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Streamy Live. I mean I heard
radio. This is I on the Ball

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with Steve Rivera and Jake Gonzalez on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome

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back to My the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve,

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He's Jake, and now we have
Ryan with breaking news. This is I

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on the Ball, Breaking News on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Okay, we'll

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start with University of Arizona. Six
Arizona football players make the East Shrine Bowl

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one thousand lists. Yeah, what
does that mean? So there's the East,

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the East West Strine Bowlers and what
the game is. So preseason thousand

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guys they put on the list.
That so it's they put together a top

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one thousand list of eligible players.
Seniors were those in their fourth year of

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college and beyond. So the six
from Arizona, they'll sneeze, they'll start

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it. Give it up. We
got it going on here, man,

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Ryan. Ryan feels like he needs
to sneeze, but he can't get it

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out, so he's just sitting over
there. Okay, you got it all

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right. So the potential you have
a representatives running back Jacory Krosskey Merritt's get

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from New Mexico, Right, yeah, I remember his name. Will back

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linebacker Justin Flow, kicker Tyler Loop, safety gunner Maldonado, defensive end Trey

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Smith, and cornerback Trading Stokes.
Okay, there was a pick a photo

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allegedly of Justin Flow on Twitter that
you looked at. You said, that

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has to be photoshop, you know
the body? Yeah, no, I

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don't think that is. I think
that's Remember when you first came in and

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last time you saw it, you
were thinking, holy crap, did you

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see the Did you see the Twitter
of him going crazy on the sidelines and

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the responses to his craziness. You
should we should maybe do look on Twitter

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while we still talk and and he
gives information because there's a lot of response

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even from former u A players how
they and people how he's kind of a

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he's kind of a loose cannon,
but he's kind of a different personality.

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Right, He's got this body of
adonnas, but he didn't play a whole

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lot last year or he's not in
key situations. Right, So you know,

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he has this reputation of being a
very good player dot dot dot,

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but but he hasn't really seen enough
playing time. Was this was this a

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high school thing? No, no, no, this is him kind of

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going on the sideline going crazy.
Uh, like I think or players got

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a hold of go to maybe Justin
Spears had a had a go ahead and

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do some stuff. Okay, let's
move on to FC Tucson. They won

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their playoff game Sunday and they are
advancing to the round of eight in the

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us L League two playoffs. Well, I think they won two games over

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the weekend. They want they won
Friday night and then they won on Sunday.

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So now they've advanced through the playoffs
and they play again this this Friday.

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Is it Friday Sunday again? They're
there're somewhere some out of town somewhere.

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Conference Final Friday one, Tucson.
You spend Tucson. Okay, okay,

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continue continue, Okay, So that
that game is going to be in

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Peoria, Illinois. Oh okay,
they're taking on Project wh Yeah, I've

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heard I heard that. I looked
that up on the on the on the

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all right, but I'm you know, good, I'm good good for you

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know Pearlman and uh we had Sebastian
Pine on the head coach. So they

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won a couple of games in the
playoffs, which is great for Tucson,

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and I don't want to see they
overachieved. But they've done well, They've

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done really well. Yeah, good
for them. Do they do you know

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if they stream those games? They
probably they probably do. We'll have to

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see it by the time tomorrow comes. Yeah. I like to watch.

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You watch that stuff. I like
to keep up on it. Like soccer.

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Okay, you and jadas too,
now, I mean more like m

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the last but I don't, I
don't. I watched a couple of soccer

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games that Steve thinks, like soccer
is my sport. It's glutton for punishment.

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Hey, suckers, fun. I
went to my first last year.

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I lived there for twelve years.
I get it all right. Trade deadlines

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coming up next week, the MLB
jay, any any thoughts on who you're

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No, but one of my pitchers
just got sent to the minor league.

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Tax is aiding too. His e
r A was in the fours, so

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you know, But so they must
clayt Kershaw's coming back this year, so

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that they had they had a clear
space tight. Yes they did the Giants,

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Yes they did, Yes they did. Uh my boy, Oscar Hernandez.

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You know, Homer knocked in all
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two. Didn't didn't mess. I
got I got a I got a uh

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a message from listener Bill, who's
like he was he was, he was,

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you know, sacrificing that. You
know, they cutting the head off

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a chicken to try and get Ti
Oscar to get into a funk. But

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it's not working for Yeah, did
you find it nice? I found YESPN

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two, ESPN two. Somebod I
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near the top. It's got to
be. So there's somebody that imitating him.

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Is that the one you're telling me
to look at? There's somebody imitating

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him? I don't think simultaneous on
the sidelights and the in the oh oh,

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that is justin Floyd doing that.
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that was them. Oh okay,
I see and then comments, okay,

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yeah, all right, I got
it. I got it. Okay,

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yes, I see it. He's
he's a little crazy. But but there

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was a photo photo that I saw
that was that him or not. I

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had to be him. That had
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He's that was crazy, Bill.
I mean, it was like that

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was two big culture buildings. Yeah, that's that's like, no, no,

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that was he he looks like that. Yeah, but now he's got

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to stop people in the in the
secondary. Yeah, well that's just it.

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I mean, he's the linebacker.
He's still gotta he's still gotta cover.

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How do you cover for you're that
big? Well, good luck.

