Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
8am Hour - Jordan Shusterman + The Reindl Report
Ben & Woods start the 8am hour by chatting with our pal Jordan Shusterman from Cespedes Family BBQ and Yahoo! Sports as we do each Friday morning! Then at the bottom of the hour we get to an early edition of The Reindl Report as we get ready to talk with Padres skipper Mike Shildt at 9am. Listen here!
- Duration:
- 40m
- Broadcast on:
- 30 Aug 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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I should give myself a pat on the back for the person that I am now. And as bad as I am now, think about how much worse I was back then. We'll see that's Paul Reindel, the executive producer, Ben Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor and trauma bringer out her this morning. And joining us right now to kick off the second half of the show, our friend, Jordan Schusterman, from Yahoo Sports and Sespa to his family, Barbecue. Segment is brought to you each week by our friends at Grand Old Barbecue. Now, when he logged in to our YouTube stream, his ID said number one, Mason McCoy fan. But then he realized that can't be true because we had Mason McCoy on the show yesterday. And we are now the number one, Mason McCoy fan. He was fantastic. He was brilliant, Jordan, but Sean Reynolds, number one, Sean Reynolds fan is absolutely fine. And he's done a nice job as well. Good morning to you, Jordan. - Good morning, gentlemen. It's great to see you. Yeah, listen, Mason McCoy, someone, a former Mariners farmhand, someone that I thought was maybe gonna make his debut with them someday. It's great to see him in the major leagues. And I'm sure he is a delightful gent. - He was like one of the more dynamic players we've talked to in six years of doing this. And we had zero idea what to expect for him. - He told us about growing up corn-tastling. - Corn-tastling. - Corn-tastling. - Yeah, making good money to do it. - Yeah, you'd have to go and pull the tassels off the corn and just throw them on the ground. It's like miserable work for kids in Illinois and Iowa growing up. - It's Midwest living, all right? You coastal folks over there don't know what it's like to do some hard work, hard work on the farm. But yeah, I'm glad Mason McCoy is standing up for flyover country. - You know, and I love you guys 'cause you get into the minutia of things. And there's a couple of things that I do as well. And when he made his debut, I laughed the minute he appeared because he had on the Jeff Bagwell Black Nike's. Like the old school, Mike Hampton, Jeff Bagwell, that era of cleats. Can I go, all right, I gotta bring this up. And I didn't, he could have been like, I don't know what you're talking about. I've always won these. But he's like, bro, I'm so, you know, I couldn't believe it. I had to wear him with the City Connects. I felt ridiculous, but I got a hit. So I had to keep wearing him. He was just fantastic. But I thought, man, you're getting called up to the show. You can't stop by Dick's sporting goods like on the way or have somebody go grab you some new spikes so that you look clean for your first game. I hear that, but again, we're talking about a guy who's played, am I, yeah, nearly 500 AAA games, right? Like every players like that are so incredible to me because to be that close, it's a lot easier, right, when you are struggling to get it, even as a double A. And it's like, all right, you know, maybe the dream, maybe the dream's over. But when you're in AAA and you're constantly a phone call away, right? For 500 games, for four or five seasons, you've got to be ready. But at the same time, once you get there, everything's probably moving a million miles an hour. And he's just focusing on like, I just need to, whatever. I'm not focused on my aesthetics at this point. 100% to not hurt the San Diego Padres and if I can help them even better. So good for him. - So we haven't brought this up yet, but it's August 30th, which means it's actually kind of an important last couple of days for playoff contenders because if you want someone eligible for the playoff roster, they have to be in your organization by tomorrow. - Correct. - And we're starting to see other teams put players on waivers. Did you see Katie Wu reporting yesterday, Tommy Pham, is being put on waivers. And I don't know if the Padres are interested or any other teams, but- - And I see Travis Jankowski too. - Yeah, Dan. - Yeah, so I don't know, are you expecting anything to happen here, Jordan, in the next couple of days that could actually impact some playoff teams down the stretch? - Yeah, so we saw the Giants do a couple. And I think that one is probably the most interesting one. Taylor Rogers, the left-handed reliever, being put on waivers. Now he's someone with a guaranteed contract for next season for a good amount of money. And there's only so many teams that are going to be willingly signing up to pay any reliever that much money for next season. But he's really the only one with respect to Tommy Pham and Mike Lay Taylor and Jankowski that I could imagine being like, oh, wow, this is