Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
Wednesday September 4th, 2024 - FULL SHOW
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Me and Hammer used to crack one and Polly would get in on the mix and I had some and I brought them back in because it really will boost your mood and you wouldn't you refuse then? - I refused. - Ooh man, wake you up, I needed it. I needed it back. - I just think it's gonna wreak havoc with my sinuses. - May make your sinuses better. - No, I think that I'll have it running nose like for an hour afterwards, which is not what we want. Especially now that we're on YouTube. - Good Lord. All right, I'm Woodsy, that's Paul Reindel. He's the executive producer, good morning, Polly. - Good morning. - Benjamin Higgins is your straight laced, very straight laced, friendly neighborhood sports anchor. Good to see you Benjamin. - Good morning everybody. - Let's kiss the roach, do what we have to do to get the Mojo right. - To use return. - Yeah, you will be back tonight, talk about that. We have a huge, huge show plan for you today and it really, yes, the answer is yes. Welsh Fryer is coming in, okay? Welsh Fryer, Tom, Parnell, I believe is his last name. He will be here today. That means that you guys can stop sending me. - So his first name isn't Welsh and his last name isn't Fryer. - You can stop sending me DMs. You can stop tweeting suggestions at me for things that we need to do for Welsh Fryer. He's coming in in an hour and a half. He's gonna hang out. - Sit quietly. - Sit quietly, we got interviews. He's gonna sit quietly and then we'll chat with him when time permits. Now again, this is, Welsh is listening going, oh God, what did I do? You did nothing. All you are is just a sweet little kid. - You sound like a fifth grade teacher setting the agenda for the day. - Your people, Welsh, are making me insane. - The Welsh? - The Welsh mafia is making me bananas. Here's one I got this morning. You ready for this? Get Welsh Fryer a hitting lesson at frozen ropes. He'd be so stoked. It's something that likely is not even a thing in the UK. Get him with Tracy Sanders at the 4S location. He's the best at that facility. It's not close. Great guy will joke around with him while hitting. So now I have to facilitate a hitting lesson at frozen ropes. It's 40 minutes from here. Tom, I'm gonna drive you up to frozen ropes. I got you dialed in. Bro, I'm not-- - You're looking a little puffy, have you? I tried SD fatlocks. - I'm not a travel agent for the love of God, nor am I an entertainment constant. - I'd like to anchor the news with Kimberly Hunt tonight. - How about you sports for men tonight? Paul, he's my wife on the phone. - He's kidding, you're on the phone. Then, I just let you come in. Paul, he's buddy, brought him some Welsh cakes this morning. Look at this. Homemade Welsh cakes. - I'm actually very excited about these Welsh cakes. And-- - Look at that. - No, and they look really good. Now, no offense to Paul's friend, Alex, who brought them in. But if I go to Wales, I don't want someone bringing me a carne as side of burrito. - That's the point. - That's for us. (laughing) So, personally, I'm excited though. I've never had a Welsh cake. - Now, you're playing golf today, Ben. - Any plans to bring Welsh fryer? - No. - Okay. - Why not? - Babe, are you on the line? - I'm here. - Good morning. - Good morning. - I have some bad news for you. - Not great. - You have to have sex with Welsh fryer today, okay? I'm sorry. He's coming in, he's 18, he's of age. - You have to have sex with Welsh fryer today. So, as soon as the show's over, I'm gonna bring him home. Yes, I'm gonna bring him home. You guys are gonna have sex, and then I'll pick him, I'll drive him. I'll probably have two 4S ranshers hitting lesson. (laughing) - Better channel thing. - Paul, can you pass me through to HR? (laughing) - We don't have HR here. You're talking to Adam. - All right. - All right. - I'll text to Adam. - Is it extra sweet? Because there's against the country. - Adam's standing in the room. Is it extra sweet? 'Cause it was with Welsh fryer? (laughing) - Oh, where my extra sweet, sweet shirt. - The literal boner repeller, that shirt. (laughing) I'm sorry about this, but you've heard of Prima Nokta. This is some version of you, so I'll be bringing him by, I hope you're ready, at about 1045. We have a meeting, about 1115. - All right, I'll freshen up. - All right, freshen up. We'll see you soon, and get ready. I love you. Give the kids. - I love you. - Tell them their dad is very sorry for what I'm having to put you through this afternoon. - Hey, thanks for taking one for the team. - Yeah, thanks for taking one for the team. I want this. - Not that you already, Don. - I want this kid to have the greatest experience of his life in the States, okay? - Oh my God, not to call. I thought I'd take this morning. (laughing) - He goes back, oh, how was summer holiday? He's like, "Guys, I'm obsessed with what she's wanted." (laughing) - Well, trust me, he'd be very underwhelmed. (laughing) - Well, it really depends on how many margaritas she's had. And it's a Wednesday, so I don't know. - If he takes you to a hotel, he might have more fun. - That's absolutely true. Well, yeah, we'll get a hotel. I'll pay for it, yeah, 100%, 100%. All right, well, we'll see you in a few hours. I love you, give the kids a big hug and kiss for me. All right. - I'll try. - Okay, bye. So there you go. Gotta make sure this kid's visit is absolutely elite. All right? - You're gonna come out of the pen tonight for the Padres. - Anything else that we could do? Hey, what's he getting Welsh for her in an apartment, overlooking Pekka Park? Yeah, what else did we do? Maybe we'll get Tony Hawk in, teach him how to skate. - Rob Machado. - I mean, we've never had Tony Hawk on it. - I don't know Tony Hawk. - It's Andrew Schoplin. - Can you give him a golf lesson, maybe? - Yes. - If we tell him Welsh fries here, we might- - Oh my God, be a muck. - This kid, and then this is again, no fault of zone. He hasn't done anything. But I've said it, we're having him in. He's coming on, I got him batting practice passes for Friday. He's gonna get to dap up Xander Bogards. He's gonna, "Hey, what's up, Manny?" Like, those guys are cool, they'll come by, they'll say, "What's up?" Try to give you a good experience. It's never enough. It's never enough. I'll give you an inch and you want a mile. You know what I'm sayin'? - I blame Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhaney for most of this. No one had even heard of whales like four years ago. - Yeah, whales have been forgotten. - All of a sudden, everything whales is cool now. - Ah, man. - Yeah, I'm excited for Welsh, he's gonna. - Pretty sure I told you guys the first time when we had Welshfire on Zoom, from Wales. I think I told you guys, when I was in middle school, I probably was 14 years old. We had like world culture day, we had the big assembly in the gym, and everybody got to walk in with their big flag of whoever their heritage was. And somebody already had like the Italian flag, the German flag. - Sure. - I had nothing left. I lied, I said I was from away. - I said you were Welsh, because nobody had the Welsh flag and it's badass, there's like a big red dragon on it. I'm like, I'll take that one. They're like, are you Welsh? I'm like, oh, yeah, totally. - I had another guy. - We could pass off a little bit as Welsh. - Thank you. - I had another guy DM me over the weekend and say, do you think group dog is gonna let him throw out a first pitch? - I don't have any effing idea. - Why don't you DM him? - Ask him, I don't make those calls, nor am I going to on a Saturday. Hey, group dog, it's Woodsy, how are you? Good, team's playing great. Anyway, we'll get Welsh for our first pitch, if that. You know how long it took us that it was the number one morning show on the effing flagship? You know how long it took us to get a first pitch? Five years! Five! (laughing) Five! (laughing) Silio had one, Tandy had one. It took us five years. Five! To get one. This kid's just cruisin', hey, what can I, anything else? - Every competing radio show. - Chris says give me your oasis tickets. - Absolutely not. Absolutely, absolutely not. All right. Rant over. Hannah seemed to, she seemed receptive to it at least. - It's not a good sign for you. - That's really not. - Yeah, it's not concerning at all. - It was not a very hard sell. - No, it wasn't, I thought it would be a little bit, like no, I would never, it was all right. She's, you know, she's a team player. - Take one for the team. - She doesn't like when people ask me for stuff. - It stresses her out. - You know that her age difference between her and Welsh, right? - It's actually just about the same as the age difference between you and her. (laughing) - How old is he? - 18, 19. - 19. - Yeah. - And she's 34. - For 15 years. - 14 years, so. - Right there. - That is absolutely how the other half lives. (laughing) - For an evening. - Janine, relax, it's all right. I'm just, I'm taking the piss, as they say, in the UK. She just seems like an uncomfortable situation to walk into by no fault. - I was, I promise you, I walked right into it this morning with no idea, and it was a very uncomfortable situation. - Nothing would delight me more than to see, we don't have a bench coach here in San Diego. Nothing would delight me more. Eric Groomner, if you're listening, I mean, get him in the dugout. Get him in the dugout, just sitting next to Shilty. You know, leg's crossed. - Take out the line-up car. - In his ear, shooting the breeze with him, you know. - Exchanged the line-up car with AJ Hinch tonight. - I am dead, dude. - Oh my God, that would be the greatest. (laughing) Now I think we should get on a mission to see how much stuff we can get him. You know what I mean? To see how much muscle we can really flex. (laughing) That's incredible. All right, so he'll be here at 7.30. And excited, decided to pour kid. He's gonna walk into a pornets nest this morning. But no, we're excited to have him. We'll set the menu coming up next, but yeah. Just, it gets... - Dominic says in the chat, "Text Hoppy, "see if we can get him his seats." - Gets a little overwhelmed. (laughing) And you know, I feel like, I feel guilty immediately for like, should I have done more? I do, that's just the way that I'm wired. And that my nature is, well, have I done enough for this kid? That's what it really boils down to. And it's a flaw in me. It's not something I don't think to be celebrated. It's something in me where I'm like, should I be doing more? And I know the answer is no. I know the answer is no. But there's that tiny little kernel that sticks in my brain that's like, "Oh, really?" That's the best you can do. - It sucks. - You know, the real difference between me and you and there are many? - Yeah. - I don't have that. - You don't have it at all. Not even a little bit. Ben doesn't lay in bed at night. - No, I don't. - I don't. I feel like-- - I do enough for those people. - We did a really nice thing, just opening the door to our building and letting him walk up here today. Well, chat on the back for Ben for what he did. Drew said, Drew said she would get, can we call the Navy and get him a flyover today? (laughing) - You ever been in an F-16, you pin? (laughing) Today's your lucky day. - Barrel rolling across Miramar. (laughing) One of my favorite bits we've ever done. (laughing) You guys keep your suggestions coming. And if we-- - I'm following up with we get to go get it. Good job, off-land to Silvio, go, go, go. (laughing) (banging) - It's literally one of my favorite opens we've ever done. So let's keep it rolling. - Ben will set the menu next. We will get into all of the, oh, as somebody squirrely said, this lineup today is like base is loaded. I said, man, you're right. The bases are loaded on Ben and Woods. We'll fill you in on who's coming in, what we're gonna talk about, all that next. - Kelly with traffic, and then we're off and running on a Wednesday on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fan. Hope everybody enjoyed their day off. Padre's day off yesterday. I think we all needed one. I know the team needed one for sure. But even as a fan, every once in a while, it's okay to not have a game to look forward to later that day. - I missed it last night. - Thank you. - I always do, man. I do. But it did make me feel better knowing that those guys got a chance to reset and shut the mother down, hit a cold plunge, or I did see, I saw Manny send out the results of a fantasy football draft. Now I did not, on Instagram, you'd have to screenshot it. And then, oh, you did it. - I zoomed in. Paulie zoomed in, is that what was Manny in a draft last night? - It was like the MLB draft. - Oh, with all the MLB players. - Yeah, so I zoomed in. - Oh, yes, I love this. - Mike Mustakis had the first pick. - Then there was Lee, clearly. - There was a team with multiple, like a lot of the teams had multiple managers. - Sure. - To make it, to get everybody in. So Austin Barnes, Jack Peterson, and Alex Woodward team. - Okay. - Andrew Ben and Tendi and Jake Mariznick. - This is probably just a friendly, like $20 buy-in. - Yeah, totally. - Totally had a match. - It's actually illegal for them to bet anything. - Right. - So it's probably just for no money. - Just for pride. - Just for pride. - Big Cat from Barstool was in this league. - Oh, wow. - Hosmer. J.T. Real Muto and Kyle Schwarber have a team. - Oh, legit. - Mike Trout, he's running it by himself. - Nice, of course he is. - Alex Bregman, on the time. - Brian McCann. - Okay. - Danny Machado, by himself. - Solo. - Got his own team. Shane Bieber and Austin Hedges. - Austin Hedges. - Of course he's gonna always-- - Hey guys, hello. - He's the court jester. - And then Mike Napoli had a team and rounding out the league was Will Meyers. - Will Meyers in the league, okay. - That's pretty solid. - Solid, no timing fam in this league. - That's what we found. - Been ex-communicated from some of the leagues. - Well, yeah, give me our captain's team. - To show the results, that's, oh, yeah. - Yeah, I wanna see who our captain, yeah. I wanna know this. This is info I'd like to know. - Let's see, Manny. - His first pick was, uh... - It's hard to do this. - G. Wilson. - Garrett Wilson. - Garrett Wilson, The Jets. - The New York Jetsons Jr. - Mike Evans. - Mike Evans. - Marvin Harrison Jr. Me and Manny. - Mike Evans, Alvin Kamara. - Wood says, Kamara, yeah. - Anthony Richardson. - AR-15. - David and Joku. - I'm just reading the names that I know. - Yeah, yeah. - We had a fantasy football draft yesterday and I realized I don't know a lot of players. - There's a few unknown commodities. - I was pretty good until the third round. - Third round. - Is that a brown to the yellow dicey? - And then Manny's back up quarterback is Matthew Stafford. - Okay, okay, very good. - Oh, I'm rooting for our captain. That's the, in that league, that's who I'm rooting for. And then after him, I'm rooting for Shorber and his crew, 'cause I like him. He hit three home runs last night. Ridiculous, ridiculous game for Kyle Shorber. - That they go ahead one that he hits. - I mean, it's that late season Phillies magic, you worry about them recapturing it. - 100%. - Because when they get it, it like sticks around for a while and it's tough to overcome. We've seen it up close with that late season Phillies magic looks like. - Yeah. - All right, set the menu for the show today. And obviously with no Padres game last night, any sports talk show in America worth its salt would be doing a multi-part NFL preview today. - Oh yeah. - I didn't even ask. I didn't even bother asking. In fact, why don't we just do it right now? You guys picked your Super Bowl winner and that'll be our NFL preview. You got 10 seconds to come up with your winner of the Super Bowl and we'll consider that our Ben & Woods official 2024 NFL preview. - Kansas City. - Kansas City. - I'll take San Francisco. All right, we're done. That was the Ben & Woods 2024 NFL preview. - Are you ready for the football? - Actually, tomorrow is Thursday. We will start back the NFL threesome. - All right. - Yeah, I didn't even know that it was coming back. - I do like the NFL threesome. - Yeah, you had to leave yesterday early, you had to go to Costco and get socks. - I did. - Did you get some? - I did get socks. - Of course the file, 69 offers. He was giving them the business. - I want to talk about your Costco socks before we dive headlong into. - Into the menu? - Right, you have no socks on right now. - No. - Were these dress socks? - No. - Were they athletics? - Yes, the shorts, like golf socks that I wear with shorts. - They come up. - Or just above the shoe line. - I've started going. - The ankle. - Yeah, ankle socks. - Does this look like that? - Those are no shoe socks. - No, the no shoe socks. - I don't like no shoe socks. - Why? - It feels like a condom kind of on your foot. It really does. - I feel like they don't stay completely on my foot and they start riding under. I've tried, even the Lulu ones that we got. - Yeah, these ones are riding under my foot. So I need this a little more up the ankle to make sure they stay there. - So I was in the gym yesterday and I was looking at the program that I was doing and I did all the things that I needed to do. I did the lunges, the leg extension, the leg curls. I did the leg press and then I looked down and there were two versions of calf exercises and I looked around at some of the other guys in the gym and we're talking handsome. Yo, shredded, tan. I looked at every other man in the gym and you know what I thought to myself? It was not, I don't envy any man. I don't for anything and it was more pride. I said, I'm gonna get up here and I'm gonna do these just to complete my program. But I along with every other guy in here, I see you over there with your big headphones on and your sleeve tattoo and your huge biceps and triceps and then I look down and I see your skinny little legs and I think to myself, my man, Ben Higgins comes in here and slays you and slays him and slays me. So I did my, I did my calf exercises Ben and I did him with a smile because I know they'll never compare and I know that no dude in there can compete with my guy, Ben Higgins. You've never seen anything like those and I know every one of those guys would give everything that they had to have calves like yours. And it wasn't envious. I was on the thing doing the calf raises, laughing to myself. What a joke this is. Why am I doing this? 