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Ball with Steve He's not coming back on Fox Sports fourteen. Hey, welcome
back to the ball hero Fox Sports Fortune fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay.
Now we have Adam with breaking news. This is I on the Ball
Breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right, let's start to start
it off. In college basketball news also as well as NBA, key Shaw
Johnson and Pella Larson. They were invited to the NBA Draft combine comin right,
right, that was kind of expected. We hadn't heard much fro about
Keyshaw. Right. I think this is the first so we've heard of his
name in a while. Uh, he's he deserves it, whether he impressed
us well with Steve. Okay, just to clarify to it, because we
were just talking about this, you know, a second ago. So if
you're if you've got algibility left for if you have not declared fully that you're
going to the NBA, in other words, if you left it open that
you're coming back, you're not going to get invited to the combine. Correct.
True, I'm sure this is just for correct correct, because they don't
want somebody who's may come back to college taking the spot for somebody who's not.
You don't want, you know what, I'm not entirely I think that's
true, but I'm not entirely right unless they change the rules, because I
think back in the day, and this is a long time ago now,
when Jason Gardner did this, and he found out early that he was not
going to be or get a sniff, so he came back. I could
be wrong. I could be wrong, but they could have changed the rules
too. So right now, so right now, Larson projects as a second
round pick, and Johnson is not on any mod by whom, by whom,
just whomever, most consensus max have Larson around there nothing specific. Yeah,
I'll try to find that out while we're on the air, Jay.
In the NBA, the Lakers fired head coach Darvin Ham after two seasons one
conference finals appearance last year. So wait in a well, to your point,
Jay, Bronnie James has been invited. So there's that, Okay,
But when he declared did he declare that he's still winning his options? He's
still winning his options? Okay? Well then okay, well then all right,
so then it's interesting then that Caleb Love didn't get invited. Uh neither
did kJ Lewis or Katon Bradley. All right, okay, so NBA news
the Lakers fired head coach Darvin Ham after two seasons. Last year making the
conference finals, getting swept by Denver, and then this year they get knocked
out in the first round again by Denver. He's gone. They have some
potential suitors they would like. Tylo, Mike Bunenholzer is another one, JJ
Reddick and Kenny Atkinson, the former Brooklyn Nets coach and current Golden State war
his assistant. Our potential suitors. They're gonna go again, Steve getting to
get into what I was asking you. You know, are there enough jobs
out there? Does Joseph Blair get a job? I'm sure he'll get an
interview, but depends what job comes open. I don't know. It's hard
to say. I would say no, but I'm sure you'll get an interview
or two. You know. The one thing I think I saw on Philly
was it Philly last night? Matt Brozie. I didn't realize he was an
assistant with the seventy six ers, but I saw his face on the bench
there. Oh, okay, last I heard it with Houston last week.
He was with like some of them more but Philly I just saw I saw
his face something. Met's there. No, he was with the Portland I
think the last time we saw Portland a while BT. Okay, So I
just looked it up on wikiped I got this off Wikipedia that the teams vote
on who gets invited to the combine. Okay, and it does. I'm
guessing. I'm guessing Lebron had a little bit of pull about who gets you
know, about getting his kid in there. Right. So the rule that
you asked though, still applies. Yeah, No, you don't. Yeah,
as well, if you declare for the NBA Draft you can get in.
Doesn't mean even if you're coming back, like you said, if if
Briddy James is the least left left you're open to come back to school,
then he's in the same position as Caleb Love, and Caleb Love did not
get an invite, right. And there's a couple of people I see on
the list, JT. Topping from New mexill He's declared already to go to
to transfer or to the NBA. So he's another guy. Yeah. Some
base some baseball news. Uh, the Angels expect my trout to return this
season after tearing his meniscus a couple of days ago. He has been ravaged
by injuries the last few years. Yeah, we talked about him. That's
just too bad for him that he's hey, the injuries and being at it
and you know, not even being on a great team and even when he
had show. Hey, I mean just uh, you want to talk about
one of those careers that just there's gonna be a lot of regret at the
end. Yeah, well he should still be easily a Hall of Famer,
but yeah, the downside of his career definitely an influx. Also, the
Pirates demoted twenty twenty one number one overall pick Henry Davis. He's hitting one
sixty two. They want him to work on a swing. But just a
couple of years ago he was picked number one already back in Triple A,
so tough for them. In the NFL, Odell Beckham junior, he signed
with the Dolphins an he like the fit. One more guy would one more
guy would want on my team. But he might fit there. You know
you got Tyrek Uh what's his name, Yeah, Tyre Hill. No,
he's not he's not, dude, He's not a bad dude though, he's
an okay guy, but he creates a lot of drama. I don't know,
he's one of those guys that creates a lot of drama. Yeah,
he does. You create a lot of drama here, what are you talking
about? I know, but that's what I do, So that's okay.
