Steve Bravera and Jacob Salles. They have their Tie on the Ball on Tucson
Sports Stage yet Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to High on
the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve, He's Jay.
Now we have our guy, Henry Go breaking news is Eye on the Ball
Breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. So third baseman and Tucson native Cad
McGee drafted in the ninth round by the Cardinals. He went to Salpoint Catholic
High School. What round ninth round when he won a state championship with them
in twenty nineteen. He played college baseball for Gonzaga and Texas Tech. Okay,
so he he was out. This was his last year in college.
How did you had to be? Yeah? Ninth round third baseman. I
don't remember the name? You know? Hey, you and me either,
I mean, hey, get take your shot man pick? Yeah, who
don't you? I didn't get drafted? You get drafted? You wish you
was? Did you get drafted? You wish you'd be in those situations?
Yeah? Yeah, very cool. You know, remember we're talking about this
with with Keisha Johnson when he didn't get drafted, and you know, maybe
it was better for him to go to a place where you but there's still
something about getting drafted. You'll always wear that, right, You get that
merit badge and you get to keep it. I you know, that's pretty
cool to get drafted like that. Good good, good job. That's pretty
cool. The Arizona relief pitcher Trevor Long has signed a free agent deal with
the Mariners. He pitched for four seasons at Arizona. So that's another picture
out there. Well he was going out the door anyways, he's done.
Yeah, but I mean every guy that's so far that is signed or that
has that got drafted with an Arizona connection a couple of recruits, and then
theres are all pictures like, Okay, did they not have a bunch of
great hitters or what you know? I mean, that's some guys that could
hit, uh, but maybe they're not draft age yet. So because what
was I think the dude what's his name? A kid from Cdo? Is
it from Cdo? Uh? Huh uh? Guy hit all the homeworks for
for Air a while back this year. Oh oh oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you're talking about things just a sophomore.
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, is the cdo Yeah? I
think so, Yeah, I think so. I don't think yeah, I
don't think he came out to see sense. Well, see that's why we
have you. You came up with those little young names. We don't have
any nineteen thirty five, yes, nineteen twenty fourteen, twenty four no,
not so. Watch I just saw the shirt that you're wearing. Is that
something? You guys? Got a cool shirt shirt? They gave it out
at the basketball one of the basketball yea, yeah, I want it.
I want my son, but no one in college is my sides. Now,
Okay, it's a great looking shirt, but do you just keep that
under your spare tire or something that that is? And it's wrinkled as all
hell. He's a college dude. Man, he pulled it out from between
your mattresses. What do you think it was? I bet you you only
wear it. It's the only thing that was clean. You know that wasn't
clean? No, it says time, I mean Light fan club for those
of you out there in radio land, it is. I'll try to get
Steve some next season, extra large man, extra large. Maybe I'll fit
in to it and lose some weight. The Heat Summer League team beat the
Mavericks ninety two to seventy nine. Palla Larsen had thirteen point, six rebounds,
three assists. Keisha Johnson had nine points and two rebounds, but he
left the game with a left ankle spring. Who Yeah, he can't afford
that. But you know the thing is if you're good and they have a
whole space for you. Yeah, and Pelly's numbers, those are his numbers.
Yeah, that's what he does. Yeah, that's what he did here,
right for sure. You know, I wonder if they're both gonna make
it. I think one of them, will you think? So? I
don't know who, because there was the he's got a contract. It was
a sway thing. They're spending money on him, right, he better try
to make the team. Yeah, and all he's got to do is not
mess it up, right, don't don't mess it up? Yeah, and
hopefully nobody else behind you excel, right Yeah, so yeah, yeah,
okay, and interesting, we'll see, Yeah, we'll see. How long
did summerleague go? Do you guess it's almost over? It's like five more
days, Yeah, it's almost over all, right, not just staying in
Vegas for two weeks. No, what to do? No, it's hard.
It's hard, you know. I when I go, when I've been
going for the packed off term. I was there Tuesday, this Sunday.
That's hard. It's low. Yeah, but you're also working, so you're
still a long day going to your you know, leaving your room and going
somewhere and walking through the slot machines and all the noise and going out in
the street. It's a that's a long time to be there, you know.
And I people go there and they gamble for a week. You know.
