Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

7am Hour - MNF + Who Will Play Shortstop Tonight?

Ben & Woods kick off the 7am hour talking a little Monday Night Football as the 49ers handled the New York Jets, but there was some controversy around Christian McCaffrey's late scratch. Then we get to "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we turn our attention back to Padres baseball and specifically who will play shortstop tonight as the Padres take on the Mariners. Listen here!

Duration:: 46m
Broadcast on:: 10 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Would you have the number one pick in our fantasy football league, our media slash pod raise league that we're in and you logically and I think justifiably selected Christian McCaffrey, the reigning offensive player of the year in football, the guy projected to get the most points and probably the number one pick in most fantasy football leagues. Who, going into the first week, there had been injury concerns, obviously, in training camp, but most reports had indicated that they expected CMC to be on the field for the San Francisco 49ers. Injury reports and such had led everybody to believe that, but when they got to, what round? Mm. Was about one o'clock yesterday, it was, I don't know, it was, I thought it was much later. I thought it was in the athlete. It was within three or four hours of game time, whenever it was. It was announced that, uh, when the inactives come out, it's about three hours before the game, I think. And he was going to be inactive, not in the lineup, which, well, that's the thing with fantasy football, most leagues had that had they played on Sunday. Yeah. Maybe, you know, before other games had been locked in and I got back, you could drop it back up. You could switch your line and put someone in. When there's one, when there's one game left though, and all your other guys have already played. Yeah. Can't drop it. You can't drop anybody. Can't add anybody. You were out of luck, you had to take a, a big goose egg, your number one running back position. Sammy Levitt, congratulations. Take took down the champ here, uh, we, the first round, you know, first pick in the draft. Sammy Levitt won, uh, pretty handily. All three of us lost, right? Yeah. Very cool. Glad we did this. Fantastic. Yep. And obviously, um, you know, you can't necessarily fault the 49ers. It's not in their best interest to let the New York Jets know days and days in advance that one of their star players isn't going to be on the field. That's a competitive disadvantage, but, uh, when, you know, so many people are investing so much time and, you know, money into their fantasy football, you can have a lot of upset fans out there when they find out at the last minute that their star player is not going to be able to be on their team. You know, the thing that panicked me even more than that was, uh, earlier in the day I laid down a little wager on, uh, Niners minus four and a half and thought, these can be easy money. Well, and it turned out to be pretty easy money. Well, because of his backup, Jordan Mason, who had a big game, uh, close to 150 yards and a touchdown, but what he said afterwards, now the 49ers could have just said, Hey, last minute thing, calf wasn't feeling it. We had to decide to deactivate Christian McCaffrey, but after the game in the live interview on ESPN, Jordan Mason was asked, when did you know you were going to go? Like, yeah, they just told me, you know, this morning that I was going to go Friday night Friday night, Friday night, it's Monday. So the 49ers have been hiding this from everybody all weekend. Didn't leak to any of the Adam Schefters of the world or, uh, Ian Rappaport's, none of them got wind nice buttoned up shift that the 49ers run, but that would not leak out to anybody that they knew for the last one, two, three, three days, the Christian McCaffrey wasn't going to be playing in that game and that Jordan Mason was going to be starting to get plenty of time for everybody to make some food or fantasy football lineups and make some moves. I wonder if the lines would have changed at all. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. I think, uh, I think it's definitely worth a point or two toward the jets. Well, I bet yesterday too, when people saw the news, if they hadn't put a wager down and they saw that news, they're like, Oh, I'm going to get smart here and put some money on the jets with Breece Hall and Aaron Rodgers back and I was wondering how that all affected the line. Yeah. So, I mean, again, good job to the Niners. Really good job. That's a well run organization, uh, being able to, to keep that under wraps. You, you didn't do me any favor, but you don't owe me anything either. So here's what it is. I, you know, as long as he is this something, the NFL needs to address or is it like, hey, you're, you've played fantasy football, you're taking your chances. It's a, it's a form of gambling like anything else. And guess what? Bad luck happens in gambling all the time. It does. And I, but I do know this. The NFL is firmly in bed with gambling firmly, like