Gwynn & Chris On Demand
Gwynn & Chris Sept. 25th Hour 1: Padres clinch!!!
And as you heard it, the Padres will go down in history as the only team to ever clinch a playoff berth with a triple play. And that was quite incredible last night. Welcome into Gwen and Chris. There he is, Tony. I wasn't sure if he was, uh, we're having a little bit of issue with the lag on your connection. So how's everything going, Tony? It's going well. Uh, you know, it was a fun night last night. Padres clench the playoff spot. I sounded like they intend to try to run this down to the very end and with the chance of possibly winning this division. And so I think it's nice for them to be able to get that out the way. Now you kind of get back to just playing baseball. But man, what a way to end a ball game. It was a triple play, um, just the high baseball IQ of, of Manny Machado on that play. I mean, playing for the bunt and then kind of in a snap decision, being able to get to the bag, fire a bullet strike right on the right side of Croninworth. He gets to throw off and play at first wasn't even close. It was only a matter of, uh, if the guy at second had, had, had beat it. And after you got to see the replay slowed down, it was pretty obvious. That was a triple play. Great, great way to end that ball game. Yeah. And I was actually, I'm, I'm a huge radio nerd as everybody knows. And so I was listening to the call on the radio in the car and right before, cause I was like nervous. Robert Suarez is letting guys get on base and, and I didn't really know how many outs there were. And Jesse said, you know, what would be good right now is a triple play, but that's really a lot to ask. And so I'm like, oh no, no outs, guys on base, show, hey, Otani's coming up soon. And, uh, hear it. What were you pointing to? Uh, let's hear it again. And you got a figure or at least wonder is the plan then for Suarez to not get the opportunity to face show, hey, Otani best case scenario, obviously would be Miguel Rojas somehow gets into a triple play. But that's probably asking for a bit much. And then I'm thinking, okay, triple play, uh, that's a lot. It's a lot to ask for. But then Jesse's call of him being like so surprised and shocked and excited and confused and everything. It was just perfect. And it was a perfect way for the Padres to, to coach the playoffs. It was just incredible all the way around. Yeah, man, it was, uh, it was, it was pretty, pretty sweet, man. I just, you can't, you can't make that up. Like that is a one of a kind. That's like a top tier play to ever clinch anything. You know what I'm saying? Like a triple play. Like that's just, it just doesn't happen. And, uh, to get it and watch the guys, the joy, they enjoyed it, man. Like you heard that a lot last night after the game that, you know, we, you should enjoy these moments, you know, and you get back to work after, but enjoy the moment at the time that it's happened happening. And, uh, they seem to do that very well last night. Yeah. And it was, uh, it was just great. How was the, the celebration afterwards? I mean, you were down there. You're getting sprayed with champagne. Everybody was extremely happy. What was it like? Uh, I think it was, uh, it was, it was everything you would expect. I mean, everybody was, uh, enjoying themselves. There was a lot of, I mean, my nice, my nice collared shirt was completely drenched after Tanner Scott got me, uh, pretty good. And, you know, it's, it's, I, I, I enjoyed it, man, being able to get the chance to be with those guys, uh, some video on the YouTube stream. If you want to watch our show, search 97 through the fan. See the joy on, uh, on everybody's face was, uh, this is this. Do you realize this is why they do it? It was such a great win last night, which is in so many different ways. I mean, the way the game meant a walk off triple play, which I didn't think was, was, was ever possible, but that was really amazing, the way that that game finished. And you know, you see the celebration again and as much as it's celebrating the entire year of what they've been able to accomplish. And, um, you know, as, as, as Kobe Bryant would say, job's not finished yet. They could still accomplish a lot more things. Uh, in the future, I'm glad they had a good time last night. I'm glad the game's at seven, 10 tonight, not a 12 35 start. Uh, so these guys could, uh, to rest up and be ready to go, uh, for tonight's game. But I think for Natatty's junior set last night, he said, you know, I, I, even though we're going to have a good time tonight, I think we're going to be even better tomorrow and have a lot more energy tomorrow. And I think you could build off, off wins like that. And the way that they've been able to handle the Dodgers this year has been, been phenomenal. I mean, they've put together a lot of, a lot of great wins, um, you know, against LA this year. And, you know, they, they had that, they had that kind of monkey on their back for the last couple of years. And this year, they really, they really bucked, uh, that monkey off