Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

9am Hour - Trevor Plouffe, NFL Threesome, + The Reindl Report

Ben & Woods kick off the 9am hour by chatting with former big leaguer Trevor Plouffe who will be in town this weekend has some big praise for our San Diego Padres! Then we get to the 2024 debut of our NFL Threesome before we get to The Reindl Report and Paulie's top stories to wrap up the show! Listen here!

Duration:: 47m
Broadcast on:: 05 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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It certainly had a major impact on the Padres organization. You could just tell the difference of what he's brought. Just about everybody improved under his career. What that long ago was that one. To not quite that long ago, but... Yeah, 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 next step up? Pitching coach is not often, you know, but 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 Traxxel, Charles Nagy, and joining us right now. You've seen him on the Chris Rose rotation. He is Woods' man crush. Yes, Trevor, a little bit. A little bit is 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, OK? A little bit. Yeah, a little bit. And it's partly because you're very handsome. But the other part is that I like your measured takes a lot. And I like-- Oh, thank you. I do. And I think we live in San Diego. And there's been some doomer activity that happens. And there's been some epic once-in-a-lifetime collapses. But when we watch this Padres team 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 like your measured takes about 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 the streaks where you play bad ball. You're going to go through the streaks where you play good ball. But it's the truth. 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 good teams do rise to the top by the end of it. So whenever I see-- like you mentioned, I didn't know what you were saying with doomer, but now I understand. 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 a long season. We've got to let things play out. I think that works on the individual level as well. But yeah, I tend to have that perspective because I lived it, I guess. I don't know. Trevor Plouffe's going to be in town for these still got game foundations. A 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 I also took my youth team down there. And they're the SoCal Padres. So they're in Los Angeles. Walk around with Brown and Yellow on and just getting absolutely chastised everywhere they go. So you want us to make sure that they help them well. You say that's something dangerous. I'm serious. Yeah. Yeah. 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. I've been down there a lot. And I love, love that stadium. That is. I think it's the best stadium in all the big, these guys pandering will get you everywhere. But so my question though, was having seen them and 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 tough teeth back. The lineup was already pretty long. Any team that has a chance and really is 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. He signed up for a million dollars. He was an all star. I know the numbers have taken a hit, but still overall it's been great. And then what I like most is, you know, not sitting idly at the trade deadline, 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 that 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 short stuff, a team full of short stuff. I always say that. How do you guys not have like a real short stuff, I don't say it too, but all the time. Um, 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 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 last just just an angry bitter like this is 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, I can put on the last 20 minutes of the game and like see the best parts of it with this team. And I, 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 zeit guys, the baseball now, but I, I think they, 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, but I love that, you know, you see. Oh, no, do we lose him or we lost him? Then obviously guys that can click for a three run home or 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 crooked numbers. I love teams that, that do that, that put pressure on that they're not all about the three run home or 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 I, 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 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 home run masher in the middle of the lineup. You 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 home run rate as part of that, but I think my teeth is probably, I know over the last couple of years it hasn't been that, but he's, in my opinion, he'll get back to being that 40 home run guy. So you have him back at the lineup, I don't know, man, I do think, I don't know if 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 have five guys in the bullpen that like can come and get big outs whenever you need them. And that is just so, so important when it comes to the big, the playoffs. And then put on top of that, like you have a true ace and Dylan C 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's it of open to and what are you guys going to be doing here this weekend? It's open to anyone. 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 in the still got game foundation. It's 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 Tanger if you junior, 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, ask 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. Ask a radio host about taxes and how it works. I'm probably not going to get a no answer from Mossy. 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. So 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. And I'll do. Man, thanks so much. I love your work with Chris Rose. He's also one of our favorite guests. Well, Rosie, we say hi. And I hope to talk to you again real soon, man. Well, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me on, buddy. Trevor Plough. And again, if you've got a youth aged 8 to 14-- and again, this is targeted toward-- disadvantage. It's-- you know, by Channel 10, it's kind of a more of a disadvantage 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. It's Saturday, September 7th at 10 a.m., Sunshine Little League, which is at Federal Boulevard. It's 44-02 Federal Boulevard, kind of right off the 94 freeway there. You're going to be out there for like 2 and 1/2 hours, just getting some big league experience and hearing from some of these big leagueers. 