WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:07.599 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:14.720 fourteen fifteen powered by Nova Insurance Services Ensure your most Prized Possessions, KATZ R 3 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:29.600 two, SAG and iHeart Radio Station. Hey, welcome to I on the 4 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:33.679 Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay. We're 5 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:37.039 hoping you hear us. Maybe if you don't hear us, I guess you 6 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:39.240 don't. Still let us know. If you hear us, let us know 7 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:41.479 that. Yeah. Yeah, but if you don't tell, say where are 8 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:44.799 you guys? Yeah, because we're here, our board is acting funny today 9 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:48.200 and so we can't hear We can't we can't tell if we're on the air 10 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:52.520 or not. Right, We would appreciate a text from somebody to say that 11 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:57.520 that you hear us. Yeah, okay, okay, we'll go on as 12 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:00.759 if you do sooner than later, because we're a minute it uh. Today's 13 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:06.959 Tuesday, right. NBA starts tonight, thankfully, some more to talk about. 14 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:08.319 Yeah, yeah, a lot of stuff last night. We have some 15 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:11.719 pretty good guests, are hoping that we get to them. With a CEO 16 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:18.760 coach winning the title last night for a title beating the sub I guess Scott 17 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:23.640 still sul up in Phoenix yesterday in Tempe. Uh, so we'll talk to 18 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:26.599 Jason. Heisi former you of a baseball player and a longtime baseball coach. 19 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:30.439 Yeah, you know, God, I mean Ja, I mean Jason. 20 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.640 We's a freshman at what years in Arizona. But he was I think he 21 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:38.680 was on that eighty nine team that long ago. Scott Ericson had not only 22 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.439 been long when not that long he was. He was a freshman that year 23 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.719 with Lexinter and those guys that team. Yeah, yeah, ok, j 24 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:47.640 snow he was a very good team. I think he was the number three 25 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:51.239 starter that year. Very good team. Just yeah, a recollection of it. 26 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:53.680 And Nick says he can hear us. So let's oh okay, cool, 27 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:55.920 cool, cool? Yeah, is Nick in the in the room? 28 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:00.879 He can get Nick? Yeah, we get it's weird. Yeah. So 29 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.519 everybody said, okay, I got one of more text messages, so we're 30 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:06.560 odd. All right, cool, lets go, And then you know you 31 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:09.439 got a hold of mister Geist. Yes, Jordan Geist. I'm excited to 32 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:14.280 have him. He's been uh, you know, mister everything with with the 33 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:17.159 throws and uh and the Arizona track and field. He's I think he won 34 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:23.960 his fourth shot for years now shot put championship. UM, a potential Olympian 35 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:28.479 um. Uh you know now you know, looking for national championship. So 36 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.439 uh looking forward to talking to Jordan Geist because he's uh, he's been the 37 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:37.520 guy if Arizona track for four years ago. He's the point getter because we've 38 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:38.759 we've talked to him about a year or two ago, right when he won 39 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:42.800 on one of the titles. Yeah, last year about this time. So 40 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:46.479 he continues to do really really well. Yeah, so we'll be good for 41 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:49.240 her to talking to him. But uh, you know, basically some you 42 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.560 know, nothing but champions coming in coming in today with uh with Jason Heisy 43 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:58.840 again, uh, head coach at cdo Wonder the school's tenth championship, his 44 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:02.400 second and he had actually been to the finals three other times, so you 45 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:07.159 know he's a he's been up there. And then uh they just won. 46 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:13.039 There's last night and then Jordan guys, so looking forward to this cool, 47 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:17.360 cool NBA today. We still haven't heard well well I know you haven't breaking 48 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:22.080 news, but uh, the guy who can't recruit recruited somebody again again, 49 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:27.400 right yeah, and then and was recruiting his suspect and and got a return 50 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:30.400 guy. Right, Well you saw that, Yeah, but Hella Larson was 51 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:32.800 never going anywhere. Well nowadays, who knows, Well, yeah, yeah, 52 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:36.199 you're right. It's good that it's over. But but you know, 53 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:39.800 of course Tommy wants to know, you know, yeah he's here. Who's 54 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:44.199 not right, right, because I mean know, I know there's still speculation 55 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.240 about about his zulas. I have a hard time believing he's coming back because 56 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:50.919 there's a lot of people who are out there thinking he might. I don't, 57 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:55.120 you know, nobody that nobody that you know, I just fans that 58 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:59.800 tell me, Okay, oh is he coming back? You know? You 59 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:01.360 know, I don't. I don't know. I think he's thing. He's 60 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:04.000 done what he's you know, what he was gonna do here, and yeah, 61 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:06.599 you know he's gonna take a shot. But we'll see, sure, 62 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:13.120 sure, so we'll see. Oh okay, is he texted me already? 63 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:16.920 Uh? Okay? Um? What else? Softball based on everything us kind 64 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:20.000 of ready to shut down, kind of off them. You know, Baseball 65 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:23.879 is still you know, they've got a series with USC this weekend. They 66 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:28.720 gotta they gotta win some games there to just get into the packed twelf tournament. 67 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:30.560 Only the top nine teams get in. Yeah, and they think they're 68 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:35.079 sitting in ninth place as we speak. So they they've got to they got 69 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:38.959 some work to do this weekend just to get into the tournament, to get 70 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:43.959 the packed twelf tournam to get themselves a shot at at least, you know, 71 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.800 trying to win the tournament and go somewhere make some noise. I don't 72 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:50.519 know that they can get in, um, but you know, you never 73 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:55.040 know. Yeah, so we'll see it's gonna come down to the water just 74 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:58.680 to get into the tournament. It'll be the first time and forever since I 75 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:02.480 wasn't even not even here in town, but in nineteen eighty five when both 76 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.199 teams didn't get into both teams didn't get in, right right, which is 77 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:10.160 gonna be a lonely summer. Into baseball is ten and seventeen in the league. 