Yeah, I'm just here. I'm not making eighty million dollars a year creating
drama. I'm just here doing it for free. Okay. The rams gym
less snead this might have came out yesterday, said that they might call Aaron
Donald for a playoff run in case that they need to call Tom Brady because
they say he wants to come back with Well, they got a good quarterback
and Stafford, but yes, tom Brady is also I'm benching Stafford for Brady
if that's the case. Really, I want to winter Stafford's not as much,
No, not even close. But he's a champ, so we'll we'll
have to see on that. Also in the NBA, Jalen Brunson has been
on a tear. He becomes the seventh player in NBA history to score forty
points in three consecutive games, the last was Jamal Murray in twenty twenty.
Alan Iverson has done it, Michael Jordan has done it three times. Bernard
King, Kareem and Jerry West are the only players he's also he's also the
best player on that team and the go to guy easily, So who are
gonna give the ball to him? It's funny though, because you saw you
saw that he won the game in Philly last night, and the three guys
that from Villanova all had a big part in in in that win. They're
all winners winners. Yeah, that was pretty much. Jay has a couple
of things, don't you. Jay. Tennis, I'm following. I'm following
the Arizona tennis match the NCAA tournament against Boise State. Arizona won the doubles
point and they've won the first two completed singles point, so they've got three.
They've got three points. You got to get to four. Casper Christensen
is a head six three, five to two in his match, so if
he closes that one out, Arizona wins the match. The only one they're
really losing is they're both the number one match. Arizona's best player, Calton
Smith. He lost seven to six, in the first in the first set
to Sam Sipple. But Smith is up one zero in the second. But
you've got Casper Christensen is up six to three and five to two right now.
So if he closes that out, Arizona closes out the match for ZIP
and they'll move on to tomorrow and they would take on Auburn. Who'd be
Pepperdine this morning? I got that Johnny on the Spot news right there,
right up to date. I just want to say to the those who listened
yesterday to our girl d giving us some tips on today's Oaks and tomorrow's Derby.
She had the winner Torpedo and as her top play today and her third
choice finished second. So if you kind of followed her, you had an
eleven dollars winner, which is pretty good. There you go. How much
did that exactly pay? That's what I wanted. I'm an exact I'll have
to check that it was gonna body pay a decent price, maybe thirty ducks,
maybe I'll check that. I'll check that one dollar, exact guy is
exactly two oh oh in this trifector. Oh it was only it was one
dollar twenty bucks. Yeah, I'd be happy with that. I'll be happy
with that. Actually I'm not. I'm not the degenerate gamble to the people
thinks. Do you know? You know I'm a one dollar Yeah? I
saw I saw that earlier. If you think you have a I can't remember
it. If you think you have a gambling problem, he was on Facebook.
I'm thinking, why did that pop up? How did that pop up?
You never know, Steve, guys are coming after us. What else
we got it? I just saw this. The ACC ordered by court to
provide Clemson with ESPN agreements. So South Carolina court has ordered the ACC Conference
to turn over documents about its agreements with ESPN that Clemson has requested in its
lawsuit against the conference. Why wouldn't Clemson be allowed to have those? They
are a party to that agreement? That would Why don't Why doesn't Clemson already
have that? I'm not sure? Uh, I mean, it's the story,
says the intern. Confidentially ordered was released on Friday, said the ACC
has seven days to produce unredacted documents about its TV deal with ESPN of Clemson.
The order also provides safeguards to keep the requested documents from being released publicly,
and the order bars Clemson, which is a public university. I'm complying
with any Freedom of Information Act request unless the ACC gives written permission where the
school is forced to do so by another quirt. So, Jay, can
I change the subject real quick? I'm gonna have you put on I'm gonna
have you put on your your reporter had on from back of the day,
your cop reporting working for a newspaper. Okay, I don't know if you
saw this or you know this, but Channel nine reported something last night.