'Cause I'll never compare to Ben's. - When they were handing out calves, I was first in line that day apparently, got up early. - You filled all night. - And then after that, it's everybody's second pen, like some wraparound tribal ink on his calf. - Oh, yes! - If you ever get a tattoo, you have to do the wrap around. - You have to do the wrap around. - Draw the attention down there. - Yes, ladies, look at this. I mean, they're stunning and they're tan and they're firm. I mean, it is unbelievable. But I felt like pride, not envy. I was like, I'm proud of him. - Thank you. - Because no, everyone's in there. Just grind. - There's really nothing to be proud of. If I had been working on them my whole life and this is the end result, then I could be proud of them. - That's the thing that don't do a leg day ever. - He's never done a calf raise in his life. - Never. And they're unbelievable. They're bodybuilder calves. They'll be like, you kill them. - Oh, Ben, people, do you get the calves? - People. - I spent my entire workout yesterday pretty much doing abs. I have no abs. I worked hard on the abs. - It's nothing. I got nothing there. - It's the worst. - Do nothing with the calves? They're great. What is the point? I had never totally understood it. - Of abs or calves? - No, of working out. Because it doesn't seem to work that well. - It's not great. It's not great at all. - But I-- - Would you sacrifice any of the calves to have, like, more abs, like little less calves? - He's got so much despair. - I would sacrifice a little bit to spread it around. - Yeah. - Just a tiny bit. - Spread it around. - I just thought, man, the guys in here would kill for them. - A golf walker, Doug J says, that is part of it. I do walk on the golf course up and down the hills of Goat Hill, so that does help a little, Ben. - Yeah, I'd feel that. - All right, you ready for the menu today? - Let's go. - All right, we'll look around at the league. You know, if you were doing some scoreboard watching yesterday with the hopes that someone might help out your San Diego Padres on the road to the National League playoffs, you were sorely disappointed last night. We can talk about the stands as we head September 4th here in the pennant race, we're officially on, and it is time for standings and scoreboard watching at this point. We've gotten to be the point in the season where that is actually relevant, and we'll talk about you Darvish's return and game two of the series against the Detroit Tigers coming up tonight at Peko Park. And then it's a big, as you said. What is it, for Grand Slam, a full wide, what did he-- - Basis loaded. - Basis loaded lineup for us today. On a big league Wednesday, Adam Jones is giving with us at 7.35 this morning, checking in. Brett Boone, 8.35 with his weekly segment. And then Jesse Agler says we didn't have an Incorporated yesterday, given the day off for the San Diego Padres. Jesse will join us at nine o'clock this morning. Paulie's got his round of the report, and of course, Welsh Fryer will be in sometime around the middle of the show. And we'll stop spitting apparently. Just for him. - Sweet little baby, sweet little angel. - Kids like waking up. - He's in a real design. - What the hell has close blowing up? - I have to have sex with him. (laughing) - I have to. - I get to. - You get to. - It's a privilege. - That's right. - Oh man. - That's your show for today. We'll start a little baseball talk when we come back. Why can't, like one team, just one team can help out somewhere? - Is there a worse team? - The angels came close. - Is there a worse team than the Boston? How many times have the Boston Red Sox led us down in the last couple of weeks? - Two series now. I mean, they're just killing. - Not a single game. - Nope. - Not a single game of hell. - Absolute losers. - That is, at least the Padres don't need help. - Correct. - Thank God. This without being excruciating. - Yeah, we can talk about that. How painful that would be if you're trying to chase down one of these teams. We'll get to that. Coming up next with Benawoods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. (upbeat music) - Well, brief check of the National League playoff standings this morning. Shows the Padres still holding the first wild card spot. It's just a little bit tighter than it was yesterday. After not getting any help last night from any other team. I mean, it's baseball. Someone's gonna, someone's supposed to lose, dude. But it did not happen. We'll talk a little bit about the results and why, I don't know, the Padres are gonna have to just do this themselves going forward after a check of traffic here at 97 through the fan. Start with the National League West race for a second because to Annie and Elston after our show yesterday. And I thought Craig laid it out pretty smartly when he talked about it. Obviously there are a lot of Padres fans. We'd all love to see the Padres chase down the Dodgers, win a division title, but you have to remember that the Dodgers, if they're going to blow, which is now a five and a half game lead. So last night they were in Anaheim. Joe Heotani's return. And they actually got a game from the Angels. It was 2-2, late, no one could score. Went to extra innings and the Dodgers scored four, three run homer for Mookie Betts. Ended up winning 6-2 and picking up another half game. So they now lead the Padres by five and a half games in the N.O. West, which is not insurmountable in normal circumstances. You can have a good month and make up five and a half games on a team. But you also need that other team to start playing poorly or at least mediocre. I mean, you can't make up ground on a team that is winning seven out of every 10 games, eight out of every 10 games. It's really, it's really not possible. So unless the Dodgers cool off considerably, and they are as, really as hot as they've been in a long time right now, there's not really an avenue for the Padres to come back. I know they've got those three games against the Dodgers at the end of the season. Maybe if you can whittle it down by a couple of games and win all three of those. - That still means you have to pick up... - You still have to pick up three games in that time. - Three games in that time. - Yes, going in or two games going into that series to have a shot, which you could do but the realistic path to a division title is just not one. I think you want to put a lot of eggs in that basket if you're a Padres fan right now. The Dodgers are just playing, they're playing well. They're hot, hopefully they're getting a little too hot, too early and can fizzle out by the time October arrives but right now they are just finding ways to win games. They've gotten healthier obviously. Shohio Tani, Mookie Beds, even Freddy Freeman seems to be bouncing back from his injuries. They're like at the beginning of the season when they were kind of all clicking on all cylinders. So it's just not likely that the Padres are going to be able to chase them down. This is a, and I said this last month when the Diamondbacks started to get really hot and the San Diego Padres got really hot. I said this is fun, this is great but this is worst case scenario if you don't want to see the Dodgers do well in October. They are never challenged in August, ever. They're never challenged in August. I mean the Giants challenged them a few years ago but for the most part, man, they got this thing locked up there on Easy Street. Now they still have it fairly locked up. They know they're going to the playoffs but it's a completely different ball game with Arizona and San Diego at least attempting to breathe down their net. This is making them sharp. This is sharpening them like they haven't been sharpened in a long time. So listen, the Dodgers were the favorite to win the World Series before the season started. I think they're probably still the favorite but anything can happen in October but them getting hot right now and staying this hot is ultimately a bad thing for us, certainly. So yeah, I don't know that you need to go nuts trying to chase them down. You do what you can, you handle your business, you keep winning series and let the chips fall where they may. What you can't do if you're a Padres fan is really get too upset or worried about it. 81 wins was the projection for this team, all right? They're going to hit that in the next few days. This team has a 96% chance to make the playoffs. That's what matters. And if you can keep your eye on that prize, I think it's going to be better for all of our mental states. - And none of us really expected the Angels to do anything last night. You know, the fact that it was even close gave you a little hope but it didn't happen. Now, the Arizona Diamondbacks, that's a different story. That's a legitimate race with legitimate consequences and rewards for winning it. Namely, a home playoff series in the wildcard round. If you can finish ahead of Arizona. And last night, the Diamondbacks were in San Francisco to take on the Giants, not a great Giants team but one that, you know, at home, you're hoping can give the Diamondbacks some problems. Well, Diamondbacks have been really hot lately as well, Randall Grichik hit a pair of home runs. They built a big lead and I kind of was 72 and I thought, there goes that one. Then all of a sudden, Giants come back and I'd flipped that game on. It was on ESPN+ since there was no Padres game and I'm watching it. They pull within seven, six, it's the eighth inning. They've got the tying run a third, strikeout end of the inning. Arizona adds one, it's eight to six. They go to the ninth. They got their new closer. Martinez ends around 101. But the Giants, your Stremsky gets a single and then there's an RBI double, so it's eight seven. They got the tying run at second base with one out and I'm going, come on, Giants, come on, Bob Melvin. What did I tell you was gonna happen yesterday? Bob Melvin's gonna find a way to lose by one in that game. Bob Melvin's wondering what pitcher am I gonna throw out there today if so I can lose by one. And of course, they could not come through with a runner in scoring position in a clutch situation at the end of the game. Remember that feeling Padres fans and the Diamondbacks held on for an eight to seven win picking up a half game on the pot race so they're not just a half game back in the National League wild card race and this one looks like it will come down to the wire. And that last series against Arizona could end up being pretty critical in determining home field advantage in the playoffs. - Now there was a team that I really had dead and buried and I know they've handled us pretty well this year and that's the New York Mets. I did not think the New York Mets really had a prayer and they had played some really bad baseball. - Well, they are also getting hot at the right time. Betty, they have won now six in a row. - Do you know that the Padres have handed the Mets two of their last three losses? - Yeah. - And that was like two weeks ago. - Dude, they're... - And they are playing really well. You look back in that Padres series and we're kind of going and two out of four against the Mets. No, that's actually a good result against the Mets right now. They have not lost two to anybody else in like the last three weeks. - And I have less than zero faith that the Boston Red Sox, who did this to us against Arizona, just worthless, absolutely worthless the whole time against them. (upbeat music) (whistling) (upbeat music) (laughing) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Altogether now. (upbeat music) Look at what the mushrooms. (upbeat music) - Absolute turd factory in Boston. - Worthless. - We have nothing to play for. - Exactly. - The Royals have lost seven in a row. Had the Red Sox had a good week, they could be right there in the wild card race, but they're still four and a half games back because they've lost four straight. - Yeah, they lost four in a row and seven out of their last 10 and could definitely help us out by handling the Mets. You got to cool those guys off at some point too 'cause again, Francisco Lindor playing at an MVP level. - If Show Hayo Tani did not exist, I think Francisco Lindor would be your nationally MVP. - No brainer, they're gonna give it to Show Hay. They were 100%. - He's gonna have a 50/50 season, you have to give it to him. - He's even as a DH, 50/50 guaranteed. - Yeah. - Yeah, even as a DH. - I think 50/50 pretty much locks it up. - That's fun. I mean, who cares? You know, what is he gonna do in October? We'll see. If he stays this locked in, they're gonna ride him all the way to World Series. - He hit his 30th, Pilonzo at his 31st. Mark Viento's good player. He hit his 22nd and the Mets beat the Red Sox seven to two to stay hot. And by the way, they're breathing down the necks of the Atlanta Braves. Just a half game back for that last playoff spot. We weren't really expecting the Rockies to do anything against Chris Sale. They obliged. They did absolutely nothing against Chris Sale. - Some of the easiest money you're gonna make. - He's also cruising. He's cruising to a Cy Young award. Seven more shutout innings. What is he? 16 and three now? Something like that this season. He's in nuts. - Red Sox traded him for Vaughn Grissom, by the way. They are on fire. - Vaughn Grissom for Chris Sale. - So with the Red Sox losing again, you know who's now the closest team to a playoff spot in the American League? - It's the Detroit Tigers. - The team that is playing here at Pekko Park. They are four and a half games back at the Kansas City Royals and not out of it. They're waking up this morning. They're looking at the Red Sox struggling. They're looking at the Mariners falling apart. They're looking at the Royals losing seven in a row. And I guarantee you, they're walking into the clubhouse at Pekko Park going. - We need to do it. - Guys, if we can get hot, if we start tonight, we can make the playoffs. There's no reason we can't make the postseason. This is a dangerous Tigers team the next two days. They have that one thing. They've got hope, which is, you know, sometimes in short supply in September and baseball, but they're waking up this morning with buckets of it right now. And they're going to be an extremely, extremely motivated team tonight. And tomorrow night at Pekko Park. - Let me say this, man. If you're a baseball purist, you probably hate the extra wild card. This is the greatest thing that's happened to baseball since God knows. I mean, this is spectacular theater. I don't know how many more eyeballs it's going to get, but I'll tell you what, man. Detroit, people now watching the Tigers. They're going to be watching. They're going to be tuning in. People in Seattle, more invested. You know, there's so many good things to like about this. Think about all the teams that are still in it, man, with a month left to play. This is brilliant for baseball. I don't care what you say. I don't think it waters it down at all. I think this is absolutely spectacular for the game of baseball. - Our 835 guest, Brett Boone. I saw you posted a video, Boonie's quick hits on Instagram. He was talking about the playoff structure. And he goes, look, as a player, as an old school guy, I hated it. I would have hated this idea. I liked it 162 games. It put emphasis on winning your division, one wild card team. That's how we did it. He goes, but I'm retired now. He goes, as a media guy, as a fan of the game, I love this. - But I promise you, Brett Boone, his tune would change if he was still the second baseman for the Seattle Mariners, because they're still in it. As badly as they played, they're still playing for something in September. You know, and that means something to those players. - I mean, it's like as late as like the end of July, we still had six teams all just huddled around each other in the wild card race. - I love it. - It was always kind of nuts when we were growing up, and there was four divisions, and the only way to make the playoffs was to win them. That you had three quarters of your teams. Well, there was the East and the West in both the American and the National. - Oh, earlier. - Four divisions in the entire game of baseball. The only way to make the playoffs to make the championship series was to win that division. 1984, Perez had to win the West to play the Cubs who won the East in the championship series. You had like seven teams in each division. You were in sixth place in June. Like, good luck. I mean, your games are now meaningless for four months. - Four months, yeah. - And you're tuned out as a fan. - How they took so long until what? 1995 to finally come up with a wild card, just one. Just to like make a few more of these games meaningful at the second half of summer. - I love it. - You're nuts. - I absolutely waited so long to do it. - I absolutely love this. It is excruciating, which is what sports should be. It should be excruciating at times. And that's what it is. And if you're a fan of one of those teams on the bubble, you're a Detroit Tigers fan, bro, you're in it in September. You are in it. - What more do you want? - What more do you ask for? Like, you did not expect to be in it. Hey, let's be completely honest. We didn't really expect to be in it. We sure had a lot of hope. And if things break the right way, we didn't really expect to be in it. But with this new wild card, we always knew there was a chance. And now, you know, now you just have to handle business, Benny. - The one nationally contender that did lose yesterday was the Milwaukee Brewers who fell in 12 innings to the St. Louis Cardinals seven to four, just their second loss in eight. Really have a bunch of stars. But they've been playing as well, or better than any bunny here this last month. He's been huge. As big as Jackson Merrill's probably been for the Padres just for not quite as long, but he's been amazing. But they lost Yellich. Obviously they traded away burns. You look at a team like that, you know, they got no hope. I thought maybe last place. And no, they are running away with that division now. That big American league series, the Guardians beat the Royals seven to one. Guardians pulling away and the Royals falling apart at the very bad moment of the season. But they still got that four and a half game cushion over the Tigers. So they certainly would expect to be in the postseason, but you don't want to have a team that's lost seven in a row at this point in the year. No doubt about that. You mentioned Cal Shwarvers home run in our open, the 10 nine win run with them, three of them, including the go ahead three run shot there in the what? Top of the ninth or bottom of the eighth, bottom of the eighth and maybe at the Blue Jays 10 to nine. And then finally, Pirates Cubs Paul Skeens did throw five shutout innings. Wasn't like overwhelmingly dominant. He had four hits, four walks, did strike out six. I don't think he ate too much into Jackson Merrill's lead in the in the nationally wild or rookie of the year race, but he did have a decent outing yesterday for the Pirates. Yeah, yeah, he did. But pitching once a week and throwing five innings is not how you're going to catch Jackson. They'll make that game will make an appearance and don't do this as well. Oh, well, it's not Paul Skeens is full. Okay. Our baseball, our baseball coverage on 97 three, the fan is brought to you by T-Mobile switch to T-Mobile. You can get tons of benefits and still save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon use their savings calculator to find out how at T-Mobile dot com slash switch. And by the way, Diamondbacks are getting healthier as well. They activated Christian Walker yesterday. Kitel Marte is expected back and is he now? That's what I heard. I got him on my fantasy team, Ben. The last, the last update I saw from Kitel was like, he's not started to swing a bat yet, but maybe it's been updated. I was listening to MLB radio. They said soon they didn't give a timetable on it, but they did lose Lorna Scuriel Jr. to the injured list. No, I think it was a calf injury. He's been one of their contributors that kind of helped him steady the ship. Wall guys like Walker and Marte have been out. So a little bit healthier, but they also lose kind of a key player going forward. Every injury at this point becomes even more critical because when you get hurt late in the season, you wonder is that going to affect someone in the postseason? Oh, yeah, he is coming back to Marte. Marte could be activated for the 10 day. I held during the team's upcoming road trip. Yeah, getting Fernando back was great. Getting your team today and Christian Walker back is pretty epic for your team. Yeah, it's going to be a fun last couple of weeks of the season. We'll be following it closely. Take a look ahead at you. Darvish's return and play some take on Woods when we come back on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friend's still laughing me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. 