and, and don't have to deal with that problem anymore. So, um, they've, they've almost flipped it where, you know, the, the Dodgers now have to, you know, worry about these games. So, hopefully they can finish the job, keep putting the pressure on. And with the way that, uh, there's a hurricane rolling through the Southeast, you know, there's a lot of things that are, that are working out the Padres way right now, even more so than just a triple play. Yes. And I am going to be this guy today because yes, things were great. The triple play was great. But the circumstances that led to the triple play was not great. And I am not saying that Robert Suarez should not be the closer anymore. All I want is a discussion amongst the Padres as to what they're going to do. And I know that Mike Schultz is going to say he's going to stick by his closer. And that's fine. I think he should stick by his closer. But Tony, it's concerning to me as you know, stop being concerned. You have Mike Schultz at the helm. He, he's got this. He's got it under control. He does, he, there's, there's not a guarantee he's going to come out and say that did Suarez is the closer. You don't know what he's going to say. You don't know. But the thing is he has options to, at his, you know, you know, he has choices. So, um, I trust Mike Schultz to make whatever the decision is because, um, I think he's earned that right at this point with all of the, all of the other decisions he's made throughout the course of the year. I mean, I remember a time where he was basically telling everybody relax and, and that this wasn't a roller coaster and, and it turned out that then all the, the halfway point of the roller coaster was just a straight line, uh, just going up to towards the sky. So, um, you know, that is, uh, I just think right now there's not a, to me, I think when the time comes for, or when the situation presents itself, that it's time to go, go a different route. I think Mike Schultz is going to go the, the, the other route. I think you're right too. I mean, I'm not saying, yeah, Mike Schultz is extremely smart. He's an accomplished manager. He's been very successful. So yes, I will trust what he's saying. And if we're talking about Michael King too, Michael King was great. He does have these, and I feel like the negative Nancy of the show today, but I will be, I guess he does have these innings where he allows a bunch of guys on base and then he ends up only giving up one run and then he only gives up one run in the entire outing because this, this, this, because I'm worried that the shoe is going to drop in the playoffs. And instead of the one run, it's going to be just going to drop. Scrabie, I think you just like to worry about nonsense. That's what it feels like. All right. This is ridiculous. This dude has, this dude has a top two ERA in all of national league, like, knock it off. Hey, what are we talking about? And I'm not saying this is a problem. I'm just saying there are these things that happen. Yeah, you know, there are things that happen. Every leaves fall off of trees. They have some place as we're speaking, right? Like, yes, things happen. But he is in those cases, he has minimized the damage. The dude has under a three ERA on the season. He just took down, I mean, yesterday he got into trouble early. And by the way, in large part, not due to his own anything he did, you know, and it's been like that over the last four or five starts. They, Padres have seemingly made some type of air that have put him in a bind. And in almost all circumstances, he finds a way to, to get on out of it. So, you know, I think that's, the Suarez thing is much more of a, of a real issue than Michael King and his supposed issues in the first couple of innings. Well, the chat is telling me to turn off my mic. So I will for the next maybe 15 seconds. Okay. I don't, I don't think just as much concern about Michael King either. I'm not being concerned. I'm not concerned about Michael King with something the other thing with Michael King, though, is you don't even know if he's going to get a start or not. I mean, he might be the guy that goes to the bullpen. I'm not saying that's the right thing to do. But they have so many options as Tony was saying that it's going to work itself out. It's going to play itself out. Now, I will say this, my concern level on Robert Suarez is incredibly high because if he's out there closing games, I mean, he just does not look like he's very confident right now on the mound. In the last couple of months, he has had now this track record of the ERA continuing to rise. And I don't mean his season ERA. I mean, his month by month, ERA has been getting worse and worse and worse. And we'll talk about this later with, with Matt Snyder. But that is, that is a situation that will eliminate your season if you don't get that right. And to me, I, the way it's playing out, and I'm not saying don't use Suarez anymore. You have to use him. He's part of the team. He's a good asset to this team. But what I'm saying is, I think you need