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This is I on the Ball with
Steve Rivera and Jakin Salis on Fox Sports

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Welcome to I on the Ball here
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.

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He's Jakin's house. Got our guy
Jason in today. Good afternoon,

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gentlemen. Then I use that phrase, Lucy Jason the gentleman art Jason.

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Yeah, I think you are.
Think so he has to pass our summer

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class. He's got about coming solf
and then he goes to the real world.

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Are you having fine? Man?
Oh yeah, I'm having the bliff

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all right. He's learning. He's
learned more than I have at that boarder.

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Yeah. Well, you know,
we can teach people a lot.

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Just got to get him a job. Jason learned that Jason learned in your

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trick Today, he's gonna pro play
him going out to commercial. Okay,

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he's on it. Man. Hope
some some good music, same music we're

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gonna we always have. We gotta
make some more. I given you the

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go ahead if you've got a song
that or songs that you feel you think

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we should play. I'm going out. Let me know, by the way,

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did you ever do some homework for
us or your homework that we have

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Nina Turner, Tina Turner, Nina
Turner. Oh my god, he clearly

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did not, Steve, he clearly
did not. I mean it was like,

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what two weeks ago, I think
I did? And what about what

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about Donna Summer? I don't think
I heard? Oh why did you?

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Because we just sent the same clips
since Yeah, the two songs you guys

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put in, I did, and
they're they're okay, they weren't. You

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hadn't heard him before, No,
I hadn't never, never wanted to.

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And that little steak of yours.
What do I listen to? Yeah,

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it's like whatever, Like hold your
dad, I told your dad, um

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forty five. He still he still
love to listen to our kind of bro

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seventies Steve. You know, we've
got all the the cable channels, right,

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So I go to MTV Classics and
they're all songs that like three years

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ago classics, Yeah channel, because
I go to the seventies table, it's

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like it's like no, no,
but it's a it's a it's it's an

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MPV channel. It's like in the
low hundreds, you know, on on

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the on the on the directory.
But I go to MPV Classics expecting to

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hear, you know, something from
the BGS, some Earth Wind and Fire,

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and it's like some rapper that I've
never heard of before, and that's

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supposed to be classics. I mean, yeah, those kind of shows you're

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not gonna care like music like the
eighties or nine. They need to have

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old guys played, like the early
two thousands. Well yeah, exactly in

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my in what's called my Gap.
Yeah yeah, okay, cool, welcome

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everybody started to bore you. Yeah, but we have a pretty good show

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today. Just kind of an imprompt
two typics. Yeah you know, uh

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um, Well, the Las Vegas
Nights won the Stanley Cup last night and

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their goalie happens to be a guy
who played for the two Sun road Runners.

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Have a dream Yeah, no kidding, And so we're gonna we're gonna

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bring on Adrian Denny. Um.
I got the brainstorm on that. I

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went on Justin Spears show this justin
Ali this morning, and Adrian was on

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just before me. I said,
hey, there's a guest for us Adrian,

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we'll get him on our show.
So, Uh, Adrian's going to

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just talk about the Stanley Cup and
then you know, having a having an

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alum when the uh you know win
the Cup, which is pretty cool,

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you know because we all kind of
went crazy in this time when Nick Foles

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won. Uh. Uh, you
don't won a Super Bowl, you know,

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we we you know, he's one
of ours. So it was neat.

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It was neat to have that.
So we'll see what Adrian Hill what's

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the guy's name, Aiden Hill?
A Hill? And he did he play?

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Was he? Yeah? He was
the goalie? Was the start of

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Yeah, well he had a thing
in it. And then uh, that'll

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be at three fifteen, then four
fifteen. Lonnie Taverty who's yet been the

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athletic director and the and the girls
a basketball coach at UH push ridd Christian

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for twenty years, I think thirty
something like that. Um. I ran

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into Lonnie a number of times,
uh in my day supporting my kids at

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UH, at Saint Gregory and the
Gregory School. UM, just a guy.

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One of those guys has been around
high school sports for a really long

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time. He's he's decided to retire. Um, he still looks about twenty

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years younger than both you and I, Steve, So I don't know what

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he's retiring too, but or why, but he is retiring. Ask he

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was okay to come, what are
you gonna do with your time? Too?

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Too young? Yeah, too young
to put on the shelf. Yeah,

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but you know, he'll be one
of those guys we can talk to

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you about. You know, how
are things different today that you were when

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you started doing that? That's exactly
and it doesn't seem twenty years ago is

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a long time ago, but it
kind of is. Well, when you

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think about all that's changed in twenty
years, there's a lot that's changed.

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And I'm you know, I'm talking
about you know, my you know,

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my kids were playing high school sports
in two thousand. My youngest started playing

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hig school sports in two thousand and
eight, so that's fifteen years ago.

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There's a lot. It's way different
now than it was even that. And

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so, um, whether it's high
school where you got things, you know,

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all the you know, the rating
services and this and that and the

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other, and you know the way
social media and all those things that have

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happened. Um, you know,
it's it's way different. Yeah, Okay,

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I still kind of want to talk
about the discussion I brought up at

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the end of the show. Uh
what do you love about sports? What

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do you like that? And uh, what's special about sports? You know,

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I can't remember. I'll tell you
one of the things I really like

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about it now, because I'd rather
talk about that than politics and all the

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other crap going on around us.
Right, where's politics? Crime? Uh,

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you know all the stuff that the
hate that's going on to social media.

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Stuff sports gives you, I think
gives me an outlet of I mean,

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I mean, you know I have
I have three Twitter threats that I

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that I run those Your problem right
there, Well, well, I'll explain

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one is. One is and you
and I are both on it is the

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Eye on the Ball Twitter, which
is all sports. Right. Occasionally a

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sports person that we follow comes in
with some comments about politics, but in

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general that that feed is strictly sports. That I have my personal one where

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I've got a mix of sports and
you know, the news that I want

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to get or the news sources that
I want to get. You know,

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I follow the New York Times,
Washington Posts, you know some of those

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things that you know, I end
up with a lot of stuff that I

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really don't want to read, but
I know it's there for me to read

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if I feel I need to or
want to. So it's a mix.

