Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

9am Hour - The Reindl Report, The Incorporator, + Padres vs M's Tonight

Ben & Woods kick off the 9am hour with The Reindl Report and Paulie’s top stories of the day, including the return of Fyre Festival?? Then the guys bring back The Incorporator from earlier in the show, as Jesse Agler seamlessly worked the word “jentacular” into last night’s broadcast. And at the bottom of the hour we take a look at tonight’s game up in Seattle between the Padres and the Mariners, as Michael King takes the ball for San Diego! Listen here!

Duration:: 46m
Broadcast on:: 11 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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And so my kids are, they like to do little pranks. And so they had a bunch of these rolling roaches around the house, I brought one in. ♪ Rally Roach brings us to life ♪ ♪ Come with the roaches ♪ - And pottery's got 28 and 14 since the Roach. Now I was talking to a guy at the pottery game the other day. He's like, "Oh man, the Rally Roach always makes me laugh." And I said, "Yeah." He goes, "You guys should do shirts." And I go, "We can't." I go, "The minute we put it on a shirt, it's gonna go downhill." - You don't think we think we thought of that before? - Yeah, the day it happened. I'm like, "Let's make a shirt." - It was our weekend. We were drawing up designs. - And I'll tell you, I said, "You know my biggest fear." My biggest fear is if we put out the Rally Roach shirt and they dropped seven in a row and then we're the new-- - That's what it's in! - And it's Ben in Woods. I'm not making any big sudden movements this year. You'll notice. No faith healers, no nothing. Just no sudden movements, just gonna plow through it. But that's a really solid record for the Rally Roach. 28 and 14, that's no joke. - We respect the Rally Roach. - 100%. - But we're not beholden to-- - We're beholden, yes, good word. We add them to the Rally Roach. - We not shoot 'em out a little bit. - Yesterday, before the game, I was ready to stop the rally. - Now, to be fair, they lost on Saturday and Sunday when we're not here with the Roach. We kissed it on Friday, they won. We kissed it yesterday, they won. - We didn't take it home with us on the weekend. - Yeah, it's possible, yeah. - Maybe, and that my kids, I told you, put this one in my wallet. So I now carry around a smashed up rubber cockroach in my wallet, which is weird when I go to gas stations and pull my wallet out, but yeah, like I said, I'm not gonna make any big sudden movements. But 28 and 14, that's nothing to sneeze at. - Padres do rally quite well this season. - They do. - They are known for their rallies. - They're like cockroaches, then they never go away. - Yeah, and they never go away. - Well, yesterday, the Power Bat, the three run home run, two run home run was the thing. Manny also had a, it was a very typical rally where Manny drove in, they two with the bases loaded single off the pitchers backside or back or shoulder or wherever it hit him. - How's that guy feeling today? - Not great. - Bull was ripped. - Now, do you think, just off topic a little bit, but was that bull gonna be an out until it hit the pitcher and then deflected away from the second baseman? Because he almost got it on the dock. - Yeah, maybe. - And it looked like he got further away from him. So, you know, we talk about the good breaks and the bad breaks and we wondered, yesterday are the breaks starting to turn against the Padres? Well, I would argue yesterday's game, Padres had some good breaks like that. That hit, there was a couple of line drives late against the bullpen and went right to Donovan Solano that helped them escape a couple of jams that were getting a little dicey to let the Mariners back into the game. The breaks are gonna come and they're gonna go. That's just how it goes in a baseball season. But the Padres keep putting themselves in position to win games. - That's it? - No, they don't win every single one of them, but pretty much every day, they put themselves in a position where they're a hit, they're a hit away, a play away, where they can win these games. - That's been the mantra, all season long. So, yeah, really well done, Roach. - Keep it up tonight. - Keep it up. - All right, we'll look ahead to tonight's game a little bit later. Right now though, Paul has got some headlines for us in the Rondel Report. - And get things started here with our edition today's edition of the Rondel Report. Now tune them to the Muff Greatest. - Welcome to the Rondel Report with Paul Rindel. - 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, Deatch? - It's the Rindel Report. - Hey, Paul, how you doing? - Okay, how are you? - On 97.3, the fan. ♪ Are you ready to blast the mood ♪ - Yeah, I need some help, please. - That was good. ♪ Can I get a whole year ♪ ♪ I'll die ♪ - All right. All right. - Right. - Good morning. - Good morning. - Just a quick story in sports here before we have a little bit of fun this morning. Kind of funny, but so Auburn quarterback Peyton Thorne went on podcast this week. I believe this was yesterday. And he was talking about criticism that he gets from fans after losses. Or after a poor performance, you know, we've had plenty of examples over the years and don't do this usually of, hey, you don't don't go racial. Don't go after family members just because you lost a fantasy game or something. - Don't write them at all. - Ever. Don't write them at all. - Hey, I lost fantasy football this week because you threw three intercepts. - I think it's safe. If you want mine, I really believe this. I do feel like it's, you want to tag a player and something, make it positive. - Right. So, you know, there's no, it's like you're telling an elite athlete. - Yeah. I mean, if you want to throw it on us opinions, you can mention the guy, but don't tag him. