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10.4.24 Gwynn & Chris Hour 2: Tony joins the show!
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To tell you how significant the tear was, like, was it a full tear and I mean, it's it's pretty good enough to where I feel like I can't throw a ball. So do you go right away when you came off the mound that it was probably that better? Yeah, I've been dealing with it for a while. And everyone's got some kind of tears and some damage in the UCL. You know, I was told back in the middle months of the so the summer that, you know, that there was some damage there and that it was kind of a matter of time. And, you know, this seemed like something that I could manage physically. I felt like I was capable of throwing still. I didn't feel like anything, you know, as extreme as, you know, UCL injury. But over the last few weeks, it was getting, you know, a little more intense. And then obviously in that last game, it was a pretty drastic jump from like the third to the fourth inning. I felt decent in the first couple innings and below stuff was still there. I think I remember after the third coming in and feeling like significantly tighter and put some heat on it, tried to go back out. And then, you know, the entire fourth inning was the struggle. I was just trying to get it over the plate and get out of the inning and, you know, we evaluate from there. But yeah, I think that was pretty clear out and, you know, necessarily knows the UCL injury, but it was something that I hadn't felt before. And to the point where obviously I don't think that's the first time my career ever to walk off the mound. So yeah, it was pretty intense for me. Tommy John's surgery for Joe Musgrove as we kick off hour number two, with some news that certainly shakes up the Padres heading into their Dodger Padre matchup in the NLDS, which starts tomorrow. Chris Ello, Tony Gwen Jr. is at Dodger Stadium. And Mr. Scrabies along signed Tony celebrating his birthday today. We won't mention that too many more times over the next couple of hours. Did you see the we're going to get the hot Padres and everything? I know we're going to Mike Shilt is hopefully going to be joining us. We're expecting him in the four o'clock hour. So sit tight for that. We got a lot of other things going on. Would you think of the Mets thing last night, though, Tony, did you watch Alonzo? I mean, that was something I got to say. That was, uh, that was awesome. That was awesome. It was just a great baseball game, great piece of hitting. And I know listen, John Boy is great. He's got this, already got these clips out, basically trying to make it's well, he's, he's saying he's saying that Williams was tipping. Really? Yeah, I would like you guys to go and check it out for yourself. And I just explained to you from a hitter standpoint, how I see it. Um, the, the tip is supposedly the partly the, the lowness of his glove versus, uh, change up in fastball, higher on change up lower or higher on fastball, lower on change up and where he holds it before he starts. We come set, we come set, but it is, it is so miniscule. Now from, from Twitter, from Instagram, from YouTube, from Twitter, when you're looking at it, it's zoomed in. So it seems like it's a lot more space that you can tell, but in real time, from the distance the hitter is 60 feet, or yeah, 60 feet, six inches, it'll be, it would be hard to be able to distinguish that little bit of space between fastball change. Now, there's a couple other things on there. I think he may be flaring a little bit when he goes into the change up, but it is all, but they don't show what he's doing on the fastball. So he could be doing the same thing either way. I thought it was just a phenomenal game. Uh, and I would say it's a, it's, it was a phenomenal piece of hitting by, right, by, by Peter Lonzo. I mean, how can they try to take it away from you when you go that other way? That's what I'm saying. Yo, like, uh, not only going the other way, but he went the other way on a three one change up. Oh, hey, I know three run everybody and their mom is looking to go left in the right hand of hair, looking to go left center, dead center, trying to, you know, trying to get it loose on a, on a baseball. This dude backed up the change up and hit it on the line to right fit. You know how, I mean, the change up could have been a little bit lower. It was a little bit elevated, but my gosh, if I, if a pitcher makes a three one pitch on that spot, most of the, I would say a high percentage, 80% of the time you getting what you want there. But that was just, it was phenomenal. It was phenomenal by all of them. I mean, Lindor is it back to lead that bad boy off. He punches Vientos on a high festival. Clearly, he didn't get the tipping conversation. He missed out. I think it was Nemo who ends up lacing the ball in the, in the right field on a change up. It was a good piece of hitting on his part and then Peter Lonzo, man, like three one got to. And I think the other thing is that, you know, the