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You're telling me, Tony, I've got a little bit of an update for everyone on what's happening tomorrow with the show. But go ahead first. Okay. Well, welcome in. Should be a fun, short show. Man, this camera is quite tight on my face, man. I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan of this two camera view, but there's only two of us. So I guess it has to be this way. Do you like the bunting? That's what it's called. See, on the camera, if you're watching on YouTube, just search 97 of your fan. Play off vibes, right? They're the bunting. Yes, I got a bunch of messages. What do we call it? What do we call it? Banners. We're with July Banners. Yeah. Yeah. The bunting makes me think of playoffs. I tell you what, game 161 and this Mets brave double header made me feel like we're in playoff baseball one, a finish. We'll get to that in a second. Because obviously it has a big factor in what the Padres will see and do come tomorrow. But how where should we start? Let's start with the weekend. Padres were able to clinch on Friday, which we weren't able to talk about because the next day was Saturday. Correct. When I say clinch, I mean, clinch the top spot, they got a, what was it, a Braves? What was the, the guy, one of the two? It was a bunch of scenarios on how it had to happen, but the Braves got, or Padres got a win, which was one of the things. Yes. And I think the Mets had to lose. And they did to the, to the Brewers. Yeah. So they both, they both got that done. That happened Friday night. Saturday night was Saturday and Sunday from a broadcast standpoint was very much like a spring training vibes for. You know what I felt? I felt that for Jesse and I, right? Like it was the first time that him and I have ever done a game where the, the, the fate was sealed in a good way for the Padres. And you know, there was, you know, we were there, you know, half of the starters were out of the lineup. So, you know, it was kind of a fun laid back to broadcast. And I don't know if we'll ever get that ever again, right? We got the last two games to kind of do that. Even though the, the third game, we were kind of a little more locked in or eyes was chasing a batting title. There were eight different scenarios in which the Padres could figure out who they were playing, two of which were pretty clean. Didn't happen. Didn't happen. Didn't happen. Uh, the next one, which is probably the Padre favor happened, which was, well, not the next one. I think this one is, was actually scenario five according to Jeff Passen. Yes. Um, which was a Mets win, a Braves loss and a Diamondback win. That brings us to where we are today. Those pesky Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks are literally at Chase field right now, bags packed. Yeah. Hoping that the Mets can win another one. Cause if the Mets win another one, Diamondbacks are in, they'll go to Milwaukee. New York comes here. If the Braves win game two on a spoiler alert, obviously, because I'm talking about game two, the Braves would be in. They'd come to San Diego. New York will go to Milwaukee. Now I said before the show, I don't want the Mets coming here. Cause the Mets are like the other team with this magical run in them. And it was proven today when Francisco Lindor had a two run home run in the top of the ninth inning to bait to win it for the Mets before we go down the Mets. Yeah. But first we got to give some props to the Padres side of things. We should. Louisa rise three time back to back to back batting champ. Three different teams. First time ever, you know, first time ever is always pretty cool, but this one comes with a caveat. There was a time where no one would consider trading a batting champ. True. So there's reason why it stuff. You might might one team might trade him, but in back to back seasons, it's probably never been done. I'm surprised he's been. I'm not, I guess I'm not surprised he's been traded so many times, but he, he fits the Padres perfectly. He is a Padre. And this year, this is pretty impressive to me just because of how bad his thumb seems like it hurts him because he even talks about it. He still does this after a certain get the inside pantry. I mean, like, I don't even know how he's still doing what he's doing with his thumb the way it is, but credit to him. Tough guy right there. Yeah. Tough guy. According to, to Mike Schilt, doesn't have to like go to him to say, Hey, we're going to put you here or I'm giving you a day or I'm going to give you he's willing to do whatever it is. So he's one of those guys that he doesn't have to check in. I mean, I'm sure he does because this might chill, but he doesn't have to. So shout out to, uh, shout out to, to Louisa rise third title. Not only did he get his third batting title, 200 hits again for him. That is a huge marker and he did it in best fashion. His last, that bat of that game, because he would come out after doubling was hit number 200. It's just, it's a big number. And it doesn't seem like it happens very often. And I'll tell you what, this would be my last, it's not be my last thing, but lasting for now on last thing. Okay, we can go home. I don't know. We can't go home. Um, last thing on the, what, Louisa for now, um, he's on a path where it really won't be recognized, what he's doing, unless he's able to do it for a sustained amount of time, you know, as good as, as much as we remember my father and as high regard, we keep him in. There was a point in his career where this wasn't, you know, him hitting 300 wasn't, you know, it wasn't looked at the way it's looked at now. It took him getting into like year seven, eight, nine of, of doing it before the recognition started to come. Remember, my dad started in 83. Uh, recognition didn't start coming his way, like for real, for real, until he got into the nineties in terms of the type of hit. It doesn't mean there wasn't articles written just like they were written about Luis, but in terms of his stature in the game as, as a whole, as a long term president really didn't start coming until year seven, eight of doing it. And so I just pointing that out because this is Louisa's third year doing it. Um, you know, he puts another three years, like, I think we'll be talking about, we won't be having the conversation of his value, this and that and the other. It'll be, man, this guy skill level is on a different level, but of course he's got to do that for a sustained amount of time. We'll only, uh, we'll, only time will tell if that there's only one player in baseball this year that had more than 200 hits along with Luis Ress. Do you know who it is? My, the young kid, Bobby Witt. That's correct. Yeah. 211 hits for Bobby. When he hit two, three, three 30. I mean, you, you probably doing some damage. They, they ain't walking you too much. No. So shout out, but that just proves to you. Sorry. That just proves to me at least how hard it is to, to collect 200 hits in a season. If only two guys did it and none of the guys in the games playing right now are going to get close to that. Yeah. Padres finish, uh, what? 93? Yes. 93 wins. 93 wins. I remember when we back, I said, I said mid 90s. You guys, at least Chris told me I was crazy for saying that it was. And you said mid 90s. I definitely said that you're crazy. I, I, all weekend, I went through old, old tape, trying to figure it out. And I could not find it. If you said that, I definitely would go in to find it. I definitely will jump on the side and said, yeah, you're probably crazy. Well, it's cut payroll. I can't remember the exact number, but they cut a lot of mill. They cut and say, well, we'll say 90, cut 90 mill. They traded one of their best players. They lost another one, lost three starters in free agency and they had a 93 win season. And perhaps one of the toughest divisions in, in baseball, at least the top half them in the A.L. East, they're no West and A.L. East. It's, uh, it's, it's quite a remarkable thing. We go back to the beginning of the season and where the Padres were and how we were talking about, I think Jesse brought this up on air yesterday. We definitely, him and I were bullish that the Padres would be better than they were last year. And we thought that would lead to the playoffs. We both be lying. If you asked us now, if we said, oh, you guys thought they'd get the 93 wins? We're like, Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, totally. We didn't. We didn't. But we thought they'd be a playoff team. We didn't think that nationally West would be that good. Now, the Giants were right there for a while. They fell off. They're all year. There was a time in, and I would say, June-ish that you thought 89 wins would get you 88 wins would get you into postseason play. That was pretty all-star break. We all start wondering if this team was going to get to 85 wins. Didn't happen. He turns out what is, what's the records we got here? And this Mets, uh, the records for the team. Let me see. I, it is, well, the Mets 89 Braves 88 wins. So it's going to take you at least 89 wins to get in. Man, you guys are kind of spot on them. I'm kind of close. We're kind of close. Is that usually? I mean, 89 wins seems like a pretty round number. It took less than that last year, right? Departuries missed by two games, I believe. Yeah, they did. So 84 wins is what it took last year. And it, and it, you know, it just, it goes to show you that every year is in a bubble of itself. No 100 win teams this year for the first time in a long time. Um, yet it seemed like it was more competitive. It was start to finish than it has been in quite some time. So I also feel like this rookie class has, uh, joy, look, KZ off the wall. We're still watching the second game between the mess. So Larry, so Larry in the second, uh, double, but I feel like the Ricky class this year all the way across the board was pretty good. And so that makes competition a lot better. It was expected that the rookie class, I mean, Jackson Cheerio was, was I think the favorite. Yeah, him and Jackson holiday. Yeah, that's right. Those were the two names we kept hearing at the beginning. It wasn't even the three Jackson's. It was the two Jackson's right. We didn't hear about Jackson Merrill, um, which we show here in San Diego, we definitely knew what he was capable of. I don't think we knew he was capable of. Yeah, and not everything that he did. That'd be another cap. If somebody was, oh yeah, I knew Jackson was going to hit 290 and have 24 bombs and 85 RBIs or 84, whatever it was. Don't even get me started. Don't even get me started about this rookie of the year that's going to go to Paul Skeens because he threw two innings against the Yankees on Saturday ridiculous. You wrapped your mind around that. Oh, I've accepted it. It's going to happen. Paul Skeens is going to win. I don't know if it's going to happen. I, I, I, ooh, it went off the top, top of it. I don't know, uh, how it's going to end, but I definitely, I'm partial to Jackson. I'm partial to every day players that lace it up every day. They don't have to wait every 150 something games for him this year. A rookie playing a position he'd never played before. To me, it's a no brainer. Here's Jackson Merrill hit 292 for the season. That's tied for top 12 with Steven Quand and Catel Marte. I mean, he is in the top 20. That's, that's not rookie. No, that's a cross base cross baseball. Now, listen, what Paul Skeens did was, was, was amazing. He just didn't do it as long. And that's my only beef with it is that, you know, Jackson was here from the time this team flew to Korea and was inserted in the lineup all but 12 games. I'm, I'm guessing it was 150 something. I just think that, that, that means something and he's able to do the hardest thing in the sport. He appeared in 156 one. He appeared here. So even the days he didn't start, he got, he was in the game helping at some point. And that's with him missing like one or two games because that knee thing that he had late in the year, like really late in the year. And he's fine now. What was it? Um, how did he hurt his knee? I don't remember him hurting his