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Streaming live on the iHeartRadio. This
is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera

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and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. Hey, welcome back to my

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Iying the Ball hero Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jake.

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Now we have one with breaking news. This is I on the Ball,

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Breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Happy Friday to everyone out there.

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From yours truly, mister Greedy two
shoes, starting off breaking news with an

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official announcement today from Churchill's Downs,
you have the suspension of Bob trainer Bob

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Baffort because he indirectly back handedly said
yeah, I was at Boult. Yeah,

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he accept the responsibility, I think, and that's yeah, that's and

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that's yeah. Yeah, and three
years is enough. And he wanted to

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get back. He wants to get
back. They want, you know what

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they wanted. Sure it helps,
it helped, come on, yeah,

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you know, I mean even if
you're a good guy, if you're a

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bad guy. But he's needed,
he's needed in the racing profession, right

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right, you know, it depends
what side you're on. Sure, And

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and the thing about think of it
is is that you know what happened is

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clearly. I mean it could have
been you know, could have been cheating,

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could have been an accident, could
have been a lot of different things.

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You know. The thing of it
is, okay, let's move past,

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you know, and and and get
on with it and both will be

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better for it. Exactly exactly where
I was going with that. So,

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yeah, you were that was good
for him, and he's not going to

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hold a grudge over any I think
he has a lot of jade. Dude,

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all right going to college football.
Utah State as official announced today that

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they have fired Blake Anderson. Do
you could you do you know the circumstances?

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Can you talk of the circumstances?
So I believe in April of twenty

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twenty three, it says right here, yeah, there was a a player

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was arrested, dude, alleged domestic
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to university officials and reporting it,
he tried to investigated finding mission right right,

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So so I don't know the circumstances
with stuff that happened at Baylor.

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Uh, the guys shooting teammate,
shooting another and I forget Bliss day Bliss

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Bliss and there's other things that he
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right, so, so I didn't
know this. I thought that the coach

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had got in trouble, but it
was a player. I guess you got

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to let the authorities handle the business, right, Yes, I mean,

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Look, most schools and and largely
because of what happened at Baylor, you

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know, the title stuff and all
that, put policies and rules in place

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to say very specific if something happens. Look in Arizona went through this with

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a bunch of you know, a
bunch of you know, player things and

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stuff that they didn't feel got handled
properly. They put rules in place that

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say, if something happens, particularly
a domestic abuse situation, you report it

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and that's it, and you let
authorities handle it. And what I read

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on what he did was he went
and he spoke to the alleged victim and

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spoke to the roommate and try and
we'll try to figure it out before he

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said anything to the school. And
that's a big giant fat no. No,

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Well, let me tell you something
here. And I don't know the

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circumstances right now on the top of
my head without googling it. With the

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track coach here with the burden that
how that turned out big, a big,

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big mess. It was a big
mess. And then and then the

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Orlando h Bloom the actor, Yeah
is the actor of Orlando? Yeah,

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that guy, yeah Brown, Yeah, Yeah, we know what you're talking

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about. Okay, you know,
uh, you know all all those things.

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Those rules are there for a reason, and now it's to make and

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that's to make sure to maintain the
integrity of the investigation because the lives are

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at stake, life of the victim, live of the person that's being accused.

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You want to make sure that that
gets handled properly in case something didn't

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happen. Right, the whole Duke
lacrosse team thing, right, So a

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coach is not supposed to go do
that, right, that's not his right.

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That's yeah, exactly, that's not
his So he yeah, so he's

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fired, so and and and you
know what, he's already gonna he's gonna

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sue because that it's all alive.
The investigation. They called it a sham

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investigation that they just wanted to get
rid of him, and so that that's

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why they did what they did.
But dude, you know, it's very

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simple. Somebody tells you they're being
abused by one of your players, you

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go straight to the You go straight
to whatever you know is in your policy,

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whoever it is that you go to, whether it's campus police or somebody

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in in the department or whatever,
human resources, not probably even human resources,

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because it's an athlete somewhere, they
have there's a policy laid out and

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they have enough resources. Nowadays there's
a political or you're supposed to do that,

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and he clearly did not do that. You know, I've been here

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a long time. You've been here
a long time that that has happened before.

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Of course it has proof time.
Yeah, you know, and you

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can't do that, especially now with
all the social media and stuff. Stuff

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is gonna get out. Stuff gets
out. So anyways, so he's fire

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bummer free him. Yeah, just
what, He'll land somewhere. So he's

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a good coach, He'll land somewhere. Assistant to the NFL. Troy Aikman,

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former NFL player, Uh, what
are you talking about? Hall of

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Famer Dallas Cowboys, one of Steve's
boys. Back when I cared, Yeah,

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what I cared? He submitted a
bid for a trademark on the use

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of the number eight, and now
Lamar Jackson is disputing it, but it

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has potential to go to court.
You si the number eight? Yeah,

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yeah, I saw that. Troy
Aikman has the word eight right now on

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some of his luggage and he posts
about it sometimes and people recognize it.

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But Lamar Jackson wants to take the
number eight for himself because he's a current

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right now himself as a trademark.
He wants to do it too. Oh

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is the Finders keepers? I don't
know. I was here long before you,

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son. I was number twelve,
So I have no problem issue with

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the number eight. What you do
about nothing? Did you have a number?

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Yeah? Thirteen? Like thirteen.
It's thirteen was a unlucky lucky number

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for me. But well I love
thirteen and a lot of different things.

