Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

7am Hour - Why You Should NOT Be Concerned About The Padres

Ben & Woods kick off the 7am hour by switching gears for a few minutes with some thoughts on all of the NFL and college football action from the weekend before we get to a game of Take On Woods! Then we bring you "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we talk about the NL Wild Card race, and why Padres fans should NOT be concerned. Listen here!

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

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My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row-ass man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friend's still laughing at me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get a $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, LinkedIn, the place to be to be. This podcast on 97.3 The Fan is presented by Hamou Casino, fun of all else. Whatever magic sauce the NFL has for their product, they do come up with entertaining games. Even in week one, there's a bunch of good games yesterday, including a Sunday night football that went to overtime, the Rams and the Lions. Who were you pulling for in that game? Lions. You were pulling for game Campbells. I know you did. I love Dan Campbell, and I loved, you know what, Jared Goff is a guy that's really grown on me the last few years. He kind of took that trade, and everyone, you know, kind of ranked him out a little bit for getting traded to Lions, and he's really been a big part of their resurgence. I like them. I like them. Do you watch the Dan Campbell commercial? I didn't see it, but I like hiding your face. He takes the order. He's like, "Oh, is that him?" He goes, "No, you've got to talk like this. Cover your mouth." Why did I think? Is Peyton Manning in one of those two? Or is it just Dan Campbell? It's just Dan Campbell. Let's be losing my mind. I just like them. When the Lions are on, I'm like, "Ooh, I want to watch." I love them. Ross St. Brown. I like them. I bought like a bunch of their players. How about David Montgomery? And over time. Beast. Absolutely. They just say, "We're handing you the ball. 45 yards, including the one yard game winning touchdown is the Lions pull out the Sunday night win 26-20 over the Rams. Obviously, the Friday night game Eagles Packers was a pretty good one. They come on Barkley, great debut for Philadelphia with three touchdowns in that game. In Brazil was one of the good ones over the weekend. Survivor pick champion right here already after week one. I had the Eagles. One week. Had to sweat it out. I know it's sour grapes, but it does. I feel like Survivor pool shouldn't start until like week three. Yeah. We have an idea of whether a team is good or not. That's what losers say. That's what I said last year when I lost. I'm not bringing that to the table because I lost. I mean, he hates to lose so much. I tweeted that before it even started. He hates to lose to me. I tweeted that well before. I think the Bengals game was tied when I tweeted that, but I just, it's such a guessing game. I always just go with the probably the biggest home favorite of week one. Perfect. We missed it. We did it last year. We brought it back this year. We did just an internal show. There's like six survivors. Five of us. Five of us. It's us three. It's our boss Adam and our boss is boss Michael and once the picks are locked, you still can't see who everybody else picked correct until the games have kicked off correct. So we knew on Friday night that Woods had picked the Eagles. Yep. His lock was in and it said it lit up green, but it still had question marks for all four teams. Sunday morning after kickoff, I go and look the rest of us all picked the Bengals. Yep. We did not text each other about it. We did not know who was who each other was picking. We all picked the Bengals and I go, Oh, no, like I saw the writer go, I didn't look good for the Bengals pretty much from the start and just remember it next year. We'll just start it. We start with two. Yeah. We too. We too. It was a good combination. You have at least an idea of what they got of what teams have got. I mean, I actually didn't full disclosure. I had the Bengals as well until I looked and saw that Joe Burrow had no one T Higgins was going to be out. March. I was like, he's got nobody and Joe Joe needs to figure it out. You know, Joe wants to be one of the elite against the Patriots hearing from everybody how bad the Patriots were going to be at that running back there on the road. But yeah, I honestly, I thought you could be Brissette was fine. I'm like that bad serviceable quarter back. I missed the trial with a win in his very first game. I went, I missed a ton of it left house at 730 AM got home at five and was at three different baseball fields. So I was, I listened to a little bit on the radio, saw some of the highlights, watched some of the Lions game last night. I did not get the full NFL experience yesterday by any stretch bills, Cardinals game was good Buffalo rallies, Josh Allen to me has some, still has some flaws. But man, if you're trying