Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
6am Hour - SDSU To The Pac 12 + Padres Split With Seattle
Woods and Paul are here for you on a Thursday morning! We start the show with a little foreplay as we wish Ben a great weekend away to play some golf, and Woodsy is dealing with some birthday dilemmas here on the show. Then we react to some breaking news that San Diego State has accepted an invitation to join the Pac 12, and we get to our Padres Wrap-Up to discuss last night's 5-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners. Listen here!
- Duration:
- 45m
- Broadcast on:
- 12 Sep 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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Gonna be exploring the space with my good pal, executive producer, Paulie Rydel. Good morning, Paulie. - Good morning. - How are ya? - I'm good. - Good. - I'm good. Yeah, I love, I don't know. I like when Ben takes dare too off 'cause we get to switch things up a little bit. - Yeah, we do get to switch things up. And he said yesterday, off air, I think it was off the air. He goes, "You're gonna be getting tired of me soon." And I said, "Yeah, yeah, you're right." - You're right, actually, right now is a good time for him to take off. He has been, he has been not attentive lately. And maybe I'm just extra sensitive to it because well, I feel that way at home with my kids and then I come to work and I feel that way at home with my partner. And so I'm sensitive about it, right? So I'm just like, ugh, like the other day, I said, I tell a joke and he stares at me with donut glaze on his eyes. - Just completely missed. - And then I have to do the, did you hear the joke? What? What movie did I say? - See why it's funny, Ben? - Yeah, and so I'm like, I'm gonna, and I'll tell you the other thing, Paulie. He should be on his knees thanking Fernando Tati's Jr. this morning for hitting that home. If the potteries had been perfect game or no hit last night, I would have beaten him with a tire iron. I would have driven to his house and beaten him with a tire iron and be like, you leave for a golf trip? These guys get no hit. Paulie and I gotta go in there and answer those calls in the morning. - Just take a hundred to the wrist. - Are you out of your mind? Are you out of your mind? So yeah, Benny is out today. - We know all that. - And we do love Benny and we do miss Benny. - I hope he has a great weekend. - I hope he has a really great weekend 'cause I'll tell you this about Ben Higgins. That cat needs and deserves very much. - Oh yeah. - A golf trip and then some. So I, that's his boy, best friend, golf. I mean, he's like. - I like that he has that. - Me too, dude. And like, it's his passion, you know, to be able to go out and play as much golf and they will say, and Scott, his buddy is just like him. They'll sit there and you have seven iron there. Yeah, it was a little windy. So I've decided to hook a seven iron around that and they'll just go for the whole trip. That's the whole thing. They'll sit at dinner. They'll sit at dinner and replay the rounds that they just got done playing. I really liked that too. Wedgie hit there on 18. - And like the trash talk is the same. - Trash talk is the exam. Don't wanna get up there. - I don't think you were trying to hit that bunker. - It is the best, dude. I'm telling you, I would have killed him. Yeah, I would have killed him if they had gotten no hit a perfect game last night. But no, we'll get into all of that. We'll get into all of that, man. Yeah, I've, I will miss him though, the next couple of days, certainly. - You're looking good. - Thank you. Got a fresh, fresh haircut yesterday. - I have a recent one. I just decided to go with the hat today. - Yeah, I got my haircut yesterday. - You always have to go, you gotta do it up. - The day, oh, it's never looks better. - Yeah, as good as it'll go. - Let me tell you something though. I realized this yesterday, as I'm sitting in the chair, you know, the barber's chair and my girl, Danny's cutting my hair where we got kids, our kids are in the same first grade class. Wesley's her son and Bo's mind. And we're talking about, you know, the trials and tribulations of parenthood and whatever. And I would glance, I would, you know, I'd be looking at her and then I'd glance over into the mirror. You've never looked like a fatter, more disgusting piece of ass than when you're sitting in that barber's chair. I don't know what they do to the mirror and why. I don't know why they do it. But I look at myself, Paulie, when I'm looking at home in my mirror, I go, "Yeah, you got some crows feet, the age of all the cigarettes and whiskey caught up to you, finally." But I'm like, "Yeah, there's this." Look, I can work with this. When you're sitting in that barber chair, it looks like your face is distorted. I mean, I looked at the mirror, I was like, you're repugnant, like you're absolutely, I don't know what, it's the lighting or the mirror itself. But I looked disgusting. And I'm looking at it like, when she's cutting my hair. - It's weird, my guy, Julian, he doesn't, he has me turned away, my back is to the mirror. - You're so lucky entire time. - That's why, I have no idea what is going on up there. That's great. And then