Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
7am Hour - Rookie of The Year Odds Change + Shoutout To Their Families
Ben & Woods kick off the 7am hour talking about the 2024 NL Rookie of the Year odds, and how Paul Skenes' odds to win the award have changed DRAMATICALLY over the last week while Jackson Merrill's odds have skyrocketed. Then we get to "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we have three different "Shoutout To Their Families" to get to from yesterday. Listen here!
- Duration:
- 42m
- Broadcast on:
- 16 Aug 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
That's what it's. Good. What's our, how many of we won? Like 19 to 22. It's pretty good. Some would say it's the best this team has ever done in 22 years. Some would say if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Go ahead. You want me to see your guy? I just see our friend Steven Corinado's in the chat this morning. Good morning, Steve. Hi, Steve. Hello, Steve. Hello, Steve. Well, he knows Mike Schiltz coming on this morning and he really wants us to talk bunting with Mike Schilt and his strategy and his, his nine point plan and scoring system, grading system for bunting because he thinks that's the, the final piece of the puzzle for the San Diego Padres. I will once get reiterate. Not only the Padres playing fantastic baseball right now. I still think they are the best bunters in Major League Baseball. They bunt a lot. They bunt a lot. They bunt effectively. I've had, I've done a great job on their bunting. I can't even remember the last time they wanted and it didn't work out. I crony try to lay one down the other day. Did he? That's indeed got a tough pitch to handle red. You get a red in his grades right to that D maybe a D minus Steve really likes. He really wants the, Steve, if you're listening, you can call in 833-288-0973. I see the videos. You tag Ben. I'm glad it's not me because I'm, I would, I'd probably, I'm glad that you are the ambassador, the bunting ambassador for Steve and, I mean, if you want, if your manager lays calls for a bun, you want them to be able to lay it down successful. Correct. But don't you submit Steve that Mike Shilt knows what he's doing and has, I mean, they're the number one offense in baseball right now. He's not the kind of guy who, at least based on our interactions with him, Mike Shilt. He's not the kind of guy that overlooks fundamentals. Yeah, I'd say that's a good, that's a good way to put it. It's not really nearly about such things. No, in fact, it's, it's something, you know, you think that he preaches quite a bit. Yeah, it's in the other chat because it's chatting through Facebook. So that populates to this, the other chat. He's not in the YouTube chat per se, right? How do I don't know how to explain that? Yeah, we get them all aggregated together. So whether you're on YouTube or Facebook, we get to see them all right now. So he, he chatted through the Facebook stream and I just saw that one pop up. So if you listen, if he, uh, if they, yeah, somebody just said, if they bought in the world series to win a game, I'll give you, I will personally, personally, make sure you're on a float in the parade. So they may, they're a good bunch. Yeah. They have more sacrifice, buns, I think, than every other team with the Diamondbacks and they have more buns hints than any other team in baseball. They're really good bunters. Yeah, they're really good. So I, again, I think I don't think it's misguided. I know that that's his passion. Bunting is his passion. Um, and teaching music and teaching music, but as my late father-in-law said, find your passions and explore them fiercely. And he, he's like, who's the greatest explorer of all time? Vasco de Gama. Okay. He's the Gama of Bunting. Right. So he, they're all problematic. There they are. That's, they are. I can't think of one who's like, I really don't want to ride with Coronado. Who's a really great San Diego. Who's a really cool explorer. He, that's Steve. He is exploring his passions as fiercely as a cannon. His passion is bunting and the bunting graded system. It's weird too, because I'm teaching, or I'm coaching this year. Uh, and it's, we're moving up, right? We're no longer in T ball machine pitch. I, it's, is it weird that I won't teach any of those kids how to bun? Not one of them. And in fact, I'll, they'll probably be severe punishments for any of them that do buns. You're taking it to extremes, but yeah, not severe per se, but like, what are you doing? You're bunting. You're not bunting. You're seven. You're not bunting. Swing away. Man, let's go. We don't do that yet. You're fine, man. You're fine. So if Steve, if you're listening, you want to call in, listen, I'm going to