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We'll see if any of that has carried over the reports from his sessions against, you know, his minor leaguers and what he looked like in his bullpen sessions were really largely positive. The kind of spin, velocity that you was getting, but obviously that doesn't mean much until you take the mound and he will do so tonight for your San Diego Padres at 640 against right-hander Kader Montero for the Detroit Tigers, young guy, 24 years old. His numbers don't stand out, 4 and 6, 5.17 ERA. However, August was definitely his best month. He had a 3, 8, 2 ERA in August. Three of his four wins have come in his last five starts. So he's definitely been pitching better as of late. I would imagine though, just looking at the numbers and knowing that you is probably gonna be on a bit of a pitch count, you know, five innings-ish. Gonna be kind of a bullpen game. Montero has pretty much been held in the 80s for his total pitches all season long as a 24-year-old. Looks like they've been pretty conservative with his usage and the Padres of course are good at driving up pitch counts. So, you know, 85 pitches may only be four to five innings for a starter when you're growing up against the San Diego Padres, which means this game in all likelihood will be cited by the bullpen and with the day off yesterday and what the Padres did at the trade deadline gives your Padres, I think, a little bit of an advantage in game two of this series. - Yeah, I'm sure they're gonna be favored and I'm sure that it will be a fairly heavily favored game tonight, the Tigers. - There'll be some unknowns with you's return. - Yeah, that's true, that's true. But again, you have a really fresh bullpen, you can go to a long man if you need it, but it'll be interesting to see how they manage it and, you know, you talk about them driving up. - As long as the Padres is heavy favor. - Heavy favor. - You talk about them driving up pitch counts. - It's funny because they do and they don't. They'll have those games where you look up and Miles-Michaelis has 60 pitches through seven and you're like, what is happening? But they don't K, right? That's the thing is like, they don't K. They put the ball in play. They're not striking out a ton. It's, they're not super patient, but I will say-- - They drive up pitch counts pretty good for a team that doesn't strike out a lot a ton. - Yeah, exactly. - But you know what they do and a rise, obviously, I think pro far is really good at this. They spoil pitches as well. - They spoil a ton of pitches. - Like two strike pitches, Jake does it well. Throw the bat out, Manny can do it even, you know? - You know what they'll do? - They stand up there, Zander can do it. It's like, it's one, two count. And they'll sit there for four pitches and go, yeah, it's about an inch off, but I'll just burn, you know, into the crowd, into the crowd. It must be very, I think it's very frustrating to face the Padres. - It's like the worst on a good team like that. That just, you know, they don't swing at the pitches they're supposed to, that nasty change up down and away. And if they do swing at it, they spoil it and they wait for you to make a mistake. Their offensive approach has been great all season long. One of the best then that I've ever seen and they've stuck to it. They've really never gone outside the plan. So tonight, if they're swinging early in the counts and they're, you know, Randy roll over to short, don't be mad, don't be upset. This is what's gotten them to where they are right now. They are playing that game and they're doing it really well. The other thing they'll do is they'll have those innings anywhere, pitchers kind of cruising, you know, eight, nine, 10, they had a four pitch inning last game. And I'm like, was that four pitches? I barely blinked, but what they will do, then they'll find that inning where they're able to stretch it out to 30, you know what I mean? They string a couple of hits together and then guys start following pitches off and that's how they usually get it up. It's not a fast, they don't do it quickly. It could take some time, four or five innings. We've seen where they've scored the most of their inning or their runs this year. That's in like the seventh inning. So these guys are grinders, man. And they're going to stick to the approach that's been working for them. - I want to add to that. First, we need a contestant for take on Woods. Gonna play our game here in about three or four minutes. If you want to call in, chance to qualify for our new grand prize. Tonight's stay at the win or on core Las Vegas. Give us a call now for our musical trivia challenge against Woods. Yeah, 833-288-097-3, 833-288-097-3 calling and play right now. So lots has been written and discussed about the Padres approach under Victor Rodriguez and Mike Schilt at the plate this season. But what has really been impressive is that they stuck with it even when they weren't necessarily getting the results. And I think that to me is the biggest difference between the 2024 Padres and the 2023 Padres. - Stubbornness. - Last year they did not have that stubbornness to stick with whatever they were doing. - There's no buy-in. - There wasn't. - There was no buy-in. None whatsoever. And they didn't have buy-in the year before. - It's hard. It's easy to create buy-in when you're winning. - Yeah. - That's easy. - It's hard to do. - You and I can manage a team that's winning and get them to buy-in. 'Cause everyone likes winning. The hardest part of managing and coaching is to get a team to buy-in when they're not seeing the results that they want to see. - And that's the first half of the Padres season. They weren't bad, but they certainly weren't like, there was no guarantee that things were gonna get better. They were muddling around 500. It was okay, but it could have been a time where like, why don't we try something different? This isn't working. And they didn't do that. - They didn't. They really, really stuck to their guns. And you asked any athlete, if they learn, you know, golfers do this all the time. I gotta go and I'm gonna rework my entire swing. And oh, I'm getting results on the range. Oh, I didn't really get them in the tournament. Well, what does the human condition tell you to do? Well, I gotta go back to when I was winning tournament. I have to. No, no, this is the better plan. This is a better swing. Baseball players, hitters do it all the time. Cal Rip, you can just have four different stances for four different ABs. Works for him. Most guys, if they believe in the system, if they believe in what they're doing, even if they're not getting the results, you have to stay stubborn, you stick to it. And look, it's worked out in their favor. And the biggest beneficiary of that plan, and whether it was the coaches or just himself, to me has been Jerkson profile, who has been steady at a, has not changed. And hopefully, even though he has been slumping a little bit, don't change. Bro, those walks, the six walks or whatever. Stick with your plan. Stick with his plan. Don't change what you're doing. The approach has been working in the Padres, as you said, they have bought in. Bought into Mike Schilt, bought into Victor Rodriguez, and they're reaping the benefits now to that faith, that early belief that wasn't necessarily backed up. It wasn't rooted in results. Backed up by results early, but they kept with it, and now they are reaping the benefits of it late in the season. No question. They've been a joy to watch. They've been a joy to watch their approaches. And it's an approach that flies in the face of a lot of modern baseball analytical strategy of home runs and walks and swing for the fences. And it's okay to strike out a ton. And the Padres zagged when other teams were zigging. And that can be a dangerous place to be. 'Cause when you're on an island and it doesn't work out well, you look stupid when things don't work well, and you're doing something different, you look stupid. And no one likes to look stupid, especially ball players on television every single night, but they risked it. They risked doing something different, and now they're getting the benefits of that. - Yeah, no question. No question. It's been crazy to see them stick to it this long, man. And like I said, we don't know how it's gonna all shake out, but they've been really committed to what they've been doing this year, been very intentional about it. As Mike Schult likes to say all the time, it's worked for 'em. So they gotta just keep it rolling. - All right, so we've got some callers on the line. Let's get to it. It's time for today's game of Take on Woods. (upbeat music) - It's time for Take on Woods. ♪ Take on ♪ - Woods. ♪ Take on me ♪ ♪ Take ♪ - Woods. - Now let's go with Nick. Are you there? Line two? - I'm here. - He's there. All right, Nick, you are contestant today on Take on Woods. It is brought to you by Valvely and Instant Oil Change. It only takes 15 minutes. You don't have to get out of your car for directions and discounts. Go to socoutoilchange.com. That's socoutoilchange.com. Here's what you are playing for. If you can beat our Thai Woods in our five question musical trivia challenge, you will be entered into our grand prize drawing for September, a two night stay at the win or encore, Las Vegas and two tickets to Awakening, a thrilling spectacle at win Las Vegas. Tickets are on sale now at awakening.com. To give you an advantage, because woodsy's quite good at this, we let you pick the category, keep him in the dark. So here are your choices, Nick. We got Ashen Nation, five song titles that feature a single word ending in ATI-O-N, Ashen. We got Little Shop of Horrors, song titles or musical artists beginning with the word little. And our new category today is Reptiles. Five song titles and artists with a reptile in their name. So, In Nation, Little Shop of Horrors or Reptiles, Nick. - Let's go reptile. - Reptiles, okay. Again, today on Tae Gun Woods, it's five song titles or artists with a reptile in their name. Hopefully you know you're a biology enough to know what a reptile is. And you know you're music enough to get as many of the five right as possible. You'll have 60 seconds. If you don't know an answer, say pass. We'll come back to it if there's time left on the clock. First question, the two second song, Polly is queuing up now. You need to give me that title and the artist, one of which will have a reptile in the name. Nick, are you ready to play? - Let's do it. - Polly, you queued up? - I'm ready. - He's ready. All right, 60 seconds on the clock. The category is reptiles. Your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck, Nick. Let's take on Woods. (upbeat music) - Bath. - Singer David Coverdale has been the front man for which English hard rock band since 1978, delivering hits, including Is This Love? And here I go again. - Okay. - Red, gold, and green are the colors boy George sings about in which 1984, number one hit for Culture Club. - Farm a chameleon? - Correct. Fans of which prolific modern day Australian rock band consider themselves part of the Gizverse and attend the yearly Giz Fest. Which American band reached number one of the charts with 1967's Happy Together, the iconic song of unrequited love? Ha, go back to our two second song. (upbeat music) Singer David Coverdale has been the front man of which English hard rock band since 1978? Correct. Red, gold, and green are the colors boy George sings about. You got two. You got a Wright Snake and you got Karma Chameleon. You did not get our two second song. It was Crocodile Rock by Elton John. The Gizverse. Polly, do you know the Gizverse? - I do now. - That's King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. And then Happy Together is the Turtles. - But no, I think Woods is gonna win this one. Maybe three to two, maybe four to two. See how he goes. Hang on the line Nick, you never know. I've been surprised before. (upbeat music) See if you can figure out the category. It's always fun. All right, Nick's score is locked in. Woods, he joins us now. No category for him. 60 seconds back on the clock. Woods, your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck. Let's take on Nick. (upbeat music) Pass. Singer David Coverdale has been the front man for which English? - What's Nick? - Correct. Three, you know the colors boy George sings about in which 1984 number one hit for Culture Club. (keyboard clicking) Ah, pass. Fans of which prolific modern day Australian rock band consider themselves part of the Gizverse and attend the early Giz Fest. - What? - This is killing me. Pass. Which American band reached number one on the charts with the 1967's Happy Together? Their iconic song of unrequited love. - The Turtles? - Correct. Go back to our two second song. - I have no idea. I'll go to the next one. - All right, Red, Golden, Green are the colors boy George sings about in which 1984 number one hit for Culture Club. - Do you really want to hurt me? - No, fans of which prolific modern day Australian rock band consider themselves part of the Gizverse. - It's a modern day. - And attend the early Giz Fest. - Modern day prolific Australian band. - Wow, yes. Wow, that's a 2-2 score. Nick, you did it. You tied Woods. (applause) Look at his Nick. Nick. You said Nick. Nick. - I did it. - You did it. - I said Nick, you did it. - I heard it. - You did it. - I heard a D. - Yeah. - All right, well. - You also did it. - Give me the category. - Reptiles. - All right, the first one. I have no idea. - You guess you do. - What is it? - Come on. - I don't know what that. (upbeat music) - Oh, it's crocodile room. - Yes. - Healthy John. - All right. - Got white snake. Now what's the Culture Club hit with a reptile in the name? ♪ Red, Golden, Green ♪ ♪ Red, Golden, Green ♪ ♪ Calma, Calma, Calma, Calma ♪ - And then the Gizverse is our friends, King Gizzard and the Wizard. - King Gizzard and the Wizard. - Wizard, Wizard, Wizard. - The Gizverse. - Then thought that that was made up when we did our whole Coachella line up. - Giz Test. - What, three or four years ago? - We know they were Australian. - They're Australian, yeah. - I thought you were gonna get that one for sure. - The Gizverse. - Gizverse. - Oh, good. - Giz, Giz, Giz. - Giz, Giz, Giz. - Gif or Gif. - No, this one's definitely Giz. - Giz. - Gizverse. - Of course I get the white snake one because I love white snakes. - I knew you get white snakes. - I was pretty sure you'd get Crocodile Rock. That one surprised me. - I think that the category would help me. - Probably. - Everyone says that King Gizzard is amazing. I've listened to maybe one song. Maybe we'll come back with some. - All right, next standalone. Paul, it'll get your information. And you will be in the drawing for, that's two in a row to start the month. - Ties. - Ties. - Yeah, I'm lost. - That's not a loss, but we got two qualifying. - Two soccer guys. - That's a win. - Everyone goes home. - Yeah, I grew up. - Everyone's happy. - Zero zero draw. - We get qualifiers for Las Vegas. Works for everybody. All right, we'll come back. Woodsie's got something and don't do this for, as you said, from the Pirates game. - I mean, absolute umph show. Again, yesterday. - Oh, I did see this. - What is your problem, Doug? - I did see this. - If you were at Wrigley Field yesterday, I'm glad you got to pay money to go watch Doug Eddings do his thing. God. - That is coming up next. - We've been at Woods after a check in traffic here at 97.3 the fan. - Don't do this. (upbeat music) - It's time for Don't Do This. - What were you thinking? - Three stories from the world of sports that make us all shake our heads. - Why? - How many times do I have to tell you? - I'm sorry, I fudged up, guys. - You idiot. - You moron. - Don't do that. - The apple sometimes does far fall from the tree. - Don't do this. - Do not tweet that. - With Ben and Woods. - I like a Nickelback song or two. - On 97.3 the fan. - That is time for Don't Do This. Little DDT. Get to our special guest in the studio in just a second. - What do you want? You lead us off. - I saw what happened. - You lead us off. - You want me to lead us off. I don't know, Paul, he's got a Q mine up. - Oh, does he? - Yeah. - Is he ready? - Oh, he's got it, all right. - So this one is just for you. - Woods, because I know what a big fan you are of one. - Eli Manning in particular. And especially his participation in the Manning cast. - So somebody tagged me in this yesterday. - Did you see it? - No, no, they tagged me in it. I did not hit so open. - They're back again, what? Third season of Peyton and Eli on their alternate Monday Night Football broadcast. And I think Bill Belichick's gonna be part of the show, at least for the first half of the season. - The dynamic Bill Belichick. - Yes, they're in full promotion mode right now. And they pulled out all the stops to promote the Manning cast this year. Coming out with a 10 plus minute YouTube video musical. Yesterday. - Literally combining all of this. - I know. - If they did it, while-- - I think they're actually doing this just to annoy you. - If they did it while they were also in a parade, that would be the track back. - Well, they're on stage. - They, I mean, they have a cast of Cameo appearances in this 10 minute Manning cast video. And why don't we just listen to a little bit of it and you can-- - Our playing days are over here. - You just can bleed. - Now what do we do? I don't know, I mean, I wish we had a good idea. - From beating up Tom, to full time, Mr. Mom. - Folks, make fun of your head. Sell that space there instead. - Like to make Manning face. Mark it, some Manning face, man. - No insurance rates, but can you win a debate? - No, these aren't right for me. - And I just want to watch TV. - That's it. - It is? - Not a standard broadcast. - We'll do a Manning cast. - Something good that will laugh. - Or just a Manning cast. - Tom goes for ratings and he's the worst. He's the worst. - Whose worst is Miles Manning? He's the Jack Farlow of acting. - Payton has a little charm. - A little bit. - Eli-- - He can make me laugh sometime. - He is a noodle. - When he goes with Brad Paisley and does the jingle back and forth, I kind of chuckle a little bit. Payton can pull it off. Eli cannot. I've come around to your way of thinking on this. - He's just not good, man. He's not good. - I paid him. - Oh, it just kills me. - Yeah, I mean, that was their intro, right? - That was, yeah, it's a long teaser video. - They're not gonna be doing this. - No, no, they're not gonna sing. - It's gonna be the same Manning cast they've done. Plus Bill Belichick and-- - Not a standard broadcast. - We'll do a Manning cast. - So bad, really bad. - All right, we will go out to yesterday to Chicago, the friendly confines of Wrigley Field where pirates pitcher Paul Skeens, who I like, I do like Paul Skeens, I like Jackson Merrill Moore, was pitching yesterday and was pitching okay and thought he had strike three. He threw a two-seamer bend that was chalked. It was chalked again. It was on the white line. - Well outside. - Catcher, I thought, did a really, really nice job, though, of bringing it back. It 100% looked like strike three. He had me fooled. So Paul Skeens does the thing. He throws and then pretty sure it's strike three. So he kind of hops off the mound as adrenaline's going and he takes two steps off of the road. He'd never even touched grass. We see that all the time. We see that there's a couple guys on the Padres that will do it. They'll throw one and start, oh, Michael King. Michael King does it all the time. He had that two-seamer. He throws that lane changer. He starts to hop off the mound. - Last start, he was angry at the umpire. He said stay with it, stay with it, stay with it. You're getting fooled by it, but it's crossing the plate. - So again, Skeens does what every single pitcher in the big leagues does. And does the one, two hops still, does not touch the grass. Doug Eddings takes major exception to it. Rips his mask off, says something to Skeens. Skeens just smiles and is like, what? Next thing you know, he starts, he rips his mask off. He starts walking over to Derek Shelton. - I love Paul Skeens. - Walking over to Derek Shelton, Pirates Manager, says to him, essentially, he started to walk off the mound like he thinks it's a strike. You talk to him and Derek Shelton goes, I'll talk to you and just drop the hammer on him. It was unbelievable. I mean, Doug Eddings, is there losing his mind? - Again, I'm still, I'm not a family, I'm Shel. - It's rookie hazing. - But it's a rookie, I mean, he doesn't want to treat any other rookie. Paul Skeens may be a superstar rookie, but he still gets the rookie treatment. And even umpires know who's a rookie out there. - But the funny thing is, it's not like-- - You can do that if you're a 10-year veteran. - The funny thing is-- - Can't all ignore it, but if you're a rookie, don't show me up as an umpire and make me look bad. - He didn't say it where he smiled. He literally smiled, that's all he did. And Doug Eddings rips his mask up, start barking at him, then starts barking at the pirates. Like, again, you are the arbiter. - But when you do that, when you're skeens and you do that-- - You smile. - And you're wrong. - You can't smile. - And you start walking off the mound, you're showing up the umpire and saying-- - You can't smile. - I think you're wrong. - You can't smile? - You're making him look bad. - He didn't