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St. Padre Pio and the Healing of the Church Building a Kingdom of Love w/ Msgr. John Esseff podcast - burst 3
"So when I met him, I was convinced and brash as I remember my self -being, as I looked at that first encounter with him, that I said to him, I don't have the stigmata, but every time I offer Mass, I have in me, Jesus. The same Jesus that's in you. And I don't understand why you have to have those wounds. If that makes me a curiosity seeker, then that's what I am. But I've never quite understood the stigmata. That was before I went to his Mass. And I know he and God forgives me for being so arrogant with this holy man.
Evening News with Art Sanders
Fresh update on "padres" discussed on Evening News with Art Sanders
"Fighters scattered eight hits wins for the Phillies Brewers Dodgers and Padres American League the Orioles nailed the Nationals Adley Rutschman homered and drove in three Baltimore just one win away from clinching the AL East and home field throughout the playoffs Rays shut out the Red Sox Tyler glass now in the Windex allowed three hits and fans 16 Rangers shut down the Angels Dane Dunning and the cunning plan combined on a three hitter Texas with a magic number of two Astros rocketed past the Mariners Houston Now with some daylight between them and Seattle for the last AL wildcard Yankees whitewashed the Blue Jays Garrett Cole with a two -hit gem Do my best to give my team a chance to win and I mean it's as simple as that I mean just go out there and try to do my job the Guardian Shaded the Reds and Terry Francona's final home game after 11 years as Cleveland's manager the twins trimmed the A's and the Tigers Tails and were suspended by rain. They'll pick it up today Miguel Cabrera hit his 511th home run that ties him with Mellott for fifth all -time Blazers all -MBA guard Damian Lillard demanded a trade in July yesterday he got it but not to Miami he's going to Milwaukee in an eight -player deal that brings back Bucks guard Drew Holliday and sunsetter DeAndre Ayton plus draft picks. Phoenix gets center use of Nurkic and three -point threat Grayson Allen. That's Thursday Sports.
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A highlight from St. Padre Pio and the Healing of the Church Building a Kingdom of Love w/ Msgr. John Esseff podcast
"Monsignor Essif encountered Saint Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Pope Saint John Paul II, to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests and sisters, seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Good morning. Good morning, Monsignor. How are you today? Very good. Very good. Thank you. The Feast of Saint Padre Pio. What a great feast, huh? I can't even imagine what it must be like for you to have known those individuals who have been lifted up and are now saints. Does that make you a second -class relic? I feel very privileged to have known them, to have met them, to have been accompanied by them. And I believe all of us have various saints that we're just really looking forward to, to spending time with for eternity. And what would a visit be like with your favorite saints? Hagiography, which is the study of the saints, I really think needs a review, because so often we think that we almost make them unreal. Saint Pio suffered terribly in many, many ways. Yes, he is honored and praised now, but he was rejected, just like Jesus. What was his stigmata a sign of? The suffering of Jesus Christ. When I heard of him, I was very drawn to go to see him. And when I went to see him, the time that I saw him, he was banished to the furthest monastery that the Franciscan had. There he was, way off. Petriosina is not the center of the world. It's the furthest monastery they had. It's way up in the hills on the Adriatic side of Italy. Not the center, certainly, of Franciscan life. And I think they were trying to hide him, because why? Because the bishop suspected that his, and I didn't know this at the time, that his wounds were self -inflicted, that he was self -inducing the wounds. And his bishop was convinced that he had to be silenced, and he did. He was unable to preach. What kind of psychological, emotional, as well as physical pain does a priest have when he's been banished to a far remote place, silenced, unable to preach? The only thing he could do was hear confessions. And what a magnificent, he did, completely obedient. What example does he really give us when Jesus was lied about, when he was subjected to all kinds of examination and tests? Even the place that they sent him to said that they weren't sure that his wounds were not self -imposed.
Evening News with Art Sanders
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"15 till I'm John Trout. Welcome back. You're with America in the morning. Follow up and new details to a story we brought you earlier. Daycare centers are under scrutiny in New York City. Sue Heller reports that after a one year old died this month of fentanyl poisoning, a teen has been arrested at a different daycare center where he was allegedly using a 3D printer to make guns. After a raid in New York City, ghost guns were found just feet away where children played in an East Harlem apartment that was also used as a daycare center. New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke at a press This is a heartbreaking scenario of thinking that you're child dropping your off to a place of safe haven just to find out that it was a dangerous environment. 18 year old Jamel Coley was arrested along with two other minors Coley's mother owns and operates the daycare center. 18 year old in his room 3D printer. He's I'm not making little robotic toys. He's making guns. Investigators began to investigate after learning a group of individuals including minors were purchasing ghost gun parts from online retailers. Deputy Here's Commissioner of Intelligence and Counter Terrorism for the New York City Police Department, Rebecca Rina. inside this daycare facility. Investigators recovered a 3D printer, 3D printing tools and The bus came the same day as authorities in Mexico arrested Felix Herrera who has been identified is as the main suspect after one child died and several others were hospitalized when they came in contact with at Noll at a daycare center in the Bronx less than two weeks ago in New York. I'm Sue Aller. Two automakers the suspect. Cars that can catch the fire. Correspondent Mike Hemphill reports. The Hyundai and Kia recall covers several car and SUV from the 2010 through 2019 model years including Hyundai Santa Fe SUV and Kia's Sorento SUV. According to documents posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety administration. The anti -lock brake control module can leak fluid and cause an electrical short that can trigger a fire while the vehicles are parked or being driven. The automakers are advising owners to park outdoors and away from structures until repairs are done. Both Hyundai and Kia say they'll send out notification letters to owners in November. I'm Mike Hemphill. It's 12 till. America in the Morning continues. Two new laws signed by Governor Gavin Newsom of California now ban people from carrying firearms in the state and most public places and also doubles the taxes on either 10 or 11 % depending upon the type of gun. The law Newsom signed adds another 11 % tax on top of that and makes California the only state in the nation with a separate tax on guns and ammunition. The new law is likely to face a legal challenge. You may recall last week reported we a federal judge struck down a California law banning guns with detachable magazines that carry more than 10 rounds. Kansas City area CVS says they'll work to avoid any future pharmacist work stoppages. Lisa Dwyer reports CBS has found the right prescription keep to its stores open in the Kansas City area to avoid a repeat of last week's work stoppage by the store's pharmacists. CBS has promised to boost hiring to ease workloads that sometimes make it hard to even take a bathroom break. Pharmacists in at least a dozen Kansas City area CBS pharmacies did not show up for work last Thursday and Friday and plan to be out again this week until company the sent its chief pharmacy officer with promises to fill open positions and increase staffing levels. It was one of the latest examples nationwide of workers fed up enough to take action but unlike in the ongoing strikes at the automakers or in Hollywood the pharmacists weren't demanding raises or more vacation they wanted more workers to help them with a growing workload. I'm Lisa Claire. The winner of a 1 .6 billion dollar Mega Millions lottery jackpot has claimed their prize. Ed Donahue reports. It's the third largest jackpot in US history and the ticket was sold last last month at a public supermarket in Neptune Beach near Jacksonville Florida. There's a new state law in Florida. The winner's name remains anonymous for 90 days from the date the prize was claimed. All that is known is the winner has come forward. The Florida lottery did not confirm whether that person took the lump sum or the annuity and did not specify the estimated lump sum amount. The jackpot is also subject to federal taxes. There is no state income tax in Florida. I'm Ed Donahue an in -demand smartphone is facing significant delays in recovery for their most popular models. Here's Chuck Palm with today's tech news. Apple's latest iPhone 15 has hit the shelves however a combination of high demand and supply chain delays means that it's taking longer for some users to get their hands on the new iPhone. As of Wednesday this week some delays for the pro phone is up to 60 days while lower end phones may only be a week or two depending on what region you live in. Apple has stated that you may wait longer or shorter depending on what carrier you currently use. The Apple iOS 17 release has also not been its without glitches. After you update you should check your privacy settings because they may have just changed without your permission. A pair of iOS developers and cybersecurity researchers on X platform formerly known as Twitter claimed that upgrading iOS to 17 may reactivate significant location analytics on your mobile device if they were turned off to prior downloading the update. Significant locations refers to a software tool that tracks the places you have recently been. Leave us a comment at AllTheTopTech .Tech, I'm Chuck Palm. America in the morning this Thursday continues at 9 before the hour Robert Workman checks sports baseball the Braves Again rally past the Cubs 6 -5 in 10 innings Ronald Acuna Jr. singled in the tying run in extras then stole second base his 70th steal of the year making him the first player with 40 homers and 70 bags in one season Marlins Met and split a pair that pulls the fish into a tie with the Cubs for the final in a wild card with four games left and holds Miami the tiebreaker Diamondbacks blank the White Sox Brandon flawed in the fighters scattered eight hits wins for the Phillies Brewers Dodgers and Padres American League the Orioles nailed the Nationals Adlai Rutchman homered and drove in three Baltimore just one win away from clinching in the AL the East and home field throughout the playoffs raised shut out the Red Sox Tyler glass now on the Windex allowed three hits and fans 16 Rangers shut down the Angels Dane Dunning and the cunning plan combined on a three hitter Texas with a magic number of two rocketed Astros past the Mariners Houston now with some daylight between them and Seattle for the last AL wildcard plus the Blue Yankees Jays Garrett Cole with a two -hit gem I did my best to give my team a chance to win and I mean it's as simple that as I mean just go out there and try to do my job the Guardian shaded the Reds and Terry Francona's final home game after 11 years as Cleveland's manager the Twins trimmed the A's and the Tigers and Royals were suspended by rain they'll pick it up today Miguel Cabrera hit his 11th home run that ties in with Mellott for 25th all -time Blazers all -MBA guard Damian Lillard demanded a trade in July yesterday he got it but not to Miami he's going to Milwaukee in an 8 -player deal that brings back Bucks guard Holliday Drew and Sun Center DeAndre Ayton plus draft picks Phoenix Kids Center Yusef Kirkic and three -point threat that's Thursday sports there's Robert Workman on sports it's now 7 before the hour when we return America on in the morning new shocking allegations against singers share back after I can feel something inside me say I really don't consumer cellulars award -winning customer support is
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A highlight from Our Lady of Sorrows Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr. John Esseff
"Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essiff. Monsignor Essiff is a priest in the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essiff encountered Saint Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Saint Pope John Paul II to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests, sisters, seminarians, and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essiff. I'm your host, Chris McGregor.
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A highlight from BKL267 Exaltation of the Holy Cross Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr. John Esseff
"Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. Monsignor Essif is a priest in the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essif encountered St. Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by St. Pope John Paul II to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests, sisters, seminarians, and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor.