78 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:14.240 They're tied for ninth with Cal. Uh. They've got a twenty twenty 79 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:16.480 two records. I do have a winning record, but I don't know that 80 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:19.240 it's good enough to get them into the tournament without winning. Yeah. No, 81 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:23.759 the PAC twelfth tournament, right right, there was some speculation that the 82 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:26.959 football team would get in, and I'm like, oh no, their record 83 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:30.560 was not good enough and they didn't be teams. Yeah, and although you 84 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:34.199 said you liked them for that one game, you saw, well again if 85 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:40.639 he didn't look as bad as that they sounded. Yeah, right, And 86 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:43.839 maybe it's for that one game, but even even beyond that, just looking 87 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.240 at their lineup, players coming up to bat, you know, can they 88 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:50.120 hit? Can they not? You know? And and I just felt like 89 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:57.000 they've got some players they no doubt, they need some pitching. They supposedly 90 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:00.240 have pitching help on the way. Um, you know, all these players 91 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:03.920 get a year older. You know, UCLA's two, but UCLAs are like, 92 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:06.920 they're gonna be in their thirties now, so they've got to leave. 93 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.800 Um, you know, I think they've got some players that they can win 94 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:14.279 with. It's just a matter of you know, kay, can you know, 95 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:17.240 can they pick so and now? Can they be kept right here and 96 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:19.800 you keep them? Can you keep them? That's the biggest thing. After 97 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:25.199 every season, and we saw two basketball forever where everybody just jumped shipping good 98 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:28.519 players, good players, guys who had a lot of time at their old 99 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.040 school. You know, you know, you know uh um, you know 100 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:35.279 the kid from Washington State. Um, um, Roman's kid, Rodman's kid. 101 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:40.040 You know j C. J. Robins, great player of Washington State. 102 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:43.839 You know he sat here and almost single handedly beat Arizona. You're the 103 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.000 guy, and you know, boom he goes off to USC So we can 104 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:49.279 play with Bronie Jane, right. Yeah, And you know what, you 105 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:51.639 can't really blame them, I mean, camp if they're gonna give you the 106 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:55.839 opportunity. But again, Jay, this is how I say, I'm not 107 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:58.720 a big sports fan. And and you know, I you phrase it the 108 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:01.160 way I am a sports fan, but I'm not a sports fan. There's 109 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:04.879 no loyalty in the game and at any level, and it isn't that well 110 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:08.199 right, And that's kind of that's what kind of got me out of it. 111 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:11.920 Where I couldn't tell you the Cincinnati Red team that I grew up with, 112 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:14.480 I could tell you the roster. I couldn't tell you today who's on 113 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:17.560 the team we went to see the Giants and the Diamondbacks last week. I 114 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:21.680 couldn't tell you a player. Yeah I could, honestly, I don't know. 115 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:27.240 I probably know four guys in the Dodger lineup right, and you're a 116 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:30.000 huge dog. You know. I know Mookie Beats, I know Max Munsey, 117 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.879 I know, I know Will Will Smith occasionally, Chris Taylor's in the 118 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:38.040 lineup, um. JD. Martinez, I know because he's you know, 119 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:42.199 he's in my fantasy baseball team. They got two new kids in the infield, 120 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:47.800 Miguel Rojas and Miguel Vargas, and there's still one. Uh we just 121 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:51.519 so um so maybe that's a talker. We could talk after the after the 122 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:55.519 Heisi stuff. Are you a fan? How big of a fan are you? 123 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.079 What? Are you a fan? Up? Yeah? Yeah, right? 124 00:07:58.160 --> 00:07:59.879 And are you as much as you used to be? You know, 125 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.439 like like I mean, yeah, you know I love the ares On Wildcats 126 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:05.680 college football, you know, in football. I'm a college football fan, 127 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.399 right. I'm an NFL fan. I'm not a fan of a team. 128 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:13.199 Yeah, I'm not even a fan of a player. I'm an NFL fan 129 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:18.199 because I love the NFL. I love the games. Um, I enjoy 130 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:22.399 my Sundays during football season. Yeah, you know, I love watching the 131 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:24.920 NFL. But I'm a fan of the game. I'm not a fan of 132 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.600 a team. I don't have a team. That's that's that's why I watched 133 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:33.240 a fan of no team, but but one of the game. Well, 134 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.480 come on, if I didn't have any you're a fan of sport, if 135 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.240 I didn't do your league. I don't know how much of a fan I 136 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:41.679 would be because I watch and I watched games and scores and but you want, 137 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:45.159 but you watch a game, You're watching the NBA. Yeah, but 138 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:48.360 I don't watch it like like a fan does I watch it? I don't 139 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:54.399 like a fan, I think is a broader, a broader definition. Then. 140 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:58.559 But you're you're, you're, you're, you're, you're boiling it down 141 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:01.679 too. To be a fan, you've got to be a fan of craziness 142 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:03.519 something, you know. You got to be a fan of a team or 143 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:07.679 a fan of a player or something like that. Right, think to me, 144 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:11.600 I you can be a fan just of sports and just love, you 145 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:13.879 know, any sports. And I think that's kind of where I fall, 146 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:18.559 because I mean, you know, I'm I'm not paying attention to the NHL, 147 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.639 but I'm gonna watch some of the Stanley Cup when he gets to the 148 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.759 final because because it's it's a major sports, it's the championship. And I 149 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:30.360 wouldn't do that because I don't want to cocky. I don't understand hockey, 150 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:35.080 but you and it beats watching all my children tell you exactly. I mean, 151 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:37.080 you know, I'm you know, twenty times over on all my daylines. 152 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.799 You know, I mean, I'm not watching him over and over and 153 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.759 over again how to get away with murder? And they I listen to him. 154 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.559 You know, I know that you can't get away with Murder's what I 155 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:52.080 know. But uh, you know, I think that it's uh a thing 156 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:56.919 where I think you can be a fan by just being a fan of enjoying 157 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:01.360 sports. That's a sports fan without being a fan of a specific thing. 158 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.720 I mean, am I a Dodger fan? Yes? But you know, 159 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:09.639 and do I watch the Dodgers every day that they're on at home? If 160 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:11.759 I've got you know, you got my TV on and do nothing else. 161 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:16.120 And I'm not sitting down to you know, my wife's not a bening on 162 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:20.279 Succession or something like that. The Dodging show, she says it is, 163 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:26.080 she's she's had it on when I'm in the room. I can't take it 164 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:30.440 well because it's reminds the wrestler. But yeah, I've heard it's great stuff 165 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.440 and I passed it through and I kind of start watching I do a little 166 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:37.600 and it reminds me of obviously the obviously have you watched The White White House? 