March 23, 2026 • 43 mins
Our Padres Insider From The UT Kevin Acee Joins Us To Talk Padres Naming The Opening Day SP And More. The Wrap.
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San Diego Sports seven to sixty. Kevin Ac en route
for San Diego after spending the last I don't know
one million days in Peoria. Kevin always appreciates taking time
for us. There's a lot to get into. What is
that like when spring training ends? Like how fast do
you drive to get back to San Diego?
Speaker 6 (01:52):
This year? Faster than ever? When I say like a
bat out of hell, it's not a figures speech, Like
it has been hell here for like six days, like
over one hundred degrees and an one hundred degrees Like
oh okay, Arizona. No, no, they were like before this year,
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before the last six days, there had been one one
hundred degree March day in the history of the Phoenix area.
Like it's just awful.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
That sounds terrible. Well, get back to San Diego where
it's been unseasonably warm and like one hundred degrees. But no,
it's gorgeous like seventy today. It's San Diego Kevincy's are
Padres Insider you asked Craig Stammon this specific question for
our listeners that missed it. We always knew it was
going to be Nick Povetto. Why did they wait so
long to make this announcement?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Because there's the Padres and I want to make sure
that I could hardly care less about when they announced this.
I'm not like whatever, but it's just so hilarious that,
like so often they're the last team to do something
like like mark my words on Wednesday when a rosters
are announced, the Padres will be one of the last,
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if not the last, by like two hours team that
you know, announced their their roster whatever. But this did
have to do is we knew all along, really that
like they wanted to make sure he was good after
missing that start in the middle of spring. He had
one fewer start than Michael Caine and so and Herman
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Marquez and Randy Vasquez for that matter. So but look,
you got the what seventy one pitches, he can go
eighty plus he can go ninety pitches on opening day
if you know things are going well. So we always
knew it.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Was going to be Nick, and it will be Nick
Pavetta comes Thursday afternoon against Tarik Skooble. Kevin Acy's with
us right now in San Diego Sports seven sixty. You
just wrote about this, You talked to Craig Salmon and
Manny Machiano. It's one thing to say the plan is
to give him more rest, but then you get into
a season and dynamics are a play like now the
team's performing and so on and so forth. So do
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you buy it? Do you think Machado ultimately sees more
whether it's more time dhing or just more games off
than he had last year.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
I think both, and I think they'll be more proactive.
There's no chance that Mike Shild intended last year for
Manny's first day off two or his first game off
to be the middle of September. But what happened is
they got to you know, July, and they weren't playing
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that great, and Jackson Merrill was hurt at different times
and like he needed to keep Manny in there, and
Manny of course wanted to be in there. So before
they would say get to that point where it's like,
oh no, all hands on deck, I think they'll give
him some more days early. So that if he does
go thirty five, forty five fifty games in a row,
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that's that's where it ends versus I think, what was it,
one hundred and thirty nine or one hundred and forty
five games or something like that. I wrote it. I
can't remember, but like it was, it was amazing, and
he was so obviously on fumes that he even admitted
he was on dunes by the time, you know, September
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came around, and Manny never admits anything like that.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
It's gonna be interesting because once you get into it, though,
and Kevin Iicy is with us, like, do you agree
that it's it's easier said than done specifically with Machalla, right, Like,
if it's Shake Cronoworth, it's all due respect. You could
just say, hey, Jake, you're sitting today. You need today.
With Manny, there's more particulars at play, right, Sure, I.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Wish I could have I wish you all could have
been there. I tried to express it in the story.
I said it twice about Craig Stamon's confidence. You guys,
like he got this job because of who he is,
and that part of who he is is the assurance
that he has and the respect he has from these
And I'm not saying it'll be easy, and I'm not
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denying what you're saying it is true. I'm just saying
Craig's Stammon, if he believes it is important, we'll tell
Manny that he has the day off, or that he's
the agent or whatever it is that he thinks. Now,
could Manny go eighty games before a day off? Sure,
I mean, I'm sure, like, look at the first start.
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I haven't looked beyond this, but you know, they play
six games in the first eight days, Like obviously Manny's
gonna play all those. That would be too early anyway,
But like you know, I haven't looked at the schedule,
but there will be a time, and that Craig Stammon says, no,
this is this is what's best for us, And I
do think it will be proactive, because once you do
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get into where oh wow, like we we're five hundred
or or whatever, we're falling behind the Dodgers or whatever
it is that Manny, it does become Manny who never
wants to sit. He could probably more easily convince you know,
people that he needs to be in there. But I
just I really believe there is this conviction and that
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last year. I don't want to say lesson learned. They
just found themselves in a tough spot last year, but
that they will not allow that to happen again. And
if I'm wrong, shame on me, but shame on them.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Yeah, that's a great point. I think you're gonna be right,
and I'm with you. I think the organization needs to
It's like you need to look after Machado because Machado
is not going to look after himself. That's what happens.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
I want to point this out, like the quote I
have in there, man where Craig Stammon is like, yeah,
you know, he does the tough guy act. He did
not mean that derogatorily. But who says that. Who has
the balls to say that? Besides Craig Stalmmon, Mike Shilp
come on right, Like Craig Stalmon is like very secure
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and who he is and in his position.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Yeah, that's good perspective, Kevin, iicer Pondre's insider with us
right now in San Diego Sports seven sixty. So we
had been told, I think for the organization that Jason
Adam could be available opening day in your reporting, it
sounds like he will start the year on the IL.
What's the reasoning? Is it just better to be safe
than sorry? Here?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Yeah, I had just reading between the lines, been like,
my god, I think this is gonna happen. He's going
to start on the IL even though he's been thrown
in the bullpen since early December. He looked great. But
it was the other day, it was like three or
four days ago, Craig said something that maybe go, oh,
that's it, he's on the IL, Like I didn't know it.
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No one would say it, but so didn't know it
till today where he said we want to be able
to deploy him like he's been deployed. That means back
to back days or four out of five, four out
of six, And besides the whole idea of not wanting
to have to worry about sudden movements to feel the
ground ball or things like that, it was you remember,
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before he got hurt, Jason Adam led the league in appearances,
so un tell he's ready to be that Jason Adam.
Then they don't want to risk setback or you know,
have to go, oh boy, Jason's pitched three of the
last five days. Should we pitch in the night. No,
that's not how you go when you're trying to win games.
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So I think it makes I think it makes sense.
Is it an abundance of caution? Could Jason Adam have
started this season and been just fine? Probably? But you
know they have designs. You and I might have concerns.
They have concerns. Let's be real, but they have designs
on October and they want Jason Adam to be pitching then.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
So what are the looming? Like you said, whenever a
roster has to be finalized, the pagers will make that
announcement twelve seconds before it has to be finalized. What's
still looming over this roster? With opening day NAS seventy
two hours out.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
I don't think anything. Kate Bowen was sent down. We
already knew Bryce Johnson was going to be the fourth outfielder.
We know Tyd Franz soph the enfield spot. Boom, your
bench is set. Jason Adam not being available I think
makes Boom, Brad Leay Rodriguez and Ron Maranaccio on the team. Now,
the decisions will have to be made because Sungmun's song,
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whether he is back on April first or not is
eligible to be back on April first, and so then
what do you do because Ty Francis contract is guaranteed
one point three five million dollars is not that much,
but we know the Padre situation financially, Uh so there's
gonna be decisions to be made there. And then when
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Jason Adam comes back, what what what goes on? Because
Maranaccio is out of options, so the Bradley Rodriguez can
go down. How's Maranaccio pitching? So there are decisions to
be made, but I believe that coming up on Thursday
there there really isn't a decision to be made.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
It's interesting the way you know a j Preller has
kind of added to this roster in during spring training
or ripe before. Obviously the depth pieces that I guess
are going to pay off with this rotation to start
the year or they're going to be relying heavily on
some of those editions, the Walker Buehlers and the Herman Marquezes.
And now we see a deal like today with Jose Leclerk,
who at one point was one of the better relievers
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in the game. I know he's coming off that lat injury.
They already have one of the deeper bullpens in the sport.