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So in the combet section you read
that of that of that tweety okay right,

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okay. So the Olympics for coming
up this week begin on Friday,

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Friday open ceremonies the twenty eighth,
I think so. I think so because

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Friday whatever that is sixth with with
Lebron carrying the flag one of the flags,

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I guess that is. Well,
it's that they're in Paris. It's

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gonna be like early in the morning
here, right, I don't yeah,

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I don't know not could well,
it could be it could be late morning,

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could I mean, if it's it's
seventh America is, if it's if

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it's let's say it's at six o'clock
there, it's going to be at ten

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o'clock in the morning here. So
it's always got about you be about you

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man, just need to know when
it is, damn it right, just

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you know when you're special. Well, speaking of I didn't I didn't bring

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up this last week, but the
MLB released their schedule for twenty twenty five

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and the Dodgers and Cubs are going
to be starting this series season over in

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Tokyo in Japan. I heard about
that again. Just really dumb. I

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gotta Dodgers every year. I gotta
put it in bargo on this Dodger crap,

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Like there's gotta be a limited amount
of indulgent. God, you're killing

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me. Yeah, my gosh,
we're talking about the Braves, about the

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Braves or the Reds they sucked.
Oh god, there was another uh just

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what's his name? Pla Cruz tripley. He takes four steps between bases,

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seriously four steps, and he just
hits the ball down the line and it's

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like it's automatically a triple. You
think he could score? Yeah, you

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know, it's crazy to watch him. Those guys still they still a lot

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of basis too, but like they
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and then they lost the bases and
they lost. Here's something stat that

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I heard. Tony got caught stealing
last night. Okay, only the second

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time. In thirty six attempts that
he's been caught, you know since last

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year. He's fast, Yeah,
he's big, He's a big du and

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I'm like, why are they batting
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the best base stealer. Yeah,
you know, so that's where he bets.

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He's leading off right now with Mookie
Bets until Mookie Betts comes back.

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Yeah, we'll give him a bed. Yeah, jump out to a one

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zero lead right away. Yeah.
I'm still in awe that homer he hit

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on Sunday? Did you see that? They were just the moon? You

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want to talk about a lawn tangle? Right man? You got all of

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that one. So back to the
Olympics real quick. The opening ceremonies they

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will begin at one pm Central time
Central time, eleven am here. Yeah,

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I had it was about right,
said ten. You know, I

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got it. I can do some
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know, the opening ceremonies and stuff. I've never been fond of that,

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but you know, once the once
the competitions get going, well, I

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am. I went to the second
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no Greece. Yeah, it's too
long. I was in the building I'm

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thinking, I wish I could get
out of here. Yeah, but it

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was because it's long, and then
you have to get out of the traffic

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and then what are you covering and
what are you writing about? Yeah?

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Just yeah, Well why was there
to do the fanfare? Yeah? You

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know, the pageantry and the how
do you feel about that? You know,

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the usual man on the street and
stuff. Was it cool? Was

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the cool covering Olympics? Oh?
Yeah, it was busy. I've told

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you this. It's like like the
climber's remorse. Climbers remorse. You heard

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this. Yeah, So you you
go and you're climbing the mountain and you're

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thinking, God, I can't wait
for this to end, and I I

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know, it's just so much work
and it's just I just can't like.

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And then you get to the top
and you're thinking, got to hope they

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asked me back. Yeah, because
you know, you get through it and

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you're fine because it's eighteen hour days
for four a month. Blah, bush

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rides here and bus rides there.
You don't have time to do much.

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And then you do it and you're
thinking, God, hope they can come

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back and do it. So I
did it twice luckily. All right,

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I just found that picture just to
flow. That's him. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah. Now he's gotta stop doing
photoshop the dude. The dude is

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unbelievably fit. Now he's got to
stop. Dudes. Yeah, I mean,

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what's the point of looking like that
If you can't stop, you can't

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do it. Yeah, yeah,
no disrespect you do. But I like

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I like I like it. I
like his chances. Yeah, but no,

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we've seen the chances. He didn't
get what you got here and you

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saw him and you're thinking, this
dude, this is a dude that they

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don't get. I know what you
were thinking. I heard you which you

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were thinking. I said, this
is I didn't get. But it doesn't

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never get. But he didn't.
He didn't to that for sure. And

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guess what, Oregon would have never
let him go. Honestly, they would

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have never let him to keep him. Maybe you're right, all right,

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So now he's got to prove himself. You know, it's gonna do that

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job. Yeah I did, but
I can't find the article. I had

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it and I lost it. What
is about? There was something about uh

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Brandon Ayuk. He's been one of
the players in the news for NFL about

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whether he was going to be traded
or whatever. I think it said he

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was gonna he was gonna stay with
the Niners ultimately. So there now they're

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saying that I believe. So,
okay, camp starts because he's he's still

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requested a trade. Camp starts.
The NFL camp started yesterday, right,

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yeah, yeah, already starts.
So here we are pretty soon with NFL

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of talk, a lot of NFL
talk, yep, football, I'm ready,

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all right, So all right,
you're done. Okay, So I

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did find something on the on on
Arizona and whether or not they hired a

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search firm and they're at Kevin Solon
and the correct answer is yes they did.

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And according to Greg Hanson, they
spent two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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I would said they spend two hundred
fifty thousand dollars to go get Kevin

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Somlin. And here's the kicker.
I hope Dan Garrel is not listening anymore.

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It was the firm that Dan Guerrero
now works for, uh D,

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r H or D whatever it is. That was the firm. There's a

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there's a there's a picture in the
Star and it's it's Robin's it's someone it's

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Hikey and it's the guy that did
the search. So j this is to

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my point, if you will,
you know, and I know they could

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have come to Rivera and Gonzales.
Well, and that's and that's it was

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all right. I found that in
a in a column by Greg Hanson from

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back in the time, and he
said the same thing. He said,

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what money well spent? And it's
like no, and you know, everybody

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knew that he was the guy.
And then when when you see the way

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it turned out, it's like,
you know, anybody could have you know,

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how much how much work did they
do to find out about it?

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How much deficit? That forty five
millions point two? Well that's the point

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right there, that's the point too, that they wasted. Yeah, let

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me ask you two because you know, you, you and I are looking

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for jobs every now and again,
and in a real world back in the

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day jobs and openings, they know
they already know who they're gonna get,

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and that's something falls through. They
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You and I know because we'll have
jobs. Yes. Well, look,

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I mean we've heard from athletic directors
before they say. And then it

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was Mark Harlan who we talked about
because we asked them about Coyle Whtingham if

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I recall at Utah and we said, Mark, you know what if Kyle

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Whittingham leaves, And I think he
said something like, I've got a file.

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Oh yeah, you know, I've
got a fire that I that I

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go that I'll go to you know
when that happens. And I think any

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athletic director with any sort of uh
uh competence is going to have that.