say, can you show up an umpire, you can show up an umpire by (grunts) he just smiled, grabbed the ball, and started to toe the slab. - I feel like I'm defending Paul Skins too much. - I feel like I'm defending Paul Eddings too. - Doug Eddings too much. - I love Paul Skins. - You are. (upbeat music) And then he's pointing and drawing. You go talk to him, I mean, give me a break, dude. Come on. Nobody paid to see Doug Eddings out there enforcing the unwritten rules. - But he was right. - It was a ball. - It was a ball. - It was a ball. He made the right call. - Yeah, he never opened his mouth. He just nodded, he got smiled and nodded. I don't know, Eddings sucks. - If he gets in with such an umpire of Paul Skins. - I didn't know, I didn't really know that either. - Really, really watch. - Really, really watch. - I just don't love Paul Skins the way Woods does. - I love Paul Skins. - It's true. - Do love Paul Skins. - Not giving him the past. - I don't get me wrong. - I love Paul Skins. - He has some videos on Instagram that I lie in bed at night and I show myself. - The motivational videos. There's no good reason to not believe in yourself. - Is it only fans? - Is it only fans? - No. - Is it only fans? What are you going here? - There's no good reason not to believe in yourself, says Paul Skins. And now let's do some do-do this. - Dee-dee, mega-doo-doo. - Ladies and gentlemen, the day has arrived. All the way from a crock pond. Our beloved Welsh friar is in studio. - Good morning, my friend. - What's up, guys? - How are you? - It's amazing to be here. It's so nice here. - You weren't faking that accent at all. - No, he's really good. - That's actually real. - What have we found out he's from Kansas? And he's been, this has been the whole time. Like, you're not really well- - He's walking- - Hey, y'all, I got him. - I can still be putting on the accent, you know. - You could, and that's true. - Well, welcome to the States. You are our do-do this for the day. Everyone's very excited to have you. It's like having a beetle in here, Welsh friar. If they were in church and he's Welsh, it's a different country entirely. - Who's the best band from Wales, in your opinion? Do you know many rock bands from Wales? - You hear the catfish in the bottom? - I have, I love catfish in the bottom. They're great. - They're from North Wales, yeah. - Are they back together? - Yeah, they are. - Heard of catfish in the bottle, man. - Have you? - No. - What about stereo phonics? Do you know them? One of my favorites. - Yeah, they're great. - We played them on some bumper music as well. Well, welcome to the States, my friend. We're gonna have a good time in here today. - And- - Catherine's A to Jones as well. - Catherine's A to Jones. - That's gotta be- - Anthony Hopkins. - Oh, I didn't know that. I thought he was British. - I did too. Well, sure. - I would think that you're British as well, hearing you talk. - Yeah, I don't really have the Welsh accent. I wish I did, but I don't- - You wish you had the Welsh accent? Really? - Yeah. - Why don't you? - I live really close to the border. - Okay. - All right, that makes sense. - I've kinda got the English twice. - That's why we all sound-- - Tommy Tyler? - Someone Mexican. - That's right, we're the close to the border. - Bonnie Tyler's from Wales, Tom Jones, I knew that. Well, it's good to have you, buddy. Hang out. We got some interviews coming up, and we'll shoot the bridge with you a bit. - What was that Catherine Zeta movie, Joan's movie with Sean Connery? - Yeah, they were like criminal thieves. - When she has to do the under-the-mouth. - Oh, geez. - What the hell was that? - Entrapment? - I think that was entrapment. - I think that was entrapment. - I think that was a good one. - I need to revisit that. - And that's don't, and do do this for a Wednesday. - That was don't do this. With Ben and Woods, 97.3.5. - All right, now that Welsh is here, we have all of our guests. 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And it is intense to be practicing the week. I think it's a bit much to make me roll, but what a honor. - Wait, you're in Spain. And now, do you mean football or do you mean football? - Football or football? Football, football, football, football, yes. - Three practices a week. - Monday Tuesday and Thursday, but Wednesday today, they were supposed to have a running practice and they got canceled because it rained all day, so I'm not mad at it. - And do you go as a dad, do you go and watch arms folded, all of the practices? - I go to as many practices as I can, but here's a cool part about it. Out here, they have full facilities where, I mean, it's like an actual lead and things like that. It's professional or whatever they call it out here. And there's a big, nice, beautiful bar that all the parents are sitting there having beers or products. And if you don't have one, you look like a loser. - That's amazing. - So what do you think I did? I partake in these things. And my wife, she's the one over there sitting there, arms folded, and I'm in there with the Spanish. Having a good time, enjoy it. - Can you imagine if like at every pop warner, every little league game, they just had a bar right there for the parents while they're waiting around to practice? - Well, most of the parents are already drunk. They all bring booze in their big tumblers. - That's true too. - Drinking wine, and trust me, I coach, I see it all the time, but like, I'll tell you this, Americans couldn't handle it. I'll tell you that right now. Go to a baseball game. I mean, Americans could not handle it. Bar, they're not gonna go and have two beers. They already beat up umpires out at Little League fields. I can't even imagine what it would be like. They are not disagreeing with you, but you've seen English soccer fans get out of control. It's not only an American. - Yeah, bro, but that's professionals. This is talking, we're talking a little these eight years old. They had a bar out there, it ain't gonna work. We're gonna beat the crap out of a referee or something, man. When will you be back in the States, my friend? - Oh, I'm looking. I'm watching the major league games right now, as everybody else is, and I'm following what's going on. Obviously, the Padres are in line to be in the wild card game right now, unless they get real hot and the Dodgers in a cold still, but I'm just following. I think my schedule with MLB allows me to be, try to be in multiple places at once. - Nice. - So hopefully I can get the assignment of you guys, but at the same time, the Orioles who are in the first place currently right now, they're either gonna be in first place or 10 in the wild card, so I'm following them also. So it's just a matter of who, and what, why, where, but I'm gonna be somewhere in the States probably towards October. - We're obviously pretty, pretty fired up. Obviously, you know, Padres doing well already, and Joe Musgrove comes back. He's been throwing great. Tatiess just came back on Monday, and now today they get you Darvish back. You, I mean, whatever you do with the trade deadline, no one's picking up three players like that down the stretch. That's huge for the Padres. Good time, and you know, obviously it's unfortunate that those players missed, missed significant time, but at the same time, the team played well, and, you know, you credit those guys who performed well in the absence of year three big stars. So you just credit those guys who've stepped up and filled in the void. But again, like I said, many times, when you get a guy back, you know, that's been two months out of the game, it's been two months on the end of the show like that, and you're able to get him in August and September, that's the same thing as the trade. That is if the morale comes back, you get a guy who's probably been away from the team a little bit, probably been down on the spring training site, getting himself prepared as best as possible for the scenario, and, you know, you get him back, and, you know, it's fun, it's real fun. And like I said, with, with Musco, for Tatiess, and Darvish tonight, like that, that is, you know, three all stars right there. So I think, again, it's up to the Padres. Everything's in front of them, you know. You win, you take care of yourself. If you lose, you know what happens. So everything's really in front of them. And it's up to them at this point, to really put forth it and see what happens. - Yeah, you definitely don't want to be counting on anybody else. We're still watching the scoreboard. You know, you're hoping Boston beats the Mets, and you're hoping, you know, the Giants are able to beat the Diamondbacks at them. But it is nice to be in that position where you don't need it necessarily. You win your games, you're gonna be fine. I mean, that's what every player, you know, begs for. You're in control of your own destiny. You don't need help from three or four different teams to back into the playoffs or anything like that. Let me ask you this about Tati's. What was the longest stretch you were ever out injured, you know, in season and came back? - I missed my first in '08. It was the only time I was on the DL. I missed one month, all August. I put on my birthday. I broke my Camille form. I'm a particular child of all off my foot and missed the rest of the month. I played the rest of the game, but I missed the rest of the month and I came back to it from the first. Definitely shouldn't have, but I was 23. And, you know, that old Santa Cruz young kids, Pee and Vinegar, I don't want this to be other, and Duran actually worked, but that was me. You know, I wanted to be back on the field. Obviously, I didn't have 300 million invested in to where they probably took six to eight pet scans or cat scans to see if my foot was full of yield. But I was eager to be out there and I know Tati can be able to be out there, but he has such a large investment. You take your time. There's been, like, could he have been back, you know, two weeks earlier, maybe, but was there a rush? I don't think so. Peralto, again, I'd say the guys that are filling in will also have filled in, I think, very well. - Great job. - It's very strong, bad off the bench, coming down the strict. So, you know, everybody wants to be on the field as much as possible, but the reality of it is, it's just not possible. And, you know, you have to be healthy. You gotta be healthy. You can play, it was, you can play hurt, but you can't play injured. I think that's the thing. - Yep. - And, you know, sometimes I've been injured. We're all hurt. Everybody's beat up. That's just part of it. If you're in this point, it's even in your standing, you hurt at something's barking, but you just have to fight through it and, you know, put yourself in. Learn how to handle yourself not feeling good. I think that most people know how to handle themselves feeling great. A lot of people don't know how to handle themselves, not feeling 100%. - Yeah. - And in like 12, you don't wake up every morning feeling 100% off, just in some manner, you wake up grubbies. I'm tired, you're back hurt, you're feet hurt. So you've got to figure out how to deal with it. Athletes have a different stage because everybody's watching, but we're human. We figure out how to deal with not being 100%. - Well, and every player's different, obviously, but for Tati's, you know, they set him down to the complex and he took some ABs off some minor leaguers and they're like, we're ready to go. He says he's ready, comes back. I mean, look, it's his first game. It takes an 0 for 4, it doesn't move some runners over. Picked us up a run late in the game and in a tight one, certainly. You know, he's amped up. You know, he's swinging out of his shoes. How long does it, did it take you when you get back to feel comfortable in the box after being out for a month? - Well, it was so long ago, honestly, it was my first month. So I really didn't, I mean, I was 23. I'm either to get back into the box. I'm having, you know, eight, I'm about an eighth night when I came when I was with the Orioles that day. I'm not a focal point in the lineup. So the pressure on me and especially in '08 when we lost probably nine to five games, it was definitely not a, it wasn't a focal point. So it was, I think my situation is definitely different. I think someone like Manning's situation, when he came back from having his two surgeries, when we were there, when I was there with him in Baltimore, him, you know, I think it certainly was going to be all season, made it easier for him just to start spring training made it normal. I think in season injuries are a little different because you're going to catch somebody in a completely different mental state than you did two months prior, just based on everything that they're doing. And, you know, it takes a while to get your glues back and to make it leave, but having him in that lineup scares your living hell out of everybody, especially on your opponent. So I will take him in the lineup, you know, not soon in the back as well, because obviously he's one of the best defenders in the game. - Put a persona to take him in that lineup, you know, over most people, just because obviously he's a technical player. - Talking to Adam Jones, I'm glad you brought up Manning. I was about to bring him up myself because speaking of injuries, he obviously wasn't healthy to start the season, but he was out there because Manning plays hurts. He can't play injured, but Manning plays hurt more than probably just about anybody in baseball. And now he's gotten healthier and his numbers have come back. He's putting together a great second half of the season. Now, Manning does not talk about his injuries very rarely. Will you hear anything? In fact, that's kind of a code among baseball players and professionals. Don't talk about injuries. The team doesn't talk about injuries, but my question is, Adam, is that doing a disservice to everybody? Not to be more upfront about it going, I mean, you had people going as Manning, is Manning washed the first half of the season. Is this it? Have they given him this contract and he's not coming back? Yeah, man, he quit. But obviously, he just wasn't himself. He was trying to get out there, or, you know, as soon as he could to help the team and now that he's gotten healthy, he's Manning again. But no one says anything about this because there's this big code. We don't talk about injuries. How do you feel about that as a professional athlete? - He learned correctly. You don't talk about it today. They'll check it, man. I don't need to tell y'all all the 15 that's going on with me. You don't need to understand the fans on this. Unfortunately, you guys don't need to know everything. You don't. You pay for the price of that mission. Therefore, you're paying for that. You're not paying for the behind the scenes information. You do have to understand that. You're not. Only people that are paying for that. Nobody. - The owner. - The owner. - I think they're the owner. - The owner. - Yeah. - Well, the owner obviously, he knows everything. - Yep. - You know, I mean, honestly, he paid it. He said for everybody. But it's like, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It's intense because I think they believe age or entitled to know everything that's going on with. I'm not pretty today because we, as a society, don't know everything about every other job. I think it's, you know, in the industry, when they do an injury report, it is sent out. Everybody knows it, especially in the industry. But what you want the fans to be able to see or know that this guy got ice in STEM before the game today. - Right. - Or does it matter that he played? Or since he got ice in STEM, you're going to have a perception that since he struggled today, maybe he didn't, maybe he was sore. Or if he's hot and he had a bad, he's been doing a bad back, but you don't know that. Like it just, there's guys right now that are swinging it. I bet Aaron Judge probably doesn't feel 100%. Now he looks like he feels 100%. But just being an athlete, you can't feel 100%. Something is barking on him. But I've never been a believer that the fans are entitled to all the information inside that courthouse. That's why the courthouse. - Well, I agree with you. I'm just wondering, is it sometimes a disservice to the players when they're so secretive and all of a sudden we find out a year later. Oh, you know, Manning's numbers were down that year, but we never told anybody. We was playing through this and this and then the whole year long. - I mean, that's every, that's every single sport, but always standardly. Great players do it. The great players always be great. Manny knows how to play. He knows how, look, if this is barking on me, I gotta do this. If this is barking, I gotta do this. And especially being a veteran. And when you're a veteran and you have comfort, this is also a part of it. When you have comfort to having a contract, you're allowed to not have to take that in practice every day. You're allowed to just play the game and sort of stick. Like you don't have to every single day go out there and take fly balls and take, do the work, as you say, because it's already been ingrained. Like if Manny's on the starting, he's not gonna be out there as well. Now he might go out there and take some ground balls just to get the feel, just to be out there to be loose, but he'll save his bullets for the game. And again, that's just how, that's just how it works. You cope with what's going on. And again, I know fans want to know, you see the guy dealing with this and that. And, you know, is he struggling? Why are we struggling? And is his shoulder, is it neck? And it's just, unfortunately, it's a country club. And the price of that mission is very, very difficult. I think it's expensive. It's just difficult. - Adam, thank you very much. What's your fantasy football situation? One team, multiple teams. What are you doing? - So we've got a team, I've got two teams right now, and I just hope that, again, everybody's stay healthy. The season starts on Thursday with the Ravens versus the Chiefs. And I've got friends in all the sports that I'm telling them all the time. It's just, you know, I hope you guys just stay healthy. You have the best of yours you possibly can. Obviously everybody wants their fantasy team to win all this and all this. I'm most excited for January or December, whenever people have to pay up and have to do those weird things, like serve somebody in a barista outfit or things like that. So we don't, we don't actually-- - I think I'll be in that zone. - Arlie, we don't have the announced punishment. Yeah, do we? - No, I don't want to do any bins. - Not really, Adam. Thank you very much. Have a good week. - Car girl. - Car girl, yeah, I bet everything's tired right now. - Hey, if we get out of the golf course at least, that's fine, that's the worst thing in the world. - Thank you, bro. Appreciate you. - It sounds five time all star joining us each and every week on a big league Wednesday. Of course, we'll also have Brett Boone gonna join us coming up in our eight o'clock hour at eight 30 and then at nine o'clock this morning, stay tuned. Jesse Agler, a special Wednesday appearance after he had the day off yesterday with the Padres. I love the Incorporated. And Jesse joining us at nine o'clock today as the Padres get ready to continue their series against the Detroit Tigers at 6.40 tonight. - Saw a fantasy football punishment. - It was, you have to, you can pick the bar, but you have to post up in a bar for, I think it was eight hours, minimum of six drinks, and you have to just spend your day there and you're gonna- - How's that punishment? - I mean- - Sitting at a bar having cocktail sounds, watching sports sounds amazing. - Sounds like a dream. - Sounds kind of lonely and expensive. - You have to go by yourself? - Oh yeah, you gotta just post up for eight hours. - It's dream, dude. That's an absolute, oh no, I would stop setting my lineup. - Day by lost. Well what's the punishment? You're never gonna believe this. I gotta go down to the Lucadian and I gotta sit there for eight hours and have drinks. Can you fit me up? - Watch sports. - Date she looks at my account, I haven't set a lineup in weeks. I'm 0 and 12, 0 and 16. - Are you sure that's not first prize? - That's literally first prize. - Good lord, that sounds amazing. - All right, we'll come back. Second half of Ben & Woods on the way. I got one up by the Padres CEO. - Oh, you got me again, next on Vampable. - 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. Plenty of seating options from cozy day beds to private temperature controlled cabanas. 