Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

6am Hour - Tough Weekend As Padres Drop 2 Of 3 To The Giants

Ben, Woods, and Paul are here for you on a Monday! We start the show with some foreplay as we talk about what a rough sports weekend it was here in San Diego as we all battled the heat wave. Then we set the menu for today's show before we get to our Padres Wrap-Up and discuss yesterday's 7-6 loss to the Giants, and how things unraveled so quickly for Joe Musgrove. Listen here!

Duration:: 46m
Broadcast on:: 09 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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But yeah, I'm still, I got like dry throat, the whole thing, really been trying to hydrate, but tough, tough and obviously a tough weekend in San Diego sports, one of those kind of turds all around. Just not a great one, not a great one. We'll get into that. And so much more here on Ben Woods this Monday. I'm Woodsy, that's Paul Reidel. He's the executive producer. Good morning, Paulie. - Good morning. - Benjamin Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor, joins us as well, good morning, Benjamin. - Hello, I'd say good morning. It's hard to feel that good on this morning. - Yeah, listen, you know, you got to take the good with the bad, you know, you hate losing a series to sleepy Bob and the San Francisco Giants and a bunch of, a bunch of absolute no names at the bottom of the order. Just taking it to you all weekend, but listen, it's baseball, it happens. We move on, we have an off day today. It's always great, thanks a lot. And so we'll have nothing to talk about tomorrow. So maybe some Monday night football, we can go headlong into that, but other than that, how was the weekend? - Well, I'm the kind of person who generally when you give me that question. I say, I was fine, you know, I try not to be someone who focuses on the negative and complaints. You are more honest, I think in your answer. If, you know, something's bugging you or kids were out of control, you'll honestly say, oh, it was a nightmare, it was standard Monday. It was standard Monday, yeah. But when I was kind of reviewing that as I was driving to work this morning, it really was just a really bad weekend. It was a bad one. - It was a bad one. Started on Friday afternoon when we had to take Reggie in, I took Reggie in, it was one of the saddest things I have ever done in my life. - Yeah, let's talk about it at length. - What happened? - It was, I mean, it was, it was, well. - His dog, if you'd missed it, his dog Reggie crossed over the rainbow bridge. And by the way, before you tell the story, my wife said, I think that that should not be exclusive to pets. Crossing over the rainbow bridge, I said, that's maybe the most prolific thing you've ever said. I said, when I die, I would also like to cross over the rainbow bridge. Why do I feel like I'll be crossing under some other bridge that goes down with like some troll? - That feels like Escondido High yesterday. - Welcome. - Oh no. Oh God, what's down here? Jack Harlow down here rapping. - No rainbows. - No rainbows here, guys. This sucks, that's Jack Harlow. And he's rapping and acting at the same time. Oh my God. - Forever? - Forever, eternity. Hey, what's up, dog? And just kill me, kill me, kill me. So the rainbow bridge was crossed. - It was. - It's there. It's a terrible feeling. - It really was one of the saddest things ever. I mean, it was the vet and staff were great. And so we went in and I didn't know, I've never had a pet that has made it, you know, this long. - All your pets were taken to the farm. - When I was, yeah, when I was a kid, well, they didn't even get to the farm, I think mostly living in, you know, the country as I did growing up, they were unfortunately- - North County. - I'm the victims of wild animals. - Some of the victims that I was growing up on this one. - Yeah, of course. - We had smaller dogs and, but this one, 15 years old, Reggie had a really good life, but was falling apart at the seams at this point. And it was time. And, you know, she acknowledged the vet who we've been going to for several years said, oh yeah, this is, it's definitely the time for him. And came in and, you know, it last couple of weeks, he hasn't really been eating that much and you could just tell. But we got in and she said, well, is he been eating what he liked some treats? And I said, well, you can try. And she said, you know, what we do is they can have chocolate because dogs can't have chocolate normally because it's wreaks havoc on their stomachs. But at this point, it doesn't matter. - Doesn't matter. - Brought out like real, like, chocolatey chocolate chip cookies and a Reese's peanut butter cup and like, oh, salami slices. And he wolfed it down. - Oh man, that makes my heart warm, dude. - So happy. And I was like, oh, this is so great that he gets to enjoy that. And then the rest of the process went pretty fast. And I was just-- - It's soft stuff. - Petting his head and then I, we got out of there pretty quickly. - Were you like, sobbed in my car? - Were you, did you sobbed in there? - Yeah, I, I, it was awful. It's, oh, they're looking at you like, all right, relax, we do this 20 times a day, but it's, you know, it's a member of your family, dude. Member of your family, it's very, very