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And and so you go to that
file. Now the question is are any

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of those guys in the file available
to you? And that that's and that's

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where the search firm allegedly comes in. I'm talking just common man. Yeah,

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There are times, you know,
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this job is going to that person, right, but you're still doing

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the interview and trying to go to
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all right, we'll take our break. We're going to come back and

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we're gonna have James ready. Uh. He's a he's an athletic trainer and

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He's gonna come talk about where you can

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get a free physical for your athlete
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Joining the ball Your Sports forteen fifteen
on Steve Ribero. He's jigins as now

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the fun. We have James Ridgy
from Banner Health. How you doing,

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James? I'm doing great, Steve. How are you and j doing today?

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And we're doing fine. We're fitting
healthy, But you don't want to

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even go to you because you tell
us otherwise. He just told you two

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lies. Okay, Yeah, we
are neither fit nor healthy. So there

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you go. Don't give us any
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this is you know, you start
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at college athletics you have a high
school? Is everybody getting getting busy?

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What what's this like for you guys
right now and the types of things that

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you guys are involved in. I
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all the sports about to ramp up. High school I mean high school sports

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are right around the corner. Obviously, you have a their athletes have been

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here training a lot of the summer, especially the full sports are getting ready

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to ramp up, so we are
definitely busy, but our busy time comes

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more earlier because it's a lot of
planning. Once once we start going,

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we like that time frame because then
it's going. We've planned very well to

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execute what we need to do,
so it's not too bad. So,

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James, are you still involved with
El Tour? I'm asking for a reason.

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As long as Jay's gonna ride again, we need to do something.

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But yeah, we are one of
the premier sponsors of the Ail Tour.

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Again. We won the best events
in Tucson and we have a great partnership

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with that. You ruined my punchline
because I said, if you're not,

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you got to join. Because Jay, I think he plans on return.

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I'm doing the thirty two mile ride
this year. James, when are you

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going to upgrade to do the full
thing? Jay? That's my question twenty

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years ago. I'm a little upset
that it's gone. The ride's gone from

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twenty six to thirty two because I
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So we'll see. But again,
make sure the medical tent has a space

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ready for Jay. A little reservation
not only a tent, but like a

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place to throw up ivy. You're
those ivy things. Don't you have those

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ivy things? No, you don't
have those right? No? Yeah,

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we had ivy few people after the
race last year, but overall it was

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a pretty nice clean race on a
health aspect. Right. So I got

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a question from from one of our
listeners. Let's ask it. Let's let's

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ask him why he came on,
and then you can well, okay,

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because it's part of the question.
Oh, okay, go ahead. Okay.

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I thought you were gonna ask him
that weird question. No, no,

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no, no no. A parent
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asked if there are free physicals in
that area. So we're not going out

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to that area this year. Future
years we'll probably do more events, but

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we always partner with you of A
and do this huge physical event and it's

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basically at no cost event. We
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and some other vendors that have donated, so we could put on this event

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at no cost to any youth athlete
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at Bail, it's not in Serta. It's unfortunately not at but Nora Valley.

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It is right on the u of
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David Center on Friday. Okay,
that and that's the indoor football facility.

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So so to get a physical tell
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The main thing if they could print
off their AIA paperwork and bring that in

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filled out, it will make their
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system. But pretty much, they
come in, they check in, and

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then we start knocking out different boxes
on the forum. So you have your

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vitals, your blood pressure, your
height and weight, and then they go

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see one of our sports medicine physicians
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is the most important part and hopefully
it's a nice clean bill of health.

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And then you pass your physical and
then you are clear to play. However,

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if not, we'll talk about next
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to get you cleared to play.
James, we've met a couple of times.

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I'm guessing you're maybe forty two at
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you're pretty much right on forty two. There we go. Oh good,

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good, guess. So let me
ask you my dumb question Okay, back

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in the day, we're much older
than you, we had to turnaround and

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cough deal. I don't know what
the hell they were trying to do with

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turnaround and cough. Does that still
exist that? What the hell are they

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doing? That is long gone?
And main reason for that check for hernia,

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which that is that's been gone for
about five to ten years. We

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don't have to worry about that anymore. I used to have to do that

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as well. Okay, so when
you're checking, I got to know what

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you know you do that and what
are you looking for? What do you

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what tells you if somebody has a
hernia or not? So where your figures

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placed? Then if you have a
hernia, you basically care some tissue in

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there and they're able to feel that. Okay. Now there's different doctors that

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still do that test, and hopefully
you don't have to go to one of

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them. Let the jokes come from
the professionals. Okay, So back back

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to back to the reason we had
you. We had you on the show

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talk about these physicals. Now,
you know, you talk about the aia,

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but can middle school kids who also
need physicals to play sports and stuff

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like that come and uh, uh, come and get physicals there as well.

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We have middle school, we do
have some elementary schools like Tucson Youth

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Football and Spirit federations. Those playing
youth football, they're more than welcome to

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come as well. Our doctors are
trained for all ages with that, so

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that we've done plenty of physicals.
I think the youngest we did last year

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was six. Obviously at that point
like why do you need a physical to

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play? Is there something wrong?
But you'll see it a lot from your

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fifth grade, sixth grade that are
at an elementary school playing sports. They

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need physicals now. So if you
can't make it into your pediatrician or you

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can't make it into your regular doctor, that's what we're here to help.

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Because one, we want everybody taken
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see your pediatrician or your primary care. But we also know how hard it

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is to get in sometime for these
physicals and at the cost. I mean

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we had one family last year that
they had six kids. So if you're

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talking six physicals, you know,
insurance cover some of it, they're not

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going to cover a lot of it. It's a hefty bill, so they

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might not even be able to play
sports. Well, I was gonna ask

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you because how much would they save? I mean fifty bucks per physical?

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Twenty five bucks for physical. Most
urgent care of cash prices around count are

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forty to fifty bucks. Okay,
if it's your insurance. It depends on

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your insurance. Sometimes it's free,
but then you might not get your other

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physical. You're more extensive physical as
a pediatric patient. Okay, tell us

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the times. Well yeah, first, well, first, how many kids

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show? How many kids did you
do last year? Last year we did

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about six hundred and fifteen kids.
WHOA yeah, okay, what times it

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is from one to five pm?
Well, so you've got that many in

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that four hour. Yeah. We
bring a ton of docs out and make

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sure our goals does not make people
wait a long time. So we bring

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a ton of docs out and there'll
be a line here or there, and

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we'll catch up and move them through. But the goals get people in and

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out because once again, times valuable. It's school's about to start for people.

