April 7, 2026 • 41 mins
We FINALLY get Paul Skenes vs. Jackson Merrill. Darren Smith, Friar Territory on YouTube Joins The Guys To Talk SDFC And More.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don Chafer.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
When you think about the city of San Diego, some
of the worst ownership groups, with the Clippers situation, with
the Chargers situation, even the Padres ownership history.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Has it always been smooth?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Salem Shee Diego Zone, Alan Sliva.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
I felt like we went through a stage at baseball
where everything was so predetermined.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Why even have a manage? It was the point having
allay your Schaefer and Sliwa a San.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Diego and Southern California was going on. We are back
Shaeffer and Sliwa. If you were wondering yesterday did the
show make it longer than the week? The answer is now, yes.
We had the National Championship game yesterday on San Diego
Sports seven sixty. Now I didn't. I wasn't listening to
that pregame coverage. Did that start at three in the
afternoon yesterday? It did?
Speaker 5 (00:39):
So?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It did start through Did they three hours of pregame?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I mean, imagine how prepared you were, Oh, you were
ready by the time the game started. If you started
pre at three, you know more about that matchup between
Yukon and Michigan than I think anybody out there.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Allen was longer than the game, which you and I
are fromamiliar with this because we've done a lot in
our career. You and I are very similar in terms
of what we've done in our career. We've done a
lot of pres and halftimes and posts reaction YouTube. There
are times, I'm sure you've been in these situations before
where you end up spending like two hours on a
game that was two and a half hours, Like I've
(01:17):
covered like Padres Dodgers' playoff games where it's like the
game was two twenty and we're on for like two
hours and twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
We need like a three hour pre like that. We
a solid three hour pregame show as a long pregame.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But they got they got it in. We enjoyed.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I don't know how you were yesterday, but it was
honestly perfect for us. I mean, we're watching Padres baseball.
First pitch was three forty perfect going right into the
National Championship game.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
You could kind of go back and forth.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So if there's a day to have off, yesterday was
kind of ideal for the both of us.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Did you do anything of interest, Like did you get
anything done?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Like I, for.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Example, got I never did this, Okay, because I have
a seven year old son and he makes my car
look like a mess. So I don't really like to
clean it that much because I know he's gonna make
it dirty. I don't know if it's weird, but I
got my car detailed, so now I want no one
in the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I know that's It's uh, how do I put this?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
There's certain things the moment you get something cleaned or
something like that, or if you take a shower, I'm like, yeah,
I'm not even gonna walk outside nothing. I don't want
I don't want to do anything. I'm clean. The car
is clean exactly. Something along the house is clean. You
can't have anybody come to the house. That's uh, yeah,
that's good work out of you. You're just gonna have
to be by yourself in the car.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I did. I got the car detail and hit listen
to this. I went even further. I got a massage.
Shit out here, come on, John, I did don't like
don't like it from where you spend time and not
far from your neck of the woods up in North County, Okay.
I got an eighty five minute massage. The issue is
I'm super sore. Wow, are you a massage guy. Is
(02:53):
that a weird question?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Let me.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Me first off, just start off the show by saying this,
things are going good.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
If you're good, you're detailing.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Eighty five minute massage. What time of the day is
the eighty five minutes?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
This was yesterday?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yesterday. Think about this for a second. Just one of
those that are driving around doing whatever they're doing, you know,
grinding away.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You had.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's a great point.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You went in from one pm. Yeah, oh yeah, to
about is that five to thirty? Okay, two thirty? One
pm to two thirty on a Monday.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Correct, You had a massage and nobody else was there.
I noticed it was a good day.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That's good living right there.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know, you know how it is.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
We work hard.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It's like from from the astex this.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
No, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
We could, we could sell it as much as we watch.
But at the end of the day, for you to
get an hour and a half and I'm not a
massage guy, you're not. No, Well, my issue because I
just don't know what. Yeah, I just haven't sign up
for my issue.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
As I leave there and I feel like I need
to go to like the hospital because massages can be
like your forever I'm very sorry. So I can go
to the gym today because they got it yesterday. Let's
get into the Padres the Pirates, becausey're gonna get underwag
in about thirty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Honestly, I'd say fifty to fifty. We go back to massage.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
We'll get there at some point, probably whenever game starts. Yeah, Padres,
it's amazing. This happens so much in baseball. You say
what I mean. The last time we were on the air,
which feels like it was like an administration and go
they were two and five.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And now they've won three straight. And the manner in
which they wont has been impressive as well, like overcoming
deficits against Boston for example. Then yesterday behind her Moan Marquez,
they went five nothing. Now today they get Paul Skians
and we'll get into it at Paul Skians. Jackson Merrill
obviously vying for the Rookie of the Year back in
twenty twenty four, it went to Skeens, and remarkably, Skeens
has not faced the Padres in his first two years
(04:46):
in the Major League, so this will be the first
time the Padres faced Paul Skans but a good weekend.
I would say overall, you know, you probably feel a
little differently if you're a Padres fan right now at
five and five. Overall phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I mean, think about there was lot of negative attention
towards the Padres to start the season, as there should,
talk about some of the bats, nothing clutch happening. This
is the game they were boring. The game of baseball
wasn't good, like there was nothing entertaining about it. And
that's why every conversation that we've had. Part of that
(05:18):
conversation is this is the start of the season. Let's
give it a second, give it fifteen twenty games, let
it marinate a little bit. Can you be hovering around
five hundred and I think what they did Saturday, Saturday,
Sunday and Monday completely change the tune of how the
start of the season began. You were two and four
walking out of Peco Park, nothing really to show for it.
(05:39):
You start off with a loss against the Red Sox,
and it's been great since then. I'll go back to
I think the thing to me that I care about
the most over those three games, two of those games
could have easily gone the other way and Boston does have,
if I'm correct, the worst record in Major League Baseball,
at least the AL because I want to say they're
(06:00):
two and eight now something like that, but I don't care.
I don't care how they got there. Win the games
that you're supposed to. But when Adrian Morione gave up
that run on Saturday night to tie the game at two,
that's a game that you just felt like the Padres
are going to lose this game. For Tatis in to
two count to get that double, to then put himself
(06:23):
in a position for a more Loreano to get the
exactly off Chapman to kind of have that comeback victory.
The style that they did that kind of set off.
You play on Sunday, you're down four to nothing, you
find a way. I like how they won the games
because it didn't come easy. You had to earn them,
and it was actually the bats winning the games at
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the end rather than the pitchers.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I like the way you said it because you know,
not all wins are created equals, although you take them
all to your point. I don't care if you're playing
the Red Sox or the Rockies or the Dodgers. The
wins are what matter. I mean, if it's two to
one or twelve one at the end of the day,
that's as you want. But I will say for me,
the Sunday comfort behind win was reminiscent of the twenty
twenty four season as a whole, where they overkept, they
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overcame a lot of deficits, and then a lot of
big innings in twenty twenty four in one game doesn't
make a season. Mentioned this last night on a YouTube show,
But the idea that two years ago there was again
they showed eight nothing to the Cubs early. It was
in April. It was like six games into year if that.
And it was the night where Tatis said two home runs.
They won nine to eight. They came back from eight
(07:31):
nothing down. It was in twenty twenty four, right at
the onset of their season, and I thought that was
such a springboard moment, like we're never going to be
out of a game, Like we're going to find our
way back into games. I don't know if this Boston
game Sunday is going to be that or not, but
to me, because their offense has really struggled the first
eight or nine games of the season, just finding away
to fight a deficit like that is very encouraging.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I think that's the thing. That's the main thing. You
showed some fight, even down Ford to nothing. You go
up six' to four After machado gets a three run, homer,
right But boston comes back and ties it at.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Six.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah so there were moments over these last couple of
games other than, yesterday where there were gut punch moments
that usually if you go up six to four and
they come back they tied, Six, yeah there's a good
chance you might lose that, game especially on the road
you're up to one and in the eighth when you
feel like you're in a good position because you're a,
Bullpen boston ties it a to a.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Piece those so games you typically. Lose they.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Didn't they won both of those, games and then yesterday
they just dominated and give you, know The podreys all
the credit in the world going up against the team
The pirates had won five in a. Row BUT i
don't think all wins are created, equal just like all
losses aren't created. Equal and there have been plenty of,
games and you, know we could look at it over the.
Years it's Like i'm thinking of a game BECAUSE i
remember it Exactly, ACTUALLY i don't remember, exactly BUT i
(08:48):
remember last season The padres had a lead Against, arizona
AND i want to say they were up like seven
to two or seven to, three and then the last
couple of innings they lost that game eight to. Seven i'm,
like this Is Devis. State not all wins or losses
are created.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Equals, yeah, NO i. WOULD i would agree with, that
AND i will say this not all you, know not
all clubs are. Equal like you mentioned the fact that
The pirates had won five. Straight, yeah you've got the
number one prospect in the. Sport it was just called.
UP i just saw something about their LOCAL tv ratings
that day were off the, charts better Than Paul skien's.
Debut so my point, is Like pittsburgh fans are aware
(09:25):
locally of what's playing. Out you Have Paul skians on the.
Scene entering, yesterday you're six and three, overall winners of five.
STRAIGHT i THINK i have that right.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
NOW i get.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
It whether it's not, great it's Not San diego And.