tell you this though. I'm going to say this. Maybe for the last time. I'm not, when I'm playing that for Mike Schill. All right. He, I think he would slit our throats. If we said, Chilted, you have three minutes. I want you to listen to something. One of our audience members sent in. Here you go. I can't do it. But Ben has his phone number. Ben could text it to him. If Ben was a, a match, he would do it. You would text it to not show you just not going to do that. That would likely be the last manager's report. Now C 20. Moreno says it is weird that I'm not going to teach them how to bunt. Why would I teach a seven year old how to bunt? I'm not, the thing is, man, I'm not trying to win baseball games, right? I'm not, I'm not out there trying to win baseball games. If we win, that'd be great. I love to win. I want to teach that winning is cool and fun, but I want to teach them how to like hit and field and run the bases and things like that. I don't want to teach about a bunt. They'll learn how to bunt later. It's good hand. I coordinate your skills. You don't need to, you don't need to, off of a pitching machine, right? That's like that. If somebody bunted against me in little league, I think I'd be mad. I think I would be mad. I'd be like, what do you do it? Like, what do you, like, you try to advance the runner? Like, what do you try? Like, it's weird to me. It's weird. I want to teach these guys how to hit, you know, and give them a little confidence up there. Quickly, it was good day yesterday, even though the Padres didn't play. They got a lot of help around Major League Baseball. The Brewers rallied to beat the Dodgers six to four with three in the eighth inning, pulling out a four game split, which means Padres and Diamondbacks. Now, just two games behind the Dodgers in the N.O.S. That's as close as the race has been since April 24. Dodgers actually have someone breathing down their necks. And I talked to a Dodger fan just a couple days ago. He said, this is good for the Dodgers. They need this. I think that's it. This has been this has been the problem in the last few years. They've had nothing to do with it. They've had a few years. They've had nothing to play for in July, August and September. And you actually are. And I really believed it. They're actually happy about the fact that the Dodgers don't have a 12 game lead at this point in the season. We'll see. See how it works out. But that's the, that's where the Dodgers are. The Giants beat the Braves six to nothing. Logan Webb with seven and two thirds shut out innings. That means Atlanta now falls four and a half games behind the Padres and the Diamondbacks. They still hold that third wild car. They hold that third wild card spot because the Mets lost. They had a five nothing lead and blew it against the Oakland A's at home. Mason Miller dodged a couple of base runners in the end went more than an inning to get the save in the A's one seven to six, which means the Mets are now six and a half games behind the Padres and Diamondbacks. That's the first non playoff position is now a full six and a half games behind where the Padres are right now. So to miss out on the postseason you'd have to give up six and a half games in the standings over the last 40. Impossible? No, not impossible. But very difficult to do. And you'd have to have two teams pass you as well. Well, you know, for that to happen. You need both Braves and the Mets to come back and get you. So the Padres put themselves in a really good position at this point. And yesterday was very helpful for the San Diego Padres on that front. We need a contestant for real or take on Woods. If you want to call in and play against Woods in our musical trivia challenge and try to qualify for the trip to Las Vegas and the carry underwood tickets call right now eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three eight three two eight eight zero ninety seven three while you do that. I just wanted to point out. So everyone in baseball has agendas, whether it's teams, fans, even the media. We have agendas. We want to be entertaining and we want people to listen to us. Newspaper writers want people to read their columns, TV, you know, ESPN wants people to watch. Everyone has an agenda to maybe make things more exciting than they seem sometimes. The one outlet that doesn't real, I mean, they have an agenda, but it doesn't involve eyeballs is the odds makers. Their only agenda is to try to even the odds on both sides. They want bets 50% of bets on one side, 50% of bets on the other side. So they know their agenda is not to make money. Well, yeah, and their agenda is then to make money by by trying to make those odds as fair as possible. And the change in the nationally