he speaks around, you're like, - For like the reveal, you're like. - Oh my God, looking like that. - Yeah, he's like, "That is a good." I'm like, "It's great." - No, I'm staring at myself the whole time. And then I look so bad, I can't look away necessarily. So I'm looking going, "Is this, is this me, or is this the mirror?" I really don't know. But, so I was in the chamber with that, got my haircut. And then I've been in kind of a perpetual chamber about a couple of things. Number one, I get a little bit domed out when Ben's gone. And this is not my favorite thing to do, is drive the vehicle all day. Which is fine, we've done this a thousand times. So I thought, I'm gonna, I need to get myself some really good prep work time in yesterday. My wife was fantastic. My wife Hannah said, "Yeah, yeah, I'll take boat of soccer. You pick up Taylor, and, you know, get some prep done in between and after, and get 'em showered, and I'll handle 'em." Fett 'em, got 'em showered, in the PJs, the whole thing. So I finally sit down to do some prep work, and I hear screams from the other room. So I walk in, and I hit record. (vocalizing) You wanna watch what? (vocalizing) Okay, what was that, right there? I wanna watch. (vocalizing) A different movie. I wanna watch a different movie. Yeah, okay. You wanna watch a different movie than what? Mighty Ducks? (vocalizing) You don't wanna watch Mighty Ducks? (vocalizing) Why not? (vocalizing) You wanna watch something else like what? (vocalizing) Spider-Man again? (vocalizing) How many times can one kid watch Spider-Man? (vocalizing) Little bow. What a nice boy. Okay, both of you can watch Spider-Man. (vocalizing) Phillips that. You just got the answer. He got what he wants. What do you say to your brother? They'll say thank you. (vocalizing) They'll say thank you. (vocalizing) That went on, by the way. 'Til bad time, at eight, and then until nine, as he continued to scream. But he, sorry, he got to watch Spider-Man. Yeah, we separated him. Bo came in with me, watched a documentary on his iPad as I was trying to watch the game right next to me. So it was about Alcatraz, 'cause we're leaving for San Francisco tomorrow. So I'm watching, I'm watching the game, Bo's right next to me with, and then the men created three fake heads and escaped from Alcatraz. And I'm like, I'm just sitting there like a crazy person, Paulie. I'm just in the death spiral, right? So I'm like trying to make notes on my phone. I can't really hear what Mud and Dawn were saying. I do know everything about Alcatraz is to know now, and about Frank Morris, and the Anglin Brothers, and everything else. And so I'm sitting there and I'm like, so finally. (screaming) So then I play that clip for Bo. He goes, you have to tell Paulie to make that a clip on the air. I go, 100%. 100%, man. There you go, Bo. You don't have enough Bo on the air. So he was. (screaming) Yeah. You don't wanna watch Mighty Ducks. (screaming) So why not? Once he got the answer, he was looking for it. All right, Bo said he can watch Spider-Man. He's still upset. Okay, let's go watch Spider-Man. (laughing) So Bo wanted to watch Mighty Ducks. Yeah. Taylor was not having it. No, not having it. Not having it. 'Cause he's Mighty Ducks be helped. But yeah, so that went on until bedtime. I finally had to go in there at about 9.30 a day. I love you, you're gonna be okay. I need you to suck your thumb, do whatever you gotta do to call them yourself. Let's breathe together. And we'll get it down. You know, we'll go rub his back a little bit and he finally fell asleep. But so I was in the chamber for that. TJ in our chat says probably birth control for anyone who doesn't have kids. Probably. Yeah. I sent that over last night. I was laying in bed. Played the video and I just turned to Megan and I go. Yeah, pretty happy with our choices. It makes you, it makes you pretty happy. It makes you shudder a little. And it always happens when they know, like there's something innate in them that go. My dad has a really important day tomorrow. They just know it. It's not like a fun Friday with the whole crew here. No. Four interviews, nice and easy. Padres wins. Yeah, I mean, everyone's in great mood. But yeah, dude, they know. They look at me and they go, oh, you have something big tomorrow. Oh, and you have a round table too? Okay. Oh, and you have like an hour of production to do? You're dead. You're a dead man. So that was the one thing. Then the other thing this, and I feel really guilty about this, and you know how I operate in a state of guilt and insecurity pretty much is where I live. We have, we have a couple of big birthdays here in the Ben & Woods family. Pauli's birthday. How old will you be? 34. 