hard. It's hard to wrap your head around that you're like, I have to go in there and hold this little paw and while this guy, you know, goes away. But the thing about pets is like, you know, you gave him a great, great, great life. Much better than most. So that's the thing that makes me feel always a little bit better at the end. It's tough though. Are you getting upset right now? He's getting upset right now, yeah, see? I mean, listen, this is my fault. I shouldn't have, shouldn't have asked you, but no, it's a tough day. It's a very, very tough day, Betty. Sorry that you had to go through that. It's never, ever, ever. - No, it was okay, it was good. - Oh, sorry, pal. - It's all right. - In a moment, just a second. - Take a moment. - Thanks. - It's weird seeing him get emotional because he never really gets emotional. - Yeah, it's gonna happen like once. - And now I'm emotional. And now we all cry together on Monday. (laughing) - And then the weekend didn't get much better. - No, it really didn't. - Hot-rays, Aztecs, Chargers won. They look pretty good. That made me sad. And lost my survivor pool on week one. And my fantasy team has by far the fewest points of anybody in our league. So it was a great, great weekend. - Well, thanks for asking. At least your favorite football team didn't lose to Northern Illinois at home as a four touchdown favorite. Four. I looked at that line, I go, (laughing) Aztecs get to shut out 21-nothing. - They did. - They did. - Mediocre for a good state team. - They did, they did. - Go USD. - Oh, did USD win? - They did. - Oh, look at these guys. Two and a half. - Two and a half. - We're all churarros fans this morning. - Two rarros. - Got churarros. - And our buddy Chris and Charisma, our friends-- - I was gonna bring them up. - Is it Doherty or Dockerty? Doherty, right? - It looks like Doherty. - It does, but I've seen Doherty spell Dockerty. - I thought it was when it was G8, sometimes it'd be Dockerty. - I think I've seen them both. But anyway, Chris and Charisma, our beloved tier ones and friends, they lost their pup unexpectedly on Saturday afternoon. That begs the question, do you'd rather have the chance to say goodbye, right? Even though it's hard as hell to have to go in there and do what you did, you'd rather have the chance to say goodbye to anything. Your friend, your family member, like as much as it's awful, you don't want like a phone call be like, "Hey, wood's died," right? Like that sucks, but like, or like, "Hey, wood's just dying." Come by and, you know, give them a do the show bitch or something in his ear. - Charisma texted Megan on Saturday and just said, "Oh, like something's wrong." We had to take them to the vets and like, they just woke up and something was off, I guess, with their pup. - It's a little worse. - And you take them in and they, I believe they went in, it was like within 15 minutes or something. They took him back to go do some work and he didn't make it. - That was it? No, it's so sad. Sorry to you guys, sorry to you guys, Benny. Just terrible, man. Just just, just terrible all around. And again, you know, that's, the beauty about sports is oftentimes we use sports to, kind of, it's weird to say, but like a good win can really boost your mood, you know, can elevate the feelings that you have. - Had the potteries finished that comeback and one that I probably would have finished the weekend, go, all right, wasn't that bad of a weekend? - Yeah, of course. - It was all right. You're like, that one was for Reg, you know? And it's weird, sports is like that. Like, you know, you've seen it all the time. Like, oh, my dad loved the Cubs for, you know, 75 years. And when they won the World Series, you know, it was special to people. They're like, I watched every Cubs game of my dad. Sports is special like that. When it doesn't go right, though, sports is the worst part of it. It makes it, it makes it so much worse. My wife says, cool show, guys. And then Caitlin says, what a happy opening. Yeah, I mean, just going to try to be honest about what happened in our lives. I will say this though, I had to, I spent a lot of time in the heat this week. - I can't believe you actually played a baseball game. - A lot of time in the middle of the day yesterday. - One o'clock. Not just me. On my son Bo had a 1230 soccer game on Saturday. Can I say this? And people are going to get mad at me, but I'm going to say this for real. More fun watching his soccer game than I have ever had watching any other soccer game ever. If pro soccer looked like that, I'd probably watch it more. Does that make sense? None of these kids flopped. These kids, they beat the S out of each other. There were hand balls. There were little kids pointing at each other. That's a hand ball. It was, it was electric to watch the little kids tearing ass down the field. - They do the hand ball thinking pro soccer too. - That's a hand ball. - They probably do the pointing. - It was more exciting than any Premier League game I've ever seen. And I'm not, I'm not just saying this because it's, no, it's two to one. Well, actually, yes. So way more than you'll ever see in real soccer. So three goals. Way more than you'll see in real soccer. I had such a great time watching it and I was getting so into it too. And it wasn't just because Bo would come