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Steve Ravera and Jakin Salles. They
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radio am okay, welcome back joining
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fifteen. I'm Steve, he's Jay. Now we have Jason with some breaking

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news season I on the ballaking news. Okay. So, Arizona Baseball had

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a couple of players get drafted in
the twenty twenty three m MLB Draft on

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Monday. UM. First one being
Chase Davis, the UM super star outfielder

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that was on Sunday, wasn't it. Yeah, he got drafted in the

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first round on Sunday Sunday story.
He went twenty first to the Cardinals.

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Yep. There were a couple more. There were a total of six,

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right I thought, okay, six
I thought was five? Um yeah?

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Six? Um t J Nicholas he
was drafted at sixth round, one hundred

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and eighty three, pure up to
the Tampa Bay Rays and Kio Romero was

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like the seventh round. Uh,
didn't we think he was gonna go higher?

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Yeah? I don't know, but
I need to try to see if

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we can get him on Yeah,
local kids, CDEO guy. Yeah,

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Yeah, there's a neighbor of mine. I just found out today somewhere,

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Yeah, like in CDEO area.
I don't know, I just heard it.

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Maybe I need to go get a
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They're not gonna drafty nine year old
dude. Man, it's water weight.

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I'll tell Speaking of that, I'll
tell you another story on that one.

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Yeah. The next was Akiko Romero
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Yankees. Cool, and then Chris
barraza picture yep, right, tenth Brown

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Los Angeles Angels. And then it
was Nick McClary after the short stop yep,

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um saying diego Padres and he was
the last one and will and then

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their top recruit the picture Um Wolford
something like that, Tyler Wolford I think

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was the name. Um. He
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he went, you know, he
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yeah, he's gonna make a ton
of money, so he coming. His

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his bonus is in the is over
a million, so he's probably not coming

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either. So anyways, but yeah, you know, a good haul.

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Um. I saw a text that
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of the top teams to get you
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C LS. You had the one
and two. Yeah, yeah, let

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me say this. I saw that
list maybe on Twitter, same thing you

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saw they had five or six now
and they were in the top five or

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six all time, and I'm thinking, should they have been better than what

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they were? Well? J Nichols
gets drafted at mean, he was terrible

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this year. He lost his spot
as a starter. Yeah, he was

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in relief at the end of the
year. So you know, again they're

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they're drafting off potential. Yeah.
Sure, some of these guys may come

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back, some may not, but
you know, they want to get their

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career started. So Uh. The
d A men's tennis coach Climsy shields.

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He announced that they are harder.
Um Alexander Free as our associate head coach

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the upcoming season. All right,
new head coach coach, I think I

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think, uh, you have a
golf one too, because golf has a

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new assistant coaches like that. I
think as men's golf has a new assistant

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coach as well. Okay, anyways, Uh, sophomore center Henry Vsar Suffriday

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spring ankle during the Estonia's win over
Monteguero on Sunday in the FIBA. Um

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you twenty European champions Yeah, so
you didn't. Yeah, yeah, and

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then he hasn't played since. Those
things can nagh man. It's probably a

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seven footer, yeah, those things
can. They said he'd be ready for

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the I saw this. I guess. I don't know it's official or that

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he'd be ready for the Red Blue
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Jays and Jason they go to they
go to Israel, Yeah, where he

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was hopefully going to get some play. Yeah, he said he might miss

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that. Okay, that's too bad. That's too bad. Yeah, there's

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no when you have games like that
that are important because they're reported, because

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you're playing time against good quality teams. You know what I'm saying, it's

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you. You can't replace that.
Yeah, you know, you established a

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rapport with the other guys. Yeah, that's that's why they do those things,

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right exactly. So that's okay.
Um Joe Va dud Man. Yeah,

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he passed away. Yeah, one
of the great guys. You know,

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did did you You had to a
mad him at some he did some.

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One of my chapters was on him
from the book. It just wanted

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one of the cool guys, you
know, just kind of an unassuming,

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you know, humble guy. You
know, everybody grew up, you know,

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if you grew up watching you have
a sports from the you know,

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late seventies until maybe five six,
seven years ago, you knew who he

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was. You saw him he was. You know, you'd see like at

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the basketball games, other teams that
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You did go, what the hell
is going on? When he'd come

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out on the court and they shouldn't
be looking in the first place to you,

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I know, but you came in
the huddle. You can't not look

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when he comes out on the court. When he when he was at the

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later stages, when he was at
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letting go out there that if if
they were gonna be in trouble, you

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knew who was coming out right because
he was around at the right time.

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That was one of things about him. His timing was was epic. I

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mean, he was always at the
right time. Um, you know it

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was. It was cool. And
the funny thing about this, Jay,

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I don't know if you agree with
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five let's say twenty five hundred students
in the room, right, another twelve

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fans, old dudes like you and
me. Now, and here's this old

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dude coming out. So the kids
are pin saying, what's his old dude

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due? But the old people loved
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Yeah, he's one of us.
And he was just a dude acting stupid,

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right and say, you know,
because he was. But he got

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the got the crowd going, and
he loved it, and the crowd loved

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him. Yeah. Well, I
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he came, he was a bartender, and so I saw him. Carlos

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Murphies was downtown is the old train
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that. Yeah, they build a
Mexican restaurant and the bar. It was

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a it was very much of a
nightclub. I remember that on top of

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the But yeah, we'll miss him. Um, well we've been missing him,

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right, he's been gone for a
while, at least from from doing

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the stuff. But a legendary guy. Do you remember you were here?