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My brother, Yeah, my brother
je g Yeah, yeah, I'm sure

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he wins a lot. Yeah he
does well, luckily, come on you

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you've told me stuff that he bets
like ten teen parties and doesn't know what

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he's doing and he hits it.
Oh that's right, No, you said

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maybe maybe maybe. No Jeans Jean's
that guy. Yeah, thirteen is like,

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isn't it isn't? It is in
his email address yeah, so the

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thirteen whatever. Hopefully Lamar Jackson won't
have any grudge against sticking with the Ravens

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and the NFL. The Ravens have
signed former Bears safety Eddie Jackson, a

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two time Pro Bowler. M H. Seems like they're just trying to get

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as much help as they can.
Yeah, they need help, especially on

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the defense. I mean again,
they keep having these great seasons and then

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they poopy. No worries, all
right? Yeah so yeah, all right,

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good for them, Good for him. He finally he's stuck with the

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team, sticking in the NFL.
Former Dolphins and Cardinals running backing On Drake

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announced his retirement today. Oh wow, I didn't who Yeah he was.

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He had that miracle play against the
Patriots, I believe. But I'm trying

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to what college do you go to? Alabama? Alabama? Yeah? Bowl?

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He had that kickoff with big kickoff
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All right, so he had eight
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wasn't around that long eight years,
but again, running backs, man,

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that's it. Eight years is probably
pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, and

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he stayed healthy for most of it. Yeah, yeah, all right,

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going to college football Alabama is naming
their field after recently retired head coaching Sabin

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Field at Bryan Denny Stadium. Yeah, they put a video out on that.

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It was kind of cool, you
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taking on a whole new persona.
He's become likable. He's funny. Imagine

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what pretty dang smart she's got.
He wasn't he's not are Did he come

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up as cranky? Yes, cranky, cranky, cranky, cranky? I

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don't know, maybe cranky. He
was cranky, but he's now all legitimately

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all the best, all time college. Even his wife thought he was cranky.

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He did an interview and I can't
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remember who if it was with,
if it was with, whoever it was,

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But he said he realized he was
cranky when his wife told him he

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was cranky. I think so where
his wife said, you really need to

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pay attention to what you sound like, because you sound like you're mad all

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the time. Wait wait, let
me transition here, Gab, if you're

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listening, give us a call.
Jays sound cranky, because see Jason cranky

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sometimes on Fridays. What are you
talking about Today's Friday? He was telling

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us, Like he said, he
only brings up brings. You're not gab

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call us pleasant, dude, you're
trying to rusty sometimes. Okay, okay,

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Well, all I know is that
there's a video out there saving he's

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up like forty nine against some Vision
three school and he's put it to him

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he could, so he called the
time out because the defense got the coverage

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wrong. Up forty nine nothing with
like ten seconds left, so and they

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got him, but he got him. So yeah, crank cranky wins.

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But he's yeah, no, it
does. We talked about that too.

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That's why Mochi is who she who
she is. There's the reason why they're

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good coaches. I think people are
gonna like him as a as a he

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got really because he has been one. He's really damn smart. Yeah right,

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and he and he tells good story. There's a reason he was you

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know, he won because he he
knew how to coach. And I'm talking

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x's and o's kind of stopped,
right, and so it's going to be

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interesting to see. And if you
played for him, come on, if

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you played for him, aren't you
gonna bust your assh? Yeah, because

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you don't want to disappoint him,
right, and that's half the battle,

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because he'll kill you or yeah or
yeah. That's why he played tough for

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him and Mochi too. You may
not respect you, but you played hard

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for me because you know that she's
there to help you. As cranky as

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he is. Like you said,
he is opening up Song Sports Center.

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He was at the media days for
the SEC and the anchor got him to

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say, go dogs. Oh wow. Interesting. I mean, I didn't

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think he'd ever say anything than roll
tie. But here we are dogs,

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I guess. To the Arizona Softball
News incoming Arizona freshman Emma Cavanon, I

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don't know how to say the last
time. I'm sorry, I'm betraying this

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really wrong. She was named the
nfc A high School Catcher of the Year

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and they got a catcher coming from
Washington. Yeah, from Washington. So

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interesting? The future? Yeah,
okay, all right? Uh, last

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thing I got. Like I said, I like to end on some fun

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stuff. There's an image of killing
Clark that's on the hood of a race

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car. The for that the brickyard
for NASCAR. Wow wow, have you

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ever had your face on the could
have a NASCAR car? I've never had

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my face on a Wow, that's
cool. We're here on radio for a

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reason. I know, Steve,
I do know that I do, I

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do. I am very well.
I'm shameful that you put us on a

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logo, that we have our logo
with our faces on it, exactly.

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Okay, all right, that's it, okay. US Open News. A

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lot of big names did not make
the cut. The most prominent at the

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most prominent those Rory McElroy was he
I think eleven over par so he I

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watched him butcher his his round,
Tiger Woods fourteen over party shot seventy nine,

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seventy seven. He's out. The
US Open champ Price and the Shambo

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didn't make the cut. Doctor Hovlin
did not make the cut. Tony Fenow

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did not make the cut. My
pick of the week, Tommy Fleetwood did

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not make the cut. I'm really
pissed it in I've got a grudge probably

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for about a month against him.
A lot, I mean a lot of

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big names. Shane Lowry, who
was I think the twenty nineteen champ is

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in the lead. Not many big
names up there. Justin Rose is up

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there, of course, Scotti schefferd
He's tied for fourth, Jason Day is

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up, There's Andrew Shoffley's up there. Man, they've the conditions they've been

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playing in. It was like thirty
five mile an hour Windnesday. They were

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just whipping and there were there were
the winds were so strong that balls sitting

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on the green were moving. Wow. It was I mean it was crazy.

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But uh Rory McElroy had a stretch
of three holes where he went five

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over the guy who won last week, Robert McIntyre, Scottish Dude won the

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Scottish Open. He opened his first
four holes he had a seven and an

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eight. I saw a guy taking
eight on a part three. Uh,

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what's his name? Neeman? I
can't remember his last day. He took

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an eight on the part He took
a five eight on the party. I

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could have played that whole better than
that. I could have. I could

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have. I'm not saying I would
have, but I could bocking Neeman.