34 years old on Saturday. My wife Hannah will be 35 years old on Sunday. Now we have a trip planned. We are leaving Friday after the show. San Francisco, Padres Giants, Alcatraz. Gonna go back to, this is a very sweet thing. Gonna go back to her home. She was born in San Francisco. And the home that she and her brother, Graham, were lived in with her late father and her mom. My mother-in-law stayed in touch with her. They're gonna go back and see their childhood home. Oh, that's awesome. Hey, which is great. So we're gonna do that on Saturday. I got to do that last month. I went to Washington for a wedding. You'll see that. And then on the last night, we drove back from where the Airbnb was, back to Seattle. I flew out Monday morning. Yeah. Stayed that extra night. And I stayed with my buddy, Roger, and his wife. And I knew the neighborhood that they lived in, but I hadn't been to their house yet. They're at home. So we're driving in and I go, I'm like starting to recognize some streets and I go, wait, is this next street up here? 200th Avenue or whatever? Yeah, like I grew up a block away from where you now live. We didn't know each other at that time. He's like, no way, drove past it, saw the house. I'm like, that's, it's kind of a weird, it's cool. Yeah, it's weird. And I'm, you know, we're looking forward to that. So it's gonna be great, man. But I'm in the space of, Paulie is one of my dearest friends and somebody I'm very close to, family I would call him. And then of course, my wife is my wife. And we have, you know, we have the trip planned. It's all done. We get great hotel, great flight, great everything. Gonna have a great trip. So I'm very happy for you. I made the, I made the mistake of asking her. So when we get home on Sunday, your actual birthday, we do have a baseball practice. I have to go coach. I have a tier one game. Yeah, you do. You'll be managing, I won't be there. So I said to her, what's, what's expected? When we get home, she says, what do you mean? I go, well, you've already gotten your gift. I bought your gift. I had it assembled. It's in the garage. Just like you asked for the exact model, put together, had a guy come out, put it together. It's all done. You got what you wanted. We got the trip, the whole thing. When we get home, what is expected on your actual birthday? It's still the birthday. Right? And so I asked the same question of, of Paulie, because tomorrow will celebrate your birthday. Ben didn't find it important at all, so he took off. So I'll be here at least. What's expected, I'm asking you what I'm asking Hannah, what's expected of me tomorrow for you? Because I can't really do anything audio. I can't make you something special because you do all the audio. It's not like I can throw a fastball by you. - Yeah, yeah. - So what's, what, what is expected? - Have we not worked together long enough? Like what, like my wife does the same thing. She asks me like, hey, where do you want to go for dinner? Like, where would you like, what would you like to do? And I'm like, do you not, does anybody know me? - Do you just want to, do I have anybody out there that knows me at all? - I know you. And I got you a gift. It's not here yet, but I did get it. Ben and I split it and it's awesome. - Can't wait. - And I'll tell you what it is tomorrow. I'll maybe show you a picture of it. - Okay. - Because, because I don't, it's not in yet. So, what do I, what would you like? All I want. - You just want me to come up with something. - I just want you to enjoy your weekend in San Francisco. (laughing) - Paulie, you know that doesn't work with me. You're gonna guilt trip me. How much, all right, I got you the gift. It's great. - I know you're gonna be really happy. - I thought it would have been fun. Maybe Saturday morning. Go catch around a golf with my boys, Ben and Woods. - Well, he's gone. He's playing golf. I'll be, I'll be gone. - I'll be gone. - So, don't worry about me. Talk it. - So, you married, you married the female me also. - Yes. - Who's like, you picked, all right. So, my question to you is. - I'm surrounded by crazy, feeble people. Who need help with technology. - I apparently, my birthday. - Feebel. (laughing) - How much money you want. - For, what's your price on what I need to give you so that you're not mad anymore? - It's like, if Hannah would just take cash, I would just give her cash. I'd be like, you know what? Happy birthday, it's $300. (laughing) - Side fell. - Side fell. - Yeah. - That's $187 in cash. - That's right. - Or something to sneeze at. - So, I want to play on something. But, I mean, Hannah told me, I want, you know what a quote was? - I would like to be showered with, you know, adulation in a tent. I go, I have a baseball practice on Sunday. So, what, she goes flowers. I go, when am I supposed to get those? I, I just am, I'm the worst at it, I get it. But, I will pay, I will pay. You know you can get money out of me if you want it. I will absolutely. - I don't have to sit on this. - Sit on it for a while. - Get to it tomorrow. - Do you want a cake tomorrow or something? Like, maybe breakfast, let's get breakfast now. - All right, done. I will order us breakfast tomorrow. We will eat it live on the armpits. - On people, people will enjoy that. - Just, hey, enjoy your weekend. I'm gonna enjoy the hell out of my weekend. - We'll suck down the grittles live. - We got a great dinner plan tomorrow night. - Okay. - A little staycation weekend. - You planned all of it, I'm sure. - No, we planned it together. - Hannah says, I have to plan and organize and perpetrate my own birthday. It's exactly right, and I'm sorry about that. But, this is, this is who you married. I will give you, I will shower you with love. We can, maybe if you want to, maybe if you're listening, we can pull a, we