Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

6am Hour - Padres Suffer BRUTAL Loss To Tigers

Ben, Woods, and Paulie are here for you on a Friar Friday! We start the show with a little foreplay as Woodsy tells us about his interesting experience last night at the Padres game while sitting in the Audacy suite. Then we pay off The Incorporator from earlier in the week which we completely forgot about yesterday, and give Ben our condolences for what he's got going on later today. And at the bottom of the hour we get to our Padres Wrap-Up and discuss last night's BRUTAL 4-3 loss to the Tigers as Robert Suarez blew a 3 run lead and gave up a game-winning grand slam. Listen here!

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

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A six second breath. Six second breath in. Six second push out. And you immediately feel better. Every time, no matter what you're doing. Make love to your wife. Give yourself a nice... Hang on, hang on, hang on. ♪♪ Sorry, baby. All right. ♪♪ Unless you're swimming underwater. Don't do that. Don't do that. You're not going to feel better. Everyone, just calm down. It's going to be okay. Happy Friday to all of you guys. You're listening to Ben in Woods. You're listening on "97.3. The Fan." You're watching on YouTube. I want to shout out to our Twitch channel. We don't give you guys enough love. There's a lot of you over there. I really need to dig into that a little bit. But man, a lot of people consuming the show. We really appreciate you. The way that you do it. All right? I'm Woodsie. That's Paul Rindel. He's the executive producer. Good morning, Paulie. Good morning. And Benjamin Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor. Joins, this is Welcome Morning to You Benjamin. Good morning. Fun Friday, of course. And don't take this the wrong way. Because I love you and I'm glad to see you. I'm glad you're here. Why do you sound like death? Like your voice. But it's cast. It also looked like you got in a fight last night. Um, I think the word fight. No, there's no injuries. There's no injury. No, it looks like he's snapped under a bridge. I, uh, I had a, uh, it was a rough night last night. Bender? No. God, I wish. Benders are, benders are, you know, they're fun in the moment, certainly. But no, last night was, last night was worse than any, it's not worse. Last night was as, um, as challenging of a, of an evening as I've had in a long time. Now you guys dropped the hammer on me yesterday and say, you're not going to stay to the end of the game. If you stay to the end of the game, I'll get, well, each give you 10 bucks. I got my 20. Probably gave me a 10 in cash. Benny Venmo'd me. I got my 20 bucks. You were there all the way to the bitter, the bitter end. I would have paid you guys $40 each to leave early. Because I do, you know how I feel about superstitions. And when I leave the game and usually like the sixth or the fifth or whatever, here's the problem though. Last night was cruising. I looked up. I'd been there an hour. We're in the sixth. And I'm like, well, I gotta sit this one out and make my 20 bucks. This is going to be easy. Bring in Bobby Fastballs to close it down. Right. The Padres and the NFL game kicked like right around the same time. Same time. Because there was a little bit of a delay in the NFL game. And it was like the beginning of the third quarter when the Padres game was rapping. It was rough. No, that's huge. It was nuts. I feel like it was, last night was it was a challenging, challenging night. And anytime you go to the ballpark with your family, it's a challenge. Because I have small children, six and three, almost four, that's a challenging night. You add in a couple other families and they're three to four kids for a grand total of eleven children in a suite. It turns into, it turns into like a like jump zone, you know, except with no trampolines. It turns into like a tumbles place, but with no mats on the ground. It turns into a war zone, an absolute war zone in the suite. So it's, it's obviously our company suite. Honestly, I booked this. Welcome to the torture chamber. I booked this for, you know, months and months ago for Hannah's birthday. And you know, we got there earlier. The first ones there sat down and Bo and Taylor loved it. They'd never been really, I think Bo'd been in them once, but they looked down. They go, oh, dad, this is so cool. Well, then their friends start showing up and I've coached all these kids. I love these kids with my whole heart, but you get all these dudes and girls in a room together. And they're all, I think the oldest kid was probably seven and there's eleven of them. And you're in for it. They want two kids walked up to me and they said, can you open this and it was a topo chico? I opened it. It sprayed all over me. They pranked me. They did the shake of the topo chico. So they got me right