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For others, it's a day to rest and then the Padres are off and everybody else in the wild card race is off so we can take a deep breath today before the stretch run. But for me today, it's Bills Day and that doesn't mean paying Bills. It means trying to beat the Bills. The Dolphins never seem to beat the Bills. I think they've lost 11 of the last 12 and I read something today that they're concerned to me a great deal about tonight's game. In the last five years, Josh Allen has been NFL Player of the Week five times following a game against the Dolphins. So he hasn't just beaten them. He's played insanely well that many times and they've had no answer for him and that's why they can't beat Buffalo. So we will see what happens tonight. But there are bigger things to talk about today, Tony. I think it's kind of an exciting day for San Diego State fans. I don't know exactly where it's going to lead us. But you know, to me, having the Pac-12 name attached is better than Mountain West and it's a step and we'll see where we go. We'll talk about that in the segments. Of course, start with our beloved Padres. They split the two-game veteran cup out in Seattle. I got Scrabie. It was one loss. It's all right. Seattle takes the cup. Yeah, they got the series this year. The 2024 season and the Padres lose a little ground. They lose the top spot. Only four and a half a game with the Diamondbacks who are in action. They don't actually have their off day until I believe next week. So we will stay a game ahead of them, at least in how many played until that time. So, you know, the Padres lose a tough one. Quite frankly, Brian Wu had it going. I mean, he was, first of all, Mariners have the best pitching in all of baseball due to their starting pitching. Padres got to one of their really good ones the day before. This is another one of their good ones and he got to them last night. Although Fernando Tati Jr. ruined the festivities with a 116 mile per hour laser beam out to left. He also took a run off to board. It wasn't enough for the Padres, unfortunately. And they'll get ready for this series here in San Francisco, Chris. Yeah, you're in San Fran, getting ready and they're going to be crucial games. And I think we'll talk more about it, you know, tomorrow. But, you know, the loss last night, you know, a couple things. You're right, Brian Wu, that's the story. I mean, when you retire the first 19 guys, it's going to be hard to win that game. The biggest surprise of all was that he ended up walking somebody in the seventh inning and the Mariners were so distressed by that they immediately took him out of the game. It was only, it was only his 10th walk of the season. And, you know, when you're throwing strikes, you'd think a team like the Padres that, you know, makes contact against a guy like this would, you know, put the ball in play and find some holes. But there are certain nights where baseball just takes that away. You don't get anything to fall in. And, yeah, so, you know, it was there night. Croninworth makes an error on a play that, you know, personally all be comfortable with him trying to make about a thousand times in a row. He dropped the throw and, you know, they didn't get the call on the replay. You know, in a perfect world, maybe they could have said he had control of that ball. But I hate to say I kind of agreed with the overrule there. And I did too. Yeah. So, you know, that's good. Look, the first game of the season they lost because the ball bounced through Croninworth's glove. That hasn't happened since glove game. It seems like five years ago. And so I'm going to play like that to me as a one off. I'm not expecting that. And I know people are saying, well, you know, you change them. You put bogey at short, cronies at second, and now the defense is terrible. It's not. It's a play that he'll make every time, but he didn't make it last night. And so that's a win for Seattle. But I will say this, it did cause me for the first time, Tony, to actually check the remaining schedules of the Mets and the Braves and the Diamondbacks. And I know the Padres remaining schedule. And, you know, I want to see where everybody stands. I mean, to me, it's exciting. I obviously don't want it to be close, but I'd like to, you know, cruise into the playoffs, but that's not going to happen. They're going to have to play well the next three weeks. And, you know, I think the Mets have a toughest schedule. They play the Phillies seven times. They also play the Braves. The Diamondbacks play the Brewers seven times. And so, you know, the schedule, the other teams are going to take their losses down the stretch, but the Padres got to make sure they take fewer of them. A couple of things. I think it's important to remember that this feeling that everybody's feeling, the Diamondback fans are feeling this. The Mets fans are feeling this. The Braves fans are certainly feeling it. And everybody else who's chasing this wild card, the only time you're honestly probably like comfortable is if you're winning your division. And so, ultimately, you have to go out and you got to take it. And that's the case for not just the Padres, but that's for everybody. Padres are just better positioned to take it than everybody else. And so, you know, this is, this was never going to be easy. I know. And the, as you said, in the perfect world, Padres run away and hide with the top spot, possibly pushed the division to a closer and it just, you're in, you're in, right? But I don't think it was ever going to come to that, especially when it was, when the thought was, you know, you win 85 games, you have a chance to get in at the very beginning of the season, it wasn't going to be like that. And now that it's, you know, upwards of probably 90 plus games, it's still not going to be like that. And so, Padres just have to play well down to stretch. You are not likely in 2024 going to back into the playoffs. It just seems very unlikely. Right. Even though their lead is two and a half right now over the Braves, they really don't have to play extraordinary down the stretch of the Padres. You know, 10 and five, even I think nine and six will probably do it. I hesitate to do those things because they're going to just take every game one at a time and try to win them all. But, you know, nine and six going to force the Braves to play about 800 baseball down the stretch or the Mets or the Diamondbacks or all of them are going to have to. And remember, the Padres only have to hold off one of those teams. They don't have to hold off all three. And so that's, you know, in their favor. And I still think the Padres have a, you know, as good of is not the better roster going here. They've got the, you know, Darvish is back in the fold now starting and, you know, Perez takes a little paternity lead. But when he comes back, he's pitching well and I'm throwing cease on Friday. I feel good every time I go out there with one of these Padres starters. And I feel good with the bullpen. And I know they're going to score runs. They're not going to get, you know, get shut down like they did last night. I don't think too often. So I still feel pretty comfortable about it. Yeah. But enough to, but enough to, you know, look around the landscape. It was funny. Jesse and I had a conversation with one of you guys heard during the game. And it was about how, for like the first, and you and I talked about it on the show, but first like, I don't know, three, three months of the season, we talked about like the small margin for air that the Padres had. And we get to this point in the season and without a doubt, that margin has widened because the offense is as good as it is on a, on a pretty consistent basis. But the foundation is still a foundation. Good pitching and defense. Those are going to set you up for that offense to do its thing. And then last night's game, that they didn't get those, they didn't get start that they have been accustomed to get and they didn't get the defense. And it's for defense, it could just be one play that changes it for your ball club. And so I say that to say, even down the stretch, even though the margin for error has widened, their foundation still a foundation, they're going to need good starting pitching and they're going to need good defense on most nights to give them, make them victorious. And I think they're going to get that stuff. I do too, 100%. It was just kind of the best of, or the worst of both worlds, right? I mean, their pitcher was at the top tippy top of his game. And the Padres didn't get those two things in that particular game. Yeah, I get another thing about Michael King. I think he's pitching, you know, phenomenal ball. I think there's somewhere, you know, some, some metric Adam is a, you know, honestly, a top 10 pitcher in baseball this year based on all of his analytics. You know what I think about analytics, but it does at least underscore the point that he's been great. And he's been somebody you could rely on. The one area Michael King has not been reliable this year is allowing unearned runs. He's allowed a bunch of unearned runs and he allowed three of them last night. It wasn't his fault, right? I mean, Conanworth made the air. But I'd like to see Michael King be able to bear down a little bit in those situations. It's not always easy to do. You give a major league team an extra out. In this case, you almost gave him two extra outs because it would have been a double play most likely to end the inning. But you know, I need to come through there. I need to get these next couple of guys and get us out of the inning and get back in the dugout. And you know, everything's going to add up here down the stretch. I'm not trying to pick on King. He's been, you know, like I said, he's been one of the best we've got. But everybody's going to have to have everybody's back as well down the stretch. And I don't know if he's the kind of guy that tends to get down a little bit when an error or two is made behind him. Statistically, it says that that has happened to him this year. That's all I'm saying. I don't disagree with that. I think he doesn't disagree with you that out after error is a is a as a statement that he uses often. Yeah. And it's really to remind him that he has to bear down. But the mere fact that at least, especially in the last three starts, his defense has failed him. I don't think there is any getting around it. That's certainly, you know, when that happens to a specific pitcher over and over and over again, the onus is is is is although you want the you need not want you need the pitcher to to be able to kind of settle back down and get the next guy that defense overall with him on with him on the bump certainly has to almost have a little bit more hyper focus when he's on it. Because that's becoming a kind of a thing when he's on the map. You know, so you know, there's a pitcher every year that gets a ton of run support. And there's another pitcher in the rotation that gets none. The ironic the ironic part is he's also the guy who gets the most run support, I believe in that rotation. But he's also they're also giving some of those runs right back with the errors that they're making. So the other last things are great though. Yeah, he has. And again, I feel confident with every pitcher the Padres send out there. The one guy I've lost complete confidence in though is Louisa rise had one hit last night. What's the matter with this guy? You know, we trade him. Yeah, I mean, well, like everybody else, I now I understand why everybody's traded him. You finally come to the the dark side. Come to the dark side on a rise. I came up to bat there and he was at the eighth inning. And he was over three. And I'm like, what? That's not possible. But it just goes to show, man. It