I don't know how you could do that. I mean, I if
it's if I'm going to just gamble, I've got three days in me,
like a Friday or Sunday. The funny thing with you, and not funny
thing is is just what you do. You don't go. You sit at
a place and watch for three days, right, You don't meander, you
don't blah, yeah, you know, you just sit, eat your food
and watch the game. Yes, exactly, that's what we do. You
could do that in your couch. I could. There's no reason for us
to go on that trip in November, right, Everything that we do there,
we can do here. We just we just don't. And I think
I told you you go to have you watch that stuff now in the in
the stadium. No, it's fantastic. Yeah, it's a we might have
to make a trip over there this coming. It's like it's like man cave
heaven. Yeah, it's better go then in the day of the night.
Uh, they probably you can find a seat twenty five bucks to sit.
And then food you have the out doors are indoors indoors indoor or the indoor
part and you got to require to eat some of my food blah blah blah.
But it's got everything. Yeah. The other thing you probably I don't
know if you can get a massage there, but it has everything. Yeah.
My my, my son and his friends. They they went to the
outdoor. Oh and they paid like one hundred, seven hundred dollars to get
like one uh chase lounge thing, you know, and they like six s
guys sat on right, guys in a hot dog. I didn't I didn't
know. I would have liked to see that because the indoors they did.
They thought it was a blast. Yeah, they had all right. Arizona
Baseball has three of the top one hundred prospects for the twenty twenty five I
will be draft pitcher Jack Laughlum, outfielder Caleb Ganzen, and pitcher Dylan would
all right, well they again, they're gonna need those pictures for sure because
there a bunch of theirs are gone. So yeah, well we'll see how
that goes. I yeah, I know, you're the at college baseball coach
is always worried that the guys are gonna you know, the recruits are gonna
get drafted and stuff like that. So we'll see what what Chip ends up
with when this is all said and done. Former Arizona running back Michael Wiley
was drafted to the UFL team the DC Defenders. No did he was he?
Uh? Wasn't he? What did he let go by the It was
the Giants? No, No, that's the other guy. Yeah, the
running back. So Michael Wiley's not with an NFL team. It's too bad.
I think he might be. I can check that. I think he
has just the option to play for the AM I thinking of Steve that went
to the Giants TJ djj jjjj JJ Taylor's are the Patriots Giants? Oh,
there's there's been Uh we had him on the show. Oh he don't,
didn't Gary Brightwell? Is he still with the Giants? I think so?
Okay, And the last thing I got tam USA basketball defeated Serbia one,
five to seventy nine in an exhibition game today and United Air Emirates they kind
of tearing it up, aren't they just a little bit? I mean,
what do we think? I mean, Serbia's got Jokic. Yeah, I
mean, I don't know how much stock you can put in these in these
exhibitions. But you know they're not losing, right, They're not losing the
I mean if if they lose one, people would lose their minds, right,
So they're not losing them. But what do the wins mean? You
know? Are they are good? Are they that good? Are they not?
I don't know what do you thinks? To you? We'll see,
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Sorry, okay.
I don't want to give you a better information you have before. I
don't know what's stopping you now. I'll give you great information yesterday. What
I'm the lid. That's all I go. Okay, okay, what else
we have? Anything else? No? You know, we're just uh,
British Open starts tonight. Oh okay, yeah, I'm trying to think who's
the betting favorite. Well, probably Scottie Scheffler again he always is. Bryson
de Shamba is probably one of the favorites. Let me slok it up here.
You've got. Scheffler is the favorite as the winner at plus five hundred.
McElroy second at plus eight fifty. He was in contention last week.
Xander Schoffley, Colin Marcy, who's been up there a lot. This new
guy, Ludwig aberg Oberg plus two thousand. My guy's Tommy Fleetwood. For
the week, he's a plus twenty five hundred. He'son what one, two,
three, four, five, six, seventy ninth favorite eight favorite.
That freeth dude to do that. So I really liked. The reason I
like the British Opening is because when I wake up in the morning it's on.
I don't have to watch you know, Dan Patrick or Dateline or whatever.
When I get up, I can get a cup of coffee and watch
some British Open. So that I think tea time start at ten thirty our
time tonight, so that'll be fun and you're doing all the stuff and you
have homework for me? What's your homework from yesterday? I'm still supposed to
see the bill walk thirty for thirty and I'm still supposed to read the Kim
Molky article. You were now, you were perfect Kim Molkey today, perfect
Kim mulche today in what way? The utel beat writer? Oh, I
said, Jay is back? Did you watch you listen? You watched You're
on the You're on the thread, the thread? Yeah yeah, all right,
see, God, I don't know if I'm going to read that.