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He took an eight on a part
three. I don't know if he made

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the cut, but it was there
was some tough going out there. I

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think Justin Thomas, who was among
the leaders going in, he shot forty

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five on the front nine, which
is a crazy number. So and on

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his way to was seventy eight today. So man, some crazy stuff going

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on. It's a tough, tough
conditions. Oh look, I'm just looking

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at steal. Phil Mickelson did make
the cut. He got in. He

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got in there, so crazy tournament
should be fun. Okay, So now

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we're gonna go to break and get
a hold of wrestling. Guy wrestling guru,

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mister Tom Ortiz, sort of Sunny
Sunnyside High School ASU wrestler, ASU

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coach. I think he's in the
National College Fame of Wrestling. I think

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it was a three time All American, That's what I read. Now he's

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coaching in Phoenix, yep, but
so our high school. So now he's

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Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez
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just searching I on the Ball. Hey,

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welcome back to I'm the Ball here
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Steve he j We got along with
us and now we have Tom Mortise,

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wrestling coach extraordinaire, wrestling legend,
maning legend from Sunnyside. And I'll say

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this hurts to say, but Asu, I get it that there was no

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wrestling program in Tucson for you.
So we're okay with that. And then

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a coach over there. So long
history in wrestling, Tom, How are

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you doing? Yeah? I have
a long history in wrestling and it plays

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into MMA. I'm doing great.
I always tell people I'm a legend in

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my own mind. So that's what
you think about yourself. That count?

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Sure? Sure, nobody let me
tell you Jay's he does all these great

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events and he's gonna have one here
in two weeks and we'll talk about that.

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But he had his. You still
have your w federation thing here?

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You bought some, well, we'll
fighting federation. I sold that and then

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I fought in it when I was
fifty one. Back in twenty eighteen,

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they did a documentary and it's caught
off. It's on too b you want

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to go watch it on It's called
Alho and it's on to Blet. Let

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me ask you, was the viejo
a little local do? Yeah? You

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know, it's just that, you
know, you remember growing up in your

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life and you hear different things and
people say, I regret it, I

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didn't box, I regret I and
do this, and people said I had

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kids, so I decided to get
a job, and I already had all

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my kids, all four of them, so I just decided to do a

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pro mm a fight and see what
happened. So but if you want to

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know what happened, you got to
watch Tony an hour and six minutes.

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It's good though. Well, well, Tom, you know obviously you know

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from a you know, a historic
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that up to a su You know, we've had we've had their current wrestling

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coach on that, you know a
number of times. Every time he wins

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the state championship, he comes on
the show. Tell us about it,

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Yeah, tell yeah, Tony Leone. As a matter of fact, it's

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funny brought up Sunnyside Wrestling. They
just had a national champion at Junior Nationals,

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the hardest tournament in the world,
Fargo. It's called Fargo Nationals,

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but it's really Junior Nationals. Sergio
Viega. Okay, he's a he just

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won Wow on Sunday. But what's
the say no, yesterday, Wow the

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day before. But he wanted,
he want. It's a top tournament and

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now he's going to get to wrestle
and who's number one? They give you

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a go ticket. So he just
he's a national champion and he's good and

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he's going to be a senior.
But he's already committed to Core. Now

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Ivy League kids going to well,
isn't that where we're Audrey human is uhumb?

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Is that where she was? So? Yes, Tom, what the

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heck is in the water at Sunnyside
with all these great wrestlers. I think

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it's the dynasty started with Don coach
track back in the seventies. He ended

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up being a coach and haventy four
and that's where it started. I wrestled

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for him, and I also wrestled
for Sanchez, and then Richard Sanzees became

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the coach and my brother was you
know, wrestled at Sunnyside and his good

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friend Joe Romero and so then you
had Eddie Herabano and ZA champion from Sunnyside

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and eighty five. I was a
three time Model American from Sunnyside and then

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then I left Iowa State coach.
But Eric Larkin, you know, national

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newsa Horges winner. Then you got
Rby doing what he did, and then

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you had the Gallic brothers from Sunnyside
doing what they did, National champ at

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Iowa State and all Americans. So
I just think it's a it's a tradition.

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It's now it's like heritage, you
know, like I got to respect

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my elders and I got to go
get a college degree. So all those

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guys I mentioned, they got all
it rby just graduated from Penn State so

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it's and you got the Rivera Brothers
in the Military Academy, and it is

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it's going very well for Sunnyside and
the strong community support, and and you

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go in there and there's a bunch
of eight year olds sattling. Yeah,

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well that's it, right, I
mean, it's it's become a community.

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It's sort of become an identity for
the whole Sunnyside community over there. That

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okay, you know, we wrestle, you know. And by the way,

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I was corrected. Audrey Humanez is
going to Lehigh. Yes, he's

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going to Lehigh, which is a
great another great school. But yeah,

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she's fortunate to go to a university
like that, but she deserves it.

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She was second on the Olympic team
right trials, So so I keep taling

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her. She's going to win twenty
twenty eight in La there you go.

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In four years, she's gonna win
the Olympic champion. And Sunnyside has never

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had Olympic champion. So we'll see
who's first. Rby is going in for

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Mexico By in twenty twenty four,
well, in a couple of weeks.

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In a couple of weeks, that's
who he Sai. Yeah, RB y

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Rby he's RB White representing Mexico.
Okay, that makes sense. No,

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cool? Cool? So so let's
talk about what's going on here. In

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a couple of weeks, you're you're
having your your thing, your thing with

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the wrestlers here, and then you're
beging a big name. Who's the big

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name? Oh, it's a sam
Portio, uh wrestling camps. And then

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we got together with Caane Belascas is
coming UFC champion, Uh, you know

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All American wrestler for Arizona State Heavyweight. You know, battest man on the

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planet, and he's gonna do He's
doing it for free. He's playing for

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his own plane ticket. He just
wants to get back to the community and

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help the kids and and he knows, you know, the south Side.

