Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

7am Hour - Is There Any Concern About Robert Suarez?

Ben & Woods kick off the 7am hour by continuing to discuss last night's rough loss to the Detroit Tigers, and we highlight some of the GOOD that happened, like Martín Pérez delivering one of his best starts of the season. Then we get to "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we hit the phones and let Padres fans vent a little bit, as there are a lot of fans out there expressing a lot of concern over Robert Suarez in the closer role. Listen here!

Duration:: 47m
Broadcast on:: 06 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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If the Padres take a three-nothing lead into the ninth inning of every game, they're winning the World Series. No problem. I agree, yes. That's not the kind of game you worry about. Three-nothing in the ninth, I like our chances most days. If truly Robert Suarez is struggling, they have plenty of other options that they can go to. Yesterday wasn't the day for it. Some point they might, but they're well covered. They've got depth, they've got a bullpen filled with great arms. So there's really no reason to worry about it. It's simply a lost opportunity. Now, what's pointed out in our last segment is that where you really lost the game is if you just added a couple of runs, you could have left some of your high leverage bullpen arms in the pen to rest. You would have had a bigger cushion. There really wouldn't have been much cause for the Tigers to even mount that comeback. If you just got into five or six, the game is probably over. But after the quick three runs, they just couldn't do anything else against Casey Meis. And one opportunity where they had to really add on was in the fifth inning when Elias Diaz, who got his first start behind the plate, looked pretty good. Hit the ball hard, he got the one hit, and it was to lead off the fifth, a stinging double down the left field line. So the number nine hitter is coming up, Mason McQuay. Advanced scouts, no. He's going to box in that situation. Almost certainly get the runner over to third for Luis Arise. Try to get that fourth run on the board. And he's been really good at getting those buns down. But the first bunt attempt fouls it right down at his feet. And it rolls out in front of the plate, and then he kicks it, and the umpire rules him out. That's what you saw at the game. That's what I saw. But when you're watching on television on replay, it showed that he actually kicked the ball in the box. And then the second time he kicked it, he was out of the box. But he had already touched it. It was a dead ball. Should have been a foul ball. Dead ball because he'd touched his foot in the box. Still up, and he would have had another chance to get the bunt down, whatever. Strike one may be a different inning because Arise follows with a deep fly that would have been more than enough to sacrifice fly a runner home from third. And I know all the rules now, because everybody's buddy, Mike Winters was there the entire time. To let you know. To let you know. And as he said, that play is not reviewable. Diaz lead off double. Then there was the bunt out. Yes. Yeah, there was the net. The soundtrack fly by Arise to right field and second out. And Diaz did not tag. He was from second to third. Yeah, but then Teddy's made it out. So it didn't end up mattering. But it was one of those little things I noticed. And I went, oh, yeah, you got to be a third there. I know he's not fleet of foot. But Ben, you make that. You can get that tag from that deep probably. But he's got to be halfway at least because if it goes over again, you want to score for a second. Yeah, he just got caught in No Man's Land a little bit. Just a little thing that I'm sure, you know, Shilty noticed him and will clean up. But yeah, man, the bunt attempt that didn't work. It crushes you. You're finding you're finding a sacrifice and out there, Ben, if you actually get the guy over, yeah, giving up and out. I guess you want to do that. Hard to criticize when it was just a foul ball. And the umpire made a mistake. And you can't review it. You did give the umpire a chance to make a mistake. And he did. And it ended up probably costing you a run then. And yeah, not for sure. I mean, we don't know that he would have gotten the bunt down. But given a second opportunity, it's a good chance he would have gotten it down. Padres could have put together even a bigger inning. But that was just one of those little missed opportunities, little quirks of the game that, you know, if they win three, nothing you never think about again. Yeah, for real. But when you give up a Grand Slam in the ninth inning and you lose four to three, you start going back and going, oh, oh, that would have been a nice run to have back in the fifth