out for a sub and I was getting fired up at the kids out there. It was really fun. I had a great time, but it was, it was 100 degrees. These kids were dying out there. So they played, they played on Saturday, then he had yesterday. He had an eight a.m. to 10 a.m. practice for his select team. Then we had our practice for fall ball at 1035 on the turf in Carl's bat. I mean, it was 110 on that turf, Betty. It was brutal. I kept him for an hour. Everybody hit once. We took some ground balls and said, that's it. We're banging this thing. They're not trying to kill your kids. One kid would not get off the bench because it was so hot. Wouldn't play. Didn't swing, didn't take a grounder. He would not come off the bench. I walked over and kind of, you know, gave him a little, hey, come on, man, I need you out there. Let's go, buddy. Come on, good. No, not doing it. Dude, please, come on. This is probably the smartest thing out there. (laughing) He comes back and it's like, no, I'm not doing it. Yeah, I was like, all right, well, see you later and just walk away. It was excruciating. And then drive to Escondido, Paulie and I had a tier one game. It was murder. I mean, it was just murder. I couldn't believe how hot it actually was, but we made it through. Got the dub, so that made me feel a little bit better. Love it and that, man. All my sports teams lost. I mean, it was a real, real crap scene in the San Diego sports world this weekend. We got a lot to talk about, that's for sure, including some more Padres news and what they're going to do at the shortstop position. Perhaps for the, I don't know, foreseeable future. Things not going quite as smoothly with the comeback of Hassan Kimmies. We were hoping, expecting maybe, and now the powers that be. Mike Schilt, A.J. Preller, have a decision to make about what they're gonna do going forward. So we will talk about all of that coming up. We'll set the menu for the show coming up next. Chris B. says, what about the wave match on Sunday? Did they end up winning? No, that's four to one. So if you like goals, you saw a lot of them against the wave. So that was Morgan. So they lost two. Had a chance at a goal in her last match. Got her penalty kick. It was a penalty kick. Yeah, penalty kick. No goals all season. Didn't get a single one. Had a chance before she was subbed out after the 13th minute. I don't want to play the... I don't want to play the... In a big picture, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It was a nice, it was still a great moment and a great scene, but could something have gone like right and well, like magically? No, not this weekend. I don't want to be the typical San Diego, but when these weekends happen, it's hard not to get in that space. So we're going to do our best to make you laugh, try to get out of that space. I would like to tell you how my weekend started. Oh, good. All right, we'll do that next. Try to break it up a little bit because this was the most depressing open I think we've had in years. But I do want to thank everybody for all the love in the chat and everybody who tweeted me on Friday after Reggie passed. It was very much appreciated. I saw all of them and thank you very much for all of that. And we are getting started right after this. Check a traffic with Kelly Damick on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fan. From the mind of a two-foot tall talking spokespuppet 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 whoops and thousands of dollars in savings. Everyone's winner when you dare to compare with Bob's discount furniture. Shop in store at mybobs.com to play now. America's favorite place to watch football is stadium swim located at circa resort and casino in Las Vegas. Catch all the biggest games and a viewing experience built for sports fans. Chill in one of their six pools on three different levels for a perfect view of their massive screen. 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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 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 $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. - We've laughed, we've cried. We're only 20 minutes into the week. - We've loved. Where do we go from here? Paulie said he had an interesting start to his weekend. - Yeah, you don't remember? - I don't know, I was too self-consumed, I guess, with my own grief, apparently. - Yeah, well, that's why I waited. - I haven't heard this yet. I wanted to wait a segment after you broke down in the first segment, it just didn't feel right. - Yeah, that actually would have been a really good time to pile on, I think. - No, when, you know, Thursday, Friday, kind of saw the weather forecast, like, we're in for a hot one this weekend, it's probably gonna suck. But it was about 10, 15 on Friday morning when I just wanted to get home, start my weekend, and as has happened, I don't know, 50 times over the years, one of you, mostly, this guy? - I know, I know where you're going. - I'm just trying to get out of here, it's Friday, we just grind it all week. - There's an unwritten rule in the radio world for morning shows, it's unwritten, it's like in baseball, it's unwritten, that you don't send your show, your air talent, your morning show, production to do on a Friday, it's just as unwritten as it