meaningful because this guy's going to pitch high leverage innings in the post-season. But also with the money that he's owed, it's not as much of a guarantee. So waivers at this point, we had it with the Angels last year. We talked a little bit about the podcast we recorded this morning. It's a strange process. Of course, we don't have the August trades anymore like we used to, so this is kind of an avenue for teams to still add major league players before September and able to make them post-season eligible. So I wouldn't expect too much movement, but I'm sure some of these players will change teams and we will feel, I remember, we thought last year when the Guardians claim Geoledo and the Angels governance, basically none of those moves ended up meaning much at all. So we'll see if that actually is different this year. - They went nuts last year adding guys and trying to make a final push with Shohei and it just didn't work out. Talking to Jordan Schusterman here from Cessna with his family barbecue. And I did see the Rangers, we just talked about Travis Jankowski, but there was that rumor like three weeks ago that they were going to put Evaldi out there. Is that something, Jordan, where they go to the player and say, "Hey man, this could be beneficial for both of us." I did see Katie Wu talking about it. Like sometimes an organization will, yes, they're not going to do it unless it saves them money, but it's also like giving a guy like a Tommy Fama chance to jump on a roster for a post-season run. I don't think it's really altruistic by the Cardinals or really any other team when they do it, but have you heard anything else about Evaldi or any of those guys? - Yeah, I don't think it's totally irrelevant. The Rangers are a really difficult one to figure out because it's one thing to hold on to your guys at the deadline and try to go on a run with the team that obviously won the World Series last year. I mean, but not just giving those guys away at this point is just to save money, I guess, but so maybe we'll have a couple more. It sounds like what we already know since it's a 48-hour process and guys need to get on before September 1st, like kind of running out of time to find out if if anyone else is going to be put on here. But we'll see. I do think to your point though, like it's not totally irrelevant, like especially for veteran players who like Tommy Pham, like there's some other versions of this. I think there probably is some internal conversations. We heard one with the Angels apparently where this year where it was like Kevin Polar who said he's retiring, he apparently was fine just sticking around with the Angels. They're like, okay, do you want to get traded? Do you want to go try and win? And how much of traders were there really a bit, but he'd been having a solid season and he was apparently like, no, I'd rather just play it out here. So different players have different preferences, but ultimately the teams are the ones making the decisions. - Jordan, you guys are giving me post-traumatic stress with the tweet you said a couple of minutes ago. The Padres lineup. - I had to get that in before we started. - The last time the Padres went to Tropicana Field, it was eight years ago this month, August 17th, 2016. Let me run through the Padres lineup. This is horrific. - Oh, so good. - Travis Jankowski, we just mentioned him. He's actually the star of the show here, along with Will Meyers, your first two batters. After that, Jan Harvassalarte. - Never nervous. - Alex Dickerson, Ryan Schumpf, who's now a loan officer. I still follow him on Twitter. - It's great. - Christian Bethancourt behind the plate. Then Brett Wallace, Alexi Ramirez, Mick Noonan at second base. - Nick Noonan. - And the starting pitcher, Christian Friedrich in that game. - Holy. - Oh my God. - If you had told me eight years from now, the Padres will be battling with the Dodgers for division legs, the Diamondbacks, they're in the wild card spot. They'll be going for their third playoff appearance. I go, how do you get from there to here? Even in eight years, it seems impossible. - Here's what's so wild about this. And this is a great, the Padres are an incredible example of how there's like before and after the pandemic are just like completely different eras of baseball. - Yes. - And I've thought about this often. Like 2019 to me is when we talk about eras in baseball, like I do think that that will maybe be considered the end of one, which we're talking about baseball history in 2020, just because of course, how much happened in 2020, but how many of the rules changes and all these different things. You know, we're talking about 2016. They would lose for four more seasons after that. Or three more seasons after that. That was the beginning of the losing. - And you know who the GM of that team was? - AJ Preller. - AJ Preller. - Still the general manager of that team. But put together that line up with Nick Noonan, it's second-mazing Christian Friedrich. - I gotta tell you, the first eight you read, I was in. And I remember that, well, when you said Nick Noonan and Christian Friedrich, I went, ooh, I don't know, I