inning. Yeah, and you know, I don't want to say it's indicative of the Padres offense. Look, man, offense in baseball is a weird thing. And we have a good one. You know, don't don't get it twisted. We've got a good offense. And they have the ability to score and beach in a bunch of different ways. The the kill shot sometimes that the Arizona Diamondbacks employ, you know, when it's it's like, oh, we've got, we've got Casey Mise on the ropes. We're scoring seven off of this guy. And I thought, you know, listen, not like the guys weren't trying to get knocked. The absolutely where they weren't giving up ABS, just didn't work out, didn't work out, don't change much. I mean, you really don't have to change the thing. You know, you want to definitely give guys rest, like Robert Suarez, give them a little little breather, get them back out on the mound ASAP. We'll give it our 16 minutes of salt and we'll get back to it today. Beauty of baseball. Need a contestant for take-on woods, 833-288-097-3. If you want to call in, try to qualify for a trip to Las Vegas, 833-288-097-3. A little music trivia against Woodsy. Now, there were some positives in that game. We haven't mentioned Martin Perez. What a great start by Perez. Phenomenal. After the round table yesterday, we pretty much said, he's probably not even making the playoff roster. And that may still be true, but what an important lift he gave the Padres. A guy that we didn't even really give any credit to, like, oh, who's this guy that AJ is just picking up for nothing from the Pittsburgh Pirates? I mean, they don't want to keep him. Obviously, he can't be any good or they want to keep him around. He's been, this is actually the first time the Padres have lost a game that he started. Ironically, it was his best start by far, going into the seventh and shutout baseball. And he was not happy about having to leave that game. - I loved it, man. I loved every second of it. - He did put the tying run at the plate. And they decided let's go with the higher leverage. But he was very effective. And you go back in time with the power of hindsight. Maybe you just do leave Martine Perez in for another inning or so. He was only at 80 pitches or so. - Yeah, it was 86. - Was he up to 86 at that point? - Yeah, I thought no problem. - I was not surprised that he came out of that game, but outstanding performance. And what I also was happy to see is that two of the guys who have not really been part of the offensive attack, that much of late, started hitting again. Jirksen with his 20 second home run, an absolute missile. - I had the view, the perfect view. - Down the lines. - And Zander Bogart is putting together some good at bats. - 3-4. - The home run, line drives and the ninth inning. Gave him a chance. Gave Jackson Merrill a chance to win. It didn't happen, but good at bats from Zander Bogart. You talk about how long that lineup gets. If those guys are going, Jake Croninworth had a double. He leads the team in doubles. And he has, what, 17 homers? I mean, Jake may not be an offensive superstar, but you lead the San Diego Padres in doubles, and you have 17 home runs. - Yeah, man. - You've had a pretty good season. - No doubt, no doubt. - And baseball play, play multiple positions. - And then we know about the rest. Manny and Arise and Jackson, what he's done. - I mean, I thought they're in the ninth. As Zander gets on, Jackson Merrill comes up again. I go, there's no way this kid does it again. And I mean, he put a good swing on it. Put a good swing on it, just didn't, you know. - Yeah, Lefty was the same guy who was the opener in the first game, gave the Padres a lot of trouble as well. He started the series, he finished the series, and he was good, and that's a tough at bat for a Lefty, a rookie or otherwise, against that left handed pitcher. And Jackson stayed with it, had some good swing. Got just under a little bit, but another good at bat for Jackson Merrill. They're not all gonna go over the fence in the ninth inning. All right, so we got some contestants here, yes we do. It is time for the Friday edition of Take on Woods. (upbeat music) ♪ It's time for Take on Woods ♪ ♪ Take on ♪ - Woods. ♪ Take on me ♪ ♪ Take ♪ - Woods. ♪ Take on ♪ - All right, let's go with Joe. 