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Mama Sita, I am a little hot and bothered this morning. I know you guys listening are as well. Thanks so much for being here. However, you choose to consume Ben & Woods. Whether it be on your radio, your smart speaker, whether you go back and listen later, whether you watch on the YouTube feed, we really appreciate it. From the bottom of our hearts, you have allowed us to extend, you know, this kind of dream gig and not have to get a real job. So we really, really appreciate it very, very much. Can't thank you enough. I'm Woodsie, that's Paul Reindel. He's the executive producer. Good morning, Paulie. Good morning. And Benjamin Higgins, my fellow army green shirt guy. We've done it again and we didn't mean to do it. We are matching again. This is insane. It's not insane because you guys gifted me, Paulie gifted me, the same kind of t-shirts that you guys fell in love with, but there's only a certain number of colors. And I wear them probably more than half the time, as do you's, which means there's always a chance we're going to grab the same t-shirt now, every single morning. I did not think about that when I got him his- I really didn't give you that, yeah. That's fine. 12 t-shirts ever was. It's not like we're going to go hang out with each other after the show for a long period of time and it's going to be awkward. If we weren't on YouTube, no one would ever know that we're wearing the same shirt. We still pointed out, though. But we'll point it out to everybody that's listening that yes, Woods and I are once again twinsies. Stolen valor, I think for both of us in these shirts, to be honest with the army green. Yeah. Yeah. I've got those cameras. Had these soldiers. Yeah, seriously. I don't ever want to ever be accused of stealing anyone's valor because I have no valor. So I don't want to steal anyone's. But great to be here with you guys, certainly. Phenomenal, phenomenal ending to the game last night. Just a brilliant, brilliant win for our Padres. And yeah, again, I mean, they're taking days off the ticker, for sure. Watching games like that, but better with a dub than not. It becomes harder and harder every day to find things to worry about with this team. It really does. And now I've kind of reduced myself to, well, I mean, they're using up all their really great wins. I mean, they just keep coming from behind. And there's just a limited supply. And like, save some of these for the playoffs. Why are you using them all up right now? It doesn't work that way. Yeah, no doubt. Probably works the other way. The more you do it, the more likely you are to keep doing it in the future because you're just building that confidence that not only have I done it before, I've done it many times before. And I'm about to do it again. Yeah. And last night's game, and we'll talk about it, was truly one of the first Padres games in my life that they were trailing five to nothing. And I didn't even feel remotely like the game was over. No, I wasn't mad. I didn't have that feeling of like, you, you guys coming on, you know, out of an off day. This is what you get. No, I didn't feel that at all. I was doing the rationalizations in my head of, well, it's fine. I mean, you Darvish didn't get a chance to work. We'll talk about all this. I mean, we've got, we've got four hours. Actually, we have five hours to talk about it today. Save all of our Padres nuggets for our 97.3, the fan round table. That is going to happen at 10 a.m. After we are off the air, we're going to go right back on the air for an hour of commercial free Padres talk. Hopefully the whole crew is here today. What it did do to me last night, I don't know if you saw my tweet, but when we tied the game, when Manny tied it, it got me out of my bed and it got me into the kitchen. And I do the, it's, you know, one of my fatal flaws is the nervous snacking. I'm not hungry. I'm not hungry, but I'm also, I just can't lay there in bed. And I, so I nervous snack. So I got some wasabi flavored almonds, which are, which are like my favorite thing. I love them so much. You're going to tell us, I do it or bad, you're not. You don't like those. No, I mean, the blue diamond wasabi almonds. I like wasabi. Wasabi's a flavor that I'm okay with when it's like in my sushi, just a little bit, but I don't seek it out in other forms. Nor do I. These are the old, my kids will not eat one. If you put a drop of Tabasco on their eggs, they'll, they will eat these wasabi almonds by the handful and they're so hot. They like burn your nose the whole thing. I don't get it. That makes no sense. But so I get that and a string cheese. So I ate that and then we're still, we're still battling and you know, we get to the late, I go back to the room and then I get up and I start walking around again, Hannah's dead asleep, kids are dead asleep. And I'm just walking around the house and I go, you know what sounds good? And I'm taking my ambient at this point. So I'm kind of half in half out and I go a grilled cheese. Sounds really good. I get the pan out, the butter, the bread. So you grilled cheese. How do you make your grilled cheese? So with butter, because some people do with mayo, somebody tweeted that to me and I don't understand that butter. You don't like mayo and you don't like mayo. I can tolerate mayo. Do people. I last I don't mind when mayo transforms something into something else. I don't want it oozing out of a sandwich. So Bush league Blake, our buddy tweeted, do you make yours with or I think it was Bush league, somebody else, maybe Zach, somebody said, do you make yours with butter or mayo and I go, well, butter because I'm not a pervert and I've never heard of that. I wouldn't have thought of it. I've never heard of it. I think mayo can be the a bit of a cop out in that you don't have to soften it at all to spread it on the bread before you grill it. It's already nice and soft and spreadable, which adds to the convenience factor. Please save that. You want a little hack though. So how do you soften your butter? We have a butter softener. You have a butter soft. The tray. Like you just leave it out, like under a bell, like under just on the counter. Yeah, there's already soft. We have a blue thing. You put the stick on it. I don't trust it. But it has a cap on it. Well, yeah, I don't flies don't get on it, but you're still leaving butter out. Butter is a dairy product. I think it belongs in the refrigerator. No, it's good. It's good. It's super soft. Well, it's super soft, but are you sure that it isn't spoiling? Yeah. I feel great. And I think we ripped through enough water too. But you're risking, though, putting spoiled butter on your bread when you're leaving it out. How long has it been out? I mean, how quickly do you go through butter? We probably go through a stick of butter a week. Yeah. Yeah. With the kids eating toast. I just feel like it's a little dicey. It's nice. It's great. I grew up with a little. The butter soft. The tray. Yeah. With the cloche kind of thing on top. Yeah. You want a little hack though for cold butter? Yeah. Cheese grater. Oh. Oh. You're running it through the cheese grater. And then you've got a pile of very soft butter that's now just on a plate and you can use it spread. You don't have to, because the microwave, the soften in the microwave setting never works properly. Dub. Dub J says he goes through a one to two sticks a day. What do you guys make? I'm impressed. What do you, it's just a lot of butter. Just like chicken marsala and cooking. Yeah. Biscuits and stuff. Now there's no parasites on there, Anthony. I'm telling you. They're delicious. It's delicious. I mean, the, the, the, the lid may keep flies from landing on it. And cats from licking it. Yeah. Our cats will, you see them sniffing around there every now and then. Like, all right. I mean, look, if that, if I, if it, if that's what gets me, then I was, it's my time. After all the things I've done, how did he pass? There's some rotten butter. Got him. This is, that's my time. The big man upstairs wanted me at his side and decided to call me home. And I can't even complain about it. Uh, I've never heard of anybody doing mayo on a grilled cheese. And the thought of it repulses me. I, I did one time see a hack on, on, they said the best burger you can make, you take ground beef and mayo and you mold the ground beef with mayo and I thought, ooh, now that sounds good. Yeah. That I could do. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, that's, that's almost like a meatball or meat low. Adding some egg. Yeah. And soil. Fat oil. That is mayo. You're just adding some fat, fat carries flavor. You know what? Instead of being a dismissive butt face, I'll just, I'm going to try a mayo grilled cheese. Now, do you spread it on the bread? Yeah. Just like it's butter. I would do it butter. Okay. I had, uh, not a grilled cheese, but within the last year had never had this before, at least to my knowledge, pancakes made with cottage cheese in the mix in the batter. Now that's, that's a cottage cheese is an interesting cause I don't like cottage cheese. So I had. I love cottage cheese. We're delicious. So I feel like it's the snack of an elderly man. That's why I love cottage cheese. You know, I love elderly snacks. But my wife, yes, butterscotch, yes, cottage cheese, hard candies of all sorts, uh, can't wait until that, tapioca, tapioca. My wife will eat cottage cheese and the thought of it repulses me so much, but I do. So this guy was talking to, uh, who's like a dietitian trainer, he goes, my hack. He goes, I have a sweet tooth. What's he like? You do. He said, but I don't go suck down cheesecakes and brownies and everything like you do. He said, take some cottage cheese. I put some honey on it and a little bit of cinnamon toast crunch. And I went, oh, he goes, it's my, he goes, I get protein from the cottage cheese. The honey's fairly healthy and the, you know, it gives a little crunch. It's not terrible for you. And I go, that may be the, that may, I don't even know that I like cottage cheese. And I said, but that sounds good, dude. Hannah says, of course I do. I was raised on a farm. Yeah. She was. She was not. They had carot ranch. They had plants and stuff and vegetables is not a farm was not a working farm for the love of God. I can't do this again. We had a lot of pads. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which one did you milk, Greg? Uh, yeah. So maybe I will. Maybe I'll try the cottage cheese. I'll try the mayo grilled cheese, but I, I got it. When the season ends, then I can get more, I can just go to bed. I don't have to stay up. I won't be snacking. I can't help myself from, I need like one of those locks on my, that my wife sets like the lock on the counter or the cabinet in the fridge. I don't know the codes. We're protected. Stashing little debbies under my bed and stuff like it's so bad. You know, I always access the butter since it's not in the fridge. So there you go. I don't think I would it with a spoonful of sugar or something. Yes. It just, this team makes me snack and that's really the, the worst thing I can say about it. How did you gain all the weight? The San Diego Padres, they make me snack and that's the worst thing I can say about them this year. They make me snack too much. All right. I want to, I want to start talking about the game. I want to set the menu. So let's, let's get going. Yeah. Um, when we come back though, before we address any of that, I'm going to speak directly to one person. Oh. My mother. Oh. Mom, you might want to turn off the radio so dad can't hear the next segment. It's not bad, but it might make him a little uncomfortable. What did he do? You may just want to skip just the next couple of minutes. What did he do? You had my curiosity. Yeah. Now you've got my attention. Yeah. 100%. And then we will be off and running. All the Padres highlights are coming up. Do not go anywhere. Ben and Woods with you on a Thursday morning throwback Thursday, let's get some current traffic from Kelly Damic here on 97.3. The fan. Did you get confirmation? Your dad is not listening. He's not. All right. So I opened Twitter last night. I was shocked by what I saw on the first tweet, like right at the top of my feed. Welcome back. Ben and Woods with you. So I played golf with my daddy yesterday. Had a, had a nice run. Didn't play that well, but it's always fun to play with him. He is. I love playing with my dad. He is. My dad is the best. He is the best golfer. Cause he's not, it's not even as fast as golf. It's fasted everything. He likes to eat fast restaurants and in and out, less than an hour. He had be a great son to him. Yeah. He has really enjoyed me as his child eating early, but he has really would, would hit it off early. 15 minute dinners. Yeah. Even a nice place. 15, 20 minute dinners. Golf three hour round. Fantastic. And motor around quickly. Be done. Six to eight foot putts. Good. You're good. Yeah. You're good too. Let's go. It's only flaws and it's not a flaw, but not a social media savant and consider yourself lucky. He, um, I, you know, he's been on Twitter for 10 years and I know he signed up pretty much just to follow probably my tweets and see what a lot of people sign up. I mean, it's great. And it's just supportive of him because that's the kind of guy he is. But you might remember because we talked about this last year. He doesn't send many tweets. So I'm always shocked when I see one and jarring when it pops up in your feet and last night it popped up in my feet. His name is right up there, Steve Higgins and he's got, you know, the computer generated Twitter handle of Steve H and then a series of numbers that by that, like seven or eight, you know, characters long. So whoa, what's, what's this? And I, I see the tweet says cool in. That's it cool in like cool in the gang. I mean, it's not cool. It's cool in. I am cool. I am. Cool space. I am. He's cool. Cool. Cool in down or turning the air conditioning on because it's getting hot. His buddy cool in his buddy texted him. He thought he texted him back and he said, Steve, do you want to go hit balls at the ranch? Cool. Cool in. That could be it. Does your dad say cool ever? Have you heard us? No, I've never once heard him say cool or like that's cool. No, I don't think so. He doesn't seem like a guy. There was a lot of slang. The reason why it's so notable and we discussed this, I remember less. No, I'm going to be less profile. February. I'm going to look at it. He is sent on August 11th. He has sent six tweets. I'm just going to go through his entire day. Yeah. I'm going to go through the entire Twitter history of Steve Higgins here. Because it is just six tweets long in 10 years. He joined Twitter in August of 2015 and at that time, he has sent six tweets. Number one, October 2nd, 2020. So five years before he sent the first one, Em, kind of like I'm, but without the apostrophe. Some J like the golfer, Em, then a little, about a half a year later, February 28th, 2021, Poe, PoE, there's like the river in, I think, Italy, the Poe, the Poe, Poe, or PO box. Maybe it was thinking about mail or something. And then an entire year later, one year later, February 28th, 2023, actually two years later to the day, the third tweet, this is amazing. A picture of Leonard Four net running back for the Tampa Bay box. No comment, just stand alone, tweet, picture of Leonard Four net. Not a box fan as far as I know, not a Leonard Four net fan, just a picture of Leonard Four net. Oh my God. Number seven, carrying the ball in his left hand looks like a home game and then I hadn't seen any tweets. But apparently there's been three since Leonard Four net, October 22nd, 2023, last fall. Mm, hashtag, not, not hashtag, but Mm, hashtag, hashtag. One, two, three, four, five M's and then an ampersand, yeah, the hashtag. And now the, the prolific month that he's had. August 11th, last month, I missed this one. Hi. Is he hacked? I don't know. That's why I always worry. It's the most normal one. Yeah, that is high. Hi. And then of course last night, 10 hours ago, cool, cool in, cool in no comma, but cool in. Is it some sort of secret code? I don't know. I'm trying to put them together. Is he trying to send you signals? Hi. Cool in. He's sending you location to where some money is buried or something. There's something there. I mean, you can explain five of them based on I've accidentally opened the app and hit jammed my fingers on the keyboard and hit send and in 10 years, that's probably gonna happen a couple of times. The funny thing is, is like the one that you can't explain, though, again, is the picture of Leonard Four net. My favorite by far, just random, random picture of Leonard Four net. He's never mentioned Leonard Four net. Didn't they didn't attend the same college? Nothing. Nothing. There's no connection to Leonard. No. Four net. He also retweeted this one. This is an actual, his first actual tweet was a retweet. I thought this was about Conan Gray, but it's not. So I lost interest and it's a picture of somebody. Some preteen boy band guy in there. He's retweeted that. That's it. He is something else, man. He is something else. I love that. I love Steve Higgins tweets. Because they call him chief. So this should be a regular current. Next time you're with him, grab his phone, just go to his app and be like, "Hey, I'm gonna take this off, dad, just in case something happens and you don't want it to happen." Because clearly you're not paying much attention to it. He knows your pithy dialogue. He doesn't need to see your tweets. He doesn't need to see anything. So you don't even really need to sign up for Twitter to see tweets. That's true, bud. That's true. Oh, that's fantastic. Can't get enough. We'll update on chief Higgins from yesterday. Here's your menu for the show today coming up. Our Padres wrap up. I've heard the walk off from Jesse and Don, of course. But I haven't heard the Jackson Merrill home run. I have a lot of calls that I need to catch up on looking forward to getting those in our Padres wrap up. And we'll talk about last night's grit