I got I got plans. Yeah, you know, this is a time
when you can just you just watch it, you read it eventually. Point
is it something that would be longer, too long to read like in the
bathroom? Yeah, well, if you're gonna do that, you have to
go about room a lot. It's a lot, but it's very interesting because
you get an interesting view of who she is. And and there's a line
or two in it that just reminds me of you because athletically remember well written,
and remember it's a lot of controversial. Oh yeah, and I remember
all that. I just couldn't remember if it was that Syr and if tan
In terms of skating, it was. It was a pimple. It was
nothing. It was nothing because it was it was more you worry about more
than what it is. And it was just just a picture of her.
Yeah, you know, if she's what she is, she is what she
is, then maybe she doesn't like who she is maybe or maybe she thought
there was more there. Yeah, yeah, well yeah, because she threatened
tossue them and all that stuff, and yeah, it was nothing. It
was it was it was a burger and it was tasty, but really,
yeah, okay, I'll skip the burger next. Yeah, yeah, it's
it's yeah, And I probably didn't like the questions she got asked and thought,
you know, not the worst, but it's not the way it always
is. So anyways, I don't know, all right, what else,
Steve? You know, Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I
was looking at the NFL camps. Should begin started here pretty quick, right,
Yeah? Would you go in New York? There's nothing there? Right,
you don't What do you do in New York? When you go have
games? You go to New Jersey to watch the games? So do you
do you do that? So? Yeah, so you're a fan, but
you're you know, it's up to your parents because they have the money.
Right, it's like an hour. So when I went to the Final four
ninety five to you probably won't even born ninety five, right, Uh,
that's thirty years. Uh. The Final four ninety five is in New Jersey,
but we stayed in New York. No one even knew the hell the
Final Four was there because New York it's it's as so many things going on,
so many things going on that Yeah, you take the bus over the
bridge and then bring you back and then it was like Tuesday. I mean,
no one really give a crap. Yeah, yeah, that's why they
need them in places that give a crab. Wait where did they have the
Final Four in New York? Where? In New Jersey? At just at
the arena at the Big but they weren't the domant stadiums by that time,
and yeah in the not in Madison Square Garden in New Jersey. There's not
there's not a dome stadium in New Jersey? Is there? They had a
New Jersey I know that. I mean they got an arena. Uh,
isn't there the Giants? Yeah, but there's not a don't there's not a
dome stadium? So where where were I'm gonna I'm going to I was on
that book because by that time, weren't they were Maybe by that time they
were they were not having them and no, no, they I'm pretty sure
that that was that was there. Ninety five was U c l A.
Uh could be ninety six, but it's ninety five. I think nine n
U c l A won it. But that was in the Kingdome? Was
it? Was it a regional? Was it? I wouldn't go to New
York to go to twinal four? Final four is in New York, New
Jersey? Just right that google that Okay? Uh it was in ninety six,
Okay, so it was in there, just in their arena then the
connin Airlines arena. No, no, how big hoes your tenants? It
seemed like it was huge, if I can remember correctly. Yeah, but
that's not a stadium. What uh? I thought by that time they were
having them in they were a stadium to me, Yeah, they were,
No, because ninety four was in Charlotte, right that that was pretty ninety
five was in the Kingdome. Ninety six was then it was in East Rutherford.
So God, when did they start having them in stadiums? Because that
that's you know, I thought, I thought, I thought right after Kansas
City, because the year after Kansas City was in the Kingdome. I thought
at that point they were not going to have final fours in anything but stadiums,
so that, you know, that's let me see final four sits here
we go after that larger dome stations. Uh, Okay, it was a
twenty thousand that's the last time. That was the last time basketball first facility,
basketball arena, we threw off the twenty thousand spectators supposed to be concluding
that was the last time. Okay, that was the last that That's what
it says here in New Jersey. After that dome shaped, the facilities took
over. Okay from that. From that, that was before that too,
though, because ninety six was the Meadowlands. Ninety seven would have been ninety
seven was in the RCA Dome. So that's when yeah, oh, that's
right. I was at that one. So that was the first one that
they said, okay, oh and then and then they were having them a
state where they if it was in a stadium, it was pushed up against
one end. And then at some point I think it was the it was
one that was at the one that was in in in Detroit at Ford Field
where they started putting the court in the center. Okay, all right,
I got it. Okay, okay, Well that was the last one that
was in a basketball and I thought it was big. I thought it was
a bigger place. I can't remember that far obviously. Yeah, because yeah,
okay, let's take a break. We're going to come back. Chrissy
you knew her as Almond Lighton. She's not Chrissy Peram, not former.