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And then I've got this one that
I run for you know, all the

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football pool, all the polls that
I run, which is pretty much all

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sports, and we kick out anything
that isn't that but the one but mine

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personally, I go to it only
when I know there's something going on important

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that I feel I need to know
about. Right Otherwise, all I want

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for my social media is sports,
information about sports, stuff about sports.

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I feel like I'm more a little
more versed in the NBA, maybe even

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a little bit of hockey and you
know, some of the other sports because

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maybe I don't go read every article
that comes across and I don't I see

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headlines, I see comments, I
see stuff, and that's my outlet.

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Um. You know, I once
got accuse of putting my head in the

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sand because I don't want to hear
the political stuff and said, my head

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and eye in the sand. I
know what's going on out there, just

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don't want it. I just don't
want to surround myself. Yeah, in

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fact, I'm with you on that. In fact, my cousins who are

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involved in that somewhere else ask me, how come you don't post stuff like

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this? Well, uh, I
using Michael Jordan and Republicans by Tennis Hues

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too. And I know we have
advertisers. Advertisers are both Democrats and Republicans.

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I ain't gonna piss them up.
And I'm not, you know,

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and and and honestly, what's the
use? Yeah, what's you know?

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Exactly? It's funny because I just
saw a trade young tweet. This is

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how stupid the Twitter world isn't I
I'm rarely on it, But he tweeted

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We're next or we're next the Hawks
right right after seeing and everyone jumped him.

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Jumped him because that I ain't gonna
happen, blah blah blah. Who

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couldn't. Can't you just say hey, we're next? Pretty simple? Yeah,

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who are you gonna say you're next? No, you're gonna you're gonna

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invest in yourself? Yeah you can't. You can't say anything online without people

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coming after you. It doesn't make
any sense, doesn't the best? Oh

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no, you're not. Well,
shut up. I'm gonna admit that I

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just went after some guys. Uh. ESPN justin Ali posted a poll would

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rather go to a rose ball or
a final four? And the majority of

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people said a final four? And
so I went on the basically I said

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it niceness. I said, it's
not even close. It's a rose ball.

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But we talked about this when we
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the people who are saying it's a
final four are people who weren't here in

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nineteen seventy eight when Arizona got into
the pack ten. No question, We're

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going to some rose balls and we'll
still haven't no question. Well, you

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know these polls. Uh, they
had a poll about ten years ago,

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whatever it was years ago, the
best moments in MacHale Center, Best best

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moments in MacHale Center. You know
what the number one was? It was

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the the the block, Uh,
Derrick Williams block. Are you exactly?

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The best moment in Michale cent in
history against Washington. You know why?

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No, no offense to the kids
today, but they don't remember yesterday they

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did. They didn't right beating UCLA
for the first time. Are you kidding

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me? It's just that old people
don't have time. You lugging into this

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one hundred one hundred percent. You
know it's it's I there was something I

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was gonna I was gonna say to
that, but I mean, you're okay.

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Here's what I was gonna say.
How many how many Arizona fans maybe

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went to that National Championship nineteen ninety
seven, How many Arizona fans were there?

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Maybe what three four thousand? Did
you guys ever determine or no?

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It was a pretty good section.
But from maybe five thousand, maybe seven

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thousand, fifty thousand people would go
Arizona fans would go to the would go

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to a Rose Bowl and there would
be a lot of people left out.

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It wouldn't get It would remind me
how remember in New Mexico State came here

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for the Tucson would be the same
thing happened with Kansas State back in the

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Corper when when they came to the
Copper Bowl, it was the first bowl

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game they'd been to in like three
hundred years, and they filled the place

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up. That's bizarre because you've been
to a final four four times. Yeah,

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you could, you could. You
could sell I bet you you could

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sell two hundred thousand Rose Bowl tickets
and two Sun Arizona if they got into

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the Rose Bowl. Not that I'm
saying if everybody, if you had enough

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tickets for everybody, I bet you
could sell two hundred thousand tickets, it

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would be a party. Certainly,
six figures, it would be a party.

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Yeah. How many? Was it
a big crowd for the festival for

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the last festival? Uh? Yeah, whatever it was. I was there.

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I was there, and I was
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it was cold as house, how
but yeah, no, we you know,

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we jumped on tickets for that because
we thought that there would you know,

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that they would run out. I
think I think it was I don't

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know if it was a salad,
but it was pretty cool. Another one

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that was very full too. That
was hard to get tickets too, was

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the uh was the uh the ninety
eight to holiday boat. We needed a

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block of like forty tickets and we
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We had to buy them from And
what was the what was the vote?

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It was like fifty four percent,
uh, final final four and and

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uh, I'll give it to you
because I had it right here, and

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some I'm like fifty four percent Final
four and I'm like, guys, you

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don't what anybody who says that has
been here long enough. Here it is.

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It was, um, is there
enough sample size? It was,

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Oh that's pretty good. Where would
you go fifty? There's no bad answer?

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Yeah, you know there, Yes, there is. There is a

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bad answer. Rose Bowl. I
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because because um, you're more of
a basketball. I'm more of a basketball.

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I think I haven't seen it,
so I feel like I don't I

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haven't seen the Rose Bowl. Yeah, I haven't seen that either, but

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I think I would enjoy more of
us being in the final four. Then.

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I mean that explains it right there. I think I think the people

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who voted for that or who were
up in the morning actually listens to the

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show. I'm not one because it's
too early in the morning for me that

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day. Would vote for the Final
four because there's a sectionist to it,

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but they just don't know about the
roads boat. Yeah, it was fifty

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six point two for the Final four
and forty three point eight four. I

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wonder what the breakdown demographically would be. Well, they're all younger people.

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No, that's my point. There's
very very few older people. It's it's

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all younger people and who just you
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Final four is find force a bigger
deal. You know, it's a national

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championship as opposed to you know,
a football game. But no, I

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get it. You'd you'd sell your
left arm to the to get there.

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I sound a kid. Yeah,
I definitely sell a kid. Yeah,

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you know, and I probably throw
in a Q in a lot of the

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group that the old dudes that you
talk to. Yeah, yeah, we

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all would. Yeah. Well you
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to go there before you Yeah,
so wait, we've had the conversation.

