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Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, he's Jay. They have Adam with
breaking news. This is I on the Ball Breaking News on Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. All right, so we're gonna start off with again Patrick Beverly.
The Indianapolis Police announced Wednesday they've opened an investigation into Patrick Beverly and the citizen
altercation that happened with Beverly throwing the ball at a fan in the final minute.
Did they say why and I'll go to your hat again of cop being
a cop reporter, do you think the person who got on the end of
the ball would have to file a complaint or is it just something that people
saw and you saw something happen? What created this that that can happen in
in two ways? They because somebody doesn't have to file complain for them to
investigate a crime. So you know, somebody in the police department or even
the prosecutors officer say, you know what, we better, we better take
a look at that, and so they take a look at it. They'll
go to talk to everybody, and it may be that they'll go to the
they'll go to the person, you know, and they'll say, you know
what, I I don't want to do this and then and that'll end it.
Or that person can report Patrick Beverley to the police and say he assaulted
me. I want you know, I want to consider pressing charges against this
guy, and then they can look it. So it can happen one of
two ways. So did it say did it say who who? Who started
this? Nay, they're just looking into it. Yeah, I think it
would have said if if the spectator was asking, you know, you could
have said the spectator is pressing charges against Patrick Beverley if they did. If
it didn't say that, it's probably one of those things where you know,
the prosecutors officer saying, look, this was video millions of people saw.
If we don't do something, people are gonna say, just check into it.
So they're at least going to look into it. And like I said,
probably the first thing they'll do is they'll go ask the the person,
look, do you want to press charges on this? And if the person
says, I don't you know, no, I'm gonna assume him and get
my money, you know, or whatever they say. You know, they
could just say that, okay. Also for their news on Jamal Murray,
he's he was docked one hundred thousand dollars for a fine, but no suspension
for throwing Again. We talked about it yesterday, throwing the feedback on the
court at the referee almost hit a player, I guess, But no suspension,
dummy. So that's like Tim Bucks to you and me. Yeah,
yeah, you know, he'll, you know, he'll, he'll, he'll,
he'll push the seat of his back, the back seat of his car
over and he'll get the money, and yeah, he'll be done. That's
your education, right, your education in Tim Bucks to him and me.
Yeah. Absolutely. This is interesting. So former shoe Heey Otani's former interpreter
was apparently wiring stolen funds to a Real Housewife star of Orange County. What
Yeah, the former interpreter of Otani. The guy's name was the Ryan Boyajon,
a current cast member of Bravo's reality TV series The Real Housewives of Orange
County. Again, he was accused of stealing nearly seventeen million to feed what
he described to be a gambling addiction, So that that's very weird. But
saying he was was he the was that guy the bookie or is it?
It's not clear? Uh yeah, I'm not so sure why they're close friends,
business associates for nearly twenty years. Did that guy end up with the
money? That's the house wife guy? Uh? He loaned oh money to
him, and I guess, uh, that's how he's playing on that.
I'm not not positive, but it's a little weird turn it is. It
is the Pittsburgh pirates are calling up the former number one pick. I believe
Paul Schemes h throws over one hundred miles per hour. So he's coming up
to the big show. When whatever happened to what's the mike? Oh yeah,
yeah, he's in the triple He hasn't done he hasn't hit well,
I don't think yeah from Pittsburgh. Yeah, yeah, I haven't heard.