rookie of the year odds has been dramatic over the last week. One month ago, Paul Skins was minus five thousand to win the rookie of the year. That's, I mean, you bet one dollar. You bet $50 to win one dollar on Paul Skins. That is an overwhelming, like you would think insurmountable favorite. Those odds have almost come down to barely even money, like two to one at this point with Jackson Merrill, just under one to two plus one sixty as almost a co favorite now to win the nationally rookie of the year in an enormous shift in the betting markets. ESPN's bet ESPN bet like their new system that they have says that in the span of a week, Paul Skins went from minus four thousand one to 40 to minus two twenty five. Jackson Merrill in that same span of a week has improved from plus fourteen hundred to just plus one sixty. God, that would have been good odds to get in it plus fourteen hundred. So there is one or two months ago. There is one better that they have who bet a long time ago. He bet a thousand dollars, ten one hundred dollar bets, and he got skins at fifty to one. This is probably before they even called him up. That would have been it if he wins, it'll pay out over fifty thousand dollars. Fifty one hundred or fifty one thousand dollars. And it looked like it's just sure thing a month ago, like, okay, this is this is a lock. He just sold those those wagers out on the prop swap market for twenty eight thousand dollars. So took half his money to get out of his bet right now, essentially. Got a little nervous. I mean, look, he turned a thousand into twenty eight thousand dollars. Good, good, good smart betting. Wow. Now, someone may end up winning it if Paul Skins does get the rookie of the year and someone may be out twenty eight thousand dollars if Jackson Merrill comes back and takes the award away. That's pretty amazing. So pretty crazy, huh? Yep. All right. We got some contestants calling in. Let's get to it. It is time to take on woods. It's time for take on woods. What? What? All right, take on woods brought to you by Valvolin instant oil change only takes fifteen minutes. You don't have to get out of your car for directions and discounts. Go to SoakoutoilChange.com. That's SoakoutoilChange.com. Let's go to line three. Is this art? Yes. So art, are you ready to play take on woods? Yeah. All right. You're our contestant. If you can beat or tie woods who has left the studio. He does not get to hear this part of the game. You will qualify for our grand prize drawing at the end of the month. It is a two ninth stay at the beautiful Resorts World Las Vegas and two tickets to Carrie Underwood. Her residency underway right now at Resorts World Theater tickets on sale at access.com. It's A-X-S.com and R-W Las Vegas.com. To give you a little advantage, we let you pick the category and keep woods in the dark. Here is your choices for today. We got Spreckensy Deutsch. Those are German slash songs, bands, but also popular here in the United States. We've got twenty four hour bands. Those are five bands that have a time of day in their name. And our new category is called The End of Life. And it's a two second song category in which every answer ends in the word life. So we've got Spreckensy Deutsch, twenty four hour bands, or the end of life. Art, what would you like to play? Ah, The End of Life. The always exciting all two second song category. So this is how this one works. No questions. Just music today. Polly has five different songs queued up for you. To score the point, you need to give me the title and the artist of each song to get the full credit for that point. If you don't know one, you can say pass. We'll come back to the music if there's time left in your sixty seconds. Art, you understand? Yeah. All right, listen carefully. We're going to put sixty seconds on the clock and remember the category, The End of Life. So all these song titles end in the word life. You need to give me the song title and the artist to score the point. Art, you're ready to play, Polly? You ready to play? I'm ready? All right, sixty seconds on the clock. Art, your time begins when Paul plays our first song. Good luck, Art. Let's take on Woods. Next song. Go at number three. It's in my life. Correct. Song number four. All right, song number five. No, that's not correct. That's right. It's my life by Bon Jovi. One more time. The second song. We're running out of time. All right, well, we got two. We got two. I don't know if that's going to be enough, but you got it's my life there by Bon Jovi. It's larger than life was that last one by the Backstreet Boys. Semi-charmed life by Third Eye Blind in my life by the Beatles you got. And best day of my life by the American authors. Prediction, Woods