Pittsburgh there was nobody there yesterday the announced eighty four.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Hundred there was nobody there.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
YESTERDAY i think they announced eighty four, hundred which.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Is always which is telling.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
YOU i, mean anytime whatever they, announced that means, they,
yeah it's, inflated.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Right so What so there's four thousand people in the
building and THEN i think we'll Have kevin on later
in the. WEEK i Think kevin said to me a
thousand of those fans at least were Wearing pondres. Gear
so just consider, that, like we are so fortunate to
be here with the way the fandom is around The
padres right. Now hasn't always been like this In San
diego with the fandom around The. Padres not to say
(10:12):
that everything's perfect right. Now padres are five and. Five
but one thing we. Know they're gonna get back home
this week and they're gonna play The rockies and they're
gonna give away A Manny machado bobblehead On thursday, night
and guess, what there'll be forty six thousand people. There
shouldn't take it for. Granted it is my. Point pittsburgh
is a great sports. Sound they have five thousand people
with their baseball. Games what are the.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Rules at a game like? That if you bought a,
ticket nine win the upper. Section if you bought a
ticket in the upper, section.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh i'm walking third, row.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
RIGHT i had TO i had this happen to. ME
i was in a couple of years. AGO i was
In denver for A Lakers nuggets playoff.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Game oh.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Cool So i'm still, working you, know AT espn at the,
time And i'm there for a playoff. Game we're gonna
do pre half and post all. That while there's a
day off in between the two. Games, Rockies i'm gonna
go catch A rockies.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Game.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Perfect there was thirty seven people at The rockies. Game
there's no. There they're playing LIKE i think The Red
so it was like you probably bought, something you, know
just by bought something to get a. Bus, no it
was like seven bucks to get, in AND i think
there was a little bit of a fee towards Stub
hup two AND i still got in with seve.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Bucks.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah SO i REMEMBER i go to the, OUTFIELD i
go get a first THING i.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
DO i grabbed a, DOG i grabbed a, BEER i
grabbed some.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Peanuts i'm, like this is. Great it was actually beautiful,
out was sunny. OUT i tried going, up like there's
all these. SEATS i tried going up and this is
kind of still in the outfield. Area, Uhher, nope can't
sit there's your.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Seat i'm, like, brother there's there is?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
It anybody within fifteen rows of? Me you want me
to sit on the actual? Seat he's like, Yes oh.
SO i don't know If pittsburgh had the same rules,
yesterday but that was pretty.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
IDIOTIC i feel like anytime you have fewer than ten thousand,
fans all rules are.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Off of course they're all.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Off they want to, sit, RIGHT i, mean you have
a forty thousand seat.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Ballpark guy was giving me the look like he's, like
who runs this place out.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Here i'm, like apparently you.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Do apparently apparently you do. It all, Right let's get
Into skins And merrill. Again they vied for the twenty
twenty Four rookie of The. Year they will face. Off unlike,
Football we're, like, oh look at this quarterback. Matchup, well Mahomes.
Allen they don't play each. Other, literally they're not on
the field at the same. Time we'll See skens And
merrill on the field at the same. Time padres baseball
coming up later this.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
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Speaker 4 (12:31):
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Speaker 2 (12:46):
ON cue Because Darren smith will join us at. Three. Phenomenal, NOW,
sdfc the hell happened On? SATURDAY i was gonna, say,
NOW i just looked at The Western conference. STANDINGS i
don't know the last time you went to mlssoccer dot
com or, whatever you. Know last, YEAR, sdfc for most
of the year was among the best, teams not just
in the, league not just in The, west but in the. League,
(13:06):
Right and it is, early and we can get into
this With, darren but there are some teams in The
west that have been. Unbelievable San jose is one of.
THEM i THINK lafc is one of. Them and now
all of a sudden you look up and again it's
early a little bit like we talked, About vancouver is there, too,
maybe BUT sdfc there, are you, know six or seven points,
back you, know six or seventh place in the. Standings,
(13:27):
again we'll talk To darren about. It but again a year,
AGO i don't think they were ever it's six or
seventh place in the.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Standings, no they, weren't, Right, no they. Weren't AND i
watched the game On. Saturday, yeah just wasn't a. Game
and like you, Said San jose and, Listen i'm very.
GOOD i think we're we're all watching this in the
last year and, change all of a, SUDDEN mls is
on the map In San diego for obviously good. Reason
PLUS scfc had such an unbelievable start to the season
(13:56):
and get all the way to the semi finals and
it was just unbelievable to. Watch so now there's a
little bit of expectations and it's gonna be the interesting
conversation With.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Darren they came out of nowhere last.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Year, yeah now is everybody properly prepared for, them kind
of know what to. Expect there's no more catching anybody off.
GUARD i mean you still you carried your weight for
an entire, season so teams had plenty of time to you,
know figure you. Out just obviously very impressive last, year
but that was last. Season, yeah, well we'll.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Talk To darren about it coming up in about ten
minutes now coming up later this, Afternoon padres and pirates
FROM Pnc park say that three Times Paul skeens on
the mound for the first time against The San Diego.
Padres you go back to twenty twenty, four he got
twenty three first place votes for The rookie of The Year.
MERRIL i think at the other seven it was a
relatively close, vote because Again Jackson merril got seven first
(14:49):
place votes out of. THIRTY i remember we spent a
lot of time on this station discussing this. Race you
Had skins and his brilliance for a team that was never.
Competitive we're contending for a playoff. Spot, yeah and Joy
Jackson merrill a central figure for a very good team
that made the, postseason and we'll. Shooting twenty twenty four
(15:09):
was the team that led The dodgers two games to
one in THE. Nlts so not to necessarily rehash, it
but it was an interesting conversation then and it'll still
be an interesting conversation moving. Forward just watching the arc
of these two players'. Careers one's a, pitcher one's a position.
Player they both have been terrific for their. Clubs skeens
has gotten all the national, Attention merril's gotten a lot
(15:30):
of local, attention And i'm curious to see what it
looks like here tonight when they score off for a first. Time,
yeah it's.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Funny going back to twenty twenty, four you, KNOW i,
think at the end of the, day what's the number
one Any San? Diegan all they care about is we
got a? Championship can we freaking win A world? Series
can we just have something to? Celebrate and MAYBE i
pay less attention to some of the individual. AWARDS i
did it in twenty twenty. Four twenty twenty, FOUR i was,
(15:58):
Like Jackson merrill is properly Representing San. Diego he's having
an unbelievable rookie. YEAR i think it just came down to.
Timing he just happened to have an unbelievable season While Paul.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Skeins was doing unbelievable. Things yeah somewhere.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Else and IF i remember, CORRECTLY i think the big
conversation was Did skeens make enough starts to earn himself
The rookie of The year?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Honor and it did mean a.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
LOT i think it meant a lot for people because
you also wanted to see just a young stud Representing San.
Diego how many different times you get somebody like that
representing all The Major League Baseball but fast forward to,
today none of that stuff really matters at this. POINT
i think for, me IT'S i, mean Just Paul skins
on the mound is. Cool would be cooler is if
you just get A w and you get your first
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for the first time this, season your game over five.
Hundred whether that Was skeens or it, WASN'T i, know
The padres have never faced, him but they got a battle.
Tonight you, know they got something on their hands to
Which i'm looking forward to seeing because the bats have
done well these last couple of games that they've been.
Clutch now you're going up against one of the best
pitchers out.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
There you AND i were downtown when The padre has
played their opener at the same time The pirates are
playing their opener against The, mets and the line indicates
That skeens had as bad as start as he's had
in his. Career so he's also done in by his. Defense,
yeah which actually played out again yesterday where The pirates
defense let them down a lot as well In game
one of that. Series Now skeans bounced. Back he went
(17:28):
five innings one run Against. CINCINNATI i don't really this
early in the, season, HONESTLY i don't even know what to.
Expect Like skeens has had two terrific years twenty, three
or excuse, me twenty four and twenty. Five is he
going to be that exact same player this? YEAR i
have no, Idea BUT i do like the fact that
The padres come in on the heels of a three
game win streak and the offense has been better double
(17:49):
digit hits in each of the last two, games for.
Example so you know it's, early you kind of knock
on wood and hope That skeens isn't gonna throw, seven,
eight nine innings in a game like this because it's
early in the. Year can they make them? Work can
you get a couple of runs off? Them and With
Nick pavett on the, man you'd feel good potentially scoring
a couple of runs Off Paul skins here.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Today.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Yeah it's interesting because so far this, season and we
knew this was going to be the, case a lot
of conversation about The padres was gonna, Be, hey this
is gonna be tough because you got schoolball to start
off the, year you Got Logan, webb you Got schemes
was coming up at some. Point they had some good
pitchers that they're going to be, facing and, frankly they
(18:29):
haven't done you, know they've done, terrible but they also
haven't done. Great this is kind of one of those
opportunities in front of. You this is the type of
caliber pitching you're gonna be. Facing if you get to the,
postseason you're gonna face just the best of the. Best
so you can't really make any excuses and, say, oh
we're just waiting for The.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Rockies, no you know you also Got i'm sure For Nick.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Pavetta pavetta is looking at this game, saying let me
get another, opportunity gets another. Race BECAUSE i didn't do
the JOB i was supposed to do Against schoolble to
start the Season padres opening, Day he'll get another another
opportunity Against keen.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Today and what about? Me everyone talks About Paul, skeens
what About Nick. Pavetta by the, Way Mason, miller if
he appears, tonight will be appearing where he grew. Up
he grew up A pirates. Fan he grew up just Outside.
Pittsburgh looking to appear potentially tonight in the close spot
for The. Padres let's talk To Darren smith on the
other side about The. Padres five and five start ABOUT
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(19:22):
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Speaker 6 (19:28):
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two of their. Series it's going to Be Nick ravetta
going Against Paul. Skeens it's going to Be skeenes' first
time pitching against The. Padres first pitch is set for
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(21:02):
this is your first time On schaeffer And. Slava that
must BE i, mean you've done so much in your,
career but this must be up. There it's got to
be top top five thousand moments or something like.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
That, yeah congratulations, Officially But i've stuck around long enough
THAT i can say THAT i am now a guest
On shaffer And. Sleeway, yeah this is the real reason
Why i'm hanging. Around he went a bunch of dope.