they are next to each other having breakfast in bed. So I do wonder if Roger Goodell got any salty phone calls, uh, about, Hey man, they have to let us know if they know, if they know three days in advance, they need, there needs to be some sort of protocol because again, that's how we base our lines on the guys that are going to be. I mean, there are injury protocols. That's why they have the doubtful questionable probable system that is supposed to be. You know, fairly accurate and I get it, I'll get it, but it definitely would have changed some things I would, I would think need a contestant for take on woods. If you want to join us and take on woods for a chance to qualify for a trip to Las Vegas, speaking of gambling eight, three, three, two, eight, zero, ninety seven, three, our musical trivia game coming up in just minutes eight, three, three, two, eight, zero, ninety seven, three, give us a call right now, we'll put you on hold, get you online as a potential contestant. I can't say that I was horribly disappointed to see Aaron Rodgers return. Not go that well, just, I mean, you know, Aaron Rodgers is a phenomenal talent. I actually enjoy watching you. I have enjoyed watching him quarterback over the years. It's funny. Aaron Rodgers off the field has become just kind of a nightmare and like it's turned me against him more in this last year. It's so funny. You say that because I'm like you and I was probably more in his camp than you were. I like his, I liked part of his like, you know, weirdness. There's some, something to it. It got a little ridiculous at times. That said, when he, when he drops back to pass, still enjoy it very much. I still really enjoy watching him play the actual game of football. When he drops back, he led it. He had a pass. I can't remember. I don't remember who he threw it to, but it was Sammy's receiver. So he got a big game, but he led him perfectly to where he didn't get his clock cleaned. And you see him as for a first down and he gives it like the, I, I like watching him play football. Obviously for a, what, 40 year old now? Yeah. He's still in phenomenal shape, but there is undoubtedly a dad playing with the kids vibe going on with Aaron Rodgers now out on the field. Yeah, 100%. I mean, you know, these 22, 23 year old rookies out there and Aaron Rodgers is starting to go a little silver and just like, looks like he's from a completely different generation than, than most of the other players on the field at this point. Yeah. I thought, you know, and again, he didn't, he didn't look terrible. He didn't look great, but it was a couple of missed passes through pick couple of good ones as well. Run target. Also, I mean, the Niners are really, really good. They're really good. Watching them, their defense is, is a thing of, you know, if you like football, they're, they're really fun to watch week one over reaction. It already looks like it's going to be the Chiefs running away in the and the 49ers running away in the, I don't know that that's an overreaction. I think it's a good reaction. That's pretty much what's happened every year, the last couple of years that's they met in the Super Bowl last year and I'm like, pro, they played without the best player in football yesterday. Yeah. They had, you know, Brandon, I, you missed a couple catches and you heard Troy Aikman saying, Hey, you know, that's what happens when you hold out. You hear Peyton Manning, little rusty, do you hear Peyton Manning? Yeah, it was on the Manning cast. He was, oh yeah, I was watching the Manning cast. Well, no, it's on. On Twitter, um, he was hot. When I, you've dropped that, that pass in the end zone, the dough for it. That's why you get in camp. That's why you get in camp early. It's contracts. I get in camp. He was hot. And you know, I mean, look, you're Peyton Manning, they were like, Hey, you're falling all over themselves to give you the deal that you're on. You never had to worry like about holding out, but man, I, I'm watching the Niners going. Holy cow. Like George Kittle, so fun to watch, uh, Brock Purdy is just as solid as it gets. You know, Debo, so fun to watch. All those guys are fun to watch and their defense, Fred Warner, those guys, they are a blast. I mean, they are Joey Bosa. They're a, not Joey Nick Bosa. They are a blast to watch the creative offense. I mean, the jet sweeps to Debo, yes, it seems like just a well run team and looking at their schedule, maybe one loss in the first six games. I mean, they got Minnesota, the Rams, the Patriots, the Cardinals and the Seahawks. Coming up before a game against Kansas City on Sunday, October 20, which I'm sure will be one that everyone kind of circles on their calendars is a big October test for both teams and a potential Super Bowl preview coming up in October, but yeah, the 49ers look good without Christian McCaffrey. Now, throw him into the mix and see how good they're going to be. Hopefully he's just injured and in and out all year. Yes. Super for your fantasy football pleasure. I'm more upset with my Michael Pittman second round pick after like a three. I'm more upset with my Marvin