definitely an underrated part of that deal So Jordan yesterday we did our our round table our weekly commercial free hour with all the hosts and I throw out a bunch of different questions We had our we had our draft and basically it's a question everyone has to give a different answer But the question was you have a hundred dollars But you have to bet it right now on one team to win the World Series Who are you picking and because I think it's a really tough question right now You know earlier in the season. There were some clear favorites now I mean there's like nine teams and I go I can make a pretty good case for all of them Yeah, so I think I would still say the Phillies, which is kind of a boring answer But I thought you were gonna say Something more and a West related, but maybe we'll get into that too We will but but I mean like the Phillies have the like second worst record since the all-star break They've been just dropping like a stone the last month. It is very true However, when you still look at the roster and you just try and find the roster that like when they're at their best has the fewest holes I mean some of these other teams like Cleveland like with the great record like I'm still looking at the rotation I just say I don't know I I don't understand like the ceiling for Cleveland's rotation to me is just lower The ceiling for Baltimore's bullpen is lower the ceiling for the Yankees I would say they're pitching at this point to is questionable Where's the Phillies? We've seen them operating at full strength and they have some of the best starting pitch in the league and they have one of the best Lamps in the league when it's all clicking and they have a bullpen that has been improved enough to where there are some questions there But not as much as somebody's other team So I don't feel great about it right Houston a team that's looked awesome recently is another team that I still have a lot of questions On the mound, you know in terms of starting rotation. So maybe it's just a matter of a year I mean we Jake wrote this week and we talked about on the podcast about and this is related right We're probably not gonna have a hundred win team this year for the first time in 10 years and That kind of speaks to what you're getting at because normally we can default to a Dodgers to a Braves And I wouldn't be surprised if a healthy version of the Dodgers kind of gets back up into that conversation But they have questions to certainly and I like to think that that makes it that makes it more fun this time It sure does man and I we're talking to Jordan Schusterman from says for this family barbecue And we've been saying it like crazy If you had told me right now that San Diego Padres will be a couple of games back of the Los Angeles Dodgers I would at this this date. I would have said you're absolutely nuts. There's no way we're we're just what the hell Yeah, we're just playing for a wild card at this point And now I mean not only is the division, you know in reach Jordan It's it's it's attainable. It really is and you look how You look how maybe they're pitching sometimes you look at how the Padres are pitching and hitting and you go Yeah, it's absolutely attainable. I'm not going to lose my mind if they don't win it But it's for a man and Diamondbacks though the Diamondbacks for a team that really really scare me I don't watch enough to say oh well It's very clear why this is happening very clear why it's happening a lot of things are going their way as well Just like they are for us. We're getting a lot of breaks go our way But they are it they're a pretty terrifying team if I'm the Dodgers. I'm sweating a little bit Totally and that's that's what makes this race. So so interesting and I wrote about the Dbacks today Yahoo and I My colleague Russ Doris wrote about the Padres so we kind of had both of them covered But talked about both those teams on the pod today That's the thing is is for so long, you know, the Padres or at least recently And I know we know what happened with the Diamondbacks last year in the postseason But we weren't thinking about them We in that context during the regular season, but at the same time they were The the Dbacks was interesting is also the difference between how they've charted their regular seasons last year They peaked a lot earlier It's it seems weird now to to remember the Dbacks were in first place early july last year Yeah, and they really bungled it with the with the terrible july in august and then ultimately snuck in and we know what happened after that But that's what I mean, I'm just low you you were running through the schedule and I got to give you credit Ben Boy, man. I I am as big of a dork as it gets I can't do tiebreaker math. I can't do it. I cannot. It's one of my specialties Yeah, my eyes glaze over a little bit when he starts because I don't follow Yeah, I don't even want to think about the word tiebreaker until like the last three days So credit to you and I know that well, it never existed in baseball before I just went to a game 163, but they don't do that anymore In the old days when I when football season and you know every team was nine and seven and you had to figure out who gets the wild card Oh, everyone went right to me. I was that it's definitely my my forte Now we talked about the contenders that we're not surprised about them internationally I want to ask you about the one That it really is shocking and they don't talk about it enough the Milwaukee Brewers. Yeah, lose