Podcasts so EVENTUALLY i could wait for this union AND
i can come on the show AND i can celebrate
with you. Guys so thank you for the invitation and
for the opportunity in just one more box to check
(21:30):
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Crew it is, Great it is great to have you with.
Us we want to start WITH. Sdfc saw the result,
OBVIOUSLY i saw some of your writing as, well what
you talked about earlier. Today they've had all these red
cards this. Year they're coming off a shutout. Laws you
just look at The Western conference. STANDINGS i know it's,
early and last year we saw them towards the top
of the standings all. Year so how would you describe
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the six match start to the year so far FOR sdfc.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
MIXED i think there's some ways of looking at it
where you, know you could, say on a points per game,
basis right spread out over thirty, four they're actually ahead
of their pace from last. Year on a goals per,
game goals per ninety, pace they're ahead of where they
were last. Year so you, know there are some underlying
metrics that are actually better than they were for an
entire season of what was a record setting season For
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Santaga Football. Club so there's some things to. Like they
have a nineteen year old goalkeeper who already has three
clean sheets in five SIX mls, matches so you, know
five FIVE mls. Matches he didn't start In, dallas so you,
know there's things that you like. There but there are
some THINGS i think that they just have to clean,
up and one of those is that they've been put
in the book way too many times and it's had an.
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Impact there's no real one reason why they have had
these red, cards BUT i do think they've had a
cascading effect where a guy misses a game and then
you have to make a plan to account for his
absence in the next, game and maybe that guy isn't
quite at the level where you need him to, be
and then somebody else makes him stake and then that
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player gets set. Off so it's a. Lot they've seen
five red cards and ten, competitions you, know between the
SIX mls matches and the four Contry Cap Champions cup,
matches so it's got to get. Fixed it's got to get.
Fixed they're going to be Without monodua coming up On saturday.
Night he's maybe their best defender and one of their
most exciting, players so you're going to have to search
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for an option to replace. Him BUT i don't think
the sky is. FALLOWING i don't think it's a. Crisis
but you, KNOW i think there's one thing that absolutely
has to get cleaned, up and it is that they
have really seen too many, cards too many yellow cards
and straight red cards so.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Far in twenty twenty, Six Darren smith joined us here
On schaeffer and Sleiwa. DARREN i, know last year obviously
just an incredible year FOR. Sdfc i'm sure a surprise
for many to see the type of success that they.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Had what are some of the expectations this?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
YEAR i, mean if it just as realistic as you can,
be what are take fans out of the mix of
what they want to see or what they're hoping for
around what are the expectations FOR Scsc, WELL i think.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Expectation around the league is THAT sdfc would not be
as successful in the second, season and some of that
is because you, know now people are aware of who they.
Are part of that also is other teams has gotten.
BETTER La, galaxy you guys were talking about it before the.
BOTTOM La galaxy has started a season with six straight.
Shutouts that's. Amazing THAT'S i think AN mls. Record so they're.
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Flying you mentioned the Way San jose looks to be
a better. Side Real Salt lake to me looked like
it was a better, team SO i think there's an
expectation that it wouldn't be quite as. Good and that's.
Okay sixty three points that's a lot of. Points finishing
first in The, west that's. Amazing there are teams that
have been around this league for a long time that
have never done, that SO i think it's. OKAY i think,
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though that most people expect that they're still going to
be a playoff. Team, internally they do want to get,
better you, know they do want to get. Younger you,
know they do want to improve on their. Style they
thought last year was all about building a foundation and
this year was focusing on some of the. Detail so
they still have plenty of, prime plenty of time to do.
That they were involved in this competition that they had
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never been involved with. BEFORE i think they had mostly.
Success they got out of the first round against a
really Good Mexican league team In. Pumas they Beat teluka
down a man for most of the, match at Snap
track And stadium and they got blown out of the
night where most teams would have gotten blown. Out SO
i think they're hanging their hat on the experience of
the early season. TOURNAMENT i do think that they will
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level out here a little. Bit everything's been a little herky.
Jerky everything's been a little, rushed everything's just been a
little dish. Jointed expected more quite frankly coming out of
the international window Against San, jose but you, know the
red card again and showed its ugly head in the
thirtieth minute and it completely changed the whole course of the.
Match they think they're a playoff, team and they think
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that they're going to be in competition to win. Something
you play In League's cup coming up later this, summer
another one of these competitions that we're all getting used,
to and you, know they do really feel like they're
team that, built has an established foundation for how it's
going to play and what it's going to look, like
and now it's just about improving the. Details and you,
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KNOW i think they also are probably iron eyeing the
summer transfer window to add some reinforcements. Here once we
get through The World cup.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Cycle you can listen TO Stfc Minnesota United Saturday Snap Dragons.
Stadium seven point thirty is the start, time and of
Course darren will be on the. Call Darren smith with
us right now On San Diego sports seven. Sixty let's
turn our attention to The. Padres ten games. In we
finally get to see in just a handful of minutes
there and we get to See Paul skeiens against The
San Diego padres the first time in his. Career we
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get to See Jackson merrill obviously in the lineup as.
Well they vied for That rookie of The year a
couple of years. Ago is this intriguing to you seeing
The padres for the first time Against, skeenes because, again
earlier the, year when they faced guys Like Turk scooble
or Fran, beervaldez they didn't have. Success could tonight be
a night where they do have some success against a
high caliber starting. Pitcher yes and.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
NO i MEAN i think What sleola said about The
rookie of The year, competition And i'm wired the same
way these individual. AWARDS i don't care for them all that.
Much you, know the WHOLE mvp thing is very. Weird
but you, KNOW i did think That jackson got the
short end of the stick a couple of seasons back
because he was on a competitive. Team he was an
integral part of a winning team that won ninety three.
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Games that shouldn't, matter and you only get one opportunity
to be the rookie of the, year you know WHAT i.
Mean so, like there's Nothing Jackson merrill could do in
these FOUR i fats tonight that will get that, back
get that opportunity. Back and that stunk for me BECAUSE
i objectively thought he was a more important. Player but you,
know baseball's got to try to promote itself in some.
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CAPACITY i think the thing that's interesting tonight is there's
a reason why you Had Nick pavetta Start Opening day
is because you Want Nick pavetta to be the kind
of pitcher that you're going to match up with another team's.
Ace so he didn't do it in his first, appearance
didn't do it Against Trek scooble. Recovered but the story
was written in the first, inning second opportunity through maybe
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a little bit different From. Pavetta but this is why
you think a guy like that should Started Opening day
because you think he is every bit the caliber of
pitcher that you're going to face on nights like, Tonight
So i'm curious about. It i'm more curious about this
game than it was about last night's. Game THEN i
will be about tomorrow morning's. GAME i do think it
is interesting to watch and see how they perform against
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one of these better pitchers in the. Sport and you,
know he's the guy that gets most of the publicity
when we come to these, conversations BUT i also think
it's a big night For Nick pavetta to show on
a stage opposite a picture of this caliber that he's
worthy of that kind of conversation as.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Well, yeah we're talking about a little bit earlier the
excuses of, all but you, know they're facing a lot
of good pictures and, yeah that's the entire. Postseason you're
going to face good, pitching so obviously that can't be an.
Excuse was listening to your podcast this morning With Marty
Friar territory the two and five start to now three
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wins in a. ROW i know there's always an overreaction
and just the way they played through those first seven.
Games what did you make Of, Saturday, Sunday, monday anything
specific that stood out to you to put The podreys
back at five.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
HUNDRED i Thought fernando's ad bad Against chapman On, saturday
after he had punched out four times and it was probably.
Embarrassed and he's up there and he's in AN o two.
HOLE i think he was out two or one, two
something like, that And i'm, watching going, hoo what's? Happening
and he contributed to the game winning. Run he scored
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the game winning, run And Ramon loriano backs him. Up
i'm super fascinated by the way the lineup was constructed
every single. Day are we eleven for? Eleven is that? Eleven, yeah,
yep we have a new lineup. Today good for. Them
i'm now they're committed to the.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Bit i'm gone for a.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Record, yeah. ABSOLUTELY i haven't seen it, yet So i'm
glad to know. That BUT i, KNOW i just think
scoring is scoring, late showing a little bit of of
the grit that they came to relish in last, season
and then opening it up against a, really really good
pitcher On sunday. Mattered they've scored more than three runs
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in the game back to back, game so that was
a thing that they hadn't really done much of up
until the last couple of, days SO i don't know
what to make of The Red. Sox they're the worst,
team but it's one of those damned if you, do
and danned if you. Don't if you lose to a
team like, that it's. Terrible but if you beat a
team like, that, WELL i don't know exactly what it
is that you've proven but not our. Problem The Red
sox aren't our. Problem The padres. Are and this is.
(30:41):
Better that's what you can say about what they did
over the weekend against The Red. Sox it was better
than what it was that we, saw at least through
the first six At peck Of.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Park i'll take you turn real quick with, You, darren
BECAUSE i want to know what it was like for.
You you're alma. Mater Saint john's correct me If i'm.
Wrong hadn't been To sweet sixteen since went ninety, nine.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
So, yeah twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Years but now they've been. Back but not only. That
you had a chance to see her alma mater In
San diego in THE NC Doublea. Tournament, NO i don't
think you were in that round of thirty two game
because THAT sdfc was. Playing but that was an iconic,
game obviously one of the more memorable games of the.