gets. - That has never filtered into Odyssey San Diego, it's when we get the most production work to do. - How did you go K in the production, it was actually our short promo. - It was just the 15 second promo. - The one that you, I let you leave, I was gonna handle it, but then I was tired, it was Friday. - You were on your way to the vest. - Yeah, and I was not in a great head space. - No, it was just, it's a 15 second promo, all I need is seven to eight seconds of contact. - Seven seconds. - And it took then, I mean this, I got it edited down to one minute. - You're kidding. - Meaning it took about seven or eight minutes. - Seven or eight minutes. - Check, check, one, two, three. - It was testing, one, two, one, two, three. Three, two, one. - What is it, look at him. - Coming up Monday will wrap up a full weekend of Mike Schiltz Padres versus Bob Melvin's Giants, plus week one of the NFL season in Conclino. - Yeah, it was close, I probably just left it there. - That was my best take, I was so close. - Coming up Monday will wrap up a full weekend of Mike Schiltz Padres versus Bob Melvin's Giants, plus wrapping up, well, this is said wrap up twice. - Three, two, one. - Coming up Monday will wrap up a full, three, two, one. Coming up Monday will wrap up a full weekend of Mike Schiltz Padres versus Bob Melvin's Giants, plus, week one, what did you say? - Plus wrap up, plus the first, full weekend of the NFL, yeah. - Coming up Monday will wrap up a full weekend of Mike Schiltz Padres versus Bob Melvin's Giants, plus the first full week of the NFL. - Coming up Monday will wrap up week one of the NFL season, plus the full weekend of Mike Schiltz Padres versus Bob Melvin's Giants. (audience applauding) - It's at a reverse, it just had to turn it around. - You were so bound to determine to get Bob Melvin's Giants and Mike Schiltz Padres, he wouldn't stop. - That's the point, that's the point where I just go, all right, coming up Monday, Padres Giants will break it all down for you and we'll wrap up the NFL season and I'm out the door. - But I would like to thank you Ben because I actually left inspired and I went home and got into the beat lab. - Oh, you're in the beat lab. - And I would like to introduce everybody to the world's debut of promo woes. - All right, here we go, three, two, one. (upbeat music) ♪ Let's do your weapon ♪ - Hey, it's Ben Higgins. ♪ China, make a promo again ♪ - Coming up Monday. ♪ Start with the countdown from three ♪ - Three, two, one. ♪ But it's harder than it seems to be ♪ - All we're gonna be here for hours. ♪ Three, two, one, let's go ♪ - Hey, good one. ♪ But it's on intro ♪ - Hey, it's Ben. ♪ Stumbles on every word ♪ - Wow. ♪ This is just absurd ♪ ♪ Open, open, open ♪ - Hey, it's Ben. ♪ Get it right again ♪ ♪ Dang it ♪ ♪ Just 50 seconds long ♪ - Start over. ♪ But it's taking so so long ♪ - You know what, maybe I'm just gonna write this out. (laughing) - Well done, Paul, it's genius, genius. - I think the prompt was a funny parody song about a radio host named Ben who for the life of him cannot simply record. - I mean, it's such a great tool. I was with our friend Jason Finley from Callaway and he said, "I heard you doing those, Paulie doing those songs." And I said, "Well, I've got to do a golf ball chrome tour presentation. I'm gonna have 'em write a country song for me and make it about golf balls." - And they did. - And they did. - I said, "It was perfect, it was great." - That's fantastic. People helping people, that's what we do. You're a better one. - It was fantastic, Paulie. - See, now that was more than just AI though. Paulie had to go and put some work into that. That was entertaining. - Fantastic work. - All right, here's the menu for the program today. Start with our pot raise wrap up, beginning with yesterday's 7 to 6 grit squad, almost got their loss to the San Francisco Giants game. Honestly, I've seen good pitchers come out and have bad games. I've seen bad pitchers come out and have good games. I've seen mixed results from just about every pitcher ever. I don't know that I've ever seen a performance on any level like the one from Joe Musgrove yesterday. - Yeah, same, we had it on in the dugout yesterday. I went, "What just happened?" What in the world just happened? What happened? - Does anybody know what in the world went down at Petrie Park yesterday? - My only theory, he went 10 up, 10 down, and then Fernando lost the ball in the sun. My only theory was that with a runner on and having to have a runner out on second base, maybe they could see into the signs or they could see something that he was tipping. - 'Cause they were on everything. - Just changed his mechanics slightly with a runner on base, but that doesn't explain after the home run. He went back to no one on base and they still continued to pound him for just seven straight batters. - What did they get, seven hits in a row? - I think it was seven in a row. - Seven in a row, seven straight hits. - After he had looked as dominant, really has any pitcher had looked all season long for 10 straight batters? - No, it's still straight, yes. - I didn't understand it. I don't think Joe did really either. I don't think the Padres did. I don't think anything Mike Schilt could have done about it. Can't, you don't get a reliever hot and ready after your starter goes 