She's an Olympic champion back from ninety ninety six, Steve ninety six, ninety
two, ninety sixty two. She went to the Olympics ninety two. Okay,
ninety two Olympics. She'll be here. We'll talk about getting ready for
the Olympics. What's that like? So stay around for Chrissy perm The Window
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Hey, welcome back to em the ball Here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jacobsausonophone. We have nineteen ninety two Olympian Chrissy
Perham. Hi s your lasting Perham Haram crimes is harm param nine. We're
ever gonna forget it now? No I know, Hey, ninety two,
this is it seem like ninety two. That is just a couple of years
ago. Guys, Why why are you gonna be so ages just because we're
old dudes. We're old dudes, But this is how we keep finding each
other. It's it's a blessing. Yes, part of your greatest time of
your life. Oh my gosh, Yes, like I. Of course,
every quadrennial the Olympics come around, and I'm like, god, it's so
clear and I remember it so well, and you know, another four years
have gone by, you're like, oh my god, I am so old.
But yeah, I mean it's those those a couple of years of college
when I had a lot of success and then of course culminating in the Olympics
like changed the whole trajectory of my life. So I'm I love it.
It's the best. Did you get juiced uff this time? You know when
they're when they're coming up, or you start paying attention to you know who's
who and stuff like that, are you Oh my god? Yes? But
every every year at the Olympic Trials. So I actually texted, I know
a name you guys will probably be familiar with Kellas Sanders. I texted her
maybe the week of Olympic Trials starting for swimming, and I'd had this really,
really, really intense dream where I was seated second going into finals in
the hunter freestyle and I was in lane five and I ended up getting seventh
and not making the team, and like I woke up in a cold sweat.
So I mean, I don't know if it ever goes away, like
the sale of watching the people make the team, a little bit of heartache,
a little bit of sadmus. But yeah, Olympic trials and the Olympics
are awesome. So let me ask you a dumb question, because we cover
elite athletes all the time in college and in pro and you're you're obviously one
of those elite athletes. How do you become an elite athlete? Let's say
you're good? What do you can you just? Are you just good?
Uh? How do you get to the next level? Yeah? What pushes
you next? Yeah? So, first of all, see, there are
no dumb questions that are just dumb people who ask questions. I'm just sitting
you know, I adore you, So I think, yeah, if you're
good, but you don't have the resources, or you have a coach that
maybe isn't prepared to raise you up, or you are in a team sport
and your team isn't very deep. I mean, what you know, being
great isn't going to do you any good. So for me, like when
people want to understand kind of like what it's like to be an elite athlete
or how to get to an elite level, and I would say this with
being a violinist, with being a singer, you know anything, you want
to be the greatest Finnish carpenter, if you aren't surrounded by people who want
to push you and raise your level of success, if you maybe aren't mature
enough at the time to kind of respect the growth process, you know all
of those things. Yeah, then you know, the world is filled with
talented people who aren't doing anything that reminds me of So I'm sure you were
you know these people, uh and you probably were teammates of this people have
the talent but didn't want to be coached. Oh yeah, and and and
what's said is I am very close with people who were so coachable and wanted
to please and worked so hard and didn't have the talent level to reach that
level of success. So it cuts both ways. Yeah, no, I
hear, I hear that, because we see like in some of these individual
sports, like a golfer, right, you see, how did that guy
get or that person gets so good? Right when you know, I mean
you know what, I've remember some people that you know, I covered a
lot years ago. But you know, we're playing at Pima, playing at
the Evane he said, Okay, they're pretty good, but I'll give you
a name. Now we talk about all DeAndre Aiden. Okay, he's tall,
he's good, but he's good. He's only when he wants to be.
Yeah, you know, but they or they were, they were kind
of average in college and all of a sudden they're superstars in in you know,
in the in the major leagues or whatever. Trevor Hoffman, he was
a shortstop, and he was a pretty good shortstop. He had a great
arm, and all of a sudden, the guy's in the Hall of Fame,
in the Baseball Hall. And I think like it was the magic So
clearly, clearly these are amazingly talented athletes, right, you know, And
and pretty much I would say that there are there diamond doesn't At any college
level in sports, you're going to find talented people. What what was the
magic sauce for them? Being you know, maguration maybe sort of someone like
Trevor, like someone putting eyes on him saying, you know, I think
I think he can probably be a pretty good reliever, Like what do you
think about that? And and Trevor was mature enough at the time to be
like I'd love to give that a shot. Let me try that out.