can do a Shannon Sharp. And if you don't know what that means, you will-- - I have been looking forward to talking about that. - You will hear. You will hear about that later. I will offer you a Shannon Sharp experience to my lovely wife, probably I will not offer you the same, but all right. - The problem is, I hate planning anything. - Right, but you have to. - Like, you feel uncomfortable. - Of course. - Asking others to plan anything for me. - I get it, man. - I'm the worst, like-- - I'm sure it drives my wife insane when it's four days out, and I'm like, I don't know where to go for dinner, I feel bad. Like, it's, I don't care, it's just my birthday, it's fine. - You're just gonna guilt me, and I'm gonna end up giving Paul like $1,000, but here you go, man, have a great time. I'll be, you know how I am, you know, I operate. I beat myself up because I always think I can be doing more, but so yeah, that's where we will be. Let's talk some potteries baseball, certainly. I mean, what's there really to say? A little bit dicey, and we can talk about where you stand on the panic meter right now, and mine's pinging a little bit, a little bit, just a tiny little bit, never like dropping a game in the wild card standings, but that's exactly what happened. We'll set the menu, got a couple of really, really great, special sweet angel guests coming up today on the Woodsy and Paul program, Ben is out, and we'll be right back, Ben and Wood's 97 through the fan. - From the mind of a two-foot tall talking spokespuppet comes this year's biggest challenge. It's time for Bob's Dare to compare! The hottest game show on TV that asks, "What happens when you compare Bob's to the competition?" You get style, you get quality, you get beeps and boops and dings and whops, and thousands of dollars in savings. Everyone's winner when you dare to compare with Bob's discount furniture. 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Here's to those who are essential to helping people find their path to recovery. Visit cdc.gov/stopoverdose for information about treatment options and how to support those experiencing addiction. - My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friend's still laughing me to this day. - Not everyone gets B2B. But with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkedin.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. Linkedin, the place to be, to be. Breaking news on 97.3, the fan presented by BetqL. Smarter Bet, start with BetqL. Download the BetqL app or visit BetqL.com today. Yeah, big news breaking this morning in the world of college football. San Diego State and three other Mountain West schools are set to join the Pac-12 conference, Paulie, and you're an Aztec for life. They're headed to the Pac-12, leaving the Mountain West to join Oregon State, Washington State in all sports in a reformed Pac-12 starting in 2026, 2027, according to multiple reports confirmed by conference sources. - Oh, it's confirmed. - It's confirmed. They, at 6 a.m., they had a press release emailed out. It is official San Diego State to start play in the Pac-12 for the 2026, 2027 campaign. - Very good. Very good. And I know that it's gonna be more money for them. - It officially become a member of the Pac-12 in July 1st of 2026. - Now I was reading this article in the UT. So every school that we just mentioned, they're on the hook for exit fees to the Mountain West that with more than one year's notice of departure amount to three times the annual distribution, which is about $6.5 million. So you're essentially paying about $20 million to get out, which is a, that's a lot of dough. That is a lot of dough. But listen, I think this has been the goal for a long time. You get, get out of the Mountain West. Now again. - It's weird. It was the goal. - It was. And then it, until it wasn't the goal. - Until, until a lot of teams left the Pac-12, they had to rebuild that conference in some way, shape, or form. And I think, you know. - Oh, isn't it the, it's Pac-6. - Yeah, it's, look, college football's gonna be in flux for a while. - They gotta, they gotta change all the names. - We don't have to change the SEC is fine. The ACC is fine, but the Big 10 and the Big 12, they don't have 10 and 12 teams anymore. - Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, and it's just one of those things as sports fans, you just kind of roll with the punches. You're like, oh yeah, the Pac-12 is actually eight of us, or seven of us, or six of us, or what about? - I could mind it, it was the Pac-10. - That's right. And so, yeah, Big 12 is the Big 14 or whatever. I mean, it just, it's gonna be, it's gonna be a little bit in flux for a while, but I think ultimately it's a good-- - I don't know. - It's a good move. - I saw this, I saw reports coming out yesterday about this, and all signs had pointed to news breaking at some point Thursday morning, and here we are, with the news, isn't it? So right now, the Mountain West has those teams, plus a couple, like the Wyoming, the San Jose States, you know, the lower division, parts of the division. So if you're just taking most of the Mountain West schools and the same Pac-2 schools that are currently in your conference, like Oregon State and Washington State, isn't it still just the Mountain West with a different name? - Point, point, 2.0, potentially. - Yeah. - No, I listen. Like, I don't know, I just, again, I'm not-- - Ask Ben. - Hey, Ben. - Ben, what do you think? - What are your thoughts on? - What are your thoughts on? - He is rocking back and forth in his chair. - I bet we could call him right now, and he would-- - Do it. - Yeah. - Do it. I mean, I talked to you guys when I was in Hawaii, I was four hours behind you. - Like, he's awake right now. - He's 100% awake. 