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Some schools have already started, right
like alt Bell. We understand times

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valuable, So we want to get
people in and out pretty quick. Okay,

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walk us through one of these physicals. I mean, how much can

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you look for in that period of
time that you're gonna have a kid.

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You'll walk us through one. So
when after you check in, you're gonna

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get your height and weight. So
that's gonna help a doc determined DMI.

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I'd be like, are you at
a healthy weight? In order to do

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physical actissie. Then they also take
a blood pressure, which is one of

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the big things because a lot of
cardiovascular diseases you could tell off that blood

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pressure. The main portion of it
is spending it time with a doc.

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They're gonna get your family history,
They're gonna get your own medical history.

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If there's any red flags on there, they're going to dive deeper into that.

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If there's not a ton of red
flags, they're going to do their

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orthepedic as well as genero physical and
if all goes well, you're out there

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pretty quick. If not, that's
when the conversation. So bringing up parents

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that knows your medical history is obviously
the best and if you know there is

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issues, then we could work on
that. I think there's like four or

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five where we actually caught some pretty
significant health scares for the families and we

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got them in with some of the
specialists at our Banner hospitals and luckily they

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were able to catch something before.
It's a much bigger issue that maybe later

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on in life. I was going
to ask you about that, because we

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see it every now and again,
like in college sports where there's the people

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exhaustion, people passing out and they
should have cut that before. Or is

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it almost impossible to catch stuff like
that? You know, it's really hidden

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this on. Some of that stuff, like the heat exhaustion stuff that's more

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just overworking. But you'll catch cardiovascular
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Normally it's not caught there, it's
red flight there and caught at the specialist

407
00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:41.680
appointment. So like, for example, if somebody has a cardiology appointment,

408
00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:45.640
we're gonna send them to one of
our cardio just specialists that may work with

409
00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:49.319
the U of A athletes or other
professional athletes, and they're gonna break it

410
00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:52.640
down of like, hey, we're
gonna run some special tests. Were like,

411
00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:56.920
obviously we don't have any machines there, we don't have an echo cardiogram

412
00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:00.759
there, so there are potential that
you adey further stuff. Well, once

413
00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:03.920
again, that's I think last year
at of six hundred and fifteen, there

414
00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:07.440
was five that needed extra testing.
So out of the six fifteen, six

415
00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:11.599
hundred and ten, we're okay to
go do whatever they wanted to do.

416
00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:14.559
Okay, that's not bad. That's
not bad. Steve and I are going

417
00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:17.440
to come and get our physicals.
There No, no, Well, you're

418
00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:22.279
gonna have to see some special I
can already tell you that. We're talking

419
00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:26.599
to James Ready from Banner Health talking
about the importance of physicals for these kids.

420
00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:27.200
And I mean, and it is
important, right, I mean,

421
00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:30.960
we've always had to get them,
But it seems like there's more stuff going

422
00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:33.640
on out there. Does it seem
like that to you that you know,

423
00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.759
you're you're hearing about these athletes you
say, as we said, no college

424
00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.359
athletes who Alsodden, You're find you're
Bronnie James right, you're finding out that

425
00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:45.400
they've got these serious issues. And
I don't know if it's because we there's

426
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:49.640
more media on it. But what's
your what's your experience is stuff? Is

427
00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:52.839
stuff getting caught more maybe because of
technology or something. I don't know.

428
00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:57.160
I think it's a little bit obviously
anything media y, especially bigger names like

429
00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:03.000
the Bronnie James uh last year when
he got to USC right like stuff like

430
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:07.079
that's going to bring it to the
forefront. And you could get on Twitter,

431
00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:10.839
Instagram, Snapchat, any of these
and see stuff all the time now,

432
00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:15.319
especially once you get into their algorithm. But the medicine has also gone

433
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.920
so much better. I mean,
there's so much more research done on athletes

434
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:21.559
than there ever was. I mean
you could see that at any level,

435
00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:26.200
athletes are bigger, faster, stronger. That's changed over the last twenty years

436
00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:30.920
because the science is catching up to
everything. I get it. So all

437
00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:33.960
right, so you're still we still
be doing stuff with the you know,

438
00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:37.240
with the football team, you can
be out on the field that kind of

439
00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:40.480
thing, because you have been.
Recently, we got a great group of

440
00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:45.519
athletic trainers between the university and banner
that your part. If I'm on there,

441
00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:48.559
normally it's just to say hi to
that few people. If I'm on

442
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.880
there, something's really going wrong.
But it's a great medical team at u

443
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:57.480
of AH from the athletic trains,
set doctors and across town. I mean

444
00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:02.119
there's a great group of athletic trains. I mean, that's why these physicals

445
00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:06.839
are important too. Is there's a
lot of people across two cent that these

446
00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:10.960
physicals and their athletic trainers at the
school might be the only healthcare professionals they

447
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:15.279
know ers have access to. So
that's why doing stuff like this in community

448
00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:17.960
is so important to make sure our
communities are all taken care of it.

449
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:19.920
Isn't this one of the reasons why
you went to school to kind of be

450
00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:25.480
involved with this and sports? Correct? I mean I knew at a young

451
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:30.440
age I wanted medicine and I love
sports, and sports medicine was the perfect

452
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:34.640
sit And I've been pretty blessed in
my career between professional college and now working

453
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:38.960
for Banner that we're able to take
a lot of a lot of the stuff

454
00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:42.319
I've learned, our doctors have learned
and provide the best care possible of the

455
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:45.599
Southern Arizona. Yeah, all right, And then again, you do some

456
00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:49.200
you guys do some stuff with ELT
Tour. How is that? You know?