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I gotta hurry. - He's doing it, he's like, I'm starting it up. - I just know you have something to bring up and I wanted to finish a story from yesterday 'cause we did it at eight o'clock. - Okay. - Talked about my 20 year anniversary at Channel 10. - Oh God, did you get in trouble? - No, well, not in trouble. Remember, we talked about it yesterday and I mentioned it's coming up next week. - Next week. - Well, our news director, my boss, called me in a panic. - Oh my God. - Yesterday afternoon, I go, did we miss your 20 year anniversary? Someone said you were talking about it on the radio. I go, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You haven't missed it. It's next week, you're good, you're good. She said, well, okay, I thought maybe we had missed it and I didn't want you to think that we had missed your 20 year anniversary. I go, Sarah, don't worry about it. We're fine. You don't need to do anything for me. I just mentioned that it was coming up. I saw it on the screen at Channel 10. It was my 20 year anniversary month, but technically it was September 12th. And she said, I looked it up, it's September 12th. And I go, yeah, I know, you didn't miss it, you're good. But I guess they're on top of it, so. - Ben's like, my radio show literally forgot my birthday last year, so nothing would surprise me. - Still, November 3rd of last year goes down as one of the worst days of my life. It's one of the lowest moments, and I've had some, I've had some luck, I've like picked up cigarettes off the sidewalk. - You realize, you know what I mean? - It was like the best birthday present you could have given me is giving me something to Lord over you. - That's true, that's true, forever. - You already have perfect presents. - You already have the cabs, so. - Oh, remember that time you forgot my birthday would. - I've got that forever. - I swear to God, man. - It's the best present. - I swear to God, people thought it was a joke, it was a bit, and I, on my children's lives, we had no idea, and I will never forget him looking at us going, well, coming up next, this is kind of awkward, but I guess I need to address something, and I'm like, what is he talking about? - He was talking about, you know, SD fat loss, live commercial or something, and I go, "Come over here." And I go, "Is it his effing birthday today?" And we just went, "Oh my God." - It's on the lives of my children. I walked in to work that day with no idea that it was my beloved, beloved radio soulmate. - He went into the eighth 30s. - It was an eight, it was an eight. It was like right at the reset. - Yeah, eight. - Yeah, and I just went, I can't believe it. I was legitimately, it was one of the worst, it was one of the lowest moments of my life. - Well, I was waiting for two hours for the, like, the shoe to drop. - Right, go! - Like, get some stripper to hold games, something to surprise you with something over the top that's gonna embarrass me, and then after half the show was done, I was going, "Maybe it's not actually coming." - Yeah, it's just woods confirmed, terrible friend. I mean, I truly, I felt so bad. - That's 96 to the ribs, and I'll wear that. How do you forget your buddy, your radio soulmate's birthday? Just a tough, tough look, but-- - One, two, and a third is on a Sunday this year, so that Friday, just get ready, Benny. - Yeah, it's one. - It's birthday month. - Hopefully we're still on the first World Series parade. - You're not allergic to, like, baby oil or honey or anything, are you? (laughing) - Sounds both slippery and sticky. - It's gonna be-- - It's the same time. - It's fantastic. - I just wanna get a couple of things. Any allergies I need to be aware of? Shellfish or anything? - No, it's good. - All right, good. Okay, 'cause you're gonna have a good day. You're gonna have a really good day. Wanted to, once again, let everybody know, our pal Tom, aka Wells Fryer, is in the studio this morning. Tom, welcome again to San Diego in the States. Nope, Wells National Anthem. Do you guys have to stand for your national anthems? - Yeah. - You do, okay. - Only if there's a flag present, right? 'Cause that's just American. - All right, get right up on the mic. Karate chop away, there you go. So how's it going, how's your trip? - Yes, been amazing. Yesterday was crazy. It's beautiful here, I went to LA, it's disgusting there. - Yeah. - But yeah, I'm loving every moment of it. - Now you're 18 years old. - Yeah, exactly. - A babe in the woods. - Yeah. - You can't do anything. You can buy cigarettes. You can, I think you can, yeah, you can buy cigarettes. - Lottery tickets, go ahead. - Lottery tickets, play all the lottery you want. - Yeah. - Scratchers. - Scratchers. - You can have a ball. - Yeah, all of it. - Yeah, all of it. - You can do everything that you want there. - You can join our military. - You could. - I think for our country. - What about, what about, what about 18 or 21? - Probably 21. - All right, sorry. - Can't run a car. - Can't run a car. - That's 25. You're many years away from that. - Any, no, you're a single man. - Yeah. - Any American ladies, catch your fancy. - Um, I don't know, I don't know, maybe. Maybe not. - Oh, don't be coy. This is not the place to be coy. - You go to the beach? - Yeah, I have. - Black speech, really nice. You'll like a black speech today. - A lot of black speech. - It's really great. - Right then? - Not really. - That's like the ninth green at midnight trick. - Yeah, yeah. (laughing) - It's beautiful. - It's an all nude beach. - Go during the day. - It's not, but in Europe, that's where all the beaches are like topless beaches, right? - I don't know that they are in Wales. I don't know that you'd want to see a bunch of Welsh people nude on their beaches. Do you guys have nude beaches? - I haven't, I haven't hear the one. I've not seen one yet. - Okay. - It's too cold to even like undress. I think in Wales for most of the time. - What's the weather like in Wales right now? - Terrible. - Terrible miserable. - It's probably not too bad at the moment. It could be raining. - 64 cloudy, very high. - That's the middle of summer. - Yeah. - We've got the bad summer, it's boring. - Is it boring there? - Yeah. - That's why I want to live out here. - So you do have an interest in moving out here? - Yeah, 100%. - Yeah. - What would you like to do? - Something in sports, like I'm doing sports journalism for college now, just going into it. So I want to hopefully use that to move over here and do something over here. - And what's your favorite sport, baseball? - Yeah, baseball. - By farm. - Yeah. - And we talked to you like a year ago or something, the first time we ever met you and we thought, "Man, this is nuts." 'Cause this guy will get up at like three o'clock in the morning and do Ben & Woods live streams with us. He obviously watches the games over there, which is just an insane schedule. You can't do it when you're in your 40s or in your 30s, even you got a few more years left. You need to be here for your health to be able to watch the sport that you love. - Yeah, it's crazy. I've been up three, four, five, especially during big moments as well. Moscow has no hit, that was at five o'clock in the morning. - Good, god. - It's four p.m., four or eight p.m. right now. And we're still 10 hours away from first pitch. - Over there. - Right, right here, yeah, first pitch, yeah. So whatever the math is. - Well, I'm glad you're here. I do need to put the CEO, the San Diego Padres on blast a little bit this morning. Sorry, Eric, if you're listening. But, so I told you guys are earlier in the show. I got an email, do you know this? I got an email from your dad. - Yeah, about three months ago. - And I get this email in my Ben & Woods account and I look at it and I said, "Oh my god, Welsh friar's dad just reached out." You know, huge power dad move. He writes me, he goes, "Anything that you could do to enhance his experience, I would really appreciate." And I said, "You know what, Eric's weak." And I said, "You know what, I'll do that." So I reached out to my people. - Which my dad did that. - Paul, you don't have a dad. - You don't have a dad. - Paul, you don't have a dad. - Did anything at all. - She just emailed me. - Just stay out of the conversation. (laughing) You don't know what you're talking about. - Can you imagine getting email from your own dad? - Wow, I can't. - It's wild. So, he best. I hate when you do this to me, man. - I love doing it to you. - I hate it so much. (laughing) So I reached out, I got it all handled and talked to Welsh's dad and he said, "I got tickets for this game." And I said, "Let me get you on the field for batting practice, at least I can do." Get him all dialed in. So he's all set. So this morning, Welsh comes in and I'm sitting there shooting the breeze with him and I said, "All right, so Friday, the big day, you're gonna be, you need to show up at this time, this area, he looks at me and Welsh goes, I think I'm going tonight to do batting practice." I go, "Excuse me?" He said, "Yeah, pottery CEO Eric Groubner and I spoke yesterday and I'm gonna be down doing batting practice tonight." So, Eric Groubner shows up with his perfect beard, his houndstooth jacket, his perfectly quaffed hair, comes right in and takes me and just right behind the knees, just whoa, undercuts me. So now he's gonna get down there, Friday and be like-- - You went to all those lengths. - For nothing. - Literally, nothing. - Literally nothing. So now, Friday, when he gets down there, he's gonna be like, "Oh, we gotta do this again." I gotta be down there four hours early. "Hey, Xander, yeah, good to see you again. How are you, nice game?" Oh, look, it's Manny Machado and see you the other day. How are you, bud? - How's the why? - How's the why of the kids. I'm like, "Bro, like, no good deed, man." Just takes just right like the back to the back of the knees, the cane as I'm walking by, just yanks me. So, yeah, well, it's supposed to be dead in the eye 'cause I'm actually gonna be, I can't do the accent or I'll try, but he's like, I'm actually doing batting practice down there tonight. - Oh, all right, cool, cool. - So, very cool. - If anybody else listening is from Wales and wants to go to batting practice on Friday, be happy to hook you and your family out. - We have an opening. - God, man. - Maybe that Padres fan from Italy who was in the gym. - Yes, yeah. - I'd love to make it out. - If you get in here on Friday, but given the Welsh, just take it to you. It is an experience to go down there and watch them hit. I mean, you played baseball. You have a baseball team in Wales. I'm still fascinated by that. It's such a different level when you see these guys hit up close. I mean, it's just the sound, the swings, the violence in which they swing, the beauty of it all, watching them track balls. - It's a spectacle. - Watching them take, it's my favorite thing to do, just watching them take ground balls and stuff before the game, just watching how good they are with their hands. And it's just incredible, man. But, well, now you get to go twice. - Yeah. - This is like, you know what, me and Eric Grittner, we're like divorced parents. - He's the, that's what we are. - Yeah. - Competing for your child's affection. - The competing for the love of this young Welshman, right here. And my ex just swooped right in and was like, dad's taking it to Disneyland. - We're going to the moon. - We're going to the moon. How about that? We're going on a European vacation. - Thanks a lot. - Gritt, dog. - So yeah, enjoy your double batting practice, I guess. And my power move there. - Such a power move, it's a CEO move. - I kinda love it. - I kinda love it. - That's what a CEO does. - I'm sorry that happened to you, but man, it is such a hard-ass move to make. - Yeah. - Welsh, how would you like to be the brand manager of a radio station? (laughing) - I'll make that happen for you. You know what, Welsh, to what up, Eric, I'm going to leave for the day and I want you to take my spot for the rest of the day. - All right, we'll check traffic on Ben and Welsh. - Ben and Welsh. - And then we'll be right back with more on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 the fan. (upbeat music) - This is not going to come as a huge shock to Woods. - But I am not what you would call a big chemistry guy. - No, I don't think I hurt the chemistry on our particular team, but I would say Woods and Paul are definitely the chemistry guys in the room. And I just kind of go along with things. - I thought for a minute you meant like chemistry, like, elements. - Oh, I do, now I am a big chemistry guy when it comes to the periodic table. - That surprise, if you said I'm not a big chemistry, I'd be like, no. - Are you sure you're not? - That was fun, fun science, absolutely. - I want to do, at some point, quiz you on the elements. - We, oh, periodic table. - Yeah, we really like it. - It's been awhile since I've studied it, but that would make it more interesting. - All right, so hold on. You're not a big chemistry guy. - Well, you're the guy who you think it's important to do show activities and you're the one who's driving the driving force behind-- - You don't think that's important? - I don't, really, that. - I think that we can be successful without that. That hurts my feelings. - Question, all right, let me know. - I mean, I like, it's fun. - I'll put you on the couch. - Okay, all right. - Many years did you do radio before you met me and Paul? - Many years. - How successful were you? - Not that successful. - Okay, there you go. - Ask the answer. - But, here's my point, I think it's fun. I like you guys a lot, but I think we'd have a good show no matter what. We came in here, you're good at what you do, you have a good attitude when you come in. - Most of the time. - I think I come in with a good attitude. - Great attitude. - And I think that's what makes the show successful. I bring this up because Kevin A.C. wrote in UT today about the Padres' chemistry and how it's changed from last year and if you talk to people in the clubhouse, they say it's pretty much night and day. Not that last year was necessarily a disastrously bad clubhouse where everyone hated each other, but there was no love, there was no that feeling you get when you're all pulling on the same rope. And it's completely different this year. But the guys who have bought in are mostly the guys who were here last year, Joe, you, Tatiste, Manny, Bogart's, the core people are the ones who have to buy in. They were all here last year. Obviously, you know, Jerkson has helped, Jackson Merrill has helped, he wrote about that. But it is amazing how one season and another season, for whatever reason, they've been able to do such a 180 when it comes to the chemistry on this baseball team. - Yeah, I didn't believe in it for a long time either. I really didn't until you start to see it work and you start to see it, you start to flourish. You know, having that chemistry, it's not something you can really force, but you tried to, and I think the Padres tried to early last season, remember the pinatas? I mean, that fizzled like a wet firecracker, man, forced chemistry. I hate forced chemistry. I really, I mean, like, it's hard. Those guys spend, they spend nine months out of the year in really close quarters. They're lockers while they're bigger than yours in high school. They're still pretty small. And the guy that's sitting next to you is as close as Welsh fire is to me. And you're looking at his ass every day and he's on his phone and it can drive you nuts if you think about, oh, and then guess what? You gotta get on a bus. Oh, and then guess what? You gotta get on a plane. And there's one guy that's wearing you out, but you kinda gotta wear, I mean, it's a lot. - Can't get away from them. - Can't really get away from them. It's a lot. It's a lot. - Do you have a lot? - Get their own hotel rooms? - Yes. - Yeah, they all have their own rooms. - I would assume, I would have assumed something. I know for a while, they all still roomed with each other. - Randy Jones told us about their spread in spring training when he was a player and it was a cup of soup. It was like, (laughing) they would go, work out, I think it was in Yuma. If they would go, it'd be, you know, it's a little bit- - It's a little chunky, yeah. - So they would go out and run and then they'd throw and then they'd do a sim game and then they'd come into the cafeteria and it would be a styrofoam cup of soup and they would eat it and then they'd go back to work. He comes, he's like, what the hell is it? We got nine flavors of Gatorade. We had chunky, one cup of soup, it was like liquid soup. Was their meal. That's it. And like a loaf of bread, you take a couple slices. These are big leaguers in the '70s, man. So yeah, just a nightmare, but I think, you know, you spend that much time with each other, you bring in the right people and I think a guy like David Peralta, I think a guy like Louisa Rice and I think a guy like Jackson Merrill, you put those three in the mix. David Peralta, his first day here, I'll never forget him walking through the dugout and you would think like, hey man, first day on a new team, I'm just gonna keep my head down, kind of fall in line. He was in the dugout, beating his chest, beating everybody up. I was like, you know, now we're talking. - Now we're talking. - Now we're talking. - Social butterflies of the team. - Now we're talking, man. - Every locker, say hi to everybody as they come in. But again, you can't do this without the buy-in of the star long-term sign players, like Manny Machado, J. Cronanworth, Fernando Tetis Jr., Joe Musgrove, you, Darvish. They were all here last year. They all, whatever it was, they got together with Mike Shilt. Yeah, but you had to change it and it has changed. It's changed completely. And just like the, when we talked about the buy-in on the approach, sticking with it, even when things weren't totally working and they were five games under 500 and they were struggling in the first half of the season, they never ruined the chemistry on this team. Last year, it feels like the chemistry was always hanging by a thread. They could never get any momentum going. I would love to know what would have happened last year if they had just had one seven-game winning streak early in the year. - Well, obviously winning helps. - Yeah. - Like 99% of that, it's a lot easier to be loose and having fun and camaraderie when you're winning. They never did that last year and you mentioned them, but I think Jackson Merrill deserves so much credit because it just looks like not that they weren't having fun before Jackson Merrill got there, but I really feel like he's got some leadership qualities to him, but he's out there having so much fun. - Well, that and the fact that- - And I think he's older guys are like, yeah, that's right, man. Like we're on baseball cards, we're in video games, we get the superstar treatment, but this is fun. - Don't forget, dude, that when a rookie comes in and is playing better than you, that doesn't feel good. - Yeah. - It doesn't feel good. And you're like, I gotta get my ass in gear, man. I can't get shown up by a 21-year-old that doesn't know, S from Shinola. He's playing a new position. - That's like a grudge thing. - It's not a grudge thing. - Look at all my jerks and pro far heading into the season, he's like, I'm gonna prove it deal one million- - No doubt, man, there's no doubt. - And we got this rookie who hasn't even played in the outfield yet and he's gonna be lining up next to me now. - And the other thing too, that you can't not mention is Mike Schilt. You just, you have to mention Mike Schilt. And I'll tell you, I don't know if you guys do this. - Yeah, of course. - Of course. Do you guys think about the Padres winning a World Series and what would happen after the special that they would make about it? Like the 30 for 30, not 30 for 30, but like the DV, do you remember these today? - Some DVDs that come out, right? - Yeah. - And I think about it a lot. - I do. My brain's wired that way to go back and watch the highlights of the season. And I think you would have to put in montages of Mike Schilt getting up in front of the media after a 6-1 loss and defending his team. And I think you would have to put Mike Schilt on there defending his team's effort every day, this season, really every single day of this season. As much as I've goed him to try to get him to say one, even half-assed negative thing about his team. He won't do it, he won't do it. And you're telling me that doesn't have an effect in the clubhouse? Of course it does. So he deserves a lot of credit there too. - If I'm the director of the 30 for 30, I start-- - With Ben and Woods in the morning, yes. - I started the end of last season, the disappointment and everyone going there in kind of separate ways, going what went wrong, what happened here? And then I pick it up at Camp 44. - I think you put Peter there. - Joe Musgrove, he got Peter's part of that beginning-- - That's definitely part of it. - It was a really bad season followed by the worst news in November. - Correct. - I see so many questions leading into the season. - I see a lot of people bringing up the name "One Soto." And I understand why you'd go there. But it doesn't always make easy sense because if you look at this year's Yankees team, I think they'd mostly agree. Chemistry has up ticked since he got there. - It has. - They have played, they underperformed last year, he's joined the team. They have blossomed with "One Soto" on their team. You can't just simply say, "Oh, the pottery's got rid of a cancer in "One Soto." It doesn't work that way. - Josh Hader may be a different story though. - Maybe. - That was one and somebody brought up in the chat. There were a lot of passive aggressive comments about him last year, a lot. Now, when you look back and you go, "Oh, okay." - Didn't Joe have one? - Adam says, "Soto did not deliver." He did, oh, he did deliver just not how you wanted. Yeah, I mean, he was the best offensive player we had last year, by far. So, not probably up to his standards by any stretch and certainly not what we expected, but yeah, I think they've lost the right pieces and they've gained the right pieces. The guys that they got back, the Higgies, the Michael Kings, those guys have been nails for us. - And so many of them have added. Even if it's a small piece like Peralta or Solano or a bigger piece like Merrill or Profar, pretty much every edition that A.J. Preller has made has been a positive, both production-wise and chemistry-wise. All right, this is an interesting top. I'm sure Brett Boone can add to the conversation on chemistry. He will join us, host to the Brett Boone podcast, our weekly segment with Boney. 