100%, this is him missing out on this news is devastating. - Literally, call him just live. - Yeah, like, call him live in the air. - No, he could sue us. - I mean, he has to allow us to run the audio. - It's true. - But, you know, him missing this news is too much for him to bear. - Can pull the quick one on him, be like, "Hey, we only have a minute." Yeah. - Oh, he's big time in this. - Wow. - Hello. - Oh, we have, he just dropped off. - Ben, you had him? - I had him. - Oh. - Ben, call back. - Just wanna get your thoughts on the-- - I'm calling him back. - Packed what, new Pac-12. San Diego State has to. - Hi, Ben. - Hello. - Hi. - Hi, Ben. - Hi. - How are you doing? - We're fantastic. - We're live on the air. - Don't curse. - Don't say anything-- - Oh, okay. - Until now, don't curse, got it. - Just quickly, your thoughts on the Aztecs. Joining the Pac-12. - Oh, a little bit of the Pac-2. - The Pac-2, I think that it's gonna be very expensive, but ultimately, it is probably what they had to do, and in a few years, it'll definitely look like a good move, but I'm a little nervous about it anyway. - All right, thanks for your time. Have a great rest of your trip, and we love you very much. - You're welcome. - Be safe, hit 'em straight. - Thanks, guys. - All right, talk to you. - Bye, Ben. (both laughing) - Only he could just pick up the photo. Anyway, here's what I was-- I mean, he-- - I was afraid he wasn't already talking about it. - Yeah, he probably was. - He just talked to himself in his car. - All right, let's wrap up last night's pod raise game next. We'll get into that five-two loss to the Seattle Mariners that, let's be honest, could've been a lot worse. Could've been a lot worse. - Super quick setting of the menu. In about an hour from now, we're gonna talk a little football. It's tradition on Ben & Woods. - Yep. - Start of the season. We missed her last week, but start of the season. We always talk to the great Amy Trask. She'll join us at 7.35 this morning. Always love having her on the show. And then every Thursday at 8.35, we have Enosaris joining us for some smart baseball. We have so much to get to between now and 10 o'clock. I, we scheduled some things to talk about. I don't know that I can wait long enough. - Yeah, I've been looking forward to don't do this since about three o'clock yesterday. I mean, it really, he really deserves his own segment. He really, really does. - He's in a chart. It's a full segment. - He really does. - Maybe he gets the whole seven. - Maybe he gets the whole seven. It's, it's pretty nuts. But we're not bad. - I don't know how much we can talk about this game last time. - We'll wrap up last night's game. Yeah, we'll, I'm sure we'll point some fingers. I'm already seeing it already seeing it in the chat. And I get it, I get it. Let's go. Let's get after it next. Ben & Woods 97 through the fan. (upbeat music) - Pottery's dropped 152 to the Seattle Mariners last night, splitting that series and yeah, it was, it was a, it was a, I mean if you like, you're like, overpowering brilliant pitching performances on the team that you're playing. - Good game for you last night in there. - I usually like dominant pitching performances, but not when it's against us. - It's super duper fun to watch a guy just locked in like that. - Ultimately, I'm okay when it's a guy that's been doing it all year. - Yeah, exactly. If it's some scrub that's. - It's the guy that, okay, he's got three career starts. He's got an eight, four, five, and he gets you. And he comes in and just shoves. And you're like, who the hell is this guy? - Yeah, man. It's, you know, look, we'll talk about the pan, our buddy Josh and Dallas, Josh Coralson. We gonna do a panic show after every loss. No, no, we're gonna do a panic meter. After every loss. - We're just gonna check. - Where do you stand? He had to check your pulse, if you will. I'm in like a four. Like I'm not panicked yet at all. It's nerve-wracking, it's dicey. Watching the standings every night, watching, you know, the New York Mets just really, really playing great baseball, watching the Braves, creeping, you know, watching the Dodgers, continuing to smash home runs. It's, it's, you do feel, you know, a little bit of that because with 15 games left to go, anything can happen. So we'll wrap up the potteries game right after this quick check of traffic. ♪ It's a shame if they lose ♪ ♪ Oh, a shame indeed ♪ - It's a complete crap. - Oh, I did not like that. - Here are the lowlights from yesterday's game. - Are you f***ing kidding me? - Boo. - It's The Padres by Hamul Casino. With thrilling slots and tables in all the best rewards, Hamul Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hamul Casino, fun above all else. - We'll