Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
9am Hour - The Reindl Report + Were You Ever Cut From A Team?
Ben & Woods kick off the 9am with The Reindl Report and Paulie's top stories of the morning, including CeeDee Lamb ending his holdout on a massive contract with the Dallas Cowboys. Then the guys talk about if they've ever been cut from a team in their life before we look ahead tonight's game between the Padres and Cardinals with Dylan Cease getting the ball for San Diego! Listen here!
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Don't miss out, head on over to the sharpest rides.com today and explore the deals that make every season better. And tell them that your girl, Tasha McKia sent you, the Sharpest Rides, affordable, sexy, sharp. - This is a good time of year on the sports calendar. - Welcome back, final hour of Ben & Woods. - This is a good time. - It is, yeah. - College football, starting. - College football week one, this week, after the week zero games earlier. Get the golf playoffs wrap up this weekend with a tour championship. - Good luck, yeah. - Our friend of the program, Xander Schofle, who will start in second place. Remember, it's the staggered, yes, start. So, Scotty Schoeffler, who's number one in the FedEx Cup standings, is at 10 under to start the tournament. Xander Schofle is at eight under to start the tournament in second place. Then, Hideki Matsuyama will be third at seven under and Keegan Bradley, who won this weekend at the BMW Championship, which was a pretty cool story, actually, Woods. He'll start fourth at six under. Keegan Bradley was the last player to get in to last week's tournament. Only the top 50 made it in. He was at 51, and he was done with the FedEx St. Jude Championship. His round was over, so his season was over. Until Tom Kim finished bogey, double bogey, bogey to drop out of the top 50 and put Keegan Bradley in at number 50. And then, he used that opportunity, went last week, won the tournament in Colorado, at a course that was over 8,100 yards long, but with the elevation, they were like hitting the ball 400 yards up the tee, and won the tournament, and now he's got a legitimate shot to win the entire FedEx. Now, remember, he's the Ryder Cup captain next year at Bethpage Black, and probably played his way onto the President's Cup team as well, which is coming up in Montreal here in a few weeks. He'll certainly be a top captain's selection for that tournament coming up. So you got the golf. Obviously, the NFL season starts next Thursday. - Next Thursday. - The preseason's over though, so they got the kickoff game with the Chiefs taking on. Who are the Chiefs playing in the first game this year? - I don't even know. - They've got the Thursday night opener in Kansas City, and then Friday night next week, they're playing in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that second game, and then the first full weekend Sunday games with the Red Zone and everything kicking off a week from Sunday, so, and then, of course, baseball, pennant, races, and-- - It's crazy that it's-- - It's a busy time on the sports calendar right now. - I mean, you know, this is the year of the playoffs in college football. - Ravens and Chiefs. - Ravens Chiefs, that'll be a good one. This is, you know, the extended, expanded playoffs this year. You've already had a top 10 team go down, you know? - Chiefs and Ravens. - Chiefs Ravens, yeah, we just said that, he just said that. - Fine, he was looking it up. - He was asking me how it did happen. - Ravens, by the way. Top 10 team already goes down in Florida State. But yeah, man, you got 12 teams basically competing this year. - But, you know what's great about that? Florida State, remember last year? - They're not dead. - They won all their games, they didn't even make the playoffs. - Yeah. - Now they can lose, get bodied. - Yes. - They'll come back, win their conference, and go to the playoffs. - Correct. - It's 12 team playoffs. - You're not dead. - You shouldn't have a system where you lose one week in Dublin, Ireland, and your season is over. - Over. - Which, last year, if they did this last year-- - Was over. - Their season-- - Was over anyway. - It was actually over. It was over even though they won every game. - They won every game. - We didn't know it at the time, but it turned out, their season was over before it even started. Because, your Florida State, you win every game, and you can't even get into the playoff. That's a problem. That's a problem for any school. - I'm excited about it, man. - So, new format, I think, is exciting for college football, and it's just a better-- People go, I do not understand the argument. You're cheapening the regular season by making 12 playoff games. - No, you're not. - No, you're not. - No, you're not. - If Florida State was out of it, you just made their next 11 years-- - Irrelevant. - Meaningless and irrelevant. Now, they still have tons to play for. That enhances the value of your regular season. Doesn't cheapen it at all. - 100%. - 100%. - It's not baseball. You know what I mean? It's different. It's different entirely. And