to, and I, and I like the math matchup base deal, but I'd go Scott against their top three guys in the order, whatever ending that happens to be, I'd go Adam with the middle guys in the order, and then I'd go Suarez with the bottom half of the order. Now, if you can do that, I mean, that's, that's a perfect world. And, you know, I, I honestly think, when you get to playoff time, and Tony, you can, you can, you can say, you could, you could prove me wrong on this, because I don't know what the inside, I feel like in playoff mode, these guys are going to do whatever job is asked them to do to go get a victory. And if Suarez's job is to go in the seventh inning, I think he's going to say yes. And I don't think he's going to care about the closing role. And if they ask Adam to save, he'll do it. And Estrada and anybody in that bullpen, whenever they get the ball, they're going to ask, they're going to be like, let's go shut him down. Exactly. And that's why I don't think there needs to be any concern, because if the time comes, you know, and listen, I also think we have to keep in mind, there's still five games left in a regular season. That could, that's opportunity for Suarez to, to get it growing in the right direction. Now, if push comes to shove and you get like a mixed bag, you get a couple good, a couple bad, come play off time. I have no doubt that if Mike Schildt thinks it's necessary, he will make the change. And as you said, I think that's what makes this team special. Just watching them last night is that I think that's exactly how it's going to go down, Brady. If, if that is the case, it will, he will move aside and do the job that is asked of them. And I think that's one of the, the superpowers that this team has this year is that they pull the rope. We heard it from Manny after the game. They are pulling the rope all in the same. So when you get that, it's these, these worries aren't worries because the guys who are involved understand what's at stake. And they got, they got, uh, they got options, as you mentioned, and, and, and she'll didn't mess around last night. I mean, Morahone with two outs gave up a couple of knocks. He's like, we'll see it. We're going to the next guy. We know we got to win this game. He's also managed like that most of the year. He's managed with urgency. You know what? That's, that's, that's how you win ball games to the playoffs. I'm not worried from the managerial standpoint, but it is, if, if, if they didn't have Adam and, and Scott, this would be a way bigger of a problem for the Padres going into the postseason. Right. And, and that's, that's the beauty in the moves that, that AJ made. And listen, I think you also got a, you have to think to yourself, you want Suarez, right? Like, right. So you need these other games to get him going in the right direction, right? You can't pull the shoot now, because guess what? You're going to need him. Right. You're going to absolutely need his arm. It may not be in the ninth inning, but you are going to 1000% need his arm. So, you know, we should all be in these next five games hoping he can get some opportunity where he gets it going in the right direction, because minus, you know, you remove Suarez from the situation, from the equation, yes, you do have Scott, you do have Adam, but that's one less arm that you are dealing with. And we know, come postseason, especially in the bullpen, those arms are very, very, very necessary. So, yes, I would like to say before we had to break. No, go ahead, buddy. I know I'm sorry. There's the delay and all this other stuff. But I would like to say that I started this whole thing and you can go back in the YouTube and say that I don't think that Robert Suarez should not be the closer anymore. I just said there should be a discussion. I didn't say anything about him being terrible or anything. And you guys aren't saying that, but I feel like that's how I'm being perceived at the moment. I'll say it. I don't think you should be the closer right now. I absolutely don't think you should be the closer. Hey, you know what? It's all fun and games until he gives up a three run bomb and all of a sudden your season is over. But as we talked about before, I don't think he's going to be upset if he loses the closer role in the postseason. He's going to take the ball and he's going to give the team what he's got. And that's the best part about this team. And they talked about in the post game with Tony how much they love each other. They're going to do their role, whatever it may be. I have no doubt. All right, let's step away. We got more Padre baseball, more playoff, you know, situations, equations. We got it all coming up here. Gwen and Chris. 