167 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:45.399 That funny a new episode breaks? Did last night or today? Last 168 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:46.919 night? Last night? Okay? I yeah, the third one. I 169 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:50.879 haven't seen that one because I was busy watching the Dodgers go twelve innings last 170 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:54.480 night, which then kept me up, and then I had to be up 171 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:58.039 at five thirty this morning for my Tuesday breakfast meetings. So I'm I'm on 172 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:03.039 fumes right now. I'm doing. Yeah, you're gonna have to you're okus 173 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:07.200 during the breaks man to carry. But I enjoyed that. You know, 174 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:09.639 I am a Dodger fan. But even even so, Steve, I'm a 175 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:13.519 fan of I'm always been a fan of baseball. I mean, I kind 176 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:16.159 of went away from being a fan of a specific team for a while because 177 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:20.759 I got tired of all the you know, the crap and the turnover nobody's 178 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.639 staying with. But I kind of came back to being a huge Dodger fan 179 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:28.679 again. But I've always paid attention to baseball. Do you pay attention to 180 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:33.799 the NBA to a degree more so now than ever because because of the show, 181 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:39.399 um, you know, a huge football fan college and felt um, 182 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:43.480 so you know. But again in the NFL, I'm not a fan of 183 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.960 a team. So but I'm still a fan. I consider myself a fan. 184 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:52.679 Okay, I don't, well, I consider you. You wouldn't be 185 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:54.120 see, I don't think you'd be sitting here if you are not. No, 186 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:56.279 No, this is how I lived my life, and this is kind 187 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:00.720 of how I pay my bills. So I enjoy it. I pay attention. 188 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.600 I pay attention to it as much as I can. If like hockey, 189 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:05.639 you could tell me what I know the four teams in I think, 190 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:07.960 but that's about it. Go only because I saw them. But see, 191 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:11.399 if you can go you can go sit around a table with a bunch of 192 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:15.039 guys and not talk hockey and and talk sports. Oh yeah, sure right, 193 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:16.480 And he's sure pretty much because I mean, you're not gonna you're not 194 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:20.000 gonna know hockey teams. But if the conversation breaks into hockey, you might 195 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.559 have a couple of things to say. But yeah, but the guys you 196 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.879 hang with generally, are they are right? Right? Right, You're gonna 197 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:28.799 talk about football, You're gonna talk about basket right, You're gonna talk about 198 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:31.559 the wildcats. You're gonna talk about yeah, whoever, of course, and 199 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:35.039 they know that, and they know which which topics to talk to me about 200 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:39.440 or whatever or not to talk to me, and which those are fans and 201 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:41.480 one of them. As much as you try to deny it, you are 202 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.639 get me out of this, out of this. Hey, let's um, 203 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.360 let's that's what we got a minute because Isai already text me. He's gonna 204 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:52.320 say, give us a quick call. He's headed on the road. We'll 205 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:54.960 ask him where he's going. Um, so that should be fun to take. 206 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.919 He's gonna take the cup around drink cattle difference. And you saw the 207 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:03.159 you saw the you have to tilt, Yeah, you know it on the 208 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:07.840 side kind of drink like you're drinking out of a shoe or something. Have 209 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:09.399 you ever done that? No? God, I'm glad. No, no, 210 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:15.919 no, even in your darkest the wildest nights though, never anything like 211 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:18.840 that. I don't even remember those nights. I don't. I don't go 212 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:22.919 there for a reason. Okay, Hey, let's go, let's go all 213 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:26.639 right, let's yeah, let's get Jason well, uh, and then we'll 214 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:31.360 just talk about his second straight state championship in the school's tent, so stick 215 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:43.799 around. We'll have Jason Heisy. 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Brought to you by the 268 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:51.799 Southern Arizona Business Coalition, Streamy Life on the my Heart Radio Why this is 269 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:56.799 I on the Wall with ce Bravera and Jay Gonzalez on Box Sports fourteen fifteen. 270 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:00.200 They welcome back to one in the ball roof Swarts fourteen fifteen. Ar'm 271 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.880 Steve Rivera, He's Jay Gunzos. Now on the phone. We have Jason 272 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:10.400 Hesi, coach of the CDEO Baseball team State champion Baseball team, coach, 273 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:15.079 how are you good? You guys ran into uh to Scott still sorrow and 274 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:18.799 put them away nicely. How did that game go in terms of how you 275 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:22.920 thought it would go? Um? Well, I think it went. I 276 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:26.519 think it went the way it needed to go for us to win the game. 277 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:30.839 No, no, you have to keep them to a low scoring game. 278 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.039 Did you? Was there a kind of strategy involved pitching ones that? 279 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:41.599 Well, they have a really good pu, really good arms, and we 280 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:45.519 did not want to to the cam and any kid late in the game with 281 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:49.279 us behind. So the goal was to try to get out early and to 282 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:53.839 and to keep a lead, and we did it. So. Um, 283 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:59.400 first of all, you had you had your starter and he got he ran 284 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:02.599 into the pitch count. Um, let me ask you first, when did 285 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:04.880 the pitch count come into play? That that you guys? How long have 286 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:07.599 you guys been dealing with that? And then how do you as a coach 287 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:11.160 to deal with that? One hundred and five pitches doesn't seem like a lot 288 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:18.119 for a seven inning game. Um, it's been harry since I've been back 289 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:21.640 at CDEO like last the last five years. But I think it's a good 290 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:23.960 rule. I mean, one hundred and five pixes, one hundred and ten 291 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:27.119 picks. It is probably where you need to be as a high school kid 292 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:33.240 anyway. I mean anything beyond that is probably a little too much. So 293 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:36.160 what what do you have to do to prepare for something like that? Do 294 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:38.440 you do? You? Do you monitor it? You are you always just 295 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:41.200 uh, you know, okay, you always have a guy ready. I 296 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:44.960 mean, what how does it come into play in terms of your strategy? 297 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:48.559 Well, I mean we have a guy who has a game changer, and 298 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:53.000 he's keeping the picks acounts, and whenever we get really close to a piscount 299 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:56.880 limit, we always double check and cross reference with the other team just to 300 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:03.559 make sure so we don't run into any um four situation. So you know, 301 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.359 you can finish your hitter once you're into one hundred and fifth pitch. 