there, little turds. They were, they were playing hide and seek. They were moving the trash cans. They were hiding. One of them tried to climb into the refrigerator in the suite into the fridge. Uh, they, you know, the chairs that they have that you sit nice cozy chairs, but they spin. So they were spinning them like they were on a merry-go-round. And this, mind you, this is the Odyssey suite. So I'm a little bit on edge already. Have you made the chair damage fee yet? I don't know. I'm still waiting for like the cleanup fee. No. I looked over at one point and listen, it's not, it's just not just their kids. It's my kids. I looked over, my son Taylor, who was almost four, took a bag of tortilla chips, a bag, threw them on the ground and started walking on them, crunching. You know what? There's a sound of it. Oh, my. One of the other kids, they had a little cup of water. You know what he did? He thought it was fun to take the little cup of water, it was about half full, take another empty cup, push down on it so the water would overflow, like a volcano. So they were doing that. That was, that was badass. I loved that. So it was, they're screaming, they're not sitting and watching the game. Bo watched a couple innings and he was fine and, and then I was over explaining things to him. So he's like, I'm going to play with my friends. So that's on me, but it was like, just, just to clarify, because I've seen the questions in the chat and I did as well. I haven't seen that. This was the Odyssey Suite. Correct. Presumably you did not have to pay even for the Odyssey Suite last night. I did not have to pay for the Odyssey Suite, was you were at a suite at a baseball game. Yeah. And you're kind of complaining. I'm not complaining about the suite. The suite was spectacular. The suite was spectacular. Yes, but I mean, wouldn't it have been worse even if you had been out and about, I mean, oh, well, so if you're out and about, I just, I'm just saying, are you sounding a little spoiled for the small little issues you had to deal with? So if we're out at Gallagher Square, have a ball, guys. You're in the middle of a field. It's like, let's say you had 11 wild horses. Would you rather be with your wild horses in a giant field or would you rather put them in a room and hang out and watch the game in a room? You have 11 wild horses in a room no bigger than this. And you're like, this is great. I'm going to eat while you guys buck and kick and feel they can get out of this. Yeah, they can graze, they can run, they can dance, they can do whatever they want. You probably could have traded with 20 Padres fans in Gallagher Square who had those tickets, giving them the suite. And you could have just gone out there in a heartbeat. In a heartbeat in a New York minute, in a New York minute. So and also like, here's the thing, you guys know me, I'm hyper aware. I have to be watching them with one eye. I can't sit down in good conscience even though it's my job and watch the game while I don't know what my kids behind me are doing. Some say that I may be a helicopter parent. I look at myself as like, no, I got to watch my kids. It's part of the gig. I got to make sure they're not like fires and, you know, breaking stuff. So I, I was kind of one eye open, Hannah would work a shift and then I would work a shift and whoo, it was a lot. So the other thing is is loud, man. It's loud at Petco Park. So the whole, every conversation is like, I like this kid a lot. What? I like this kid. I like the way he swings. Watch his feet when the, they're always moving. He's always, oh, you always have a responsibility when you're playing middle infield, watch, watch him take this throw. So the whole game, you're screaming like at the top of your lungs. So we got, so we stayed the whole game. I left there. I was battered, man. I was like, and we sat in traffic, whatever it ended, we kind of skedaddle down and went down to the car and then you get in the car and you're like, all right, you guys pack a lunch because we're going to be here for a minute to get out on Imperial. Man, I was, I was pretty gassed yesterday after we had, we got up, I was here at like four 30 and then we had the round table and then I had, we had marriage counseling and then we had to go straight down to the, we pick up the kids from school, go down to the field. I was gassed and then to lose that game last night in that fashion. Now we win that game, you know, maybe a different story. When you're one pitch away from winning it and you don't, it's really tough. What the good news is, the good news is tonight should be a nice, relaxing night as we head down for family states where we're staying tonight. The, the margarita fell. I know that Jimmy Buffett too. Do you guys remember downtown? Yeah. Do you guys remember like six months ago? With the kids. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You guys remember last year, so many people playing their whole years around that a couple of days they get to go to San Diego and stay in the Margaritaville and maybe get to go to Peco Park. Right. Stay in a suite once in a life. Maybe they get to go in a suite. Wait. Hold on. I'm going to call B.S on this. You're telling me that someone's once in a lifetime trip is to come to the gas life and stay at the Margaritaville hotel. I don't know about that. I am in fact saying that. So you guys remember about six months ago, my wife and I went to a gala and it was a dress up gala. And at the end of the night, she looked at me, she goes, I have to. And I go, what did you do? And she goes, I bid on like 25 hotel stays. And I said, why did you do that? Where are they? She said, well, they're all local. So I start going through the thing and I go, the Radisson by the airport or for one night, Tuesday, Thursday's only. Okay. Good call. Oh, comfort in and sweets in power. One night, Wednesday's only. Oh, this is an extended stay. We can do this either Monday through Wednesday in September. San Marcos. San Marcos. San Marcos. The one on there that was even remotely captivating was Margaritaville. I tried to book it. So we've got it. I tried to book it. And the lady was like, oh, yeah, we're booked and also you're not going to be able to use this. Finally, we tried to book it again. She's like, I think it's expired and Hannah raised. She pitched a fit. She talked to the director of the charity. The guy was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let me make a phone call. So we're in tonight, me, Hannah, the kids, and Margaritaville Hotel. Down tabs. Down tabs from the estate of Jimmy Buffett. Yes. We're going to get to the bottom of this. Oh, and I'm going to be there. They're going to be a red carpet. We'll be walking there with coconuts filled with rum, a whole bit. I want all of it. Careful what you, uh, you wish for and complain for because now you have to go to the market for film this weekend. So I've heard it's actually pretty nice. I've been it. We ate and there. And I was like, I love it. It was a tropical vibe. It was really cool. But our buddies, uh, they're always in the chat. Divine Sports Gospel, uh, is a podcast or pod race fans. Good, good kids, man. And they are doing a podcast at East Village Tavern and Bowl, like a pregame show. And they asked me if I would come down and I'm like, bro, I'll be there. I'll, I'll literally be downtown. And no woods won't turn down a podcast. I will not turn down a podcast. I got to be out there selling, you know, and, and I like these guys a lot. They're good, they're good kids. So we're going to bowl as a family. I'm going to do a 20, 30 minute hit with them. And then we're going to go kick it at the Margaritaville. So that's our night tonight. Well, would they? I'm very sorry about your living nightmare of the suite at the baseball game and the downtown resort while Paulie and I live the life. Paulie, his power went out due to a fire in Escondido yesterday. There's only a hundred and hundred and three weather and, uh, and we have put down our beloved Reggie today after 15 years. Today is the day that he crosses the Rainbow Bridge. So we're living the high life while you are stuck in your miserable existence this weekend. And we are very sorry for you and all your troubles and travails. I was, I was going to say, maybe I feel bad. No, I don't feel bad. I still don't feel bad, but I feel bad. You have to put Reggie down. How many? How many years old? 15. That is a, that's a straight up, one of these 15 years as a dog is, uh, that's a good life. You guys get into life. That's a long life. Yeah. It's a really, really good dog and we are going to miss him a lot and I think I might have waited one day too long though, because I got home last night and there was dog diarrhea all over the dining room. I was like, no, he's just, it's too late one, one day final, when we had to, um, it's not his fault. He's very old and it's just, you know, he's just falling apart at the seams at this point and it's time. But it is sad, but I, it's confirmation for me that I, it is time at least. Yeah, it's always a hard call and I, I, I had to take my orange cat in and, and do the same. And that SOB before, well, I let him go bit through my finger, bit through it. I had to go get shots the whole thing and I was like, thanks for one last gift. He's been sweet all the way to the end. Yeah. So hard, man, look at his, he's still him and you look at him and he's still sweet and he's so him, but he can barely move and it's just, you know, it's time. All right. We'll give it to Ben and Wood's treatment. Uh, when we come back. Oh, thank you. Thank you for that. We also will, um, pay off because we totally missed it yesterday. We apologize. Oh, we totally forgot. It threw us off. Pay on our phone. Kisses Incorporated. Cause we didn't usually, we, he