squad strikes again come from behind six to five win over the Detroit Tigers. Talk about you, Darvish is returned to the mountain. Going as probably well as he hoped. But I don't think there's a reason to necessarily panic about what we saw from you. It was a up and down first outing since May for you, Darvish yesterday. We'll discuss it in our Padres wrap up seven o'clock hour. Take on Woods, your chance to qualify for a trip to Las Vegas. Actually, it's Thursday. So real or fake today. Don't even need any musical knowledge to qualify. Don't do this at 720, more Padres talk as we get to the eight o'clock hour. And then at 835, we'll be joined by our friend Enos Saris as we now just over three weeks left in the season. The pennant race is heating up our smart weekly baseball segment. Pretty much everyone agrees. Even like in baseball, Enos, one of the smartest guys in the sports. And we always just lucky enough to get to talk to him every Thursday. So he'll join us at 835, and then it is the return of our football threesome in our nine o'clock hour. Today is the first day of the NFL season, we'll bring back our football threesome as we get ready for the start of the season tonight between the Baltimore Ravens and the Kansas City. James come on to start absolutely a rival report, and then we will get into the round table. It'll 10 o'clock when we'll be joined by all of our colleagues over in the sound space and go commercial free Padres talk from 10 to 11. Did I miss it? Did you mention our nine o'clock guest? Oh, I forgot about our nine o'clock guest is the one I'm so excited for, you know, because I talk to him every week. But our nine a.m. guest is one I'm very excited about. I have a, I'll admit it. I have a small but growing man crush on our nine o'clock guest, Trevor Plouff, who does a lot of stuff with Chris Rose. And I just, I love his takes, man. He's a measured guy. He's a former big leaguer and I'm just a huge, huge fan of his work and very excited to talk to him. I'm measured as a perfect way to describe his hair this weekend. He's here. Yeah. He's down. See if he'll come on the round table. Yeah. I just love the dude. I think he's his takes are phenomenal. And, and. Hey Trevor. I would love. He's free at 10 o'clock. I would love. I can't wait to talk to him. I'm going to be a little bit giddy. I'm just telling you. We'll find out a little bit more about what is bringing him to town. It's not just the Padres game, but they've got an event going on this weekend that you can probably or take part in. That's why he's coming on to promote it, but he'll talk some Padres baseball with us. And just some other observations, as you said, Trevor, really smart takes on baseball. Got that recent player perspective that I think is very important. I do too. Guzzanator says, make sure you call him out for calling the under on wins when he was on jamboy. Guzz, we all called the under on wins, man. Every single one of us. Like barely. Or barely who wanted to be optimistic. He was the barely over or yeah, under yeah, but excited. Looking forward to it. Let's get to it. Padres wrap up. We will talk about last night's dramatic happenings at Petco Park. When we come back on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. Padres came back to win, but there was a rare moment actually disagreed with a strategic decision from Mike Schilt. I'm sure he'll love me bringing that up in the game last night. Oh, you thought I made a mistake? You agreed with him so we can discuss that and sense to me the rest of the game coming up. Our Padres wrap up. Can't wait for it. All the highlights right after this check of traffic on 97 through the fan. We have the Padres win yesterday, Ben and Woods didn't. What a group. We've catch you covered with all of the highlights. I like it with the Padres win. It's the Padres wrap up presented by Hamul Casino with thrilling slots and tables in all the best rewards. Hamul Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hamul Casino. Fun above all else. Give me a due damage. No balls to strikes the count. Darvish will kick hesitate and deal and Bierling hits it in the air to left field. Well struck. Bro far back at the wall, leaping up going to go into about the second or third over the US Bank sign in straightaway left field. Bierling it's a 16th home run of the season and a Tigers win to take a 1-0 lead here in the top of the first. That's the kind of swing we have come to expect from young guys against you, Darvish. Heat swings in the first pitch. Lines it to right field. Fernando over towards the line to get it, has it on the edge of the warning track, fires into second base, that will hold Keith to a single but it's an RBI single as Bierling comes into score. But they're on first, nobody out, 3-0 Tigers. And this one hit a mile in the air down the right field line. Fernando back to watch and it will go. Move shot to right for Trey Sweeney to run Homer against the Matsumi here in the fourth inning. And the Tigers have added on five, nothing to drink. Left hand hitter of course, first pitch, swung on, hit in the air to left field and deep. Green's racing back, still going back, hat the wall, good to go! Three run Homer, Jackson Merrill. Merrill has just become the first Andre rookie ever to drive in 80 runs in his season and more importantly has put them right back in this game, it's 5-3. On the way, Manny swings, hits a ground ball through the left side base hit, a rise has forward, Fernando's on his way, they've got no shot. Two run single Manny Machado and a Padres have erased another five run deficit. 5-5 here in the fifth, the pitch from Foley, swung on, hit through the left side, and a base hit, Merrill rounding third on his way, Green's throws got no shot and Fernando is back. Tati swings it for the Padres, they mob him on the left side of the infield, a walk-off single in the bottom of the tenth inning, and the Padres beat the Tigers 6-5. They will take their brooms out here tomorrow night. Through the roof, I can't put it into words, I just left this group of guys and we're going to keep coming. What a big moment, only anybody had any real doubt, he's going to come through, felt pretty right. But yeah, good for him, good for us, he looks great, really good at bass tonight, he smoked that ball to right center, you know, another nice base hit, but I mean, you just stay within himself, nice and short, and brought it home for us. Love that quote, I love it, I love it, stay within yourself, and it makes no sense but it totally does. Stay within yourself, don't try to do too much, Campusano, just stay within yourself. And he absolutely did, and what he win, somebody tweeted last night, all of Petco Park is pregnant right now. How many children are going to be born in March? My wife was asleep, damn it, because I feel like my chances would have gone through the roof. I tried, my wife was awake, she is going to do the interview with Bob shirtless, sure looks like it, and then he did, and anyway, and then he got dumped with Gatorade shirtless. Hey, can you leave? Yeah, yeah, just leave for a moment. He is, he's a dynamo, that was a, what a win, what a win, oh, he didn't kiss a roach, here you go. It is funny, how often attractive people who are well built, their shirt just randomly comes off. Yeah, yeah. Certainly. Yeah, I know. You don't see a lot of baseball players, their shirts don't end up coming off at the end of the game. No. But somehow, he's dead. Now, Ryan Vogelbach doesn't rip his jersey off and throw it in a stance, it'd be badass if he did, but he didn't, he doesn't. Petalonza took his shirt off once, and it's still making the round, I saw it last night, you versus the guy she told you not to worry about. You know, our buddy Big Miz takes them that last, we did that last night, almost died. Whereas I the only one during the walk-off celebration that was just staring going, don't hurt him, don't hurt him, don't injure him, don't injure him. Be careful with him, he's just back, don't pick him up too much, Jackson picks him up in the air, I'm going, guys still got, you know, recovering from a stress reaction in his leg. Be careful with that guy, see how his pecs shook, but it wasn't fat, like it was his muscles. You know? Yes, I saw that. I saw it. Oof, man, that is, uh, you ever heard the word live, live, oh, it's one of my favorite words in an English language, it describes him quite well, he's all sinewy, sinewy is not a good word, live, that's what he is, sinewy, man, what a win Ben and Woods after dark. Mm hmm. Yeah, even though it's very sensual. Lied out. It was an experience. Yeah, look, there's, uh, there's certainly a lot on pack. Let's start with you, Darvish and, and obviously a nice emotional lift, great to see you back and they did make the point during the broadcast. I mean, look, he was rusty, obviously, and the command was not there at all. Again, when you're, when you're trying to land 11 pitches, it can probably get a little bit difficult if your mechanics are out of whack and Don made the really astute point that I think we need to hammer home when you're on the restricted list, you are restricted. That's what restricted means. He can't call Ruben and say, Hey, uh, can you come out to Helix High this morning before you head into the ballpark and let's get a sesh in, you know, before, before you got to go to the ballpark, I want to get a throwing session and let's make sure my mechanics where they need to be. They had a few days, certainly in a week, uh, to, to get it together and, and, and try to figure it out. But once he got out on the mountain bending, the command wasn't there. The Vilo, I thought was pretty good, 94, 95, uh, he landed some really nice sliders. But yeah, man, he also hung a couple sliders and you know, they're, they're big leaguers too. Uh, shaking off the rust. I did like the early hook for you. He was on a pitch count. He had 65 pitches or something. So I thought it made sense. You would have loved to see him get a clean, clean couple of innings there, but definitely something to, uh, to build off of with you, Darwin. I actually take that start as, as almost entirely a positive in that return would, would it have been great if he had gone five innings and, you know, given up, no runs, sure. But I was more looking for the stuff and whether he's still got it. And you Darvish in just two and two thirds innings got 11 swing and misses. That's big man. The whiffs, the whiffs. Twice as many as anybody else in the game, including the tiger starter who was in the game twice as long as he was 11 swings and misses in just two and two thirds innings is a sign that his stuff is there. It's playing well. The velocity was as good as it was before the command will come back. Yeah, you know, Darvish is known for his command. That of course was going to be the rustiest part of his game. And the way they got him back pretty quickly, I mean, he just was on the 12 days ago, came off the restricted list. They pushed him because they needed him. This is not a surprise to the Padres should not be a surprise to fans that there were some command issues. They got through it. They came back and got the win. So you doesn't even have to feel bad about letting his team down. They got the win in that game and they have something to build on the next time he now goes out on the mound. He can refine things. I promise you, he will be better next time than he was this time and he wasn't that bad actually this time. But and building towards when the games are the most important, right? We'll take this start against the Tigers right now with the lead that you have in the wild card. I know that there are teams, you know, nipping at your heels, certainly. And that's obviously we're all looking behind us every single night. I totally understand that perspective. But you saw how Joe responded when he came back, get these guys firing at the right time. And yeah, this is going to be a dangerous team. We already know they're a dangerous team. There's no lead that feels out of reach for them. And especially when you have what who should be the runaway rookie of the year, Jackson Merrill, who impacts the game every single game he plays in. He does it with his glove. He does it with his legs and he does it with his bat. And if he doesn't, if one of those falters, he makes up for it with the other two. If he goes, Oh, for four, I promise you, he made a great catch. He made, he stole a bag on a walk or something like he always impacts the game. He's the runaway rookie of the year. Anything else is, is, is garbage. A crime. It's a crime. I think when he had that swing and put us back in the game, I mean, what do you say? It's just such a lift for this team. The only thing I think about the pottery is Benny. Are they becoming your favorite NBA team where you're like, I've got stuff to do. I'll just tune in in the fifth or six. You know what I mean? Like catch me in the second half. I don't miss an inning, but you know what I'm saying? Like, if you missed the first five innings of a pottery game, because your kids can't go to bed, you're good, man. They really do their best work after the, you know, the, the inning switches from six to seven. It's crazy. I want to talk about Jackson Merrill's home run, like in particular, because big boy home run that, that, that's what I thought. That was a grown up home run and you're going, well, he's hit a lot of big ones. He said 420 foot shots to center. Most of his home runs though have been those pole down the line type, I mean, they count just the same. Oh, it's fine. He had the one early in the season that was opposite field that stunned me. I'm going, okay, that's hard to do it. Yeah, I remember you talking about the other way, you know, you say Jake, Jake drives the ball the other way, never gets out, never gets out and I thought, well, the fact that he can do that is impressive. Then he hit those ones to center and go, okay, he's got a few to center now that are big. That one though was to left center. That was an opposite field home run to one of the deeper parts of the park outer. And those are the kind of home runs that you see from power hitters. Yeah, that was a power hitter home run. That wasn't a contact hitter home run. Jackson's both now, which is stunning. That's a complete player. That's Barry bonds. That's what he would do. That's what Shohei Otani does. That's what he does all the time, all the time. And he should not be doing things that Barry bonds and Shohei Otani did when he's 21 years old and a rookie in major league baseball. That was incredible that home run that he hit, not just the circumstances getting them back into the game, but physically to go that far to that part of the park. And yes, it was the pitch was up. It was a good pitch to hit and he went where he needed to go, but that's, that's notable what he just did last night with that, with that swing. Yeah, he's, he's a notable player and, and he 100% is the rookie of the year. Just every single game, man, he's showing up and, and again, in the biggest moments, in the biggest moments when you need them the most to get you back in a game to win a game, just can't, you can't say enough good things about him. I mean, you're, you're out of superlatives totally for Jackson Merrill. He is a, he's an absolute baseball player, man. Hi, this is Jackson. Jackson. And I just think, you know, I saw again, I see a lot of discourse about where he hits in the lineup. And I see it every single night. And I, I, I defer to Tony Gwen Jr., who knows more about baseball than any of us will ever know. He's forgotten more than we know. And he said, Jackson Merrill is Jackson Merrill right now because he hits where he hits. And it makes sense to me, you know, makes sense to me. Could you move him up to five? Yeah. Would he be okay? Maybe. But do you know, he, and, and, and also he always seems to come up at the right time for this team. You don't feel like, like if you want to stack your best hitters, and I, and I see that theory as well, we'll then run through it and you stack your best hitters and your, your, then that turns into the Padres of old, the 789 where you're like, sure, hope something happens. Merrill in the seven makes your lineup deadly, almost all the way through, I don't 100% agree with that. And I know I disagree with Tony Gwen Jr. at your own risk. I understand the value of consistency and not moving a bunch of people around in the order, especially when the team's playing so well. But once they decide to move him, it'll be very logical. And you'll feel like next year, he ain't hitting seven. No, and I agree, like, but it's going to move him up in the order because he deserves to get up more often in the game. Correct. Do you want to get his bat into the lineup more? I totally, totally, totally understand that they did it now. I don't think there'd be some big outcry. What are you doing? No, Jackson Merrill up in the order. No one around baseball would be surprised if they did and I understand why they're not. And would it surprise you that if they decided to make that move a couple of weeks before the season ended? I mean, would it surprise anybody? No. Has he earned it? Yes, he has, but I don't think that right now there's really any reason to do it. Again, if you're a pitcher and you're like, if I can just get through the top of this order, right, then I can, I can take my foot off the gas a little bit with the bottom third or fourth or whatever it is, not when you're, that guy's hitting in the seven hole. You can't take your foot off the gas really, because you can get burned. You're focused on Jackson Merrill in the seven. You may leave a pitch up to bogey in the six. You may leave a pitch up to Jake in the five. It just works right now. There's no doubt that the, the Padres lineup is as lengthy as it's been all season long. And they still have one more player to get back and Hassan Kim, who continues to progress, was taking grounders, working out of Pekko Park yesterday, just a couple more notes on Jackson Merrill, Jesse mentioned it in his call, but that three run home run RBI is 80, 81, and 82 passes Benito Santiago for the Padres rookie RBI record, that record that is stood for 40 years now, and he is approaching the Padres rookie home run record is 22nd of the season. Got three players in front of him, Jed Jerko, Nate Colbert at 24, of course, and then the record, which belongs to on a Renfro with 26 home run. So four more to tie five more to pass on a Renfro to own both the rookie home run and RBI records. Speaking of stats, though, and weird stats, like I, I would have lost so much money. If you had asked me before yesterday, does Fernando Taitis Jr. have a walk off hit? Correct. I would have lost everything. Yeah. Well, of course he does. Yes. Were you new here? Yes. Of course he's got a walk off. No, first one. But now we have a walk off from Taitis, and we have all the calls of the walk off from Taitis, and we are going to play those when we come back. And then later in the hour, I still want to get to the decision that I disagreed with on Mike. So we haven't gotten to that part of the game yet, just because we had so much talk about what we will that real their fake also coming up next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3, the fan. From the mind of a two foot tall talking spunk, it comes this year's biggest challenge. It's time for Bob's Dare to Compare. 