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, of course, the DMs are gnarly. It's so tense. - This is taking it to another level. So Peyton Thorne went on, it's called the next round. And he said that some of the criticism that he's received has included people finding him on Venmo and requesting money because they lost bets due to his performance. - Hmm. This can't people just be normal. - So they're definitely not sending cash through, he had four interceptions on Saturday in their 2114 loss to Cal. Said it's funny when we, when they lose money, they want their money back, they request it from me. But when they win money on a parlay, no one's ever sent me anything. - It's absolutely true. - It's absolutely true. They're not, you know, Manny hits the home run last night, Padres win, I'm not sending Manny $100 or whatever. But I'm not gonna ask him for $100. If he won roles between his legs, they lose the game. It's just a bit space. - Do gamblers not realize that for every athlete who has cost them a bet? He's also won someone else a bet. - Correct. Exactly right. - If they're doing it right, there's always gonna be about the same amount of money on both sides. - You know, and it's funny, like I had a golf legacy pool, cost like 300 bucks to get into the beginning of the season. You have to pick a winner, you can't use him winner twice. Well, I had a lot of help this season. I finished second place and I won a good amount of money. Took care of my old friend over here who helped me out this season. I would call him, I sent him money because he helped me win. So I did what they don't do. - Would you have asked, would you have Venmo requested me? Had you lost like, hey, all your picks didn't help me. Give me 50 bucks to cover part of this entry fee that you helped me lose. - Now, there is one pick that Ben helped me make that absolutely murdered me for the season and I would have finished first if I didn't get a Venmo. - I didn't get a Venmo request. - Correct. - And I'm not bitter about it because you helped me win so much more than that one absolutely horrific pick down the stretch. When I needed it most, I still greased him as $100. So the Auburn quarterback, he was kind of joking about this. Like he was buying it. But the NCAA is like absolutely monitoring this, especially with kids able to accept and make money now. They're absolutely watching this and I'm reading from ESPN. They have a, there's an AI company called Signified the NCAA, they're a partner, they use them. And this company found that one in three high profile college athletes do receive messages from people with like betting interests, whether it's - I thought it would be three of three. - Yeah. - Literally. I thought it would be three of three. - Like people reaching out, trying to... - Don't you think that the athlete wants to win even more than you want to win your bet? - Yes, he definitely does. - That's the thing. Like you don't need, they don't need extra incentive or pressure from you because you bet on them. They already want to do well. - I'm telling you, man. It's the social media for kids and sports. It's absolutely toxic, toxic now. - All right, we'll move on, break away from sports for a second. Benny teased it in our last segment, a music festival. Now, I don't remember exactly when the first rendition of "Fire Festival" was. I think it was like 2016, 2017. You've seen there's so many like documentaries on it now. We don't have to rehash everything that went into that, but it was an absolute scam. All the social media influencers, like Kylie Jenner and people like out with millions of followers, hyping up this festival, this music fest in the Caribbean on a private island, it's gonna be luxurious. - Great idea in theory. - Yeah, in theory. And then you got there and they had like a couple of porta-potties, cheese sandwiches, like no water. I mean, it was horrible. In fact, it was so bad that the guy that founded it, Billy McFarland went to prison. He just got out like in the last year or so. - He's already announced "Fire Festival 2" and... - If at first you don't succeed. - This is called recidivism. - Try it, try it, yes. He clearly learned nothing. - I saw this headline actually a couple of days ago, I think on Sunday and I didn't include it in the "Rinder Report" because that's kind of waiting for more details. Surely there's gotta be more information. It's been 48 hours. There's still very little