must have missed that one because I had no recollection of this. - Well, but friends, let's also-- - Nick Noonan, look and appreciate it. - I appreciate it. - But also, again, I mean, this race lineup is pretty staggering. Well, I think about how much turnover they've had, right? I mean, we got some players in there that, you know, we got Steven Sousa in there. We got Nick Franklin at the top of the line. Keir Meyers still playing. - Yeah, Logan Morrison's in there. - Yeah, Logan Morrison. We got Bobby Wilson as a coach now for the Rangers at Chris Archer, he's not pitching anymore, so. So that's 2016, a long time ago. - There's another tweet that you sent out that really bummed me out 'cause I liked this dude a lot, talking about the Royals. We mentioned the Royals earlier in the week, what a nice story that is. And Vinny Pascotino went down. He's got, they're saying, six to eight weeks with a broken finger, broken thumb. And just such a bummer for that organization. Losing a guy when you're, you know, in the middle of it all, man, and fighting and scrapping every day, is quite a blow. Can they overcome it? I really liked that team a lot. Bobby Wood Jr. is legitimately a superstar in this league. And they're one of those kind of really fun teams to watch that I don't think anybody wants to run into. - 100%, and I wrote about the Royals at Yahoo this week. I saw them in Cleveland, saw them, you know, sweep the double header on Monday. Vinny, one of our favorites. I mean, he's someone that we've gotten to know a lot over the last few years. And a genuinely hilarious human being. Like, we always talk about how like the bar for baseball player, funny is generally a lot lower. - Yes. - Respectfully, Vinny makes me laugh. Every conversation with him, sometimes on purpose. Sometimes just because he's a big goof, but he's also so important to them. This Royals team has three awesome hitters and they're trying to figure out the rest. And to lose one of them in Vinny past when Tino, of course, Bobby Witz on another level, Sal Perez, one of my favorite players, you know, of this generation, but the concern. And I would say that this is the first injury blow they've dealt with the whole season, the Royals have been one of the healthiest teams the whole year. And that has been a huge part of why they've been able to stay together and really fight for this division a year after losing 106 games. I think they still have enough to get into the postseason. But this is not a team with a lot of reinforcements coming on the farm. This is not a team where it's like, oh, good thing we have this top prospect. So I'm really curious to see how they managed to fill in. There's no way you can replace Vinny this late in the season, but it's really, really tough. I'm super bummed. That's as far as injuries this season, that one just crushes me. - Are there any genuinely funny baseball players left? - Joey Vada just retired. Joey Vada just retired, so he was okay. But this was the sport that birthed Bob Euchar. Mark Grant was legitimately funny. We get to enjoy him every day. But that's like a bygone era. I mean, if someone was like cracking jokes like that in the clubhouse. - Blake Snow, it's hysterical. - Blake Snow's pretty funny, but he's hysterical. Blake Snow's one of the funniest. - He's intentionally or unintentionally though. - Blake Snow is, no, I think he counts. I think Snow is a good nomination as a legitimately funny player. But yeah, it's just interesting. Like he, many, man, and it's just been cool. And that's been part of it also. I feel like, you know, as he's debuted and the world's been very bad, but to have it be a very big part of this team that's now winning a lot, it's been cool to see him a lot more out there. So I don't know, six to eight weeks. I mean, now we're pushing in October, right? I mean, that's maybe he's back for the DS or CS, but that's really tough. - Jake Croninworth is cuddingly dry funny. - Yes, cuddingly. But it's taken four years to get there. And he's really, I've heard him with other people. I think we bring out the best in Jake. I'll just say, I'll say it, he likes us. - Yeah, but yeah. I mean, it used to be a sport of comedians. - Yeah, it really did. - You got to fill the time in 162. Now everybody is like, I can't wait to go to Instagram and post. - I mean, they're like playing pranks all the time in the bullpen and I'm a dugout. And he was like, it's serious now. - Now it's like, I hit a single and I have to get to Instagram and post it. - ASAP, I smoked that single in the third. I put us up three-one. - But Manny Machado can be funny. - But he's not even, he doesn't try. Like when he brought out the gator and he's like, "Watch out, Bob." - Yeah, yeah, yeah. He doesn't try to be funny. - He doesn't try to. - I would just say, I would just say to me, like, because there's so many games, like players are so quick to just fall into the same, the same thing over and over. And so anybody that is willing to detour from that and make an interesting, I mean, I said all the time about Votto is there's very few players who, and this applies to not just like, whether they're