their manager Lose Corbin burns. Yeah, lose Devin Williams. Now. Yellich is out for the season with back surgery. They should They should have been terrible this year, right? I mean, that's what we were all kind of figuring and yet here They are they just took two more from the Dodgers. They're right there Not only for to win a division, but best could get the one or to see they're fighting for that as well How are they doing this in milwaukee? Yeah, and I think we've asked similar questions about them and cleveland and tampa bay When you compare those now milwaukee's been a little bit different because they have had some big money guys Of course they invest in yellich And he was awesome and then he'll go in down is is terrible because he really was not maybe not back to mvp peak But back to being one of the best hitters, you know in the nationally one of the best outfielders How are they doing? This is a great question. I do think that we're all collectively under rating their offensive unit Um because they have one of the best catchers in baseball and william contraris and that is impacting both sides of the ball So that that's a great example of just like how much having an awesome catcher can impact winning He is having someone like william contraris, but you know rees hoskins this Generally had some rees hoskins. He's been a little bit less But of course coming back midre is no surprise william domis is a top shortstop now that jax and churio is playing Like the top prospect he was he was kind of promised to be dude was born in 2004 All right, we could be a little patient if he's struggling a little bit, you know to start the season He has been outstanding too. I know Indirectly, you know started some spice when I tweeted a twitter poll about which jax and would you rather have for the next 10 years? Between churio meryl and holiday and I were surprised that those results were so lopsided in favor of holiday But that speaks to just how awesome meryl and churio have been Recently no disrespect to holiday, but I do think that that offense now will be tested without y'all It already has been recently and that's where it's like can this offense continue to be good And then what in the world is this rotation? Freddie Peralta who feel like the one thing that we could have counted on Has been good. He's been good. He's still racking up the strikeouts But not necessarily, you know a cyan contender like we thought he maybe could be and you say they lose corbin burns They traded away corbin burns on purpose. Yeah It's not like they're they're you know crack counsel, you know slipping out the back throwing going to the cubs like no that that was a decision that they made and Joey Ortiz has been really good for them But obviously you look at their team right now and you're like man They really need corbin burns and so how that kind of manifests itself That match up this weekend no walking cleveland I think there's a ton of parallels between those two teams both now how it's gone and what we kind of the questions We have about them moving forward really excited to see how that series plays out this weekend And man, I'll tell you when we did this on the roundtable yesterday. I'm looking for odds I'm looking to get paid here The you know if i'm taking a hundred bucks and i'm putting it on a world series contender Your mariners got to pick it up because they've got the starting pitching once they get there But they're they're three and a half out of the wild card right now. Is that right and they're playing skis today? Is that true? They got skis today. Oh yeah. Oh boy guys guys Tonight is I mean, I I tweeted this yesterday. We got Mariners coming off one of the more embarrassing sweeps imaginable You lose by a hundred runs on tuesday and then you lose basically identical games on wednesday and thursday in just horrific fashion And now we go to pittsburgh And what do you got? You got paul skines and a pirate's team that has lost ten in a row We need you bad. We need you guys tonight because we want paul skines to get bodied, you know, so jackson marrow Yeah, I mean, we're we're big Yeah, we're big m's fans. I mean, we're natural rivals. Anyway, the better cop and all of that So that's we need you guys to handle business It would be very baseball for paul skines to get blasted by This lifeless offense. Um, but yeah, I mean one of these teams is gonna somehow feel even worse tonight Yeah, so that's something but to your point like the reason you're you're bringing this up Not just and you know, how can we help jackson marrow? Is is the truth the sad truth the aggravating maddening truth is that they have the best rotation in baseball at this point I don't even really think it's particularly close because the fillies have fallen off They are so far ahead in every category and whip and quality starts and innings pitch per outing I mean, they get 14 shut out from brian wu and brice miller who are there four and five starters And they lose both games crazy I mean It's an unbelievable luxury that they have built and deserve credit for building and that they can't find an offense to support it Is both ridiculous and very appropriate yesterday on the anniversary of field schrenendes is perfect Yeah, it's like mind numbing if you're an m's fan. I mean you've got you've got what it takes to absolutely Crush teams in in the post season. Just up there last week and we were watching mets and mariners Team mobile park and everybody all my buddies were all super hyped on this team Best they've looked all season was last weekend and yeah, and that's the thing so many of these good teams We're saying who's starting the second game of the post season. It's got five guys. You're like, yep Sounds good. Yeah, let's do it. But does anybody know which team has the lowest team er a since the all-star break The only sub three team a er a since the all-star break. I think I know where's it going Is it your padre? It is the san diego padre's have the lowest er a since the all-star break right there So maybe some competition with those Seattle mariners jordan Appreciate it as always have a good couple of weeks We'll chat with you when things are really starting to get intense right around the start of september again. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, hey guys. Go beat the Rockies. All right. We got it. We're gonna do a such a challenge for us. It really is really is Thank you guys. George shusterman says for this family barbecue brought to you by grand old barbeque our friends Next time you're at the ballpark at it. You did. I saw you Simply the best which you guys have had the pulled pork sandwich very nice delicious with the spicy mustard. Oh my oh so good Standing every time you're not at the at the game north park or out in flint springs Always the best spot for barbeque in san diego. Oh, by the way, you mentioned it. We haven't brought it up yet Jackson shuriel doing big things born in 2004 You see the pitcher who was born in 1980 who's back in the big leagues again or at least in the minor leagues stick mountain He is back Not with your san diego potter is this time We'll get to that and more coming up with Ben and woods. 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Yeah, dude Sans buy them on well and my $8,000 my what I mean don't think my wife won't go out and do it It's bananas. You know that there are we're watching the little league world series last night Do you guys watch any of that? No, but I got a story in the round or more. I've been there four times. So yes, I have watched a lot of little league world series in my time Do you know that there's um batting gloves for kids now there you know what say cost? cost $100 Oh batting gloves for kids. Oh, yeah $100 For kids. They're gonna grow out of them. I can't remember the name of them, but they come in a I saw them at dicks And they come in a bat what what makes a hundred dollar batting glove $100 like I I use golf gloves. Yeah, and I get like three for 16 bucks at Costco. Yeah, you do the Kirkland Yeah, they're great. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with them. I could you probably use them for baseball, right? I used I use Callaway because I'm team Callaway. That's true. I'm a brand loyalist $100 they have bolts on them. They look like like lightning bolts kind of Is it actual lightning or the electric with their Bruce bolt? That's it I was there and I was with bow and Taylor and Hannah And I picked up this bag and I saw it said Bruce bolt on it and I picked it up and I went who's Bruce bolt? I have no idea Dick's uh sporting goods. Yeah on a box, right? Um, yeah, $75. 95. Yeah $105. Yes Good god. Do the kids that now do they have those the oven mitts for sliding yet? I yeah, can you buy those? The answer the answer to your question is Wouldn't you mean the kids you mean other kids? Well, I mean like my kids will never use the offer will you see those at a little league or even a high school game now Where they put on the sliding oven? Oh, we were at camp And uh at at baseball camp this summer and this kid would hit a single and reach in his back pocket and pull his and his dad was just wearing him out Get that sliding mitt on bro. Make sure to get the sliding You know, I was dying now none of these dudes slide head first So they're just doing it because that's what the big leaguers say. They're wearing Sliding mitts and then you know, it's sliding first. Yes. Yes Sliding sliding mitts just up in the air. We're in we're at dicks the other day. Yes, the sliding mitts up in the air And they're sliding at first and I I was crying laughing and I we were at dicks and and bow was looking at go Don't even ask Don't even ask he goes. I'm not I will do good don't and I looked at Hannah and I go Don't even think about it. Don't even think about buying these guys sliding mitts for the love of god I'm not going to so quit asker. Yes. Yeah, dad. I want Bruce bolts and sliding mitts. I'm not going to so quit asker. It's not happening Boating these batting gloves dude. He's he's kind of old. He's got a little flair, but he's just kind of old school too but uh I couldn't believe it every kid and every kid had like the $500 that And he was nuts watching this and I'm looking at him And you can just see her eyes get wide and I'm like, please don't please don't do this do not do this It's me now turning the tables on her. Don't do this. Don't do you idiot. You moron. Please don't do this It's pretty nuts. I mean, I'm assuming I never really talked to big leaguers about the sliding mitts, but I so they do really protect you from injury is that that's the purpose, right? I've never you're slim. Do you not jam your fingers? Is it if you get spiked? I mean, are they Are they like steel toad like steel toad boots at the end? I I've never someone steps on them Are you still are you gonna be safe? I've never how do they work? I've never put one on and I will say this I know adult league gets a lot of you look like you're about to take a casserole