Tournament what was it like a being in the building
for the round of sixty four and then watching them
get to the sweet sixteen for the first time since,
YEAH i mean a quarter century plus.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Ago, well none of that was as enjoyable as Watching
yukon moves last.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Night but, oh the, best the?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
BEST i? DID i have? Kid, ACTUALLY i don't, know
AM i? Kidding i'm not? Sure? RIGHT i got some
deep scars from this. Program it was. GREAT i, mean
it was great to see some of The Saint john's
fans get a moment to enjoy. Winning i've never seen
him win AN NC doublea tournament game in, person if
you can believe. That yeah, So And i've been a
fan of this team for my entire. Life i'm fifty
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three years. Old that's the first time THAT i ever
Saw Saint john's win AN mcuaa tournament game in. Person
and you're, RIGHT i was unable to go to the
game where they win Against. KANSAS i would have loved
to have been, there but we had a, broadcast SO
i shut it. Out i'm you, know it's been many
years where you sort of just have given up where
it feels, hopeless and you, know if it can happen
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to a program like, mine it could pretty much happen
to any. Program So i'm glad to see them. BACK
i think that they're playing the game pretty. Well, obviously
we see what's happening here on a local level when
it comes To Sanago state transfer portals and. Nil and
we do have the ability to play the game a
little bit differently because we're a program that doesn't have
a football, school so we don't have to worry about
that level of revenue. Share so, Yeah i'm glad to see.
(32:34):
It and you, know it seems like they've definitely energized
and juiced the program a little, bit which is good to.
SEE i, mean college basketball is it's got its, issues for,
sure there's no doubt about. That but you, know, SELFISHLY
i was really. Proud it was nice to be proud
of your alma mater for it's basketball success for a,
change rather than always talking about the Terrible and they're
on probation and players are getting kicked out of the
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program because they're soliciting, Hookers so you, know this was
much better than.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
That, Yeah i'd agree that's probably a better storyline for
for everybody. There, Darren great, stuff, Brother we appreciate you
coming on the. Show, obviously look forward to having you
on soon. Again pregame coverage With adrian And darren begins
at seven pm right here on your Home FRESH Ufc
San Diego sports seven.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Sixty that's coming up On. Saturday That's Darren smith right, There.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Darren appreciate, you.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
MAN i appreciate your. Fellows great.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Day all, right great stuff again With Darren. Smith we
can react to. That plus a very interesting case made
by The Fab five for Former Aztec headcat liked. Fishing,
YEAH i thought it was.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
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Speaker 2 (33:50):
Alright San Diego sports seven. Sixty we can get to
this conversation.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Though it's. Interesting, yeah The.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Fab five had some really praiseworth things to say About Steve,
fisher Who i've made this point recently on social. Media
how Is Steve fisher out in The hall Of? Fame
and The fab five, agree and you'll hear from them coming.
Up but we'll have that. Conversation maybe we're going to
have all five of them. On, yes that's exactly. Right Chris,
webber who LIVE i wish So Paul skins you've heard of?
(34:19):
THEM i have heard of. Them So Paul skin's on
the mound today.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
For linebacker for The, steelers for The.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Bears as we, KNOW i mean this. Guy, no very
few pitchers in baseball history have burst onto the scene
Like Paul skins has with The. Pirates. Ye, now of
course the issue is it's like bursting onto the scene
with The Cleveland browns or bursting onto the scene with
The Charlotte. HORNETS i, mean you, know you don't really
burst onto the scene with those. Teams CAN i just
give one?
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Observation? Yeah why so many strange at The Charlotte. HORNETS
i feel like since we started to, show they came
up three or four.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Times where do you, Go, like, HONESTLY i want to
know That charlotte's a good. Pick that's a worse and
would you put In New Orleans they Got zion and
that he's been a.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Relevant SACRAMENTO i think is one of the worst Run
now they've made the, playoffs but they've made the playoffs
in this like the last five. Years they's a good
team like three or four Did Darren fox, Alone so they,
did so MAYBE i can't put them in.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
There, no you could put the Camp what would you, say.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
The Washington wizards are the worst run. FRANCHISE i think
that one Is i'll start Using. Wizards i'm glad you
did that Because charlotte is right now in the. Playoffs
so All i'm trying to do is just let's just
lay off of The hornets a little bit.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Here little no. Fact because my dad was IN, dc
my mom was In philly WHEN i was growing, up
we Were bullets season ticket holders At Landover. Arena really
to see that. PLACE i, mean The bullets back in
the day were cool because they were The. Bullets, sure
that was the only reason they were. Cool but you're
they've been a terrible organization for, forever going back to
like west Onn so you have to go back like
fifty years for them to be Relevant.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
Charlotte charlotte hasn't been good. Either you're a good. Point,
yeah you're good.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Anyway so we all know The pirates are. Irrelevant but
let's say they were to build something short term Around,
skins they invested a little more rhin, O'Hearn for, example
comes over as a free. Agent, right they've gotten off
to a good. Start let's say they navigate away to the. Postseason,
Yep allen in twenty twenty six or twenty twenty. SEVEN i,
mean you're still not Signing Paul skians long, term, Right.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
No you're.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Not he's not gonna stick.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Arount he's under contract through twenty twenty. Nine, correct so
through the twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Season, yeah the scenario that we were playing, out it's,
like you know That Paul skeens is probably gonna end
up with one of the big markets making god knows
how much, money whatever amount.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
That, is four hundred.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Million here's the QUESTION i have if you're The, pirates
at what point you trade? Him Because pittsburgh is kind
of thought of of being a little bit more up and.
Coming maybe they can make a run at a playoff this.
Year maybe they could stay into the mix and be
a little bit of a, headache probably a headache for The.
Podreys you're looking at the, standings you're saying, yourself you, know,
OKAY i agree with.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
That in, mind what if they make the? Playoffs, okay
what if they make the playoffs?
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Again next, Year, like what are you selling To Pittsburgh
if you Have paul, Skins you've been in the, postseason
you're trying to make some kind of noise potentially in the,
Place like what a cool experience For pirates. Fans and
then you're, like, yeah we're two years, away which is
probably the right time to trade one of your. Stars
is your value two years, away somebody's gonna give you
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what you're looking, for get back a. Haul but you
also just got rid Of Paul, Skien so what's like
the future for Your like why would anybody buy a
ticket to go watch The Pittsburgh pirates?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Book they.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Don't that part is shooting that.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
It's forty degrees In. April BUT i, mean they've got
an unbelievable. Ballpark it's comparable To Petco, park and nobody's
there because they don't. Win but here's the other. Thing
let's say The pirates Offered Paul skians a fair. Deal
let's say they offered him the richest deal in baseball,
history first starting pitcher or a pitcher in. General if your,
skins do you sign the dotted line on? That, like
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are you committing yourselves to yourself to an organization that
hasn't won a playoff series Since Barry bonds was, There,
like you are you willing to trust that? Organization here
was that? Team what year was that With?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Bonds oh my? God look that.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Up when's the last time to The pirates were in
one game Wild? CARDS i think three straight years had
lost all. THREE i think with, MCCUSHEON i could be
wrong on that or the best of three. SERIES i
don't think they've won a playoff series in thirty five
years something like, that which is.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
INSANE i think if you Are, schemes, No i'm not
signing a long term contract With pittsford BECAUSE i just
know what the organization. Is and by the, way completely.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Fair if you told me That skens came up with The,
cardinals it's a much different conversation he came up with The,
Giant it's a much different. Conversation there's certain teams in
THE nl where you're, like, NO i actually trust.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
OWNERSHIP i trust that. Organization you don't trust it.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Here the only point That i'm making, is let's say
in a couple of years they are in the, playoffs
and Here's Paul. Skeins he's dealing in the, postseason and
there's two years left on his on his rookie, deal
on his rookie deal under team. Control, right let's just
say there's two years left and the conversation is going
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to be, about, well now we got to get rid
Of Paul, skins like whatever comes after.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That we know Why Jan soto got traded to The.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Padres we know why some of these, guys these younger,
players Because Wan soda was eventually. Going it's why The
padres ended up Trading Juan sotos because they knew that
they're not going to give them seven hundred and change
or whatever you got with The. Mets but, man what
a deflating. Thought if you're somebody from That Pittsburgh pirates, organization.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Right what do you got on The?
Speaker 7 (39:25):
Pirates The pirates last playoff appearance was in twenty. Fifteen
they lost the N Ol Wild Card game to The.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
CUBS. Yep their last playoff win was way back.
Speaker 7 (39:36):
In twenty thirteen when they beat The cardinals in the
In game three of The Nation League Division.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Series they're on.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
A, heat so they did win a series in twenty.
Thirteen before, That brent, NINE.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
I didn't say they won the. Series they want a.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Game oh, No, no, okay win a, series win a.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Series how's less time they won a. Series i'm assuming
It's by the, Way Harry, bonds do.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
You put up a banner for that you won a
game in twenty.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
THIRTEEN i don't think. You, no but they probably put
LIKE nl Wild card participant or. WHATEVER i actually don't even.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Know hopefully we're very strategic with our. BANNERS i don't
know what's.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Up they got some banners up, there, yeah for some for,
APPEARANCES i, THINK i think, so hold, ON i can't
go to break with that knowing the last time The
pirates won a playoff series like that's here it, is.
Dude they they lost THE nlcs in ninety, two ninety,
one and Ninety i'm assuming that was the first playoff
round it. Was the last time they won a playoff
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series was the nineteen seventy Nine National League Championship. Series
that can't be, real real The World series because they
won The World. Series, okay so their last playoff series
win was The World series and they won THE.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Ncs by the, WAY i would take that into heartbeat
if you told me the last time The padres have
won a series was nineteen seventy nine and it was
a world.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Series it's. Incredible but they were in.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
THE nlcs in ninety ninety one and ninety, two a
six game series, loss a seven game series last seven
game serious, sire, Right Sidbrem, YEAH i mean you're going
way way, back all. Right we're gonna get to the
rap on the other, side we'll get Into Steve fisher
and His hall Of. Fame candessey candidacy is brought up
by The Fab five during The Final four this past
weekend as. Well here until six, pm we've got. Giveaways
(41:16):
PRESUMABLY i haven't even looked at the. Rundown we. Do
we've got
Don Chafer.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
When you think about the city of San Diego, some
of the worst ownership groups, with the Clippers situation, with
the Chargers situation, even the Padres ownership history.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Has it always been smooth?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Salem Shee Diego Zone, Alan Sliva.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
I felt like we went through a stage at baseball
where everything was so predetermined.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Why even have a manage? It was the point having
allay your Schaefer and Sliwa a San.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Diego and Southern California was going on. We are back
Shaeffer and Sliwa. If you were wondering yesterday did the
show make it longer than the week? The answer is now, yes.