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So I was not in seventy nine
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the omaha, that's how the chant
started. He would climb. He would

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climb the pole um by the dug
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you know for the sound system,
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going omaha and the whole crowd.
He just did it one time and the

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crowd responded to it, so he
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and then in the nineteen they went
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took him with him and all kind
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He went to the eighty eight final
four two. So he said that he

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went to he might have there was
a funny story in the h we'll have

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your draw the story yesterday about it
or two days ago. Uh, after

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the game with Kerr, right with
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was on the lower level and Kerr
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up and you know, are you
gonna jump? Says no, you know

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because of that right, Well,
if you do, we'll also Steve Kerr

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for the last time Steve again.
And then you know, I got a

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chance to talk to him a few
times. It just really cool guys,

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really good dude, really nice guy. Um didn't you know, didn't uh

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make a big deal about who he
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just went about his business and had
fun doing what he was doing. Got

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to go to a lot of games
because of It's very cool, very sad

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that he asked some national news the
w NBA Phoenix Mercury. Um, they're

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hiring the Golden Cate Warriors executive.
Nick, you were in ye as general

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manager. Wow, the other the
Farriors are rebuilding kind of the new GM.

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And now this guy left, uh, pool is gone. Well that's

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okay, Yeah, that's okay.
It's still coming stuff coming out about him

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and how totally um, what's the
right words, functional, dysfunctional? That

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was because of him being there.
Well, and they said, whoever pose,

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it doesn't matter, just that it
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the guy. He was a petel
in painting. But to Steve Kerr,

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yeah, well we'll get to the
tall hire on there and I on the

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ball. How's it going today?
What's up, Bryan? What's happening?

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I was, how was your vacation? It wasn't technically a vacation, but

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it was okay, good good.
You know your guys are talking about the

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man I don't remember. You know, back in the seventies watching him because

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I remember, right, he got
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and I think it was I don't
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eight. I'm not too sure.
I thought it was seven six, but

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they say it was seventy nine,
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Yeah, I thought it went through
the first year they went to a world

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right when they won that World Series. Yeah, but he just get the

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fans fired up to the old sad
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though, But he was much better. It was amazing to watch him because

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he would have have the fans going
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happened later on in his wife,
but just held unfortunately, Brian. He

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was living, Brian. He was
living the life. He was living the

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life you always have dreamed though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just get

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him. They're making a four fourteen
thousand people taking your clothes off. I

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was referring to, all right,
don't do it, don't do it,

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Brian. Yeah. Do you have
a favorite memory of him or do they

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all? It is kind of like
you just remember him always coming out of

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the court. Well you know,
you know, more or later on in

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basketball. But it's back whenever,
like the UA needed a boost to get

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the fans and bobbed in the game, keep them out on the court.

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Yeah, and then you know,
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into the game again. Yeah,
without questions. They needed him a lot

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during the final years of Sean Miller. Yeah, because there were fewer fans

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and they were just sitting on their
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it wasn't very exciting basketball. Well, there is that. There's that.

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Here's that, all right, brank
Hey, go ahead, Yeah, you

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guys have a good day. All
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it. No, I'm sure a
lot of people have memories of him,

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my kids, do you know,
just the stuff is fun and you know

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people do that, and you know, cheer teams and you know, do

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you know, do the science,
you know, do the letters? A

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very all right? The New York
Times announced that they're disbanding their sports I

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wanted to talk about the huh and
you saw what happened the only Times too

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right, they're doing this, They're
not They're cutting the crap out of that

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thing. I didn't see the time
the buck scores, the Times of Games

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or it's it's not the same sports
programs we saw before. Well, Peyton

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newspapers are stopping, are not being
the paper of record anymore. They're just

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reporting stuff that they think is interesting
to their readers. That they're not reporting

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stuff for the sake of being a
record. Here's the problem too. Their

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deadlines are three o'clock. I mean, that's what the other Times is going

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through right now. Uh, the
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yeah, yeah, this thing with
the New York I saw the New York

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Times stuff and that the Athletic now
is going to be there basically their sports

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and they just laid off a whole
bunch of people. Yeah. Yeah,

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what are you doing? What are
you doing? Good? Medicine that a

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job for life, man. Yeah, you know you don't want to be

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a doctor to No, don't do
it. You don't like money. Stay

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look, you like money, be
a doctor, see me. There's plenty

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of jobs. There's all kinds of
jobs. You might not be working in

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a newspaper. Yeah, but there's
jobs, definitely. Yeah. Coach,

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last question, coach, last question, No one reads you, Jason,

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don't worry about it. Uh.
The Saints running back Alvin Kamara, he

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pleaded an old contest. Did he
picked the crap out of that gun to

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beat somebody up? Man? Yeah? Custom a few dollars. Yeah,

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he might be facing some major,
major suspension in the upper Well, that's

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right, that's not resolved. That's
not resolved. Yes, though I'm looking

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into him more so. Yeah,
but yeah, that's all the breaking his

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eye. Okay, I have one
more. Um, The Oakland A's have

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actually applied for UM to be able
to move their team to h To Vegas.

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Um A. Major League Baseball has
has established a relocation committee which has

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to have evaluate all of it and
you know and then give a I guess,

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give a report and kind of you
know report on it to UH to

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Major League Baseball to determine whether or
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But I can't think of anything that
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Las Vegas until unless the stadium deal
false right right, and the razor looking

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to leave too after the release is
done, pare pretty soon. I thought

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they were going to be four years. I don't know that. I just

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saw two day's report of the team's
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Wow. Um, talked about.
But it's four years away. So yeah,

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and have you been paying attention to
the summer league Ben Mathrin and these

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guys. He's playing very well,
really good. I love the way Ben

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is. I loved I loved the
one he played here. The one thing

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above Ben that hasn't changed. Every
call is against him. Oh I was

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foul. Oh god, I was
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everybody. It's just unbelievable just playing. Yeah, watch it if you would

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watch him next time. Yeah,
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Oh come on, Ben, all
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We're gonna have Elijah Russian coming on.

