Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

9am Hour - The Reindl Report + What Will The 2024 Padres Legacy Be?

Ben & Woods kick off the 9am hour with The Reindl Report and Paulie's top headlines from over the weekend, including Alex Morgan's farewell last night. Then we get into San Diego State's rough 21-0 loss to Oregon State before we get back to some Padres baseball, and discuss what the team's 2024 legacy will be. Listen here!

Duration:: 47m
Broadcast on:: 09 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

"My dad works in B2B marketing. "He came by my school for career day "and said he was a big row as man. "Then he told everyone how much he loved "calculating his return on ad spend. "My friends still laughing at me to this day." - Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkedin.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. Linked in, the place to be, to be. From the mind of a two foot tall talking spunk's puppet comes this year's biggest challenge. It's time for Bob's Dare to Compare. The hottest game show on TV that asks, what happens when you compare Bob's to the competition? You get style, you get quality, you get beeps and boops and dings and whops and thousands of dollars and savings. Everyone's winner when you dare to compare with Bob's discount furniture. 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None of that Bob Melvin has any reason to harbor any animosity toward the Padres organization. - You're a sweet kid, you're a real sweet kid. - I don't agree with that. - I'm a real sweet kid, sweetheart. (laughing) - I mean, obviously it was reported that he and AJ Preller didn't see eye to eye, so. I mean, I'm sure he wants to win just like he wants to be any other team. - You don't think it's a little extra juice coming back to Petco Park and ain't knowing exactly where AJ Preller sits and going, oh. The team that two of three from you. - Allowed him to leave to take another job that was offered to him when they didn't have to let him go. - Yeah. - He has animosity toward the Padres. Shouldn't he be appreciative of the Padres? - Then it does not work. - I think he will look back on his career one day and he'd be happy at 2022. - Correct. - That was fun. We had a great time, but I don't think so. - Knowing he should have gone to Josh Hader there, you know. - Knowing, that's the stick in his curl. - But he absolutely wants to stick it to the Padres. He kidding me? - Yeah. - Every time. - But he was the manager who was given like an ugly juice. - The golden goose. - To team and then didn't get it done. - Was he allowed to run it his way? - Well, I mean, was he allowed to run it his way in 2022? - I don't know. - I don't know either, but I'm just saying if there's any animosity, it probably goes the other way rather than from Melvin toward the Padres. - Well, I don't know that it's animosity, but it's more of like, yeah, I want to kick your ass this weekend. Every time, every single time I play you, I want to win at all costs. - You may think I'm S now. - Yeah, you may think I'm the horse S now, but every time I pitch against you, he was specifically asked to remain as manager by the owner of the Padres before he passed away. - Yeah, who was? - But then things were so bad that he had the foresight to go, this is not going to work. - Johnny goes, does Ben have any enemies? The answer is no. He doesn't know what an enemy looks like. An enemy could be punching you in the face. He'd be like, well, I mean, you did need to get some aggression out and I understand that. You did a rough day and I'm like, it's okay. It's okay to be pissed off. - Again, he wasn't fired by the Padres. - No. - He was allowed to leave to take a job that he said was basically his dream job. If someone allowed me to leave somewhere that I was contractually obligated to, so I could take a job that I'd rather have, I would harbor nothing but appreciation toward that organization. - Yeah, but again, you don't know everything that was said. You never will. You don't know everything that was promised that wasn't delivered or vice versa. You just don't know. I mean, you hear rumors, it just wasn't a good working situation. I think for either of those guys and I thought they thought it best to part company. But if you don't think that he was very, very excited to take two of three against the Padres, you are a very naive kid because he was. He was one of these like into the clubhouse, like, oh, of course, of course. - Does that mean he's equally disappointed to be as far behind the Padres as standing? - Yeah, 100%, how does he is at this juncture? - Yeah, and I bet you, I mean, and the thing is, he isn't he also happy for some of his old players? - Yes, for some of his players, 100%. - Yeah, he's stoked for some of his old players. - Man, he's happy for them as well. This is, there's a lot of conflicting emotions involved in being a major league baseball manager. - There's a lot of conflicting emotions involved in being a human being, a human being. Like, yeah, man, like you don't, you want to see if, if that's the thing is, I don't really, like if Paul, he said, guys, I got an opportunity, I'm going to go work for the Raiders, and I'm going to be their VP of marketing. I would be elated for it. I'd be elated, but I would also be like, can you make sure the new guys dialed in, please, before you go? - I see it