is getting the first three. Yeah, I don't know about the fourth and definitely not the fifth. That's what I think too. All right, Art's score is locked in. Art. Love it. Woods, you do not get the category, but I do have to tell you. It's an all two second song day. All right, so you know how that works? Sixty seconds on the clock. Your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck, Woods. Let's take on Art. [Music] It's Bon Jovi, but I'll come back to this one. All right, song number two. Semi-charmed life by Third Eye Blind. Correct, song number three. That's in my life by the Beatles. Correct, song number four. Best day of my life by the American authors. That is correct, song number five. [Music] Life is a taped by the Backstreet Boys. Oh, you could have gotten that one. No, go back to song number one. It's my life. That is correct. That's four out of five and that is a four to win for Woodsie today. The end of life, all of these songs ending in the word life. It's larger than life by the Backstreet Boys. So close. You were very close. Couldn't have even taken a guess on that one. I did take a guess. It's just not a very good one. All right, once it gets to win today, we will put in a new category on Monday and see how you do. Art, thank you for calling. Thank you for playing. Wasn't your day today on Take on Woods. Paulie's got our T-set for Don't Do This, which is coming up next. Oh, yes. Can't play music and... Yeah, at the same time. Sorry. The T's is just a simple... Are you going to give him that hook to it? Not on that thing. She's back. She's back. She's never going away. That is coming up next with Ben and Woods. We'll be back after a check. Kelly's traffic here on 97.3 The Fan. Don't do it. Selling a little or a lot. Shopify helps you do your thing. However, you cha-ching. 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Started today by Stephen Woods. It's like a three-parter. I mean, obviously, we all know the story of Haley Welch. Yes, we all know who Haley Welch is. She's the-- You gotta give him that hook. Dude. That's all my ideas. Since that viral video went down, she's sold trading cards and all kinds of things. And the New York Mets thought it would be a good idea to have her come out and throw out the first pitch, the "Huck To a Girl." And so she did. Went out and threw out the first pitch. And they called her an MLB, actually, tweeted out from there. Hey, Dad, what is she throwing out the first pitch? What is she famous for again, Dad? Yeah. Correct. You gotta give him that hook. Dude. Spit on that thing. She's on the Internet, son. Yeah, she's on the Internet. "Huck To a Girl." Spit on that thing. So MLB-- "Huck To a." I mean, not that every team doesn't have some problematic first pitch thrower out. Yeah, I mean, we threw it out for the Padres. Yeah. He did it all night. Dan Silio threw one out. It happens. It does happen. One of the worst first pitches of all time, by the way, just for the record. Literally. It's like 50 Cent. Gary Delabate. Dan Silio. That guy. Yeah. "Huck To a Pitch" was actually pretty good. Not bad. But MLB actually tweeted it out. Viral sensation. Hayley Welch throws up the first pitch. So that's the first don't do this, right? That's actually blow-- Oh. That's blow a huge-- Cough up. Yes. Cough up. A huge lead. Okay. Lose the game. From W.F.A.N. Salicata. Now, I often think New York media is very performative. Very performative. I felt this one. I really felt this one from Sal, who is a Mets fan. Listen to this reaction. The Yankees have every judge and won Soto! Breaking records! Ruth, Mano, Gary, and the Mets have Grimace and now Hot Toa! Come on for the kid take it! I cannot take it anymore! Ridiculous! And then you wonder why fans get so ticked off and upset! It's embarrassing! Is it the biggest, the older world? No, absolutely. Does it mean anything on the field? No! But that's the problem. The product on the field isn't good enough and you're coming up with these silly gimmicks that are laughing stock. It's a joke! Hot Toa! [Laughing] It's going on. I just want to talk about this the record show. It's going on Salicata. It's embarrassing! Ow! Ow! Not old! The freaking Yankees! The Yankees! Have Aaron judge! And we've got Grimace! When you're a die-hard man, obviously you want your team to win a championship. But the second most important thing you want is just please don't embarrass me as a fan team. Don't do embarrassing things. That's what it is! Sorry that I have associated with you and thrown my lot behind you all these years. Don't embarrass me. I'd rather have Grimace than the goose's loose. Oh. I'd rather have Hot Toa girl than the let's go goose. I mean the progress at least didn't have anything