does it on Tuesday and we pay it off on Wednesday, but Jesse joined us on Wednesday because there was no game on Tuesday and then we're like Thursday. We got nothing to do with the Incorporated on Thursday. So we all just forgot about it. It's a really good one. Yeah, it was a good one. So we will pay that off and set the menu for you when we come back. Bolson, you want to send cards or anything to Wood sympathy on his experience. You know, you send them care of Odyssey San Diego. Cole said Paul almost caught fire last night and Woods doesn't feel bad. I, I did. Very concerned when Pauli texted us that his power went out, he said, the, you guys may not get the rundown. I'm like, bro, I don't care about the rundown. Get your AC working. Get the hell out of there. What happened to your child with stepping on a bag of chips woods that became thoughts and prayers to you. It was as we it was more than that. The, they tried to get in the fridge. The little fridge, they were never going to fit. I swear to God. They were tiny. I swear to God, they were drinking out of the toilet because I saw a bunch of them in the bathroom together, and I think they were drinking out of it. I love these kids. I love them. I've coached them all, but being their coach gives me the right to, I can yell at them a little bit. So it was kind of fun. That's why my throat is, uh, is pretty cat. Throw around the roach. I know it didn't work last night. In fact, I have a theory that perhaps the tigers stole the roach at some point so we may need more security around the roach and we'll come back after Cheke Kelly's traffic. Whoa. What a fun Friday. 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Like, it's a weird feeling sucks. Like, it's a weird, it's not a human, I get it. You're not pulling the plug on, on granny or something, but dude, to make that decision and come to that point where you're like, this is the only choice. This is the right thing to do. That sucks. Driving down to the vet and then being in there and holding their little paw is like the worst day of your life. My dog Max, who was so abused and beaten to death and hated everyone, literally but me. He would see, Hannah would walk in the door and he'd go, and I'd do died in my arms. And I asked my wife, I'd never lost a pet till that age, this is maybe nine years ago, I'd never lost a pet. And I was holding him in my arms and he passed away my arms and tears were jumping out of my eyes. I mean, I could not, I couldn't cry and there was no, it just didn't stop. It was awful. I was the mess for like a week. Yeah, it's tough, Benny. It's tough. We've done, we've talked about this because I've lost, since we've started the show, I've lost about eight pets, shredded by coyotes, strokes, like it's been a horrible run of pet for pet losses. Now you typically are the more, I'll be fine, I'm going to put my head down. This one's getting to you a little bit. Yeah, I'm sure that, I'm sure it'll be tough. I know it's the right decision. Yeah. It makes it a little easier. No, this is the first time, this is our first pet. We didn't have it. We had the kids, you know, pretty young. And we didn't have any pets until Jack was around, what is he now, he's 21. So Jack was around like six and we decided, okay, I think it's time, let's get a puppy. So we went and adopted one and Reggie was like the runt kind of the litter. Shelly's aunt was a vet, she said, oh, this would be a good one for you guys. He's going to be kind of a little more docile. And he was really good dog for 15 years. I mean, you know, some of the puppy hijinks, but after that, you know, he was, he was really good and sweet and he was a great pet. But I've never done this. It sucks. I'm going to tell you it's strap in. And they asked me, do you want, do you want him back after it's over? The answer is yes. And my instinct was no, yeah, you want him, but then Shelly said, Oh, no, no, no, we want him back. Yeah, you got to have him. So we're going to get him back. A assortment of urns in our home of cats and dogs. She wants to like put him in like a necklace or something, like you do that, I guess. So yeah, my wife wears her father around her neck, but not any of our pets. And I don't wear any of our pets, but I love it. It's a hard day. It's a, it's gut check time. I mean, it really is a gut check time and you feel like Lauren is with you because he's around her neck all the time. Yeah. She's in a private moment. That's yeah, that's the most important part for her that she feels it. But yeah, I just, I mean, I, I, I told you guys know my, like, when I go, you better bring me home and you better have everyone better carry me everywhere they go. I don't ever leave me in a box or even on a shelf. I need to be with you guys. Wherever I go dad, yeah, the necklace, no, no, uh, in a box in a frame. Yeah, we've got, they can make, uh, they can make jewelry out of it. I think she wants to. Yeah, it's really good. You should do that. Maybe for Christmas or something. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good idea. Um, so her birthday, her birthday. I'm sorry, Benny. It's a tough day. It's a really, really tough day. So let's have some laughs and some hijinks today because the rest of your day is going to suck. I will talk about that fun baseball game last night. That'll be great. Such good vibes. Uh, Cody in the chat says, pause into grace is a great service. They come to your house for me. Woods you recommended them to me back in January. I did use them. I did offer them to Ben. I sent them the link. I said, you said you were going to go to the vet. We have a vet that we've had for a few years. We like her. She's very caring. Yeah. Just in case you change your mind because for me personally, there was no other way. It's literally right across the street. It's very close. Yeah. That's right. You're just going to go. Yeah. But I wanted to specifically mention that company. I'm sure I mentioned them back in January when I use them woods. You've probably shouted them out when you use them. It's such a tough job and they are absolute professionals of making you feel comfortable and okay through that process. I was like, man, every house that this woman goes to to do her job, it's like the worst day of the year. The worst day of that people's lives. Yeah. Yeah. It's terrible. Every single job. They're just horrible. You can imagine if you had to run a funeral home, a mortuary and that's what you did. Yeah. I couldn't. It's fascinating. There was one of my favorite HBO series just because it was just like a fascinating glimpse into a life. There was actually a reality show about a funeral home. I think it was like in powerway that they had on for years. We watched this. It's an interesting. Obviously, someone has to do it. All these jobs. 100%. And it ain't cheap either. So it's worth every penny for me. Us too. But give Reggie the send off the send off the way we do. I really hope we can see more unity and more peace when already things are so difficult. Solic! Shall I do it? Ah! Family. Didn't see that coming. You got me. That was good. That was good. Oh. Have you shot him a bit? Can we sneak in the Incorporated? I promised it. Yes. We need to finally pay off. We have to keep him crying. Yeah. Sometimes. We have to pay off the Incorporated. So Wednesday we had... God. He passed. We had Jesse on and we had Welsh Fryer was in studio. Yeah. So we combined the two together and came up with the Incorporated for this week. Now we're actually giving you the simplest Incorporated word you've ever had in the history of this game. Your Incorporated word today is... Absolutely. Baseball. Except... You have to say it in Welsh. Tom? Pelvos. Pelvos. Pelvos. Pelvos. Yeah. P-L and then F-A-S, but the F is kind of got that V-ish sound to it. Yeah. You know. Pelvos tend to do. Like old English. Like you look at the Constitution, you got those Fs in there. Yes. Exactly. Yes. Alright. So this was Wednesday night. Right. Forgot to do it. Right. Ah, this was the... You Darvish start. Yeah. And if you're listening for the first time, we give Jesse a word he's got Incorporated into the broadcast. There you go. Yes. So this was right in the top of the third, I believe, when Yuki Matsui came in to relieve you Darvish. And here we go. First pitch from Matsui is taking loan outside ball one. So Matsui relieves Darvish. Couple of Japanese-born pitchers. Great international game. This continues to become that Hobart's in pro-far out there from Aruba and Karissa respectively. Swing and a miss. One and one. And I like learning all the different baseball terminology from around the globe. In a lot of places, they call baseball baseball, most of the time, though they do have words in their language specific to it. The Netherlands kind of famously now honk ball is what they call baseball. So you hear that in those ABC islands. One and one at Torkelson, Matsui, long pause and a pitch hit in the air up the right field line. That's foul and out of play. In Japan, they say baseball a lot, but there is a Japanese word, yaku. And another one I learned today. Pelevus. Pelevus. In Wales is the way that they say baseball. That's your nugget of the game presented by Chick-fil-A San Diego. And one restaurant in San Diego you never too far from the whole of the original chicken sandwich. Come try the honey pepper pimento chicken sandwich for a limited time. One and two, the pitch Torkelson swings, skies it behind second base, Zander drifting back on the outfield grass. He has got the honk ball and the beginning is... He's unreal, man. He's just the master. He's the master. He's some research for that one. He really set it up well though. And then worked it into the nugget of the game brought to you by Chick-fil-A, absolutely brilliant. Brilliant. All