now, yeah, like you said, you go home, win your conference, you get into the playoffs. - Now, was it conference loss? - It was a conference loss, but-- - It was a conference loss, but-- - But you can still come back. - Absolutely. - One is possible. - Absolutely. - I doubt Georgia Tech's going unbeaten all the way through. - No, they're not. - No. - Anyway, that's some of the things going on right now in the world of sports, for some other headlines. Let's turn things over to Polly and the Rindle Report. - And get things started here with our edition today's edition of the Rindle Report. - Now, tune it to the mother-- greatest-- (upbeat music) - Welcome to the Rindle Report. With Paul Rindle. - 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 Rindle Report. - Hey, Paul, how you doing? - Okay, how are you? - On 97.3, the fan. ♪ Are you ready to blast the moon ♪ ♪ I need some help lately ♪ - Ha, that was good. ♪ Can I get a whole year ♪ ♪ I'll die ♪ - All right. - All right. - Boom. - Just wanted to congratulate you guys. I think we have once again made sports radio history. The only radio show in America to have not brought up CD-LAM and his Blockout CD contract extension. - I can't say his name without saying CD-LAM. It's every time. I'm six years old at heart. - Congratulations to the Cowboys CD-LAM for that big old deal. - Four years, $136 million deal. That will end the lock. Hold out right there. - Yeah, yep. - And that makes him the second highest paid non-quarterback in NFL history. - Wow. You can't even compare quarterbacks with other players anymore because they make so much money. Who's been won? Justin Jefferson? - Yes. - Is won. - $35 million of CD-LAM is two. - He was looking at the fifth year of his, it was an option of his rookie contract. He was scheduled to make $18 million. - He wanted a new deal. - Wanted a new deal. And don't follow him. - Jerry Jones provided. - Yes, he did. - I don't follow a ton of the NFL, but I know Jerry Jones was asked about it pretty much every day. And he seemed like, I'm not worried about it. Not worried about the hold out. We're gonna get this done. He not going anywhere. - He actually said there it was. Glory hole is what he said. - There it was. Glory hole. - Coming to the office on Monday. - Spanking himself. - There it was. Glory hole. - One of the greatest drops of all time. - He's not the only. - Glory hole. - Who needs to get paid? Dak Prescott also needs a new deal. Doesn't have one yet. - Yep. - Will that be next? Or did they just give all their money to CD mail? - I think the Dallas Cowboys will be fine. They're gonna need to do some roster manipulation though. As all teams in the NFL do, you have to get very creative. Capology and all that is very creative in the NFL. I don't pretend to know anything about it. - Jerry's still technically their GM as well. - He's still technically alive as well. So it's the owner and the GM. You don't see that much. I mean, that's rare. - There's a reason for it. - Al Davis did it. - There's a reason Jerry does it. - I mean, if you bought a baseball team. - I would turn over the reins. - You would not want to GM it yourself. - I would turn over-- - You know baseball. You know ball. - Bro, I'm not at that level. I would turn over every bit of the reins. I would sit in my suite. - You would not meddle at all. - No, no matter. I would be down there really. - You were the owner. - If I was the owner? - You wouldn't meddle at all. - No, unless you would consider hanging out and slapping butts meddling. I would be down there like hugging my players, saying what's up to the guys, but I would not meddle in like the decision making. Ever. 'Cause I'd hire somebody that could do it. - But you'd set a budget at least. - Oh yeah, I mean, my budget would be whatever I could afford. Like it was whatever you can spend to spend. But I would not meddle in the game, the day to day decisions. - I'm curious how many NFL owners really do meddle with their team. I'm thinking like I started, the first, I started thinking about owners, I was thinking NBA owners like Steve Ballmer and Mark Cuban, those are very colorful guys. They're very energetic and you see them all the time, but I wonder how much they actually meddle with. - In basketball and football, you have the hard, essentially hard salary cap sports. So you're not even setting a budget really. You're giving someone full authority just to put together the roster based on how much they're allowed to spend. In baseball, the owner at least has to come in and authorize, all right, we can, I guess we can spend a little more for this guy or I want to keep it at this level. I mean, the owner has to say something about that. - Both ends of the spectrum in baseball, whether it's Steve Cohen, Peter Seidler types or. - John Fisher. - John Fisher, Dick Manfart. - Yeah. - They do set the tone for their organization. - More than I would think an owner in the NBA or NFL does. - 100%. - Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, you'd like to think that you wouldn't, but I don't also don't think it's bad if you're the owner to check in with your