10 up, 10 down, and looks as good as he has in years, essentially. - So ridiculous, man. - And by the time, you know, it was five minutes and it was six nothing. And the game was, you thought over, the Padres did make it a game. We will talk about it, get all the highlights and our Padres wrap up coming up in our next deck. - Just so you know, you're not alone. Joe Musgrove said, I've never had that. - Or seen it to me or anybody else. That guy's been in a lot of baseball game. - Yeah, that was crazy yesterday. Obviously it was a big weekend in football with the full NCAA and NFL schedule. We'll talk about some of the big stories, including Tyreke Hill yesterday in the Miami Dolphins game and what happened to him before the game. Take on Woods comes your way. It's 7.10, a chance to qualify. We had three qualifiers last week and take on Woods. A rare, you know, full week of everybody getting in towards one philosophy. - Two ties in a win. - Two ties in a win. - Two ties in a win. - Two ties in a win. Don't do this at 7.20. We'll talk about the rest of the Padres weekend and the wildcard race. I don't want to say uncomfortably close, but certainly not as comfortable as you'd like it to be if you're a Padres fan. There's certainly a path to not making the playoffs here at this point for your San Diego Padres. And we'll discuss that as well. Second half of the program, have in season Sammy. Sam Levitt will be with us. - Padres down to 92.4. - That's not a good radio station. - No. - 92.4. - I have no idea who they are. - Well, they're all odd. So there's no even. There is no 92. - That's true. - We're all odd, but. Sam Levitt will be with us. Rindle Report, we'll talk about Alex Morgan's day, yesterday at Snapdragon Stadium. Was not a good sports weekend as we've already established. If you're a San Diego sports fan, wasn't a lot to cheer about. - Let's talk sunglasses next too. I've seen some people in the chat wondering about Fernando and, I think, you know. - There's a conversation. - There's a conversation to be had. - Yeah, for sure. - So we'll get to all of that. We'll start with our Padres wrap up. It is coming up next. Thank you for joining us. It's Ben Woods on a Monday morning on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan, three, two, one. Everyone's wondering why was Fernando Tantiste Jr. not wearing sunglasses in that game yesterday? To turn out that one run was pretty important. Well, every run was important in a one run game yesterday as the Padres lose seven to six to the San Francisco Giants, just their second series loss since the All-Star break. - That's crazy. - Which is great. - That's great, 100%. - It's gonna happen every once in a while, for sure. It's just magnified, obviously, when you're in a playoff chase and the teams around you tend to keep winning. The Diamondbacks did lose two of three to the Houston Astros. - Yep, but who we also have to play very soon and they look absolutely ridiculous. - They have been playing very well and trying to put away the Seattle Mariners to the next opponent for the San Diego Padres tomorrow and Wednesday up in Seattle. First though, we gotta wrap up the series against the Giants we will get to yesterday's highlights and lowlights and our Padres wrap up right after this check of traffic at 97 through the fan. ♪ It's a shame, it's a shame if they lose ♪ ♪ Oh, a shame indeed ♪ - It's a complete crap. - Oh, I did not like that. - Here are the lowlights from yesterday's game. Are you (beep) kidding me? - Boo. - It's the Padres wrap up presented by Hamoul Casino. With thrilling slots and tables in all the best rewards, Hamoul Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hamoul Casino, fun above all else. - We'll give it 16 minutes of salt and then we'll get back on the bump and figure it out. - It's not your fault. - Matt Chapman at the plate, first bit swinging. High fly ball, the deep left field. This one is not gonna be caught. It is a homerun. - Two run bombs, and Matt Chapman is 23rd home run of the season, and the Giants all of a sudden have a two-nothing lead in the fourth. - 1-0, swung on, driven to left field, and deep. All the jerks and pro-far can do is scan there and watch a ground ball lands in the second deck. Out of left field, and all of a sudden, the Giants have a five-nothing lead over the Padres here in the fourth. - Things have changed in a hurry. - And we're not able to make the play. This one's swung on again, well hit. Jerks and pro-far going back. If you look up, this one is gone. Back to back, home runs for the Giants. They have a six-nothing lead on the fifth long ball of the season for Luis Matos, and this inning just continues to unravel for Joe Muster. 