give it 16 minutes of salt and then we'll, you know, get back on the pump and figure it out. - It's not your fault. - One and one to Rowley. The pit for King swung online in the right field and down for a day set. Rojas has scored Robles on his way. Fernando's throw cut by Solano. It is a unscoring single for Cal Rowley. And Robles ended up halting at third base. So one-nothing CF. King is ready. Here's the pitch. Swung online in the right field and a base set. Robles has scored. K-Rods on his way. Fernando's throw just late. Two-run single for Lubrely and a three-nothing Marinerly. Here's pitch seven of the at bat. Ripped in the right field. A fair ball to the bounce and wall all the way to the wall. Rayleigh and Turner will both score easily. Crawford a feet first slide in the second base. Two-run double and a five-nothing Marinerly. Here's the one and O. Fernando swings, hits it in the air. Deep down the left field line, it is gone. A home run for Fernando Tati's Jr. Line drive shot down the left field side. That will break up the perfect game. The no-hitter and the shutout. Andre's are on the board here in the seventh inning. As Tati's homers for a second consecutive night. One to Bogart's lined up the middle. In the center field and a base hit. Roble for a rounding third on his way. Rodriguez throw will be cut. RBI singles and her Bogart's. Andre's have another here in the seventh inning. And it's five to two. One and two to a Rosarina. And that's it in the air. The right field straightaway and deep. Fernando racing back. He is at the wall. Leaps up and he made the catch. Fernando goes over the right field wall and takes one away. Hit a homer in the top of the inning. Robbed a homer in the bottom of the inning. And that ends the seventh year in Seattle. One and two to Croninworth, bounced up the middle. Two is right. The second baseman, Polanco, has it. Slings it the first in time. And a one, two, three ninth inning for the former fire. Andre Spudoz has the Mariners. Ernest Flint in his two game set. Five to two win here on a chilly evening in Seattle. Yeah, a combination of things, right? Well, it was really good, man. He was throwing the ball really well. Perfect through six. You know, Tati jumped him in the seventh. But through the ball extremely well, he did that against this lineup, saying something. So he did a really nice job. Yeah, he did. He was a lot of fun to watch. I mean, and again, taking the potteries hat off. Really, really good pitcher, you know, commands the zone. Nasty, late life on, they were talking about on the broadcast, the 95 just explodes out of his hand. And guys were, guys were way off. They were, he was, you know, he was in the zone all night. Some weak contact. I mean, listen, you're watching that game last night. And I did, when the Rosa Raina made that catch in like the fifth, I think fifth or sixth, made that catch off of Manny's. When Manny smoked it to left, I went, oh yeah, he's got pitch count was down, like. Every no hitter or perfecto has no one's play. Oh yeah. And I, I sat there and went, oh man. But you know, I think obviously the game changed in the third inning. And Michael King, I thought to Rojas, I thought he got, I thought he got squeezed a couple of times, but ends up walking Rojas, hits the next guy. Oh two pitch, you know, those are the things. But listen, Manny gets the ground ball. He needs Zander throws it, crony boots it. He booted it. And I did think for a second, oh, that's clearly the transfer. And crony actually said after the game, he goes, yeah, man, just cause I just cause I didn't have my other hand down there. Like I caught it. I was bringing it up, ball fell out, whatever. They overturned it, you know, that those, that error turned out to be a fatal one for the Padres could never get back after that. I hated that, you know, I hated that for the guys. And I hated it for Michael King. He seems to have some bad luck behind him. It seems some really shoddy defense, really only rears its head when he pitches. And you know, listen, there's weird anomalies in a baseball season that go like that. It just, there's certain guys that pitch and get no run support. Certain guys where the defense seems to take a night off when they pitch and it's been that for Michael King. But I will say this again, about his stuff. It's absolutely filthy. It's absolutely filthy, filthy stuff. And he finished five innings, four hits, one earned run, two walks and six Ks. And that was that, it was that longer inning. As Kevin A.C. pointed out, I think in the UT this morning, it was that longer inning that probably robbed him of another inning. I mean, 'cause he had- He finished with 90. He had the nasty stuff. So yeah, man, listen, you chalk it up, but look, they are, I'm not super panicked right now. They did drop a game in the wild card standings to the Arizona Diamondbacks or half game, I think. But it's time in a while that they are not the leader in the clubhouse as far as the wild card goes. They dropped to the second wild card spot, half a game. And it's not good radio 'cause we're supposed to just speculate and react every single day. Ben's gonna have magic numbers from here on out, but so much can change still. Heading into that final week