Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
8am Hour - Most Beloved Actors + Jesse Agler Joins The Show!
Ben & Woods start the 8am hour by talking about who are some of the most BELOVED actors of all time, after James Earl Jones passed away at the age of 93 yesterday. Then at the bottom of the hour we head up to Seattle to chat with Padres broadcaster Jesse Agler as we do each and every Tuesday morning! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 43m
- Broadcast on:
- 10 Sep 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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It's time for Bob's Dare to Compare! The hottest game show on TV that asks, "What happens when you compare Bob's to the competition?" You get style, you get quality, you get beeps and boops and dings and whomps, and thousands of dollars in savings. Everyone's winner when you dare to compare with Bob's discount furniture. Shop in store at mybobs.com to play now! This podcast on 97.3 The Fan is presented by Hamel Casino, fun above all else. ♪ Bob, you know it ♪ My favorite part of the reset intro. Then it was 97.3 The Fan. We were halfway home on a Tuesday. You've unboxed that thing. I don't know that you were supposed to do that, Ben. I guess you can. I know that I've lowered its resale value on the open market. Tremendously. Tremendously. We are halfway home. I'm Woodsy, that's Paul Reindel, the executive producer Ben Higgins. Fernando Tetris Jr. Fernando Tetris Jr. Bobblehead unboxed. Platinum hair, perhaps. Yeah, it's the platinum glove Bobblehead presented by Canelles. I feel like mud and dawn right now. It's going to be the giveaway on Wednesday, September 18th. It's the final giveaway of the season for 20,000 fans in attendance. We'll receive this. I am holding it if you're on our YouTube stream. There you go. Platinum glove Bobblehead featuring Fernando's iconic home run robbery reaching over the fence. Someone asked, "Is this the one that they didn't give away in 2022?" And I go, "Well, he had one of the platinum glove at that point." So this is an entirely new Tetis Bobblehead. Does he have a platinum glove on there? He does. Yeah, he does. Platinum glove on the Bobblehead. You can learn more at pondraise.com/giveways. Now, if I wanted to, I could put it back into its molded plastic case and then back into the... Oh, somebody in the chat says JH619 says, "But it has sunglasses on though." That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good. I was thinking about it yesterday when he said, "I've tried it both ways. I wear the sunglasses. I don't wear the sunglasses. It's much easier without sunglasses." And I thought, "Doesn't he have, like, a sunglasses?" Jesus, press. You know what? Give me the toy. I'm just putting it away. It's fine. Take it away from me. Take the toy. Take the paper snap, too. Well, you're at it. It's like a six-year-old. I was putting it away. Doesn't he have... Very responsible of me. Doesn't he have a son... Does he endorse, like, sunglasses? Well, I mean, lots of his Instagram pictures. He is wearing sunglasses. He's not, like, religiously opposed to those sunglasses. I've seen him in sunglasses many times. He just says, "I can't see the ball as well." And sunglasses in the field. Yeah. That is hard. In the outfield. Yeah. I wear those transitions in sunglasses when I play golf. The Ron Rivera's. If you have not seen him in his transitions, they are the first day he got him. He came in and said, "I've got these new shades." And I go, "I think they're awesome." This was, like, what? Two years ago, maybe you go, "I've got these new sunglasses." I go, "Oh, okay." And he was so excited. He goes, "Yeah, they change when you go outside." And I go, "You didn't get them." They don't change dark when you walk outside. Yeah. When the clouds come out, then they don't get as dark. So you don't have to, like, be changing your glasses. Plus their prescriptions so I can see. Right. Because I see, I can read up close. But at a distance, I can't see the golf ball anymore. So I need them to actually see my shot now. It's such a dad move. The transition lenses are like one of the main dad moves. To get those, you were so excited. I'm sorry to crap all over it. I was sorry then. Two years ago. I'll just wait until Fernando starts wearing them. And then they'll be cool for everybody. And I will be ahead of the game. Why don't they wear those then in the big leagues? I'm not sure. Seems like it would be ideal. Because they're always dealing with the... I mean, remember the flip sunglasses where they'd have them down. Yeah. And then they'd flip them up, flip them back down. Yeah. That's what transitions are. You don't have to do anything. You don't have to do anything. They'll just change on their own. When you need them to be darker or lighter. Ron Revera just laid me off. Yes. Carmel wears them. Yeah. Big in the coaching circles. Man. So are yours not readers? No, no. They're the opposite. Okay. I have to take them off if I want to read. I can read just fine. I'm near sighted. Everybody always yells. You take your glasses on and off on the show like 100 times. I'm like, yeah, because they're re... I don't like wearing them. But this was actually... I got these because about, what, a year and a half, two years ago. I found myself unable to see the words on the teleprompter at Channel 10. Which is kind of across the room when I'm talking. I'm standing in one of those walls and the camera is a good 