once, it's a director of content. - Yeah, whatever, whatever they be. - Whatever they be. - We gotta see Paulie's role with the Raiders, director of content. - But, like, I want to watch Paulie's soar, but if Adam forced him out, I'd be pissed at Adam. - If it got, if me and Adam got to, it got so bad. It was so toxic that I said, I'm out. Like, I got another opportunity. - I'm outta here. - Let me out, and you wouldn't be praising Adam for graciously, Adam, you're so great, thank you so much. - If Adam tried to stand in your way, though, then, yes, you'd be mad, but if Adam said, no, absolutely go and take this opportunity. - But we would do the same thing. - Yeah, of course, of course, but, I just like everything to be pleasant. - I know you do, but it's not. - Life doesn't work that way. You have to embrace some time. - Mine does, it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't. - Try to keep that ethic around here, unpleasantness. Do you have a pleasant Rindle Report for us today, Paulie? - Make it semi-pleasant. - Yeah. - And get things started here with our Addition Today's Addition of the Rindle Report. - Now, tune that to them off, 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, be hot? - 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 mood ♪ ♪ I need some help, please ♪ - Yeah, that was good. ♪ Can I get a hole here ♪ ♪ I'll die ♪ - All right. - No, all right. - Still looking at the thong picture, I'm sorry. - Somebody you said, it's a camo thong, so he's military Sunday. Now it makes every sun sense. - Respect the troops by-- - Totally get it. - By plumb smuggling. - That's one way to do it. - At Petco Park. - What? - Smuggling is plums into Petco Park. Plumb smuggling. - Is that what it's called? - That's what I call it. - Okay. - You're not doing a great job of hiding. - That's literally not. - To be fair, we only saw one. - We only saw one side. - That's true. - Yeah. - All right. So hard to transition from-- - It is, from plums smuggling. - Yeah. So we will give it a shot here. We had some news this morning here locally. San Diego Padres have announced that Manny Machado was named their 2024 nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award in Major League Baseball. We have an MLB network on here in the studio and every like half hour they keep showing all of the different nominees from all the teams, all the divisions. And I go, I was gonna miss something. No, it was announced today. That's why they're talking about it. So the Roberto Clemente Award presented by Capital One, it's the recognition of a player from each team who represents, best represents, the game of baseball through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions both on and off the field. What a, what a turnaround for one Manny Machado, I think in his career. - Is this the first time he's been nominated? - I'm not sure. - I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't. - I'm trying to look at like the history of the Padres nominees. - He's a good guy. - Yep. - It's done a lot of-- - There's a lot of things in the community. - A lot. - Padres Foundation. - Did his pod Manny Machado camp this year? It was so cool at that camp. - The Padres set in their press release. Since his arrival in 2019, Machado has been one of the most active and involved players in the community. In 2023, he has taken his commitment to the next level as a means of carrying on the philanthropic and caring spirit of late Padres owner, Peter Siler. This included immediately jumping at the opportunity to participate in the newly created Peter Siler. They misspelled it, Peter Siler legacy projects and specifically devoting himself to a cause that was near and dear to Peter's heart, homelessness. - Yeah, look, that's our guy. - Now I saw that Jackson Merrill was nominated for the Heart and Hustle Award. - No brainer. - Heart and hustle, no brainer. - Oh yeah. - He could win the whole thing. - Yeah, he could. - As could Manny win the Roberto Clemente Award. - You can go online and vote for Manny Machado. - To win. - Okay. - They will pick one winner out of all 30 teams. Every team nominates somebody. It will be announced, you have until September 29th to vote mlbtogether.com slash-- - He's not just a fan of a small part of it, I'd imagine that there's other factors that go into it, it's not simply a popular-- - Yeah, this is the winner of the fan vote. We'll count as one vote among those cast by the Blue Ribbon Panther. - Right. - It could be a tiebreaker. - Can't hurt to vote. - Nope, can't hurt to vote. - All right, emotional scene yesterday. Snap Dragon Stadium, we talked about it last week. Pretty surprising announcement, I guess. We just, nobody was expecting it when it happened, I think on Thursday. - Was that Wednesday or Thursday morning? - Alex Morgan, hanging them up, retiring. She announced that Sunday would be her last game. I saw that it was all over the CBS Sports Network last night. - Exactly where they actually, they showed it on CBS Sports Network, on ESPN2, on Paramount Plus, on KSI. It was the first time a women's soccer game had actually been simulcast on multiple networks at the same time. - That's awesome. Yeah, I, you know, I said it last week. I just, I'm gonna regret that, you know, it didn't go down to wave practices and cover the team a little bit more, knowing that one of the greatest ever is right