information on this other than it's gonna be on a private island in the Caribbean and they do have the dates happening in April 2025 and tickets are going from anywhere between $1,400 to over a million dollars. They had their first wave of presale passes sold out immediately. - How? - They have not announced a single ad. - Not behind the artist. - None. And like literally, that's all the information that is out there and people are like, here you go. - Anyone who's... - I don't care how bad it is this time and how horrific it gets. Anyone who spends money on this now deserves to lose their money. - Correct, yes at this point. - Yep. People are going to get away with what you let them get away with and then it's on you. I no longer feel bad for those people. - The first batch of people. - Sure. - Yeah. - But now this batch of people, no, that's on you. You buy the tickets, it's on you. Then now the joke will probably be on everybody else and it will be the most spectacular, incredible festival in history. - Tickets for the controversial event range. Yeah, 1400 to a staggering $1.1 million. McFarlane said that the pricier options can include luxury yachts, scuba diving, island hopping. - Can also include a thrice. - I mean, this guy, he has millions dollars in debt. He just got out of jail because of the first festival and I'm going like, surely if you bought tickets to this already or want to buy tickets, you know what happened in the first one. I'm like, what are you, what are you doing? - Well, he can't possibly. - Headliners, cam, include. (laughing) - Article sound system. - Yeah, they sold, they opened a very limited amount. I think it was like a hundred tickets about a year ago when they were first discussing fire festival too, sold out like that. - Just it would be gone. - The most elite. - Food options range from lobster, Thermador, can't include lobster, Thermador, or cheese sandwiches. - It's, it would be the most elite radio content of all time if we, if we actually went. I'd actually like to send for some of them. - Could we be invited as headliners? - Potentially. - Potentially. - We're the, we're the radio headliners for fire fest. - Anthony says it's going to be a better show than Oasis. I promise you it won't. Don't the, you may be Oasis will be there. - You don't need to take shots at my beloved Oasis, Anthony. - Okay, 400 million pounds, these guys are set to make. 400 million pounds. - All right, then finally saw this earlier this morning. And a news story from hotels.com. I thought, well, one of us is going to be staying in a hotel. - That's amazing. - That's the two of us. Well, you'll be staying there for several days. And that was just a nice hotel, scale of one to 10. How would you, where would you rank it? - Seven. - Okay. - Seven or eight? - Okay. - It's quite a hire. - It's a hire. - It's a hire. No, it's a, that's a upper end chain hotel. - Now do you play on getting room service? Do you ever get room service? - Do you ever get room service? - Paulie. - Have you ever had room service? - Turn his mic off. - There's no way he's getting room service. There is no-- - Do you think he's ever got-- - He has before, against his will. It wasn't his idea. - All true. - Room service is the most overpriced, disappointing way to eat when you're on vacation. - It's absolutely elite. Elite eating. - We're gonna listen to him. - I agree on this. - I love room service. - Breakfast. - Breakfast at night dinner. - Late night dinner. - On the brunch late night dinner. - I think we got that. The tray and the, just sitting in your room forever. - No, no, you push it out of the door. - It is? - It's the greatest part about it. Like, here you go. Take that. - Well, it's massively expensive though. - Massive. - It is. - Hotels.com. - It's about two eggs in bacon. That'll be $37. - Yup. - They put out a list of the most unusual room service requests that hotels have reported. - A number one on this list. - Hold on real quick. This guy sleeps with the chicken catchettories plate still in his room. - It's disgusting. - He goes to the gym. - No wonder you don't get room. - He's just wreaks. - I've been doing it wrong. - I've been doing it wrong. - He just took it outside and they come and get it for it. You don't even have to call him and tell him. Cakes just come and get it. - I hate that feeling. - Like when you go, when you go to Harlem or Vegas and you walk down the hallway and it's just like, all every door that's just like sitting there, like old dishes, like I don't like that. - Right, so you've seen that, so why wouldn't you? - Because I know, but I just feel like that's, I don't like it when they're out there. Like you should just have it, just let them wait and take it away when they come and clean your room. - Well, some of the most unusual requests for room service were in Evian filled, Evian water filled bathtub. - Like pour it out of the bottles into the bathtub. - Or fill the bathtub with ice and then put the bottles in the bathtub. - No, no, no, nice, fill it with-- - No, no, the specific request was so their child can bathe in the most pure water. - Bathe in avian. - They should