knee. He did. It was, it was at home. Oh, he fouled the ball. That's right. That's right. Yeah. Does this not feel good? I'm sure. I'm sure it doesn't. Uh, but a really great season. Now, all that being said, hate to tell you this, none of it matters anymore. Um, and I, and I say that because, you know, Padres in 22 really backed into the postseason. They didn't go out and get on this amazing hot streak at the end. They pretty, pretty, pretty much like they had been all the second half, but soon as that season ended and everybody went to zero, uh, it was a different team from the Mets series all the way through the Dodgers series. They battled like heck against the only other team that got hotter than them in the Phillies that year. It was a remarkable run that. And I bring that up to say that team didn't look anything like this team has throughout the course of the regular season. Absolutely. This team, this team is, is, I'll say it a more fun team than that team was. I mean, there's so many, there's so many things about this team that I love. And it's, it's the camaraderie. It's the getting the, getting the job done when they needed to. It's just everything that they've done this year. What were they? The first team ever to do a triple play, a no hitter come back from eight runs down. And then there was one more thing and they're the first team in the history of the sport. Two sets of back to back to back home runs only team ever to do that. Yeah. Uh, no doubt. Padres have had a wonderful season. Um, and I think there's more to come. All right. I'm getting the break sign. So let's get to break. We'll be able to kind of break down some of what's going on in this Mets Atlanta game as the Braves just taking one nothing lead on a blue single by Urshela. Uh, and so, you know, I think, uh, as we saw on the last game, this probably won't end one nothing, especially with the pitchers that are, are both throwing for both side and either of them have their best guy in, Chris cell was scratched before, right before this start with back spasms. I, he hadn't made his last two starts prior to this. My guess is it has something to do with those back spasms. Again, Mets won the first game. If they win the second game by them, I mean the Mets Diamondbacks are in. They'll go Diamondbacks will go to Milwaukee Mets will come here. If the Braves win game two, they lost game one. If they win game two Mets go to Milwaukee Braves come here either way, someone's going to have to fly cross country tonight and play tomorrow. What app? What app? That's fine with me. Not our problem. Not our problem. We already got in. We took our, we took care of business. All right. Let's, uh, let's jump away. Let's get to break. We'll be able to talk a little bit more about what happened in game one lot of fun baseball stuff that happened in game one. We'll talk about it on the other side. We're going to Chris. When it comes to making plans, you are the best. 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You say I believe it is delicious. I'm a beer snob now. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I hate it beer for most of my life. Really? Yes. And then why? So good. I mean, because I was no disrespect. No, no, I don't do that. I still drink alcohol, but it's just a beer. Has nothing to do with that. Just the other stuff. The early beers didn't like course light, but like my dad stuff. But like, you know, my dad drank cores. It was like, yeah. Oh, did he drink the banquet? Core silver, silver, like silver bullet. Okay. The likes. Yes. He'd have one every, like, five months, right? I don't understand that, but sure. So, you know, that was like my first taste. And then I got to college and my roommates were drinking red ribbon and like patch. Oh, red stripes, red stripes. Yeah. Like, you know, that stuff is the taste. I was a big new castle guy. It was like 21. Natty ice. They used to have your lights get to Keystone when I was in Colorado. Keystone. Yeah. So that was the foundation I was working from. I didn't. I didn't enjoy them. Okay. I understand it now that you're coming out. It comes along as like, yo, this tastes like tastes good. No one has to have people in the chat. They're saying, sorry, it's great. No one has to apologize. You, everybody is allowed to enjoy their alcohol beverages. I just don't allow myself to enjoy it. I'm sure the evil side of all of us. There's a piece of us with that would love to see you have a drink. Oh, our guy will. He tells me all the time. Scrappy. Uh, he tells me all the time. If I could just have one night with you. Oh, one night. I'm like, I don't think you want it. I think there are a lot of us. That we enjoy the old Matt one time. Just don't think you experience. I don't think you guys want that. I'll take your word for it. We don't want it. Uh, let's talk about game one of this series. By the way, my Aztecs took a tough one this weekend, man. Yeah, the Chippewa's got them. Not good. Not good at all. That one, that one hurt. And please stop calling for Sean Lewis's job. Yeah. Come on. We got relaxed on this. By the way, it's not like people are lining up to take the job right now. So let's this chill on like firing our head coach has been three games with three games for four games, maybe five. Is it five already? I think it's four four. Yeah, I think they're one in three. It's bad that I don't know. That means that they're not playing. No, it's not. I mean, it's not like there's not a baseball exciting baseball season that's happening right now. If they were for it. Oh, I would know that they're for it. No, too. I can't remember when Chris said they need to come out. They need to throw a bunch of touchdowns in the first game. And they need to score 70. It's been, you know, I think it's important. We got a freshman quarterback, a new head coach. And at times, it's looked like, I think we imagined it. Look at that 20. Before I even turned the game on, they had 21 points. So I'm like, Oh, okay, we this first half. Yeah. So I'm thinking, Oh, okay, this is, this is we're back to good, good, good. We'd have to a good start. Yes. And then it stayed at 21 for a long time. It did. And then the chip was one. The chip was, how are you letting chip was beat? The chips. Come on. All right. Let's talk a little bit about this game one, because there were so many things between the Mets and Braves that it was like a, it was like a, it was like a pamphlet of today's baseball, right? You had a starter and for the Braves. Who was it? Uh, Schwellenbach, Schwellenbach. Dealing. Yes. Really hadn't been touched. He gave up a couple hits. I believe it was the sixth or seventh. He got to the seventh. Think he had a walk or gave up a hit. They go get him. Mind you, the Mets hadn't scored any runs to this point. They go get him. They bring in him and as he proceeds to give up the ghost. Right. So they tie the game. Eventually, uh, some big bomb, um, puts them up three, I believe, right? Yes. Put them up. Three, three. Schwellenbach went seven. He went seven on the eighth. That happened. Yeah. So they stuck with him pretty long. So that one, that's not necessarily by the book. They go get him after the walk to get the bullpen, gives it up. Mets, they go with new school baseball. They bring their closer in right now. Yeah. He proceeds to give it up. Yeah. All of it. Yeah. And so Braves have the lead going into the ninth. Yeah. Now, mind you, the Braves had to go to the Iglesias to finish the eighth. Yeah. He comes back out for the ninth. He gives it up. Francisco Lindor, who had a big hit earlier in the game to get him to within one ice cold is the exact way to describe that to run shot. They go on the wind. Diaz, by the way, came out again and finished the ninth little bit of not, not too much, um, too much, uh, excitement there in that ninth. So they're in, uh, but it was earlier in that game and in the beginning for the Mets, they had a chance to get the runner over. They didn't. Iglesias gets a knock. So they were so, I say that to all of them say that none of it is bullet proof, right? The analytics aren't bullet proof. Coaching with your eyes or heart or whatever you want to say isn't bullet proof. You have to manage. You have to make decisions. This goes for managers and players in the moment. And that's why sometimes, you know, the analytic stuff isn't going to, going to go your way. Because you got to kind of be looking at what's happening, plus what you get on the paper. It's got to be a boat and then you got to actually make the decision for yourself. Um, I just thought that was interesting. The way it is 94 pitches when he was taken out. So if you're looking at the paper, the paper's probably screaming at you to get out of the game in terms of, in terms of swelling, Bach. Yeah, swelling Bach, swelling Bach. I like saying that. Uh, I think that was the right move. You go get a 94 pitches. He's got you two through seven. He's, you're into the eighth, right? So yeah, I think yes. I think that's the way you end up going in that situation. I was just watching like just in awe. It also, I mean, in the playoffs, that's exactly how it's going to be managed on the Mets side, right? They went and got there. That's how we see it. You go get your closer for the biggest part of the game. And, uh, it almost backfired. I mean, thankfully ice, ice man himself, Francis goes and door came through. Uh, but otherwise it would have been a disastrous move and to do it on the road too. By the way, he had just thrown 26 pitches the day before because he hadn't pitched in forever. Yeah. So they got him some work, 26 pitches. I bet you've not exactly what they were hoping for when they've got him in there, get some work, probably a little more, but he was still ready to go the next day. He's not been very, we're still talking. Yeah, he's been inconsistent. Yeah, he has been very inconsistent for how much money he's being paid. You always got to throw that part in there, huh? Well, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I mean, that that's what we measure. That's what we measure people by these days. Lastly, a little bit of, I told you so, uh, Farhan's I 80 is no longer president of baseball opera. Yeah. Uh, remember that story we went over maybe a couple weeks ago? All right, after Chapman signed the big deal. It was right after Matt Chapman did that. We talked about it, and I said, this isn't, this isn't a good thing for Farhan because you mean when someone else is negotiating your contracts for your own team? Yeah. That's, that's, that is never a good thing. Isn't that your job? It's like the one thing that you're supposed to do. Yeah, the big thing, like you got a, if you're going to free agency comes, you sign guys, you bring, keep, keep guys. Instead, Buster Posey out of left field comes in and gets this done. Didn't even know Buster Posey was involved like that. I didn't either. And guess what? Now he has Farhan's job, which honestly talk about ice cold. That is ice cold. That is. I mean, Farhan, Farhan had his time. I definitely had more than enough time to turn that around. I am by no means saying the Giants weren't in their right mind by making this move. We, we've gone over at least three off seasons that didn't go their way since he's been there. The first one I think we were willing to give a pass on, but you struck out on, uh, my man for the twins, uh, Correa. Yes, you, you, you swung and miss it. Arson, arson, and then didn't, didn't get there. John Heyman said, arson judge is a giant. You really lucked into Chapman and Snell, um, because they ended up not getting the deals that they were supposed to. So it fit. And I did it, you know, those deals to me that they signed are, I think a, a microcosm of what Farhan's problem was. It just seemed like he was too reluctant to take any risk at all. He, he only wanted to do the things that he was felt the value was perfectly matched up. Yeah, he was protecting his job instead of, which is why they had run it the way they had for so long, right? Which with the, like the, the ultimate platoon team and man, like that was theirs. That was the value baseball right there. It didn't work out cost him his job. So, uh, Buster Posey is now, uh, on the clock. I'm very interested to see how he does. I feel like he's going to be good at it because he's good at everything he does in the baseball world, but he's extremely smart. He knows baseball. He clearly understands players because he got Chapman to, to sign that extension. Um, I, I think he's going to do a great job. So, and then, you know, this is, uh, this is a move, kind of an old move, right? A former player. Yeah. Being just as something we used to see in like the nineties and early 2000s, we've kind of moved away from that and may, I don't know. This, this is, uh, maybe they saw the Rangers last year with Christie on the GM baseball operations guy. Not saying that all baseball players will get it right. God knows that a lot of us don't wouldn't do that job well, but, uh, these two certainly, uh, are off Chris won a world series last year, Buster Posey getting an opportunity now. Maybe we're starting to see things kind of changing. All right. Let's break away. One of my favorite people of all time will be joining us next. We'll highlight this postseason. Um, his team, his former team already has a buy. Well, Jimmy Rollins will talk to us a little bit. You're going to see plenty of him on TBS coming up here as a playoff start. He'll join us next on Gwen and Chris. Oh, it's such a clutch off season pickup, Dave. I know right. 