right, we've got, well, as you'd expect, we will work our way through our feelings of what happened last night in the ninth inning. I saw some people panicking, some people think that drastic action is necessary. I don't necessarily agree with that, but we can certainly have the conversation about Robert Suarez. We'll do that in our pond raise wrap up coming up next and then we'll get into our usual features like take-on woods and don't do this in the seven o'clock hour. And of course, it's a Friar Friday. Jake Minnes from Sesputus Family Barbecue at eight o'clock. Mike Schiltz, the manager of your San Diego pond raise, still leading the wild card race in the National League. Don't forget, joins us at nine o'clock this morning. It's all coming up on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. Shouldn't I cut about the great where last night's game was lost beyond just the grand slam in the ninth inning? We will we will discuss tough for three setback, not just tough because it was painful and right at the end. But it was a missed opportunity to finally give yourself a little bit of breathing room against the Diamondbacks and the Braves. That's what hurt them most yesterday to me. Now, I know people say that and, you know, it was written about it was pointed out many times. Would you have rather had both of those teams won and then lost a game to that? Does that make it better? I mean, there's no it does. It does. Every game is important for the same reason, because it's one out of one thing when final. Yeah. Well before the Padres game, I think even started, I stared at it all night to score. I stared at it knowing we're up three left right now. Let's go. Let's go. Let's get it. The sweep in a game. Yep. And then I get that. But if the Diamondbacks had one, three, two, you don't need that game any less last night than you needed it because they they lost three to two. Yeah. Yeah. It's still just one game whether you're adding a game or not losing a game. Yeah. That's going to happen every single day. The rest of the season. Well, I mean, it's a game, a game, hold your ground or lose a game every day. It's a blown save, which computes in my brain to a blown opportunity. That's what it means. I mean, you blew an opportunity last night's a double blown opportunity. And so yeah, man, obviously when you're a strike away from winning a game with a three run lead and you lose the game, it's the worst day of the year. That's me when I say if the Tigers come out and score six in the first inning, like I'm not going. Goddamn it. Yeah. Diamondbacks lost and we're going to throw this one away. Right. You're just you're out of it. Yeah. The first inning that games over. But it's up to dominate for eight innings to be there to be there and see that MF or go out of the park was excruciating knowing I should have been home in my bed, but I had to win that $20. By the way, there were also some really good things last night and I want to make sure we cover all of it, but first we get to get to our pond raise recap, our highlights and pod raise wrap up after traffic here on 97 three, the fam, it's a shame. If they lose a shame indeed, it's a complete crap. I did not like that. Here are the low lights from yesterday's game. Are you kidding me? It's the Padres wrap up presented by humble casino with thrilling slots and tables in all the best rewards. Hummel Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hummel Casino fun above all else. We'll give it 16 minutes of salt and then we'll, you know, get back on the pump and figure it out. It's not your fault. Now three and two. My is delivers pro car swings hits it in the air deep to right field way back way, way, way back and gone a home run. Not looking to walk there is 22nd of the season and one of the longest he's hit in 2024. Solo shot in the bottom of the first and a Padres take a one to nothing lead. Here's the old one Bogards in the air to left field well struck. Green is back. He's going to want. It's going to go line drive home run the left field for Zander Bogards. Second of the night for the Padres and a three nothing lead here in the second inning. One two swung out and missed strike three a one two three sixth inning for Martin Perez and he caps it with a K. It's on the way. Carpenter swings and misses strike three buried a change up got into taste and his side is retired no runs to hits and two guys left in scoring position three and two to Parker Meadows the runners will go and it's in the air to left field and deep Rofar is going back still going back at the wall. It's going to go a grand slam for Parker Meadows and the Tigers go in front. It's four to three down to their final strike trailing three to nothing. The Tigers get a grand slam from their number nine hitter and Robert Suarez has paid a price for his wildness here in the night. Here's the old one pitch Merrill swings and skies it