It's on their website and I and I kind of had some information from people
telling me this house party shooting, the one who was the shooting, the
students shot at kill u A, students saw gun fire from the car.
Four football players named in search warrant. There was no mention of any names
in that warrant by the by the k Gunyah. So so if you had,
if your reporter, would wouldn't those names be on that research warrant?
Or they would not? Yes? They would, right, So they didn't
put this, Yes they would. I've I've looked at I've seen search worms.
Yes, okay, so well I saw search worms forty years ago.
But yes, So the criticism on the story is they mentioned four players,
but don't put their names. But who are they? But who are they?
So now you have the well and I'm not defending anybody. I'm just
saying what they wrote that they have four dudes. Now you can think about
any four dudes. I guess it depends on the circumstances, Teve, because
if let's say, for example, let's say the shooting happened at the house
of these four players, right, but they weren't involved in the shooting,
but they have to do a search of that house. Does naming them put
them in a position that is through no fault of their own right? So
you have to balance that. Yeah, you have to balance those things.
It's kind of like when you you know, you balance when do you identify
the victim of a crime if you know, if there's a question about,
you know, the crime or whatever. So it's it's I think I think
that's a tough call. If there's some circumstance there that would probably leave me
to believe that there's a reason that they didn't name them, because maybe again,
maybe the cops have said, look, we're not implicating these guys in
this, but their names on the search weren't because of X. Maybe it's
they're searching their car. Maybe they're searching again. Maybe the house where it
happened is where these four guys lived, so they have to search the house,
but they don't believe they've done anything. They got to go into the
house and maybe see if a weapon is in there that was used whatever.
I know, one of a number of things could be involved there. So
do we want to know who they are? Of course we do. But
on the other hand, if they tell us who they are and they had
absolutely nothing to do with what happened other than they were there, then named
it's all I can see why they would not name them. Okay. So
the last line of that story, and it's a you know, maybe a
four hundred word story, it says TPD has not yet announced any arrests or
suspects. That was my indication that that's why no names were mentioned. Yeah,
yeah, so again they did. Their name might just be on the
search form because they're searching property that belongs to them. It could be a
sense. Okay, And like you said, maybe their house and that was
just the house that they lived in. Okay, makes that makes sense?
Yeah, Okay, with that let's go to break because we only have about
twenty five seconds left. Come back and try to get ahold of Haavier.
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This is I on the Bar on Fox sportsporteen fifty. Hey, welcome
back to I on the Ball here at Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve
Rivera, he's Jagansaus. Got adam with us trying to get a lid of
Pavier. I know he's at a sports signing for the kids going to college
at Sunnyside you can see trying to get in Sunnyside, right, Sunnyside,
right to get on the phone with us. So we're trying to reach out
to him, and then we'll have John Perlman after have here about four to
forty with what's going on with them. But there's still a lot of games,
a lot of track stuff. Did you see and I want to ask
him about this Push Ridge? What happened at Push Ridge? Or no,
no, I didn't. So they had a pretty good seasons track wise,
and their coach entered their team into the state tournament which is this weekend,
and I guess he entered them into a wrong portal to get the kids in
I should I guess there was nothing. It should have been Max Preps,
but they put them in some other kind of system thinking that was the right
one to do it. So they're not recognized that anybody on that team can
participate in the state championships because he entered them in the wrong portal. Oh
and and you know ai A, I know you know ai A. They're
not allowing it because because they just said, no, you didn't do it
with us initially, you did it on time, but you didn't do it
with us. So those are the rules. Sorry, oh oh, so
they did everything so the whole team did not get in correct. They did
everything right except they put in the wrong website. You know. Again once
again, the unfortunate thing that is that that's a that's a that's a problem
that could be fixed right and nobody, well you're yes, you're gonna have
some school that's going to say, well, they didn't do it right,
so they should be disqualified. But you know, you fix this thing for
the good of the kids exactly, and that's what it's supposed to be about.
And that was a big that was a ground. We got emails,
both of us got emails, Yesterdady explaining it to us. I'm not sure
if how you're handled that, but I saw it on Facebook because you know,
we know a lot of people are push reging and the track team was
pretty good and they said, sorry, can't play because your coach messed up.
Man. You know again, something simple, right, something simple?
Yeah, yeah, it's somebody out there not looking out for the kids.