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You know, we're gonna have it
at Pueblo High School on August third,

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and it starts at ten am.
And I just thought Caine was going to

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do with a couple of my other
russ or John Moraga who has fought and

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you'll see and Brian Stiff who wrestled
from me at Arizona State. He's a

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two time All American. But then
I saw my name on it. Sammy

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put my name on it. I
didn't even know it was one of the

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clinicians. You know the hours,
the hours along and the page low.

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Well, you know, Sammy,
he's going to try to get his brother

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there. He's got to get his
brother there. Yeah, for sure.

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You know, Sammy's one of my
best friends, and you were like brothers,

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and I just he just wants to
get back to the kids and and

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help the community. Tom as you
meant at that's that you mentioned how there's

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sort of a you know, a
connection from going from wrestling to you know,

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m m A or UFC fighting whatever. What is that connection? Because

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Roman he's doing that too, right, So what why is that sort of

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a natural step? Well, I
think wrestling is a form of martial art,

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even though there's no striking. So
if they can learn the striking,

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you know, and themy Thai and
the boxing and the jiu jitsu, it's

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you can depend You can decide whether
you want to stand because you can defend

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the takedown, or you want to
go on the ground because you can go

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to a takedown. So it's an
easy transition. Of course, you got

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to study some more boxing, You
got to study more muy Thai. You

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got to start a jiu jitsu and
a little bit of karate stone in there,

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and you know some taekwondo moves that
you know, it all works together

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and I just you know, I
I would coach six different wrestlers at Arizona

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State and they all went to the
UFC and fought. So that kind of

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mentality is just it's it's combative and
you wrestle, you weigh in once a

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week, so it's easy when the
MMA is easier than wrestling. Probably wrestling

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is a tough, tough gig man. It's some of the best athletes out

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there, so you know, and
the question we've asked a couple of guys

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that we've had on why and the
hell do it? You guys are too

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pretty for this? Yeah, I
just yeah, in the eyes of the

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beholder, Yeah, I mean,
it's just it's just one time you just

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want to test yourself and see if
you can. You know that most when

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it comes to wrestling MMA, sometimes
the hardest opponent is yourself in your mind.

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Is you can get your mind straight
and get through that match, get

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that through that tournament, get through
the season, get through a fight.

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It's only going to help you in
life. Well, hopefully you don't get

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hit too much. Well you said
you did it at fifty one, Yes,

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sir, what were you thinking?
So what happened was when I left,

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I was on a state in nine, I fought a couple of times

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and I said, you know,
I told my partner Alf went this a

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second throw better shows than because I
fought in the parking lot when I was

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forty two million, cussa gando some
bar. And then the second fight,

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I had a July Ford and I
thought at a movie theater on a movie

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theater in nogs so, you know, and and I just then I started

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doing my own program. So from
oh nine to twenty eighteen, I just

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did a bunch of shows with Casino
del Sol. Paskwayaki Tribe Enterprise gave me

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an opportunity after I left Arizona State, so I'm very grateful to them,

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the Heila River Indian community to give
me an opportunity. So I'm very grateful

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to to them. I had shows
that Wildhord passed and the twenty eighteen started

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coming. It was the end of
twenty seventeen. I sold my half to

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my ex wife just because I was
it burnt out And I said, Oh,

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I'm gonna try this fight, see
what happens. Wow, but you

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don't want to know what happened.
You gotta watch the salesman. The salesman,

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you know. And you you had
a good guy maybe about ten years

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ago who I met Henry said,
Hu, theo who's now one or was

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one of the biggest names in the
game. Yeah, I think he's still

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going to fight. He was a
two time UFC champ, like he wanted

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two way classes. And Hendry's from
Arizona. He's from Maryvelle High School and

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uh, you know, he's a
four sign say champ and in high school

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and and he won was the youngest
Olympic champion for the United States well until

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Snyder Bedwin in two thousand and eight
when he was Olympic champs. So he

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just kind of transitioned his way into
MMA and and it's uh, you know,

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it's light the ninety five percent mindset
and five percent uh strategic. Well,

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let me give you another name.
And I don't remember his name,

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but what a heck of a story
was the the the wrestler who's friends with

404
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:45.160
you and Sam the he one leg
Anthony Roblan. That's it, that's it.

405
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:49.240
What a fantastic story and what an
athlete? Yeah, you know you

406
00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:52.759
want to ask me award? And
they're his movie is going to come out

407
00:29:52.799 --> 00:30:00.720
in the fall. It's called Unstoppable
and j Low Jennifer Lopez is playing his

408
00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:04.559
mom. Okay, yeah, it's
gonna be awesome. And then you know

409
00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:10.240
it's uh, I'm so happy for
these kids because that's what it's all about,

410
00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:14.920
to see them succeed and grow.
And yes, King, you know,

411
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.200
it's just the family men, the
good family men. So we're talking

412
00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:22.119
to Tom Ortiz, the Sunnyside wrestler, a s U wrestler, All American

413
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:27.680
uh UFC fighter. Tom, so
tell us a little bit about the camp.

414
00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:33.480
You know what what you know what
a kid's gonna come and learn what

415
00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:36.599
you know, what can they expect
from the camp, and then tell us

416
00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:40.839
about how you know, how they
how they can participate. Well, it's

417
00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:44.480
free, so all they got to
do is share it with their parents.