here. Two miles away from what our radio station is. Never had it on the show, it's a bummer, but I did see, she gave a very touching speech yesterday after the game and wanted to play a little bit for that, for you guys right here. - You push me to be my best self every day. You push me to be the best soccer player, to be the best mom, to be the best person. I could be just showing up every day supporting me, encouraging me, challenging me, criticizing me at times. I just thank you so much. I know people have come here with three days notice from Alaska, Massachusetts, can't even say that. Colorado, Florida, honestly, all around the country and just, thank you. (audience cheering) There has been so many incredible moments in my career, but this one, this last moment I share on the field with you, I will cherish forever, so thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. (audience cheering) - Call it in for you. - Mic drop, Massachusetts is very difficult to say. - In a Massachusetts, but if you're doing a speech. - You just played a soccer game, like all those emotions. Virginia, Alaska, Massachusetts. - I know some people are surprised 'cause everyone, they nearly sold out Snapdragon stadium, over 26,000 fans, and most of those tickets were sold in the last couple of days to see her final match. Some people are surprised that they took her out so quickly. And it was really hot out there. - She's pregnant. - And yeah, she played-- - They're lucky, she didn't come out for the ceremonial kickoff and then run off the bench. - She played 13 minutes, number 13, they took her out in the 13th minute, and that was fine. - I'd only wish, the only wish was that she could have scored a goal, and she had a chance that a penalty kick, like nine minutes in, and she hit it hard, just goalie guessed the right way, and jumped and got a hand on it and stopped it. It would have been her first and only goal of the season. - Oh, it was such a bummer! - I mean, she's one of the leading scores of the league, every single year, and this year for some reason, just the wave are snakebit this year. And I'm like, you would have never guessed that Alex Murray, and obviously she had some injuries earlier in the year, but to not score all year long, oh my goodness gracious, what's she got in that one? - Me too. But, you know, tip of the cap to one of the greatest, Alex Morgan. So, we'll wrap it up here. It's more surprising news yesterday I woke up, and we had the Super Bowl halftime show announcement that I know it always happens early in the season, I just wasn't expecting that yesterday, I woke up and saw that Kendrick Lamar announced that he will be performing at the Apple Music Super Bowl halftime show in February to New Orleans. - Is this announcement early? - I thought it felt a little early too. - I thought it was usually within the first November or December, I thought. - Oh, I thought it was always in the first, like, three to four weeks of the season, so maybe a little early. - I think they should not say it all. I think it should be a complete surprise. There's no way that would happen. - There's no way, I know, but wouldn't that be an amazing moment? Like, no one knows, half-time starts. - Now, ladies and gentlemen, Super Bowl 59's musical performer, and then someone comes out and everyone goes crazy. - You can just get an old flip phone and cancel any and all television and just live on a rock until, you know, February. It was interesting, you know, a lot of people were saying, why didn't Lil Wayne get the nod as he is, like, Mr. New Orleans. Now, I would say he hasn't done any, put out anything really recently in, like, the last 10 years. - That has something to do with it. - That would have something to do, but there is always that connection. Like, Kendrick Lamar was just part of the half time. She wasn't the headliner, but he was that one in LA, a couple years ago. - My son was very excited 'cause he said the last time he did it, he dropped a new album around it, so he's expecting new Kendrick Lamar sometime around the Super Bowl. Probably, you know, capitalizing on the hype. - It's usually how it goes. - How does Drake feel about this? - Oh, everybody was quick to point out that in one of Drake's recent singles, he had a line, I'm paraphrasing here, but the line was, how big am I as big as the Super Bowl or something like that? - Oh, okay. - And then for Kendrick Lamar, to now get the nod for the Super Bowl was interesting. - I think our buddy Matt in the chat absolutely just knocked it out of the park with his take. - They announced it early to head off any Taylor Swift speculation. - Ooh. - That is actually a really brilliant, brilliant take. They could definitely have it 'cause you've been inundated already and after one week of Taylor Swift and Jason Comes. - Oh, he's before, he's been walking. - Travis comes. - Yeah, before, before. - Yeah. - I like that. Well, Kendrick's one of those guys that I want to like and I've tried and I've listened to it and I go, this is-- - Yeah, my son mics him a lot. - It doesn't, it's the voice. It just doesn't resonate with me. This guy really good lyrics and very cutting, you know, diets, bribes. - She was surprised when I-- - Yeah, really, really talented. When I hear him rap, it doesn't get me. Like, it doesn't get me like Tupac or it just doesn't get me. I just don't, it doesn't-- - Hey, it's