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9.30.24 Gwynn & Chris Hour 3: Michael King is your Game 1 starter
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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 are you looking at me like that for? I just heard Mike shill give the rotation for the... I was like, what is it so cool? I'm listening to my ear right now. About a Victor Rodriguez hug. But I gave him a hug because at the beginning of the year, I got a chance to meet him. We started talking. We had obviously... There was a lot of things that 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 anyway, he started to tell me about the philosophy that he wanted to have. As he was saying, it makes so much sense. I don't know why we hadn't done this earlier, but the 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 buy-in? He got it. He got it early, and you'll read, we'll talk about Petco Park hitting, and the ball doesn't travel well, and adding Luis Arise only highlighted what he was trying to get everybody to get on board with. So we'll get into that a little bit after Tony versus a fan, but it's a great article on Luis. 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. That's all right. Mike Shelton speaking to the reporters right now, you Darvish will be in the bullpen. He said, that's the only roster that you're going to get from me. 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. Youses. 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, 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 top five in an ERA. He might even be lower than that. He might have had one of the lower CRA's. Oh, that's, excuse me, Diamondbacks, one out away from being eliminated from playoff potential. Those bags they packed might not actually be going anywhere. That's depressing unpacking 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 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 planning on 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 Salem has back spasms. How is he going to be able to fly on the plane with a team? That's a 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 sale. 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. Um, so. And you. Okay, so Darvish to the bullpen King Musgrove Cease. Why are you saving Dylan Cease for game three? I understand, but it 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, what was King's last start, the second, uh, the game in LA, he 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're gonna ask. Yes. I've been asking a question. Yeah, so that 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 and 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, um, 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 ERA 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 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 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 manac himself, how do you do now is your time. Listen to me, this guy, strangers. Now is your opportunity to win a prize. Well, I hope you know what Jen for Chris versus the fair. 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 Drew Thor for Dylan Cease. Good stuff. One of those, that's one of those statements where you want to, oh, 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, there's the fans 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. 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 do this to me. Oh, it was the guy who won the pick this year. And I think before it used to be Ben Johnson, hmm. Stay there, Dale. Ben Johnson is incorrect. I hope this is still a thing, right? Ben 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, but Johnson did the answer. I think you're looking for his Hussein bolt. It's a Usain Bolt. You know what I meant. You got it. 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 about yourself. I'm well, 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? I'm going to like a minute. Sorry, Tom. Bonds. Barry. Sorry, Tom. I don't know what to do with that one. That was, that was, that was, I don't know what to do with that. That was one. It'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. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Pete Rose. Pass 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 no, that is a more sad news today. It is more sad news to come from a tumble 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 deal. That's a big deal. Let's go to Kevin in Oceanside. Hello, Kevin. Hello, Mr. Blaine. Hello, Mr. Scravey. Hello, Kevin. Hello. Hello, you're right there next to front rave arena, or at least in the area. So here we go. Question number one. Thomas. 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 of my heart. Okay, 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. Oh, thank you. Tony. The guy who they play is kind of heavy said man, he runs around the bases with little legs, baby, 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. It was one of those days. We're going to do Barry 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 do you play? Twenty two. Oh, man. So we like up in like a say, uh, let's go 12,000 12,000 RBI's how many years he played? 22. 11,000. 11. Okay. It's a lot of farm. Yeah. Think you met 1100. Yes. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm there. Under. Under. Under. Under. Under. Under. He said 11,000 under is correct. So you're going to win twain. Stay right there. And we will get you. We weren't going to give up a prize if I kept answering these 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 to fans. It was Tony versus Tony versus Tony versus Tony. It was Tony the version. That's right. That's right. That's right. So on the other side, we got more news to talk about the Padres, maybe finish up Tony's thoughts about Louisa rise, 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 four thousand 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, is long past, but there is a committee out there that may feel differently now that he is, you know, passed with us anywhere. Yeah. We'll talk about it all on the other side. We're going to Chris. Why does this room look amazing? What'd you change? Oh, I just got these custom shades from blinds.com. It's all online. So it's really easy. Great price to I remember shopping for blinds. I waited around all day just to get a quote. Hi, sorry I'm late. I know you said just the bedroom, but what do you feel about? I feel like I had to say yes, just to get rid of her. All right, just go ahead and sign here and we'll get everything taken care of you. It took forever. And the worst part hidden fees. How about you? I chatted with my blinds.com design consultant on my time, got free samples and it was all super high quality at a great price, plus they make it easy to DIY or add installation like I did. Blinds.com sounds way better. Way better. And everything comes with their 100% satisfaction guarantee. Plus check this out. I can control them from my phone. Whoa, magic. Shoplines.com for up to 50% off site wide and a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Blinds.com rules and restrictions may apply. 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Our Tony versus the fan winner, it was one of those days, we were running. We were already running out of question number ones, because I had more, but Roger Maris threw me through 12,000 RBIs didn't quite win it for me. It wins it for Dwayne. Congratulations. Couple things. My dad, I turned off your mic as I turned off my mic to weeks 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. He 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 Padres 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 3 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 354, the highest full season average in the majors since 2010. He settled for a 3.3 war, which was 54th in the rankings. This season is no different shortcomings on defense, and his 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 Shohei Otani, 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 Kroneworth, who kind of is in the same position, right, because he's playing DHing, he's playing first base, and 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, in terms of when asked for their personal appraisals of a rise as value, Kroneworth and others with the pirate, Padres tend 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 are consistently on base. That wears you down over the course of an outing. It adds pitches to your outing. It makes you more stressful, it 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 and 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 he's going to fall off six pitches. I'm eight deep already and it might get longer. And so I encourage you guys to read that article before tomorrow's series starts again. Yes. Yes. Michael King on the bump. Michael King. Dylan C's 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. For the record, the baseball hall of fame is it 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. Yeah, he's one of them. So 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, but it wouldn't be the first one to get in after he passed. So that's sad. There's a lot of sad today to come in my tombos. A lot of happiness, certainly a lot of sadness, as it probably is every day. All right, that's going to do it for our show today, Monday night football follows. We'll be back at it full coverage starting at well six a.m. at Baja Ricks. Six a.m. And it was and you got 10 to two with Annie and Elston and then you got two to four thirty with Tony, myself and Braden, yeah, lots of stuff going on tomorrow should be fun. That's all. Let's enjoy the San Diego. We don't know how to entage. We're going to get to do this. So have a good night. 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 met those blackout motorized shades MVP of the room and a minimal salary cap hit. Lines.com made it crazy affordable to replace our old blinds. Never do install. No, it was easy. Even you could do it. Nice. I installed these and they 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. She talked to a design consultant for free and scheduled a professional measure and install. Look at you, a Hall of Fame son. Oh, I just picked the winning team. 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