manager once a month and say, "Hey, what's going on with this guy?" You know what I mean? Like, I don't think that's meddling. - No, Peter Seidler did it well. - Yeah, he did. - He did check-ins and, you know, just conversations about life. - I also wouldn't disappear. I'm not the Mariners ownership, right? You know, I'm in Japan. - I'm right to check and I'm done. Like, let me send me my checks. I would be involved because I would love the team. I wouldn't buy a baseball. I wouldn't buy any thing unless I didn't love it. Love it. - Not for that price. - Not for that price, right. Knowing, even knowing what you can make back, I still, I still wouldn't, and what its valuation would be. I mean, I would absolutely have to love something to buy. - All right, moving on. - It's like those t-shirts you buy sometimes late at night. - Which t-shirt? - Which is the one that you were wearing last week to buy it on Ambien? - Which one? - I don't know. - You have so many- - I have so many Ambien purchases. - Ambien purchases. - You didn't have to love it to buy it. - You either have to love it. - Or you have to be on Ambien. - Or you have to get it, yes, exactly right. - That's just about a baseball team on Ambien. - Good luck. All right, so in college sports, we're still kind of navigating the NIL life that we now live in. And it's just getting crazier every day. I was reading a story yesterday about how the headline was like how Ohio State built their $20 million championship or bus team. Just all the money that goes in to the NIL. But what I hadn't really thought about was how NIL also is trickling down into high school sports. There is a mom in North Carolina. Maybe she's listening. We're very big in North Carolina. And her son has committed a play for Tennessee. He's a quarterback. He is the number 32 ranked player in ESPN's junior class. And he's the number four passer in his class. And she is suing the state of North Carolina saying that they put in a rule that high school kids cannot profit off of their name, image or likeness. In which he's had several opportunities as a high school player already. And she is arguing, or her attorney is arguing, that NIL was put in place to promote athletes and allow them to cash in on their success so far. And it's not allowing high school students to make any money. - I would like them to be able to promote a cash in on his NIL, little league. - I think she's got a case. - I do, actually. - They do this policy in June, which blocks public school athletes from making money through the use of their name, image, and likeness. - Was there ever even a rule? The only rule against it in high school was that if you were taking money in high school, you couldn't get a college scholarship anymore. But now the NIL in college, there shouldn't be anything stopping high school kids from taking advantage of their name, image and likeness. - Like her attorney says, the State Board of Education was asked to create rules allowing public high school athletes to use their NIL. It was not empowered to ban it. We look forward to correcting the State Board's error and to help our client benefit from the incredible value and opportunities, his hard work and commitment have created for his name, image and likeness. - I mean, in high school sports, you already have, you know, private schools that recruit top athletes to come and play. That's been going on forever, there's no change. So, you know, if someone wants to also, you know, have them sponsor their tractor dealership or something, and I guess they can do that if they wanted to. I don't know what the return is. I mean, you're gonna buy something because a high school football player is endorsing it woods? - Probably not. - Probably not. - Probably not. - So, I don't know where there's a ton of market for this. - Well, hang on though. All right, so the Irish have a kid that still in high school, Deuce Knight, is one of their recruits. And he was showing all his stuff. I'm like, if he had a t-shirt, I would buy it. So, I'd just change my mind. I think I absolutely would. I think I absolutely would. Deuce Knight, I love this kid. He's on Twitter, follow him. If he had a Deuce Knight, Shamrock shirt, I'm all over. - They sell a million t-shirts if they sell five t-shirts, whatever, let them do it. I have no problem with that, especially with what we're seeing now in college. I think that's unfair. - Yeah, that's fair. - All right, finally, I think this is unfair. - Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. I can't believe this. - You know, this is kind of echoing something we talked about maybe last week. I told you, I watched that new Twisters movie. It wasn't the sequel. It was the remake. It was a reboot. - A reboot? - A reboot. - It was terrible. It was not good. And well, apparently we're just out of ideas and we're just gonna-- - Yeah, Ben. - We've been here for a while. - Here's Carl Starr from Ben & Woods. - Yeah, we'll make our own cornstarch. So, I got a new movie coming out. - It is a remake of the 1987 classic-- - Classic. - La Bomba. - La Bomba. - They are remaking La Bomba. - La Bomba was