418
00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:47.559
You know, if they're over eighteen, they just come and sign a waiver

419
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:51.960
and it starts at ten am at
Pueblo High School. So it's August third,

420
00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:56.839
August third, and I'll make sure
that. I'll send Steve a flyer

421
00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:00.319
and then he can post it,
you know, on the website having to

422
00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:02.440
share it, and that'd be great. So you have it, Yeah,

423
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:04.920
seventy one and I saw That's how
I got you on on the air because

424
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:08.160
I said, this will be cool
with Kim Wellust is coming in town and

425
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.960
you guys doing this for free.
What kinds of things will they be learning?

426
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:18.519
What can they expect? You know, what's the activity wrestling? Okay,

427
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.680
so we're going to show them technique, and we got to get together.

428
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:25.960
I'm gonna get together with the three
other clinicians. John Moraga is going

429
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:29.359
to be there, Brian stiff Kine, and maybe we'll just show an hour

430
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:33.720
each and it's from ten to two. So I think we're gonna do more

431
00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:40.279
technique and more you know, motivating, talking education and trying to inspire these

432
00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:47.200
kids to like I like all sports. And now now the fastest growing sport

433
00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:52.960
in the country is women's wrestling.
Yes, huge, it's growing, it's

434
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:56.160
growing. They had a thousand in
Fargo. They had over a thousand girl,

435
00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:00.839
fifteen hundred girls wrestling in most of
the Coda Fargo, North Dakota at

436
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:07.400
the women's nationals or girls nationals because
they're under eighteen. Yeah, well my

437
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:10.039
guess would have been even women's flag
football, because that's becoming huge now.

438
00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:15.039
Let me actually women's sports, which
my daughter played volleyball, so I understand

439
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:20.359
the necessity of it. I used
sports to get her to get a degree

440
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:24.279
at Benedictine University of Mesa. She
was a center and got a degree there.

441
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:30.319
And now she's really successful utilighting her
sports mind usually lighting her business mind.

442
00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:35.680
And she's a marketing executive for Dutch
bros So. And her name is

443
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:39.640
Olivia Rose Artist and my dad used
to call her order so nice. Let

444
00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:44.440
me ask you something that I'd never
asked you this What would have happened to

445
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:52.559
Tom Ortiz had he not had wrestling? I I we wouldn't be talking right

446
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:57.839
now. Yeah, we would not
be talking right now. I just I'm

447
00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:01.680
looking at all my movie forward and
even when I got out of wrestling,

448
00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:07.960
all my connections and opportunities came through
wrestling. So and I always look back

449
00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:10.559
and how do they get together with
the Auckys? A wrestling person set me

450
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:16.079
up right over there. So everything
has come from wrestling. I shivered to

451
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:22.559
think about that. Without wrestling,
you know, without those mentors that were

452
00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:25.240
there for me, Bobby Douglas of
course, down Coast Drive, my dad

453
00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:31.160
from Berte Federico, Richard Sante Cincinneti
and those people. And I think the

454
00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:37.359
most important, what person of them
all, is obviously my mother. Yes,

455
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:40.960
she's the most outstanding motivator. That's
what I used to call her.

456
00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:45.519
So okay, I'm glad she She's
going to be eighty seven September ninth,

457
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.400
so I'm excited. Well, well, okay, so tell us one more

458
00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:53.519
time we're at and when Saturday the
third, Pueblo High School, August third,

459
00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:58.480
and what time? And am?
But what what time do you want

460
00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:00.359
people to show up, you know, to sign up and register and all

461
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:04.880
that kind of I would show up
at nine thirty, okay, okay.

462
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:08.840
But it's going to be an easy
going clinic. I mean is probably let

463
00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:12.639
them wrestle a little bit just to
get you know, the bugs out,

464
00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:17.159
But it's going to be very technical
and very you know, motivational speeches and

465
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:22.519
and we'll let them ask questions and
and we can go over strength and conditioning.

466
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:24.840
And I mean, if you know
how to lift for wrestling, you

467
00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:29.000
can lift you know how to lift
for any sport. Well, thank you

468
00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:35.400
for joining us today. Yes,
I appreciate you. You well, Tom,

469
00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:39.079
thank you, thank you. There's
there's there's dudes. There's dudes that

470
00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:43.559
you don't want to best with.
Wrestlers are at the top of the list.

471
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:49.199
And he's grudges, so probably probably
you're in history. Hell he was

472
00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:53.920
talking about I fought the parking lot. I finded a movie that was for

473
00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:59.679
fun, that was for fun.
That noise is still coming. Let's get

474
00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:01.119
the well, let's get out of
it. We'll be we'll be right back.

475
00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:04.320
We'll close out the week. Stick
around, give us a call.

476
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fifty. He welcome back to I'm
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514
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I'm Steve, You're Jay Yojuana.
We got a call. Hi,

515
00:37:55.519 --> 00:38:00.400
you're on the airline on the ball. I'm good afternoon and gentlemen, Hey,

516
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:05.199
Rick, how was your trip to
the All Star Game. I'll tell

517
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:09.639
you what. I really had a
great time, and uh, it was

518
00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:15.039
cool to see. I'm not a
Dodger fan, I never had, but

519
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:20.880
I got to tell you Otan he
just what a beautiful spring that man.

520
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:25.760
It was really it was great to
see all the and it was I ron

521
00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:31.159
I taped everything and I been seven
hours in the airplane to day trying to

522
00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:37.320
get home. But uh, it
was. It was fun to watch.

523
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:43.679
And I got to watch the rerun
and it shows where they were talking to

524
00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:49.239
air a judge and next thing,
you know, ranking it out. That

525
00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:51.800
was funny. Hey, is that
a good stadium? Do you like it?