302 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:10.640 So, uh, it's happened a couple of times. It happened to Gets 303 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:12.680 Brag John Mountain with the casey we had to bring we had to bring a 304 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:18.440 guy in to to finish happened here, happened to get south Point. We'll 305 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:23.119 be played earlier in the tournament. Same thing. Um, so this is 306 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:26.319 your second back to back, you know, back to back the title. 307 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:30.440 How does this feel after the after last year? Well, I mean it 308 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:33.319 feels good because this was this was kind of a completely different team. I 309 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:36.759 mean, usually if you went back to back championships is because you got the 310 00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:41.480 same group of kids. UM moved this casey through four innings for us last 311 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:48.880 year in in a spring tournament. Um, the vast majority of our production 312 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.359 and our and our mound presence was gone this year. So, I mean 313 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:57.039 it was sttle dicey there early too, so we were feeling the growing things. 314 00:20:57.200 --> 00:21:00.400 Well, I'm gonna I was gonna say, because I can at Morales 315 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.319 story that you did on you guys in all sports. You guys were seven 316 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:07.400 and seven at one point, so, I mean, you know, we 317 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:11.200 just everybody trying to figure figure things out? What was going on in those 318 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:15.799 first fourteen games? Then, how do you think was there any one specific 319 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:18.519 thing that sort of uh, you know, turned that for you? Well, 320 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:22.839 I think we ended up happening. We played some really good opponents, 321 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:29.440 stacked up against each other. We ended up playing UM twosan high who was 322 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:32.480 ranked second in six A we played kind of in the Foothills, who was 323 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:34.720 number one in five A. We played due Gallis who was number two, 324 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:38.680 and five A we ended up playing South Point obviously, who was number one 325 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:44.079 in five A. Well in four A we played them twice and then we 326 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:48.160 um we played Sawaro at the end, who was playing as pretty pretty a 327 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:52.599 tough. So, I mean we had a we had a lot of games 328 00:21:53.319 --> 00:22:00.640 that were against really good opponents at the wrong time, and we ended up 329 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:03.119 we were very we were competitive in those games. We just we just didn't 330 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:06.880 have the pitching to get over the hump. Well, you you listed a 331 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:11.640 bunch of the local teams that must say a lot to the baseball played in 332 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:15.440 Southern Arizona. Well, yeah, Kylie Flis was playing from state championship tonight. 333 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:19.759 The Gallas lost in the semi finals and thetaw Point was right there at 334 00:22:19.799 --> 00:22:23.160 the very end in the in the four A. So, um, yeah, 335 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:26.599 I mean the Southern Arizona has some has some good teams this year. 336 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:30.519 Well, let me ask you, because you've been coaching baseball for a long 337 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:33.720 long time, how has it changed? And I'm sure it's gotten a lot 338 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:41.000 better, But has it to what degree? Well, Um, I mean 339 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:44.880 it's it's still got the same The good teams are the good teams. They 340 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:48.839 have been the good teams for decades. And it's pretty much the same thing 341 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.599 up up in Phoenix. And you've probably got a handful of ten or fifteen 342 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:55.839 teams that are always there at the end and every level of a matter wherever 343 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:59.319 they play, whether it's four, A five, a Sixay. Okay, 344 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:03.079 So Jason h. Steph and I were talking. I said, I told 345 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:04.960 I met you all the way back when you were a freshman at the U 346 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.400 of a M playing for Jerry Kendall in in in you know, one of 347 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:12.160 the great programs in college baseball. How much of that, how much of 348 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:17.200 your experienced there, you know, shaped who you are as a coach? 349 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.400 All of it? I mean all of it. I mean we what we 350 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:26.319 what what we do today, It's Kenadlo Baseball is exactly what we did at 351 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:32.119 the University of Arizona three decades ago. It's exactly what we do. Soft 352 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:34.400 onun defense, hard bun defense, first and third offenses and first and third 353 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:38.920 defenses, cuts and cuts and relays. Um, we hit the same way 354 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:41.240 that we were taught how to hit back then. We picked the same waybe 355 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:45.079 were taught how to pick. I mean, there's been changes of over time 356 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:48.240 in different ways to nuance it to the different population in front of you. 357 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:52.880 But it's the same game and hasn't changed in two hundred years, let alone 358 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:56.039 you know, the last thirty years. So I mean we're you know, 359 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:00.759 we uh, if Jerry kind of were to walk on our baseball field tomorrow, 360 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:06.079 he could coach our team. That's that's that's how precise the terminology is. 361 00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:10.160 Head hasn't changed in thirty years. So I always asked this of coaches, 362 00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:12.880 and I asked us to Corey Williams last week about secret sauce. So 363 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:17.759 what's you win? Not by accident because you're very good at what you do. 364 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:19.839 What's your secret sauce at least? What do you think it is? 365 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:23.880 Well? I mean, and it just comes down to working hard. I 366 00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:27.200 mean, that's it. I mean when we sat down in the hotel up 367 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.920 and Shoeniques, you know, two months and two months ago, and we 368 00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:37.079 were you know, I think we were ten ten and nine or nine and 369 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:40.000 eight or some crazy number like that. We just lost six out of eight 370 00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:45.480 and we were sitting sitting in that hotel room talking about ourselves with coaches, 371 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:47.480 like how do we fix this thing? How do we fix this thing? 372 00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:51.000 And wet nothing for two hours, going around and around and around. At 373 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:52.960 the end of the day, we came right back to square one, which 374 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:55.480 is we got to get better and the only way to get better is to 375 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:59.359 work harder. And when we got back, we got back into Tucson, 376 00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:03.559 we just committed ourselves to We took every two we coached from the second the 377 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:07.000 kids got out of school and they were able to be on the field until 378 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:11.039 we could not see a baseball at night. And we did that for two 379 00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:12.920 months straight. Yeah, well there you go, right, Yeah, no, 380 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:15.839 kiddy, and they and how, you know, how do you get 381 00:25:15.880 --> 00:25:18.920 to buy into that? You know what, there has to be something that 382 00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:22.960 you do or that you say, or that you put out in front of 383 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.720 the you know these guys to commit to that. Well, we're going to 384 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:29.839 do it. And if you want to come with us, you can, 385 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:33.000 and if you don't, you don't have to. There are kids that choose 386 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:36.880 not to play at CDEO Baseball and they don't have rings right now. I 387 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:38.400 mean, that's just the way it is. And the kids that choose to 388 00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:41.480 put in the time and the effort and the energy, and the kids that 389 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:45.160 choose to to go through the process get better, and ultimately it's the things 390 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:48.839 aligned for you, then stuff like this is going to happen. I mean, 391 00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:55.119 we're we're the same guys, we've been ever since we since we showed 392 00:25:55.200 --> 00:25:57.839 up at the CDEO, And your philosophy has stayed the same. You've been 393 00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:03.400 around a high schools up up north, Um, your philosophy hasn't changed. 