Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
6am Hour - Tatis WALKS IT OFF On Detroit
Ben, Woods, and Paul are here for you on a Thursday morning! We start the show with some foreplay which turns into "grilled cheese" talk, and whether or not you use mayo when making a grilled cheese sandwich? Then Ben sets the menu for today's show before we get to our Padres Wrap-Up as Fernando Tatis Jr. got his 1st career walk-off hit last night, and gave everyone a show when he took his shirt off. Listen here!
- Duration:
- 45m
- Broadcast on:
- 05 Sep 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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However, you choose to consume Ben and 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 Woodsy, that's Paul Reindel. He's the executive producer. Good morning, Paulie. - Good morning. I'm Dan 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 use, 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 even say that. - That's fine. - 12 t-shirts I 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 them. - But we'll point it out to everybody that's listening that yes, Woodsy 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 camos. - Hey, Katie's soldier. - 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, 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 a-- - This can't sustain me. - There's a limited supply and like, what saves some of these for the playoffs, why are you using them all up right now? Doesn't work that well. - 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 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 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 gonna happen at 10 a.m. After we are off the air, we're gonna 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. - Do you like those? - I can tell if you're gonna say - I do it or bad. - I do 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, 'cause some people do with mayo. I saw 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 don't mind when mayo transforms something into something else. I don't want it oozing out of a sandwich. So Bushly Blake, our buddy, tweeted, do you make yours with, or I think it was Bushly, make 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. Like I never heard of that. I wouldn't have thought of it. I've never heard of that. 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 softener. The tray. Like you just leave it out. Like under a bell, like under a, just on the counter, so it'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 fly as 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. I think we've ripped through enough butter too. Putting spoiled butter on your bread. I don't think so. 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 great. I grew up with, we had a little butter softener. With the cloche kind of thing on top. And then you want a little hack though for cold butter? Yeah. Cheese grater. Oh, oh. Taking cold butter, run 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 J says he goes through a one to two sticks a day. What are you just making? I'm impressed. 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 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's what gets me, then 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. Well, I've never heard of anybody doing mayo on a grilled cheese. And the thought of it repulses me. I did one time see a hack 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. That I could do. Yeah, I mean, that's almost like a meatball or meatloaf. Adding some egg and some oil. That's a mayo oil. That is mayo. You're just adding some fat, fat carries flavor. I'm going to try-- 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. Just like I would give it butter. OK. I had not a grilled cheese. But within the last year, I had never had this before. At least to my knowledge, pancakes made with cottage cheese in the mix, in the batter. Now that's a cottage cheese is an interesting-- because I don't like cottage cheese. I love cottage cheese. I love pancakes. 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, butter scotch. Yes, cottage cheese. Hard candies of all sorts. Can't wait until that day. Taffy yoka. Taffy yoka. My wife will eat cottage cheese. Apple sauce. And the thought of it repulses me so much. But I do-- so this guy I was talking to, 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 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. Yes, she was. She was not. Nancaro Ranch. They had plants and stuff. And vegetables is not a farm. It 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, yeah, yeah, a lot of fat. Yeah, which one did you milk, Greg? Yeah, so maybe I will. Maybe I'll try the cottage cheese. Maybe I'll try the mayo grilled cheese. But 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 one of those locks on my-- that my wife sets the lock on the counter or the cabinet in the fridge. I don't know the code. Pass were protected. Well, I'd be snatching little debbies under my bed and stuff like it's so bad. You always access the butter since it's not in the fridge. So there you go. 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 worst thing I can say about it. How do 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 start talking about the game. I want to set the menu. So let's get going. 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 because a 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 Danic here on 97th Rita Fan. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. 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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 & Woods with you. So I played golf with my dad yesterday, had a nice run, didn't play that well, but it's always fun to play with him. - I love playing with my dad. - He is, my dad is the best. - He is the best golfer. I mean, 'cause he's not eating me as fast as golf. He'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 was really enjoying me as his child. - Eating early, he has really would hit it off. - Early, 15 minute dinners. - Yeah, even a nice place. - 15, 20 minute dinners. - Golf, three hour round. - Three hour round. - And motor around, quickly be done. - Six to eight foot putts. - Good, you're good. Yeah, you're good too, let's go. - Really, one of my dad's only flaws, and it's not a flaw, but not a social media savant. And consider yourself lucky. - He, you know, he's been on Twitter for 10 years, and I know he signed up pretty much just to follow probably my tweets. - Sure. - And see what's going on. - Why a lot of people sign up. I mean, it's great. - And it's just supportive of him, 'cause 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 it's 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-- - That's my dad. - Like seven or eight, you know, characters long. So, oh, whoa, what's this? Am I, I see the tweet. He just has cool in. That's