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Jackson had more than one? He's had more than one. Profar. Profar had a walk-off. Oh, yeah. Seven. Yeah. Did Kim have one? Jackson has two. Solano? If Jackson had two, then I think we got to eight. Maybe that's seven or eight. Solano, they're saying Solano. Solano. Did he have a walk-off? All right. I mean, what a season. Yeah. All right, we need to get Xander going, get him one. He needs his moment. He needs a big moment. Yeah. He does. Little broadcaster, this is what you live for, a chance to call a walk-off hit at the end of the game. Again, setting the stage. The Padres got through the top of the 10th with Jeremiah Estrada stranding the runner at third base. And then they had a chance with Jackson Merrill out at second base. Solano did have one against LA. Yeah. Yep. And Arise too. Jackson Merrill out at second base is the bottom of the order coming up. Elias Diaz got his very -- I thought for a second -- is Elias Diaz going to make his very first played appearance with the San Diego Padres? A walk-off? Would have been amazing. Didn't. He ground it out. Didn't move the runner. And then the second at bat was -- who batted second? They moved the runner. Did the runner get to third? Who was it? What? McCoy. Yes. He struck out. He struck out. And then they walked Arise intentionally. Intentionally. How about that for a second? Okay. We talked about it before the show. Yeah. What does that tell you about Luis Arise's value, that they will walk him and take their chances with Fernando Tatiz Jr. Yeah. I'll be returning from a long absence. One game in. It's still Fernando Tatiz Jr. They thought Arise is so good at hitting. It's a calculated risk. It's right. He left it. And, you know, you -- It's not even the risk. It's probably the right call for a number of reasons. Yes. And, first of all, it's the righty lefty. Yeah. Second of all, Luis Arise hits for a higher average. You're not worried about a homerun. Right. No, he's not. The homerun is no worse than a single in that point. And here's one other point that I made when I was watching the game with my son. Luis Arise hits a lot of soft singles. At that point, a hard single actually might be less effective. Like if Tatiz hits 112, like one hopper to the left fielder, Jackson might not be able to score on that. You might get thrown out. And he might get thrown out. He's definitely going. Arise is actually the more dangerous hitter to the Tigers in that situation with a runner at second base and two outs. Yeah. It was the right call by AJ Hinch to walk him. But it's a credit to the Padres lineup that you don't worry. You've got amazing players coming up after him. But he did set up Fernando Tatiz Jr. It almost seemed inevitable at that point. If you're a Padres fan, you're at Peko Park. The crowd was great. Another sell out into it. All game long, ready for the roof to blow off. Well there's no roof, but ready for the top to blow in this game. And we've got all the calls for you. So let's start again with Jesse Agler right here on your Padres Radio Network 97.3 to fan. The pitch from Foley swung on. Hicked through the left side and a base hit. Meryl rounding third on his way. Green's throws got no shot. And Fernando is back. Tatiz wins it for the Padres. They mob him on the left side of the infield. A walk off single in the bottom of the tenth inning. And the Padres beat the Tigers six to five. They will take their brooms out here tomorrow night. Is that a prediction or just a, you know, like a fact that you bring your broom. You bring your chance to take them out. Yeah. Bring your broom. But sound like Jesse already knows what's going to happen tonight. He's seen the future and they're going to break their brooms. Okay. I like the Fernando is back edition to the call. I do too. That was nice. I will hopefully be there. I'll be there. But I hope hopefully this. You will not. I'll be there. You won't be there. You won't be there to see. All right. I just got the text from my wife that says, Hey, let's have fun tonight and let's not worry about being home early. All right. We're going with some other families and we're in the Odyssey suite. And so we want to milk it a little bit. If you can send me proof of life, if you send me a selfie at from the end of the game, like you and then like shaking hands behind you on the field, I will give you ten dollars tomorrow morning. Ten as well. All right. You don't have to give me anything. I'm so confident that that won't happen. I mean, we won't make any stipulations about score or anything because I'll tell you this. If somebody's up or down early, I'm going home. I'll tell you that right now. There's no question about it. But if it's a tight game, I stayed I've stayed for one full game this year. You did. Yeah. It was a day game and we stayed the whole time. We had a blast. Was there a show the next morning? Nope. It was a weekend. It was a weekend day game. This is a night game. And you've got a show the next morning, I'll be stunned if you're there. All right. Let's move on to another legendary call on pod raise dot TV, Don and mud. On the ground, it locks me up I said, Fernando's back, he's back big, pod raise, log it off. Lando gets it done. He's elite. That S.O.B got me so good earlier in the game though, I think it was the eighth inning maybe. Oh, the profile. Oh, shot down the line. I Don got me so good. I was making lunches in an ambient haze and I was like, no, Don has that angle, by the way, I hate that angle that they show. You know, that's the possible and I'm like, oh, that's definitely gone. No, that's fell. Don has. I mean, you said elite, but what Don has that even most broadcasters don't have and I am a astute observer of this. Don has the unique ability to really ramp up the volume without screaming. He's yelling. He's very loud, but he doesn't lose his good pipes and his composure when he goes up. It's such a great listen when he calls a walk off. There's no shrillness to it. It's a great, it is a gift and he is blessed with it and he uses it to full effect on his walk offs. Yeah, you know, I texted him a couple weeks ago, asked him what his regimen was and he said, uh, McCallen 12, which is a Scott. And now he goes actually green tea during games as there you go. It would be honey, lemon, anything. You're just straight green tea. Yeah. It is romantic thing about Don pouring a nice McCallen 12 into a little tumbler and sitting up there, just sipping scotch during a game. But now green tea only for our beloved Don or so, uh, before we get to the other three calls, we need a contestant for real or fake. This is the time to dial us up. If you want to play and chance to win a trip to Las Vegas, 833-288-0973, about two or three minutes away, 833-288-0973. All right, let's, uh, let's flip it around. Go to the sad side and the Detroit Tigers broadcast of the walk off the one. Oh, swing in the ground ball, face it in the lap, got to do it. Narrow scores, Padres walk off the Tigers. The chateau delivered the tying runs in the fifth and it delivers the win in the 10th, crushing loss for the Tigers after taking a five, nothing lead early. Our final score in San Diego, San Diego Padres six and the Detroit Tigers five. What game you watch? Manny Machado's walk off single last night. He's amazing. All right. It was Fernando. Don't worry, nobody's listening. Manny wasn't even up. No, correct me if I'm wrong. Machado had no impact in the bottom of the top. No, it's a type of game. Yeah, the fifth and that was great. And they see the Padres once a year. That's it. Whatever. That is a. That was a bad call. That's a devastating loss for the Tigers. They was. They were back in it. Remember, we talked yesterday how they're four and a half out there back in it. Now they're five and a half out, such a fine picture yesterday. Yeah. If you're the Tigers, you're waking up. Yeah. I did. Yeah. We got a whole season ahead of us. You go out and get. It starts tonight. You get to you, Darva Shirley. You get to the early part of the Padres bullpen and then Jackson Merrill arrives and just incredible. Rip their heart out. Yeah. Rip their heart out. Absolutely. All right. Then on to the foreign language calls we will start with Eduardo Ortega, the always somewhat overmodulated. Turn your radio down just a little bit. Spanish language call. I'm going to give you three, two, one, turn them down. Here we go. I don't think anyone's ever gotten more words in in that amount of time than Eddie did. That was a lot of talking. Who is the day of Marcus for the Spanish broadcasts? We need to get them. A little bit. I don't know. I'd like to get them a little dial in because it makes it, it's a hard to play those calls sometimes when he gets so excited like this on the mic. That's not even that bad. That is, it's, yeah, to turn my way down because it gets better. Do we have some leftover equipment? Am I able to donate to them? Is that the problem? I don't know. He needs a better mind. Yeah. Absolutely. He is high energy. Ooh. Someone's in the radio business. Chris has needs a compressor and a limiter. Yes, dad. ASAP. Please. All right. Finally, our friends from Korea, wherever they are, wherever they're calling these games, whoever they are. We don't know their names. No, no. I keep forgetting about them. Jesse. But here is the Korean call of the walk-off. So maybe Eddie uses an old Xbox microphone. It's just like it's just insane. And potato mic. Yeah. It's tough. Oh, God. It's hot. It's hot. It's the hottest. It's the hottest. It's so hot. It's so hot. And that's not a good thing. Usually being hot is good. Yeah. It's not, not in radio. You don't want to be hot. Yeah. 100%. Now I loved it, man. I loved it. I loved it. I loved what Nando had to say after the game. We had Sammy's interview. Well, he played that a little bit later. He talks about how he took it personally. I took it personally. As soon as I saw four fingers up, gave me the push I needed, the energy that I needed. You know who taught him that? I just wanted to come through for the boys. And I tweeted, "That's the school of jerks and pro far right there." Well, playing with a chip on your shoulder is always the right play. I think, absolutely. What you, I don't think you would want to hear is, "Oh no. It's okay. I mean, I get it. I get why they had to do that." You don't want to hear that. You don't want to hear that. Yeah. Good call. Idiot. Like, absolutely, I took it personally. I would. We all would. Professor Profar's class was in session and they were paying attention. My brother says it, "You're not walking Jackson Merrill to face Mason McCormer or Louis Campison. You're walking, Louis Rice. Do we just talk about the move?" It's probably the right choice. It was also the right move when they walked him to face jerks and profar. Yeah. Exactly right. Yeah. Absolutely the right move. They can still take offense at it though. Just incredible. All right. Are we ready for a game? I'm ready. Let's play it. Some. Are here for the compelling sports talk with Ben & Woods. You can go plow through another donut. It's time for real or fake on 97-3 the fan. Tell the people what they'll win today. Oh, what a great prize. Let's go to this Ollie? Yeah. Ollie, you are contestant today on real or fake. This is our Thursday throwback game, one of our earliest games on Ben & Woods. We do this. If you don't have a musical trivia knowledge for our take on woods, a chance to qualify for our grand prize drawing of a two night stay at the win or Encore Las Vegas and two tickets to their new show Awakening. Tickets are on sale now at Awakening dot com. So Ollie, here's how the game works. I will give you the category. You need to get four out of seven right separating the real from the fake woods can help you out. You can absolutely phone a friend in this game and Ollie, are you ready to play? Yeah. All right. Today's real or fake category. The American Professional Football Association was formed in 1920 renamed the National Football League in 1922. In honor of the start of a new NFL season tonight, I have a list of teams that comprise the NFL in 1922. All you need to do is separate the real from the fake. Ollie, are you ready to play? Let's roll. All right. Round number one. The Milwaukee longshoreman real or fake, I must say, I'm going to agree with you. You're both going to say fake and you are both rice. So we're already better than last week. Yes. Over seven in this game of real or fake. All right. One for one. You are three away from a win. Round number two. The Columbus Panhandles real or fake. Let's go with you on this one. Uh, I'm trying to Ohio. There's not a panhandle. So I'm going to say fake. Ollie fake, but they were in the NFL in 1922, the Columbus Panhandle. I don't think Ohio has a panhandle, not the panhandlers, just the panhandle. Sorry about that. I'll get it. I was the tough one. All right. Round number three. Go pans. Yeah, the pans. The Evansville Crimson Giants real or fake, Ollie. I'm going to go fake. Yeah, like Evansville no longer in the NFL, but they were in 1922. All right. We've hit a little bit of a bump in the road. Still you can come back. Round number four. The Rochester Jefferson's real or fake. The Rochester Jefferson's no way. Fake. Sorry, he wants the listeners to lose. All right. We're on the brink. I like you, Ollie. Ben. Not so much. Oh, I don't. I don't. They're just it's just facts. I can't. I can't change them. There's a pattern that he uses. I can't figure it out. I try to keep it. I try not to have a pattern to make it as fair as possible. All right, all you need the last three now. Let's try to break out of the streak here with the race scene Bearcats. That's an Illinois race scene Bearcats. Real or fake, Ollie. I think it's real. Let's go with the wood. Real. It's real. Pauline? No. Damn it. We've got one fight two weeks. I'm so sorry. The game is is over for you. I appreciate you calling it and playing not today, Satan. Not today. No. Jesus. I'm saying in this case. Yeah. I know. All right. Minneapolis Marines. Fake. The Dayton triangles. Fake. We're on a very bad run. This would be like if I went over take on woods for two weeks to be a nightmare. We got to bang this game. It's a 50 50 chance. I mean, the odds of getting one out of 14 right in a 50 50 chance is really low. I'm sorry. Everybody. I'll try to make this game easier. Let me do it. You'll be out next Thursday. I'll do it next. Pauline, I have a plan. I got a plan. We got a plan for next Thursday. Look at you guys. Devious. What now? Dave Roberts can come in and do it? No, you'll find out. Okay. You won't like it. You won't like it. You won't like it. But we have it. Pauline has a great plan for next Thursday. Okay. All right. All right. We will come back. Don't do this is coming up next. If you work for the Los Angeles Dodgers in a broadcasting capacity, it prerequisite that you are insufferable. And I have some audio for you guys. Let's get infuriating. Woodsy's hot take does not like the Dodgers broadcasters. Oh, God. All platforms. Coming up next after traffic here on 97.3 of the fam. Don't do this. I got to know. Don't do this. Don't do this. Listen. If I'm something bad, I mean, tell me I'm a bad boy. You know, just tell me I'm a bad boy. Why? Just. Why? I get the argument. You don't have to explain it to me. I'm not a moron. Let me tell you why I am a dumbest. It is time for don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this. Always with a couple of stories that make you shake your head. About two years ago, we added do do this to try to highlight something positive as well in this segment. So I'll start with the story out of the NFL. Washington commanders always seem to have something going on. And the commanders. Yeah, the commanders. They don't do this. Really one of the Hall of Fame organizations when it comes to don't do this. Oh, shame. They have suspended their vice president of content after remarked surface on a like a hidden recording undercover video. Yes. At a dinner. So he criticized a lot of people, including the team's own players, Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. And during this interview, I'll make comments and basically he he disagrees with a lot of their what he leaves to be their social stances. He says to the players are anti gay. He says Jerry Jones is racist and anti gay. And he called Roger Goodell a $50 million puppet during all of these now interviews. Now he's allowed to have opinions like that. If that's what he truly thinks, there's nothing necessarily don't do this about thinking that. He is also an employee of the organization. And for those comments to surface publicly of him criticizing his own team's players, another owner in the NFL and the commissioner of the