15 feet away. And I'm going, squinting every single time I'm on television is not a good look. I probably should go to an optometrist. And they put glasses on and go, oh, oh yes. I can see now. I didn't realize how bad it has gotten over the last couple of years. But yeah, these glasses actually do help me see at a distance. Kelly says transitions are never dark or light enough. And then you go back for a ball and flip them down. I mean, I could never do it. That's kind of what Tetis needs though. He needs no sunglasses to see it off the bat. Essentially is what I'm hearing. Like the sunglasses make it hard to see it at a distance. But as it's getting closer, if you're looking at the sun, you need them. So flip them right down. It's a lot to do. I don't see anyone wearing those anymore. And there's probably a reason for it. I don't know what it is. But it sounds like something that would be a good deep dive to go and ask the players. Maybe it's for training next year, we'll ask them. Why don't you use the flag? I feel like crony would wear flips out of everybody on the team. I feel like he would have flip shade. Infielders rarely wear something. No, they used to. Well, you know, they do now. What always freaks man is when people hit with sunglasses on. I could never, never, every a million years hit. Doesn't matter how bright it is. There's just, there's that thing in the middle that you stare at. The, the, the piece right in the middle. The bridge. And every time you're up there with your sunglasses and you're like, all I see is the bridge. All I see is the bridge. If I was wearing glasses that day, like I can't, it can't switch. Screws up my eyes to go from sunglasses to not. Next time we play a game, watch me in first place. The whole time I'm putting them on, take them off. Put them on, take them off. 'Cause I'm just trying to get the right feel for, for what it is. And the sun can be right in my face, but I, I'm kind of with Fernando on this. It does make it tougher. Now, my dad always wore contact lenses. Yep. I don't really want to put things in my eyes. Yeah. So I decided to go to glasses. To tell me, I got LASIK 14 years ago and it was the greatest thing ever. And now it's fading a little bit and I have to wear readers. Is there a tune up I can do? Can I go in and get re-tuned up? Is that possible? I think. Ooh, that's right. Nolan Arenado still does wear flips. He does. He does. I've seen him in him. But if there's a tune up for like LASIK to get me back to where I was, I'll, I'll pay whatever. I know there is certainly a limit to how much you can do at some point. They don't want you to do too much LASIK, but there might be a second like tune up procedure. I need, I need one. So bad. So yeah, you can get it and get it redone. Okay. All right. I'm going to take a couple of days off. Fellas will get some new LASIK at some point. I want to get that done. Why do you have to take days off? Because it hurts. Does it feel good? No. Need a day of recovery. At least one day. You just come in with your eyes closed. So many things about LASIK that freaked me out. It's the greatest thing ever. I ever did. It was so good. She said it was great. It's fantastic. Everybody I know that's had LASIK had nothing to complain about and then other people were like, are you, you're going to actually, you would seriously consider that? It was, it was incredible. The first day I stepped back on a field. I was like, this is, this is heaven. I wore goggles and contacts and all kinds of stuff. This was, it was heaven. So if there's a tune up that I could do it. Be great. Yeah. Carlos says, do it on a Thursday at 10 a.m. Yeah. A hundred percent. See you guys on Monday. And it's that round table. Yeah. I can't. I've got my LASIK surgery. Yep. I need to check that. Is there any way you can reschedule? What do we think about the round table this week? Ben, you're going to be gone. You're going to be around. Moth Thursday and Friday. Where are you heading? Thousand Oaks. The Kinehoe Valley. For golf. Golf. Yeah. Meating my buddy and his friend and going to play some golf. Rustic Canyon. Looking forward to playing that course. And they'll be around. Now you're the host of the round table. Yeah, but Annie filled in for me back. I missed a round table in like late April or early May. And I heard she did an excellent job. Shit. So she will be up again. Do you know that for sure? Pretty sure. Okay. So Annie, me, Elston and Ello. Correct. Awesome. Paul, do you want to sit in? Not particular. Might have a spot for you. It's chairs. There's definitely chairs. Free pizza in it for you. Paul doesn't usually partake in the free pizza. I've noticed. I'll grab like a bread stick. Do you grab one? I mean, you kind of get your work done and then you take off. It's the one day that we stay longer than Paulie of the week. Usually he stays longer than us. I usually have somewhere to be pretty quickly after the show. Whether it's haircut, therapy. It's always Thursdays. Smoke weed in the chat. It's a very subtle name. It's been in what's common in the photo of the fan. Pottery's been walking around wearing a banana hammock circle. Yeah, we did. We spent a good amount of time on it yesterday on the plumb smelly. Oh, I thought he was telling you to smoke weed. No, that's his handle. That's for glaucoma, not lacing. So if Adam wanted to... Oh, Sammy Lev's going to join us as well. All right. Well, that makes it more worthwhile than either. Not shot. Everyone's