to tackle him around the end zone, he's going to find a way to get in. I got a quarter back. I'm getting heckled in the chat. People saying how about them fighting Irish with listen, you notice you, what did I say? You guys, you were actually, you know, I said it, I said it, it's why I did not come in your last Monday, go, I go, it was an impressive win and a really tough place to play. The hype is unreal about the team and it doesn't make a lot of sense. And the minute it's why I never, you know, when I'll beat my chest about the Irish when they run the table and win the national championship, that's it. I won't say a word until it's also never going to happen in my lifetime. Never. It's happened once. I got mine. I'm good. Jordan from North Carolina was like, bro, why do you quit on them so early? I go, cause I'm not going to let myself get invested in this every year. I'm not next Saturday when the game's on. I'll be like, I'm sure we have, oh, we'll be at Alcatraz. You think I'm going to care about missing the Irish game? Now, no, I could not care less. They kill me every year. You lost to Northern Illinois, which by the way, let's make an executive decision. I want to put their coach in due due this today. We had a couple of other ideas. I'm watching that at the end as a Notre Dame fan and I'm tearing up now because that was amazing and good for them, literally good for them. I'm not a sore loser by any stretch in that, uh, with that team because Ben, I'm watching the national, they're going to be favored in every game, Marcus Freeman, early coach of the year. These guys have a national championship defense. I'm going, are you, do you got, do you know who you're talking about? They just, they crushed me every year. So I don't even get mad. Yeah. There weren't as many good college games this week as there were in week one. The big marquee matchup was Texas, Michigan, but, uh, the Longhorns went into the big house and I was now, see outclass. We won't talk about growth. I watched some of that game. You know what I didn't do? I didn't say ha, ha, ha, Michigan, ha, ha, and I hate Michigan. I was so happy to see that, but it was Texas. Texas is very good and I did not tweet and say word. I said, well, we are playing Northern Illinois, who's most definitely going to keep it close. If we win, it's going to be by one. So I'm just not going to say a word and I'm glad I didn't, but it was nice to see Michigan get smoked at home ends their 16 game winning streak and 23 game home winning streak and a first loss in the post Jim Harbaugh era. I will also throw in one other game. Oh, I hope it's the one I want you to throw in probably not. I was going to mention one of the best games was Oregon Boise State, which was Oregon one on a field goal. It's the late game on peacock on Saturday night, late late, late, late peacock Oregon wins at 3734. Do you watch that whole game? I did not watch the whole game. I was just watching the end and I do think the Boise State, even though they lost probably now the favorite to make the 12 team playoff out of the non power for if they win them out in West and with that is maybe their only loss. That's a pretty good resume to put together, assuming there's not going to be any like undefeated other teams, which there may not be. That was a good loss for Boise State. They've got a really good running back that Ashton Gente had nearly 200 more yards has over 400. I think 50 yards in the first two games. They're a force to be reckoned with and could be a playoff team in college football. I thought you were going to bring up Colorado, Nebraska. I didn't watch much of it. I saw it. I mean, I saw one of Dion's kids got hurt. Yeah. And Nebraska won fairly handily at home. And I think the Dion Sanders I think the experiment is got to be over. It's getting close to you want to pull the plug if you're Colorado. Somebody basically said it's fine like that he's there, but he's just an agent for Travis Hunter and Shadoor. That's it. He's not a coach right now. And I was like, man, I mean, a good coach would have got some offensive line to protect him. I mean, he didn't watch. That game is on mute. I had that game muted. I think the pie. I don't know. I had another game on the other TV with the volume, but like Shadoor was under pressure every single snap for his life. And I'm like, dude, you have Travis Hunter probably going to want to Heisman. He's a man. Could be a Heisman candidate. Like they are so good. They're both first rounders. I'm like, get somebody to protect these guys. So after what I saw from Shadoor Sanders after the game, I was like, I don't want that guy. If I'm an NFL team, I'm like, I don't want that dude. We held two minutes left. And then first thing he says is press conference, how many times did Ryola get hit tonight? It's like, whoa, geez, dude, holy cow, accountability is not his jam right now. But look, he's a kid. They're going to learn. And somebody made the point too that said you, the head coach, as the head coach, you shouldn't be the reason that every team wants to kill your team. Does that make sense as the head coach, you should not be the reason that everyone plays you like they're out to kill, you know, and I said, man, that is, uh, that is not good. That is not good. Dion is great for bringing eyeballs to a program. He's done it. He's not a bad guy. No, I got there's a lot more to being a great football coach in the in that in that sense Dion's lacking. And by the way, quickly, we need a contestant for taking wasn't forgot to throw out the phone numbers, but they're wide open. We're going to play them like one minute. So call now 833-288-0973. You want to take on Woods, qualify for a trip to Las Vegas, 833-288. 