You know, Yeah, there's you know that kind of luck. Sometimes it's
made right. Sometimes it really is just plain dunblock, Like I don't think
that you and I would be talking. And if we didn't have Frank Bush
show up in you know, nineteen eighty nine, Well, I was gonna
ask that when when did when did the switch come on for you that you
thought, not only can I be a good college swimmer, I can be
an Olympian? When did you? When did that realization happen? And how
did that happen? So my freshman and sophomore years were I was an All
American on the swim team, and I was probably going to four or five
packses a week out of ten, like, not dedicated at all, not
motivated, certainly, not respectful of the gifts that I had been given.
And Frank and I had a little come to Jesus and so he like basically
told me, you need to take two weeks away, you know, like
I might kill you. So take two weeks away and we'll come back and
have a conversation. And I about a week in, I woke up one
morning and I was like, man, is this you want to live your
life, like is this the kind of athlete you want to be? Like?
Are you proud of yourself? You look in the mirror and you're like,
oh yeah, I'm satisfied. So I called Frank and I was like,
hey, I'd love to have a meeting with you. I feel like
I had an epiphany. And I came and I had a conversation with him,
and he like nodded and looked at his watch and I was like,
okay, well practice starts in amount and a half hour. And I remember
being so angry, like, dude, I'm telling you, like I'm going
to be a star for you, like you know, well, of course
I was the girl who cried wolf, like you know, the proof is
in the pudding. So I spent literally like the next ten weeks. I
never missed a practice morning night. I was crushing the weight room, I
was crushing everything in the pool. And that was the summer I won my
first national championship. I mean it sounds that easy. I'm clearly like there
were other things in play. But if you really really try hard, like
things will change. Will you become a national champion? That's not for me
to say, but you know, half assing you know, excuse my French.
Half assing everything certainly is only going to give you half of what you
probably could be earning. I also know you and maybe a wrong and bear
with these questions because I'm just a dumb question askers. You're type A and
kind of crazy a little bit, so that helps. That helps for this,
It does. Oh yeah, like I would, you know, I
want to rip your heart out when I'm playing pick a ball mouth. Yeah,
like that's really hard for it to That's hard for you know, to
temper when you're young, you know, like getting kicked out of basketball games
and fouling out like half of every basketball game when I was in high school
and stuff. But you can turn that into something that's more internal and not
external. Where I never really felt like I was competing with the people that
I was swimming against. Those were my friends. I wanted to win because
that was like what was inside my body, you know. And I do
think you can hone that, but I don't think that you can. I
don't think you can teach that happened to Chrissy Parham nineteen ninety two Olympian Arizona
national champion. So Chrissy the Olympics are coming up, they're just a few
weeks away. Think back to your time getting ready for the Olympics. What
were the last couple of weeks, like you remember, what were you doing,
What were you not doing right to make sure that you were ready.
What's the preparation from here on out over say the last two three weeks before
you start competing. So something really different this year, and they've done it
a couple times since. In nineteen ninety two, we had Olympic trials in
March and then the Olympics where like I swam July thirty, so so there
was like a big window. We didn't go straight from trials to art,
straight to a camp to you know, straight to the Olympic forever. So
it was a little bit different. So between March and July for me,
things like no more playing pickup ball at Bardown Gym. You know, like
we're not gonna do that anymore. We're we don't need a you know,
busted wrist or whatever. We're gonna we're gonna pay a little bit more attention
to you know, how you're gonna taper without me around because back in the
old days, like your coach didn't get to travel with you the way they
do now. So some of the preparation is different in like timing and all
that stuff whatever, but but some of it's the same. You want to
stay healthy, you want to be rested, you want to be eating right,
you want to enjoy the process. You know, you're not going to
see very many athletes like You're gonna see serious faces, just like you do
if it's you know, the World Series or it's the super Bowl, you're
gonna see serious faces. You're also going to see people that are out there
like this is what I do, man, Like this is what I made
for. I'm gonna love it and I'm gonna have a really good time when
I'm doing it. So I think a lot of it was the physical,
the Hayes in the in the barn. It's the mental. It's not letting
the pressure and the and the build up and all the excitement like get you
distracted. I can't remember the opposition back in ninety two, maybe the Chinese
women, But was there when you've gotten there, when you got into the
pool that were getting ready to pull do were you thinking, oh gosh,
she's tough, but I'm still gonna kick her ass. Were there people that
you thought like that, or you just said I am oom and I'm gonna
I'm gonna win. Yeah. I never really got super into like who my
competition was. But by the time I went to the Olympics, I had
already been ranked number one in the world, so like I did feel like
it was mine to lose, which you know, I got second to a
Chinese athlete. It's suspected doper. So like I feel like caveat that sometimes
without trying to sound like surly Shirley Babyshas or whatever, but you you know,
you have to, Like I don't think that there are very many athletes
that you're giving respect to the people that you're performing against, but that's not
the measure. Like I don't think Steph Curry is out there like, oh
I wonder if I'm a better shooter than you know what I mean. Like
I don't think Angel Reese is worried, like how many double doubles she just
put under her belt, you know, like fifteen straight. Like she's out
there just doing her thing and loving it and that's what's making her successful.