457
00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:52.359
How are the sports different? Right? Is there a lot of different

458
00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:55.359
stuff that you look for with different
sports? Where is everything just kind of

459
00:30:55.400 --> 00:31:03.119
generally checking an athlete's overall condition.
So for the most part, what the

460
00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:06.519
physicals, it's it's pretty general like
if you know, if somebody's running cross

461
00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:12.599
country, you're maybe looking more about
the cardio health compared to how is their

462
00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:18.200
shoulder rotator cuff? Right? Right, But as you get higher up in

463
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:22.079
levels, it does become much more
oriented on the sport like women's soccer,

464
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:26.880
you're gonna treat different than football.
I do it. There's gonna be some

465
00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:30.359
similarities obviously, but you are looking
at them, testing them different, and

466
00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:34.279
it's a whole other level once you
get to that level of what's done interesting,

467
00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:37.480
brilliant, Yeah, no, yeah, needs and there's a big need

468
00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:41.279
for this too, right, I
would assume. So you did six hundred

469
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:45.400
and some last year, you probably
do more or if you never know,

470
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:49.720
like we've I'm joke, one of
our phones has been that's dedicated to this

471
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:53.799
has been getting called a lot more. Just making sure we're doing it again

472
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:59.079
because it's the same as last year. If it's two hundred, people were

473
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:01.119
happy, If it's a thousand,
people were happy. We just want to

474
00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:05.119
take care of the community. We
do a couple of these in the spring

475
00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:07.039
as well, because your physical is
good for a year, So we'll go

476
00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:09.480
to some high schools early in the
spring and be like, hey, do

477
00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:13.599
you guys want us to do a
physical event ahead of time? So that

478
00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:16.599
way, you don't want three thousand
kids showing up at an event like this

479
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:21.400
because you do lose some of that, right, So that's why we kind

480
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:22.680
of try and spread them out throughout
the year. Got it, Okay?

481
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:29.359
So so this Friday at the Colon
Jeannie Davis Center, right one to five.

482
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:32.000
You said, yep, one to
five. And for those who don't

483
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:36.920
know, the Colon Jeanie Davis Center
is the indoor football practice facility across the

484
00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:39.920
street from McHale. So that's where
you got you guys will be. When

485
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:44.240
when should they start showing up?
I mean you could show up, but

486
00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:46.039
as I will tell you, last
year, we had a line at one,

487
00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:49.359
we had a line at two,
we had a line at three,

488
00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:52.519
we had a line at four,
and that line moved pretty quick. So

489
00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:57.240
whatever time you get there, go
ahead and show show up. That's why

490
00:32:57.240 --> 00:33:00.599
we do it in the indoor because
obviously we're in that nice two weather right

491
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:04.319
now, we were able to keep
more people inside to keep it cool.

492
00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:07.359
All right, Okay, James ready
from Banner Health. James, thank you

493
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.279
so much. Just question because one
more question, Uh did you do middle

494
00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:13.319
schoolers too, right now? I
think he said that's right, Yep,

495
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:15.559
he said he missed miss Okay,
yeah, cool middle schools as well.

496
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:19.240
James, Thanks a bunch man.
We'll see you around and uh, good

497
00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:21.960
luck with all that, and I'll
probably see you at all tour. Ye

498
00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:25.160
sounds good. Thank you guys,
and Uh, I can't wait to see

499
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:29.839
uh on that bike Jack, James, I'm gonna send you a note off

500
00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:32.519
off air later on. Thank you. All right, sounds good. Thanks

501
00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:36.880
James, talk you later. All
right. Okay, cool cool, that

502
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:38.440
was James, ready for banner.
Healthy cool, cool, cool, good

503
00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:40.920
information, good guy. We had. We had a lot of fun together.

504
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:45.319
We work together at the Sugar Skulls
and we had a blast, probably

505
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:49.039
more fun than we should have had. So anyways, there you go,

506
00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.240
Okay, cool, all right,
we're gonna we're gonna take our break,

507
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:52.680
we're gonna come back. We'd love
to take your calls five two zero four

508
00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:58.200
one six forty. I'll try and
find a link to all that somewhere and

509
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:00.680
we'll get a posted up on her, try and get it up on our

510
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:04.119
social media so that you'll have the
information on where to go for those physicals.

511
00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:06.880
Because again, if you donate yourself, they are not cheap. So

512
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:08.679
a good idea to get out there
and get one of those. So stick

513
00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:13.599
around and we'll wrap it up five
two, zero four and six seven and

514
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552
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with us. Welcome to Hand on
the Ball. I say what you did

553
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there, I see what you did
there. It's good to talk to too

554
00:37:16.920 --> 00:37:22.039
funny. Anyways, I'm just gonna
leave it there. I'm not I'm not

555
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:24.519
going to go any further with that? Anybody want to call please do?

556
00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:29.800
What were your dream shattered? Uh? As you grew up hoping to be

557
00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:32.199
a ballplayer? Yeah? Something?
You know what you know what's the worst

558
00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:42.519
killer is dreams? Girls? Women
of course, of course, sorry women.

559
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:45.519
Okay, okay, here's here's a
question for you, and you gotta

560
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:49.119
you gotta give me an honest answer
on this. How much of you wanting

561
00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:52.639
to play sports had to do with
impressing the chicks? Oh? No,

562
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:58.440
we're getting chicks? Zero zero zero, No, that was Yeah. I

563
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:01.880
was too too involved with sports to
do that. But the senior year one

564
00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:07.920
did create some problems. What is
that? I know my dad was disappointed

565
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:13.039
in me, just because if somebody
got up in your head and you couldn't

566
00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:16.039
couldn't shake it and it affected your
performance. She was a lot around for

567
00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:21.519
for for games, and my concentration
level was probably not to the like,

568
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:25.599
we have a call. Let's take
this. Oh you're on the air and

569
00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:31.920
one on the ball. Yes,
ultimate guy? About this? Ultimate guy?

570
00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:37.400
Are you calling about our our our
topic and I'm talking about some shattered

571
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:40.480
dreams? Yes? Please? The
perfect guy to be calling it this time?

572
00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:45.239
Man, I was in the eighth
grade, right, and I was.