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Good morning, Brett. - How you doing? - Good man. - How are you, booty? - I'm doing good. - I got to ask you about what went down last night with the Yankees and Clay Holmes. His, your brother is the manager, 11, 11. Blown saves for Clay Holmes this year. Now my question is more to you, a guy that played a position and I know how you feel pitchers. I know how you feel. You've made it very clear over the years how you feel about pitchers. How frustrating is that? To have a lead and that happens to you 11 times. And when should a manager, you don't have to throw your brother under the bus, when should a manager look to make a change? Is 11 too many? - Well, you're correct about me and pitchers. Don't care for them. - But, no, and all seriousness, when you're getting to this stage of the season and you look at the Yankees, they're a playoff team. They're kind of cemented themselves. They're going to the postseason. And you know, you really, you feel for your closer, you feel there is no ill will when that happens. We know how hard this is. It's almost like, oh, when I'm not getting the big hit, when I'm not getting it done at crunch time offensively, you feel like everybody's looking at you. But, you know, I've felt nothing through those years, through those good years, through those bad years. Your teammates are there with you and they feel it because they're in that fight with you every day and they know how hard it is. So, offensively, yeah, it's frustrating, but it's the same thing. You know, here's an example. I've had years where it seems like one of our starters, every time you pitch is, we just don't give them any ground support. Nobody feels worse than the offensive players. Then, all of a sudden, it becomes a mental thing. And as the season goes on, it's like, we gotta get some hits. We gotta, you know, we gotta score some runs for our guy today. And it seems to get worse and worse. To play holes. And I was thinking about this yesterday. With the DJ Lamehu, who's been a big part of that organization for a long time, who's got two batting titles, two credit. Guys like that, when you are a playoff team, when you're going to the playoffs, it's been top, you know, what are the best records in baseball all year? You as a manager have the luxury of giving these guys a long leash. You know, you sit there and try in New York right now. What's DJ Lamehu doing? What's Holmes doing closing? - Definitely. - Have that, you have that luxury, because you know Holmes has got you. Watch Holmes pitch. I watch him pitch now as a hitter. I don't want to grab a bat. - Yeah. - He's got nasty stuff. And you know that. And he's been a successful closer. All of a sudden, he's having a tough time. And it becomes mental. But the manager has that option of having a long leash when you're winning games. Now, if they weren't winning games, they're fighting for a wild card spot. Well, then what happens happens? DJ Lamehu probably wouldn't be playing ever. And they'd be able to probably been exploring closer options at the trade deadline. But it's a different scenario. These guys are top of the league. They've been leading that league or, you know, they're doing well. One of the best records in baseball. Aaron has that luxury of letting these guys play it out, letting these guys that have a track record. See if they can write the shit by playoff time. Now, if Holmes gets to a point, it's three weeks from now, it's the same thing. You'd blow it, say. Well, then you got to do what you got to do. But I think give him the benefit of the doubt because of his body of work. And I was looking at that bullpen. Who do you go to if you don't go to Holmes? - Right. - Maybe? Is that his name, how I pronounce it? He's got the stuff to do it. - Oh, Cainley? - But if he read it, yeah. - Yeah, Cainley. - Is he ready to step into that spot? - In September, by the way. - Yeah, in September, hey, you're the new closer. It's got to be a tough call. - Or do you do what the Texas Rangers did a year ago. And it was kind of bullpen by committee. And Leclerc ended up emerging as a hero. And they won the World Series. I think that was a perfect storm. The Rangers, I don't think that's necessarily how it plays out every year. But you worry about it when you get there. You get to the playoffs first. You hope he writes the ship and gets his stuff. But I know as a player, when it's been going on this long, believe me, it's becoming a real mental thing for Holmes. 'Cause it's not a matter of how good his stuff is. - Right. - Is spectacular. - Well, we saw the Diamondbacks made the change at Closer fairly recently from Sea Wall to Justin Martinez. The results have been really good for them. But I think if I was ever a major league manager, which I won't be, but the one thing that would keep me like up the most is knowing when to stick with a guy who's slumping, whether it's a batter or a pitcher, knowing baseball's hard, and you gotta be patient. Because you can't just be yanking guys on the lineup after every 0 for 4, or every time they give up, three runs in an inning, but also not waiting too long and going, at some point, I do have to pull the trigger and make change, send a guy down, change my lineup. Brett, where do you fall in the line between the patients, and action if you're a skipper? - I have to take everything into consideration. I have to take who's the player? What's the situation? How is my team playing? And actions will come from all those things as a whole. I can't just, it's not the same answer for every team. You know, like I said, if you're fighting for a player, you gotta do what you gotta do to find a way to get a seat at the table in the postseason. If you're cruising and your team's playing really well and you're going, you have the luxury of not having to make these snap jaw decisions on the fly. It's almost like the teams that are fighting to get there, it's almost like they're in playoff mode now where there is no tomorrow. You've gotta make decisions that guarantee you that you win this game, and then there's other teams that have the luxury of almost the end of spring training. Like yeah, of course we wanna win every night, but we're in, and I've just gotta get my team right, get my team healthy going into the postseason. So there's so many different scenarios that play into the decision-making process. Who is the player? Do you rookie with no track record or do you have four-time All-Star that I know eventually is gonna come around? All these things have to be accounted for before you make a decision. - Booty, let me ask you this. I love when we have y'all 'cause I love asking you from the player's perspective, talking to Brett Boone here on Ben & Woods this morning. Was there a time in your career where, if you got shuffled in a lineup, it would really bother you? Now every player's different, right? We've talked to Jake Cronoworth. He's like, I'll hit three, I'll hit seven, I'll hit nine, I don't care. I just wanna be in the lineup, help the team win. Then there's other people, I really don't like to hit two. I like to hit three, I get my numbers at three. I don't like to hit one. When you came up, I mean, I'm looking at your career numbers, but there's a pretty good stretch there of 20 plus pops every year, and if the skipper came in and said, Boone, I'm gonna slide you down to the six. Is that something that you're like, "Huh, really?" Or are you like, "Whatever you need, skit?" - Oh, absolutely. No, no, you're right on. I mean, the Cronoworth's right thing, the right thing, but you look at Cronoworth and you look at this lineup. There's some guys in that lineup that kinda, all right, Cronoworth, you gotta have to do what you gotta do. I've been at that stage in my career where it's like, "Man, you know, some years, Woody, I felt lucky. Just as long as I have a uni in my locker, the bar's way up straight." - You're like, "I got him all fooled." - Right, but then there's stretches in my career where, you know, I kinda heard, I was the three-hole hitter and heck yeah, the skipper came to me and hit me fifth. I'm like, "Wait a minute, what's going on?" I'm the three-hole hitter here. I'll tell you, I'll give you a good example. It happened to me. I believe it was 2004, 2005. I was coming off some really big years and I was starting to get to the end of my career. I was starting to get a little bit older. You know, you don't wanna admit it at the time. But I remember they came in and it was a big deal because Raul Obanias came back to the mayor, loved Raul, and they were gonna hit him third. And that was my hole and I'm going, "Wait a minute. You don't just move me out of it." You know, I'll get it going again and you're fighting it. You're like, "I kinda know I'm getting older and I'm not the guy I was two years ago, but that's my three-hole." So yeah, your ego definitely takes a hit. At the end of the day, you get it right. You still have to be a pro. When the game starts, it doesn't matter where you're hitting, you gotta have a good attitude and do whatever you can to help that team win. But definitely egos are touched. You know, we have egos as players and probably they're the biggest when you're in your heyday and getting things done and playing really well. Yeah, you definitely have an ego. All of us do ensure the little thing like moving you from four to five, from five to six. Initially, it really hurts and you know, you don't walk around the clubhouse yelling at people, but inside you're going, "Damn, how can they move me down there?" And you know, you're out to prove that you're gonna move me back into that three-hole when I show you. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. So am I a naive, am I naive, Boonie, when I say that when Cronie told me that he was lying to me, am I naive? I believed it when he said it. And knowing him a little bit, I kind of believe it that he's like, "Whatever, wherever you want to play." I feel like Jake has to pinch himself sometimes. I'm in a lineup with Manny and Tatisse and Zebogarth. I'm in third most days. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, no, no, and I think, I'll tell you, I don't know 'cause you never know until you're in that clubhouse, but I think the players today, it's a little bit different. That three-hole today is kinda on some teams considered the two-hole where you're best hitter. You know, you go to the LA Dodgers, you got Mookie Betz, League, no. So it's not like it used to be where that three and four-hole nose, those were the coveted holes. That's where the guys, your big boys hit every night, was three and four. So those were a little more looked upon. Today it's a little bit different. You have random guys hitting in random situations, and a lot of times they like to have their big boys in the one-two hole. Sure. So the dynamic change, but yeah, as players, we kinda like to come to the ballpark, look at that lineup and lineup. For sure. Yeah, everybody has any, but you also have to look yourself in the mirror. What kind of team am I on? Who were the players surrounding me? When I came to the big leagues, it was Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez, J. Booner, and they were all raking, all driving in 130 rounds. And they said, "Boonie, or do you wanna hit?" I said, "Obviously, I'm gonna hit in three-hole." Now, I was hitting at the top. I was hitting at the top. I hadn't done anything yet, but you gotta know your place. Like right now, I'm not gonna hit third with Edgar and Griffey and Booner. I'm probably gonna hit seventh. And that's the way it was. But when you earn your stripes and when you prove that you have the ability to hit in that three-hole, yeah, it becomes an ego thing where I wanna hit third 'cause I deserved to hit third, you know? And we all get caught up in it. But at the end of the day, it's about winning games. Talking to Odyssey inside of Red Boon, Insider Calls are brought to you by Granger. And before you joined us, we were having a conversation about chemistry and how much better it is on the Padres this year than it was last year, even though mostly the same players. And wanted to get your perspective on what makes good and bad chemistry experiences you had with it. I mean, do you feel like guys have to do things off the field together for good chemistry? Or is that, is that's superfluous? It's all in the clubhouse. What's your philosophy on making a good chemistry for a baseball team? - Okay, I thought chemistry was a bunch of garbage. I never believed in it until I got to Seattle in 2001. That changed my mind. Chemistry to me is not about the off the field stuff. Going to dinners, you know, kumbaya, going, you know, frat brothers. No, that's not it at all. It's coming to the game and genuinely pulling for your teammates. And when I say genuinely, people think, oh, you always pull for your pick, not always. I felt a lot of times the guys were pulling against me. - Ben, you would have been a great baseball player. - When you generally come to the ballpark and pull for your, for the guy hitting in front of you, for the guy hitting behind you. When you're on the bench and you're not coming up for slides, spots, you're genuinely pulling for that guy, that's chemistry. Playing the game right, that creates chemistry, moving a runner over so the next guy can hit a sack of line and drive in a run. That's chemistry because then he's going to do it for the next guy after that. But to be honest with you, you got to have talent. Talent's what's wins. And now you add chemistry to that. Now you got something really special. I think the Padres do have that. I played for the 99 Braves. Chemistry, we were fun. Got along, I really liked the guys from our 99 Braves team and we were great. And we would, Bobby Cox, you say, put the lineup up and I want you to go steam roll your opponent. And that's what we did. We were very workmanship. It was very lunch box to work. And we had a ton of talent. We won 104, some 103, 104 games, won on a World Series of Law. That 2,000 mariners, although we didn't finish the deal, that's chemistry like I've never seen. Genuinely, I think on that team, all 25 guys on any given evening, I wouldn't mind going to dinner with any of them. And that's a reach because that's the only team I've ever been on. You play from 7 to 10 every night. You go to war with these guys. But then you pick your friends after the game and every team I've ever been on, I picked my friends after the game. But that 2001 team, there was something special about it. Where any mix, any group of guys could go out and they really genuinely got along. And that's because they really genuinely were pulling for one another once a game started. It's nothing I've ever seen before. It was a special, special time. Mooney, great job. As always, really appreciate it. We'll talk to you again next week. Thanks, guys. All right. Thank you, buddy. It was honestly elite. M.L.V. Incent or Brett Bohn. Incent are calls presented by Granger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Granger has the right product for you. Call clickgranger.com or just stop by. What he was describing, though. Genuinely pulling for your team. Is what fans do every day. We may not love every player on the team, but even when your least favorite player comes up, you're still hoping, hey, they get a hit and move the runners over and try to help your team win. Since Twitter was embedded. I really feel like that's changed. We all have those guys growing up that you're like, man, if they could, we'll take a bag of rocks for this guy. Then he comes through and you're like, about time. You know what I mean? It's just that there's a little toxicity that's in there, which is, you know, it's fine. It's fine. But I love that. What a great, what a great hit. But essentially he's saying you just have to be a fan of your own team. Yeah, you know, like a real fan. Like you're, you may not be in a lineup that day, but you're pulling for everybody. And that's what people feel in a dugout, in a clubhouse that everyone just wants everybody to do well. Which is hard because when you're a fan, no one's stealing your spot because they had a three for four day and now I'm on the bench again. And it's going to cost me in free agency next year. You just have your team once should be that way. There's more dynamics though with the players. It's true. All right, Jesse Agler is coming up next. Thanks to the Padres on a very busy Wednesday. Get to the Incorporator and more. When we come back, final hour on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 the fan. It's one of the most rare things in a baseball season, a Tuesday off day. That's a world game, man. Yeah, that is a work day. Even in the All-Star break, you got the All-Star game on the Tuesday. But the Padres had a very rare Tuesday day off yesterday. They'll continue their three game series against the Detroit Tigers tonight. And with that in mind, we didn't have Jesse on yesterday for the Incorporator, but he joins us right now. The voice of the Padres, Jesse Agler with us here at 97.3. The fan, good morning, Jesse. How was your Tuesday off? I was very busy, actually, as you can imagine. But it was good. Yeah, thank you. All right, so we know the grind on the players' bodies from the '18 and '18. I want to talk about the grind on the announcer, on the play-by-play voice of the Padres, Jesse Agler, the grind on your physical body and mind over that stretch. Nothing like what the players went