But is this one of those Hey sign him, get
him healthy, and he's almost becomes like a deadline edition
for you potentially in the second half of the year.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Yes, And I honestly, with everything going on today, have
not been able to look in to We'll like, yeah,
what are they thinking? I mean, here's a guy how
long ago was it where he's like, well, I just
paid relievers, right, I mean, like, I honestly don't know
what makes up Padre's genius is that they're the guys
that decided to get him a minor league deal because
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you know he wouldn't be Why wouldn't another team take
a chance on a guy if he's like if we
could be assured he's going to be ready in a
few months. So I haven't had a chance to dig
into that, but absolutely that could be one of those.
It's another one of those like absolutely no risk, high
ish reward deals.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I guess finally would just be on Joe Musgrove. We
know he's not starting the year obviously on the opening
day roster. We know the roller coaster that guys coming
off Tommy John can be on Is there any update
in terms of, you know, a throwing program or what
comes next for Joe?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
There's not. And I'm bombed because, like, I just didn't
get a chance and I tried to stake him out
the last couple of days, and Joe, who is the
most accessible padre, I feel confident saying that, just wasn't
around a lot. And so I guess I'll have to
wait until you know, workout day or Thursday to kind
of get a little bit of an update on on
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Joe and what what's coming up. But look, he hasn't thrown,
and so we are. What I can tell you is,
I mean we're three at least, we're three weeks out
at least. I mean, he wouldn't have to start over.
I guess it's you say starting over is right, but
he would have to build up from I mean, I
don't know. Does he go out the first time and
do thirty pitches and so do the math there like
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thirty to fifty to sixty to seventy five. I mean
we're talking about May.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Are you ready? I said? Final question. I have to
ask you this because we've been talking about it today
on the radio. Are you ready for Thursday overreactions regardless
of what happens.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Always always. I don't mean to be like a like
a jerk about it, but like my opening day is Friday, right.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah, exactly?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Thanks, yep, Like I'm.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
All, I mean opening days awesome. Have the opening day
all that stuff. It's just a beautiful thing. You know,
my paper won't let me capitalize it. I think it
should be. I think the O and the C should
be capitalized, as you know. I'm all for it. National
holiday awesome. But you know what, it's under sixty one
to go, so it is always pretty funny.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
According to AI. By the way, opening day is typically
capital for whatever that's worth. I don't know what the
AP style book says, but AI says typically capitalized.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
I think it's down for APY style. But OK, if
it's up, I'm going to renew my argument because it
should be. And I know we're in the minority.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I'll back you on that, Kevin, travel safe, stay below
one hundred and twenty miles per hour on your way back,
and we'll see you this week down at Peco Park.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Yeah, beware, the troopers in Arizona are strict. I bet
they'll be aware.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
They know everyone's heading for southern California. Thanks Kevin. All Right, Kevin,
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dot com. I was just thinking about this, Brian touching
this earlier again. The Mount West as we know it
is kind of no more with San Diego State, Boise State,
Utah State, Colorado State. Right, everyone's the top of the
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Mount West is leaving and joining Gonzaga specifically in basketball football.
It's a little bit of a different conversation. But the
reason I was thinking about it is, you know, one
of the programs that's been towards the top of the
league with San Diego State and basketball is Utah State.
They've been very good, very good, just won the regular
season and the tournament championship. Well, they're coach announced within
the last let's say, three hours, he's leaving for his
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alma mater. This is the fourth different coach that has
left in the last eight years. All four of them
have taken Utah State to the NCAA Tournament. Now, the
grass hasn't always been greener on the other side, but
that's not ultimately my point. Here's my point. I was
thinking about this San Diego State basketball specifically. This is
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more of a basketball conversation, although they've had continuity with
football coaching. When you think about Brady and Rocky. Obviously
now you're into Shan Lewis, you're three, But Brady and
Rocky was how long of a fifteen plus years something
like that? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, But how
many jobs are there in the country where again, Utah
State's good coach leaves. I mean, shoot, Cincinnati, he left
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for Cincinnati. Cincinnati, they're in the P four. Their coach
is good back in the day, a mccronin and he
goes to UCLA, Right, how many jobs are there where
you know at the end of the season, your coach
ain't leaving San Diego State for twenty six years has
been that way, Steve Fisher and Brian Dutcher. But you
know what I mean, how like Kansas is coach ain't
leaving buying large, right, Bill Self, you know, isn't leaving.
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UNC's coach buying large and he might be fired. Hubert
Davis isn't leaving Duke right, John Shire isn't leaving. There's Kentucky.
But like I would argue, there's probably I'm making this
up fifteen to twenty of those jobs, Like a coach
could leave Kansas State, right, a coach could leave I mean,
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there's a zillion examples in the P four, Like you
could leave Vanderbilt for a better job, and so on
and so forth. At the end of the season. Here here, locally,
you can rest assured whether San Diego State's in the
National Championship Game, which they were three years ago, or
they're just on the outside looking in of the NCAA tournament.
Brian Dutcher, and listen, things happen. I mean, I can't
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predict the future, but like you have that continuity in
a world where everything changes. You got nil and portal
and money and P four and I don't even know
governance and all this stuff that changes. You have a
constant in San Diego specifically, and it's rare, like there's
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a lot of P four jobs. That team is a
good year. Coach bolts top of the non P four
also like coach Bolts, Like I'll give you an examples.
South Florida's just had a really good year in the
American a lot of resources. Coach left for Providence, had
a good year one year South Florida left for Providence.
But again, we should really be thankful for that, because
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I hear from a lot of Aztec fans are like, oh,
it's so hard with nil and we don't have the
resources to compete, and woe is me. I'm thinking to myself, well,
it could be a lot different, and you can't look
at it like that. By the way, Utah States had
five coaches in nine years and they've been in the
NCAA Tournament with their first four coaches. So like San
Diego State can win and has one and will continue
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to win moving forward. And I do think it's a
luxury that we don't have to look at each other
every twelve months and be like, uh, oh did they
win too much? Were they too good? Is that going
to change the complexion of the staff and who's the
head coach and where are they going to turn to next? Now,
in football, that's a different conversation obviously, and jd wick
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I remember the day of Sean Lewis's press conference was
asked about that and he said he was asked, Hey,
what happens if Sean Lewis is who you say he
is and he has a lot of success by like
year two? Are you worried you'd have to reply? Is like,
I would kind of welcome that because that means we've
had success if he is successful. Now Sean Lewis in
the second year goes from what three and nine to
nine and four, so plus six and wins. He's back
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for a third year. Nobody knows what the future holds,
but San Diego State has proven to be among the
better jobs in football and basketball outside of the P four.
I would argue when it comes to men's basketball, San
Diego State forget about the P four for a second.
San Diego State is way better than half those jobs.
That's not me saying it, Like you take in San
Diego State to the NCAA tournament, or you take in
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Northwestern you're take in San Diego State or Penn State
goes way beyond that. I mean, with the last twenty
five years, I mean, you could argue that San Diego
State basketball is one of the top I mean, someone
tell me top twenty five jobs in the country. I
think it is deservedly so, I think it's proven to
be one of the top twenty five is jobs in
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the country. So again, just kind of food for thought
with all the changes in sports. I'll give an example.
Randy Bennett at Saint Mary's. He was there for twenty
five years, but Saint Mary's isn't going to the PAC twelve.
Gonzaga just just left. He's probably looking over his shoulder, like,
but hold on, Gonzaga has left him still here, what's
in it for me? He just left for Arizona State today.
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So like, these are things that we shouldn't take for granted.
Randy Bennett left Saint Mary's mark few one days retiring
from Gonzaga, Like that's coming at some point. I don't
know when, could be any year at this point, and
I don't know how long Brian Dutcher will ultimately coach.
That'll be his decision. He's earned that he can coach
here as long as he wants. I think JD. Wickers
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essentially said something similar to that. But again, you've got
the luxury of knowing at the end of the year,
regardless of what happens, whether you win thirty games or
twenty games. And he's won twenty one or more for
nine consecutive years and coached in eight Mountain West Championship games.
You know at the end of the year, if he
wants to be the head coach, heer he will be
the head coach here moving forward. And I do think
it's something we shouldn't take for granted. On the MASA,
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all right, we will get back to the padres. If
you miss Caleb Davis San Diego State's football GM, you'll
hear a conversation coming up at five pm. And if
you just miss Kevin ac you'll hear that at five thirty.
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Kim San Diego State's women's basketball team win the Women's NIT.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
All right, So this is actually I put in NIT
because that's I think people will have a better feel
for what the NIT is. It's called the BIT in
women's basketball, but it is the NIT. It's Basketball Invitational.
