data-mm-id=”_vyamw4c8s”>Early on Thursday morning the San Diego Padres were battling the Los Angeles Dodgers in a valiant effort to avoid an 0-2 start to the 2024 MLB season. Yes, the games taking place in Korea do count toward the regular-season record. Yes, both teams have spring training games next week before Opening Day on American soil. No, I do not know why they did that. Yes, it is the biggest story in baseball right now and why do you ask?Anyway, the Padres were up 12-9 in the top of the eighth inning when the San Diego broadcast took a rather hard detour. As the crew was watching Jackson Merrill step into the box, color commentator Mark Grant launched into a tangent about how crazy it was that Merrill was at Petco Park and then ended up across the ocean in South Korea shortly…