394 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:07.880 No, I mean I think I've gotten a little bit. Um, I 395 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:11.480 think I'm better communicating with players over the years. When I first started coaching, 396 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.920 I was pretty much crazy. I mean I was highly highly competitive, 397 00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:19.440 and I know I was a twenty five year old kid who was two years 398 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:22.559 removed from playing minor league baseball out there to coaching high school kids. I 399 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:27.279 mean, there's there's there's reasons I don't have many umpire friends in the city 400 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:33.279 right. That's because I was basically out of control of a young player and 401 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:37.519 as a and as a young coaching. Over time, I've tried to tried 402 00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:41.720 to temper that a little bit and really learned that it's not about coaching the 403 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:45.720 game as much as about coaching the people to play the game, and I 404 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:48.720 think I'm getting better at that. How do you recognize those things? So 405 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:51.960 what makes you recognize those things? And as you say, you know, 406 00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:55.079 get get better at that stuff? Is it because you're getting kicked out of 407 00:26:55.160 --> 00:27:00.039 game you have no friends? Well, I mean it's usually come. I 408 00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:03.000 mean it usually comes with failure, right. I mean, you know, 409 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:07.039 things don't work or things don't happen the way you want them too, and 410 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:11.200 you ask yourself why, and you know, when you do some self introspection, 411 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.160 m you tryd of realize that sometimes it's not everything around me, sometimes 412 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:18.960 mostly about me. You trust to try to make small, subtle improvements every 413 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:21.799 year and that probably made you, well, yeah, a better a coach 414 00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:23.559 and probably said, Okay, this is what I can't do, this is 415 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:27.839 what I should do. Stuff like that. My time of Pima was really 416 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:33.640 beneficial. It was a different type of athlete. It was a junior colleague 417 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:40.000 athlete and it was somebody who you had recruited. And really getting those kids 418 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:44.400 to play hard was something that was somewhat of an art more than it was 419 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:48.440 a skill. I mean, it was it was trying to trust the right 420 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:52.920 buttons and thirty five different guys on an ongoing basis. That's why what Ken 421 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:57.160 Hakamby has done it Pima is pretty amazing. So you were you know, 422 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:00.519 you were a college player, said you know, you're a pro player. 423 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:04.920 Now you're you're a coach. What what is it that keeps you doing this? 424 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:10.319 What is it? Just? Is it the competition? Working with the 425 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:12.400 kids, and what is it that makes you stay in this game and do 426 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:18.079 the things you continue to do well? I think over time it's it's that 427 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:21.880 I've I realized how important athletics was to me and how it molded me and 428 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:23.920 how it put me in some of the in front of some of the greatest 429 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:29.119 men that that I've had the privilege to be around and molded me and helped 430 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:33.319 shape me into who I am. And and I think over time, I've 431 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:37.079 really started to see the big picture of that and it's and that's something that 432 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:38.519 I want to do. I mean this, the days like this are nice, 433 00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:45.559 but there's nothing that replaces when you see a kid go from step A 434 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:48.640 to step BE, to step SEE to step D and you see his personal 435 00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:52.440 growth, his professional growth. You mean, I get it at the set 436 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:55.799 the time he's going through it. But he comes back a year or two 437 00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:57.559 or three or four later and he says, hey, man, you know 438 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:03.720 everything that you did helped me and you just can't replace that. I mean, 439 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:07.599 at the time I have with coach Kendall the of a Jerry Stid Jim 440 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:14.960 wing Um. I I mean, it's it's life changing. Yeah. So, 441 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:17.880 so at this time last year, you were looking at a team that 442 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:19.960 you were losing a lot of guys. You use that, you come back, 443 00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:23.519 you win a state championship. Now tell us you know what you have 444 00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:27.240 now looking ahead to next year. You've just won a championship. So maybe 445 00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:30.400 this is an unfair question and you just finished your season last night, but 446 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:33.960 I'm gonna ask anyways, you know, what do you see going forward for 447 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:37.039 next year? What's on your mind in terms of what you think you guys 448 00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:41.200 are gonna look like next year? Well, I think we'll be better offensively. 449 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:44.640 I think we returned, we returned the large majority of our offense. 450 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.839 Um. We had some really good junior hitters this year that really came on 451 00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.359 at the end. I think we could be as good on the hill from 452 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:59.039 a depth perspective. Then then when we were this year, we had Lucas 453 00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:02.279 and every time Lucas went out, I mean Lucas was eleven and one and 454 00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:06.119 we were twenty one and ten. So do the math on that we were 455 00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:10.680 five hundred without and then and what ninety five percent with him? So our 456 00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:15.240 second level pitching struggled against the better teams, and I think we'll be deeper 457 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.359 next year. We had two kids that didn't even picture this year before us 458 00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:22.279 who we were who we were counting on, a guy named Jackson Kakowski who 459 00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:26.640 had an arm injury. And then Terrell Read, our shortstop who also pictures, 460 00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:30.680 who was a really good picture and didn't picture one any of this year 461 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:33.680 because he had some arm trouble, so to keep him on the field as 462 00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:37.440 short he couldn't pitch. And we may have both of those guys next year. 463 00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:42.039 So what do you have leaving? Are they going somewhere? Yeah? 464 00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:48.119 Yeah, Well Lucas is going to Northridge, m Jacob is going to I 465 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:56.559 think University of Saint Louis and the Midwest UM. Adrian Marquez is going to 466 00:30:56.599 --> 00:31:03.000 go play at Eastern Arizona. He's he's gonna pick. I