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So Asian Nation, little Shop of Horrors or at the car wash, Joe. - Asian Nation. - Asian Nation, all right, that one's been sitting there for a little over a week, but here we go. We have song titles that all feature a single word ending in Asian, A-T-I-O, 60 seconds. Try to answer as many as the five as you can. If you don't know, once they pass, we'll come back to it. We will compare your score to Woods. If you beat her time, we'll put you into the drawing for the trip to Las Vegas. It's that simple. First questions are two second song. Paulie's queuing it up right now. You need to give me that title that ends in Asian and the artist to score the point. Joe, you ready to go? - Yeah, let's do it. - All right, let's do this. 60 seconds on the clock. The category again, Asian Nation. Joe, your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck. Let's take on Woods. (upbeat music) That is correct. A 1983 hit by the Human League said to keep feeling what? (clock ticking) A new what has got a hold on you when a 1987 hit from the Australian band in excess? (clock ticking) - New sensation. - Correct, an anthem for youthful rebellion, Pete Townsend wrote about my what? In a 1965 classic by the who? (clock ticking) - My generation. - Correct, Jeff Bakke plays the guitar for which 1984 single by Rod Stewart that reached the top 10 in the Billboard charts. (clock ticking) - Congratulations. - Correct, back to 1983's hit by the Human League's said to keep feeling what? - Congratulations. - Oh, there we go. Well done, Joe. You are qualified for the trip to Las Vegas because Woods can't do better than five. And if Ty goes to the listener. So now we just find out whether it's a straight, outright win. Stay on line, Joe. We'll come back to you in a minute. (upbeat music) All right, Joe's score is locked in. How are you? How are you? Go up to you out there. - Just chilling. - Just chilling? - Yeah. - Okay, getting your mind right? - Getting my head around. - Get my head around, yeah. All right, bring your in game today. No category for Woods makes it a little tougher. 60 seconds on the clock. Your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck, Woods. Let's take on Joe. (upbeat music) - Pass. - A 1983 hit by the Human League said to keep feeling what? - Oh, uh, feeling something, something, a pass. - A new what? - Fascination. - Correct. - A new what has got a hold on you in a 1987 hit from Australian Band in Excess. - Sensation. - Correct. An anthem for youthful rebellion, Pete Townsend wrote about my what? - Generation. - Correct. Jeff Beck plays the guitar for which 1984 single by Rod Stewart that reached the top 10 on the Billboard charts. - Ooh. Something's station. - Nation. - Nation. - Is that so? - I think y'all said the two seconds, so I'm still. - Give me the two seconds again. - Yeah. (upbeat music) - Taint Nation. - No. Jeff Beck, guitar, 1984 Rod Stewart. - That's good. - I'm out. - You're already lost. - Oh, I did. - Joe got five out of five today. - Oh, Joe, congratulations, buddy. - Say hi to Woods, Joe. - They can't just beat him. Vacation by the go-go's. - And the tough one at the end. Infatuation by Rod Stewart. - Nice one to rub it in, Joe. - Yeah, Joe, you can rub it in. It's fine. - No, it's fine. - All right, good luck on the drawing for Las Vegas. - My velocity was good. I threw a good pitch. - Command was a little off. - Command was a little off. - You figured out the category. We can't win every game. - I'm not gonna win every day. It's gonna have, I'm gonna blow say some time. - We need to think, Paul, about a different contestant. - Right. - We're taking on Woods. - The first loss of the week. - Adam is the time to go to John again down the hall. He usually gets the job done. - I mean, in the eighth inning, when Woods isn't here. - They just flip-flop our rolls. - Maybe just flip-flop your rolls. - I'll go down there. I'll do stagecoach announcement. I'll talk about jelly roll, headlining stagecoach. - It's still important. It's just not the prime spot right at the end. - Pauli, I don't know if you have the stagecoach announcement in the Rindle Report, but I'm asking you in advance. - I did not know it was even though. - It was announced yesterday. I would like to go through it, line by line. - Okay, because it's very, very fascinating to me. - Fascination, yes. - So don't do this is coming up next, and I have. We've seen bad injuries happen on the field. - No. - And we've seen them happen off the field. 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Like fell over and he hit the arm of the couch. Jeff Kent, Jeff Gagnus truck. But it wasn't washing his truck, was he? It was, was he like motorcycling and he said he was washing his truck and said he did. Glenn Allen Hill was a weird one. He had he had arachnophobia and he got up. Like in the middle, if I'm not, I don't want to blow this, but he got up in the middle of the night because he was scared of spiders and hurt himself. There's some there's some weird ones. Well, I'm going to start. Don't do this today with what what seems like a fairly normal injury, a pitcher throws a pitch. They come up lame. It's sad, but it happens often. You know, the Tommy John surgery, it's just, it's just tragic when you see it, but it's just a reality of life. Unfortunately, this is not that. This was Washington spirit midfielder, Croix Bethune from the NWSL and the US national team who was tapped to throw out the