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and Jay Getzalns on Fox Sports fourteen
fifteen. Hey, welcome back to on

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the Ball here at Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jay

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Gonzals. Now on the phone,
we have Elijah Rushing you commit to the

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University of Veraras on a football program
at a south Point. How are you

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doing, Elijah, I'm doing.
How are you? We're doing fine?

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Great to have you on the show. Let me see something about you.

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I've never seen you play. Get
all the graziness that the people love you.

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But what struck me about you in
your press converences? How professional you

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were already kind of very tempered and
very smart thinking. And that goes a

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long way at least for me,
Jay, just a very Your parents must

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have done a great job with you, because you don't see that kids anymore.

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Yeah, yes, sir, thank
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a little bit about first, um, how things have maybe settled for you

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in the last week or so.
Uh, you know, there's probably a

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lot of excitement going into the decision. The decision gets made, you're doing

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all this media. You've been on
all the radio shows except ours, but

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now you're on ours. How you
know, how things kind of settled that

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you've made the decision. Are you
kind of at ease with all of it

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at this point? Um? I
feel comfortable with my decisions. You know,

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no matter where I went or wherever
the case was, at least from

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the information I was, I'll come
to receive it that my outcome is still

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going to be my outcome no matter
where I go. So for me,

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it's like this, this is a
good place for me. It made sense

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for what I wanted to do.
What We both covered the sports for a

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long time. Elijah covered recruiting.
We hated it. We hated it back

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in the day. Did you get
tired of it? All the calls you

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got or letters, or especially the
calls, maybe the text or you just

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said Okay, I want to be
done with this and no more. Um.

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At some point, yes, I
felt like, hum I took care

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of it really well, or me
and my dad took care of really well,

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we were a team throughout this whole
thing. Whatever I couldn't answer,

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he will pick up the pieces.
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that made sure, like my mental
health is everything going into that. I

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was good with it. I wasn't
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Elijah for a player like you again, you know, five star, four

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star, whatever stars a player like
like you is. You know you're getting

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You're hearing from so many different schools, you know, how do you go

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about narrowing down, you know,
narrowing all that down, deciding where I'm

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gonna visit, who I'm going to
keep paying attention to, you know,

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you you put up you know,
or at least people thought there were four

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schools there at the end. There's
other recruits that they might have ten schools

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that are kind of in it at
the end. How did you narrow it

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down? And what were the things
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family and I would just say,
like the program has made sense for me

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as far as their like their makeup, like their coaches, they were the

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teachers, they were developers. Um
did a family atmosphere and it was just

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a good environment. I could see
myself being there and for me, I

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got to see all those places like
complete campuses and tours, So it was

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either for me just to already pick
those up, like, all right,

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I've been to these schools, are
enjoyed my experience. Let me put these

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to someone I want to look I
want to still look into. So so

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you felt like you can kind of
see yourself on the campus, in the

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classroom and all that kind of stuff. I mean just an overall comfort level.

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Is that what it was? Yes? Their comfort all right. So

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you're the most touted recruit coming into
the University of Arizona football program, which

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is a huge thing given all the
names that have come through here. Is

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there pressure? Is there? Whatever
the world it is. I don't want

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to put word in your mouth.
And you're kind of now the new pipe

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piper of players to get other players? Maybe right? Um. I feel

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like my experience, like especially being
a five star those are it already comes

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with pressure to perform the way you
need to perform. And I feel like

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the past year I've had I still
proved myself just like when anyone had to

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say and whether they thought I deserved
this or not, and I think I

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said this, I said this,
on another radio song. Um, just

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the thing that my dad told me, and I'm trying with myself is God

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wouldn't put me in this position if
I couldn't handle it. You wouldn't give

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me this opportunity. He wouldn't give
me this vision for being in this place.

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Uh, he wouldn't. He wouldn't
put me here if I didn't belong.

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That's kind of my idea. Yeah, that's a that's a great way

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to uh, to think about it
and to look at it because you know,

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look, you don't know Steve and
I, but Steve just an old,

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grouchy sports writer who doesn't really care
about any teams. I'm an Arizona

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fan. I grew up in Tucson, UM and I've been a big and

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and loved the fact that you decided
to stay here. So, you know,

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high expectations, but I also understand
you know, when you get there,

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you know there's gonna be a lot
of eyes on you and how you

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how you deal with that. It's
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and so you know, how do
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that. Um. I have a
great supports to my family and just the

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people around me. Um, they
I know they all helped me go through

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where I'm at now and whatever notoriety
I have, so I know they're gonna

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stinkle me to the end. So
for me, I'm not too worried about

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that. And you, what do
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size right now officially? And what
do you hope to get to before you

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get on campus? Um? Right
now? Um six to five, two

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fifty and um. For me,
I'm just hoping to just maintain throughout the

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season. It's funny, uh,
I know South Point's gonna sell a lot

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of tickets this year because I'm gonna
go see you. A lot of people

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are gonna go see you, and
you have a teammate that's gonna be here

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too with Keona. Just how good
you guys gonna be on that line?

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He said that one more time.
Yeah, how good are you guys gonna

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be at south Point with you and
Keona on that line? I mean great?

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Um, at least the experience,
well we got the experience last year.

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Most of the competition we had,
they were in the twenty three class.