We had the National Championship game yesterday on San Diego
Sports seven sixty. Now I didn't. I wasn't listening to
that pregame coverage. Did that start at three in the
afternoon yesterday? It did?
Speaker 5 (00:39):
So?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It did start through Did they three hours of pregame?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I mean, imagine how prepared you were, Oh, you were
ready by the time the game started. If you started
pre at three, you know more about that matchup between
Yukon and Michigan than I think anybody out there.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Allen was longer than the game, which you and I
are fromamiliar with this because we've done a lot in
our career. You and I are very similar in terms
of what we've done in our career. We've done a
lot of pres and halftimes and posts reaction YouTube. There
are times, I'm sure you've been in these situations before
where you end up spending like two hours on a
game that was two and a half hours, Like I've
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covered like Padres Dodgers' playoff games where it's like the
game was two twenty and we're on for like two
hours and twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
We need like a three hour pre like that. We
a solid three hour pregame show as a long pregame.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But they got they got it in. We enjoyed.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I don't know how you were yesterday, but it was
honestly perfect for us. I mean, we're watching Padres baseball.
First pitch was three forty perfect going right into the
National Championship game.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
You could kind of go back and forth.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So if there's a day to have off, yesterday was
kind of ideal for the both of us.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Did you do anything of interest, Like did you get
anything done?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Like I, for.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Example, got I never did this, Okay, because I have
a seven year old son and he makes my car
look like a mess. So I don't really like to
clean it that much because I know he's gonna make
it dirty. I don't know if it's weird, but I
got my car detailed, so now I want no one
in the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I know that's It's uh, how do I put this?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
There's certain things the moment you get something cleaned or
something like that, or if you take a shower, I'm like, yeah,
I'm not even gonna walk outside nothing. I don't want
I don't want to do anything. I'm clean. The car
is clean exactly. Something along the house is clean. You
can't have anybody come to the house. That's uh, yeah,
that's good work out of you. You're just gonna have
to be by yourself in the car.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I did. I got the car detail and hit listen
to this. I went even further. I got a massage.
Shit out here, come on, John, I did don't like
don't like it from where you spend time and not
far from your neck of the woods up in North County, Okay.
I got an eighty five minute massage. The issue is
I'm super sore. Wow, are you a massage guy. Is
(02:53):
that a weird question?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Let me.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Me first off, just start off the show by saying this,
things are going good.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
If you're good, you're detailing.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Eighty five minute massage. What time of the day is
the eighty five minutes?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
This was yesterday?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yesterday. Think about this for a second. Just one of
those that are driving around doing whatever they're doing, you know,
grinding away.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You had.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's a great point.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You went in from one pm. Yeah, oh yeah, to
about is that five to thirty? Okay, two thirty? One
pm to two thirty on a Monday.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Correct, You had a massage and nobody else was there.
I noticed it was a good day.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That's good living right there.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know, you know how it is.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
We work hard.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It's like from from the astex this.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
No, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
We could, we could sell it as much as we watch.
But at the end of the day, for you to
get an hour and a half and I'm not a
massage guy, you're not. No, Well, my issue because I
just don't know what. Yeah, I just haven't sign up
for my issue.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
As I leave there and I feel like I need
to go to like the hospital because massages can be
like your forever I'm very sorry. So I can go
to the gym today because they got it yesterday. Let's
get into the Padres the Pirates, becausey're gonna get underwag
in about thirty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Honestly, I'd say fifty to fifty. We go back to massage.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
We'll get there at some point, probably whenever game starts. Yeah, Padres,
it's amazing. This happens so much in baseball. You say
what I mean. The last time we were on the air,
which feels like it was like an administration and go
they were two and five.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And now they've won three straight. And the manner in
which they wont has been impressive as well, like overcoming
deficits against Boston for example. Then yesterday behind her Moan Marquez,
they went five nothing. Now today they get Paul Skians
and we'll get into it at Paul Skians. Jackson Merrill
obviously vying for the Rookie of the Year back in
twenty twenty four, it went to Skeens, and remarkably, Skeens
has not faced the Padres in his first two years
(04:46):
in the Major League, so this will be the first
time the Padres faced Paul Skans but a good weekend.
I would say overall, you know, you probably feel a
little differently if you're a Padres fan right now at
five and five. Overall phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I mean, think about there was lot of negative attention
towards the Padres to start the season, as there should,
talk about some of the bats, nothing clutch happening. This
is the game they were boring. The game of baseball
wasn't good, like there was nothing entertaining about it. And
that's why every conversation that we've had. Part of that
(05:18):
conversation is this is the start of the season. Let's
give it a second, give it fifteen twenty games, let
it marinate a little bit. Can you be hovering around
five hundred and I think what they did Saturday, Saturday,
Sunday and Monday completely change the tune of how the
start of the season began. You were two and four
walking out of Peco Park, nothing really to show for it.
(05:39):
You start off with a loss against the Red Sox,
and it's been great since then. I'll go back to
I think the thing to me that I care about
the most over those three games, two of those games
could have easily gone the other way and Boston does have,
if I'm correct, the worst record in Major League Baseball,
at least the AL because I want to say they're
(06:00):
two and eight now something like that, but I don't care.
I don't care how they got there. Win the games
that you're supposed to. But when Adrian Morione gave up
that run on Saturday night to tie the game at two,
that's a game that you just felt like the Padres
are going to lose this game. For Tatis in to
two count to get that double, to then put himself
(06:23):
in a position for a more Loreano to get the
exactly off Chapman to kind of have that comeback victory.
The style that they did that kind of set off.
You play on Sunday, you're down four to nothing, you
find a way. I like how they won the games
because it didn't come easy. You had to earn them,
and it was actually the bats winning the games at
(06:45):
the end rather than the pitchers.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I like the way you said it because you know,
not all wins are created equals, although you take them
all to your point. I don't care if you're playing
the Red Sox or the Rockies or the Dodgers. The
wins are what matter. I mean, if it's two to
one or twelve one at the end of the day,
that's as you want. But I will say for me,
the Sunday comfort behind win was reminiscent of the twenty
twenty four season as a whole, where they overkept, they
(07:09):
overcame a lot of deficits, and then a lot of
big innings in twenty twenty four in one game doesn't
make a season. Mentioned this last night on a YouTube show,
But the idea that two years ago there was again
they showed eight nothing to the Cubs early. It was
in April. It was like six games into year if that.
And it was the night where Tatis said two home runs.
They won nine to eight. They came back from eight
(07:31):
nothing down. It was in twenty twenty four, right at
the onset of their season, and I thought that was
such a springboard moment, like we're never going to be
out of a game, Like we're going to find our
way back into games. I don't know if this Boston
game Sunday is going to be that or not, but
to me, because their offense has really struggled the first
eight or nine games of the season, just finding away
to fight a deficit like that is very encouraging.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I think that's the thing. That's the main thing. You
showed some fight, even down Ford to nothing. You go
up six' to four After machado gets a three run, homer,
right But boston comes back and ties it at.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Six.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah so there were moments over these last couple of
games other than, yesterday where there were gut punch moments
that usually if you go up six to four and
they come back they tied, Six, yeah there's a good
chance you might lose that, game especially on the road
you're up to one and in the eighth when you
feel like you're in a good position because you're a,
Bullpen boston ties it a to a.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Piece those so games you typically. Lose they.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Didn't they won both of those, games and then yesterday
they just dominated and give you, know The podreys all
the credit in the world going up against the team
The pirates had won five in a. Row BUT i
don't think all wins are created, equal just like all
losses aren't created. Equal and there have been plenty of,
games and you, know we could look at it over the.
Years it's Like i'm thinking of a game BECAUSE i
remember it Exactly, ACTUALLY i don't remember, exactly BUT i
(08:48):
remember last season The padres had a lead Against, arizona
AND i want to say they were up like seven
to two or seven to, three and then the last
couple of innings they lost that game eight to. Seven i'm,
like this Is Devis. State not all wins or losses
are created.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Equals, yeah, NO i. WOULD i would agree with, that
AND i will say this not all you, know not
all clubs are. Equal like you mentioned the fact that
The pirates had won five. Straight, yeah you've got the
number one prospect in the. Sport it was just called.
UP i just saw something about their LOCAL tv ratings
that day were off the, charts better Than Paul skien's.
Debut so my point, is Like pittsburgh fans are aware
(09:25):
locally of what's playing. Out you Have Paul skians on the.
Scene entering, yesterday you're six and three, overall winners of five.
STRAIGHT i THINK i have that right.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
NOW i get.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
It whether it's not, great it's Not San diego And.