first pitch for the Washington Nationals against the New York Yankees on August 28th following her gold medal success at the Paris Games. Looked like it went off without a hitch. She threw it out, got the applause from the crowd. Congratulations, but apparently we've now found out. At some point during that he, she tweaked her knee and suffered a season ending torn meniscus. Like 10 games left, playoffs coming up. And she is out for the year on one ceremonial first pitch gone wrong. That she's, you know, you think about soccer players, absolutely elite athletes. They're their skills, the way that they run, the way that they move, the cuts that they have to make, the start, the starts and the stops. She goes out and throws one pitch and hurts her knee. Yeah, according to a spirit coach, Jonathan hit all this. She had a problem making the first pitch in the baseball game. She is not going to be available this season. It is part of life. You have to keep going. Oh my god. I don't think he's all that happy about it. It doesn't, it doesn't, it's not something strenuous. It wouldn't be like you wouldn't write in a contract. You're not allowed to throw out a ceremonial first pitch. Especially the soccer player. You don't, you're using your hands, your arms really. I mean, she could tear her up UCL. She'd still be able to play soccer. I think so. I think so. That's a tough, tough, one of the, it's again, one of those freak injuries. Oh, I remember this one. When I was doing the pre and post game show, thank you for the reminder of JH619. Adam Eaton was trying to open, you know, those DVDs and they came in the hard cases. And he tried to knife him there. And he stabbed himself and landed on the interglist. He stabbed himself in the hand. Oh my god. I got the Glen Allen Hill story. Yeah, tell me the Glen Allen. Is that close? Yeah, he went on the disabled list 1990 after falling through a glass table, resulting in cuts and bruises to his feet, knees and elbows. Why did he fall through a glass table? He had just woken up from a nightmare about spiders chasing him and he was very afraid of spiders. I knew it. So he woke up at his confused state and fell through a glass coffee table. I mean, there's a billion of them in baseball. They always have these weird injuries. George Brett doing laundry at home. Milton Bradley tackled by his own manager. Yes. Brett Black ripped his ACL or something. Yeah. George Brett was at home doing laundry. In the other room, he had the Cubs game on TV. Brett heard the announcers say Bill Buckner, his good friend, was coming to the plate. He didn't want to miss the at bat. So while running to the TV room, he smashed his foot on the door jam and broke his small pinky toe. Oh my god. How did it go on the deal? That is incredible. I don't know. How do you hurt your knee throwing your first pitch? I mean, it's not a mound. So I guess you're stepping down and you just like, drop, properly and get or something, maybe. Like tearing the meniscus, though, is pretty serious. That is one step. That is poor thing. That sucks, dude. Last night, obviously, there was a crazy, crazy ending to the NFL game. Apparently, I was in traffic driving home from the excruciating Padres loss. But I did see this morning, the toe on the edge of the line. But don't do this. Goes to Baltimore Ravens tied in Isaiah Likley, who-- the cameras were on, Isaiah. Last night, one of the Chiefs fans leaned down into the tunnel after the game. He had a really, really nice game. Said, I guess the fans said, you stink. And he said, nephew bitch. And they got it on video. He looked up. He got very, very creased by this fan and said, nephew, he had nine catches, 111 yards and a touchdown. But he was pretty hot after the loss. And he was one half of an inch away from tying or winning the game. They were going to go for two at the end. Can I bonus Lamar Jackson on this? Because he still said after the game, he didn't think officials should have overturned it. And I don't know why. We all saw the replay. Yes, it was very close. Yes, you don't know. I mean, is the toe all the way down or is the foot on the line? We have to live, though, if you're going to play the game and you're going to have out of bounds lines. And anything touching the line is out. His toe was clearly on top of that line. Does it suck for the Ravens? Yeah, it sucks. Yes. You were an inch away, like an inch. But you can't make any other call if you're the official. You can't imagine. Well, maybe the toe is not really there. It's an optical illusion. No, that's just how you have to call it. When you see it come down on the line on replay, it's out of bounds. And yeah, the game's over and it's really a tough way to lose at the end. But you lost Lamar. His toe is on the line. There's really no ambiguity about it. And you can't really complain that the officials made a mistake in