fine. I gotta make this Tupac a deep voice. - Yeah, maybe. - I don't like the voice like this. - I don't like it. - I don't like it. - This I don't. - I don't like it. It doesn't, I hear it and I'm like, I just giggle when I hear it. - That is what it sounds like. - It's exactly, it's exactly what it sounds like. - It is. - There's no reason why. - There's no reason why. - This had been, it was. - And it's just funny 'cause I can't stand it. - There's music, I'm sure, there's music that you think is amazing. - Sure. - Me or Ben hear that and we go, this is, I don't get it. And it's just funny, yeah, you can just hear the same song and react totally to-- - It actually, it actually enrages me when I hear it. - I get that feeling of-- - But if it was, oh, and there's a lot-- - Oh, well this should not build it. - Yes, of course. - It's not really fair. - Of course. I like, his words are great. I've read his like lyrics and stuff. And I'm like, geez, the guy's super talented. Take those and give them to somebody that sounds like Tupac. You know what I mean? Give them the Chuck D and I'll let's see how it sounds. I mean, it would be amazing. So, it just, the voice like this, I don't like it. - It just makes me nuts. So, I'm sorry, I know people hate me for this take. - Oh, hey, it's just a-- - I think you're wrong. - It's just a preference. - My preference can't be wrong. It's my opinion. - I don't follow the beef that closely. It does feel like Drake's on a White Sox ex-closing streak right now. - Yeah, he's in the chamber right now. He's gonna go country next. You can rest, he'll be in stagecoach next year. - Kendrick Lamar put out an album like last year. It was okay, it was pretty good. It wasn't his best. He's still in the halftime show because of one song and it's a diss track on Drake. It absolutely took the world by storm over the last, you know, you've heard it now. And it's like, did the rest of the world just hate Drake so much? That one successful diss track gets you headlining at the Super Bowl. - He's pretty talented, dude. I get it. It just doesn't, the voice gets me. Sorry, people are so mad at me right now. I'm sorry, it's how I feel. - It's how I feel. - Ben is an old head. - I think he meant he has woods, it's an old head. - I think we're both old. - No, he just footched. - Asterix woods, yeah, I am. - That's fine. I'm also an old head. - I like what I like, I don't like how it sounds. - He didn't grow up with that. - No, I get it, man. It's the whole new gen generation. It's fine by me. - Taylor was at the US Open final with Travis and Patrick Mahomes, yes. - Yes, that's right. - Cheering on another Taylor, Taylor Fritz of San Diego, who lost to Janik's city. - He can read San Diego sports. We haven't talked about the Aztecs yet either. - Not really, super, super fun. - You know what, I do have some thoughts. We can get to that. I want to talk a little bit more about the Padres before we go as well. And ultimately what the legacy of this season is going to be. 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Stadium swim, book your spot today at Circa Los Vegas.com. ♪ It's the silly game we play ♪ - Too funny, huge fan, huge fan. - Hmm, it's not that different. - It's way different. - Way different. - It's way different. - Ah, speaking of not that different, San Diego State Aztecs don't appear to be all that different under Sean Lewis as they were under the end of the Brady. - God, the whole care. - And well, yeah, any new offense and new personnel are gonna take some time to adjust. The Aztecs got, remember, that six nothing lost in Nevada last year? That was the first shut out loss for the Aztecs. Yeah, I think it was 211 games. Now they've already been shut out once to start this season in two games, following 21 Nothing to Oregon State on Saturday night at Snapdragon Stadium. They had a chance in that game. They were only down seven nothing. - Oh, dude, the fall back. - In the third quarter when Daniel Neil, the quarter back had it was third and goal. - Read option. - And kept it and fumbled at the two, basically. And that was really the last good chance. They didn't have many chances at all, but that was the last good chance for San Diego. State to score some points in that one. - That was, I was flipping back and forth. And I just went holy smokes. I had that feeling like, oh, they'll make some adjustments at halftime, come out, and Daniel Neil will start slinging the ball all over the field, and they just couldn't get-- - And he got hurt in the first quarter, and they stuck with him, which I'm sure there was a reason for it, but they've got a couple of other backup quarterbacks that they said they were really high on during training camp, and I was surprised that they were so determined to stick with O'Neal, who was obviously limping, like after every single play, and not try one of the other guys. Now, I don't think it was O'Neal's fault that they didn't score any points. It was mostly the penalties that have been killing the Aztecs. They have 24 penalties in just two games, had 16 in the first game, had seven in the first half of the last game. Every time Marquez Cooper, who was the running back, who had such a great first week, had like a good run, hey, 16 yards, holding, 12 yards, holding. I mean, they could not pick up a first down, because every time a flag came out. So it's been an undisciplined, somewhat