think Sam Martinez 467 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.160 is probably gonna retire and just go to college. Um, so yeah, 468 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:10.799 I mean we lose those four guys, well, it's still going to be 469 00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:12.720 stacked. Yeah. Yeah, and then you you kind of part of the 470 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:18.359 art of being a good coaches you have to temper their enthusiasm for the next 471 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:21.160 year, saying, now we were two times state champs, but we still 472 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:25.440 got to be good or better. Well, I don't think anybody in this 473 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:27.119 team is gonna take it for granted, because I think some of that happened 474 00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:30.400 this year. I think when we I think when we got into it, 475 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:36.000 we won that tournament at Tucson High and we kind of felt like this was 476 00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:37.640 going to be another easy run and go at it, and then we ended 477 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:41.680 up taking it on the chin the next two weeks, losing six out of 478 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.160 eight. I think everybody at that point I realized, hey, um, 479 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:49.480 you can't take this game for granted. It'll it'll punch you right in the 480 00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:55.440 mouth and these kids and it happened to all of us. So I don't 481 00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:56.839 think we'll have that problem next year. Yeah, I can. Coaches say 482 00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:02.279 losing motivates as well as the bench. I don't know if I don't know 483 00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:05.799 if you agree with it, but you know, the bench still kind of 484 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:10.119 motivates you, and losing really pisses you off. Is no fun. I 485 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:14.119 mean, it's enough, but it's when you do it's it's but it's when 486 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:16.480 you make the biggest changes. And kept telling me, guys, you know, 487 00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:21.480 don't believe the wins and losses. Don't believe the feeling you have. 488 00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:25.240 The feeling is it's useless. It's what you're doing that is going to pay 489 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:28.640 off in the end. It's the work that we're putting in. It's how 490 00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:31.079 are we playing in May that's gonna matter. It doesn't matter who you lost, 491 00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:35.519 when it really doesn't matter who you won, It matters how you're playing 492 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:38.880 in May. The same message I had to them to our team when we 493 00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:43.319 lost the Foothills and we really should have won the game when we lost to 494 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:45.480 them in extra ending, is the same feeling when we beat South Point a 495 00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:50.640 couple weeks later. I said, guys, it's it's the same game and 496 00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:53.200 the and it's just the way we played it. So don't believe how good 497 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:57.359 you feel right now. I don't believe how bad you felt when you lost 498 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.519 the Ironwood Ridge. You know, back back March, it's the same game. 499 00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:05.079 We just played it poorly back then, and we played it better today. 500 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:07.759 And if you want to do something special, we just gotta piece those 501 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:14.359 better performances together consistently down the stretch. And we did it right. Everything 502 00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:16.559 matters in May, and you guys did it. Congrats. Congrats again, 503 00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:22.599 Well thank you all right, thanks thanks for having me. Great, great 504 00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:24.359 to have you on the show. Thanks again, appreciate you. Coach be 505 00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:30.599 well, okay, man, thank you Jason he cdo coach baseball two times. 506 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:35.599 They're my neck of the woods. Obviously, they've historically been a bream 507 00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:38.000 a lot of great players under the major leagues, those kinds of things, 508 00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:42.319 the Duncans and those games. Man, it's always you know, it's always 509 00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:45.480 hard to win a championship. Oh yeah, yeah, because but then he 510 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:50.480 talks about these teams, the Southern you saw South Points, a cdo came 511 00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:52.759 of the Foothills, Tusun High. They're playing tonight, you know for ja 512 00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:57.720 Yeah, I um, well we'll talk. We gotta go take a break, 513 00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:00.599 so all right, yeah, okay, Well then let's that's going to 514 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:02.640 do that. 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But we're doing some 568 00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:55.719 stuff with the clock and coming back from commercial. Yes we are. Just 569 00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:59.639 give us a quick callback. Well. At Jason's Night in the House today, 570 00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.039 he's a Monday, Tnesday, Friday things, so Tuesdays and Thursdays you're 571 00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:05.960 stuck with me, and you know what, it's busy in here during a 572 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:08.119 break. You know, I know everybody thinks we're out there, you know, 573 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:13.159 getting some chips and some sodas and we are cool. We are, 574 00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:15.639 we're doing that too, but a lot of stuff going on here trying to 575 00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:21.239 keep up. You know, you sit here and you know we're flipping through 576 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:25.119 Twitter there's breaking news throughout the show. There's stuff happening right now. Things 577 00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:30.480 are there's stuff coming out of the out of the ACC about their uh you 578 00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:34.559 know, their uh their TV stuff and their revenue sharing and all that. 579 00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:37.400 You know, things are happening as we speak, and we're trying to keep 580 00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:39.199 up with all of that because we want to be sure to talk about it. 581 00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:43.920 Right. We have a color Hi, you're on the air and on 582 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:47.960 the ball. How's it going. I'm Dick. Hey, Vic's going on 583 00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:51.679 with everything? Guys? Good good? You call the well Buck, didn't 584 00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:54.920 you? Vick? I sure did? And I uh, I'll tell you 585 00:38:55.039 --> 00:38:59.800 I let my kids play for coach Has any day instead of Jay Over. 586 00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:06.280 You're the one they called what you called before before Jay? Right? Yeah, 587 00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:13.039 you said I said, I said he would never not giving out participates 588 00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:17.039 in trophy anytime soon. So you got that. I still think you got 589 00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:20.159 me all wrong, Vic, I really do. I don't know what to 590 00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:23.360 tell you. I'll to argue with you again. Yesterday you you did a 591 00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:30.840 little thing on Arizona softball and I don't know if he was completely but you 592 00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:35.360 were kind of blaming it on youth and and a bunch of freshmen um that 593 00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:37.480 play well. I think that has something to do with it. I mean, 594 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:43.199 it's me and that's mostly about freshmen coming in and they are honestly gay. 595 00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:46.639 If you're around the softball world, if you're a batbuster, Firecracker, 596 00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:53.159 Corona Angels, you are definitely college ready. So youth has nothing to do 597 00:39:53.280 --> 00:40:00.239 with it. Um. I obviously I know that the Cats have a lot 598 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:04.039 of hard working girls out there, but we do not have a kid that 599 00:40:04.199 --> 00:40:08.199 compares to Megan Paramou. We do not have a kid that cares compares to 600 00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:14.639 Jordan Ball at Oklahoma or Nicole May. It's not even close. It's it's 601 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:17.360 light years away. So so so we're going and h that's and that's my 602 00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:22.440 point is that you know, to me, I think if you were listening 603 00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:25.840 to hear me say, UCLA looked like like you know that you see a 604 00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:30.840 bunch of juniors and seniors and and players have been around the block a bunch 605 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:32.840 of times, and they're playing against the girls who are still might you know, 606 00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:36.280 making their way up. So I think there still is a difference. 