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A highlight from POA4 Extraordinary Activity Put On The Armor A Manual for Spiritual Warfare with Dr. Paul Thigpen Ph.D. Discerning Hears Catholic Podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com, in cooperation with TAN Books, presents Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. Dr. Thickepen is an internationally known speaker, bestselling author, and award -winning journalist who has published 43 books in a wide variety of genres and subjects, including The Rapture Trap, A Catholic Response to End Times Fever, and The Manual for Spiritual Warfare, the book on which this series is based. In 2008, Dr. Thickepen was appointed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to their National Advisory Council. He has served the Church as a theologian, historian, apologist, evangelist, and catechist in a number of settings, speaking frequently in Catholic and secular media broadcasts and at conferences, seminars, parish missions, and scholarly gatherings. Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Well, we've talked about the ordinary act. We do need to touch upon the extraordinary demonic activity. Well, this is the kind of stuff that, you know, that Hollywood likes to glorify. It's extraordinary in that it really isn't as common as just temptation, which is common to every man, woman, and child. By extraordinary activity, we're talking about a destructive work that's more powerful and that manifests itself not only in our thought realm, but also in the physical realm. Most observers of demonic tactics agree that there's certain activities that occur. They often use different labels for them, and so I allow for that in my book. I have a certain terminology. There are others who would use a different terminology. The kind of a whole series of levels of activity, each one a little more serious than the last, that kind of finds its worst form in possession, which is what most people in the world, when they think about demons, that's what they think about. But the first is called infestation. It's demonic activity that's connected to a particular location or an object. So if there's a house, for instance, that's infested, and people often think it's, you know, they call it ghost or something, but it's actually demonic activity. But folks, witnesses in an infested house, may see physical objects moving on their own or seemingly on their own, levitating, flying through the air, disappearing and reappearing in other places. They may smell offensive odors, often like sulfur. They may hear noises they can't explain, like crashes or laughter or screaming. So when people talk about, you know, a haunted house, often that's what we're talking about, something where there's a demonic association with that building or that location. The next level then is what I would call oppression. It describes demonic attacks on a victim's exterior life. So it may be influences on their bodily health, influences on their finances, on their work situation, on their family relations and other social relations. In some severe cases, it may even include physical assaults, invisible blows to the body, a push out of bed or downstairs, mysterious scratches appearing on the skin. I've seen all of these before. A number of saints throughout the ages have spoken about enduring this kind of thing. So St. Anthony of the Desert, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Ante, Padre Pio, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, a few of those. Next, then would be obsession. That refers to a more severe and relentless form of the struggle in the victim's interior life. It's a wrestling with disturbing thoughts planted by the enemy, but to a degree, not just temptation. So it's an inner torment that can be suffered while you're awake or in nightmares, becomes so intense that the sufferer may seem to be going insane to themselves and to others. There may be visual and auditory hallucinations, persistent temptations to suicide. We have to note that symptoms like this may well have physical causes and mental causes rather than spiritual ones. That's why the church is always careful and insists that those who experience these kinds of afflictions should first approach medical professionals for help before just, instead of just concluding that they're under attack from evil spirits. But then the most serious is possession, the one that's most dangerous and most rare form of extraordinary demonic activity. It involves periodic episodes in which an evil spirit controls the body of the victim, though the victim is usually not aware of what's taking place during that control. And we have several accounts of that in the Gospels, as we've talked about before. So the demon -possessed person may engage in bizarre bodily contortions that would normally be impossible. The body may levitate or act with superhuman strength. The victim may groan, hiss, make animal sounds. An alien voice may speak through the possessed person, sometimes without even the use of their vocal cords. Often they reveal knowledge of hidden things. Are they talking a language unknown to the victim and the victim's never studied? And at the same time, as in cases of infestation, often disturbing and even violent physical phenomena may take place in the victim's presence. And then finally, the victim of demon possession exhibits an extreme, sometimes violent, sense of to revulsion holy things, like the name of Mary and the name of Jesus, to the rites of the church, to a consecrated host, to sacred relics, to sacramental, such as holy water. So that would be the most serious thing. And I always like to make the point that a demon can never possess someone in the sense of owning that person, because all human beings, no matter what they've been through or what they've done, all human beings belong to God. They are his personal possession. Well, we speak of cases of demonic possession in which the enemy has basically become a usurper occupying the human body that was created to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit instead. Now one of the reasons why we are going over again this particular part of our conversation is to know the battle. And it doesn't necessarily mean that we're called to be the Navy SEALs that are called to go out there and engage in, OK, now we know what it is, so we're going to go out and deal with it. It's important, as you said, at certain levels that, yes, medical professionals absolutely have to be working in relationship with a person afflicted. In many cases now, Paul, isn't it true that in dioceses around the United States, as well as around the world, that if there are those who feel that they are encountering this, that they can go to the Chancery or maybe even to the local parish, and they will be able to work together to help bring that person once again to wholeness? Yes, and that's so important. If you're at the place where your sense is that it's beyond the ordinary and these other things, you find a priest that you're confident in and you trust, and lay it before them. If you have to go to several priests, but go and give them a chance to help you figure out if it may be something else than what you're thinking. They can make references, refer you to medical professionals who can help you to kind of rule those things out, and the church won't allow you to go through something of a major exorcism without having kind of ruled out the other things. But the church is there, resources are there to help you. Our Lord Jesus, who cast out demons very easily, has given his authority to them, and powers don't always come out with just a word because they're complex situations that involve kind of healing that has to go on in the soul, and sometimes a renunciation of certain things before it can all happen, but completely. If you have a trained exorcist, they'll know what to do. So the church has that help, and go to the church for sure while I'm meeting more and more folks who, you know, are, well, I hear there's this spiritual healer, you know, and often it's someone who's not even of a Christian background, but some kind of New Agey thing. Either you don't want to go that direction because folks who don't have the authority that Christ gave to, you know, leaders of his church, they can just get you into worse trouble than ever. Yeah, you can look at the Scriptures for an example, the one that jumps in my mind is Saul, King Saul, when he chose to go to an oracle because he was feeling, can we say, maybe oppressed or something like that, I'm not trying to diagnose this situation, but to the point where he went to the oracle to summon up Samuel, and it ended up leading to not only her madness, but to his. Well, it's just a very dangerous thing. Like I said, you know, in the book of Acts, you know, the other example where you have the seven sons of Seva who fancied themselves exorcists, and they see St. Paul casting out you out in the name of Paul or Jesus or whatever name they used, and the thing just looks at them and you can just hear the smirk and the words, Paul I know and Jesus I know, but who are you? And then jumps on them, you know, but especially folks, you know, kind of occult healers and that kind of thing. There's certain cultures that, you know, just have a tradition of this, it's extremely dangerous. Sometimes, you know, people accuse Jesus of casting out demons by the prince of demons, and in this case, it's almost like that, that they're not really casting them out, but by, they themselves can be demonically influenced in a way that will, you know, if there's actually a demonic power that's somehow oppressing someone, and they go to one of these healers who's actually demonically connected, yeah, that person can appeal to the demon, lay off of them for a while, and they'll seem to think, you know, they'll look like maybe they've been healed or helped. It's the wrong way to go about it because it's not the authority of Jesus that's overcoming the thing. It's just, you know, orders from a higher demon, so to speak. You have to be really careful. And I think it needs to be said, too, here, and I hope you agree, Paul, that as we spoke about the ordinary activity, that of temptation that is done, that even in this extraordinary activity, demonic activity, that trained exorcists will say that there, it usually begins with an entry point, you know, a demonic entry point. There's a point in which it's not necessarily where the guy's just walking down the street and all of a sudden, boom, this happens to him. I'm not going to say that it can happen that way, but most of the time, the overwhelming majority of the time, it's because there is some type of activity, whether it was an assault as a child or it's something that the person agreed to participate in, it might be a violent act that was perpetrated. There's usually some moment or a series of moments where this activity enters into the person's life and then it manifests itself into a greater situation. And that's when those who are trained in this area are able to untie those knots to get to those layers. Am I presenting that properly? Yeah, I think so. I'm certainly no expert in exorcism and I've never trained and I'm not a priest, so I couldn't be an exorcist, but I hear the same thing from those who are trained that often there is some particular point of access. And again, it's not necessarily that the person makes a choice to do something, but something could be done to them or they could even just move into a house that is infested for whatever reason because there's some earlier resident called some of the powers and into there by what they did, maybe the Ouija board or something, who knows. And that's why you do need some trained folks because it's not just so simple as snap my fingers, the devil's gone. There are certain kind of principles that seems to be of demonic activity like that that an exorcist is trained to look at, to understand and to begin to, as you say, untie the knot because these things usually are complicated knots because you still need the will of the victim to cooperate with what's going on. There needs to be some part of them that is saying, I want to be free of this and I will do what I need to to be free of this. And if it means renouncing what I did, you know, by going to that channel or going to the Ouija board or whatever, or if it means forgiving this person who did this to me or as a part of it, or if it means forgiving myself, making reparation in something, some demonstration that my will is to do the will of God and to be free, you know, always gets to me that one time, I don't want to read too much in it, but in the gospel where there's a man who's been ill all his life, he's lame all his life and Jesus looks at him and says, do you want to be healed? And that's always struck me that sometimes that's a question he has to ask us through the priest, through the counselor, through the exorcist that we go that far, do you want to be healed? Because it's going to require some cooperation on your part.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Special Encore The Canonization of St. Teresa of Calcutta Building a Kingdom of Love w/ Msgr. John Esseff
"Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. Monsignor Essif is a priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to Saint Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essif encountered Saint Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Pope Saint John Paul II, to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests and sisters, seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. What was this glorious pilgrimage like? I would say what brought us there, there were 16 of us who left to go there, and the ones who you would meet along the way, that each of them were loved by Mother Teresa. That's the way I would describe, each one of them had a personal experience of the enduring love that touched them. I certainly had to be there. It was like something that, as a pilgrim, I felt called to be at this celebration. And I felt God wanted me to be there, therefore he would provide. And he provided for me to get there to the vehicle of these 16 people that I went with. And it was just a very caring young priest who, Father Mike was our leader of the group, and I was kind of the senior citizen, I was the oldest member of the group. The streets of Rome, as you know, are really architectural hazards. Someone who doesn't see, I could easily fall anyplace and break a hip or whatever, but I was really cared for. And there was a young girl, a woman that I met, and she was in a wheelchair, and she kind of summed it up for me when she said, Mother Teresa touched me when I was 16. And she said she just came in the crowd and touched me, and she touched me on my head. And it was like an unforgettable touch from this woman who was such an instrument, just reminded me of Jesus going through the world, and everyone that he touched remembered that touch. And so it was with me. I experienced the love and being loved by her so that she was this instrument of love in the world. There were millions and millions who saw that by television or heard it by radio in so many parts of the world. So really, wouldn't you say that maybe a billion people were touched through this instrument of God's love, because she followed what God asked her to do, and in some way experienced being loved by God as the poorest of the poor, because that's what she considered herself, that he loved her and touched her with that love. And then she began to touch one by one by one. That was her way of looking at it. We arrived together as a group on September the 1st, and we went by van to Newark, New Jersey, where we all got on a plane, and we got to know each other's names, because not everybody, there were married people, there were priests, there were single people who were on that, just getting to know each other. And then we all had different parts on the plane going over, arrived and gathered together in a group, and there was a van to meet us, to take us to our hotel. We still stayed in a little hotel called Hotel De Petrus, which was about a 20 -minute subway ride from the Vatican. That evening, I went by subway to St. John Lateran, where I heard confessions, and it was so beautiful. I heard, because of my languages, I heard confessions in English, Spanish, Italian. And who comes along but walking right in front of me is Marty McDermott that I had met in Beirut. And he and I just kind of hooked together. He was there. And again, the love, it was there in Beirut that I met the sisters, it was there that I met Mother Teresa, so we just kind of laughed as two old men. He was an aging Jesuit that they kind of wanted to get out of Beirut to bring him home to their northeastern province in New York, but he stayed there, he remained there. I think he's from Hartford, Connecticut. And we just chatted while all of the sisters that we had known through the years come pouring out at the end of the celebration there, and I just saw Sister Joy and all the sisters that I had known through the years, Missionaries of Charity. And then we hopped on a subway and came home, and I got home maybe around midnight. That was our first day. And so it was a beautiful time. On the third day, we were there September the 3rd, and more confessions, and St. Mary Major was again a beautiful church, and confessions. And then the fourth day was a canonization. And Mother has always just loved Our Lady. On the cover of the celebrated Mass was Our Blessed Mother. And if you notice her hand always pointing, Mary is such a direct link to Jesus. Her whole life pointing, you say Mary, she says Jesus. And Mother then is on September the 5th. She was beatified by John Paul II, 2002. And I was there, and when her picture went up as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and John Paul, that's the day I consecrated myself to Our Lady. All her life Mother Teresa had said, you should consecrate yourself to Mary. Oh, Mother, I have the Sacred Heart. That's where she was pointing. She wanted me to be with the Sacred Heart. No, but the best way to do it is through her. Oh, no, thank you very much. But the Pope, he told us to us, no, no. So I resisted. But when I saw those two up there, the aging, elder John Paul II, such a powerful, powerful instrument of God. And this little less than five foot woman, such a powerful instrument. I thought, what do you need to follow that? So that's the day I consecrated myself to Mary. And here she is. They really captured her look. And it was on the second missalette that we had on the following day on September the 5th, which is her feast day. So on the 4th, we had the canonization mass. The incident that was most, I sat with a couple of sisters on the way home in the airport. And one of them said it was such a powerful experience, but I have to say I couldn't get by the heat. I just couldn't get by the heat. It was 98 degrees. It was hot and a beating, beating heat down on the whole place. All I could recall during the mass with that intense heat was the time when I was at the chapter meeting in Calcutta, where it was 100 degrees heat and 100 percent humidity. And it was so stifling. And Mother would not allow a fan. They were begging her, let us get a fan. No, we have to live like the poor. What is the authenticity of our sacrifice? If we could have a fan? No. And we need a microphone. We can't hear. No. But get one for Monseigneur. So I had a microphone for the presentations and I had a fan when I was giving my presentations. She turned it off for the whole community. And I'll never forget this nun who was at that celebration. With this intense heat, every time there was the slightest breeze, she just thanked God for the breeze. She was an American nun and she was communicating to me how we are not used to that Indian heat nor the humidity. And I noticed that at the mass, her massive canonization. But everyone had to wait for that slight breeze. And that I was so aware of that every once in a while, when you thought you were going to pass out, there was a breeze. Everyone was reminded, though, of just how poor we are and how lacking in control of the events of life. And that total dependence. So she gave us all a marvelous lesson. And anyone who had been there, if they were there, including the Pope, that intense heat was down on a million people who were there. And everyone came through that and endured it. So Mother Teresa was very active during that canonization. It