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Sign up for local weather and emergency alerts. Prepare an emergency kit and make a family communications plan. Get started at ready.gov/plan. Brought to you by FEMA and the Ad Council. 240 on the clock Tony Gwen Jr. Matt Scravey, Gwen and Chris. Jimmy Rollins joins us here shortly. I see a season chat. I see you guys making the point that it was two outs when they brought in Diaz. There's two on one out. Two on one out. Don't make a difference with me. Five outs after 26 pitches the night before. It's a gamble. It's a huge gamble. Nonetheless, point taken. Joining us here on Gwen and Chris, one of my favorite individuals ever. Jimmy Rollins, former shortstop of the Phillies, joins us. He'll see a lot of him coming up here on TBS as the playoffs. Rose, Jimmy, Jay roll. How are you, Mother Anne? I am. I am. Well, I'm excited about what's happening in baseball. Game one was probably the best game of the year with everything on the line, seeing my guy, Lynn Doar. Once again, prove why he should probably probably be the NL MVP. I know everybody's up on show. Hey, oh, but man, you can't, you come up value, not someone else, stand him, come up value. But I'm also excited for this a match up, which we'll be covering on TBS. There's a lot going on. And honestly, I'll just throw this out there because I sent it to our group chat. I think the wild court, the wild card series should be played the way these, the way this series is right here. Should be a double header on the first day. If there's a suite, the team earns their day off. If not, then you get that next day. And that way, the strategy and how do you manage, you know, games now that the NL is no longer with the DH. I mean, with the, I mean, that none of the game is no longer with the pitcher hitting this all DH. I think that asked some strategy. You come up one exciting day, potentially, of baseball around the league. You, you, you, and with that said, hello, my friend. You want ultimate chaos. Well, I got, I got, I got, I got to ask you a little bit. You threw it out there. Educate us on, on the Lindor, Otani MVP conversation. Because this seems like a foregone conclusion that everybody is saying, Oh, Tani, Oh, Tani, Oh, Tani. But they're, they're, they're, you're making a case for Lindor. So, Oh, Tani, what he did, 50 50, you know, 50, he don't run 50 stolen bases. He only affects one side of the baseball. And I'm, and you can call it bias. The same way I don't feel a pitcher should win MVP. I don't care what they do. They should be so young that your MVP for that, a position player affects the ball every day on both sides of the ball. And Oh, Tani, he's only affecting on the offensive side. And, you know, Canada DH win MVP. There's arguments because I don't think it's happened. And we've had some great DHs and Oh, Tani seems to be an exception. You know, they've already made a rule change form that we can pitch and hit to everything else you can. So I get it. And I get the hype run show away and I love show. Hey, I was there. I got his rookie card. I know that thing is up in value. So I appreciate your show. Hey, but was, as we talk about value to a team, the Mets are not there in this position today and didn't clench today without Lindor. And he proved it in my opinion with that big to run home run and the, and the top of the knife. Without that, they're not there. They're playing for their lives right now in game two, but instead they're on. Now, he's been through injuries and right now he's battling through injuries. And we're talking about value. We're an outstanding player. Show away. Oh, Tani is the most outstanding player in the game this year. What he's done is outstanding, but valued to the success of your team. There's no way the Metadilla felt Lindor. And that's why I thought the most valuable player. And that's where I give him the value award. Consider everyone listening. Educate it. Let's talk a little bit about this double header. There's a lot of conversations about it being fair, unfair. I know I come from the standpoint of, you know, you take care of business, you're not in this situation. Now, weather is what caused this game to be pushed to this point. Do you see some, do you see some unfairness involved in this, this double header here today? No, not at all. Not at all. Personally, I love it just for the excitement. It is going back to when we had the one game playing and baseball was a buzz. You had one day of just chaos. That was like our Super Bowl. You sat there and somebody was going home and somebody was going on. And today you kind of get that feel again and we can't control the weather. They've looked at the schedule and you've been through it. You look at the schedule and you look at common days off and you try to figure it out. But it just so happened to be. This is a very unusual situation. And for the game of stuff, I love it. I mean, the excitement of today. And it isn't about fair. I'm fair and I'm with you. If you handle your business over 162, you avoid being in a situation. But if you are in a situation, you ask those guys on the field, say, I don't care. It's what do we need to do to get in? And that's all you care about. Talking to Jimmy Rollins here, he is an analyst for TBS, heading into the playoffs. And you just talked about how you don't think a pitcher can win an MVP. So I'm going to go towards rookie of the year because I personally think that Paul Skied is going to win just because of how things have been going as of late with the media coverage. But who do you think should win nationally rookie of the year? Jackson Merrill or Paul Skiedes? I think Jackson Jackson should win. I understand that Paul Skiedes, and this is separate from a value to a team. Because what Paul Skiedes did was absolutely outstanding. I think he had a sub two year array 11 six record or something like that. And that's outstanding. And that should be separate from the team, 100%. But it's hard in this situation to take a team that is as bad as the pirates and a team that has been as successful as the Padres and the role that Jackson has played in that team. Big hits with two outs, big rants, lambs, plays a good defense and is a key component to their success. And like both of them, one was in college last year and he's in a big league. The other was an A ball and he finds himself in a playoffs. So it's tough. And I do agree with the hype around Paul Skiedes starting the All-Star game. All the success that he had is hard to not say he isn't the rookie of the year. But by that same token, I think it's the same with Jackson Merrill. And maybe it's a coworker of the year situation. I don't think that any of them deserve to lose it. And I both deserve to win it. And I'll tell you one thing. I'm glad I don't have a vote. No doubt. Jimmy Rollins joins his TBS analyst. One of the best I've had to ever had the privilege of playing against and playing with. Jimmy, you had a lot of playoff, AB's experience. Just take us through the difference. I know in my three at bats of experience on the playoff stage, the one thing that stood out to me was the heightened focus all the way around. Talk about, you know, what is like stepping in the box in the playoffs versus during a regular season? There is a different focus. I mean, even from the umpires, and I'll start from the back of it, the umpires actually call a true strike zone. They start carrying less about a quest tech. And it's like, this is a strike. This is a ball. And it becomes more definitive. Because you're not trying to get through 162. If it's a four hour game, then so be it. And I think the umpires appreciate that. But each bat means more. Each of bat means more. This bat can win the game. And it's the same during the season, albeit. But winning the game in a playoff means you're one game closer to the next level. One game closer to raising that trophy and have a parade down your respective Broad Street. And that's where the heightened focus comes in. What needs to get done? You know, what pitches can I do damage with? You start paying more attention to that. What other pitchers tendency to start paying more attention to that run as a scoring position? This is what this guy likes to do. Run a scoring position. This is what I typically do. Do why change that? Because there are no secrets. I can't surprise them unless I do something different. But as a hitter, you have to remember the pitchers done all of a sudden invent pitches, all of a sudden throw harder. Everything remains the same, just more emphasis on the result of the back. And that's where I think, you know, you can see people float on a pressure or step up and meet the challenge. Talking to Jimmy Rollins here and yes, Tony was right. He does have a lot of postseason experience. He's played in 50 postseason games. So that's a lot. And I'm just wondering what your thoughts are on the Padres heading into the playoffs as they stand right now. They have been incredible since the all-star break. They're continuing to win. What do you think their chances are here in the playoffs? The Padres are a scary team. I think everybody in NL has to have their eyes on the Padres just because the way they've played with their revamped bullpen, what Luis Arias is able to do at the top of that lineup. They're no longer a one trick pony just licking in the drive the ball out the yard. They have an all-around game. So I really, really, really like the Padres as a team to get to the NLCS. They've proven that they can play with the Dodgers. They've done it before. They've knocked them out. And if I'm anybody in NL, I'll tell them myself, we have to have a lead before the sixth inning because it goes back to what Cleveland did way back in 2016. They will stream up. They have that type of bullpen. Jimmy, I noticed you said the NLCS. And on the other side of the bracket is some alum for you in the Philadelphia Phillies. They've played a pretty good baseball for most of the year. They've kind of if kind of slowed down here on the on the back half. Now that could be because they had such a comfortable lead. They certainly have had their nicks and bruises. Is there any concern about your flying feels? As of September, no, August, I was definitely scared as I was going on guys. And yeah, a lot of it does come from when you have a nice comfortable lead. You're looking ahead. You can't help but look at it because you know what's out there. They've been to the World Series and loss. They've been to the NLCS and loss. And you kind of jumping out the bit, just wanting the season to be over so we can go ahead and get to the playoffs and give ourselves a chance to win the World Series again. But you know, they had some wake-up