out of the Is what it looks like you're trying to do adult league gets a lot of crap But and and you see guys wear an arm, you know an arm guard, which is fine I followed one off my foot the other day. I've never done that and I'm I've never worn any sort of like armor at all But we have guys that wear that because they don't want to get hit in the elbow and stuff I will say poly. I've never seen a sliding mitt out there view No, never I've never seen one and I saw them they sell them. Yeah, I see them on the racks right there Exported. I hope they I hope I don't but uh, yeah, so anyway, $100 batting gloves is a thing. No You're so lucky your kids aren't little you weren't you wouldn't buy it. You know, I mean they did little league but they had bad They didn't have gloves. I mean that Mids but they didn't have batting gloves or anything when they did little league no champ somebody on the tier one the tier two team They wear isn't they wear them teamac wears them. Come on bro Barris right now Now I'm on the victis website My right to tease kind of put them on the map. Yes They were they were just a low level brand before to tease Low level. I don't remember seeing a lot of victis before to tease a good bat So you can get it says now it's just locked in the vault, but they do have the light saber bat How much? $320 Maybe it's not the kids they need to worry about maybe it's their old man actually. No, the light saber is not It looks cool. They also have they have the pencil bat Looks like a pencil. This is a problem with the glow in the dark dark bat is that you never play baseball in the dark Yeah, it is something that you absolutely need lighting for You know you can't do even in golf There's those like you know glow in the dark balls and you will occasionally do that You don't want to try to hit a fastball coming at you in the dark Jocelyn who's very involved in the league says this is incredible We had a kid who rubber banded a dollar tree kitchen meant to his arm We would yell your cooking bro. It's mom was horrified I feel like if I was a kid, my dad would have made me do that He would have made me, but they don't prevent intro. I'm assuming this one the other ones have plates in them I'm assuming there's something else though. So there is some plate plating in the finger area of those sliding gloves It's not just it's not just a soft padded Glove like an oven bet. Have you ever slid headfirst in your life, Paulie? I don't think I ever have Is the is the protection is the protection from injury more than me? It's sliding into the bag But isn't it harder to like hold on to the bag and grab it and keep yourself from falling sliding off when you have that on there because you Because guys do that they overslide the bag and they're trying to reach and grab and hold on to the bag Can you extra length a little bit a little tiny bit tiny bit. I would think it'd be a lot It's interesting. What a brave new world. We live in That's so good. All right. Well, listen how much for the jacks and marrow bat? It's not they're not selling it yet. Yeah, it says locked in the vault So I'm not sure if they're like gonna release it after players weekend or something, but yeah, you can get the blue glow in the dark May the fourth be with you bat for three hundred and twenty dollars Joey has called it if if jackson maryll homers with that bat they need to like with robert sores his intro Immediately turn all the lights off And have them do a big big flip of the bat where it's then Flipping do that colorado. That's a good point. But you gotta bring that bat home Yeah, i'm gonna have to use that at home at some point. All right, all right, we'll uh, we'll come back Paulie's got a uh rindle report for us including It's an interesting hollywood casting news that came out yesterday that had a lot of people Fairly surprised at the decision Of who's gonna play john madden in the john madden story I mean, it's it's pretty identical casting if you think i love it coming up next here on 97-3 the fan Is this great white or let's up which one Let's have a zap that zap i thought so the music doesn't sound the same when great white plays it But the vocals sound as good Wait, some of that earlier case you missed it shout out to his family We've got a rindle report coming up and then don't forget top of the hour. It's fryer friday mike shilt will be with us from colorado and um, yeah, we've been kind of figuring out what to ask mike shilts Things are going really really well. Yeah, you don't want to mess it up, right? Well, i'm not mess it up, but it's definitely easier to you know when something goes wrong, you know Explain this explain matter. You know, those are common easy questions to go to but you know things are going really well I mean we've got just I mean it's gonna be a fairly positive interview is what i should have to breathe I'm taking chute breeze and and talk about you know 18 and 18 and Fernando tatish jr. Potentially coming back. We'll see if we I mean we were supposed to get The pottery said the next update was coming around mid august On tatish so we're here on august 16th very mid literally is mid mid of august maybe they have some new news I know he was in arizona while they were on the road trip working out. He's back with the team With the last few days. Is he with them now? Is he staying home? I don't know. We'll see if we can get an update from mike shilt on franando tatish jr who is Sitting right there. We talked about a little bit in the round table