It's the National Invitational, I think in the men's game
for whatever, it's the same tournament, right, and they've won
two games and now they're going to Kansas to take
on the Jayhawks in the Elite AID. So it's been
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an amazing year. They went nineteen to one under Stacy
Terry Hudson in the mount West, then they were upset
in the quarterfinal round of the mountainst Tournament. But they
haven't skipped a beat here. They've had back to back
impressive showings at home. They've actually played a USD with
the a house being used for the men's NCAA tournament.
But yeah, I would say yes is the answer. There
are three wins away from winning it. They went to
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Kansas State this year and won. Kansas has like top
fifty metrics and San Diego State is like top sixty
ish metrics. So had Sex will be an underdog here,
but maybe by I don't know a handful of points
if that, and I think if they win that the
final four of this women's tournament is actually in Wichita, Kansas,
so chance to potentially stay out there for a few
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days and get further in this event. But regardless, they've
had an amazing year Final eight in this event, twenty
something wins under Stacey Tis Harry Hudson. So yeah, the
answer is yes, they can potentially win this women's event
coming up over the next week or so.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Next question, which team are you most confident in reaching
the final four?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Houston? And the reason I say that is I think
they've got a couple of built in advantages, one of
which is they're playing in Houston in the Sweet sixteen
and the elitiate should they get there, the games are
in the city of Houston for Houston. Now listen Nebraska
and Iowa. Nebraska's got crazy fans. They'd never won an
NCAA tournament game, so they packed Oklahoma City with like
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ten thousand Cornhusker fans, and they've got crazy fans. I mean,
the whole state revolts around Nebraska athletics. So you know,
it might not be the true home court you would
think for the Cougars. But they've got Illinois in the
sweet sixteen. I mean, they have only Big ten teams
to get through. Illinois, very good offensive team. But Houston
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should be a decent favorite. I think four or five
points in that game. And then, like, let's be honest, Nebraska.
This is an amazing story, but they've never they've never
made a Sweet sixteen, they'd never won a tournament game
before five days ago, and I was this unbelievable story.
But again, they probably shouldn't be here. So and Houston
just always looks the part with their defense. They were
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inter National Championship game last year. So I'll take Houston
to get to the final four. I mean there's a
couple of tough regions like obviously the East with like
Duke and Saint John's and what Michigan State is over there,
So I'm most confident, I would say in Houston.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
The next question, spring practice began today for the Astacs.
Can they compete for the Pac twelve title next season?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I think the.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Answer is yes. I mean there's significant turnovers, specifically on defense.
They were, you know, an overtime away from playing for
a Mountain West championship in their final year in the
Mountain West last season. This will be a challenge. Obviously,
you still have programs like Boise State. You've added in
Washington State and Oregon State. They've both been rebuilding here.
But nine wins last year, I'll tell you what I think.
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Sean Lewis would tell you that his expectation is to
play for a Pac twelve championship in twenty twenty six.
I'm sure he would tell you that. And they have
so much back. We just had Caleb Davis on the
GM for San Diego State football. You'll hear from him
at five PM if you missed it. I think he
said they had twenty one of their top twenty five
contributors back, so they retained a lot. Now, they lost
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some big pieces, the Trey Whites, the Owned Chamblisses on defense,
but they've added as well in the portal. So yeah,
I think they can compete for a Pac twelve championship
beginning in year one. I think the league's going to
be good. I think San Diego State is good, and
I think they will be competing for that championship this year.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Final question, Will Nick Pavetta replicate his twenty twenty five season?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I can't will will? I mean, this is the question
I think for the Padres in terms of their rotation,
because we spent a lot of time on like Walker Bueller,
Herman Marquez. Forget about that for a moment and just
say Nick Pavetta goes thirteen and five with a two
eight seven at a five point two war That is
an awesome starting point. That is great production with the
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front of your rotation. That's positioned you well in terms
of compiling innings and wins and making a start every
fifth day. He made thirty one starts last year. He
threw over one hundred and eighty one innings last year.
That is the true definition of an ace and a workhorse.
You know, he wasn't the best pitcher in the game,
but he was very, very good. You know, top fifteen
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type season. Get it again and you feel really confident
about the Padres. Now, his career numbers, he's got a
four to four to seven, So if he reverts back
to that where he's under five hundred his career, not
that that means anything, but you know, if he's a
four and a half RA guy like Dylan c'es last year,
you're not as confident overall in the team. But if
he's a sub three era guy and pitching every fifth
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day man, that would go a long way obviously for
the Padres this year.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Are you worried about maybe like the added pressure this
year because last year he didn't really have any sure
he was like, you know, the steal of the offseason
and lots of people's you know, opinions just for what
we paid and what we are expecting going into the
season and what we got. Do you think there's a
chance that he might have more pressure now, especially now
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since he's been officially named, you know, the number one
guy in the rotation at least as of right now,
opposed to last year when he basically had no expectations
on him.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Yes, I think it's a very good point. And also
consider this, you're heading into a free agent walk year
because he can opt out now. Sometimes that boats really
well and other times you're Dylan Ceese and now she
still got paid off.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
That worked out for him.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
It worked out very well for Dylan sees not as
well for the San Diego Padres. There will be high
expectations on Nick Pavetta. To your point, I hope he
lives up to them for his sake and for the
team because if he does replicate, then he's opting out
and good on him, but good on the Padres because
he put together a really good year and it helps
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them get back to the postseason, for example in twenty
twenty six. But you're right, there's something different about being
at the front of a rotation as opposed to being
like the third, you know, a number three starter in
a rotation. There's just something psychologically different and the other thing,
of course, what's different there not like you always line
up with number one starters when you're the number one
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in a rotation, but like you will face more off
Tarik Skogle right, you will face more of the top
of someone's rotation, you would think, just inherent, inherently or inevitably.
So maybe it's harder to compile as many wins. And
I'm not overly concerned about that. Throw out the wins.
If you told me one hundred eighty innings and a
three era, awesome, We're good. Let the chips fall if
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it's thirteen wins, as thirteen wins. If it's nine wins
and nine wins, I'm not overly concerned about that. But yeah,
more pressure. He doesn't seem like the type of guy
that falters with the pressure. He's like the bulldog type.
It looks like he welcomes it. That's what I since
last year in twenty twenty five, like this guy was
guy was awesome. This was an amazing signing by AJ
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Preller out there last February. Not a flyer deal, but
I mean a deal that really has benefited the padre
is more than Paveta, I would say. I mean frontline
starting pitching has cost in twenty five to thirty plus
million dollars a year and they've had him for two
years for like twenty million bucks and then he can
opt out, so that that was a big win for
AJ Pereller and he again, you know you can you
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could navigate through the year without Joe Muscrove being Joe Muscrove.
We're already going down that path, right, You're already envisioning
Joe Musgrove not looking like the pitcher he was earlier
in his career. Can you navigate it? If Nick Pavetta
is at Nick Pavetta, Like at some point it's like
you knock over a few dominoes, you're knocking all the
dominoes over. You don't have Musgrove, You've added Bueller and
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Marquez on flyer deals, you're asking a lot of Randy Vasquez.
Like the one constant is Nick Pavetta, and he has
to be that guy for you, and that is a
lot of pressure to Brent's point, and nobody can guarantee health.
I mean, we can't sit here today and say he's
guaranteed to be healthy and throw one hundred eighty innings.
I mean that's completely out of everyone's control, including Pavetas.
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But he'd be the piece I would kind of choose
to have look the part, maybe Michael King, because King
has looked a part for a year and a half
in a padre's uniform. I'd love for King to look
the part, and I'd love for Paveta to look the part.
If those two pieces fall into place, the Padres will
be good. I don't see a world where King looks
like twenty twenty four King and Paveta looks like twenty
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twenty five Paveda and the Padres aren't good. That would
shock me. But if Paveta doesn't look like Paveta and
King isn't fully healthy, then I don't see a world
where the Padres are as good as last year. That
would really surprise me if they were.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
So.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
A lot riding on Nick Pavetta's arm heading into the year,
and hopefully he's able to live up to it once again,
heading into potentially a walk year for Paveta. All right,
if you miss Caleb Davis, you'll hear a conversation with
San Diego State's football general manager at five pm, and
Kevin ac as well as joined us earlier. You'll hear
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Speaker 5 (33:29):
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We'll give away a pair of tickets to see Slightly
Stupid June thirteenth at Petco Park. Prel Let me ask
you this question. How much do you think it costs
to attend a Dodger game? If you were to buy
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this is for a family of four, you're buying the
cheapest ticket. You're buying one parking for one car. You're
buying four hot dogs, two beers, one per adult, two sodas,
one per child, so you have four The cheapest ticket
available one parking pass, four hot dogs, two beers, two sodas?
