Steve Bravera and jaygen Salz. They have their eye on the ball on Tucson
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lap Hey, welcome back to the ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Steve, He's Jake gut Sammy with breaking news, Eye on the ball,
breakie news. All right, so we're gonna touch on it just again.
The Diamondbacks go to their first World Series in over twenty years. Game one
in the two thousand and one World Series will be the exact same date as
this year's World Series October twenty seventh, So every single game will line up
with exact same date when the Diamondbacks won the World Series and two thousand one.
So what are those of you looking for some juju? I don't know,
man, I don't know. So I was one and a half when
we won the World Series. I have a nephew. He just turned one
and a half. And so maybe every twenty maybe every twenty two years,
the Diamondbacks are just primed. Maybe every twenty you never know. But nonetheless,
Corbyn Carroll was a three for three with three singles Sackfly that ended up
winning them the game and the arison a bullpen, which if you did watch
the diamondbackser if you did hear stories going into about the last two months of
the regular season, they were terrible, one of the worst bullpens in the
MLB. And I don't know what turned around. We talked. We heard
Bob talk about Ryan Thompson. There's a rookie in there, Andrew Saalfrank who
hasn't been great in the postseason, but great in the regular season. And
Kevin Ginkel, you have a grat has been really last night got five outs.
Normally he's a three. He's in the eighth inning, set up guy
for Sea Walden. We asked him to do a lot last night. Getting
Trey Turner and then Bryce Harp ro out back to back was was pivotal.
And I love all the in this conversation we this we well, he I
guess you're allowed, right, I'm allowed for like for like six more months.
I heard jan we we we. I don't say we about the Dodgers.
They never say we. I got rid of that forty years ago.
Oh yeah, I occasionally say we on Arizona, but not but not on
the Dodgers, and not on like any other teams like that. It's tough.
I'm just, I'm just, you know, it's okay, comes out
when past Dodgers and you don't kill the Diamondbacks. Don't cover that. You
could be yeah, because who else is we? Some other kids are saying
we Yeah, they say we buy Arizona, Arizona. Yeah, yeah,
I go to school here, Jo your moment, dude, while I have
twenty three, two, twenty four and two weeks they come back. Don't
let the grumpy men. Don't let the grumpy all fart tell you what to
Oh, it's tough. This is the second. I mean, I was
eight years old when the Cardinals went to the Yeah, well I was you're
you're you're from Phoenix, you're you're a fan of the of the air of
the sports up there, and you know, getting the championships has not been
freaking far far from honest. Yeah, my brother is twenty one okay here
too. Yeah he's down here as a junior, but gonna do he's an
accounting major. I was gonna say, he's not gonna be a broke journalist
like you. No, no, no, So my sister is a is
a teacher. And then I'm gonna be the broke journalist, and then my
brother is gonna make the rich account for both of them. He's gonna be
in some like national accounting for yeah, the money. And so when I
need something, I'll just text Q exactly. But so diamond back to Marte
n LCS m v P, and he has now the longest postseason hitting streak.
I saw that sixteen games. So that's good for him. And he's
been through it with the with this squad, and it's good to see him
go to uh go to a World Series. But the NBA is back.
I just want you to know too, Okay, Christian Walker and can tell
Marte where my fantasy team is. They go? So I did not and
Zach Gallon, okay, let's go. That's a shock. That's unbelieva.
They were all all three of those guys were on my fantasy. No one
that rained this week or whatever. I know, it's nice. My team
did suck though. Hey, that's okay, that's not a shot. That's
fine, that's fine, okay, But the NBA's back. I don't know
if you guys got a chance to watch last night since the Diamondbacks and there
were other sports going on. But the Nuggets beat the Lakers one nineteen,
one oh seven, and Nicole Jokic had another triple double, and it looks
like it doesn't matter. I mean, Jamal Murray's fantastic, but they have
a bunch of rookies and new bench guys. It doesn't matter who you put
around them. They're just gonna be better. So I only saw a tweet
to this effect, but apparently Charles Barkley went up on the post game redded
Anthony Davis like a horrible So what happened was he had seventeen points at halftime,
looked good, and he Anthony Davis was was talking a lot of yes
over the offseason about how it was personal or something whatever with the nugg Gets
team in the parade, and so he had maybe felt there was some motivation
coming into the season in this game, had seventeen points in the first half,
didn't score point in the second half. Oh yo, yall can't do
that. I can't do that. You can't I saw this thing. You
can't do that if you're Anthony Davis saw this thing. Is like Anthony Davis
was officially motivated for one half of that, So I know and then Charles
Brokley talked about the the road management stuff is you're making fifty to sixty million
dollars a year play the game. You can't play hard whole a whole game.