222 on the clock. Tony Gwen, Jr. Chris. Hello, not here. Matt Scrabie is though, creating a friend in the building as well. Adam Glue on the ones and twos. And things are still unclear in terms of this playoff picture for many different angles in the National League. Padre still chasing a division, possibly. There could be some change over there. You have the bottom tier, which is still clogged up. The Diamondbacks aren't quite in nose dive, but they're teetering right now certainly seems like it. The Braves get a victory at home against the Mets in yesterday's game. So they pull a little bit closer as well. Speaking of that series as the folks on YouTube watching on YouTube can see there has been a postponement. There will be a double header on Monday, which is really the nightmare scenario for Major League Baseball, having to have a double header that could possibly decide a playoff spot that will decide a playoff spot. Probably not ideal. This team, whoever comes out of this, will end up turning around and having to play a game the following day. And so, you know, it's not ideal, but what's got to be done, what's got to be done. Mother nature wins out when these things happen. It is ideal for the San Diego Padres. They take care of business this weekend. I don't care about this at all. It's good for the Padres. Magic numbers too for the four seed. The Padres get the four seed. I mean, you're looking at a bunch of teams that aren't going to know who they're playing, where they're going, if it's the Braves, the Mets, tax bullpen, starting rotations being out of whack. I mean, it's, you still have to take care of business, right? But at the same time, it's all, it's, it's, this is all good news in terms of a, if you're a San Diego Padres fan, I mean, think about this Tony on a situation where if the Padres do well against the Diamondbacks this weekend and Arizona is in limbo based on results that have to wait for the Mets and the Braves, you could potentially have three teams that are battling for two spots with the Brewers and Padres waiting to see who they're going to play. And not one of those three teams has any idea where they're going to go until the conclusion of game two, which will be at about nine o'clock, eight o'clock Eastern time on Monday to play games on Tuesday. And on top of that, if you look at the Braves, sale and freed are probably not going to pitch in those games on Monday because they got a pitch in the games over the weekend or they have a pitch on Monday to try to make the playoffs. But either way, they're either not pitching on Monday to make the playoffs or they're not pitching in the first two games of a wild card. There's a lot of strategy and involvement with this as it kind of affects the playoffs in the next, next week. I think that might be a little bit of an oversell. I think they, they, regardless of the only thing that there is an advantage of is that one of those guys may have to pitch Monday. I'll give you that one. But in terms of who's going to be their opponent, where they're going, I mean, I don't think that's going to matter much. These dudes going to roll in as the playoffs for crying out loud. They don't care if it's on Planet Mars. They are going to go. They're going to show up and they're going to be ready to play. Now they may not have their ace on the mound, but that was going to likely be the case whether they played whether they got to Monday or not. They were going to not have, they're going to have to throw their best guys in order to get this to brave certainly are because they're the ones chasing the Mets. So you don't think travel would be a fact. I mean, if you don't know where you're going, you can't fly until nine o'clock Eastern. You're going to show up the morning of, I mean, and go play a ball game. I mean, that's, that's, I know that's, that's difficult for a lot of it. I know it's the playoffs, but that might, that might be a little bit of a factor. It could be. I, I, I just have a hard time seeing that being a huge thing moving forward. But either way, uh, lots, lots of, uh, pack over the next five games, uh, between, you know, all of these teams, I mean, even in American League, you still got, uh, Detroit and Kansas City still duking it out. And this affects Kansas City this week and too. Kansas City is in Atlanta this week. And that came on Friday might get postponed. He's very worked up about this. I can, if you can't tell, it's crazy. I'm just saying these, they, they, they got these charter planes, man. They gonna get, they gonna get out. They gonna have an easy time getting in. Oh, he's not horseing. You got the, you got the champagne factor toner. They could be popping champagne when they make the, make the postseason party on the plane. Gotta wake up. Go the next day. MLB will give them the 12 o'clock start for no reason. Yeah. I mean, again, they, they wouldn't be the first team that pop bottles the day before having to go into a playoff season. I mean, it's just, it's kind of, it's kind of par for the course unless you're one of these teams that have clinched like the Padres, they get it out the way. Uh, all right. Um, what else we got today? I wanted to ask you, uh, about like their, the focus on winning the division now because they are last night said that they are going to celebrate last night. And now they're going to move towards winning the division and getting into