And back to the grind we go. On today's edition of the Locked On Padre's podcast, Javier does an old-fashioned grab bag of topics! First, he reacts to Ken Rosenthal's latest Athletic piece that raises the question about how worried the Padres should be about the Reds taking their Wild Card spot. Then, he takes a minute to react to Ben Verlander's latest power rankings that caused quite a stir online and concludes by discussing one specific thing he misses about baseball. A fun episode, to be sure, and a welcome one!

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