already here. You have chairs. You want to use all those chairs or at least as many as possible. Maybe Sammy wants to host. Smoke weed, guys. It's my favorite name in the chat. Satan's Blowfish is also a good one. But smoke weed is just so... It's no matter of fact. What's your... What? What is Sonic, Vinny? That's good. Yeah. What handle would you like? I don't know. Smoke weed is so good. It's a very matter of fact. I think my least favorite. Not that my least favorite person, but my least favorite. Gas station D pill kills me every time. Smoke weed, we love you too, buddy. Thank you so much, man. Thank you so much. I don't hate the round table, Alex. There you go. There you go. Yeah. That's beans in Spanish. Yep. All right. You said you had a fun thing here. I didn't have a fun. We were talking about James Earl Jones. We had a shout out to his family and our first half of the program. And my contention yesterday was that James Earl Jones is so great. The one thing that we can all agree on. Shout out to his family. It's family. Everybody likes James Earl Jones. I feel like you're what? Anyone doesn't. I saw someone pointing out, well, probably some racist out there. I don't even know. I think even to the racist. I don't know what he's all right. He's good, though. I mean, everybody liked James Earl Jones. I know. I feel the dream. That's a good movie. Why does it foster? Why did you do your foster voice? I didn't. The question is, does anybody have one of those people that everybody likes that you don't like? Glenn Powell is a new one for me. That everybody likes that you don't like. Everybody loves Glenn Powell now. I don't get it. It's fine. He's handsome. Is he the one from Top Gun 2? Yeah. A little smarmy. Yes. A little smarmy. That was the character. I also, Paul, he told me about some rom-com he was in with Sidney Sweeney. Oh, I don't remember the name of that on Netflix. Can't be you, or it has to be you, or anybody but you, so I put it on. That chin is a deadly weapon. I'm so jealous of that. Maybe that's what it is. I'm jealous of his chin. I see a lot of Glenn Powell in my house. There's a lot of Glenn Powell going around. Because Meghan would throw me on a bridge. The part of James Earl Jones, he wasn't intimidatingly handsome. Yeah. But it wasn't unattractive either. He was just, like, right there. Perfect. Somebody in the chat said Tom Hanks. What in that? Tom Hanks. He doesn't like Tom Hanks. Everyone likes Tom Hanks and he does it. Toby McGuire, I'm with you 1000%. Does everybody like Toby McGuire? I don't think he's pretty universally liked. I don't think so. No, I don't think so. I think most people would think he's a little dweeb. He's a little nerd. A lot of people get so popular that that makes them unappealing. Correct. Maybe that's what it is with Tom Hanks. Yeah. Man, everybody likes him too much. But James Earl Jones never got that way. He didn't overexpose himself. He wasn't like, I'm going to just be in it. Everyone loves me. So I'm just going to take every single role and be in every movie. He just, you know, he was the right. He was out there just the right amount. Wasn't too much in the public, but he wasn't too private. It was so good. It was just, it was like perfect. Ricardo, I agree with this one. Ricardo, this is the rock. I'm there. I'm with you. Everybody likes the rock. Yeah. This is like universally loved. I think. I don't know. I think just because they're thrown in your face all the time doesn't mean they're universally loved. I would say Shaq is universally loved. Yeah. I love Shaq. Who doesn't like Shaq? I mean, Boston Celtics fans probably. Even today, I bet they're like... It's tough with sports fans because you always have an opposing fan base that's never going to be your biggest supporters for sure. We're talking about... Oh, Tom Cruise has plenty of haters. Oh, yes. Talking about actors that we think are kind of universally loved. Snoop's not a bad call. Ernie Johnson. Oh, Adam says. Adam doesn't like Ernie Johnson. Well, Adam... Or he just thinks everybody likes Ernie Johnson. I don't know. Kurtz has Ben Higgins. What makes Kurtz? Now, when he said Tom Hanks, there's three people in this room who like me. Well, you don't like yourself, so... When you said Tom Hanks, I just had a memory pop into my head. 13, 14 years ago, I was in college, had a roommate, kind of a weird kid. Weird dude. Sure. And I think somebody's watching Forrest Gump in the living room and he came in and he goes, "Ugh, I hate Forrest Gump." You go, "Why?" You go, "Ugh." Can't stand Sally Fields. Like, maybe the hardest I've ever liked. Like, why? Well, A, that shouldn't make her break Forrest Gump. No, she's barely in it. B, who has any feelings towards Sally Field one way or the other? She's just there. She's just an actor. She's good. She has the Oscar acceptance, which is... You like me. You really, really like me. Yeah, that's fair. That's the only thing I think of. I go... Really? That ruined her 10 minutes in the movie. Yeah, I can't watch it. Yeah, I can't watch it. Forrest Gump. Okay. It's interesting. I'm just putting out names. Like, Robin Williams. And he said Ernie Johnson... I'm gonna put that in... Adam said Ernie Johnson and then said, "I love Ernie Johnson." Everyone loves Ernie. Adam, this is the... We're trying to find some of you don't like... That you don't like that everyone loves. So Adam doesn't like Robin Williams. No, he does. He's another one. He thinks everybody