Harrison Jr. pick. Godness gracious. Take your first round. No, second. I think back back into the second or start of the third, one of the two. Yuck. No one cares about our fans. No, no. Literally nobody. Well, you know what, even if you lose a fantasy football, you did win yesterday and take on will. Let's see if you can make it two in a row. Let's play a game. It's time for Take on Woods. What? What? That's a valvelling instant oil change and only takes 15 minutes. You don't have to get out of your car for directions and discounts. Go to SoCalOilChange.com. That's SoCalOilChange.com. Polypics someone random for me. Oh, let's try. Is this Ray? Yeah. Ray. Congratulations. You are a contestant. What do you do, Ray? I'm a manager at a medical company. All right. Good luck. You could probably use a vacation to Vegas. If you could beat or tie woods, we're going to put you into the drawing for a two night stay at the win or on core. Very nice. And tickets to see Awakening be thrilling spectacle at the win. Tickets are on sale now at Awakening.com. All right. Woods is left. You get to go first five questions and you get the advantage of knowing the category here. Your choices are little shop of horrors, five song titles or musical artists beginning with the word little, an iffy category, five song titles that begin with the word if, and our new category today is called below the waist, five songs that include a lower half body parts in the title. So little shop of horrors, an iffy category, or below the waist, Ray. Let's go to Little Shop of Horrors. Little Shop of Horrors. Okay. These five answers will all be song titles or musical artists beginning with the word little. You'll get 60 seconds. Try to answer as many of the five as you can. You don't know one. Say pass. We'll come back to it if there's time left on the clock. First questions, the two second song. Polly will play you some music. You need to give me the title and the artist to score the point, one of which starts with the word little. Ray, are you ready to play? Yeah. All right. Paul, you ready? I'm ready. All right. Your time begins when Paul plays the music category, Little Shop of Horrors. Good luck, Ray. Let's take on Woods. Good, alive, sweet, and mad. Correct, which 1983 Prince hit uses an automotive theme as a metaphor for a one night stand with a fast woman. Good, a red Corvette. Correct. If you're thinking fondly about the Australians behind the 1970 hit cool change, you'd be reminiscing about which band. Which rock and roll pioneer with the last name of Pennaman had 50s hits, including 2D fruity and long, tall Sally. Correct. Correct. The George Baker selection is best known for which 1969 song included in the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. The George Baker selection is best known for which 1969 song included in the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. Little Devil. Incorrect. If you're thinking fondly about the Australians behind the 1979 hit cool change, you'd be reminiscing about which band. Now you got three. That was Little River Band that sings both cool change and reminiscing. And the George Baker selection song is called Little Green Bag. You got Little Lies? Little Red Corvette and Little Richard. Let's bring Woods in. That's the score to beat now. Woods doesn't know the score to beat. He doesn't know the category. He comes in completely in the dark. And exhausted. And exhausted. From a lack of sleep. Good opportunity for the list. Yeah, really good. All right. 60 seconds back on the clock. Your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck Woods. Let's take on Ray. Let's see what Mack-- Pass. Which 1983 Prince hit uses an automotive theme as a metaphor for a one night stand with a fast woman. Little Red Corvette? Correct. If you're thinking fondly about the Australians behind the 1979 hit cool change, you'd be reminiscing about which band. Cool change. Pass. Which rock and roll pioneer with the last name of Peneman had 50 hits including 2D Fruity and Long Tall Sally? Little Richard? Correct. The George Baker selection is best known for which 1969 song included in the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. Pass. Go back to our two second song. That's Fleetwood Mack. Lies. Tell me lies. No. Incorrect. If you're thinking fondly about the Australians behind the 1979 hit cool change, you'd be reminiscing about which band. The Tate. Wow. You've lost. Three to two. Ray, congratulations. Wait, I only got two. You got two. Yeah. Are you sure? I got Little Red Corvette and Little Richard. All the answers started with little. So what kind of lies were they? Little lies. Little lies. I said that. No, you said lies. You said lies. Then I said sweet little lies. No, you didn't say sweet little lies. I did. You never said little. Like your fourth guest was sweet little lies. I said little. A little for soon enough. Cool change and also reminiscing is Little River Band and George Baker's selection is Little Green Bag. Ray, congratulations. You are the winner today. Good luck. Congrats, buddy. In the drawing of Las Vegas. Stand line, Paulie. We'll