into shallow center field Meadows who hit the grand slam comes on and fittingly he makes the catch to end the ball game dramatic comeback win for the Tigers here in the ninth inning tonight. The Padres cannot complete the sweep as Detroit gets the grand slam down to their final strike in the top of the ninth inning to come back and win this one four to three. Yeah, I mean, you know, he's been fantastic for us. I mean, what's what's give him his do. He's been tremendous and I wouldn't say spoiled us, but you know, nothing's automatic in this game. And you know, get ambushed with the first pitch and base it and, you know, they were patient. He was, you know, around the zone fastball was coming out good, you know, 101. But just a little spotty with the command, you know, they were able to get a couple walks and put ourselves in harm's way and, you know, two strikes and put a swing on him. So definitely sucked and and yeah, I mean, it's one of those one of those I look, I don't think this is going to be the beginning of some long stretch where the wheels fall off. I mean, I don't, I think last night was a missed opportunity to score more runs. So you didn't have to use Robert Suarez. I agree. I really do. And I think I thought that there were plenty of opportunities. Look, this team, I can't sit back and go, man, this team sure gives away a lot of it bats. I don't, that's, that's not what I think when I think of the 2024 San Diego Padres. I really don't. Everybody out there is really, really, really doesn't come through in the ninth. Yeah, well, there's just not clutch, you know, they're not clutch. It's hard for me to be super upset in the moment last night. Yeah. And my heart broke. I was, I was, it was a heartbreaking loss last night. But you know, the other thing that gave me a little comfort is it's baseball turn about as fair play. We have done this to countless number of teams this year. We have ripped souls this year. We were, we were due to get our soul ripped out and how you respond is going to be the most important. The ledger is still very much in the, Oh, yeah, in 2020 black is good and the red is bad. The black is good. Red is like bleeding, red ink, and the black money in the black moving up when it comes to that, the ledger, that's a, that's a good thing. Now I know there were some painful similarities to a lot of losses from last year, the one run loss, the late losses, not coming through with opportunities. So we have a little PTSD from last year when it comes to that, but there was one big difference that I need to point out because it did happen a lot last year. But last year you lost a game like that to lose the series. Yeah. This year you lose a game like that and you just don't get the sweet. There's a big difference there. And it's a, it's a notable difference for this year's San Diego pond race. Now I thought, um, I thought in Paulie and I were watching on TV, you were obviously there. Mm hmm. Neither paul or I thought that that was going to be a home run off the bat. I did. So maybe it was different when you were on television. Now I will also say, I didn't think Xander Bogart said a home run off the bat when he hit his. It looked like a line drive. Maybe even like a line drive out. I was stunned when that one went over the fence as well. I watched it again this morning. I was like, maybe I wasn't paying attention. I'm like, no, I still thought it looked off the bat before the camera turned. Yes, he sounded a little uncertain, but it was a good call. I mean, the ball only went like two rows. Even the Tigers announcers who were obviously probably very hopeful that it would, seemed a little shocked that that ball left the yard. In the air left field side, pro far back at the track at the wall. Oh my goodness, Parker Meadows did it. That ball kept on flying and the Tigers, like we've said, all season long are not done. Have you said that all season long? They have said it all season long. We've been saying that here. I don't know that that's a home run. I don't know that Bogart's is a home run in April or May, but that was the hottest day of the year in San Diego that helps the ball fly a little bit. Just one of those things as the Padres lose. Now the big question here, and we've got to dive into it a lot of reaction after the game about the usage of Robert Suarez four times in five game. T is he overused? Should Mike Schilt have been a quicker with the hook out there in the ninth inning and ultimately, I didn't see a play. I didn't see a mistaken decision by the manager in the ninth inning. Now that's just me. I certainly can acknowledge that there were other courses of action you could have gone with. What would what would if you were and take take hindsight out of it last night? So Bobby fastballs had a day he threw eight pitches on Monday. All right. Then they had Tuesday off came back Wednesday through 19 pitches. And for