607 00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:38.800 And but I think there's those got good players. They I don't know how 608 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:42.519 good they're ultimately going to be, but it seemed to me like they were 609 00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.679 just outmanned by a team that had better, older, more experienced players. 610 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:50.920 Well, UCLA had their share of freshman girls on the team. Freshman, 611 00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:55.760 uh, freshman at third base, freshman at first base. Um, they 612 00:40:55.840 --> 00:41:00.559 have a lot of youth on that team. Also, it's just a difference, 613 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:04.239 like I said, is they have Megan faramover Bean, a stud and 614 00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:07.599 she stepped on the campug the freshman. So let me ask you, Vick, 615 00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:13.000 because I know you do follow the USA and others. Where did Arizona 616 00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:17.320 go awry with pitchy Because it was a school of dominance for a long time. 617 00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:21.079 It just hasn't been lately. Where did it go wrong? You know, 618 00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:25.440 it's steven been a tough road. They had a kid u Gosh, 619 00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:30.800 I can't remember how many years ago. Her name was Brihanna from modern day. 620 00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:37.840 She was a batbuster and she ended up tragically committing suicide. She was 621 00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:43.880 coming to you a out of a senior year and after that that was a 622 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:47.519 big commitment that went bad. Um. We also had a kid gosh and 623 00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:52.960 I can't remember her name, and she just didn't mate with grades and a 624 00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:58.360 few other things. Um, so lost a couple of commitments that way. 625 00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:02.320 But um and then you you you just missed, you just missed. You 626 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:06.880 know, Natalie Lugo who went to Florida, came to u A and she 627 00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:10.679 told coach Kendrick m No, I'm going to Florida a better deal. And 628 00:42:10.840 --> 00:42:14.480 then some of the pictures they've recruited who you thought we're gonna be, you 629 00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:19.519 know, really really good having materialized and you know, boy that that you 630 00:42:19.559 --> 00:42:23.400 know, I'll tell you I and Tyler McQuillan was great here and all Americans, 631 00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:29.320 but when I saw her in high school, um, oh, my 632 00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:32.440 buddies, Pats are gonna win two patties with her, and it just didn't 633 00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:37.960 materialize. Yeah, yeah, and that's it. He was one of the 634 00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:44.440 best I thought that I had seen in forever. And and like I said, 635 00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:47.360 they have some good, hard working kids. Um My buddies in California 636 00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.800 told me that Smerdyke that they have here was was gonna be one of the 637 00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:58.119 biggest they've seen. She thought to be a part and she really didn't even 638 00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:00.280 get that many innings here right right. Well, and then you know, 639 00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:04.719 here comes another one, Ryan Maddox, the you know, the girl out 640 00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:08.400 of Fresno was supposed to be all that, right, I mean, that's 641 00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:20.480 god. She's five and change. Okay, she's like five two. VI 642 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:25.039 look forward to dinner with you maybe sometime soon. You got it. You 643 00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:29.119 just when you're free, we'll hit it up and you can even bring Gay 644 00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:31.519 along. Okay, okay, I'll bring I'll bring a trophy for him. 645 00:43:35.199 --> 00:43:39.719 Okay, all right, Vick, thank you. So Victor, Victor got 646 00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:43.719 me all wrong. Vic bet me like in October, he says, Steve, 647 00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:45.920 you don't know what you're talking about. Erizone was not gonna finish in 648 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:51.559 the top three basketball man's massage. Come on, man in the league, 649 00:43:51.559 --> 00:43:52.880 in the league, and I come on, come on, Victor, only 650 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:55.760 don't got a players. I'll bet you a state dinner, state dinner, 651 00:43:58.280 --> 00:44:00.800 all these guys. I'll come along. I'll pay my own. But I'd 652 00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:06.440 like to see that he was at we were at the Northwest when we did 653 00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:08.079 a remote. Yeah, okay, he visited at a time or two. 654 00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:13.000 He's a Dodger guy too, So it's okay. We're you know, we're 655 00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:16.559 friends of doctor. You know we're do defenses. All nonsense stuff, man, 656 00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:22.280 nonsense man. Okay, you Dodger on Dodger crime. But yeah, 657 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:25.360 well there shouldn't be. There should not be Dodger on Dodger crime. I 658 00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:28.960 know sometimes there is, but there should not be. But you know, 659 00:44:29.119 --> 00:44:31.320 he makes a good point. Look, here's here was the glaring thing with 660 00:44:31.559 --> 00:44:37.400 me about the difference with ECLA. And those are extremes, Jay, because 661 00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:39.880 there are top two or three programs, but Arizona is you know, one 662 00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:44.039 of those programs too. Or they should it should it should and it was 663 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:46.760 was that Arizona's best player for the last two years, jenell me on you 664 00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:51.719 right, freshman of the year, you know, led the led the league 665 00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:55.760 in hitting. Yeah, she bets ninth US ninth, Yeah or she I 666 00:44:55.880 --> 00:45:02.840 wonder I wonder how that went for them, because well, Charlie's blast wasn't 667 00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:06.599 even dressed. I think she was injured. So but still even when you 668 00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:08.000 look back, you say, maybe it's not as green on the other side 669 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:10.960 as you think it's gonna be. You might win, but yeah, I 670 00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:15.840 mean she's still playing center field, center field of batting night. You know, 671 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:19.440 there were eight better hitters than her in the lineup, right, you 672 00:45:19.519 --> 00:45:22.599 know, and I know sometimes coaches put you know, their nine hitter is 673 00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:25.199 like another lead off here that they're looking at it that way. But still 674 00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:29.800 she was batting lead off at Arizona. She's not bad, you know, 675 00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.159 She's not batting lead off at you see. You know, so yeah, 676 00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:37.480 how does that go for somebody? So I don't know. It's just, 677 00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:40.960 uh, they got a lot of work here, you know. And I 678 00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:45.639 wasn't implying that things aren't great over there. They're not because you know, 679 00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:50.320 they're not in the tournament, right, so things are not good over there. 680 00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:53.519 But I don't think it's as hopeless as it's kind of been sounding. 681 00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:55.719 I know, we don't cover the team. I know you went to a 682 00:45:55.760 --> 00:46:00.400 game or two or whatever. Um, I don't know if they'll be changes. 683 00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:02.760 Sometimes they recording change. Well, you never know, you never know, 684 00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:06.880 but you know, um, this is a it is a funny thing. 