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Would would you be okay for Arizona
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And we all unanimously said yes,
get a hold on we get a

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hold of Carol peak Carrol, because
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if you go and they take it
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away from the fact that you went. Dais going I can't go on that

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show ever again. Yeah, acknowledging, acknowledging your thoughts. Okay, cool,

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let's let's get ready to get out
of here. We're gonna talk to

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again, Adrian coming on, we're
talking about I haven't heard any news reports

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about about what happened, you know, post game. I was looking for

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last night, if anybody died,
I said on Brian Peterson's What's he over

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under in Casual Pizza? Yeah,
especially in Vegas. Yeah, but you

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see they're gonna they're gonna do the
parade on a Saturday night in Vegas?

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Is it down the strip on the
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without the parade, I know,
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no, I I because I guess
I did the shooting that you mentioned

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in Denver. That was a separate
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drug deal that was going on,
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and the shooting broke, and the
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ten people got shot. It wasn't
related to It wasn't related to the It

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was a fat drug deal. It
was like not here downtown when when there

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was at one time, it wasn't
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they were turning cards over. But
they did see something a video something where

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somebody fell from something. And the
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But I haven't heard that that from
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so I don't know and anyways,
but okay, so let's uh,

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let's go and take our break right
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there waiting. I knew you were
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first one, dude, I knew
it all right, Let's get out.

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hey? What's up? How's it
going? We're doing well? How is

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the summer treating you? It's not
even summer. How's the late spring treating?

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Yeah, late spring. I tried
to. I had to get Steve

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straight on his seasons. We're still
a few days away from summer. Yeah,

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isn't that wild? Uh, it's
it's kind of been springing to son,

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it's only been a hundred like twice. No, I guess. I

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guess it's going great, isn't it. Don't drink? So don't just so

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we First of all, I saw
that you were. You were up bright

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and early, just like I was
this morning too with Justin and Ali talking

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about the Stanley Cup and the Roadrunners
having a having an alum in the uh,

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you know, carrying the Stanley Cup
last night. What was that like

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for you guys as a franchise.
Yeah, it was really special, especially

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because it was it was one of
our our first guys that that was here

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to help introduce a lot of people
to professional hockey with the Roadrunners, Aiden

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Hill. He was our first goalies, one of five players that played for

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us our first five seasons we had. We had five of those guys,

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and and so I think if if
you mentioned Aiden Hill, uh to folks

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and two sons more more than not
would identify him as a Roadrunner just because

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he was with us for five years. He was the first goalie that a

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lot of people saw it the TCC
plans for us our all time leader in

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every goaltender category still, so it
was it was special. And you know

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what was has been really awesome,
guys, over the last twenty four hours,

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the amount of people and it really
I thought it was really special.

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Like we try and be out in
the community and out with our fans and

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our players, interacting and getting to
know everybody. And the amount of people

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who have tweeted or posted on Facebook
or Instagram photos that they got with Aiden

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Hill when he was a Roadrunner after
a game at a season ticket member event.

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You know, somewhere out in the
community. It's it's been. It's

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been amazing, And I just thought
that was that was really cool that so

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many people had a photo with Aiden
and an Aiden's story, a favorite Aiden

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memory. As we're sharing him with
the rest of the hockey world right now.

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That's funny because I was just going
to ask you, I'm sure that

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the Roadrunners can figure out a way
to market to where dreams began or something

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like that, because if he was
part of you guys, you can.

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All these guys want to get there, right, they want to be here.

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Yeah, And it's it's the second
year in a row the starting goalie

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for the Stanley Cup final teams is
play for US something it. Last year

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it was Darcy Kemper who came to
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But it was a big Saturday night
in February at twenty twenty, so

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that you know, you see stuff
like that and it's special a player coming

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down for for one game only,
and you know the guys that were able

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to see and their first experience playing
professional hockey is in Tucson, Arizona,

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and your first your first experience with
something, right, it's always kind of

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kind of what you remember, right, you remember your first car, your

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your first house that you buy,
the first place you worked, Like like

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for these guys, especially in a
spot like this where you want to come

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and live because it's it's so nice
that it's so great to be eighty degrees

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outside and play in pro hockey.
It's special that these guys too when they

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love it. Sure, the amount
of guys over the years that have told

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me, you know, it might
be coming to an end, with the

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Coyotes, with the Roadrunners here,
but me and my wife we've talked about

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coming back here to retire, coming
back here to live, and you see

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a lot of it, and you've
seen a lot of it up in the

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valley with this guy's right, original
Phoenix Roadrunners, original Arizona Coyotes, to

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come here and maybe they leave,
go finish their career, but they come

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back and stay. And I we're
definitely going to see that. And we've

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heard it from a lot of guys
that have played for it. It's kind

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of like you're breaking some minor news
there, I guess, But let me

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ask you a part of that.
The question was going to be, what

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do you think the core fans in
two Snunnar give me if you can give

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me a number. Jay was obviously
with the Sugar Skulls, and I was

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gonna ask you, is there like
a in the thousands in the two thousands

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where you have that core group who
just loves one hockey and then loves the

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Roadrunners. I say, you know, we've we've got fifteen hundred season ticket

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members, right, so we build
on that and and it's it's really a

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market where you can you can look
at and say, well, you've got

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the college crowd, You've got the
tourists that that are here for for for

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a bit, the Snowbirds that the
family community. Like you can you can

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pull from any side and and build
on that base and turn anything into a

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special night. Just we have so
many people in town and so many different

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backgrounds that we can bring to a
hockey game for the first time, or

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they're from markets where they bend up
going to hockey games for years that they

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come here and can come be part
of us. So when when you have

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something like this, a guy like
this who's you know, as you said,

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as you you know the cliches,
they made it to the top of

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the mountain, you know what what
can that do for say a minor league

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franchise like you know, like the
road Runners, as Steve said, you

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know you can tell people, Look, you know you can you can start

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here and you can get there.
Is is there anything that you can do

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with that or how do you do
that? Especially with the Coyotes right now,

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it's you know, they're they're going
through the rebuild, right but the

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guys they're drafting, they're gonna start
here. Ninety percent of the players to

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play in the NHL play in the
HL. So ninety percent of the Coyotes

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core to come is going to come
through Tucson. They have the sixth overall

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pick. They've got the twelfth overall
pick. Last year they had the third

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overall pick. Yere before that traded
up got the ninth overall pick. We've

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seen a lot of guys come through
here. It's it's over fifty that have

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played for both the Coyotes and Roadrunners. And now at fifth stage with the

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Coyotes, you know, really young
and developing players that they've drafted, right,

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We're just gonna see see more and
more of that, and and I

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think you're going to see some really
good teams as as a result. And

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some guys like Aiden Hill that we
see we know, we know the name

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that goes up and all of a
sudden, everybody knows who he is.