the, we're going towards the playoffs and you, Darvish, even stopped celebrating last night so he can go and, he can go and prepare. So as someone who's been in these locker rooms, Tony, how hard is it going to be for them today to turn around and continue to win and play like they have been? To a man, they all said last night that it's not going to be a problem at all. Like, Mike, she wasn't worried at all about having to turn around and, and, and, and these guys being prepared. He, you know, they call it, they, they, you know, as, as I heard in that locker room, there's a bunch of killers in there, man. And so that means when the bell, when the lights are bright and, and, you know, the bell rings, there's some, there's just some gamers out there, man. They go, they go play ball. And so, you know, they had their fun last night. I have no qualms that there's going to be any issue terms of them being ready for this, for this game today. They, they are, they're dialed in. I think they've, they've, they've, they've told, if anything, if you've been paying attention to this team, you know that just by watching them conduct business, like clockwork every single game it feels like. And the 20 year olds can bounce back quickly after, after a night out, the 30 year olds were probably wise in their decision-making last night. 21. So he is. I have no worries about Jackson being able to bounce back at his age. Me neither. Me neither. But the Dodgers, Tony. I mean, that's some of the best, some of the best performances have come after, you know, a night of, a night of boozing. Jackson Merrill. So he had a great line. We're going to play some of these clips a little bit later in the show, but he had a great line and, and great thing about Manny Machado and how he works harder than everybody else. And he, and Jackson Merrill was fired up and he's jumping swear words and all of that good stuff. Yeah, dog. Listen, even when I was doing my interviews last night, there was a, there was a couple of times that I, and you can't really, you know, it's not the time to be stopping them. You know, it's a, it's one slippage. They, they remember where they are, and then they refocus and get back to it. But yeah, there was a little bit of that going last night. You've talked about your relationship with these guys all year. What do you feel like to celebrate with this group in particular? These are my best friends. I love everybody in here. They're all my brothers. I'm my family. I couldn't have had him more fun first year. You know, we have my work to do. We have my work to do. Job's not finished. I love that. I love that. He goes, what does Sam say at the end? Sam was like screaming his question because obviously it's loud, but that was hilarious. It's like when Adam was like, "Is it an extra sweet?" Oh, you mean you have to talk extra loud when you're in the clubhouse? There's music going? Yes. Yes. It was funny. It plays with like Mr. Tempo last night. Before we had to break, Tony, I got to ask you about the Dodgers and how they you think they feel right now. Are they are they feeling the heat of the Padres winning the division? Are they not even really thinking about it right now? What's going on with them? Oh, yeah. No, I'm sure they're thinking about it. I'm sure they're feeling the heat. Certainly the folks in Los Angeles ain't letting them not think about it. I can guarantee you that. It's tough times right now. Tough times. They were fouling out that stadium after about the sixth inning. Sixth, seventh inning. They're starting to get light. That was almost like the mercy rule right there. They ended up in the triple play. Man, it's like the ultimate slap in the face last night. So yeah, no, regardless of whether they want to be thinking about it or not, they they they're going to be they're forced to think about it. And the tough part is there's still two more games. They're right back right back in the mix here tonight. Another glorious 710 start here at Dodger Stadium. Is it extra sweet because there's against the Dodgers? How much champagne did you drink out of before you asked that question? None. Was that that was a 22 play again? Two years ago. Is it extra sweet because there's against the Dodgers? It's not two Peter Siler, right? I think you see it. It's probably been a while. I did Peter Siler after the Dodgers after we did the Dodgers a couple years ago. And I was like screaming at him because it was so loud. Tony's never heard that before. Rob Manfred, Rob Manfred, move over drunk Adam Clue. That is really funny. But no, I mean, it is loud. That's amazing. Well, why aren't we using that more often? We need to we need to have that dialed into the whole everybody uses it. It's kind of a. I know. I can't believe you've never heard that before. That's crazy. I've never heard of that. I've never heard that. That's that's that's that's wild. Crazy word right. Tony's gonna make this ringtone when Adam calls him. Hey, is it extra sweet? Is it extra sweet that you beat the Dodgers? I don't know why I'm taking you from Adam