097-3. When you're winning, you can get away with things like, yeah, I don't want to answer questions from this reporter press conference. When you're losing, it's just a bad bad look for Dion Sanders. And now they're piling up the bad looks after bad looks. And while they probably at Colorado went, was getting no attention whatsoever and any attention is good attention. I'm sure there are some people in that administration are now going, what, what exactly is he doing for us at this point? He's losing. He's bringing negative attention on us most weeks. And there doesn't seem to be much of a future for him or our program at this point. No progress is being made. If anything, it's backwards at this point. Well, when he decides to not recruit, essentially, that that tells me something because you know, you knew you needed an offensive line. If you wanted to protect your son, you knew you needed one. You needed to be out there grinding knocking on doors and he was like, now I'm not doing it. Not doing it. Yeah, their offensive line is ridiculously bad. The word I like is porous, porous, they're a porous offensive line. Siv. They're a siv. Siv is another great one. I like a salve as well. It doesn't apply to them. They need a salve after their siv of an offensive line. Yeah. All right. It looks like we got some contestants. Let's do it. It's time for our first game of the week. Let's take on woods. It's time for take on woods. What? What? All right. Let's meet our first contestant of the week. I'm just going with line one. Call her. Who's this? This is where you talk if you're on the phone right now. Hello. That's you. Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah. Congratulations. Mario, what are you up to this morning? I'm just finishing up. I had a birthday party this weekend. Nice. All right. You're birthday or someone else's? Mine. All right. Well, hopefully we can add to your present list by qualifying you for a trip to Las Vegas tonight. The win or encore fancy and two tickets to see awakening at the win Las Vegas dazzling audiences with soaring aerialists, bounding acrobats and high energy choreography get your tickets now at awakening.com. Take on Woods is brought to you by Valvolin instant oil change only takes 15 minutes. You don't have to get out of your car for directions and discounts. Go to SoCaloilChange.com. That's SoCaloilChange.com. Here's how our game works. Mario, you're going to get five questions of musical trivia, then Woods will get the same five questions. If you beat or tie him, we'll put you into the drawing for the trip to Las Vegas and just to give you a little advantage, we'll let you pick the category and keep Woods in the dark. So here are your choices. Little Shop of Horrors, five song titles or musical artists beginning with the word little. At the car wash, different types of cars in each song title. And now our new category is called an iffy category, five song titles that begin with the word if. So little Shop of Horrors at the car wash or an iffy category Mario at the car wash. All right, this is another category actually submitted by Tier 1 Paul. He did one another week ago, not our Paul, but a different Paul. It's not that easy to come up with hundreds of these, so I do appreciate Paul's work on my behalf. All of today's answers are song titles that reference a type of automobile in the title. You'll have 60 seconds. If you don't know one, you can say pass. We'll come back to it if there's time left on the clock. Next question is our two second song Mario, Paul is going to play a little music, listen carefully, then give me the title with that kind of car and the artist to score that point. Are you ready to play? Yeah. All right, let's do it. 60 seconds on the clock in the category at the car wash, Mario, your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck. Let's take on woods. No, right. Bye, correct, which Bruce Springsteen 1984 hit shares a title with the type of car top sellers of Mary Kay Cosmetics receive as a reward for their success. Which title track from a 1965 Beach Boys album is about a 1932 Ford Hot Rod? Janice Jacqueline goes acapella in which song recorded just days before her death with lyrics from a poem by Michael McClure. A classic Ford figures prominently in which 1960s hit for Wilson Pickett. Go back to which Bruce Springsteen 1984 hit shares a title with the type of car top sellers of Mary Kay Cosmetics receive as a reward for their success. That title track from a 1965 Beach Boys album is about a 1932 Ford Hot Rod. Just the one. You got the two second song, which is good. But the rest of them you did not get Bruce Springsteen, Pink Cadillac, a little deuce coop from the Beach Boys, Mercedes Benz from Janice Jacqueline and Mustang Sally by Wilson Pickett. You got low rider by war. All right. One. Hang on the line there, Mario. Woods. It's a studio after his breathing exercises, six seconds in, six seconds out. That's right. Doesn't get the category. Let's reset everything. 