shows you how good Brian Wu was. It was the rise isn't getting hit. Yeah, the guy was outside. Come on 19 for 19. I think this is kind of silly because they lost the game in a lot of ways people might think. But I'm glad they did not get no hit. I'm glad they did not get perfect game. You know, you see Dylan C throws that no hitter. It gave the team a big lift. And I think getting no hit can have the opposite effect. So I'm glad we don't have to have that to carry through an off day. And you know, Fernando took care of that. And you know, it did come in a loss. But his catch in right field, Tony, you can talk about how difficult that was. You know, this is a platinum glove type play. And you know, he made I thought he I thought he made almost a better play the night before when he threw the guy out running to his right from right center field. You don't see outfielders do that. So those two plays, you know, stars for Fernando there. Yeah, that's the easier of the place. The timing of the jump and the height of that ball. That's not he didn't like put his foot in the wall. That was just straight vert that he went up and just kind of snatched it and brought it back. That's a that's a really difficult play to especially on the corners, you know, center field. A lot of times the ball is is like straight when the balls hit to the the corners. It's got, you know, either some pool on it or it's got a little fade on it. And so he had to and it was a right hand to hitter. It was a rose or anion. So it's just kind of had that fade, which is why he ended up, I think, falling because it almost like he had to go backwards to catch it, you know, and it was an amazing play. I mean, Tati is you just feel I think that I haven't I haven't been like vexed about this whole thing because I just feel like Manny and Tati like they know what time it is. They know, like Luis, they know we're down to like the big, the big boy time of the year. And so I fully expect that all the guys from from jereks in or from Louise to jereks and those first six in that lineup, I think they know what time it is. And that's include Jackson. So I just feel good about the the the the dogs that the Padres are going to throw out there on a nightly basis. All right, let's let's get to break. When we come back, I think the real news of the day, San Diego State getting the invitation officially to join the pack 12 talk about a little bit about what that means. 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I'm so proud for our fan base, our alumni, our donors that were have this opportunity to go into the Pack 12 to create this new Pack 12 and the opportunities that it's going to provide us. JD Wicker out at Snapdragon Stadium today, where they had a press conference, big doings at San Diego State on Montezuma Mesa. We are all Aztecs for life around here, except for Scrabby. And I think it's a big day for San Diego State. They've been trying to get into the Pack 12 for a long time. Obviously, they were almost there. A few years ago, actually, I think they were there until, I don't know what happened in USC and UCLA and Oregon and Washington jump ship. But, you know, JD has been really, this has been kind of a big goal. And for this school, it just looks great. It looks great. Now, what does it all mean? I mean, look, there's San Diego State's in and Colorado State, Fresno State and Boise State are joining them. But there's only two teams in the Pack 12 to join at the moment, Oregon State and Washington State. Now, none of this actually takes place for until the 26th, 27th season. So not this year, not next year, but the year after that. And I think, Tony, you know, this is, this is far better than the status quo for San Diego State to finally be attached to the Pack 12 brand. But let's see see what they can do with this and not San Diego State. But let's see what the Pack 12 can do with this now that they have the makings of a conference. Can they go out and steal, you know, a couple of big named schools from somewhere else? It seems like all is fair and the love and war out there in college sports these days. So everybody stole teams from the Pack 12. Maybe they can do the same thing. That's what I'm thinking anyway. Yeah. So, you know, there's a great article in the athletic written by a guy named Stuart Mandel. He's kind of, yeah, Stuart's good. He's been around a highlight. It kind of highlights the whole scenario. This is obviously less about revenue than it is about the golden ticket. And what is the golden ticket? That's one of those spots in the playoff that college football playoff. And so, you know, this article kind of lays out the idea that this is not about money. Like most of the moves that we've seen, this is more about that playoff spot. However, as Chris just mentioned, the pack, pack two right now with this edition only leaves it to a pack six. You need eight to qualify. Now the pack 12 has this two year grace period where they get to kind of trying to figure out how they get that those eight teams in there. Now, there's a bunch of scenarios, right? Air Force, UNLV have been talked about. There's talks of moving into Texas with, I think, San Antonio and North Texas possibly being a part of that. But there is the scenario still that a team like the big 12 could get plucked. Sure. Like Boise State could get plucked to go to a place like the big 12. So there's a lot of, I guess, you know, the term balls in the air going right now for the pack six. That's what we call it right now. Yeah. So, but either way, I think for San Diego State, it's a risk worth taking because right now they're stuck in the Mountain West. And, you know, I don't, does, I don't think anybody sees it that conference elevating beyond where it is right now. And that's with where it's always six in. Right. It's with the success of the teams that are now leaving. It does it. So, I think it's a risk worth taking for sure. They've got to do this. And, you know, I'm really excited that they've done it. And, you know, you talk about stealing teams, which is, you know, the word they would not use, but I will. Look, why does Kansas and Kansas State, why are they married to the big 12? Why is, you know, BYU's over there? But maybe they want to come back to the West. Arizona and Arizona State, Utah, they're all in the big 12 right now. Every one of those schools has to travel at least once a year to West Virginia. And once a year to Central Florida, you know, why do that? When there's a pack 12 hoping to get back together and BYU and Arizona and Arizona State could come back there. I don't look, everybody's got a weird situation. I'm just saying, I've got to look into those things. It's a great point because, you know, on one end, you look at it like, why would those teams leave the conferences that seemingly have more stability and certainly TV contracts for the extra money? However, if the pack six can get in, keep that golden ticket that they have by adding the conferences, what would stop one of those teams from being like, well, it's in their minds and this is, in their minds thinking, well, this is a much easier conference to get through and get to the playoff. So maybe we should do something. Yeah, let's go up here. Arizona State, Arizona say, let's win the pack 12 and get into the tournament. I look, Cal and Stanford are obviously probably the dream scenario to get them back out here. Right, right. It's ridiculous that they're traveling to wake far. Instead of the all-coast conference? Yeah, right. You know, so you like to believe that they would wise up and, you know, maybe this weekend's football game at Cal is a preview of future pack 12 games. I tell you, two more schools I would call if I'm the pack 12 and that's Florida State and Clemson. I know they're off the chart, but to me, you have to think big to be big and both Florida State and Clemson have been suing the ACC for about five years now. I can't believe that's a great relationship. Yeah, but are they suing to get into the other big conferences? I don't know what they're doing, but you know, just a specific coast conference. Every conference is all over the country right now. It's great. You know that just as much as I do. Like the big 10 is like actually I was like 18 teams. Sure. I mean, if you if you were the big 10 goes from USC to Rutgers, that is coast to coast. So yeah, I have no pride. And if you if you were, let's just say it's not going to happen. But if you got Florida State and Clemson, then you can start talking about really getting some big schools and make this thing, you know, a legit thing again. So but you had to start with this move and let's be let's be excited by this. You know, Boise State is a legit program. Fresno State, Colorado State. I'm okay with that. We just get yourself aligned under that Pac-12 banner. And I think something good can come of it. And you know, we'll see. Here's, you know, where it goes. Here's the critic talking. Okay. Go right ahead, Mr. Critic. Pac-12 is just a glorified Mountain West. Well, look, the big the big 12 is a glorified West with branding. The big 12 right now is a glorified Mountain West AAC and everything else. The big 12 has. Let me let me say, let me say that schools that wait. Sorry, Tony, what big schools is the big 12 have left? Oklahoma, Texas are long gone. No, I know. But so who's like schools like North Texas do not excite me. I didn't say they would. But you were saying that possibly they joined the conference. But you see F and Cincinnati excite people in the big 12. Think anybody's running out to see those. No, they're not. They're just trying to get teams. They're trying to get members and try to stay legit. So I don't see why the Pac-12 now that they're heading in this direction can keep heading in this direction and make a better landing spot for some of these schools. Listen, can I say this? Having the better branding is not a bad thing, Scray. But I think that's a great thing. The fact is, Oh, yeah. Mountain West doesn't have the branding that the Pac-12 are too bad. Yeah, you mentioned the Pac-12 people know. Yeah, exactly. So that's that's worth something in in this realm that we're speaking of right now in terms of that Pac-12 still has that golden ticket that they're that they're hanging on to it. Should they be able to get to eight again? And so that alone is is more valuable than anything that the Mountain West has to offer, I think, at this point. Couldn't agree more, Tony. And I, you know, I brought up Kansas and Kansas state, but don't forget about basketball. I mean, that's exactly what's happening with that. Well, they're basketball being the Pac-12, but you can't tell me that Kansas wouldn't mind being in the conference with San Diego state, you know, as opposed to going again to UCF. Now you have to get Gonzaga in this conference or basketball. Well, but that would be basketball only. Yeah, there's a lot of different ways you can go, but at least there's ways you can go now. Right. There's some direction. They were kind of sitting in no man's land in the Mountain West conference, and they've probably been sitting there for another 15 years. So one quick point. The article does point out that, as Chris said, Florida state and Clemson are like pie in the sky, but they are hoping that the cow and Stanford issue who was in the AC, that's their dream scenario is obviously to get those two teams back. However, in the timeframe they have with the exemption, they may not get an answer on those two teams in time. So that's kind of where they stand on that. I was just, I was just bringing up the other side of the, I'm bringing up, I'm getting blamed right now. Not by you guys, but by like Twitter and all those other stuff. You're being happy, Scrabie. S-C-R-A-B-V-E-Y. They still haven't figured it out. And that's fine. But I took offense to that spelling. And just so you know, in their minds, they're calling you Scrabby. 