calls. They had some injuries, guys. They had some great first half and kind of came back to Earth, I guess, the second half. Alvarado, I think, has a four ERA, which isn't typical for him. Price battling through things, but Castellanos completely turned it around his first half, the second half. Schwabers, Ben Schwabers all year long. So they have all the pieces. Nola, he's a big game pitcher, Wheeler. He's up there for Sayoung. Ranger, they got him back. So if he's healthy and pitches healthy like mentally and physically, he'll be great. But he's also a big game pitcher. He doesn't, you know, shy up in the moment. It's almost like he goes the opposite way. So they have their pieces. They have the experience. It's about everything coming together at the right time because we know the best team doesn't always win. A good team will win and a team that's hot will beat anybody in the world. I'm talking to Jimmy Rollins here on 97 through the fan. And MLB network put out a list of the top five people that have the most pressure heading into the playoffs. And Bryce Harper was on that list. And so I thought it was kind of strange that he would be on that list. But what do you think it would mean for Bryce Harper to go out and win a world series? Do you think it would alleviate pressure or what are your thoughts on him? Well, I mean, there's pressure to winning period. Let's just start there. And it doesn't matter what uniform, which name is on the back or the front. There's pressure to winning. That's what we played a game for. It's a game that we grew up in. We put that pressure on ourselves. Since the time we were four or five years old, send us three to count and you're trying to throw a strike or you're trying to get that hit. That pressure has been there. So that's something that we live with. But outside of that, pressure is what you make it. Somebody has to win. Somebody has to lose. And you're always saying I'm the one that's going to win. And if you say you're going to win, you don't feel the pressure because you'll do whatever it takes to win. And also baseball is not an individual game. Bryce can't hit every time. He can't pitch every time he can't be there to make every single play. He has his moments. And as long as he's doing his job and inspiring his teammates to be better, there's nothing more that he can do. The results you live with, obviously, he wants to win. He wants a championship, big money and a big market. And he came there to win a championship. I'm sure he's feeling a way about the Nationals winning when he left. But with all that being said, if Bryce shows up and everybody does their part because the big guys, they're going to have their moments. It's going to be, I hate to say, the role players, there's no such thing. It's going to be the non-superstars that are going to be the ones that contribute the most. Because if they're doing their job, they're going to have to see the big guys in lineup. They're going to have to see Schwabber, Turner, and Bryce. But if the quote unquote role players aren't, then we can work around the big guys. Yeah, that's when it gets thick. When the guys who, the non-stars are doing their job, that's when these teams are at their best. Jimmy, as always, man, I appreciate you coming on. We look forward to listening to and laughing because you guys got a good group on TBS. We're looking forward to it all. My man, thanks for your time. Oh, thanks for having me, guys. Jimmy Rollins there, MLB analyst, former Phil, possible Hall of Famer. I mean, that's how good Jimmy Rollins was. Appreciate his time to come in. He did, didn't he? To a double-header player? Let's get this DH up out of here. What? We want every day, guys. I ain't mad at that at all. All right, let's get the break. Three o'clock hour on the other side. We're going to Daily Gambit. We'll touch on that, but I want to talk about the rotation, too. Get your thoughts on who you think is going to be in it. Scrave once to talk rotation. Yes. So we're talking rotation. That's what it is. Oh, it's such a clutch off-season pickup, Dave. I know, right? I was worried we'd be bringing back the same team. Oh, no. I meant those blackout motorized shades. MVP of the room. Blinds.com made it crazy affordable to replace our old blinds. Hard to install? No, it was easy. Even you could do it. Nice. I installed these and then got some from my mom, too. You fly across the country to do the install? Nope. Blinds.com can do it all. All she had to do was pick what she wanted. 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Hey, everybody, it's Grant Holmes. One-nothing lead. Braves it. We were talking a little bit about the daily gamut, but we're going to push that aside and talk a little rotation. Scrave, you had some thoughts on it. What you got? Before we get into that, join 97-3 the fan tomorrow as we broadcast all day at Baja Ricks and the gas lamp leading up to game one of the baseball playoffs. Bedded Woods will kick us off at 6 a.m. as we celebrate the postseason presented by Santo Super Premium, additive-free tequila. Santo, work hard, play loud. Now, the question is about the rotation going on right now, and you know, sometimes I think that's a crazy take on the chat. I'm not going to bring that up. Oh, we talking chat rotations. Let's go inside in a second. You're right. Let's talk about the actual- I'm going wherever you want to go. I'm going to go with the actual conversation, and then we'll go to the chat. So Dennis Lynn predicted that the three pitchers in the rotation are going to be Dylan Cease, Michael King, and Joe Musgrove. In that order? I don't necessarily know that order, but I would assume that's the order. What are they missing from that? You Darvish. Dennis Lynn also thinks that you Darvish could come out of the bullpen in this wild card series. I think he pitched on what Friday, so he wouldn't be available again to Wednesday. So this may be more of a rest decision than not wanting to pitch him decision by putting him in the bullpen. I don't know. I'll ask you who of the four, if you had to put the three, four in order of who's pitching best right now, how would you go with it? What I just said, don't see Michael King and Joe Musgrove. So there you go. And you Darvish has pitched well. He's pitched really well. He has, but you know, I think given the time, he's been away. And this is what that was his fourth start back, I believe. So this will be his fifth one since coming back. I see it. I see Dylan Cease. I see Michael King. And if for some reason it gets away, you got red hot ears coming in on game three and who's red hot Joe Musgrove. Get some good stuff together, man. I was like, huh? Did someone have red ears this year? And I know not this year. But you know, if the Mets end up winning this game, we'll have a rematch only different venues this time. You will have to fight with the Mets fans when you're calling the game anymore. They can't get to our spot. We will have a shouting match like we did a couple years back with the very upset Mets fan in game three. This is why I think it's so hard to predict the rotation because here and there I've been trying to talk about the playoff rotation for the past three weeks and never once did I leave you Darvish out of it. And now, you know, there's news coming out that you Darvish is possibly not even going to be in there. Where's the chat ad on this? The chat is saying that you pay attention to match up bait. Well, one person on the chat saying you pay attention to kind of match up base stats for that picture. So for example, Dylan Cease, if he's not good against the Braves, you don't start him against the Braves. And I like yet taps. But I think that's a little out there. You like what? That's the name taps. I think it's a little out there to look at career numbers against the team and then decide whether or not you're going to start that picture. Dylan Cease is the guy who should go in game one. There are some times where you just kind of got to throw the numbers out delicious is is your is your top guy. Yeah, he just is. He's been all year all season long. Him and Michael King right there. And that's who's going behind him. I also because Paul said on the round table last week that he would have liked to see maybe Michael King come out of open. Did his hat just come off? I don't think I've ever seen that before. A picture through the brave picture came off. It is it is hat came off as he threw it. He got the punch out to which made it even cooler. Right. I don't know if that hat messed up Bader. It just came right off his head fell on the ground. That is really interesting. But wait Paul was saying that he would like to see say Dylan Cease gets into trouble. Then you have Michael King come out of the bullpen and you got a guy like we're talking about contingency plans like who are you bringing out of the bullpen if the starter doesn't start well like your three innings in you need to pull the starter. Who's the next up? Is it someone like you Darvish? Is it someone like Michael King? Is it you're definitely not using Michael King for the bullpen under any circumstance going to start? Yes. He's starting game too. Like yeah, no, that's silly. I think that's silly. I think it's before I realized that Michael King was going to be in the rotation. I thought maybe that would be good to have him in the book. If he hadn't pitched well enough to be in a rotation, I think that's a good that might that might be worth it. But he has pitched well enough to be in a rotation. He's been to Padres. You know, you can argue best starter based off ERA. I mean, he has been that good. So, you know, I think Dennis has it probably right. He's also talking to a lot of people. Yeah, I mean, he's didn't just come out of the wind with that. I mean, he's kind of piecing it together. Right. I think sees King, Joe, if need be, if you're sweet, guess what? You probably can go Joe you in the next series and the DS man. I mean, this is why the this is why teams fear or don't want to deal with the Padres because and that's just a pitching element of of it. Right. And as Jimmy said, it's a six inning game, right. The Padres get a two run, three run lead. It's going to be tough. You know, the one run games are always, you know, can always go up, can go the other way. But you start getting multi runs against a bullpen like the Padres have. It's it's going to be an uphill climb. Well, in 2024, they're 40 and 25 in games decided by one or two runs last year. I was about to say it's almost exact flipped. Everything is almost exact flip. Wind loss and extra innings this year, 10 to 10 and two last year, two and 12 four run innings this year. They had a lot more 47, 20, 23, they had 28 and then comeback victories. They had 38 this year. And then they had 27 last year, which seems like a lot for a team that I mean, that's how we do a lot of when they got to 80, 82, 82 and 80, you know, and it's true. Some of them come back to help get them over 500. Let's talk about the eliminator real quick. Well, we're just going to skip from baseball to the eliminator. No. I panicked there for a second. I was like, okay, that conversation didn't go on as long as I thought it was going to go. But you darvis to the bullpen. And that's the other thing. You don't know how these starters will perform coming out. It's a different monster like getting up on the call, getting lose. A lot of starters take longer to get ready. He's never pitched out of the bullpen in his major league career, but he picks in the world baseball classes. I don't remember how he did. It wasn't great. I don't it was ever last year was a struggle for him all the way around. Yeah. Well, we'll see. Padres are in a good spot. roster doesn't have to be named. And of course, the Padres are still waiting to see who they're going to play right now. They're playing the Mets unless the Mets lose this game, they're playing the Braves. And you were saying because before the show was like, really don't want to see the Mets, but you were saying, I don't want to see the Braves. I'm not saying I don't want to see anybody. I want to see anybody because I think the team is that good. I think the Braves are the more difficult matchup. They got two lefties in that rotation and sell and free. And his back is going to magically feel better tomorrow. Yes, what y'all. I wouldn't be surprised if that man is pitching tomorrow. That would be kind of crazy at a hole in the game that you need to win to put you in the playoffs and then you lose. I mean, there's going to be some questions to answer. If they don't have to play the next day, it's just a back back spasms kep him out. And you got to think too. And as I said, I think he missed his previous two starts to this. The back spasms probably has something to do with that. Oh, yeah, has to. I mean, I don't think that he's going to sell out the biggest game of his season. And he actually won the triple crown today, the pitching triple crown him in Terrick scuba. You know who didn't win a triple crown? Show Hey, Tony, baby. Everybody enjoy that. I love it. 314 to 310. I mean, Shohei did everything he could in the last like two weeks. I don't think he is that really is that 314? He finished the 314. Ah, if he had went one more point down, he would have been tied for the lowest batting title win. Really? 