526
00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:53.840
You know, as stadiums go,
I guess, I mean, I

527
00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:57.719
know it's new, but it seems
rather barn like. I don't know,

528
00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:01.719
what do you think of the place. Well, you know it's I like

529
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:09.760
their older stadium better. It was
much more old fashioned potball. It was

530
00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:15.880
a little bit too fufu for my
case, but you know, it is

531
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:19.599
what it is. Oh and by
the way, Jay, I overheard you

532
00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:24.119
talking about you know you hold these
grudges. Yeah, Mike, grudges come

533
00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:30.000
against the guys that played poker with. So if that's the case, he

534
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:35.400
has nobody who likes he likes.
I can see I can see how poker

535
00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:40.400
grudges could be lasting. My name
for Rick is the contributor. Come on,

536
00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:43.360
Rick, I know you're a better
player than that, right, tell

537
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:46.559
them the truth. Hey, Steve, I still think I had little your

538
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:52.960
money in my pocket last week.
It's from nineteen sixty four, okay,

539
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:58.480
Rick? Another question about the All
Star Game? Were those uniforms as bad

540
00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:04.159
in person as they look on TV? Oh? Those uniforms were ugly?

541
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:07.719
Is that what you asked me?
Yeah? Those uniforms, I mean,

542
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:13.280
how awful were they in person?
Oh? The American League uniforms looked like

543
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:22.679
you know, brownie out. I
don't know who came up with that color

544
00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:28.960
scheme, but no, they really
did not. They didn't match level of

545
00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:36.559
performance and the caliber player. Yeah, how did the contributor get to go

546
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:39.199
to the game? Pardon me?
How did you get to go to the

547
00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:43.440
game. Why did you go to
the game? Well, I've got family

548
00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:49.159
in Dallas and so in all over
texts actually, and I was able to

549
00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:52.599
a couple of my cousins and another
friend of ours, so we all went

550
00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:59.280
out and damn ticket parking with more
than a damn ticket. It was stupid.

551
00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:00.559
How much one? I mean how
much was like a hundred bucks?

552
00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:07.599
What parking? Yeah? Oh,
it ranged from anywhere from two hundred and

553
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:14.159
fifty to five hundred dollars parking.
You pay a fee for everything. I

554
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:19.880
mean it really it was sad.
But wow, you know, you know,

555
00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:22.360
it's one of those experiences I get
to do once in a lifetime,

556
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:30.360
and I'm glad I did it because
I really I love baseball. So every

557
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:35.320
year for my birthday, I try
to do something special. Yeah this one.

558
00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:42.760
I'm done with all Star games now
I've been there and so but it

559
00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:46.400
is like, I say, what
a ballplayer? Yeah, the man just

560
00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:53.599
he is really impressive to watching some
of these guys, and they played like

561
00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:58.559
they wanted to win too. It
wasn't one of these fou fu games.

562
00:41:58.679 --> 00:42:05.199
Yeah, okay, all right,
great experience, gentlemen. Thank you man,

563
00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:08.719
Thank yourect thanks saving your money.
I have a great weekend later,

564
00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:14.159
thank you. Yeah. Yeah,
I've never been to a baseball all circame.

565
00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:16.880
No, I maybe I would have
a long time ago, not anymore

566
00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:22.960
been the World Series? Uh kind
of what does that mean? Kind of?

567
00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:27.199
I had tickets. I had tickets
for game one year at the Bank

568
00:42:27.320 --> 00:42:30.039
Bank one, I guess some time, and uh, I got divertically.

569
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:35.159
It just didn't know what it was. Didn't know what it was. Couldn't

570
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:37.079
get out of bed. Yeah,
couldn't get a bad I didn't what I

571
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:38.199
thought I had, like a bad
crampers. Yeah. Well I was in

572
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:42.000
the hospital for two three days and
that was my first out of it.

573
00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:45.760
And we had to get the tickets
to some people and we went, yeah

574
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:46.960
that's the game we went. Yeah
it was, it was. It was

575
00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:50.559
a great time. So when I
had ticket, I had eight ticket to

576
00:42:50.599 --> 00:42:52.559
Game seven, but couldn't go because
I had to work the Red Blue game

577
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:57.719
that night. Yeah, so so
yes and no, Yes, that's a

578
00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:00.400
bummer for you. Yeah it was
fine though. Yeah, that's fun.

579
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:01.239
The funny thing about it, you
say, and this is how is night

580
00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:05.920
ago last year? Yeah you think, okay, like the Josh Pastner real

581
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:07.920
thing. Oh they'll be back,
there'll be another one, right, Yeah,

582
00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:12.239
well I actually I missed in Arizona. There was a whome Arizona football

583
00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:14.719
game that day. They played USC
at home. That's the game. Remember

584
00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:17.000
we talked to Jason Johnson. He
was the quarterback and threw a pick six

585
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:20.800
at the end of the game to
move. Yeah, to lose that game.

586
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:24.599
But the best game, the best, the biggest game You've ever been

587
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:34.239
to, biggest game I've ever been
to, probably well, well there were

588
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:38.360
those final fours, but okay,
outside of the Arizona final fours. Well,

589
00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:40.199
because I think this was actually bigger. I went to the NET.

590
00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:45.760
I covered the National Championship Notre Dame
West Virginia game in the fifty Yeah,

591
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:51.639
I covered that. That was what
was the eighty nine, you know New

592
00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:53.480
York State of eighty Was it big? Was it big? It was huge?