1-0 offering, fly ball, left field. Pretty well hit, going back his run. Let's just hit the warning track at the wall, it's gone. Home run for Jackson Merrill, 23rd of the season, and the Padres deficit is cut to six to one. - 0-2 by Jacob, swung on, high fly ball, deep left field. - Jerks and pro-far has his head down. He's running into the wall, this one is going to be gone. Home run for Kirk Osali, into the left center field seats. Fourth home run of the afternoon for the Giants, they have a 7-1 lead. First pitch he sees way inside, it gets past the catcher, and Jackson Merrill is going to score on the wild pitch. - Padres deficit cut down, 7-2. Runners on second and third with two outs, and the Padres getting a little bit of help this inning from the Giants, 1-0 offering, swung on, popped up right side on the infield. Second baseman, a shortstop, both calling for it, they collide, and the ball is going to land safely on the ground, both runs are going to score. Jerks is going to head to second base, and the Padres rally continues, thanks to some help by the Giants on a pop-up that should have been caught, bad communication, it falls. - 3-2 pitch again to Zander, swung on, high drive to deep left field, going back with his Ramos, he looks up, it's gone. (crowd cheering) Two run, home run for Zander Bogartz. (crowd cheering) - His ninth long ball of the season who reaches the second Jack in left field, and the Padres now trail seven to six. - Right enders, 2-1 offering, swung on, driven down the right field line and deep, going back for it, is Yostromsky in foul territory, reaches up and makes the catch for the final outs. (crowd cheering) Jerks and gave it a ride, the Nike Yostromsky, able to run it down in foul territory, right next to the wall for the final out, and the Padres are gonna come up short, and they're come from behind bid, lose the final game to the Giants by a score of seven to six, they dropped the skieries, two games to one. - Did you hear that? - Yeah, the last swing of the game yesterday, Jerks and Pro 4, and he kinda jumped when he hit it and reacted, and I saw-- - Play one more time. - Right enders, 2-1 offering, swung on. - There it is, thought he had it, thought he had it. - I don't know that I've ever heard Tony do that when it wasn't at least a ringing double, usually it's a home run. When he gives that noise, and Tony knows, he's seen plenty of well-struck balls over the years. That's usually a sign, something good. Very good is about to happen for the San Diego Padres. Now I was watching, and Jerks and's reaction, I jumped out of my chair, like, he just did it again, did he tie the game with two outs in the ninth, and it just kinda died, it hooked foul, and died in the corner, and was caught for the final out of the game, but I was excited too, so I was not the only one fooled, I guess, by that, as Tony Gwen Jr. gave us the little up. And it turned out not to be, the grit squad comes up short in a 7-6 loss to the San Francisco Giants. - Fernando Ortiz Jr. was fooled on that hit-to-right feel, the very high pop-up, you know, it's a no-touch double. I mean, he didn't get glove on it, I don't think, or knocked his glove off, was that it? I thought, yeah, so he was talking about after the game, he's like, look, I can't really play in sunglasses, and all, like, I've tried it, I've tried it with 'em, tried it without 'em, they're, he says, quote, sunglasses for me are worse than when you have the sun right on top of you, 'cause it goes way darker, I've tried everything, I've played with sunglasses without, it's way better without 'em, nothing you can do at that point, sun is unbeatable, so it happened in Chicago as well, their center fielder went back for a ball, had a beat on it the whole time, and then just disappeared. You saw Jerkson profile lose one in that weird bank of lights that he's lost several in, but usually makes the catch out in left field, that was on Friday night, I believe. That's been a net positive for the Padres, because his Jerkson sometimes looks a little shaky, almost always makes the catch, whereas some opposing fielder's-- They cannot, lost those balls in the bank of life. Yeah, but the, the, the, the sun thing I actually get, I actually get it, I can't, I can't really-- Or way out in right field, you can't, I, I get it. The high sun, you know, it just, it's one of those things, man, if you can pick it up off the bat, then you got to use your hand or your glove, and it's just-- I bet you, if he's playing shortstop, he's probably wearing sunglasses. Yeah, yeah, potentially, potentially. I think it's being that far away from the plate, seeing the ball off the bat. You want to make sure you can see it as best as you possibly can. I don't know how they catch 50% of the balls, with all the people in the stands and everything else, I mean, it's just, it's maddening to think about it. It's fairly easy in an empty stadium to catch one like that, with the blue seats in the background. All the people, but no, he booted it, man, he booted it. And yeah, I mean, Joe Musgrove, at that point, as soon as he booted that, next pitch, home run. And you're like, what in the world-- So that was going to be 11 up 11 down here. He retired the first 10 in order. And that'll mess with you. That'll mess with you. That'll mess with you. And that pitch was the first pitch of the at bat, it was dropped for the double. Nine pitches later, it was six, nothing, John. It's insane. Crazy thing I've ever seen, man, and like Joe said, crazy thing he's ever seen do, never seen that happen to anybody. It is very weird. It's happened a couple times recently, where the starting pitcher looks really, really dialed in. And it's happened to cease, it's happened to Joe now. They're very, very dialed in, pound in the zone, everything's spinning, everything's putting it where they want. And then all of a sudden, it goes away. Sees goes the other way