right now. I don't know why I should be doing that because I'm usually the one getting made fun of and he's defending me. Anyway, let's let's hold up. Let's get to break before we all get fired. Back to chance to get a chance to jump into some of those celebrations from last night. I was down hot in the action being sprayed. I got doused Tanner Scott crushed me with lots of I think it was champagne. It was definitely champagne and it was it was man. It was ice cold ice cold. Anyway, play some of those interviews for you when we return work with Chris on the other side. Welcome back into Gwen and Chris, Tony Good Jr. in Los Angeles, Braden Suprena, myself, Matt Scrabie here in the Odyssey Palace and Adam Clue here as well tune in every Thursday at 10 a.m. for 97 through the fans commercial free Padres round table featuring Ben and Woods, Annie and Elston and Gwen and Chris presented by San Diego round table pizza for takeout or delivery. Go to roundtable pizza dot com round table the last honest pizza. So we will have the round table tomorrow and there will be a round table replay during our show tomorrow. So stay tuned for that. But we went to break giving Adam a really hard time about his interview with Peter Seidler. He said it's extra isn't it extra sweet. You beat the daughters. Well, I think with Peter Seidler being kind of the focus of this season, we need to go back in time and hear Adam interviewing him in 2022. Did I do some in 2022? I'm here with the owner of the Padres, Peter Seidler, Peter, how does it feel to advance to the NLCF? It feels great. The players, the fans, they both showed up in the biggest possible ways all season long, but especially these last two nights and the come from behind plinking game today. It could not have been better. Congratulations to our players. Is it extra sweet because there's like the Dodgers? Is it extra sweet because there's against the Dodgers? A little bit. They're the team that has dominated the last decade. And like we said, we you know who that dragon is up the freeway. We got to slay it and we did it this year. And we will be a very good team for years to come. Oh man, that is that is just amazing. My voice didn't crack yours. Yeah, that was amazing stuff in the voice crack and then the zoom in on Peter's ear. Is it extra sweet because there's against the Dodgers? Not as best. I'm so happy we get to laugh about this stuff now. But if you're if you're telling me because I'm a person who believes in the extra terrestrial, I'm a person who believes in the unexplained, you can't tell me that Peter Seidler wasn't a part of that triple play last night. I don't care if you think I'm weird. I don't care if you think that I'm crazy. But Peter Seidler has been a part of this season. That's how I can explain some parts of the season. I can't even go there right now with what I just heard. My stomach is hurting. Your stomach is hurting. It sounded like Adam took like a 40 ounce to the head and decided to do interviews afterwards. Is it extra sweet because there's against the Dodgers? And then Peter just went a little bit this little answer was immediately. A little bit. Oh man. I'm gonna laugh about this for the rest of the day. I gotta tell you. I gotta tell you. The chat is losing. All right. We'll come back to that later because it's going to be hilarious all day long. But Tony got to interview a bunch of players after the game last night. Was it like that? Was it like that interview, Tony? I hope I haven't heard any of them. I hope I have not just been laughing my tail off only to find out that I sound the exact same way. So walk across our fingers on it. Here is your interview with starting pitcher last night, Michael King. I'm with Michael King starting pitcher of tonight's ball game. And listen, Mike, Jesse and I have watched up from the top. You've had some bad luck over the last four or five starts. And I think the saying goes something like out after error. How were you able to kind of refocus after the first error of this ball game and you were still struggling to kind of command your stuff at that point? One of those games that didn't have anything upsetting because it was such a big game. But then I mean there's Bogey. I trust in the biggest spots of all. And so Bogey can't be apologized afterwards. I said that's a dumb comment that you cannot be apologized to me. I knew he was going to have a good game. And yeah, obviously at the RBI. And it was really just a grind putting up zeros and making sure that we kept the lead. I know this is a team event right now, but we're going to talk about you personally. I mean, first year as a full-time starter, you roll through it and made it look quite easy. I mean, talk about what has helped you get to this point this season. I think the leadership ahead of me having Darvish and Jill there. Cease has been doing it for however many years. And then Ruben. Ruben's been my rock through it all. I mean, I learned so much throughout the season. And even today, I was like, I'll be more efficient, I promise. And he