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Is this just for this is for Opening Day or
ninety days? This is this is a averaging. This is
not Opening Day.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
This is this is face value tickets. This is not
four hundred and fifty bucks. Four hundred and thirteen dollars,
by far the most expensive in baseball. Now, they've won
two World Series last two years and three this decade,
so they're taking advantage of that. The average across the
sport is two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
You know, it makes it even worse considering that they
only show up in the third inning and they leave
it the second. More So, they're paying four hundred and
thirteen bucks for four innings of baseball and then they
go home.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Now, I was trying to find the exact price for
the comparison in San Diego at Petco Park, the average
across the thirty teams is around two hundred dollars. That
would get you four tickets in parking, four hot dogs,
two beers, and two sodas. Okay, now that's expensive, but
the difference beween two hundred and four hundred is a
lot of money. That's like attending two brewers games as
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opposed to attending one Dodger game for example. Obviously there's
teams that are less than two hundred dollars. I would
assume Pittsburgh, Miami, there's others. Milwaukee might be in that category.
San Diego, my guess would be, would tend to be
on the higher side of the thirty teams. Rightfully, so
they've won, they have a great ballpark. Let's be honest.
The beer ain't cheap in San Diego. Is there's forty
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bucks right there for two beers. So my guess is
the pistrewers would be and I'm completely guessing. If someone
knows it, let me know.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
You know.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
In the chatter text us seven zero four seven zero
started with the word team would probably be pushing three
hundred dollars, would be my guess. Four TI, I'll just
throw it out. Let's say four to thirty dollars tickets
is one twenty. Let's say parking I'm making it up
is thirty five. That's one fifty five. Let's say four
hot dogs is forty bucks. I'm just making up as
one ninety five. Let's say two beers is forty that's
two thirty five. Let's say two Sodas is sixteen. I'm
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at two fifty one, and I might be low there
on everything. So I think San Diego you're looking two
fifty to three hundred, where La you're looking four hundred
to four fifty would be my guess. But again, I
think the Padres people are willing. Listen, are people willing
to spend one hundred dollars for a night out? You
and your significant other or you and your loved one
and a child? Are you willing to spend one hundred
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and fifty hundred and seventy five dollars?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (36:33):
I think by and large they are. But how often
are you willing to do that? You look in San
Diego or LA. People have been willing to do it.
It's not like the Padres have an attendance problem. It's
not like the Dodgers have an attendance problem. And if
it was solely based on the cost, why don't the
Angels draw better? Winning is what matters first and foremost
to baseball fans, right. This isn't minor league baseball where
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you're there for fireworks and you know two for one beers.
This is a winning based industry where people want to
see Shoheo Tani and the Dodgers win or Fernando Tazi
Junior and the Padres win. So it's kind of an
interesting conversation. I think people are willing to spend more
for a winner, but to what cost? How much more
are you willing to spend to see the Padres win?
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And I don't know. I mean, here's what I would say.
Franchise like San Diego that's never won a World Series,
would people be willing to spend four hundred and thirteen
dollars for a family of four? Yeah, if they're gonna
win the World Series, I think they probably are. You're
gonna You're just taking more of your discretionary income. It's
not all of it. I mean, to go to ten
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twenty thirty games for four hundred bucks a pop is
a ton of money. But again, if you're winning at
that level, I think it's it's justified.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
They would.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
I think they would, but I think they would also
let us know about it. I don't think they would
just pay it and then just you know, be silent
about it. I think they would pay it and then
voice that they think that this is too much and
that it should go down. But yeah, I think they
would still pay it, but it's like you said, it's
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it's turned into more of a you know, the kids
get to go to, you know, one or two games
and that's it for the whole summer, because that's about
all we can afford, you know, because you know, you
can pretty much go to Disneyland for the amount of
money that you're paying to go to a Podgers game
for three hours.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
In an effort not to try to sound like Steve Hartman,
I will say we could all look back to our childhood.
I mean, even if you're thirty, you can say, you know,
when I was ten, the price of tickets was truly
like four times less. I mean, basically, anyone if you
go back to let's say two thousand and five or before,
in any American city I'm guessing to get into a
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baseball game in two thousand and five or earlier is
ten dollars or less. There are a number of examples
in the nineteen nineties of getting into a ballpark for
five or seven or nine dollars correct, I mean into
any seat in the upper deck and someone tell me
if you were going to qual Com you know, and
let's say it was I mean, listen to great teams
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in the late nineties, mid to late nineties, so maybe
it was a little more costly. But what did it
cost to get into qualcomm in nineteen ninety five?
Speaker 4 (39:21):
The average Major League Baseball ticket price in nineteen ninety
five was approximately ten dollars and sixty five cents to
ten dollars and seventy five cents.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
And then by two thousand and five, maybe it's fifteen dollars. Right,
I mean, I'm making this up. But by the twenty
fifteen and beyond, I mean you've seen prices. Again, we
all remember that experience if you're a baseball fan, whether
you grew up in San Diego, La, San Francisco, Philadelphia,
New York, I think everyone can recall. And again maybe
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it's with your parents who maybe you don't have a
good feel for the cost of it. But again, I
remember the days where they would put like tickets and
hot dogs you would buy at like a grocery store,
like it was like a redeem voucher, like buy one ticket,
get a kid's ticket free. They put them in like
Hebrew National, you know, stuff like that. Whether you were
in San Diego or La or New York, city, and
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it's changed. I mean, I think that the dynamics of
sports have changed. I mean, look at the salaries in sports.
Players weren't making hundreds of millions of dollars twenty years
ago and now they are, so you got to pay
for all of that. But I do think it's kind
of easy to yearn for the day where you can
go to a baseball game for seven dollars, right, Like,
it wasn't that long ago. We're not talking about the
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nineteen twenties, is my point. It's not like you have
to go back to World War Two to say I
remember getting into a baseball game for five dollars. No,
you could get into a baseball game for five dollars
in the nineteen nineties, I would say later than that,
right before they moved to Peca. What did it cost
to get to Qualcom in two thousand and two for
a baseball game? Five dollars, seven dollars, nine dollars. Like
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you're sitting in the bleachers back in the day for
five bus is what you're doing, And now you're sitting
at Gallagher Square and you can't even like, I mean,
you're watching it on video for forty bucks. Probably and
I get it. I mean it makes sense because it
supports the Padres ability to win and field that roster
and go over a luxury tax threshold. So there's a cost.
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There's a cost associated with that, and I think by
and large, people are willing to pay more to see
a good product. Would you prefer the Padres are going
seventy and ninety two or ninety two and seventy And
I think most people would pay the forty bucks for
ninety two and seventy as opposed to the fourteen bucks
for seventy and ninety two. Anyway, it's a long way
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of saying people will pay for a winner, but you
got to win at the highest level. In my opinion,
you can't just keep raising prices if you're winning but
not at the highest level. Padres winning the World Series,
raise the ticket price. Get it, Everyone gets it. Everyone
understands you want to continue to field teams that are
capable of getting to a World Series or winning a
World Series. P We'll spend four hundred dollars for a
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family of four. But if you're always a wildcard team
and you're always out in the wild card round, and
it's four hundred dollars to go see the Padres. At
some point that might become cost prohibitive for a lot
of San Diegans. I mean it's already. You know how
expensive it is to live anywhere. I mean right, I
mean everything is expensive, including the cost of attending a
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San Diego Sports seven to sixty. Kevin Ac en route
for San Diego after spending the last I don't know
one million days in Peoria. Kevin always appreciates taking time
for us. There's a lot to get into. What is
that like when spring training ends? Like how fast do
you drive to get back to San Diego?
Speaker 6 (01:52):
This year? Faster than ever? When I say like a
bat out of hell, it's not a figures speech, Like
it has been hell here for like six days, like
over one hundred degrees and an one hundred degrees Like
oh okay, Arizona. No, no, they were like before this year,
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before the last six days, there had been one one
hundred degree March day in the history of the Phoenix area.