593
00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:57.760
It was huge National time was the
National Championship game, which back when

594
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:00.960
they back when they were still voting, right, this was Notre Dame,

595
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:05.239
Notre Dame West Virginia undefeated, West
Virginia what year was this eighty something eighty

596
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:08.679
nine? It was it was after
the eighty eight Seeds who coaching No,

597
00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:14.599
no, God, God, I
can't think of his name. It was

598
00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:20.159
not rich Rod, it was it
was before rich Rot and and uh Lou

599
00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:23.639
Holtz was that was the not nine
two years into I don't remember that they

600
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:30.440
had God who was it they and
and and West Virginia came in undefeated and

601
00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:32.599
and Notre Dame had one loss,
and Notre Dame won the game handily,

602
00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:38.280
so probably that you know, covering. Yeah, I mean I went to

603
00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:43.000
the ninety seven you know, Final
four, so you know that was that

604
00:44:43.079 --> 00:44:46.360
was huge. Haven't been to a
Super Bowl, but haven't really desire to

605
00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:52.639
go to Super Bowl. I did
go to National League playoffs Dodgers nineteen eighty

606
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:57.320
eight when they played the Mets in
the playoffs. Didn't go to the World

607
00:44:57.400 --> 00:45:00.239
Series, but I went to game
is one and two of the of the

608
00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:05.079
National League Playoffs at Dodgers Stadium.
That was really cool. Uh you know

609
00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:10.039
or Hershiser Strawberry, I mean all
those guys were were there. Uh well

610
00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:13.400
what that really? Those are?
Those are the ones, I mean,

611
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:16.159
you know, the final fours and
stuff. Yeah, Yeah, luckily I

612
00:45:16.199 --> 00:45:21.280
went to a lot of those,
but mine are easy. The Olympic games

613
00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:23.800
are up there. But the games
when the when the Cups, when the

614
00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:30.400
Cups, When the Bulls played the
Utah and the Fuel, the Flu game

615
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:36.239
with with Michael Jordan, right,
but the game after when Steve Carer hit

616
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:38.920
the game where I covered I was
there for the series, and then the

617
00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:44.800
Berkeley ninety three years when I covered
the Suns and that with the Bulls,

618
00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:46.400
Well, I just I just don't
know. The Bears, the Bears forty

619
00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:52.000
nine ers NFC Championship Bears. Well
you went to the game? Yeah,

620
00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:57.280
yeah, twenty seven below zero?
Oh no, god, why why did

621
00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:00.920
you play that game? Because I
could. We were in Chicago, we'd

622
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:02.920
gone it. We gonn was everybody
there? Was it fool? It was

623
00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:07.559
free, it was jammed, it
was cold. Was it minus twenty seven?

624
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:08.239
Oh, there's no way. I
didn't even get out of the room

625
00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:10.800
minus twenty That that's one of the
reasons I went. I said, this

626
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:14.199
is gonna be minus twenty seven.
I'm here, I'm going. I got

627
00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:17.119
I got to take it off a
scalper for twenty bucks and then you lasted

628
00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:20.559
the whole way I went there.
I made sure I stayed for the whole

629
00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:22.480
game. Did you feel cold?
No? Did you say, like,

630
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:24.880
what the hell am I doing?
No? No, no, I I

631
00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:28.559
it was a it was a thing
that it was a it was a badge

632
00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.760
of honor. I stayed to the
very end. I took a picture of

633
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:34.519
the scoreboard, you know, with
the game ending. It was fine for

634
00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:37.440
three quarters because the place stayed jammed, but the forty nine ers were kicking

635
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:40.440
their asses, so people started leaving
at the end of the at the start

636
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:44.840
of the fourth quarter and it emptied
out and then it got really cold.

637
00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:46.960
That's when it got really cool.
You know, kid one what yours?

638
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:52.559
Uh? Personally or from like a
scope like no, no, personally personally.

639
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:57.360
Twenty fourteen, that ASU game for
the Pack twelve south yep, Oh

640
00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:00.480
yeah, that was that was big
here. Yeah, that was seen in

641
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:07.159
Arizona Stadium as far as proud capacity, rowdiness and then the result you were

642
00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:13.119
what twelve Yeah wow. But those
are the good times because that's when you

643
00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:16.239
form your love for sports at that
age, you know. But I think

644
00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:22.239
the biggest from like like a lens
I went to the Area McDonald National Championship.

645
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:24.199
Oh yeah, you were in San
Antonio. Oh you were there for

646
00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:29.679
that. Yeah, it was like
a last second. It was a once

647
00:47:29.719 --> 00:47:31.320
in a lifetime. You were not
they were You were not in school yet.

648
00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:36.280
No, it was still the pandemic, right, but you were?

649
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:38.119
You're not? You weren't you of
a No? How did you? You

650
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:42.039
decided to go? You and your
family or you? We took the trip

651
00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:45.039
that the next day after the beat
Yukon and then what's the game? Oh?

652
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:46.920
Nice? So you are kind of
a fan a little bit. I

653
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:50.719
love you, man, I love
you. You's got a bear down shirt

654
00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:52.519
on right now. Yeah, look
at it. He's got an air on

655
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:55.679
a backpack. He's a home,
he's all those things. It's all the

656
00:47:55.760 --> 00:48:00.880
things you seen. Goody two,
she's gddy two. She congratulations. By

657
00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:02.960
the way, Uh, what we're
gonna call? We gotta call real quick.

658
00:48:04.039 --> 00:48:06.719
West Virginia coach was Don Neeland.
Oh yeah, okay, yeah,

659
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:09.239
Oh hung up? Sorry a call
back. We got a couple of minutes

660
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:13.480
left. Sorry about that. We
got chatty. Here here you go,

661
00:48:14.599 --> 00:48:16.559
Hi, you're on the air and
on the ball. How's it going today?

662
00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:22.119
What's you want to tell Steve something? Because he was making a comment

663
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:28.599
about j being grumpy. No,
he is no grumpy. I've coached with

664
00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:34.280
Jay. He's grumpy. No,
but tell me what what what quality or

665
00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:38.880
level of grumpy? Oh that was
the most extreme grumpy I've ever seen in

666
00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:44.239
my life. Come on, I'm
a constructive grumpy guy. What was the

667
00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:51.719
what was the scenario? Uh,
coaching a high school game? After the

668
00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:53.400
game, after we blew the game? We had the game won in the

669
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:58.280
last out, A way to lose
it, remember, and one of the

670
00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:04.599
one of the kids said to Jay, but we tried hard and the Jay

671
00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:07.440
kind of lost it. I lost
my mind. Did you get on him?