book, you know, what Williams wants to do is change up his best pitch. So I, you know, I'm not going to say that it wasn't didn't come down to tipping, but I don't know. I think that's a, that would have been a tough sight. And you know, he's got some other things and then it kind of fill in the, the blanks that makes you think it could be tipping, but I'm going to say it wasn't. I'm going to get Peter Lonzo a lot of credit then, you got to get the Mets straight up good hitting. The Mets are going to play the Phillies and I don't have time to break down that series because we got our own to worry about. But I'm telling you what, the Phillies better play well because the Mets have a little magic just like the Padres do. I will say, I do think it's kind of cool though, that in the actual NLDs, you get a bunch of division rivals matching up against one another. The only one that isn't is the Yankees Royals. I mean, even Cleveland Detroit division rivals. Obviously, L.A. San Diego, you got Philly New York. I just think that, I think that is just great theater. Should be good. These teams know each other so well. And all four games tomorrow, right? You got all four of them. Potters and Dodgers are last on the list. Starting at 538 with Tony and Jesse's call on 97.3. The fan baseball coverage on 97.3. The fan presented by T-Mobile switch to T-Mobile. And you get tons of benefits and still save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon. So use their savings calculator to find out how at T-Mobile.com/switch. What's the feeling of the Padres? If we can take away Musgrove for a minute, Tony, just how'd you categorize things heading up to L.A.? I didn't ride with them. I rode by myself. My wife and I drove up. But just seeing these guys, filtering out as they got ready for their BP. They look loose, man. This is a confident bunch, man. We talked, Jerrickson spoke before the game. He highlighted the fact that, you know, the difference, because he's been here, he's one of the few guys that's been here for all three of these match-ups. 20, 22 in this year. And you know, all different circumstances, right? 20, they didn't have enough pitches. They couldn't, they couldn't get there. 22, they actually beat them. And 24, and he said the same thing. Pretty much they said, we are more experienced. We've been through this before. And you know, we're more confident bunch than we've ever been. And so, you know, Jerrickson, I think is one of the voices that speaks for the entire locker room. Having been in there for the last couple of clitching, whether it was clitching the wild card spotter, winning that first series, that wild card series, a lot of the things that he says are repeated throughout that locker room. So when he says that this team is more expensive, he also talked a little bit about the intensity, because the Dodgers have noticed certainly that those games have been more intense. And I just think when you get two good teams together like this, that's exactly what you should expect. So this project group is loose. I think they're confident. I think unlike in the past, you know, prior to 22, there was a kind of a, oh, that's the Dodgers over there kind of field, 90 more, man. These two are equal heavy weights, looking to take each other out. Well, yeah, it's, it's, I mean, this is it. This is what we all can't wait for every, you know, we don't get this all the time. You know, you'd like to think that every year it comes down to something fun like this. It doesn't. We don't, we don't, we don't get guaranteed this kind of matchup. So to have it and be on the eve of it all beginning, it's awesome. Tony Gwen Jr. is there at Dodger Stadium. Scrabies over here. Yes. And tomorrow, we should mention that Ben and Woods are going to be at Ailesmith for a viewing party. Yes. I was going to go drop by. Oh, yeah. And make an appearance. Okay. You know, if I do that, it'll take all of the attention away from Ben and Woods. You don't want everybody will flock to me. That's true. You don't want everybody flocking to you, Chris. That's kind of, that's kind of disrespectful. Yeah, disrespectful. So I'm a problem. Well, every time you walk into Petco, you go, look at me. Look at me, everybody. In fact, I normally walk into Petco and the first place I go is to the public address announcer's booth and just grab the microphone and just yell it to everybody. Yeah. That's what it is. No, but they're actually going to be doing a broadcast live and a viewing party from the broadcast is from 230 to 430. And they're going to get you ready for the San Diego LA playoff game. Ailesmith 394 pale ale is the official rally pint of the playoffs. Watch all of the San Diego postseason action at the Ailesmith tasting room in Miramar with game based specials on 394 and more root for the hometown team with other fans while watching the game with sound. I'm going to come back to that in a second. That's Saturday from 230 to 430. Ailesmith in Miramar. I get to meet all the guys too. But with sound, I think is very important, Chris, because you