likes Robin Williams. That's not the purpose of the game. Right. He's just... I don't understand how... Maybe Adam missed the first like three minutes of this portion. Yeah, these will put him in timeout, please, in the chat. [Laughter] Is anybody not like Denzel? You don't like... My wife... She doesn't like Denzel. My wife... This is a quote. He's not that good of an actor. So... I think you've said that before. That's what I deal with. I did nightly basis. Still... Denzel was shocked. Denzel Washington's... Not that good of an actor. It's a quote. You wonder why I'm frazzled all the time. Has she seen Crimson Tide? Come on. Take takes like that. She said this. Yeah, Anthony, that's insane. You're right. It's insane. You made me... You shared something the other day that made me laugh when you're talking about hating yourself. You said... [Laughter] The post... [Laughter] What was the post? It was... You can get $50,000 but if you do, if you accept the $50,000, the person you hate the most gets $100,000. Easiest $150,000 I ever made. [Laughter] You know the other day, we've been hating yourself. [Laughter] It's the most clever tweet I think I've ever seen in my whole life. Holy cow. Oh, that was so good. That was so, so good. All right. Well, thanks for playing along and Jesse Aguiler is coming up soon. Yes. So the coaches in radio to really hit the teases before breaks hard to make sure they come back. The problem is it's sometimes hard to pay off those teases but I've got one for you. There's a bit of a twist. I can guarantee you that the Rookie of the Year Race is over. It is decided and I know who's winning it with 100% certainty. I'll tell you why I know that. Next, after traffic here on Ben & Woods, 77-3 the fan. From the mind of a two foot tall talking spokespuppet comes this year's biggest challenge. It's time for Bob's Dare to Compare. The hottest game show on TV that asks, what happens when you compare Bob's to the competition? You get style, you get quality, you get beeps and boops and dings and whomps and thousands of dollars in savings. Everyone's winner when you dare to compare with Bob's discount furniture. Jump in store at MyBobs.com to play now. What's better than watching your team win, winning money while you do it. I'm Jim Costa and I'm Cash the Ticket. Mike Villetti and I give you the edge to make every game playable. College football, NFL, we're breaking it all down game by game. Your podcast feed is going to be filled and you're going to love it. You can click on the games you care about. We do it all. With our analysis, we're fighting games that other people aren't talking about. We're turning every Saturday and every Sunday in the days where you've got a chance to win. We've got your sidelines. Cash the ticket with us. Follow Cash the Ticket in the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by T-Mobile, the official wireless partner of Odyssey Sports. With an awesome network and great savings, there's never been a better time to join T-Mobile. Visit your neighborhood store to make the switch today. So I don't think because I am going to pay off my T's and why I can guarantee you who's going to win the Rookie of Year award and you're going, "How can you do that?" All schemes through well again yesterday for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Really nice day for another beloved pulse case. Set the Pittsburgh Pirates Rookie Strikeout Record. Another what? Six. Nine, I think. No, but six innings. All wrong. That's what you do. Six innings, six hits, one-on-run, nine strikeouts, improved to ten and two on the season. He will get some support for the National League Rookie of Year award. Jackson Shurio is kind of coming on strong late as well. I think he got off to too slow of a start to catch Jackson Merrill. But he has played really well lately. There are some really good rookies, especially in the National League this year. But I'm paying off the T's by pulling a fast one on all of you. The Rookie of the Year award is going to Caitlin Clark because Angel Reese had a season ending surgery and is not going to win it in there. I was here at four o'clock. It was a Skeen's Merrill-esque battle between the two. Both of them were having phenomenal rookie seasons in the WNBA. I'd like to take this moment to just apologize to the audience. I can't know you have a lot of choices in the morning and you're probably listening to Ben & Woods at 8.13 and you hear that T's? You have so many choices. I can hear the channels changing right now, I am. I can't guarantee you that Jackson Merrill is going to win the WNBA award. He should, absolutely should, but Paul Skeen's is at least continuing to throw a little bit of doubt into the equation. Yeah, man. He's pitching. You watched it yesterday. Did you see him too in the dugout? He looked at the camera and he goes, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. He counted them off, I'm like, "God, you son of a bitch!" I love Paul Skeen. It's not as though Jackson Merrill is giving any ground. He gets hurt, he misses one day, he comes back, it's a bomb. He's not giving any ground at all. That's why Jackson Merrill still should be the rookie of your winner in the National League. It's coming down on the wire, man. It is not over yet. No, it is not. And that is, so. You're a monster for that scene. I know. What is he? No. What kind of advanced metric does he have here? We were talking about it yesterday, maybe late last