Pittsburgh there was nobody there yesterday the announced eighty four.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Hundred there was nobody there.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
YESTERDAY i think they announced eighty four, hundred which.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Is always which is telling.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
YOU i, mean anytime whatever they, announced that means, they,
yeah it's, inflated.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Right so What so there's four thousand people in the
building and THEN i think we'll Have kevin on later
in the. WEEK i Think kevin said to me a
thousand of those fans at least were Wearing pondres. Gear
so just consider, that, like we are so fortunate to
be here with the way the fandom is around The
padres right. Now hasn't always been like this In San
diego with the fandom around The. Padres not to say
(10:12):
that everything's perfect right. Now padres are five and. Five
but one thing we. Know they're gonna get back home
this week and they're gonna play The rockies and they're
gonna give away A Manny machado bobblehead On thursday, night
and guess, what there'll be forty six thousand people. There
shouldn't take it for. Granted it is my. Point pittsburgh
is a great sports. Sound they have five thousand people
with their baseball. Games what are the.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Rules at a game like? That if you bought a,
ticket nine win the upper. Section if you bought a
ticket in the upper, section.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh i'm walking third, row.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
RIGHT i had TO i had this happen to. ME
i was in a couple of years. AGO i was
In denver for A Lakers nuggets playoff.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Game oh.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Cool So i'm still, working you, know AT espn at the,
time And i'm there for a playoff. Game we're gonna
do pre half and post all. That while there's a
day off in between the two. Games, Rockies i'm gonna
go catch A rockies.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Game.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Perfect there was thirty seven people at The rockies. Game
there's no. There they're playing LIKE i think The Red
so it was like you probably bought, something you, know
just by bought something to get a. Bus, no it
was like seven bucks to get, in AND i think
there was a little bit of a fee towards Stub
hup two AND i still got in with seve.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Bucks.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah SO i REMEMBER i go to the, OUTFIELD i
go get a first THING i.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
DO i grabbed a, DOG i grabbed a, BEER i
grabbed some.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Peanuts i'm, like this is. Great it was actually beautiful,
out was sunny. OUT i tried going, up like there's
all these. SEATS i tried going up and this is
kind of still in the outfield. Area, Uhher, nope can't
sit there's your.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Seat i'm, like, brother there's there is?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
It anybody within fifteen rows of? Me you want me
to sit on the actual? Seat he's like, Yes oh.
SO i don't know If pittsburgh had the same rules,
yesterday but that was pretty.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
IDIOTIC i feel like anytime you have fewer than ten thousand,
fans all rules are.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Off of course they're all.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Off they want to, sit, RIGHT i, mean you have
a forty thousand seat.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Ballpark guy was giving me the look like he's, like
who runs this place out.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Here i'm, like apparently you.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Do apparently apparently you do. It all, Right let's get
Into skins And merrill. Again they vied for the twenty
twenty Four rookie of The. Year they will face. Off unlike,
Football we're, like, oh look at this quarterback. Matchup, well Mahomes.
Allen they don't play each. Other, literally they're not on
the field at the same. Time we'll See skens And
merrill on the field at the same. Time padres baseball
coming up later this.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
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Speaker 4 (12:31):
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night when they take on The Minnesota. United pregame coverage
With adrian And darren begins at seven pm right here
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Speaker 2 (12:46):
ON cue Because Darren smith will join us at. Three. Phenomenal, NOW,
sdfc the hell happened On? SATURDAY i was gonna, say,
NOW i just looked at The Western conference. STANDINGS i
don't know the last time you went to mlssoccer dot
com or, whatever you. Know last, YEAR, sdfc for most
of the year was among the best, teams not just
in the, league not just in The, west but in the. League,
(13:06):
Right and it is, early and we can get into
this With, darren but there are some teams in The
west that have been. Unbelievable San jose is one of.
THEM i THINK lafc is one of. Them and now
all of a sudden you look up and again it's
early a little bit like we talked, About vancouver is there, too,
maybe BUT sdfc there, are you, know six or seven points,
back you, know six or seventh place in the. Standings,
(13:27):
again we'll talk To darren about. It but again a year,
AGO i don't think they were ever it's six or
seventh place in the.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Standings, no they, weren't, Right, no they. Weren't AND i
watched the game On. Saturday, yeah just wasn't a. Game
and like you, Said San jose and, Listen i'm very.
GOOD i think we're we're all watching this in the
last year and, change all of a, SUDDEN mls is
on the map In San diego for obviously good. Reason
PLUS scfc had such an unbelievable start to the season
(13:56):
and get all the way to the semi finals and
it was just unbelievable to. Watch so now there's a
little bit of expectations and it's gonna be the interesting
conversation With.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Darren they came out of nowhere last.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Year, yeah now is everybody properly prepared for, them kind
of know what to. Expect there's no more catching anybody off.
GUARD i mean you still you carried your weight for
an entire, season so teams had plenty of time to you,
know figure you. Out just obviously very impressive last, year
but that was last. Season, yeah, well we'll.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Talk To darren about it coming up in about ten
minutes now coming up later this, Afternoon padres and pirates
FROM Pnc park say that three Times Paul skeens on
the mound for the first time against The San Diego.
Padres you go back to twenty twenty, four he got
twenty three first place votes for The rookie of The Year.
MERRIL i think at the other seven it was a
relatively close, vote because Again Jackson merril got seven first
(14:49):
place votes out of. THIRTY i remember we spent a
lot of time on this station discussing this. Race you
Had skins and his brilliance for a team that was never.
Competitive we're contending for a playoff. Spot, yeah and Joy
Jackson merrill a central figure for a very good team
that made the, postseason and we'll. Shooting twenty twenty four
(15:09):
was the team that led The dodgers two games to
one in THE. Nlts so not to necessarily rehash, it
but it was an interesting conversation then and it'll still
be an interesting conversation moving. Forward just watching the arc
of these two players'. Careers one's a, pitcher one's a position.
Player they both have been terrific for their. Clubs skeens
has gotten all the national, Attention merril's gotten a lot
(15:30):
of local, attention And i'm curious to see what it
looks like here tonight when they score off for a first. Time,
yeah it's.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Funny going back to twenty twenty, four you, KNOW i,
think at the end of the, day what's the number
one Any San? Diegan all they care about is we
got a? Championship can we freaking win A world? Series
can we just have something to? Celebrate and MAYBE i
pay less attention to some of the individual. AWARDS i
did it in twenty twenty. Four twenty twenty, FOUR i was,
(15:58):
Like Jackson merrill is properly Representing San. Diego he's having
an unbelievable rookie. YEAR i think it just came down to.
Timing he just happened to have an unbelievable season While Paul.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Skeins was doing unbelievable. Things yeah somewhere.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Else and IF i remember, CORRECTLY i think the big
conversation was Did skeens make enough starts to earn himself
The rookie of The year?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Honor and it did mean a.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
LOT i think it meant a lot for people because
you also wanted to see just a young stud Representing San.
Diego how many different times you get somebody like that
representing all The Major League Baseball but fast forward to,
today none of that stuff really matters at this. POINT
i think for, me IT'S i, mean Just Paul skins
on the mound is. Cool would be cooler is if
you just get A w and you get your first
(16:49):
for the first time this, season your game over five.
Hundred whether that Was skeens or it, WASN'T i, know
The padres have never faced, him but they got a battle.
Tonight you, know they got something on their hands to
Which i'm looking forward to seeing because the bats have
done well these last couple of games that they've been.
Clutch now you're going up against one of the best
pitchers out.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
There you AND i were downtown when The padre has
played their opener at the same time The pirates are
playing their opener against The, mets and the line indicates
That skeens had as bad as start as he's had
in his. Career so he's also done in by his. Defense,
yeah which actually played out again yesterday where The pirates
defense let them down a lot as well In game
one of that. Series Now skeans bounced. Back he went
(17:28):
five innings one run Against. CINCINNATI i don't really this
early in the, season, HONESTLY i don't even know what to.
Expect Like skeens has had two terrific years twenty, three
or excuse, me twenty four and twenty. Five is he
going to be that exact same player this? YEAR i
have no, Idea BUT i do like the fact that
The padres come in on the heels of a three
game win streak and the offense has been better double
(17:49):
digit hits in each of the last two, games for.
Example so you know it's, early you kind of knock
on wood and hope That skeens isn't gonna throw, seven,
eight nine innings in a game like this because it's
early in the. Year can they make them? Work can
you get a couple of runs off? Them and With
Nick pavett on the, man you'd feel good potentially scoring
a couple of runs Off Paul skins here.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Today.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Yeah it's interesting because so far this, season and we
knew this was going to be the, case a lot
of conversation about The padres was gonna, Be, hey this
is gonna be tough because you got schoolball to start
off the, year you Got Logan, webb you Got schemes
was coming up at some. Point they had some good
pitchers that they're going to be, facing and, frankly they
(18:29):
haven't done you, know they've done, terrible but they also
haven't done. Great this is kind of one of those
opportunities in front of. You this is the type of
caliber pitching you're gonna be. Facing if you get to the,
postseason you're gonna face just the best of the. Best
so you can't really make any excuses and, say, oh
we're just waiting for The.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Rockies, no you know you also Got i'm sure For Nick.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Pavetta pavetta is looking at this game, saying let me
get another, opportunity gets another. Race BECAUSE i didn't do
the JOB i was supposed to do Against schoolble to
start the Season padres opening, Day he'll get another another
opportunity Against keen.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Today and what about? Me everyone talks About Paul, skeens
what About Nick. Pavetta by the, Way Mason, miller if
he appears, tonight will be appearing where he grew. Up
he grew up A pirates. Fan he grew up just Outside.
Pittsburgh looking to appear potentially tonight in the close spot
for The. Padres let's talk To Darren smith on the
other side about The. Padres five and five start ABOUT
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(19:22):
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this is your first time On schaeffer And. Slava that
must BE i, mean you've done so much in your,
career but this must be up. There it's got to
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Speaker 5 (21:09):
That, yeah congratulations, Officially But i've stuck around long enough
THAT i can say THAT i am now a guest
On shaffer And. Sleeway, yeah this is the real reason
Why i'm hanging. Around he went a bunch of dope.
Podcasts so EVENTUALLY i could wait for this union AND
i can come on the show AND i can celebrate
with you. Guys so thank you for the invitation and
for the opportunity in just one more box to check
(21:30):
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Speaker 2 (21:31):
Crew it is, Great it is great to have you with.
