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Leo has been on the 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:13.000 podcast before he came back for his second appearance on 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:14.800 the on the show, and now we're having another person 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.400 on today that was on previously. Is this Are we 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.720 rinsing and repeating? Is that what we're doing right now? 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.039 I guess we've run out of friends that we have. 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.039 Is that's essentially it. We've run out of people that 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:27.800 we know that we can put on the podcast. And 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.320 so now we're going back and and these these are 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.840 guys that got big download numbers, right, Leo Terrell and 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.360 and Lee hacks Hamilton, who's on today, both got a 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:39.760 big numbers. Yeah, these are these are like the anti 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.399 Tom Looney's of the world. You know, these are ratings 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.240 driven bonanza. Now is that true? Is that Tom Looney? 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.800 Because I'm gonna let him know that. Yeah, low download 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.040 totals by Looney. Huh. Interesting. It was a brutal month 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:58.280 of August for everything outside of of what we did. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:03.920 Tom Looney came him in extremely low bad showing by him. Wow, 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.000 bad job by by Looney. And Looney likes to brag 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:12.520 about how popular is. So that's that's all all right, 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.120 before we get into hacks All, We're gonna have hacksall 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.320 here hanging out with us. 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So so I 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.280 can take shots that you in Facebook and you'll never know. Well, yeah, 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.359 you can't tag me on there, so you can take 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.600 shots if you want, well you'll never see them. So 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.600 I can take gratuitous cheap shots at Giest Scott. Yeah, 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:37.839 but I mean, you don't want to be that big 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:39.840 of a pussy to you or you gotta like take shots. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:44.200 And I'm not a radio What are you talking about? 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.120 Your You're such a more sugar that I have to 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:47.520 do this some time to time to keep you in 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.440 line because you're a narcissist west of the four oh 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.560 five talking about What am I talking about? I'm talking 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.360 about reality. I'm I'm a man of the people out here, 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.160 slaving away east of the four or five. You know badly, 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.720 my air conditioned dies. I run in there. I do 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.080 the show because I'm dedicated, and I'm languishing over here, 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:10.360 and you're high forlutin walking across the Pacific Ocean like aristocrat. 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.720 I'm floating on a gurney across the Pacific Ocean. Here 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:15.560 we go, Here we go. Let me get my little 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.640 violin out there. Let me get a little violin me 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:24.160 out of the infirmary into the network studio. Keep in mind, Guesstcon, 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.720 let me put something out. When I had my chest 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.640 sliced open, you ab all right? No, no, I I 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.279 have a bunch of scars all over my chest right now, 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:39.599 my beautiful chest. I have a bunch of scars. As 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:45.440 I was getting put under anesthesia. I'm getting f you. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:50.359 Tweets that tweets text from Gascon. I'm in the hospital, 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.560 I'm about to go under. I don't know if I'm 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.680 gonna make it or not. And I've got Gascon who's 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.880 harassing me via text message? Well, I mean this is 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.479 something that you kicked down the you know, you kicked 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.240 the can down the road a bit, and this is 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.280 what happened to you. So I mean, had you not 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.800 neglected your own body, I wouldn't have been violently in text. Well, 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:12.680 I could say the same thing about you if you 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.080 were like a normal human being and the two would 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.200 have just left your body, you wouldn't have needed this. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.120 But obviously you're such a you're such a meathead that 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.040 it can't even leave your body. It's a bad job 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.960 by you. Yeah, I'm a hoard or what can I say? Yeah? 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.279 There you go, you are you are a hoarder. That 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:29.680 is your future. Right, Let's get to it. You want 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.800 to get to it right now? Yes, all right, Well 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.240 I am very excited. As many of you know, I 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.320 got my start in radio at a college radio station 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.760 at Saddleback College. But I got an internship as I 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:45.480 was a college DJ at the mighty six ninety. This 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:51.120 a seventy seven thousand WAT blow torch from Baha to 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.080 the Canadian Rockies. In that phrase came from the man 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:58.440 that I learned radio from. I watched Bias Moses. I 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.360 learned from Hacksaw at Lee Hacksaw Hamilton's as he did 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.760 his