streamlined it, so it made it very simple, which is really what I think she wanted. Don't have the focus on me. But as the mass itself, the focus was all on God. It was the glory and the praise and the honor of God. Thank you, Lord, for the slightest breeze. Thank you, Lord, for just being here. And I found myself thanking God. And I was there. The other thing I noticed in her gathering us, there was a multiracial, the whites were far outnumbered at this mass. Not only because of the Indian priests, the African priests, the Asian priests, the Koreans, the Chinese, the Vietnamese, South Africa, and all of the world was really... ...that we are just one family. And the main, I think, lesson that I learned is dependence on God and that we are all very, very poor and the poorest of the poor. The opening day, the day before we got there, the Missionaries of Charity had in the Olympic Stadium, which they were able to get, a thousand of the poorest of the poor from their houses in Rome that they served the poor. They invited them all to come and have a feast. And they actually had this huge feast and banquet for the poorest of the poor because this was what it was all about. If Mother was going to have the celebration, the first ones to have the feast was the poorest of the poor, and she invited them to the table. And all of them were invited to come to the celebration, so they all had tickets to the event. You could see different ones as they were coming were obviously the poorest of the poor, meeting all of us, the poorest of the poor who were coming. So the universality and multiracial was what I felt was very outstanding for me on the day. Sounds a lot like Pentecost. Yeah, and the language just didn't seem to, it was like both hearing confessions and the celebration itself. And of course we had the Latin and all of us joined in were able to participate with the Latin and the singing. And again that language, that unity of our worshipping and glorifying God in that mass. Some lady was wheeling us onto the plane when we were at the Newark Airport, and she was a young girl, a young black girl, and I said we were going to be going to Mother Teresa's canonization. Well she had never heard of Mother Teresa, she was 20 years old. Oh, she said, what are you going to have, a party? I said yeah, and what is the mass but a party that God wanted? So he gets this heavenly banquet together, and that's why I was so happy when you see all these priests going out and bringing the Eucharist to every single one that was there. That was the day celebration, and I think there was a big difference then with the celebration on the 5th. And again, we can't celebrate it, but it was much more intimate. Maybe there must have been, maybe 300 ,000 there. How do you get just intimate? So there was this smaller crowd, and the priests and the participation was still so joyous and so beautiful. The day there was a cloud coverage, so that the heat wasn't as intense, so it was cooler, it was more refreshing, it was more relaxed. And at the end, one of the priests stood up, the sisters came in. The greatest gift I always felt that Mother has given us is her community. And these sisters coming in from all over the world were certainly well represented there, and lines and lines of missionaries of charity coming in. There were also the brothers, and there were also the missionaries of charity fathers. And one of the fathers got up at the end and he said, Today is a day of thanksgiving, and we are just so filled with thankfulness that God has recognized our foundress as a saint, and that we are able to participate in this canonization. And we rejoice, and you can just see St. Teresa of Calcutta in heaven with all the poorest of the poor, and us, poorest of the poor, having experienced being touched by her. And we are now celebrating, because she has touched our lives. And she always said, Unless you have experienced the thirst God has for you as the poorest of the poor, you'll never be able to know the thirst he has for the poorest of the poor. So that having had that experience of that love that God has for me through her, that that tasting of that is an enduring bond that you experience, and it just endures in it, it lasts. The love of God is enduring. The love that Mother Teresa gave, that touch that tapped that girl on the head when she was 16, that love lasts. It's an everlasting love. It's tasting the divine love. And it's the thirst that God has for us as people, so that when we pass that on, and if we were a million there, and the millions and millions that saw it on television are able to receive it and to pass it on, it was a great joy in heaven, and a great celebration on earth, and it was time for a party. The possibility of someone coming into a crowd like that and throwing some bombs, it was like the furthest thought, I believe, that peace and love is contagious. It has a power that's overcoming hatred and violence, and the way to bring this about is through that divine love. This is the force and the power that I believe is really necessary in the world today. So it was a great experience. You know, it's really striking, Monsignor, that the endurance of those who came, those who had to endure suffering during the celebration, because I watched it all cozy on my couch at 3 in the morning, back here in Omaha with my puppy and my coffee, and that was really nice, but you could see how hot it was. You could just see how people were just baking under the sun, and yet that enduring that suffering is essentially a message of her life. For all weekend, the build -up was not just on EWTN and other Catholic outlets, but it was on secular news broadcasts, CNN, Fox, all of these different news outlets were covering this great gathering. And so as you're watching these people, literally suffering with joy through the mass, it was almost like a major witness. And there's something really unique when that happens, isn't there, Monsignor, that if you can endure it, if you can enter into it like she did, there's grace somehow, even for the participants. I know you're just a couple days out of this, but for you, I mean, can you describe that now? It intensifies your interior self. You become very aware that I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able, and that's the word, endure this, whatever that be, this stress, this heat, this cross, however you want to call it. Each one has to go in there because that's where you're drawn to, and that is the center of the inner self. And that's where your dependency comes, and that's where you experience the God on whom you have to depend. So what gives you the endurance is the dependence. It stays, and it remains, and it burns, and whatever it is, you cannot last through it, and it just keeps coming on in a way, just when you think, it's going to let up. No. And then it comes just at the right time, a kind of a breeze, where it comes from, and the refreshment. And then you're drawing something in from this power, and I would call it the spirit. The spirit is now bringing you into the inner rest that's going on, is only had by those who are willing to endure. I don't know how others would describe that, but that's how I was experiencing it. As you were speaking about that, that endurance, I think that's the suffering of love, isn't it? I mean, at its very, very heart. And I know that's one of the, you had spoken so poignantly that for many who heard your reflection prior to leaving, and you were seeking a particular grace, that entering into the Immaculate Heart of Mary, even more deeply into the Sacred Heart, and I don't want to put more words on it than what you were hoping for, because sometimes even the grace we think we're going for is smaller than the one that God wants to give us. So how would you describe your experience for those who have been eagerly waiting? Well, did it happen for them? Did you receive what you were hoping for? More, more than I ever had anticipated. That which I wanted, I received, but much more abundantly. There was more. It's so difficult to describe, because you have to use the same words. But the words don't carry the meaning that the inner self has that you want to convey. That life in the inner self, that enduring bond of love. Like, excuse me, you're supposed to look ragged and tired and beleaguered for an 88 -year -old man who, you know, has traveled around the world, and I have not seen you look so buoyant and glowing and energized. I mean, this is just, it's a joy to behold you. Yeah, yeah. And I feel that way. I feel my cup runneth over. You know, they use that expression, but it's just like brimming over, full and I. I just don't know how else to express it. So if you see it, that's wonderful. And if you hear it, that's wonderful. But I'm experiencing it. And so whatever I wanted out of this, I received with a hundredfold. You're like a beautiful monstrance right now that's sitting on top of an altar with a whole bunch of light shining. And I know you're just a vessel. You're just a monstrance. But what's making everybody, it's just breathtaking is how Christ is radiating out of you right now. What I was experiencing was that inner heart of Mary. And what's the inner heart of Mary? Completely empty. Completely empty. So that every single moment you can receive whatever that is that's coming. I think that's really what I'm experiencing. The emptiness of Mary's heart. So that she has none of her own cares, but those of everyone around her. You know, everyone was caring. I felt being cared for. But it was like the kind of being cared for so that I too could experience how to care for others. Well now you got me crying. Oh my gosh. Now I'm a big weepy mess. Well Monsignor, you know, I usually ask you if you have a final thought, but I just can't even believe that there could be a finality to this experience. What are you feeling right now in this moment? The thing that I'm really kind of filled with is Mary's spirit. It's always crying out. Magnificat. Magnificat. Have a beautiful, beautiful day. Along with hundreds of other spiritual formation programs, visit discerning hearts .com. Or you can find it within the free discerning hearts app. This has been a production of discerning hearts. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. We hope that if this has been helpful for you that you will first pray for our mission, which is to offer rock solid and authentic spiritual formation freely to souls around the world. And if you feel us worthy, consider a charitable donation, which is fully tax deductible to help support our efforts. 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"Hi, this is Chris McGregor of Discerning Hearts. Can you please help support this vital ministry? Discerning Hearts is a 100 % listeners -supported Catholic apostolate. Now through the end of August, please prayerfully consider making a sacrificial gift to help us raise $30 ,000 to fund truly life -changing Catholic programming and prayer. The financial contributions of listeners like you enables us to continue this important ministry. We are a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Your donations are fully tax -deductible. As an independent, non -for -profit lay organization that is not affiliated financially with any diocese, our apostolate is fully listener -supported. Again, between now and the end of August, please visit discerninghearts .com to make your donation. Thank you and God bless you from all of us at Discerning Hearts. Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. Monsignor Essif is a priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to Saint Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essif encountered Saint Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Pope Saint John Paul II, to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests and sisters, seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Wasn't expecting this kind person there. And as he's going around, he knew his life and death and resurrection had brought the salvation of many. But these were really kind of the outcast type, you know, bowery type and not the type you'd really expect around heaven. So he went up to Peter and he said, Didn't I give you the keys of the kingdom? Are you really keeping close guard on the door? You have the keys. What's happening here? Well, Lord, you can't blame me. He said, Well, why? What do you mean? I can't blame you. You have the keys. Look, Lord, I tell these people, you can't get in here. I've got the keys. And you know what happens? Your mother opens the window. Queen of Heaven, what a mother. And that's a beautiful story, I think, of Mary, her love for everyone. Every human person. When Jesus turned to her at the cross and said, Behold your son, that Mary in that intimate personal love for every human being. And it's really she has such a, such a tendency and desire to reach out to every child in the world. When she came to Guadalupe, she came to a simple peasant, Juan Diego. And her message was so simple to Juan Diego, the message of Guadalupe. Don't you know I'm your mother? Whatever it is that you need, come to me. That magnificent motherly love, Mary, the Queen of Earth, Mary, the Queen of Heaven, no majesty sitting on a royal throne with a diadem kind of queenship. But the humble servant of Nazareth, the loving, tender mother, Mary, her queenship is her immaculate heart. Her queenship is her universal motherhood, her love for everyone that she is the queen of. And also the Queen of the Angels, when Gabriel came to her, recognizing the message that he was bringing from God Almighty Father, will you be the mother of my son? Her queenship flows from her divine maternity. She is the mother of God.
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A highlight from Giant Storm Not
"You've spoken and we've heard you loud and clear. We're proud to announce our brand new ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive. Our legal teams will be focusing on the issues that you, our ACLJ members, have told us matter the most to you. Life and religious liberty. We're redoubling our efforts to beat back the radical left's attack on your constitutional religious freedoms and to defend the sanctity of human life. This is your moment to get in the fight. Every tax -deductible gift will be doubled. Join the ACLJ in the fight to keep America free. Hey everybody, Dennis Prager here in horrific, tropical storm unseen since 1939. I am lucky to have arrived safely in order to broadcast. It shows my commitment to you that I am in today as is everybody else. You know what it's you know what's doing outside right this studio in Los Angeles County? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It is not even drizzling. This is what you have heard on the news so let me report to you from where I am in Los Angeles County. Nothing is happening. Nothing happened yesterday. It rained. It rained. The only odd thing is that it doesn't rain in August in Los Angeles County as a general rule. That's why Dodger games and Angel games are almost never rained out. Or Padre games but that's San Diego. This is extremely significant. Extremely significant. And I want to tell you why. Last night my wife and I attended a wedding. And I spoke to the groom and he told me that about 40 people did not show up because of not the storm because of the hysteria over the storm. Pure undiluted false fake hysteria. My heart broke for the guy. He has no victim sense about him. He just mentioned it in passing to me. That was I would say that was about a third of the people. Many of them by the way flew in from cities across the country to go to the wedding. And they didn't go. Imagine that? Hey honey, did you see the news? Did you read that the governor of this state has declared a state of emergency? Governor Newsom in whom I don't believe there is an authentic bone declared a state of emergency for the county of Los Angeles and maybe others. Is what I'm saying getting clear to you? Nothing happened. Now there was flooding. You've seen pictures. I looked at the Daily Mail printed or published in England and it made where I live look like a national disaster. How many photos does it take of some flooding to cause it? There was a guy knee deep in water with his car stuck in Palm Springs. Palm Springs? What county is Palm Springs in? I don't think it's LA County. It's way east. Okay, I feel bad for the guy. Hasn't been a tropical storm in this area in Southern California since 1939. By the way, will they blame it on climate change? This of course is the inevitable obviously. Like it's in Riverside County. Okay, thank you. That means a lot to my listeners across the country. So I'm trying to be privy to the discussion that a couple who had planned on coming to the wedding last night. The discussion they had goes, I assume it went something like this. I mean they'd really feel bad if we didn't go. Yeah, but did you see the news? Oh, not just the news. Let me share with you my dear friends. Here is taken from my phone. This came up, I would say just about every hour. You know an emergency alert you get on your phone? Emergency alert severe. I'm reading to you from my phone. I'm sure you got the same thing and you took it as seriously as I did. A national weather service. A flash flood warning is in effect for this area until 3 a .m pacific daylight time. This is a dangerous and life -threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding under an evacuation order or attending a wedding. That was beautiful that they added that. That's how personalized these messages are. They knew we had said yes to a wedding invitation. Life -threatening situation. So back to our couple. Hey honey, you we know came in from Cleveland. They're really expecting us. Yeah, but darling we can't risk our lives to attend a wedding. I mean in the long run of life, I mean you know. Yeah, but honey look outside the window. It's just raining. There's nothing. There's no wind. It's not even a particular downpour. Yeah, but did you see what the governor of the state said? Did you see what the national weather service said? Did you see what NBC news said? Yeah, but honey look out the window. That was my first urge. By the way, I'm not saying it's panic during COVID that it was just as likely to be the man panicking as the woman. Foolishness doesn't know sex or even gender. I want you to understand though this does not bode well for the country. It really doesn't bode well. Let me see here. I wrote about this. I wrote about this in 1999. And I'm trying to find it because you could actually see it in my book of essays. Think a second time. If you want to introduce yourself or me or someone else to me, get my book of essays. 44 essays on 44 subjects. And I wrote an essay at the time on this very issue. Let's see if I can. Yeah, no, I won't have to find it. I wrote about a story. It happened to me about 25, oh no, 30 years ago. Let me see, what's 25 years ago? Yeah, no, about 25, 28 years. It's irrelevant. 25 or 30. I had a speech in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, right outside of Philadelphia. I was in Manhattan. I slept in Manhattan the night before, Thursday night. I had an evening speech. I don't know if it was Thursday night. It's not true. I don't know what night of the week I was going to speak. But the night before, I slept in Manhattan. The whole night, all I hear is blizzard, major major storm. Do not go out. Do not drive unless it is an emergency. So I planned instead of taking, let's see, what would it be? What is it, the filly from New York, an hour and a half? So instead of leaving an hour and a half before, I left four hours before. But I looked out the window of my hotel room and nothing was happening. There was about an inch or two of snow on the ground. This was my first introduction to do I believe my eyes or do I believe the news? And this was a revelation in my life. The power of media and panic is such that you can deny what you are experiencing and seeing because of the induced panic. Schools are closed in LA County. Gold dealers are a dime a dozen. They're everywhere. What sets these companies apart and whom can you really trust? This is Dennis Prager for AmFed Coin and Bullion, my choice for buying precious metals. When you buy precious metals, it's imperative that you buy from a trustworthy and transparent dealer that protects your best interests. So many companies use gimmicks to take advantage of inexperienced gold and silver buyers. 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A highlight from The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr. John Esseff