where you play the Dodgers, you play the Diamondbacks and you kind of control your own destiny, at least the way things are shaping up right now. - Yeah, they're half game out of the first spot in the wild card. The Mets continue to win. They had, they were literally getting no hit into the ninth inning. And Francisco Lindor got a fastball middle in, hit it a mile. - He continues to make a real strong case for an MVP vote. - He does, they're gonna give him the show, hey, but he's, you know, this is a two-way player. Like he plays offense and defense. He's really, really good, but they're gonna give it the show, he'll tell me. I mean, I would bet I'd bet anything I own on it. And hey, you can't really argue with that. - No, no, no, no, no, you're not gonna be upset. - Eight and two for the Mets in their last 10. But yeah, man, they ended up piling on some runs and extra innings and took care of business in Toronto and continued to stay red hot. They're a game and a half behind the Padres right now. Kevin AC points out on his newsletter this morning. He was talking about the Braves or the team on the outside looking in and they lost yesterday. So that was, you know, that was one bit of help, I guess, that the Padres got. But he was talking about what needs to happen. And this is a very, it's very bad ask as well when he was talking about what the Braves need to do dependent on what the Padres do in their last 15 games. So if the Padres go 10 and five, which is feasible, Braves gotta go 14 and two. There were other side of the coin. If the Padres finish four and 11, the Braves still have to go 500, eight and eight, to get there because the Padres do own the tiebreaker on the brakes. Now, I don't know how you guys are feeling out there. You're more than welcome to call 833-288-0973. We haven't checked in with you guys in a while. But you're more than welcome to call and tell me kind of where you stand. I'm not, I'm just not super panicked yet. I'm not because again. - Because again, I'm at about a four. - I'm at like a two. - Okay, that's good. - Yeah, I'm okay, you know, you look at a game like last night, we talked about just how filthy. Brian Wu has been a whole year. Some of the stats that they were putting out yesterday. I mean, he's up there in the realm of Randy Johnson, Felix Hernandez, as far as Mariners excellence. I mean, he's a very, very good pitcher. - That stat they had last night was insane. - We tipped our cap about 100 times last year. We haven't tipped our cap a ton this year. That's one where you would tip your cap. I'm okay with that. I look at a game like last night and I go, Michael King still pitched pretty well. I'm okay with that. I want him to continue to pitch well. I look at Fernando Tatis Jr. who made one of the greatest catches I've ever seen him make out there in right field and hit a ball 115.6 miles per hour, I think. Absolutely torched it. Two games in a row now, the home run. Don't look now, but that's two games in a row. Two home runs, two insane defensive plays that throw from right center field the other night. And then the catch last night, if we can get him going, I'm feeling really good. - Yeah, I mean, I still feel really great about this team. You know, I think, obviously there's a lot of conditioning that's gone on in this town, certainly. And I wasn't here for a lot of that, but I've been here 15 years. You know, I pretty much have the idea of the pulse of where Padres fans are. I spend a lot of time on social media. You know, I'm not much of a doomer these days because I do think that they have shown enough, you know, heart and grit and everything else. I mean, look, you lost by three runs last night when you didn't get a hit till the seventh inning or whatever. So, yeah, I just, I still believe very much in this team. I still believe in a lot of what I saw from the starting pitching. We'll see how this weekend goes. I'm actually gonna be in Oracle tomorrow night, my first time ever. - It's a big series. - Yeah, big, big series against the Giants. You know, who else is playing this weekend? I'm sure we'll talk about it maybe more tomorrow, but you just mentioned the Braves. They host the L.A. Dodgers for a three game series starting tomorrow night in Atlanta. - No big, it begs the question, who do you want to win that series? - Look, man, I can't in good conscience root for that team. I just can't, I know it's probably the smart thing to do, but I can't, you know. - So I, listen, you handle your business in San Francisco, we don't have to worry about it. Handle your business, that's it. Just win, win two or three, try to find a way to beat Sleeping Bob. Sleeping Bob's got the, he's got your number a little bit this year. All right, so I'm excited for the game. I'm also terrified. I mean, I'm on pins and needles. This is a huge, huge series. I do think, I do think, you know, coming into next week, yeah, you can't look at the White Sox is like, oh, it's an easy three wins. It just doesn't work that way. - We don't play well against those teams. - We don't play well against those teams. I just, Eric Moss is Darvish and Krown is my concern. I mean, Krown made an error. It's gonna happen. He doesn't really concern me at all. - Darvish gave me exactly what