funny or not, but just to be actual insight. - There are very few players who I, if I see they get a post-game interview, like I have to listen. - You gotta see it. - That's a tight, that's a fairly tight list. - Kevin in the chat mentioned. - Yep, he's got that Steven Wright, Droll, Dry, Sad sort of humor. - But Votto was, he was the number one guy, and I was just lucky enough to cover him in Cincinnati and like get to experience it up close. But it's a short list, but I would say Vinnie's is kind of working his way there too. - Sorry about your mariners. - Yeah, you know. (laughing) - It's not a death in the family. - Hey stop, not dead yet. - Not dead yet. - They're not dead yet. - Not dead yet. - How far are they back now? - They are four back, they're a whole lot more dead than they were when they were in said case. - Here's a deal. All right, Padres, we'll try to sweep the Astros for you in a couple of weeks when they come to town, but you have to at least let us take one of the two when the mariners play the Padres. - Well, it is, it is to that point. So I just did another piece, a Yahoo this week, just looking ahead at the best series remaining on the schedule. And I circled that, those two games in Seattle. Seattle took the two games for San Diego in early July and at that point, the Mariners are still in first, the Padres are like barely hanging on in that third wild card and it was like, this time the pressure is obviously gonna be on Seattle. I know that's still a couple of weeks away. But yeah, man, I mean, listen, they're still in it. They feel a little bit better since they fired service, whether that's coincidence, whether that's related, who knows, but listen, they got a chance as I've been saying all season. Every time they go out there, their pitcher has a chance to be awesome. - Every time. - Essentially the only team in the league that you can say that about. And so that is some sort of an advantage, but obviously if they can't hit, they can't hit. So I'm curious because they go on the road now and they've offensively generally been a little bit better on the road. So we'll see if they can take care of business, especially against a team like the Angels. They really got to win that. - I'm sorry to write them off so soon. There's still plenty of time. You're good. You're fine. - No, they're not a good place. - Not a good place. Jordan, you're fair to send your condolences. - Thank you very much. And as always, have a good week. We'll talk to you again soon. - Appreciate you guys. - There is Jordan Schusterman, Yahoo Sports, SespittisFamily Barbecue. And that segment each week brought to you by our friends at Grand Old Barbecue, North Park, Flint Springs, at the ballpark, get the brisket, thank me later. And he's unbelievably good. - The Franemel was funny. Franemel was funny. - Franemel was funny. - Yes. - Good. - Is he playing in Japan, or where is he right now? - I believe in Japan. - It seemed like he could be a hit over there. - Yeah. - But yeah, he used to be a sport of comedians. I mean, you know, Bob Euchar had a very successful comedy career. - Jay-merman, Jay-John Stone. - Yeah, Jay-John Stone. - Yeah, those guys. Well, I mean, you know, a lot of them, a lot of the really funny guys weren't that good. That's not a shot at you, Mud. If you're listening right now, you were pretty good. - But it's true. - It is true. - Joey Vato is probably the best-- - The best, funny guy. - The best and funny. - Yeah, yeah. - 100%. - Interesting. All right, we've got Ronald Report still coming up. Some more, some pod race talk and again, wrap it up that series against St. Louis moving on against those Tampa Bay Rays. And the manager's report with Mike Schilt at 9 o'clock. All ahead, don't go anywhere. Traffic and then back with more better woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fan. ♪ You spent it over here ♪ - Now at T-Mobile, get four 5G phones on us and four lines for $25 a line per month when you switch with eligible traders. All on America's largest 5G network. (upbeat music) - Minimum of four lines for $25 per line per month without a paid discount using debit or bank account. $5 more per line without a pay plus taxes and fees and $10 device connection charge. Phones have been at 24 monthly bill credits for well qualified customers. Contact us before canceling entire account to continue bill credits or credit stop and balance on a required finance agreement too. Bill credits end if you pay off devices early. C-T-Mobile.com. - This hour at 97.3, the fan is brought to you by Express Employment Professionals. If your supply chain demands a flexible workforce, hire with Express Employment Professionals. With contract and full-time workers from Express Employment, you get the staff you need and manage contingent labor costs. Learn more at expresspros.com. - That's expresspros.com. - Labor costs. - Labor costs. - Labor day. - Labor day. - It's on Monday. - That's right, happy Labor day everybody. - Happy Labor day to all of you. We will certainly enjoy the extra day. What are the plans for you guys? Any big Labor Day plans? You barbecue, do you go to parades? You were