Like it's just awful.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
That sounds terrible. Well, get back to San Diego where
it's been unseasonably warm and like one hundred degrees. But no,
it's gorgeous like seventy today. It's San Diego Kevincy's are
Padres Insider you asked Craig Stammon this specific question for
our listeners that missed it. We always knew it was
going to be Nick Povetto. Why did they wait so
long to make this announcement?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Because there's the Padres and I want to make sure
that I could hardly care less about when they announced this.
I'm not like whatever, but it's just so hilarious that,
like so often they're the last team to do something
like like mark my words on Wednesday when a rosters
are announced, the Padres will be one of the last,
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if not the last, by like two hours team that
you know, announced their their roster whatever. But this did
have to do is we knew all along, really that
like they wanted to make sure he was good after
missing that start in the middle of spring. He had
one fewer start than Michael Caine and so and Herman
(03:29):
Marquez and Randy Vasquez for that matter. So but look,
you got the what seventy one pitches, he can go
eighty plus he can go ninety pitches on opening day
if you know things are going well. So we always
knew it.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Was going to be Nick, and it will be Nick
Pavetta comes Thursday afternoon against Tarik Skooble. Kevin Acy's with
us right now in San Diego Sports seven sixty. You
just wrote about this, You talked to Craig Salmon and
Manny Machiano. It's one thing to say the plan is
to give him more rest, but then you get into
a season and dynamics are a play like now the
team's performing and so on and so forth. So do
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you buy it? Do you think Machado ultimately sees more
whether it's more time dhing or just more games off
than he had last year.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
I think both, and I think they'll be more proactive.
There's no chance that Mike Shild intended last year for
Manny's first day off two or his first game off
to be the middle of September. But what happened is
they got to you know, July, and they weren't playing
(04:38):
that great, and Jackson Merrill was hurt at different times
and like he needed to keep Manny in there, and
Manny of course wanted to be in there. So before
they would say get to that point where it's like,
oh no, all hands on deck, I think they'll give
him some more days early. So that if he does
go thirty five, forty five fifty games in a row,
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that's that's where it ends versus I think, what was it,
one hundred and thirty nine or one hundred and forty
five games or something like that. I wrote it. I
can't remember, but like it was, it was amazing, and
he was so obviously on fumes that he even admitted
he was on dunes by the time, you know, September
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came around, and Manny never admits anything like that.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
It's gonna be interesting because once you get into it, though,
and Kevin Iicy is with us, like, do you agree
that it's it's easier said than done specifically with Machalla, right, Like,
if it's Shake Cronoworth, it's all due respect. You could
just say, hey, Jake, you're sitting today. You need today.
With Manny, there's more particulars at play, right, Sure, I.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Wish I could have I wish you all could have
been there. I tried to express it in the story.
I said it twice about Craig Stamon's confidence. You guys,
like he got this job because of who he is,
and that part of who he is is the assurance
that he has and the respect he has from these
And I'm not saying it'll be easy, and I'm not
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denying what you're saying it is true. I'm just saying
Craig's Stammon, if he believes it is important, we'll tell
Manny that he has the day off, or that he's
the agent or whatever it is that he thinks. Now,
could Manny go eighty games before a day off? Sure,
I mean, I'm sure, like, look at the first start.
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I haven't looked beyond this, but you know, they play
six games in the first eight days, Like obviously Manny's
gonna play all those. That would be too early anyway,
But like you know, I haven't looked at the schedule,
but there will be a time, and that Craig Stammon says, no,
this is this is what's best for us, And I
do think it will be proactive, because once you do
(06:43):
get into where oh wow, like we we're five hundred
or or whatever, we're falling behind the Dodgers or whatever
it is that Manny, it does become Manny who never
wants to sit. He could probably more easily convince you know,
people that he needs to be in there. But I
just I really believe there is this conviction and that
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last year. I don't want to say lesson learned. They
just found themselves in a tough spot last year, but
that they will not allow that to happen again. And
if I'm wrong, shame on me, but shame on them.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Yeah, that's a great point. I think you're gonna be right,
and I'm with you. I think the organization needs to
It's like you need to look after Machado because Machado
is not going to look after himself. That's what happens.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
I want to point this out, like the quote I
have in there, man where Craig Stammon is like, yeah,
you know, he does the tough guy act. He did
not mean that derogatorily. But who says that. Who has
the balls to say that? Besides Craig Stalmmon, Mike Shilp
come on right, Like Craig Stalmon is like very secure
(07:48):
and who he is and in his position.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Yeah, that's good perspective, Kevin, iicer Pondre's insider with us
right now in San Diego Sports seven sixty. So we
had been told, I think for the organization that Jason
Adam could be available opening day in your reporting, it
sounds like he will start the year on the IL.
What's the reasoning? Is it just better to be safe
than sorry? Here?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Yeah, I had just reading between the lines, been like,
my god, I think this is gonna happen. He's going
to start on the IL even though he's been thrown
in the bullpen since early December. He looked great. But
it was the other day, it was like three or
four days ago, Craig said something that maybe go, oh,
that's it, he's on the IL, Like I didn't know it.
(08:31):
No one would say it, but so didn't know it
till today where he said we want to be able
to deploy him like he's been deployed. That means back
to back days or four out of five, four out
of six, And besides the whole idea of not wanting
to have to worry about sudden movements to feel the
ground ball or things like that, it was you remember,
(08:55):
before he got hurt, Jason Adam led the league in appearances,
so un tell he's ready to be that Jason Adam.
Then they don't want to risk setback or you know,
have to go, oh boy, Jason's pitched three of the
last five days. Should we pitch in the night. No,
that's not how you go when you're trying to win games.
(09:16):
So I think it makes I think it makes sense.
Is it an abundance of caution? Could Jason Adam have
started this season and been just fine? Probably? But you
know they have designs. You and I might have concerns.
They have concerns. Let's be real, but they have designs
on October and they want Jason Adam to be pitching then.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
So what are the looming? Like you said, whenever a
roster has to be finalized, the pagers will make that
announcement twelve seconds before it has to be finalized. What's
still looming over this roster? With opening day NAS seventy
two hours out.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
I don't think anything. Kate Bowen was sent down. We
already knew Bryce Johnson was going to be the fourth outfielder.
We know Tyd Franz soph the enfield spot. Boom, your
bench is set. Jason Adam not being available I think
makes Boom, Brad Leay Rodriguez and Ron Maranaccio on the team. Now,
the decisions will have to be made because Sungmun's song,
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whether he is back on April first or not is
eligible to be back on April first, and so then
what do you do because Ty Francis contract is guaranteed
one point three five million dollars is not that much,
but we know the Padre situation financially, Uh so there's
gonna be decisions to be made there. And then when
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Jason Adam comes back, what what what goes on? Because
Maranaccio is out of options, so the Bradley Rodriguez can
go down. How's Maranaccio pitching? So there are decisions to
be made, but I believe that coming up on Thursday
there there really isn't a decision to be made.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
It's interesting the way you know a j Preller has
kind of added to this roster in during spring training
or ripe before. Obviously the depth pieces that I guess
are going to pay off with this rotation to start
the year or they're going to be relying heavily on
some of those editions, the Walker Buehlers and the Herman Marquezes.
And now we see a deal like today with Jose Leclerk,
who at one point was one of the better relievers
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in the game. I know he's coming off that lat injury.
They already have one of the deeper bullpens in the sport.
But is this one of those Hey sign him, get
him healthy, and he's almost becomes like a deadline edition
for you potentially in the second half of the year.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Yes, And I honestly, with everything going on today, have
not been able to look in to We'll like, yeah,
what are they thinking? I mean, here's a guy how
long ago was it where he's like, well, I just
paid relievers, right, I mean, like, I honestly don't know
what makes up Padre's genius is that they're the guys
that decided to get him a minor league deal because
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you know he wouldn't be Why wouldn't another team take
a chance on a guy if he's like if we
could be assured he's going to be ready in a
few months. So I haven't had a chance to dig
into that, but absolutely that could be one of those.