cannot watch important games without the sound of the game. Like during a regular season, you can have a major league baseball game. Oh, you're talking about going to a viewing party. You want to hear what I want to hear the bat. I want to hear the crowd. I want to hear all of that. So they're going to be able to play that for you as well. Tony, what's the atmosphere like at Dodger Stadium for a playoff game? For those who haven't really been to Dodger Stadium for a playoff game, we know what it is here in San Diego. It's off the chain. LA has been known for their laid back ways. But I know they can get loud. Give me just a scouting report on that and what the potters are looking at. Well, I mean, it's very similar. I mean, I think once you get to the postseason, I mean, unless it's a place that hasn't had any postseason like games, I just think the level of, you know, we talked a lot about the level of focus for the players and the umpires. I think there's a certain amount of level of focus for fans, man. At least that's what I noticed in the series, the previous series at home. I noticed it all of postseason in 22. Like people aren't there for the social event no more. You know, maybe this brings out the actual baseball fans and people who want to see a good competition, right? Because, you know, LA is very much now in 22 when we came here. Padres lost game one. It was extremely loud. Game two, it was quiet. Why was it quiet because of Padres? They were putting it on them. And then, you know, so it was a different vibe. And I imagine as, and I could tell you from the NLCS in 22, that first game, it was loud to begin with and shore hits the home run, Harper hits the home run. It wasn't as loud. It was still a buzz, which is what makes the playoffs different. There's a buzz throughout the building. But, you know, it's all dependent on what's happening in the game. But certainly, LA is not a whole lot different. There's more, more, they can hold more. So I mean, that certainly helps in terms of how loud it can get in here. But I'll tell you what, the last two days, the last two games in San Diego, that was a, that was a different experience than I've ever experienced in Pekko. This is something that may not mean a lot to the fans. Maybe outside of the clinching game against the Dodgers in 22. That was on a whole nother stratosphere. But yeah. Here's something that I know you like to talk about, Tony, because you have a really good feel for this. And some fans, like this is all they care about, but 98% of the fans are just going to watch the game. Why are you looking at me? I'm looking at you because I'm talking to whoever around you when you happen to be here. Look, it's gravy over here. Phillip, Phillip, Phillip, like you hang on a second. Alright, so here's the thing. He turned his back to me. Baseball has announced the umpires for the series. Tony, have you seen this yet? I'll just say this. I'm very happy. You like what they got? We don't have the Mets and Phillies crew. You don't like their crew. Let's give you, gets give you the the Dodger Padre crew. Mark Ripperger is going to be behind the plate for game one. Is that the Ripper? Has to be Ripper. No, that's, uh... Oh, Tom Payne. That's, that's that's Tampa. It's Tom Payne. John Tom Payne. John Tom Payne. He's not in there this time. Ripper, Ripper, Ripper, Ripperger will be behind the plate. It's a tough name. John Lipko will be at first Corey Blaser, Blaser at second, and Dan Bellino is the crew chief. He'll be at third, and then Tripp Gibson and Adrian Johnson round out the crew. You're scouting report, Tony, just for the fans who like to, like to rip on the umpks. Oh, well, Mark is a San Diego, uh... First and foremost Ripper. Okay, there we go. There we go. There we go. San Diego. That's good. He is, uh, I think he's a good umpire. Uh, I don't know. He'll miss some calls just like anybody else from time to time, but I think he's a quality umpire. Who is the second one on that list? First base, John Lipka. Lipka. No, John Lipko. No, not John Lipka. No, just, you know, trying to mess everything up. You know what I'll say is I don't have anything to say, which probably means good guy, good, good umpire. He does his job because I don't have anything bad to say. Corey Blaser at second. Okay, Corey and I, uh, came up a little bit at the same time. Great dude. Um, I don't like his zone sometimes. I won't be honest. Okay, he's got game three, so that'll be the game here in San Diego. I don't like his zone from time to time. He's a, he's a, I think a well-tempered umpire. He let you say your piece. Uh, but he certainly won't be. You go too far. He's not afraid to, to he vote. You now has to play off so you don't see that. It happened very much. And I don't expect it to see it, but yeah, he's, he's a good dude. My personal pin. I don't like his zone. What we got next. Now finally, Dan Bellino will be a third. He's the crew chief. We'll probably do game four if it's necessary. You, Bellino is, uh, he's on my bad list. You know, I don't know if you guys