not really-- - All the parades. - We're not laborers, so I don't feel right. - Technically we are, we're-- - No. - Labor day, we work for a company. - We're employees. - This is for like laborers. We do not laborers. - I don't think that that's necessarily true. - Listening to you do math live on the air is laborious. I will give you that. But it's rooted then in the labor movement of the 19th century, as you know, right? Holiday risk rate. - Factory workers. - During a dismal time. Long hours, low wages. - Conditions, poor conditions. - Long hours, low wages and unsafe conditions. This is very safe where we are. The hours are not long, in fact they're short. - We could be electrocuted at any moment by any of this equipment. - I mean, I guess, yes. I guess we could, but the wages are fine. They're more than fine, we're good. I'm happy, I'm comfortable. - The cold dust is horrible and-- - It's not at all. There is literally, we are not laborers. I would be embarrassed to call myself a laborer. But I, we have like, we're gonna go do like a baseball practice. - That's it, that's what I'm doing on that. - Well, as you know, as I do on almost every holiday. - You're working. - I'm working at Channel 10 because we don't take days off on television. Radio, we take days off, but on TV, there are literally no days off. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor Day, even Paul's beloved Memorial Day. - Beloved Memorial Day. - We still do the news at least three or four times a day. - Adam just said, Stephen would say his hours are short. I'm stunned he didn't complain about doing four hours. I've never really complained about, yeah, I have. What I don't like, Adam, is when things are negotiated in contracts, but not agreed to. That's really my only beef. If you say you're gonna do something, then you do it. As a man of honor, I'm built different though. So don't be like me, I'm built different. So that's it. That's really my only beef. It's not the four hour. I've done four hour shows as I started in radio. That's not that big a deal. - The problem is, is a three hour show is a little short. That's why we used to do foreplay. Remember, you needed a little extra time before the three hour show. - That is not why we do four hour shows. - It's a little long. We really need like a three hour and 25 minute show. - Three 25 is perfect, bro. - That's what we're going for. - Yeah, it's perfect, it's perfect. No, but when you compare it to like people that labor, so my hat is off to you, to all the labor. - I mean, we're not corn tasseling. - No, we are not corn tasseling. We're not working, you know, construction. I feel like you're digging a hole here. So you'll be working. - See, I'm digging a hole, that's labor. (laughing) - Have you, all right. - No one digs more holes than I did. - Question. - I love you too, Adam. - Have you ever dug a hole? (laughing) - Great, great question. - Have you ever dug a hole? - Do you know what a shovel is? - Does like, on the beach count. - Not with your little plastic shake. - Mommy. - I used to love trying to get as deep as I could, but then it would start filling with water. - Save that. - At the beach, digging holes. - Yes. - I mean, I've like planted a plant before, so you had to dig a small hole. - A small hole. - Put it in the ground and then put the dirt back on the plant. - I've never dug. - But in terms of like a well or something, or a grave, no, I've never dug a grave or anything. It feels like it'd be impossible. You start going, it's like, this ground is really hard. - Yeah. - Like, how do you even get started on something like that? - When I was a little kid, I... - Get a step on the shovel and just get a shovel. - We did? - Has been ever was like a regular feature on the show. - How did we do it? What was the setup? Can you find an old one? I can't remember. I know it sounded familiar, but I think it's more fun of like, has been ever, have you ever checked your own oil? Have you lifted it and pulled the ring out and checked it? Not, not changed it. That's tough, but have you ever checked your own oil? - No, I have not checked my own oil. - Never checked your own oil. - No, but that's the dipstick? - The dipstick. - No. - Never dug a hole. - Does the dipstick come with the card? You have to buy it separately? It's there. Somewhere, so under my hood, somewhere is a dipstick. - Yeah, I show to you slowly, get out of here. - Really? - I don't have you. - I'm showing my dipstick. - I want to see him pull one out. I've done it. - Compare dipsticks. - No, I didn't know really what I was doing, but I have done it. - You take it, you wipe the oil out. - I've seen it. - No, I've had hands. - So level is. - So I remember when we were kids, you'd go to the gas station and it'd be full serve and they'd come out and-- - They'd do it. - They'd wipe it. - I don't know what they were. What are they looking for? - The level where it is. - The level? - There's a line on there and it tells you, oh, you're low. - Are you looking for like, how sludgy it is sometimes? - I think maybe the color, clean, color, yeah. - 'Cause I don't know what I'm doing. - We could be