313 is 313. Mr. Tony Gwen. 87, I believe it was. There was only 87. Wow. There was only seven players unless Marcelo Zuna finishes this game under 300. There's only seven players this year that hits 300. Yeah, I think that's about the same number as as the previous year. So it's, uh, it's all up from here. Padres back in action tomorrow. Five 38, not 540, not 645, 38, and we are the prime time game. That's a big deal. So tomorrow, we have Baja. We're going to all be out of Baja Ricks from 6 a.m. until Sammy Levitt's pregame, which he will be doing in the loft. So you can come down to Baja Ricks and you can hang out with us before the game, get something to eat, get something to drink. I will, uh, recommend that everybody get, uh, get there very early because last time the playoffs were here, it was atrocious downtown. It was very hard to get anywhere. It's funny is I don't remember anything other than being in the stadium and it was raining and people were just like, I've never seen San Diego and so willing to get wet in my entire life. It was you for it. It was, that's the exact word I used. It was euphoria. There, everybody was like kind of swaying with the rain. I don't know if that actually happened, but it felt like it was happening in like real time as they were eliminating the Dodgers. That's what I can remember. I will, I listened to another shameless plug. I've been doing a lot of these shameless plug plugs on my 12 games and October podcast, but I was listening to one over the weekend just kind of get pumped up for, for the game. In that episode, I listened to, do you remember there was a drone delay during the game? At our place. Yeah, I do remember that. There was some idiot that was flying their drone over the field and they had to stop and, and then Jake Kroneworth almost like threw a ball at it because it was coming after me. I just remember it hovering over for a long time and then just taking off into the sky and like never be seen again. Yeah, it's, it's, yeah, this weird, weird things happen during these games. I mean, you had the goose, I hope the goose. That's another thing that I've the rally goose. I don't know if it was a rally goose, but I know we wanted, we were going to claim it as a rally goose. It literally hasn't showed up ever, any ever since. The goose finally made it to where it's going. You know what I remember about that series too? It was like 101 degrees in L.A. that first series. Oh yeah. It was blazing hot. It was. And then when the fillies were here, it was like 95, 100 degrees during one of those day games as well. But everybody get down there early. Everybody, you know, be safe, take the trolley, take a bus, take a new bus. Listen, this is what needs to be said. This is the first series that the Padres have hosted at home in a long time. Yeah, I fully expect it to be absolutely bonkers. It's going, if it's bonkers on a Friday night against the White Sox, it's going to be bonkers. That's not the same thing. That what I do remember about the playoffs is that it was a different focus from our fan base. And that, I mean, they were dialed in from the coach. They were focused. They didn't need to be prompted by the board. They just were in the moment a lot. When Josh Hader closed out that game on that Friday to win the first game at home, I was in the stands and I legitimately was scared because it was shaking. The people were jumping around so much. It was insane. You could see the stadium moving. I'm ready for this. I'm pumped up. I'm requiring a different another level up. Another level up for us. You want the fans to have another level. Another level. Yeah, the first time you just, you just asked me to be there. You know, you, you, that's, that's Josh Hader coming. That's, that's hate watching right there. You know what I'm saying? That's a different type of vibe. I'm talking about like dialed in pitch one to pitch whatever. Charing when you need to cheer, booing when you need to boo. Represent. Represent. Whoever's coming in here, whether it be the Mets or the Braves, they should walk out feeling like, dang, that's, that's some next level stuff right there. All right. They will. Let's get to break more Padres. When we come up, we got our good, bad and ugly, also coming up a little bit later on. Some good, but some good football games yet last night or yesterday. Last night was a, a drubbing. We'll get into that. She'll lacking. She'll lacking, which I saw in the headline. I love it. There was a bunch of people that didn't want to tackle yesterday. And I don't blame them. Not one bit. More going to Chris on the other side of some traffic. 321 on the clock, Tony Gwen Jr. Matt Scravey. Before we move to our next segment, a bit of sad news to share, uh, NBA, great, um, the Kim Bayman tumble passed away. Um, no, no, no. Yeah. The, the finger with wag is what we know is famous. Now I think he was like the first one to really bring it to sports. And, uh, he passed away, uh, from brain cancer at the age of 56, 58, excuse me. That is young. Yeah, man, uh, sat, you know, cancer is just a horrible, horrible disease that we have not been able to really wrap our arms around yet in terms of figuring out how to, how to at least slow it down. It's just, and I know we've come a long way in advance in medicines and things of that, but it's still taken out far, far too many people and, um, and young people, exactly. Um, you know, obviously cancer has touched my family, has touched many, many families out there. And so, you know, it's just sucks to, to see somebody young pass away like that. Yeah, my, uh, aunt, she died in her early 40s because of ovarian cancer. And I just saw how her family went through it and yeah, I mean, it's just one of those things. Cancer sucks. It's tough. No doubt. It is tough. All right. Uh, let's get to some, uh, more smiley things. I guess I should say baseball coverage on 97 through the fans presented by T mobile headed T mobile.com and get a great deal on an iPhone 16 pro. I want to start with this. The Diamondbacks are currently sitting in their stadium right now with their bags packed, ready to go to Millawakay. Millawakay. If they, if they, uh, qualify for the playoffs, why not just have everybody at home? Why, why all wait there? You can't, they won't have time to care. Listen, listen, let me tell you're going right to the place. Let me tell you something about, uh, baseball player, you don't give them direction early, early enough. That might not make that, that playing might not have arrived wherever it's going. So I'm pulling up as taking off, right? Like you got to give them direction. And so, you know, prior to the, had first and third two outs there, I'm sure everybody in that locker room in Arizona was on their feet as they were hoping a, a, a two out knock from Peter Lonzo. The polar bear would come through instead. He grounded the third inning over. Brave still leave one, leave one other man. Joey Luccasey right now is pitching a gym. Yes. 100 almost 100 pitches now into the six. And he's only giving up the one run. I got to say, I forgot Joey Luccasey was still active. I knew that you had been hurt and stuff. But I mean, this is, this is one of those situations where it's like the Mets have clinched. They're like, Hey man, we don't need you to go out there and just do it. Just just eat some innings. You're on your own because we're not bringing any real bullpen help. I mean, you might be a couple other dudes who may not be on this roster going to pitch, but, uh, we're going to leave you out there as long as we possibly can. Sounds like what the Padres did to Mount Walgreens yesterday. It's exactly what it's virtually the same thing. I'm happy that he was able to get back on the team for one last go because he's, he's not going to make the playoff roster, but he was such an important part of this team for a good period of time there in the middle of the year. Yeah, man. That's the part that, that, that, you know, makes you feel kind of bad, right? I mean, at one point earlier this year was right after Dylan C's, um, had a really good start in Chicago, like dominant. It's one of like his first really good stuff against the Cubs. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah. After that, he kind of, he kind of fell off a little bit. Um, during that time, I think Joe went on the aisle. I think you went on the aisle and Matt Waldron for, I would say about a month span was the Padres best pitcher. And even when he didn't have his best night, he was going like six, seven innings of work and he was one of the only pitchers at the time, him and King really doing that. They stabilized that rotation while you guys, we had guys out. I mean, vast at one point, if I'm now mistaken, we had King Waldron, Vasquez, Major at one time was in that spot. Forgot about that. Um, and I'm sure I'm missing somebody, but that was kind of how we were and we had some off days in there. So we were able to kind of skip starts. It was a little bit of a ragtime thing for a little bit. Again, this is why my shit will, I, I, he should win manager of the year in a national league. I know who have, at least, you know, one other guy I can think of off the top of my hand, Mendoza, for the Mets, but I think, you know, that's the part that makes you feel kind of bad for, for Matt, right? He was out there and listen, he gets it. He's part of why the Padres are here, came in, knew the Padres were short because they are already cleansed. They're trying to, you know, line their guys up and he went out there and gave some Padres some innings at that point. Here's what he did in the span of 36 games from May 28th of July 6th. So it was really almost a month and a half. Really? This is from Kevin AC with both you and Joe out. The Padres had 15 quality starts over that time. Waldron turned in seven of those and over 14 starts from May 11th through July 24th. His 2.76 area was fifth best in the major leagues. I don't think any of us expected him to pitch like that the whole year, but I think he pitched a lot better than we all thought for a lot longer than we all thought he could. Yeah, certainly was. A lot of y'all was trying to ship him out after the first two starts in April, you know, and I remember a round table having that topic. And he really did. Well, I mentioned it on the air yesterday. It's a classic example. You know, when we, when guys, when I was playing and he lined up in there for the first, you know, manager conversation for spring training, you know, it's, it sounds cliche, but it's going to take, it's going to take at least 40 guys to do this. I've heard that before. It literally took that many guys for it more for the Padres this year. I mean, at different points, and all of them at some point have had big games, weeks, in some cases, months that allowed the Padres to get where they are. I mean, Tyler Wade at the beginning of the year was playing a lot because Manny wasn't playing every day