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Not that I want you to get
into the weeds, but you did mention

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this, really, but the connection
with the Coyotes and you guys, um,

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Yeah, that's it must be tough
given given the relationship between the two

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and all the politics involved. What's
going on up in Phoenix, right,

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Yeah, you know the vote in
in May and Tempe. It obviously it

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didn't go how we expected. We
thought, okay, this is this is

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great, this is going to pass. We're gonna move on. And it

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didn't pass. Right, So so
disappointed that Matt, but not defeated and

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not without not without options. And
Gary Bettman, the commissioner of the NHL

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said at the Stanley Cup final,
Coyotes have said it repeatedly since then.

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Right, the home is the valley, so the home is Phoenix, the

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home is Arizona. So okay,
option number one it didn't didn't pass.

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We were surprised, right, Right, Politics is politics. But now we've

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we've got other options, and I
think it's it's it's it's exciting that that

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Sometimes I've always felt like sometimes you
have your heart on something, you think

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think something the best, and doesn't
doesn't happen. But maybe your next option

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is the best option. Right,
So I think everybody's just just moving forward

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and and excited for for for what's
to come. But but the commitment from

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from the NHL and from the Coyotes
and the Marella family, who's who's just

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been absolutely amazing for for the Roadrunners
and the Coyotes, is we want to.

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We want to be in Arizona.
We want want the best fit and

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the best best spot for for the
Coyotes in Arizona. So the all the

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hockey is over now, just like
all the all the NBA. So what

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what's next hockey wise for you guys, you know as the Roadrunners? Uh

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what you know, what's on your
agenda? As as the season ends,

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everybody kind of catch your breath and
then and then what how do you how

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do you start cranking up next season? What kinds of things are you starting

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to do already? Yeah, we
had a fun event in May at Hooters

407
00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:11.200
with the Junior Roadrunners and it was
it was really special because they were having

408
00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:15.240
a fundraising event. We donated some
stuff to it, invited our fans and

409
00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:21.839
we had a packed house watching Aidon
Hill and Vegas against against Dallas in the

410
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:26.240
last the last series there. But
anything we can do to get out and

411
00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:30.960
help out and be part of something, especially when hockey's involved. We's got

412
00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:34.079
a draft party that we're gonna be
officially announcing next week, but it's going

413
00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:37.960
to be on Wednesday, June twenty
eighth to TCC. It's gonna be a

414
00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:42.079
free event again we're gonna have a
donation a community component involved with the brand

415
00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:47.319
new the Tucson Family Food Project,
So we've got that. In July,

416
00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:49.960
we're working on something. Hopefully the
Zoo doesn't doesn't get mad at me for

417
00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:53.400
saying this, but we're working on
a big Saturday night at the Zoo with

418
00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:59.000
an event there in August. We're
gonna bring back our Community Day. We

419
00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:02.920
rolled it out as drive for events
during during the COVID shutdown, and it

420
00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:04.559
was one of those things like,
well, man, we need to do

421
00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:08.039
this every year. And then Fan
Fast coming up at September. So working

422
00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:15.079
on something big every month, just
to get out there and get get more

423
00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:21.519
folks involved and uh and just uh
just keep growing. It's funny. You

424
00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:23.759
guys have been part of this in
a big way, but it never stops,

425
00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:27.400
right You one season ends the next
day or maybe a couple of days

426
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:30.920
later, you take a breather,
and then you you get back right at

427
00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:34.680
it. Yeah. My boss,
Bob Hoffman, the president of the road

428
00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:41.200
Runners, has never used the word
off season. So yeah, it's uh,

429
00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:44.519
it's it's we're just always when we
when we're playing, we're playing,

430
00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:47.559
we're busy, right and during the
off season, it's what next, what

431
00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:49.240
can what's next? What can we
do in the community right? And what

432
00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:52.039
can you do better? Right?
Because you're always looking for stuff to do,

433
00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:59.079
either different or better. Do you
know what our our head coach Steve

434
00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:02.599
Poplan, our GM Ferguson, we
talk about it on the hockey side every

435
00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:06.319
day. We want to get one
percent better every day, right for the

436
00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:10.519
players, the coaches, for the
staff. We've taken that to our business

437
00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:14.759
operations as well. Um, we
want to get one percent better every day

438
00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:19.039
on everything we do. And you
keep that, keep that mindset. You're

439
00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:22.640
you're moving forward, but you're not
You're not saying that's what we've always done,

440
00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:26.920
and you're not saying, well,
we'd like to double our attendants,

441
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:30.559
right. Yeah, it's it's just
just incrementally better every day and over the

442
00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:33.599
course of time, you're going to
see your where you want to be.

443
00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:37.799
So you guys got to the playoffs. I mean, so is there sort

444
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:41.240
of a good feeling, a good
buzz around around the organization right now?

445
00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:45.559
You know looking forward to next season? Is getting to the playoffs alone get

446
00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:48.359
you that? Um? You know, because if you have a really bad

447
00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:52.799
year, you know that can stick
quite a bit as well, So what's

448
00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.599
kind of the feeling and the buzz
around the around the organization right now.

449
00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:00.640
We were so excited to get to
the playoffs. Last year we didn't make

450
00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:04.480
the playoffs. This year we did, and we took a lot of guys

451
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:07.200
to the playoffs for the first time, and we had some great leaders.