remember. Remember he was staring at bum guarder like in his face, like trying to put him back. Oh yeah. Was he the guy who did that? That's, that's damn Bellino. That's damn Bellino. I haven't quite forgiven him for it since, but ultimately he's a really good umpire. He, you know, he's, he's one of those guys that I think, uh, takes it very serious and getting it right. He didn't always get it right. But I think he's a very good umpire. I just have my issues with him. And finally, Tripp Gibson will be in left field, which I assume puts him in game five if it's necessary. Love trip. He's, uh, he's one of, he's also in that kind of younger group of umpires. He's been, he's been in the league now. I want to say five, six years. He's done a terrific job. I think he's a good umpire tight zone, uh, for the most part usually. Um, but he's a good umpire. All right. Adrian Johnson is the last guy, but he probably won't work. He won't hurt him. I don't think he'll work home plate because he'll be in right field. Adrian is a very honorary, uh, individual. He doesn't, he get, he runs hot often and typically his crews, at least this year, seemingly were, were in the mix. I think him and Mike Schilt got into it a couple times this year. Yeah. I don't know if, I don't know if Adrian, I can't remember if it was Adrian or not, but oh, you know what? I think one of them definitely was Adrian actually this year. Yes. No, I think earlier this year, definitely one of Adrian, Adrian was one of them. He, uh, yeah, he's a, he's in the mix a lot. I know how I can get to Mike Schilt to get mad at me. And when he comes on the show, I can ask him what he thinks of these umpires. Hey, Mike, I got the umpire list for you. By the way, Scravey, our guy, John Tumpain, the, the, uh, the reaper, the reaper, the reaper. Yes. He will be in the video review, uh, office in New York. What? John Tumpain people from the review from there. I'm the reader of the slash when he makes the call. I like John Tumpain. You know that he'll be in the video review. All right. So we'll take a quick time out. Uh, when we come back much more on this Dodger Padre series, we're trying to cover from every single angle for you. Tony's in, uh, LA and, uh, Gwen and Chris was Scravey alongside a 97 three, the fan after traffic. This episode is brought to you by progressive insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too with the name of your price tool from progressive. It works just the way it sounds. You tell progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust progressive progressive, casually insurance company and affiliates price and coverage match limited by state law. Yes indeed, three 25 on the clock. Tony Gland, June, Chris, Elo, Matthew Scravey together, but apart. I'm here at Dodger Stadium watching the Padres. Take some BP. Scravey and Chris back at the Odyssey Empire and, uh, you know, we pretty much hit baseball for the first hour and a half of this show. We'll, we'll change gears here because we only got a little short segment after a little long one. The last segment, uh, Falcons get the victory last night and, uh, Kirk Cousins, who is that? Kirk Cousins. Oh God, he's doing this call with the Falcons again. I've heard it in their stadium. Please knock it off with the con, man. That is brutal. It sounds like a two can. A two can he says. Uh, yeah, man. Kirk Cousins, over 500 yards out. He did it in a, uh, overtime period as well, but he did it. He threw through, threw the ball over 50 times last night. Yeah, that's, that's not going to win you a whole lot of games in the NFL, throwing it 50 times most of the time, but it was needed in this ball game and, uh, Kirk Cousins, Manny. I don't think, you know, we oftentimes we give Kirk Cousins a hard time, but it's not for his regular season play. Most of the time, regular season, he's fine. He's more than fine most of the time. It's just the postseason that it gets a little complicated for. Yeah. And he's also had trouble on Monday nights. Yes. Uh, and which lead people to say, well, he, you know, doesn't play when the, you know, the spotlight is the brightest, but you know, this was a night game where they're the only game in town and, uh, he performed great. I, you know, it was an exciting game. Obviously, you know, they get down at the end. I think the, the Buccaneers did a very bad job of running out the clock at the end. They gave the Falcons the ball back and just enough time to get down there for that field goal to tie it up. But, uh, yeah, Cousins had a great game and 509. I mean, that doesn't happen very often. I every time I see something like this, I always, you know, my guy, Norm Van Brockland, 554, the record still stands from 1951. But Kirk Cousins' performance last night, guys, was the 15th best in NFL history. It's not very many games where guys throw for that kind of yardage. So, uh, yeah, it was quite a game. The only thing I'd, you know, frustrate me as a Falcon fan. And I did talk to our guy, our boss, Adam Clue, Mr. Falcon. Um, is he frustrated? No, he's just like saying