It's the same we're going to do this. We're gonna do this this way,
and we don't care what anybody else says, right, which is just
highly unfortunate. Uh you can say, okay, we're gonna make this one
time exception or whatever, but okay, I get it. It's just unfortunate,
and uh you know, this is what it is. But it's sad
said that they're handling it this way. Well, yeah, because because who
loses the kids? Right? And again, I know, you know,
somebody would be out there, uh a parent, a school, somebody would
be out there saying, well, you know, we played by the rules
and they didn't, so they shouldn't you know, they shouldn't be allowed.
You know, somebody is going to do that. But uh, you know,
man, that's just too bad. Yeah, yeah, yea, too
bad because it's a pretty good team. I think they want they won the
soccer I guess there one A. Did you compete against him? Push Ridge?
No, they're either there. I think they're three A three okay,
Desert christ Desert Christian is one A Okay, Well they were pretty Christian schools
mixed up steam. Yeah you know why because I went to one. I
still have flashbacks. I still have flashbacks, and I'm a kid. It's
swatter than the hand. So I was just gonna say maybe it was because
I didn't get swatted by the brothers or the sisters uh in the uh in
the uh at the school. That's what it is. I'm not sure if
I just gonna call, but uh, but it's it's uh, you always
busy. We'll have like I said, we'll have John Perlman. I should
have John Proman calls right now because we're not gonna have him on that long
anyway. So hold on, hold that line and keep some thoughts going.
I'll have him call us down if you can. Yeah. Now, but
you know, getting getting back to that thing, Steve. You know,
those things have always they come up, and you know they they again.
Too often you forget about why you're doing these things. And too often the
the you know, things like that, can't they don't fix them because they
think they're gonna piss somebody off, right, and it's and it's horrible when
they do that. Okay, we got a call. I think it might
be John. All right, Hello, you're on the air on the ball.
It's just John, Yeah, John boom yeh, John, how are
you? Thanks for giving us a quick call. Appreciate you having me as
always. Did weekend be weekend? Huh Yeah, tremendous, tremendous weekend for
us to open the season. I'm singer to mile, which is our new
tradition, and uh, last year was amazing. We have fireworks, five
dollars, Margarita's five dollars, adelas, and we're putting out our lineup for
the first time this year. Fantastic, Okay, John. The most important
thing besides the lineup and stuff the food. What's the food this weekend?
Well, you know, we have Chucson Soccer legend and FCTS on legend Forrnana.
Ghana's food trucks set up, so expect Taco's, carne asada, burritos,
everything you would possibly want for proper celebration. You were your stomach better
hold up, mister Raavier. Yeah, we can't. We can't mess around
with that. I mean, it's the only we have the guy who scored
the first goal in history. He's a guy making the fantastic food to enjoy.
So right, So how's it look this year? A lot of changes.
Yeah, it looks great. Obviously, I'm thrilled the better new head
coach, Sebastian Panada. He's really you know Tucson, you know ft twoson
iconic player, you know, twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen, our captain.
In twenty seventeen, he was my assistant on the professional team. He was
our assistant last season, and you know, he really and he has worked
with our academy in our U nineteen ft two so on program this year.
So again he really has that connection that we've been looking for and really just
understands the community and I just I think he's going to do a tremendous job
and for us also, you know, this game, we're getting players in
quickly and rapidly, but obviously having someone like you know, two players from
Pima who are all Americans, like Brandon Sanchez DeAndre Picken anchoring the squad this
weekend, a lot of t Son guys really vying for playing time and foothold
in the team the summer. So with a new head coach on the women's
side, also with that strong connection to the youth club, we're really excited
about the player pathway that we have now and obviously having a summer with Tucson
kids and wins. You talked about the changes go ahead, Okay, you
talked about the changes. Jay, I'm from John, What was the reason
behind both the men's and the women's changes. Yeah, I think you know,
for us, first of all, you have to give a ton of
credit to both Kelly Pierce and Mark Biagi. Kelly for many years of doing
a fantastic job for us as a coach and as a player, and Mark
obviously having a great summer and doing a great job FC two Son as a
coach for a number of years for us. You know, we really see
the opportunity here for us to be more involved with S two Son Youth Pro
and the player pathway for our players, and so Roberto and Sebastian have been
directly involved with that and continue to work both in our youth club as well
as in our first team here and right now when we're at this level,
the USL two level, it's a real opportunity for them to earn that experiences
coaches as well and give a young female coach like Kaylie Carter that opportunity.