overturning that call. It's not ambiguous. It's on the line. Well, I mean, that game comes down to the last play. They marched down. Amazing plays to get to their-- Paulie's happy. He has Xavier Worthy on his fantasy. Oh, do you? Where did you tell him I bench? He was on your bench, but you got him on the team. I went quickly to the waiver wire going, oh, rookie, you got to steal this guy. No, Paulie already had him. I'm still in a position to dominate this weekend. OK. Projected. I'm beating Sammy Levitt right now, as it were, but not by a lot. I didn't have any players, so I'm losing to Jake Garignani from Channel 8. But I'm still projected to win. OK, I am too. But as we know, projections often-- That's true. --don't mean anything. That is true. Much like run differential. All right, finally, a little do-do-do this on a Friday. Dee-dee, mega-do-do. I just think this story has a lot of good elements that I enjoy. You know, men's tennis in the United States has not been great since what? The Pete Sampras days? When was the last time? Agacy Sampras. Yeah, I mean, way back in the day. The last-- the actual-- the last US man to make-- make a Grand Slam final. Andy Roddick in 2009, 15 years. Any Grand Slam, not just the US Open. Not just the US Open. Andy of the four Grand Slam finals. Obviously, it's been an unrelent 15 years. Now, obviously, it's been Federer, it's been Jocovitch. It's been to Doll. They've pretty much locked everybody else out. But that streak will end today. Because the semi-final of the US Open is two US men. Nice. And they happen to be best friends as well. And one of them happens to be from Torrey Pines High School. Taylor Fritz, the 12th seed, taking on Francis Teofo, the 20th seed with the winner, becoming the first US man to advance to a goal since Andy Roddick in 2009. Congratulations. That is a huge dude. That is a big, big deal. And you're pulling-- I'm assuming for Taylor Fritz. I am pulling for Taylor Fritz as the fellow Torrey Pines Falcon. I like Teofo a lot, though. They both seem to be really good guys. And their buddies. And their good buddies. And they get to play each other at Arthur Ashe Stadium in front of all those tennis fans for a spot in their country's national championship. What time is that airing? Benjamin. That is-- Do you know off top of your head? I don't know off the top of my head. I might guess it'll be around 5 o'clock tonight. I might be bowling. Let's see. I'd like to-- if it was on the afternoon, I would watch that. I like that. The first pitch, as it were-- I call it the first pitch. No, they don't. Pizz. The first serve. How do I-- oh, that's women's. That's why I get to switch to men's-- 4 o'clock. Wait, 4 o'clock. 4 o'clock. 4 o'clock. ESPN. 4 o'clock. Let's go, Taylor Fritz. Then that's don't and do do this for a Friday. That was don't do this with Ben and Woods, a 97.3, the fan. The other semi-final, Yannick Sinner, who is the number one seed, the guy who got pop for steroids, but they said no worry about it. It's fine. He's Sinner. It's not a saint. That's sure. Yannick Sinner. Going against Draper in the final. Jack Draper, who is British, actually. But we'll see how that's earlier today at noon. Cheers, bro. All right, we'll come back. Let's go back. If you want to take some calls on me-- Yeah, I thought this might be a big one. I want to hear-- I want to-- if you're dooming hard this morning, it's fine, man. That's what we're here for. Call in. If you want to talk about the bullpen and Robert Suarez, before we talk to Mike Shilt later, this is the chance. Call us 833-288-097-3, 833-288-097-3, back with more. Ben and Woods Padres talk next on 97.3, the fan. All right, Paulie, can you call up the fan graphs website and see what the Padres playoff odds are today? They climbed up close to 97%. I think at their maximum. And they were probably-- 16% right now, today, after last night's game. 16%. They were probably one pitch away from getting relegation. I was really thinking, because of the loss by the Diamondbacks and the Braves, they were probably one pitch away from climbing over the Magic 97.3 mark that we've been waiting for. Yeah, we want them to hit 97.3. But I don't think they did because of what happened in the ninth inning yesterday. Yeah, Padres dropped all the way down to 95.2%. 