use eco water, eco water, so cow. - You do bathe in Evian water. - I bathe in it every day, yeah. - Let's see, a customized-- - What would that cost? Just a quick, sorry, estimate. Like, okay, a bathtub, how many bottles of three bucks a bottle? - Yeah, no, at a hotel, we're talking five bucks a bottle. - Six dollars a bottle for room service. - It means 60 of them. - At least. - Minimum, maybe. - I mean, they could charge-- - Well, I'm talking about the big ones. - Yeah, I mean-- - It needs $60,000 about to-- - Then those are probably like eight or nine dollars in room service, at least. - Is it cold? - I mean, that could be a thousand dollars just to fill a bathtub. - So stupid. - There was a customized allergen menu for their pet, like gluten-free, dairy-free. Somebody requested a caviar hot dog. - Yes. - So would that be a hot dog with caviar on top? Or instead of the hot dog, it's just a barn with caviar on top? - I think it's a hot dog with caviar on top. - Is there a hot dog, a sandwich? - Caviar sandwich. - Caviar sandwich. - Caviar sandwich. - Absolutely repugnant. - Fresh goat milk. - Well, obviously. I mean, we don't steal goat milk. - I've never asked for anything extra at a hotel. Never. This person asked for four pounds of bananas. - Didn't want to cramp. - Room service. I mean, that's like two bunches. I mean, it's, you know, it's weird, but not, that's not insane. - Yeah, who is this person? Prince, 'cause I need money. You know they make some funky ass request. The Rolling Stones make some funky hotel requests. - Yeah, but those, the writers that they put for either-- - Not the right. - No, just hotel requests. - Just the hotel is, you know, it's like, we, I've heard people like, "Oh, I need certain amount of fresh flowers and fruits." And I mean, it's great if they give you a little extra, but it's not being such a pain in the ass all the time. Everybody. - Yeah. - Thank you, Paul. Is that the weirdest ones? - Those are the weirdest ones, yeah. - Any special requests that you're hired. - We had to make a request. What would it be? - Well, you do a breakfast buffet there. - No, because we're probably just getting up and going early to golf, so. - Just grab it. - I don't even know if they do a buffet breakfast. I think that's more of a restaurant-y type, right? - I'm always fascinated by his trips. I'm fascinated. He doesn't give a lot, but I want more. - I just think you'd be very-- - I'm gonna stay at no hotel with him like once. - I know. - I'm very boring. - So am I. Very boring. - Be in my room. - Just give him a high pass. - The first year at spring training when he ditched us in the middle of the night. - He ditched us a little at night. - And then last year, remember we got to our Airbnb at like 8 p.m. and it wasn't cleaned. - And we had to go somewhere else. - We had to go to a Hampton Inn down the street. - That's terrible. - We got that continental breakfast though. - Yeah, we did. - I did partake of the continental breakfast. - I'm just, I want more info about this trip coming up. I'm not buying exactly what he's selling right now. There's more to it. - I do like the hotel rooms that have a nice big tub. - You do? - Especially when I'm on a golf trip because then you soak. Get a nice soak in the tub. And it's just you and the rooms. - Yeah, it's nice. You can do whatever you want. - Do whatever you want and enjoy your tub. - Now I'm creeped out. I wasn't before, but now I am. - Carlos has ordered been an escort to his room. I can get to my room just fine, Carlos. I don't need an escort. I'm good at finding, following directions on the maps in the rooms to find it myself. - I mean, we could arrange. - I could find it myself. - Then thinks the girls are just there to show him which room is his. - All right. - Is there any particular-- - You want a house to escort me to my room? - Is there any reason that you're still here? - $300 just to escort me to my room. Dress seems a little bit appropriate to just take me up to the fourth floor, but okay. - Can escort myself, thank you very much. - Do you ever have the people bring the luggage up to your room and do you do it yourself? - Do it myself. - Of course you do. - Sometimes when they have-- - Four trips. - When you can just borrow their carts and take it yourself with-- - The cart bit. - You're pushing, I think, through the lobby and getting on the elevator. - Five or tips start adding up. - They do, they really do. - Can I cash for tip money before a trip? - I have. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, absolutely. - Thank God. - I always get in a pinch where all I have is 20s and I'm like, here you go. (laughing) - It's just the worst and you have to ask. - Can you give me a 10 back? - The guy for change that you're tipping? It is such a bad feeling. - The worst. - I'm not tipping you this whole thing. - The whole trip too. I'm seeing like four days. Here's 20, remember this face. Bring my car down. (laughing) - All right, I didn't get to it last hour so we will replay Jesse's Incorporator when we come back, I promise. We will then preview game two of the series against the Mariners coming up next after traffic on 97 through the fam. - My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. - My friend's still laughing me to this day. - Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to LinkedIn.com/results to claim your credit. That's LinkedIn.