disorganized, looking start in the first couple of games under Sean Lewis. - Yeah, just boring. - Sounds like Aztec football? - Aztec football, defense kept you in it. You know, kept you in it, certainly, as they do. - Which is fine, it's just, I mean, we were looking for the change from the Rocky Long Brady Hoke era. And so far, I mean, kind of more of the same. And unfortunately, I don't think Oregon State is a particularly good team. They were good last year. This year, you know, with new coach and a lot of turnover, I was thinking that could be a game the Aztecs could win. - Now, kind of a name, kind of a name. - It's a name, but it's not an unbeatable opponent. Now they have to go to Cal. - And while I thought Cal might be a beatable opponent, Cal went to Auburn in one this week. So I think the line that I saw already was like 15 point favorites for Cal. And I kind of like Cal feels pretty doable, yeah. - If San Diego State can't get their offense going, that's a recipe for a second straight loss here to open the season against at least FBS opponents. - Yes. And again, I'm not ready to pass judgment on the Sean Lewis era of San Diego State football. I like the idea of the fast offense, like get up, snap the ball, get a team on their heels, you know, but you have to execute the players. - You have to execute the players. - Because if you don't, then you're just really going three and out, really, really fast. - Your defense is like, I will kill all of you out there. We are dying right now. - Please, can you complete A pass? Can you get a first down? - That they held them to seven points until the fourth quarter based on the fact that their offense was never on the field. - 100 yards he threw four, 114 or something. I mean, it just, it doesn't work if you don't have the right personnel to get it done. And the discipline then, like you said, to not have so many penalties. So yeah, man, I mean, it's more the same. - Now they lost their starting left tackle to injury and that was part of the offensive line troubles. They had to move a guy over and a new starter in. And that was certainly some of the holding penalties that they suffered. But yeah, so far, yeah, a bit of an iffy start. - Yeah, mixed bag, if you will. - For Sandy, I wish it was more of a mixed bag. - What was it? I mean, the second half of the 45 points in the last game or something. - It was against an FCS opponent. - And fair, I mean. - Notre Dame lost the North, I don't know what to say. - I don't know what to say. I can't say anything about anybody. - Right, right. All right, I want to finish our show when we come back and talk a little bit about the unknown legacy of the 2024 pot race because that the final chapter has yet to be written. But it will be in the next, you know, three to six weeks or so. No, the final legacy of this team. And my goodness, the range of outcomes is still pretty wide here. And I want to talk about that when we come back on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fan. All right, welcome back. Final segment of Venom Woods. Then we'll turn things over to Annie and Elston coming up at the top of the hour. But I wanted to lay out two potential scenarios for you woods for the remaining 17 games of the regular season for the San Diego pot race and get your take on the potential legacy of this year's team. And we'll do that right after we check a traffic here on 97.3, the fan. All right, first scenario is gonna be pretty easy for you to analyze. Pod race go nine and eight. The remainder of the regular season get to 90 wins, get a wild card spot, and then go on and have playoff success. Maybe all the way to the World Series or even their first ever championship. There'll be no doubt in anybody's mind that this was a massively successful season, maybe the most successful season in pod race history. A team expected to be maybe around 500, 81 wins, 83 wins, whatever, outperformed expectations, got hot in October and went all the way or at least, you know, maybe made the World Series. Clearly, that would be a great scenario. We're all signing up for that right now, correct? - Yep. - All right, let me give you a scenario too. Pod race go nine and eight the rest of the way, finished with 90 wins. However, the Braves sneak their way to 91 wins, whereas the Diamondbacks and Mets both also finish with 90 wins. And because of tie breakers at the end of the season, the pod race missed the playoffs at 90 and 72 at the end of the season. Now, how do we feel about that year? - Live it. - Same, same season, exact same season. - Yeah, live it. - Yeah, live it. Pissed, furious. - Have to make the playoffs. - For about 48 hours. And then you kind of turn your sights to next season because what other choice do you have as a podray fan or as a fan of any team that doesn't get the job done? - So, is that fair that in one scenario, nine and eight, it leads to the best season in pod race history. Like in another scenario, the exact same nine and eight could lead to lividness, do we fire anybody? What do we do? - Less than two weeks ago, they had a 98% chance. You just laid out earlier, all of the math that goes into the fan grass projections, they were in like a 98% chance. - And you're gonna go back and look at the Angels series and the Colorado series and all that. And you're gonna go stupid. We had, we had to make the playoffs. - We had to