95.2, OK. Yeah, man, you saw like-- We're getting into the jazz station territory really low on the dial now. 88.1. Public radio. Public radio. Yeah, you don't want to get down there, bro. KCR, college radio. Oh, very low on the dial. Did you see the Orioles got swept by the Reds? The Rockies last night beat the Bray. I mean, there's some-- There's been Domber, apparently, is not only good against the Padres. He shut down the Bray. Shut down the Bray. I mean, yeah, yeah, it was one of those nights. But again, you're a human being. You look at the Diamondbacks, like Patrick Bailey-- Patrick batted in. It does happen. Yeah, even to the good team. Where I was sitting at the game, it's a direct line to that scoreboard. The direct. And so I just stared at it all night. And I was like literally scoreboard watching it. Scoreboard, I figured it literally was scoreboard watching. I couldn't look away because it was right there. So any time I watched the play on the field, I'm like three to two Diamondbacks loose. So it's just sticking in my craw a little bit. You didn't take the jump on an extra game. But again, you didn't really lose anything either. So I don't like it. Boss half again, the Mets are now three back. Three, yeah. And they have a tiebreaker. Yeah. Rays are also three back. They don't have the tiebreaker on the Padres. It's not. It's certainly not over. It ain't over, man. These guys are. 95% feels good. It does. That's 19 out of 20 times. If they played the season out, fan graphs would expect the Padres to make the players 19 out of 20 times. Not 20 out of 20. 19's pretty good. All right. See, we got some collars on the line. We're going to talk. Padres baseball takes some of York thoughts on Robert Suarez and yesterday's game right after traffic here on 97 three, the fan. Sounds like Kelly's in the torture chamber this morning. Padres fans in the torture chamber supposed to be Friday, supposed to be fun, a good day. Yeah. All right. Let's give me all right. All right. Let's go out to the phone. Let's go out to the phone. They won this series. Every one, three, two, eight, eight, zero, ninety seven, three. Christopher is in Esquindita. Good morning, Christopher. Good morning, guys. How are you doing today? Doing good, man. First off, Benny wanted to say, uh, for your family for what you're going through today. And, uh, for those of us that listen every day, what you guys want or not, so you're part of our family in fabric, uh, so when you guys are happy, we're happy for you. And when you struggle, we all struggle with you. Chris, that's very nice. I appreciate it. And if you missed it, it's, uh, it's our pet Reggie, our dog. This is, uh, this is his last day, taking them across the Rainbow Bridge later. I like that poly. I didn't know that expression until it probably shared it. You really liked that expression. That's good one now. Rainbow Bridge. It's a good euphemism where you don't have to say, you know, we're putting him down. That doesn't sound good or murdering. Go ahead, Chris. That's not what I meant. Yeah. That's okay. Um, I mentioned it in the chat earlier with the, uh, you guys talked about on your round table yesterday. Uh, baseball just has a funny way of humbling you and just when you think everything is going perfectly. And I think last night was the perfect example of that. Um, I, I do think, uh, and of course, when my infinite wisdom of baseball coaching and the professional level is not, um, it does look, last night was, to me, I wasn't really surprised because it seemed like the last few outings, uh, Bobby bullets has kind of struggled a little bit. Yeah. Uh, and of course, Mike's going to be the one that makes the final decision, but it just looks like maybe I know he's over visiting, so limit, or not limit, but this career high. Maybe a few days off for him, like kind of reset for, uh, down the stretch here, might be. And I'm also curious. So Mike comes on. If you get that, I'm just, just the way he works the bullpen, um, does he have those guys on a pitch count when they come in the relievers or is it just, does he just go by feel or it just seems like, uh, they come in, of course, most of them are kind of one two three and out for the most part, but it, I'm just curious as much as he uses those, some of those relievers, if he actually has them on a pitch count when they come in so that they're ready for a two or three days in a row or how that works in his mind. Yeah. And honestly, I, I think it's probably, it's, I think it's probably feel and, and he talks all the time. Thanks so much for the call and the kind words they talk all the time about communication. And I'll, I'll say this for, uh, all we heard about Bob Melvin, uh, was that he was a master communicator master, right? From everybody we talked to, we did our, our due diligence on Bob when he got hired. Every person, man, woman, child said Bob Melvin is the greatest communicator in baseball. We didn't really see it, right? He was fine to us when we communicate him, uh, to him. I do get the sense that there is a lot of touching going on. And I mean, touching every day, Mike, she'll touching his players and saying, you good? How are you? I need to know, you know what I mean? I get the sense that they do that a lot. She was on the diagram where that's not what I mean. Why are you always so perverted, trying to be serious here? Uh, I think there's a lot of touching going on about, you know, where are you