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Speaker 1: It's around the Park with Dave Fleming.

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Speaker 2: Our guest today, voice of the Padres Jesse Aguler.

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Speaker 1: First road game for the Giants.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about Jesse's Padres right after this. It's around

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Speaker 2: the Park with Dave Flemming. Giants head on the road

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Speaker 2: for the first time this year. First road series is

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Speaker 2: in San Diego, and so, as we like to do

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Speaker 2: to start every series, find somebody on the other side

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Speaker 2: of things. Jesse Aglier does a great job on the

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Speaker 2: Padres broadcast. Has been a frequent guest of ours over

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Speaker 2: the years. We're starting the year with you, Jesse. Padres

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Speaker 2: Opening weekend similar to the.

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Speaker 1: Giants got one win against a good Tigers team.

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Speaker 2: There was a little hand ringing about the first couple

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Speaker 2: of games.

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Speaker 1: Give me the sense of how the first weekend went.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think very very similar to what the Giants

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Speaker 3: went through.

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Speaker 4: And I mean, look, I would boil it down to

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Speaker 4: Trek Scooble and from Ravaldez. I mean, it's what opening

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Speaker 4: Day's supposed to be. You're supposed to see a pitcher

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Speaker 4: like that, and scoobl for my money, is the best

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Speaker 4: pitcher in baseball.

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Speaker 1: He went out there and pitch like it.

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Speaker 4: Nick Povetta had a tough day, and sometimes a game

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Speaker 4: can be recapped that simply one starting pitcher had a

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Speaker 4: brilliant night, the other had a tough one.

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Speaker 1: And that was opening Day.

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Speaker 4: And then Day two, Ron Rivaldez was not that good

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Speaker 4: as Scooble, but he was still very, very good, and

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Speaker 4: that was.

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Speaker 1: Kind of the story of the weekend.

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Speaker 4: And so it's hard to win a series when you're

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Speaker 4: facing two guys like that, and the Padres were unable

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Speaker 4: to do so.

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Speaker 1: All right, Craig ma if I'm wrong, I think there

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Speaker 1: are a few similarities between the Giants and the Padres.

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Speaker 2: We'll start with the manager. Spot Tony Bytello has gotten

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Speaker 2: a lot of attention for sort of the unprecedented move

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Speaker 2: of hiring him. But Craig Stammon is a new manager here.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we know Craig from his big league career.

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Speaker 2: That's a difference. But Greig for me, kind of came

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Speaker 2: out of nowhere when the Padres picked him.

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Speaker 3: Came out of nowhere for a lot of people.

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Speaker 4: And I think what's neat is we're in an era

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Speaker 4: of baseball now, an era of open mindedness.

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Speaker 3: Right, how many years would we have to go back

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Speaker 3: where neither one.

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Speaker 1: Of these guys would.

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Speaker 4: Get an opportunity twelve years, ten years, maybe even where

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Speaker 4: you know, neither Craig Stammon nor Tony Botello would be

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Speaker 4: given the opportunity to manage.

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Speaker 3: A big league team under these circumstances.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, Craig's name was not one of

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Speaker 4: the names we were hearing as they went through the

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Speaker 4: interview process, and the story, as we found out after

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Speaker 4: the fact, basically was Craig was helping AJ Preller interview

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Speaker 4: other candidates. Craig did not want to be the manager

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Speaker 4: of the Padres, mostly because he didn't want to step

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Speaker 4: away from his family. He's got four young kids. He

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Speaker 4: wanted to be the family man. He's a huge, huge

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Speaker 4: family guy. He's a great dad, a great husband, and

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Speaker 4: he knows the time commitment that it takes to be

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Speaker 4: a manager.

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Speaker 3: And so they go through the first round or two

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Speaker 3: of interviews.

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Speaker 4: AJ Preller, the general manager, calls him and says, hey,

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Speaker 4: you know who's the top year lest who you're your

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Speaker 4: top three? So Craig says, you know this guy, this guy?

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Speaker 4: That guy asks AJ what about you? And AJ says, well,

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Speaker 4: my number one is Craig Stamon and Craig laughs thinking

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Speaker 4: he's joking, and AJ says, I'm being serious. I really

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Speaker 4: think you're the guy for this job. And Craig was like, well,

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Speaker 4: I don't know. Man got to talk to the family

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Speaker 4: and that was kind of the thing that started, you know,

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Speaker 4: the very serious conversation about whether he would take this job,

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Speaker 4: and here we are.

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Speaker 2: That's a pretty cool story of talking to Jesse Agler,

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Speaker 2: voyde of the Padres before the first game of this

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Speaker 2: Giants Padres series. Another thing that I think similar Giants

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Speaker 2: have a core of players they're going to be in

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Speaker 2: the lineup every day. This has kind of been the

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Speaker 2: norm for your team over.

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Speaker 1: The last few years, but Padres still.

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Speaker 2: Have that core of veteran position players that are basically

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Speaker 2: expected to play every single note.

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Speaker 4: I think, you know, it's almost an old school thing, right,

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Speaker 4: And I think a J. Preller and Buster Posey both

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Speaker 4: have that sort of old school mentality of like, that's

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Speaker 4: how you build a contending team. You have a core

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Speaker 4: of guys and then you add at the periphery and

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Speaker 4: sort of build around that core. And yeah, I mean

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Speaker 4: it makes sense to me if I was ever given

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Speaker 4: the keys to a Major League roster, not that I

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Speaker 4: would be.

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Speaker 3: That's how I would build a roster.

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Speaker 4: You know, you'd want to have your your main guys,

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Speaker 4: your star players, and you would work around them.

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Speaker 3: And to me as a fan too, that's fun.

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Speaker 4: You sort of know, all right, I'm gonna get to

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Speaker 4: see these three or four guys every single night.

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Speaker 3: The great giant teams of the twenty tens were built

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Speaker 3: that way.

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Speaker 4: You knew who was going to be at first Pace

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Speaker 4: every night, you knew who was going to be a

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Speaker 4: short stopped every night.

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Speaker 3: You know, you knew who was going to be behind

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Speaker 3: the dish every night.

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Speaker 4: And that was such a draw for those fans, not

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Speaker 4: only because of their Hall of Fame talents in some cases,

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Speaker 4: but because of what they meant to the fan base,

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Speaker 4: because of their longevity.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a very important part of building

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Speaker 1: a team.

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Speaker 2: Hope, it's a great year for you. We'll be seeing

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Speaker 2: a lot of one another.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we will, as always, and I'm very glad.

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Speaker 1: Because of that.

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Speaker 2: Jesse Yact Voice of the Padres will continue with the

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Speaker 2: pregame right after this