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So with them leaving, it just
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the abilities that meet him have,
Like we're last year I was, I

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was being a double team. I
was doing this, I was doing that.

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But for him, he's a He's
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he can. He can hold his
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do, so he can't block both
people. So at least for me,

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I'm really excited for what the season
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other. You're talking about family being
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stay the Arizona Keona will Hike a
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the on the team in Arizona,
So you're you're actually you're gonna go in

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there with some guys that you're you
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familiar with. How big a deal
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me because I know something that I
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you want to have a great support
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This is the next step in your
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years to these people. Where are
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were a lot of people were telling
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have a great support system getting away
from home. At least for me,

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I'm like, I have a unique
opportunity here with a great support system.

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So at least it made sense for
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support system. I don't need to
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have a foundation here. Let me
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go ahead, I can say you
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that you feel like, you know
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you're going to take it upon yourself
to try and get other guys at your

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level, you know, to come
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things you know can continue the movement
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of a deal is that for you? And what kind of how do you

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do that? Um? Do you
know? It just really the thing that

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my dad told me in a way
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The lead is um just how do
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a That's the thing that I've carry
with myselff. What helped me during this

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process is what do you what do
you want out of this? How do

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you want to be remembered? What
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me, Um, all the other
choices were safe choices, for resource safe

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choices. You could go to that
place, you can get the championship,

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but you'd be one of those guys, Whereas you can go somewhere and build,

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build something with your own hands that
has your own name on it.

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00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:41.079
So for me, it's how do
you want to be remembered. You want

410
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to be the first, or do
you want to be one of many?

411
00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:45.839
So it's it's you've you've mentioned your
dad a couple of times in his in

412
00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:51.319
his phrases, his his isms,
if you're dadaisms because I have a few,

413
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:52.720
two, Well, he must be
a big influence in your life.

414
00:27:53.640 --> 00:28:00.079
Huge tell me about that though.
Um, you know he especially in this

415
00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:03.519
process, we got really close just
going through this process. He coached me

416
00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:08.039
for um say, coming up and
literally he coached me then. And he's

417
00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:12.000
always been right by my side working
with me, Um, even with my

418
00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:17.039
technique and all the nuances of recruiting. Because he was a D one.

419
00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:22.039
He was a D one ball player
over at Florida and Steve spurred Church recruiting

420
00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:23.599
class. So this is not his
first time being here. He knows what

421
00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:26.839
it is I has an older brother
who had gone through this process. He

422
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:32.160
went to Wisconsin, and my older
brother who went to Florida and back at

423
00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:34.559
the uf A. He went through
this process. So for him it was

424
00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:38.400
like it was just good for him
having it was good. Sorry, it

425
00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:41.440
was good for me having him by
my side to help me walk through this

426
00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.480
journey. And I'm just blessed to
have him in my life. So how

427
00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:48.319
was it having those brothers? Older
brothers? Were you the punching bag of

428
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:52.599
letter? You probably got better,
you know you The way you get better

429
00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.559
in any sport is playing better people, playing tougher people. Did that that

430
00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:00.319
must have helped? Um? I
say, I learned my work ethic from

431
00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:04.839
my older brother because before UM,
the way my dad told me, I

432
00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:08.359
was really more about leaving know my
talent. But when I got to change

433
00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:12.200
with my brother, like I said, just him. We share We shared

434
00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:17.279
a room together our whole life.
So me getting to see him worked away

435
00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:19.759
he needed to work and get the
opportunity he had, it was great for

436
00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:26.839
me to see it. And I
was able to take that ability from him

437
00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.200
and use it to push me forward
the way I needed to be moved forward.

438
00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:33.359
And so it was just great to
have him there. Well, and

439
00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:36.720
you have a younger brother, right, he's I think he's going to be

440
00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:41.640
a freshman this coming year. So
are you are you now stepping into that

441
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:44.960
to be his example so that he
can you know, do that? I

442
00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:48.039
mean, is that something that you
that's on your mind? Yes? Absolutely,

443
00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.319
weak. Um, that's already been
set in motion and that that's what

444
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:55.960
we do. That's what we do
as a family. We're a really tight

445
00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.960
knit family and we all want to
see each other's succeeds. So that is

446
00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:03.759
the responsibility that It's like the tourists. You passed on the tourist and the

447
00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:07.440
next one into the next one,
into the next one. What's his name?

448
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.920
What's his name? David? Okay, so, so, Elijah,

449
00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:15.119
I'm penciling David's name in for Arizona
football right now. No, no,

450
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:19.279
I'm gonna put it in pen so
that will just be more secure. What

451
00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:23.079
position does he play? And how
good is he? Um? He plays

452
00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:27.240
receiver dB. But he's an athlete
and look at he's probably gonna be the

453
00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:30.400
best one out of the three of
them. Wow okay, wow, okay,

454
00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:34.400
okay, Well we can't wait for
him too. So, so what

455
00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:37.680
what's got you most fired up about. I know you've got to go through

456
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.759
a whole football season at South Point, and you know you're probably you're gonna

457
00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:45.799
do great and all that stuff.
But are you already kind of thinking about

458
00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:48.839
stepping on the field of airs,
on the stadium, seeing the crowd,

459
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:52.640
you know, putting on the uniform, putting on the helmet. Those are

460
00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.839
those things running through your head right
now? Right now? Not yet?

461
00:30:57.079 --> 00:31:00.400
But for me, I'm just focused
on in front of me. Um.

462
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:03.799
I have this season coming forward,
so it's really focused on that. But

463
00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:07.440
there. But of course I have
times where I think about that me stepping

464
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:11.880
on that field from the visits I've
been on and the games I've been to,

465
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:14.240
just seeing the crowd, seeing how
it be me being on there.