really, you know, and again, your eyes are going to tell you and, and, and Robert Suarez. Yeah, man. He scuffled. He scuffled. You know, Christopher made a couple of points. He said, could a spell off help Robert Suarez, maybe, I don't know if that is true or not. Again, it's, it, it, it seems the velocity is fine, but any player might benefit from some time off. We talked in the round table yesterday about whether there's a spot for Sean Reynolds back on this team, at least for the playoffs, maybe in place of Martin Perez, and obviously Perez was great yesterday, but do you need another starter, a fifth starter in the postseason. Reynolds has been really good throwing really hard. Now I'm not saying Sean Reynolds should be your clothes. No, no, this is not the time to take an untested commodity and put him in really high leverage spots, but you do have plenty of arms right now. You've got Tanner Scott who has closed games before. Jason Adams. He has closed games, so Strata has a couple of saves this year. Yeah. And again, good problem to have. I don't know about the psychology when, when things are going as well as they have for the San Diego Padres, Ben, would it concern you at all if because so much of a baseball player, especially a pitcher and really a closer, it's confidence, it's confidence. You can go out there with not your best stuff. And if you're confident, you feel like you can get three outs, whether it's three week ground balls or a strike out and pop out, whatever, you feel like I'm the man, I can get this done to be demoted to a different role in early September. Is that the smartest thing to do? It's a results based business. If the results aren't there, you have to do it. We asked Brett Boone about what his brother is going through in New York with Clay Holmes, who has blown not four saves, 11 saves. That is, and they are making a somewhat of a change. Yeah. Well, he said, I think he said, we're going to get creative in the ninth, right? So Clay Holmes, is that what you want though? That's the thing that's, that's really what I'm trying to ask you. That's an acts of desperation, not is that one decisive action? Is that what we want here as pottery fans? Do we want Mike shield to get more creative in the ninth inning? It's hard, man. 31 saves. I know the numbers are are down lately. Do you trust? I personally don't. I stick with what's been working. I kind of, I'm kind of with you. I'm kind of with you. But again, if the matchup that's coming up in the eighth and ninth, you can look in the seventh inning and go, all right, this is this guy's better suited. You do have, is that a, is that an ego? Is it a confidence problem? You have two closers. One is left handed. One is right handed. Yeah. Now it was a lefty that beat Suarez last night. And I don't know that you're planning around their number nine hitter who's batting, uh, coming up sixth in the inning. Right. Well, we should have Tanner Scott out there because that Parker Meadows might come up with the bases loaded in the ninth inning. We want him to dodge Robert Suarez. It's kind of hard to plan sometimes, but hey, if there's an obvious situation, it's the eighth inning and there's three righties coming up and then in the ninth, if he gets him out, there'll be three lefties. Yeah. You might, you might want to switch it around in a situation like that. Most lineups are fairly balanced between righties and lefties though. Do you guys out there that that are so mad and again, that I was mad, I hated it. I hated that for sure. Last night, do you guys want to hear the term closer by committee right now? I really don't. I really don't. And it doesn't mean you're going to throw them out there and let them blow six saves in a row, but closer by committee feels like the kiss of death for me a lot. And listen, yeah, that very well may be the case when the, when the clock strikes October and you're in the playoffs, it damn, it may be closer by committee. All men, you know, all hands on deck, but as we get through the rest of the regular season with a three game cushion, which isn't a ton, kind of okay with what's going on. I do think that baseball is always a game of adjustments and hitters have adjusted to Robert Suarez in that they do, they're attacking him a little bit earlier, just trying to get bad on ball a lot of times and, you know, use that velocity against him. Does Robert Suarez need to make an adjustment at least in terms of his pitch mix and how he's attacking pitcher hitters? Maybe, maybe because you always have to make adjustments. Yeah, for sure. They adjust on you. Yeah. So you have to adjust back and the pendulum swings in baseball. Now it's so swore as his turn to adjust. Let's continue with the phones. Let's go to Brandon. You are next up here on 97 three, the fan. Good morning, Brandon. Good morning, guys. How you doing? Good. Good, bud. Hey, you