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They gave me the hair. I'm going to transfer you here. Then I'm going to transfer you there. And I'm going to try anyway. Yeah, it's ridiculous. I can relate. It was a couple years ago. Might have been last year, but a couple years ago, the light, the street light in front of our house went out. And so it took a little bit forward to be a nuisance, where it was like, dang, it's dark out here before I actually called the city. I called the city. I left a message. And I want to say like seven months later it got fixed. Seven months. That's pretty good. And I didn't even know and I didn't even know it was fixed. It was like, oh, the lights, the light's fixed. Seven and a half months. Yeah, obviously Scrabby, the city reacts to the Gwyn family a lot quicker than the scrappy family. Yeah, if it's anything like that, I'm going to be waiting like three years for this laser to get me out. I don't know. Oh, man, Carl's bad. That's a, you know, they probably don't even care about us because we're on the edge of Carl's bed. We're basically, you walk across the edge of Carl's bed. You walk across the street and you're an incinatus. And that's not a joke. So they don't care about us over there. The light's probably an incident. I've got to check the zoning now. Sounds to me like you're kind of putting the people of incinatus down, frankly. Why am I putting them down? Well, you're saying I am in Carl's bed, but across the street is incinatus. Where it would. It's not as good. Trying to divide us up, ain't you, Scrabby? I cannot wait. Can I get the people of incinatus of boycotting the program right now? If there's a mayor of Carl's bed listening right now, will you please get it fixed? Divide us up already. Okay. We got Kurt Kenny next. Kurt Kenny talking more about the San Diego State's big move today when we come back. 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Going in the yesterday. Going in the yesterday. I think they needed to finish nine and six. Oh God, that's not happening. In order to avoid the record. I don't think they've had a run like that all season long. Not even close. I mean, they've only won 32 games the whole time. 33. History could be on its way before the end of the season. Hopefully the Padres will contribute to that history because we still believe that they're going to need to contribute to that history or need them to contribute at least to it and boys to the history. Maybe all three. Baseball covers are 97. Three. The fan is presented by T-Mobile. Switch to T-Mobile. And you can get tons of benefits and still save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon. Users are saving calculator to find out how at T-Mobile.com/switch. Kirk Kinney joins us here on Gwen and Chris Kirk. How are you, my friend? I'm doing well. What's going on today, guys? This is, you know, same old, same old here in San Diego and in all of California. Now, obviously, go ahead. Can I interrupt once for a second? I want to try and make gravy's life easier. Oh, what do you got for me? So, when I come to light that just won't change, I wait a reasonable amount of time. Let's read the wrong way. And I continue on with life. He just goes. He's telling me to forget about it. Oh, he just goes. I see. Yes, he just goes. Someone did send me a message saying that if a light is stuck and you are safe and it's no cars in the in your view, then you can go. But I don't believe that person. See legal. That's illegal. Yeah, but you know what? Kirk, what is a reasonable time? One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes. Only three potatoes, huh? If you're real conservative, you do Mississippi. Oh, wow. Okay, I'll just give you a little lecture. No, but this is like it will be counting up to like 90 Mississippi's by the time I let me ask you this on this. This is a far better subject. Great. We've already talked about the Aztecs. Scrabie, how long would you sit at that light? I have sat there without it. That would change. Yeah, before you finally said, you know, that's it. I got to go a minute a minute or a minute and 30 seconds. Like if no cars are coming, I understand if their cars coming and it doesn't it doesn't change. No, but that's different. Right. But last night, I went to go get gas at like eight something and it wouldn't change. And so I waited a minute. Anyway, I'm just saying, man, that's that's like your criminal. That's all, that's all I'm saying. Never mind just calling the Carlsbad people to fix the light. We're going to call the police department to give you a ticket. Criminal. All right. Let's jump back. Let's jump back to the pack two now six. Kirk, I mean, this has been talked about for a while. It seemed like it had gone away, but clearly conversations were happening behind the scenes because this seemingly kind of came out of nowhere. I don't recall hearing anything about this until yesterday. What's your take on this move for the Aztecs? And do you know anything about how it came about? Well, I do think it hit critical mass fairly quickly, like within 72 hours because the Mountain West Commissioner was in San Diego on Saturday for the football game. And Mark Ziegler of our paper spoke with her and did a story and spoke to JD Wicker. And none of this was broached. Not that they'd be sharing everything at that moment, but I really think this kind of in some ways came out of nowhere. But, you know, big news in some ways and other ways, it's like, oh, okay, finally, it's been very interesting for me to gauge reaction. I've seen some people who are excited and others are just kind of shrugging their shoulders. And I've been trying to really collect my thoughts on how I feel. And the best I can come up with at this point is I feel like I've been driving a car that's got 120,000 miles on it. And now I don't have a new car, but I've got one with about 42,000 miles, huh? He always has a great way of explaining things. You know, I would like you to write that in your story tomorrow, Kirk, and let all of us try to deal with it. All right, Kirk Kenny. Well, I'm still deciding on the mileage of what I'm driving. The newer car. Yeah. Yeah, the newer car. Yeah, I don't think it's. Well, go ahead. So I'm old enough that I remember when it was the pack eight and the Aztecs were trying to get in in the late 70s, mid to late 70s, and they took Arizona and Arizona State. Yeah. And so ever since then, bands have been clamoring from them to get in the pack 12. And even a couple of years ago, you know, if they made it, it was a lot of it was to play against UFC and UCLA. Well, then they're leaving. Well, okay, well, Oregon and Washington and Utah and the two Arizona's are still left. Oh, no, no, no, now they're gone. So to me, that just takes a lot of the energy out of it. But at the same time, if you stand pat with the Mountain West, I don't really see that conference going anywhere. So I think this gives you a chance. And especially when we see, you know, who the players to be named later are in this when they get up to eight or nine teams, I think they will be in a better spot. Kirk is with us. Kirk Kenny, our guy, San Diego State and Kirk, let me just touch on something that Mark Ziegler did write about earlier this week. And that was JD Wicker kind of coming out and saying, look, we had, we actually had a chance to go to the big 12. But the offer was ridiculous. They weren't going to give us any money, TV revenue, no revenue, we're going to half the split. And he's, you know, he deemed that to be, you know, just something not worth accepting at all. Talk a little bit about that. And whether, you know, how, how bad of a deal would have that been for the Aztecs and why this is better for them? Well, I think you ought have always been chasing teams that were on substantially better footing. And well, like, look at Colin Stanford and the ACC, I think they're getting about 10 million, which is half to a third maybe of what the other schools are getting. That just wouldn't sit well with me. It's like, if I'm going to be always related also to being in a, in a, you know, at a country club, if some guys get to play 18 holes and I only get to play nine, I just don't think that would sit well with me, right? And that's how I think some of, some of that would have been with the big 12. So I think you're looking for whatever's the best deal, what's more financially feasible. And I think that's what they've done. Kirk, Kenny joins us here on going and Chris. And Kirk, you talked a little bit about, you know, when the players to be named later, join. I mean, we've seen some of the, the teams floated out there. It seems as though their dream scenario, obviously, is they get Colin Stanford back. But the timing of that may not really line up. Who do you, who do you see as the best fits for not only the conference, but they, you know, the teams that are joining the conference. So first off, Colin Stanford, I think what some people are looking at is what happens with Florida, state and Clemson, if they are able to free themselves to the conference and it collapses, that then frees up Stanford and Cal to come back from some things I understand. I don't know how eager Stanford would be because I think they look down on most of the schools that are going to be in this new background. They look down on every school, though, don't they? I mean, please. Well, Ziggler went to Stanford. So I have to tread lightly sometimes when I see to the card. But at some point, you know, I think you have to face some reality too. And like, what's the best thing for your school, even if it means, you know, being somewhere you don't necessarily want to be. As far as some of the other names being mentioned, like I asked a specific question a day, would you like to keep this to be a West Coast conference? And they, neither JD nor Adela de la Torre would specify that. They said they want the schools that make the most sense and are the best fit and help the conference be the strongest it can be, which tells me they're going to be looking across the country and what the school's profile the best. It is kind of crazy. Now when I hear somebody mention UTSA, which five years ago, could you even said who that is? No, you know, when somebody who's a hot school now, are they really going to be a hot school five or 10 years from now? I don't know. Great point. Yeah, Kirk's with us. It's a big day at San Diego State. And the Aztecs are finally in the Pac-12. Maybe it's not the perfect scenario. But I agree with you, Kirk, those who are kind of looking this. This is a better than a lateral move. It just is. And you know, where they can take it from here. Well, they can take it somewhere. We don't know where it's going to be. So let's wait on that. But if they stayed in the Mountain West, that clearly was not going to go anywhere. We got a couple of minutes with you. They're playing Cal this week. I said maybe this is a preview of a Pac-12 game in the future, but football at Cal quarterback herding. Give me a quick, quick preview of this one for Sean O'Neill's team or Sean Lewis's team, Sean O'Neill. Sean O'Neill, the former writer and S. Condito. Sorry about that. Right. Sean Lewis's team. It's funny you say that because I did that exact thing earlier this week. Oh, you did? Yeah. Well, you know what part of the problem is, too? Their quarterback's name is Danny O'Neill. Yeah, there you go. I'm wondering if that's what gets it introduced. Anyway, so Danny O'Neill heard his knee last Saturday against Oregon State and he's not been able to practice fully. So he's been a question mark and if he can't go, then they'd have one of the backups would go. And so we'll probably see that decision. It