The return of franando tatish jr is nothing but a positive for the pottery's he's would be replacing A platoon of david peralta and brice johnson, which is done. They've done a really good job of filling in but they're not franando tatish jr No one is but it's the one area of the roster where you really can improve right there Well, the cool thing too is with the guy like peralta playing as well as he has franando tatish jr is coming back from a pretty serious injury So you feel pretty good about what you have in case he doesn't need a day off and the good thing about Yeah, peralta being left-handed is that you can give tatish a couple days off against righties and show real good about peralta and the lineup those days Don't forget brice johnson a Switched was johnson what's hitting which when tatish is back Brice johnson's spot on the roster is somewhat tenuous, I would say so I mean he will be valuable for pinch running situations But they also have tyler wait tyler wait for that who's already valuable for that So that's definitely a decision that's coming not yet But soon Uh for your sandy ego pond raise first though check traffic and then paul you'll get into his headlines with today's rondell report next year on 97-3 the fam with our Addition today's addition of the rondell report now tune into the mother greatest Welcome to the rindell report with paul rindell hi paul All right two stories from the world of sports that 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 rindell report Okay, how are you? On 97-3 the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help please That was good All right, oh boy I don't know what to do here. What do you want to do? What do you want to do? I'm really in a pinch here Radio wood says we have to take the call. Let's pop them before we get to the rondell report perhaps this is this the Steven Corinado Steve are you there? Yes, hi Ben. Hi Steve. Hi Paul and hi Steven. How are you? I'm doing just a shade above phenomenal. Thank you Now I picture you right now either sitting in front of your piano or in the backyard working on your bunting that's just based on the evidence that I have that's what I picture I'm about 10 inches away from one of my piano keyboards beautiful Keyboards are about five feet away. Excellent cars and ukulele and stuff like that I'm a fellow musician and I want to tell you this Steve I'm also a fellow bunter and you know why I loathe bunting so much Is because it reminds me of the crappy hitter that I was the Unconfident hitter that was so afraid to get in the box and said let me let me lay down a bun So I can get a pat on my fanny with out of boy woods. He way to give up and out I we had we admire so much your commitment to Uh the bunt the bunt and Ben I think made the point on twitter with you steve The potteries have been pretty good at it this year Yes, I've been shocked higgy laid down a bunch the other yes, they're all doing it. Well everybody's doing it. Well, man Never went jake crony worth got his second butt how fired up. He was yes. Yes. Yes Yes, this is this though is what this is this is why we can't say anything to mike chills Right. He already is, you know, wondering about us and now we bring this up and I just I don't know see this is How about this? You know, I think we're all in agreement. We want this pottery season to last forever Yes, yes, and the way for it to last forever is to play in the world series and win the 2024 world series Maybe Maybe you could entertain one question to mr Mike chilp ask mike chilp does he know if any major league team grades the players On their ability to lay down the suicide squeeze bunt With trends and having that chart in their dugout, you know Just because you asked so nicely and have been so persistent There's no chance. Steve. I'm not asking I'll do it. I'll wear it. I'll do it. That's fine. Let's I'll do it. I'll do it for you. Steve I'll do it because wow in crucial playoff games With a runner a third with less than two outs We gotta have that run. I will do it. I will do it I'll ask him. I'll ask him. It's coming up. All right. Thank you. Steve. What is for calling? What a gem he is. I love it. I love it. What a great dude Sorry, Paul. Thank you for uh, happy to pause for a moment there. That had to be done. All right You see it all the time Somebody catches a uh monumental baseball at a game They trade it with the player for a bat or just a chance to meet the player Usually it's you know a milestone the first hit first home run first You know, whatever Had something happened yesterday up in san francisco mccovey cove There is a guy named mccovey cove dave who is out there Literally every night every game every game. Yeah, it is kind of he is out there and Michael harris of the braves had a grand slam yesterday and they wanted the braids wanted to get that ball back first grand slam, right? I believe that is true his first grand slam And yeah, first career grand slam and it was in the water mccovey cove dave Paddled his kayak over and he grabbed the ball The bally Bally sports south broadcast They asked for an update on whether or not the braves were able to get that ball back They were not And here's why had a Yates did they ever get that baseball back? Well brand and last night we did talk about a local giants fan who refers to himself as mccovey cove dave He sits at a kayak down in that cove every game on the water trying to retrieve a ball that might make its way He was able to recover michael harris's grand slam