466
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:17.720
But as of now, like I'm
focused on what's in front of me.

467
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.119
We had Carter Garrett on last week
and she was very proud of you,

468
00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:23.720
obviously in the in the press,
propressor she was clapping up a storm.

469
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:29.400
What does she mean to you to
this point? Um, She's been huge,

470
00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:33.640
UM, just having someone who's also
been another top recruit and when she

471
00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:37.799
was coming through her recruiting process and
she knows, she knows what it feels

472
00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:41.799
like to do something different from the
pack, and so it was good for

473
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:45.079
me to have her in my corner, not only as her strength coach and

474
00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:49.440
her expertise in that lane, but
also just someone to talk through through this

475
00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:55.960
process and be confident in my decision
and what I could do. She as

476
00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:59.279
tough as she sounded on her show
last week, because she scared me a

477
00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:04.680
little bit. Absolutely, That's why
you are who you are. Yeah,

478
00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:07.480
yeah, she's a little scary,
but there We've known Carla for a long

479
00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:10.759
time and you know the stuff that
she's doing over there. So your thoughts

480
00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:15.480
going into your your football season this
year? What's your approach? I'm excited.

481
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:21.519
Um, I know I'm taking every
step with detail and effort like I've

482
00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:27.119
been doing for the past three years, and so I'm just excited to go

483
00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:30.920
through this season and do what we
need to do. So just another maybe

484
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.279
last question. You get to college, what do you hope to study?

485
00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:37.599
What do you want to be when
you eventually grow up. I'm still trying

486
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:39.799
to figure that out myself, see
where my passions are. But I know

487
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:44.960
my strengths are massive science. So
for me, just like kind of going

488
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:47.640
into there and see wherever that takes. Okay, a great to have you

489
00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:52.240
on the show. Like I said, very impressed with We are very impressed

490
00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:54.759
and we wish you all the best. And congress to your family too,

491
00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:59.079
because it just doesn't happen right just
you know, they're they're a big part

492
00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:04.279
of it, exactly. Thank you, Thanks for good lock to you again

493
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:07.519
soon, Thank you, Thank you
super good. I really like the way

494
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:12.480
he sounds. Yeah, you know, it wasn't what were you saying,

495
00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:16.079
It wasn't old. No, he
just said confident dude, Yeah, really

496
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:19.960
confident dude. Again. You know
when you when you think you know,

497
00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:22.480
the conversation we had with Mike Gonzalez
about Nick, who just you know,

498
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:27.519
had seemed to have his stuff together
seemingly from the time he was two years

499
00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:30.559
old right to you know, knowing
what was you know, what was in

500
00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:34.000
front of him. You know that
stuff that doesn't happen by accident, It

501
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:37.119
doesn't. You know, it's it's
parents, it's environment, the people around

502
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:40.119
you. You get the people right
or the right people around you too to

503
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:45.240
help you on this. I'm sure
his brother Cruz, who's the one who's

504
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:49.680
was at Florida's now and Arizona had
something to do with that. Teammates Eric

505
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:52.759
Rodgers, the head coach atself,
point, Carl Garrett, all those people

506
00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:55.799
had something to do with Meija Rushing
being becoming who he's become. It's very

507
00:33:55.799 --> 00:34:00.240
cool. Okay, let's take a
break. Let's get a break show.

508
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:02.559
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is I Am the Ball on Fox
Sports four team. They welcome back twice

561
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the Ball here on Fox Sports sporteen
fifty on Steve, You're Jake Jason with

562
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US got fifteen and US left great
to have him on the show. Hey,

563
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:10.840
we had the best interview. We
did well, Steve, were were

564
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good, and we were in the
circles around some of the guys. You

565
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:19.000
know, I'm glad we got to
do this show because I was looking forward

566
00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:22.679
to the show yesterday and unexpectedly for
both of the guys, and for both

567
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:27.119
the guys, yeah, I was
okay canceling yesterday, but because you were

568
00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:29.159
gonna be here, I know you
were as important to you. Yeah,

569
00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:32.440
So thanks for getting the job.
And we appreciate the fact that both Mike

570
00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:37.239
Gonzalez and Elijah Russian decided to stick
with us and do the show today because

571
00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:40.559
I think we talked about some some
cool stuff. I really loved the interview

572
00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:44.760
with Mike because he you know again, you know, we all wanted to

573
00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:46.119
be that. I was gonna touch
you because you brought this up, and

574
00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:51.840
I I totally believe in this.
You could be five foot six, five

575
00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:53.519
foot seven, if you know how
to play, if you know how to

576
00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:58.519
play the game, any guilty,
any game basketball player, if you have

577
00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:00.639
the chops to become a leader.
Well, I don't believe in this.

578
00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:05.280
I was gonna say it because we're
this crap that uh, the crap that,

579
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.159
oh he can jump this high,
he jumps this high. I know

580
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:10.000
a lot of people who jumped at
high. Cam't play. Yeah, but

581
00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:13.440
if you know a guy who can
play, he can play. Well.