through. You know, let's start there. I mean, the way they use their bodies very different than the way I use mine and their minds as well. But, yeah, of course, it takes a toll. Especially this part of the season. You know, '18 in a row in April is very different than '18 in a row at the end of August in the beginning of September. So, you know, I'll sound like Manny, but nobody's 100% this time of year. It's fine. We'll deal with it. This is what it is. It's the same for everybody. And, you know what? Yesterday was well-earned for everybody. That's for sure, not just the players and the announcers, but everybody on that staff, all the coaches. Man, I am quite certain that the average fan does not realize the way everybody in that group grinds every single day. And it's part of the deal. It's the same for everybody in baseball, but it's a lot. And hats off to everybody. Now, you had to bounce around TV and radio. TV over the weekend while Don was off in Tampa. My question, though, is, so how much more-- what, like, the hair and makeup that is involved with the podrace.tv broadcast? I mean, is it a lot, or is it a little? What do you do to get ready for TV versus radio? From that standpoint, it's very minimal. There is no, like, hair and makeup person or anything like that. So I have, Ben, you'll appreciate this as working in television. The extent of my makeup is some powder. And that goes on about two and a half minutes before we do the open. And in terms of hair, you know, I'll actually, like, pay attention to what I'm doing. And that morning, it's supposed to every other day when I don't really, and that's the entirety of the operation. And I make sure I shave. Because I don't shave every day when I'm doing radio. I shave, like, every other day. So for TV, I make sure I shave. That is literally the extent of it. It's probably also a mental preparation of having to work with Mud Grant that you have to do some meditation of some sort. And, like, I saw a tweet the other day and said, man, this guy looks like he sits in his car when he gets home. And I thought to myself, doesn't everybody sit in their car for a minute when they get in? I have to mentally prepare myself to walk into Thunderdome almost every day, Jesse. And I'm sure you do the same when you're home. I think when you work with Mud on TV that night, you have to probably have a moment of, like-- [SIGHS] All right, I'm going to get through this. Who saw? Yeah, who saw? He is the most loving and most lovable person I've ever known. He has a very large personality, and everybody is quite aware. But he's-- you think about a clubhouse, right, and the way a clubhouse is put together. He's the guy that brings the energy. He's the guy that's not going to let you have a bad day. When you really feel like you deserve a bad day or you really want to have a bad day, you see him bouncing around smiling, laughing, making jokes, showing videos on his phone. And you're just automatically in a better mood. And, like, I've got to tell you, you've got to have people like that around. We were joking the other day about it, like, clubhouse chemistry applies to the broadcast booth as well, you know, those things that matter downstairs, matter upstairs as well. Because, you know, we're around each other all the time. And I'm telling you, man, he has saved our lives so many times with his positivity, with his energy, with his love. And he's a very special part. Sweet angel, baby, is what he is. Hey, you know what is so underrated with chemistry? And I think we have it, Woods, and I see it with Jesse and Tony. And Jesse, even in Mudd, even though they don't work together that often, is when you can take digs at someone else, it's so important. And you do it with both of those guys, even with Mudd on TV. I hear him, a little stung your breath a little bit. You get him sometimes, yeah. But that's great, that's what chemistry is all about. Knowing that the person you're working with is going to be OK with it. Yeah. Right, because it's authentic to your relationship. You know, I mean, basically, if you can do it off the air, you can do it on the air, right? Or vice versa, I guess. You know, I mean, it's like, that's the same kind of dig that I'm going to take at him. You know, when we're hanging out on the bus, on the way to the ballpark, then, you know, it's like, all right, like, this is what we do. This is the nature of our relationship. And you have to be able to do it to yourself also, right? You can't take yourself too seriously. You've got to be able to turn it around and give yourself a hard time and accept it when the other guys do. There's no question. And I think, you know, from an audience standpoint, whether it's your show or what we do, you know, people, they feel that, you know, like, somebody listening and be like, these guys are truly friends. That's the way I give my friends a hard time and bust their chops. I kind of like that they're doing it too. And look, are there times I've probably crossed the line, you know, maybe feel a little bit too comfortable with something like that? I've never. But like, you know, that's, again, that's part of being a friend in like, you know, noticing that, recognizing that, realizing that and pulling it back a little bit the next time. But like, I know the one like I heard about from a thousand people, the other day was mud. Like he's like, you know, I think, you know, somebody just hit a home run and he said, I smelled jumbo jacks. And I said to him, I said, I think that's your shirt. - Oh, yes. - Like that kind of thing. - Yeah, that's great. I saw I heard it too. - Like that's the exact kind of thing I would have said to him, like, you know, as I said on the bus or hanging out at the hotel after a game or something like that. So yeah, it's, we have a really good time. We've got a really good group. I feel very lucky to be a small part of it. - It's hard to get digs in on Jesse though. - Oh, you can't do it. I'd be terrified. - He's just polished. - It's tough to find any avenue where you can kind of get an in-road on a dig on Jesse. - Yeah, he's taking some of me. I like it. - Oh, very easy to take digs at. - A badge of honor. - We have plenty of foibles. - Yes, that's right. - I feel like Jesse needs a foible or two. - He does. He's too perfect. Jesse Agler joins us here on "The Hero of Ben and Woods" this morning. Now the baseball on the field has been honestly pretty, pretty remarkable, the stretch, whatever it was, the '27 and '28, the great record, the team playing together, Jesse, from your perspective. Have you let yourself get caught up in it all? Because I know I'm like this. I'm a ball of energy that's just, I'm tamping it down on purpose. I don't want to make any bold proclamations, but I sure am pleased with what I'm seeing. - How could you not be? You know, I mean, you have to be excited right now. You know, what that looks like for you is going to be different maybe than for me, maybe different from Manny, maybe different from my child, you know, and so on and so forth. But like, you cannot be anything but encouraged and excited. By the way, this is going. They're one of the best teams in baseball. Like, period, they are. You know, what that means come next month, we'll see. As we know, the volatility of the postseason is off the chart. - Oh, yeah. - And, you know, it seems like every result is equally probable, although I know that's probably not mathematically correct. Like, that is it. They are one of the best teams in baseball. They have played like one of the best teams in baseball. They've handled their business, like one of the best teams in baseball. You know, I would at this point, not discourage anyone from dreaming any dream. I wouldn't. I think it's a reasonable dream to have at this point. Again, knowing that, you know, the next two months is going to be insane and you have no idea which way it's going to turn. It could go a thousand different directions. But, you know, you have every right to be excited. You also have every right to emotionally protect yourself because we've been down this road before as sports fans of whatever team and whatever time. And we all, I think, deep down understand how hard it is to be the last one standing. The Padres, obviously, have never been the last team standing. But that shouldn't, I don't think, tamper your enthusiasm and your excitement because they are clearly, if you follow this sport, you watch these games. You can tell, you can tell. They are a championship caliber team. There's no mistaking that. - That's all I've ever wanted, really, as a Padres fan is a team that I can look at and go, yeah, they've got everything it takes. Now, I know there are several other teams that also have everything it takes to win the World Series. And you'll need some breaks, things that go your way to actually lift that trophy. But you don't have to tie yourself in knots and go through, you know, logical stretches to go, well, if this guy has an absolutely career month of October and these four guys add three miles an hour to their fastballs, maybe they've got a shot. No, if the Padres just play like they're capable of and have played like they've been capable of all season, they will have a legitimate chance in October. You would agree. - Absolutely. And as you said, I think, as a fan, right, that's, I don't wanna say all you can ask for because of course we're all asking for that big last thing. We're all asking for that parade that Peter Syler would talk about. But I do think you had it right. You don't have to twist yourself and contort your mind into saying if X, Y, and Z, it's just keep doing it. Keep plugging away. And Mike Schultz deserves an awful lot of credit for that. Sort of the way he has steered this ship and kind of gotten his mentalities, I think deep into that clubhouse and kind of allowed these guys to do everything that they've done. - Well, we have an interesting twist on the Incorporator today. Don't we, Benny? I wanna set it up. Now, Jesse, are you familiar with the phenomenon that is Tom, AKA Welsh Fryer? You're on Twitter every now and then. You know Welsh Fryer? - Sure, yeah. - All right, Welsh Fryer's here. Say hello to Jesse Agler. - So Jesse. - Hey, hey. - Yeah, there he is. In the flat. - How are things recorded? - Yeah, so right, it's amazing. - I love that accent. - It's all right, it's amazing. Giza, it's so good. I can do this all day. So we've thought today, we're gonna give you a very simple Incorporator word. - Yeah. - Paulie. - That's a real town. - No, that's not it. (laughing) - That's a, did you know Jesse? That's a real town. - That's a real town. - Right, in Wales. - A real town. - Did you know that? - 52 letters. - Watching, welcome to Rex and I feel like I picked up some of that stuff. Yeah. - Now say it live, Tom while you're here. - Right, here we go. (speaking in foreign language) - Absolute, they're mad lads over there. - God, it's insane. - Jesse, we would not make you do that. Now we're actually gonna give you the simplest Incorporator word you've ever had in the history of this game. Your Incorporator word today is baseball, except you have to say it in Welsh. Tom? - Pelvas. - Pelvas. - Pelvas. - Pelvas. P-L and then F-A-S, but the F is kind of got that V-ish sound to it, you know, like they're us, tend to do. - Like old English, like you look at the Constitution, you got those Fs in there. - Yes, exactly, I know. - You know. - Well that's where we came from, along the go, across the pond. - Exactly. - Pelvas. - Pelvas. - Pelvas. - I love that, I love that. It would be, it would be my honor for Tom and all of our Welsh friends. - All three of them that are listening. - Jesse, his parents and his sister brother. - Brother. - Brother, yeah. - You may see him down there. He's gonna be at batting practice, courtesy of one CEO, Eric Grouppner today, which Woods is just furious about, 'cause Woods had set up on Friday for him to go to batting practice, and Groupp dog just one up there completely. - Cut me off at the knees, Jesse. - Look man, pecking order is a pecking order. - Yeah, it is. - Exactly. God, it wouldn't surprise me if they get him an A-B tonight, just to show me up for my good beads, but it's fine. - Now make sure you say hi to when we're down there today. - Yeah, you'll see Jesse down there. - Enjoy your double batting practice, Welsh fryer. - Jesse, have a good game. - Jesse, have fun. - The September is here, and we couldn't be happier. - Love it, can't wait, guys. - Jesse, act like our voice of the pond raised. - Did you say the September is here? - The September is here. - What the hell was that mean? - I was gonna say the pennant raised and then I just said, "Well, let's just go with September." - Ladies and gentlemen, the September is here. (laughing) - Ladies and gentlemen, the September, the 21st night of the September, incredible. All right, well, the September is here. The Bed and Woods are also here. The Welsh fryer is here, and the great Jesse Aguirre is just great. - He liked the incorporate. - Petelvoss. - I think there was some genuine excitement for this one. - I thought he was saying, I thought he was being sarcastic, actually, I really didn't. - Oh, I think that was genuine. - All right, all right, all right. - But with Jesse, you never quite know. - Now, our pal baseball, Nick, you went to the game with him the other day. - Yeah, I went with Nick. - Now, he's on our tier one baseball team. Are you gonna be in town Sunday? - For half of the day, we're leaving on Sunday. - You're leaving on Sunday. - Many people were asking, is Tom gonna take ABs for the tier one team? I mean, the answer. - If we say yes, then you'll probably get an AB tonight for the pod team. - Yes, yay, Eric, come out and swing it. - Oh, yes. - Are you inviting him to play some pelvoss with you? - Yeah, it looks like they're leaving that day. It's gonna be tough, one with the one o'clock game. But baseball and Nick said he did show you the best food at Petco Park. - Yeah. - What did you have? - The Berea egg rolls. - Oh, okay, I've not had those. I have not even, that's a new item this year, isn't it? - I gotta get that. - I'm gonna get that. I'll be there Friday and Saturday. Thursday and Saturday is when I will be there. I don't even know where they are. - That's a good question. What stand has the Berea and the ballast point like? - Oh, okay, the ballast point area. All right, I'll find them. I'm gonna try those. That's the one under the scoreboard. - I think so, yeah. - I can't remember, all right. - So I've got our chat nose and we'll let us know before we come back. - How do you say Berea? - Berea, you know I can't roll my arms. But it's double R, so. - Berea, I thought it was Berea. - Berea, Berea, Berea, Berea, Berea. - Berea egg rolls. - Right, okay. - Fusion cuisine. - No, behind home plate, Nick says. All right, okay, here we go. All right, we will come back. We still have a Randal report to get to final, very special voicemail. - And a very special voicemail, let's say. - Angry voicemail, is it her crivener? - Maybe. (laughing) - Coming up after traffic here on 97.3, the fan, in the September. (upbeat music) - Yes, Governor? - Hello, Governor. Hold on, bro. - All right, I have no idea who left a voicemail or why they're angry, so what's you're gonna have to explain it to me? - I actually don't. The voicemail just speaks for itself. - What does it? - Yeah, it does. - Okay. - You guys remember our pal, Scottish friar? - Yeah. - Scottish friar and he is. - Not happy today. - He's hot. (speaking in foreign language) I've got that boner too to pick with you a lot. Would you like to explain to me why there's a Welsh lad who's coming in studio and what makes him so bloody special? (laughing) He's the said to come around the States and all of a sudden, everyone's rolling out the red carpet. All right, Mr. Welsh friar, come on the radio. All right, Mr. Welsh friar, come through the Peco part. We'll get just a batting practice. We'll play the national anthem for you, Peco. Are you bloody serious? Have you ever been to Wales? There's nothing special then. Have you seen that language? It looks like it was generated by chat GBT. All right, make me a language that has no vowels. There you go. Yeah, so it doesn't exactly add up. But I've done the Martha and I've connected the dots and I'm actually quite ashamed and sad to admit this. But it's quite obvious what has happened. Lads, do you know the word peyola, actually? So you connect the dots with what's going on and I know what happened. I know that the Welsh friar said I would. I'm coming through to the States and here's what I'll get you to make my way. Sweet and nice. I'll give you a waste of tickets. All right, that's what happened. I know that word said because the oasis tickets and I'll do everything for you. I am, that's what happened. And that's a bloody shame because it shouldn't have worked that way. I should be based on how cool you are and how good it go for your Scottish invented golf. So next time you might think about inviting your pal the Scottish friar, not the Welsh friar. I'll leave it there. Enjoy your champagne supernova. I'll be busy listening to the pukly Marson simple mains. [LAUGHTER] He is hot. And that is not what he thought everybody loved Welsh friar. He does have his haters out there. Hey, that means you've arrived. When you have your haters, I've got dozens of them. If not more, it means that you've made it. People hate you and they hate listen to you Welsh friar, but that's not what happened. I did procure my oasis ticket through another friend who is not Welsh friar. He did tell me, you try to get tickets to the show as well. Yeah, I did. I was unsuccessful. My family tried to get it unsuccessful. It was a bit rough. Well, they have just announced more dates in London for the people that didn't get tickets. Only those people will be able to get tickets for this. So they're trying to make life sure that there will be no way for people to get around that and see a second oasis show. I mean, yeah, but I think maybe the first dibs are for those people that got maybe banged out of the queue or whatever. And I think that's a cool move. It's tough. It's tough. It's the hottest ticket on the planet right now. It's crazy. Everyone in the UK is talking about it. Everyone's trying to get tickets. There's got to be hundreds of thousands of people going to them all around the UK as well. So it's not like anyone's out of an area. So yeah, it's crazy. Was this their plan all along? Was this the long con from the Gallagher 15 years? No. It's like you hated each other and then come back together just for this giant money-making opportunity. No, but if it was their plan, it's a brilliant one, to be sure, because they're generational wealth now for the rest of their lives. So yeah, one tour. Yeah, one tour. I mean, pretty insane. But yeah, that's not what happened. I did not accept a noasis ticket from Wells Fryer. Though I probably could have been manipulated had you worked out something in advance. Then again, Eric Reugner would have come in, swooped in, and done something even more special. Brought a oasis two-peg bill park for a private show for Wells Fryer. Exactly. Well, I know most people are going to the game tonight to maybe get a glimpse of Tom, but some will actually be there to see you Darvish pitch in his first outing since May. I mean, his last, I think, start with May 29th. And then after that, they put him on the injured list with the groin injury. And just as he was kind of starting to come back from that, that's when he went on the restricted list and was dealing with the personal family matter. So he will be back tonight, first time in, let's see. It's June, July, August with three, just over three months since his last trip to the mound for the San Diego Padres. It's going to be so nice to have you Darvish back on the mound and see what he can contribute for the Padres down the stretch and hopefully in the playoffs. Because not only are the Padres obviously trying to clinch a playoff spot, Woods, but I've imagined Mike Shilton and Ruben Able are trying to figure out what that playoff rotation is going to look like once they get there. There's a three game wild card series likely in the Padres future. Who's the odd man out of the four right now? What are your