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be, to be. - America's favorite place to watch football is stadium swim located at circa resorting casino in Las Vegas. Catch all the biggest games and a viewing experience built for sports fans. 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You can find it on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. One thing that we do that's fun with Jesse every Tuesday is the Incorporated. Joined us yesterday and Woods gave him the word gentacular, which means having to do with breakfast like coffee is a gentacular beverage. Yup. And I had never heard that word before, but it was a pretty good one. And as always, Jesse with Flair included it in last night's broadcast in the third inning. Paulie to get June 5th the last time the Padres played a road game in their own time zone. That was the nugget of the game presented by Chick-fil-A San Diego. We have 21 restaurants in San Diego. You never too far from the home of the original chicken sandwich. Come try the honey pepper pimento chicken sandwich for a limited time. We've had what? Rush hour baseball this year, we've had even Korea pre-gentacular baseball. All hours of the day and night here in 2024. - That was pre- - Right around first three. - One out for five. - Yeah, pre-breakfast. - Three o'clock first pitch for the first game. Can you imagine that was games one and two. And now we are at game 147 I believe tonight. - I'm gonna be honest with you. It's flown by. It has flown by this year. I still can't believe it. Last year was dragging. This year is flying by. And it seems like just yesterday we were at the Ramblur Motel and walking into a sea of Sandy Higgins ready to watch the Dodgers and Padres at seven miles. What a night, what a way to start the season. - And you know, Padres split those games. We're really a 500 team for the first, what 100 games of the season? - Yeah. - 50 and 50, right? - Yes. - The first 100 games of the season. This team was languishing at 500. Couldn't really escape the pole, the gravitational pole of 500. And then all of a sudden the all-star break hit and they went on a nice, but 19 and four run. - That'll do. - And you know, outside of that one run, they really have been a 500 team. They're what, three games above 500 outside of that one, 15 games above 500 run that they had. - That's all you need sometimes. - But that is. - I mean, get you a little cushion for the push. - That's why last year I kept going, they're gonna be okay. 'Cause they're gonna have, they're gonna have one, just one run out of 162 games. And then they finally did in the last, you know, this time of year. This was when they were doing their eight-game winning streak and winning, you know, 14 of their last 16 games to climb above 500, but it was too late. - That's so great. - And they really weren't a 500 team. They were below 500 team for most of last season. But that's why staying around 500 is important because when you do go on your run, you can actually, you know, get up with the top teams and the playoff teams in baseball like they did this year. - And it's happened to the Phillies, it's happened to the Yankees, it's happened to the Orioles, it's happened to all the Dodgers at times. I mean, yeah, it's-- - All of those teams, they had long stretches where they've been no better than a-- - 500. - 500 teams. - Yeah, they stacked, they stacked those early wins. - Now the Mariners, who the Padres are playing tonight, should be one of those playoff teams, but they couldn't play 500 ball. They've played about 10 games under 500 since the all-star break. And that's costume. They had just played 500 ball. They'd either be right there or in first play still against the Houston Astros, but they didn't. They played 10 games under and now they've put themselves in a pretty bad spot. They lost a game in the standings. They're now four games back of the wild card and they didn't lose a game to the Astros who lost to the A's yesterday. - Yeah. - Mark Cotsay pulling out the Bunt game in extra innings. Did you see that? Three straight months. - Yeah, three straight. Let's score the winning run. - I know somebody that's very happy. - I know you do. I know you do. All right, we got one final segment left. Woods has a question for us. - Yeah, it's a question I wanted to ask. I saw it on Twitter yesterday. - Should I ask it now? You guys can think about your answers. - Yes. - Then everyone can be thinking for our last segment. - I loved this. I saw some great comments yesterday. What's something people romanticize, but it's actually horrible. There's so much. - Yes. - Yeah. - About it. - All right. It's coming up in our final segment of Ben & Woods next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fam. Well, Padre's got the first game yesterday behind solid five innings from you. Darvish, home runs from Fernando Tanti's junior and Manny Machado, who set