week. We all are expecting Jackson Merrill to win the rookie of the award, but it's not over yet. Brace yourself. Cory if he doesn't. Oh, God. Yeah. I would love to hear from somebody that placed a bet. I mean, we talked about this in March and April when it was determined like, "Oh, they're really going to give this kid a shot in center field. He's going to get his full chance. Could he be a rookie of the year?" It was like, I want to say it was like plus 2000, maybe even higher, plus 4000. Did anybody get in on that? Yeah. Did anybody get in early on Jackson Merrill? Because I don't know. By about June halfway through the season when he really was like, "Okay. He's actually a contender for this award. The odds had already started changing, but at one point, I definitely remember them being plus 2000 or 4000. Well, everyone had already given it to Yoshinova Yamamoto in the season started. It was Yamamoto to start. Yeah. And it was a menaga. And it was like, "Oh, this is-" The skeins came out and it was like, "Oh, skeins is going to win it." Then Merrill all of a sudden is like, "Meryl and Churio are just kind of there." Yeah. And then Merrill just soared to the top. And then Churio has been a bit of a late push though. He's been fairly solid the second half of the season, so yeah, man. It does feel like it's a, "What if they do this bit?" Cody said he placed a bet in March. Did he? That's incredible. For how much money Cody? And what do you got? He got it at what? 1800? Is that right? Yeah. I think Yeti is right. I think in the original odds, like Ethan Salas had like better odds to win an actually rookie of the year award than Jackson Merrill. Adam Paul says a good friend of his put a hundred on Merrill Jackson before the season. You're not, he's not going to win that. Just so you know, Merrill Jackson is not going to win the rookie of the year, right? I would not think so. Who is Merrill Jackson? I don't think he's anybody. But if you put a hundred bucks on Merrill Jackson, what's the question? Certainly, there's certainly several out there named Merrill Jackson. Did, did you see that there's that kid, like nine year old kid named Jackson Merrill? Jackson Merrill. Who got to meet Jackson? Now Padre's fan. He was already a Padre's fan. Go figure. Before his whole life and his name is Jackson Merrill, Dan Carlos, and got to meet Jackson Merrill, who is now a San Diego Padre. Interesting. I think I would have been insane. If there had been a Padre, like I grown up and all of a sudden when I'm nine, Ben Higgins becomes a Padre. Hi, this is Merrill Jackson. Hello. Hello, Merrill. Also great name. Merrill Jackson. Hi. This is Merrill Jackson. The Diamondbacks have pitcher Merrill Kelly. Yeah. So, you know, there's a Merrill already in the annal West. I like Kelly Merrill personally, it's really my favorite. Kelly Merrill is the girl next door. Merrill Jackson. This is Merrill Jackson. Hi. This is Merrill Jackson. Oh, crap. I don't know how to laugh this hard. If I wasn't that tired, that joke is way funnier to me today, but the problem with this joke is entertaining this morning. Jesse Agler is always entertaining and informative and incorporating for us. Voice of the Padre will join us when we come back from Seattle, Washington next on 97 three, the fan. I heard that the high temperature in Seattle today is going to be right around 70 degrees. Sounds nice. I mean, not that you ever want to get away from San Diego, but it's been hot here in the last few days. This apparently is the last day. I was texting with Jesse yesterday, make sure he was good to go this morning. He said it was like 64 overcast. Because what you kind of a welcome. Well, and remember, Jesse and Tony just went to St. Louis and Tampa Bay and then they come back to San Diego where it's just as nasty and hot. And now they go to Seattle, they deserve some nice, cloudy, cool weather for a couple of days. Jesse standing by, he will join us from the Pacific Northwest after this check of traffic at 97 three, the fan. Jesse Aguiler remind us of what it feels like to walk outside and be comfortable. So right now there are, I would call it mostly sunny skies. There's like a little bit of a gray up there, but it's mostly blue. 57 degrees. Wow. Chilling my blood. Did you bring a pull over a hoodie or something? I brought a porter. I don't know that I'm going to end up needing it. This is good running weather. We're going to do a long run and actually we all chat. And it's very welcome. You nailed it, Ben. You know, going from St. Louis to Tampa to the heat wave in San Diego, this is this is very well. That's heavy. Who's on the, who's running? Me. I said we, it was like a royal we because I pictured scan and mud. I can see Tony, Tony running. Mud is not running. Mud is mud. You know what mud will do on an off day? Mud will walk. It like in San Francisco on Thursday when we have an off day, I would put the over under on the number of miles Mark Grant walks at eight. Oh, wow. Wow. I can go and walk. I can also picture him showing you the phone and the number of steps that he is taking. Oh, yeah. Look at this. 50,000 steps. 100 percent. 