show. He is the patriarch of West Coast Sports Talk, 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:10.640 the o G of San Diego sports Talk. He's seen 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.560 and done it all multiple radio stations at the very 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.800 popular Hasas Headlines. In fact, before we bring Leon, if 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.640 you were a big fan of Hasas Headlines, you can 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.680 still get his headlines. He updates them every day. He's 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:30.520 really meticulous. On Lee hack Saw Hamilton's dot com, his website, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.880 He's on Twitter at hack Saw ten ninety. You can 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.039 find him on there. But those Hacksaw headlines. He pretty 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.520 much just puts the script up that he used for 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.960 his radio show, and there's a lot of good information 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.480 that is really what what Twitter has become. Hacks All 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.920 was the original Twitter. But anyway, all right enough buttering 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.160 the Biscuits of Lee has Hall with him. The reason 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:56.440 we're having Leon is because San Diego the focus of 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:00.400 the sporting world least in baseball trade deadline at the 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:05.800 beginning of this week, and the Podres going bronkers at 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:10.520 the trade deadline, wheeling and dealing. They made six trades 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:15.640 involving over fifteen players. They acquired ten new players, including 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.800 Mike Clevinger. They spent a lot of money. So leave 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.960 let's walking in on this one. I guess the question 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.880 is this is un This is unorthodox for the Padres. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.640 They don't normally do these kind of things. Where did 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.280 this come from? Well, there's a memo that's going out 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.720 to the Dodgers and the Cubs. San Diego's coming coming 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.000 after you. October is going to be very interesting. Ben. 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:42.440 They've been planning to be competitive in they had gone 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.960 through more than a decade of losing baseball and not 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.960 been in the playoffs since two thousand and six, spent 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:52.920 any enormous amount of money UH in free agency, an 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.600 enormous amount of money in the Latin American free ation area, 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.400 and I've overpaid on a whole bunch of their real 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.760 high draft up the excess to get them locked down. 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.160 And as they were suffering all these ninety lost seasons 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.880 the last couple of years, you looked, you looked down 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:11.760 into the farm system and you saw kids having really 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.960 good seasons at every level. You know, that starts with 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.840 Fernando Tatis when they got at age seventeen. So we 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:23.800 knew they were building, and they kept dropping hands. They 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.600 hoped to be maybe on the periphery of the playoffs. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.080 But now with the shortened season and the fact that 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:34.160 they made some offseason deals that really helped their pitching staff, 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:36.800 and they've been able to stay for the most part 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.400 free of any significant pitching injuries, and everybody else has 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.760 fallen apart significantly. The Dodgers, the Cubs, and the Potteries. 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.440 Right now the top three teams in the National League. 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.840 And who could have ever imagined would be talking about 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:56.280 Washington or Philadelphia or the St. Louis Cardinals just being 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.080 an utter chaos because of all the injuries that have 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.200 ripped their clubs up. They got to the trading deadline 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.880 and they thought, hey, we've got a chance to do something. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.080 And what they did was they had stockpiled so much 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.079 in the farm system and they were facing the potential 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.040 loss of some of these kids in the Rule five 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.360 draft is coming near. Because you can't protect everybody. They 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.560 decided we were going to start shopping and we're gonna 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.120 put multiple kids into deals, so we're gonna try to 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.720 get the right right guys. And you know, turned out 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.719 to be a nine player deal with Cleveland to get 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.240 my club Inert, which was huge. The Seattle deal is 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:34.840 probably deliverable downroad. That's seven player transactions. So they think 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.840 right now, Ben that they've got excuse me, every component set. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.000 They are deep in kitching, which is huge in the 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.400 best of three or best of five series. Right now, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.440 they are red hot hitting the ball. You look, you 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.120 look at their lineup, starting about with the Loodolf guy 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.360 and then going through about six or seven in the 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.880 batting order, and they they're all hitting better because they're 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.080 all supporting each other. So they can't wait for October 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.719 to come and you know, is it possible they could 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.439 be a World Series team. I guess anything is possible. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.079 Tampa Bay and Oakland could be World Series teams too, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.560 but have to go through the Dodgers or go through 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:14.880 the Cubs to get there. But the way this thing 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:16.920 is built right now, and if you looked at their 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.600 rotation on paper, and you looked at the depth of 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.040 the bullpen on paper, and then you looked at that 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.319 batting order, as I said, one through six or one 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.720 through seven, that's pretty comparable to who the Dodgers are 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.360 and what the Cubs are right now. So I'm gonna 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.480 be a fascinating month of October and baseball for sure. Well, 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.559 and and Lee, as you taught me back in the day, 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.720 the baseball playoffs are such a crapshoot with the short 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.520 series and all that. But let's break that. Clevinger is good. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.559 I'll give you Clevinger, but some of these other guys 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.280 I only reworked the bullpen the Dodgers had at the 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.959 time we're talking here, the top bullpen in baseball. Fact, 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.720 they have the top pitching staff in baseball. Like a 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.240 lot of some of these relief pitchers that the plotters got. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.120 I to me, they don't really move the kneel. You 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.000 do you disagree with that? And you think these guys 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.360 are actually going to make some impact because I I'm 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.959 looking at you. You're raiding the Seattle Mariners bullpen and 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:13.360 the and the Royals. This doesn't excite me very much. Lee, Well, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:17.120 they got role players. Granted, they lost Curby Yates with 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.440 the bone ship surgery, but but they've got Drew tom 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:25.560 Morans who's reinvented himself as a short reliever closer. And 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.560 they got Matt Strong, who has really pitched well since 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.800 he came from Kansas City more than a year ago. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.440 And they've got Trevor Rosenthal who has rediscovered a hundred 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.800 mile an hour fastball and right now he's pitching like 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.520 he pitched four or five years ago before he had 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.360 the elbow problems in St. Louis. Uh And and they're 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.600 deep and set up guys, and they still got young 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.880 arms that they could call up and plug in. So 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:53.200 I think collectively, you know, if they were Rolaids reliefaced 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.600 guy in the pen, No, not at all, not even 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.720 a Kenley Jansen. But I'll tell you what. They go 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.959 to the bullpen in the fifth and said extending, they 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:02.880 got role players and get you to the ninth and 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.959 get you to whomever the new closer it's going to be. 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:09.080 So I just think collectively, there's a lot of strength there, 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.920 and they all throw the ball hard, so attempt Timmy. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.719 It's intriguing. And you know, I know from the outside 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.360 looking in, you know people on Los Angeles, people in 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.400 New York, But say, who are these guys? What do 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.120 you think they're good? Well, we've sat here and watched 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.960 this thing, you know, and I said, I thought they 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.080 could go thirty five and this year, which we're getting 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.160 in the playoffs, they might have an outside shot of 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.840 winning forty games. Nobody would have ever expected that. So 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.680 at the front of the rotation, you've got Clevinger, and 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.719 you've got the kid Chris Paddock, and he set some 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.880 up to send some downs, but the kids vibrant. And 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.520 you've got Donelson Lamet, who might be the quietest number 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.320 one starter on anybody's staff. And they still got other 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.800 guys that they can plug in, and that does not 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.199 We've had no conversation whatsoever yet about Mackenzie Gore or 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.360 the really highly rated number one draft pick who's sitting 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:03.200 on this taxi squad and roster, and Luis Patino who's 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:07.160 found a role right now as a setup. So it's 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.200 they got numbers and that's good pitching beats good hitting, 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.640 especially in a scary short series. That's that's what really 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.200 intreates me. Yeah, and Lee, we mentioned you can't mention 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.400 the place you've mentioned for Nado t junior, but this 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.360 guy I was trying to the last time we've had 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.040 good young players in baseball over the years, and obviously 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.120 Mike Trout's great near in judge, but the Razzle dazzle 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.079 that for for Nato to these junior brings. Uh, you 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.280 might have to go back to a rod to find 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.400 a guy that brought that impact right away with the Razz. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.480 But is this is he gonna be a Padre for 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.120 the next ten years? I know he can't be a 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.760 free agent, I think till he's gonna be in San Diego, 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.600 certainly over the next few years. But is this a 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.040 long term guy? Is he gonna have a career where 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.200 he stays with the Padres? You think, you know, going 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.720 down the line ten, twelve, thirteen years or is this 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.359 once he's a free agent he's out of their situation 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.840 now because this has become a really good place to play, 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:04.680 and they got an ownership that's put a lot of 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:09.000 money into this franchise and Petro Petco Park pretty good 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.280 stadium to play in. It's a pretty good baseball city. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.720 If they win, they'll draw three million in that ballpark 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.120 next to the gas lamp quarter. Says a lot of 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.520 positives right now. And you know some of the guys 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.120 in the media are just running rampant, Well, how are 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.080 they going to resign them? Etceter with. These guys have 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.560 paid money. These who would ever thought these guys would 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.800 have paid Maddie Machado thirty million a year or paid 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.360 our Cosmo thirty million a year, or dold Off the 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.920 kind of contract they did to Willmeyer. So the ownership 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.320 is there, Is it Dodger Rich? Is it Yankee Crazy? No? 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.000 But it's it's pretty good. And in terms of Tatisa 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.320 tell you the reason this team is right now in 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.280 this funt to go deep into October is are these 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:58.520 nicknames El Nino Las Alsa and the Swiss Army Knife, 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:03.280 Elninios ct. He does everything. The only thing that scares 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.640 me about him is he plays so hard. He's going 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.080 to get himself hurt because he is reckless. Alas also 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.800 is Machado now that that put good people around him 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.440 in the batting order, is a very different ball player 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.320 than the one that kind of dragged through last season. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.520 And and the Swiss Army knife is his kid. They 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.320 scouted from Tampa Bay. Why the Rays would ever give 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.520 up on him kind of stuns me. Jake Cronenworth, who 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:33.520 plays first, second, third, left, center, and right. And by 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:38.200 the way, dude is hitting three. So it's not like this. 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.080 This is a guy who showed up in April and 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:44.040 disappeared May. He's just he's hitting everybody and again red 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:48.840 hot batting order. Short season, here comes the playoffs up. Yeah, 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.680 it's it's just really intriguing considering all the bad baseball, 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.240 but fans in San Diego have had to live through 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.840 and tolerate. Now, all of a sudden, this thing has arrived. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.360 I think the shame of it all then is if 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.840 if fans were allowed in the stadium and we played 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.000 a full season, they draw three million. Here. You know, 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.800 the first half of last season with the arrival of Machado, 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.880 and he hit early, he hit well, Myers said, well, 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.640 Eric Hosmer hit, well, they got to the All Star 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.520 break ATTT five and they punched the Dodgers in the 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.640 mouth right before the All Star break. I'll tell you 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.040 what the atmosphere a Petico Park was like going to 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.760 an NFL football playoff game. I mean it was he elected. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.520 So the saddest part is no fans in the stands. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.920 Otherwise they draw three million in this place. Had just 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.240 going crazy. Right now they're going crazy watching it on 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.840 TV because they can't go to the yard. I'm happy 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.840 is that I like the Dodgers. Actually, I'm happy for 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.520 the plagect. When I was interning for you that that 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.160 was around the time the Padres had that fire sale 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.720 back in the nineties and they traded away a bunch 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.080 of guys and they I would go to Jack Murphy 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.920 Stadium and I would get a ticket, the cheapest ticket, 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.360 and I would be sitting behind the dugout by the 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.400 second inning because no one, no one was there. Stadium 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:02.600 was empty when they got rid of all those guys. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.840 But I guess gott this year as well, and he 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.080 wanted to yap away and he had some things he 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:08.959 wanted to say. Yes, guess count well I was kind 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.720 of curiously just because of you mentioned the organization and 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.400 the franchise and ownership group. Do you think they make 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.840 a move or any moves like this if we're playing 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.080 a hundred and sixty two games as opposed to something 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.800 condensed like this. Well, i's this. We're August thirty one 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.760 and it was the middle of a hundred sixty two 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.560 game drive and there are only four games out of 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.919 first place, and in the wild card situation, yeah, they 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.119 probably would have. But here they are and they're not 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.920 going anywhere in the final twenty three or twenty four 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.960 games that are left in this season. And that the 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.920 one thing that's different about Padre baseball now than we've 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.440 seen in a long time. It's not one or two 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.920 players man roster that contributes, and they are. They are 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.760 deep and starting pitching. And now they've got the plethora 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.680 of guys out of the bullpen, and they've got a 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.680 couple of kids sitting on the stack squad that a 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.200 champion of the bid for the next of their opportunity 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.439 to come be part of this. So now this is 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:09.040 this is the real deal. You know, you compare this too, sadly, 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.720 what's happened in Anaheim where they have Mike Trout and 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.280 they don't have an awful lot around him. That's what 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.639 pottery baseball used to be. One player out of the 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.280 farm system, you hope it's going to be a star, 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.800 but there never ever was enough around him. But this 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.200 is this is the electric and the fact that we're 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.160 looking at the at this makeup of the postseason. We're 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.160 best of three, and everybody plays the best of three, 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.560 and I don't care how good you are, you get 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.760 scared if you've got to match up with San Diego 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:37.840 in the best of three, first round of the best 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.160 of fives, and then and going from there. So now 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.400 this is the real deal. And this ownership has spent 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.159 a lot of money, They burned through a lot of money, 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.480 that made some mistakes on money, and yet they've gone 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.720 back and they've given this general manager of the green 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.160 light to do this. And so I mean, it's it's 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:57.000 really interesting to see how aggressive A. J. Prelor was 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.880 at the trade deadline, But the fact of the matter 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.160 was it signed an awful lot of players over about 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.440 a four year window. In the minor leagues. They had 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.760 a lot of bargaining ships and and the unique thing 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.000 to me is after making six trades right wrapped around 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:17.040 the deadline, and after moving out about fifteen total players, 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:19.880 they still have all the blue chips at the top 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:22.000 of the board in the farm system that are still 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:26.200 owned by San Diego. So it's kind of cool compared 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.440 to where we're then in the past summers for the 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.880 last decade plus. Do you proceed with any caution though, 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:33.679 because when you look at the divisions and how the 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.200 alignment is right now, you're obviously looking at the National 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:40.119 League West and outside the Dodgers, San Francisco is a 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.120 punching bag. Colorado is a punching bag, and the same 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.679 thing with Arizona. And then you look at the American 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:50.040 League East as well. You mentioned with Anaheim Oakland is 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.720 there Houston's teetering on five hundred, But outside of that, 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.680 it really is anyone's in one's game. So if ever 0:19:57.720 --> 0:19:59.760 there was a year for San Diego to get fatten 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.320 off a mystic, why don't you agree that this is 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.719 the year? Well, yeah, because, like I said, they've been 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.600 building towards this and understand this four years ago when 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.560 they decided to go on this unbelievable spending spree. Uh, 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.960 to sign all these Latin American players. What they had 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.400 plotted out was the Yankees are over the luxury tax, 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.840 the Cubs have spent over the luxury tax, the Red 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:26.000 Sox are taxed out. They're not going to be players 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.320 for any of these players in Cuba or possibly out 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.240 of Mexico. Uh and a select odd one or two 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.760 in the Pacific Rim. And they said, this is the 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:39.800 year June one, four years ago, we're gonna go on 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:41.920 a spending spree and we're gonna sign all these guys. 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.200 And they signed all these Cubans. And now not all 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.879 of them have gotten there yet. They've used a couple 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.800 in his bargaining ships. But they had they had pre 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.800 planned because of the paralysis with the luxury tax and 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.280 the limits and signing pools for the Red Sox and 0:20:57.280 --> 0:20:59.560 the Yankees and the Cubs and a few others, that 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:00.920 was the or they were going to do it. And 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:02.879