685 00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:07.760 And I may maybe I shouldn't say this, but I'm going to, 686 00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:14.440 right, he said, But you know, having after having seen Mike Candrea 687 00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:17.360 all these years, you know, with you know, the coaching staffs that 688 00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:22.159 he had, you know, all the players, you know, just all 689 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:25.480 these veterans of you know long time, you know, top people in softball, 690 00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:30.159 and you know, you see Kaitlin Lowe and Tarn moe At who you 691 00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:35.559 saw as players. You feel like the kids are driving the car now, 692 00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:37.960 No, yeah, without question, we're all we're all right. You feel 693 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:42.480 like the keys got hand over handed over to the kids and they're still trying 694 00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:45.000 to figure it out right right, and they are and they are, but 695 00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:49.679 you know, and so it's kind of like that was the other like the 696 00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:52.559 I think they'd be okay, you know, growing things. Yeah, as 697 00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:55.360 much as as much as you want to think that by having coached under Candrea 698 00:46:55.480 --> 00:47:00.800 all this time and Tarn Moa has already been there, that you just step 699 00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:02.840 right in and and yeah, you know, and the you know, they 700 00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:07.039 hand you the keys to the Mercedes and you immediately know how to drive it. 701 00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:08.480 It doesn't work that we've got to call real quick because you have four 702 00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:15.440 minutes to take that Hi, you're on the Rnnmall. Hey, Jay, 703 00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:21.159 you were talking about Farren Moat as as a coach, as a pitching coach, 704 00:47:21.320 --> 00:47:27.559 and what's funny is we remember her as a junk pitcher and you don't 705 00:47:27.599 --> 00:47:30.440 see a lot of those type of pitchers having a lot of success nowadays, 706 00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:37.039 right right, you know, So it's so you know, it's as a 707 00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:39.719 fan and I watch I watch a lot of their games on the streaming and 708 00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:46.679 on the fact Fall network, and it's it's hard. It's hard to have 709 00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:52.199 the confidence that she's going to be able to develop power pitchers. Right. 710 00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:57.599 I'm sure she has the knowledge, but we have the memories of how she 711 00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:04.920 pitched right and and that I think we need to find some nil pitching money 712 00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:10.599 and uh and get us some pitching because there was a graphic on the during 713 00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:15.920 the UCLA game that Arizona outscored their opponents this year three hundred and seventy one 714 00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:22.320 to two twenty two. Youth was not their issue, at least not in 715 00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:25.960 the batting order. Yeah, you know it was. It was the pitching 716 00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:31.239 that couldn't hold leads, much like the baseball team. Done but done, 717 00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:34.920 right, is right? Yeah? Yeah, that's done. So you mean 718 00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:38.559 we need to raise money? And what do you mean by we? Wow 719 00:48:40.760 --> 00:48:45.440 the Arizona community, I mean, oh well, a couple of weeks back, 720 00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:47.719 Jay brought it up, what are we going to what should we do 721 00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:53.119 to, you know, to raise this nil money? And I think we 722 00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:58.480 can't have fifty fifty raffles because that would be too much money going out the 723 00:48:58.559 --> 00:49:01.119 door. But we could have like, uh, you know, put in 724 00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:06.079 your twenty bucks when you come into the game and at the football games and 725 00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:08.199 then you know, you put your name in and you maybe win five hundred 726 00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:13.199 bucks. You'd probably probably be able to get some money in a pot. 727 00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:17.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah, let me. Or we could sell some red 728 00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:22.400 Julical cardner burritos or something. Oh man, see you said the magic word. 729 00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:27.119 We'll gain some pounds, but they'll be better. There was on a 730 00:49:27.159 --> 00:49:30.199 red please there was yeah, well you'd be you'd be able to tell who 731 00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:37.079 who who donated to the nil burritost end of the season, all over my 732 00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:39.920 face, Thank you, thank you, don yeah, thank our guys. 733 00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:43.440 He makes a good point. I mean, he doesn't make a good point. 734 00:49:43.480 --> 00:49:45.239 And somebody said that was that was one of the things that was said 735 00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:50.320 to me about the type of picture of the Taran moat was. You know, 736 00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:52.199 I'll tell you what, you know, the difference between how hard you 737 00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:57.320 see a lace picture through against Arizona and how hard Devin Nets was throwing. 738 00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:00.519 You know, I've always when I've gone to these games, all of those 739 00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:04.079 pictures looked the same to me, because they all throw a freaking heart. 740 00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:07.480 That was a big difference. But you know this picture that uclat she was 741 00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:10.199 twenty eight two going into the game and she was smoking and they hit her. 742 00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:13.679 They hit her hand, they got they got the hit, so they 743 00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:16.840 couldn't they could hit you know, I think the next year, next year 744 00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:22.480 will be a lot to say about how the coaching moves forward because it's third 745 00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:25.400 year now. The first year was a honeymoon that would turn out to be 746 00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:30.239 nice. Second year not so much. Third year you kind of figure out 747 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:31.880 what you're where you're at, right and you know, and I think a 748 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:37.400 lot of what happened this year was masked by what they did last year. 749 00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:39.320 You know, first year that they got to the College World Series. People 750 00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:43.760 had that expectation when you know, they almost didn't even get in the tournament 751 00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:45.199 last year. Then all of a sudden, they make this run. You 752 00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:49.039 get to the College Oral Series and everybody's like, everything's fine, right, 753 00:50:49.159 --> 00:50:52.599 Well it wasn't. They got on a roll this. You know, it 754 00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:55.679 showed that there's still a transition taking place and a lot of work to do, 755 00:50:57.119 --> 00:50:59.719 and that Kaitlin is still trying to put herself. You could use that 756 00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:05.239 you just did and apply it to baseball too, everything because he that first 757 00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:07.159 year was another honeymoon period, did really well, got to the playoffs. 758 00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:10.840 And then this year, right, this is another key year. This is 759 00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:15.199 a year for Tommy Lloyd. Right, you know, third year, No 760 00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:19.920 guy, guy, this is what what his team is gonna look looks like. 761 00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:24.599 This year is what Tommy Lloyd's right. Sure, people can get away, 762 00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:28.719 get away from the oh Sean Millard's guys and stuff like that. You 763 00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:30.440 know, it's like, okay, here you go, it's Tommy Lloyd's guys. 764 00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:34.119 Let's see what they can do. All right, let's take our break. 765 00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:36.400 We're gonna come back top of the hour. We're gonna breaking news, 766 00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:37.440 so stick around.