NFL. Obviously the NFL is not going to be too happy about any of this. Listen, you forgot the biggest one. He goes after the fans of the Washington commanders and he said quote, most of the fans are high school educated alcoholics and called them mouth mouth breathers and he is the VP of content. You can't keep him. The guy that like imagine catching someone on on hot mic or hidden camera talking about the pottery, you know, is it possible what he said about the players and Jerry Jones is true. Sure. And Roger Goodell is truly is he a $50 million public kind of he is. Yeah, I mean, he can have those he can have those opinions, but he didn't he didn't know that this was something that was being recorded. Right. He met this reporter on hinge and then met with twice at local restaurants. It says and yeah, so they suspended him doing an investigation. But yeah, man, you know, it was probably him showing off on a date. But I think honestly, like if you're if you're the commanders, you've had so much so much scandal in your like a sting. Yeah, it's like a sting. Yeah, it's exactly right. So mind your P's and Q's people. The Dodgers rarely Dodgers their broadcasters rarely mind their P's and Q's. So big night. The other night couple nights ago for Ben Joyce through a pitch that was 105.5 miles an hour. The fastest recorded pitch in the stat cast era. I do believe and listen to how the Dodgers broadcasters well really took that moment in and made it really special for Ben Joyce. They're making an announcement of the press box about 105.5 mile an hour pitch that Ben Joyce through. I don't know. I might have a bridge in Brooklyn for you. They're saying it's the fastest pitch in the stat cast era, fastest one for a strikeout, fastest pitch in major league baseball this year. Mickey Montyak. I don't disrespect the Ben Joyce. He's a hard thrower. But here's disrespect. But no human being controlled that fast. I'm sorry. He's just coming. He did. One little pitch. I'm going to miss by Montyak. We know and when I had the conversations with the performer general manager and he said yes. One one hit in the air to left field right and his tracks is to ask the Hernandez makes the catch to us. And we were not asking about Ben Joyce or any other player with the Angels or with the Dodgers for that matter. But the conversation came to is that hey are there times if you have a pitcher that you know pitches and tries to chase velocity. Did you ever kind of toy with the electronics and the answer was yes. So they go on and on and they talked exclusively in that game as well about that game against the Angels against the Dodgers. Being the quote Angels World Series and look how Ron Washington is managing this game like it's their World Series. They are such an unlikable group. You know cancel the parades. That's why you play the game. You act like you win something important every year. And you don't. You don't. They act as if they act as if they are the Patriots of you know on the run. They act as if they were the Yankees of the of the 50s and 60s. They're not. I don't understand why they don't believe the radar because it didn't happen to Michael Copac or Shohei Otani. That's why they didn't believe it. That's why. If it was Michael Copac there's no evidence that these radar gun readings are off at all. The technology has actually gotten pretty good from what I understand. So I guess last night's in last night's game Mark Goob is the Angels broadcaster. They got through a hard pitch and he goes yep Major League Baseball approved radar guns like he was giving it back to him. They act like trust fund kids is what they do. They really they're like trust fund babies. I did see your friend our friend Tim Flannery complaining about the he said radar guns back in the day. They tracked the pitch when it crossed the cross. Not when it left the hand. The hand and it slows down a little bit from the hand to the plate so you're not getting. He said Nolan Ryan must turn at least a hundred and eight. Which is possible. They did not have the great tracking technology back then for sure. I don't know if he threw but wouldn't it make sense that pitchers have been continuing to throw faster and faster. Yes. Better training techniques, more knowledge, more scientific analysis of spin rates and how they affect velocity. This is not some stunner. This is the logical conclusion of what everybody's doing. That someone's going to keep throwing harder and harder including 105.5. And somebody made the point in the chat. Yeah, flip it. And if that's Ben Joyce doing that against the Padres. Imagine the level of respect Mud and Dawn would give him like holy smokes. We just saw history here. That's pretty cool. I found out something I did not realize when I was listening to Gwen and Chris yesterday. So that was the fastest ever strikeout pitch 105.5 but it's not the fastest ever pitch. The fastest ever pitch was in a rolled as Chapman 105.8 mile an hour fastball. Do you know who he threw it to? Tony Gwen Jr. Was it a strike? I heard that before. Yeah. That sounds right. No one in history has ever stood in the plate at the box and gotten a faster pitch from a human being than our own Tony Gwen Jr. Wow. Geez. How do you do? It was a ball. It was a ball. It took it. Good take. Good take. Power take. I didn't see it. What does that even mean? You don't see it. No. I'm hearing it. You heard it. She sounded fast. Do do this. Do do this. D. D. Mega do do do. Nice moment last night before the game. If you happen to be at Pekko Park, we're in your seats for the ceremonial first pitch. The Padres honored one of their own. Mark Merola, who is now a scout, but used to be the bullpen catcher for the San Diego Padres returned and throughout the first pitch. There was a little bit of a, what do they call it? Surprise. A surprise. Yeah. An Easter egg, unexpected. The person who caught his pitch, and they didn't even say who it was, it's John Morris, who was the owner when Mark Merola first entered the organization. He was actually a great college player at the University of Minnesota, but has battled brain cancer a couple of times in his career, nearly, nearly fatal. I mean, he had surgery. He had to recover twice. Long time recovery. Padres though have kept him in the organization, made him a scout. He's an instrumental part of AJ Preller's staff. Has been since 2012, and they honored Mark Merola last night with a little surprise cameo from John Morris on the first pitch. Well, that was very cool. Sorry, do do this moment. That's don't and do do this for a Thursday. That was don't do this with Ben and Woods, a 97 3 the fan. All right, we still have not gotten to the kind of innings that led up to the walk off last night. How does a little everybody on their edge of their seat a little bit? Yeah, and I was even questioning Mike Shilt. 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So, pod raise rally and tie the game, Manny Machado's two runs single in the fifth inning. Great DB, man. It was. And then they were unable to push across another run even after Xander walked and moved Manny to second. Jackson Merrill grounded out, so it's five-five going to the sixth. Adrian Morihone gets through the sixth inning, works around a walk, so no real threat there by the Tigers. And then in the bottom of the sixth, pod raise rally again, David Peralta. Aggressive pinch hitting for Luis Campusano, who has kind of been struggling lately. What? Luis Campusano? Kind of been struggling. Yeah. You're nice. That's a nice way to put it. Yeah. Yeah, I hit a two-hit game last week, I think. Okay. So Peralta draws the walk. Mason McCoy then sacrifices him over to second base. Thought of you, Stephen Coronado. I thought of you immediately. Runner in scoring position, pod raise are in good shape at the top of their lineup coming up, especially Luis Arise. Luis Arise does his job. Runner at second, singles to the left side. Does the runner score? No, he does not. Did the runner advance? Does the runner advance from second to third? No, he does not. David Peralta, who held, because it was a long drive. Yeah, he had to. Then stumbled and... Sniper got him. Have you come back to second base? So you had the very rare situation on a single to the outfield that the runner on base didn't advance. Well, you know, it might not mean anything. No, it did, because the very next hitter, Fernando Teti's junior, roped like 110 mile an hour line-out that would have scored any runner from third base, but not from second. And thus, he was stranded out at second base. Well, third, actually, he advanced from second to third, but could not score after a pro-far walk and another Manny Machado. Absolute line-out. Very frustrating inning. Usually, you get a runner out second with one out, and you go single, deep fly. You're going to score 100% of the time. I guess 99.99% of the time. When you have a runner at second, and you go single, deep fly ball. Either they score on the single the first time, or they advance to on the single, and they score on the fly ball. Neither happened, and the Padres were left without a run in that inning. So that was frustrating. It was a frustrating move. Now, the part to me, and I know you have another thing that you wanted to talk about, but I thought right there in that spot might have been a decent spot to see Tyler Wade pinch run. Because if you're going to sacrifice David Peralta over right in a tie game, that means this run is important to us. I'm going to give up an out here to get David Peralta to second base, which is in scoring position. So I'm going to give up an out with Mason Coy, no problem. I had no problem with that. I thought if you're going to be aggressive there with the aggressive pinch hit, the bond, why not be aggressive with Tyler Wade and put him on second base to try to score that run? Again, it was the right decision for Peralta to hold there because it was a line drive. You have to freeze on a line drive. You learn that in little league, freeze on a line drive. But the second you see it through, you got to at least get to third. I didn't think he was going to score on that anyway. Tyler Wade, I don't know, baby. You never know, but it didn't happen. So I went OK. Well, that's why you're there. But then I-- No, if you do that, I reasoned with myself and said it's the sixth inning. You are spending three players on that equation because you've pinch hit Peralta for campusano. Then you would pinch run him, and then you'd have to replace him because you need a catcher in there. So with Higgie, you're-- That's not expensive inning, and still the sixth inning to burn three players right there. I can see why Mike Schult was hesitant to do that in that spot. Yeah. I thought, again, you're being aggressive. Fine. So scratch that. And then Peralta could still come up later in the game. But you know, actually he couldn't because you had to replace him. You had to replace him defensively. You can't show him for the catcher. You burned him. All right. So then you go to the seventh inning, and Tanner Scott gets through that inning. It works around a single, but the Tigers don't really threaten again. And you go to the bottom of the seventh. And once again, the Padres threaten with one out. Tanner Bogart's walks. And then Jackson Merrill hits the ground rule double that probably would have scored. Tanner Bogart's headed not bounced over the fence. One hundred percent. Always one of the most frustrating things whenever happens to your team, you're saying. So just because the warning track is bouncier, he doesn't get to score. It never totally makes a lot of sense. There are a way to fix it. There's really not. I don't know. But so then you've got runners a second and third with one out. And Mike Schilt, again, goes to his bench. And this one surprised me because he had just, of course, put in Kyle Higashiyoka as a defensive replacement after the pinch hitting from the last inning. And he doesn't even let Higgie back there. And he brings in Donovan Solano to pinch it for Kyle Higashiyoka. He's the third catcher on the roster, expanded rosters. Elias Diaz is there. He has to make his Padres debut. But apparently it's happening now because he's your last catcher. And you have aggressively pinch hit Donovan Solano. Now I love Solano up in that situation. Guy gets the bat on the ball, got runners a second and third, hits it hard. Infield's drawn in. And this field's in. There's a lot of reasons to bring up Donovan Solano. But there's also an open base at first. And Mason McCoy is on deck. A guy who they have handled. All right. You know, so far in this game. And it's probably the least scary guy in the Padres lineup right now. He is the least scary guy in the Padres lineup at this moment. So what happens? Well, Donovan Solano works a walk. A good at bat. But he ends up working the walk. Now see, he had, he had pitches to hit. He did. So they weren't pitching around him. I mean, actually he had, he had middle, middle pitches to hit there. And I give him opportunities. I am too. But I was surprised. He's come through a bunch this year. And I thought if you're going to use a pinch hitter, maybe from McCoy. But I started thinking about it. And I thought, all right, what does this do to the team defensively, right? If you, if you make this move, bringing the infield in, he's a, Solano's a 300 hitter. Yeah. 300 hitter. He's now. And it's been a fantastic pinch hitter. But not like the best. Yeah. He's now 400 hitter with the infield drawn in. Yeah. I can see the, the allure of like, let's just get it now. Yes. He can hit a flat lazy fly ball to score run. But I want to go. I want to get these, I want to get both of these runs in with Donovan Solano. Well, him drawing a walk. You're like, Oh crap. That means Mason McCoy has to hit now. Unfortunately, it doesn't work out because after the walk, yeah. And Luis Horizon grounded out to shortstop. And once again, for the second straight inning, you left your bases loaded. Mike Schilt did discuss the decision to go with Donovan Solano in that pinch hitting role. And he said, wasn't an easy one. This is kind of an example of the way you can use the three catchers and the roster to kind of get at bats for guys in optimal situations. And what went into the Solano at bat? Yeah, that was a tough one. You know, I couldn't, I was inter talking to Victor and of course Jackson said, you know, ground will double. And, you know, now he got a decision to make with one out. Got the open base. Not sure what they're going to do. Maxman having good at bats. Trust Higgie too. It's not a matter of that. But we got, you know, a real bullet over there in Solano. Yeah. You know, with one out, it's hard to, and again, it might have fired it with, with, you know, two if it had remained the same situation for Mac. But just took advantage of what we saw in front of us. Took a tough at bat. Worked a walk. So, really, that was, that was a tough one because we could have let Higgie hit. And then, you know, like I said, hit for Mac. So, wasn't a clear cut decision. But to your point about the catch-reflexibility. And I part them all because, you know, we're sitting there in the sixth and we got campy leading off. We got Peralta sitting there. We're really not going to do a whole lot with our first, first seven. Unless there's extreme situation, which we will do if we've got the personnel still. But if you're looking at our roster and you look at David Peralta, it's been huge for us. And he's sitting there to lead off the sixth inning. And, you know, you got a good bullpen. He's trying to figure out a way to get that one more run that me and Victor talk about. And then they, then they get, and Peralta works a walk and, you know, was able to have a good bat when you go to Higgie. And, you know, again, we're sitting there with Solano trying to figure out the right spot to use him. But, you know, you got Diaz that you can trust over there. Again, could have gone either way. But like Solano's about there with one out. All right. So while I disagreed strategically with Mike Schultz's decision there, I think the answer there was very telling about some of the Padres' philosophies. He revealed. I'm going to basically the eighth and ninth spot in my lineups right now, which is usually the catcher in the shortstop. I am going to use my bullets, my David Peralta and my Donovan Solano valuable pinch hitting guys. I'm going to probably use them in those spots. I'm not going to let, in a close game, why not use those guys? And he is Peralta in the sixth. He used Solano in the seventh. It is also very character reinforcing who Mike Schultz is. He aggressively goes after wins. When he sees them in front of them, when he has the opportunity to reach out and try to take one, he will do it. Whether it's with bullpen usage or with pinch hitters. And he saw Donovan Solano sitting on his bench. He saw runners in the second and third. And to him, that is the way to go. Now, I'm a more conservative guy. I think when it comes to the baseball strategy, and I was like, would have liked to save that Donovan Solano for the ninth or at bat for Mason McCoy? Or what if Hagee comes through? And then you still have Solano on the bench. You've got all kinds of options. Good things can happen. And you trust, I know you trust Hagee. He's come through with for you many times. I would have given him that opportunity to just go up and deliver a hit. It's a lot of fly balls, frankly, like I was, I was actually surprised that, that he didn't give Hagee that opportunity. I really was as much as, I mean, as much as Hagee's done for this team and how, how clutch he has been this season. But I also understand that. I understand in that situation right there, I got a chance. If they throw Donovan Solano, who's a good hitter, if they throw him a pitch to hit, this guy can rip an RBI single, a two RBI single with the best of them. So I kind of understand that. I like what he said. And also isn't, wasn't it nice to hear Mike, she'll be like, yeah, I mean, tough call. Like I got to make that call in real time. And that was a difficult one for