Wow. Okay, I'm gonna ask you a very unfair question. Okay,
this is we see. This is one of those you know, who's your
favorite kid? Which one's your favorite kid? So you want a golden relay,
actually two gold in relays, right because you were Yeah, and then
you won a silver in an individual event, which one kind of feels better
to you. So I hope this doesn't sound like a cop out. Friend,
the Deadly Relay where we won the gold and broke the world record,
like I am, I'm a team girl, like the relays were my most
favorite thing about being an athlete, just like that's why I loved basketball,
So that one is really special. I got to do that with my teammates.
It was so exciting to break the world record. We crushed it like
gold medal and stuff. However, I do want to say winning the silver
when I quote should have won the gold, end quote, it was a
really good reminder that you can do everything right and sometimes it's not going to
end the way you want it to. And that's okay too. Okay,
that doesn't feel like a cop out, No, no, it doesn't.
So do the kids today. The athletes today amaze you, Oh my god,
the women's swimming in America, the women's collegiate group that you know from
Virginia, the young high school girls that made the team from Carmel, Indiana.
You know, our brother made it too. Like they are they are
such experts in their sport in they're in their like talented areas. Like I
love watching people like Lily King, I love watching the Walsh sisters. I
I mean, it's just it's breathtaking, Kay Douglas, Like who is it
who wins the hundred freestyle, wins the two hundred? I am, but
also wins the tune of breas Like this is like someone like Kenny Lawson definitely,
you know, the most amazing one of the most amazing athletes probably to
come out eve being really great in two sports. This would be like being
a really great baseball pitcher, but you're also a great golfer, but you
also swim and dive, Like I don't like that, doesn't none of those
would go together? Yeah? Interesting? And yet there she is. She's
like crushing breaking a world record, an American record, which is amazing.
So let me ask you, so, if you swim against them with your
time and their time is it are you far behind? No? And that's
really funny that you are mentioning that because I have a friend who I swam
with in college. He still is in Phoenix and we are very close.
We you know, are talking swimming all the time, or swimming, basketball,
baseball, whatever. We love talk about sports. And he texted me
when when the world record was broken in the hunter fully at trials and he
was like, hey, what was your time? And I was like,
oh my god, like she crushes me, Like, you know, I
went like a fifty eight something or whatever, And like two minutes later he's
texting back, he goes, you would have made semi finals with that.
Wow, are you kidding me? So, like, I'm not anywhere close
to winning that ship has obviously passed, but you know, my time so
I could throw down, so it makes me feel good. Yeah, okay,
well, yeah, great to have you on the show. This is
fun. Yeah, guys, I love talking shop. You know, I
love talking sports with you guys. Yeah. No, no, great to
have you. Enjoy the rest of your summer wherever you're at. I'm not
going to say poor you're luck. Well let's just say I'm not sweating as
much as I normally would be. Okay, Well, I'm gonna be in
your area next week, so maybe I run into you. I would love
that you have my number friends. Thank you man, thanks in as in
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This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gaxalez on Fox Sports
fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to my in the Ball hero Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay, and then you have Henry with
for the next fourteen minutes. If you'll want to call five two zero four
one, six seventy four forty. It's always good to talk to too.
Yeah. Time to Christy. She is fun, high, strong, is
all heck. And the thing about it is, I think I think it
takes one of one of those people to be who they are, Yeah,
because they're elite athletes. Yeah, you have to have kind of a sense
of urgency and everything you do right, because again, the difference between the
great athlete who makes some thing of that and the great athlete who doesn't is
is the mental aspect of it. Right. Who's willing to do the prep,
Who's willing to do the work, no question, Who's willing to uh,
you know, sacrifice all those things get in order to in order to
give you a name right now, and I think I think the world has
been of a player here, one of the best collideriefs. Yep, how
do you have that Damon Sadoma attitude? He would have been in the league
for twelve fifteen years, right right, kicking the crap out of the committy.
It was, Yeah, he was, he was. He was kind
of a little bit laid back. Yeah, he didn't have that sense of
urgency that you need to have, right you know. And the passion maybe
is a word. Yeah, and that counts, man, Yeah, it
does. And then and then there's son, Oh, got a call,
take this call. Hi, you're on the air, Andine on the ball
the afternoon you got It's just your buddy, gave all you got, Dave.