Us we want to start WITH. Sdfc saw the result,
OBVIOUSLY i saw some of your writing as, well what
you talked about earlier. Today they've had all these red
cards this. Year they're coming off a shutout. Laws you
just look at The Western conference. STANDINGS i know it's,
early and last year we saw them towards the top
of the standings all. Year so how would you describe
(21:51):
the six match start to the year so far FOR sdfc.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
MIXED i think there's some ways of looking at it
where you, know you could, say on a points per game,
basis right spread out over thirty, four they're actually ahead
of their pace from last. Year on a goals per,
game goals per ninety, pace they're ahead of where they
were last. Year so you, know there are some underlying
metrics that are actually better than they were for an
entire season of what was a record setting season For
(22:16):
Santaga Football. Club so there's some things to. Like they
have a nineteen year old goalkeeper who already has three
clean sheets in five SIX mls, matches so you, know
five FIVE mls. Matches he didn't start In, dallas so you,
know there's things that you like. There but there are
some THINGS i think that they just have to clean,
up and one of those is that they've been put
in the book way too many times and it's had an.
(22:39):
Impact there's no real one reason why they have had
these red, cards BUT i do think they've had a
cascading effect where a guy misses a game and then
you have to make a plan to account for his
absence in the next, game and maybe that guy isn't
quite at the level where you need him to, be
and then somebody else makes him stake and then that
(23:00):
player gets set. Off so it's a. Lot they've seen
five red cards and ten, competitions you, know between the
SIX mls matches and the four Contry Cap Champions cup,
matches so it's got to get. Fixed it's got to get.
Fixed they're going to be Without monodua coming up On saturday.
Night he's maybe their best defender and one of their
most exciting, players so you're going to have to search
(23:21):
for an option to replace. Him BUT i don't think
the sky is. FALLOWING i don't think it's a. Crisis
but you, KNOW i think there's one thing that absolutely
has to get cleaned, up and it is that they
have really seen too many, cards too many yellow cards
and straight red cards so.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Far in twenty twenty, Six Darren smith joined us here
On schaeffer and Sleiwa. DARREN i, know last year obviously
just an incredible year FOR. Sdfc i'm sure a surprise
for many to see the type of success that they.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Had what are some of the expectations this?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
YEAR i, mean if it just as realistic as you can,
be what are take fans out of the mix of
what they want to see or what they're hoping for
around what are the expectations FOR Scsc, WELL i think.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Expectation around the league is THAT sdfc would not be
as successful in the second, season and some of that
is because you, know now people are aware of who they.
Are part of that also is other teams has gotten.
BETTER La, galaxy you guys were talking about it before the.
BOTTOM La galaxy has started a season with six straight.
Shutouts that's. Amazing THAT'S i think AN mls. Record so they're.
(24:27):
Flying you mentioned the Way San jose looks to be
a better. Side Real Salt lake to me looked like
it was a better, team SO i think there's an
expectation that it wouldn't be quite as. Good and that's.
Okay sixty three points that's a lot of. Points finishing
first in The, west that's. Amazing there are teams that
have been around this league for a long time that
have never done, that SO i think it's. OKAY i think,
(24:47):
though that most people expect that they're still going to
be a playoff. Team, internally they do want to get,
better you, know they do want to get. Younger you,
know they do want to improve on their. Style they
thought last year was all about building a foundation and
this year was focusing on some of the. Detail so
they still have plenty of, prime plenty of time to do.
That they were involved in this competition that they had
(25:07):
never been involved with. BEFORE i think they had mostly.
Success they got out of the first round against a
really Good Mexican league team In. Pumas they Beat teluka
down a man for most of the, match at Snap
track And stadium and they got blown out of the
night where most teams would have gotten blown. Out SO
i think they're hanging their hat on the experience of
the early season. TOURNAMENT i do think that they will
(25:28):
level out here a little. Bit everything's been a little herky.
Jerky everything's been a little, rushed everything's just been a
little dish. Jointed expected more quite frankly coming out of
the international window Against San, jose but you, know the
red card again and showed its ugly head in the
thirtieth minute and it completely changed the whole course of the.
Match they think they're a playoff, team and they think
(25:48):
that they're going to be in competition to win. Something
you play In League's cup coming up later this, summer
another one of these competitions that we're all getting used,
to and you, know they do really feel like they're
team that, built has an established foundation for how it's
going to play and what it's going to look, like
and now it's just about improving the. Details and you,
(26:11):
KNOW i think they also are probably iron eyeing the
summer transfer window to add some reinforcements. Here once we
get through The World cup.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Cycle you can listen TO Stfc Minnesota United Saturday Snap Dragons.
Stadium seven point thirty is the start, time and of
Course darren will be on the. Call Darren smith with
us right now On San Diego sports seven. Sixty let's
turn our attention to The. Padres ten games. In we
finally get to see in just a handful of minutes
there and we get to See Paul skeiens against The
San Diego padres the first time in his. Career we
(26:41):
get to See Jackson merrill obviously in the lineup as.
Well they vied for That rookie of The year a
couple of years. Ago is this intriguing to you seeing
The padres for the first time Against, skeenes because, again
earlier the, year when they faced guys Like Turk scooble
or Fran, beervaldez they didn't have. Success could tonight be
a night where they do have some success against a
high caliber starting. Pitcher yes and.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
NO i MEAN i think What sleola said about The
rookie of The year, competition And i'm wired the same
way these individual. AWARDS i don't care for them all that.
Much you, know the WHOLE mvp thing is very. Weird
but you, KNOW i did think That jackson got the
short end of the stick a couple of seasons back
because he was on a competitive. Team he was an
integral part of a winning team that won ninety three.
(27:25):
Games that shouldn't, matter and you only get one opportunity
to be the rookie of the, year you know WHAT i.
Mean so, like there's Nothing Jackson merrill could do in
these FOUR i fats tonight that will get that, back
get that opportunity. Back and that stunk for me BECAUSE
i objectively thought he was a more important. Player but you,
know baseball's got to try to promote itself in some.
(27:47):
CAPACITY i think the thing that's interesting tonight is there's
a reason why you Had Nick pavetta Start Opening day
is because you Want Nick pavetta to be the kind
of pitcher that you're going to match up with another team's.
Ace so he didn't do it in his first, appearance
didn't do it Against Trek scooble. Recovered but the story
was written in the first, inning second opportunity through maybe
(28:09):
a little bit different From. Pavetta but this is why
you think a guy like that should Started Opening day
because you think he is every bit the caliber of
pitcher that you're going to face on nights like, Tonight
So i'm curious about. It i'm more curious about this
game than it was about last night's. Game THEN i
will be about tomorrow morning's. GAME i do think it
is interesting to watch and see how they perform against
(28:32):
one of these better pitchers in the. Sport and you,
know he's the guy that gets most of the publicity
when we come to these, conversations BUT i also think
it's a big night For Nick pavetta to show on
a stage opposite a picture of this caliber that he's
worthy of that kind of conversation as.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Well, yeah we're talking about a little bit earlier the
excuses of, all but you, know they're facing a lot
of good pictures and, yeah that's the entire. Postseason you're
going to face good, pitching so obviously that can't be an.
Excuse was listening to your podcast this morning With Marty
Friar territory the two and five start to now three
(29:07):
wins in a. ROW i know there's always an overreaction
and just the way they played through those first seven.
Games what did you make Of, Saturday, Sunday, monday anything
specific that stood out to you to put The podreys
back at five.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
HUNDRED i Thought fernando's ad bad Against chapman On, saturday
after he had punched out four times and it was probably.
Embarrassed and he's up there and he's in AN o two.
HOLE i think he was out two or one, two
something like, that And i'm, watching going, hoo what's? Happening
and he contributed to the game winning. Run he scored
(29:41):
the game winning, run And Ramon loriano backs him. Up
i'm super fascinated by the way the lineup was constructed
every single. Day are we eleven for? Eleven is that? Eleven, yeah,
yep we have a new lineup. Today good for. Them
i'm now they're committed to the.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Bit i'm gone for a.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Record, yeah. ABSOLUTELY i haven't seen it, yet So i'm
glad to know. That BUT i, KNOW i just think
scoring is scoring, late showing a little bit of of
the grit that they came to relish in last, season
and then opening it up against a, really really good
pitcher On sunday. Mattered they've scored more than three runs
(30:19):
in the game back to back, game so that was
a thing that they hadn't really done much of up
until the last couple of, days SO i don't know
what to make of The Red. Sox they're the worst,
team but it's one of those damned if you, do
and danned if you. Don't if you lose to a
team like, that it's. Terrible but if you beat a
team like, that, WELL i don't know exactly what it
is that you've proven but not our. Problem The Red
sox aren't our. Problem The padres. Are and this is.
(30:41):
Better that's what you can say about what they did
over the weekend against The Red. Sox it was better
than what it was that we, saw at least through
the first six At peck Of.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Park i'll take you turn real quick with, You, darren
BECAUSE i want to know what it was like for.
You you're alma. Mater Saint john's correct me If i'm.
Wrong hadn't been To sweet sixteen since went ninety, nine.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
So, yeah twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Years but now they've been. Back but not only. That
you had a chance to see her alma mater In
San diego in THE NC Doublea. Tournament, NO i don't
think you were in that round of thirty two game
because THAT sdfc was. Playing but that was an iconic,
game obviously one of the more memorable games of the.