might come as late as, you know, just before game time that we'll really actually find out who the starter is. The ethic come in as a 19-point underdog, which seems kind of understandable, with Cal coming off an upset went over Auburn and the ethics being shut out last week. But we'll see. They still have some good skill guys at San Diego State and have a good running back in Marquez Cooper. And we'll see if they can put it together a little bit more this week. Okay, Aztecs back in action, taking on Cal Berkeley. Kirk, appreciate you coming on, man. This has been, this has been insightful in terms of kind of hearing what's going on with the Pac-6, Pac-2, however you want to call it. I know I'm excited, just from the standpoint that it's, we got a chance to do something. It really seemed like Mountain West has kind of had run its course. We'll check in with you down the light Kirk. Appreciate you coming on. All right, guys, remember, always look both ways. And then put your foot on the gas. Kitty, you need to review. Always a joy to have on. By the way, the Aztec football game Saturday night, just for people who care about stuff like this, on the main ESPN network. Big, big night for the Aztec Saturday. Hopefully they'll squish the points. Hopefully they'll perform okay, yeah. You hate to be on the national stage at Lake Twunker. I don't know the financials, but what Kirk said about not going to the big 12 makes sense to me. It does. I mean, you don't want to just be the worst of the, of a good conference you just continue to get beat up on, right? Right, because yeah, because then you just end up the dormant the whole time. So, you don't, you're trying to keep, it's an interesting balance, right? You're trying to keep your prestige of your school, and you're also trying to be in a conference with prestige, right? And so if you're not getting the same cut that everybody else is, that puts you at a disadvantage. So I like that J.D. rolled the dice, said no on that, and it gives us another, another avenue, which we didn't have before. Finally, we're going to have him on the show tomorrow at 4 p.m. J.D. Wicker. Awesome. J.D. Wicker tomorrow, 4 p.m. Let's get to break Daily Gambit on the other side. As a parent, you always want to set your child up for success. So when they're struggling in school or they need help with homework, you try your best to step up. But sometimes you might not be equipped to answer, and it's better to leave that to the experts from Ixcel Learning. Ixcel Learning is an online learning program for kids. It covers math, language arts, science, and social studies. 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Shop in store at mybobs.com to play now! It's a time hour number two of the program. Criscelo, Tony Gwen Jr. is in San Francisco today. That's where the Padres are enjoying an off day. The calm before the storm, off day before you just set down for the run for the run for the finish line. 15 games to go for the Padres starting tomorrow against the Giants. Scrapies alongside here in the Odyssey Palace and since I've never had a chance to work down in South Florida, I'm excited to say that today's program also serves as the pre-game show for Miami Dolphins football. Boot off the stage for that one. Dolphins and Bills are coming up after our show today. Someone asked me the story about how you became a Dolphins fan and I told them in there like you're lying. I watched a show on Dolphins when I was a little kid and I liked them. Yes, they think I'm lying every time they're like that can't be the reason. What else would I know it's crazy. What would make more sense? Are you growing up in South Florida? Pops like the Dolphins. I mean there's I'm not gonna lie. That story is not unbelievable but it's not the norm. Tony, look at me. In the camera. Am I the norm? Please. I was afraid you're not wearing your Tuah Tongo by Loah Jersey. My Tuah Jersey maybe tomorrow if he performs worthy of it. Oh Adam and I real quick out of the mothballs came up with a great costume for Pat McAfee show person AJ Hock. All he needs to do is put a Tuah Jersey on and he's AJ Hock Toa. That is amazing. You came up with that? Adam and I came up with it together. You guys work together. What are you a comedy writing team now? Yes. Yes we are. You're an AJ Hock Toa would be amazing. That's pretty funny screaming. I gotta give you a credit on that one. Thank you. All right though. No but I'm trying to make them feel better. Trying to make them feel better. Uh Bills and Dolphins will talk about some of the uh little wagers going on as our daily gambit gets here in a moment. I did I did touch on this in the open of the show. So here's the rundown for those who you know are keeping track and I'm keeping track now because you know the season's on the line and who do the Padres and their opponents play down the stretch. We got the Padres. We know they're at San Francisco home to Houston. Got the White Sox. Houston. White Sox. And then it finishes tough for the Padres right at Dodgers at Arizona. Those last six. And here's Arizona schedule. They got Milwaukee this weekend at home. Tough one. They go to Colorado. Could mess up their uh their bullpen. They go to Milwaukee for four next weekend. Another tough one. Yeah and they finish at home with the Giants and then of course the Padres. So that's Arizona schedule. The Mets I think have the toughest on paper. They're at Philadelphia this weekend. They get a little respite with Washington at home. Then they're home for the four gamer with the Phillies and they finish at Atlanta at Milwaukee. That's the Mets. That's that's a tough tough go. Tough one. And the Dodgers are I'm sorry Atlanta. This is a big weekend for the Padres in the sense they could open up some ground on Atlanta because Atlanta's home this weekend for four but against the Dodgers. So you know Atlanta's we'll see they they have it a little better after that at Cincinnati at Miami and then the Braves finish at home with the Mets and the Royals. And I think the Royals could be interesting because they could be right in the middle of a battle themselves. So you know it does it's fun to talk about the bottom line is Padres go when your games and you don't have to worry about what everybody else is doing. But I like to look at this stuff and you know you get the Mets playing seven games against the Phillies and three games in Atlanta. You know one chance you'll have to pick up some ground is when the Mets are playing Atlanta because somebody will have to lose. So right anyway we'll see how it all turns out right now the Padres are a half game behind the Diamondbacks. They're a game and a half up on the Mets and two and a half up on the Braves. All right. Don't go ahead. That was the Diamondbacks play tonight. They're playing. They're not on tonight. Everybody's off tonight. Oh they're off. Yes everyone's off. It's our chance to like I said deep breath and then starting tomorrow. Let's go time. So this chance the standings will not change tonight as far as the five card five really wanted to and I loved more baseball. I could go watch the Giants play the Brewers tonight. Oh that would really be kind of an interesting move from somebody that sees 162 games a year. Yeah. I said if I wanted to I'm not going to do that. I just thought I thought I'd throw that out there. Call up Blake Blake Snell. He'll be like hey look we're gonna take some good tickets. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good point. Yeah. That's a good point. Go enjoy it. You see yeah. Then I turn then I turn this three game series into a four game series. I think I will pass on that. Logan Webb said he's going to do everything in his power to convince Blake Snell to stay with the Giants. So if he's coming back to the Padres he's got to go through Logan Webb. Listen Blake that Blake certainly wouldn't mind coming back to the Padres. I know that to be fact. His thirty five million dollars south. He's also very well aware that things may be tight. So he is he has got to be you know the best but craziest pitcher in baseball. Could you honestly don't know what you're going to need. Last night he just went out there and just struck out a no problem won the game easy. Game before he made it through one inning and it was out of 42 pitches. Right. He was out of there. You just don't know but there's I would say when they're when they're on and their stuff is really working Blake Snell Dylan cease might be the best two pitchers in the whole thing. Yeah right handed version right the right handed or left handed version of each other. Yeah cannot hit those guys cannot hit those guys when they're on. So all right Scrabby you ready for a little daily gambit stuff we got some games to look at. Do you like money. I think about money. Do you like money without doing anything. Winning. Do you want to make money while watching sports. I think Washington is immortal luck. Washington if you answer yes this is your segment just don't blame us when you lose. Nothing is ever your fault. It's okay take it. When in Chris go through the top bets of the day in the Daily Gambit on ninety seven three the fan. Daily Gambit is our daily sports betting segment here on the show. Please everybody gamble responsibly. Tony you weren't. I don't believe you're here the other day but someone last weekend put down 10 cents on like seven first touchdown scores of the NFL games on Sunday and it was like plus 13 million odds. This person got it right and they got paid out because they paid they bet 10 cents. They got paid out $13,000. Well first of all that is the kind of betting that I'm interested in. Ten cents for a 13 grand. Who is even carrying around a dime anymore. It's an electronic transaction. That's the beauty you can find that in your car the carpet you find a dime anywhere. So you know you got it. Chris do you have a dime on you right now. I don't. I may. Let me see. I got one in my backpack. I know I lose change. The lose change in the backpack as a traveling man is a very important thing. All right let's get it to a Padres and Mariners last night over under seven runs in the game. Chris went under I went over and it pushed five to two seven runs advantage push advantage push or woo who pitched more innings Chris said woo I said King woo did six and two thirds. Yep of nearly perfect baseball. Yeah. Blake Snell over under seven and a half strikeouts last night. Chris and I went over he had eight in five innings I believe. Ace is four and a half point favorites over the fever last night. Chris and I chose the fever base is one 86 75 so we lost that one. Asia Asia Wilson over under 26 and a half points. We both went over and she did go over by a half a point. She also became the all-time leading scorer in the league. There you go. That's a big night for Asia Wilson. Final one Caitlin Clark over under 22 and a half points. Chris said under I said over should have followed Chris because she had 16 points. Now we're doing well this week but I'm 11 and four. So we're going to today's action. The Batman. Yeah. Well that's the last week I was like two and eleven so it did always even Zoud believe me. Tonight we'll start with dolphins bills over under forty eight points for these guys. I always I keep forgetting where is this game. It's in Miami tonight. Oh Tyree Killware. Watch out. Uh forty eight point yeah hopefully Tyree has made it to the game safely. I mean you may be at this at this point the way guys is playing after being arrested. We just might have to change the flu game to the the arrest. The arrest. Sheffler went out shot like a 66. Right. Tyree had seven for 130. Yeah I'm just joking. We don't want to do that. Let's not do that. Uh last two times these teams have played in Miami. It's actually been a lower scoring game. If that matters to