it. Cool. In. Like cool in the gang? I mean, it's not cool in. It's cool in. - I am. - Cool, I am. - Cool space, I am. - He's cool in. - He's cool, cool in. - He's coolin' down. - Or. - He's turning the air conditioning on, 'cause it's gettin' hot. - His buddy. - Cool in. - His buddy texted him. He thought he texted him back, and he said, "Steve, do you wanna go?" - Cool, I am. - Hit balls at the ranch. - Cool. - Cool in. - In. - That could be it. - Does your dad say cool ever if you heard us say cool? - 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 that was-- - But the reason why-- - He's a lot of slang. - The reason why it's so notable, and we discussed this, I remember last-- - No, I'm gonna be less profile. - February, I gotta look at it. - He has sent-- - On August 11th. - He has sent six tweets. I'm just gonna go through his entire day. Yeah, I'm gonna 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 in that time, he has sent six tweets. Number one, October 2nd, 2020. So five years before he sent the first one. - Wow. - Em. Kind of like I'm, but without the apostrophe. - Some J. - Some J. Em, like the golfer. - Em, fair. - Then a little, about a half a year later, February 28th, 2021. Po. - Po. - Po, yeah. - There's like the river in, I think Italy, the Po. - The Po. - The Po. - Po. 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 Fornett. Running back for the Tampa Bay box. No comment, just stand alone. Tweet, picture of Leonard Fornett. Not a box fan, as far as I know. Not a Leonard Fornett fan, just a picture of Leonard Fornett. 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 Fornett. October 22nd, 2023, last fall. Mm, hashtag. (laughing) Not, not hashtag, mm, but mm, hashtag. Hashtag. - One, two, three, four, five, and-- - Fums and then an ampersand, yeah, the hashtag. And now, the prolific month that he's had. August 11th, last month, I missed this one. Hi. (laughing) Is he hacked? - I don't know, that's what I always worry. - That's the most normal one, so far. - Yeah, that is high. - High. - 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 him together. - Is he trying to send you signals? - High. Cool, in. - He's sending you location to where some money is buried or something. - I mean, you can explain five of them based on, I've accidentally opened the app and hit, jammed my fingers on a 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 the letters for that. - It's my favorite, my far, just random, random picture of Leonard Fortnett. He's never mentioned Leonard Fortnett. - I know, I've never once. - Didn't they didn't attend the same college? - Nothing. - There's no connection to Leonard Fortnett. - 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. - I tweeted that. - He's retweeted that. - That's it? - He is something else, man. He is something else. I love that. I love Steve Higgins tweets. Chief tweets, 'cause they call 'em chief. So this should be a regular occurrence. 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." He's like, "Hey, something happens "and you don't want it to happen," 'cause clearly you're not paying much attention to this. He knows your pithy dialogue. He doesn't need to see your tweets. He doesn't need to see any of it. - True. - So you don't even really need to sign up for Twitter to see tweets. - That's true, bud. - That's true. - Oh, it's fantastic. - Can't get enough. - Here's your update on Chief Higgins from yesterday. Here's your menu for the show today, coming up. Our Padres wrap up, I have 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's return to the mountain didn't go 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 8.35 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 is one of the smartest guys in the sport. And we always just lucky enough to get to talk to him every Thursday, so he'll join us at 8.35. 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. Are you ready for the football? 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. - What a shame, dude. Come on. - We're going to start, absolutely. - Wow. - 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. - Nine o'clock guest is the one I'm so excited for, you know. - Thank you. - But I talk to him every week. - And our nine a.m. guest is one I'm very excited about. 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 at nine. - I think measured is a perfect way to describe-- - That he's here this weekend. - He's here. - Yeah, he's in town. - See if he'll come on the round table. - I just love the dude. - I think he's his takes are phenomenal. - 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 gonna be a little bit giddy. - 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. He's got that recent player perspective that I think is very important. - I do too. - Gus Nader says, "Make sure you call him out "for calling the under on wins when he was on John Boy." Gus, we all called the under on wins, man. Every single one of us called the underline over. - Like if he 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, 97.3 of the fan. (upbeat music) - Padres came back to win, but there was a rare moment. I actually disagreed with the strategic decision from Mike Schilt. I'm sure he'll love me bringing that up in the game last night. (laughing) - Oh, you thought I made a mistake? - You agreed with him. So we can discuss that and-- - That made 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 at 97.3 of the fan. - I love winning, man. I (beep) love. I (beep) love. I (beep) love winning. You hear what I'm saying? It's like better than losing. - Oh my God, I'm so stiff. (laughing) - Miss any of the Padres win yesterday. Ben and Woods didn't. - What up crew? - We've got you covered with all of the highlights. - I like it with the Padres win. - Yeah! Yeah! - It's the Padres wrap up. - Presented by Hamul Casino. With rilling slots and tables in all the best rewards, Hamul Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hamul Casino, fun above all else. - Yeah! - Give me a due damage. - Due damage! - No balls, two strikes to count. Darvish will kick, hesitate, and deal. And Veerling hits it in the air to left field, well struck, broke our back at the wall, leaping up, gonna go. Into about the second or third, over the US bank sign in straightaway left field. Veerling hits a 16th home run of the season. And the Tigers are gonna 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 to 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 Heat to a single, but hits an RBI single as Veerling comes into score. 