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 LA and they get worn out. And it's funny because I think we should stop doing that. Like let's stoke the provincialism and our-- 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 start 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. It's-- you're not playing on the Dodgers, he's like, I don't even want to wear it. 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, Cubs, Angels, Rangers, where was the Pirates? I was a pirate too. And they just thought too many coaches maybe even might fight over who's going to be the Mariners that year. I was the cobras. But down here, everybody's the Padres. I am see for a little league, they're opening day. After read like 100 team names, it's 90% of them are Padres relate. Manny's Mashers. Well, it was genius, because the Padres several years ago started providing different little league jerseys for leagues, and you know, they'd be different eras, like the '80s Padres and the '90s Padres and the, you know, 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? What are we? What colors are Jersey? Like it's royal blue. He's like, I got your fine, you're fine. But if he got on, and it's a little league, and there's a full there and full Dodgers gear, you know, full of you. 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. All right. When we come back, it is back our football threesome, 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 with Ben Woods after traffic here on Sandy and goes number one sports station 97 three, the fan from the mind of a two foot tall talking spokespuppet comes this year's biggest challenge. It's time for Bob's dare to compare the hottest game show on TV that asks what happens when you compare Bob's to the competition? 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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 beaver fan, also in a lump or state of those friends. Is that the greatest line in movie history, Frank Dravin and Nicky Gump? Nice beaver. Is that the greatest line in movie? He has probably hands it down for me, add it and you pull please quickly, pull it, clip it, and let's hear it kill me. We used to play it on the very first show I did all the time. You 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. Docking endarounds, the best tight ends in the world. He must work out. And going all the way in this game of inches, it's the NFL threesome with Ben and Woods brought to you by Hamukasino, fun above all else on 97-3, the fan. Personal player, 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'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. And for 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 PM 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. One day. So I went and I went ahead. Didn't even make it to Sunday. I was like, it was done on Friday. I was like, here's my $40. Could I gree up please? And then I was out after like the next week and Ben lost like a week or two later. I did. Yeah. We had to start over. It was 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 the chief. 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 too 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 in. It's a good reminder. Whatever happens tonight. Don't overreact. Yeah. 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. Yep. Now, I, you know, I have a lot of gripes with the NFL just morally, but my God, they get it right. They broadcast. The broadcasts are great red zone is, is undefeated and you look at these match ups and you're just like, yeah, I'm in. Okay. You got me. Tomorrow's game in Brazil's looking like a fun one, 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. Wow. What is the deal? Sao Paulo is not the safest place, safest of places and they don't want any incidents. So they're basically just sequestering them in the hotel, which I'm smart to play there then. 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. The answer is yes. The answer is just wait until they're ready for you then. 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. That's mine. All right. I'm going to pick, I'm going to go against the grain here and pick the Panthers at the Saints. Interesting. I'm going to pick against the grain. Care to elaborate. I mean. Yeah. 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 there. 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 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. But I honestly, this is, I'm not seeing the, the blow hearts, the, the calling cow horns with the world going, this is it. Justin Herbert takes the next step. They're going to the next level. I haven't seen it. But most of their playmakers right now, you know, gone, they sell Justin Herbert. Who do you see? 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 so they're 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 will be 75% silver and black at Sophie 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, the return. He's an enigma polarizer. He is 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. He still let it go. No, he still pissed. 