Kelly and Market tremendous coaches, and but it was an opportunity for us to
work with the people that we've working with all year and give them an opportunity
that they sotally deserve. So tell us a little bit about h some expectations
do you well, let me ask you. Do you have expectations, you
want to win and all that kind of suff but what are your expectations going
into a season in terms of what what at the end of the year do
you go, Okay, this was good. So listen, you're always going
to have your your metrics and your objective goals. You know. For us
again, you know the reason and we started FC two Son, you know,
the USL group, you know the team specifically and the women's w PSL
team was to help Tucson players grow and have a place to play in the
summer. When you know, players that are playing in our youth ranks to
have the opportunity to train at the highest level. That included coaching facility,
but also competition. So we bring in players from the outside on the amends
of women's side to enhance that competition so they can see the top players in
the nation and meet those standards. We also want coaches that understand, you
know, you know what we try to do from a technical and tactical standpoint
in the youth, so we can bring it all the way through that piece.
A good year would be wins, But a good year would be player
development and those kids going back to college kicking button, a player like Tommy
Silva getting drafted you know, last year, and a player like Copepise getting
drafted and us having some contribution to that. So what happened with with mister
the kid? The kid Tommy Tommy? Yeah, he's drafted. He plays
for Rial Salt Lake right now. He's playing for the Monarchs, the reserve
team in MLS Next Pro but obviously he's a left back prospect for them moving
forward. And hope does he signed in the NWSL. SOO, wow,
makes me feel old because Tommy was just a little baby when his brother and
his brother played with my son. Yeah, of course it's me. You
feel old. I feel old. So let me ask you that said it.
With your connection to the FC TWC soon in that group who's come up
throughout the ranks, how many kids do you have locally on the roster here
with you guys, we have a number I think we probably have, you
know, on the men's side, probably some of close to close to you
know, I would say probably you know, for maybe ten fifteen players right
now on the roster and the women's side it's very, very high. It's
probably eight the roster. Wow wow. And that's what you're striving for,
right local, local and good local. Yeah. And we're excited, I
mean, and there's guys in our academy that we're hoping they get first.
So we have a summer academy where we play a number of pro academies,
you know, Phoenix Rising, he'll pass on New Mexico United. And we
really want those players like Leo Gudierrez who's been a three time state champion with
South Point, a stalwart there, to get those bands to those academy games,
but break into that first team. So DeAndre that's how he started,
and then he started to break in last summer, you know, and sale
with Brandon Sanchez. He played those academy games and broke in. And we
obviously, you know, because we don't have the academy platform on the girls
side in the summer. Although they're playing GA games all the time, which
is a super high level, these girls getting to play against college level older
players is so critical in their long term development. Do they know where they're
striving to get to as they finish out their senior years and in their freshman
years at junior college or at the college to the car. Yeah. Yeah,
So how's it been for you, John? You know, you were
a longtime coach and I know you've been an administrator, but you're running this
team, it's your team. What's that been like for you to see how
this thing is developing and how you know, the ideas that you're coming up
with to do the types of things that you're doing. How much are you
enjoying that? Yeah? I really, I really am. I think you
know, my initial partnership there was four of us, and then you know,
obviously working under Phoenix Rising and then Bret Johnson at the Dedlay. You
know, those opportunities were really important to my growth. And again I'm growing
every day in the role that I'm in. But I would say that really
being the you know, vast majority owner now and really having controlled the opportunity,
I can then play sort of a vision both on the technical side and
the business side that I think is going to best fit this community and the
community I want to serve. So all I care about is that to some
players, of opportunities, to some businesses are thriving local ones as well through
the sports marketing side of things, and that you know, our fans and
the people in the community have something they can be proud of that they can
look to, you know, both on and off the field from their their
soccer club and so the initiatives we have in the community this summer, you
know with USD students coming to Shadow and you know the medical Hopeful students from
Flowing Wells and they are Barrier to Barrio program that is on the Complete Health
to give under certain kids opportunities to better their health and to get opportunities with
clinics. I mean, these are some of the small initiatives that we're doing,
but they're they're big, and they're big in their in their scope of
starting something small and making it bigger. So I hope to bring us back
to the pros. While we're here at this level, we're gonna do as
much as we can for all the businesses, all the people of Tucson,
all the community supporters, and all of our our our community assets to make
sure that they're thriving. So tell us real quick about the Sunday or they
thinking to my matches in a mile seven pm Keenan Norris Stadium, take it
for the FC two song Guy Dot com we got ups family four packs buying
advance only forty dollars, and then obviously you've got five dollars margaritas. You've
got fireworks after the match, and you've got some of the best players in
Tucson going against each other. And it's really just a festive atmosphere and sunnyside
Mariachi doing the anthem and entertainment. It's just going to be an amazing,
amazing game with great food and great beverages and great football. Okay, well,
thank you, John, appreciate you. Thanks so much for out you.