the all time Padre's home run record with his 164th and good enough bullpen work at the end of the game to beat the Mariners seven to three. Now they go for the sweep of the two game series. And with Michael King on the mountain, I was feeling very confident about those chances. And then I kind of looked at today's starter, Brian Wu. And I knew all of the Mariners starters are good. So this guy has been a quality start machine for the Mariners. You go through his game logs. He started his season in May, but once he got up to full innings, I mean, it is six innings zero runs, six innings three runs, six innings zero runs, six innings zero runs, five and two thirds innings two runs, seven innings zero runs, six and two thirds three runs, seven innings no runs. He's had two bad starts in which he gave up four runs, both to the angels. Other than that, guy has been really good this year. He's got an ERN or three, his home. ER is 1.50. - Yeah, hasn't lost at home. - At T-Mobile, T-Mobile. - Is that what they call it now, Safeco? I always, I have trouble when they change the name of parks. I'm so glad that Petco Park has remained Petco Park. - They haven't changed it over the years. - Yeah, he's good, man. Nasty stuff. - Ender Young, yeah. Solid, solid pitcher, which means Michael King, will have to continue what he has done this second half and be one of the better pitchers in the game. 'Cause I would expect a low scoring affair here today, tonight at T-Mobile Park. - Doesn't throw a lot. Didn't throw a lot of spinners at all. You know, throws a, he's basically, it's one of those weird guys that throws two different fastballs at you. So it can be, can be challenged. It's the four seam, is this the two seam. He uses those, he's really a four seam guy, kind of a power arm, but he's, he's, he'll mix that two seamer in on the hands on those righties. And yeah, he's, they're all, you know, they're all really good, they're starters. But potteries have handled guys like him. I'm not too worried about it. - Yeah, and, you know, they got to you for the couple of solo shots yesterday. And there are a couple of guys who are certainly dangerous if they get a hold of one. - Their lineup looks, looks scarier than it's been. - It's certainly produced. - Four and out, right? Like, it looks pretty solid, one through nine. You look at it and go, I don't see a lot of scrubs. - Michael King has been really hard to square up, especially second half of the season. The hard hit rate is extremely low. And the Mariners basically only score when they barrel, barrel the ball up. They don't put together a lot of rallies, you know, a bunch of hits together. That's not been their MO. They're okay. I think they're 12th to 13th in home runs. So occasionally, like last night, they'll get a hold. You just hope no one's on base when it happens. But Michael King has been really tough to square up this year. - Any, any consternation at all about the bullpen. I saw people saying, you know, this going to those high leverage guys with that big lead. Again, I mean, you know, what did you say earlier? You had a good quote. Something about taking the opportunity, but those opportunities are wins. - I said there will be consequences. - Consequences. - To using your back end of your bullpen. And hopefully those consequences include winning a World Series. - Well, right, yes. I mean, and even in Mike Schiltz case, when he's done it, they've mostly equated to wins. When he's been very aggressive with the bullpen and you look at it with the off day tomorrow. I don't know that you see Tanner Scott again today. I don't know that you see Jason Adam today. I don't know that you see Robert Suarez again, certainly after 18 pitches, you probably could. - Astronaut, absolutely. - Yeah, six pitches. - You got hoeing fresh, you got more hoeing fresh, you got Wanda fresh, you got Yuki fresh, you got Alex Jacob fresh. Your bullpen's still pretty solid. You're going to need all those guys to win games. - Yeah, I mean, even if you do pitch Scott, he hasn't been as effective the second day of back-to-back. So I think you should definitely be careful. I mean, if it really came down to it, you probably could ask him to go out there because you know there's a day off tomorrow, which means who knows how many days, you know, you're going to be able to get him off, but there's an aggression to Mike Schill. When he sees a win in front of him, he tries to take it. - 100%. - And I've come to actually appreciate that about Mike Schill. - And again, I can't worry what it's going to look like in October. I can't, I can't put myself through that because that's not how it works. You got to get those wins to get there. You have an opportunity to seize one, you make the moves, you do it. Yeah, there's been somewhere I'm like, all right, maybe this was unnecessary, but it's also a matter of who do I trust? Who do I trust? It wasn't a good outing for Tanner Schill. - I mean, there was one game in Kansas City when they were left with Yuki and late in the game because they'd used their bullpen too much. This was before the trade deadline, before the new guys, and yes, cost them that