like, I'm a poor level. - What's the right level? - Wherever that line is. - That's the line. - There's a line and you want to be at the line. - Yeah, this is great. - There's like a tank that has the oil in it. - Paulie, what else? What else has, could we ask Ben if he's done before? Never dug a hole. - You've hammered nails, yes. - I'm not good at it, it always-- - Have you ever saw anything? - Have you ever sawed anything? - Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. - Like what? - Wood? Mostly? - For what purpose? Fun? (laughing) - I thought of you were a kid. - I know, we had, so we had, we used to have a deck in our backyard, but it was starting to fall into disrepair. And we had occasionally, like I'd step in the, step through a board, so I have to feel-- - The board's full it out and then I have to, we had some plywood, like two by fours, I went to Home Depot, and I have to then cut them to match the piece that was of the hole, and then I'd nail in the-- - Look at you, that's pretty handy. I'm gonna give you that. - It didn't look great, that's why we ended up just taking out the whole deck. - But you were just patching it. - But it was just patching like it was-- - It's not bad. - Yeah, it was just kind of a band-aid on the problem. - Have you ever used a level? - Yes, yes. You're like when you're hanging paintings and you wanna see if it's actually straight. - Have you ever been on a roof? Have you ever climbed up on Ben on a roof? - On a roof. - On a roof, that's a good one. - Like a slanted roof, no. - Yeah, slanted roof. - Like flat roof, like, you know, you go up and, I mean, I've been on the roofs of buildings. - Okay. - Like watching the sunset, but not actually, like a slanted roof that you could fall off, like Chevy Chase. - Like climb up on the ladder, like on a ladder. - I've climbed up on the ladder to like hang Christmas lights and stuff, and I'm never-- - Your own Christmas lights, no, wow, that's pretty. - That's impressive, I've not done that. - I refuse. - We stopped doing a few years ago because it's just like-- - I refuse. - Didn't want to anymore. Clean out my gutters, I've done that up on the ladder. - I've done that too, that's no fun. - No, all right, I've done some household chores. - I can't wait to show you your dishes. - Have I ever cleaned my shower like three days ago? - Yeah, he does, he does his own soft scrub. Matt says, "What kind of man are you?" I don't know, let's see, that's-- - I don't know that that-- - I know that that doesn't check his own oil. - That's, there's a lot of us out there now. - I don't know that it makes you manly, but it's, you know, bring the bell, that's the, I get the bell rung on me, when I even bring up the word manly. - We have washed the dog, although I've also taken them just to the groom. - Oh yeah. - I let someone else do it. - Drew says this is blowing my mind. - You've added air to your tires before. - Yes. - Yes, okay. - They can do that. - Change fire? - No, he's never done that. - No, I don't know where to put the jack. The jack is the tricky part. It's tricky. - At that point, I think I could actually get the nuts off the tire and pull it off, but I don't know where the jack goes or how to jack the car up. - We had to put it under the door. - No, we had a Ford Explorer that had this weird, like thing that you had to put it under and it was just real flimsy man. That was, it was difficult for me. - I have cut my own grass in the past, but now I do have a gardener who comes each week. We have a very small plot of grass. - I probably could do it myself, but... - You do a lot. - I do a lot. - You do a lot. - Thanks. - I have a gardener. - His name's Ben. - Really? - Yeah, that's your story. - Where's his Franklin? - It's Ben! - All right, we gotta go to break. - We do. Oh, wow, that segment just flew by. - You would. - Holy cow. Yeah, Paul, he's got a Rondel Report. We got the manager coming up. We gotta keep moving here. I've never been so distracted by his Ben ever. All right, we'll be back next with the Rondel Report on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fan. - Everyone's stunned that you forgot about the segment of Has Ben ever. - I forgot the setup, I think. - Yeah, we had someone call in and then there'd be a list of things and you'd guess whether I had or had not done that thing in particular. - That was during those in the corona cave, isn't it? - Yeah. - I would like to hear it again at some point. - Paul has got some editing to do if we ever get back to that. - One, like we made a promo out of it. - Oh, we did. - All right, let me hear. - It starts your morning on the right foot with Ben and Woods. - Has Ben ever paid for adult content? David, what are your thoughts? - I would say he has never knowingly paid for it. - Okay, so that's a no. Lock him in on a no. Ben, have you ever paid for adult content? - Oh my God. - Not recently, but yes. - Oh my God. - Ben and Woods, a great bit. - Hey, just do some fun bits. - We're five to nine. - Oh, five to nine. What happened to us? We did some more bits like that. It was great. - Yeah. - It was really good. - Isn't that fun for