the same thing I'm saying is like, where is this bin? And where, you know, when am I going to see it again with Kirk Cousins? Because you don't expect him to be consistently this good, but he was great last night. So, Well, I will say this. Uh, he did lead a last minute drive against the Saints, right? That true. If it weren't for, uh, I think of a kind of a bad PI call, they wouldn't beat the Chiefs too. So, I mean, maybe even this is, we're looking at this a little bit of the wrong way, but, uh, well, at least Atlanta Falcons are because we don't really care one way or another, how Kirk Cousins or the Falcons do. But, uh, it was, it was, uh, it was kind of cool to watch him, you know, and he really, he tried to be fair. He almost tried to give it away. He threw a pick right after they got the fumble, uh, he did it from Kirk Cousins. And that's where I thought that the Bucks could have run out the game, but they did not. They did not. They gave another chance, gave another chance. Baker may feel that a good game. I think Betka Buccaneers are good. That's a, that division, which has been kind of the, the, the, the step mat door mat for a while. They got some big teams better now. Tampa Bay, Atlanta, I think the Saints are pretty formidable. So that, that division's looking a lot better so far this year. I saw one more thing on the NFL and then I'm going to leave these guys out of it. And I hope I don't have to talk to them again, about them the rest of the season. But I saw power rankings the other day for the NFL. Guess where the dolphins ranked in the, in this power ranking, I think it was Fox Sports. 35 out of 32. That's funny. 29. Yeah. 31 is right. Oh, the only team they were ahead of is the team they're playing Sunday, the Patriots. If the, if the dolphins lose to the Patriots, which I think is very possible, they will concert with, honestly, could be the worst team in the entire league. Well, how fast did that happen? You know, with to, I mean, I, I don't understand, and I know to, they're much better with to, but I can't believe that he's that big of the difference. Uh, I mean, we've got before, right? Like to, it goes out. The dolphins aren't good. To in, the dolphins are a lot better. Yeah. Now, better in terms of postseason better. That, that's not the, I don't think, that don't think that applies. But in terms of regular season, they are certainly a better team with to involved. Uh, I had something I wanted to ask you. Oh, why, why do you think, why do you think they're playing so bad? Is it just, is it just simply to, you watch these games more than I do? And here's the thing, and I've said it all along, Tony, the, the general manager of the dolphins, I think it's Chris Greer, and the ownership, of the dolphins love the shiny objects. And they keep spending all their money on Odell Beckham, and on all these, you know, skilled players, they have no, no potatoes with the meat, or maybe it's the other way around, but their, their offensive line is, is, is awful. That's why Toa was running for his life in that Buffalo game in the first place. And on defense, they got rid of a ton of really good players in the off season, and nobody seemed to mention it. But they lost a lot of guys. I don't think there's much grit on that team. So that's the problem. And we've talked about it before, when things are flying their way, they're unstoppable. But when things get tough, they shrink. And that's why Miami is there in big trouble. And if they don't beat the Patriots, I will be happy to call them the worst team in football. Scrab, you don't even have to, you don't even have to make fun of me. I was all agree with you. I'll leave it to you. I'll agree with you. All right. Week five of the NFL got underway was a thriller though last night. It was indeed. All right. Let's get to break. When we come back, Kurt Kenny joins us. He'll talk a little bit of Aztecs and he'll give us a little historic perspective on this Dodger Padre matchup on the other side. We're going to Chris find folks at the MLB Network. And there are many fine folks there at the MLB Network. We only talk about the ones we don't like on this show. This show is Gwyn and Chris, Chris, Cressello, Tony Gwyn Jr. in LA. Makes me nervous when you go this route. Matt Scrabie over there, getting a little nervous. No, they did a poll today. I thought it was an interesting poll on MLB Network. They asked everybody to call in and vote or whatever they, however you do vote. Call in and vote. Send in your vote by a horse and carriage. Go to your ballot box. Go to your ballot box. But the question was which of the wild card team winners has the best chance to make a run to the World Series? The choices were Tigers, Royals, Mets or Padres. Those were the four wild card winners. The Padres got over 50% of the vote. So a lot of people are, you know, are bullish on the Padres chances to make a run. They got 53% of the vote. The Mets got 19%. If anyone's following all of this, Detroit got 16 and Kansas City 10%. I don't think anybody thinks Kansas City can beat