Feeling The Heat

(This is the audio-only podcast version of Thursday’s MartyTimeTV / Section 1904 joint venture. You can find and subscribe to this podcast on Apple and Spotify and right here on Substack by clicking the button below. To watch this episode on YouTube, click here) San Diego weather has officially become offensive. Even my television is sweating. Seriously. On the Padres off-day, we talked about the disgusting heat and humidity before getting into Craig Stammen’s bizarre brain cramp that accidentally ended Walker Buehler’s outing in the Padres’ finale against the Nats. We laughed about Buehler’s quirky personality and his even quirkier answers afterward, but also wondered: How big of a deal is it that a Major League manager made that kind of glaring & very public mistake? Does it reflect poorly on Stammen or was it just one very human and inconsequential one-off on a 99-degree afternoon? Then we turned our attention to San Diego FC’s awful performance against San Jose on Wednesday night. The Azul y Chrome have lost back-to-back matches, which has halted their upward climb in the Western Conference standings. What will it take to get into the postseason with 10 games remaining and how will they get the ship righted by Sunday when they host the Philadelphia Union, who are the hottest team in MLS? Also, head coach Mikey Varas apologized to the fans afterward, which raised an interesting question: How often do you hear a professional coach actually apologize for the way his team played? Was Varas’ apology meaningful and refreshing in a world of combative and arrogant coaches or did it not land well? Time will tell us. And finally, there was an NFL game on Wednesday night. That was news to one of us - you’ll never guess who! - while Marty is searching for a Netflix password so she can watch the Niners and Rams play in Australia. Also tossed in a Serie Del Ray update, as the Tijuana Toros won on Wednesday night to split the first two games of the best-of-seven series with Olmecas de Tabasco. Former Padre Franchy Cordero hit a grand slam in the 13-2 win. LFGTJ! (h/t Nate Abaurrea) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dsmithshow.substack.com