It's another one of those like absolutely no risk, high
ish reward deals.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I guess finally would just be on Joe Musgrove. We
know he's not starting the year obviously on the opening
day roster. We know the roller coaster that guys coming
off Tommy John can be on Is there any update
in terms of, you know, a throwing program or what
comes next for Joe?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
There's not. And I'm bombed because, like, I just didn't
get a chance and I tried to stake him out
the last couple of days, and Joe, who is the
most accessible padre, I feel confident saying that, just wasn't
around a lot. And so I guess I'll have to
wait until you know, workout day or Thursday to kind
of get a little bit of an update on on
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Joe and what what's coming up. But look, he hasn't thrown,
and so we are. What I can tell you is,
I mean we're three at least, we're three weeks out
at least. I mean, he wouldn't have to start over.
I guess it's you say starting over is right, but
he would have to build up from I mean, I
don't know. Does he go out the first time and
do thirty pitches and so do the math there like
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thirty to fifty to sixty to seventy five. I mean
we're talking about May.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Are you ready? I said? Final question. I have to
ask you this because we've been talking about it today
on the radio. Are you ready for Thursday overreactions regardless
of what happens.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Always always. I don't mean to be like a like
a jerk about it, but like my opening day is Friday, right.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah, exactly?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Thanks, yep, Like I'm.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
All, I mean opening days awesome. Have the opening day
all that stuff. It's just a beautiful thing. You know,
my paper won't let me capitalize it. I think it
should be. I think the O and the C should
be capitalized, as you know. I'm all for it. National
holiday awesome. But you know what, it's under sixty one
to go, so it is always pretty funny.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
According to AI. By the way, opening day is typically
capital for whatever that's worth. I don't know what the
AP style book says, but AI says typically capitalized.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
I think it's down for APY style. But OK, if
it's up, I'm going to renew my argument because it
should be. And I know we're in the minority.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I'll back you on that, Kevin, travel safe, stay below
one hundred and twenty miles per hour on your way back,
and we'll see you this week down at Peco Park.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Yeah, beware, the troopers in Arizona are strict. I bet
they'll be aware.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
They know everyone's heading for southern California. Thanks Kevin. All Right, Kevin,
I see are Padres in center back with this here
on San Diego Sports seven to sixty. We'll react to
that over the course of the next couple of hours
plus get to the Rap coach, and I'm looking at
Rando Mendez. I thinking how this could work.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
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Speaker 5 (14:54):
All right, we'll get to the Rap coming up at
four point thirty. We'll give away tickets to see Slightly
Stupid this hour, Student thirteenth bechto park ticket to ticketmaster
dot com. I was just thinking about this, Brian touching
this earlier again. The Mount West as we know it
is kind of no more with San Diego State, Boise State,
Utah State, Colorado State. Right, everyone's the top of the
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Mount West is leaving and joining Gonzaga specifically in basketball football.
It's a little bit of a different conversation. But the
reason I was thinking about it is, you know, one
of the programs that's been towards the top of the
league with San Diego State and basketball is Utah State.
They've been very good, very good, just won the regular
season and the tournament championship. Well, they're coach announced within
the last let's say, three hours, he's leaving for his
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alma mater. This is the fourth different coach that has
left in the last eight years. All four of them
have taken Utah State to the NCAA Tournament. Now, the
grass hasn't always been greener on the other side, but
that's not ultimately my point. Here's my point. I was
thinking about this San Diego State basketball specifically. This is
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more of a basketball conversation, although they've had continuity with
football coaching. When you think about Brady and Rocky. Obviously
now you're into Shan Lewis, you're three, But Brady and
Rocky was how long of a fifteen plus years something
like that? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, But how
many jobs are there in the country where again, Utah
State's good coach leaves. I mean, shoot, Cincinnati, he left
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for Cincinnati. Cincinnati, they're in the P four. Their coach
is good back in the day, a mccronin and he
goes to UCLA, Right, how many jobs are there where
you know at the end of the season, your coach
ain't leaving San Diego State for twenty six years has
been that way, Steve Fisher and Brian Dutcher. But you
know what I mean, how like Kansas is coach ain't
leaving buying large, right, Bill Self, you know, isn't leaving.
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UNC's coach buying large and he might be fired. Hubert
Davis isn't leaving Duke right, John Shire isn't leaving. There's Kentucky.
But like I would argue, there's probably I'm making this
up fifteen to twenty of those jobs, Like a coach
could leave Kansas State, right, a coach could leave I mean,
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there's a zillion examples in the P four, Like you
could leave Vanderbilt for a better job, and so on
and so forth. At the end of the season. Here here, locally,
you can rest assured whether San Diego State's in the
National Championship Game, which they were three years ago, or
they're just on the outside looking in of the NCAA tournament.
Brian Dutcher, and listen, things happen. I mean, I can't
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predict the future, but like you have that continuity in
a world where everything changes. You got nil and portal
and money and P four and I don't even know
governance and all this stuff that changes. You have a
constant in San Diego specifically, and it's rare, like there's
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a lot of P four jobs. That team is a
good year. Coach bolts top of the non P four
also like coach Bolts, Like I'll give you an examples.
South Florida's just had a really good year in the
American a lot of resources. Coach left for Providence, had
a good year one year South Florida left for Providence.
But again, we should really be thankful for that, because
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I hear from a lot of Aztec fans are like, oh,
it's so hard with nil and we don't have the
resources to compete, and woe is me. I'm thinking to myself, well,
it could be a lot different, and you can't look
at it like that. By the way, Utah States had
five coaches in nine years and they've been in the
NCAA Tournament with their first four coaches. So like San
Diego State can win and has one and will continue
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to win moving forward. And I do think it's a
luxury that we don't have to look at each other
every twelve months and be like, uh, oh did they
win too much? Were they too good? Is that going
to change the complexion of the staff and who's the
head coach and where are they going to turn to next? Now,
in football, that's a different conversation obviously, and jd wick
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I remember the day of Sean Lewis's press conference was
asked about that and he said he was asked, Hey,
what happens if Sean Lewis is who you say he
is and he has a lot of success by like
year two? Are you worried you'd have to reply? Is like,
I would kind of welcome that because that means we've
had success if he is successful. Now Sean Lewis in
the second year goes from what three and nine to
nine and four, so plus six and wins. He's back
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for a third year. Nobody knows what the future holds,
but San Diego State has proven to be among the
better jobs in football and basketball outside of the P four.
I would argue when it comes to men's basketball, San
Diego State forget about the P four for a second.
San Diego State is way better than half those jobs.
That's not me saying it, Like you take in San
Diego State to the NCAA tournament, or you take in
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Northwestern you're take in San Diego State or Penn State
goes way beyond that. I mean, with the last twenty
five years, I mean, you could argue that San Diego
State basketball is one of the top I mean, someone
tell me top twenty five jobs in the country. I
think it is deservedly so, I think it's proven to
be one of the top twenty five is jobs in
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the country. So again, just kind of food for thought
with all the changes in sports. I'll give an example.
Randy Bennett at Saint Mary's. He was there for twenty
five years, but Saint Mary's isn't going to the PAC twelve.
Gonzaga just just left. He's probably looking over his shoulder, like,
but hold on, Gonzaga has left him still here, what's
in it for me? He just left for Arizona State today.
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So like, these are things that we shouldn't take for granted.
Randy Bennett left Saint Mary's mark few one days retiring
from Gonzaga, Like that's coming at some point. I don't
know when, could be any year at this point, and
I don't know how long Brian Dutcher will ultimately coach.
That'll be his decision. He's earned that he can coach
here as long as he wants. I think JD. Wickers
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essentially said something similar to that. But again, you've got
the luxury of knowing at the end of the year,
regardless of what happens, whether you win thirty games or
twenty games. And he's won twenty one or more for
nine consecutive years and coached in eight Mountain West Championship games.
You know at the end of the year, if he
wants to be the head coach, heer he will be
the head coach here moving forward. And I do think
it's something we shouldn't take for granted. On the MASA,
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all right, we will get back to the padres. If
you miss Caleb Davis San Diego State's football GM, you'll
hear a conversation coming up at five pm. And if
you just miss Kevin ac you'll hear that at five thirty.
We'll get to the wrap on the other side, and
then later this hour we'll give away tickets to see
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Speaker 4 (23:44):
Kim San Diego State's women's basketball team win the Women's NIT.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
All right, So this is actually I put in NIT
because that's I think people will have a better feel
for what the NIT is. It's called the BIT in
women's basketball, but it is the NIT. It's Basketball Invitational.