I don't think he's he's in triple A. NFL. There's some news in
the NFL. This isn't regarding sports, but Travis Kelsey. Kelsey is going
to be on the Ryan Murphy horror series show. It's his first major acting
role. Does he get that gig if he's not dating Taylor Swift? He's
been on a show before. I'm not so possibly, but yeah, this
is his uh, I guess this is his main acting role. He was
on a reality dating show I believe a few years ago, but this is
his first real go at it? And then what else we got? You
guys want to the NFL is releasing their schedule May fifteen, fifteen, Well,
you guys, the hockey kid, the hockey kid. What had the
draft last night? The lottery draft lottery. San Jose Sharks landed the number
one pick. Were they the worst team last year? This year? Yeah,
they were the worst team. And there's a you want to speak to
the players? The top prospect I don't remember his named, celebrity. He's
seventeen years old. He's like a sure fire number one pick, so the
Sharks will have the rights to draft him if they choose to. That was
pretty much it, other than the TSU's coach predicting a split among the Power
five schools. I guess now power four schools split? What thinks that there's
gonna be just two different conferences? Oh yeah, because the SEC in the
Big Ten are going to get together and trying to run the show, is
what it's what they're doing. Yeah, I mean I can see that happening
at some point. But then then you know they're gonna get together, put
their conference together and say, okay, whin that's the national champion. Well
it says who? Right, right, says who? I mean, you
know, the Big ten SEC they kind of own. Yeah, you know,
we were having a conversation about that, you know, talking about you
know, how are Washington and Oregon going to do? You know in the
Big Ten? How'd you say that? You see? In football, the
reality is there's only two good teams in that league before Pacto's schools come in
there, Michigan and Ohio State. I mean, I mean, think about
think about Iowa, right, Think about Iowa. They averaged one like eight
points a game last year and got into the into the conference championship game,
right and they you know, they're terrible, all right, and they were
the and they were in the conference championship game. There's two good In football,
there's really only two good teams. Generally. Wisconsin's pretty good. Wisconsin
is is Washington or Wisconsin. Oregon is better than Wisconsin. You can argue
Washington. Well, Washington certainly last year was better than Wisconsin. Just the
point that people saying that those teams are gonna suck in the big in Big
ten football, you know, I mean U c l A Will because they
sucked in Pac twelve football, right, but you know, Oregon, Washington
and even USC are going to compete now especially all right now are they good
enough to you know, get over the top. But it's gonna be harder
for mission again in Ohio State. All of a sudden, have Oregon and
Washington and USC in the league because they're not Iowa, they're not Purdue,
they're not Northwestern, they're not Illinois. They're better than all those teams,
right, So I think it's you know, there's just this assumption that those
schools are going to go there and they're going to suck. No, I
don't think they are. No, they'll finish how many teams in the league
now, eighteen eighteen eighteen, So they'll finished in the top six, Yeah,
top six probably, yeah, both of them usually, No, ch
do I think Washington is going to go in there and and uh and knock
you know, Michigan, Ohio State off off the top, I do not,
but I do think Washington and Oregon are probably the in whatever order you
want to put them in. Maybe Washington, USC and Oregon are the third,
fourth and fifth best teams in that league at the end of the day,
didn't they They did it for the money obviously, right, and the
competition, Yeah, but the money, the money. It was all of
us, the money, And I see that's why everybody landed in the goods.
If it was gonna happen, everyone landed in the right spot. Yeah,
because there was one who's gonna benefit from moving to the the Big twelve
basketball wise and football? What do you what do you think of Stanford and
Cal going to the A C C. That's that's kind of like a yawn
story. I mean, okay, well, I mean that was that was
a desperation move, right. I mean they don't fit. They don't fit
geographically, they don't fit academically. Is where do they fit otherwise? They
don't fit you know their sport? Yeah, you know, you know those
two schools there, they major in the Olympic sports, right, Uh,
who are they going to play? Yeah? Unless they went both independent wouldn't.
That's the only way to do it the a CC. Yeah, and
they're not going to recoup as much money as they want. No. I
almost think they should have stayed with Oregon State in Washington State and tried to
build a league with those four teams. Yeah, and then that would how
would that have been? I don't know very I'm just glad it was in
Arizona. Yeah, no, yeah, that could have happened, but you
know, maybe not. Yeah. All right, here's a little breaking thing.
Arizona golf women's golf did not make the championship tournament. They lost.
They missed fifth place by two strokes. Well, they are a lot.
Didn't make it in the regional they finished tied for uh and I finished sixth.
So it's alight. When Arkansas perdue Baylor UCLA in Florida State, Arizona
was sixteen over missed it by two strokes. So their season is over.
So let me ask all you guys who follow college basketball, how do you
think Caliparta is gonna do at Rokansas. Yeah, he's already killing it,
killing it on the recruiting wise, yeah yeah, but does that matter with
him? Yeah? I mean he's always gotten great, great players. Can
he coach him? Right? A lot of these guys are coming from Kentucky,
so they do have a year of experience as opposed to generally the high
school. You know, you know, still maybe maybe a big difference will
be just you know, the pressure is kind of off. I mean,
yes, the expectation at Arkansas. You hire a guy like Caliberry, you
expect to win. You know, Arkansas, you know has been really good,
you know, until last year. But you're not gonna have Kentucky fan.