ball and afterwards two brave staff members went outside Just asked for wall. Hey, you know, it would mean a lot to him We want to get into him and case it and he said no They asked what it would take in terms of negotiation and he said nothing going to mike brave with this ball First grand slam ball that i've ever recovered then he started responding to fans with the selfie with that ball On his social media count saying well small gesture. I you know, there's one thing and so brave said what is that? And he said well, I want to be a giants team employee So not necessarily small gesture there, but michael harris says well sounds like i'm just gonna have to hit another grand slam So dave is not making many friends in the island club house or in the atlanta area Buddha dave, Buddha dave my man said I will give the braves This ballback if I can get a job With the same Francisco giant coincidentally the giants have just announced they've let bob melvin go as manager He will be replaced by mccovey cove dave. I think The rest of the season celebrates based on what I see on twitter if that's the case I mean like it'd be a thing if it were if it were a giant's player and he caught it And they said we'd like to get that ballback dave and he said fine give me a job But what are the braves care right brave? What are they gonna do? Far on hi. This is uh, you know bill From the alix mthoff. Yeah, that's how it's about this year Any chance you can give a mccovey cove dave a job would like to do that michael harris gramson your scouting department may be or I mean you got to shoot your shot. Tyler says it's called leverage. I mean he doesn't have any leverage You have a better chance of getting that ballback from zach hamper than you do from a covey cove dave no kidding I'm taking it to my grave with me. Yeah jr. gm to the next level says the deep fryer probably is there a position like ball recovery team The official giant ball recovery. Yeah sure my covey cove ambassador. Yes Perfect so yesterday i'm on instagram i'm scrolling around and uh bar stool sports posted a screenshot of a batting lineup from the little league world series the statin island new york lineup and the caption was statin island little league world series lineup looks like an extras list from the sopranos So put it up here on the stream and we can just go through it leading off at third base. They have vin rogerio rogerio yep rogero rogero or rogerio steven grippo is the pitcher peter jiachio jiachio jiacho jiacho yep the catcher jaker marrow is playing first baton clean up chase kuro is Uh in center field. Alex toras at short dean scary jello Then right zach wise exact wise joe irachi Dylan de gada niki mcclean and jason roquio Hey italian paul seething this this team instead of uh hotdogs after the game. It's all gobble gobble gobble cannoli God, that's so good. No idea if i won or lost steven grippo peter jiacho finally to pay off ben's t's here quickly. We got like a minute or two uh john madden has a biopic coming out from amazon mgm studios And they have casted one nicholas cage to play john the nickage the nickage Leaving las vegas con air national treasure nick cage I mean it's identical all three of us look much more like john madden than nick h does Yeah, but there's hollywood and makeup is it young john madden because i'm sure it's younger than so i don't know john madden So david oh russell. He was the guy who made silver linings playboys american hustle I think he made uh the fighter as well. So this is not really you know the life that knows The nose is not bad actually so this won't be like a movie on the life and career as much of john madden It's going to be actually about the genesis of the madden video game That's peter. I'd rather have a bile pick on john madden. I need to hear nicholas cage go Tough acting today. It's gonna be that in him doing the voice is going to be so good Yeah, we'll have that we'll have the preview as soon as it's out. We'll play Yeah, jr And I saw this a couple times yesterday says that this would have been phillips emore hoffman Just perfect for him. Nailed it call which was would have been the best Not a biopic of the man in the typical way nor a sports drama rather than madden is in part According to source is a video game movie. It's the origin origin story of madden nfl One of the biggest video game franchises of all time. I uh am a huge nick cage fan My wife is not we were watching a nick cage movie with the kid I was watching a nick cage movie with the kids the other day and she got really upset She doesn't like nick cage. It's got a set of paintings remember which one it was It wasn't like one of it wasn't leaving lost. It was a national treasure. No, it's a national treasure. It's a kid's kind of movie I can't remember what it was. Mm-hmm. She's a fun with love national treasure. Yeah, 100 percent She's not a nick cage fan and I am a huge I have to steal the declaration of independent huge nick cage fan He does have an affectation in a lot of his roles. He is so so Doesn't sound at all like john madden, but I'm even if he's an actor. Yeah, you can pull it off. He's brilliant brilliant All right, it's time raised a lot eyebrows though, and then the casting was announced. I like nick nick cage is john madden Yeah, raising your zone is brilliant You ever see raising your cone brothers. It's really good raising your zone All right, here we go. All right, uh, do it weekly conversation. 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