What's the big deal? You know? Back in the day when they
played it was it was rough tumble basketball and they didn't load management. That
came what three or four five years? Yeah, yeah, well more than
that, but yeah, it's only been around for a while. Sleep better,
Hey, but there is new rules in place, and I do.
I was listening to Zachlow. He has a real good podcast, and it
did sound like these guys are gonna be up for more games and I don't.
And again you have to see it to believe it. But so what
they're gonna take time off during games? Now? No, No, we're
saying the the quick the quick rule. The quick briefness of this is that
if you're if you're classified as a superstar, aka you've made an All NBA
team for second or third or you've been an All Star in the last two
or three years, I believe you're classified as a star. And so if
you have a star on your team, that player cannot miss for like load
management reasons more than two games in a row. So if a back on
a back to back, they either have to like miss the first one or
it's it's it's all just these little nuances that personally, if it does contribute
to them playing more basketball, I'm all for. But we will really see
that. Yeah. So so they were talking about that this morning. So
game day one was yesterday right now, we didn't even talk about that because
we don't have any rosters from We don't have any x n A U of
A guys. We need to talk about that. Who's on the roster?
Yeah, but uh, but why worry about it? It's November, right,
you have to worry about it in April May when all this comes for
wishing if they make the playoffs. But but if Jay, if you're spending
you take your son and your grandson to a game, spend two hundred bucks
on tickets and they don't show up to play usually, what the hell did
I come for? This? Absolutely? You know a few years ago and
this was this wasn't the like when the Warriors were winning the all those championships.
You know, I got I got my my daughter Rachel, who was
a huge steph Curry fan technically got her repair of tickets to the Sun's Warriors
game up here, and my son was supposed to was the one who was
going to take her, and because I knew he wanted to go way more
than I did. And then I just crossed my fingers that all those guys
were going to play in that game, and unfortunately they did. But you
didn't know, you know, and I thought the likelihood that that that those
guys would take a day off in a in a in a division game was
slim, but you still had to think about, yeah, no doubt.
And it's it's really interesting because people break it down and they go like,
oh, can they miss But there's now in season tournament, which granted I
don't know what I like, I don't know if guys are gonna get up
for this, but it does it does possibly emphasize because they're regular season games
and so it does maybe emphasize like that you you should be playing in these
games, right But anyway, the the Lakers got beat again, Nuggets look
like a phenomenal team, and the Suns beat the Warriors in San Francisco.
Green didn't play. Draymond Green didn't play Neither did Bradley Beal for the Suns,
So they beat him one eight, one oh four. In a Devin
Booker, I would say master class. He had thirty two, six and
eight and was ultra efficient. He's he's unbelievable, and as someone that's watched
him since his Kentucky and his Kentucky days, and for him to just appreciate
the growth that the NBA has given him is amazing because the team was terrible
when he was drafted by the Sons. Terrible ownership, terrible head coach.
And he similarly to like to tell Marte and the Diamondbacks, he roughed it
for a long time. Yeah, and he had this quote, I want
to say, three years ago is where why would I leave? I want
the super team to come to me quote unquote, and Kem Durant Bradley Beal,
the team looks really good. Durant looks like a thirty five year old
a little bit more, which is a little scary. Bradley Beal was out
due to back stiffness, so he's look at he's already missed a game.
Yeah, we'll see if the Sons can be durable enough to be a title
contender. But you haven't come. You haven't you've been here, what about
three weeks? Four weeks? Maybe? So you you were here, your
sons you're so huge, so without Yeah, well we talked about it.