you. Scrabby who would you go in here. What was the number? Forty eight points. So like twenty seven twenty four. You need seven touchdowns to beat that. You know what the bills bills defense is not as good as people think. So I'm gonna say over over. Uh I'm gonna go over to I just kind of have a feeling. I agree with you. The bills is not the same defensively. No sand. I know Josh Allen's gonna score points. Tony what do you want to do here? Over over. Uh Josh Allen. Passing yardage plus running yardage. Two eighty three and a half. It's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. But it is Josh Allen and as I said earlier he's been player of the week five times following games against the dolphins. That's a great stat. That's annoying. That's an annoying stat. That's what it is. Everything about it. Two eighty three. You might get that rushing today. I'll go over. Tony. Yeah five straight that's gone. That's the thing that tipped it over. I'm going over to scrape. I'm gonna go under. All right. Take a shot. Yeah. Why not? Uh who's gonna complete more passes tonight Tony? Josh Allen or to a completions only not yardage to a to a there scrape. Yeah. I got to go to a because he only throws it like three yards down. You know they I'm not taking that personally. I'm taking that is yes. No kidding. Stop calling that play. The the drag route. The one. It's not a drag route. It's one step and throw it to the to the side. You're talking about the screen of right where you're doing all the time and is so annoying. It's just it's their version of a running play. Now you're like now that's three yards out of it. And that's all they get out of it. So stop doing hate that play. Well which you hate more that player the fades in the back of the end of the fade. Okay. Yeah. The fades the worst playing from the one yard line a little fade. It's the worst playing football. I just have to have a Randy Moss. This is right now. Worked out. Randy Moss. But nobody has those guys. Anyhow. Harry kills not not. No. It's not your guy for this play. He is your guy for this particular pick though. 95 and a half yards over under receiving. That's a high number. Tyreek. 95 and a half scraping over. Yeah. He's over over. Yeah. Yeah. They're going over. All right. I'm going to be the country. Is that the Buffalo Bills defense ain't that ain't as good anymore. I'm just going on the secondary is very young. 95. Make sure under says 95 and a half receiving yards receiving yards. You think that's high? I do. For any wide receiver guys don't average 100 yards a game. But he averages about 120 yards a game. Well last week he got that. I'm going to go under. I'm going to go under anyway. Tony's going over. No problem. All right. This is one of our for Scravey. There is a college football game tonight. South Alabama against Division two Northwestern State. Scravey likes these Western State or North Dakota State? Northwestern State. Oh, wow. The. The. The. The spread is 37 and a half for Northwestern State. No. South Alabama. There's a Division one team. Ah. Northwestern States to Division two team. Scravey. Ah. I've never heard a Northwestern State in football. That's why I was very confused. I was talking about the South Alabama part. You're like, ah, yeah. Oh, yeah. South Alabama for totally remembering. You know what? I'm scratching this out. Who cares about that? W what? Oh, you want a bet on it? No, go ahead. It's kind of silly. WNBA. This is a better one. My favorite player, Rieke Agubinwale of Dallas, taken on Brianna Stewart of New York, which player scores more points tonight? I'm up first. I'm always going to go with my pal Agubinwale, the all-star game MVP. But Brianna Stewart's awfully good. Tony, give me give me in Guwale as well. Another one for Agubinwale. That's great. Make it a sweep. I'm not making fun of the name. I think I've spelled it three different ways. Yeah, I don't know how to spell it. But, ah, Brianna Stewart. I'm going to go with Brianna. He just didn't want to say her name. Right. Oh, I can say it with Guwale. I just can't spell it. Say it three times fast. A Guwale, Guwale, Guwale, Guwale. It was getting a little weird. A little sketchy that he had in there. One more for baseball tonight because the baseball world always has to stop and turn in the direction. When the Yankees play the Red Sox, they're playing tonight in New York. No, they don't, Tony says. It seems like they do. I don't even, does anybody check it for the Yankees in Red Sox anymore? Like, no, I can't even tell you, I can barely tell you how me, who's on the Red Sox at this point? I know, Jaren Duran. That's it. That's the only one I can tell you for Joel Divers. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I can tell Chris said, I know Chris said, Gail Divers just trying to say Rafael Divers made me think of Gail Divers, the old sprinter from Sandy. All right, we gotta go break. Yankees are Red Sox. Who do you like? Scrabie. One and a half runs Yankees favored. Ooh, one and a half runs changes. Give me the Bronx bombers. Yeah, I'm gonna go Yankees too. Yanks. I'll take the socks and we'll take a break. We got a interview coming up. Sean Cole, who is the baseball coach at San Diego State. On the big move to the Pac-12, find out what coaches around the Mesa are thinking when we get back after some traffic. 322 on the dial. Tony Gwyn Jr. Chris Sello, Matt Scrabie. Talking move from the Mountain West to the Pac-2 plus four. So, yeah, I'm gonna try to come up with a different way to call it every single time I say it for the rest of the show. We also have Thursday night football following Chris's Dolphins taking on the Buffalo Bills should be a fun one. This is actually a good Thursday night matchup. Now, this is how they trick you to give you the good ones first, maybe the second week. Then they typically start to kind of head downhill and then towards the back end of the season, they kind of pick up again. You get lucky. I think it's Jets Patriots next week. Al Michaels will start complaining next week. Remember, he's a Thursday night guy and in prime video, he doesn't like the schedule every year. His games are terrible, says Al. He's not a fan of the games. Specifically, last year, he had the call. It was a two years ago. He was one, pretty big. We are trying to get baseball head coach Cole on the phone. Talk to him a little bit about, you know, what he thinks this means for his baseball program up on the Mesa. If I'm a coach, I'm much happier to go in and say I'm in the Pat 12 than in the Mountain West. And, you know, it's going to matter who they are able to attract. But I think they think they're going to be able to attract some teams, some schools, and I don't see why they shouldn't. Like I said, if you're in the big 12, I don't know what your necessary connection is when you don't feel like flying to West Virginia and central Florida every year, you know, and peeing out on the West Coast. It's going to get up for it. Look, it's going to get older for Arizona, Arizona State when they start making these East Coast trips. I think they're going to realize, especially in the minor sports, Tony, we're just thinking about it. We think about it on football and men's basketball terms, but yeah, going to fly your rowing team to central Florida. And what are you going to do? So I could see them being able to enter some of these schools and coming back out. I hope so anyway. We'll see. Yeah, I think that's that's the plan. We do have headcoats for San Diego State Aztecs baseball team. Shot Cole on the line. Sean, how are you? How's your day going? It's been great. I got up at 545. Really excited for this announcement and been on the phone and text messages ever since. Sean's in his second year. Well, we'll be in his second year at the helm for the baseball team. And Sean, I mean, I know you've been on the phone a lot this morning. My first question is, did you have any clue that this was coming prior to yesterday? And you know, if so, how did you begin to prepare? Obviously, you couldn't make any moves until yesterday. But I mean, you talked about being on the phone, how has things kind of changed already if they have? Well, from a recruiting standpoint, it's definitely going to change the landscape. It's going to allow us to have a further reach nationally. And also, hopefully be able to entice some Southern California players to stay close to home and play in the Pac-12 instead of going to the other side of the country. So the other side of just the conversation alone is just sheer excitement for San Diego State and the athletic program. And this is just it's going to catapult the athletic department into a whole nother level of competing consistently for national championships. San Diego State's already been doing that, but this is just going to make the future even brighter for us. Sean, was there a lot of discussion inside the athletic department? I mean, are coaches led in on this kind of stuff? I'm talking months ago, a couple of months ago, that this is something J.D. Wicker, maybe even when he brought you in. Honest head coach, was he already dreaming about this day? J.D. has been working diligently on this for a long time. Same with the president. There's always been conversation, but there was a lot of unknown just what direction Washington State and Oregon State was going to decide to go with this. And what school they were going to reach out to or universities to invite into the conference. And if it was even going to happen, I think everybody knew that a decision had to be made somewhere within the timeframe of this upcoming year, but just nobody knew really what was going to happen. Sean Cole joins us here, San Diego Statehead, baseball coach on the Mesa. And so, Sean, let's let's let's let's talk this play this out. You are making phone calls to recruit. The news is out there. There's you're telling them, all right, we're we're moving out of the mountain west to the pack six to however you want to frame it. And I would imagine the next question is, well, you know, coach, this this conference isn't what it was when it was the pack 12. How how do I know that this is on the up and up? What what is your your response to that for a student athlete? I think one advantage I have is I I was in the pack 12. I was actually I started in the pack 10 as a coach at the University of Arizona and I can speak on the tradition of the conference. I know there's going to be different names in there, but it's still going to be tied to the west coast. We're going to be able to talk to them about travel because there's some some teams on the west coast that now have to travel across the country, different time zones, it's going to impact their ability to be in class. They're going to miss a lot more class. We can touch on that. We can touch on the fact of mom and dad being able to come pretty much to all your games. And then also just the tradition of of west coast cities, west coast competition. That's something that I think that in the last couple years, people had in question what what's the west coast going to look like? What's the power five conference going to look like? Is there even going to be one? And now that that's established and there's the potential that it's going to be 18, 10 teams, 12 teams, those are things I'm not sure of, but there's there's potential for growth to add more teams. I just think it's a big win for San Diego State, the city of San Diego, our student athlete and the entire west coast. Sean Colas with us from the San Diego State baseball team. We're excited. He's excited. The Aztecs are into the pack 12 and I do agree and Tony and by both saying this opens up a lot of lot of doors, a lot of avenues heading into your second year at San Diego State. Sean, what did you take from year one and what do you what