me. And it's going to happen. It probably happens way more than we realize what a difficult call it is. But again, they, they came back, they won that game. But yeah, man, you leave, you leave six guys on in the late innings. You get a little bit nervous. That would have been, as I said, a really painful game to lose though, even though you had been down five nothing. Yeah. To have to come back, use all of your bullpen bullets. Yeah. Every single one of your high leverage relievers. To have so many chances with the bases, low to the bases, low to the Tigers really didn't have. Yeah, you're sick. Any chances, their best chance came in the 10th when they put a runner at second base automatically. They never really had those chances. And if you had lost that game, then go and now we've used all our bullpen guys. And then we're going into the final game of the series a little bit weakened and we've lost. That would have been rough, but you win the game. You made the Tigers use some of their bullpen guys. I don't want to see him. What the hell is Will? I don't know. I don't know how his ERA was over three either because I look at Eric and I go, oh, that guy is tough. Filthy. Filthy. We don't see him again. That was impressive in the eighth and the ninth, but obviously they had to bring in a different picture in the 10th. Absolutely. They kept a couple of their magic streaks going. People were mad that I even mentioned it during the game. He's smart enough. It's going to end at some point. It doesn't mean I can never mention it. Just smart enough about it. Should I not say it now? Can I say it now? Yes. Podrays are undefeated when Manny Machado gets at least two runs batted in. They're also undefeated when Tanner Scott enters a ballgame at all to pitch. That's a good point here. Both of those were on the line last night in the tie game. Yeah, and they came through again. I need money. His best part was Higgie was in the dugout going over the pitchers with Diaz instead of crying about not getting an AB. This is a very unselfish baseball team. That's one thing that we absolutely know. I was watching that scenario and Higgie's crouched right in front of Elias Diaz kind of showing him. All right. You hold your mid up and you show target. When they throw it, you want to catch it. He's not an emergency catcher. He's an All-Star last year. He's just showing him where Bobby likes the mid, Manny. Come on. He knows how to catch. He's showing him where Bobby wants it. He's done it before. Okay. This isn't Tyler Wade. He's strapped on the gear going into catch at the end of the game. Now that would be fun. He is our backup, backup, backup catcher. He is. That was great wishes he was, but it's Tyler Wade actually. All right. We'll come back. We'll have lots to get to including Enos Saris going to join us at our eight o'clock hour. Coming up here on 97-3 the fans. 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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Pretty good game to go to good seats. Absolutely nice seats. I'm Woodsie. That's Paul Rhindo, the executive producer. To my left is Benjamin Higgins, friendly neighborhood sports anchor. And we are both wearing Army Green today. We have the same brand that we shot. They don't own the color green. Just because they, the Army, decided to wear it. It doesn't mean the rest of us can't wear a light green earth tone from time to time. Tell our military that goes out and serves our country. We're not wearing camo. We're not wearing like logos of the military. We're just wearing a color that exists on the spectrum of color. That's true. That's true. What was I saying? You were talking about Welsh fryer. Oh, Welsh fryer. This kid. So we had Tom Purnell's name. Basically, here's what he is. He's a Welsh baseball fan. And I think he's one of three Welsh baseball fans that live in Wales. And he gets up early for games and stays up late for games. And all that. He's a huge potteries fan. Yeah, the CEO of the potteries, Eric Grutner, hooked him up last night. He had the best seats in the house, the owners box seats. I mean, they're right there on the on deck circle. I've gotten to sit there one time during the pandemic. They had the they had the plexiglass in front. It was still amazing. And then we sat there for like a couple of innings one time, which was like the greatest. It's the greatest view you'll ever have. And you can hear in the dugout. So he got the whole game and he was sitting there. He had his Welsh flag. I mean, it was really special night for that kid. I remember Jase Tingler staring at the back of my head because the manager is actually behind you when you're sitting in the seats. I looked over one time that when I was down there and Jase was before game and he had his head in his hands like like contemplating, you know, this that night's game. And I looked over and he saw me and gave me like a head nod. I gave him a head nod. I just looked away because I caught him in a reflective moment, but really nice night for Welsh last night. Dude, I mean, had a really, really great time and he'll be I think he's going down for batting practice again tomorrow. So double batting practice. The kid really has has announced his presence with authority here in America. And don't be surprised if he's running around the gas lamp here in about three years, because I think moving to San Diego is definitely on his Welsh bingo card. He wants to get here and great night for him. Great night for the guys. He got to see the game on Monday, Labor Day, which was a phenomenal, phenomenal win. And then he got to see the game last night. If I'm him, man, I've got to keep going back to the ballpark because every time he goes, something really magical happens. So yeah, that's true for a lot of people. The season. That's true. Yeah, that's true. I hope the street continues with your old pal horse tonight as I'm going out this evening. 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But I saw the, the hand clap and your feet bent saw me seeing him. And he's like, if I make the sound, he's going to go through a little bit. So you do the, just the. I wish I should have filmed it. Next time, Paulie, we got to remember to run tape. And we have security footage in there. And you listen to him. It's the thing that he does to me on the phone. Hello? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Jesus. Bye. And you hang up the phone. You're like four seconds. We were on the phone. I had three questions. You're the one who stares daggers at, at work meetings when someone asks you a question, right? You're my co-host. I call you on the phone. I want to have a nice relaxing conversation. I don't want to be like, Hey, man, we can do this tomorrow. Like it's so frantic. It's machine gun rapid fire. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Get up. Oh, man. It's genetic. I was talking about my dad earlier. There's no faster conversations than me and him. Have you ever heard a conversation between two people who want the conversation to be over as fast as possible? It's just a series of noises. Yeah. Less than 60 seconds every single time. I don't think we've ever had a phone conversation. It's got a full minute. Do you ever go to lunch with your dad? No. Never. Be very fast. You just sit there and eat. No one says anything. Just. But we both have been, we both be really happy and enjoyed it and that would be it. Is your dad that way with just you or is he that way with everyone? Oh, I think we're both that way kind of with everyone. It is so good, man. So, so good. I love it. Well, you're a gem and I'm glad you learned a lot. You're doing great, Ben. We learned that. Name check. It'll name check more, Ben. If you are a, you're also a gem. Great idea, Woods. You're also a gem and you're very entertaining. You've got lots of impressions and voices that you do. I don't have my favorite action. have many at all. Here we go. But I tried one and our throwback Thursday clip. We will revisit Ben's impression. Not accent. We've done accents. Yeah. This is Ben's impression. Polly will cue that. Five years ago. Five years ago. Five years ago. Get to that coming up next. Ben and Spanish. If you were Spanish. C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C. Amazing. I'd be good. They'd talk fast in Spanish. A lot of words. Very quickly. It's coming up next after traffic here on 97.3. The fam. Breaking sports news while we were gone. Before we get to our throwback Thursday. This is not just big news here in San Diego. It is. But also nationally and internationally as well in just the last couple of minutes. Soccer superstar Alex Morgan of the San Diego wave has announced her retirement from the sport. Wow. Damn. Her final game will be this Sunday. September 8th. It's North Carolina courage. That's it. That's it for Alex Morgan. Seems like it's out of the blue. Obviously, it's been a tough season for the wave and in particular a tough season for Alex Morgan who has not scored a single goal. I really hope she gets one in the last game. She is scoreless this season for the wave. But I had no idea that this was coming imminently. Obviously, she's at the end of what has been a fantastic soccer career both domestically and internationally gold medal winning. Two-time World Cup champion and gold medal winner. That's a that's a hell of a career. But we'll have more audio for you in the round report in our nine o'clock hour of some of Alex's words. But she has made San Diego her home. She came to the wave embraced San Diego, started her foundation, has already done a ton for the community and this is big news in the soccer world that just broke moments ago. Alex Morgan announcing her retirement from soccer. So our last game this Sunday, September 8th. All right. That's going to probably pull from our attendance at the tier one baseball game, Polly. Do you think? Yeah. I think a lot of people are there to get good attendance. But it's going to pull from our attendance at five o'clock. See, you can catch both. Our attendance. Oh, you are hoping for a big crowd and your personal adult league baseball game. Correct. Five p.m. That's plenty of time to come catch a tier one dub up an S indeed one o'clock and then straight on double head or 20 minutes down the 15, get you to snap track. It's also a pot raise game. One o'clock on Sundays. All right. Give me a hot one. Congratulations. It's going to be very tough to get to all three of those games. Congratulations on a brilliant career. All right, Polly, set the scene for us. So this was five years ago. So right at the start of another football season. Yeah, five years ago. Yeah. What were we talking about? We're getting ready for kickoff and we had only been here a couple of months. And all the title of this clip is is Ben does a woods impression. I don't know that I need to set it up anymore than I just did a bad impression. So I was literally driving in listening to you thinking you're going to be fun to do. I think some context there context there. When we started here at 97 3, we were not six to 10. We were from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. Yep. That almost forgotten old Elton John over here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Showed up at 5 30 every day. So I didn't get home from channel 10 until after midnight. I did not fall asleep until one. Yes. And getting up and getting here by 5 a.m. was just too much. Just too much for me. So I pull in around 5 25 or so. Yeah. We were here at four. We started the show at five. We did at least two segments before Ben ever, which was great. I loved it. I'm going to start showing up just for Potter's rap. I'd like to do it again. So that's why Ben was listening to our show while driving in. Correct. I was literally driving in listening to you thinking you're going to be fun to do today. What? We go division by division and then woods goes. You know what we don't do on this show is we all go division by division and pick our NFL winners and we're good, but that's fun. I like doing that. Did you just do an imitation of me, by the way? We don't do NFL division by division. We're different. I mean, we're not revolutionary or anything, but we don't go division by division and pick winners. We just don't do that here. I mean, we have and it's lame. It's lame. I'm trying to avoid. It's the first day of the NFL season. What if people don't care what we think? You want to be on record? Yes, they do. They kind of do. They don't care. They shouldn't, but they do. They don't care. Do we? Are we in agreement on this now? Finally? Do you finally? You hear our NFL preview yesterday? Give your Super Bowl champion. We literally took 14 seconds on our NFL season preview. We knew our first NFL threesome coming up. We're going to do that a little bit differently this year as well. I like how he's coming up at 9.20 this morning. So when I started and I didn't have it, but I thought in the second part of the clip, I kind of nailed it. I mean, did you just do an imitation of me, by the way? We don't do NFL division by division. We're different. I mean, we're not revolutionary or anything, but we don't go division by division and pick winners. We just don't do that here. I don't talk like this. We don't do that here. Sounds identical. You sound like a like a nine or 10 year old boy that thinks he's older. Yes. Hey, can I borrow a razor? I got to shave one hair off my face. Hey, dad. Let me get the remote dad. What's for dinner? Hey, dad. I can't find my deodorant. Did you steal it? Because I use deodorant. Yeah, I would deodorant by division. We're different. I mean, we're not revolutionary or anything, but we don't go division by division. I mean, today is that day. If you want to do it, we're not doing it. I know. We have a five or not doing it. Jay, six, one nine says, I thought that was woods actually. That's exactly. I was, I was nailed it. Nailed it. I don't think you did. Of course, is one of the only reason we're here is because we care what you guys say. All right, fair enough. Speaking of football season, it also means a whole new list of promos for our, our imaging director at the station to handle. That also happens to be Paul Reindel, not just the executive producer of this show, but he's also the imaging director for 97.3, the fan. So all the great promos that you hear during our breaks, our rejoins coming back into segments, going into traffic. Polly's responsible for putting all those together with, you know, the music and the different. Jared Goff and the Lions host Matthew Stafford on the Rams on Sunday night football in a game that should feature tons of scoring. Our coverage begins Sunday following the Padres Giants game. The NFL plays here on 97.3, the fan. Yeah, that's our voice guy. What's his name? Do we know? The voice of God. He's our voice guy. He works in some studio somewhere and Polly sends him the scripts. Do you write the scripts or does Adam write the scripts? Adam usually writes them and then he sends them over to me. The voice guy sends a file over to me and sometimes he'll read the full script. Sometimes it's just a bunch of parts. Yeah. Can I save? You know, Sunday at 4.30. That's going to be used a ton. Sure. So I'll just save those and then I have them to name it John Riley. Adam says John Riley. John Riley isn't going to blast it out though. Now, now all of a sudden these anonymity has been exposed. John Riley's life on Sea Riley will never be the same again. And John's great. We've played some clips from him before for whatever reason. It's kind of like how if you say something woods, it's not that funny. If Ben says the same exact thing, it's the funniest thing we've ever heard. Correct. When the voice of God, the station voice guy is not talking necessarily in promo mode and he's curses. It's amazing. He's a bit master. He kills me every time. I'm getting it from all angles now because I got you guys who takes you five minutes to record a 30 second spot when we have to record those after the show. More woods than any of them. It's now right. Oh my God. Oh my God. Ben, three, two, one. I've got much better. Hey, it's Ben here. Hey, Ben, I guess you found one. All right, three, two, one. And I'm just sitting there. I'm like, read it. Paulie's rotting. Paulie's rotting in here on a Friday. So I deal with you guys at least two or three times a week and then I'm doing production all week because it's the NFL season. We got several games that you'll be hearing about Sunday night, Monday night football. And John has caught whatever bug you guys caught because listen to how hard it was for him to just read one. By the way, 15 second line. All right, there we go. Jared Goff and Jared Goff and the Lions host Matthew Stafford and the Rams Sunday off. Jared Goff and the Lions host Matthew Stafford and the Rams on Sunday night football in a game that should feature two tons. What the **** am I reading? Sorry. English would be good. English would be a good language to speak. Bear with me a second. Jared's host Matthew Stafford on the Rams Sunday night. Well, Jared Goff and the Lions host Matthew Stafford on the Rams on Sunday night football in a game that should feature tons of scoring. Our coverage. The NFL plays our coverage begins Sunday at 4 30. The NFL. Nope. Could you tell I **** out. Our coverage begins Sunday at 4 30. The NFL plays here on. The NFL plays here on San Diego's number one sports station. 97 3 the fan. So good. He was scuttling. Everyone and Polly. I don't know if you call it. Everyone is dying to replay when Annie joined the station and we had to get the last name. Hiled you up of Annie and he hiled. Hiled. He had a lot of trouble with that one. He is fantastic. And I love that he does the bits and doesn't just send over it clean. Now it sucks for Polly. At least we get to play it on the air. We do the next day. It's always good. And we will also get to hear one of his legendary flubs intro to our next segment when Eno Sarris joins us for the smart baseball segment, which is coming up next. And Polly will maybe later in the show. I got it ready. Yeah. Annie Halberin as well. So stick around for that. If everyone remembers it. They're they're asking for it. We will deliver a little bit later, but Eno is coming up next. Well, Harris. No, Sarah get a join us next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three the fan. From the mind of a two foot tall talking spokes puppet comes this year's biggest challenge. It's time for Bob's dare to compare the hottest game show on TV that asks what happens when you compare Bob's to the competition. You get style. You get quality. 