100 percent. So remember that scene in Forrest Gump? Yeah. Remember this here? You seen this? We show you. In the background? We probably ask you this every year when we have you on if you're in Seattle. I feel like Seattle is a Jesse Agler fave as far as the travel goes. I got it as one of my favorite stops in the league. I mean, this is a great road trip. I love the Bay Area. I love Seattle. We got an off day, both places well earned, well deserved off day for everybody, both stops. And yeah, I like this weather a lot. I do. Don't get me wrong. The San Diego thing is literally perfect most times. But like, you know, me guys, I'm a little bit, you know, I'm like a quiet, keep to myself. Like something about like the greater skies and the cooler temperatures sort of speaks to me on like a sort of metaphysical level, I don't know. So I enjoy it here very, very much. It's a great city, great food. We stuffed a lot of sushi in our faces last night. And that's not the royal week. That was the whole group. And it's just, it's a beautiful, beautiful part of the country. I love it up here. You know, you have, you've expressed the challenge is involved in the balanced, the more balanced schedule when you're not playing divisional opponents as much, but you had a stat yesterday that I wanted you to share regarding a Padres travel with our audience because it blew my mind. Yeah, it blew mine too. And I'll tell you the funny thing is, so I woke up yesterday and instinctively my first thought was because I was going to call home like, all right, what time is it back home? And then I remember it. I was in Seattle and I was like, man, it feels like forever that I haven't had to figure out what time it is back home. So I pulled up the schedule and today's game against the Mariners will be the first road game the Padres are playing in this time zone since June 5th. Good God, every single road game has been mountain, central or Eastern time for the last two plus months. That is a that's grindy. And I think the last month at the beginning of the year or two, Jesse, they do the thing where they chart the number of miles each team has to fly. And I want to say the Padres were very, very near the most they were the most. They were the most. They were number one, usually Seattle, but because of Korea, I think Padres are number one this year. Mama. Yeah. The players obviously get the short end of this stick, you know, as always, because they're kind of isolated up here. But yes, so the Padres this year, the most fair miles, the Dodgers were second, obviously Korea is a part of that, but the crazy thing is if the Mariners were third and they were like weak behind the Dodgers and they didn't go anywhere, like they're just doing their usual thing. They didn't fly across the Pacific. So that tells you what the Mariners got. You know, similarly, it's funny because I think with this time zone thing, the Mariners this year had their first road game in their own time zone that same day, June 5th earlier this year. I mean, they went the first couple of months of the season without a road game in the Pacific time zone. And now the Padres are having one for the first time, if you said, in three months. I mean, that's what this schedule does, you know, it's more trips back East. You know, the other thing is to, I mean, you look at the last two trips, right? We went to Pittsburgh and Miami, came home, then went to Cleveland, I might be getting it backwards. But anyway, Cleveland and Pittsburgh were back to back trips. Cleveland and Pittsburgh, for those of you not familiar, they're like an hour away, but like we did those on separate trips. And then on those same trips, we had Miami and Tampa. So we had the two Florida stops on consecutive trips, not together, like it could have, they could have bracketed Pittsburgh and Cleveland together and Tampa and Miami together and it would have been a little bit more of a, like it's just, I mean, it's, it is the reality of this schedule. It is that because you're playing, you know, every American, like team, either home or away, you're going to end up traveling more in it and it nails the West Coast teams. It really does much, much, much more than the other teams. I mean, here's the thing, you might not realize if you're not a cartographer or you don't work in baseball, is that like, you know, outside of basically the teams we consider out West, St. Louis is about as far West as you go. And St. Louis is like an hour and a half flight from New York on a charter. Wow. Like all those Eastern and Central teams are so close to one of it. Like Pittsburgh, the New York is a 40 minute flight. So like, oh, now, you know, oh, the Yankees have to go to Pittsburgh every other year. No big deal. It's like going to Boston for them. You know, so I mean, it's just those teams are so much closer together than you realize. There is a lot of land between St. Louis and San Diego. And we fly over. 100% talking to Jesse Agner here on Ben and Woods this morning and, you know, to the baseball and hand, we were talking earlier about the, you know, the Mariners are three games out of a wild card right now. So they are absolutely in it. They have something to play for. They've got really good pitching on the mound, the, on the mound the next two days. Their offense is not great. It's just not great. They broke out for some runs in Petco Park, but you Darvish getting on the hill tonight to try to knock some more rust off, you know, good offense to do it against, I think. I think I say that. And I know it will bite me in the ass, Jesse. I mean, you know, the starting pitching is going to be the thing down the stretch here, right? It always, you know, I mean, the offense has enough guys, even if somebody's going cold, you know, it does feel like there's going