sometimes. He looks like terrible, terrible. And then all of a sudden, un-evitable, the last two or three innings of his start. Oh, and where was this earlier in the game? It sucked. What happened to Joe yesterday was as dramatic as I've ever seen going from completely locked in to just can't get an out. I mean, it was not a good pitch to match up. And that was a fastball right down the middle. It was a clear mistake. Some of them were good pitches. I mean, he had a sweeper that was right on the outside corner that somehow was hit for a home run on one of those. The singles weren't necessarily hard hit. It was some bad luck, some bad pitches, and it just all combined to let that game get away. Padres did come back. I think one of the frustrating elements. And I don't want to belabor Alec Jacob. He did a good job. You're going to take two and two thirds innings, one earned run from your last guy in the bullpen who's trying to save the rest of your pen every single time. But the one run kind of hurt. That was a big one. Backup catcher who has not hit a home run all season long and Kurt Cassale and ended up being the winning run of the game, the seventh run that the Giants would need to hold off. The late Padres come back, which they continue to fight. It's not just the fight. At this point, that's expected. They get results every single time too. And that's why ultimately, well, yes, I'm nervous because I'm a Padres fan and the race is very close and someone's not going to make the playoffs out of the Padres, the Diamondbacks, the Braves and the Mets. And all four teams probably feel like, yeah, we deserve to make the playoffs the way that we've played. But one of them is not going to be there. Maybe someone collapses the last three weeks. I doubt it. I bet they're all going to play pretty well. And in the end, someone's going to win 90 games and they're going to be home. And that's going to be rough for that team and their fan base. But ultimately, I still don't see any glaring concerns for your San Diego Padres. Just the one that is probably going to be the topic as you were today is probably the shortstop scene. I will say this bill makes a great point. He said, weird as starting to happen. And it started with that grand slam off Suarez. Yeah, man, you're a strike away from winning a ball game to sweep a series. And a nine hole hitter sticks his bat out, takes a 101.9 mile an hour fastball, outer half, and knocks it out of the ballpark. And oh, OK, that was a bit jarring. They came back, played great, played great in their next game. On Friday night, just a spectacular win. Everything went right. And then we'll get into the other two games. We just got into yesterday's game. But the weird things are happening, where before the weird things were happening to the other teams, just a bit of a luck switch here. I think they're still playing pretty decent ball. I think they're still pitching OK. The biggest question going forward is, OK, well, our cavalry that was supposed to come, there was one man left on the cavalry. And it doesn't-- like, is this absurd to say, have we seen the last of Hassan Kim in a Padres uniform? Wow, I had not gone to those lengths at this point. The depth of my despair. So Mike Schilt, the report on Hassan Kim, was that he's swinging the bat. But the throw from shortstop continues to give him trouble. He can't throw it full strength. He can't play shortstop if you can't make that throw. And he's not well getting worse. He's really not making any strides toward feeling better on that throw, which means at this point, he has to remain on the injured list. And the Padres have continued to go with Mason McCoy. We had Mason McCoy on last week. Great guy. He's not an everyday major league shortstop. And the Padres now have to make a tough decision about what they're going to do going forward. If they were six or seven games up in the wild card race, fine. If they're the Dodgers, they're good. Throw Mason McCoy out there. Just keep working on Hassan Kim. But at this point, as the games become very critical toward making sure you make the playoffs, it becomes less and less tenable to play Mason McCoy every day. I don't think playing Tyler Wade there is an answer either. He's on my list. Which means you have to move one of your myriad shortstop's who are playing other positions back to shortstop temporarily. And the first, most likely candidate is the guy who has been doing it late in games and did it yesterday as well. And that is Andrew Bogart's, who showed some reluctance to, of course, move to second base originally. And then once again, showed some reluctance once he had made all those changes. And I understandably so. To move to second base, to then just be flipped right back to shortstop in a time of need. But if you saw his comments yesterday, you have to think he's becoming a little more amenable to it. And I'm referring to the comments he made about Donovan Slano, his teammate. When he said, really, it's a shame. I'm paraphrasing here. It just sucks him not playing. Not playing, yes. It's a shame that Donovan, with his bat, can't get into the lineup. Well, the one way Donovan Slano could get into the lineup every day would be by playing first base, having Jake Cronworth play second. Xander Bogart's is short. Louisa rise is designated