you? - Yeah. - That's kind of fun. All you have to do is say yes or no. - It was easy. - Yeah. - It was easy. - You guys have to get back to the corona cave for monkey pox, maybe. (laughing) - Create a Jesus will start the next pandemic. We can't wait. We're so excited. - Hands, signals, it's a little crass. We're adults here. - Have you listened to the show? - It's adults for 25-30 words. - It's what we're talking about. - It's I said adult content. That's all I said. Adult content. Yeah, magazine. It was a magazine. - Yeah. - Sheri or something. We. - We. - Jones. - Ula la. - Jones. - Was it Jones? - No. - You remember what it was? - Yes. - Hustler. That's right. We did this. (laughing) It's all coming back. You're remembering everything now. It's all coming back to you now. - It all came back to you. - All right. Let's check traffic and then Paul is gonna give us some maybe crafts, maybe not in the Rindle Report. - And get things started here with our edition today's edition of the Rindle Report. - Now tuned it to the month. Greatest. (upbeat music) - Welcome to the Rindle Report. With Paul Rindle. - Hi Paul. - All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in major league baseball. - And one story that you didn't know you needed. - Are you laughing? - The odds. - It's the Rindle Report. - Hey Paul, how you doing? - Okay, how are you? - On 97.3, the fan. ♪ Are you ready to blast the moon ♪ ♪ I need some help please ♪ - That was good. ♪ Can I get a hoey yeah ♪ ♪ I'll die ♪ - All right. (upbeat music) - Shut up, move on. - Just move on. (laughing) - Has wood's ever. - Just move on. - Just move on, please. - Well, we might have to dig into that a little bit later. (laughing) (upbeat music) (groaning) - All right. (groaning) - Really? - Yeah. - But currently? - Yeah. - Really? - Yeah. Don't ask. (groaning) Shut up. - We're making everybody insanely curious right now. - I mean, what kind of idiot pays for that kind of content in 2020? - No. - 2024. You got the whole internet, it's free. (groaning) (groaning) - What's his amount of taste though? He likes to be upgraded tomorrow. - I do. - He likes the upgrades. - I get roped. (laughing) - I get roped. - I'm the Welsh fryer of the show. - That's the roob. - That took me back, I was not expecting that. - A lot of surprises to me. - Yeah, a lot of surprises. All right, we'll start off. In the NFL, I was reading this, they do this every year. ESPN polled over 100 NFL players to anonymously answer some questions about their fellow players. Questions like, who's the goat? And if it's not my homes, what does he have to do to get there? 85% of the 100 people polled said Tom Brady is still the goat. Seven people actually already voted for my homes and several other players had others. Listed, neither my homes, more Brady. - Who gets the votes? Joe Montana, perhaps. - That doesn't say. - Just every standard of my homes. - Maybe. - One guy says, no disrespect. - A quarterback? - Uh, yeah, here's the full time. Somebody says, no disrespect for Tom. This is an NFC South player, but I'm taking Pat. Pat can do everything Tom can do and he's moped. - And then some. - Yeah, when it's all said and done, maybe he's got the hardware too. - I'd say he's on the right trajectory. - Definitely on the trajectory. - On the right track. - But right now Brady's still looking for the goat. - I'm sorry, I got distracted by a video on Twitter. - Did you pay for it? - No, no. You know, the Paralympics are going on in Paris right now. This is Chinese swimmer who is smoking the field. He has no arms. - What? - And the other swimmers do, and he is just kicking and just like, it's amazing. - God, it's amazing. - Retweet it. - I will retweet it right now. He actually finished second, but part of it was, he had beat out right at the wall because he has to swim his head right into the side of the wall instead of touching it. Like the rest of the swimmers, which doesn't seem-- - That is unreal. - That fair. We don't really cover the Paralympics that much, but it really is an absolutely incredible and inspirational event that they hold right after the Olympics every four years. I mean, that is, did you see the retweet? He's the guy in the nearest lane. - I'm about to pull up. - With-- - It's not great for radio. - It's not great, but I mean, I'm just sorry. I just got Chinese swimmer and that was unbelievable. - He hates the rhino report so much. He watches Chinese swimmer videos in the Paralympics when the rhino report is going on. - I get it. (laughing) Anyways-- - I was also watching Wheelchair Rugby. - Earlier, which was, I mean, like, they're crashing and falling, you know, like spilling over and it was gnarly. I mean, they were just intense. - Well, the headline from the NFL's poll was that the most overrated quarterback question. - Most overrated. - Overrated quarterback is from a hundred players currently in the NFL. - Anonymous, yep. - Yeah, any guesses? Overrated. Justin Herbert. - Oh my god. - He's on the list and others receiving-- - Okay. - The one that had a lot of shot wasps. - I mean, they fawn over how good he is even though he's led his team to nothing at all. - Was