to be somebody else to go hot, you know, that's sort of in the nature of this season for the Padres and they, you know, that's the point of having that kind of depth and talent, you know, on an offensive side. Not to say they won't run into a night when, you know, they don't get it going offensively, but, you know, I mean, like, I don't know how many thousands of times I've said to you guys over the years that we've all been chatting, you know, that it's always about pitching. It's always about pitching. And you look at the Sunday game, you know, I mean, what, what led to that game going the way it did? It was that fluegy sequence for Joe Musgrove in the top of the fourth inning and it was starting pitching. But, you know, with the bullpen that they have and the offense that they have, if they can get, you know, adequate or above from their starters most nights, they're going to be just fine. And I mean that for both September and October. So yeah, I mean, look, Darvish is still in a little bit of a weird spot. It's only a second one back after missing, you know, literally the entire summer. So I'm sure they've got a plan in place, you know, to cover that and to sort of, you know, try and be as strategic as possible about it. And then I think it's King tomorrow. So yeah, I mean, you got to go out and pitch. These are, these are games on this trip that you would imagine are not going to be particularly high scoring between the ballparks, between the pitching, you know, as you said. So, you know, those guys, those guys are going to have to go out there and do their thing. Jesse, with a Hassan Kim continuing to slowly recover. Do you anticipate just based on kind of what you heard, any change at shortstop tonight? We've been talking about it. Mason McCoy, we talked to him last week, really liked the kids, played really good defense. He struggled offensively pretty badly and the Padres could use one more bad in the lineup. And they've got Donovan Solano and David Peralton, they can't use him every single day. What's your sense of how this is going to play out? Yeah, I mean, the T leaves all indicate something's going to change right now. I don't know that that means it's going to be every single day. You know, maybe it's a matchup based thing. Maybe it's sort of like, all right, what do we think this game is going to look like? But, you know, like, let's say they do slide bogey back over to shortstop, let's say he's amenable to that and comfortable with that. So you're putting Chrono worth its second, you know, a rise Solano, whatever combination DH in first base, you know, maybe depending on the day, you've got then McCoy available as like a late inning defensive sub where you can maybe tighten up the defense if you've got a lead late. You know, that's what I would imagine we're going to see at least some of again, just sort of based on everything we've heard and look, the reality for Hassan Kim is that the clock is ticking. You know, it's September 10th. It's been a while now. He's still it sounds like not particularly close. So you know, whatever you decide to do, I would say, and this isn't based on inside information, this is just sort of me looking at the calendar and the situation, is that, you know, whatever decision you make, you have to say to yourself, am I comfortable doing this in a postseason? Yeah. You know, I mean, because the reality is at this point that it could go that way. So you know, you have to be, I think, to use a Mike Show World word very intentional about how you handle this, you know, because it might not end up being just a stopgap thing for another 10 days. It might be something that you ride into October. So yeah, no, I mean, my sense is just based on everything we've seen and heard. They're going to, they're going to play around with it. Whether that begins tonight, I would guess potentially, but you know, no guarantee, we'll see. But yeah, I don't think there's any question that there's some stuff moving around there. Yeah, it's hard for me to wrap my head around, you know, if, if in fact, Hassan Kim is, is not able to make it back, you know, this season, it's, it's hard for me to wrap my head around. We may not see Hassan Kim in a Padres uniform anymore. And, you know, I, I search my soul on how to feel. I know emotionally I'll be really, really bummed because I really love him as a player and a person, just a great dude. He's so beloved in the clubhouse and, and you know, I got really offended when the Dodgers broadcasters called him the Padres mascot. He's not that he's more than that. And, you know, you, you, you never know what you're missing until it's gone. And I think, I think this, this team has suffered with it. Look, he's, he's a guy that has been, you know, in everyday presence for a couple of years now. When he first got here, it's hard to remember now, but he was kind of like, you know, a guy, they would pick their spots to put him in and whatever point it was, he just grabbed onto a job, you know, and, and it was moving all around the infield. It was whatever's needed. But he became a guy that you had to have on the field, obviously a fan favorite, as you said, a clubhouse favorite, a guy that brings an energy and an excitement to the thing. And this year has been a struggle for, you know, I feel badly for him, you know, between injury and just not being as good, you know, offensively in terms of the numbers, had some early defensive struggles that, you know, were, were frustrating for him, I know as well. It's just one of those years and, and they do happen and look, as you said, he's a free agent. So he's going to, you know, have to decide what he wants to do. Padres are going to have to decide what they want to do. And it's just a good reminder that, you know, there's, there's a fragility to everything, right? I mean, you know, this, it was kind of an innocuous play when he activated his shoulders just diving in as a pick-off. Right. I said the same thing to Ben. I said, I've seen so much worse happen to him, I thought. Yeah, it really, really tough. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I mean, it's, it's sort of one of those things that happens. But again, you know, this is, this is why you build depth on your roster, because you just never know when this stuff is going to happen. And the reality is this team has weathered storm after storm, after storm this year. You think about all the games missed by Fernando, all the games missed by Darvish and Moscow, all the games missed by Zander Bogart, you know, that's what I was saying when Jackson held that ball off his knee the other day is like, they've been dealing with stuff like that all year long and look at the position that they're in. You know, the, the reality is I think for any team, you are very rarely going to be firing on all cylinders. You know, if you, if you look like, let's say the last day of spring training, you've got, here's going to be our usual starting nine, right? Like based on how spring training went and what the roster looks like. I would bet for most teams, most years, those nine guys play together, like maybe 20 games all season. Yeah. For sure. I mean, that's, that's just the craziness of the attrition of the season. There are teams that have 162 lineups and 162 game. Oh, yeah. Now I really enjoyed last week's Welsh themed incorporating did you knocks it out of the park. So good. We're going to go a little more traditional today. Yeah. Chick-fil-A, the nugget of the game. The nugget of the game. That was fantastic. But you can also work Chick-fil-A into this one, I think. That's true. You actually could. Gentacular. Gentacular. Gentacular. Never heard of it. Gentacular is. I lost it. How is it spelled? Pertaining to, pertaining to breakfast. Gentacular. Does it start with a G or a J? A J. Gentacular. Like spectacular. Yeah. Gentacular. Yeah. Can you use it in a sentence? I can't. That's your job. I can do it. That's good. I enjoyed a Gentacular sausage. Right. You probably know. Like it's not. Will you say that? I'm saying that, Paul. Like a, like a, like a bratwurst would be more of a dinner sausage, but like a, you know, one of those Jimmy Dean Patties, that would be a Gentacular sausage. Pancakes are Gentacular to breakfast. Yeah, absolutely. Gentacular. Gentacular. What a word. It's a great word. It just jumped off the page at me. Before you go, Jesse, just because I've noticed. Well, 57 degrees, by the way. Oh, nice. I've noticed because we're Padres fans, a somewhat of a panic in the fan base just about where they stand and, you know, getting nervous down the stretch. I know what the math says. How do you feel confidence-wise about the Padres making the playoffs at this point? I feel very good about it, but, you know, look, the reality is nothing is locked in. Sure. Yeah. I mean, it's September 10th and I know we want to act like, you know, I think it's very easy to feel like, oh, there's only a week left in the season because, you know, hey, this trip, it's kind of quick. Only two games in Seattle, home for the last home stand, gone to the last week, and then that's it. And so it feels like, you know, it's going to be over any second now and it might end up feeling like it's over in a second, but that's still a lot of games, you know, and there's a lot that's going to happen and this Mets push out of nowhere is really, you know, complicating the picture or the Braves going to stabilize themselves. You know, the Padres and the Diamondbacks have those head-to-head games, which obviously could end up being gigantic, you know, the final three days of the season. Look, I mean, if you did an experiment or if you did a project where you look back at, you know, where we were three weeks ago and six weeks ago and nine weeks ago, it changes more than we probably realize it does. We always fall into this trap of like, okay, this is what it is today. So it's probably going to be about this the rest of the way. And then, you know, the Padres go on their crazy streak after the all-star break. And so do the Diamondbacks. And then now the Mets are doing their thing. And it's a really good reminder that a lot can change in not that much time. So look, it's September 10th. That's what 19 more days between now and the end of the regular season, an awful lot can happen. Good and bad, obviously. So, you know, hey, trust this team, you know, they've been there all year. They played solid baseball. They've kept their noses down and we'll see how it goes. Enjoy your run, Jesse. Perfect. Perfect timing. Nailed it. With the mind of a two-foot tall talking spokespuppet comes this year's biggest challenge. It's time for Bob's Dare to Compare. The hottest game show on TV that asks, what happens when you compare Bob's to the competition? You get style. You get quality. You get beeps and boops and dings and whoops and thousands of dollars in savings. 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