the Yankees, except I do. I don't know that they will, but I think they can. I'm still not 100% sold on the entire Yankee club. I know Judge and Soto are phenomenal, but I think that that team is, you know, beatable. Tigers in Cleveland, I think, is almost a toss-up. And Mets Phillies, the Phillies have to be favored, for sure. But the Mets have a magic touch. They keep winning in the ninth inning all the time. The ghost fork is going to be pitching game one. Kodai Senga. Kodai Senga was named the game one starter for the Mets. Yeah. How about they sloughed on that all year? Like, dude, I was always, I was always a little, it had my antennas raised, like a calf injury. Just like, thank you, Tony. You're not going to miss the whole year of cavity. I think maybe at that time, they assumed they weren't going to be in the playoffs, maybe. But yeah, this makes sense. I mean, a calf is never, because this happened. I think that's injury happened like at the beginning of the second half. It did. He came back from injury, and he made one start, and he was fielding a ground ball, and he pulled his calf, and he was on my fan. He's done for the year, calf, calf, injury. It was definitely like that. Now he's back. No, he's back. He's going to pitch game one. I will say this about the Mets. I was happy. I was in New York, as you guys know, and on Monday, when they beat the Braves, I was really happy to see Steve Cohen, the owner down on the field, getting a couple of hugs in there and congratulating his guys, because everybody thought Steve Cohen was crazy, right? Because he didn't give up. And I thought, why should he give up? Good for him, that he fought it all away. And he said, I'm not trading a lawn, so I'm not trading this. I'm not trading that. I believe in this team. He put a little more money in what it very had to do. Obviously, he has the money to do it. But a lot of owners these days, Tony, who talked about it, they don't compete to win all the way through. And I was happy to see that he was rewarded for that. He was. I mean, remember, he got rid of some pitchers last year. He got rid of Scherzer at the end. He got rid of Verlander. And everybody felt like, okay, well, they're punting. And the comments coming out of that deal last year was that they weren't even looking at 2024. They were, they were, they were scheduling 2025 as their chance to kind of get back to it. And so for the team to stay in range throughout the first half and then be rewarded, as you said, Cohen goes out, he's allowed to, they're allowed to spend a little bit more money to kind of sure up some things. Yeah, here they are. And in the NLDS against a arrival, I think they went six and seven against the Phillies this year. So this is a very contested series coming up between those two teams that are alive right now. We got Kirk Kenny on the line there. So Kirk, hang on one second. Sorry. But there's two teams that have come from nowhere to get to where they are now. And that's the Mets and the Tigers. The Tigers were more than 10 games out of a wild card spot, just a month and a half ago. And now here they are, you know, making a run. So, you know, for all these teams that give up the ship, stop it. Yeah, you know, keep playing. All right, Kirk Kenny going to join us after we check some traffic. If you love Mediterranean food, try Spiro's authentic Mediterranean cuisine corn out of La Jolla for dining or takeout options, visit Spiro's cuisine. Is there anything more we can do to keep Kirk Kenny waiting longer? I guess we should bring him on. Kirk, I'm so sorry about that. How are you my friend? You're so kind to join us as always. How are things? No problem. No problem waiting. I just what my lawn while I was waiting. People get off it. And I know it's a law. It's a large lawn that you have people that you chase off of the racial, political. Kirk, I was joking with Scrabie earlier, the Aztecs, and we're going to talk about the Padres too. But you know, we cut you cover the Aztecs. The Aztecs, if they never had any luck at all, it would always be bad luck. Right. It's their conference opener tomorrow. Trying to get everybody excited for this new team with Sean Lewis and their plan and Hawaii and everybody in the whole thing. And the game starts at the same time the Padres game starts. It's really, you know, that's just unlucky. No, actually, the Aztecs start to happen an hour earlier. So maybe people will be so enthralled in the game that they... They won't turn away. Yeah, maybe they'll forget all about the Padres Dodger game. Yeah, it's a good chance of that happening. Kirk Kenny is with us. We'll talk about, you know, the Aztecs. You know, the game the other day, they, they really had it and they missed a couple of field goals and, you know, tough loss. But I think Sean Lewis has him going in the right direction. But what I wanted to ask you, Kirk, in 1984, you and I were working together. And here's another reference to newspapers for you Scravey. Kirk and I were working together at the Daily Aztec. I was the assistant sports