game. - Well, and hey, listen, in the beginning part of the season before you had Adam and Scott and some of the other dudes in there and the Hoeing and some of the extra had established himself. Yes, Robert Schwartz was the only guy he trusted. - I'm surprised he didn't go to him for eight outs saves earlier in the season as bad as the bullpen was. Remember, they were rolling through it with Stephen Kolack and all kinds of guys like that. - What we don't know and we'll never know is have had Mike Schill been a little more conservative with his back into the bullpen. How many gives would he have lost? - I know. - By saving those guys. We don't know. We don't know the answer to that. - If there's blood in the water, man, I think you have to, you got to eat. I really do. It's certainly a different philosophy than we've seen here in the past. - All right, repeat your question here before we get to traffic one more time. - All right, one more time. - What is something that we romanticize? - That people romanticize, but it's actually horrible. - We'll do that right after traffic here on 97 through the fan. - So when you said this, it made a lot of sense to me because we always make things a little better, I think, in our minds than they truly are in reality. It's probably a healthy thing, actually. You don't want to be thinking the worst of everything, all the time. It's nice to have an idealized image in your mind of something. - Sure. - But yeah, sometimes reality is very disappointing. - The one that got me was when they asked the question yesterday, somebody tweeted it and they said camping. - Oh, what did you say? - I wrote, "Thank you for saying this." - Literally, that was mine. - I think people do romanticize camping. I would go out on a limb and say, "I know there are people that love to camp." Certainly, I'm not saying that you're wrong, but you've never had. You've never had a good night's sleep in a tent. The temperature's never been perfect. You've never been comfortable in a tent. - I think I can say that accurately. It is not bad. - A lot of great night's sleeps in hotels, though. - Oh, I've had so many good night's sleeps in hotels. - From what I can remember, and it's been a long time since I've gone camping, but you endure it. - You endure it? - Like 80 to 90% of it. For those one really, truly good moments where you're around the fire. - Yeah, yeah. - And, you know, you're just kind of shooting the breeze with everybody and having a drink. - Some hotels have fire pits too. - Yeah. - They do. - I mean, that's-- - It is different. - You kind of, you're enduring to get to the one or two little good moments. - The camping, the act of going to a cool national park and setting up a tent is cool. That's fun. Your kids love it, I'm sure. My kids will never know the feeling. (laughing) - Maybe later in life. - Maybe, go with their friends. But getting into the tent, getting into a sleeping bag, zipping it on the side and laying there, you can have a pad down below, whatever. You've never had a good night to sleep. It has not been ideal. Unless you're hammered, they had to bottle a Jack Daniel. If that made you pass out, you pass out anyway. - I don't know. - Pass out in a chair. - The last thing I'd want to be is hung over on a camping trip outside of the world. - It's absolutely the worst. So I think that's one that often gets romanticized. - All right, I had a couple of thoughts on this. Black and white movies. - 100%. - The classics, as they like to say. Oh, they don't make them like they used to. You know why? 'Cause they were terrible. - I can't watch it. I can't do it. - Awful. - When they put new movies out in black women, I'm not watching that. - Oh, even old one. Even the old classics. I just find just to be horribly boring. - We've really romanticized, films are so much better now. They're so much better. - They're so much better now. That's a good one. Walking on the beach. - Yeah, I mean, walking on the beach is okay. - Seems like a-- - Spending the entire day on the beach, that's basically camping. - Pretty much. - You guys can call us with yours. 8, 3, 5, 2, 8, 0, 9, 7, 3, if you want. - Oh, there's a given. Kate Cheek says, "Penny arcades." - Penny arcades. Those games are much better now than they used to be. - I'm gonna go with the McRib sandwich. - Do we roam, do we roam? - People do. - People do. - People romanticize the McRib and they wait for it to come back every year and worry that it's never returning. But in reality, it's a very, very poor excuse for a barbecue sandwich. - Yeah, it is. Sometimes it's the best you can get though. Like it's the only thing available, you know? I'll eat one, one a year. - A lot of people in our chat say if you said Disneyland. - Yeah, I disagree. I always have a good time at Disneyland. - I mean, there are challenges. - Massive challenges. - I mean, the walking, the lines. - The parking lines. - And the parking, yes. - But if done right, if done right, it can be a really fun day. I really enjoy Disneyland much more than I thought I would as a dad of two little boys that really liked Disneyland. I don't dread going there. Like, "Oh, this is