at third base, right? And so he's found his niche in there. The Padres bring in Solano. He's like just the substitute teacher, the substitute teachers, the perfect mix in Peralta. I mean, we could just keep going down the list and the trades and the trades. I mean, even the guys who, you know, were a part of that pin before that kind of patch worked it together. It's just been, it's everything that could go right for the Padres this year, I think has. Unlike last year where it seemed like nothing could go right for the Padres at all. Nothing. I thought it was funny. Chris sent us a picture from the Bronx. He was watching Yinky's game. I thought this was fun. And he said, Grisham hit a home run. I think his takes it. Of course Grisham hits a home. Yeah, that is really funny. Maybe, maybe Chris is the Grisham whisper. So real quick, because we're going to go into good bad ugly on the other side. The eliminator, we did get the bell. Oh, I forgot to get the bell. It's right outside the door. So I'm going to show you a little grab. Oh, he's going to go grab it. We have to like take it out of the box. We're going to show you on the other side. But there's only 13 entries left in the eliminator from over 200 to start the season. And two more people have been eliminated because they picked the Steelers in the Saints. Now, Tony's trying to, oh, there he is. I designed this belt and I'm very, I did. I'm very concerned as to how it's here. Oh, look at that. Come on over here, camera. The champ is over there. Champ right here, baby. Wow, that's pretty cool. I got to say, so 13 people are still left in the mix for this eliminator challenge. And if you're looking at the camera right now, you get that if you win. That's pretty sweet. I'm going to say usually sweet. That turned out way better than I thought it would. But yeah, 13 people left. So all right, when we get back, we are going to talk about what happened in the NFL. A major injury, lots of good stuff from Derek Henry. We will take a break here and come back with a good bat in the ugly on 97 through the fan. 335 Tony Gwen Jr. Matt Scrabie, Gwen and Chris. Cameras acting up a little bit. Your camera's not even facing you, bro. Oh, wow. I didn't even move. Scrabie and I are entertaining ourselves during a break. We are. It's chat. This is for the chat. Have any of you guys who use Instagram ever accidentally like posted a story that you know, you're kind of just looking and you kind of maybe tried to send it to somebody and it ended up in your story. And it was embarrassing. I'm definitely afraid of that. So no, it's definitely happened to me the earlier this year. I didn't share it because I didn't want anybody to know. But now we're a couple of weeks away. You can't go back and find it. You can't go back and find it. I definitely did that. We were. I can't remember coming from somewhere and I had kind of. First of all, this is another don't do. I had had like one adult beverage. And so like I'm like trying to send my wife something and I ended up putting it on my story. Oh, oh, and didn't know. I didn't even know for like hours. Was this a Shannon Sharp situation? Nah. Adam said that on the scene. He said we call that a Shannon. No, no, no, no. That's that's different. That's different embarrassment. Yes. Yes. This is just a mean thought that I had. Oh, OK. And I was sending it to her and I posted it and it's set there for like three hours because it was a long three hours. It was a long flight before I, you know, I fell asleep, woke up and I'm going through my phone. I'm like, Yo, what? Why is this on there? And I was like, Oh, my gosh, I didn't send it. I actually posted it. And it's just been sitting online for three hours. 500 eyeball saw it. Oh, it was embarrassing. At least it wasn't something like terrible. No, I wasn't. It wasn't too terrible. Someone on a Trent on the chat said, Yes. Yes, he's done that. Yes, he's done that. Yes, he's done that. And even my oldest daughter had to had to see was like, yeah, I didn't think you post stuff like that. And, you know, I just thought, you know, oh, OK, that's what my dad's doing now. I was like, God, no, I wasn't. I missed this post. But if I would have seen it, I'd probably would have said it to you. I know you would have. I would have got a text from somebody if somebody who I knew saw it. Yeah. Because they know I don't I don't get down like that. But either way, we were just talking about that. Did you figure out what it was that you wanted to get back to the the chat was on you about earlier? No, I can't remember. But I will go back and look because there was something there. And I can't remember. So we got a GBU, good, bad, ugly after traffic. All right. The other thing that happens, I just remembered on Twitter and Instagram is, you know, you start at a certain maturity level, you get older, you know, some of tweets don't apply it no more. Now, if you're if you're if you're real bad at this, it can come back and bite you in much worse way. But Scravey, I feel like some of our listeners have dug up some dirt on you, man. Yeah, it's it's not really dirt. I'm not I'm not someone who has hid this or anything like that. But it was sent. These tweets were sent during before before you start getting to that. Yeah, we have to acknowledge the stardom that match. Okay, I don't know about that is starting to know about it's starting to send to someone created a Facebook, a fake Facebook profile of me. I'm like, I'm the last person you should be right. I mean, a Facebook profile. All I know is that two years ago, no, what was thinking about? No, and you know what the Facebook profile says? Matt Scravey, the second, like I had some kid. This is this is this is what starts to happen. Scravey. So now people are interested enough to find some dirt on you. It went all the way back to 2016. Oh, so this was this was the the other Scravey that uh, this was the very end of that Scravey. So this was the most vulnerable. Some of us would love to like have experience one time. Not this guy. This guy was crying and rehab and all those other stuff. So this is this is rock band. It's when the because the the Giants won the World Series every other year starting at 2010. So it's 10, 12, 14. Yes, I know. Um, 16, they played the Cubs. The Cubs went on the win the World Series, but they were playing the Cubs. So I was tweeting like, go Giants thinking it would be fun. I didn't even work here yet. I mean, I was, I had nothing to do with the 97 through the fan Padres video. Matt Scravey, the second went out and found all this stuff. So whatever did they tweeted me, it seems like you really love the Giants. I got you. I got you. And all it said was let let's go Giants. I'm not ashamed to say like grew up in the Bay Area. I think everybody knows what I can say is over the past. Well, when I sent those tweets, I was drinking still. So, uh, I'm glad that was only those that were the ones that I sent. You clearly were in a good enough spot not to go beyond. I was working on the sobriety thing. Okay. I was the worst you're trying at this point. Failing but trying. That's all right. It was the start of getting where you are. It was the start. So I saw these this morning and I was like, huh, someone actually took the time to go back in my timeline and check out what I've been saying. So if that's the worst you could find because I don't tweet crazy stuff. I guess when the 40 hours off the Super Bowl 2011 to the Ravens. Did you have some explicit expletives? No, it was more of like how devastated I was. Oh man. And much like you, I don't remember. Well, I don't remember posting that because I was wasted. And I woke up the next morning with a bunch of like comments and I deleted it immediately because it was bad. I wasn't, I wasn't, uh, I wasn't inebriated. I just, I, you know, just didn't know this one, you know, one drink gets you a little loose. All of a sudden you ain't quite hitting the buttons right the way you need to. And yeah, that one got me. All right. Let's get into some GPU. Anyway, that was good. All right. Let's start with this. If you love Mediterranean food, try Spiro's for authentic Mediterranean cuisine and Coronado or La Jolla for dining or taking out options, visit spiro's cuisine. Dot com. The first good game in the good category would be the Falcons beating the Saints 26 to 24. And it all came down to a, a long field goal 58 yard field goal. Here it is. Snap spot. Kick from Coo is away. And it is good. 58. And the money shot for young Roy Coo. Nice. Money shot. All right. Yes. 58 yards. I got to say, and by the way, that had credible this year. That had more distance to go to have 61 at least. Uh, Kicking's incredible this year. Kicking is, is, it's funny, right? I don't think anybody was, you know, felt one way or another about the extra point rule. But I feel like it has led us. Oh, yeah. To this point. Yes. Like you can't just have, uh, you got to have somebody with a leg. It's a weapon now. I think Tucker was like the, the first one of his kind now seems like teams are finding these guys who can, to have a foot or a leg I should say. Uh, cool. One of those guys. Yes. 58 yards. I mean, the, the number of 50 yard field goals I've been made this year is, is crazy. Uh, but I put it, I put this in there for Adam because Falcons go to two and two. They end up driving all the way down the field to get that field goal. So good stuff there. Now last night, what is Adam need help or what do we do? Well, it's Braves law. Yeah, Braves lost the first game. I just put it there just to make out and feel good. He got one when Georgia lost in a pretty awesome game. A 17 year wide receiver for Alabama. He is not here. He'll be here. Well, you won't see him tomorrow, but anyway, I don't give nothing but whiz, whiz, I don't, I don't give a piss about nothing but roll tide or something along those lines. I have no idea what you're talking about about the tide. So roll tide. Uh, Ravens, they prove that they're still that team. They dismantled the bills 35, Ted Derek Henry in his quote, unquote old age still has a ton of speed to receivers of the left. Here's a handoff. Henry outside the right has 15 20, 25 30. There goes Henry out to midfield Buffalo 40 far sideline 30 Henry to the 20 15 10 five touchdown Ravens. Uh, and the Ravens took Josh Allen out of the game, took everybody from the bill side out of the game and 35 10s a pretty good one for them. Uh, the Ravens look scary in that game. Yeah. I don't, they have figured out that having Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry in their backfield is the best part of their team. Yeah. I think Lamar through the ball 17 times yesterday, he was like 15 of 17 or 13 of 17. Mark Andrews had like two targets. Yeah. Hey, listen, no catching two weeks in a row. If you're not going to be able to stop that run and it looked like after a while, Buffalo was not interested in tackling Derek Henry and I don't blame them. Yeah. My man was running 21.5 miles per hour, only 0.2 miles per hour slower than worthy from the chiefs who supposed to be the fastest dude in the league. He was the fastest dude in the draft according to them. But Derek Henry is underrated through time, I think. I don't know that people give him enough credit for being one of the best running backs in the last 10 years. No doubt. Well, he was one yard finished one yard short of 200, which would have been what? Seventh 200 yard game, which would have patched past OJ Simpson and a couple other big name running backs for it. It was interesting during the game. They were talking about they were comparing him to Michael Diggerson. Eric Diggerson, excuse me. Yes. And watching him run and then putting the kind of photos of Eric Diggerson up makes sense. Big dude. It does. Nobody really runs high. No one wants to tackle him. No one wants to tackle him. That was always the worst is when I was playing high school football with my with the Minnesota Viking Tech Coach Kevin O'Connell as my teammate. Whenever running backs to just run straight at me and I was like playing scout line back there and no chance. You know what I remember from, you