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We're going to ask him about Ben Joyce's extra velocity. For the Los Angeles Angels coming up. Our smart baseball segment Eno is standing by. Don't forget we got Eno open too. Right after this check of traffic on 97.3 of the fam. It's time for the super polish. Just to be named smart baseball weekly segment with Eno Harris. Sarah's son of a bitch. Brought to you by seven mile casino. Just seven minutes from the ballpark. Welcome to the Bay in Chula Vista. Here's Eno Harris with Ben in Woods on 97.3. The fan. Another flub from the great John Riley there on Eno's open as we welcome him. The segment brought to you by seven mile casino. Eno from the athletic. Good morning to you. Good morning to you. It's just the Padres world and we're all living in it. I'm telling you man, there's no shortage of exciting moments of Petco Park. Yeah, I kept thinking to be Jackson money. Merrill last night and and then said Fernando touch. He's re announced this is a surprise. Yeah. Surprise. He's back and then surprise. My shirt came off in the celebration. Oh, this happened again. We're based on the east coast that woke up and go. Oh, son of a bitch. He's back. Yeah, he's back. They got even better. Yeah. He hit the ball really hard a couple times before that last hit. Scorched it. And so I kept feeling like, okay, you know, this is, he's starting to get back. You know, what you're, what you're seeing, I think the interesting with the teeth and you saw it with Julio Rodriguez and a couple other guys is not so much of a, of a, like a rehab stint in the minors. And just the idea, maybe that, you know, what's like getting your timing back against inferior opponents. Finally, it's like, you know, you're still going to come up and still have an adjustment period in the major league when you get back up because everyone throws the ball harder and, and locates better. You know, why not just have that adjustment period in the major league and the question is like, is a rehab, like, is a rehab stint from NFCT is better than like, you know, having as a part in the lineup. And, you know, the answers, I think, are resounding. You know, early in the game, the storyline was the return of you, Darvish. And obviously it didn't go completely smoothly. Command seemed to be a little off of what if you had a chance saw about his stuff in the game yesterday. I thought, I thought, you know, 11 swing and miss. So, I mean, still seem to have some of the classic, you Darvish repertoire. Yeah, I thought he looked all right. You know, getting the cobwebs off himself, you know, and I think, I think it'll be okay. The, the, the, the thing that I see with him is the command wasn't all the way back. You know, in terms of the stuff metrics, they're all there. He's got the great breaking balls. The fastball still performs really well. He doesn't use it as often. But he had, you know, I have a number also. We don't talk about as much called location flux, which is the, you know, count and pitch type adjusted the locations of the plate. And he had a really poor number there. So, I think that's just, you know, getting back on the mound and, and that's, that's the sort of rusty you'll see with pitchers. Talking to our pal, you know, Sarah's from the Athletic here on Ben Woods this morning. And I want to get to your piece that you wrote. I'm fascinated with it about starting pitchers that have switched teams. But quickly, I wanted to ask you, I mean, unless you're a Dodgers broadcaster, you were pretty amazed by what Ben Joyce was able to do the other night. The fastest pitch in the Statcast era, 105.5 is pretty astounding to think about. I've watched him pitch. It's, it's a marvel. I mean, it's, it's just insane to watch the velocity that this kid has. And I wasn't he throwing like 103 in college? So I don't know why everyone was. No, he had a, he had 105 plus in college too. He had the record for the fastest pitch in Division I. It's just insane. There's a, you know, it's just, there's so many ways I can think about it. I mean, one, you know, people are like, why isn't struck out right better? Well, because shape matters. And he has kind of more of a synchronous shape on his fastball than a, than a foreseen shape. You know, so that, that, that explains some of it. But he will never give up tons of homers. You know, you throw 106 with a sinker. You know, yes, you might give up some hits, but you're never going to go to homers. Another thing I think of is people like to say, oh, well, we measure things differently and guys used to throw it hard. And one thing I will say is that the maximum velocity where he's throwing 105, five, Chapman's been right there. Other people have been right there. We haven't blown, nobody's gotten a 106 plus, 106.0 plus, you know. And since the maximum hasn't changed since we've been doing it, I'm pretty sure that there were guys back in the day, maybe a Nolan Ryan, maybe a Walter Johnson, maybe any of these guys. I bet you there were guys back in the day that threw 100 plus. Because the maximum hasn't changed that much. So there were, there were guys. What we have seen, and I, and I just can't, I don't get how people can't see this, is the, the, the, like, fifth starter, you know, like the, the fifth reliever. The guys that used to throw 85, 87, they all throw 93 to 95 now. And that's the price of admission in baseball now. And people say, oh, we measure things differently than this and that and the other. We have not made change anything about the technology or how we measure things from 2020. And the amount of 95 mile an hour fastball has gone from like 18% to like 38% in four years. So I'm sorry. You cannot tell me the velocity is not, is not up in the day. I'm sorry. It's like maybe the very top throwers threw hard. So those are all the kind of things that I think of when I see that. I also wonder what they're going to take to get past 106. You know, robot, ligaments, you know, some, some Giannis type guy out there. You know, some, it's a huge guy that's even bigger than Chapman. I just wonder, I wonder how we get past 106. When the price of admission goes up even higher to like the mid 90s and everyone. I mean, it has gone up like, you know, 10% in our lifetime, you know, can hitters keep up at some point? Is there a limitation of human reaction that they're no longer at 60 feet, six inches going to be able to hit the ball with any regularity? I think we've seen hitters do a couple of adjustments. If you've looked around and I'm sorry, Dennis Lynn. We're still going to write this piece. But we've been looking at how you think about it, other than like conversano who we love and is part of this piece is the way hitters hit has become more uniform. You know, no longer have Craig Council, you know, opening up an umbrella in a phone. You know, like you don't have Tony Batista with the like crazy wide open stance. The old crazy stances are gone. The reason is you have no time. You know, there's no time to be wasted. So when I talk to hitters, a lot of times, hitters that have taken a big step for, they say, oh, I cleaned this up in the back. You know, I got tighter in the back. I had less movement in the back. And so hitters have become more uniform because they don't have any time. They have to react. Another thing that I think of is that I think that, you know, the value of. I'm going to say guessing, but anticipating scouring reports and anticipating that has, and then using something like a project, which is this new hitting machine that basically shows you like the way that they, there's like a hologram of the pitcher who's pitching that night delivering you the ball. And so you can kind of get the whole delivery queue and everything. So all that value goes up because you have to, in order to hit 99 and also the 90-mile hour slider, I think you have to do some measure of anticipation. Some people call it guessing, but that has a really negative connotation to it. I would say anticipating the pitch. So those are two things that I think hitters have done. Since the maximum hasn't changed that much, I do have some confidence they can continue to do so because they have improved. You know, this is enough to debate. Are hitters any better today? A lot of people say no. I say they've improved. And I think they've stuck with it. I do wonder what happens if we break past 106. And I am somewhat of a component of moving the mound back to reduce some of that. Yeah, I think I'd be all for that. I think most hitters would be at any level, you know. It makes me, when I hear, you know, guys throwing 105, I think to myself, should I just get kids into different sports right now? It's hard to comprehend, you know, it's hard to comprehend the mind going there. But I want to talk about your piece that you just posted in the athletic about. Well, one other thing. Oh, yeah, go ahead. Just real quick on that one. Because my kid's a little small and like he's going to be, you know, developing later, like I did. I was puberty in high school, dude. That's one of those guys. I grew a foot in high school. And then Joyce is the same guy. Wow. It's so small that he couldn't make his high school team until senior year. By the time he'd grown a little bit more and he grew in college some more. So, you know, some of the, that's something that happens. You look around little league right now, the guys who developed earlier are dominating. There are guys on that field that are smaller that are going to be pros and you just don't know it yet. It's so good. Yeah. I mean, it's all about kind of the heart and how much you put in the work, certainly. But then Joyce has a twin brother who throws 97 at top. Good God. What are you feeding those kids? It's the tall desire, but it's the desire. The desire. Yeah. Your brother. And he said all of life, he just wanted to throw his heart as possible. Sorry, I cut you off. No, no, I wanted to, I wanted to ask you about your piece and I love this. It's in the athletic and it's talking about it's the starters who change teams at the deadline and then altered the way they pitch. You started off by saying as a pitching coach, it's an exciting proposition. You get a majorly quality starting pitcher who's been in a different organization. Then you get to get your hands in the dough, so to speak. And you go, I'm watching your starts. I'm watching your pitch mix. It's all wrong. We need to do it this way. And then you obviously need buy-in from that pitcher. He's been traded to your team. You mentioned Kakuchi for the Astros is one that's changed in Montas, Aaron Savale as well. Walk us through kind of what got you started on this. What organizations do the best at honing or maybe changing what a pitcher does? Yeah, I mean, I think the brewers are actually a really good example of this. I mean, one thing that's cool with what they've done with Frankie Montas and Aaron Savale is they've revisited things that those guys have done in the past. So they're not having the pitcher arrive and they'll be like, "Hey, we're going to have you throw a change up you've never thrown before." We were looking at your pitches and with Savale they're like, "Hey, you used to have a slider. We want to bring the slider back with a slight little tweak so that it's more different than your sweeper." And that's what he's doing now. So he's a weird guy because the cutter is a fastball and his sweeper is a slider. So now this harder slider he's throwing is his cutter. So it's that bridge pitch that kind of makes him kind of go short. He has the short cutter, the little bit longer gyro slider, and then even longer sweeper. So he's short, medium, long. And that makes it hard for anybody to kind of be like, "Oh, this is the sweeper. That's the cutter." And so something he'd done before, but they had a little tweak on it. With Montas, it started in Oakland here. He started throwing his slider harder. And the Milwaukee is basically said for the first time, "Hey, don't even worry about the regular slider anymore. The one that you came up with, the one that you think is really good." Don't worry about that. The cutter that you've been throwing 90 miles an hour, that's the better pitch. And so they just actually had him sort of turf, a pitch that you've been pitching forever. I like that because it's within what they've done before and it's really good. But yeah, so I think the brewers are good at this thing. One guy that I missed, and I should have put on there. Tonight's starting, correct. Yeah, I was going to ask you about that. It was just like, you know, I got into it with like, "Oh, these guys really stood out." And to some extent, it's a bias on my part that I'm not sure it can continue at this level from Martin, but he has tripled his curveball usage, like tripled. And it's kind of amazing because that's never what you think of with Martin Perez. Martin Perez, in the past, has done little things where he's like, "Oh, I'm going to try this now. I'm going to try this now." And he's had little burst of success. He had some real good success in Texas. But usually what he does is up the cutter usage. That's what he did in Texas. And then he's up the change of usage over his career. This is the first time he's throwing the curveball 27% of the time. He's throwing it 10% of the time in Pittsburgh, and his previous high was 12 in his rookie season. So this is a whole new look for him where he's kind of a four-pitched 25%, 25%, 25% guy where a cutter, sinker, curve, change. And I love it when I see those percentages line up that way because I think when you are truly random like that, and they can't, what I was talking about earlier, about anticipating, they can't really anticipate on him. Because now it could be any of those four pitches at any time. He just needs to find the zone. I mean, he just lost the zone the last couple of outings. But he was so sharp his first guy. There has been some discussion that he actually started it like the last couple of starts in Pittsburgh before switching organizations, but clearly Ruben Evila. Now he's a maximum repertoire guy. He's tried to add a pitch to just about everybody. I mean, the New Darv issue already has 11 of them. But he tries to add pitches to most guys' repertoires when they get here. Now it's usually an off-season sort of thing, but even in season, you know, Joe Musgrove has changed his, even this year, it doesn't ever stop. Joe Musgrove, the new slider is a great example. I cannot tell you how much I love Ruben Evila. I have never told him this. I wish I need to find him and tell him because I think he is the best pitching coaching baseball. And I just, I think that that has, that reputation has followed him. I've had other people tell me that, that about him, and I think it's great. One thing I saw, I was at a conference. They showed that if you add a pitch that's very different than your other pitches, it adds value to your arsenal. But one thing that it does is that pitch that is very different won't get swings. So it becomes very important that you command it. So it's interesting you're talking about Martin Perez really upping the curveball usage. It's really important that he commands it because it's different than his other pitches. If a hitter sees that different pitch, they're more likely to not swing. So what he needs to do is throw that curveball in his own. That's so good. Ruben's pretty good tier ones. So you may have just told him. So there you go. Eno, appreciate it. We'll talk to you next week. Thank you so much. Thank you brother. Alright, thanks guys. Smart baseball with Eno Saris, brought to you by Seven Mile Casino. Really good stuff. As always, your new man crush coming up next. Yes, Trevor Plough. Trevor Plough! Excited. Coming up next on San Diego's number one sports station. Ninety-seven three, the fan. [Music] This dude, Eno Saris just called Ruben the Able of the best pitching coach in baseball here on Ben & Woods. And he's heard it from so many former students of Ruben the Able. What a G, he has a better human being. It really was a coup for AJ Preller to pluck him from the Cleveland Guardians organization and bring him to San Diego. What was that two years ago when he did that? Two or three. Maybe three. It certainly had a major impact on the Padres organization. You could just tell the difference. Almost what he's brought. Yeah. Just about everybody. It's in 2020, no. It was not long ago. It was that long ago. Not quite that long ago. But however long it's been. Lifetime contract for Ruben. I mean, you leave when you want to. Does he want to be a manager next to that? I don't know. Pitching coaches not often, you know, Bud Black did it, but it's usually not the career path to being a manager. I just figure, like, you're so good. You're so good at what you do. Like, you're just like the best at what you do. I don't know. Obviously helped that he's from this area and got to come home. I have always wondered though, if he has a higher aspirations, be a manager because, I mean, I would sign up for that right away. I think our next guest could manage if he wanted to. I agree. I absolutely do. And our next guest is going to be in town this weekend with several former big leaguers. You'd recognize some of the names like LaTroy Hawkins, Kenny Lofton, Jack Jones, Randy Wolf, Steve Traxel, Charles Nagy, and joining us right now. You've seen him on the Chris Rose rotation. He is Woods' man crush. A little bit. A little bit. He's with us here on 97-3. The fan Trevor, it is good to have you on the show. We've been talking about you for a