are you most looking forward to you know doing here and accomplishing in year two and moving forward? Sure. Good question. You know last year and a lot of the interviews that I had, I talked about it being a foundational year for us and you know 17 wins was definitely not what we were looking for or anticipating but I still believe there were a lot of positives. We finished strong, we played a lot of young guys, they're now going to be sophomores and to see them grow and take step forward this year and then the young group that we just brought in some freshmen and some key transfers I think are really going to push us forward. So this year is the foundational year it set and this year is the year to take a step forward and get this program back to where it was and where it has been in the history of the program and what the previous coaches have done here. It's our job to continue to build on that and grow it. There are so many kind of moving pieces as it pertains to college sports in general. Now we've learned a little bit about dude and you know I'm not sure how that came into play in terms of this program or the programs being in the Mountain West. Does it change now that you're going, you're moving into the PAC 12? I mean at least from what I've read in certain situations you know rosters are expanded because scholarship is more available. Does the move in conference change that dynamic for San Diego State and particularly the baseball side? I think it does. I think it just elevates the brand. I think it elevates opportunities to recruit players that maybe we could get in the room and have conversations with them but they were going to pick a power five conference to go play in and now having that in our back pocket we should be able to entice more talented players to come here at least a larger number of them and then on the other side of it and Tony you and I have had some of these conversations already. I would hope that donor excitement and alumni excitement increases and we start getting a few more checks coming in. Do you hear that Tony? I certainly did. I certainly did. That is one of the bonuses that you move into a conference like that. People feel a little bit differently about here in PAC 12 versus Mountain West. We certainly hope that translates. As always Matt, I appreciate you coming on. We got to get off. We got to get off to get the commercial but you and I will chat a little bit later on this evening but thanks for your time again. Yeah, thank you for having me. Thanks Sean. Sean Cole, San Diego State, Mid, San Diego State's baseball head coach on the line there. It's kind of sharing his excitement for the PAC 12 move from the Mountain West. The more I'm talking about it out loud, the more I'm liking this. When I first read it, I was a little bit laissez-faire about it. I was like, okay, but it's still only six teams. But the more we've talked about it now having a coach on and Kirk detailing some of the things, to me it's a nice open avenue right now and I'm kind of excited to see where it's going to go. Whereas at the Mountain West, I knew that wasn't going anywhere. We had pretty much stopped talking about conference moving because we knew that the Mountain West wasn't... Seems like the Mountain West was making it difficult at times for the diastics to move about it there. I did find it interesting that Kirk said having talked to both parties recently, none of this was mentioned. So it did seem like it kind of came on pretty quickly here in the last, as he said, 72 hours. It's all good. It's a little awkward having the Mountain West president at your game on Saturday and then saying three days later, hey, peace out. It's probably not that hardcore. They had to know that this was a possibility. The Mountain West has just stuck where they're stuck. Or maybe these were like last ditch effort talks in the form of a Mountain West president visit. It certainly could have been. Alright, let's get to break. Where are we going next, great. Oh, we got the big five. I have a question about the Padres catching situation in 2025 that you both are going to have to answer. Here we go. We're going to Chris on the other side. When Chris continues on Sandy goes number one support stock station. 97 3, the fan. If you love Mediterranean food, I do try Spiro's authentic Mediterranean cuisine, Coronado, La Jolla. For dining or takeout options, spiro's cuisine.com. We have an hour to go on the show today, then it's Thursday night football. But before that hour is up, we will have our weekly NFL pick them segment week two coming up. Tony Gwen Jr. versus Chris Elo will have the results of week one. And we'll let you know what we got for week two on our picks. We'll also give you our survivor pool picks because he's been eliminated reaction to that's great. Tony's waving by to me in the camera. Oh, the Bengals. Oh, the Bengals did it to a lot of people last week. That is for sure. I cannot believe that the bungles took me out. They didn't. The Patriots did. The Patriots might not win another game this year, and it doesn't matter. Tony, am I reading a correct story here before that we get to the big five that Dave McMahon, who covers the Lakers for ESPN saying that there's rumblings about LeBron James coming back with the Lakers in the wake of the hiring of JJ Redick and some of the other things that happened. He wants out. It doesn't say he wants out. It just says that he, he signed his contract in July, two years, $104 million extension, but now it says more questions of surfaced after this summer. I don't know. You follow away. Are there are there are there any questions? Tony or no? I mean, training campus three weeks away for the NBA. Yeah. Are you hearing any of this? No, it's old time. Oh, he's been talking and we can't hear him. Sorry. That's, that's, that's excellent. Great. Yeah, that's awesome. I thought, I thought that you had heard me and just kind of weren't paying attention. Yeah. Just poo poo me. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, clearly a scrape had me potted down. It's the first time today. First time today. Um, no, I don't think there's any question. I think this is one of those, there's nothing else to write. And they need DSP needs me to write something. I just got off my honeymoon. Let me go ahead and get this raise some eyebrows, raise some eyebrows. Because he really, I mean, the title of it is LeBron 80s quest and trades. Yeah. What lies ahead? I don't know that that's still an issue. You already signed to deal. He ain't going nowhere. So, you know, we'll see. And they just drafted his son. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, I think the quest, uh, you know, for AD as he mentions in this is, he wants to win defensive player of the year, uh, JJ Redick taking over at the helm is going to ask LeBron to shoot more threes. Boo JJ Redick. And if he doesn't like it, he can swear at me. It's all right. And then, and then, uh, I think that's really what the story is about is more about, yeah, there were some questions going into the off seasons. Those have been answered in terms of will he stay, will he go? But what, how will they look as players under JJ Redick? So, yeah, I'm not gonna lie. I, you know, after having a lot of, uh, reservation about JJ Redick, I have now turned the corner. You're on the train. Let's go. Let's go JJ. According to off season picks, Oklahoma City Thunder are kind of the favorite in the west, followed by the T wolves, Mavericks, nuggets, sons, Lakers, and the six spot. But this is before they ever start. Is this a big five question? Oh, I can't remember. Let's get to it after traffic. Sorry pal. It's that time of the show. When we check on the latest in sports, only the most important topics and questions are brought to light. Stop what you're doing and listen. These news stories will astound and amaze you. The one, the only. Oh my god. Who the hell cares. The big five starts now on 97th grade of fan. All right. If you love Mediterranean food, try Spiro's for authentic Mediterranean cuisine in Coronado or La Hoya for dining or take out option. Visit spiro's cuisine.com. Yes, sir. There's an echo in here, Tony. Did you say that? Three minutes ago. Why was this? This is when you did you have him plotted down tubes as you didn't hear that? Cause he definitely said it. Oh, shots fired there. No, I did not have him. Okay, so Potted down. Potted down. Oh, plotted. Potted. Sorry. I know it's a radio. My, my, my, uh, my, uh, my promise was to get names of people, right? Not actual radio. Terminologies. Radio lingo. It's okay. It's okay. Um, here we go guys. Are you ready for the first question? The first question's going to be about the catcher position. What? I'm laughing at myself. Oh, okay. I know we were in 2024 mode. So don't say that when I asked the question, but I have to talk about the 2025 Padres right now because I know you're looking more, but I have to talk about the 2025 Padres right now. It's looking more and more like the Padres are going to look in another direction for the catcher position. Oh, it doesn't. With campus being sent down to AAA Tony is next year starting catcher currently in the Padres organization. Yes. And who? It could be Kyle. It could be Louis Campson. Okay. Well, I, okay. So let me explore this a little bit. Louis Campusano sent to AAA in September. That seems like a bad sign for me if I'm nice. I mean, listen, the objective in 2024 right now is the Winter World Series. That's it with this isn't at this point. It's not, you know, develop. It's not. It's not any of those other things other than best 26 to 28 right now because of the expanded rosters. We're trying to win a championship. And if a player is deemed not able to help with that as much as another player, then that means for 2024, they got to go in a different direction. That doesn't mean for 2025 that they won't shift their focus back. You see that all the time. Campi had a better year this year than he did last year. He got hurt. And he got more experience. Does it mean he's completely ready? Not necessarily. Does this mean his career is over as a podger? No, it doesn't mean it just means right now on what's the day, the 12th. Is it the 12th today? Yes, on September 12th or whenever the day he went down, the Padres felt that in order for them to put their best foot forward and winning a title this year, he wasn't going to help. But it does not mean for 2025 that he or Kyle can't be the starting catcher. Chris is the is next year starting catcher currently in the Padres organization. Ditto, Tony Gwen Jr. I'm more worried about this year. Oh my goodness. And I really haven't thought a lot about next year yet. Oh my goodness. Sorry, I'm not that. He's such a baseball game. So many, you know, so many people are like, what's going to happen with Hassan Kim? What's going to happen with campus Sano? Who's going to be resigned? Who's going to go leave in free agency? Who are they going to go get? There's like way more pressing matters right at this moment. Right. And there's a lot of times to actually worry about that piece. Sorry, I'm not blaming you. I'm blaming all the people who, you know, keep tweeting this stuff out. I'm not interested right now. I'm interested in winning the game tomorrow night. Patriots owner Robert Kraft has been wondering for a while now why he hasn't been inducted into the pro football Hall of Fame. Despite the six Super Bowl wins, which is the most forever for any owner, 10 Super Bowl appearances, which is also the most ever for an owner in addition to some other things like contract negotiations with TV and all that. But we may know why now a small group of anti-craft voters apparently cannot look past one facet of craft's ownership tenure. Can you guys? I can't I can't wait to hear which facet. Chris, can you