Steve all right about take care? Yeah, FC two soon a new
season and the new season under a whole new kind of look and format.
Hey, let's go, let's go to break down. Jay. We've got
about a minute left, so we'll see if we get how you are to
call us. If not, we'll just close out the show, all right.
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is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. Hey, welcome back TOY on the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve, he's Jay, and we have Adam with us. Now
we have Javier Morales from all Sports twosun dot com haveare How you doing good?
How are you guys doing? We're doing find you're busy as usual?
What are you doing now? We're just at the Sunnyside High School signing ceremony.
It's sixteen athletes that are signing to go on to college. How how
cool is that? I'm sure that the school is pretty proud of those guys.
Oh yeah, I've been able to go. I went to CEOs a
couple of weeks ago and went to this. These are always great events because
it kind of highlights everything that the students have done to get to that point.
And then you have families there, and you have the coaches and their
teammates. It's it's it's it's just an obsessive, fun event where the kids
are the central point. So give us some of the schools that some of
these kids are going to. Uh and and you know, sports and things
like that. Would love to hear. Just where do these kids go?
Well, you got Audreya Menez you guys know you guys remember her? Yeah,
Uh, Orlando uh Cabaruba, that's with the baseball program. He's going
to Sacramento State, which is D one And he told me and that one
of the coaches said that some of the scouts, major League scouts are looking
at him. So he's got a great feature ahead of him. There there's
quite a few of this. There's a there's a cheer A chairperson is going
to u as be part of the cheer team. Mike Waters, Uh,
the bast In Bodio and boys soccer is gonna be a d one Saint Mary's
College. You got a couple of soccer players going to tim Armando Avisar and
Ethan Mancia uh girls soccer and Martinez Caudio is going to PIEMA, so they're
staying local so we can follow them here. Just just a whole you know,
a bunch of kids that are put into work and they get a chance
to continue playing their sport. As you get older, have and you've covered
a number of years like this, is it continuing to get more or is
it where kids are going to colleges these days who are compared to them?
I don't know ten years ago, seven years ago years it seems like,
you know, when I went to East Side, we didn't. I don't
remember things like this taking place, although there were athletes that went on to
college. When you think about it, like like the David Adams and Fred
Simms and all that from Sunnyside back in the day, I just don't think
it was obviously not as glorified because now you have social media, you have
families posting on Facebook and things like that, so it's a lot more a
lot more magnified and glorified than when we were younger. Like like if you
played in college. Did they have a signing ceremony when you when you went
to college? Yeah? No, I know I didn't play in college.
I had a chance, but I didn't. I thought you did. I
don't know, Okay, any chance, but I didn't do it. Oh
no, they didn't do it because that was that was nineteen forty two.
It feels like it's pretty close, pretty close. So just maybe if I
could real quick. Uh, you've been covering up the city, the city
itself though, more kids are seemingly going to college. Uh, because then
obviously the city is getting bigger, but those kids all over the country.
Yeah, and there's more high schools too then when we were you know,
even like fifteen twenty years ago, there's more high schools than Tucson that have
propped popped up, especially in the Vail area. Yeah, there is a
lot more, a lot more do it in athletes going to college. Uh.
And you know you got Tanka Verdi in the northeast side too, that
is producing people going to college. You know, it's a small school,
so you got all over. You can look at any school and it's producing
a handful of college athletes. So so we really wanted to talk a little
bit about the playoffs. Give us a rundown of some of the things that
are going on. I know softball and baseball is going on. I see
CDOs back in the quarterfinals trying to go for what this will be a three
p, Right, there'll be a three pe. They're actually they won the
quarterfinal or their third round game, so they're in the semi final. So
what they have to do is they have to wait for the the the elimination
bracket game winner and then they play that team on next Wednesday up in Tempe
Dieblo Stadium. If they win that, then they go on the championship round.