672
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:09.360
The kid? Yeah? What did
you say? It was funny?

673
00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:14.280
It was funny. Yeah, you
know what you know? I'm thinking,

674
00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:16.440
where's he going with this? Then
I thought it was at Saint David.

675
00:49:17.079 --> 00:49:21.639
So was did we blew? We
blew like a we blew like a what

676
00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:24.840
like a six run lead or something
like that in the last inning and the

677
00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:30.039
kid goes, but we tried hard, and I lost my mind. I

678
00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:32.800
can't even tell you what I said. I just remember I went a listing.

679
00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:37.840
Luckily, luckily, the parents had
no idea about baseball. They didn't

680
00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:44.679
say a word. I went right
there. They were great. Also,

681
00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:47.400
one thing I wanted I wanted to
bring up about the ugly ass uniforms in

682
00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:51.639
the All Star Games. Yes,
you know, and one thing that's kind

683
00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:54.800
of bad for the average fan.
If they see the guy in the uniform

684
00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:59.360
and see his face, they have
no idea who he is because they were

685
00:49:59.480 --> 00:50:01.320
thirty two first time. All right. We talked about that, yeah,

686
00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:05.880
you know, and if they would
have had their uniform with the team,

687
00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:07.639
then you'd have an idea who they
were. I mean, I knew a

688
00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:10.639
lot of them work. I watched
a lot of baseball, But the average

689
00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:14.039
fan isn't gonna say, I don't
when the hell's that guy? Right?

690
00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:16.280
Brian? Real quick, let's go
back real quick. So you're the head

691
00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:21.519
coach or you know, Brian,
you're both assistant coaches. No, we

692
00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:23.840
were both assistant coaches, weren't we. That's a n N with the coach.

693
00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:27.960
Yeah, okay, So did you
make the kid cry? Did he

694
00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:35.480
cry? I don't think I was. I was laughing too hard. I

695
00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:37.280
don't think he cried, but he
was, Yeah, I think he was

696
00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:40.719
a freshman. How long ago was
this about twelve years? Thirteen years?

697
00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:47.280
I guarantee you that kid has had
a grudge one fifteen years said that the

698
00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:52.320
kid was pretty talented. Yeah,
he was really good. Yeah yeah,

699
00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:53.800
fifteen years ago. I should find
that kid. Do you have a drud

700
00:50:54.159 --> 00:50:58.880
coach Conzo? I hate that man. He probably has a picture of Jay

701
00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:05.440
with dark and thanks, Brian,
thanks for bringing that one up. I

702
00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:12.039
appreciate it. Have a good week
there. I remember that the defense arrests.

703
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:15.199
But see, here's the thing about
that. Okay, I let it

704
00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:19.679
all out. Okay, I did
not hold a grudge against that because you

705
00:51:19.719 --> 00:51:22.559
forgot about it. Ever, No, I you know, but it's not

706
00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:24.920
you. It's when when he when
he started talking, I'm like, okay,

707
00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:28.480
he's going here. Wait wait,
So at what point did he will

708
00:51:28.519 --> 00:51:30.360
you talk talk to them? And
there were time and then he responded,

709
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:36.000
right, well, they're in the
dugout right and after the loss, and

710
00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:38.840
our our our head coach, he's
talking to them, you know, saying,

711
00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:43.960
you know, just kind of the
postgame talk, right and then and

712
00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:45.840
he was pissed too, because they
blew we blew it. I mean it

713
00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:50.199
was errors and you know, all
kinds of stupid We blew the game.

714
00:51:50.519 --> 00:51:53.719
We we didn't and and and and
so he was. He was angry and

715
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:59.119
talking about them, and then then
it goes but we tried hard, and

716
00:51:59.519 --> 00:52:01.280
I blew up. What did the
coach tell you? What did the head

717
00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:06.320
coach tell you? But did he
tell me nothing? Nothing? No?

718
00:52:06.599 --> 00:52:09.079
I think did you throw something?
Probably if you had, I might,

719
00:52:09.559 --> 00:52:14.800
I might have kicked the fence,
you know, because you know they're in

720
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:17.440
the dugout, we're outside the dugout, and you know it's what There was

721
00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:20.480
a fence, you know, chain
leak fence in front of it. And

722
00:52:20.519 --> 00:52:22.119
there was still more games that we
played afterwards, Like, no, I

723
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:24.159
think that was our last game.
Oh okay, see that makes sense,

724
00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:27.320
that makes sense. I think I
think that was our last game of the

725
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:29.679
year. And had you won,
you would have advanced or something. No,

726
00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:30.800
it was just the end of the
season. Was the end of the

727
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:39.199
season. I lost my mind?
I did, I did. I admit

728
00:52:39.320 --> 00:52:45.079
it. Thank you for telling us
this. All right, it's been a

729
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:49.480
fun week, Steve. About grudges, it's been there. It's been the

730
00:52:49.480 --> 00:52:52.079
theme of the week. So we'll
we'll try to come up with a better

731
00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:57.559
one watching the Okay, I'll give
that a try. All right, Hey,

732
00:52:57.559 --> 00:53:00.000
thanks everybody for being here. All
week. We had some good stuff,

733
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:02.000
so I hope you enjoyed it.
Pick us up on the podcast if

734
00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:06.440
you missed anything, the last one
will be up. All the others are

735
00:53:06.519 --> 00:53:10.840
up on the iheartweb page as well
as Spotify and Apple Podcasts, So we

736
00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:14.400
will see you guys all on Monday