was like, no, no, no, this is not a game to be efficient. There he is right there. He's like, it's not a game to be efficient. We got a full bullpen behind you. Just put up zeros and get out of there. You were able to settle in. You got through five innings of work. You handed it off to your bullpen, which has been phenomenal. And just when it started to look like it got rocky, it ended up going your way a triple play to get you guys in here to party. Talk a little bit about that. I mean, incredible. Suarez has been our guy the whole year. Obviously struggling a little right now. But like, you knew he was going to make pitches. He's a big game pitcher. And then there's nobody in that spot that I wanted to go to more than Manny and Manny cool comic collected and do exactly what to do. Chip play is freaking cool. Michael King, terrific season as a pottery. You got more work to do. I mean, you guys are going to have some fun here tonight, but there's still some uncheck boxes. Oh, yeah, we're going to be playing in Halloween. That's our goal. So and beyond, obviously. Enjoy yourself, brother. I love, love, love, Michael King. And I love that line where Bogart's came to apologize like, no, that was a dumb comment. That's a great answer. I could just imagine him like getting him eye to eye. That is a dumb comments, but good job, Tony. I was a good interview. Yeah, thank you. That one. That was my best one. I think they all progressively got worse, because if you could you start, you're trying to remember like unique questions for sets specific players in like real time. I'm just grabbing guys. So, you know, that you started, you know, at least for myself personally, I started thinking about like the questions I should have asked and like all the way back and figuring out. There's a couple I missed on Shilt that I wanted to ask, but all in all, you know, you want to, I think ideally you just want to hear from, you want to hear from those guys at that moment, especially the guys that we got. So I'll hang my hat on that as opposed to the actual questions I was asking. I think your questions are great, Tony. Don't worry about them. And I, as I said before the show, and he said that there is plenty of time for you to keep asking those questions. You they have a lot more in them. Hopefully. Yeah, that's the idea for sure. All right. Let's go to the next interview. Let's go with your interview with Joe Musgrove. And Joe Musgrove, you know, I remember him in 2022 when he, when you interviewed him and he was just so happy to be on this team. And I heard this last night and I loved it. So here is your interview with Joe Musgrove. I got Joe Musgrove here. We couldn't have a full complete show what I have in this guy. Joe, talk about this experience right now, man. This is a, you guys are starting to make this a habit. I'm digging this. I know, man, it's a little flashback to 22 with that feeling's like, I think once you get in the postseason one time, you get that feeling, you get a taste of playoff baseball, you want to be back every year. So something that started back in, you know, November last year, finishing on the, on the note that we finished on everyone's eager to get back at it. A lot of uncertainties and what the roster is going to look like, what the staff is going to look like. And I couldn't be happier with the group of guys that we got. Let's talk a little bit about you. You missed some time this year, took your time to get right and have perhaps thrown the best baseball you have this season. Watching it, watching this game from the bench tonight. Just what were your emotions as Tony hits the two run shots? You guys get out to a four or one lead. Did you start to feel like this was inevitable? Yeah, I mean, it feels like that every time we're in a game, we get a lead, we feel pretty confident that we can hold it. And if we do happen to give it up late in the game, I mean, you know, our seven, eight, nine innings, the damage I'm able to do with the offense is gives you a lot of confidence. So we can get to the fifth, sixth inning, hand that ball over to the bullpen. We feel really good about our chances. But the group, this group that we have here this year, it's the most fun thing is like, is growing as baseball players with these guys, you know, we're really starting to understand the game, we're starting to understand how our team operates and the things that we need to do on a daily basis. And it's just fucking fun to watch it all play. There was Joe Musgrove. Adam got to it in time. But that was Joe Musgrove with Tony Gwen Jr. after the game last night. As you could tell, very excited that they made it. I was I was wondering what happened there. I was like, wait a minute, they interviewed it in like that. But I said, did I remember? Oh, yeah, it did. It's just ended. And you know what? I don't blame. I don't blame Joe at all or any of these guys because they're pretty good. Yeah, they're not doing it intentionally. This is these are, I mean, it doesn't matter for us, but either way, it's not like