a good movie. - La Bomba was a brilliant film. - Yeah. - Brilliant film. - The Lou Diamond Phillips. - Why aren't we just leaving this alone to stand on its own two feet as a really brilliant film? East Side Morales is Bob, one of the best characters I've ever seen. - Ever in my life. - I'm a first. - On my last. - Variety has a story yesterday. - Mucho Maas, Media, and Sony Pictures have teamed up to develop a remake of La Bomba based on the life of rock and roll legend Richie Val. - I'm gonna watch it. - I will absolutely watch it. - The new one. - Yeah, 'cause I wanna see how bad it is. But it was such a good movie that you don't need to remake all of these. Also, is there such a fervor for Richie Valance and the Big Bopper and all of that? Is there such a fervor now in 2024? - I'm curious which band is going to play the music. - 'Cause remember Los Lobo killed it when they took, you know, took the mantle of having to play La Bomba for the movie and it made the song popular all over again. - What was that, late 1980s when that came out? - '85, Pauli said, '85. - '87 movie, '87. - '87, yeah. So now you're gonna need a new band to be the new Los Lobo's that plays the song again for the new La Bomba movie. - And it's, Luis Valdez, he was the writer and director of the original movie. He's on as an EP for the new one. I have Oscar-nominated writer Jose Rivera. - All right, so I can get the-- - He's gonna write the screen. - Maybe a modernized-- - That's about all we know. Don't know when, don't know who's starring in it. But imagine Glenn Powell, since he's in every sequel. (laughing) - Glenn Powell said it as, as Bob. (laughing) - You got screwed, glued, and tattooed. He's the, I was a kid, he came out in '87, I was 12. - And negative three. - It came out, and I was 12 years old, and when Bob, his brother, came up the scene, I was like, whoo, that guy, is as edgy as edgy can be. Starting fights at the dance. I mean, taking him down to TJ. Like, it's the spirit journey he goes on. I mean, it's such a great, great movie. I'm gonna show my kids that movie. Like, this weekend, it's so good. - People got mad yesterday when I spoiled the end of season three of Ted Lassett. - Yeah, you did. - They haven't seen it yet. Am I gonna spoil Lebamba's ending? - Yeah, the plane crashes, they all-- - See, now, would you just gave it away? - Day, the music, everybody dies. - Yeah, at the end of Lebamba. - You know who didn't get on that plane? - There was someone, right? - Yeah, who? - Someone. - Waylon Jennings. - Wow. - Waylon Jennings was supposed to be on that plane, and I think he was ill. - So is the big bopper. - Yeah, buddy Holly. - Buddy Holly. - And Richie Vallens. - And Richie Vallens. - Brutal. - Brutal, brutal day. - For the music world, the day the music died. And Richie Vallens, the movie about him not wanting to fly and being afraid of flying and all that was all real. And yeah, Waylon, I think he was ill and gave, oh no, they did the coin flip thing. - In the movie. - In the movie, that's really what happened. They lost the flip. And he's like, damn it, all right, I'll ride the bus. Waylon Jennings would have been deprived of Waylon Jennings for all that time, like we were the rest of those three guys. So all right, I'm gonna watch it. (laughing) - You're gonna happen. - Maybe I do have a fur for LaBamba in 2025. - And that is our rival report for a Tuesday. - It's gonna be carry on my wayward son. It'll be truth in your God. - That means, I know what that means. - That's our sounder. Yeah, if you were paying attention earlier. Now's the time to call 833-288-0973. Your chance to win tickets to Kansas at Humphreys on September 22nd. Paulie and Lance were those calls during the break. I had like a lot of Twitter interaction the last couple of days after an idea. And I have no idea how serious this idea was floated about a major sporting event coming to San Diego. - I saw this, I saw some people were mad at you. - Some people agree with me. - Yeah, this is interesting. 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I mean, you did making him a moderator, but that doesn't count with this. This is, I asked the dictator, I'm like, gosh, where's he making them? Oh my gosh, we just make him a mod and a small break. I said, go ahead. I like to empower my people to make their own decisions. Well, keep listening to the sound, or we'll have another pair of tickets to Kansas to give away tomorrow, to Humphries. You can get your own tickets, of course, to Kansas at Humphries@ticketmaster.com. Speaking of tickets and events coming to San Diego, so I saw this tweet over the weekend from Adam Stern. He's a motor sports reporter for Sports Business Journal. So San Diego has emerged as one of the cities where NASCAR is interested in hosting a future street race, per sources, as the sanctioning body continues to explore the concept across America. All right, so like a F1's race? Yes, yes. So I saw your reaction, and I saw yours on Twitter. Vegas and San Diego are not the same. We could do this and make it incredible and cool. Again, not an F1 guy, not a racing guy. Vegas looked