It's the National Invitational, I think in the men's game
for whatever, it's the same tournament, right, and they've won
two games and now they're going to Kansas to take
on the Jayhawks in the Elite AID. So it's been
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an amazing year. They went nineteen to one under Stacy
Terry Hudson in the mount West, then they were upset
in the quarterfinal round of the mountainst Tournament. But they
haven't skipped a beat here. They've had back to back
impressive showings at home. They've actually played a USD with
the a house being used for the men's NCAA tournament.
But yeah, I would say yes is the answer. There
are three wins away from winning it. They went to
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Kansas State this year and won. Kansas has like top
fifty metrics and San Diego State is like top sixty
ish metrics. So had Sex will be an underdog here,
but maybe by I don't know a handful of points
if that, and I think if they win that the
final four of this women's tournament is actually in Wichita, Kansas,
so chance to potentially stay out there for a few
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days and get further in this event. But regardless, they've
had an amazing year Final eight in this event, twenty
something wins under Stacey Tis Harry Hudson. So yeah, the
answer is yes, they can potentially win this women's event
coming up over the next week or so.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Next question, which team are you most confident in reaching
the final four?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Houston? And the reason I say that is I think
they've got a couple of built in advantages, one of
which is they're playing in Houston in the Sweet sixteen
and the elitiate should they get there, the games are
in the city of Houston for Houston. Now listen Nebraska
and Iowa. Nebraska's got crazy fans. They'd never won an
NCAA tournament game, so they packed Oklahoma City with like
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ten thousand Cornhusker fans, and they've got crazy fans. I mean,
the whole state revolts around Nebraska athletics. So you know,
it might not be the true home court you would
think for the Cougars. But they've got Illinois in the
sweet sixteen. I mean, they have only Big ten teams
to get through. Illinois, very good offensive team. But Houston
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should be a decent favorite. I think four or five
points in that game. And then, like, let's be honest, Nebraska.
This is an amazing story, but they've never they've never
made a Sweet sixteen, they'd never won a tournament game
before five days ago, and I was this unbelievable story.
But again, they probably shouldn't be here. So and Houston
just always looks the part with their defense. They were
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inter National Championship game last year. So I'll take Houston
to get to the final four. I mean there's a
couple of tough regions like obviously the East with like
Duke and Saint John's and what Michigan State is over there,
So I'm most confident, I would say in Houston.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
The next question, spring practice began today for the Astacs.
Can they compete for the Pac twelve title next season?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I think the.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Answer is yes. I mean there's significant turnovers, specifically on defense.
They were, you know, an overtime away from playing for
a Mountain West championship in their final year in the
Mountain West last season. This will be a challenge. Obviously,
you still have programs like Boise State. You've added in
Washington State and Oregon State. They've both been rebuilding here.
But nine wins last year, I'll tell you what I think.
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Sean Lewis would tell you that his expectation is to
play for a Pac twelve championship in twenty twenty six.
I'm sure he would tell you that. And they have
so much back. We just had Caleb Davis on the
GM for San Diego State football. You'll hear from him
at five PM if you missed it. I think he
said they had twenty one of their top twenty five
contributors back, so they retained a lot. Now, they lost
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some big pieces, the Trey Whites, the Owned Chamblisses on defense,
but they've added as well in the portal. So yeah,
I think they can compete for a Pac twelve championship
beginning in year one. I think the league's going to
be good. I think San Diego State is good, and
I think they will be competing for that championship this year.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Final question, Will Nick Pavetta replicate his twenty twenty five season?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I can't will will? I mean, this is the question
I think for the Padres in terms of their rotation,
because we spent a lot of time on like Walker Bueller,
Herman Marquez. Forget about that for a moment and just
say Nick Pavetta goes thirteen and five with a two
eight seven at a five point two war That is
an awesome starting point. That is great production with the
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front of your rotation. That's positioned you well in terms
of compiling innings and wins and making a start every
fifth day. He made thirty one starts last year. He
threw over one hundred and eighty one innings last year.
That is the true definition of an ace and a workhorse.
You know, he wasn't the best pitcher in the game,
but he was very, very good. You know, top fifteen
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type season. Get it again and you feel really confident
about the Padres. Now, his career numbers, he's got a
four to four to seven, So if he reverts back
to that where he's under five hundred his career, not
that that means anything, but you know, if he's a
four and a half RA guy like Dylan c'es last year,
you're not as confident overall in the team. But if
he's a sub three era guy and pitching every fifth
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day man, that would go a long way obviously for
the Padres this year.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Are you worried about maybe like the added pressure this
year because last year he didn't really have any sure
he was like, you know, the steal of the offseason
and lots of people's you know, opinions just for what
we paid and what we are expecting going into the
season and what we got. Do you think there's a
chance that he might have more pressure now, especially now
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since he's been officially named, you know, the number one
guy in the rotation at least as of right now,
opposed to last year when he basically had no expectations
on him.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Yes, I think it's a very good point. And also
consider this, you're heading into a free agent walk year
because he can opt out now. Sometimes that boats really
well and other times you're Dylan Ceese and now she
still got paid off.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
That worked out for him.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
It worked out very well for Dylan sees not as
well for the San Diego Padres. There will be high
expectations on Nick Pavetta. To your point, I hope he
lives up to them for his sake and for the
team because if he does replicate, then he's opting out
and good on him, but good on the Padres because
he put together a really good year and it helps
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them get back to the postseason, for example in twenty
twenty six. But you're right, there's something different about being
at the front of a rotation as opposed to being
like the third, you know, a number three starter in
a rotation. There's just something psychologically different and the other thing,
of course, what's different there not like you always line
up with number one starters when you're the number one
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in a rotation, but like you will face more off
Tarik Skogle right, you will face more of the top
of someone's rotation, you would think, just inherent, inherently or inevitably.
So maybe it's harder to compile as many wins. And
I'm not overly concerned about that. Throw out the wins.
If you told me one hundred eighty innings and a
three era, awesome, We're good. Let the chips fall if
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it's thirteen wins, as thirteen wins. If it's nine wins
and nine wins, I'm not overly concerned about that. But yeah,
more pressure. He doesn't seem like the type of guy
that falters with the pressure. He's like the bulldog type.
It looks like he welcomes it. That's what I since
last year in twenty twenty five, like this guy was
guy was awesome. This was an amazing signing by AJ
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Preller out there last February. Not a flyer deal, but
I mean a deal that really has benefited the padre
is more than Paveta, I would say. I mean frontline
starting pitching has cost in twenty five to thirty plus
million dollars a year and they've had him for two
years for like twenty million bucks and then he can
opt out, so that that was a big win for
AJ Pereller and he again, you know you can you
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could navigate through the year without Joe Muscrove being Joe Muscrove.
We're already going down that path, right, You're already envisioning
Joe Musgrove not looking like the pitcher he was earlier
in his career. Can you navigate it? If Nick Pavetta
is at Nick Pavetta, Like at some point it's like
you knock over a few dominoes, you're knocking all the
dominoes over. You don't have Musgrove, You've added Bueller and
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Marquez on flyer deals, you're asking a lot of Randy Vasquez.
Like the one constant is Nick Pavetta, and he has
to be that guy for you, and that is a
lot of pressure to Brent's point, and nobody can guarantee health.
I mean, we can't sit here today and say he's
guaranteed to be healthy and throw one hundred eighty innings.
I mean that's completely out of everyone's control, including Pavetas.
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But he'd be the piece I would kind of choose
to have look the part, maybe Michael King, because King
has looked a part for a year and a half
in a padre's uniform. I'd love for King to look
the part, and I'd love for Paveta to look the part.
If those two pieces fall into place, the Padres will
be good. I don't see a world where King looks
like twenty twenty four King and Paveta looks like twenty
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twenty five Paveda and the Padres aren't good. That would
shock me. But if Paveta doesn't look like Paveta and
King isn't fully healthy, then I don't see a world
where the Padres are as good as last year. That
would really surprise me if they were.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
So.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
A lot riding on Nick Pavetta's arm heading into the year,
and hopefully he's able to live up to it once again,
heading into potentially a walk year for Paveta. All right,
if you miss Caleb Davis, you'll hear a conversation with
San Diego State's football general manager at five pm, and
Kevin ac as well as joined us earlier. You'll hear
that conversation coming up at five thirty. But on the
other side, we'll give away two free tickets to see
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Speaker 1 (33:15):
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Speaker 5 (33:29):
All right, Caleb David's coming up in fifteen minutes. San
Diego State's football GM coming up within the next ten minutes.