while. Now we got you here. What's up, guys? You got a crush on me, okay? A little bit. Yeah, a little bit. And it's, you know, partly because you're very handsome. But the other part is that I like your, your measured takes a lot. And I like, you know, I do. I think, you know, we live in San Diego. And there's been some, there's some doomer activity that happens. And there's been some epic once in a lifetime collapses. But when we watch this Padres team every, every day, it's hard for me to find things to doom about right now. I mean, they're really clicking on all cylinders. And it's been such a joy to watch. And I just, I like your measured takes about, you know, the season length and what guys are going through. It just makes sense in my head. Yeah, I think that it's not fun to talk about, hey, man, it's 162 game season. So you're going to go through these streaks where you play bad ball. You're going to go through these streaks where you play good ball. But it's the truth. Yeah. I mean, that's why people fall in love with the game baseball. At least one of the reasons is that it is a 162 game season. It's a marathon that the good teams do rise to the top by the end of it. So, you know, whenever I see, yeah, like you mentioned, I didn't know what you were doing, but now I understand. Yeah. When I see like kind of like doom takes or people on the flip side, just getting so crazy about a team getting off to a fast 30, 40 game start. I'm like, dude, this is, this is a long season. We got to let things play out. And I think that works on the individual level as well. But yeah, I, I tend to have that perspective because, no, I lived it. I guess. I don't know. Trevor Plouffe is going to be in town for the still got game foundations of free youth baseball and softball clinic. We'll talk about that in a second, but I did hear you mentioned that you're going to get out to Peko Park while you're here as well. You know, I don't know if I'm going to get out to Peko Park. I've been down there quite a bit this season, whether it was for calling games for the twins or also took my youth team down there. And they're the SoCal Padres. They're in Los Angeles, walk around with a brown and yellow on and just getting absolutely chastised everywhere they go. So you want to make sure that they don't. They say that sounds dangerous. I'm serious. Yeah. Yeah. They're nine years, they're nine years old. So, you know, watch out, but we brought them down to Peko. Got them batting practice tickets. The guys are really cool. Came out and said hi to them. So it was awesome to see them getting that love because they really, they just don't get that here in Los Angeles. So I don't know if I'm going to get out to Peko this week. But you saw them recently down there a lot. And I love, love that station. That is, I think it's the best stadium in all the big, these guys. Pandering will get you everywhere. So my question, though, was having seen them recently. How excited should we be as Padres fans with this team right now? I think as excited as excited as you can be for a team right now because I mean, tell me, I guess where the holes are at. I don't know. You get cut teeth back. The lineup was already pretty long. Any team that has a chance and really as a complete team has kind of like surprise people showing up for them, which I got to say, you know, Jackson Merrill has been a surprise. Obviously a rookie changing positions. Doing what he's done has been awesome. Jerkson Profar has been a surprise. You sign up for a million dollars. He was an all star. I know the numbers have taken a hit. It's still overall. It's been great. And then what I like most is, you know, not sitting idly at the trade guideline. The back end of the bullpen, the bullpen in general is just absolutely incredible and can put out fires whenever need be and there's enough high leverage guys. I just think there isn't a spot that you can point to and say the Padres are deficient here. Except, I guess, which is kind of crazy to say shortstop. A team full of shortstop. I always say that. How do you guys have like a real shortstop? I would say it too. All the time. Yeah. I just think that they're one of the most complete teams in all of baseball. Yeah, it feels that way, certainly. And then the ability Trevor to come back, you know, last night, five, nothing. Last year, I'm probably with what we went through watching this team. I'm probably turning the game off and I covered the team for a living. I was so mad. The majority of labs, just an angry bidder. Like, this was supposed to be a hundred plus win team. We're not going to get close. We're not even going to make the playoffs. Now, five, nothing. My kids asked me to read them a story. I'm like, yeah, we got time. And I just know they're like, they're like an NBA team for me. I can put on the last 20 minutes of the game and like, see the best parts of it with this team. And you can't quantify it, but it's a real thing. They keep doing it. Yeah, you know, I don't, I think I'll probably get flagged for this just because of, you know, the guys, the baseball now. But I think they score in so many different ways. Obviously, the bullpen is a big part of that. If you have guys that can shut the game down and shut the other team down later in the game from scoring runs, it gives you a chance to catch up. I love that, you know, you see. Oh, no, did we lose him? Oh, we lost him. Then obviously, guys, they can click for a three-run homer. Like being able to do all those different things that allows you to score in, you know, in a plethora of different ways. And I think that's why you're seeing them, you know, being able to score runs late in the game and continuously being able to put up cricket numbers. I love teams that do that, they put pressure on that they're not all about the three-run homer. Like they're willing to move guys over, sacrifice the bats, whatever it may be. Like just being able to play different types of baseball, I think, is important. And I think it's been lost a little bit in the data generation, but they... Padres have it, man. They really do. You know, and it's funny because every year we get to the playoffs, and it was kind of like, it's not just my thing. It's a lot of people's thing, they're like, the team that has the ability to hit the ball out of the ballpark, those are the scary teams. You're going against the cream of the crop. Now, the Padres, it's not like they don't hit home runs. They do, but they don't have the 40-45 homerun masher in the middle of the lineup. They just got a bunch of guys that can hit 15-20 home runs. When you look at how the game is being played by them, do you look at them as a viable option in the playoffs with the way their offense is structured? I do. I mean, like you said, it doesn't really matter how many home runs you hit in the regular season. I understand the homerun rate is part of that, but I think my piece is probably... I know over the last couple years it hasn't been that, but he's... In my opinion, he'll get back to being that 40 homerun guy. So you have him back at the lineup. I don't know, man. I do think... Oh, no. One of those high leverage arms. I don't know what you guys consider a high leverage arm down there, but I would say... I would consider you guys a five guys in the bullpen that can come and get big outs whenever you need them. And that is just so, so important when it comes to the playoffs. And then, put on top of that, you have a true ace in Dylan's seat. And I don't know that the recipe is there for big time. Because you cut out a couple of times, I want to make sure we tell everybody why you're coming to town. Because this is a really cool event. Trevor, what is the still-got-game foundation? And then the youth clinic that's going to be offered this Saturday at Sunshine Little League, which is right by Channel 10. I go by it every single day. Who is it of open to? And what are you guys going to be doing here this weekend? It's open to anyone, so it's a free baseball for disadvantaged youth. You mentioned it's at Sunshine Little League, 10, 15 to 12, 45. It's going to be a bunch of digits out there kind of, you know, playing baseball and having different opinions out there. We have some pitchers, we have some outfielders, we have some infielders. It's just the time for us to come and share some of the knowledge with everybody. And the still-got-game foundation is awesome. I kind of found myself doing more and more with them over the last couple of years. But it's a foundation founded by, you know, guys like Tangerfy Jr, Tori Hunter, Kenny Lofton, Steve Trexel. There's a couple of reasons I like doing events with them. I think the game of baseball is better or at its best when you draw from all different types of life. Whether that's different nations, whether that's different backgrounds here in the U.S. And that's kind of one of the main focuses is making sure that everyone, you know, either has gear or the proper coaching. You know, no matter your income level or where you come from. So that's a big plus for me. And then another part of the foundation is providing financial literacy to like young adults, which I think is hugely missing in like our education world. You know, ASCA, a high schooler about taxes or how to, I guess, writing a check doesn't really make sense anymore. But the common financial literacy that you need to become an adult just doesn't really get taught in our school. So I think that's something that is the focus of the organization that I truly believe in as well. So I love it. Come out. Come hang with us. It's a fun group of guys. We have a good time whenever we get together. And there is, I mean, I'm low on the totem pole as far as being the experience and prowess. So come check those guys out. ASCA radio host about taxes and how it works. No idea. Probably not going to get a good answer for monsters. I still don't know what a deductible is for insurance. I don't even know what it means. I'm telling you, man. I have no idea. My education system. I don't get it, dude. I don't know why they don't do it, but they don't. What's deductible? I have no idea. What's that mean? How much do I have to pay? Tell me what I need to do. Man. Thanks so much. I love your work with Chris Rose. He's also one of our favorite guests. Tell Rosie we say hi and hope to talk to you again real soon, man. Well, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me on, guys. Trevor Plouff. And again, if you've got a youth aged 8 to 14, and again, this is targeted toward, you know, disadvantaged. It's, you know, by Channel 10, it's kind of a more of a disadvantaged area. But if this is appropriate, you should take your kid out and meet these big league players who are going to offer their instruction and experience registration. You just show up Saturday, this Saturday, September 7th at 10 a.m., Sunshine Little League, which is at Federal Boulevard. It's 4402 Federal Boulevard, kind of right off the 94 freeway there, and going to be out there for like two and a half hours, just getting some big league experience and hearing from some of these big leagues. I'm telling you, man, the kids love talking to big leaguers and ex-big league. I mean, Bo was so excited. He got to meet Kurt Bavakwa. He was like, "Ah, I met Kurt Bavakwa, memory," and he asked him if he played with Babe Ruth. And I'm like, "Yeah, I mean, Kurt Bavakwa, we played a long time ago." It's a long time ago. So the funny thing that he mentioned was the fact that he runs a team, the SoCal Padres, but they're based out of L.A. and they get worn out. And it's funny because I think we should stop doing that. Like let's stoke the provincialism and there's, Bo, there's a little league where he plays, and it's a little league, and there's a team called the Dodgers, and they're in full gear, and he goes, "I will not play for them." And I go, "What if that's the team we're assigned or you're assigned?" He goes, "I'm not playing." His soccer team, his game star is Saturday. They're the royals, and they are in Royal Blue. He's sick. He's sick, and I can't tell him it's the royals. You're not playing on the Dodgers. He's like, "I don't even want to wear it." And it's interesting, when I was a kid, growing up in Seattle, no teams were the Mariners. No teams were the Mariners. And we didn't have the Padres when I was growing up either. Every team was a Major League team. But not Cubs. Angels. Rangers. Where's the Pirates? I was a Pirate too. I think they just thought too many coaches maybe even might fight over who's going to be the Mariners that year. I was the Cobra. But down here, everybody's the Padres. Well, I am seen for a little league. They're opening day. They're going to read like a hundred team names. It's 90% of them are Padres related. Manny's Mashers. Well, it was genius because the Padres several years ago started providing different little league jerseys for leagues. And they'd be different eras, like the '80s Padres and the '90s Padres and the Brown and Gold Padres. So you have several different Padres teams all with different colors, but they're all the Padres. And why wouldn't you do that? That gets every kid in your town excited about your team rather than wearing the colors of other teams. It's hysterical. Like he just was like, wait, what are we? What colors are Jersey? Like it's Royal Blue. He's like, you're fine, you're fine. But if he got on in Anthony's little league and there's a full there and full Dodgers gear, you know, full up. If I was the coach, I got to rock a dot like it would be terrible. So we, I got to pick this year. We start our first practices on for Fall Ball is on Sunday and we're the Bulls again, the Durham Bulls. So we love that. Monterly. Yeah. Monterly always works. All right. When we come back, it is back. Our football threesome. I'm going to do it a little differently this year, but we're going to have obviously a look ahead to tonight's opener, big game, games to watch and our best bets for the week all coming up next. Yeah. Football talk. Really. Here on Sandy. It goes number one sports station. 97 three, the fan got some tickets for the Aztecs Oregon state game to give away. The B later this segment, the beavers are coming to town. They like to see the beavers. You'll be able to see the beavers on Saturday. Absolute pervert. Got a good friend who's big, big beaver fan. Oh, well, also an alum of our state of those friends. Is that the greatest line in movie history? Frank Dreben and Nicky gun. Nice beaver. Is that the greatest line in movie has probably hands it down for me. Can you pull please quickly? Pull it, clip it and let's hear it. Kill me. We used to play it on our bit. The very first show I did all the time. We can do it while we were getting into our very first 2024 football threesome. Here we go. Can Ben and Woods interest you in a threesome? A threesome would be fun. Oh, not that kind of threesome. Dang it. We're talking and around the best tight ends in the world. He must work out. And going all the way in this game of inches. Nice. It's the NFL threesome with Ben and Woods. We're on to you by Hamou Casino, fun above all else on 97 three, the fan. Personal fire. 69 offense. He was giving them the business. That's a real call. We've gone beyond double entendres. That was not AI reference. No, no, we are. We're up to triple and quadruple entendres on this show. Indeed. All right. It's the football threesome. And here's how we're going to do it this year on Thursdays. We're going to just focus in on the weekend that is upcoming in the National Football League. And we'll start with Thursday night football, which this week happens to be. Question. What? Isn't that what most shows do? I don't know. Last year we did like headlines, like news stories, but we've got other places. If there's big news, we'll just get to it, but we're just going to focus in on the weekend. And tonight's Thursday night football, of course, is the season opener, 5 20 p.m., NBC Thursday night football, the Baltimore Ravens, not only featuring the reigning MVP of the National Football League Lamar Jackson, but their new running back one. Derek Henry, remember switch teams in the off season taking on the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, the Chiefs three point favorites in the game at Arrowhead Stadium tonight. But remember, they lost as the defending Super Bowl champions in the season opener last year to the surprising Detroit Lions. Paulie, Paulie goes, I had my betting side open and I just was, Oh, hell yeah. She's going to win this game. He goes, Hey, they lost last year and you had them as your survivor pick and you were out after week one day one day one day one day. So I went and I went ahead and even make it to Sunday, I was like, it was done on Friday. I was like, here's my $40. Can I gree up please and then I was out after like the next week then Ben lost like a week or two later. I did. Yeah, we had to start over. We had to start over. So stupid. Are we doing it again? Yeah, they lost 21 to 20. The Detroit opening night. It was a nightmare. Dude, I don't, I don't think that I mean the Chiefs aren't going to want to lose twice in a row on opening night. I took the points, man. I took the Ravens and the points based on just last year's experience of, you know, maybe a little bit of a slow start for the, you know, that Super Bowl hangover, but it hasn't affected them. They've won two straight. So what a great Thursday night game and maybe for once I'll now be at the Padres game. So maybe they'll have it on where I can watch a little bit of it, but I'm going to be locked and I'm marching for whatever, whatever happens tonight. Don't over react to chase loss last year. They still won the Super Bowl, Baltimore could lose. They could still go on and win the Super Bowl. They're certainly one of the teams that is expected to be contenders in the AFC. So the NFL surprise, surprise has picked a pretty good, interesting opener for tonight's game. Yeah. Now, I, you know, I have a lot of gripes with the NFL just morally, but my God, they get it right. The broadcast, the