60 seconds back on the clock woods. Your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck. Let's take on Mario. Low rider by war. Correct. Which Bruce Springsteen 1984 hit shares a title with the type of car top sellers of Mary Kay Cosmetics receive as a reward. Correct. In fact, from a 1965 Beach Boys album, it was about a 1932 for Hot Rod, a little deuce coop. Correct. Janice Jacqueline goes a cappella in which song recorded just days before her death with lyrics from a poem by Michael McClure. Lord, why don't you Lord, why don't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? A Mercedes Benz. Correct. A classic Ford figures prominently in which 1960s hit for Wilson Pickett classic Ford. The T bird. No. Good guess though. Mustangs down. Mustangs. 4-1 Woods takes it this week. A victory to start a new week of taking what Mario, thanks for playing. Did Ford make the T bird? Ford Thunderbird? No, I don't think so. Yeah. But this was Mustang Ford Mustang. Sally. All right. Well, well done. Thank you. See tomorrow. We'll have another opportunity to qualify. Woods, you said you had a tease for don't do this turn things over to you. Delusional Dodger fan, brain rot showed up this weekend, delusional as to do with us. See this? I did. I did. They've lost their minds. They've lost their ever loving minds. Also, we have Colt McCoy, Ben, his audio. Oh, OK. You heard this? Yeah, I'm not. I've been looking forward to it. That's one way to put it. For the one that's looking forward to Colt McCoy, calling a football game, play that for you next. Holy cow. 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The apple sometimes does far fall from the tree. Don't do this. Do not tweet that. With Ben and Woods. I like a Nickelback song or two. On 97th Ring The Fan. Alright Woods has taken the lead today in our Don't Do Do This segment, which is fine by me. Yeah. I'm gonna sit here and react. Sit and react and relax. Everybody that breaks into broadcasting of any kind has clips and tapes of them where they would never want them to get out. I've got them. Ben's got them. Paulie has his from his old days back at San Diego State. Not you. We're not proud of it, but you're getting your feet wet. You're learning the ropes. Now again. I'm not embarrassed by it. No, no. You're like, I'm good. I don't need to hear it again. I don't want to hear it again. I'm not embarrassed, but also I'll die if I have to hear it again. But the difference is that most of us went through those growing pains on a very small scale. Yes. Yes. That's it. I bet a lot of people are thinking this is a Tom Brady set. So I didn't get to hear much of Tom Brady. I didn't hear much of Tom Brady. He wasn't great. But I heard he wasn't great. No, he was not. But this one I just don't understand. Now good quarterback at University of Texas had a long NFL career. They decided to put Colt McCoy in to call the Nebraska Colorado game. I wasn't watching it initially. I was busy and I saw people tweeting about it. Like I saw Damien Woody tweet or I saw somebody tweet, "Can we get Colt McCoy a coffee?" And I saw Damien Woody say, "I need him to get excited about calling this game." And I go, "Oh, I'm going to go check this out within four seconds of watching. I texted both of you." I go, "Oh my God, are you guys watching this game?" And you're like, "I'm at a bar." Yeah, I had no audio. I had to see it. You had it muted. You were listening to records, Paul was listening to vinyl, two games going, both muted, just listening to music. And I'm like, "What the hell is--" Paul was listening to vinyl. I'm scouting out college football. So I put it on. And I go, "Babe, get in here. Get in here." He sounds just like, "Boom goes the dynamite." I got it. We got a little clip. Okay. Listen to this. Huge game. Walt McCoy wants you to watch something. Yeah, watch number 24 right here. And then I want you to watch Nash Hotmaker. And here, I want you to watch number 44. Yeah, I just want you to watch number 42 when Kai Baer. Yeah, watch these linebackers. Yeah. Watch 92 right here. And Kwan Barnes. I just want you to watch the push of this whole unit right here. The whole game was like a pass down and how he caught it. Yes, he did. Yeah. It was-- I can't listen. I almost felt so bad for him. I really did. I felt bad for him because he's drowning. And if he was dumb enough-- The man just retired like three weeks ago and he's launched into a booth for-- He really does. He really does sound like the boom, the dynamite. Boom goes the dynamite. He sounds like identical. Yeah. Here he is. He's got that kind of the high pitched voice. But I thought, yeah man, throw him in, you know, throw him on some low level