They're eating down your neck all the time. And who knows how much
better you can coach by not having that sure, you know, you know,
you know who. I think he's gonna first Kentucky basketball. They could
do work with something. He's a good coach. He's a good coach one
and he has his players who wanted to play for blah blah blah. He's
a good coach. But a color party. I've always thought, not like
Citizen the show, he's the most overrated college basketball coach. Yeah. Well
he got teen years. Yeah, he got the Kentucky job and was bringing
in you know, eight five star players every year. You know, he
had that undefeated season until it wasn't undefeated anymore. Yeah, you know that
that was so much about who who who where he was coaching, not could
he coached? What was your like, you call it he's overrated? I
agree, but like what was what was the expectation? Do you think he
should have come away? Oh he should have had more ships at least more
than one go deeper. Just look at his resume with the last tournaments round,
second round, blah blah blah. Yeah, just in the last ten
fifteen years he kind of and I said this with with the with Our Tuesday,
at least that the coach K was kind of kind of overrated in the
last ten years he had the same talent, came away with maybe a title
or two maybe. But it's like criticizing loot and I'm not all these teams
he had. Everyone says, like your mind, right, guess what?
They all have to play each other. I mean, here's the problem.
Everyone is getting better now, so is everybody else. Yeah, so how
can you say, Well, I saw somebody on Twitter yesterday or whatever it
was saying, oh, we got we got the guys, We're going to
be really good. Guess what, guys, So are the pig twelve,
so is everybody. You have to watch other places to see what they're doing
too. It doesn't matter who you are. You could drive a nice car,
but guess what, the neighbor has a nicer one. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I agree now I yeah, no, I I again,
he he you know, because he landed at Kentucky and the expectations, the
things that came with being coach of Kentucky's you get players, and the honeymoon
was over after he was not doing anything with the players, you know,
and that was a long time ago, twenty twelve, I think, But
they did right, right, We played twelve years now, So I mean,
as you said, he got close. Davis has been in the league
for twelve years. Yeah yeah, it's I mean it goes by fast.
Wow. Yeah. Look Tommy's been here three or years. Yeah yeah,
you know, and now the pressure is kind of getting on him too because
of the expectation expectations. Yes, yes, it is hard to win.
I mean, no question. People don't understand how difficult it is to win,
especially on the road, and then when it comes driving to win in
March, because everybody else is pretty darn good. And if you have Arizona,
how did Arizona win their title. And I'm gonna probably speak too much
for this. No one thought came out of nowhere exactly, and they were
the underdog saying we can prove that we can do it. Now, they
get now, they get the Arizonas against them, saying that we can be
Yeah, everybody's taking their best shot against already. We've talked about that for
years, about how Arizona comes to town and you're getting somebody's best game.
Every time Arizona did it to Kansas, they did it to to Kentucky,
they did the Providence, all these teams. Oh you can't be let me
show you, and they did it. Yeah, right exactly. All right,
let's take our next break. We're going to come back. We've got
um your godson or somebody. Danny Martinez gonna be joining us from Arizona Softball.
Well, a preview a little bit. Uh, I know he's gonna
he's just shaking his head right now. I will preview on a softball they
start in the Pactloff Softball Tournament. Tomorrogan's Washington, so I'll just get some
of his thoughts. He's the director of operations there for the program. So
we'll get some of his thoughts on their preparations. So stick around. The
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Hey, welcome back to on the Ball here Fox Sports Forquteen fifteen. I'm
Steve, He's Jay. Now on the phone, we have Danny Martinez from
the Arizona Softball program. Danny Hallway. I'm good. How are you guys
doing fine? Thank you? Let me ask you. You must pinch yourself
every now and again. You have a great jump, You get to do
something you love now all the time. I mean it's literally I'm having those
pinch myself moments where I'll just be like in the dugout, you know,
for a game, and I have to remind myself this is my job,
like that I'm getting paid to do this, you know. So yes,
I definitely I would say that I have those pinch myself moments quite a bit
now. So you're you're you're You're up in Palo Alto for the PAC twelve
tournament starts tomorrow. First of all, do you like the tournament? You
know? Last year? I think last year was the first year, right,
did you guys like it? You? What do you think yet?
Yeah? So I've actually been a big proponent of of giving one for quite
a while. I've never I didn't really understand why we didn't have one for
so many years. So when it was announced that it was starting, and
when it was announced that we were going to be the first host, you
know, it was it was really really cool last year and the tournament was
awesome. I mean, you know, I had to be there for every
single game. I did PA for every single game last year, and it
was a really really cool experience. And I think a lot of that was
just how special Hill and Brand is. You know, we filled up the
stands for every game, even the games that Arizona wasn't playing in, and
it was just an awesome experience. And I'm excited for this one this weekend
here in hollow Out though. So you're you're ranked, I think you're fifth
in the conference. You're ranked in the top twenty five. And you know,
Luke back in the day, him and Mike Montgomery didn't like to tournament
because it could only hurt you, right, if you already played everybody and
you're really good, you know, what did it mean? What does it
mean for you guys? Because you guys are in right, you'd think yep.