Yeah what what go ahead? See no, No, I'm saying they're
coach heisi right, is it? Yeah? They must he has a secret
former obviously a very good coach, but they must play hard for him.
Yeah, and once you establish a program like that, players want to go
to that school. He's I'm sure he's got guys that might have been able
to go to a different high schoolers they're there that are excelling. It seems
like he always has coauege athletes also college bound athletes play for him. So
he's developed a somewhat of a dynasty there to win the last two and then
probably the favorite to win this year this year. So who else? Who
else should we be keeping an eye out for as we move along? Well,
Cell Points still in it and in the four A baseball they play at
home against flag Staff in an elimination bracket game and then they if they win
that, that they have to play Scott Scott Delsauarro again, who has Cam
Kamanidi. He's a left hand or he's going to LSU. He's one of
the big time prospects. He might what else, he might get signed and
play pro ball. Yeah, they might have to face him again on Wednesday.
He really he has seventeen strikeouts against them a couple of days ago.
That puts them in the elimination brackets. So Cell Point still in it.
Uh, you have softball. You still have to some high and six A.
You have the Empire and take of Radio Planes today at Amphire and in
the semifinal games, so the winner will play for a championship game. You
have to sell point and cdo and four A in mac and Mike Mountain and
four A softball. Uh, you know there's quite a few teams still alive.
What about the softball part of it? Yeah, that's for for for
a softball you have South Point, Micah Mountain and Cdo are still alive.
Okay, okay, let me ask you real quickly as we talked about it
before you came on. I'm sure you saw the email from UH Push Ridge.
I think it was the the track team. How often does something like
that happen? And how unfortunate? Is it unfortunate? You know, I
don't know all the details to it. I know that whatever happened is something
that's happened to other teams. I don't know. I don't know. To
be honest, I don't know all the details do it. It's unfortunate,
But all I know is that they can't compete for whatever what they did wrong.
Yeah, okay, And you said it happens every now and again.
Yeah, I think it's happened to others other schools. Well, I'm sorry
if I don't have the details for it, I just don't. I advance
that I don't know the details for j to your point, I mean that
might be one of the reasons. Is just set the precedents earlier where one
team screwed up and now that's the way they have to handle it. Yeah,
you know, I mean we're just talking about hobb that. I mean,
I don't know, I get. You know, there's a process for
everything right, and sometimes people mess up that process. But it's there's got
to be a fix when something like this goes wrong, because you got to
think about the kids and doing and you know, getting it right for the
kids. No. Well, yeah, you know there was that football program
in Phoenix where the coaches were allegedly recruiting on social media. So the team's
on probation. They can't play in the state playoffs this coming year. I
mean that affects the kids, right. The coaches can go coach somewhere else
and they're not going to be coaching at that school, but the kids are
affected. This is in college, where you know, financially it's going to
affect the college. This is the high school. So they have to figure
out a different way of levying uh, punishments like that where it's it shouldn't
it shouldn't affect the kids. It should affect the school or the coach in
some form of fashions. Yeah, I mean, I mean quite this way,
some adults screwed up and and and and they're taking it out on the
kids. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Hopefully things will change and and they'll
they'll realize that that they can't they can't punish the kids for something that adults
did. And I'm surprised that that's still going on. So they have to
figure it out. And maybe and the coach for not being a coach for
like whatever period of time or not coach again in that school, district or
that area screwing up. Yeah, yeah, exactly for screwing that up.
That's hard to say, right. So do you think uh to Son will
have a state championship come back to it in any form? Softball, baseball,
track, Yeah, I think there's a good possibility. Like we talked
about CDO or self point maybe at self points to get by sorrow. So
that's gonna be tough, but studio looks really good. And uh you know,
I think in softball you always have CDO and soft play right there at
the challenging uh So, I think of those schools, I think that's the
best possibility right now, baseball and softball. Okay, so be sure if
you want to follow Javier and all the things going on with High school.
Go to All Sports two Sun dot com. Javier writes his butt off never
sleeps, and uh, I'll say it like that though, no he knows.
That's how I'm gonna say it, because that's what he is. Have
you are you awake? Yes, I'm awake. What are you doing?