incredible and cool, but the stories that you told when you came back from the locals, the cab drivers, the Uber drivers. Every single person was like, get this! I'm outta here! So I think, but you do that and you learn from it, right? And learn not to make the same mistakes. I personally think it would be awesome. I think it would be awesome, awesome, awesome. It looks cool, it sounds cool, this is a great city. We don't get enough attention as far as I'm concerned. So I think, now, I say that. Can they race now? I'm over the Coronado Bridge because that would look-- That would look really cool, but I mean, I do understand it. I also say this from the perspective of someone who lives somewhere that is nowhere close to where any of this is happening. I will not be inconvenient, that in the slightest. That was my biggest concern. I kinda said hard pass. I wanna keep an open mind because there were some people who responded to me and said, it won't be like Formula One. They had to close down the strip for months to like, repave it, make it okay for open wheel racing. This is different, these are stock cars. Oh, it's not a quick one. No, no, this is NASCAR. And they said it won't be nearly as involved in terms of what they have to do. Obviously, they'll have to shut down some streets for a couple of days to set up the course and like they do with the rock and roll marathon and everything, but we get through that, okay? Yeah, you get through. I wanna try to keep an open mind, but I'm really curious as to what San Diego really feels about this. There are NASCAR fans here, obviously. The home of Jimmy Johnson, who is one of the legendary Kings of the sport, seven time NASCAR Cup champion from San Diego, we've never had a race. Obviously, the closest was Fontana, which they don't do anymore. So Southern California has really been cut out of the circuit, but I know tons of people who would go up every year went up to that race in Fontana and are big fans. And I just don't know, would there be a lot of interest if a NASCAR street race? Now the real, some of the NASCAR fans go, but the street racing is kind of boring. It's not like F1. It's better on an oval than it is on the street races. Those tend to be not great races. They've done this in Chicago the last couple of years. Apparently it didn't, didn't make him a ton of money. So they're kind of looking at other cities to potentially explore as street racing venues. - So this is the funny, so the NASCAR fans that literally will sit in the stands and watch these dudes drive in circles for hours say that a street race is too boring? - Apparently. - Too many turns. - Something made me understand. - I just want to understand that. 'Cause I've been to NASCAR race. It's loud, it's fun. 'Cause I had a 24 pack of Coors light in the stands and our shirts off. - Do they just give them to you as you walk in? (laughing) - You got to take it, here's your case beer. No, just bring your own beer. We had a blast. It was one of the better days I can remember, but after a while, it's a bit tedious, I'd say, a little monotonous. But I think, you know, those people would say watching a baseball guy. - So nothing in the story said like where exactly they would want to put the course. - I would think, I mean, somewhere in the city, like-- - Yeah, it would be like the downtown harbor drive. - I mean, where are we thinking that we're going to put this race? - Again. - What are we shutting down for how long? What time of year is it? There's a lot of unknown details that you just give me some trepidation before we just jump into this thing. - Like I said, won't inconvenience me in the slightest. So it's easy for me to say. I'm not saying it to be a jerk, I'm saying. It's easy for me to sit in here and go, yes, that's good for the city. More eyes on San Diego, et cetera, et cetera. But yeah, man, I mean, if you live downtown or something, you're like, all right, like if it's downtown, you're like, hoo, and you know, like you said, you have to put up with it with the rock and roll marathon and all the other things they shut it down for. But I think it would look pretty cool. And it, you know, obviously being here, living here, I'd watch the hell out of it. Wouldn't you guys, you'd finally get me to sit down and watch the race. - I have driven on that street. - I know that street, I know that corner, yeah. I tried to, I have park parallel parks there once. - So good. - Jay in the chat says, let's get Kelly Danik's thoughts on this. - The Elsa is better with pace car. Oh, I like that idea. - Another idiot, just spun out. Fifth of the blabber, she should broadcast that. - The ladder in the roads on this NASCAR race. - She should absolutely be the broadcaster for it. - The idiot left the checkered flag. - That's great. - All right, well, I want to know more about it, certainly. - Yeah. - But I, anything that I, you know. - I don't think this would be until at least 2026 if it did happen. - All right, now that's not promised any of us. So, everybody just relax. - Anyway, I was surprised at the amount of passion though that I got in terms of the responses, both