to do with the goose. No! No! Rapper guys. They didn't throw anything. They didn't throw anything out to throw the first pitch or tweet it out or anything. No! And then the third part of this, Tim Healy, who was a Mets beat writer. [Laughing] He writes this yesterday. Mets beat writer for Newsday Sports. The Hot Toa girl threw out the first pitch at the Mets game for some reason. They introduced her as viral sensation. Then, update. I am not allowed to mention in Newsday who threw out the first pitch for the Mets today. His bosses wouldn't let him talk about it. You were just like saying her actual man? Anything. He's not just not even allowed to mention who did it. Healy Welch or Hot Toa or anything else. I think she's a lovely young woman. I do too. Big fan. Big fan. Making the most out of her meteoric rise to fame. She's squeezing it all out, man. Whoa. Alright, so story number two here for Don't Do This. And there are certain fan bases out there that feel like they're just better than the rest. And that their teams don't commit the same kind of mistakes that other teams do. I would think the Notre Dame fan base of which Woods is part of has that attitude, right? Hire. Easy. Hire. Standers. Easy. It's hard to get into Notre Dame. It is. I mean, they throw these things at the program. Like we have better behavior, whatever. Which is why this story was pretty shocking. Notre Dame has suspended its men's swimming program for at least one year. We're talking about like one or two guys or the coach. I'm talking about the entire program. Can you imagine if they did the football team? Oh, by the way, we're not playing football this year. No, they're just not going to swim this year. Well, what happened with the swimming program? Well, I'm devastated, by the way. According to a person with knowledge of the situation, members of the team had set up a makeshift internal sports book where athletes could wager on their own times. Posted by themselves or teammates at meet. They essentially had, they just started betting on their own events and meets. With their bodies, though, right? Correct. Yeah. All right. So it would be like me saying me, Ben and Paulie, saying like, I'm going to beat you today. I'll bet you 50 bucks I'm going to beat you today. All right. Let's go. Pretty much. Wow. That would never happen at a college. Ever. I think that's a very harsh punishment for the Notre Dame swim team. What am I going to do with my Tuesday afternoons now? If I can't watch the streaming, you're swimming. Yes. That you had been doing all this time. What am I going to do now with that? Well, listen, I guess it's better than stealing a national title in football. But what do I know? Listen, all right. And I will wrap us up with some doo doo doo. Doo doo doo doo. How about this, guys? How about a combined no-hitter for our beloved San Antonio missions, Ben? Yeah. Wow. Look at that. Well done. Brian Berger, Bradley Rodriguez, and Ryan Ox combined for a no-hitter. Very, very impressive stuff. Full line in, guys. Yeah. Nice. Burger, I think, went, got a text about it this morning. And Brian Berger went six and two-thirds through really, really well. No hit, obviously. They're 87 pitches, 65 for strikes, mid-90s fastball, vertical break rising, big induced, vertical break rising fastball. Very, very good. Good stuff from the guys. Bradley throws, he's a 20-year-old. He throws 100 miles an hour. So very, very good stuff for the San Antonio missions. And there's that gutted farm system that we hear so much about, Ben, for our San Diego Padres. I had heard that we had traded every single player that we had that was of any value. But the guys that were just drafted, they're all playing really well. And then the guys that have been in the system for a year or two, they're playing well also. So the future continues to be bright. You very rarely will ever see a nine-inning single-picture no-hitter in the minor leagues anymore. I actually think it's probably not something you would ever really want to do. No, I mean, they're so careful with pitch counts now that it simply is unthinkable that you would let a pitcher go nine innings in the minor leagues at this point. So they're almost all combined no-hitters in the minor leagues when they do happen. And congratulations to the Padres trio of double-ayers who got the no-hitter yesterday. And that is don't and do-do this for a Friday. That was "Don't Do This" with Ben and Woods, a 97-3 the fan. So we'll come back as Woods said, we got a trio of shout-out to their families. Kind of a sad day yesterday that we'll throw out there and continue some Padres talk. If you want to join us, 833-288-097-3. More Ben and Woods on the way on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. Just