I wanted to see on Tuesday. - Darvish got to win. He got to win. I'm not really concerned about him. - I want five clean innings. He gives five clean innings as you ramp it up. - Give up, give up two solo shots. I mean, again, I can't, I cannot get super upset about that right now. I just can't. - I don't wanna go hot take. Like, I questioned leaving Moray Honan for more than three batters yesterday. - Yeah, 100%. - It was a three run game and he clearly did not have it. And, you know, they didn't bust it open, but all of a sudden, you know, that one inning, it hurt. But I almost feel like it's kind of just nitpicking here at this point. It was a, it was a third game. It was an easy one for me to just flush and move on to Tamarna. - Yeah, you got really have no choice. So I, there were some real, there were some interesting moves made yesterday too, that we can talk about. If you guys wanna talk potteries today, the phone lines are open, man. 833-288-0973. I, if you want me to beat my fist and perform for you, I'm not quite there. Now, you get swept by the Giants this weekend. Yeah, man, it's gonna be a different scene coming in on Monday morning, because the time is now, you know, it's absolutely now. You gotta start playing. Really, this is a good time to refocus and start playing your best baseball. You do have a really tough schedule coming up. It doesn't mean you can't win a series in San Francisco. And it certainly doesn't mean you can't at least at a bare minimum win the series against the White Sox. But man, that last week of the season is looming large right now. So you wanna be able to stack a few more wins than you have lately. You're kind of hovering around 500 ball, the last 13 games. You're actually a game under 500, the last 13 games. So time to get your asses and gear a little bit. So that's why my panic meter's at a four right now, because there needs to be, I think, a sense of urgency. And I do see it, I do, I see good at bats, I see a lot of effort and things like that. But the result, gotta start chalking up a couple more dubs right now. But yesterday, pretty interesting decision by the San Diego Padres. It's one of those decisions that makes me go, oh, they're not messing around right now at all, since Luis Capiano down to Triple AL Passo. And you know, man, Luis was the starting catcher at the beginning of the year. Now he started off pretty well, then he got hurt and Kyle Higashyoka stepped up. - I don't know Wally Pimp. - And got a little Wally Pimp there. Came back, hasn't really done a heck of a lot since he's been back. So Padres skipper Mike Schultz said that was a tough decision, clearly a tough conversation for everyone involved, especially campy. If you know anything about campy's history, you know, that's what I'm most concerned about is how does he handle this from a mental standpoint? You know, he has had some struggles. Is he gonna be all right? Is he fine to just go down? I cannot imagine that was very fun for him yesterday, having to pack his bag and head down to AL Passo, even though he's going to get the lion's share of the reps and they want him to go down there and catch and hit and really work on his game. I don't think we'll see him back this year, barring an injury to Elias Diaz or Kyle Higashyoka. But yeah, man, he just, he said we looked up, we realized campy wasn't getting as much time, still a younger player who's grown, he's grown a ton behind the plate, a lot of different phases, preparation is really, really good, but it was best for him and us at this moment to go down and go play. So that's what happened, man. And he's down there and hopefully he can figure it out because they did they- - He only got 10 more games, or 10 more days in the minor leagues. - They were smart too for their season ends. They did it at the time where this was his, allegedly his last option, but they did it in such a way where because of the time they sent him down, he has an option for next year as well. So you can keep him in the organization, continue to foster his growth and see what happens. See if you can turn him into a hitter, man. 'Cause that's really where his value can be, I think. I think he's got it in him to be a pretty good hitter. So we'll see what happened, but yeah, he got sent down, Tom Cosgrove got called back up yesterday, don't know how long he's going to be on the roster. Brandon Lockridge also is a very, very speedy- - I brought up two guys because Camp Pissano went down and then they placed Martine Perez on the paternity list. - Have a great- - Congratulations. - Congratulations. - If you're listening, and he's going to be pitching on Sunday now. - Feels real good, congrats, buddy. - All right, we'll just play in that audio of Taylor screaming again. All right, we will, if you guys want to call in 833-288-0973, we'll get your temperature, talk some more baseball, the stretch run coming up here on '97 through the fair. (upbeat music) - From the mind of a two-foot tall talking spokespuppet comes this year's biggest challenge. It's time for Bob's Dare to Compare. The hottest game show on TV that asks, "What happens when you compare Bob's to the competition?" You get style. You get quality. 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