make the playoffs, you have to. - These are expectations because you're gonna beat those. - You're tied with them today. You're tied with them. - Right. - You've won more, you've won as many games as possible. - They've exceeded those expectations. I, a lot of people didn't think this was a playoff team at the beginning of the year, but they proved that they are, that they should be in the playoffs. - Yes, they've played like it. - How do you get that? - That level, that, you know. - Pauli, the moves they made alone is a trade deadline. - Right. - The capital that they gave up. - Yep. - You're in. - Got to make it. - I'm just saying that other than the three games against the Diamondbacks, they can't control what the other three teams do at this point. - Right. - And. - But you can control what you do and you can't lose a series to the Giants at home and you know, they just can't out. - But you can. - Well, you did. - And everyone's going to. - Right. - And you can't avoid it either. You are going to lose, probably will lose at least one more series the West. - I mean, I hope they don't, but you got six series left. I mean, if they win all six series, there's nothing that can stop the potteries you're making the playoffs. I would have think that mathematically that would almost guarantee getting into the postseason. But more than likely play six series. Even the best teams are going to lose one of those series. - But again, man, like you should be, you should be railed for going nine and eight with 17 games left to play. Railed. - But you won't care if they make the playoffs. - No, I'll care. I'll be concerned. - I won't. That will not concern me. Get in as long as you don't need me help from anybody else. - You don't need this guy to lose eight and nine. - But make the playoffs. - I don't care. - But if we go 10 and seven. - I don't miss the playoffs. - I don't give a frog's fat ass. They just have to make the playoffs. - That's it. - They make the playoffs. I'm like, that's great. - But you can't control it all. - I mean, the only thing that they can definitely do is if they go- - They're in the driver's seat right now. - Yeah, they're in the driver's seat. - So if they go 14 and three, I believe 15 and two would definitely automatically get them in. Likely, they don't have to do that much. But I would say- - If they go 14 and three and the Diamondbacks go 17 and oh or whatever, and they get in. - Well, yes, you're like a cat by game. - Correct. - Correct. - There's so many random hypotheticals here. - It's so high for that. - But they are in the driver's seat. They're in the number one position. Like go out, win your ball games, handle what you can handle. - And you shouldn't have to worry about it. - And then we'll go from there. - Right. - You should not have to worry about it. - I'm just saying that a 90 win season would be outstanding. - We would have all signed up. - No, I would if you don't make the playoffs. - At the beginning of the season, if I had told you, I can't guarantee the playoffs, can we get out and take 90 wins? - There would have said yes. - You can play, that's a best step. - No, I wouldn't have. - You make the play, yeah, we're gonna win 90 years, we're gonna make the playoffs. - No, no, I'm not saying you're not gonna make the playoffs. I'm saying you may or may not make the playoffs, but 90 wins would have been absolutely instant sign up for 90 wins. - Honestly, I would have thought you were insane. - Honestly, I would have thought you were insane, but yeah, Paul, he's right, things do change. - You would have thought I was insanely optimistic. - Yeah. - Throughout the course of the season, things change. And again, the point of, all I'm saying is 90 wins is still not a bad outcome for the season. - I mean, I don't remember what the Padres' expectations were heading into 2022 after that awful collapse in 2021, but I do know when they went out and got Juan Soto at the trade deadline. - I expected. - Like this team, you have to go on a run. You absolutely have to. Things change throughout the course of a long, long baseball season. - Yeah, just don't, I mean, honestly, just keep playing hard. - But it's certainly not a collapse. If they go nine, if they go, if they win the playoffs, it's a collapse. - Even if they go nine and eight the rest of the way, that's a collapse. - I mean, I wish I had the exact date, but I want to say like on September 1st, they were like 97, 98% chance. - And they're 93 today. - So that would be in a span of a month to go from 98% chance likelihood of making the playoffs to out of the playoffs. - Yeah, that'd be a collapse. - Even if they did it with a winning record, the rest of the way. - Can you collapse? - Can you play with any baseball? - What do you recognize? Collapse at the same time? - Yeah, absolutely care. - They didn't collapse at the end of last season. - The collapse, the whole season was a collapse. - I mean, the whole season was bad, but they didn't collapse at the end of the year. 2021 was a collapse. They were way above 500. And then they played horribly. - How about last year when they won 17 of 18, but we're out of it. - I still look at that as a massive collapse. You guys turned it on when it was too late. And you didn't make the playoffs. And you spent a billion dollars to get there and you didn't make it. - Oh, Lou, you beat me. - I think disappointed games