So this is a big opportunity for us to try to get into that
top sixteen, get one of those national seeds, and get the opportunity to
host a regional, hopefully at Hillenbrand. And winning a few games, you
know, however many we were able to win, would go a long way
to doing that. But it's also it also works that way for a team
like Utah who's coming into this weekend maybe on the bubble, so they have
the opportunity to play themselves into the field or cement their status as a you
know, a team that's going to the postseason. Okay, so coming into
the tournament, you know, what's the mood around the program. How do
they feel about how things are you know, how they've been over the last
few weeks, Are they ready? Just kind of a general atmosphere of the
pro of the team right now headed into the game tomorrow. We know one
thing about this team is that it's been great vibes, great everything all year
because the team culture is really really spectacular with this team, so it's really
a joy to be around. And yeah, they're ready to go. As
Jay said, you've been around from one hundred years following this team. So
I hate to do this to you, but maybe, and you don't have
to answer. This team is pretty good and probably better than we thought it
would be or people thought it would be. And you've seen some fantastic teams.
Where does this fit in? If you can, if you can say
that, you know, it's hard to say where it fits in. It's
just so the game has changed so much over the last ten years, and
you know, it's hard to say where this team ranks among the others.
What I will say is that I think this is the best defensive team that
I've ever seen, at least in my time this. The defense is really
really good. Taylor Beale just won Pack twelve Defensive Player of the Year and
we are second in the nation and fielding percentage and so the defense is really
really good. And I think that hitting, you know, the lineup one
through nine is about as deep. You know, there's been some really really
good teams in my time, but just about as deep as I can remember.
Yeah, So it always comes down to pitching. So what's uh,
you know, what's the uh, the prognosis for pitching going into this tournament?
And you know, when you're playing a bunch of games in a short
period of time like that, you know, what are the expectations and how
are they going to do this? So the kind of blessing I guess with
how the schedule worked out and that we actually had a bye week as our
last regular season week. You know, there's an odd number of conference teams,
so everyone's got one bye week in ours is the last week of the
season when pretty much everybody else was playing, so we weren't able to schedule
a non conference opponent. So we actually got a week off heading into the
postseason, which at this time of the year, everybody's pitching staffs are you
know, just gassed, and everybody is dealing with fatigue issues at this point,
and you know, hope, we're hoping that maybe that extra week off
to this will save some of the arms a little bit as we get ready
for your right I mean, because a brutal stretch of using pitchers and right
over and over again. So yeah, yeah, I really like that you're
talking about the defense because I'm a you know, shortstop, second baseman,
kind of up the middle type of stuff. Have. You have a strong
and your center fielder is strong to right, So if you're strong up the
middle, this team must be very good up the middle, defensively and everywhere
else. I mean, this team is as strong up the middle as any
I think that could be. There's PAC twelve Defensive Players of the Year on
both sides of the middle and field. Second base Ali Skaggs was it last
year. She was the gold Glove winner last year, and then shortstop Taylor
Bill this year, and then Reagan Shocky, honestly, I think if it
weren't for Taylor that Reagan would have been the TACK twelve Defensive Player of the
Year this year. That's just how deep this defense is. I've only you
had to have to see Taylor Shocky play called times. Is she conjuring memories
of Caitlin Lowe and center field at all? It's funny. My my wife
asked me, She said, who who does she remind you of? Who
is she like anybody you've ever seen prior? And the only answer I had
was Caitlin. I mean she's that good defensively and really really good at the
plate as well. Talk about the the the career of Carli your first basement
hardy scooping. Yes, yeah, you know. Four year starter came in
as a freshman on what was a senior led team, a senior dominated team
that COVID year, and has started her entire career at first base and been
just one of my favorite athletes I've ever I've ever worked with. First I
worked with her as her SID and now obviously back with the program. So
one of my favorite app fleets both on and off the field. She is
awesome and it's been fun to watch her hit for four years. Right something
else? Right? So the leadership of the team, where do you where?
Does it said? Who? Who are they? And who are the
ones that I guess we would assume we're going to be looking for them in
the postseason to you know, step up and lead. The cool thing about
this team is it's really kind of the leadership comes from from everywhere. Everybody
feels that like they can lead in some way, shape or form. You
know, we have even freshmen who have made their impacts felt in that way.