heard it in the tease, but I did want to congratulate our friend Landen Donovan on his new job. We're going to be taking over as interim head coach of the San Diego Wave back on the sidelines local soccer after they have made some changes. It's been a tough season for the Wave and they fired Casey Stoney and then they had the interim coach Paul Buckle. But I was always a temporary and now the season is set to really resume following the Olympics here coming up on August 24th. Landen Donovan is going to be the new coach at least on an interim basis. If he wants the job full-time, if this is like a audition, like a tryout potentially for full-time, you know, whether he wants to get obviously MLS coaching, I think was something he aspired to at some point. I don't know if San Diego FC, they're still looking for a head coach. They just hired their sporting director, their GM this week is well introducing him. So some local soccer news just out there today. So good luck to Landen Donovan with the Wave. They had three shout outs to their families that we needed to get to today. So they all came down yesterday and I wanted to know how familiar either of you are were with the first one, Greg Kin. Ever heard of Greg Kin? Greg Kin. Nope. I've not heard of Greg Kin. The song we just came back with was "Jeopardy" by the Greg Kin band. Huge hit in the 80s. Remember that "Jeopardy"? Probably play the next of the breakup song. This is the one that you may know. Oh my God. You never heard this before, Bali? I maybe heard it. I've heard this. I've heard this. Put a name to the song. Couple hits. Yeah, four or five hits in the 80s. Yeah, listen. Yeah, listen. Okay, definitely, definitely heard that. So Greg Kin band. The Greg Kin band, so he passed away the age of 75 complications from Alzheimer's, which is just brutal. So that part in the song, he was playing the song for his bandmates. And he just threw that in in his mind. He's like, "I'm going to write words for that later." Like, that was just a placeholder as he was playing them like the chords and everything. And they looked at him and they go, "Dude, that song is a monster, just like it is. Just like it is, leave it just like it is." So he left the "ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah" in there. And had a huge hit with that. Then he left the music business, Benny. Became a radio personality in San Francisco for many, many years. He was a radio disc jockey at KUFX, Classic Rock Station. From '96 through 2012, he was a horror-horror. Can say that word. A horror story novelist as well. Had a really good career, a really funny guy, very dry, kind of sardonic guy. Really sharp though, like very, very sharp dude. So he passed away the age of 75 yesterday. All right, shout out to his family. Shout out to Greg Kins. Shout out to his family. We've got two more to get to. We will take a quick check of traffic and then continue with the shout outs next. So I've told you guys, I was a huge game show enthusiast in my youth. I watched all of them, Bob Barker on the Price is Right. Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune. Press your luck. Password. The $24,000, $5,000 pyramid. And Hollywood Squares. Which when really young, the original host of Hollywood Squares was again named Peter Marshall. And Peter Marshall passed away yesterday at the age of 98. 98. What happened? Long run. Tragic, I know. That's a hat tip, man. 98. But I looked it up because I kind of remembered him and then he was a panelist on the later edition that Tom Bergeron hosted every once in a while. So I remembered his face and remembered his name. But I kind of jumped into a rabbit hole yesterday when Peter Marshall died. And I didn't realize that there is a major sports connection as well to Peter Marshall. Because Peter Marshall was just his stage name that he used in Hollywood. Very professional sounding. Peter Marshall. Like Dan Steer. Dan Steer. Very professional sounding name. But he was actually born Ralph Pierre Lecock in 1926. And when he became a host on television and radio, he adopted the name Peter Marshall as the stage name that he used. Why? No idea why Ralph Pierre Lecock was not something that he thought would sell one. He thought would sell well in middle America. Welcome to Hollywood Squares. I'm Ralph Lecock. But, and this is where the rabbit hole went down, you might be familiar with first baseman outfielder of the 1970s, Pete Lecock, who was actually Ralph Pierre Lecock Jr. He was Peter Marshall's son. He didn't go like Pete. No, he just went by Pete Lecock as the major league baseball player for the Cubs and the Royals, who very famously hit a grand slam off of Bob Gibson in Bob Gibson's final