at the end. - I mean, last year was a huge disappointment. They never collapsed. They were never in position to collapse at all. It was just a huge disappointment. - You collapsed by nine. - I just don't know how I could ever categorize this season as a major disappointment. If they don't, I mean, if they go-- - They don't make the playoffs. If they go two and 15 the rest of the way. - Yeah, I'm gonna be really disappointed and call that a major collapse. If they go nine and eight and get to 90 wins, I'm gonna have trouble. I'm gonna be sad and disappointed, but I'm gonna have trouble going, AJ probably needs to go. Mike Shelton needs to go. I mean, they'll have done a really good job this year. - Dub J says, I don't know if I could listen to Ben and Woods show if they missed the playoffs. You wouldn't hear me 'cause I'm not coming to work. I don't even know what to tell you. I don't know if I could get out of Ben in the morning. It'd be awful. But no, if they don't make the playoffs, it's a collapse, things change. And expectations change with the better that you play. And the more committed your team is in going out and getting some of the bullets that they got, yeah, things change, it would be bad. It would be very bad. - It would be bad. I have no doubt that it would be bad. Is it the kind of bad that has to come with consequences? - Yeah, 98% chance to make it on September 1st, you don't make it. - But part of that 98% chance is the expectation that when there's three other teams, one or two of them are probably not going to play that one. - And they still might. - And if all three of those teams play well and that's out of your control, that's not a collapse. That's a very odd circumstance, but it's not one that you can control. - I'm not even up for chalking anything up to an odd circumstance this year. I'm not up for it. I don't have it in me. - Potter's gonna go four and one in the next five and one of those teams could go oh and five. And then it's like, next week, this time next week, we're like, "Who are we even talking about?" - Yeah, we're fine. - We're fine. - Now it's just seeding. - But now you should worry about seeding. And where do you wanna play? - I mean, but I guess to answer your question, yeah. Anything-- - Short of the playoffs. - Short of the playoffs, yeah. - It's a failure. - It's a failure. - Bad season. - 100%. - But that wasn't the case at the beginning of the year. - Correct. - Well, they didn't have a lot of the players they have now. - That's true. - So, yeah, it's a huge one's true. - And they've played-- - Well, trust me, if I knew you were gonna have the rookie of the year and, you know, huge years from Michael King. - I think he's just gonna get Tanner Scott and Jason Adam. - Back in March, yeah. If I knew all of that was coming. - Expectations would have been high. - I mean, right now, I think they still have the best record since the All-Star break. - And they finish nine and eight. They may finish with the best record since the All-Star break. - I'm so ready for this. - And you would still call it a collapse. - Yeah. - Yeah, if they don't make the playoffs, it's a collapse. - Even if they have the best record and the second half of the season. - Correct. - That's not generally what you call a collapse. - Hey, man, it's baseball. It's not generally what you call a collapse, but if you don't make the playoffs, it's a collapse. - It's, I mean, we're splitting hairs here. Collapse, disappointment, whatever you wanna call it. - Matthew says AJ Preller should get fired regardless of what happens. Even if they win the World Series, he should still go. - Now that, I don't agree with that. - I don't think I agree with that. - I mean, you get the chip, man. It gets you a few more years, for sure. - That would be an odd thing. - Yes, we have announced that we are having our World Series parade and AJ Preller has been fired. - You have to put me in a straight jacket if they don't make the playoffs. - Just so you know. - Yeah. - I mean, it could definitely happen. - It is. - 92 is the 100. - Why are we spinning everybody out today after two losses? - I'm not trying to spin. - Everyone's like, dude, I have anxiety now. You guys are killing me. Stay positive. - They're gonna be fine. They're gonna make the playoffs. - There's no reason they shouldn't. - Nope. - A good team. Fully believe that. - I do too. - I also, no, I can't control and they can't control what the Mets or the Braves or the Diamondbacks do. - They can't control what they do. - Yeah. - Chris says, "I'm gonna collapse if Ben doesn't stop this." - Yeah. - George says, "They won 90 and 20, 10 didn't make it. 90 wins isn't a successful season with the playoffs on it." - That was before they had three wild cards. - That's true. - Which is dare. - No, there's been-- - Hey, Ben and Woods, I'm more than capable of creating my own anxieties. Can Ben stop helping? Kay, thanks. Love you, bye. - I mean, they were back in the day where you had teams that would win 100 games and not make the playoffs. - Yeah. - Because they didn't have any wild cards at all. - Yeah, I'm not too worried about it. - I wasn't. - Dodgers won 106 games and win the division a couple of years ago. - Yeah. - When the Giants-- - They made the playoffs. - They did make the playoffs. - It's pretty clear cut for me. Like, you gotta make the playoffs. - Yes. - You have to make