573
00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:49.400
I was getting a D plus and
math at the time. My Matt

574
00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:52.960
pulled me aside and she said,
what do you want to be when you

575
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:58.119
grow up? And I tell her
I wanted to be Maverick. What did

576
00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:00.400
she say, There's no way.
Well, she's like, you gotta do

577
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:06.239
a lot better, and man,
I'll two to you. But at that

578
00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:07.960
time, I was lost in the
Bermuda triangle. Man, if you know

579
00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:15.440
what I mean, we know exactly
what you mean. In the eighth grade.

580
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:20.719
Hey, man, some people are
gifted. Sure, I just go

581
00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:23.719
the wrong way in the wrong direction. Yes, yes, well that's guys,

582
00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:27.840
honest, that's honest. Okay did
you play ball? Did you play

583
00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:31.039
ball? Probably not. I played
baseball and soccer for a while, a

584
00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:35.440
little bit of football. Yeah,
okay. And what did that dream end?

585
00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:39.760
Bermuda triangle? Well, that dream
ended when I realized you don't have

586
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:49.000
to play sports to get chie there's
one. Okay, all right, Nico.

587
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:51.320
Good to hear from you, Niko. Hey, you guys think it?

588
00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:53.599
No, no, yeah, I'm
not like you, guys. I

589
00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:59.599
wasn't doing that. But but if
you were a ballplayer. He gravitated people

590
00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:04.280
did dave you know they did?
You know I'm gonna I'm gonna play still

591
00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:07.239
do they still do? Yeah?
And then you just get you in trouble.

592
00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:09.480
Man, My wife would be offender. You heard me using the word

593
00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:13.760
chicks on the air. But what
can I tell you? That's what's gonna

594
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:21.280
offender, not the part about well
that too, not the part about what

595
00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:27.679
nuts that part, that part,
Oh, if you haven't offended her in

596
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:34.079
five years, you're doing okay?
Yeah? That that that part of it.

597
00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:37.239
That's any more calls like Nico just
give his call fight to four one

598
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:43.119
six seventy four forty when your dreams
get shattered and when his old old seventy

599
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:45.679
all I wanted to ask then that
you know, at what point do you

600
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:49.760
think he's still going at it?
Right? He's seventy whatever he said he

601
00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:52.639
retired and he didn't retire. Retire. He retired from you see, but

602
00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:58.679
he didn't retire. People again,
when look, when you're when you're in

603
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:01.280
that kind of environment, I mean
like to me, Okay, you know

604
00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:05.920
I'm gonna be sixty five in two
weeks, I'm not even thinking about retiring

605
00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:08.159
because I'm thinking if I stop doing
what I'm doing. What would I do

606
00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:13.920
with myself other than drive myself bat
stuff crazy? And that's when people start

607
00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:17.360
to deteriorate, right, I lose
I. You know, I if my

608
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:20.880
two daughters at home right now,
because if you know, figuring out what

609
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:22.119
you know, what's next in their
lives. But you know, if we

610
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:25.199
had a period of time, it's
my wife and I and she travels occasionally

611
00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:29.679
with with her job, and and
you know, when she's gone for a

612
00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:34.079
week and I'm bouncing around the house
and doing nothing, nobody had talk to

613
00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:37.920
other than the cat or the dog
while the dog's gone. But you know,

614
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:42.400
it's like I drive myself crazy.
Now he knows what we go through,

615
00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:45.519
right, all those things about you
know, I come up with all

616
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:49.599
the horrible scenarios and stuff like that. I bounce off the walls. Too

617
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:52.639
much time to think, Yeah,
I bounce off the walls. I was

618
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:54.800
listening to today to a dayline about
a guy who got kidnapped and was put

619
00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:58.760
in a box for seven months,
and I'm like, I would have I

620
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:05.480
would have I would have died after
a week. You know, I would

621
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:09.320
have lost my mind after a freaking
week. No, that would have said

622
00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:13.599
the dude would have said ransom note, can you, and then the family

623
00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:15.840
would have said, keep him,
just keep them. We don't need to,

624
00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:20.480
you know, give us some money
to get rid of him. So

625
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:22.519
you know, I I you know, I don't know. I would have

626
00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:27.480
lost my mind. And I do
and I do that. I mean I

627
00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:30.800
do that, you know, even
even if for a few hours I'm at

628
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:35.559
home and I you know, I'm
like total opposite, like not to be

629
00:42:35.599 --> 00:42:40.679
bothered. Don't talk to me full
rank you can get tomorrow. Yeah,

630
00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:45.360
I can't. I have to have
people to talk. I'm one of those

631
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.519
guys. I walk in the house
right and if there's nobody home, I

632
00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:52.679
immediately turn on the TV because I
gotta have noise. Oh yeah, no,

633
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:55.119
And I'm not even I don't even
need to have Did you study that

634
00:42:55.159 --> 00:43:00.960
way? Yes? Okay, yeah, I you know, I was the

635
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:05.360
guy who would study with headphones and
and and the whole bit. You know,

636
00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:07.719
I have to have noise. I
I work, and my wife is

637
00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:14.119
the complete opposite. She wants it
totally quiet, totally quiet. You guys

638
00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:19.239
are complete oppice. We are total, total opposite. Yeah, if you're

639
00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:23.679
listening, please be my guests.
When he's gone. What the hell are

640
00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:30.199
you thinking about Jay now? I
I I I do I have to have

641
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:35.320
I have to have noise all the
time? Did I like quiet? I

642
00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:40.159
totally like what that's crazy. You
worked in the newsroom, okay, I

643
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:45.599
was readly in the newsroom that was
on the road, the road, just

644
00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:50.840
standing on the That's true. When
you're covering, you're going when you're covering

645
00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:52.440
a team. I mean, you
know, to tell you the truth that

646
00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:59.039
the reason I got the basketball beat
when I got it was because the guy

647
00:43:59.079 --> 00:44:04.559
who was covering it never came into
the office. We had, uh he's

648
00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:10.360
he's We had a sports editor who
wanted to see people. Yeah, Emery

649
00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:15.760
Kramer r I p with him too. You know, we had a sports

650
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:17.800
who wanted people. You wanted to
see people in the office. Because remember

651
00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:22.920
we had those big box machines that
he could write from home. And he

652
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.679
never came to the He'd come to
the office once every other week or so,

653
00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:29.079
and they kept on me, we
need you in the office, we

654
00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:30.599
need you in the office, we
need you in the office. And he

655
00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:35.079
wouldn't come in. No. No, Mike Downs came after met Jim Al's

656
00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:37.480
laker was oh yeah, Jim Jim. Yeah. One of the great.