career appearance. So shout out to his family to Peter Marshall, a.k.a. Ralph Pierre Lecock. You know what? Mr. Lecock gets the full intro. Yes. And I really hope we can see more unity and more peace when already things are so difficult. It's true. So shout out to his family, including the great Pete Lecock as well. Ralph Pierre Lecock. Ralph Pierre Lecock. Yeah, she gets so fast. Very good way to do it. What's his name? Peter Lecock. Peter. Grandparents. Parents. Real jokes. I mean, at least they didn't go with Richard maybe. Yeah. True. He's a real Richard. God. Well, shout out to his family for sure. Real, real sad yesterday. Now, you guys know I'm a big, I'm a big 80s hair guy, but this is, they were, they were more than a, than a hair band. Now, Paulie, if I said the name Jack Russell of the band, Great White, would that mean, well, you too, anything to either of you. Is it Jack Russell? I think of a dog. Yeah, that's all I think of. Very cute. Yeah. Do you know? Nothing. High energy dogs. Nothing from nothing. Nothing any bells. There's, there's some sort of like news story. There's a huge news story involving that. It's not a, it's not a good one. Yeah. But you'd never heard Great White, Paulie, give me a little, give me a little, what do you got? Oh, listen to this. Oh, so they had their own band. They had their own songs. They did a whole album of Led Zeppelin covers. I'm going to say this. I'm going to say it by, he's as good as Robert Plant, that doing Robert Plant. Okay. Listen to this. He's as good. So this isn't Led Zeppelin, just not Led Zeppelin. Bro, there's a whole double album of it. It's unreal. Now, listen to how good that is. Yeah, I just would have assumed this with Led Zeppelin. Correct. I mean, they did their own music as well. Yeah. They did. I liked it. I liked it. They're very bluesy and their biggest hits probably once bit and twice shy, huge, huge hits in the 80s, but things got so bad for him and them. They played a, you know, he was on the road, man, playing to 400 people in Warwick, Rhode Island and they went and played a club in Warwick, Rhode Island. That's what it was. And I actually watched the doc, I went on, as I do, went down the rabbit hole last night, watched, there's a documentary about it. And it's got footage of him hours before the show, meeting fans, putting fans on the guest list, getting a tattoo, putting, you know, he's just a very genuine and nice guy, doing interviews and stuff like that. And they get up on stage and it's during the first song. And they have a little bit of pyro, pyro techniques, you know, a couple of little things that shoot up. And it's been something that had happened at that club a million times. Every band that came in did a little bit of pyro, you know, it was in clubs, you couldn't go crazy. But for whatever reason, man, Spark hit one of the walls and the walls had illegal insulation in it and it went up in flames and 100 people perished at that night. That's the story. I remember. And it was so devastating. His guitar player, and he got blamed for many, many years by, you know, people. It wasn't, it wasn't really his fault. I mean, they weren't negligent. They did everything according to plan. And he really took a turn, man, got into drugs and alcohol pretty heavily later on. And I think recovered, but then he passed away from Louie body dementia yesterday. I was really bummed because, I mean, I think about like eighth grade dancing with girls to save your love and they're like, I just loved, I love this voice. I love that band. I love their Led Zeppelin stuff as well. Really good guitar player, really good blues singer. So shout out to your family, Jack Russell, such a sad story, dude, such a sad story. So it's weird, man, when like, these are guys, I agree, it's weird, like these guys. And then they pass away and you're like, Oh God, you know, it's like, they're such a part of my youth. And when they start dropping off, it's just makes you face your own more talent. It really does. And it's pretty dicey, man. Pretty dicey. But his voice, if you get a moment today and you have Spotify or Apple music, just go put in great white Led Zeppelin, have your mind blow. They do such a great job doing that. So shout out to his family. Well, that was a sad segment. Yeah, but you know what? We still have to live on and move on and plan for the future. And if you want to start planning for the future next spring already, the Padres and Major League Baseball announced their 2025 spring training schedule yesterday. And boy, does it start early? The first training game next year for the Padres Friday, February 21st against the Seattle Mariners. And while they have not yet announced then what what then the report