pro and con for a potential NASCAR street race in San Diego. - This is when we should have touched a touch base with Italian Paul who loves racing more than anything in the world. He said, he sent me the story and said, "If only I was doing the show tomorrow." And I had he done the show tomorrow. He would have done 20 minutes on this race, so. - Well, yeah. - Yeah. - The Italian Reindel Paul report. - Sure, yes. - And all about this NASCAR race, maybe coming to San Diego. - Yeah, F1 I think would be really cool, but if you don't have the, I don't know why, I mean, that looked cool in Vegas. I know it was a nightmare for that. - I'm curious to see how it goes round two in a couple months. - I always get the sense that there's like zero over, almost zero overlap between F1 fans and NASCAR fans. - Zero, right? - Like, you're one of the none at all. Like F1 fans are wine and cheese and I mean, it is absolutely like, you know, it's like America's Cup fans. You have to be super rich to be interested and involved in F1. I mean, they have fans, obviously. I mean, NASCAR's the complete other way. As you said, 24 pack of Coors Light shirts off, in some, and enjoying porn star on the radio. (upbeat music) (laughing) Plot twist begins on Highway 101 at Encinitas. - That's not how you like that. - Yeah, yeah. - You know what, I'm fine with it. I'm not fine with it. I'm not gonna be a nimby. I'm not. - It's not gonna be a nimby. This is good for you. - It's good for the city ground. Let's do it. I don't know if it is or not. - I think it'd be awesome. - They're bringing in tourists. I have no idea. - Don't we like tourists? Sometimes? - We do. Right, we do. - So, I don't know. I'm in. Let's do it. - What's this in? NASCAR race in San Diego. All right, we'll come back. Final segment of Bennawoods coming up. Take a look at today's matchup and the Padres make it three straight wins. Open their road trip with back-to-back victories in St. Louis. We'll talk about that coming up next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3, the fan. Sorry, 97-3, the fan 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 expresspros.com. That's expresspros.com. Have a question for both of you. And you can think about it for a second while we check traffic. But the question is, have either of you ever been cut from like a sports team that you were trying out for? All right, answer that when we come back here at 97-3, the fan. So I bring up the question because today is the day that NFL rosters are being reduced from 90 to 53, which is they used to do it in stages. Now it's all one day. Multiply that by 32 teams. There's nearly 1,000 people who are going to be cut from their NFL teams today. I had no idea they did that. I thought it was still week by week. No, it's now it's just 90 to 53. And today is the day. You got to set your roster. Now a lot of them will be signed to practice squads, whatever, but for many of them, the dream ends today. And I was wondering if either of you guys ever had the experience of like trying out in a coach head to tell you you didn't make the squad. It did happen to me. And it was devastating. It's a bad feeling. Played freshman year high school, made the team, right? Jamie, right, it's a freshman. All right, you got a radio show going on in here. You're the one who gets hot and opens the door. It's not. I don't know what to tell you. It's just you. It's a hundred degrees in this room. Plenty cool in here. Adam walking by, giving a tour to Brayden, who works here. So I don't have any idea where there's a studio. It's a morning show on right now. It's a guy, so I make the team make the team as a freshman. And then so we had two things you could do. After your freshman year, you could go play American Legion Ball, or you could play like City Ball, where, you know, your parents stroke a hundred and fifty bucks, and you just go play in the city league against your buddies. American Legion Ball is where the real G's played. I mean, like, they had the sickest uniforms. They traveled a little bit. And I remember going out for Legion Ball with a bunch of my high school buddies. And I remember having the worst try out that a human being could have. Like Willie Mays Hayes fouling the ball straight up into the cage. And then you do that twice. And the meltdown comes. You're like, oh my god, I can't hit. I can't hit. I can't hit. Booted a couple of balls, third, didn't pitch well off the mound. And I didn't make the team. And really, they only took like two or three guys. And the real G's on our team made it. And I didn't, I had to go play City Ball. And I was devastated, devastated. But it made me work my ass off that summer. And I went to a baseball camp and came back and had a monster sophomore season. And then we moved, my junior year. And so I was kind of screwed. But they'll never forget that feeling. Yeah, Johnny asked if I got the yips. Yeah, man, I mean, 100% did. And dude, the funny thing is, I can remember it like it was yesterday. And I'm probably held in my 12, 13. I remember it like it was. Yeah, I remember the feeling of 36 years later. I remember getting