452
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:11.839
Mike Carconi led the league in scoring, our captain Adam cracknall guys like that,

453
00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.680
Ivan Pros the top our goal.
He was playing playoff hockey for for

454
00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:21.000
the first time then, and we've
been playing kind of a game on our

455
00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:25.400
Insider podcast that we've got on the
iHeart radio up in Fox Sports fourteen sixty

456
00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:27.880
dot com. We've been playing a
game or a segment called we played Coachella

457
00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:32.039
Valley better than You. That's the
team that knocked us out of the playoffs

458
00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:36.119
for the siding game of the series. Right We went into that Sunday afternoon

459
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:40.599
hoping to win and move on.
We didn't. They did there in the

460
00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:44.319
finals. Right now, they're up
two games to one, and we feel

461
00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:48.400
like we've played Coachella Valley better than
any other team so far. So we've

462
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.519
got that we played Coachella Valley better
than you and getting back to the playoffs

463
00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:56.200
was a big deal, even if
it was only for one round. Getting

464
00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:00.759
those those those kids that that experience, including Josh Stone and the home home

465
00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:04.920
hometown hero out of the Valley,
and that of course is Shane and play

466
00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:10.200
to the ASU and to get him
those those extra games. It's big deal

467
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:15.680
and and excited to just to get
there and something really big to shoot for

468
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:17.880
next year. We want to make
that run. We want to still be

469
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:21.680
playing right now. So you're saying
that the game is still being played even

470
00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:25.480
though everything has been so your league
is stilled in the playoffs, is what

471
00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:29.839
you just said. Yeah, don't
you love that the h L every year

472
00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:33.559
goes about a week longer than the
NHL, just based on how the schedule

473
00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:40.880
layout is with with coinciding with the
NHL and and and kind of kind of

474
00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:44.359
stretching the series out a little more
so that you're getting more more kind of

475
00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:48.640
weekend games. So it's two one
Coachella Valley right now against her she FESTI

476
00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:52.759
seven. They've got probably another probably
another week left. So selfish reasons,

477
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:55.720
I know we don't have much time
enough with I need to get a shirt

478
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:59.359
for a kid. Where do I
go? How do I get one road

479
00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:04.559
run a shirt? Yeah? Yeah, shop dot tusun roadrunners dot com.

480
00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.759
And if if you tell me a
size Steve, I'll start digging myself.

481
00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:13.759
But shopp dot tusun roadrunners dot com
is our online store. Okay, I'll

482
00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:15.319
let you know, I'll send it. Okay, I'm gonna bring you back

483
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:21.039
and hopefully you've rethought this a little
bit conversation you had with Justin and Ali

484
00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:23.960
this morning. I got ask the
same question, You've got the Stanley cup?

485
00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:29.279
What are you drinking out of it? I said diet coke earlier?

486
00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:32.319
And then you got and then you
and Justin agreed on cereal, and Ali

487
00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:36.759
was relentless with you. He lost
his mind. Me and yeah, Me

488
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:38.720
and Justin were talking about our favorite
kinds of stereo and all He's like,

489
00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:42.880
are you guys? Nuts? Are
you? How big a nerds? Are

490
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:45.920
you? Guys? How about how
about a big bowl of pasta, spaghetti

491
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:51.200
and meatballs and throw on some Alfredo
sauce And does that work? Is that

492
00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:55.200
that's better for food? And then
for for for drinking out of it?

493
00:32:55.240 --> 00:33:00.000
I don't know, guys, I'm
a diet coke guy. I'm working out

494
00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.400
in the morning. I'm freaking out
over calories I've out and them I got

495
00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:07.599
sick with the diaco. Maybe maybe, if it's not too late in the

496
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:13.839
day, a shot of crystal lighted. That's too funny. I went Maneu

497
00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:16.640
though, Steve, I went Maneu
though, or or you know about four

498
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:22.839
bottles of Pacifical. You've better cleaning
that bull before there was a baby in

499
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.079
at the night of the k you
better change that bull. That baby had

500
00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:30.640
been changed. Hey, Adrian,
thanks a whole bunch man, appreciate your

501
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:34.160
time. Uh, congratulations on you
know, having something that you get,

502
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:37.880
you guys can feel really good about. So both your season and then having

503
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:39.880
a guy like this, you know, be have be a big player in

504
00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:44.680
the in the Stanley Cup. So
good, good job on that. Hey,

505
00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:46.279
appreciate it, guys, always the
pleasure coming on. You guys are

506
00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:51.519
clearly much more fun than us there
with what you drink out of the Stanley

507
00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:54.680
Cup. Sou We'll learn some lessons
and see if we can do better next

508
00:33:54.680 --> 00:34:01.559
time. All right, thanks to
munch A you see later. They're like

509
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:05.279
Captain Crunch and tough. Come on, man, you gotta you know you

510
00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:07.920
gotta go. I don't think Justin's
only like nineteen years old, right,

511
00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:14.239
so he can't you can't say too
much. Yeah you should. You should

512
00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:15.800
have hurt all that. He was
pretty funny. I'm embarrassed to know you

513
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:22.039
guys. All right, let's go
and take you know, I don't even

514
00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:23.920
remember early in the morning. Well
you got you know, you got do

515
00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:28.440
something like Marguerite is right, yeah, with a little yeah, you know,

516
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:31.519
I'm thinking maybe some fireball, right, yeah, a little fireball,

517
00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:35.760
maybe fireball in hot chocolate. Have
you ever tried that? That would be

518
00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:44.760
really but Jason's yeah, yeah,
I know he doesn't know what. All

519
00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:46.679
right, all right, let's take
our break. We're gonna come back and

520
00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:51.199
we'll break some of that down to
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521
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their eye on the ball on two

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Sons Sports stage yet Fox Sports fourteen
fifty streaming live. I mean I heard

567
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radio app Hey, welcome back to
hing the ball here, I'll Fox Sports

568
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fortune Cookie. I'm Steve, He's
Jake and we got our guy Jason and

569
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with us, they've got fifteen minutes. Do you want to call us?