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. Moon shot to right for Trey Sweeney. To run Homer against Motsoui here in the fourth inning. And the Tigers have added on, 5-0 Detroit. Left hand hitter of course, first pitch, swung on, hit in the air to left field in deep, greens racing back, still going back, hit the wall, gonna 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. Pitch on the way, Manny swings, hits the ground ball through the left side, base hit. Arise has four, Fernando's on his way. They've got no shot. Two run single, Manny Machado and the Padres have erased another five run deficit. Five, five 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. Greens 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 six to five. They will take their brooms out here tomorrow night. Through the roof, I can't put it into words. I just love this group of guys. And, you know, we're going to keep coming. What a big moment. I don't think 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, he just stayed with himself nice and short and brought it home for us. Love that quote. I love, I love it. I love, stay within yourself. And it makes no sense, but it totally does. Stay within yourself. Don't try to do too much, Camposano. Just stay within yourself. And he absolutely did. And what a 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. 'Cause I feel like my chances would have gone through the roof. - So are we talking about the back then? - I did, my wife was awake. - Ha ha ha, you tried. - Is he going to do the interview with Bob? - Sure it was, well, it sure looks like it. And then he did. - And anyway, and then he got dumped with Gatorade. - Sure it was, 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, accidentally. - 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, no. - But somehow he's dead. - Now Ryan Vogelbach doesn't rip his jersey off and throw it in the stands. It'd be badass if he did, but he didn't, he doesn't. - Petalonza took his shirt off once. - That was, and it's still making the round. I saw it last night. You versus the guy she told you not to worry about. Everybody big miss takes them that last night. - 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. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Don't injure him. - Be careful with him. - Don't injure 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. - Whew, man, that is a... - Have you ever heard the word live? - Live, oh, it's one of my favorite words in English language. - It describes him quite well. - He's all sinewy. - Sinewy is another good word. - And live, it's sinewy. - Man, what a win. - Ben and Woods after dark. - Mm-hmm, yeah. - Even though it's sensual. - Light out. - It was an experience. - It was an experience, man. Last night's. - What was an experience for sure? - Yeah, look, there's certainly a lot to unpack. Let's start with you, Darvish. - Yeah. - 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 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, 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 you got to go to the ballpark, I want to get a throwing session in. Let's make sure my mechanics where they need to be. They had a few days, certainly in a week, to get it together and try to figure it out. But once he got out on the mountain bending, the command wasn't there. The Velo, I thought, was pretty good, 94, 95. He landed some really nice sliders. But yeah, man, he also hung a couple sliders. And, you know, they're big leaguers too. 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 build off of with you, Darvick. - I actually take that start as almost entirely a positive. - In that return. 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, Darvick, in just two and two thirds innings, got 11 swing and misses. - That's big, man. The whiffs and the whiffs. - That's more than 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, Darvick 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. - And building towards when the games are the most important, right? You'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 gonna 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 O 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 garbage. - A crime. - It's a crime. And so 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 potteries, 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 miss the first five innings of a pottery game 'cause your kids can't go to bed, you're good, man. They really do their best work after the, you know, 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'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 that. - Oh, okay. - You know, you say Jake. - That's real. - Jake drives the ball the other way. Never gets out. - Never gets out. - He never gets out. And I thought, well, the fact that he can do that is impressive. Then he hit those ones to center and I 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 notable what he just did last night with that swing. - Yeah, he's a notable player. And he 100% is the rookie of the year. Every single game, man, he's showing up. And again, in the biggest moments, when you need him the most, it gets you back in a game to win a game, you can't say enough good things about him. I mean, you're out of superlatives totally for Jackson Merrill. He's an absolute baseball player, man. - Hi, this is Jackson Merrill. - Hi, 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 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, 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 see that theory as well, well, then run through it. Then you stack your best hitters and your, then that turns into the Padres of old, the seven, eight, nine, 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. Of course. And you'll feel like next year he ain't hitting seven next year. No, and I agree. Like, but he's going to move him up in the order because he deserves to get up more often in the game. So you want to get his bat into the lineup more. I totally and if 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. But 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 take my foot off the gas a little bit with the bottom third or fourth or whatever it is, not when that guy's hitting in the seven hole. You can't take your foot off the gas really 'cause you can get burned. You're focused on Jackson Merrill in the seventh. 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 Padres lineup is as lengthy as it's been all season long. And they still have one more player to get back in Haas and Kim who continues to progress was taking grounders working out of Peko 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. It's 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 Hunter Enfro with 26 home runs. 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 would have lost so much money if you had asked me before yesterday, does Fernando Tati's junior 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. - Nope, first one. But now we have a walk off from Tati's. And we have all the calls of the walk off from Tati's. 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's show. 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. (cheering) - My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. 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