Have you? I'm right? Okay? Thanks. In other words, you're
saying I don't have a life. Yeah, that you can interpret it however
you want. You have you? Thank you man, Thanks for coming on
the show. Appreciate it all right. Be sure to see his stuff on
All Sports Sun dot com. Uh. Him and his brother do a great
job there. I do a socio job. Yeah. Okay, So we
got about five minutes Jay, if anybody call, we can maybe get a
call or two in five, two oh four, one, six, seventy
four forty. We only have five and a half minutes, so I've got
to be quick. Good to come. Good hear your voice, Jay.
You know I'm lying, but good to hear your voice. Well, I'm
glad to be back on. Yeah. Like I told you, I could
get used to doing this for my nice comfy chair here at home. So
I you know, I do I see if I haven't been outside the house
in days. So you you you stop being intageous today tomorrow. Yeah,
today, when I wake up tomorrow, I can go do whatever I want.
You know, you might want to stay in bad you might want to
stay in bed. You know, I got to get out of this house,
you know, I mean, you know, it's one thing to be
sick, but it's another thing when you're sick. You just can't do anything.
You can't get out. Hold I've seen about Okay, you're in the
air and nine on the ball. Spare me the feedback. Tell ja to
get like three yard or something, because equill, it's like Mike with the
gold cell phone. That was trouble. If you want to compare it to
that, that was trouble. That was bad. That was a long long
time ago. But I'm there to plug my show on YouTube, the five
Boy Sports Podcast. You already know. I love y'all, So YouTube,
Fat Mike. What's it called again? The Fat Boy Sports Podcast on YouTube?
I just wanted you to say, fat boy one more time. Thank
you person. Not well, what are you talking about? What's the subjects?
Whatever? Random? You know, it's it's so you know what it's
this last time was a sequin in mile fi. Uh. Tom Brady didn't
flinch even by being cheated on with that Batman chain of his and I obviously
and the front thing. It's just basketball when that basketball is the only reason
he's affluent and influential. So yeah, fat Boy Sports Podcast. Okay,
maybe you guys could join the same time, So hit me up on the
d M. Y'all take care of Fat Mike. Appreciate you Cowboys coos another
year of misery. Okay, he's another one that stopped being a fan of
teams. You should just know, I know, yes, Okay, all
right, we got three minutes. A good week. We got to come
back next week and start it all over again. A lot of things.
I appreciate you. Appreciate you holding it all together while hey, I went
through this and dude, you know this, I didn't hold it together as
the kids they do. We do a good show without the kids. Yeah,
they do a great job of holding together for us. Okay, we
got two minutes. Anything else, anything else? You're gonna go to baseball
game? What are you going on this weekend? Stead? Well, there's
a lot of stuff to to baseball game. Stanford, this town. Yeah,
hey, you know what. Well, we're here. Let me give
it. Let me give you the update here. Arizona did sweep Boise State.
It's for nothing. So they did win their first round first round match
against against Boise State. Jay Frank and in the singles j Friend, Casper
Christiansen and Nick Legave I guess is how you pronounce it? All won their
singles matches. Uh, and then the other matches were unfinished because they didn't
need to finish them because they clinched it with four wins. So the first
four results we ended up with with four wins. So Arizona moves on in
the bracket, and that would be tomorrow, I believe. Let me see
if I can get it. Get a time for that, uh, for
for when they play. And then I guess Stanford's in town this weekend,
right to play in baseball and the women are getting when actually at Shaneska off
the top of your head next week, that's the packed off tournaments next week.
Okay, yeah, we had that yesterday. I'm just looking forward to
the pre pretness, the the Derby tomorrow and just a lot of things.
Derby tomorrow, that's yeah, your good stuff this weekend, Well, let
me see. Yeah, they have Auburn tomorrow at one Piece at the Tennis
Center, So if you want to see some tennis, get out there and
check that one out, and then you'll see if Arizona can host a super
Regional the next week. But Auburn's ranked twenty fourth, so we'll see what
happens. Yeah, Okay, while we're done here, we got about forty
seconds. Jay, thanks for coming back. I'll see you Monday. Okay,
we'll see you in person on Monday. Adam, thank you very much
for working all this with this with the remote and stuff problem. Yeah.
Great, okay, good to talk to everybody. We'll see you guys next
week. Appreciate it. Have a great weekend.