But you know, I think at this point, since it is the
postseason, it's winnered home for for all of our seniors. I think it
is from that senior class. You know, this senior class has meant so
much to this program. From you mentioned Carly Scoop and Ali Skaggs and Jazz
and Paris Cheek are three four year seniors. So those three I would say,
all right, so we know she's your boss, but I want you
to evaluate her. Tell us, you know it's her third year right settling
in in Uh, you know, she's been in the job for a little
bit. Now are you seeing you know, do you from where you sit,
do you see her growing as a coach, doing things, changing things,
adjusting? What do you see from Caitlin as a coach of this of
this program. No, I think the big thing that nobody else gets to
see is how she runs practice and how practice looks, and how how much
better we get every single day in practice. And I think that really really
shows on the field. So yes, I think Kaitlyn has done an amazing
job. I mean, people, I think forget she was the first coach
to lead her team to the World Series as a first year head coach in
NC double A history, just two years ago. So yes, Caitlyn is
is doing really really good things and will continue to do really really good things.
Well, Danny, when you asked that question, I wanted to kind
of tag on that too, So you know how I know how I know
she's doing very well. Nobody's batching about her, No one's Honestly, I
haven't seen too much about that. Yeah, you know how the world is.
If you run away, you lose the game, got to get a
replaced blah blah. But I haven't heard any of that. Yeah. Yeah,
Twitter can be a brutal place, especially for coaches. So yeah,
oh yeah, I agree. All right. So you know, Steve and
I were going through the rankings, you know mentioned that UCLA. You know,
they're they're ranked six in the country, and it's like, how good
are they? And I'm like, there's still UCLA and they're still really good.
It's just everybody else around the country has gotten so much better. In
fact, he ran off the teams ahead of them, ahead of UCLA in
the in the rankings. I'm like, I didn't even know a couple of
them even played softball. So you know, over your time, right,
this has changed like that. It's that there's so many good teams out there
that weren't there fifteen years ago or even ten years ago. Right, Talk
a little bit about that, that whole national aspect of what's happened in softball.
Yeah, it's crazy. I mean it's really it's been the buy in
of specifically the SEC, but even in the Big twelve as well, just
nationally, teams are starting to put money, put resources behind softball and you're
seeing it pay off. I think that goes for all of women's sports right
now. You know, we just saw all the crazy numbers and the creepy
viewership data from the Women's Final flour and I think you're going to see very
similar, you know, kind of increases over the next month with softball.
You know, I think women's sports has just in a really really good place
right now, correct me if I'm wrong, Danny. But last year I
think did they lose to UCLA like in a heartbreaker in the tournament? Yes?
Yeah, does that kind of help them because they had them on the
brink they lost, and it was in the tournament where it kind of gives
them they know they can compete, especially at this time of year. Yeah,
I think that that probably has you know, a little bit of carryover
last year in the Pactal Tournament. We opened with Arizona State and run rolled
them on a walk off grand slam. So yeah, this team has postseason
or PAC twelve tournament experience now, and I think, you know, I
do think that that will We'll play a role here tomorrow. Okay, we
want you to evaluate this. Is Stafford a good place for this? Why
why Stanford? Is it? Is this rotating? Or is do you have
to Bidford? How do you get how do you get to host this thing?
You know, that's a great question. It wasn't supposed to be a
rotating thing. Obviously, we couldn't foresee what happened last summer, and so
the Pactell Tournament only ends up going too places. But you know, it's
hard to compare anything to hill Brand. Hillen Brand is just such a special
place, not only in the PAC twelve but nationally, so we can try
to you know, I'm sure Stanford's gonna do a great job. You know,
I'm excited to be not the host this year, and I'm excited to
watch somebody else do it. But there's no nowhere like Hill and Brandon.
If we can, we get it only two minutes. I don't even know
what's your what's your role with the team, but yeah, what are some
of the things that you do? So I'm the director of operations, so
just anything logistically with the team. I'm you know, in charge of specifically
travel, food, everything, just kind of helping us get from point A
to point B and keeping the tires turning the right direction with the team,
do you do you rake and line fields and stuff like that. You know,
I haven't yet, but I have told them that if they need my
services, I am more than happy to I wear a lot of hats,
So whatever they need me to do, I'll do. And you sound like
again, you sound like you're just having a blast with this. I am,
yeah, cool, that's great. Well, Danny, thanks for doing
it, Yeah, Danny, and like where you wait? Where are you
guys going to dinner tonight? We are going to the Alpine Inn, which
is like a historic place here in Talato, but it's got a nice outdoor
area for us to be able to watch the first game of the Taxall Tournament
tonight. Good weather too, good weather, very good weather. It's yes,
beautiful hour. All right, Hey Danny, thanks much. I appreciate
you jumping on with us, and good luck to you guys. I'm glad
you remembered your name. Yeah, I'm only your god son. I know,
I know, Danny. You know what what can I say? What
can I say? All right? Thanks so much? Man, have fun?
All right, that's funny. That's what your gods can I say?