"Hi, this is Chris McGregor of Discerning Hearts. Can you please help support this vital ministry? Discerning Hearts is a 100 % listeners supported Catholic apostolate. Now through the end of August, please prayerfully consider making a sacrificial gift to help us raise $30 ,000 to fund truly life -changing Catholic programming and prayer. The financial contributions of listeners like you enables us to continue this important ministry. We are a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Your donations are fully tax deductible. As an independent, non -for -profit lay organization that is not affiliated financially with any diocese, our apostolate is fully listener supported. Again, between now and the end of August, please visit discerninghearts .com to make your donation. Thank you and God bless you from all of us at Discerning Hearts. Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. Monsignor Essif is a priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to Saint Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essif encountered Saint Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Pope Saint John Paul II to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests, and sisters, seminarians, and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Well, what's on your heart today, Monsignor? The liberation, not only of Jesus as having conquered death through the resurrection, but Mary also had been freed from death and taken to eternal life through her assumption. So Mary, not only is she going to be redeemed through the blood and salvation of Jesus Christ in her soul, but also in her body. She is the sign of the first fruits of redemption. But all of this entered into the world when Adam, the first Adam, sinned. Saint Paul teaches us them in his first letter to the Corinthians. Brothers and sisters, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through man, the resurrection of the dead came also through man. For just as Adam all die, so too in Christ shall all be brought to life. But each one in its proper order, Christ the first fruits, then his coming, the rest who belongs Christ, then they too death will come and be ended. When he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has destroyed every sovereignty and every authority and power, for he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet, the enemies of Christ have become sin and Satan and death. So in the teaching with regard to the assumption, Christ is the first fruit who was raised from the dead. So when Jesus was crucified and died, the scriptures teach us that he rose from the dead and he was glorious and will be glorious and ascended into heaven body and soul. Christ's body that he received from Mary is risen and he conquered death by his resurrection. That was the conquest that we have of Jesus. At his resurrection, Jesus conquered sin and the cross, Satan on the cross and death by his resurrection. When his side was opened, as Paul is saying here, he then out of his side came blood and water. Water was that sign that we are going to be united with him. In scripture is shown that Adam from whom his spouse came from his side, Eve, so Christ the spouse coming from his side, the church. Out of his side comes the spouse of Christ and that would be the church that we who are the baptized are joined with our head and are one with him in this new life. And that's the magnificent thing when I think of death in my own family, I think of my mother and my father and I remember when my sister died. I think of them as they have conquered sin through their death and the Satan because they were united with Jesus Christ. So I remember in a very special way the death of my sister. When my sister died, I remember my mother was so grief -stricken. My sister was 18 and my mother was just wanting to hold on to my sister. We really weren't a good example of death and dying at that time and we had to really grow and learn. She was dying and in the hospital and I was with her. My sister said to my mother, you know mom, you're the one keeping me here. I really want to go to God. I really, and this was on the feast of Saint Peter. She had already told me days before that she would die on the feast of Saint Peter that he had the keys of heaven and she was so beautiful and so ready to die. But my mother told me later that she went home and as the angelus rang, my mother was at home praying before the image, Mary, and she said to Mary at the angelus, I give my daughter into your arms and that's when my sister died. Now death has no more power over us because of Jesus and because of the resurrection. In the same way, death has no power over Mary. Mary was sinless. She was conceived without sin. She was a unique creation of God who created her without sin. Therefore she, like her son, was never under the power of Satan. And because of his anticipated suffering, death, and resurrection on the cross, God preserved her from sin. And that's our teaching on Mary. She was conceived without sin. So from the first moment of her conception, the devil had no power over Mary. Sin had no power in Mary. She is the sinless one, the sinless virgin, and neither does death. So sin and Satan and death, which were conquered, the enemies of Jesus, when he came into the world to save us from sin, that was our enemy, and Satan and death. And so one of the most beautiful images we have of Mary in the church, we have the assumption, which is really beautiful, that time when she is assumed into heaven, body and soul, where she is now. But we also have the image of Mary of the Immaculate Conception. And this image is given to us in the Book of Revelations in the mass, in which we honor her in her assumption. This is the reading. God's temple is in heaven and it was opened and the Ark of the Covenant could be seen in the temple. This is from the 12th chapter of the Book of Revelations. A great sign appeared in the sky. A woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of 12 stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth. And then another sign appeared in the sky. It was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadems. Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth. She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne. The woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, now have salvation and power come and the kingdom of our God and the authority of the anointed one. And so here the image is of the king, this male child, Jesus, being brought forth by the woman. Now has come the kingdom. Now has come the conquest. Through this child, enemy has been caught up into heaven where he reigns now at the right hand and also with him as the church teaches gloriously today as a sign of our future glory, the assumption of Mary. And so what a great joy it is to celebrate this feast. When she came to Fatima, it's not only she died. When I think of my mother turning my sister over to Mary's lap in heaven, that Mary actually has a lap and that she took her into her arms, Mary's body is there. And my sister, when she died, was received by Our Lady, body and soul. And that same woman, my mother, who gave her to God, when she died that beautiful January day in 1987, she was received by Mary's arms. And when my father died on that beautiful September 11th day, 1996, and there not only my in that magnificent revelation of Mary at Guadalupe and in there, if you look at it, clothed in the same words of revelation, clothed in the sun with the moon under her feet and all the angels and the stars in her crown, 12 stars being what seems to be the 12 apostles. This queen magnificent of heaven, as Jesus is the king, and it's assumed this new Eve, as Jesus is the new Adam, bringing forth this bride of Christ, the church, Mary as the model of the church. Here we are. And in her Magnificat, in this mass of the Assumption, she says to Elizabeth, when she comes to visit with her, my soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. And then she said, goes on to say, all generations will call me blessed. And we who are Catholics, who are listening, and those of you who are children of God, and especially Christians, that Mary is the mother of God. And we give her that magnificent title, blessed Virgin Mary, blessed mother. So all generations will continue to call her blessed, for indeed she is. But I think I just want to, as Mary at Fatima especially, in World War I, she saw thousands and thousands dying in that horrible war. And when she came to Fatima in Portugal, she was clothed with the sun. The sun, Bishop Sheen says, she took like a little around her wrist, and she spun it in the skies. And thousands saw that miracle of the spinning of the sun. This woman wrapped in the sun, this woman in the Book of Revelations said that we have to return through prayer and penance to her son, or there would be a world of war worse than the first. And she who has overcome death, saw the death of the millions and millions that would come if we didn't pay attention to that warning, that communism would grow strong. The estimated amount of people that died in World War II was untold millions in Russia, in Europe, in the East, in Japan, and the islands. What a horrible World War II was. And yet it seems as if we still haven't learned to come into that Kingdom of God. And all of us who have been acquainted with that message of Fatima, to pray the rosary, this magnificent prayer, which Our Lady has given us as a weapon against war, the rosary as an instrument for peace. And this magnificent Lady, the Virgin Mary, giving us these instruments as the Queen of Peace, is now the Blessed Virgin Mary, assumed into heaven. And hopefully, as we celebrate it, that you will continue to pray the rosary that we, like her, may place under our feet. The enemies which Jesus has come to reign over. We want to be at peace with Christ in our hearts, in sinlessness like her, in innocence like her. What would you say to those who today are suffering prolonged illness and are facing that moment of death? There is, you know, in our day, the terrible temptation to not see in suffering, union with Christ.
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A highlight from Rudimentos De Este Mundo | Glatas 4 con Flavio Velsquez
"Hello, hello, to all those who do not know, one of the most dangerous, yes, we thank all those who do not know, today is a day of special night, where we are with various people, we are discussing with Andres, which are vacations, and for Andres to talk with us, Danny or Dan, etc. And also, we are discussing with Emmanuel, who is also with us, and we are discussing whether or not he is with us, and whether or not he is with us completely, right? I'm sorry. Hello, hello, hello. Ah, hello, he is with us, he is with us, and as invited of the night, he is with us, and we are also with him, David and Alejandro, and one of our patrons, as always, our new partner, Paul Reyes. Welcome to everything, it's a pleasure to be here, we are discussing Galatas 4, and I would like to tell you that there is a lecture of various versions of Galatas 4, and I would like to start, Adelante. I would like to know if it is a classic version, or a different one? Let's see, we are going to do the classic version, because I'm going to use the differential of the utility, a common version for the album, and what I can do, because I don't think that the production of the song, or the song, or anything like that, I don't have any problems, because it's not easy for Galatas to do it. I understand. I don't think that the version of the song is much better, and there is a version of it that I like. Of course, of course. Of course, because Pablo... Pablo is much better at the normal version, and Galatas, who is Francois in the song, but as always, the song is the version that is best for the album. You are to listen to the podcast. Yes, yes, yes. Let's go to the next live production. Think about it in a different way. If a father and mother, and two children, are their children, those children are not in the best situation that they are in, so they are in the best situation. Because they are the children of all the positions of their father. They have to be the tutors that are assigned to their father. That's why we say it with us, until we find Christ. We are like children. We are the children of the most basic and spiritual principles of the world. If, when it's complete time, the father is dead, he dies of his illness, he dies of a murder, and his son is dead, but his son is dead. He dies on his own, so that when we compare the liberty of what we are of the dead, we find that they can adopt us as their own children. And from the life that we are their children, they die of the spirit of their children, to our own creation, which is what we call the simple -sex -clamor -aba -padre. Now, they are not his children, they are his own children, and as his own children, they are his own children.
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A highlight from Why do those who trust in God suffer? Building a Kingdom of Love w/ Msgr. John Esseff Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. Monsignor Essif is a priest in the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essif encountered Saint Padre Pio who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Saint Pope John Paul II to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests, sisters, seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. It's those who trust God many times in this world suffer greatly. And many times they watch the wicked triumph, apparently. I think there's a message here for a little boy who's going to school and knows that there's another child in his class who cheats on his tests. And there's a little test there, right from there, you know, you're in fourth grade and you see someone who is cheating on an exam. And you think, what about that? And the teacher doesn't seem to get on to it and the boy really does very well. Or someone who is applying to go to college and someone, somehow or other, through cleverness and through some kind of machination and lies, gets accepted at the college you wanted to go to. And, you know, shucks, it just seems as if there are people who do so much better. The industries of pornography and drugs, the people are making millions and millions and the people see this, you know, what about that? Many of the holy ones have a message, the original one who gives up his Habakkuk. And he describes it very, very interestingly. He's a prophet of the Jews and he's addressing God. Are you not from eternity, O Lord, my holy God, immortal? O Lord, you have marked him for judgment. O rock, you have readied him for punishment. Too pure are you and your eyes to look upon the evil and the sight of the misery that you have condemned and that you cannot endure. Why then do you gaze on the faithless one in silence while the wicked man triumphs? He devours another man who is more just than himself. You have made man fish of the sea like creeping things without a ruler. And here's where he kind of switches of what a fish is. He brings them all up into his boat. He hooks them and brings them into his power. And he rejoices and exalts. Therefore, he sacrifices to his own God, which is the net that he has brought them in. And he burns incense to this God, which is money, in his sight. And he thanks God that this portion is his. He is generous in looking at this wonderful repast that he is sumptuously eating. Shall he then keep on brandishing his sword to slay the people? So here he is. This wicked person is apparently enjoying and rejoicing in his wickedness. It seems as if, for a time, God is kind of sleeping at the wheel. And Habakkuk does say, Then the Lord answered him, Write down the vision clearly upon the tablet, so that one can read it readily, for the vision still has this point to make. If it delays, wait for it. It surely will come. It will not delay. The rash man has no integrity, but the just man, because of his faith, shall live.
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"EP sports, I'm Josh rowntree, a busy night on the diamond and we start in Canada where the Blue Jays dropped the brewer 7 two. Alejandro Kirk and Vladimir Guerrero junior each had three hits and Kevin biggio had a pair and drove in a run. In Seattle, the Yankees beat the Mariners tend to Aaron judge homered for a third straight game in Houston, the Astros topple the twins 5 one as Alex Bregman, hit his 7th home run of the year. The Orioles dropped the guardians 8 5 Anthony Santander with three hits and three RBIs got our Henderson also drove in three runs. The Padres topped the Marlins 9 four, the rangers out slugged the tigers ten 6 Cincinnati edge Boston 9 8 things to Jose barrero Grand Slam. The mets blank the Phillies to nothing, St. Louis got by the royals two one, while the cubs beat the rays by the same score. The Dodgers beat Washington 9 three and a big change to one of the NBA's marquee franchises, bob Myers departing as president and GM of the Golden State Warriors after winning four titles in an 8 year span. I'm Josh Brown tree, AP sports.
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The Lates in Sports
"AP sports and Mike Reeves, Josef Newgarden won his first Indianapolis 500 passing defending champ Marcus Ericsson in a two and a half mile sprint to the finish. Major League Baseball, the rays defeated the Dodgers 1110, while the rockies beat the bets by that same score, Cleveland got a four three, walk off win over St. Louis, the Orioles were three to two winners over the rangers, Detroit down the White Sox 6 to 5 in ten innings, the royals were three two winners over the nationals, Toronto shut out Minnesota three zero, the brewers won 7 to 5 over San Francisco Cincinnati is an 8 5 winner over the cubs, Miami at two zero winner over the angels, the Diamondbacks defeated the Red Sox four two, Seattle gets a 6 three win in ten innings over Pittsburgh. The Yankees beat the Padres 10.7 and Houston beat Oakland ten to one with the braves downing the Phillies 11 to four emiliano grillo won the PGA's Charles Schwab challenge. You don't play off over Adam schick and Steve stricker was victorious in a playoff over podrick heritage in the PGA scene your championship at Mike Reeves AP sports.
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The Latest in Sports
"AP's sports and Mike Reeves, it was a frantic finish at the Indianapolis 500, our Tom McKay reports. Josef Newgarden used a one lap shootout to grab the lead from 2022 champ Marcus Ericsson to win the Indy 500. You know, I wasn't looking to take anyone else out of the race, but I was going to put my car on the line to win. And I was either going to win the race or I was going to end up in the wall. Newgarden driving for team owner Roger Penske survived a chaotic final 40 miles, which saw the race stop three times for Rex. Major League Baseball the rays win a wild one over the Dodgers in Tampa Bay, correspondent Steve Carney provides the details. The Tampa Bay Rays used a 7th inning RBI ground out by wander Franco to break a ten ten tie and defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers 11 to ten. Both starters got hit around as Gavin stone allowed 7 runs in two innings of work, while Josh Fleming allowed ten runs in 6 innings, including 5 home runs, Tampa Bay finishes at ten game home stands 7 and three, while the Dodgers complete their longest road trip of 2023 with a four and 6 Mark. The Yankees used a 7 run third inning to defeat the Padres ten to 7, Aaron judge and Harrison Bader hit home runs to support winning pitcher Garrett Cole, who is now 6 and zero. This was a good team win today for sure. I mean, being able to kind of subdue them through the middle innings and keep the momentum. I thought played in our favor, but it's just such a luxury to have the offense. Other winners on the diamond were the guardians Orioles tigers royals, Blue Jays, brewers, reds, rockies, Astros, Marlins, Diamondbacks, Mariners, and braves on the PGA Tour emiliano grillo wins the Charles Schwab challenge in a playoff against Adam chic. It was his first PGA Tour victory. It over 7 and a half years. So it was great. The way it was definitely worth it, it was long, but it was worth it. Steve stricker won the senior PGA Championship in a playoff over podrick Harrington, NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 was postponed due to wet weather. I'm Mike Reeves AP sports.