hitter. And Mason McCoy is not on the bench. Gary is on the bench or not on the team, whatever it is. That would be your best offensive lineup on a day to day basis. It has to have Xander Bogart's at shortstop if you want your best offensive lineup in there. And I don't think there's any really other logical alternatives to that. Yeah, well, and now with that news, I think that changes everything for Xander Bogart's as well. Like, hey, man, after moving me here, it was a big deal. I'm getting comfortable finally. Now you want to move me back for what? What are we talking, 10 games? No, man, let's roll with McCoy. Let's tread water, whatever. And now when the news comes out that that Kimmy is potentially not coming back and he's, what, a free agent after this year, Benny, it could be the last we see of him. Now, somebody made the point on Twitter. I think you tell Xander, all right, you're our shortstop in 2025 as well. Go, start now. You know what I mean? I wonder if that does anything for him. And just to say, you go now, I need you to, we're sorry, but we need to embrace it. Do we want to win a World Series or not? Go out there and get it. We're going to give it to you next year because you got Leo coming up through the system. I would just tell him, you're here until D'Rise gets here. So it could be three years, could be four years, could be five. Or go to first. I don't know that you can promise that though. If you get to 2025 and we don't know who is going to be on that team, what trades might be available to AJ Preller. I mean, if they pick up extra outfielders this offseason, like, hey, we were able to sign a terrific outfielder, you may need to move Jackson Merrill back to shortstop at some point. And you can't necessarily promise with 100% certainty that Xander Bogart can play shortstop next season or for the next couple of years until Leo Dallas D'Rise is ready. Then you tell him, you can't even promise D'Rise, the shortstop will be his position in the future. And what if in two weeks Kim's feeling better? Then do you move Xander back or do you stick Kim over and send Kim? Well, this all tells me though that with three weeks left the season, I mean, they're saying he's not progressing as much as they would like and can't make a throw. That doesn't code for, he's pretty far away. But that doesn't mean that in two and a half weeks, and if you're still going to the playoffs, he's going to be your best option to be a playoff shortstop. So are you going to move Xander back? Then to second base, when Kim comes back, if he does, in time for the postseason. Yeah, and you know, I don't want this next year, if you can't even promise him the rest of this year. I don't want this to, this doesn't, I'm not mad at Xander Bogart's. It's not his fault. You signed him as a $280 million shortstop. You moved him off of shortstop after a year. He was visibly, I mean, again, that's what he came up playing. That's what he knows how to play. Feels like he can still play there and you moved him to second and now you want to move him back? Yeah, I mean, I kind of understand where he's coming from, but I'm also of the mindset that he's finally of the mindset of like, all right, whatever we need to do, just do it, you know? And again, like, Xander, let's go try to win a World Series here. Now you did sign Nick Ahmed. Yeah, he was like, at this point, the rental car that no one's taken good care of and just gets, you know, passed around and trashed and then turned back in at the end of, you know, however long that you've rented him for. But you could go with a more experienced, major league commodity there temporarily at shortstop instead of Mason McCoy. I just don't know that that's going to be much of an upgrade. I mean, he can pick it. That's for sure. The good, you've got ridiculous gloves. So can Mason McCoy defensively. That has not been the issue. That's true. Ahmed, Ahmed has been in big games. He has played in big games. You know, can he hit in big games? Can he hit better than Mason McCoy is your answer? I trust Mason McCoy defensively. The question is whether he can do anything at all offensively. Yeah. And he can. Then he would be an upgrade over Mason McCoy. Yeah. Whose at bats have looked lost the last week? He had a good first, what, five, six games? Yeah. Getting on base, he is he's bonded or he's, you know, since that he's looked lost at the play, it's no double plays. Strike out double play, strike out double play. I mean, you know, look, I understand where everyone's coming from. And I think my general personality is one of whatever it takes to win a world series. That's what these guys should be doing. But it's not like I don't see their point. And I listen, is Xander Bogart's really, is he that great of a shortstop anymore? You know what I'm saying? He's better and he's better offensively, is Donovan Solano a good first baseman. This is just where you're at with the injuries of this team. So this isn't some, oh, we're going to explode once this happened. No, I'm still nervous about that. Are you guys not? I mean, I absolutely am nervous about Solano at first and Xander at short. Couple of a scintillating games yesterday in week one of the NFL will get that take on what's coming up next year on the fan. 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