dates are for pitchers and catchers and full squad. Those will come January 15th later, but you got to figure, well, the the pull squad needs at least four four or five days before they start playing games. So that's probably around the 15th or the 16th, which means pitchers usually get five or six days before that. So we're talking like February around 10th or 11th probably for the start of spring training when pitchers and catchers report. So by the time, you know, the World Series rolls around like next season will be right around the corner. And the Super Bowl, which is always there, there used to be like a three week, two week a week gap between the Super Bowl and spring training. Every year it's gotten shorter and shorter. So the Super Bowl is scheduled to be played February 9th, 2025 in New Orleans. So likely the next that day or the next day, probably pitchers and catchers will now report to spring training. That's like the greatest thing that ever happened to us ever. I mean, that period between the Super Bowl and pitchers and catchers is well, it's dead. It's a dead period. Not a lot going on. Is there, is there reasoning behind this? Now we, this is going to be the first year for us in a while, where it hasn't been some weird, janky start to the season, right? There's no Korea series. We're, we're off the hook. No lock out. No lock out. COVID. No COVID. We hope. Of course we know. Uh, knock on wood. Monkey pox. But yeah, I think that, um, is there a reason for moving it up? What? Just the other than general creep. I think they try and they've tried to add a couple more off days into the season. Remember, like we all start break used to be just three days. Now it's four days for every team and they've tried to stretch out. I think a couple more off days throughout the season, which means, of course, either you push back the world series even further, which is hard to do. It's already getting into November or you start a little bit earlier, which is also difficult to do because in late March when the season starts, when's opening day, March 28th or ninth next year, somewhere around there, seven, you still can have really bad. Weather and cold weather on the east coast and in the north at certain points. So there's that kind of March 27th, yeah, they've kind of reached the limits of how early and how late they can now go in major league baseball without completely risking, you know, weeks of bad weather. So this is pretty much it. But yeah, they're getting started even earlier. And I think they're right on the edge of where they can now be in spring training. Well, the players feel about that. Right? They're like, all right. I would say that when they get the news, they go, it's like they probably go so soon. But if you get more off day, every player I always talk to, once Christmas is over, they're usually ready to go. They're like, okay, let's just get back and going. But they also feel like spring training is too long is a little bit too long, but long for the pitchers to stretch out and players will always say, you know, we could show up the last week or two and we'd be fine, but the pitchers need those weeks to ramp up and get back into form so they really haven't found any better way to do that other than a fairly long month and a half spring training. Our boss Michael says we're going to freeze out there at spring training. Well, I guess it's all dependent on when we go. Number one, he said we are approved. Well, there's two for space. There's been so early. Well, remember, I almost died from the heat last year at spring training. Remember? We had no shade. I like stroked out at the event Ben and woods RV, a mobile studio, park it in the parking lot right there. We just do the show. You know, like barstool. They do like the bus and with the boys, I think they do like they go to NFL training camps and interviews in the in the bus in the van or whatever. Love it. The Ben, the Ben bus. The Ben bus. We need a sponsor. Yeah. Michael, some local RV. Canopy. Air street. The RV. Yeah, I threw up last year. Are we living in the RV as well? No, absolutely not. Okay, we're not living there. We're just going to drive the Ben and woods Ben bus. Mobile studio. Yeah. I think it's a great idea. It's a great idea. All right. Well, we're going to start start your planning now. All right. Second half of Ben and woods includes a more journey and death leopard tickets. We've got, of course, the manager at nine o'clock in my shield on a fryer Friday and coming up next, talk to our friend Jordan Schusterman from SES for this family barbecue baseball talk on the way on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 the fan. 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