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Rizzo delivers go-ahead hit, injures neck as Yanks chase Darvish early in 10-7 win over Padres
"The Yankees took two or three from San Diego with a ten to 7 win trailing three to one the Yankees blasted you Darvish for 7 runs in the third inning. Garrett Cole allowed 6 runs, but he survived for the win he 6 O. This was a good team win today for sure. I mean, being able to kind of subdue them through the middle innings and keep the momentum. I thought played in our favor, but it's just such a luxury to have the offense. The Yankees had 12 hits, they improved to 32 and 23, the Padres now 24 and 29. Mike mancuso in New York
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Kiner-Falefa's 10th-inning single helps Yankees overcome Tatis HR in 3-2 win over Padres
"An RBI single for Isaiah kinder falafel in the tenth inning puts the Yankees past the Padres and walk off fashion by the final score of three to two. Feels good. Yeah, it's as loud, so it was like, I felt like a little kid out there running around, so it was a dream come true and it was fun. DJ le mayhew provided the other yanks scoring on the day with a first sitting RBI double and a solo Homer to tie the game in the 7th. The Padres offense is highlighted by a fourth inning Fernando Tatís Jr. solo shot. Pitcher Luis severino did not factor into the decision, but allowed just two runs on one hit in 6 and two third frames for the Yankees who snapped the three game losing streak. Mike Moriarty, New York
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"AP sports, I'm Bruce Morton. On Saturday in the Eastern Conference Finals, the Celtics continue to pursue history after dropping the first three games of the series to Miami, Boston won the next two of the first 150 teams to trail a best of 7 series three games to none, only 14 have made it to a 6th game, and of those 150 teams, none have won the series. Hockey, it's also an elimination game for Dallas and the Western Conference final. The stars trail the golden knights three games to one with game 5 Saturday in Vegas. Crow football, the Arizona Cardinals have released three time all pro wide receiver Deandre Hopkins. It was a salary cap move after they failed to find a trading partner in the off season. Baseball, in a battle of division leaders, the rays routed the Dodgers 9 three. Yandy Diaz went three for four with a home run. AL west FrontRunner Texas won big at Baltimore 12 too. And the Padres beat the Yankees 5 to one. Bruce Martin AP sports
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Soto, Tatis Jr. hit long home runs, Padres beat Yankees 5-1 in series opener
"The Padres hit two two out homers to defeat the Yankees 5 to one. Randy Vasquez making his major league debut for New York had held the Padres to two hits and no runs with two out in the 5th, but he then hit Jake cronenworth and Juan Soto followed with his tenth home of the year to put San Diego up to nothing. The next inning with two out Ron marinaccio walked off the nola Fernando Tatís Jr. then blasted his 8th home run for a four zero lead. We have been in the on the borderline this last series and Stein on series like this with a W, I feel like it's really huge for us. The Padres added one more run with two out in the 9th. Joe musgrove gave up one run in 6 and a third innings for the win. Tom, New York.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"padres" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Wells, Danny Jackson, Aaron harangue, who is I think an answer for our a's mets podcast as well. Mike Caldwell and Matt latos. So some guys who are associated with these franchise and some that I had to do a double take and remind myself that they actually played for them because the Jim Edmonds Padres career lasted 26 games and the Jim Edmonds red's career lasted 13 games. So that's a pretty good trivia answer. I don't know how many people would have gotten that, but if you did, congrats. And then the first batter to have played for both teams was Tony Gonzalez, who completed the duo in 1969, and the pitchers were Jack ball shun, Jack, you can't shun the ball, you're a pitcher, and Billy mccool. Billy mccool also in 1969. That's when the Padres started. Okay, that will do it for today and this week. Thanks, as always, for listening and thanks to the husband and wife duo of Alex Glassman and Ali Brennaman for today's effectively while theme song, we are still accepting submissions via podcast that fan graphs dot com. So if you want to send us a roughly one minute diddy with about half of that consisting of lyrics, the inbox is open, got a good note here from listener, Eric, who writes, how can you not be pedantic about the 20 to 80 scale in the most recent episode Ben noted that a model ranked Otani's game winning pitch as an 81 on the 20 to 80 scale technically, you know you're in for an excellent point when a paragraph starts with technically the 20 to 80 scale really extends infinitely, though for most cases there is no need to extend beyond 20 to 80 because that will cover 99.7% of the data if 50 is an average slider than 60 is a cider one standard deviation above the mean sider, 70 is a cider two standard deviations above the mean, et cetera this means an 81 slider is a slider that is 3.1 standard deviations above the mean, assuming a normal distribution, this means that Otani cider was better than 99.9% of other sliders thrown. Good point, Eric appreciate the clarification. Also, one small but important correction to make on our last episode I conflated two different Seinfeld episodes. I can see why I made this mistake, but the episode where George Costanza tries to leave meetings and rooms and go out on a high note. That's the season 9 episode the burning that is a different episode from the one where George tries to deliver his comeback that he thought of too late. Well, the jerk store called and they're running out of you. That was the season 8 episode. The comeback. Both great, but my mistake. Also, we did a stat blast last time about ichiro Cano and how high a combined career war total you can make, taking major leaguers and adding up the highest war ever produced by someone with the same first name and the highest war produced by someone with the same last name. We noted that the highest ever is Alex Cobb, who combines Alex Rodriguez's war and Ty Cobb's war. I haven't confirmed this with frequent step last consultant Ryan Nelson, but it seems like on the spreadsheet he put together someone noticed Cy Young has been shorted some war. He appears to have been undercounted, and if that is the case, then Alex Cobb probably should not be first, it should be the guy we thought was third, babe young, his baby young gets a 181 war from Babe Ruth and then a 131.5 from Cy Young for a total of 312.5 war that would put him first by a fair amount. Of course, Cano himself doesn't rank very highly on the combined war list because he only gets credit for Robinson torinos and Jose Cano in Torino's sub replacement level. Anyway, we went from that stat last to a past blast about Jackie Robinson. And this is not an error, but an oversight. What I should ever could have noted is that Robinson Cano himself is named after Jackie Robinson. Hate to miss an obvious segue so I've been kicking myself just like George was when he couldn't come up with the jerk store line in time. And lastly, I'll read you an email we got from listener Chris W, who writes I'm listening to episode 1981 while eating ice cream in a room illuminated by a single black light. I am not, however, currently high, a fact that I'm sure may come as a surprise to cut to the chase. I think the answer to the question you received about how big the bases would need to be before baseball radically changes is 45 inches. Hear me out. Google tells me that an average 6 foot man has arms that are 35 to 37 inches. If we add a little more to account for greater athleticism, that means that a 45 inch base would be longer than the reach of most typical fielders, a first baseman might not be able to hold the runner on as easily because the runner could avoid the reach of the tag. It also means that fielding a position could be greatly altered because a first baseman couldn't hug the foul line with a 45 inch base as they'd be unable to tag the runner on a pick off, depending on how the longer bases affect the base pass, having 45 inch bases could drastically change rundowns with a wider base path, maybe say twice the size of the current one. The runner would have the latitude to spin and juke around tags, as well as modulate their path to the base such that they made sure they came in contact with the ball as it was being thrown from Fielder to Fielder. So there you have it, my black light ice cream fueled take this all goes to crap, of course, if home is counted as one of the bases, that were the case literally one extra inch of width at home plate would mean that every picture with a decent sweeper would become Greg Maddux. Thanks for all the great times and horny baseball talk you're welcome, Chris. We have one team preview podcast to go two teams, the braves and the rockies. We will get to that early next week and then we will have a couple other fun episodes for you, some drafts and games, perhaps, because it's the week of opening day. We're almost there. And you can usher us into
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"padres" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"And so I think that's part of what made them comfortable with it because if you're signing Matt Carpenter and asking him to do what he did last season over 500 at bats, you're probably going to be disappointed. But if you're signing him and asking him to DH against right handed pitching and serve as a bench bag against lefties and I think you can reasonably expect closer to what he did last year he's not going to be Babe Ruth again, but I still think he's these signings just kind of fit what the Padres are trying to do. If you look at where last season they had so many kind of stars in the photo and Machado and they had guys who did different things at the top of their lineup and cronenworth and jerks and pro far, but they didn't have the depth that they had and as much as signing zander bogarts and filling out the rotation and as important as all that was, I think one of AJ pro's biggest priorities this off season was finding those kinds of guys who can make this a more complete offense and suddenly that's what they have. And I think the Nelson Cruz contract was it's so low risk. It was so low money. I think off the top of my head, it was just a year and a $1 million. He wants to be in San Diego. He has a good relationship with a lot of these guys. I mean, Manny Machado is many Machado has said that Nelson Cruz is one of his favorite players and he wants to play until he's as old as Nelson Cruz is now. And so Nelson Cruz is I think a nice fit for the Clubhouse and the fact that he's bought into that role is valuable to and if he bounces back if the operation he had to kind of correct his vision works, there are more at bats for him to win. I mean, he can serve as DH and Matt Carpenter can play first and you can move J cron worth around the field. So I think these guys just kind of fit what the Padres are trying to do maybe more than they would fit a different team that could have spent more given them more at bats. Yeah, crew said the I issue had been bothering him for about a year and a half, which lines up with when his stuff and started to decline. So it's intriguing, at least at his age, I don't know how much you can bet on a bounce back, but at least the timeline is interesting. I think when they got both Carpenter and crews and somehow squeeze them onto this restore. We've been joking all winter about the Padres having more roster spots than every other team. And somehow when I look at them, they only have 40 players on their 40 man roster, so it's not actually the case, but somehow it seems like they just have, no, they just cram all those players in there and somehow it's not more players. I don't know how they do it. But I wanted to ask about two players they acquired at the trade deadline last year. They, of course, made a splash at the deadline, when don't they. And I think pretty much every player they acquired probably didn't perform quite up to expectations, Soto hater, drury, bell, et cetera but by the postseason, at least September, October, hader looked like his old self. So what changes did he make? And are they confident that those changes will persist? And then is he another guy that they have thought about trying to extend? Because free agency is coming up soon. Yes, they've got about it. I don't know whether that's how real any of those talks are happening behind the scenes. I think they kind of, before they traded for Josh hader at last year's trade deadline, they saw what they figured would be mechanical fix that would take some time to happen. So I don't think they thought that right away, Josh hader would be Josh hayter again, because if you'll remember in the month and a half before the trade deadline was when he kind of was starting to struggle, it was tough when he got here because the Padres were expecting him to be the guys locking down the 9th inning, but they were also in the middle of this really kind of tight nationally wild card race. They needed him to be the guy and he wasn't he blew a few saves and lost a couple of games in the 9th inning and all of a sudden he had to they removed him from the closer role, which was not what they were preferring to do, but which may have ultimately helped in the long run because I'm no pitching guru, but I don't think he was necessarily on the right plane and on the right path in his delivery toward home plate. I think they made some changes and pitching codes we've been able to essentially said at one point in late August last year what, I think it's time to get Josh hater back in the closing role and he saved a game in San Francisco and from there from that point in late August he was essentially Josh hayter again. So if that's what you're going off of, I think the Padres are expecting more of the same from Josh hayter in 2023 because from that point onward he was I think maybe even better than he was. Now in the postseason he was hitting a hundred miles an hour just kind of out of nowhere. He says that was kind of adrenaline based. I think more than anything else. I don't know that they're going to get that guy on March 30th, but the fact that Josh haters able to kind of hit a hundred when he needs to and bring that velocity and obviously the slider and he incorporated a change up into some tough at bats against right handed hitters last year. I would expect I would expect this year to be the old Josh hater, the guy that we know can lock down the end of games. I flirt my lesson. I'm not betting against Peter seidler in HA pro signing any player extending any player spending any amount of money. But Juan Soto, that seems like the ultimate challenge and the ultimate expenditure can they sign these Scott Boris represented one Soto to an extension and how hard have they been trying or might they try? I'm not going to say no because I've learned my lesson. I didn't think they were going to make a big I didn't think they were going to make a big splash with Xander bogarts. I didn't necessarily think they'd extend Machado when they did and I've been proven wrong too many times to say they will not extend Juan Soto before he reaches free agency. So I'm not saying no. That said, it will be very difficult to do so Juan Soto is Juan Soto. He will be hitting the free agent market earlier than in the peak of his in the peak of his career. And I think he could probably command as much money as anyone else we've ever seen in free agency. He's a Scott Boris client and Boris clients have a tendency to get to free agency. So I know the Padres have been interested in it. They're keeping those talks private if they're happening at all right now. There's a lot of time. And Juan Soto has said this every time we've asked him about that. When we ask him about his long-term future in San Diego, he has the same kind of answer, which is, hey, two years is a long time. And then from there, we'll see. And that is it does feel very, very off into the future. I think the Padres are definitely interested in doing so because why would you why would you not be interested in having Juan Soto around for the foreseeable future? He's obviously just such a good player and the kind of like they already have quite a few cornerstones, but I mean, just in terms of what he can do at the plate, he might be the best hitter of the bunch. If I had to guess one way or another, I would think that he reaches free agency just because of the value he can command and kind of the tendencies that we've seen with guys that where he is in his career. I just don't want to be proven wrong again, so I don't want to say anything definitively on that front. So I think you said earlier when we were talking about the Padres off season, the Padres had money to spend clearly they have. So the question is how I guess or does this mean that every other team also has money to spend and is not spending it, the Padres are kind of the ultimate well, if they can do it, why can't team X do it even more than, say, the mets who are in New York and owned by Steve Cohen, et cetera, the Patriots are a better kind of counter to a lot of smaller market owners that say they can't afford to spend. So how are the Padres making this work? What's the financial calculus for them? Do they care if they are profitable from year to year?