top starters? Bro, I think it really depends on what happens the last week or season. I think you can't even-- you can't prognosticate that much. That would be a fool's errand right now. If you're Mike Shilton, AJ Preller and you're, hey, just, you know, let's look down the road a little bit. I don't think-- I think it's a waste of time. There is a scenario though, and Craig was talking about this yesterday that very, very well may happen. The last week may end up being meaningless. You know, we've got all these expectations for three against the Dodgers and three against the Diamondbacks, but you might be too far from the Dodgers and you might already have a lead over the Diamondbacks by your time you get to that last series. So it may not be that important, and you may be able to line up your pitching for a three-game series. I still think the question of who those three are going to be is fascinating. I think-- Well, I mean, all things equal, everyone's healthy. Yeah, everyone's healthy. Everyone's pitching well going into the post-season. Garvish, cease, and must grove. No. No king. Kings been so good in the second year. If you're saying Darvish is healthy in pitching well, it's Darvish, cease, and must grove. You go with your veterans. Yeah, all right. No one's had a lower ERA in the Padres rotation this second. Garvish is the question mark, but it's a second half of the season. Garvish is healthy in pitching well. Based on the no brainer. Based on those parameters. And yeah, with the innings that Michael King has thrown and will throw. Just like he's game four of the next round. Yes, you make it. Or is he a-- because he was a bullpen guy for the Yankees. Does that make him like your first guy out of the bullpen in one of those games? Yeah, you're probably right, man. It probably is Darvish, cease, must grove. And then if you need king in one of those games, what a nasty weapon to have. And this is, again, what Flan talked about. What Bruce Bocey does so well using his fours and his fives to then become massively valuable pieces in a playoff run. That's a really good problem to have. Maybe Cs has to pitch that Sunday to finish out the regular season because you need that game. Then maybe King starts game three of the wild card if it gets to that point. And you know what? I remember growing up, I saw Randy Johnson come out of the bullpen. Oh, you know what I mean? You've seen Matt Bocey come out. Kershaw, that's always worked right. So you've got a lot of options here. But I guess when you think about it that way, if someone is going to have to come out of the bullpen in that series, makes the most sense for it to be king. I'd be disgusting. Yeah, it would be really, really nasty. But I think right now it's way premature. We just don't know how it's going to play out. I mean, let's be honest, if we're going to look at one side, we need to look at the other side. You can be fighting for your life that last week of the season. You really have no idea. I mean, it's not like the playoffs start next week. And we're trying to-- There's still a 22-game goal. Any of those four I'm pretty comfortable with. Absolutely. In the playoffs. So even if you have to go right to the wire, not all four of them are going to pitch in that last series. You'll have someone who is in reserve, who will be afresh and ready to go on that Tuesday for game one of a wild card series. Yeah, I mean, Adam's asking the question, could king pitch multiple games out of the bullpen, like two innings in games one and three? I think the answer is absolutely yes. We ask Mike Schilt, and what did he say on Friday? Probably his best appearance of the year. He's like, this is what you play for. This is why you play baseball, is for this. So I don't see a lot of guys on our team. I could not stand by if Joe has a rough second inning. Get him up, whatever. What I don't think you're going to have to worry about with this team that you did last year is guys going, hey, not me. Not today. I went yesterday. You're not keeping Tanner Scott out. You're not keeping Robert Suarez out. You're not keeping Jason Adam out. You're not keeping King out. You're not keeping anything. There's not one guy on that team that wouldn't say, I'll take it, not one. And that's what's massively refreshing about this year. There's not one guy down there that's like, I really need to watch the mileage on my arm. Tanner Scott is going to be a free agent. He's like, pitch me every day. I'll throw every single game you need me to throw. That in and of itself changes the mentality of this baseball team, 180 degrees from last year. So we'll see you Darvish hopefully takes that first step toward being one of those guys. That's going to be a critical playoff contributor for the Padres. That's 640 tonight. Sammy Levitt with your eco water SoCal pregame show at 540. Kidder Montero, starting for the Tigers, right-hander, 24-year-old 4 and 6 with a 517 ERA. Still have our Rondo report to get to. What's came in this morning? Tipping his cap to someone that I did not expect. He would be tipping his cap to. And that story will be part of the Rondo report if I'm not mistaken. Coming up next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fan. This segment of Ed at Woods is brought to you by California's Department of Transportation. This is important. Woods, listen up. Eastbound Interstate 8 will close from Jackson Drive to Route 67 from 9 p.m. Friday, September 13th through 5 a.m. Monday, September 16th. Follow the detour signs on Route 125 if you are in the area and then give yourself more time to reach your destination. I'll be in San Francisco. So sorry. It doesn't affect me. You're in San Francisco. Yeah. To go watch the pods. Where you been? And for Hannah's birthday. Yeah. Where have you been? I just can't keep up with all of your trips. Hannah's birthday going up Friday. I know it's birthday month. Birthday month has arrived. Happy deal, got the Padres Giants at Oracle, first time in Oracle on Friday night taking the kids. Okay. That does vaguely ring a bell now. And then the next day we're going Alcatraz. You haven't been talking about it that much. No. I'm excited for it. I just... My new thing is I don't... I guess Oasis I've been talking about, but I just try to like forget it almost. I've tried to forget it so that I don't get too worked up about it, you know. But I'm excited to go to Oracle. You know, could be potentially a pretty big game, so... And then of course I'm elated to go to Alcatraz. I'm still obsessed with Alcatraz. Have you ever been? Yeah. Yeah. Remember when Hannah and I went years ago, like we had just started the show and I came home and I was... Remember I was like watching documentaries about the Anglin Brothers and doing rabbit holes on it and now Bo is obsessed with it and Taylor is pretty committed. So it's... We're really excited about that. That's right. Oh. 100%. I'm going to show you guys how the other half... This is what happens if you make bad decisions. Keep talking back. I'm not going on vacation. I'm actually working and I'm leaving after the show. And then I'll be back before the show. It's just a weekend. Just a weekend. Just a weekend. It just happens to be a weekend away. Yeah, weekend away. It's trip woods. It's not vacation woods. I'm excited. All right. Paulie's got the round of the report. We'll get to that after our last check of traffic here on 97-3, the fan. And get things started here with our... Addition todays edition of the round of the report. Now tune to them off. Greatest. Welcome to the Reindel Report. With Paul Reindel. 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 allowed to be in Major League Baseball? No. It's the Reindel Report. Hey Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97-3, the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help please. That was good. Can I get over here? Oh yeah. All right. All right. All right. All right. Good morning gentlemen. Morning. We'll start off in Major League Baseball. Little post-game audio. Aussie Guillen did it again man. He sure did. He went off. Did you see any of this? He went off on Hunter Wendell. Wendell Stett. Wendell Stett. Yep. Who ejected Grady Sizemore in the game. And then NBC Sports Chicago. They have their post-game show. Did his watch. The studio show. It's Aussie Guillen. A couple of guys. They're all in their couches. They're on their soft chairs. And Aussie Guillen went absolutely scorched earth. On Hunter Wendell Stett. And there's really no story here. It's just great audio. And I'm all for it. Take a listen to this. All right. So you have Hunter Wendell Stett. He's the home plate on player. I wish I punch you in the face. Why? It's I think. Oh, you have a history with me? The first guy kicked me out of the game in the big league. He was? With no reason. Hunter Wendell. Yes. I'm sure Aussie did nothing to warrant an ejection by the way. Totally. Aussie's very uncomfortable. He was a legend. Legend. Legend. Yeah. Then I say, you know what? You know what? You're not a pimple on your daddy's behind. So Harry Wendell Stett. His father was a long time umpire. Fairly well respected. Hunter is just not as good. I've always had that. I told him that. Do you know your pimples, your daddy's behind? You're not a pure threat to respect. Because he kicked me out running out of the field. Or like, okay, I went out to second base. And he kicked me out of the game like, wait a minute. Do you know who I am? Don't leave. No, he said, don't leave with your daddy's name. I spent more years in the big league as you. But I think the cold make today. I never argued about calls in TV. Obviously, with the uniform, I did it almost every day. But the calls you make today, it was horrible. Wow. May you leave baseball? He's bigger than the game. He's bigger than anything else. Look at how fatty he is. Oh my god. Look at how fatty he is. He should be embarrassed and wear that uniform. Oh. Look at how fatty he is. He should be embarrassed. Oh my god. To wear that uniform. Oh. Look at it. He's like, look at how fatty he is. Look at how fatty he is. How he's got smokes. Necessarily the most politically correct commentator in baseball. But he's definitely unfiltered. Wow. Wow. Strike zone wasn't good when the Padres had him just a few days ago. Never seems to be good. Holy cow. So basically, as he again is against nepotism. Yeah. His blood he was just ranting about. You're not a temple on your daddy's desk. Your daddy's become it. Phew. Yeah. Got to look up out of here. All right. We'll go a little bit out of order here. She's back. I don't know that she ever left. She didn't leave. She's been here. Talk to her. Yeah. Her 50 minutes. Has extended indefinitely. I'm a big fan of her. And we're going to get a lot more of her. So we've talked about her. Of course, she had the viral clip. And there were a lot of people got upset at how famous she got. And look. This still upset. She didn't do anything wrong. As far as I'm concerned. Concerned. Hayley. Well. It's innocent. You want to have a bigger conversation about how you can say one thing on a video clip and have it go viral and literally change your life. That's a bigger picture conversation. But she didn't do anything wrong. In fact, I think she's actually done some good. I saw a video of her like she's like, hey, I only got 15 minutes. I'm going to use it for good. She does a lot for dogs. Animals. Yeah. Things like that. That Mets first pitch was to raise money for shelter or something. So yeah, that's good. Well, not a lot of people take their 15 minutes and do do good with it. Yeah. So that's a good for her. And we're going to get a little bit more of her yesterday. She had a big announcement. We'll play that for you right now. About what Hailey Welch, Hock to a girl, has coming down the pipeline. I really thought I was done. I'm just getting started, baby. I'm Hailey Welch. A little while ago, my life took a complete left turn. It changed forever. And along the way, I realized that everybody's entitled to their own opinions. Well, now it's my time to talk. Check out my podcast every week. Talk to them. We're all sitting down with the coolest guests and have an actual conversation with them. Talk to our talk to them. Talk to them. The Talk to a podcast. You got to give credit where credit is due. You were very, you were very tickled by that. It got me so good. I thought to myself, sometimes the answer is just right in front of you. What should I call my talk? Like talking with Hailey? No. Talk to it. Talk to it. Talk to it. Talk to it. Talk to that thing. Talk to it. Brilliant. Well, she have guests. She will. She said in the promo. Yeah. And then she said actual conversation as opposed to catch phrases or just silence on a podcast. We're going to have actual conversations. Talk to them. Now I won't listen to one single solitary second. No. Not even a little bit. Oh, come on. Come here's next Tuesday. Okay. You can give that a listen. I'm not going to listen to it, but I support her and I'm proud of her. I'm sure there will be plenty of clips going on. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we'll play some. I'm not actually not going to go listen to it. I promise you. And then finally, this is just more of a little bit of a conversation starter here. We were talking. We've done this in the past, but we were talking earlier. I don't remember who's on the air off the air about fantasy football. We had our fantasy football draft yesterday. We did. Everyone's feeling good about their teams, but somebody has to lose. We were talking about the worst punishments for the fantasy football loser. This is a relatively, I think it's a relatively new phenomenon. I think so. When I was growing back in the 60s and 70s, when we played fantasy football, you just paid your money. And if you lost, you suffered the indignity of losing the game, right? But there's a purpose to it. It's to keep players from just phoning it in at the end of the season when they know they're not making the playoffs, but they're playing, you don't want, oh, I've got my big game. But the other guy's playing the last place team. He doesn't even set his lineup. He doesn't care anymore. Isn't that cost to do in business, though? Honestly, like that guy paid his, he paid his hundred bucks. He's entitled to run his team any way he chooses. But it affects the outcome of a league at the end. That's the, I mean, again, cost to do in business. I totally understand it. I'm not the guy that doesn't set his lineup. You played them early in the year, and he was like still caring. He said his lineup, and he beat you. And then he plays the other team that you're tied with at the end of the season. He doesn't even, you know, put in a quarterback because he doesn't care. I know. It's a bummer. It's a bummer, certainly. That's why you have the punishment at the end. The punishment is setting a lineup to try to win as many games as possible. I mean, he also, he already lost 100, 200 bucks. I know we talked about the one in a second. Yeah, we can't get that back. But you can stop yourself from the punishment by trying until the end of the season, possibly. Yeah. We talked about the one at the Waffle House. Yeah, what was that? You just had to stay there for like 24 straight hours at a Waffle House. There was a one at McDonald's or a fast food restaurant where like every cheeseburger you ate, like every food item had minutes deducted. So you had to be there for like 12 hours. And if you had a chicken sandwich, it would take off 15 minutes or something like that. Our beloved Welsh fryer here has one that they do over in Wales, right? You were telling me about a fantasy football punishment with the orange shirts. Tell everybody about that one. Yeah, so there's an organization in the UK called Just Stop Oil. Just Stop Oil. And they wear these orange t-shirts with their logo on it and they do really harsh things to obviously campaign block roads. They pour paint onto like fields of sports events. One's is you've got to wear a Just Stop Oil t-shirt and go into airport sporting events. You get stopped by every security guard there is. You know, you know. Because I think you're there to disrupt normal life. If you've really just you've just lost your football league and you have to wear it to sporting events. Yeah. Everyone's staring at you like waiting for you to make some sort of scene. People get kicked out of places. For just wearing it. I've seen one where some guy went on the plane and the pilot pulled him over and said, "You've got to take it off otherwise I'm not flying the plane with you." Oh my God. It's crazy. A whole Just Stop Oil. It's a pretty good punishment. So I googled some other classics. And there was like a Reddit thread. I need I need the worst one for my. Yeah. So I got a few here. The loser has to sit outside of a stadium during game day and play an instrument. And they can't leave until they raise a certain amount of money. Just like the violin case open. You're just there until people throw enough money in it. Loser has to go to open mic comedy night prepare a set while the rest of the league members sit in the audience and heckle the hell out of them. So amazing one. Amazing. We didn't have any of these punishments in our in our media league. Nobody even really chatted in the chat. Everyone just drafted. Nobody really wanted to talk to each other. Woods if you lose your punishment is you have to do the league in next year. You got to do a photo shoot for a calendar. 12 photos. Oh, that'd be fun. You can have fun with that one. This one sounds awful. Make the loser dress up in a suit and tie and go take the SATs. Like show up to a high school cafeteria as a 40 year old man or whatever and take the SATs. That seems horrible. It's just a long day. I mean, that's like three hours compared to like 12 hours in a McDonald's. But somehow the 12 hours in a McDonald's seems better than three hours taking an SAT again. You know ours. I mean, we have one that's standing. No one is man enough to take it on this show. I know. Right. It's the worst punishment for me and for us. I think that you could do and it's go to a Padres baseball game in jeans, tennis shoes and a spandex shirt. Oh my God. And I mean spandex. You're under armor type shirt, not loose fit. The one you wear under your jersey to keep things tucked in and tight. We all wear them compression if you will. Wear that as your outer wear and a Padres hat and you walk around. You go get a hot dog, a beer and you walk around and listen. Here's the worst part. I see a dozen of those guys a game by choice. By choice. They're like when they leave their house, they're like hell yeah. Throw this on. Yeah. Skin tight. I didn't barely breathe. But I'm wearing this to the game. You see every fold. You see every nook. You see every cranny. And you go. Why man? You could throw a T shirt on. Yeah. A T shirt on. That punishment for me is literally the fear of like and everyone knows so you're sitting there in your tight spandex and when you sit down your belly. I mean it's just accentuated. It's no good. I saw one. The loser has to get their hair cut by the winner. Oh that's a nightmare. That's awful. That's awful. That's like that's like bully. I don't know that I feel good if I was the winner. I'm like I'll just give you a little trim here. I'm not going to like give you a buzz. Prior go. Prior go. Prior go. I bet people don't realize that that the round table is actually a fantasy football punishment. It actually all lost. We lost. We lost. We have to do an extra one hour. Out of one hour on the air. It's a single week. Commercial free. That's our fantasy football punishment. After a four hour show. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. We'll be back tomorrow for the round table. We will be. Our fantasy football punishment continues. With another week of round table tomorrow. First a four hour show. Talk about tonight's game. Welsh fire. Thanks for coming in. Enjoy. Good to see you tonight. Your batting practice. Annie and Elston are coming up next for Paul Reindel. Steven Woods. I'm Ben Higgins. Have a great rest of your Wednesday from all of us here at San Diego's number one sports station. 97-3 the fans. How long everybody? My dad works in B2B marketing. 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