broadcasts are great, red zone is, is undefeated and you look at these matchups and you're just like, yeah, I'm in. Okay. You got me. Tomorrow's game in Brazil's looking like a fun one, uh, Green Bay versus Philadelphia. That's part two of our football threesome is what game are you circling? The rest of the week is the one that's most interesting. I was going to pick that one, Paulie, the, the game in Brazil tomorrow. It's the Packers versus the Eagles. This is the first time that a game will be played in South America. I know they're, I don't want to say they're running into problems, but they've, I saw a story. They're like telling players, just don't leave the hotel essentially, Sao Paulo is not the safest place, the places and they don't want any incidents. So they basically just sequestering them in the hotel, which I smart to play there. I don't know exactly. Why are you there? If that's the lengths that you have to go is, is the NFL so obsessed with expanding their brand and their reach that they're like going places, they probably shouldn't even be going at this point? Yes. Wait until they're ready for you then, right? Don't rush it. Don't push it, but they're pushing it. And obviously that's an interesting game as well with, you know, Jordan love against Jalen Hertz. They have a good lineup of games for the opening weekend of the season. They have. I'm, I'm, we were going to pick the, the top game to watch. That's yours. All right. I'm going to pay. I'm going to go against the grain here and pick the Panthers at the Saints. Interesting. Very against the grain. Care to elaborate. I mean, it was doing a bit because I couldn't care less about watching that football game in particular, but there are some good matchups. Raiders and Chargers is going to be a fairly interesting one because again, this is, I will say this about the Chargers. This is the first year in the last four years where I have not seen the national pub that's saying this is their year, this is their year, this is their, I have not seen that. It's simply been because of the addition of Jim Harbaugh though. Yeah. There's no, there's really no good reason to be high on the Chargers other than you think Jim Harbaugh is some of some of the elite coach who's going to turn things around the culture. Everything about an organization that has had bad culture essentially for 60 years. Right. Seriously, I, this is, I'm not seeing the, the blow hearts, the, the calling cowards of the world going, this is it, Justin Herbert takes the next step, they're going to the next level. I haven't seen it. I lost most of their playmakers. Right. Now, you know, gone. They sell Justin Herbert. Who do you, who's he going to throw to? They're going to focus more on the running game, which is weird when you have Justin Herbert and you're paying him hundreds of millions of dollars, but give him no one to throw to. And they're kind of in salary cap purgatory because they had to say, you know, clear so much cap space. And not teams in the league. And again, they play 17 road games every single year, including the first one, which is going to be one of the biggest home road games ever when they got the Las Vegas Raiders and we'll be 75% silver and black at SoFi Stadium for the opener on Sunday. It's an interesting game. I'm most excited. I think for Monday night, actually, no Padres game next Monday and it'll be Aaron Rodgers again. Oh, he is. He's an enigma polarizer. It's very polarizing. I'm fascinated. He is one of the greatest at throwing a football to ever live though. And I'm curious to see at age 40, 41, whatever he's at now coming off that injury and he's returning home to Northern California, taking on the NFC champs, the Niners. I think that's going to be a fun game. They're trying to make it as though it wasn't an insult that the Niners didn't draft you as the native. That was 20 years ago. Yeah, he still. Let it go. No, he still pissed. So this is a huge season, obviously, for the Niners, though, because Brock Purdy is about to get really expensive. This is your chance to win with a stunning Mr. irrelevant draft pick, who's turned out to be a really good quarterback and you can put really good players around him because you're not paying your quarterback an arm and a leg like most teams have to do. But they got to take advantage of it soon or that window is going to tighten up on him pretty soon. So huge season for the Niners. They're my Super Bowl pick this year for San Francisco. No one's ever won three in a row. That's why I didn't pick the Chiefs. Ever in NFL history and the Jets, of course, are basically the Patriots. No, no one's ever won three Super Bowls in a row ever. What's your lock of the week? You're not a gambling man. But if you were like my survivor pick, no, just your lock of the week. Oh, like with like, yeah, if yeah, with the spread, if you had a bet, I will go as my lock of the week. There's no bears at home. I'm going to really, I'm going to, yeah, I think you're going to lay the three and a half. I think the bears are going to be better than people expect. Okay. Lay the three and a half. I think Tennessee without Derek Henry anymore, they're probably going to be one of the lower tier teams and get on early before the spread start to change Chicago. All of a sudden it's going to be better than people think Tennessee is going to be pretty bad. This is going to be the best price you're going to get all season for these teams. I lost a lot of money on the bills last year. I'm going to continue to lose a lot of money on the bills. I'm going to take the bills minus six and a half against the Cardinals. I know there's been a lot of talk. Kyler Murray was going very high in drafts, which I've watched Kyler Murray play. I'm finally first healthy season in two years, right? He's also got a receiver to throw to. He's got some weapons, but I think the bills win by at least seven. I will take my lock is going to be the Dallas Cowboys, always hesitant to pick them early in the season because you never know what they're going to look like, but they are on the road taking on the Cleveland Browns and Dallas is getting two and a half points. Yes. And I wonder if that has to do with I think CD and lamb, I drafted him on my fantasy team. I think he's questionable, but that's just because he was holding out and they're not sure. He'll he'll play. He's going to play. Yeah. So I don't know if that's going to change the line or not, but if I'd bet money right now, I would probably throw it there. All right. Football three. That's our football three. Sounds good. All right. Now though, it's time to call in to win a pair of tickets to Saturday San Diego State football game against Oregon State and get your tickets at go Aztecs.com. Same game of the Sean Lewis era. Do we have the Frank Dravin sounder for the call in yet? Did we find that one? We did. Here's your call and to win 833-288-0973 tickets to Aztecs. All right. Beavers. Thank you. I just had it stuffed. Let me help you with that. It's incredible. Just incredible. And she hands him to the actual taxes and stuff to be. Beaver. Wait, what were you guys thinking? 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Learn more at expresspros.com. That's expresspros.com. Paulie's headlines coming up right after the traffic report here on 97-3, the fan. And you think you started here with our edition today's edition of the Rindel Report. Now tuned it to the motherf*** greatest. Welcome to the Rindel Report with Paul Rindel. Hi Paul. All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in major league baseball. And one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing beyond? It's the Rindel Report. Hey Paul, how you doing? Okay, how are you? On 97-3, the fan. Are you ready to bless the mood? I need some help please. That was good. Can I get over here? Oh yeah. All right. All right. All right. Yeah, we had some big news last night in baseball. I think this came down pretty late in the evening. A little passing bomb, but San Francisco Giants have announced that they have agreed to a 6-year, $151 million contract extension with third baseman Matt Chapman, who get a very up-and-down off season, did not get the money that he was hoping for right in his one... Was he one of those guys too? Wasn't he a boss? Yeah, he was. He still is. He still is. He still is. For a guy that just did not get the big contract that he was hoping for. He was a 3-year, $54 million contract is what he ended up signing with the Giants. And so, this new contract, the 6-year deal, it's going to start next year. It's going to just completely wipe out those last two years remaining on the first deal. And then, yeah, 6-year is $1.51. Bad deal for the Giants. You know how I know that, but Scott Boris wouldn't have signed it otherwise. They were about to go to free agency again, and he decided, "No, I'll just take what the Giants are offering me right now, because I don't think I can get more in free agency." Which tells you, bad deal for the Giants. Fair. Fair. Good player. Good player. Yeah, I do like Matt Chapman. I do too, man. And now you got... But you got another guy in your division that, man, he's got to go up against for the gold glove. And I know the metrics aren't there, necessarily, for Manny Machado and a gold glove this season, Benny. But Matt Chapman is a really good one, man. He is a real fun dude to watch play when you're not playing against him. He's a thief down there. I wonder if it's a sign that Scott Boris is changing his tune a little bit after the last off season, and how it didn't work out so well that maybe we should be a little more aggressive in trying to re-sign players before they hit free agency. Yeah. I don't know. Not a bad idea. It's a pivot. They call that a pivot. Yeah. Well, let's pivot from football back to football. We mentioned it about an hour ago, actually, a little over an hour ago when it happened, when the news came down, that Alex Morgan is retiring from professional soccer. She will be playing her last game this Sunday, 5 o'clock for WaveFC. And I did want to... We posted like a four-minute, four-plus-minute-long video. I wanted to at least play a little bit of that and just hear from her directly. This was Alex Morgan. The video she posted on social media this morning. I'm going to get to the point quickly. I'm retiring, and I have so much clarity about this decision, and I'm so happy to be able to finally tell you. It has been a long time coming and this decision wasn't easy. But at the beginning of 2024, I felt in my heart and soul that this was the last season that I would play soccer. Soccer has been a part of me for 30 years, and it was one of the first things that I ever loved, and I gave everything to this sport, and what I got in return was more than I could have ever dreamed of. Success for me is defined by never giving up and giving your all, and I did just that. I'm giving my all every single day on the field, and I did that. I'm giving my all in the relentless push for global investment in women's sports because we deserve that. Giving my all in my various businesses beyond the soccer fields and giving my all as a mom to my daughter, Charlie. Charlie came up to me the other day and said that when she grows up she wants to be a soccer player, and it just made me immensely proud, not because I wish for her to become a soccer player when she grows up, but because a pathway exists that even a four-year-old can see now. We're changing lives, and the impact we have on the next generation is irreversible, and I'm proud in the hand I had in making that happen and pushing the game forward and leaving it in a place that I'm so happy and proud of. Pretty awesome, and later on in the video she goes on to let everybody know that her daughter Charlie will be a big sister pretty soon, pregnant with her second child, so that probably has a lot to do with it as well, but what a career, what a person, and what a great representative for the wave, and just a huge day in female sports and sports overall. I'm glad that it feels like Alex seems like she's at peace and happy with that decision. I only wish she could have gone out on a better season for her team, it's been a really rough year for the wave, then near the bottom of the table, Alex personally was dealing with injuries for much of the early part of the season, has not even scored a goal yet this season, and then they had the off-the-field stuff with the new coaches and the changing and the accusations of former employees, it's been a rough season for the San Diego wave, and it would have been great if Alex could have gone out, you know, championship runs for the playoffs and have her team carry her off on their shoulders after a title, probably not going to happen that way now, especially if she's retiring after this game, but I would love to at least see her go out with a win and a goal, would be in this Sunday's game against North Carolina, and they need to win pretty badly, they can, they take most of the teams in the playoffs in the NWSL, they just get in, and then you've got a shot, right now they wouldn't be in though, so they need a couple of wins here down the stretch to get back in to the playoff spot, and Alex Morgan can still help them do that in this game on Sunday, or final soccer game, I hope she scores, it kind of bums me out, I'm self-admitted, I'm not a huge soccer fan, have not been to a wave game, I'd love to go, just haven't made it out there yet, but I just feel like it was a little irresponsible by not watching more of Alex Morgan while she was right here in her backyard, she's the same way, happens to be all the time, I do that all the time, she is one of the greatest ever, she's right here, we haven't had her on the show, haven't been to a match, and I'm like I kind of screwed that one up, kind of screwed that one up, fair enough, all right finally, the internet split here, this is a great bit, so somebody posted, a couple days ago, said my wife and I had her honeymoon in Italy, exactly a year ago, and I just got an Italian speeding ticket in the mail one year later, do I actually have to pay this thing, what happens if I don't, I don't know the answer, you'd have to be a real degenerate to get a ticket in a foreign country and not pay it, like a real low life, I think I just, I pay that right away and I don't even think about it, right, you're like I don't want, yes, you don't want inner poles showing up at your door, I'd like to go back to Italy at some point, call your man of your word too, did you break the law, you did, then you pay the price, you'd have to be a real sack of s, not to do that, just the lowest of the low, I got a parking ticket in London, so how much did that cost you, I don't know, it was too confusing to figure it out, now I knew that, okay so obviously I do this, obviously you did, so when we went to cover the chargers in London, in 2009 was it, and we start 2008, and we stayed in Airbnb, kind of outside the city, parking is tough though, in, in all around that area, any major city, yes, very so there was this law, a payload right across from where we were, which I knew, and I parked in the payload, and put the sticker that I pay, I did pay for parking, I put the sticker in the window where it was supposed to go, but somehow it got flipped over, and so it was facing down instead of facing, oh my, and they gave me a ticket, and I'm like wait, so I paid for parking, I had the ticket there, and like a breeze or something flipped it over, and now I have to pay a hundred pound parking ticket because of that, well that certainly doesn't seem fair, I pretty much assumed had I stayed, been able to fight it, like if we weren't leaving town in two days, I would have been able to get a barrister who could have gotten off the chargers, because I had the, I mean I had the receipt, it showed that I was there in the time, I had paid for the time, and they just couldn't see it because the piece of paper had flipped over, so we answered, so we said get this thug out of radio, right now, I don't really know what happened, I was worried for several months like it was going to catch up to me, you have a warrant out for your arrest, I mean it was a rental car obviously, so I thought well, are they going to charge, pay your ticket, and maybe Channel 10 paid it at some point, because it was on a Channel 10 credit card because it was a work trip, but no one ever told me or anything, so you never followed up, and technically it wasn't even in my name, it was in our photographer's name, so I guess technically it wasn't my ticket, he's probably in prison right now, rotting, for you not be able to turn the receiver seat on right side up, he actually texted me yesterday asking who was the voice in our don't do this, and I said oh that's, that's our former colleague Lauren and Carol's daughter, Hannah, Nan Carroll, my beloved wife, who is married to Steven, don't do this, he's not in the Isle of Man prison or wherever they play, parking devious, or they used to put Charles Dickon's father or whatever, the debtor's prison, yeah, the original post says do I actually have to pay this thing, what happens if I don't, in the comments, they didn't disappoint, to me says that they waterboard you with tomato sauce when you try to come back, this guy says just forget about it, but he got a speeding ticket it was, in the land known for Lamborghini's cars that go fast, this guy says pour the little one race, please pay your ticket, we need all money, we need all the money, remember when we went to Arizona Paul and I came back and I had not one, but two hidden speeding tickets from, the cop was even his car, the empty cop car with a camera, we knew exactly where it was, inflatable cop, got me twice, all right wheel are going to be right back in about five minutes with the round table, everybody, Paul, we'll see you tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. to wrap up the week right here with Ben Whatts on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fam, go away. 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