get your information here. Have time for me, Ray. You're doing it. I'm tired and weak. Oh my God. Dang it. Everybody's qualifying this month. Little lies. Little lies. Not lies. The story was little shop of horrors and everything said little started with the word little. Little lies. Little river band, Little Richard, Little Green Bag. Is it would have? Yeah. All right. Very cool. Very cool way to start my Tuesday. Sorry about that, would Z. I'm happy for him. What's his name, Richard? Ray. Ray. Good job, Ray. Richard Peniman is Little Richard. You are tired today. I beat. All right. Good job, Ray. Good job. Good job. We're approaching. The status for Deshaun Watson. When's enough enough? I think it was enough a while ago. Like this is the only team that didn't know it was enough. This is separate from all the other stuff. Brand new. Brand new. Yesterday. He got to go. God. 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it's an entertainment product and it makes watching games a hell of a lot of fun so cash the ticket follow it in the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts don't do this 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 how many times do I have to tell you sorry I fudged up guys you idiot you moron 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 all right let's see why don't you kick us off today for a little don't do this yeah it was like going back in a time machine yesterday when I saw news of Deshawn Watson under investigation under and fire under fire again for more sexual assault and battery this happened apparently allegedly in October of 2020 when he was a member of the Houston Texans same time frame as most of the other allegations and lawsuits that have been settled this one was yeah he settled 23 of 24 civil lawsuits but this one was a little bit different in that he was not paying someone for a massage but massage did rear its ugly head again Ben he went to meet this woman for a date allegedly allegedly could not find her apartment so was standing kind of down at the in the grassy knolled yelling up like hey you know screaming so she's like hey hey I'm right here relax come on inside let me finish getting ready for the date she goes in the bathroom put on her makeup walks out he's nude on her bed face down so nude just like before they've even had the date correct that's moving fast this is pre Texas roadhouse chilies wherever they're going he's nude on the bed she says I need you to come over and give me a massage again and I need you to focus on my buttocks my buttocks and do you say buttocks or buttocks I say buttocks because of four scum directly in the buttocks that's why I say that's my buttocks and so then he partially disrobed her allegedly penetrated her without consent plicit or explicit and she picked up a weapon like a like a lamp or something to try to fight him off with it and ended up leaving and now she's suing him and again this is another another situation for the Sean Watson that just you know you look at this go all right man clearly clearly there is some pattern of misbehavior and and and use and and that you need to do need some serious help and what happens browns give them the biggest deal in history he serves what 11 game suspension is back no problem now this new one is up I you know again it's kind of gross the way sports media is but the way I saw it yesterday was that's how it was framed was hey can the browns get out of this contract now instead of like hey hopefully this these twenty five women that we know of are okay it's hey I wonder if this gives the browns but you know a little a little window to get out of this deal it's um it's quickly becoming what looks like one of the biggest mistakes in contractual history to sign to Sean Watson I mean people thought maybe at the time it would be well all those fears are coming true yes uh sunday to Sean Watson 24 for 4569 yard the touchdown two interceptions did not look good against the Dallas Cowboys was booed at home by the Cleveland Browns fans if you know in a in a just world maybe you just cut him but because that money is guaranteed if you cut to Sean Watson they would immediately I believe take a two hundred and twenty million dollar cap hit that is the cap is only like two hundred and fifty seven million dollars that would mean you'd be left with only thirty seven million dollars to fill out the rest of your roster this year you'd have like five players yes so that's not tenable nope that's not going to work so you can't just get rid of him unless the NFL steps in and as you said there was speculation that if this if this lawsuit was not disclosed as part of the punishment that's already been handed down and served yes Sean Watson I mean he's gonna and his age are gonna say time serve you can't now go back and and relitigate it but if this is a new one down within new case I mean he'll say well we didn't you know we didn't do anything since then nothing has happened this was all part of the past you've punished me for all this already it is a privilege not a right to be an NFL superstar right and he has already gotten