editor. Whoa. Kirk Kenny was my boss. Wow. He was the sports editor. This is circa 1984, Kirk. And that was the first time the Padres went to the World Series. And I just, you know, I think about that today because I feel like the Padres are, you know, hopefully have a chance to make one again this year. And, you know, it's, it's fun to think back on those days and maybe some of what you recall compared then to now, if it's possible. Well, the first thing that comes to mind is that their owner, Ray Crockett, passed away in January of that year. So there's direct parallels to the Padres losing their owner, Peter Sideler, this time around 40 years later. Wow. So, you know, I'm always thinking of somebody up there watching over them. Other parallels, it's so much, one thing that's so much different is I believe today or yesterday was their very first game in the playoffs against the Cubs. But, you know, that was one round and it was best of five and they were in the World Series. Nowadays you have to, you have to go three rounds to get there. And so you've got to be good for a much longer period to make it to the World Series. So much bigger challenge. But, and then the other thing I've asked people, you know, the first time is always so special. I mean, people were so caught up in that that just gripped the whole city. And, but it's funny because now since it's been 40 years, this is the first time for a lot of people who weren't born back then. And so it's special to them that the energy and the electricity in the ballpark was tremendous this week. Kirk, can you join us here on Gwen and Chris and Kirk? You know, I was asked this yesterday because it was noticeable in the last series, especially as the Padres got closer to closing down that series against the Braves. You heard the beat LA chants. I can't remember maybe outside of 96 going into that last series that I've ever heard it has loud or really with any type of passion since then. Can you get is there a time could you? Was there any time in the 90s outside of the 96 that you can remember a beat LA chant? Not for the most part. Not for the most part because when you average 18,000, it's a lot more difficult to forget that big of a chance. That's what I said. That's what I thought. But you're right. I was walking out my nephew went, he came down from Orange County. He got to that game for the first time ever at Petco and I was walking out with him and within five seconds until the last day everybody starts chanting beat LA beat LA. I wanted to relate one story if you will and indulge me. You know, there was a lot of Dodger influence when the Padres got started in the late 60s and Buzzy Babazzi came down from the Dodgers and became their president. And one thing I in my research through the years I came across is during the 1980 1968 expansion draft. Babazzi was asked by the guy who replaced him with the Dodgers who was actually in the hospital on his sick bed who was going to take in the expansion draft and Buzzy gave him the names and the guy goes, Oh, no, no, don't do don't take that guy. And the guy that he mentioned was a promising shortstop prospect named Bill Ruffle. And the Padres did not take off full and they had to wait I think 10 years before they got a decent shortstop name Ozzy Smith. Don't be listening to guys on their sick bed. That's what I say. Kirk and look at the kid asking you to hit two homers for him. That's right Kramer and Seinfeld and Paul O'Neill. Thank you. Paul O'Neill's classic line to Kramer. One one home run maybe but two promising two home runs. Paul O'Neill was incredulous that Kramer could have promised that. You've been around again. I know you've been roaming the stadium. We are amazing when it comes to this time of year. Right Kirk? I mean, the fans are so crazy and excited. That's always kind of been the way because the 84 playoff against the Cubs was the loudest Qualcomm stadium or then Jack Murphy ever was. And so we've always kind of had this ability to rise to the occasion, right? One thing that was neat that year is that was that your Ghostbusters came out and for the power. A hundred miles from that and it became CubBusters. And that was just rocking through the stadium. I remember that because I was still working at the stadium in the vending department. And on Garvey's home run, I was walking out toward centerfield to break down a beer stand. And I didn't have an angle on the outfield wall. So all I did was look at the crowd and its reaction when the ball left the ballpark. And it was just you know so memorable and just an electricity goes through the air that is pretty much unmatched if you're watching them home. Kirk Kenny is with us. He covers the the Aztecs for the Union Tribune. But he's been doing this for a long time and he's been doing stuff for the for the paper this week on the Padres and their situation. And Kirk what what is just finally where let's look ahead for three weeks and we win the World Series. I mean, you're you're a native San Diego and I'm not but I've been here almost as long. I