get maybe? Okay, Tony, can you guess? I I hope it's not deflate gate, but I'm interested to hear what the with the Roy's I thought we were going to get some sort of massage parlor reference, but we did not and it's not that it's actually a scandal, but it's the cheating scandal of spying back in 2007. Can I ask you guys a question like, shouldn't the other thing be the thing that pisses them off more than? Yes, that's exactly what I thought. But it's not my question. We're going to move past that should be should the thing that he got caught for illegally be the problem and not the spy. Yes, yes, but we're not going that direction. I digress a voter said, quote, some voters believe he was part of the biggest cheating scandal in NFL history. That's a very tough one to overcome and quote, Chris should Robert craft be in the hall of fame. Apparently, well, they've kept him in. I was going to refer to OJ for a minute, but I digress. Here's the thing. It's not shocking to me. Gambling and cheating are the two things that worry, you know, the integrity of these leagues more than anything else. Robert craft has been caught in a couple of these because I mean, deflate gate, he oversaw whatever was going on there. I sure in some way, shape or form or helped cover it up. I think eventually he will get his spot in the hall of fame, but I think he's going to have to fight for it a while. All right, Tony, do you think he's going to he should be in the hall of fame, Robert craft? Yes, I think he should. Chris is 100% right. And if we're and I was joking, I mean, I wasn't joking because it should be the other way around. But in terms of the football hall of fame, that should have really nothing to do with that. You know, and so, yes, these things would be something that I'm sure owners who feel that he was on the wrong side of that would have a hard time putting him in there. I can totally see that. But I do think he should be there. I mean, the Patriots organization, I mean, they couldn't cheat it every year. They were good for quite a long time there. So I think that and the amount of Super Bowls they won in that time frame, I mean, he's far ahead of Jerry when it comes to a lot of this stuff who he seemed to have a little bit of a problem with. No, he had a problem with Jerry Jones getting in for sure. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like his case in terms of Jerry Jones, I know Jerry Jones has the most popular team and his team is worth the most money. But in terms of what the product that has been on the field that he has overseen, Robocraft has a way better case to me than Jerry Jones, way better. Jerry Jones, talk about honesty though. You know, Jerry Jones first person that comes to mind. He's clearly on the up and up. You know, I heard he grew up and they called him honest, Jerry. Yeah, every every minute of every day. Even though it's not a certainty for the A's, the future home in Sacramento. Oh, sorry, let me start this over. Even though it's not a certainty, the A's future home in Sacramento is going to be ready by next season. Major League Baseball said in a statement, it is a certainty the A's will be playing home games in Sacramento next season. Super Asian Scott Boris brought concerns about the weather saying the heat can reach triple digits in the summer and games on artificial turf magnify the heat. And it's not safe or sustainable for players. Tony that turf now they're going to we're talking about it because there's going to be so much baseball being played on this field. They're going to need something that doesn't doesn't break down. You know how like we bring up problems like, Oh man, the pitch clock is going to be so annoying. We're all going to notice it. But good. It turns out fine. Tony, are these problems going to actually be problems? No, they're going to have other but they're going to have different problems. I don't think like pitch clocks, that's. No, I know. But do you think the problems that we're presenting are going to be actual problems or is it just us with fodder? No, there's just going to be problems. This is a this is a triple A stadium that's going to be asked to host Major League Baseball game. I don't know if people really understand like how big of a difference those two things are. Even your bet. You're very, very best triple A stadium does not even begin to compete with your worst Major League stadium. You know what I'm saying? Like the different things that go on behind the scenes, the I mean, the the the locker room space, the amenities in terms of tubs and you know, some of the recovery. I mean, there's just a lot of stuff that goes into it that a I know for a fact, because I talked to I had talked to Mark Katsay when we played them earlier this year. And one of the things he was telling him was like he was on the players, the player representative for their team to like, hey, make sure you're on the the union and the unions on Major League Baseball that these things have to get done that they don't have right now. And so that's there's going to be things that they don't think of until it's probably too late and they'll have to kind of readjust it. I'm sure they know all these things are coming, but inevitably something slides through the cracks. So I think, you know, Padres go there, I believe the second series of the year. So hopefully they won't be in the triple digits hot. So we get lucky there, but they'll probably still be working out some kinks in terms of like game day activities and how it's going to all go. So yeah, I fully expect if there's going to this isn't going to be as smooth. Now listen, I think over the course of the season, they'll find the right rhythm and know it'll be fine. But I think initially it's going to be chaotic as my guess. Chris, are these problems going to be actual problems? Yes. And I'll just go with what Joe Musgrove said when this was first kind of all revealed. He said he felt sorry for the players on the A's organization. Yeah, for sure. They're going to have to do it every day. All season long. That's right. That's right. They're not going to be in a big league facility, even though deserve to be in a big league facility. There is a difference between the majors and the minors, but not for those guys. So I feel bad for them, right? Tony, I'll feel bad for him for three days, but right, right. The answers can be all year long. So all right. Hey, this is, this is like the real live major league baseball team. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to have to have a career. I don't know that we can because we got two, we got Christopher's, the fans, and we also have your pick them. Let's just touch on these things real quick. What are they? Okay. Number two is Derek Shelton is going to be brought back by the pirate in 2025. He has a winning percentage in the five seasons for 15. He could be coming in last place for the third time under his watch. Chris, should the pirates let him go? Let the ownership go. I like, I like Shelton. I like the way he banters with these umpires and crossing the line. Last one is ESPN didn't release numbers for the Manning cast when they released the numbers for Monday night football. It was the worst ever for the Manning cast. The 2024 season debut sank to an all time low of 872,000 viewers. A 43% drop from week one in 2023. And they do say though that direct TV and its audience not being able to watch might have a big deal or it might think so might have to do with this. Yeah, that's right. We were stuck wherever we were just at Seattle. Hotel had direct TV. So no ESPN channels in the entire week end. All right, Tony, is this a is the bad start the product, meaning the Manning cast or the lack of direct TV viewers. I think it's probably the lack of direct TV viewers products are saying. So I'm gonna say viewers. I'm not a fan of the Manning cast, but I don't think that many people dropped off of it. I don't think so. One year. I do think it's direct TV. All right, Chris, first the fans is next 8339. What 726? No, no, no, no. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I don't know where I am. 83388973 next. That number. Yeah. Welcome in 402 on the clock. Tony Gwen Jr. Chris, a little Matt Scravey. Sorry. Forgot it was my turn to bring us back. We do have a Chris versus the fans. It sounds like it sounds like Chris has been roasting all the fans here as as in recent days. So we'll see if the tide changes from that standpoint. Scravey, do we have any bills to pay here? Are we good? Can we just go? I just need to read the prize. Scravey has to read the prize because he box up the show so badly yesterday that he promised to read the prize for the rest of the week. Did you hear Tony? He played the wrong day's big five and I played something else wrong too. He had to stop the big five. Wait, wait, how about why you played the wrong one? I recorded the big five yesterday. He tried one for the day. He played the one from the day before because I usually transferred into the computer and I checked the day's job, not check the date yesterday, started it and was like, oh my god, horrified. This is not, oh my god, it's yesterday. At what point did you realize it was yesterday? When I started talking about something that we talked about yesterday two days ago and I'm like, oh no, oh no. And so I even came on the air and I was like, I've made another mistake every day. Here's the real big five. The other one was, oh, it was, um, sports course. Yeah. We had some issues, so go ahead and read the prize. All right, that's my favorite. Handle that buddy. As a matter of fact, probably the rest of the month. Yeah, you will be qualified for a trip to real Las Vegas, including it. This is not it either. Oh my lord. This is not really happening, is it? Oh yeah, you're supposed to go to the wind hotel. I know I just put this new one in this morning. See the show Awakenings is just put it. 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It's been a while since I've been on for it. It's okay. It's okay. Chris joined me nicely. So we had a nice full play at this time. All right, let's go with the person played recently. It's good Jared. Hello, Jared. How are you? Good. How are you guys going? Pretty good. Pretty good. Ready to play? Let's do it. All right. What ALS team has struck out the most in baseball so far this year? Struck out the most. Seattle Mariners is very good. Yeah, he's been paying attention. Yes, they they struck out a lot. A lot a lot. Here we go, Jared. Question number two. Who is the number one overall pick in the NFL draft last season? Not this current season, this season in 2023. Oh man, I need to know this. I am drawing a blank. I heard drawing a blank was a great player, but that's if it was Caleb Williams. Yeah, I don't know. It's okay. Stay there. Stay there. Chris might forget. He normally does forget, but this guy was so so bad that I couldn't forget. Yeah. All right. Sorry, Jared. Because I all we all said to take CJ's drought and they didn't listen to us. That's true. They're kicking themselves. Yeah. He still got time to develop, Chris. Could always change could always change ways off at the moment. All right, let's go to Dale in San Diego. Hello, Dale. Hi, Dale. All right, Dale. Here we go. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Question number one. Who is the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons right now? Oh, my gosh. What's his name from the Minnesota Vikings? I'm trying to blame. I'm going to give it to you. What is the number one he knew he was from the Vikings. I know. Can't give it to him. People are going to be mad. People behind him are going to be angry. Sorry, Dale. Sorry. I got to overrule Dale. Do you have an answer, Dale? We'll give you a little extra time. Oh, my gosh, I'm sorry, Dale. Hold on. Chris has to get it wrong. I could just get it wrong. And that would that would save Dale. That would also but I don't ever do that. That's right. Everyone can send you messages. Then cousins. I almost said it wrong. Sorry, Dale. Sorry, Dale. No, you can't do it to the people behind Dale. That's all I'm thinking of here. This is crazy. This is crazy. He's like, that's close enough. That's close enough. He's just trying to move the game along. He was supporting back of the Falcons. Well, he throws a football around. I've seen him before. He said a specific team got the player played for the year before. Sorry, it's not the game, buddy. Move on. I'm moving on. Let's go to Johnny. Hello, Johnny. Let's go, Johnny. Johnny, hello. Johnny, no good. Johnny, no good. You give the answer and probably just hung up. Yeah, it's like, yeah. It's good. Good. Now he's waiting to take his goal on the air. All right. Let's go to Tommy. We went from Johnny now. Let's go to Tommy. Hello. Hey, Tommy. What's up, Tommy? Good luck, man. I'm good. All right. Here we go. Question number one. Good play. All right. Cool. Who won NFL MVP last season? MVP. Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson is correct. Do not escape Tommy. He was on. All right. Question number two. Who is the oldest player in American League in national league history with four or more hits in a game? There's only a number two. Wow. Okay. Good luck. I'll explain after. All right. All this player. Can you repeat the question one more time? Yeah, that's tough. Who's the oldest player in basically baseball history with four or more hits in a game? American League national league history. Let's just go with Tony Gwyn. Tony Gwyn. Unfortunately, incorrect. Stay there, Tom. I'm trying to figure out, you know, where you're going with this. I'm trying to think of really old players who played a long time. I don't want to waste too much time on this one. Albert Pujols. I really don't know. Okay. Maybe this was a question. Do you know Tony? I think it's Pete Rose. It is Pete Rose. It is Pete. That's why he's put it, too, because I thought people would say it. Well, you said American League. So that's why I didn't Pete Rose was an AL and an AL. Okay. Yeah. Move on. Five for five on August 11th, 1986. Way to go, Pete, at 45. That's pretty good. Here we go, Tommy. Question number three. Between the years of 2000 and 2009, which player had the most major league baseball hits in that decade? Who'd you say? Ichiro. Ichiro is correct. Nice job, Tommy. Good job, Tommy. That's a good finish to today's game. Yeah, that was good. Ichiro is getting 200 hits quite a few times in that time. I had a 250 in there one time or set the record. Yeah, it's a lot. Recently, I had a Mariners fan tell me that you don't know pain until you win 116 games and you get eliminated in the first round. They ran into the Yankees unfortunately. Patriots won 18 and 0 one year and lost the Super Bowl. So they know they got to the Super Bowl. True that. All right. We got our NFL picks segment coming up next. Tony. So should send us to Vegas? Should I take this one now? All right. It'll pick them up next. Here's some traffic. All right. Head to the finish line here today on a shorter edition of Gwen and Chris. Tomorrow we'll have a full program for you from San Francisco. Tony will be there. We'll be here, but game isn't until 715 tomorrow night. So that leaves us on for four plus hours tomorrow. Yes, we I didn't get a chance to tell you yet, but we are staying on until 615 tomorrow. Yeah, I can read the notes that Adam sends out to us. So I'm telling you because there are times when you don't read the notes. I missed I missed whatever happened, but I liked where I picked up that. Well, the game is starting at 715 tomorrow night. So we're going until 615 and Adam sent an email earlier telling us which I read which he read. Okay. Scraver doesn't think I read those. So can we be honest, Chris? Come on. It was with all due respect. I mean, AK does send a lot of emails. So sometimes you can you miss one. You can you can miss one. One does slip through the cracks from time to time. I was going to help us start calling AK. AK. Oh, Adam Klug. Yeah. He listens a lot. He says a lot of you. You know, you're uh he's the boss. He's supposed to send your partner and your comedy writing team over there. Yeah, that's true. That's true. All right. So we're going to get to our pick them game. NFL pick them. Chris Gwyn versus Chris. And before we get to that though, everybody likes to catch up on our survivor pool. We're only one week in, but because of the Bengals, some of us are only one. Yes. Yeah. Because of the Bengals, we started with over 200 players. We're down to just over 100. After one week, 108 left. Yeah, we lost almost half the entrance. 47.3 on the Bengals. So there's 108 of us left. Tony, do you want to share who you're picking this week with the folks out there? They like to, they like to hear what we're doing. Fly Eagles fly. He's going to be laughing his wings right now. Eagles. I'm going Cowboys over the ain't this week. Well, that's interesting. So well, there's others. The Ravens are the most popular one again. They're the heaviest favorite of the week against the raid as. But anyway, we have that Tony. Yes, we do. So that's who we're going to go within our survivor pools. You'll, we'll all see how that turns out at the end of the weekend. And before that, let's get to our picks. It's time for Tony and Chris to face up. Playing for a season long prize of pride. I see pride. I see poor guys make their picks. And then they stress over their picks all weekend. No, please, no, no, no, no. Quinn and Chris NFL pick up starts now. I haven't heard that open before. It's new. It's accurate. We do stress over these picks. I know you guys. And we think them through and we do care a lot who wins this thing. Tony's the defending champion. After one week, we're tied at six. I got all three of my picks right last week, but I badly missed my upset pick. I went with the Panthers. That lasted for about three minutes. Tony got his upset pick, which was the Steelers over the Falcons. But he lost the three point game, which he took the Bengals like a lot of people. So anyway, stupid bangles. Yeah, the old Bengal thing got him too. So we're six six going into week two, three point game, two points, et cetera. One point and then an upset pick. I'm first this week. And I will just take the Ravens. We just talked about it. They're the biggest favorite of the week. I'm not risking the Ravens yet in my survivor pool. But I do think they're the best team to go for a three pointer. Ravens are not going to start the season 0 and 2. So I'll take them. Tony, your three point pick. He's staring deeply into his, man. He burns a burns a hole on the phone when he's looking for his picks here. Dang, give me take your eagles. Give me Philly over at land. There you go. He's putting it all on the Eagles this week. A survivor pool and his three point pick are the Eagles. All right, two point game now. Got to win straight up. Just a couple of pretty good options here, but I just took the Cowboys in my survivor. So I'll take them again. Cowboys for two over the Saints. I will say this, the Saints could just be very good. And we don't know it. You know, we're all assuming that they only won like that because the Panthers are terrible. Yeah, I mean, but every now and again, you know, maybe they're real good. We'll see. Dallas will test that. Tony, your two point pick, sir. I'm torn right now because the one that I don't use will be my upset pick. I see. Okay. So I'm going to go with the Houston Texans as my one. Is it one point? Yeah, one point pick. Two point pick. Excuse me. Two point over the Bears. Yes. Over the Bears. The Bears. Okay. I'm a little surprised at that because Tony loves Caleb Williams. He does. Yeah, I knew that's what you guys are thinking though. That's what you're thinking. Okay. You put all your eggs and Caleb Williams basketball. Yeah. Last week and he got me. He got me rich. So you don't have 93 yards. He barely got the ball over the line of scrimmage. He also got sacked for a 30 yard loss. All I know is I'm advanced to survivor pool with my Bears. You did. You did. Hold that. This is just my hurt talking. No, Andy doesn't have to pick the Bears again. So that's a double bonus for him. Got rid of him. My wife asked me on her survival pick this week. She goes, I'm going to take the 49ers because, of course, they're going to win. And I said, well, that's a good, but you can't use them again. And she's like, Oh, I didn't know that. She was expecting to pick the 49ers in her survival pool every week. I'd explain to her that's not how it works. That the last time the 49ers with the Minnesota last season, I'm going to be in a football. They lost. Yeah, I'll take the 49ers. Having heard that for one point, not going there and losing again. Tony, for one point, left a couple big ones there for you. If you like them, you did indeed. Yeah. So go ahead and give me the charges. Go into Carolina. Go charges. Go. Thank you, Arnold. All right. So for three, I talked to Ravens for two Dallas, one San Francisco time for upset pick. If our upset pick wins, straight up, we get the points that they're under by. I'm going to go Cleveland Browns this week for three points. They're playing at Jacksonville. The Browns were really bad last week. They're supposed to be a lot better. I can not believe you were you're going to use the team with the quarterback that you like the least. Yeah, I do like him the least. You're right about that, Scrabby. But I just, that's the one I like this week. Tony, who do you like for your upset pick? Give me Baker Mayfield going into Detroit. Yeah, I thought you might be leading there. Upset joint seven pointer. If you get it, lines are favored by seven and a half over the box. That's you know, it's funny. You guys called me on it earlier. I wanted to take Caleb in this spot, but I had to figure who was the more the quarterback more likely to pull off the upset. Was it going to be Baker or was it going to be Caleb? I had to pull put my heart aside and go with the head on this one. Baker Mayfield has all of a sudden become a legit quarterback in the minds of most people. I took a long time for that to actually happen. Hey, I tell you what Tom Brady kind of hit on this. Maybe they're subject to having a guy come into the league and kind of learn. I'm just saying he did it pat my home did it. That might be the way to go. You don't have to throw him in there right away. Yeah, but that's what the teams do now because they have their five-year clock that's going to expire at some point. Now Baker Mayfield's legit right now and lines were less than stellar last week, although they pulled out that win over the ramp. You know what we need? We need Baker Mayfield to do his commercials again because we haven't had Chris off. No, Chris just leaves early. It's like taking your seatbelt off before you're actually to your destination. I just clicked off all the, yeah, my computer is off. Rare to go. I got a game to get ready for it, boys. Are you gonna watch? You're not. So am I allowed to text you during the game? Okay. I'm not watching. I'm not watching on Amazon Prime. I will be watching. I forgot tape delay broadcast at about nine o'clock tonight. Don't ruin. It's great. I'm gonna text you and be like, oh my goodness. Yeah. And you have no idea what I'm gonna look at my phone all night. My phone will be nowhere near me. Oh, no. Tonight. Yeah. I hope my wife doesn't need to get ahold of me. All right, football's next. You know the game. We'll back tomorrow to talk about it and get ready for the Padres weekend in San Francisco for Tony and for Scrabie. Good night. 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