in trouble he's already been punished now it's getting in trouble again horrible horrible reasons behind it and I would love to see Roger Goodell grow a pair of grapefruits and actually do something about it because that guy who's gonna miss him in the NFL not Browns fans who though Browns his no business being in this league I don't think that there's necessarily a hesitancy on the part of the league I mean if they just snap their fingers and say goodbye to Sean Watson and you Cleveland you don't have to pay them they would probably happily do so I think they know though that legally they'd be on very thin ice shaky footing and probably end up losing that case and would be even worse for them in the long run that they'd have to go through this whole process and then find that they can't do anything about it which is why they haven't done anything about it yet but I guarantee you the NFL has plenty of lawyers who are at every moment of every day giving their ducks in a row just in case they want to go down that path yeah for sure and every bit of evidence that you know they they can use if there ever was a case is being documented and filed away for potential use in the future if this does if this does come to the point where they want to suspend or ban him from the league at some point now the Browns have never indicated any willingness or indication that they've wanted to do that yeah they still say he's their quarterback he's their guy so then I would like Roger Goodell to grow some great fruits and just keep the Browns out of this relegate them I ask again who's mad at that right besides Browns fans there was such a good story last year without him with Joe Flacko and other coach let's the fansky and yeah it was a it was a good story last year in the NFL I just on a quick side note about an hour and a half long tease here but we'll hear from some Browns fans earlier on this morning yeah Browns Cleveland sports radio yesterday oh boy oh yeah I heard that clip it's really really good I've got a story that I think Woods is going to enjoy because it involves someone who was pretty much everybody's favorite major league player except for perhaps what's oh look at me so this is from our friend Hector Gomez does a lot of reporting on pot raise players like Tetis and Machado in the best this is on big poppy David Ortiz quotes on the 2024 National League MVP award race and the fact that show he Otani is almost certainly going to win it said they MLB always had issues not to give MVP because I was a designated hitter I'm going to see what they're going to say this year went Otani the pretty girl of MLB is in the race so the implication here is pretty clear David Ortiz is saying that there was a massive bias against him in particular not just because he was a DH but he wasn't the pretty girl of MLB I mean is he trying to argue he was like the prettiest girl everybody hated David Ortiz because if that's what he's going with that there really is no there's no basis to stand on that just she and pointed out that well in the years that Ortiz was an MVP candidate and he did finish top five and MVP voting he was never top five in war or any of the other statistics that show hey Otani is right here well so he does he also didn't he didn't steal 50 bags my guess is he is still five you know like three probably and by the way he is in the Hall of Fame with many many other players how lucky who appeared on the the list as Joe says in 2003 yep never got in never got in so if you're going to say that there's bias in major league baseball involving David Ortiz you're right if you're right it's just a very positive bias toward David Ortiz so he's the last person on earth who should be complaining about MLB bias just fade into oblivious and take your Hall of Fame with my win yeah I couldn't agree more I could not agree more I think that David Ortiz was like one of the most beloved got away with everything and he did he was just a hitter I mean and again I think it's a really good hitter really good hit her but nasty had a big smile big smile gap gap in his teeth everyone loved him hmm yeah he got I think he got a palace and that's don't and well just don't do this for a Tuesday that was don't do this with Ben and Woods a 97 3 the fan all right pod raise or back in action tonight hopefully everybody enjoyed their off day we can get back on the stress train yes and start looking ahead to a series against Seattle Mariners talk a little baseball when we come back is Zander going to be the starting shortstop tonight predictions when we return on San Diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fan back to you Ben and Woods 97 3 the fan gonna talk some pod raise baseball here in a moment really excited to give you some of these numbers and we'll we'll see how they they play out then you know like the best offense in baseball against the worst offense in baseball surely that won't hold true will it it's two game series but we will get to all that in the second one to wish a very happy birthday to Matt Doyle turns 11 years old his dad birthday Matty his dad Tom as huge tier one and I'm