Steve? I expect you to deeper into that pocket of years and get him
a nice president. You know what. He's grown up now, Okay,
my role as a godfather is kind of over with. I'm supposed to I'm
supposed to help bring him up and so you know, it's good the kid
as he is. You can say I had something to do it. He's
supposed to say. Now I have to take care of you. Yeah,
he's gonna have to take care of me, so I can't remember his name
right right, all right, let's take our last break. We're going to
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jaygn Salez they have their eye on the ball on Tucson Sports Stage Chef Fox
Sports fourteen fifty streaming live on the iHeartRadio apps. Hey, welcome back to
joining the ball hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jays,
got Adam with us and Henry got fifteen minutes. If you guys want to
call, we appreciate it at five to two zero for one six seven four
four zero. Good to talk to Danny. In fact, I don't know
did you go see a softball we I didn't get I did not get it.
I should ask them how much about the attendance because it's always good,
right, Yeah, it has the same tape with people. Yeah. I
think it's still you know, stay relatively good. I mean again, you
know, fans are fans, right, you win, you win, they
time you don't, they don't and there and those that's ay. Uh you
know the demographics is strings are older. Yeah, because we've been getting the
baseball and the calls about four thousands. So yeah, if you're not the
baby softballs you know, is always going to be And again, it's a
great facility. You know, it's a great it's a great place to go
watch a game. So now I go, I go to one early in
the year, I can't remember, I have not I know some friends that
have, so I know I've watched it. But you know, if they're
on on TV and I'm at home, I watch, you know, because
I want to know what's going on. Yeah, and it's a good price
for a ticket to go see a good Yeah. Now they're they're again.
You know, it's it's it's a well established thing to do in in town,
you know, to go to games and stuff. So I think they'll
they'll always have that, They'll always have the fan following. I think,
uh, you know, and now you know, the postseason starts. I
think if I think if well, I know, this is probably something that
we talked about earlier. If baseball does better, they go into the deep
into it and softball gift to the series. Your grade of seven point seven
goes up to because because there are obviously two story programs, and it's been
a good year all relative, it's pretty well, you know, it's kind
of been an under under the radar. You're for both of them, right,
well, for the whole for the whole program, not that it's under
the radar, but it's been kind of exceeding, exceeding exceeding, because come
on football, who would have ever thought that started so dark for so long
and you get this great team. And I can say great because you hadn't
seen a team like this a long time. On basketball, you see it
for a long for a while, right, and then it kind of level
off and women's basketball had its issues or whatever, and then they kind of
finished strong. So it's it's been a pretty good year. Yeah, No,
it has been. It has been. It's been fun. You don't
look at tennis. I mean they created a lot of excite. Sure,
you know they you know with what they've done, so you know it's yeah,
you know what I didn't, I didn't think. I wasn't thinking much
of tennis. I'm gonna I'm gonna go eight point one, Steve eight point
one, I think, so I'll go eight Yeah, because I'm gonna go
eight point one in the ground scheme of things. If you both golf programs
didn't, we're really good this year. Both were ranked, so you know,
you got that we haven't heard much from track, tracker, volleyball.
Yeah, well checker, volleyball, volleyball. Don't think it didn't. Yeah,
yeah, but you know, overall the signature of programs have done really
well right and again, you know when you get off to a good start
with football, that sets the tone, and that really does and it has
this year to both of you kids, and you can talk with this to
Mike Henry, You guys came because of the school, because of the sports,
because of what uh I would say the school, but a lot of
it had to do with the sports. And then in your time here,
did it satisfy you that you would have liked to see them do a little
bit better in what in that's you know they're known for basketball? Football.
Was pleasantly surprised, just a big jump from last year to this year.
So I think they're on the come up for sure. Yeah, and you
were from la Henry, you're from the East coast, New York. And
how did that happen? Witness protection program? I don't know. I kind
of want to come out here for the weather aspect, but also just good
at decent school that I wanted to go out to the West Coast of some
family, but sports play a part of it. Yeah, I definitely wanted
to school that had a decent sports. I always knew we had a football
team. I nam'd actually be good. And that's James philosophy, no hoping
to be good. I have to take that cool. So and you went
your games? Yeah, football game. I mean I went to all most
of the games twenty twenty two, and I was like, the team's actually
pretty good. So going into last year, I thought we could. I
didn't think ninety three was on the table, but I thought we could get
to a bowl. Games pleasantly surprised me. In basketball basketball, Yeah,
I've been to most games here since I've got here. I hope you didn't
boo. Uh yeah you didn't boo, BRONI did you. I actually didn't
get tickets second too late. I like to hear that here's out on the
heat the night before. All right, man, I like you, Henry,
We're gonna find in your Okay, all right, Well that's what because
it's the front porch of the school. Yeah, but you know, just
as much as the administration does. And I don't know, Steve, you
know, maybe maybe it's because I you know, to me, it's just
two sons of nicer place when you have this kind of excitement around here,
right, And I know there's a lot of people who don't give one crap
about sports, right there really are. But you know, you go to
you go to the mall, you go to the grocery store, you go
to the doctor's office, you go to a breakfast, and if people are
talking about sports and things are going well, it's just more pleasant. Did
you around me? Did you have your breakfast this morning? Or yes?