the playoffs. - Now, clear cut for me that we should ball gag him for the rest of the day and maybe tomorrow. And the worst is, there's no game tonight. So now you get to sit and noodle this around for another 24, 36 hours. Tomorrow he's gonna be like, "I'm pretty sold that we're not making the playoffs." And here's why. - I'm not sold that they're not making the playoffs. I still believe they're gonna make the playoffs. - I'm just preparing everybody for every possible eventuality. - All right, hey, also today, if you're walking outside, a safe could fall off of building and cross your skull. It could happen. Be prepared for that. Of course, expect the worst, you know, whatever. - I mean, it's possible the Padres could go four and 13 and still make the playoffs because the Mets also go four and 13 the rest of the way. - I need to sage this entire student. - Lots of different, there's lots of possibilities left. - And the Padres are in the best situation of the four remaining wild card contenders. - My blood pressure did shoot up. - For the three spots. - It did shoot up this. - Maybe we should like the head of the Olympics where like our vital signs are tracked during the show. Heartbeat, blood pressure, all the way through. We can, Paul could add that to our YouTube screen where it just is monitoring it during our program. - I think I can get mine. My heart beat is through the road. - His heart is racing, whatever Ben is saying, is driving woods up a wall right now. - I think I can get mine. I'm gonna just look for it, but go ahead. - Keep talking more about how we won't make the playoffs. - Zen is confused by this conversation. - Yeah. - I'm a little confused as well. - What's confusing about it? - I'm simply laying. - The heart rate is 90 right now. That bad or good? - That's not great. - Yeah, it's not in a spikey. - You're not Michael Phelps since you're, you know, slow beat heart rate. - Yeah, I usually roll about 72 beats per minute. It's at 90 right now. - Good, dude. - 55. - Please don't do it. - 55, are you alive? - Paul, you're like a dead man. - World-class athlete over here. - Paul, that was earlier. - Paul, he was showing me how he got dotted sets. - Paul, Paul, he got dotted yesterday right now. - Yesterday in the Tier 1 game. He got underneath his side, like wrist side of the rib game. - That feels good. - If my arm, I just relaxed my arm. - He was showing me where it was. And like, I touched that and it hurts just touching it. Even when it's not injured, that's like a spot that is like bad. - Okay, Cheeks is a segment where Wood says a live heart rate monitor Ben tries to get as high as he can with these confidence. - You just wear me out. I'm just sitting here like. And then you get to say where Wood says a live heart attack on the air. - Man, let's kill Woods. - Yeah, come up tomorrow, Woods dies on the show. Actually, we do have a, an interesting one tomorrow. - Okay. - An interesting interview. And I'm, I, Paul, he asked me if we want to do it. And I said, yeah, absolutely we want to do it. So if you guys, you guys watch, it's gonna be on what, Paul, FX? - FX Hulu. - So we all saw the OJ Simpson dramatization, right? With Ross from Friends as Bob Kardashian, Cuba Gooding Jr. is OJ. Well, they did it again, but they did it for the Aaron Hernandez story. And I thought, all right, that story's been told. You know, there's a couple of documentaries that are pretty good. They sent me an advanced screener. And I couldn't turn this thing off, dude. It's, they do exciting to get an advanced screener. - I felt, I felt. - Like some fancy over or something, yeah. - Well, they had my name right in the middle. So I'm watching it and it says Steven Woods. In very light, but you can see it. - Like on the screen, on the screen of Watermore. - So they know if it gets out who sent it. - So it's really, really, really well done. And the guy that plays Aaron Hernandez. I don't, do we know what his name is? - His name is Josh Rivera. - Josh Rivera. I can't even imagine what this guy went through. He wasn't like a football player, wasn't a big football guy, but not only to have to go and play like an NFL player, but one that was as depraved and immature and confused as Aaron Hernandez was. It was phenomenally well done. And I ripped through it. I mean, I was, it just was really, really brilliant. So we're gonna have him on tomorrow. - Question for you. - Okay, man, one of the producers. - Him and one of the producers. - Now that you've seen it, were the Patriots and the NFL. - Yes. - Completely complicit and religion. - 100, 1000 million. - What was going on? - How much did they know? - It starts with Urban Meyer. It goes to, and the guy that plays Urban Meyer, as much as you hate Urban Meyer, you'll hate the guy that plays him as much. - You'll say let him on that Fox free game show. Does anyone like Urban Meyer? - How does that happen? - I don't know. - Dude, I'm telling you. You will watch this and go, this was phenomenal. So that I watched it. It's great. - Urban Meyer makes Nick Saban look like Mr. Charm and like him. - Thundering percent. Urban, and you, this is so well done. So we're going to talk to the guy that played Urban Hernandez in the morning. I'm very excited for this and one of the producers. - 6-15, early, early tomorrow. Well, with no game, that's perfect. 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