assuming by by default he is also a tier one so I left a great age man for parents is it for parents I think so let's sign a sweet spot before their so they're over the attitude comes they're old enough that you can really worry about them a little bit less they don't need the like moment to moment supervision of the younger children right but they're not quite old enough to really get into a ton of trouble yet yeah they're still kind of compliant they listen to their parents love their parents they're not rebellious teenagers I'm gonna say like ten eleven twelve is kind of that range where it's like okay you know we'll let you stay by yourself for a few hours or whatever like get a little bit more responsibilities as I'm going over and I'm thinking would five year old woods where you were good yeah I was a good kid till I turned 16 16 was the day I discovered well no I mean I girls I discovered really like 11 12 and then I really lost my mind at about 16 where my parents had no control zero just hit my thing really looking forward to those days in my house you think that's genetic yeah 100% can obviously it we're leaving the school the other day and the lady said the bow just goes hey have a nice day he looked right down the eye dead in the eye he goes I will and just walked away I walked the car go hey next time somebody says you say you too unless you're a psychopath I will I'm what they don't worry I will yeah I will you know I am I like are you kidding me who are you whatever kids he's like he's an 18 year old already but happy birthday to you mad I bet you're a good son to your dad Tom well I'm excited because he said he did a little research little math took two seconds I did some two second research as well about pottery a shortstop situation we'll get to that right after a check of traffic here on ninety seven three the fam just want to say I appreciate Mike shilt and the cardinal way and the fact that he values defense and it's important to have a good defensive shortstop and yeah of course that's a way to win games and they've won a lot of games that way and I believe that you don't need you don't need your shortstop to hit three twenty with forty home runs you can get by with a guy who's hitting you know two fifteen if he's given you really solid defense and Mason McCoy has given the pot raised some solid defense while Hassan Kim has been out here's the problem he's not hitting two fifteen anymore I went back and looked this month since the calendar turned to September Mason McCoy is two for eighteen and neither of the two left the infield a bunch single at an infield single this month this entire month there's been virtually no offensive production now that's different than yeah you know scratch out a single every four to five at bats you know maybe drive in a run productive out a couple of sack bonds he had some but those most of the production came way back in August when he first you know he had a good first like week starting and it was supposed to be what ten days and then Hassan Kim was coming back well that was August 18 when he got hurt that was twenty three days ago now that's three weeks no one was anticipating a three week absence for Hassan Kim well and then the report comes out what yesterday of the day before that he's just not doing great not responding can't make the throw across the diamond fairly important for a short stop to be able to do that and you know I kind of we warned people hey man be careful what you wish for you know Hassan Kim isn't having the world's greatest season but he can still get a walk he can still hit one out of the ballpark yeah I see some in the chat going oh you mean the same offense as Hassan Kim no no no like Hassan Kim gets on base yeah he sees tons of pitches he makes other pitchers work hard I to I promise you other NL pitchers don't love seeing Hassan Kim they may get him out but it's not a fun at bat he's got enough pop where you have to be careful to him he's got speed when he gets out of the base but I know Mason McCoy does as well but he actually gets on base he gets on base I think as much as like Jackson Merrill does well yeah I mean it's you see the sarcastic stuff in the in the show but he walked yes he and guess who's after him Luis arise like if he's in the nine hole Luis arises up next don't you want a guy on base when Luis arise comes up don't you want somebody there to to clog up the base paths and and to score runs I mean so yeah if McCoy's to for what 19 19 yeah it's just it's not going to get the job done and again it when he came up I said I don't really need him to hit much it's needed to play good D well I changed my mind I need him to hit a little bit you know he's got to hit a little bit because you know with the some of the black hole it's black hole time again sometimes when you're when you're rolling out seven eight nine right now if it's if it's campy McCoy and who am I missing here campy McCoy and who am I missing well Merrill's been hit seventh lately so it's really just eight nine yeah Tyler Wade we'll get thrown in the mix every now and then so it just man I just if you have