Tournament what was it like a being in the building
for the round of sixty four and then watching them
get to the sweet sixteen for the first time since,
YEAH i mean a quarter century plus.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Ago, well none of that was as enjoyable as Watching
yukon moves last.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Night but, oh the, best the?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
BEST i? DID i have? Kid, ACTUALLY i don't, know
AM i? Kidding i'm not? Sure? RIGHT i got some
deep scars from this. Program it was. GREAT i, mean
it was great to see some of The Saint john's
fans get a moment to enjoy. Winning i've never seen
him win AN NC doublea tournament game in, person if
you can believe. That yeah, So And i've been a
fan of this team for my entire. Life i'm fifty
(31:49):
three years. Old that's the first time THAT i ever
Saw Saint john's win AN mcuaa tournament game in. Person
and you're, RIGHT i was unable to go to the
game where they win Against. KANSAS i would have loved
to have been, there but we had a, broadcast SO
i shut it. Out i'm you, know it's been many
years where you sort of just have given up where
it feels, hopeless and you, know if it can happen
(32:11):
to a program like, mine it could pretty much happen
to any. Program So i'm glad to see them. BACK
i think that they're playing the game pretty. Well, obviously
we see what's happening here on a local level when
it comes To Sanago state transfer portals and. Nil and
we do have the ability to play the game a
little bit differently because we're a program that doesn't have
a football, school so we don't have to worry about
that level of revenue. Share so, Yeah i'm glad to see.
(32:34):
It and you, know it seems like they've definitely energized
and juiced the program a little, bit which is good to.
SEE i, mean college basketball is it's got its, issues for,
sure there's no doubt about. That but you, know, SELFISHLY
i was really. Proud it was nice to be proud
of your alma mater for it's basketball success for a,
change rather than always talking about the Terrible and they're
on probation and players are getting kicked out of the
(32:55):
program because they're soliciting, Hookers so you, know this was
much better than.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
That, Yeah i'd agree that's probably a better storyline for
for everybody. There, Darren great, stuff, Brother we appreciate you
coming on the. Show, obviously look forward to having you
on soon. Again pregame coverage With adrian And darren begins
at seven pm right here on your Home FRESH Ufc
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Speaker 1 (33:17):
Sixty that's coming up On. Saturday That's Darren smith right, There.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Darren appreciate, you.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
MAN i appreciate your. Fellows great.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Day all, right great stuff again With Darren. Smith we
can react to. That plus a very interesting case made
by The Fab five for Former Aztec headcat liked. Fishing,
YEAH i thought it was.
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Speaker 2 (33:50):
Alright San Diego sports seven. Sixty we can get to
this conversation.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Though it's. Interesting, yeah The.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Fab five had some really praiseworth things to say About Steve,
fisher Who i've made this point recently on social. Media
how Is Steve fisher out in The hall Of? Fame
and The fab five, agree and you'll hear from them coming.
Up but we'll have that. Conversation maybe we're going to
have all five of them. On, yes that's exactly. Right Chris,
webber who LIVE i wish So Paul skins you've heard of?
(34:19):
THEM i have heard of. Them So Paul skin's on
the mound today.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
For linebacker for The, steelers for The.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Bears as we, KNOW i mean this. Guy, no very
few pitchers in baseball history have burst onto the scene
Like Paul skins has with The. Pirates. Ye, now of
course the issue is it's like bursting onto the scene
with The Cleveland browns or bursting onto the scene with
The Charlotte. HORNETS i, mean you, know you don't really
burst onto the scene with those. Teams CAN i just
give one?
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Observation? Yeah why so many strange at The Charlotte. HORNETS
i feel like since we started to, show they came
up three or four.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Times where do you, Go, like, HONESTLY i want to
know That charlotte's a good. Pick that's a worse and
would you put In New Orleans they Got zion and
that he's been a.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Relevant SACRAMENTO i think is one of the worst Run
now they've made the, playoffs but they've made the playoffs
in this like the last five. Years they's a good
team like three or four Did Darren fox, Alone so they,
did so MAYBE i can't put them in.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
There, no you could put the Camp what would you, say.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
The Washington wizards are the worst run. FRANCHISE i think
that one Is i'll start Using. Wizards i'm glad you
did that Because charlotte is right now in the. Playoffs
so All i'm trying to do is just let's just
lay off of The hornets a little bit.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Here little no. Fact because my dad was IN, dc
my mom was In philly WHEN i was growing, up
we Were bullets season ticket holders At Landover. Arena really
to see that. PLACE i, mean The bullets back in
the day were cool because they were The. Bullets, sure
that was the only reason they were. Cool but you're
they've been a terrible organization for, forever going back to
like west Onn so you have to go back like
fifty years for them to be Relevant.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
Charlotte charlotte hasn't been good. Either you're a good. Point,
yeah you're good.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Anyway so we all know The pirates are. Irrelevant but
let's say they were to build something short term Around,
skins they invested a little more rhin, O'Hearn for, example
comes over as a free. Agent, right they've gotten off
to a good. Start let's say they navigate away to the. Postseason,
Yep allen in twenty twenty six or twenty twenty. SEVEN i,
mean you're still not Signing Paul skians long, term, Right.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
No you're.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Not he's not gonna stick.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Arount he's under contract through twenty twenty. Nine, correct so
through the twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Season, yeah the scenario that we were playing, out it's,
like you know That Paul skeens is probably gonna end
up with one of the big markets making god knows
how much, money whatever amount.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
That, is four hundred.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Million here's the QUESTION i have if you're The, pirates
at what point you trade? Him Because pittsburgh is kind
of thought of of being a little bit more up and.
Coming maybe they can make a run at a playoff this.
Year maybe they could stay into the mix and be
a little bit of a, headache probably a headache for The.
Podreys you're looking at the, standings you're saying, yourself you, know,
OKAY i agree with.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
That in, mind what if they make the? Playoffs, okay
what if they make the playoffs?
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Again next, Year, like what are you selling To Pittsburgh
if you Have paul, Skins you've been in the, postseason
you're trying to make some kind of noise potentially in the,
Place like what a cool experience For pirates. Fans and
then you're, like, yeah we're two years, away which is
probably the right time to trade one of your. Stars
is your value two years, away somebody's gonna give you
(37:14):
what you're looking, for get back a. Haul but you
also just got rid Of Paul, Skien so what's like
the future for Your like why would anybody buy a
ticket to go watch The Pittsburgh pirates?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Book they.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Don't that part is shooting that.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
It's forty degrees In. April BUT i, mean they've got
an unbelievable. Ballpark it's comparable To Petco, park and nobody's
there because they don't. Win but here's the other. Thing
let's say The pirates Offered Paul skians a fair. Deal
let's say they offered him the richest deal in baseball,
history first starting pitcher or a pitcher in. General if your,
skins do you sign the dotted line on? That, like
(37:49):
are you committing yourselves to yourself to an organization that
hasn't won a playoff series Since Barry bonds was, There,
like you are you willing to trust that? Organization here
was that? Team what year was that With?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Bonds oh my? God look that.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Up when's the last time to The pirates were in
one game Wild? CARDS i think three straight years had
lost all. THREE i think with, MCCUSHEON i could be
wrong on that or the best of three. SERIES i
don't think they've won a playoff series in thirty five
years something like, that which is.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
INSANE i think if you Are, schemes, No i'm not
signing a long term contract With pittsford BECAUSE i just
know what the organization. Is and by the, way completely.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Fair if you told me That skens came up with The,
cardinals it's a much different conversation he came up with The,
Giant it's a much different. Conversation there's certain teams in
THE nl where you're, like, NO i actually trust.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
OWNERSHIP i trust that. Organization you don't trust it.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Here the only point That i'm making, is let's say
in a couple of years they are in the, playoffs
and Here's Paul. Skeins he's dealing in the, postseason and
there's two years left on his on his rookie, deal
on his rookie deal under team. Control, right let's just
say there's two years left and the conversation is going
(39:00):
to be, about, well now we got to get rid
Of Paul, skins like whatever comes after.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That we know Why Jan soto got traded to The.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Padres we know why some of these, guys these younger,
players Because Wan soda was eventually. Going it's why The
padres ended up Trading Juan sotos because they knew that
they're not going to give them seven hundred and change
or whatever you got with The. Mets but, man what
a deflating. Thought if you're somebody from That Pittsburgh pirates, organization.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Right what do you got on The?
Speaker 7 (39:25):
Pirates The pirates last playoff appearance was in twenty. Fifteen
they lost the N Ol Wild Card game to The.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
CUBS. Yep their last playoff win was way back.
Speaker 7 (39:36):
In twenty thirteen when they beat The cardinals in the
In game three of The Nation League Division.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Series they're on.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
A, heat so they did win a series in twenty.
Thirteen before, That brent, NINE.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
I didn't say they won the. Series they want a.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Game oh, No, no, okay win a, series win a.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Series how's less time they won a. Series i'm assuming
It's by the, Way Harry, bonds do.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
You put up a banner for that you won a
game in twenty.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
THIRTEEN i don't think. You, no but they probably put
LIKE nl Wild card participant or. WHATEVER i actually don't even.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Know hopefully we're very strategic with our. BANNERS i don't
know what's.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Up they got some banners up, there, yeah for some for,
APPEARANCES i, THINK i think, so hold, ON i can't
go to break with that knowing the last time The
pirates won a playoff series like that's here it, is.
Dude they they lost THE nlcs in ninety, two ninety,
one and Ninety i'm assuming that was the first playoff
round it. Was the last time they won a playoff
(40:32):
series was the nineteen seventy Nine National League Championship. Series
that can't be, real real The World series because they
won The World. Series, okay so their last playoff series
win was The World series and they won THE.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Ncs by the, WAY i would take that into heartbeat
if you told me the last time The padres have
won a series was nineteen seventy nine and it was
a world.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Series it's. Incredible but they were in.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
THE nlcs in ninety ninety one and ninety, two a
six game series, loss a seven game series last seven
game serious, sire, Right Sidbrem, YEAH i mean you're going
way way, back all. Right we're gonna get to the
rap on the other, side we'll get Into Steve fisher
and His hall Of. Fame candessey candidacy is brought up
by The Fab five during The Final four this past
weekend as. Well here until six, pm we've got. Giveaways
(41:16):
PRESUMABLY i haven't even looked at the. Rundown we. Do
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