582
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:15.239
There's so many pieces that you have
to have. One. You have to

583
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:17.480
have the physical ability right, the
athletic ability, and I know a lot

584
00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:20.679
of people that do right. And
you can be five six and you can

585
00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:23.320
be seven foot four, and you
know, and if you have the athletic

586
00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:28.840
billy, that's step one. We've
also have to have the mental aspect of

587
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:31.360
it. If you're a dumb ass, how many you're it up? Screw

588
00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:36.000
it up? A lot? Yeah, a lot? You know. And

589
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:39.800
and you know when you hear Mike
Gonzalez talk about Nick growing up and you

590
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:43.679
know, wanting to do the work. You know, Elijah rushing, you

591
00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:47.199
hear you know how his his dad
and he were quote unquote a team,

592
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:52.320
you know, to get him to
where he where he got to. You

593
00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:57.760
know, in instances like that,
the mental aspect of it, the work

594
00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:00.920
ethic is is it is important,
if not more important than just having the

595
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:05.000
physical So you can teach it,
but if the guy doesn't believe in it,

596
00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:07.360
he won't do it. But if
you grow with it and you this

597
00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:10.119
is who you are, right,
more power to you. And he was

598
00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:12.960
doing it at two years old,
right, and he was doing all this

599
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:15.480
stuff and no one telling him to
do it. Look, you know,

600
00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:19.159
we steve you and I have seen
over the years guys who you thought that

601
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:21.920
guy doesn't have the athic ability to
do this? All of a sudden there

602
00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:23.800
in the major leagues and a guy
that comes to mind for me. And

603
00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:28.119
this goes way back right when I
was covering, uh, you know,

604
00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:30.960
I was covering a high school in
Pima baseball. It was a kid named

605
00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:35.679
Jack how Over, a Poliver and
I remember he, you know, he

606
00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:38.519
hooked on at Pima. And a
buddy of mine who was in the same

607
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:44.400
class but playing at Swar High School, said, Jack, how's night any

608
00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:46.719
good? You know, he's not
any good? How was he playing at

609
00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:49.960
Pima? And because he had to
go play, he went and played,

610
00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:52.119
you know, at another junior college
in the state. And I said,

611
00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:55.159
you know what, he's on the
team, right, Well, he's not

612
00:40:55.199 --> 00:40:59.039
that good, It's okay. And
then all a sudden, Jack how goes

613
00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:01.800
after two years he goes Arizona,
right, he's at Arizona and the next

614
00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:05.840
thing you know, he's you know, he gets drafted and he makes his

615
00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:07.840
way up and the next thing you
know, he's in the he's in the

616
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:10.480
leagues. I go to my but
he said, I guess he was not

617
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:13.920
that good, right, And it's
kind of like, you know, and

618
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:15.400
you're right. I mean, when
you know, when you saw Jack Hall

619
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:19.800
on the field at Pima, you
didn't say there's a major league baseball guy

620
00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:21.960
in the making. There were a
lot of other guys on those teams,

621
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:24.239
because that's when Rich all Day was
taking teams to the Cultural Series, and

622
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:27.440
there were a lot of other guys
on the team that he thought are better

623
00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:32.599
than Jack Hall. But clearly Jack
Hall had something right right consistency, work

624
00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:38.400
ethic, and he had enough athletic
ability to put it all together. And

625
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:45.320
he played dad, didn't his dad
play Jack Senior. I can remember reading

626
00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:51.119
or writing about that where he had
some baseball experience. Again, this doesn't

627
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:53.039
happen by accident. You kind of
learned it somewhere well. And now you're

628
00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:58.159
seeing so many guys in the major
leagues who were there, and you know

629
00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:02.320
it's because their day adds knew how
to do this and help their kids do

630
00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:05.519
this. And there's so many.
Sure, you know, go go back

631
00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:10.519
to Ken Griffey Junior, Look,
Blag Guarrel junior who won the contest last

632
00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:15.800
night, Bobah whose dad Dontevish.
You know, all these guys were all

633
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:19.559
and you go, not only do
they do they get the jeans, but

634
00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:24.679
their dads or or if it's a
woman's sport, their moms knew what a

635
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:30.360
tuck beyond the talent, right,
no question. You know, well,

636
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:34.800
look, I'll give you a name
right here, Luke Woll. Come on,

637
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:37.880
the guy can't jump, but the
dude as smart as hell, can

638
00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:39.960
get the ball to who's He was
perfect at the top of the top of

639
00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:44.039
the key to get the ball to
whoever. And then he s had a

640
00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:46.480
shot, he played, and he
did the work. He did the work.

641
00:42:46.519 --> 00:42:50.320
And he's still in basketball right right, he's still making a career.

642
00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:52.920
Yes, and and and and and
I apologize right now, but I'll bring

643
00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:59.519
up another Salim, Salim who had
all this talent fantastic, but didn't have

644
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:00.880
the rest of it, just just
didn't want to kind of stick to it's

645
00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:04.679
a basket game. Yeah, yeah, And it was tough I mean theos

646
00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:09.079
are two extremes and two dudes I
admired very much like uh clid was there.

647
00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:15.559
Okay, name a more flat out
talented basketball player at Arizona in the

648
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:19.360
time that you've been Covernors. Don't
think the Reeves, No, I can't.

649
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:23.360
That's you can say undoubtedly had more
talent than Kalid Reeves. There's no

650
00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:28.400
right. I made it so fluid
and the day I listened to Damon all

651
00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:31.400
the time. If Calid had Damon's
work ethic right, he would have been

652
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:36.639
a pro for what was I mean, Sean Elliott even had to work at

653
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:37.960
being a better player. By the
time he got out of here, he

654
00:43:38.039 --> 00:43:43.800
was a great player. Plus he
had the physical attributes to be ultimately an

655
00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:46.480
NBA All Star. The only other
guy that I but you know, DeAndre

656
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:51.519
just had the body. Yeah right, yeah right, but you just had

657
00:43:51.559 --> 00:43:53.639
that. You just had the body. But his game, if you think

658
00:43:53.679 --> 00:43:58.360
about the game that Kalid Reeves have, I'll give you, yeah, agree,