an option and they do it's probably time to to use that bullet which to me just based on the fact that it was even semi-acknowledged by Mike Schultz on Sunday or Saturday or whenever it was I would expect my guests and I don't know but I would guess the Zanderbo guards will start it short tonight in game one of this series yeah get a day get your mind around it you know what it's just for as long as we need you it may be another five days it may be through the playoffs we don't know what Hassan Kim is going to be when he's going to come back but we need you you're the best option for this team right now and I think what Zander should know and I we have both expressed our absolute understanding at what Zander has gone through willingly changing positions to and Mike Schultz came on this show and explained how difficult it really is to switch from short to second in particular with the game now kind of behind you as opposed to in front of you I got to imagine though the transition back is fairly it's a little bit easier he's playing it for so long we have expressed plenty of understanding when it comes to Zanderbo guards hesitancy can we tell Zander right now and I doubt he's listening but if we were pod race fans can also be understanding knowing hey if you're not perfect and you do commit an error because you haven't been there for a while we get that we know though that you are doing something that the team needs absolutely I think that goes a long way I think that goes a long way you know don't worry about the fact that you may not be the Zanderbo guards you used to be at short that's not the standard anymore the standard is your bats in the lineup it gets either Solano's bat or someone else's paralta's bat into the lineup as the DH if arises at first and makes the pod race a better team and a better lineup overall and you're not a bad defender either yourself so this is the standard that I think needs to be said for a Zanderbo guards move back to short stuff yeah I think I'm all for it you know I understood why he was reluctant to do it certainly because again you know he's already made the move so but man with 17 games to go and hopefully some playoffs in the future hopefully the eyes on the prize you got his money you know he's gonna get paid no matter what no matter how he performs he's still gonna get paid and I don't think I think sometime I see the point hey he's being paid so much just do what you're told I don't think he's worried about I'm not gonna get my money or I think I think he truly I think he's truly worried about hurting the team by not playing his best at a different position and what I'm saying is that no even if you're not at your best there you're helping the team by doing that and just understand that that will be appreciated by all of us the fan base as well for what you are doing don't hold don't make your own standards the enemy of what's good for the pod raise as a whole it's good that he has high standards sure he wants to excel wherever he's gonna play and put himself in a position to succeed because he thinks that helps the team but in this case something you have to lower your standards to actually raise the the profile of the entire team state of low fish says it'd be nice if the top three in the rotation you get back to form none of those three feel like a locker high percentage win right now I couldn't agree more state and low fish but but why not both you know at this point why not get Solano's bat in the lineup gives you a great a B you got some tough challenges the next two nights against the Seattle Mariners and let's let's rip the Band-Aid off here and you know look if you're you Darvish tonight trying to try to work your way back trying to knock more rust off tonight it said look knock on wood and as the numbers bear out it's a good team to do it against okay this is not a good contact I'm cleaning things out of you when you say top three struggling in the rotation obviously you Darvish we expected some Ross if he yeah if he's in Satan's top three so if he's in one of the top three I'm assuming he means cease Musgrove Darvish I think there's nothing to panic about yet I'd like to see another step forward here from you but this is part of his process of turning Musgrove has been fantastic except for that one one one stretch of five minutes that was weird outside of that six starts he's been beyond great he's been the best maybe we've ever seen him so I don't want to just go ahead and say Musgrove's got to get out over his struggles just erase one inning and just keep doing what you've been doing for the last month and Joe Musgrove's been fine cease is someone that is the mystery here the wild card because in some innings he looks just dominant cease I mean throws ninety eight still yep slider can be unhittable and all of a sudden he just gives up three run home run that makes no sense that that's the one to me beyond the other two which I'm not going to worry too much about it like well okay I mean but we've seen that we saw it early in the season they got locked in you know there are a lot of a lot of pitchers do that they're