game. Let him get his feet under him. It was bad. And I hope he wasn't-- I hope he was smart enough to not go to social media. Because that's-- when you're making-- you know, you're doing a big game, I don't check this at half. See how I'm doing. I mean, you're done. You're-- He's switching to Ball State men's tennis. That's him. It seems last week player on-- it seems every week that you have a player-- You know, it actually makes me happy. And boom goes the dynamite. Because there have been some guys who have instantly been good. Those guys drive you nuts too. You almost pretty much get right away. Greg Olson, who Tom Brady replaced, was much better than Tom Brady. I don't think-- I mean, any question about it that Greg Olson debuted. And he was already well above the level Tom Brady is at now, which is a bit of a problem for Fox that now they've clearly put a worse guy in the booth for the, you know, the guy that they had who was doing a really nice job of it. But it's not always that easy. I'm curious to see how Brady develops. I'm sure he'll get better. I'm like-- with his mind of the football knowledge that he possesses, I'm like, how could he not be good? He will work out and he will get more comfortable. He will be decent at the job. He's personal. But I saw the reviews and I'm like, God, it's interesting that like the goat can't talk about the sport in which he was the goat at. They paid him a fortune. You imagine like Michael Jordan calling an NBA game? I don't know that I'd want to hear it. I don't think I would hear it. I don't think I would hear it then. I don't think I would hear it again. You don't need everything. You don't have to be good at everything. You're good at everything. Let the guys that are good at it, be good at it. And then you were great at what you did. Just be great. You don't have to be great at everything you do. So I didn't hear a lot of it. I heard two seconds. I went, all right, whatever. It's his first game. Out of our boss in the check, it was a worse guy for 300 times the cost. 300 times the cost. All right. I will do this when I was sitting at home watching the game on Saturday night. And my friend, who is a Dodger fan, sent me this. I guess she is a member of Dodger's fans of San Diego, which is an Instagram account. And she sent me a screenshot and I went, oh my God. So I'm looking at this. So it was, hey, ask me the bit. Ask me a question. There's a little text box. Text box. Yeah, send me a question. So they asked Dodger's fans of San Diego. Is it just me, or are the morning guys from 97, three, the fan, huge Dodger haters? So the answer was yes. People throw around rent free all the time, but you never hear LA stations talking about the Padres. Dodger's live rent free and Padres heads. They why they hate us. All right. So a couple of things here. Number one, they don't talk about the Dodgers in LA. So I, we will mention the Dodgers, you know, from time to time. But we also mentioned the guardians from time to time. Now, listen, he's not wrong. We hate the Dodgers. It's fine. What did you expect? What do you expect? You want to get your team glazed. Just go to MLB at MLB on Twitter, go to ESPN, go to baseball, go to the MLB network. There's no shortage go to Ben Verlander. There's no shortage of Dodgers love. You're not getting it here. You're not going to get it here. I do not tip my cap to your team. I don't. The guys on 710 ESPN LA just huge Lakers fans. Right. Super weird. Shocker. Like, are you really, you guys are really that surprised. And that's the brain rod I'm talking about. They really think everyone should bow down to, to them. And it's, it's, it's my number one beef with that fan base. You think you're a dynasty and you think everybody should kiss your ass. You're not going to get it. You're not going to get it on our show that I promise you. I mean, mostly, mostly. Not on our show. You won't know. But you do have a special affinity for one. Ben, you do a great job. It's, which we're never going to get out of it. Ridiculous brain rod. All right. Finally, a little doo doo doo this and I will I'll take the lead. Doo doo doo. First of all, I was watching the Notre Dame Northern Illinois game. We talked about it earlier. You're a little, you're a little giddy on your text. Well, it was a fun, it was a fun upset. So at the end of the game, Northern Illinois, I mean, they go into South Bend. They're up by two, what, 16, 14, late. All they need is a first down to clinch the game and they go for it and like the guy clearly gets it by a yard. But the official for some reason thinks he has seen the knee go down and spots it like a half yard behind the first down mark. It's fine. Let's go to replay, which then clearly also shows the guy gets the first down by a yard and the replay goes, no, it's an inconclusive Notre Dame ball. They've got a miracle chance with 30 seconds to go. If Notre Dame had won that game on that call, it would have been the biggest screw job really for an upset pick in history, but they didn't and Northern Illinois held on to win. And then after the game, they go down on the broadcast to interview Northern Illinois's