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"padres" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"I think the Padres have a better chance of starting the year with him on the injured list and essentially using an off day that they have to recreate the effects of a 6 man rotation and then in the third trip through the rotation. They could activate him by backdating his eye out stint and throwing him right in against the mets fittingly with the ears and everything. So I think that's most likely because I think he'd be eligible to return from the IL on April 11th or 12th. That is well ahead of what the primary thought it would be when he broke his toe, but he's also the kind of guy that he was throwing off a mound a couple of weeks after the fact wearing size 16 shoes, which are two sizes bigger than he usually wears and wrapping that toe and he did all this biomechanical testing to make sure that his deliveries and out of whack in any way and it turns out it's not. And so I wouldn't put it past him to beat the odds and be back for the opening day roster, but I don't think that's what the Padres are planning for right now. And the Padres have a lot of other minor casualties. It seems like nothing super severe, but is there anyone who is currently dealing with at least an egging issue who might miss time or that could be a longer term concern whether it's Soto or nola or pomerans or moray hone or anyone else? Yeah, those are the guys. So does obviously concerning because he's Soto, but I think the team is fairly optimistic that they initially called it a mild oblique strain. I think now it's just like kind of soreness in his side. It's not the oblique, it's not his, it's not his right oblique, which is the one that if you're a hitter, if you're left handed hitter, that's the one that you strain from swinging. It's his left one. And I think the team's optimistic that that's helpful there, that might be down to the wire to see whether he's ready for opening day, but I think they'd still keep him on the roster. Just because he's Juan Soto and if you get him in the 5th game of the season, instead of the first, I mean, you'd rather have him in the 5th game than put him on the IL. Nola was a really, really kind of scary incident he was hit in the face by a pitch. And kind of came away with nothing but a slightly broken nose and a couple of stitches. And I think the Padres are just kind of extremely thankful that that's all it is. And I don't know if they know what his status is yet going forward until he can kind of start doing full baseball activity, but based on everything they know right now, he is he could be full go for opening day, which is really kind of a godsend considering the Padres, I think one of their weak spots might be their catching depth and one of the guys they could ill afford to lose. Is Austin nola. I know they have a lot of superstars on their roster, but he's a guy that this roster kind of can't function without right now. The other injury concerns drew pomeranz, I mean, he's kind of always been an injury concern really since he signed that four year contract with the Padres. The fact that he had a little bit of a setback or that he's moving slower than expected. I think that might just be more with the long-term goal of the season in mind. I don't think they expect through pomerants to make 60 or 70 appearances. I think they'd rather just have him healthy certain times during the year and down the stretch. So I wouldn't be too concerned there either. You mentioned that the catching depth is a little light and I wonder what the club's expectations of Luis campusano are for this year. Like, what does he need to prove in this campaign? Because he has been at times a highly touted prospect, but what's sort of the long-term prognosis for him? He probably more than anything else needs to just prove he can handle a big league pitching staff and prove he can handle the nuances of different pictures and get on the same page with them. And I know it's a little bit of a different world now with and pictures calling pitches, but I think there's a lot to just catch your understanding as pictures and what they need to throw and being on the same page, especially in an era with a pitch timer and countdowns and if you're not on the same page, maybe it kind of going awry with the pitching staff you're trying to lead. And so the realistic expectation, and this is why I think Austin nola's health is so important. Is that he kind of slowly eases into that. The Padres have handed him this backup catcher role, which as we all know in 2023, they're kind of there's no such thing. He's going to catch two times a week probably at minimum. And then maybe as the season progresses because they like the upside of his bat and he's clearly got a lot of there's a lot of power potential there and he can torch left handed pitching. I think they would like to see as a season moves on something of a more fairly even timeshare, but that's contingent upon campusano kind of proving himself in terms of handling a pitching staff. You brought up Grisham before in his great defense, his offense was not what it had been last year. And it was interesting when he suddenly looked like his old self at the plate in the wild card game or series and the NLDS. It was like, oh, right, yeah, this Trent Grisham. He's really good. And then he kind of disappeared again in the NLCS. But he's immensely valuable if he is even like a league average hitter. So can he get back at least to that point? I think he can. I think league average is a completely reasonable expectation considering his skill set is he has some power as legitimate power. And he can work his way on base. So he's going to hit probably something like two 22 30, but still be a close to league average hitter if he does that. And considering what he brings defensively in center field, that's an extremely valuable player. He made some he made some swing changes toward the end of last season and I think there was some question like, man, why are we making these changes? Well, because it kind of can't get a whole lot worse than what he was hitting last year. I think he was under 600 OPS batting about one 80 and they really paid off in the postseason. Like just a better load and more smooth and I think that kind of just maybe a mental tweak to be a little more aggressive. He's always been a guy who really, really, really waits for the right pitch and the Padres like that about him to an extent, but they'd prefer that he maybe at least the threat that he'd swing earlier in account and swing at a he's so intent on working his way on base, which the Padres love about him. But there's damage that he can do because of the power that he has and we saw that in the postseason last year. And so he's an interesting case this year. I think I mean, I think he could be in for a big year because if he's the guy at the bottom of this absolutely loaded lineup and all of a sudden you start thinking that all right, if you're deposing picture, this is where you take a deep breath. Well, he can do that kind of damage. Any can work his way on base and I think there's a compounding effect there in the lineup where the pressure is kind of completely off him, but he can also kind of make you pay for your mistakes. So I don't know what to expect from Trent Grisham moving forward, but I suspect better than what we saw in 2022. Two of the guys who are new to the club who are going to be ahead of him in the lineup are two veterans, Nelson Cruz and Matt Carpenter, Cruz. It seemed like father time had maybe finally come for Nelson Cruz last year. I know that he had some eye issues that hopefully have been addressed and then we had that great resurgence from Carpenter before he had some injury issues. What are San Diego's expectations for those two guys and kind of what made them comfortable bringing each of them in given the age and injury concerns that you could reasonably have with both? Yeah, I think one of the things is that despite the age and the injured concerns you could have, they're not asking those guys to go out there and take 500 at bats. I mean, they're essentially going to they're going to share a lot of time in the DH role. They're going to serve as pinch hitters and both of them signed with the Padres fully knowing that that was the plan for them going forward.
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"Like they're really good and they're really bought into what they have to do to kind of make it all work. And so I think the difference between it's a very different place for Fernando Tatís Jr. between now and where he was in 2021. I think now he's just kind of just desperate to get back on a baseball field and he's embraced the transition to right field. I think in his heart of hearts, if he were to play outfield, he's kind of maybe a little bit more interested in playing center, but the butters of a gold glove center Fielder there and Trent Grisham. But right field of pickle park is a spot where you can really make an impact. There's a lot of room in that right center field gap. It's kind of a weird kind of a weird corner too and I think he can show off his arm with aggressive base runners. He had a really cool deal really cool quote the other day where he essentially said that I asked him why he was charging why he was kind of playing the right field the way he was the way he was playing it and he said he just wants to look like in right field what he hates to see when he's running the bases and I don't know if there's a more greedy base runner out there than Fernando's at peace junior. So if that's how he's going to play it, I am excited to watch it. Brought up the buy in and I wanted to ask you about that because these guys seem like they're all rowing in the same direction in terms of wanting to win a World Series, but I did wonder kind of how all of the shifting around in movement has been sort of perceived and camp because you know I could imagine and it wouldn't I wouldn't fault him for it Hasan Kim being like, hey, but I did a great job last year. Why are you doing this to me? So what has the process been like to kind of get all of these guys both comfortable in the fields and then bought into the process? I think the winning has a lot to do with it. I think everyone I mean if this roster weren't constructed to win a World Series, I don't know that everyone would be kind of as happy as they are shuffling around the diamond. Now Hassan came has played second base before and he's been really good there. That's kind of where he started his Padres tenure when Fernando tatis wasn't or went for the university wasn't shortstop. There's some element of if the Padres hadn't signed Xander Bogart there if they hadn't signed a short stop. Then all of a sudden there's kind of this controversy like it's Fernando Tatís Jr. the shortstop or his Hassan Kim the shortstop, Kim is the better defensive player tatis can kind of do the spectacular and he's made it clear he wants to play there and then weirdly you kind of settle that tension by bringing in your new starting shortstop the guy that's definitively going to play there even if by some defensive metrics he's not as good as either of those two other guys. But I guess in theory in the Clubhouse aspect of it, he's earned that right. He's the veteran he's done it and he can play shortstop. He can be the guy there prompting the rest of the rest of the changes. I think another aspect of it all is it's kind of become Manny Machado's Clubhouse and he's bought in and invested and wants to win once the winner World Series as soon as he possibly can and the rest of this group kind of takes their cues from him and if it takes kind of a reshuffling of some guys and Juan photo I had to make the move from right field to left field after I know he'd gotten really comfortable in right field two and I guess when a World Series is on the line there has to be some egos checked at the door and the Padres have a lot of egos and a lot of egos who are seemingly willing to check those either at the door. What about testes offense? Are there concerns about any lingering after effects of the suspension, the long layoff, the shoulders, the wrists, et cetera, et cetera and what does he have to do basically to put everything behind to make everything forgiven and forgotten? Yeah, I mean, offensively, he kind of got off to a slow start in spring training. I think he was over 16 and he really didn't look like himself. And then I think when he was over ten, you could kind of see he was maybe trying to do a little too much. And then he got that first hit and he has like 8 hits and 15 at best since and he looks like Fernando Tatís Jr. and he's driving the ball to the opposite field and so I don't know if there's going to be lingering effects. I mean, he had two surgeries on his wrist and he had a surgery on his shoulder. That's a shoulder surgery that I think a lot of guys have struggled to come right back from, but he says that his shoulder feels better than it did in 2021 when if you'll remember that's kind of when he I mean the only played a 130 games that season otherwise he probably would have been the MVP, but his shoulder kind of kept dislocating and kept coming out and he had to essentially take some time off here and there to get it right. He says he feels more confident and comfortable in the shoulder. So I guess we'll have to take him at his word for that for now and he looks pretty good at the plate in the cactus league, but I mean as far as what to expect from him offensively I really have no clue. It's been so long. I think it will be 565 days since he last played a game for the Padres when he plays for them on April 20th, which will be his first game back from suspension. And it looks to me from what I've seen in spring training in the last week or so that he's kind of his old self, but that remains to be seen and then in terms of kind of moving past the suspension. I mean, he's got he's got work to do to kind of repair his image externally, but he's been he's been wholly welcomed back into the Padres Clubhouse. And I know there were maybe some questions
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"In some way. But there was a viral little mini thread by CJ Nikko ski, the broadcaster and former pitcher who put a pitch clock on that plate appearance and pointed out that basically every pitch in that confrontation would have been a violation. And I suppose that will probably be the last plate appearance we see between MLP players that was played without the pitch clock. So if that kind of closes the book on the pre pitch clock era, what a way to go out and the WBC I think some games probably made a great case for the rules that have been in place in spring training, but not in the WBC and then other games, I think people who are opposed to some of those rules seized on the WPC and said, hey, isn't this fun? And look, no new rules. But obviously it's completely different. We're talking about a two week tournament here with just a few games with super high stakes. So of course you're a little more lenient when it comes to time. And I think that's where I am if we single out incredible plate appearances like this. And there was a fun article by David schoenfield at ESPN that I may have brought up on the podcast before where he went back and applied the pitch clock to great plate appearances throughout history, like Kirk Gibson's Homer and just those memorable moments and found that many of them would have violated the pitch clock. And so the takeaway was maybe this is good on the whole, but also there could be some cost in these particularly exciting moments. So I think there are two ways you could look at it. One is just that, well, you can't really extrapolate from Otani versus trout, one of the most exciting played appearances I've ever seen and say that it's going to cost us because every now and then every some number of years you might have some plate appearance like that where obviously you're not sweating some extra seconds because you're on the edge of your seat and if anything, the extra time enhances the drama. So you could say, well, that's just an outlier. We shouldn't use that in our calculus here. It shouldn't be a consideration. Or I suppose you could take the opposite stance and say, well, actually, these moments are so important and so memorable and these will be the things that we retain from this season forever, that we should make some special dispensation some exception for those plate appearances. And that's what nitkowski was arguing in his thread. He was saying he hopes that MLB decides to eliminate the pitch clock in the 9th inning of close games within three runs, for instance. That happens fairly often. So that would be a pretty big change. And I don't think MLB is inclined to do that. But there's no way to say, well, if we designate one plate appearances every now and then as an all time great historic plate appearance, if Shohei Ohtani faces might try out in the bottom of the 9th inner one run game with two out in the championship game with the WBC, then we will suspend the pitch clock. How wide do you go and how narrow do you go in trying to preserve the drama in those moments without slowing down the vast vast majority of other moments that are not like that where you want to trim that time? Yeah, I appreciate the instinct here, right? But I do think that the vast, the vast majority of the time, you're not gonna notice. You're just not gonna notice. And we might come around to that two weeks from now. I would be open, Ben, to us keeping an eye on it and thinking about as we progress through the season and as we do get used to seeing this in game action with actual stakes in not, you know, Mike Trout and ohtani stakes most of the time. But stakes that exceed those that we appreciate in spring training. To think about adjusting and I know that the league has already sort of thought about some adjustments to the rules after spring. I imagine that they will be monitoring closely to see what tweaks might be necessary. But I'd be open I was thinking like, okay, here's how this goes in the regular season. Is there anything about the implementation of this that we want to be different specifically for postseason play? Which is the closest equivalent to this, right? Because even really good teams facing off against each other. I just think you benefit from the pitch clock, but I have some sympathy for the idea that perhaps there is a category of game. And I think that that's probably the cleanest way to delineate it. A category of game, not like a runaway fun fact. But like a category of game where we say, look, we just want guys to be able to kind of be themselves. And the regular season versus the postseason