me, and I have a closer down there and I checked with him before the game and I talked to the medical staff. How is he good? Okay. Great. Let's let's roll him out there. It's hard for me to look at Bobby Suarez fire in 101.9 miles an hour ago. Yeah, he's tired. He's fatigued. Now again, sometimes fatigue shows up in command as opposed to lack of velocity. Absolutely. If I'm I guess what would you have done so you could have gone to Tanner Scott who had thrown 16 pitches in the night before you already used him. I think I think if I'm if I'm Mike Schill, I do bring him in in the ninth and it's a three. It's a safe situation. And you obviously, you know, said before the game, he's good to go. So I'm not going with Brian Hoeing. I'm not going with Jeremiah Strata. If I lose with one of those guys on the mound, I know I'm kicking myself for leaving my all-star closer. Who by the way, who said he was ready, then why didn't why didn't you pitch him? So I'm going with Suarez. All right. So now you got to go with at least three banners. First batter, first pitch is a single. All right. It's other way. You know, that's all you can do with Suarez. You hope you totally do you pull that while you pull that when you're right, right? He's on it. All right. Then happens. Then there's the walk. All right. That's that's a little more concerning. Where's the, you know, is the command off? He goes back, gets a pop out, gets Torkelson on a pop out field fly roll, I think. So there's one out. What do I? You could, you could take him out now, but he's just got an out. Great pitch on the hands. Then he walks the bases loaded. That's the one they went to the dugout. They showed the shot. And I looked, all right. What are they thinking right now? Obviously there's some concern there, but this is where you make the decision bases loaded one out. You pulling the guy who has come through for you, you know, way more often than not this season and going with someone else. I know I think Jeremiah Strut was kind of starting to get going, but was even ready to come in. Then he comes back and he strikes out that guy with the bases loaded and two outs at that point. Now, now you're sticking with him. All right. He's founded. He's come back. He struck out a guy. The velocity is still good. There's no concerning signs that, oh, it's only to throw a 97. I mean, that might have been my immediate. Oh, go get him if his velocity was down, but it was still over a hundred. I'm sticking with Suarez at that point. How often do managers bring in their closer to start the ninth and pull him before he blows it? Correct. Almost. They did it once with Suarez this year. He has done it once with Suarez. It was that game. I want to say it was like they ended up winning like 10, eight. I can't remember who it was against, but they brought Suarez in, gave up like three runs. They had the bigger lead though, they were just on him and they were on him and they took him out. I mean, if I remember correctly, that did happen once. Yeah. It, again, I'm rolling with him too. I'm not getting a strata out there and now if you want to talk about making a change at closer, I don't know that I would necessarily do that either. I look at his usage. It's nice to have guys that you can have that conversation. No question, man. And honestly, man, there's three guys down there. I wouldn't mind seeing it in the ninth inning. And I think, you know, obviously, once you get to the playoffs, there's match ups, there's games that can be won in the eighth with a, let's say you're, you're playing somebody and they've got three right handers and it's, they're coming up in the eighth inning. You may go Suarez in the eighth. I mean, in the playoffs, all bets, you may go Michael King in the eighth in the playoffs. You have no idea. Everything is, is wheels off. But again, you got to get to the playoffs. And so everything is going to change then. You're not going to manage the same. It doesn't have to be a set in stone. But for now, yeah, I mean, look, he's pitched in some games earlier in the season where we went, oh, was that necessary, right? At that time that Mike Schilt was doing that, Ben, we didn't have Tanner Scott. We didn't have Jason Adam, you know, a strata has had solidified himself a little bit. Yuki Matsui was spotty at that time. Robert Suarez was the only guy that that Mike Schilt trusted in that bullpen. So what did A.J. Preller do? He went out and got him a better bullpen. Now, if you're going to make a switch, I don't know that that's prudent necessarily right now either. There was a moment in the game that Woods probably couldn't see as clearly because you were at the game, but on television, there was definitely a mistake that went against the Padres. Want to talk about that? You're going to play some take on Woods when we come back as well. Don't go anywhere. 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