know, watching that game last night, I said to myself, you really, you're going to run Suarez out there again, you know, that, that Paris did such a fantastic job. Most of these starters go about five innings, maybe six. What's the matter with having Paris come out in the sixth inning and finish the game? Yeah. You came out the seven. He was out the seven. He came all the way into the seven. He got the tying run up, you know, tying run up to the plate. I had no problem with the pole of Martin Perez. Now it, you know, you say you're watching the game last night. Now again, he had thrown 19 pitches on Wednesday. They had an off day on Tuesday and he had thrown eight pitches on Monday. So eight off 19, 27 pitches in three days closed out Sunday and close out Sunday, four out of five for sure with a day off in between, certainly again, three run lead. It's your closer. I really don't have a problem with it. If he says I'm good to go, I'm, I'm good to go. What were the other alternatives at that point? Was it, was it a strata perhaps who had also thrown 17 pitches the night before? I don't know. I don't know the answer. Hoing is, is rested, but he's not closer necessarily type material. I think ultimately if, if Robert Suarez just gives up the single in a home run, you win that game. Yeah. Well, wasn't the walks. Okay. What isn't Mike Schiltball and I'm sure Mike Schilt was the most upset about is walking two batters. Oh yeah. That kills you, man. That's what killed. Box kill. You're getting big league batters are going to make contact. They're going to barrel it up when you throw out a hundred and two. Sometimes it'll go over the fence. There's nothing Robert Suarez will ever be able to do about that. He will give up some home runs when they actually do make contact. It'll be rare. What he can control though is not walking guys and that was on Suarez and I guarantee you, Schilt was not happy about that. Won't say that he even, he did it in his post game comments. Command got a little shaky shaky and even acknowledged that's like one of the biggest criticisms I've ever heard of one of his own players. Command got a little off. Shaky. In the ninth inning for Robert Suarez, he does not like walks. That is giving the other team things. He does not believe in giving the other team anything. He believes in taking and not giving. He's not good at Christmas. He only likes to take and not give at all. That's his philosophy as manager and the Padres gave. In the ninth inning and they gave and they lost. They don't like to do that very often. Let's get one more in here. We've got David. David, welcome to 97.3, the fan. Hello? Hey, are you David? Yeah, no, my name's Vance. Vance, that's what I thought. That's close. That's close. I miss, misspelled it. That's fine. All right. So, you know, the past, this is just recently, but I feel like Suarez. It's just really iffy and obviously his command isn't there. But, you know, why don't we go to Sean Reynolds or Alec Jacob? Do you guys remember that guy? I know his stuff is velocity isn't as high, but, you know, why aren't we going the other off? He's not a closer. Alec Jacob's not a closer. Now, Sean Reynolds also is not yet a closer. He very well may be the closer of the future. For the San Diego pottery, he's also not on the team currently. So that would have been not possible to bring him in last night. Sean Reynolds is down. I think the biggest criticism of Mike Shilt would have been over panicking by not using his guys. If he loses that game with, you know, Alec Jacob or Brian, or Estrada, then we're probably legitimately upset today. Yeah. Like, was, was Robert Suarez not available? No, he said he could go. He said he could go. Was it a safe situation? Yeah. But, yeah, we just want to give him a little blow. Yeah, we just didn't decide not to use him tonight. I hate, look, man. I mean, yeah, you can have a crystal ball. It's easy. It's easy after the fact. But it, yeah, and I'm not, I'm not trying to crap on this guy's point, but Alec Jacob is not, he's not a closer type. No, he's, he's a deception and, you know, breaking balls. I mean, and listen, Trevor Hoffman did it with deception for many, many, many years, but Trevor often, guess what? He was pretty good. Fastball too. He, he also blew, blew a lot of saves. They all do every single one of them. So again, I, I, I'm not, I'm not super panicked right now arrest, not the closer entrance either. I know people say, I can't sell the closer entrance now. It was. Hey, I'll say this before the, I saw it live for the first time. It was badass. It was badass. Now you look like an idiot or do you feel like an idiot for being so excited about it when you lose that game? Trevor Blue saves after Hell's bells. It happens. It happens. I'm, I'm bombed for him. You know, certainly. 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