Where do you been, man, it's been a long time. I'm
just trying to apply for zerobo conservation positions at in Fresno. Okay, So
I'm just trying. I'm just busy trying the trying to pursue a job in
wildlife conservations. Did you did you you finished school? Did you finish school?
Finally, so I decided not to go to Arizona because because I don't
want to like get to call it debt and moving from present, moving from
Preston to Arizona, it's probably definitely gonna be a big money muncher. And
I don't know how much University of Arizona is charging for over for how does
state students go to the University Arizona. So on the like I said,
I'm a huge wildcatsan, but you gotta be realist. All right, we'll
get best luck on all that. So what's on your mind today? Just
kind of want to be us with you guys. Honestly I said this before.
Arizona needs to win to get the recruiting momentum, and they need to
they need to win every single game, and so that's what I need to
say. Well, that's a lot the You know, the Kansas State game
is gonna be a huge game, right, yeah, you game is gonna
be even bigger. The UCF game is probably gonna be on the verge of
an upset. So yeah, So, Gabe, the thing that we've been
talking about is seven and a half wins over seven and a half, over
eight and a half. Uh, you'll probably say over eight and a half.
I don't. I don't do the betting because I don't bet. I
don't bet. I don't understand betting. But I think us as Arizona fans
will be happy for a nine wins to loss. But you gotta you gotta
strike with with the on the You gotta strike when the getting is good.
Yeah. Yeah, I think you do not need to play stupid games and
win stupid product is you gotta you gotta have the initiative. You gotta be
like a Napoleon Bonaparte. Okay, what what record? What's the most wins
that would be a disappointment to you know what? I'm trying to get a
you know, would you be happy with eight and four? Uh? Probably
not with seven and five. You probably would be with nine and three.
Where do they have to get to for you to feel like this was a
good season with all the expectations and stuff that are out there for this team.
I will be happy with an eight and four record. I will go
I'll be happy with a nine and two record. I'll be even more happy
if Arizona can make a run and go in the national championship. Knock on,
would But I don't think a seven and five would be would be great
right to involved motivating the Arizona sad base. Like I said a couple of
weeks ago, it was nineteen ninety nine, Arizona was on the top of
the moon and it basically went crashing down. And in twenty fifteen the same
old, same old thing happened, which is when not the Arizona Wildcouts were
basically Arizona widely the coyote. Yeah, so real quick, Gabe, how
does the kid out of friends though? And you're about twenty something, right,
twenty eightish, I think if I can remember quickly falling over the UV.
So, I have four friends from my hat from my high school.
So I went to Central High School. One of my friends, his name
was Nick Wilson. He was the number twenty eight, was the running back,
and my other friends were at Devon Brewer. He was kind of like
a backup. Another person that went to Arizona was Ke Wilson, and another
person was Shariff Williams. And and they went to the University of Arizona,
so and so yeah, yeah, and my other friend they went to and
and my other friend that I graduated, who who was on the who played
football, So I played football with them and another friend I that we know.
His name is his name is Smallwood and he went to the school,
the school up north. But I don't root for them. So you can
calm down, you can make you can take a big breath. So I'm
I'm still rocking the American College, the Red, White and Blue. Good
all right, Kate, thanks for calling, man, appreciate it. We'll
talk again. I know anytime. Beer down Arizona, go cass Let's get
him. It's good to hear from game. Okay. Since I was looking
at the wind, total is still eight on draft kings, probably still seven
and a half one. I don't think anything's changed. I was looking at
the odds for the Big twelve Championship. You've got utadd three plus three twenty
is it to win it? To win the Pack to win the Big twLF
Championship. Take this call, Hi, you're on the air and on on
the ball. J done, Don, what's up? How are you?