that all his fault? - It's not all his fault. I'll just say it wasn't all Philip Rivers' fault because the Chargers didn't win anything but they do a lot of fawning over him. - Could you imagine how much fawning you would do over him if he were here? - Staggering amounts of fawning. - The defense of Justin-- - I don't dislike him, I'm just saying. To be overrated, people have to kind of fawn over you a lot. So there was a tie for a second place. Jalen Hertz and Toa Taco by Loa. They chad 10 votes. Others were Justin Herbert, Trevor Lawrence, Deshaun Watson, Kyler Murray, and Brock Purdy. But the number one most overrated quarterback according to NFL players asked, Josh Allen. - Hmm. - I like Josh Allen. - He's got good arm strength. - He does. - He gets him right there on the brink of a superman. - He throws a lot of picks, man. - Yeah. - Lots of picks. - Brock Purdy got some overrated votes. - Yeah. - I feel like he's underrated. - Oh, he does his win. - It was the dead last pick in the draft. - Yeah. - Is there anything he does at this point? - Yeah, it's all gravy. - Like a positive surprise in gravy now. - Mr. Rolden. - And he be overrated. - I know. - Makes like no money. - Makes no sense. - How can he be overrated? - Well, we'll wait to get Wood's' thoughts on Steph Curry's $62 million contract extension for one year. - It's a lot of dough, man. - It's $62 million for one year. - We will talk about, I love Ben likes things. I love music biopics. - Me too. - Huge fan. - Movies just focused on the story, you know. - I'll watch any of them. - Not a documentary. - No, I'll watch any of them. - Ray, walk the line. - Walk the line. - All of them. - Straight out of common. - La Bomba, we just talked. - La Bomba, we talked about that one. Well, we got a new one coming out today. And it's about Frank Sinatra and it features Scott's staff. - Yeah, we did a promo. This is one of our promo. - Four years ago, this was like being talked about and in production and it's finally out. Creed, Scott's staff is playing Frank Sinatra. - So actually, Paulie, it's a Ronald Reagan biopic. - Oh, it's Ronald Reagan's biopic. - Yes. - And he just makes like a cameo as Frank Sinatra. - Okay, this is serious. - Which may be asking it up, like he's the featured star. - Which makes more sense. Who plays Ronald Reagan? - I don't know. - Oh, wait, is it Quaid? - Yes. - It's Dennis Quaid. - It's Dennis Quaid. - Do you know if I'll see that one? - Yeah, I don't know. - Here's what Scott's staff looks like as Frank Sinatra. - If you watch again, not for the people listening in their car. He looks-- - Does he pull it off? - No. - Not on him. - He looks like Scott's staff singing. That's what he does. He does not look like Frank Sinatra. - I mean, he's dressed like Frank Sinatra and they kind of got his hair-- - Pretty right. - Like Frank Sinatra. But other than that, he does not look like all blue eyes. - That is wild, man. - I think I'll skip that one. - Yeah, I probably won't see that one either. - Oh, for the presidential bio picture, not great. Lincoln put me, it was great performance, put me dead asleep. - They're long. - They're long FDR, I think, was one. - Nixon. - Nixon, it's not great. That's it? - That's it? - Yeah, thank you, Paulie. Paulie's now playing the video of the Chinese swimmer that had me so distracted earlier. - Really got you. - It did. But watch when he comes up to the line, 'cause normally you just touch the, you touch the end of the pool and that's how it, but he has to smoke, he has to swim his head right into the side of the pool like at full speed. That just feels unfair and kind of unsafe. Like you have to swim this whole race without arms and then you get a concussion at the end by going full speed into the side of the pool. So you're not like slowing down at the last second to lose. - He uses his, I'm gonna watch it right now. - He ended up getting the silver medal, but he just barrels at full speed into the side of the pool. - That's incredible, incredible. - Absolutely incredible. - I'm definitely not gonna complain about being tired. - Yeah. - These guys out there swimming with no arms and crushing. Good perspective, buddy, thank you. - Speaking of tired, look like a bit of a tired ball club the last couple of days in St. Louis. And again, it's not an indictment of those guys. In fact, it's a, in some ways it shows how hard and they've been grinding all season. Great squad takes a lot of energy to do what they've been doing. And you throw them on a road trip, 18, 18 games and 105 degrees with humidity. Yeah, maybe a little out of gas. I doubt Mike Schultz going to make any excuses but it doesn't seem like it's his MO to alibi anything, as he likes to say. But we will talk about the series with the manager. Mike Schultz, the manager's report, look ahead. Tampa Bay Rays, get an injury update on a little progress being made by the three key guys who are still out but are closing in on a return for the San Diego Padres. We'll get to all of that coming up next with Bennett Woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 of the fan. 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