570
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Please? Do five two old four
one six seventy four forty who I'd like

571
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to hear from you good to talk
to Adrian. Yeah, you know,

572
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:30.079
um guy would probably need to talk
to more because you know, the Roadrunners,

573
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:34.159
like the Sugar Skulls, this this
town needs to support them. They

574
00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:36.320
get you know, they do get
a lot of support. You they get

575
00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:38.880
some some good crowds. Um.
I was when he said that, I

576
00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:43.599
was thinking, man, what if
they lose them? Well, yeah,

577
00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:45.079
I mean you'll fall to the role. Yeah, if the Coyotes go somewhere

578
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:47.400
else, you know, who knows
what happens there, you'll fall to the

579
00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:51.000
Rome. Did they take the team
with them? And some they don't always,

580
00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:53.400
but you'd hate to see that happen
because you know, uh, you

581
00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:55.840
know, during my time with the
Sugar Skulls, you know, would go

582
00:38:55.880 --> 00:39:00.360
to the world, would go to
some Roadrunners games to see how the stuff

583
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:02.679
they're doing, how their crowds are
doing. Um, you know, just

584
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:07.400
see how they run their show.
And uh, a lot of what we

585
00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:09.360
you know, we we got ideas. Let me just put it that way.

586
00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:14.119
And so, uh, you know
those two both of those franchises,

587
00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:16.760
you know, they're pro sports,
they're here and uh, you know they're

588
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:21.559
fun and and you know people should
support them so and we should do the

589
00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:23.480
same. So okay, so let
me ask you, Jackson. You didn't

590
00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:27.800
answer my question about why you love
sports or do you? Yeah, of

591
00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:30.320
course I do. I think for
me it's really escape, an escape from

592
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:34.159
reality because you know, in life, there's so many things going on all

593
00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:37.840
the time. Sports helps you kind
of get away from all of the worries

594
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:40.280
and stresses are of your day to
day life. And it's just for me,

595
00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:43.920
it's always been a way to relieve
stress, kind of just fine.

596
00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:47.159
Sometimes doesn't give you more stress.
Um, No, not really. I

597
00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:53.559
mean there's no true I mean,
Dodgers, it's not. But it's it's

598
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:57.960
this is gonna sound stupid. It's
fun stress. Yeah, I say,

599
00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:00.400
it's fun stress like it's good.
It's not stress that makes me lose sleep

600
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:02.719
at night, you know. Yeah, I get Yeah, do I get

601
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.440
worked up for the games and stuff
like that, Yes, But I do

602
00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:12.480
actually realize that in the end,
losing the game is not the end of

603
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:15.840
the world. And and and that's
kind of what's fun about it because you

604
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:17.760
can take it for what you think
or what it's worth to you. Yeah,

605
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:22.559
definitely, so you know, and
and again it's you know Jason talking

606
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:25.719
about how it's it's it's it's a
way to get it away from some one

607
00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:30.719
of my favorite things to do,
uh on a long drive, you know,

608
00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:35.800
driving to La or whatever. Used
to put a game on and m

609
00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:38.639
makes time go by so fact because
you feel like you get to the end

610
00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:43.480
of a football game and you've driven
three hours. You know. I used

611
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:47.679
to this. I spent this summer
working at the newspaper in Bullhead City.

612
00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:52.840
Okay, like at the time,
there's no punishment for that. There's like

613
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:55.400
a five it's like a five hour
drive and I and I would come home

614
00:40:55.519 --> 00:41:01.000
on some weekends and I would time
my drive back up there for when the

615
00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:04.599
Dodger game was going to come on
the radio. So if they were playing

616
00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:07.800
at home on a Sunday, I'd
leave home at one o'clock so I could

617
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:10.519
put the game on. And by
the time the game was over, I

618
00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:15.599
was nearly the Kingman. And and
it was that it's it's kind of just

619
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:19.840
as you say, getting away from
the reality. I hated the drive,

620
00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:22.440
but I just flowed zeroed in on
the baseball game and it and and it

621
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:28.760
made it Uh, it made it
easier. Yeah, do you love sorts?

622
00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:30.199
No I do, No, No, I do. I just the

623
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:34.840
question is what what's the appeal for
it? Uh? You know, I

624
00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:37.960
think I asked that of the Jay
yesterday when I saw George Cluney. Why

625
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:42.920
do you think people love love athletes? I think it's because, you know,

626
00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:45.039
they're like people like us, but
they can do these, you know,

627
00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:47.559
incredible things. And that's what it
was. Person can do exactly what

628
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:52.159
he said, exactly what he said. They could be George clin and they

629
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:54.000
get to dream that, they get
to dam dude, the things we dream

630
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:59.400
about. You know, many of
them screw it up. But but that's

631
00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:01.440
for another day. Yeah, and
my whole thing is is something that you

632
00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:06.159
mentioned yesterday, Jay, was is
the competition. I love competition more than

633
00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:09.920
anybody, but especially when you win
and you lose, it sucks, right,

634
00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:13.679
but you love the competition. Right, Winning is fun. Losing is

635
00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:15.639
hard, but when winning, it
is fun. And we talked about the

636
00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:21.760
fact that losing is harder than winning
is easy. Well, you enjoy the

637
00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:24.480
enjoy, enjoy, you enjoy.
You hate the losses more than you love

638
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:29.800
to win, right, and that
but that's you know what that's that's the

639
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:35.239
competitive nature of some people. And
if you play baseball, football, softball,

640
00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:37.519
you know, whatever, and you've
competed at a level where you're on

641
00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:42.719
a team or something like that,
you know, it's it's, uh,

642
00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:45.000
you're you're gonna think that way.
You know when I when I play golf,

643
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:49.719
I think of my bad holes at
the end of the round more than

644
00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:52.000
I think if I hadn't done this, if I hadn't done that, if

645
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:55.079
I hadn't done this when I when
also I did some good things that got

646
00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:59.840
me to where where I got to. So uh, it's it's it's just

647
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.400
the way that it's just our nature
as competitors. But but think of it.