657
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:40.679
Yeah. He was the typical sports
writer. Yeah, and he just kind

658
00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:45.119
of audet you know, I don't
know. I was a friend when I

659
00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:47.519
was an intern at the Start in
eighty five. He was a good dude.

660
00:44:47.679 --> 00:44:50.800
Cover. He was a great dude. He was a he was a

661
00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:54.320
he was the perfect sports writer looking
dude. Yeah, kind of the mullet

662
00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:59.239
and kind of like just didn't give
me, won't said another becauss word another,

663
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:00.920
didn't give a craw about just he
just did his job, right,

664
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:04.679
you did, And really I didn't
know that. Yeah, And unfortunately he

665
00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:07.440
got in a situation where they kept
saying that they wanted him in and he

666
00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:10.599
just wouldn't wouldn't do it, and
so they just they took him off the

667
00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:13.840
beat and then put me on.
I did not know that, and then

668
00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:15.199
I knew, you know, I
got a what year was that, eighty

669
00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:20.360
six, eighty six, eighty six. So he was for basketball. He

670
00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:22.119
was not the he was not the
basketball guy. Was. He was after

671
00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:28.000
Jim, after Diamond, after Diamond, after Diamond, right after Rich Diamond

672
00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:32.199
got fired. That was nineteen eighty
five, because I came that summer,

673
00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:37.079
right and then Jim got the beat
That next school year because I left it

674
00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:39.599
well the eighty He got the beat
for the eighty five eighty six season.

675
00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:43.880
Okay, okay, did he actually
go through that year? Eighty five six?

676
00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:45.159
So that was his first year?
Was his first year I was,

677
00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:49.039
and then I got it for eighty
six eighty seven. You were the big

678
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.440
writer for eighty six eighty seven,
Yes, So why didn't you stay for

679
00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:54.079
eighty seven eighty I did stay for
eighty seven eighty eight. They were you

680
00:45:54.119 --> 00:45:58.079
weren't the main guy though, was
the main guy seven eighty eight? Yes?

681
00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:00.320
I wasn't aware of what a million
story is about that I was the

682
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.800
main guy for eighty seven eighty eight. No, I was the beat writer

683
00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:07.679
for seven eighty eight. No.
John Michael Downs came in for eighty eight

684
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:12.159
eighty nine. I went to football. I asked off. On the way

685
00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:15.320
home from Kansas City, I made
up my mind. I wandered off basketball

686
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:16.320
because it's a lot of work,
right, It was so much work.

687
00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:21.800
Also, the Cardinals were coming by
that time. They announced the Cardinals were

688
00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:25.199
coming. So Jack McGruder, who
was the football rider when it was going

689
00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:30.119
to be going up to Phoenix to
cover the Cardinals, and so the football

690
00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:31.960
opened up. So on the on
my way home from Kansas City on the

691
00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:36.480
plane, I decided I didn't want
to do I wanted to go do football.

692
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:37.840
So when as soon as I got
off the plane and I married at

693
00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:43.039
the time married at the time,
no divorced, I was, yeah,

694
00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:47.559
divorced, WI. So that makes
it. I did not know that you

695
00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:52.199
were the beat right in eighty sixty
seven. Uh, and then and then

696
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:57.280
I went to football. But actually
in the in the eighty seven football season,

697
00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:01.159
mcgridder got put on a special assign
What happened was, if you remember

698
00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:05.880
this, Alfred Jenkins and John Horton
h got trouble. We're in trouble for

699
00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:08.639
taking money from an agent. So
they put Jack on to go investigate that

700
00:47:08.679 --> 00:47:12.360
and look into that. And so
while he was doing that for it was

701
00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:15.199
probably about a month, I was
a beat writer on football that season.

702
00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:19.480
And I was the backup guy because
I was the basket I was the sidebar

703
00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:24.000
guy at games, right, but
I covered it. I was the beat

704
00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:29.239
guy for about a month while Jack
went off and did did the story on

705
00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:31.639
on on Jenkins and and and Horton, and so I covered some guys and

706
00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:34.440
I did some travel, you know, I went to u C. L

707
00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:39.000
A. I went to Cal did
some games eighty six eighty six, and

708
00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:44.719
then I was the actual beat writer
in nine eighty six eighty seven, the

709
00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:47.360
four four three season, eighty seven
Dick's first year I was. I was

710
00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:52.400
the beat writer for about a month, and then then I did basketball.

711
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:55.840
And then I did basketball for two
years, and then eighty eight eighty nine.

712
00:47:57.239 --> 00:48:00.039
I was a beat writer fortwo years. Two years back football, here's

713
00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:04.079
basketball, two years football, Main
guy, main guy. You got demoted

714
00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:09.280
yourself. I just steve, you
know, to no one knows how much

715
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:15.039
work it is. Yeah, I
you know, I you don't get days

716
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:17.079
off. I got here the bottom
line. I've told this, you know,

717
00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:22.320
to a lot of people. I
got tired of sports being worked.

718
00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:24.480
Yeah, I got tired of sports
being work. Right. I was,

719
00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:27.480
you know, I was voting for
the Heisman Trophy. I was wenting for

720
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:31.039
All America teams. And on a
Saturday afternoon, you know, I'm covering,

721
00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:34.119
you know, when I've got to
cover a game that night. I

722
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:37.639
was watching football all day, but
not to just enjoy and watch football.