they're coming on there with the intent of dropping an F bomb or whatever flavorful flavor flavor. Yeah, exactly. So let's just sing. Yeah, you almost, you almost have to expect that in these heightened environments where I mean, they're literally pouring alcohol on top of it. It's it's bound to happen. You know what I thought was really great last night was when Jesse was trying to stall long enough for you to get down there and get in place. I fell for him too. I fell for him too, man. I was, I could hear him in my ear, but you know, they weren't going to move. You know, they came in, they were all excited, you know, position to get in their gear on. Mike comes out, says some, a couple of other guys speak, and you know, nothing was good. Nobody was going to be interviewed until after all of that went down. So he had to stall for quite some time before I grabbed Xander, who was the first one we had. Yeah, and he was like, yep, I'm still seeing down there is a lot of flashing lights and the champagne has been popped. But yeah, it was really funny. I got to ask you about Jerkson profile last night. Does it surprise anyone in this room that Jerkson profile had such two great catches last night to save parts of that game? I mean, that's what he's been doing all season long. Exactly. So it shouldn't surprise anybody. He has been a, he's been so good this year in many different ways and in different times for the Padres. And when it seemed like, you know, he was losing steam there, he picked it, he picked it right back up and has played and performed, you know, at a level that he had been performing all year long. And it's been, it's just been fun to watch Jerkson man, finally, kind of get going on this and really put it to put a full year package together. Because at this point, this is, this is real, like this is who he is right now. Yeah, he's been great and playing really well. And, you know, I'm interested to see what they do with him in the, in the postseason, whether or not they take him out late in the game, you know, as a defensive replacement. I think he's done well enough to, to play the entire game. Obviously got a lot of guys on that, on that team, you can get, get reps in and everything like that. So that would be interesting to see. But for me, Tonya, I'd like to know a little bit more from your perspective of being down there in, in the clubhouse. I mean, you've, you've been a player and celebrated. You've been now, now broadcast to celebrating. I'm sure you got to be down there maybe once or twice when your dad was playing, does it ever get old for you to go down there? And what's, what's the experience like as you've done it now in kind of different roles? Has that changed for you? Is everything's kind of the same down there? I mean, it's different because, you know, when you're, when you're on the team, like, you're, you got free reign, you know, your show, right? You get to, you get to do what you want to do. You get to spray champagne. You get to, whatever it is you want to do. It's your, it's your palace, basically, as a, as a, as a broadcaster, a team member, but a broadcaster, right? Like, there are invisible lines that I don't want to cross, right? I mean, I certainly didn't hit a baseball. I didn't hit a grounder to a player. I didn't flip a baseball. I didn't hit a baseball. So, you know, there's a certain amount of work that allows for you to be able to pick up one of those bottles and, and, and pop it open and spray it on somebody. And so it's different from that standpoint. But the one thing that is, is very much the same is the joy that is in that room. And I don't want to say a relief, but just like, uh, kind of like a, you know, a good feeling about accomplishing something that you set out to do six months ago. And at that time, you didn't know what the road ahead was. So there's, so you go through that journey and when you get to this point, there, again, a sense of relief is not the right word because obviously you got to keep planned. But there is like this, uh, feeling of, of, of joy for an accomplishment that you literally planned six months ago. And, and, you know, everything went the way you needed it to go in order to get to this point. And so that part doesn't change, right? I, I may not have flipped the ball, hit a ball, uh, grew, took a ground ball, hit a ground ball. But I certainly was here to tell, tell the story. And so yeah, you feel, you feel, you feel a part of that. And I think the guys respect that. They, they see, they see, when they see you there every day, it does start to feel like you're a part of the family in some way too. So it's, I enjoyed that very much watching those guys, be able to celebrate the way they were. We talked us right to the break. That's perfect. That is great. Radio magic. When we get back, I'm going to tell you about where the Padres are in the World Series odds after last night. And more later in the show from Tony interviewing some players, we're going to celebrate today and get ready for game two tonight on 97 through the fan.