659
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:00.960
I'll give you number two in an
odd and I don't know if you'll

660
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:04.880
believe me with this. Brian Williams, the dude was a big dude,

661
00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:08.199
talented athletic, could run the court
very well. It's like he didn't want

662
00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:13.960
to be there in my life.
It was like, I'm a basketball player

663
00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:15.920
because I've got all the physical attributes, but I don't really want to be

664
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:21.039
a basketball player here because I have
to be and I'm pretty good at it

665
00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:23.519
because I shouldn't be doing anything else, right, I'm gonna intellect I like

666
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:27.760
this, okay and go art stuff
and no more power to you. But

667
00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:30.559
he had he was that dude.
Yeah, he had that felt like he

668
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:35.199
had to do that a test that
he was probably the best athlete he had

669
00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:38.599
on the team ever. And then
he had Kidding Opton on a team exactly

670
00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:43.039
right, exactly. I mean you
think of all the talented guys that have

671
00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:45.360
come through here for whatever sport,
and you think, Okay, who was

672
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:50.559
the most talented in each sport?
And I'd put Khalid Reeves ahead of all

673
00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:54.199
of them in basketball? Yeah,
you know, um football, I don't

674
00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:59.679
know. It's hard to yeah because
it's it's it's yeah, but you got

675
00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:02.159
a let those dudes who were kind
of like on the friends that were Okay,

676
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:06.079
Rob Walldrobe, who thought and all
of a sudden, he's this dude,

677
00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:07.639
right, he's this dude, guys
that we cover, you know,

678
00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:14.960
um the Carson Winner, Um Darryl
Lewis who was moved moved from one spot

679
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:19.920
twenty became this dude and became a
legendary truck Cecil. Yeah, I mean,

680
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:22.119
you don't teach what they have,
right. Those guys got there because

681
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:24.400
of the work, because of the
work that they're willing to do. And

682
00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:30.320
like you said, they you know, Cecil had just enough athletic ability right

683
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:34.199
to the crap out of you,
and and fearlessness for him. Right.

684
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:39.679
But you know Teddy Bruskie right,
who again not incredibly blast like you know,

685
00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:45.360
elite blast, but with enough that
when you mixed in the mental approach

686
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:49.199
and the work ethic, he became
what he beat. Right. There was

687
00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:53.119
a question yesterday somewhere I'll get the
answer from both of you. Uh best

688
00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:59.280
father's son duo in sports ever have. I know we're gonna miss from a

689
00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:01.719
long time ago, but well I
have money. I think you started with

690
00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:05.559
the Griffis and that's that was mine. Yeah. I think I think you

691
00:46:05.639 --> 00:46:08.559
started with the Griffis because because I've
left me because Junior was so damn good,

692
00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:14.119
right, I think, really good. But he was not as good

693
00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:15.840
as his son, and his son
was just so much better at a time

694
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:19.760
when he was more visible. Did
they showed some stuff on ESPN yesterday,

695
00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:22.280
his swing and all that stuff.
Davis, It was like Davis, Yeah,

696
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:29.000
that same, but left something.
I think that's the first one that

697
00:46:29.079 --> 00:46:30.840
came to my mind when you asked
that question. There's probably some others.

698
00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:34.840
You know, you look at you
look at Bob Boone who had two kids,

699
00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:37.480
you know, who played, you
know, who were good pros.

700
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:39.559
But well, neither one of those
guys, you know, Brett Boone and

701
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:45.320
thereon. But we're not Hall of
famers. Yeah, anybody you know coming

702
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:46.440
to my mind right now. I
mean there are a lot of them out

703
00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:52.679
there. Well bloodies one now,
yeah, but that but we don't we

704
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:54.679
don't know how how good Boba Chet's
gonna some other ones. There's you know,

705
00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:58.679
football football, you have the lungs, the lungs, how we long

706
00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:01.800
and his son sons sons? Yeah
yeah, but then and then you know

707
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:05.880
you have brothers and stuff like that. But we're talking about a parent and

708
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:09.440
a kid, um, you know, I mean, like Michael Jordan's kid

709
00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:13.119
was never all that great. Let's
see how Bronnie how good Bronnie is at

710
00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:16.480
some point. But now they're coming
up. I mean the uh the Booker,

711
00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:20.840
who's the duke kid, Dwayne Wade
have a kid who's really good,

712
00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:24.880
the duke guy, he has twins
or kids. They're playing in the league's

713
00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:30.480
now in the high school duke,
the duke, the Florida Boozer, Boozers,

714
00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:35.320
Boozer kids. Oh, Carlos Boozer, his kids, those those that

715
00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:37.960
group and then some other guys,
some other kid, uh is going to

716
00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:43.000
go to play with them here.
Uh it's it's that time where we're old

717
00:47:43.079 --> 00:47:45.360
enough to cover their parents almost like
you see it more in baseball, and

718
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:50.360
I'm not sure why, right,
there's a lot of father's son you know,

719
00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:54.960
uh uh players in Major League Baseball. Well, you named it.

720
00:47:55.119 --> 00:47:58.440
You named it. One of the
reasons why the kids grow up on the

721
00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:00.840
field, right, you know they're
there there be in the locker room and

722
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:07.039
there kids played baseball all the time. And the chasing flyballs, groundballs.