648
00:43:02.679 --> 00:43:06.880
But in the world like me,
um uh and I don't know,

649
00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:09.719
but you Jason, But it's the
shots that I hit, I played really

650
00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:13.639
but the shots that you hit,
you're thinking, I want to I can

651
00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:15.800
do that again. I'm gonna come
back and try that again. Yeah,

652
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:19.519
And that happens very very Oh yeah, well, you know I swore that.

653
00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:21.760
You know, we went down to
play this golf course in Rocky Point

654
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:24.360
and based on how we played last
time, and it was holleying wins and

655
00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:28.360
I played terribly. I thought,
Okay, I'm gonna play well today,

656
00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:32.320
and I shot the same scored I
did the year before, and the conditions

657
00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:36.360
were batter, the course was still
nice, and I just played terribly.

658
00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:38.599
I mean I hit some I I
hit some really bad balls that day and

659
00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:42.000
I couldn't figure it out. And
I know I didn't. I didn't play

660
00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:45.039
that bad the time I played before
that. So I don't who knows what

661
00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:49.920
they have, but you know,
I guess I, like Jason said,

662
00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:52.880
I just love sports because it gets
me away from all the other crap.

663
00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:57.679
And there's a lot and there's more
crap now than Oh yeah, of course.

664
00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:01.320
And that's that's why I don't really
follow Twitter. It's just everybody.

665
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:06.639
It's it's like thinking the stuff that
you have in your head that nobody's nose

666
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:09.079
r sees, they put it on
Twitter. Yeah no, I don't need

667
00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:12.840
to know what you're thinking. I
don't know. I do it kind of

668
00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:15.119
super lee on Facebook. But what
I'm eating, which means I'm stupid.

669
00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:20.320
But yeah, But the alluder there, Steve, I think is is we

670
00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:22.920
we have fun. And again,
my daughter is one of those people who

671
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:27.360
says Facebook is for old people,
which pretty much, you know. But

672
00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:31.239
you know, I feel like I'm
more connected to people that I otherwise wouldn't

673
00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:35.880
have any connections, right of course, right, um and uh? And

674
00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:38.519
I like seeing that, do I
do? I go to everybody's post and

675
00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:43.960
respond or read every article that somebody
posted. No, but if I see

676
00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:45.360
something, but like I just found
out from a call, oh, let's

677
00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:50.000
take the call. II are on
the air and I on the ball.

678
00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:55.800
Hey jay, this is done.
I just wanted to put in my two

679
00:44:55.880 --> 00:45:02.159
stands on the love of sport and
all that. At first, for me,

680
00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:07.159
it was playing the games, right, and then you realize, you

681
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:12.039
know, you're you're playing the games, and then you start watching the pros

682
00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:14.880
do it and you're like, well, you know why I'm doing what they're

683
00:45:14.920 --> 00:45:17.280
doing, you know, And that
kind of made it more fun. But

684
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:22.559
one thing I miss about the old
days in sports was remember when your team

685
00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:28.400
won in football, when your team
won on the weekend on Sunday, you

686
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:35.559
had all week to gloat and feel
good about it. But now nowadays we

687
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:38.840
have so much information. As soon
as the game is over, I'm worried

688
00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:44.519
about the next game. Yeah.
They don't let you. They don't let

689
00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:47.960
you enjoy it do they I'm sorry, they don't let you enjoy it,

690
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:51.639
right, they say, well,
you're gonna suck next year and years.

691
00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:57.039
There's there's just so much information.
I mean, even if if you win

692
00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:00.480
the championship. You know, if
your team wins a championship and you're going,

693
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:02.239
yeah, but this guy's a free
agent, this guy's dad, this

694
00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:06.280
other guy's you know, he's gonna
retire. What are we gonna look like

695
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:08.159
next year? Yeah, exactly.
No. You could go on social media

696
00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:14.480
right now and find stories about why
the Denver Nuggets will win the NBA against

697
00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:17.719
again next year and why they won't. You could find exactly well, I

698
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:22.679
mean, here's your perfect it's all
fun, it's all fun. But now

699
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:27.239
to me, it just seems like
there's this this calm simmer of stress all

700
00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:29.840
the time. Yes, well,
let me tell you. Here's the thing

701
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:34.360
with UVA basketball. Not sooner than
the tournament end, they had the nuts.

702
00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:37.159
So the early early projection for twenty
five top twenty five, and everybody

703
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:42.360
eats that up when we know that
it's seven months away from the season and

704
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:47.480
nothing matters until March, and yeah, and we have no idea from the

705
00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:52.760
middle of April. Who who's who's
gonna be what on the middle of November

706
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.920
even very much. So I know, I know it's fun to talk about

707
00:46:55.920 --> 00:47:00.559
it, and we're doing that right
now. There's nothing that's in stone and

708
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:02.400
new noise. But you know,
don you mentioned the thing too that you

709
00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:05.880
know, we play a sport,
right we played, whether it's baseball,

710
00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:09.440
golf, bowling, whatever, that
other people play and you kind of compare

711
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:13.159
yourselves to them. That's why one
of the things I love doing is I

712
00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:16.760
love watching a golf tournament, a
PGA tournament that's at a course that I've

713
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:21.159
played at, right, and I'll
watch even though I might not even care

714
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:22.960
about the golf tournament when whenever they
play a tournament a pebble beach, because

715
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:27.119
I got to play that years ago, I'll watch that. Or now I've

716
00:47:27.119 --> 00:47:30.440
played Tory Pines, I'll watch that. And or I loved watching the Tucson

717
00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:37.000
Open on on on television because we
got to play there and you see yourself,

718
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:39.519
you know, in the same place
that the pros are standing. Because

719
00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:44.199
we don't get to go hit batting
practice at Dodger Stadium. We don't get

720
00:47:44.199 --> 00:47:46.760
to you know, shoot baskets at
wherever the you know at Staples Center where

721
00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:50.840
the Lakers play, but you know, you know, we we we can

722
00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:52.880
go play a golf course that and
that's one of the reasons I love golf

723
00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:58.199
so much is because I get to
do that. Yeah, that and that's

724
00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:02.199
that's really a feel good thing.
And I think it keeps it keeps you

725
00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:07.000
young to just to be able to
keep on doing those things, like even

726
00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:10.679
walking around El Rio. You know
you know Lee Trevino won that three times,

727
00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:16.360
right right, yeah rtorical. Yeah, that's why. That's why Tusson

728
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:21.119
National remains one of my favorite golf
courses in town because as a little kid,

729
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:22.639
you know, I'd go watch the
Tussan Open over there, you know,

730
00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:25.519
Dean Martin and Joe Gargiola and all
those guys. It was very cool

731
00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:32.639
thing used to hang out with Dean
Martin when you were a little kid.