head football coach. What's his name? Thomas Hammett. Thomas Hammett. Thomas Hammett. And he is a former player and he has been part of this program for like years and years. And the motion that he just exudes, like he got me right tweeted about it. From the beginning. Oh, he got me. He's teary as he walks up to the microphone. You told your guys this week that you didn't need anyone to be a superhero or superhuman. They just needed to be their best. What kind of performances did you see out there? They listened to what I said, I told them all week, we don't need luck. We just got to be our best and they were the best today and we were able to get it done. I love it. I actually love it. Where is this emotion coming from? Look at that. It's not a great thing. For you. You know, all these guys that have been with our program, they threw us in downs and they continue to fight. You know, I'm just like a kid and I'm happy for the adversity to push through, you know, no matter the situation, I'm just going to be more proud. Thomas Hammack. Well done. You're a do-do this. And you were asking the question, would you want Deon Sanders to be coaching your program? No, I want Thomas Hammack to be coaching my program. Yeah, man. That's the kind of person I want as a coach. Play great. Play great. Tip your hat. And that's don't and do-do this for a Monday. Was don't do this with Ben and Woods, a 97-3 the fan. All right. The playoff race is heating up in the National League. It's pretty much down to four teams, three slots. Someone is going to be very disappointed. Stop saying this. I hate this. I hate this narrative. At the end of September. And I will explain a little bit of the math behind it all. Oh, God. Can I just go to the bathroom? No, it's good. Good news for the Padres. I promise you. Coming up next with Ben and Woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. Just talking during the break, I had my first ever cold tub experience this weekend. He said us video and it is spectacular. Speck. That was near the end of the three minutes. I thought I might get out after one. I was dying. I thought this is miserable. It's only 49, which I know is not cold when it comes to cold tubs. It's cold. But, I mean, you think, what's ocean temp, you know? It's 61 or like when it's in the ocean, that feels insanely cold. Is it that warm? It's that warm. Oh, my God. Around here at least it is. I'm just like. Right now, it's probably 72 degrees. 72 degrees. 72 degrees. 72 right now. Holy ocean. That's beautiful. You get in and that still feels kind of cold. Yeah. So when you get in 49, it's like you still have to kind of ease yourself into the ocean at 72. And what's you were thinking of going and doing it as well today? Yeah. I've tried it for recovery. I'm still trying to figure out whether it helped or not, but it certainly was very numb when I got out. Yeah. I went up to nipple air level. There are people that get in there and they go under it. They go in, which is like, it makes your brain. Yeah. But I stayed for three minutes and I got out and felt pretty good actually. Yeah. Very relaxed. You get a little clarity in your brain as well. It just makes you get out. You're like, all right. Well, you know my wife bought me for our anniversary is coming up, which I had forgotten about on the 22nd. So I showed up because I got you one of your anniversary presents. I came early. Would you like it now? I said, yes. You've probably seen them on Instagram. It attaches to both sides of your shower, okay? And it's a tray with little, million little holes in it and it goes right up under your shower head and you fill it with ice and you, it's like an ice shower and the water runs through the ice and it makes you freezing cold. And I go, I don't want this, but you like to do cold tubs and stuff? I go, yeah, I like to emerge my body in a cold tub, but I actually never really get my head wet. Do you ever accidentally get into the shower before the water scooted up? Yes. It's horrible. It's like the worst thing. On purpose. We just had a baseball and 105 degree heat. I went home just cold showering it like to go from your body temperature being so hot and so drained and then you get in a cold shower and like shocks your system and so it takes your breath. I have to like, I have to like lug ice over to the shower, put it in, then turn the shower on. I forget it, man. So anything for, she'll buy me anything so that I don't get another cold tub. She raged so hard when I was filling up the cold tub. How many times are you going to do this? Are we going to be broke from our water bill? I'm like, I supposed to be just one time. No, that was. It's already it grew mold and all kinds of stuff. So I had to get rid of it. I got one of those crappy plastic ones. It didn't do anything. So I'm back to the drawing board of my cold plunging bin, but I'm glad you got to experience it. It is. It's really worthwhile. Right. According to fan graphs, the Padres still have despite losing a series for just the second time since the all-star break, a 92.4% chance of making the playoffs. So why are we so concerned that things