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 you have with the spread, if you had a bet, I will go as my lock of the week. There's no the bears at home. I'm going to 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 to 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 it 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. Finally, first healthy season in two years, he's also got a receiver to throw to. He's got he's got some weapons, but I think the bills went 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. Yeah. They're not sure. He'll he'll play. He's gonna 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 to go Aztecs.com. Same game of the Sean Lewis era. Do we have the Frank Dremen sounder for the call in yet? Did we find that one? We did. Here's your call and to win eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three tickets to Aztecs. Thank you. I just had a stuffed. Let me help you with that. It's incredible. It is. She hands him to the actual taxes stuff. Yeah. Beaver. Wait, what were you guys thinking? It's just incredible. eight three three two eight zero ninety seven three your chance to win Aztecs beavers tickets for Saturday at Snapdragon Stadium. All right. Paulies got around the report. That was actually a big baseball story late last night. Yeah. I think Jeff pass and broke away. I didn't even think about it yet. I didn't even think to put it in the run to report knowing the run to report is at nine thirty. I'm like, well, we'll talk to you to a three and a half hour involves the NLS and we have not talked about it in three and a half hours stories. We didn't get to in the Rondle report coming up next on ninety seven three the fan. No nine figure signing in baseball. Paulies going to let us know all about it coming up here in the Rondle report first this hour on ninety seven three. The fan is brought to you by Express Employment Professionals. If your supply chain demands a flexible workforce higher with Express Employment Professionals with contract and full time workers from Express Employment, you get the staff you need and manage contingent labor costs, learn more at express prose dot com that's express prose dot com. Paulies headlines coming up right after the traffic report here on ninety seven three the fan and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Rondle report. Hey, Bob, how you doing okay, how are you on ninety seven three, the fan are you ready to bless the mood. I need some help. Please. That was good. Yeah. 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 six year, one hundred and fifty one million dollar 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? Yes. Yeah, he was. Still is. The forest guy that just did not get the big contract that he was hoping for. He was a three year, fifty four million dollar contract is what he ended up signing with the Giants. And so this new contract, the six 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, six years, one fifty one 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 too, man. And now you got, but you got a, 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 me as a, 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. Hit. He may proceed. 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, five o'clock for Wave FC. And I did want to, she 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, 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 like immensely proud, not because I wished for her to become a soccer 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 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 what a person and what a great representative for the wave and and just yeah, I mean a huge huge day in in in female sports and sports overall. I'm glad that you know, 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. Of course. It's been a really rough year for the wave and at 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 you know, from former employees, just it's been a rough season for the San Diego wave and I would have been great if Alex could have gone out, you know, championship runs for the playoffs and have her team carrier 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 the Sunday's game against North Carolina and they need 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. Yeah, she scores it kind of bums me out I'm not 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 a little irresponsible by not watching more of Alex Morgan while she was right here in her backyard, the same way happens to be all the time like 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 down 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 our 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 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 international you don't want interpol I'd like to go back to I'd like to go back to Italy at some point you're a man of your word to 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 I don't know there's 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 all around that area any major city yes very so there was this law a pay lot right across from where we were which I knew and I parked in the pay lot 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 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 charges 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 you said so we said get this thug out of radio right now I don't really know what happened I was worrying for several months like it was going to catch up to me you have a warrant I figured it was a rental car obviously so I thought well are they going to charge pay you 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 photographers 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 receipt 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 why why that's our former colleague Lauren and Carol's daughter Hannah and Carol yep my beloved one who is married to Steven don't do this yes I'm sure he's not every time he's not in he's not in the aisle of man prison or whatever they play parking devious where they used to put Charles Dickens father or whatever the debtors 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 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 yeah in the land known for Lamborghini cars that go fast yes this guy says poor little one race please pay your ticket we need a money we need of 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 this is the empty cop car with a camera we knew exactly where it was inflatable cop got me twice all right we are going to be right back in about five minutes with the round table with everybody yes Paulie we'll see you tomorrow morning at six a.m. to wrap up the week right here with Ben what's on San Diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fam they'll go away 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 you get beefs and boops and dings and whoops and 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