know, my brief moment as a football player, my freshman year, you stick your arm out on a running back that is running full speed and you don't let and it's just your arm. Your arm is is dead for like a long time. My senior year we played Dailasau and Dailasau had a guy named Maurice Jones true. I got it. I mean NFL running back. He returned the opening kickoff even after being tackled and like floated on bodies and no one knew what would happen. But late in the game, I went in and I went to go try to tackle him put my arm out and I arm I think detached and I had to go get it from the field. It was it was on the field detached from my body. There's all kinds of things that happened on that field. I was like, you know what? This ain't it for me. I thought, I thought, oh, okay, that is why I'm not going to play college football because I can't stop this guy. Graves pouring it on right now by the way, three nothing in the seventh. Marcelo Zuma, I don't know, Matt Olson out at second base. Anyway, they just scored a couple runs. Three nothing Braves going into the top of the eighth. Commanders are legit. Jaden Daniels is legit. And Terry McLaurin loves them. Here's the snap. There's little breaks for plenty of time for Jaden before going over to the middle end of the game. So that is all touchdown touchdown Washington. I heard a stat today that was insane. Jaden Daniels has led more scoring drives this season than he has in completion, Tony. I think he what he don't have that many a completions. That's that's what I'm saying. The punter punnet yet. Yes, he did. Finally punnet yesterday. I always enjoy the stories of guys that we're not expecting to do a whole lot of much. And then they come in and I mean, he's been phenomenal. It's been better. He's been better than everybody in the draft. So if there hasn't been a player that's been better than him at this point. And you know, nobody was talking about the commanders at all. I have a feeling we're going to be talking about them here as we get through the season and they can stay in one. Arizona Cardinals now one in three not looking great. I think that upset. Good job. This hour is brought to you by L Smith 394. L L Smith 394 pale L the fifth the playoffs watch all of the San Diego postseason action at the Alesmith tasting room in Miramar with game day specials on 394 and more route for the home team with other fans while enjoying the game with sound. Don't miss out. By the way, all TV broadcast now are no longer done in mud. So you have to listen to Jesse and Tony. They will be broadcasting live throughout the playoffs. It's kind of a weird thing about baseball and TV. Not weird at all. I love it. Come on down to 97 three to fan with me and Jesse got you. I'll play off long. All right. We've been kind of all over the place in this GPU. But let's go forward. The Colts beat the Steelers 2724 and I say this is in the bad category because Anthony Richardson cannot stay healthy and Joe Flacco had to come in the game. Flacco backs the throw, has good protection. Over the middle wide open for the Colts at the five in the dive into the end zone touchdown to all the tray touchdown in D. Y. Yes, sir. It's 23 to. Okay. They cut off faster than I thought. But Anthony Richardson goes down due to like a hip injury. He comes back into the game. The Colts coaches call another quarterback run which didn't seem to help his hip. And he left the game. But they did win. Justin Fields gets his first loss with the Steelers. He had over 300 yards to Russian touchdowns. Eagles in the Buccaneers. The Eagles had no wide receivers in this game of note. AJ Brown and Devontae Smith were both out of the game. So the Bucks took full advantage in the Bucks have something going with Baker Mayfield. Our second staff inside the riser bench on a little lull. Baker Mayfield nips the show with those paths. It's a hot ball in the end zone. Did you hang on? Touchdown Tampa Bay, Trey Palmer. There you go. 33 16 Buccaneers win that one. Another for the bad category. The Raiders beat the Browns 20 to 16. It's bad for the Browns. I don't have a highlight for this because they lost their kicker missed a P. A. T. And so they could have kicked a field goal at the end of the game to tie it and put it in overtime. But they had to score a touchdown and they weren't able to convert. So the Raiders went on the win. But Deshawn Watson throws for 176 yards yards and averages only five and a half yards per completion in this game. Deshawn Watson is not the same quarterback. I think that's pretty clear now. I don't know what it is. I mean, I don't know if it's off the field stuff that's clouding his head or if he's just not that guy anymore, but he is not that guy. Yeah, man. Karma. It has it has seemingly settled in on him because there's nothing from a physical standpoint that happened to him. You know, it was all off the field stuff. And yet he has not been close to the same player since he left Houston. It's been something and it's it's it's funny. Here Joe Flacco said that the Browns never even offered him an opportunity to come back. Well, they don't have no money. It's all going into Sean Watson's pocket. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have cost him anything to bring Flacco back, but Flacco still play and still with it. That's what I'm saying. I thought I loved his comment yesterday about their telemantha Richardson's thought he was a lot cooler than he imagined. And he said, you know, as he told me, I'm eight days younger than his mom. I highly doubt. Oh my God. I highly doubt that he thinks I'm cool in any type of way. That's a great point. Eight days, man. That puts your age in perspective. All right. Ugly category. We only have two games. The games were pretty even throughout yesterday. There wasn't any crazy ugly games with the Broncos beat the Jets 10 and nine. And I don't know if we want it. We don't really have time to get into it now, Tony. We can get into it a little bit later, but Robert Salah and Aaron Rodgers just do not see each other on. They're not in the same page with each other at all. Yeah, we'll get into some of that sound because we've got to get to break. We'll get into it on the other side. Final game. The Texans actually let me play this highlight because CJ Stroud had to make a comeback. And he did. And here it is. Off said I see Jables out to the right close to the end zone. Hit story and the Texas score. They lead. Jags led this one 20 to 17 and 17 in the fourth CJ Stroud came from behind Trevor Lawrence loses his ninth straight game. Something happened with Travis ETN. He barely played in the first half. He looked very dejected. I don't know what's going on with that Jags too. Yeah, they got some they got some stuff going on there. Peterson at one point seemed like the perfect fit after your boy, Urban Meyer left. But you know, that thing is still not right at the top and it seemed like it's still trickling on. It's a shod cons fault. I don't know. It doesn't seem like it. It's in a lot of money into that. I don't know that it's his fault this time. All right. Let's get to break on the other side. Tony versus the fans. Come get it. 8 3 3 2 8 8 0 9 7 3. Into the four o'clock hour we go. Tony Gwen Jr. Matt Scrabie. Gwen and Chris. Got a Tony versus the fans coming your way here shortly. Great article in the Athletic by Dennis Linn. I think it highlights two individuals that I think need to be highlighted this year. And I've already talked about one in Louisa rise. But the other is Victor Rodriguez, Padre Hayden coach. You get a good idea. Scrabie and I'll talk a little bit about it if we have time in this segment. But if not in the next segment really just highlights the philosophy in which the Padres had going into the year. I gave Victor a big hug the other day because I saw him. What do you look at me like that for? I just heard Mike. She'll give the rotation for the. I was like, what is it so cool? I'm listening to you right now about a Victor Rodriguez hook. But I gave him a hug because at the beginning of year I got a chance to meet him. We started talking. We had obviously, there was a lot of things that, you know, we had not necessarily in common, but certainly we had a lot in common in terms of hitting and how we were taught. He played on. He was a young player that played on the Puerto Rican. My dad wouldn't play winter ball in Puerto Rico. And he was on that team with my dad at the time. He was a young, young player at the time. But he was anyway, he started to kind of tell me about the philosophy that he wanted to have. And it just, as he was saying, it was like, this makes so much sense. I don't know why we hadn't done this earlier. But question was, how would he be able to implement it? I mean, I'm sure a lot of hitting coaches have had great ideas, but can you get by it? And he got it. He got it early. And you read, we'll talk a little bit, talks about Petco Park hitting and, you know, ball doesn't travel well and adding Luis Arise only highlighted what he was trying to get everybody to get on board with. And so we'll get into that a little bit after Tony versus fan, but it's a great article on Luis. And it's really about Luis, but it's also about Victor Rodriguez, big reason why this team offensively is as good as it gets. All right. Got some Mike Shelton speaking to the reporters right now. You Darish will be in the bullpen. He said, that's the only roster. Now, I'm pretty sure he went Michael King, Joe Musgrove, Dylan Cease for the rotation in that order, in that order. That's how he said it. King Musgrove Cease yows us. And now, would it be king because he hasn't pitched? It probably has something. So yeah, it probably has something to do with time off. But I mean, has Michael King, if we just look at the numbers, has he not earned the right to have the first start of the series? I think he has. I think he has too. It's interesting. He's a top five. I think he's I think he's top five in an ERA. He might even be lower than that. He might have had one of the lowest ERAs. Oh, that's excuse me. Diamondbacks one out away from being eliminated from playoff contingency. Those bags, they packed might not actually be going anywhere as the men pressing unpacked as the Braves are one out away from coming to San Diego. So yeah, that's that's confirmed. It's King Musgrove and Cease. I like it. I like it. So but that. Okay. It's a good problem to have. What what is your. Oh, looks like the Padres will match up with the Atlanta Braves. What time is it there? It's seven o'clock. We're not going to get on a flight until nine. They won't be here until like one in the morning and then they're playing. They're getting time back though on this flight though. They're getting time back. But it's still going to be late when they get in and yeah, Chris sail has back spasms. How is he going to be able to fly on the plane with the team? Great question. I'm sure those back spasms don't get better on this flight. He might be laid out in the hallway the whole flight like laying down or he's starting tomorrow and he's preparing for his start on the way in. See if we see him in this line out here. Don't see him. I don't see him. All right. Chris sail the last time he started against the Padres was right before the all-star break, I believe. And on that Sunday and he mowed him down. It wasn't fun. It was not fun at all. Remember that. And you are rich to the bullpen. Okay, that's what I've heard. So Darvish to the bullpen, King Musgrove Cease. Why are you saving Dylan Cease for game three? I understand, but then does Dylan Cease. I guess if they sweep the first two games and it sets up Dylan Cease to start the first game of the NL. What was when was King's last start? The game in LA pitched the first one, right? Yes, I'm looking at it right now. Michael King September 24th. Yes, he went five innings, shook out three, give up three hits. That was the first one? The Dodgers. That was the first game against the Dodgers or the second one. That was I'm just making sure that was the second one. Okay. Ben Higgins asking a question right now. We've been asked. He has been is asking a question. That's my show. Yeah. So that was surprising. Actually, that's why I gave you that look. I was like, Oh, that's not exactly where I thought we were going to go with this. But hey, there you go. Cease would start game one. Someone saying on the chat in LA then I would think so if they sweep the first two games. Well, that's that's probably the idea. You're trying to line yourself up. You're trying to line it all up and you know, Michael King has earned a right to pitch in game one. I think he's pitched extremely well 2.95 VRA Joe Musgrove has been as good as as he's been at any point this year. I mean, I know he gave up the two run shot in the in his last start, but he was as efficient and clean as we've seen him. So I the thing is with the three guys, you really you're splitting the hairs. Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, you're splitting hairs when it comes to cease Musgrove King. That's how that's how good they've been down the stretch. I'm fine with all of them. Yeah. Any of them put them in whatever order doesn't matter. We got time for. Yes. Tony versus the fans. Yes. Let's go to it right now. If you had one shot one opportunity to take down the human all manack himself. How do you do? Now is your time. Listen to me. This guy's dangerous. Now is your opportunity to win a prize. Well, I hope you know what Jen for Chris versus the fans starts now on 97 three the fan. I'll say our boss made a really good point on the chat Tony. The Padres traded away Juan Soto and got their game one in game three playoff starters in return. Still a good trade for the San Diego Padres and AJ Preller. You flip truth or for Dylan Cease. Good stuff. That's one of those that's one of those statements where you want to go. Oh. That's a good one. Yeah. But it's just us. You have to make it through three questions. Each question will get more difficult. If you get the question right, you move on. If you get it wrong and Chris gets it right or Tony gets it right. You're eliminated. But if Tony gets it wrong, then you move on to the next question or you win. And today you will win a pair of tickets to cake in the first ever concert at front wave arena this Saturday. Limited tickets remain at a excess dot com. All right. Let's get into it right now. And we will get our first contestant on the line. Oh, yeah. If you're a first time player, let us know before you get into it. And you'll get that question for free Chris. The fans is presented by SD fat loss. Lose 20 to 30 pounds in just 60 days. Visit SD fat loss.com to schedule your free consultation. Let's go to Dale. Hello, Dale. What's up, Dale? Hello. Are you ready to play Dale? Absolutely. All right. Here we go. Question number one. Who holds the record for the latest? Who holds the record for the fastest 100 meters sprint? Oh, my gosh. Come, come do this to me. Oh, it was the guy who won the six this year. I think before it used to be Ben Johnson. Stay there, Dale. Ben Johnson is incorrect. I hope this is still a thing, right? Johnson, I think was a was a at the end of it was disqualified because he got popped for steroids. If I'm not mistaken, Ben Johnson did. The answer I think you're looking for is Hussein Bolt. It's Usain Bolt, but you got correct. Sorry, Dale. Usain Bolt. That's how the game works, everybody. Just one question in you out. Let's go to Tom. What's up, Tom? Hey, guys. How are you? We're all about yourself. I'm well and well. Thanks. All right. Here we go. Tom, question number one. Who holds the record for the most home runs in a single Major League Baseball season? Tom, Bond, Barry. Sorry, Tom. I don't know what to do with that one. I don't know what to do with that one. That's a head scratcher. Was that Chris from the past? All right, let's go to our next contestant. Before we go, let's go. Pete Rose passed away today. What? Yes. The age of 83, according to TMZ. Wow. Wow. Dang. I did not expect for you to say that. No. I mean, Adam Klub sent it to me, but that is more sad news today. That is more sad news to Kevin and Tumbo and now Pete Rose. Yeah. All right. Let's keep playing the game. Sorry. I had to get that out there. No, that's a big, that's a big deal. It's a big deal. Let's go to Kevin in Oceanside. Hello, Kevin. Hello, Mr. Blaine. Hello, Mr. Scravey. Hello, Kevin. Hello. You're right there next to front ray of arena or at least in the area. So here we go. Question number one. What? Tony, Tony, real quick, I just had a story. I wanted to tell you, but I know there's not time today, but one of these days I'll call in and tell you a story about your dad, which breaks my, you know, is really one in my heart. But go ahead, baby. I'll be here for it. All right, Kevin. Here we go. Question number one, which Major League Baseball player was the first to reach 500 home runs? The first. Thank you. Tony, the guy who they play, he's kind of heavy said man, he runs around the basis with Lulee, Babe Ruth. Sorry about that, Kevin. Man, we struggling to get out of question. You know what? We have more to talk about on the other side. So we're going to go tiebreaker, tiebreaker right now. It's one of those days. One of those days, we're going to do buried bonds. And we're also going to go to Dwayne. Hello, Dwayne. Hey, what's up, guys? Not much. All right, Tony, how many RBIs did Barry Bonds have in his career? Oh, my Lord. I played how many years did he play? 22. Oh, man. So we like up in like a say. Uh, let's go 12,000. 12,000 RBIs. How many years he played? 22. My 11,000. Okay, it's a lot of farm. Yeah. Think you met 1100. Yes. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Under, under, under, under, under, he said 11,000 under is correct. So you're going to win twice. Stay right there. And we will get you a prize. If I kept answering, he's right. Come on, man. All right, that was the most interesting game of Christmas to fans we've ever played because it wasn't Christmas fans. It was Tony versus Tony versus Tony versus Tony. That's right. That's right. That's right. So on the other side, we got more news to talk about with the Padres. Maybe finish up Tony's thoughts about Louis's arise, but we got a rotation for the wild card. All that. And we'll get some thoughts on Pete Rose's passing. That's a this guy who had over 4,000 hits, you know, not in the Hall of Fame for the reasons. I think we all know gambling and you wonder this, you know, his time in terms of getting in via vote is as long passed, but there is a committee out there that may feel differently now that he is, you know, passed this anymore. Yeah, we'll talk about it all on the other side. We're going to Chris. Congratulations to Dwayne, our Tony versus the fan winner. It was one of those days where we were running, we were already running out of question number ones because I had more, but Roger Maris threw me through 12,000 RBI's didn't quite win it for me. It wins it for Dwayne. Congratulations. A couple of things. My dad, I turned off your mic as I turned off my mic to the week's arise. I talked a little bit about it. I just want to read you a little bit of some of the quotes out of this article. I'll start with Jackson. I thought he was good. It goes into war, which is, you know, Chris Ello's favorite statistic, the average difference between each league leaders in baseball references war and its most valuable player is smaller than any prior in any prior decade in the 20s to 2020s. In 2021, Major League Baseball proposed replacing the salary arbitration system with a model relying on fan grass version of war F war and clubhouses around the country, young players have grown up and at least somewhat, and at least are somewhat familiar with the doctrine of war. This is Jackson Miller here. I see the numbers, but I don't really know exactly what they mean. This is one of the best young players in the league speaking. 21 years old, 21. I'd say it makes sense when you look at judges year, schemes, Otani and all of them. It makes sense why it's so high compared to other players. Merrill and other Padre players though, do not think that war accurately captures the value of Louisa rise for us. No, Merrill said, because he doesn't really just hit. And then it kind of goes through a rise. It says, of course, he specializes in the kind of hitting that has gone out of style in 2022 when he led the American League with a three 16 batting average. He was deemed a 2.7 F war player that ranked 66th among qualifying big league position players. In a rise, spent the first half of 2023 flirting with 400. He settled at three 54, the highest full season average in the majors since 2010. He settled for a three point three war, which was 54th in the rankings. This season is no different shortcomings on defense and as power threat appeared magnified, a rise overcame a slow start in Miami and his lingering thumb injury to hit 3 14 with standing in late charge from show. Hey, old Tony. It was late and became the first player to win three consecutive batting titles with three different teams. At the same time, a rise recorded a 392 slugging percentage and a career high 47 starts at designated hitter. His F war put him behind Mikhail Garcia. You'll probably don't know who that is. That's the infielder for the royals and Zach Gilla. It goes on to talk a little bit, Jake Cronowarff, who kind of is in the same position because he's playing D Hing, he's playing first base. If you're not hitting 30 homers in those positions, offensive war is going to look a little different. He was kind of talking about those two, but I just thought as you go through the article, you start to see what it is that they're talking about. Manny specifically says it starts in terms of when asked for their personal appraisals of a rises value, Cronan worth and others with the pirate Padres tend to towards superlatives. It starts with one of the best hitters in the game. Starting off the game like that is huge. I know the singles hitters isn't really valued in much in this game, but as a starting pitcher, this is Joe Musgrove talking as a starting pitcher. It's exhausting facing guys like that. Guys that don't swing and miss, that don't chase a lot, they're consistently on base, that wears you down over the course of an outing. It adds pitches to your outing. It makes you more stressful, makes you make more stressful pitches with guys on base. So although it might not provide the instant runs that slug does, I feel like it's extremely valuable. This is coming from a scientist on the mound and Joe Musgrove. That's why he fits this team so well. Starts that every night at the top of the lineup and you already are having to think, man, this guy's going to go 0-2 and then if he's going to foul off six pitches, I'm eight deep already, and it might get longer. I encourage you guys to read that article for tomorrow's series starts against guys. Michael King on the bump. Michael King, Dylan sees going third is crazy to me, but I'm not going to question it. I'm just going to go into this with the happiest of thoughts. Real quick though, before we get out of there, what are your thoughts on Pete Rose and passing away? I wonder why you're asking me this. I think that... Because I care, Tony. I think that I'll be interested to see if this changes anything before the record. For the record, the baseball hall of fame is made up of great people who did only great things off the field. There's some bad ones in there, too. I think there was a guy named Ty Cobb. He's one of them. Certainly, that isn't the bar whether you agree with that or not. That's not the bar. I wonder if this changes things, if there's a veteran's committee vote coming with him involved in it. That would be kind of wrong to me to put him in after he's been campaigning his entire post baseball life to get into the hall of fame. That would not sit right with me. It wouldn't be the first one to get in after he passed. That's sad. There's a lot of sad today to come in my tumbo. A lot of happiness. Certainly a lot of sadness as there probably is every day. Alright, that's going to do it for our show today, Monday night football follows. 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