are turning south on the San Diego Padres? We'll get to that right after this check traffic. Who's concerned? I'm just going to ask that. Who's? Are people really concerned? They're not going to make the playoffs. Everybody is concerned. Have you not taught? Have you not seen Padres fans on social media? Yeah. But I mean, that's the nature of fandom, I think. Yes, but should it be? And we not just accept. Potters, you're going to make the playoffs, guys. I like your confidence. I do. And I think I share it. We'll talk about it after traffic here on 97.3 of the fan baseball coverage in 97.3 of the fan is presented by T-Mobile switch to T-Mobile. You can get tons of benefits and still save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon. Use their savings calculator to find out how at T-Mobile dot com slash switch. So here we stand 17 games remaining in the regular season. These are 81 and 64. They are first place in the nationally wildcard race, one half a game ahead of the Arizona Diamondbacks, 80 and 64 Diamondbacks avoided getting swept by the Astros at Minimade Park yesterday. Haven Smith. Did you see them? Three home runs. Three home runs. Eight runs batted in. Three run homer, grand slam, solo home run in his first three at bats. I went back. That's eight RBI. And Smith had seven RBI from the end of May until yesterday and he had eight in his first three at bats in this game yesterday. What a day where where these guys come through. I have no idea. But the Diamondbacks actually have been struggling a little bit lately there. They're four and six in their last 10 Padres are five and five. The New York Mets finally lost nine game winning streak came to an end. Thank you Cincinnati Reds beat him with two in the ninth three to one there 78 and 65. There are two games behind the Padres and tied with the Braves for that third and final wildcard spot. The Braves won an extra innings two in the 11th to beat the Toronto Blue Jays four to three and take two of three in that inner league series. So after that the Cubs are five back. So it's pretty much down to four teams for three spots and I see the concern out there from Padres fans and there certainly is an absolutely believable logical way where the Padres can miss the playoffs even with a 92.4% chance of making it because if they continue to play 500 ball, which they have over the last two weeks, essentially, they're five and five in their last 10 games, they will end up right around 89 to 90 wins. Now that's usually in fact every single year that's been enough to make the playoffs in the national league. But the way that the Braves and Mets and Diamondbacks have been playing those teams don't need to play out of their minds to get to 90 91 wins. If they play few games above 500 and the Padres play 500 ball, you could end up fourth out of those four teams and miss the playoffs at the end of the year. Remember though, when there's only four teams involved and there's three playoff spots available, even if they were all tied at this moment. That would mean every team would have a 75% chance of making the playoffs. So that's the baseline here. Three of four would be if you were absolutely tied and that was it. The Padres though have have an advantage. They've got a two game lead over both the Mets and the Braves and guess what? Mets and Braves still have to play each other this year. So they can't both be completely hot the rest of the season, which means that the Padres just play decent baseball, not other worldly baseball. Just keep winning most series. You can even drop a series here or there should be more than enough to get into the playoffs, plus they still have three games against the Chicago White Sox left this year, which are no guarantees, but those you'd rather have those games left than not have those games left. Astros, Dodgers, Diamondbacks, so you're not expecting to win every single game the rest of the way. But the Padres remain in really good position and that's a catbird seat. That's why fan graphs has them where they are. They don't just sit around in a room and say, "I don't know, I think the Padres are 92.4%. They factor in remaining schedule, strength of team, everything into that equation." They may say play this season 100 times, Padres should make it 92.4% of the time, the rest of the way. It's a good spot to be in, better than the other three teams. I'm not overly concerned and I think I said last week, I'll be really concerned when this team's three in a row, four in a row. Now they're on the verge of dropping three in a row if they go out and lose to George Kirby tomorrow night, but I just, look, you, I learned this, I think it was two years ago here on the Ben & Woods program. Remember when we said, we did on our Christmas and holiday extravaganza, we did the area of your grievances. Remember that guy called in, he's like, "I love you, Woodsy, but stop telling me how to fan. I'm going to fan how I want." I went, "All right." And I filed that nugget away and I know I can be guilty of it at times. I tried really not to. Your experience is your experience. I'm going to tell you from my perspective, this