You were here. Yeah, we talked about it. Yeah. So I
those that know me, I was not a big eight and fan in terms
of his production and his attitude, his mentality when it came to winning basketball.
I didn't think that he was the best person to be in a locker
room, to be on a team if you're trying to win an NBA championship.
I think in Portland he's going to be successful. I think he's going
to have good numbers because he's just ultra talented. But he just didn't have
what this team needed him to produce. And we talked a little bit about
it when Jay wasn't here. But yeah, so so okay, I wasn't.
I couldn't remember how man old dudes. But now all that year of
the twenty seventeen, eighteen whatever it was with Trier in him and Elkins,
doesn't it all make sense? Yeah, it totally makes sense. You are
who you are and not just one dude, right right? Those A few
dudes, Yeah, a bunch of dudes, and who of those guys is
running around in the NBA right now? Besides and who and who? It's
really because he's such a physical specimen that people feel like there's got to be
something there sure, and there is, Like, as someone that has watched
him for four straight years now, there is something about his skill and about
his talent that so many people aren't blessed with or can't we'll never have in
their lifeople in the world exactly. And so I think he's still he's what
is he twenty three years old? He's still a kid. And I really
hope, I honestly, I hope the best for him in Portland and yeah,
just because you want to see guys that graduated here successful and it just
didn't work out in Phoenix, and I think they're better off. And so
tonight actually they're eight and is in uh In. We'll suit up for the
Blazers. They'll play obviously no Dame, so we'll we'll see how he looks.
There's a couple other uf A guys out there. TJ McConnell still running
around cousin Ka Pacers, Did ye did did last year's guy? God?
Last year? This guy. Yeah, that's just did he make the I
think he's on a roster for the Sixers. Yeah, he's either on their
G League team. I mean he's a two weak guy. Yeah, he's
a two week I think I think he's on the G I think he got
sent down to the GA development And I wouldn't be I wouldn't be surprised,
especially if Philly does blow up quote unquote, like if Harden, Harden will
be gone and Embid could get unhappy and then all of a sudden, they're
now a development team and he could find his way inness some minutes. And
I really hope Dale Terry plays a little bit more this year. But they
have a loaded or a lot of bodies in their back court, so we'll
see. Speaking of Harden, Aaron Torre's reporting that the Clippers, who were
in the market for possibly trading for James Hardener, just said, we're done.
Forget it, We're not doing so and I saw these things. If
he doesn't report to the Sixers within thirty days, he becomes a free agent.
So there's something they can stop paying and they can they can be off.
And so maybe that's what Harden. Honestly, maybe that's what. It's
better for both parties, but the Sixers would then get nothing in return.
Yeah, but you know, beware whoever goes and gets like that. It's
tough. It is really tough. But so the rest of the NBA is
in action tonight. Way. Aaron Torres says, I didn't understand why everyone
assumed they'd be a market for a thirty four year old, out of shape,
malcontent who quits on his team and chokes in the playoffs. You wouldn't
want him on your team. Exactly who he is, and that says everything
about who James Harden is. It's what's It's sad because that James Harden has
really come to fruition in the last five years when he was between twenty five
and thirty. He's a killer. Yeah, he's a killer. He's awesome.
One of the best scores I've ever watched. Yeah, and it's it's
tough, but we got a minute thirteen. Yeah, we're run through it.
But we can talk about the Michigan stuff more after the break, baby,
maybe, But really, the only good football game aside from U of
A Oregon State, in our minds would be organ Utah and the rest of
the slate is really bad. And lastly, forty nine Yers quarterback Rock Party.
They just lost obviously in Monday Night to Kirk Cousins and the Vikings.
He's in concussion protocol, right, and maybe Sam Darnold will see some action.