is maybe where you draw that distinction the most readily, because we already have distinctions in postseason versus regular season play, right? Like even with the permanence of the zombie running, they're not going to zombie runner in the postseason, right? They're still not going to zombie runner in the postseason. I think that my understanding is because I know. So I think that we acknowledge that there are instances where we kind of keep separate and special a particular set of games and the postseason versus regular seasons delineation tends to be where that comes into play most often. I think we can be open to that. Like you're not, you're not a curmudgeon. There's no yelling at clouds if you say, hey, let's keep an eye on it, you know? As the regular season progresses and then potentially reevaluate in September. But I think it's going to be okay. Scott Boris had come out and said that he didn't want to pitch clack in the postseason. Asked MLB about that. This was back in January and Evan talked to Morgan sword, the MLB executive, who said, ultimately, the committee decided to keep the same rules throughout the game for a couple of reasons. One didn't like the idea of playing different parts of the game under different rules. And of course I thought Morgan. Come on, Morgan. Morgan. Come on. Morgan. So really? I don't like that idea either, but you seem okay with it when it comes to putting rhetoric base anyway. Can I interrupt you for a second? Yeah. I've met in a group setting more in sword. I don't know Morgan. You think you think when a guy's name is Morgan sword and you're gonna put an emphasis on any part of his name, it's gonna be the sword part because his last name is literally sort. It's soared. It's soared, Ben. But actually, I think the more satisfying, oh come on, is surprisingly the Morgan. It's the Morgan. So I say Morgan, Morgan. Come on. Come on. He continued too. They felt it was unfair for some players to have some pitching with a timer and some not pitching with a timer, and lastly, you know, the pace issues are most acute for the end of the game, and that I think if we're going to deliver defense what they're asking for, it's important that those timer rules stay in effect throughout the game, and I am sympathetic to that because postseason games, they are painfully slow. They are slower than the regular season. And so the gains that you're going to get from the pitch clock and especially because that's when people are paying attention and the stakes and I know that that makes the time less onerous, but also the games are really late and then everyone complains because the kids can't watch the games, even though that was kind of always the case to some extent, but just to do away with that narrative of how will the kids ever watch postseason baseball to live on the West Coast. I don't know what to tell you. Really, unless they're going to make it very narrow and say like elimination games or we will do it. Even most postseason games I'm fine with hurrying those along a little bit more than they are. And then if you make it too narrow and you say, well, the vast majority of the time we have a pitch clock and then we don't then are you going to cause issues with once you come back from the non pitch pot game or they're going to be violations
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"Yeah, this might be the tall, the tallest climb that the Padres have to make in terms of retaining a player or going out and getting one. But I did find it interesting. My antennas went up hearing solo. I think it was yesterday, say that he's open to having extension talks. That's not something you that's not the kind of talk you normally hear from a Scott Boris client. But you got, you've got Scott speaking very positively of the organization. You got Soto saying he's interested. You're right. We can't put anything past the Padres at this point because I think they've really changed the way we look at the organization now when it comes to acquiring or signing players. Amazing, yes, so told me that they are open and they're waiting and I'm sure it's not going to be a long wait, you know, season starts now in less than a month. So, you know, they're going to reach out and Scott was very positive about the Padres. I'm sure he loves what they're doing overall. I think he said they moved a mountain and it's called much more fresh more, yeah. Much more. I'll tell you what. It's time to come up with this stuff, but he did, that said, those are nice words. It is still Scott Boris, it still is one Soto. You know, we'll see. I mean, it's going to be a huge number. We know we already turned down $440 million. So that's the starting point at this point. You can't offer less than that, although, you know, you obviously there's a little transition getting there, but he looks good now. So I think they love him. They gave up 5 players, young players for him, and they'll make every effort, but, you know, sometimes trying isn't quite enough. We'll see. Yeah, it's also important to remember free agency is two years away for once. So this is his platform here. And for those who may not be familiar with the term, this is really like the most important year before you get into free agency. So I'm sure the chips will fall where they are and I think Juan Soto and Scotty B will kind of let that happen. We'll see how that kind of situation changes. Obviously this year, a little bit different.
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"Let's start with let's play some catch up because there has been some big news since the last time we talked Manning Machado re ups for 11 years here in San Diego. Pretty big deal. It doesn't seem like just looking at the numbers how it broke down that he got the significant raise that everybody might have been expecting, but nonetheless, the Padres will keep them in a uniform likely until he retires. Oh, absolutely. Very long deal. I think that was a fine deal for him. I mean, those opt outs have been great for the players, started with Alex Rodriguez with his record $252 million deal and I mean, this winter alone Correa took advantage of the opt that, obviously, we know that he had ended up signing three different deals, but certainly took advantage of the opt out, rodon took advantage of the opt out. You know, a lot of guys did in Machado, you know, ends up staying in San Diego. I think the Padres were confident on this all along. I'd been at the owner's meeting a few weeks ago and some of the owners were talking about it and they felt that the San Diego was going to get it done. We saw many set a deadline of the February 16th and then say he was opting out. I think the Padres felt even after he said that they still felt confident. I think the delayed for one day after he said that he was opting out, got back to work and absolutely got it done. Yeah, I mean, he virtually said in the price conference that he really had no intentions of going anywhere else he wanted to be a padre, certainly 11 years, three 50 will make you settle down pretty nicely in a city and you know there's still apparently according to you, John, there's still some room to possibly get some other things done here. Well, we'll see. I wouldn't put anything that's the Padres at this point. I mean, you know, they could, they're liable to do anything. I'm not sure where they're getting the money, but I just give them credit. They're doing a great job. Peter seidler, the owner now. Amazing. I mean, we've come from a point where they couldn't afford chase headley. I was shipping them off to the Yankees, and now they've got 5 superstars on that team with counting Darvish and Tati's when he comes back. We believe April 20th and, you know, I think Machado not a surprise. They are going to try to lock up hater and Soto haters of free agent after the year. So to in two years, you know, just guessing here, I would say they probably have a better chance on hater, but I'm not putting anything past them. I talked to both guys and both guys are obviously loving it there. They love their opportunity to win. It's incredible Clubhouse, amazing talent and maybe that gives them a little bit better chance to lock guys up and like I said, I think with hater, you know, maybe they can get it done. Soto, you know, again, not putting anything past the Padres. But you know, he is one of the best two or three players in the game, probably the best hitter in the game. You know, and he talked about how important free agency is and you know he's got two years to go. If they can get that one done, I'll believe anything. So we'll see. We're back.
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"Down to day via Dennis land of the athletic. He says that he tweet out, it wasn't a secret, but Manny Machado publicly confirmed he's told the Padres he intends to opt out of his contract. He declined to get into negotiations or on a potential extension with the club, but did say he'd like to play as long as new teammate, Nelson Cruz has. So, I mean, that's a pretty firm I'm going to free agency. We're not going to have any more contract talks. And so that until that happens. And so now you have Shohei Ohtani and Manny Machado who will be available to the masses. Yeah, I'm a little surprised. I was at the owner's meeting last week and there was some hope there to get something done. They have clearly been talking about it and suing the Padres are willing to spend, give them credit, Peter seidler, our groomer, they did a fantastic job, got fog and, you know, they keep going, extension for Darvish, so I understood their hope and even suggested they had opened now that hope to supersede the opt out is gone and we've got another big free agent. I thought he was the MVP last year. Certainly Goldschmidt was a great candidate who won the award, but Machado, one of the best defenders I think of all time, even though somehow he didn't was a nominated for a gold glove at his position last and just a terrific all around player and you know, he's established in San Diego. So I'm not going to say this is not going to happen. I still think they have a chance. They're a team that has really shocked us. I mean, you were there years ago. I mean, from San Diego and they never could spend with the big boys. I mean, it's not a small market. It's a mid market, 12th market, but in terms of media market because they're kind of hemmed in there by Mexico and certainly Angeles to the north, the TV market, it does not provide what other TV markets do provide. And give them credit, they clearly must be losing money. They're not talking about it. I talked to one of them yesterday, but I give them credit for trying to do everything they can to win and they did make an effort here with Machado. We don't know exactly what that effort was, but you know, he's still very viable, excellent free agent. It was surprising. Last year in ornano did not opt out, you know, similar type situation, similar age, similar pedigree, and that was a shock. And you know, it's probably shouldn't be a shock. It's always surprising that the Padres were not able to get it done because they've been able to get almost everything done that they've tried. They did try for Trey Turner and they tried for Aaron judge but, you know, they did get one of the big fish in bogarts and they've done so much more than anyone. Any of us would have thought they could have done. Yeah, a few things because, you know, as you mentioned, I'm pretty close to this. Whether
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"The Phillies beat the Padres four three to win the NLCS four games to one. That meant all right, game one of the World Series is Friday and Houston. Live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studios. This is global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake. Powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts more than a 120 countries. I'm Michael Barr. This is Bloomberg temple. Is there any equivalent to the Astros dominance over I'm going to say 6 years or do you have to go back to Yankees of whitey Ford and all? Well, let's put it this way. If my memory serves me right, the Astros won a 106 games in the regular season. The Phillies won just 83. I believe. Now, it brings up a point and I felt bad. I had never seen that Aaron judge got booed. At Yankee Stadium. And I'm asking, why? Well, I mean, Yankees fans are feeling like, you know, look, I'm paying a $100 a ticket, and that's the small price with expensive hot dogs to see you guys go all the way or at least put up a show and you got swept. Now I'm not saying, you know, whether we gotta rethink this whole Yankee. We were talking about rethinking. And I don't have an Apple watch. Let's forget about the prime minister of the United States. How do you say let's rewrite the script? He you know, Michael Ken. The Astros are dumb. I mean, think about it. I mean, they're down in Houston and I know all the hatred over the years and all that. But there's no modern equivalent in baseball to what dusty baker and thems have done. There is a tweet out there. And a meme. And they said, out of the Yankees and the mets only one team has beaten the Astros in October. The other is the Yankees. And I mean, what do you do? I mean, Paul, you hit the nail on the head. What are you doing now? I thought that this was going to work that with the big high page checks and everything. I don't know. I don't know. So you swing for the home runs during the regular season, but it doesn't work so much in a playoff. You start Verlander or Javier. Javier kids like 23 years old, whatever. He was stunning, pitching for Houston. Well, I would start Berliner. Because he come back in the rotation and then second
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"Directly east of Manila right now. Turn that on my phone. Turned a little bit left to up to Taipei, and we hope she has safe travels and has a beverage of your choice. Forget about that. John hayman just out with the New York Post. Blockbuster, they're talking. Soto and bell together from the nationals to to my dreaded Padres who I enjoy watching. A lot here. And this is like back to our ute. This is like imagine what the Padres have to give up. To get those two. Well, well, well, well, well. Remember when we were talking and last left you yesterday and I said, boy, the Yankees are probably going to have to make another move. And they did. And they did. They picked up Frankie montas. And Scott F Ross. But boy, if Soto goes down, my goodness. This is just, this is like speculation. There's momentum. This is what the tweet says. I deal in speculation. This is fun though. The other sports do this, but there's just something magical about the heat of August and the boredom of it. And that's a great thing for baseball. In the dark days, it gets you really focused on the game and which teams really think that they're in it and they can still play for Mercedes, and the other ones are rich help me out here with this. I didn't know what question to ask, but I'll ask, is are the Yankees the best team in baseball? Well, no. Do you want to jump in here or the Yankees the best team in baseball? They had the best record, don't they rich? Or darn near it? They have the most. This is better than sports radio. Michael fire of the Yankees best even base. Maybe with these trades, I don't know, man. I know it's not the tigers. That's all I can say. Soto is not going to the tigers. Thank you for that. Futures are negative 17, the Vic's 24.04
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"Hey ben we're going to do a friday afternoon edition of the show with the the cardinals in san diego too late game. We know the blues are in the playoffs. Plenty to get to in good afternoon to you. Are things going doing. Well man happy friday to you and yeah man. Things are are looking up. The cardinals are are are rolling into San diego haven't can't remember the last time they lost a series. Dan and the blues are headed to the playoffs with matchup that i think looks pretty good for him i. I'm one of the the folks who thought that they would be better off suited to play colorado than las vegas. I know some folks disagree with that and depending on which metrics look at either of them are are great matchups for the blues. But you gotta like the the momentum blues they're carrying in with three wins and in especially after beating colorado the last two times out Colorado had been banged up but I think the blues have a little bit a momentum especially compared to going back to las vegas where they have not had much success lately. Yeah we're going to get into that in just a moment when we talk about the cardinals i they have won eleven of their last fourteen. Starting pitchers are eight into in that time. A two point five to johann oviedo going tonight. you'll make his fourth appearance. His third start of the season he was recalled after triple from aaa after carlos. Martinez landed on the injured list with a sore ankle in. It's a team in san diego dealing with some covert issue so it looks like the cardinals match up the way they're playing and the fact that you're getting san diego without some of their best players in their lineup It could favor the cardinals this weekend on the west coast. Yeah they got a chance to go in there and keep the good vibes rolling and you know good teams they. They beat bad teams. The cardinals have done a decent job of here Ever since the start of that seventeen games and seventeen days stretch and this road test was kinda supposed to be the You know the test is how they stack up against better teams when they when they left. For milwaukee brewers and the padres were were ranked second in their respective divisions playing playing pretty good ball and then all of a sudden. They started looking like not themselves. You had christian yelich out dealing on again off again with that back injury. The brewers lineup is pretty is pretty decimated right now as we saw in this series. The cardinals took advantage of that and With with the padres you don't really know i mean we're recording. This oughta friday. And we don't know who's gonna be in the game It won't be for nato to these junior We've seen well myers announced that he has.