mean, what is it going to mean to so many people from this generation to honestly see it finally happen? And I'm getting ahead of myself. I understand that. But there any way to put it into perspective what would really, you know, this city, I almost, you know, just don't know what to think will happen. I think the championship everybody always brings up is one from 1964 by a football team that used to be here. Yeah, right. But but but and again, the Padres have been in the World Series twice. So that's been done. So I think if they do win it, then that's got to be the top sports moment I would guess ever in San Diego. And and now with so many more fans and you know, the crowds they get and how much people have been caught up in all this. I don't see any sports moment really beating this. Yeah, I had imagined with, you know, not a ton of history in championships. This there's there's no way that if a Padres team, this Padres team is able to capture it that it can be anything but at the very, very, very top of the list and it probably won't be close. One thing is interesting. I was looking on the secondary ticket market and yesterday, I think tickets just for Gallagher Square were going for about $200. And I'm talking to a buddy. I'm like, it's only the second round. What are they going to go for if they make the World Series? Oh, right. Right. And there's been like, how many people are out at Gallagher Square? Would you estimate Kirk during these games? It's amazing to me. How many people are packing their way in there? Five, six thousand. I think it can hold up to eight and they're having a viewing party this weekend. I'm going to go on Sunday and check that out. And I think that'll be a lot of fun. So yeah, everybody's caught up in this. All right. Well, Kirk, well, please do your best to chronicle what happens with the Aztec Saturday night so that we can all pick up the newspaper Scrabie on Sunday and read about it. It's like the sixth time we've talked newspapers today. Okay, you're not going to watch the Aztec game Saturday night. You're going to need to read Kirk's, you know, break down of the game. Call them every single week. Sure you do. Or online. Yeah, not in the paper. Kirk, thanks for joining us, man. Have a great weekend. All right. RDM on yourself. There's our guy Kirk Kenny, and he's been out running around interviewing people during these games kind of getting some of the flavor of the Padres latest playoff run. But yeah, I thought that, you know, the Aztecs making a run to the final two was huge. Obviously, the Tupadre, you know, World Series appearances, the former football team making a Super Bowl. It's going to still rank up there. But I don't know what is going to happen in this city. One thing I do remember, I don't know if you were calling it at all, Tony. No, of course you didn't recall it. You weren't around. Mine was stupid. Stupid thing that one of us were here in 1912, 1984. Stop it. But when they beat the Cubs after that day was a Sunday day game, people were honking their horns the rest of the day and the rest of the night. And it was just awesome. Just all over the city, no matter where you went. I imagine it'll be something like that. If that happened. If that happens. I mean, even if he just getting to that moment, because remember that got the team into a World Series. I know it was only one round, but it still was the round before the World Series. I imagine if the Padres get there, that's how it will start. Just honk. Just a lot of horn honking and things of that nature. But let them win a title, man. I might be a little scared about what would happen if San Diego wins the title, honestly. Someone was just saying on the chat, they're going to need to grease up every palm tree out there so that no one can climb them. There's going to be a lot of craziness. Can we be the first city that doesn't overturn cars and I hope so. Let's try to come back. I'm not 100% sure that we could accomplish it though. I am with you, Tony. There are going to be overturned cars. For sure. I'm going to park my car elsewhere. We're not there yet. So we got a little time. We probably just got to do some work first, but certainly would be fun. It's fun. It's actually, you know what? It's reasonable enough for us to actually think about sure at this point. I don't know, maybe outside of 22. And I think even in 22, I don't know that you could feel this confident that it could happen. So it's fun that we're even at this point, honestly. All right. We're going to take a break. In the four o'clock hour, around 4.15, we are hoping and expecting and hoping to be joined by Mike Schilt, Audrey's manager from L.A. So stick around for that. We're not going to do Christmas the fans today. Can do a quick segment to make way for Mike Schilt. So sorry about your trivia, trivia gang, but we'll get back on that on Monday. But still a lot more going in Chris ahead till six o'clock tonight on 97 through the fan. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? 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