gonna be a nightmare." No, I actually always have fun. - This is gonna sound horrible for me in particular. - I can't wait. I sit here and what I'm about to do and what I do for the 95% of my recreation golf. - We romanticize the hell out of golf, yeah. We really do. You're right. - In reality, it's like 98% of the time. I leave feeling very disappointed in what I just did. And yet I keep going back for that 2% of the time that it doesn't, that it actually lives up to my hopes. - Curtis is right, music festivals. Boy, they sound good. And when you get, when you get your ticket for a big festival, you're so excited to get out there until you actually get out there. And then when you're done on Sunday or Monday or whatever, horrible. I couldn't hear. I could barely get to the stage to see my favorite artist. I missed it. The walk was three miles to the venue. It was dusty. We had a dust storm. You know, I took, did way too much of something. I didn't eat enough. I ate like crap. I mean, it's really a horrible experience when you're done. You feel like you got an wreck. Can you do the one from Mark Wartie OG? - I don't see it. - Where is it? - You don't see it? Right between Carlos and Charisma there? - No. - Fine, I'll say it. Relations in the shower. - 100% massively overrated. - Romanticize, certainly. - Give you movies, whatever, yeah. - I mean, there's plenty of acts. - Hot tub too. - The acts that you've seen and think it's gonna be great. - Beach, hot tub, shower. How did I see that? I don't know why I can't see that. Oh, you're in the different chat. - Yes, that's probably it. - Some holidays? - Well, not memorial day. - Not memorial day for you. - What do you have planned for today? - Yeah, this is your second favorite holiday, I'm sure. - When I came in this morning, I probably said happy 9/11 to you, no, probably remember, we don't do that on 9/11. - Valentine's Day. - Super romantic. - Super, it's literally romanticize. - Super, literally romanticize. - And it sucks. - The holiday, I mean, the holiday season, like I said, everyone alone is great, I love it, but it can be very stressful. - Everyone should have their own Valentine's Day. But when everyone has to do it on the same day and every restaurant is booked and every flower shop is charging triple the price and it's horrible, it really is. - It's horrible. - Yeah, it really is a nightmare. I'm in, I'm in, I'm in birthday slash anniversary. Our anniversary is a week after Hannah's birthday, which is on Sunday. And we're doing the, we do the traditional gifts. Do you know what the traditional gift is? - For what year? - Seven. - Seven. - Copper and wool. - Copper and wool. I guess copper and or copper or? - Sounds like a very, I mean, pennies. - Pennies, not good. Wool, sweater and some pennies. - Look where we live. - A sweater with pennies on it. - Ooh, perfect. - Blinged out with pennies. - Now, like our buddy Will Holder's saying, look, I love camping. This is great, since we had a picture of the woods. That looks great, you're walking through nature, you're in the woods, it's fantastic. There's nothing better. When you go to sleep that night, you're like son of a bitch, I wish I was in a bed. I wish I was in a bed. - Goose is a sock filled with pennies, which have you ever tried to put on a wool sock in San Diego? - Wool, what am I gonna get this woman? - That's something you beat people with. It's a sock and copper. - Here's a copper pipe. - What did they even use copper? - You get one of those healing bracelets, right? - Oh, she loves that. - Copper, seems like a hand of gift, right? - Those totally work, they totally work. - They say people swear by those copper bracelets. - Well, so you're out tomorrow. - I am. - I guess I'll just do the Mike Shelton interview solo. - Oh. - And I miss out on the show. - I think it's gonna go well. - Yeah, it should be great, it should be great. - Especially if they win today, 'cause there's no game on Thursday. - They win tonight. - They have a perfect week to talk about if they win tomorrow. - Yeah. - What am I doing, how you doing? - Hey, we're great, Mike, how are you? Ben's out today, he's playing golf. - It's really cool. - Yeah, very, very cool, cool for all of us. Have a great trip. - Thank you. - To tell Scott we say hello. - Thank you, I will see you guys on Monday morning. - You're gonna be so sore on Monday. - Probably. - So much golf. Control yourself out there, all right? - But mentally, I'll be ready for the last two weeks of the season to come back. - Here we go, crunch time. - All right, Annie and Elston are coming up next. Paulie and Woods will be back tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. For Paul Reindel, our executive producer and imaging director and Steven Woods. You're still in the chat, that's a long time for you. I'm Ben Higgins, have a great rest of your Wednesday. From all of us at San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 to fame. So long everybody. (cheering) - My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friend's still laughing at me to this day. - Not everyone gets B2B. 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