I don't really think there's that big of a drop off between the two,
but yeah, there is show. I'm on Wikipedia, the Trustful Bible
of Everything. It said that he was waived by the seventy six ers on
October twenty five. Oh that today interesting, just sraight today. So he's
waved today, waved today like maybe just now. Yeah, So we'll talk
about that because we hear this all the time, the guys jumping ship and
blah blah blah. He wouldn't he is who he is. He would have
stayed here, he wouldn't have got any better, but he would have been
the same guy, right right. He is what he is, He is,
who is exactly who he's been. Good basketball, good basketball, good
clogs, basketball player, good guys. And he'll make a living, yeah
you know, but but he is what he is. In he'll have to
shoot. You start shooting three pointers more. We got to go all right,
let's get out of here. We're gonna come back. We've got a
Adrian denny coming up. We're gonna talk some twos on roadrunners. We're off
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Ball with Steve Rivera and Jacobzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome
back to Ylanbanck here a POK Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve j. Now
before we have a GM Denny of the Roadrunners. Hi doing Adrian, the
guys, thanks for having me already started the season. You guys are looking
pretty good. What the heck like it? Three and one on the year
one yesterday two to one in front of over four thousand school kids from uh
from Penakeema County schools and and beyond here in southern Arizona. It was.
It was a fun Tuesday morning and we all took the rest of the afternoon
off and uh gond be back at it Friday and Saturday against Bakersfield here in
Tucson. Did you go get some fishing in or what did you do?
Maybe? Uh, you know, take a hike? Uh what do you
do? Something like that? Much left? I left right as you guys
were going off the air, and uh, we went straight into two happy
hours. So I actually didn't get home until my uh my usual time of
after six o'clock. But anyway, it was good and it was good in
spirit, and I had three taco after which they usually wouldn't be able to
do after after an evening game maybe long close. So uh yeah it worked
out. Uh kind of a leisurely afternoon and uh a good dinner after our
show, so go three on one. Yeah. How important is a start
like that for you know, because it's a long season and you know you
start bad, you're going, well, we'll get over, but it's still
still important to get a good feel for it, set up, maybe set
a tone, don't you think. Yeah, And the Reveland has done a
really good job of that, believe it or not. Here's their October record
in eight seasons so far, thirty thirteen, one and one. We've we've
gotten off to some good starts. We've had some really good teams coming out
of training camp. And the difference is as you move move down the stretch
of the season, you have the depth that you had in October, and
I think this year we do and we've Last year we had a little more
than the year before, and then the year before that, we had a
really good lineup to start the season and it lasted lasted two days before the
call ups started coming like crazy, and that we were just pieced together the
rest of the way. But this year, I think, I think we've
got a deep group. We've got six seven guys that aren't in the lineup
right now that would be really in any other year. Interesting. Interesting,
It's always good to have talent. Yeah, So yeah, and this this,
this, this team is it's it's got a lot of got a lot
of different components to it. There's seven guys that we've seen that have been
real, real nemesis for us around the American Hockey League in the Pacific Division
that the Coyotes went out and signed as depth players to two way contracts that
have been a sign of a to the Roadrunners. So that's that's a big
piece of it too. Adding to the prospects that have been here three four
years, the guy's starting out for the first time, and and then just
the core group. Is it too early to tell, you know, what
what the team is sort of what its character is or what it you know
the way it's going to play, the way it's gonna win. Uh,
I mean, I know it's four games and or is it still you feel
developing its personality? Well, if you look at the three wins, Jay,
the Roadrunners have won a three to two game and a pair of two
games, so three wins by a single goal, all in regulation where at
the end they've had to fend off and extended time with with no goalie on
the other end and the other team playing six on five, So they've they've
been winning the close ones. They've gotten great goaltending for Matt Malalta knew this
year. He's with the Ontario Rain in California and the La Kings organization the
last four years and he's been the guy in between the pipes for all four
games. And he's I said, he's won a three HL goalies to start
four games this year and he's got the best numbers, so he's been good.
He's made those stays. Yesterday against San Jose or I'm sorry, against
San Diego, the Roadbunners got more shots than they've had in the first four
games and allowed the fewest shots and made allowed in the first four games.