in the box and feeling fairly confident, missing the first couple or fouling the first couple off. And then just having a terrible, terrible approach to hitting. And I just got domed out, man. And I was a wreck. I was a wreck. And it was a really bad feeling, a really bad feeling. I almost certainly should have been cut from my seventh and eighth grade basketball teams because it was not very good. But they always had a spot at the end of the bench for me to play and just kind of sit there and be their practice. Yeah, that's the season per game. Yeah, like three. Three a game. Yeah, if it was a blowout going at the end. I had my one game, eighth grade, we were way ahead. So I got in. I got to play like 10 to 15 minutes at the end. And I think I scored like seven points. I was like, my career high was my best game ever. It's probably more than I ever scored a YMCA ball, man. I don't think I was ever cut. I didn't make all teams beer at all stars and Little League. But there was not like a triad. And then I just just found out I didn't make it. I expected to make it. And that was devastating that year. Literally the first all star game I ever made was an adult ball all star game. I'm not joking. The first one I never met, I was such a bad player growing up because I didn't get started when I was 10. I had never thrown a ball, caught a ball, hit a ball. I was 10 years old. I was way behind the eight ball there. At least I wasn't aware. Was I the tallest kid? No, in seventh and eighth grade, I was on the shorter side on my team. Yeah, I put a guard with no ball handling or shooting skills. What's really what you look for in a guard? I'm actually surprised you. I'm shocked you weren't cut then. Yeah, me too. Polly, do you ever get cut or not make a team? No, I never got cut. My school, my high school, at least, we had so many, you know, varsity, JV, and freshmen. So you kind of already knew it was like-- You know where your role is? You show up to tryouts. Like you kind of knew where you're like, yes, of course-- You're being assigned something. The elite freshmen could make it to JV or even varsity. I remember a kid on our JV team. Two kids got called up to varsity. And that was devastating. Like our freshman year, our season's over. Two kids are like, hey, we're going to bring them. Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm so excited. And you're like, you guys are going to varsity? You're like, oh my god, you couldn't believe it. Yeah, and they just get to suit up. They suit up, it's barely played. But yeah, I wasn't one of those guys. So you knew it was a freshman. You're like, cool, I'm just going to be on the freshman team or whatever. The only-- I quit baseball my senior year. I didn't like the coach. Didn't have any friends on the team anymore. They were all older and graduated. So I gave up baseball my senior. I played tennis. And I used to just kind of hit the ball around with my friends. On the side, I had a couple of friends that were pretty good. And I just decided to pick up a racket like a week before tryouts. And I tried out. And they told-- they said like, as a senior, even-- if you don't make varsity, you can play on JV. And I'm like, I ain't doing that. Oh, really? I'm not going to be a senior on JV. Really? Even though you'd never played before, I think that would be cool. So I made varsity. I played doubles. That's amazing. And it was actually-- a ton of fun. I was like, I should have done this all four years. It was a blast. But that was like the real nervous, like you got to go into school early the next morning after tryouts and go to the locker room. The sheet. The sheet is printed on the door. Just see it. You can see it and you're just walking down the hall. And it's like, dude, even if I was-- whether I was confident or not, you were terrified. It's that was it, that was that day. I remember calling my dad. He was at work, and I made the team. And I had that moment of pride. He had seen me working hard to make the JV team. Took me out to the Chinese dinner. And these are moments. And you're talking years and years ago. I don't remember what we did on the show yesterday. Gone to my head. Those moments have stuck with me forever. And look, I think it's important that to go through that. Because it really motivated me to get better. It really did. I've been on the other end of the cuts. I coach high school baseball for six years at Grossmont. Caught in kids is tough. We got a pretty good freshman class every year. I coached the freshman team. Dude, I mean, Joe was just getting into the big leagues then and all the kids from middle school in that area wanted to play at Grossmont. It was a Grossmont or Granite, and then a little bit of Helix. But I got good ball players every year, man. Did you? And I'd get like 30 kids. And I would have loved my coach. The varsity coach told me, keep as many as you can. Yeah, of course. Because we don't want them to lose interest, even if they're not going to play much. But dude, I had to cut a couple of kids. I'm like, it's a safety issue. You're going to get hurt. Yeah, you're going to hurt somebody