not you know they're not locked in every single start yeah hopefully we're at the point where maybe he gets locked in heading toward October and we see the same Dylan Cease that we saw during the no hitter stretch when do you want that Dylan Cease back September October late late September early October is when you want that Dylan Cease to come through with another five start stretch like he had to start the second half of the season yes exactly you know I don't know that he's going to do that but he certainly has it in him because we've already seen it this year so I you know I'm not I'm not worried necessarily about the Padres rotation but yeah it's it's definitely cost them a couple of games lately for sure well and if you're you Darvish tonight this is a good team to get on track against based on the numbers the worst hitting team in baseball that even the lowest average in baseball only they are behind the Chicago White Sox strike out a ton and they strike out they have they strike out more than any other team in baseball and they are a full ten points behind the LA Angels who are in 28th place and they don't get they get on base at a better clip but it's still nothing major they don't slug a ton either this is a good good landing spot for you Darvish tonight so they also beat the Padres twice at Petco par a sure this year including putting up eight in one of those games so there's there's no guarantees think about how much we skewed their offensive numbers in that one game now the the Padres struggled against their pitchers in that series they're seeing two different pitchers in this series in that series it was they saw Gilbert and they saw Bryce Miller and this series they're seeing George Kirby today and Brian Wu tomorrow is a good is it bad I mean you have a look at the other guys now you got to get a fresh look at new guys but you didn't do well against the other guys so you know maybe these guys are more to your liking but that's that's just the reality they're facing two different pitchers this series Padres countering as you said with you Darvish tonight 640 540 eco water SoCal pregame show with Sam Levitt and then Michael King we mentioned it yesterday they're moving him up not on short rest but because of the off-down regular rest and pushing Martine Perez back to get Michael Kings the one guy who really has been throwing consistently well lately for the Padres get him an extra start in here move him up to try to make sure you win at least one if not both of these games up in Seattle yeah 100% I mean you got a tough order tonight and George Kirby he's he's pretty nasty so again first legs you're gonna get your shot to get to him early put him on the ropes see what happens but yeah you Darvish you know I he's just got to continue to build I'm sure he's on a 65 70 pitch count again tonight and hopefully he looked at his last start and figured some things out just didn't have a lot of command which is to be expected so these if he's spinning it many and the velos it stays the same I think he can be really successful tonight the the Mets will continue their series against the Blue Jays on the road mentioned they the Mets won three to two yesterday the Diamondbacks open their series against the Texas Rangers that's in Arizona it's a good pitching matchup tonight you have Aldi against Zach Galen in the first game of that series to really good arm so expect a low scoring one there and the Braves they actually that was a makeup game against Cincinnati yesterday they get a short two game series in Washington against the Nationals who have not been playing well they do have Mackenzie Gore so another old friend alert Nick Martinez helped the Padres out yesterday Ken Mackenzie Gore be the latest to help the Padres out today as he pitches against the Atlanta Braves try to reduce that magic number from I believe 15 is where it's out over the Braves to clinch a playoff spot for the Padres and the Dodgers lost last night to the Cubs Cody Bellinger came back to LA hit an early home run so did Michael Bush it was another one that they tried right they will come back Walker Mueller by the way so it's the doubly special game two of that series so the Dodgers are up five and a half games on the Padres at this point game to a series is an interesting pitching matchup it's showed in Managa and the return of Yoshi noble Yamamoto is that tonight so yeah to two Japanese stars squaring off against each other both with sub 3 ERA's obviously Yamamoto has not pitched in a couple of months since he went on the injured list so this is his return and it comes against another Japanese star so expect that game to be well rated in Tokyo tonight as they keep an eye on you know if the Cubs can help out the Padres by beating the Dodgers no definitely not going to complain about that I don't really still see the division is in play I think the Dodgers have like a 98% chance of winning the NLS at this point but all right you know a loss is a loss and we're we're here for it all right that is two hours down we will come back and start the 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