723
00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:40.639
I was watching football all day and
taking notes and stuff like that. And

724
00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:44.639
it wasn't dude. Now you understand
what I say. When I'm not a

725
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:49.639
sports you get. I decided it
wasn't fun anymore, and I went to

726
00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:53.519
all places, went over to the
business section after after the eighty nine season,

727
00:48:55.280 --> 00:48:59.960
actually was the eighty well eighty nine
football, ninety basketball, because I

728
00:48:59.960 --> 00:49:01.199
was a backup guy on basketball,
so I went and I covered the pack.

729
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:05.000
I covered the Pac ten tournament,
you know, went to the n

730
00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:08.159
C Double as Arizona lost in the
first in the second round in Long Beach.

731
00:49:08.599 --> 00:49:13.239
And when I got home from Long
Beach and I went and I had

732
00:49:13.239 --> 00:49:16.480
to cover baseball that year. But
I told you know the sports that I

733
00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:19.239
said, you know what, this
is my last year. I don't want

734
00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:22.280
to do this anymore. And I
got out, and I've never regretted getting

735
00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:28.400
out. I got into journalism to
do that. That's why I got in.

736
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.320
I did it. I had fun
with it, experiences of a lifetime.

737
00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:34.639
I got to cover Final four.
I told you I got to cover

738
00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:37.199
National Championship football game. Yeah,
you know, you know I got to

739
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:42.079
do that. I got to do
all the cool stuff that I read about

740
00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:45.159
when I was throwing the paper as
a thirteen year old. And then I

741
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:47.199
just decided I didn't want to do
it. I wanted to go back.

742
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:50.480
I wanted to tailgate, I wanted
to go out after a game. I

743
00:49:50.519 --> 00:49:52.679
want to have a life. I
want to have a life. I mean,

744
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:55.159
that's the bottom line. Because people
don't understand how how much time you're

745
00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:59.559
spend away from family. Yeah,
how much you it's every day. You

746
00:49:59.559 --> 00:50:00.760
don't get a off for nine months. Yeah, because of the way that

747
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:07.800
eighty seven eighty eight, the eighty
eight basketball season developed, and it immediately

748
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:10.280
went when off when Arizona went to
the Great Alaska Shootout and won that.

749
00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:16.599
So remember back in those days,
practice started October fifteenth. So from October

750
00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:22.320
fifteenth until I got home from Kansas
City after the Final four, I had

751
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:24.360
two days off and one of those
was christ Dude, you're talking, I

752
00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:28.199
did this, betwe that's why I
know exactly what. That's why I said.

753
00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:30.039
And I thought, football, Okay, I'll take six road trips,

754
00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:35.679
you know, quikies, right,
go Friday, come back Saturday night or

755
00:50:35.719 --> 00:50:37.760
Sunday, and you know, cover
the you know, cover one game a

756
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:43.000
week. And and that that to
me was the people place I wanted to

757
00:50:43.039 --> 00:50:45.639
football. People will listening to us
on saying, guys, you guys are

758
00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:50.159
weak. Yeah, you know.
I remember at the Final four. Okay,

759
00:50:50.199 --> 00:50:52.559
I'm in eighty eight. I'm at
the Final four pregame. It's like

760
00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:54.920
an hour before the game. I'm
at the arena. I went and sat

761
00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:58.519
at my spot on press who I
was in the front row, right on

762
00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:01.440
the court, and I knew my
brother was having a party and having his

763
00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:05.840
My family and everybody was over there. And I called them from there and

764
00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:07.800
they said, it's a dream thing. And I want to say, you

765
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:10.880
guys have no idea how hard I've
been working. I got here exactly exactly.

766
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:15.519
I told you the story in ninety
seven. It was I think there

767
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:20.280
was Mordich, Anthony or whoever in
between games and they're in the championship game,

768
00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:22.159
right. Who would have thought,
here we are and we're finishing at

769
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:25.199
ten o'clock at night because we're doing
five stories a day, blah blah blah.

770
00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:30.559
And it's Easter Sunday that day.
We're having Easter Sunday at Hooters because

771
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:32.519
there was the only place that was
open. It was the only place that

772
00:51:32.639 --> 00:51:35.679
was open. I wrote about it. I wrote about it in a call.

773
00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:40.159
Michael was manager. I wrote a
column about everyone thinks this is a

774
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:44.159
glamorous job, and I wrote about
what we went through blah blah blah,

775
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:47.719
and he I upset the hell out
of him because they had a reader say,

776
00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:50.800
oh, Rivera, get him off
the beat. All he does is

777
00:51:50.840 --> 00:51:54.039
complain about all what's going on.
There's people on roofs in one hundred degrees

778
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:59.440
and they're working in guys, you
guys. I was kind of being tongue

779
00:51:59.440 --> 00:52:01.480
in cheek, but but they don't
know what what it is it is,

780
00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:07.239
and they don't know how much work
it is. And look, like I

781
00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:10.239
said, time in my life.
You know, of all the things I

782
00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:16.320
did and in my career from the
time I was eighteen until now, you

783
00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:22.280
know, those four years where I
covered basketball and then football are still the

784
00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:28.440
highlight. But it it I got
tired of your life and happy your life

785
00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:31.480
trajectory would not would have changed dramatically
because you need time for family, you

786
00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:36.679
need time for things. You know
yourself, You just do you just do

787
00:52:36.920 --> 00:52:39.079
you know? I tease Justin.
I tease Justin because he's in it now.

788
00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:42.599
Yeah, Okay, wait till you
kid, wait till you wait,

789
00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:45.840
till you wait till yeah, because
you don't know until you get you don't

790
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:47.800
know until you until you get into
that. Yeah, okay, we got

791
00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:50.760
to go. Good show. That
was fun. We talked about life,

792
00:52:50.760 --> 00:52:52.920
which is kind of strange, kind
of strange. We also talked about other

793
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:57.800
things. You don't want to get
life from us. Somehow we didn't have

794
00:52:57.800 --> 00:53:00.440
to get the dump button either,
so there's so there's that. Hey,

795
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:02.920
thanks everybody for being here. We'll
be back tomorrow with more great guests.

796
00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:07.840
And reminder, we're off Thursday and
Friday this week, so tomorrow's our last

797
00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:09.760
show of the week, so be
sure to be here. We'll see you tomorrow.