We'll give away a pair of tickets to see Slightly
Stupid June thirteenth at Petco Park. Prel Let me ask
you this question. How much do you think it costs
to attend a Dodger game? If you were to buy
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this is for a family of four, you're buying the
cheapest ticket. You're buying one parking for one car. You're
buying four hot dogs, two beers, one per adult, two sodas,
one per child, so you have four The cheapest ticket
available one parking pass, four hot dogs, two beers, two sodas?
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Is this just for this is for Opening Day or
ninety days? This is this is a averaging. This is
not Opening Day.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
This is this is face value tickets. This is not
four hundred and fifty bucks. Four hundred and thirteen dollars,
by far the most expensive in baseball. Now, they've won
two World Series last two years and three this decade,
so they're taking advantage of that. The average across the
sport is two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
You know, it makes it even worse considering that they
only show up in the third inning and they leave
it the second. More So, they're paying four hundred and
thirteen bucks for four innings of baseball and then they
go home.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Now, I was trying to find the exact price for
the comparison in San Diego at Petco Park, the average
across the thirty teams is around two hundred dollars. That
would get you four tickets in parking, four hot dogs,
two beers, and two sodas. Okay, now that's expensive, but
the difference beween two hundred and four hundred is a
lot of money. That's like attending two brewers games as
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opposed to attending one Dodger game for example. Obviously there's
teams that are less than two hundred dollars. I would
assume Pittsburgh, Miami, there's others. Milwaukee might be in that category.
San Diego, my guess would be, would tend to be
on the higher side of the thirty teams. Rightfully, so
they've won, they have a great ballpark. Let's be honest.
The beer ain't cheap in San Diego. Is there's forty
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bucks right there for two beers. So my guess is
the pistrewers would be and I'm completely guessing. If someone
knows it, let me know.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
You know.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
In the chatter text us seven zero four seven zero
started with the word team would probably be pushing three
hundred dollars, would be my guess. Four TI, I'll just
throw it out. Let's say four to thirty dollars tickets
is one twenty. Let's say parking I'm making it up
is thirty five. That's one fifty five. Let's say four
hot dogs is forty bucks. I'm just making up as
one ninety five. Let's say two beers is forty that's
two thirty five. Let's say two Sodas is sixteen. I'm
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at two fifty one, and I might be low there
on everything. So I think San Diego you're looking two
fifty to three hundred, where La you're looking four hundred
to four fifty would be my guess. But again, I
think the Padres people are willing. Listen, are people willing
to spend one hundred dollars for a night out? You
and your significant other or you and your loved one
and a child? Are you willing to spend one hundred
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and fifty hundred and seventy five dollars?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (36:33):
I think by and large they are. But how often
are you willing to do that? You look in San
Diego or LA. People have been willing to do it.
It's not like the Padres have an attendance problem. It's
not like the Dodgers have an attendance problem. And if
it was solely based on the cost, why don't the
Angels draw better? Winning is what matters first and foremost
to baseball fans, right. This isn't minor league baseball where
(36:54):
you're there for fireworks and you know two for one beers.
This is a winning based industry where people want to
see Shoheo Tani and the Dodgers win or Fernando Tazi
Junior and the Padres win. So it's kind of an
interesting conversation. I think people are willing to spend more
for a winner, but to what cost? How much more
are you willing to spend to see the Padres win?
(37:15):
And I don't know. I mean, here's what I would say.
Franchise like San Diego that's never won a World Series,
would people be willing to spend four hundred and thirteen
dollars for a family of four? Yeah, if they're gonna
win the World Series, I think they probably are. You're
gonna You're just taking more of your discretionary income. It's
not all of it. I mean, to go to ten
(37:36):
twenty thirty games for four hundred bucks a pop is
a ton of money. But again, if you're winning at
that level, I think it's it's justified.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
They would.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
I think they would, but I think they would also
let us know about it. I don't think they would
just pay it and then just you know, be silent
about it. I think they would pay it and then
voice that they think that this is too much and
that it should go down. But yeah, I think they
would still pay it, but it's like you said, it's
(38:08):
it's turned into more of a you know, the kids
get to go to, you know, one or two games
and that's it for the whole summer, because that's about
all we can afford, you know, because you know, you
can pretty much go to Disneyland for the amount of
money that you're paying to go to a Podgers game
for three hours.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
In an effort not to try to sound like Steve Hartman,
I will say we could all look back to our childhood.
I mean, even if you're thirty, you can say, you know,
when I was ten, the price of tickets was truly
like four times less. I mean, basically, anyone if you
go back to let's say two thousand and five or before,
in any American city I'm guessing to get into a
(38:50):
baseball game in two thousand and five or earlier is
ten dollars or less. There are a number of examples
in the nineteen nineties of getting into a ballpark for
five or seven or nine dollars correct, I mean into
any seat in the upper deck and someone tell me
if you were going to qual Com you know, and
let's say it was I mean, listen to great teams
(39:11):
in the late nineties, mid to late nineties, so maybe
it was a little more costly. But what did it
cost to get into qualcomm in nineteen ninety five?
Speaker 4 (39:21):
The average Major League Baseball ticket price in nineteen ninety
five was approximately ten dollars and sixty five cents to
ten dollars and seventy five cents.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
And then by two thousand and five, maybe it's fifteen dollars. Right,
I mean, I'm making this up. But by the twenty
fifteen and beyond, I mean you've seen prices. Again, we
all remember that experience if you're a baseball fan, whether
you grew up in San Diego, La, San Francisco, Philadelphia,
New York, I think everyone can recall. And again maybe
(39:51):
it's with your parents who maybe you don't have a
good feel for the cost of it. But again, I
remember the days where they would put like tickets and
hot dogs you would buy at like a grocery store,
like it was like a redeem voucher, like buy one ticket,
get a kid's ticket free. They put them in like
Hebrew National, you know, stuff like that. Whether you were
in San Diego or La or New York, city, and
(40:13):
it's changed. I mean, I think that the dynamics of
sports have changed. I mean, look at the salaries in sports.
Players weren't making hundreds of millions of dollars twenty years
ago and now they are, so you got to pay
for all of that. But I do think it's kind
of easy to yearn for the day where you can
go to a baseball game for seven dollars, right, Like,
it wasn't that long ago. We're not talking about the
(40:33):
nineteen twenties, is my point. It's not like you have
to go back to World War Two to say I
remember getting into a baseball game for five dollars. No,
you could get into a baseball game for five dollars
in the nineteen nineties, I would say later than that,
right before they moved to Peca. What did it cost
to get to Qualcom in two thousand and two for
a baseball game? Five dollars, seven dollars, nine dollars. Like
(40:57):
you're sitting in the bleachers back in the day for
five bus is what you're doing, And now you're sitting
at Gallagher Square and you can't even like, I mean,
you're watching it on video for forty bucks. Probably and
I get it. I mean it makes sense because it
supports the Padres ability to win and field that roster
and go over a luxury tax threshold. So there's a cost.
(41:18):
There's a cost associated with that, and I think by
and large, people are willing to pay more to see
a good product. Would you prefer the Padres are going
seventy and ninety two or ninety two and seventy And
I think most people would pay the forty bucks for
ninety two and seventy as opposed to the fourteen bucks
for seventy and ninety two. Anyway, it's a long way
(41:40):
of saying people will pay for a winner, but you
got to win at the highest level. In my opinion,
you can't just keep raising prices if you're winning but
not at the highest level. Padres winning the World Series,
raise the ticket price. Get it, Everyone gets it. Everyone
understands you want to continue to field teams that are
capable of getting to a World Series or winning a
World Series. P We'll spend four hundred dollars for a
(42:01):
family of four. But if you're always a wildcard team
and you're always out in the wild card round, and
it's four hundred dollars to go see the Padres. At
some point that might become cost prohibitive for a lot
of San Diegans. I mean it's already. You know how
expensive it is to live anywhere. I mean right, I
mean everything is expensive, including the cost of attending a
(42:23):
Major League Baseball game. Unfortunately, all right, on the other side,
we're gonna hear from Caleb Davis, san Diego State's football
general manager. He joined us earlier. If you missed that
conversation spring football underway on the MESA, and then if
you miss Kevin ac you'll hear a conversation with Kevin
coming up at five thirty. But I promised you this
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