Yes, that was your No, you're you're twelve year twelve young angry men.
Oh that was the lunch today? Yeah, okay. So did they
talk about the Arizonable Yes, okay, what was your reaction for that?
Just you know, everybody's happy with I mean, that's gonna be cool.
And that's another thing where good. It just created some buzz, right,
It created some buzz. And so when you know, we're we're a town
where sports doesn't get lost in the shuffle like it can like as U sports
get lofts in the shuffle in Phoenix. Sure, and you can tell by
by tendance numbers and stuff like that. Arizona, Arizona athletics does not get
lost in the shuffle. And then it feeds down into because because people like
the U of A sports, they're more excited about, you know, the
high school sports and PEMA and stuff like that, and it allows us to
have have a radio show where we can talk about all those sports and people
listen to us. So two guys come from metro metro places obvious, l
A and New York. You're gonna go back to home where it's it's it's
genomeous, right yeah, and the Rams or whatever you have the Lakers.
Now you now you're not gonna have this. What are you gonna have?
And it's not enough. I'm just asking what are you gonna have for college?
I mean, this is like a hometown. You don't have that.
Now you're going to back home too. It's a big ass place, big
gas place. You're but you're you're a pro sports guy though, right because
you're from l A. Right, Henry, I'm assuming you too. You
know that. You guys are you know the Yankees, the Lakers, you
know the Dodge or whatever in your mind and I kind of call this Maybury.
You have probably have no idea what I'm saying Maybury where it's a small
town. You gave me the finger where it's a small town. What do
you think about Tucson? I won't well as a sports town. Yeah,
I mean they don't have a professional team. We're pretty much a minor league
team. So I understand the school revolve like people revolve around the school,
and that we don't have that you support. Do you find it to be
cute? Do you find it to be I think it's nice. I mean
everybody just buys all in because that's all they It's all we have, right
you can you can say it like that, that's all we have. And
so that and you know, and the and the community as a whole does
get behind it. Whereas you go to l A, they're split all over
the place. You know, U c l A fans or USC fans.
There's Laker fans, there's Rams fans, right, you know, and and
you know, you might be a football fan and hate all the other sports.
Here you're you have a fan and you root for You've got a team
to root for all year around. And that's what makes Tucson or you have
a cozy right, you know, kind of warm and feely, warm and
fuzzy whatever. Yeah, because they're i mean, not living in a pro
sports town. But from where I sit, I feel like somebody who's like
a die hard, wear a jersey every day Cardinals fan might not give one
crap about the Suns, might not give one crap about the Diamondbacks or a
s U. They only care about the Cardinals, and so the rest of
the year, what are they doing? Right? Whereas again here, you
know, if you follow football, then you move on to basketball, then
you move on to baseball or softball or whatever, and so you've got really
nine months out of the year where you've got a team to root for and
and and that to me, that's why I feel like it's more a part
of the overall community where people are talking about this stuff all the time wherever
you go. I feel like not everybody I would agree with that, not
everybody, but a lot of people, you know, uh, and and
and you know, you can go up and you know, you can talk
to somebody in the grocery store. Hey, you see the Wildcats city,
Yeah, that was cool, you know, and you see there's a lot
more of that. Then you know, you might you're gonna go You're gonna
go to safe you're gonna see somebody in the Lakers jersey, but you're you
know, you're a Rams fan, you don't really want to talk to them.
So I think there's more people kind of it brings the community more together.
That sounds kind of hokey and corny, but I really do think it
does, because there's this one thing that you of a that get behind,
and New York's different than all that other places, probably because it's so many
people there and you don't know who's where. When I went to the Final
Four ninety five and you don't even know it is the Final Four in New
York because there's just other things to do. Yeah, I didn't feel like,
you know what I'm saying. It's also most teams, there's two teams
in the city, so it's like, oh it's split there too, right,
So yeah, two NFL teams, two NBA teams, you major,
So that's it splits it up even more. That's a good point. Yeah,
So the allegiances are over the place, probably, you know, people
fight more than they now. The New Yorkers that's what they live for.