732
00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:37.880
To have here Jay, but he
was already old. So let's remember that

733
00:48:38.440 --> 00:48:43.280
they have a Toddy or two and
be a Bob Open all. Yeah.

734
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:45.320
But Dino, Dino, Dino,
Yeah, he was man. He was

735
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:47.840
a star here. We loved him. My mom loved him to death.

736
00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:52.280
She would she would have kicked my
dad to the curb in a heartbeat for

737
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:57.119
him. All right, Don,
thanks so much, man. I appreciate

738
00:48:57.159 --> 00:49:00.719
the call as always. Take care, guys. You got to call it

739
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:05.960
your mom. I think I can
say that it's a true story. It's

740
00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:07.960
a true story, and that's all
you can ask all my siblings. We

741
00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:10.920
would have been father. Let's if
my mom had a champ with dark.

742
00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:15.480
We have about three minutes. Let's
two much information for me, if you

743
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:17.440
want to call it. I just
what your love for sports. As we

744
00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:22.119
middle through the early spring or late
spring looking for topics, we have a

745
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:24.880
breaking news, right, breaking news. There's a lot of that going on.

746
00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:31.480
And then we have from an athletic
director girls basketball coach at Push Reggie's

747
00:49:31.519 --> 00:49:36.519
retiring after a long tenure there,
so we'll yeah, it was listen some

748
00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:38.159
of that. Let's ask him twenty
twenty years, right, Yeah, that's

749
00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:42.719
let's see if that's a long tenure, because sometimes it's it doesn't feel like

750
00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:45.840
a long tenure. Maybe it does. Twenty years. Well, guys,

751
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:47.119
come on, we've been I've been
here thirty five years. You've been here

752
00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:51.360
all your life, thirty five years. It's long, but it's not really

753
00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:53.239
long. Does it feel like thirty
five No? No, and maybe because

754
00:49:53.239 --> 00:49:55.760
I don't feel old, but I
am old. I don't know. Yeah,

755
00:49:55.800 --> 00:50:00.639
when I when I tell people that
I left the newspaper in eineteen ninety

756
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:06.000
one, oh damn, seriously,
probably I don't know. Probably twenty years

757
00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:08.480
after after I had left The Star, I was at I was an event

758
00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:12.199
downtown and a guy came up to
me and said, you know, he

759
00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:14.519
recognized, said, oh, I'm
happy to meet you. I still read

760
00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:16.960
your stuff. And I'm like,
no, you don't. You stopped reading

761
00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:21.599
myself a long time. How are
you doing. I didn't want to break

762
00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:23.440
his hard dump. Dude, you
do you do not? But you know

763
00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:25.400
we said, yeah, I read
your stuff all the time, and I'm

764
00:50:25.400 --> 00:50:29.400
like, yeah, well you obviously
do not. I'd been out of the

765
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:34.840
paper for a really, really really
long yea, look a lot like might

766
00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:37.599
have been man, might have been
just just none. Never mind that.

767
00:50:38.239 --> 00:50:42.400
Yeah, you know where I was
going. You were doing, Hey,

768
00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:44.639
Rivero, what's up? But you
know, get getting back to the thing

769
00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:45.599
that I was saying about, you
know, playing a golf course at the

770
00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:49.440
pros play. You know, when
when I was playing in that city league

771
00:50:49.480 --> 00:50:52.360
baseball team, our championship was always
at high Corbett, right, because we

772
00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:54.960
played at the NX fields, right, that's like playing in the park.

773
00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:59.840
But the championship game for the tournament
was always at High Corbett and that was

774
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:01.840
fun as hell. Yeah, you
know, because you're in the stadium.

775
00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:06.119
Yeah, there's there's only like twenty
people there, you know, wives and

776
00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:09.559
kids. But it was awesome to
play at High Corbett Field. You know,

777
00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:13.239
get on the pitchers mount go out
there and you know, take some

778
00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:15.440
groundballs and some flyballs and and all
that kind of stuff. We looked for

779
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:20.199
so forward to playing on a field
like that. Uh. And then for

780
00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:23.760
a while to Soun Electric Park would
rent the field out to high school teams

781
00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:25.679
to go play there, and it
was cheap. It was like a hundred

782
00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:30.000
bucks, you know, and you'd
get lights and and the sound system and

783
00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:32.519
stuff. So we would go play
a double hair there for at Saint Gregory,

784
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:36.119
you know, every year, just
to play there, just to give

785
00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:40.199
the kids that experience of meaning that
dugout right everybody come close to Yeah,

786
00:51:40.239 --> 00:51:45.000
no, no, that's just as
we did. We did get it during

787
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:47.519
during uh we were taking in field
outfield and one of our players got hit

788
00:51:47.559 --> 00:51:51.280
in the mouth with a fly ball
and so we went next door to Keno,

789
00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:55.320
got his stick lip stitched up and
came back to play. So we

790
00:51:55.400 --> 00:51:59.519
had that. But I know it's
you know, but it was fun to

791
00:51:59.519 --> 00:52:04.280
play on that grass, on that
infield, being that dugout. The kids

792
00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:09.679
just love that stuff. And that's
the love of sports. That's the kind

793
00:52:09.719 --> 00:52:15.280
of the love of sports in essences
that just to do things that maybe you

794
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:19.800
don't otherwise get to. Okay,
let's not take the break. You can

795
00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:22.599
put some some music on me and
get us out. We'll get get out

796
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:25.280
here. We're gonna come back here. See what song number two is.

797
00:52:27.239 --> 00:52:37.639
Jason's gonna have some breaking news and
we'll be we'll be right backt