I'm good man. I guess first first, okay, we're having a hard
time. We're having a hard time hearing you. You're looking a chamber echo
chamber. This much better? Yes, okay, first things first, keep
the Raiders out of your mouth. I was trying to I was trying to
call in yesterday. But our guys in the league that that was their lifelong
dream to play for the Raiders once again. I wanted to try really hard
to be a Raiders fan because they were going to be you know, I
don't really care about the Cards. I thought I could become a Raiders fan
with them being in Vegas, and I just haven't been able to turn that
button, you know, push that button and hit it. So they got
to figure it out. They got to start winning and winning in the playoffs
and stuff like that. But you know, because it's hard, man,
it made it. Being a Raiders fan has has made us a tough,
resilient group. I considered a football game and not screaming yell yeah, because
the bottom is going to fall out at some point. Yeah yeah. But
what I've been wanting to bring up was I was looking at Kansas's basketball schedule
last year for last season, uh huh, and the come the rhythm the
Pac twelve schedule always had We're gonna lose that, we lose that, Yeah,
we totally lose that. There's gonna be games all different days of the
week. Yeah, Kansas started on a Saturday, then they played Wednesday,
then they played Saturday, then they played Tuesday, then they played Saturday,
then they played Monday. And I think you're gonna hear a lot more complaining
from the people that were complaining that the Big Twelve Championship wasn't gonna be in
in Vegas. Yeah. Yeah, they're gonna be whining and crying. I
never know when the game is. Yeah, there's no travel partners like like,
uh, you know the way the Big Twelve said up right, just
geographically. Yeah, so there's no travel partners where you go and you know,
ASU plays the team that you play, you know, two days later.
Not No, there's none of that. It's it's scattered all over the
place. There's gonna be games all different days of the week. And that's
because of what we have, back to back road games with West Virginia and
Direction of Florida. Yeah, and ones on Tuesday, and then the next
game is not till the next Saturday. Yeah, you're gonna stay out there
all that time to not have to come home, or it's gonna be interesting,
Doug. This is when the charters take effect, right right. But
now it's you know one, you'd like to think that the schedule makers will
figure that out, right, don't don't send Arizona to the East Coast and
back to back games or send somebody from the East Coast to you know,
to here. But since they nobody thought maybe we should schedule Arizona and Kansas
twice in this first year, nobody thought that was smart. So who knows
what they're gonna do with the schedule. But yes, be prepared for games
to be all different nights. It's not gonna be Thursday Saturday or Thursday Sunday
anymore. Yeah, it's it's gonna be crazy. Yeah, it's gonna be
nuts. It's gonna take some time to get used to that because the the
Thursday Saturday rid on more the Thursday Sunday if it was Arizona U C.
L A. I mean, you just had that rhythm of the basketball season.
It was a lot like it was a lot like the high school seasons
where they played like Tuesday and Friday nights. Yeah, you know, and
you had that rhythm. And now it's gonna be what I thought the game
was tomorrow, Oh no tonight. Yeah, it'll be funny, it'll be
interesting. To see how Arizona fans absorbed that. But again it's because ESPN
wants games on, you know, every night of the week, and that's
that's that's all about. So thanks Tony, Hey, take care guys.
All right, thanks a much, thanks for the call. No, he's
right, I mean that's gonna be odd for you know, because that rhythm
has been since it became the Pac ten right, right. This year was
kind of odd too because they did to go for one game and then come
back. Do you remember do you remember the I know this was in my
first year covering basketball, but every week there was one trip was Sunday or
Saturday Monday. Remember those It was always a Monday night. That's because like
when Arizona uh the UCLA, Arizona's two games that they won here in the
bc LA, that was a Saturday Monday. The usc game was on a
Monday, the Spaghetti Yes. And I remember the first first year I covered
basketball the u c l A, the l A trip was a Saturday Monday.
Yeah. Well, by the time I started covering in ninety one,
it was it was Thursday, Saturday, Thursday, Saturday, and Thursday Sunday,
right, And that was great because you get to spend the weekend in
the night city get away. My first year, the Bay Area trip was
a Thursday Sunday, so that was cool. I had an actra day of
San Francisco restaurant, big time Manchoo all day, all day. Yeah,
no, it was fun. It was fun, a lot of fun.
And then moving from Stanford to Calier back but it was real quick. I
was going through the odds here. So you top plus three twenty to win
the big twelve of Kansas State next to plus three eighty. So those are
Arizona's first two, you know, the their thirty fourth games of the season.
Arizona is plus one thousand. In between, You've got Kansas, Oklahoma
State at seven fifty, Kansas at nine hundred, then Central Florida, Iowa
State in Arizona all at plus one thousand, one thousand, one hundred bucks
to win eleven hundred about. No, that's a it's a good price.
Yeah, a little scratch ten bucks out one hundred and ten. Yeah,
yeah, that's worth that thing's worth it. I've already got a bunch of
money on the over over eight gap. You're not hearing this, gay,
Yeah, yeah, you's not we gotta go. Yeah, we gotta go.
I gotta go see my lid. All right, thanks Henry for you
do a great job. Hey, nice job, Henry. All right,
we'll be back tomorrow. Would love to take your calls when we get back.
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