Yeah, that's what they live for exactly. Yeah, there gonna be a
lot of New York jokes when you get behind the microphone, just so you
know, be ready for all that, because Steve and I neither one of
us are from anywhere like that at all, So it'll be fun. There
will be jokes, and you know, he's guy, he's the one that's
gonna be telling them. I don't know I married somebody from New Jersey.
So there's that, and he's bitter about it. Yes, Okay, we've
got five minutes. Anybody who last call, last call for calls five people,
This is your last shot at s feet for the week. He's going
to be out of here. Yeah, he's having his eighty fourth birthday tomorrow,
so he's going to be gone for the next couple of days. Five
four, one forty. That'll be good to hear from you guys before we
leave today. Thank you Adam for your time with us. It was about
two months. Yeah, a lot of fun, A lot of fun.
To put this on the resume get something out of it. Oh absolutely,
I enjoyed it very much. Had a talk crap from the radio without without
without saying the words yeah, yeah. You didn't have to push the button
once, did you? No dumb buttons no dumb button. All right,
yeah, yeah, we're going you get your full training next time. Well
when you run the board and then you can hardly wait. And just a
couple of people, you know, the Neacs of the world exactly, and
the Howard's. Yeah, hey, it's been fun having you know. I,
you know, I really like the fact that we've done this, Steve.
I think the in terms of, you know, I've gotten something.
They'll go into bigger, greater things. Maybe they'll come and take take good
care of us later on down the road. You know, when she's you
know, when she's behind the desk at the Kentucky Derby and stuff like that,
you know, we'll she'll throw us a bone here. She'll be back
on next week because of the breakness. Yep, yep. Yeah, she
was great last week. She was fantastic. So we hope to hear from
you guys wherever you guys reread. Yeah, it's been fun, all right,
so we'll be well, Okay, softball, I believe it's six thirty,
but let me let me check it Realwardick, it's tomorrow night. Uh,
they've got Washington four seed versus five seeds. They're on Friday, Saturday,
no, Yeah, Friday, Saturday Sunday up at Utah. Let me
let me see softball. Yeah, six thirty tomorrow, Washington. You'll be
able to watch that on the pack Off network. It'll be it'll be on
Arizona go goes to Utah. They start on Friday at up there, and
it's a big series. I think Arizona's got a two game lead on Utah
in the standings. They can you know, push them out of the out
of the running for the league. But then you know, right coming right
up behind them a Stanford. So I mean not Stanford, Oregon State.
Arizona seventeen and seven, Utah is fifteen and nine, Oregon State is fourteen
and I so they've got a game missing in there, probably from a rain
out or something like that. NFL they would make I guess it wouldn't make
it up, but you know that they're all bunched up up there, and
then the local high schools are softball teams will be playing this week tonight.
I think I just saw howr Andy Cdo is playing in Australia Foothills now in
the semi finals of the baseball tournament. CDEO could win it back to back,
Yeah to back, three back to back to back. Okay, so
that's exciting to see. And then we'll see about the other schools as well.
So point I think still in it, yeah, and in other schools.
So yeah, it's playoff time for everybody. So this is cool.
Where high school in La I went out, you know, anybody still playing
big time players? No, probably not, but they're a good baseball Okay.
I thought maybe in football, anybody in the big time schools because only
it's obviously for Yeah, we're close to like Calabasas area, but I haven't
been following lately. I don't know. Okay, okay, all right,
good, good week. Well three days man. But we started with Chris
Rafts Statter. We had the Snoop Dog announcement on Monday. That was cool.
So Cam and Eric came on and talked about it's place. Is still
buzzing about that speed, right, there's a lot of people talking about it.
You've still seeing some buzz on social media. I think it's going to
be good for the good for the Bowl at least in terms of getting you
know, getting the visibility that that they're looking for. So that's a very
cool thing. We had just in spirits for about eight minutes yesterday. It
was his phone cut out, you know, uh, Neimar hasse you talking
about the National Football Foundation golf tournament. Then I'll be playing in this weekend,
which will be fun. I love that, and that's it, all
right, And then today thanks Rich Tomy, thanks Rich to me and Danny
Martinez, my godson, who I just remember his name this time. Okay,
guys, well, thank you all right, thanks for being here,
Hen, thanks for being here. Adam. We appreciated having you here.
I hope you got something out of this and uh hope you go on to
do great things. Don't forget too old, dudes, we know, all
right, thank you, see you next week. All right, guys,
let's get out of here. Thanks for being hereverybody. We'll be back tomorrow.
My guess host will be Adam Gonzales, who's my actual son. Uh,
former sports information guy for football and women's basketball. So come back tomorrow