team has earned my trust. They've done nothing to lose my trust. I have seen a remarkable effort from this team all year long. I also know the ins and outs of how baseball season works. And while I didn't say it, it was early back in April, May and June. It was, it was early. I didn't want that message out there because that message was really pervasive the year before. And it was like, ah, we'll catch up, we'll get there. I wanted to have a sense of urgency and I wanted the guys to and they have, boy have they ever. They've had remarkable comebacks. They've taken, they've taken care of business. They've beaten good teams. They've played their asses off. They've had injuries. They've overcome them. They in the, you know, the dog days, right after the all-star break Betty, they went on a monstrous run. They've earned my trust. I trust them. That's, that's what I'm telling you. That's how I feel. Even in the games that they've lost recently, they've still fought, man. They've been right there. I mean, they had, well, a three nothing lead in one game and they gave up a grand slam to lose it in the knives. They were there. They battled back yesterday. They nearly pulled off the win. Even the one they lost on Saturday, which wasn't one of their better games. It took a weird two home run day from a number nine hitter. That kid, by the way, has got five home runs and like 19 at Vats. He's like one of their up-rise. He's been up. He's not going to be batting nine for them forever, right? So he's, he's one of their, their up-and-comers, I guess, good player. But again, I, you know, the Kirk Qasali one probably hurt the worst yesterday. That was the one that shouldn't happen. It can't really fault Alec Jacob there. Guys out there grind. He's now your new long relief man inexplicably, but he is. Guys have stepped up all year. Guys have earned my trust. I trust them. I believe in them. I'm going to continue to believe in them. And I also, I also believe in them for when things get to, to the postseason, when the Padres have to win a game and they're putting their best bullpen forward and their best lineup forward in every single game. I still believe they're going to be very hard to beat under those circumstances. Now, they're not going to win every single game. It's baseball, but they've put together what we said on the round table last week, a team that doesn't have any glaring weaknesses and has a lot of strengths at this point. The biggest weakness right now is the injury at shortstop and what they're going to do. We talked about that. They may address that by tomorrow in Seattle with some, some changes in a lineup, but for the most part, the pitching rotation is in a good spot. The bullpen is in a really good spot. You know, you can be concerned about the pitching rotation certainly and you can be concerned about, you know, not getting a ton of length. The weird things that have happened with Dylan Cease, you know, his, his start a few, a couple starts ago where he comes out and walks, walks to guys and they end up scoring and they got him off the hook that game. You can be concerned about his start on Saturday. You can be concerned about Joe Musgrove's weird, whatever that was yesterday. Sure. I think it's okay. But there's also enough positives in there to that should get you to kind of give it out. It's not even pictures, including Cease are showing signs of velocity, dipping or all of a sudden their pitches just aren't sharp. You know, they, yeah, they've thrown some down the middle that have been hit. That is going. That's baseball. That's going to happen. There's no obvious signs of giving ground. There's no obvious signs that they've run out of gas and there's no, there's nothing left in the tank for the end of the season. Michael King looks great. Yeah. Well, concerned about you, Darvish and how quickly he's going to get back tomorrow will be an important day, I think, for you, Darvish. He's only had one start coming back and, you know, I still have a lot of faith in where this team is going. That's do I. And I do think they will make the playoffs. I'm not overly concerned about it. Like I said, I'll get concerned if they start to really hit the skids and, you know, look, the thing that probably made me the most concerned was Jackson Merrill fell on a ball off his knee. I was scared. And when he hit the deck, I went, oh God. And I absolutely like he played one more inning in the center field and I was talking about it and he goes, well, he's young. He needs to start. I go not against Logan Webby doesn't, who's going to be riding that two seam or in on his hands all night. He's going to do it again the right time to give Jackson Merrill the night off, I think, was Saturday. But yeah, we will still get into that game and more as well. All right, coming up in our eight o'clock hour, we'll talk with our friend in season Sam, Sammy Levitt's going to be with us. We got concert tickets to give away. Don't go anywhere. More Ben and Woods coming up on San Diego's number one sports station 97 three to fame. My dad works in B2B marketing. 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