else. Got no business. Did you guys ever have? And those kids start crying, man. We had one. He didn't make the team. I remember his name was John. And he didn't make the team. And his dad the next day was in the coach's office. And then it was, John's going to help out at practice. And do that bit. And I said to myself, even as a freshman in high school, I said to myself, that's not right. Like he didn't make the team, but he's out here. I liked the guy well enough. But it was also like, bro, your dad went in and campaigned for you to be here. How do you go? Did he ever get in a game? No, he wasn't on the team. He's willing to put in work and be there and help the team. And I don't have a problem with that. It was just really weird, man. And there's so many politics involved with it. There still is. But I think that's good for kids to remember that trauma. Branch Brandon wants to know, Ben, how did you do with the golf team? In high school at Torrey Pines, I made the team. I was on the B team because we had so many good golfers. But there would be matches. It's like the non-travel squad. We'd occasionally play against some of the lower level teams because they didn't need their best players every time. And then in college, my tryout was like one nine hole. They were so desperate for players. I didn't even know-- Could I have made it? You might have, actually. They were so desperate. I borrowed shoes and borrowed clubs and a shot of 42. And they got over on the team. You're in. You are on the team. I got over high school. My golf team had like three guys on it. You had no idea that I could play college golf. Look at me. Yeah, you can. College golfers. Look at me. College golfers all of a sudden. I didn't even have a golf shirt with me. I had to buy one at golfers. Now that don't lie to me. I know. No, freshman year in college, all I had was t-shirts. And I was like, I need to buy a golf shirt to go try out for the golf team and borrowed shoes and clubs. That's amazing. Look at you now. And there they have. Look at me now. Playing club championships at the goat. Not well though. It's still. Tonight, pot raise. Well, let's go. Late afternoon, early evening matchup. Game two of four against the St. Louis Cardinals. 345 Ecowater SoCal pregame show. Welcome back. Sammy Levitt, today, 445 first pitch. Dylan Sees on the mound. He's certainly not been bad. But he's coming off a loss in his last-- lost two of his last three starts. And even a little bit. I mean, he's given up three, three, two earned runs, three earned runs, two earned runs. Yeah. That's pretty-- I mean, it's not bad. And the one inning start to start his month. So he's got a 3-5 ERA. Ted's given up four unearned runs. But obviously, defenses let him down a couple of times. Had five walks, two starts ago. That was against the Rockies. He won that one. So looking for him to kind of maybe lock back in with one of those starts we saw in August when he was going through the dominant run that included it. The no hitter, he will be pitching against Miles Michaelis, former Padres farm hand from long ago. Had a pretty mediocre season this year with an ERA over five for the St. Louis Cardinals and a team that feels like they're on the brink of giving the nudge and pushing off the cliff. Like they are-- the fans have turned on them as we heard, kind of Jesse talking about it. I heard with Annie yesterday, Derek Gould, who covers the team talking about just, you know, the struggles right now in St. Louis. This is a team you want to take advantage of at the moment. You've got them kind of staggering. Go ahead. Knock out punch the next three days. Take three of four or even all four. And he was pointed out. Padres have now won two in a row with Martine Perez and Randy Vasquez. They now have Dylan Cease, Joe Musgrove, and Michael King. The next three days should all, you know, give you a great chance to win any or all of these next three games of this series coming up. So we'll see how it goes tonight. He's coming off his best start in Michael's-- probably his best start of the year. A pitch against the Brewers who are really, really good. Six innings, two hits. No earned runs, Benny, one walk, three Ks. Brought his ERA down to 5.19 as it sits right now. But yeah, man, I mean, look, you look through his starts. He's three, four, five runs a game. So get to him early. You got first licks. Go get him. We'll be back tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. And to talk all about it, Annie and Elston coming up next for Paul Reindel, Steven Woods. I'm Ben Higgins. Have a great rest of your Tuesday from all of us here at San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fans, so long. The seasons may be changing, but the deals at the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? It's your girl, Tasha McKia. And I need you to join the sharpest rides for their fall into savings events, where they're offering incredible prices on their massive inventory. That's right. Everything is on sale now. Shot from sleek sedans to rugged SUVs and sporty convertibles. 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