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"To go 2.5 up on the Padres in the west of 5 to 1 in the eighth Theeighties hanging on to a 43 edge on the res in the eighth inning, and it's a 32 tigers advantage on the Twins. That's seventh inning play the Yankees looking a walk off with the game Now Square at three. Back to singing Rabbit, Jimmy. Thank you extract up machine. Carl Finnigan is now on the mound, making his 15th appearance to it. Or 3 29 e R. A Come May 5th. He had the immaculate inning fifth time in nationals history. He threw nine pitches to get three strikeouts. Now he's got a Self in a situation where it's the Yankees three and the next three with a runner on first in the bottom of the 10th and nobody out. Kyle Higashi Yoga homered in the third inning feels like three games ago. But it was the third inning of this one. One. Kyle at the plate. One. Kyle versus another Finnegan anchors, Higashio slider, backup slider, 88 strike one on a swing and a miss. Mary Sanchez has not come into the on deck circle Miguel and do hard, who pinch hit in the last Is in the on deck circle. No one to Higashi Oka. Going to 95 a lot of movement on it. Yes, the little tardy. Theo to that one, has fouled straight back. 97 on a two seamer lefty Justin Wilson is warming for the Yankees now. Their bullpen in anticipation of Perhaps another inning..
Nerd On! The Podcast
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"Which also saw today in the light because people wanted in the last episode of falcon wear soldier. An extended dance sequence. That baron zemo is doing and they got it and obviously it's a little bit different of a whole movie and that stuff but it's like when a studio wants to acknowledge its audience. That's the different narrative that you wanna shores are. Yeah definitely so just keep that in mind But that's all i got. Who's next i was. Just gonna say or josh. I was just gonna say. I just think it's amazing. What's happened in the d. c. You kind of world over the past year of just like show everything that the snyder cut kind of led to and us like the light coming like being shown on all of these things that kind of actually happen in the background that before we get the movie that we see in theaters of like what kind of meddling goes on or how many cooks in the kitchen. You never know what movie you're actually seeing when you win. See it sometimes. So since i'm talking. I'll go next by. News is pretty Short ish this is kind of exciting for me Another week of baseball news. That's weird On friday night. Nerd joe joe. Musk grove number. Forty four which is in honor of the cy young winner jake peavy and a san diego native against the texas rangers threw the first no hitter in padres history. That is fifty years that nobody has thrown a no hitter and he did it Wow it's pretty awesome. It's really exciting. Because he is. I mean he's a san diego native. He grew up in east county Rooting for the padres and in january was traded to the padres from the pirates comes back home and does this kind of up in the next few months son. It's randy johnson man randy johnson trim offman anyway He hit a bird wants. Yeah but yeah. It was just really exciting to see something like this happen for a home town. Kid a no hitter is pretty.
KNBR The Sports Leader
"padres" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"This is going to be the first player that they've really said you were going to be a part of the future when we think that we can win again, and I think that Tommy lost. Ella is not just a winning 2020 22 or 2023 move. It's also a hey, Let's see what we can do in 2021. Let's see if you know the Padres of the Dodgers get Severe injuries or something chaotic happens where there's issues with them where the Giants are all of a sudden challenging for the second wild card spot because the NL East is going to be tough. There's gonna be teams that emerge from there, but you look at this light up and Tommy was selling. Let's assume he hits leadoff for the Giants against right handed pitchers. You remember lineup that has Mikey Stransky, Brandon Belt Alex Dickerson, Tommy La Stella and Brandon Crawford probably getting down on the seventh or a slot. That's gonna be really good. That's gonna be a really, really tough light up on these pictures in the National League. And so the patients the plate discipline the amount of balls that are in play with these guys. It's just a group that kind of syncs up really well, so he was always going to be the most obvious edition. And I think that it's no surprise to anyone who follows the Giants, whose followed far anxieties tenure that he was the guy they ultimately settled on for their left handed back. Yeah, I think the question for me is where he fits in beyond this season, and it's not that he doesn't fit in. It's so many players are coming off the roster after this year. You and I have talked about Brandon Belt a free agent Brandon Crawford's offer. Basically, if you run through the Giants roster. What's so funny is the only guys they're actually committed to a fate. Decide not to bring back Buster Posey, your pick up that option if they decide not to bring back Johnny Cueto. It's like a few relief pitchers. That's Evan Longoria over there. Third base. You got some arbitration, guys. You Stransky and Alex Dickerson, our guys you're gonna have to deal with arbitration lies. But like Donovan Solano free agent after this year's this a guy you say, See you later to do you say the same to Wilmer Flores, who's got isn't a team option at the team options for three million. I mean, that is a bargain for Wilmer deals. Yeah, exactly like he would be making way more if he was still arbitration eligible, so But you're right. Also look at the pitching staff. The rotation Gosman Cueto de Sclafani. Alex would who just signed one year three million who's gonna be back next year? Who's going to be wearing the orange and black and 2022? Because we have no genuine concept or clue of what that roster is gonna look like? So they haven't locked themselves into basically anything And I guess what's what's a little worrisome is like I look at the free agent market next off season and there are it's going to be one of the best, and I assume that some of these guys are going to get extensions. It's going to be one of the best free agent classes of all time. I think when you talk about young Thomas Harlan, this is a free agent. Corey Seager is a free agent Nolan era. Nono has an opt out. Trevor Story's going to be a free agent. Not just a whole lot of great short stops and infielders and power bats and young guys coming up. But a lot of guys in the NL West that could either shuffle within the division or move outside of the division that could really have an impact on what happens with the powers that be as far as the Padres and the Dodgers go, so I'm also wondering like, Do you think the Giants and I assume they have like, looked at a couple of these guys and said, Like Corey Seager's Our number one option. You can pull him from the Dodgers or whatever, but also you're gonna have to fill out a rotation of five guys, you have no pictures under contract. As far as the rotation goes beyond this season, so first off the guy who stands out to me, picture wise Lance McCullers shinier because he's got that sensational curveball. Everything about his analytics profile screams. The San Francisco Giants like he is going to work with Brian Banister. I've already put Lance McCullers and a giant uniform for 2022, because I'm not confident that they're gonna have interest in him. Just totally unrestricted free agent. I believe I believe so. I believe so I have to go back and check because there is some arbitration stuff that makes someone unclear but He was on my list of guys who's like when he comes up when the time comes, put him in a Giants uniform because it makes too much sense. But you go back to the shortstop conversation. Obviously, this is the last year Brandon Crawford in a Giants uniform. We know far anxiety loves Corey Seager. We know he loves left handed hitters at premium positions that power can play it Oracle Park. We have seen it time and time again. The guy has popped balls into the arcade throughout his career. It has not hindered him hitting it Orca part him or Trevor story. You were weakening an opponent within your own division by going out inside in one of those guys. I just think that if the Giants going to target signing someone from this massive free agent class, those two are the guys who make the biggest difference and have the track record of performance in Oracle Park that would make them so fun and just foundational pieces for that exchange score. It is super tantalizing to think about, like one or two big free agent because I imagine like next offseason. This is where Scott Harrison and Farhaan they get the shopping. Clark. They start walking around like, Who do we want? It doesn't have to be bargain bin guys. Maybe you could get Kevin Gossman assign an extension at the end of this year or near the and based on what he does, maybe Alex. What is a guy who starts to see the young players coming up and thinks this is somewhere I want to be. I buy into the system I buy into Farhaan, which is Effectively. What he said when he signed his deal because we're going to start to see these young guys this year. In theory, Alex Canario, you're gonna start to see I would hope Elliot Ramos at some point, maybe at the back end of this year. I don't know if Marco Luciano is going toe to sniff the bigs this year, But there's already I mean, he's in baseball. America's top 100 prospects already. So this is like you had one of these guys with all this young talent, the 100 bishops they're supposed to be here in the next 2 to 3 years. I think the Giants of a pretty intriguing young core called me a homer because I haven't checked But like you Sprinkle in one of these prospects air some of these prospects with one of these big name free agents. We're talking. That's the makeup for success, right? Yeah, absolutely. They're in a position to where, if three or four, these big prospects panned out two or three big free agent signings or big free agents come inside with Sam Biscoe giants 2022 2023 2024. They could be contending with the Padres and Dodgers atop the nationally West. Especially with far Hans ability to find.
Newsradio 600 KOGO
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"The sign is that the Padres tailgate Park on Imperial Marilyn Haider KOGO news. California is closing in on 30,000 deaths from the Corona Viruses. Hospital scramble to find beds for severely ill patients State reporting 468 death Sunday, a day after setting a record one day total of 695. California's death toll is now at 29,700 won a surge of cases following Halloween and Thanksgiving produced record hospitalizations. And now those critically ill patients are dying in unprecedented numbers hospitals worn, they may need to ration care. Is ICU beds dwindle, Ah persons in custody after a fire in South Park. It broke out about nine last night inside a detached garage at home on 30th. Police Tell Kogo nears the homeowners Daughter's friend was taken into custody for that fire. No injuries reported The cause is still under investigation, sending a police making some arrests Saturday with supporters of President Trump faced off against Antifa protesters in Pacific Beach, NBC seven reporting at least three people were arrested some antifa backer Was pepper sprayed the pro trump crowd and a couple of fights broke out. The you know, over nearby restaurant tells reporting partner 10 news. He had to shelter in place. We took everybody upstairs and lock the doors. You saw them throwing tear gas and It was just not police declaring it an unlawful assembly Saturday afternoon after bottles and rocks were thrown at officers. House Democrats warn a second impeachment of President Trump will get underway if some members of the Trump Administration don't invoke the 25th amendment. Mark MEREDITH has more Democrats plan to first introduce the resolution urging Vice President Mike Pence. To invoke the 25th minute in a letter to the speaker writes, quote. We're calling on the vice president to respond within 24 hours. Next, we will proceed with bringing impeachment legislation to the floor. Pelosi also had some tough words for the president Last night on 60 Minutes, the person trying to executive branch is a deranged Unhinged, dangerous president of the United States. Now there are no indications that the vice president plans to force the president out of office, especially with only nine days left in his term. Meantime, some Republican lawmakers want Democrats to hold off on impeachment and instead focus on unity and first lady Melania Trump has released a statement on last week last week's violence of the capital, saying violence is never acceptable. The first lady called on Americans to hell in a civil manner. Mrs Trump said her heart goes out to those who died, including Air Force veteran and Trump supporter Ashley Babbitt and U S Capitol Police officer Brian Sit Nick. She also said the violence has led to unwarranted personal attacks on her. And warned against using the tragedy for political gain, adding, it has been an honor of my lifetime to serve as your first lady. I want to thank the millions of Americans who supported my husband and me over the past four years. That's Rachel Sutherland Reporting. A popular conservative social media network has been banned by several major companies, Charles Watson, Watson explains The latest moves by Apple and Amazon.
KNBR The Sports Leader
"padres" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"Smelled the best two teams in baseball reside in the NL West did sure feels that way. I mean, I still think the Padres have more to prove, but the roster lines up is one that is going to challenge the Dodgers atop the division. There's no question that Talent wise. Those two teams stack up the top two top three top four teams in Major league baseball, and I could take arguments on a few others. But, man, the Padres looked really good. And so if you're a Giants fan, you're wondering. When is this thing gonna turn around one of the jazz gonna end their playoff droughts, and it's gonna be really difficult to improve it. We've got 38 games against those two teams in the same division now. Fortunately, The D backs don't seem like they're going for it and the Rockies or just a nabs salute mess and so you can pick up 38 games there, however, it ends up shaking out. But I do think that the Giants have not been helped. And that's an understatement. Buy what the Padre said done. John and I got to thank you for taking over the show. I'm not sure that J part hours because the show I was kind of change. But you kind of took over the show. When we were off on holiday between Christmas and New Year's. I did catch you periodically. You got to tell the audience the story. You grew up a giant fan. I mean, you go wrong loving this team. And who sat next to you when they put you on diamond great stories I've heard, so I was sitting at club level. My family got tickets from a family friend and we used to go to games pretty regularly when I was eight or nine. I had a streak of like maybe three games of being on the Jumbotron, so I was obsessed with looking at the Jumbotron. In between innings, Then you know, it's third inning of a game when I'm maybe eight or nine years old. They show Carlos Santana on the screen. Incredible musician. My mom was a huge fan. So you know it was like, right right around the time that smooth was released, and so I was listening to that song at the time. And I'm looking around the stadium trying to figure out where Carlos Santana could possibly be Sitting glance over the third base dugout glance over behind home plate where Larry Baer says he's not there and all of a sudden I got a tap on my shoulder. Carlos Santana was sitting next to me in the club level fans and they showed him on the Jumbotron and I was just I was stunned. I didn't know what to do. And, yeah, he sat there The rest of game signed a ball for me. Was really cool. That's an awesome. You know how I would love that job. Oh, you loved him. Did you jump right into Rob Thomas and go, man? It's a hot one You got you gotta go. You guys know that spring training Carrie Okie is is what I love the most. Yeah, I will say that smooth. Smooth has been on the playlist before. Very nice. Yeah, you're you're Carrie. Okie is legendary. I've seen it first time. It's very nice right now. What? I'm gonna miss the most this year. I mean, even if we have a normal spring training, and they have opened the great find down in Scottsdale, But from what I've heard, it's not a place that you want to visit right now. After Acto bit conscious, No. Yeah. Hey, Carrie. Great stuff like pop said. Great feeling in you sounded great, and we'll talk again soon. Thank you, As always. Thanks so much, And I appreciate you guys, let me fill in. Hopefully you didn't lose your entire listeners show their rating soared. I think you're taking over for the month of January. It's much better. Thanks, Carrie. All right. Have a good one guys to make sure that you're following Carrie read this great stuff in the very news group as well, Tremendous job. Covering the Giants. All right, we've got if we haven't we have open segment. I believe because any time alone No. It really bothered me. I feel left out his guys. Guys, guys, guys. Yeah,.