723
00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:12.079
Right, there's no better way to
blurt the support a curse. Steph Curry

724
00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:14.960
and his dad. Uh yeah,
another one. What was his dad's name,

725
00:48:16.199 --> 00:48:20.239
yea Del Curry. People say he
had one of the smoothest shots in

726
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:23.440
the history of the NBA, which
you know, nine words. Kid got

727
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:27.840
that right, right right, And
it's practice. I mean he doesn't just

728
00:48:27.880 --> 00:48:30.840
throw up those stuts because he doesn't
practice it. Yeah. I just learned

729
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:35.599
to half course shot. Well,
I just got lucky, woke up in

730
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:39.599
the morning, got it. No, but yeah, you know so I

731
00:48:42.280 --> 00:48:45.000
you know, and right now,
if Adams listening, he's going, Dad,

732
00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:47.480
I disappointed to let me down.
You let me down, man,

733
00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:52.280
Come my dad. My dad was
not an athlete at all. Another reason.

734
00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:55.519
My dad was a very physical guy. Did laws of physical work as

735
00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.440
his stuff like that. He was
an athlete because he didn't grow up in

736
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:02.039
an athletic family. He worked,
you know, he lived on a ranch,

737
00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:06.000
right and he didn't you know,
he didn't play baseball and he didn't

738
00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:10.880
play you know, you worked,
man, He worked and then and he

739
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:17.360
told me I had city hands,
but uh you do. Probably still my

740
00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:21.599
dad took me out all the time. He groundballs, groundballs, ground balls,

741
00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:24.400
the poem with us. He didn't
let me hit and that was my

742
00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:29.480
dad ball because the ball never got
Bobby. But I couldn't hit, you

743
00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:31.199
know. Well, you know,
my dad had four boys so you know,

744
00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:36.000
he led us into playing little league
baseball, but he wasn't our coach.

745
00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:38.079
We didn't bought in balls with him. You know, we played baseball

746
00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:42.000
with our friends and we played with
our little league teams and stuff like that.

747
00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:45.639
And I'm not that's I'm not saying
that as criticism. No, it's

748
00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:47.679
just my dad worked and he was
circu He was not a guy who was

749
00:49:47.719 --> 00:49:52.280
out on the field with us doing
this stuff. Whereas you know Ken Griffy

750
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:55.559
Senior and Ken Griffy Junior spent a
lot of time together on the baseball and

751
00:49:55.960 --> 00:50:00.239
Trey Griffy who played here, I
had that ath let us is him,

752
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:01.760
but he was a different sport.
He was a different sport, right,

753
00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:06.880
and so you know I but you
know, jeans play so much a part

754
00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:08.400
of it. So you know,
my son now, I'm sure he's hoping

755
00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:12.800
that my grandson, you know,
is the next you know, the next

756
00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:15.679
generation who because you know, my
Adams are very way more athletic than I

757
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:19.719
ever was. Um you know,
he's better at all sports. I wasn't

758
00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:22.239
near the basketball player, um he
is. I wasn't even near the baseball

759
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:25.480
player that that he is or was, So you know, We hope that

760
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:28.960
our next you know, our grandkid
gets a little bit of that. He's

761
00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:32.280
starting to grab things left handed,
so open you know, you got a

762
00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:38.000
left handed pitcher in the not doing
that. But but Adam did notice that

763
00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:42.199
that his that his kid started.
You know, when he reaches for the

764
00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:46.119
spoon, he's grabbing it with his
left coas he's six months. Man,

765
00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:53.079
we're already building him. Okay,
you know that as well. Yeah,

766
00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:59.159
Tea, you should have. I'm
gonna try to get him on the show

767
00:50:59.639 --> 00:51:06.400
mark you know you can kind of
he's available. He does a lot of

768
00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:09.440
these shows, so I'll try to
talk about you know, life, life

769
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:13.639
because he's he's he's like a jig
down. He's on the tour, talks

770
00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:15.559
about a lot of stuff. Well, you know, he went through a

771
00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:16.360
lot. Yeah, you know,
he went through a lot. Who better

772
00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:19.840
than the good people that go through
right, you know, kind of like

773
00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:23.199
Ryan Leaf right stuff that you see
yan Le. Good for him. I

774
00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:27.880
hated him, but good for him. Yeah, you know you know where

775
00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:31.199
Leaf Washington state quarterback. We're gonna
ask questions like it because you ask us

776
00:51:31.719 --> 00:51:36.320
and we don't. We don't know
who that. Yeah, Well, did

777
00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:38.639
you do your homework. We gave
you some homework for what to look up,

778
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:42.960
so you were supposed to look up
for n Oh, yeah I did

779
00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:45.920
um, but I was like a
wow, I kind of forget about what

780
00:51:46.199 --> 00:51:52.079
about the homework? On on down
the summer and yeah, music continued turn.

781
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:54.360
Yeah I looked it up. Yeah, I guess I enjoyed their stuff.

782
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:58.599
It's not really my but if it
came on, I wouldn't like tried

783
00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:00.800
it off immediately. But yeah,
that's pretty good. And Forno, you

784
00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:05.199
just didn't have a chance. Yeah, I looked him up, but I

785
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:09.159
forgot Okay, okay, well we're
speaking of have you been doing this immaculate

786
00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:12.840
grid stuff? Do you know what
that is? Oh? You don't know

787
00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:15.760
what's that? We don't have time. Well i'll show it to you,

788
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:20.480
but well we'll maybe talk about it
tomorro because immaculate grid is a thing that's

789
00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:23.519
like wordle, you know, New
York, but it's baseball and it's really

790
00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:29.280
cool and I'm stuck on it.
I'm addicted to it. I'll show it

791
00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:30.280
to you. All right, let's
let's get out of here. Hey,

792
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:35.960
listen to the pod if you if
you missed it, would love and then

793
00:52:36.159 --> 00:52:38.000
yep, it'll be up in a
little while and we'll be back tomorrow.

794
00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:38.880
Thanks for being here.