The most shots for fewest shots against, and it was it was good to
be able to get one there for Matt without mc in thirty five, thirty
six, thirty seven shots. You've been here maybe a handful of years now,
I think, correct me if I'm wrong, But could you talk about
the popularity of it down here now? Is it kind of improving? Yeah,
this is my sixth year, this is our eighth year, and yeah,
it's it's fun like two sons a big city, and you know,
you can you can kind of blend in and not not really be noticed in
a lot of these big cities. And and I feel like anytime I go
out, like my daily routine, like going to circle k in the morning
and up in Sabino Canyon on my run and out in the neighborhood, everybody
knows, right, everybody knows about the Roadrunners and who they are. And
and you got a lot of folks that are that are from hockey markets to
come here and as snowbirds or retire full time or come to college here or
just end up here for for you know, professional reasons, to raise the
family, and and it's it's a good good base to add to our base.
And I know, our players feel, uh feel like, you know,
everywhere they go, restaurants, on golf courses, just just hiking out
as well, that they always seem to end up in a conversation that gets
struck up about the Roadrunners. So it's it's good. It's fun. Right
in cities and millions and millions of people, you can you can blend in.
Everybody kind of does their own thing. But here we kind of feel
like everywhere we go, everybody everybody knows about the Roadrunners. That's very cool.
Is there is there a way, you know, you know, at
this level of hockey, you know, these guys are all you know,
they've got one a goal in mind, you to get up into the NHL.
So the teams maybe change around and stuff like that year to year.
But is there any way of telling, you know, wh where's the cream
of the crop in this league? Uh? You know, are the are
the road Runners? One of them? Is a tour to tell? Is
it so unpredictable because guys come and go? I mean, how does that?
How does that work? You know, we were talking about it yesterday.
I'm Happy Hour with Hunter Drew, one of one of our players who
played for San Diego the last four years, and he scored our first goal
yesterday. It is in his first game playing with us against his former team,
and we're talking like gosh, like, you look at these teams in
the specific division and everybody's good. And then we're like, well, that's
because everybody wants to play in these cities, right, like Tucson, Southern
California, Las Vegas. Like people want to live in the cities where where
our teams in the division are and by country. Like there's some to that,
right, He's like, oh, no question, everybody wants to play
in this division. So the free agents, the depth players that that get
added here or are are here because this is where they want to play.
And and that's it's an advantage for for our teams to get good players,
but everybody else in the divisions signing signing good players too. Yeah, that's
right. That probably makes it pretty hard. I was We talked to the
president of the Coyotes a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, we had a
lot of fun with him. He was great with us. Yeah, that
was fun. I enjoyed that. Great to hear that he sounds like fun
And I'm thinking they're hoping for your success, because your success is their success.
Yeah. Absolutely, And and you know, with with the new television
deal with with Script Sports and all the games over the air on here in
Tucson on on channel nine point two, which what is it last tv l
A s FS is where I've been watching the Coyotes over the air, Like
that's that's really really cool for for everybody in Arizona to be able to see
them over the air without having to worry about a you know, a satellite
provider dispute or just not having the channel or having to pay an extra twenty
a month to get it. So that's that's a big thing. And I've
I've heard from a lot of people here that you know, watching the Coyotes
every night and that's that's, Uh, that's pretty awesome. So when the
when is there is there a period of time that you start seeing the traffic
going between the Coyotes and Roadrunners? Is it? You know, is now?
Is it a month into the season? When do you start to see
some of that and then's start having an impact on the on the road Runners
Coyotes had a couple of guys go down, nothing nothing major. On Saturday,
two guys left the game on Saturday up there at Mula Areena and their
home opener Mike Carconi and Jason Zucker And and that led to Jan Yannik and
Zack Sanford being called up from the Roadrunners and and they were up with with
the Coyotes. They didn't play last night in Los Angeles, but they were
with the team and fortunately, fortunately good news on the injury front. Mike
Carconi was in the lineup last night for the Coyotes, picking up an assists,
the former Roadrunner obviously and leading scorer in the AHL last year. And
both Zach and Jan were assigned back to the Roadrunners today. So it just
just kind of depends. You know, you had two guys leave, and
you know, convenient to have them drive up their Sunday morning and practice and
be ready for the game yesterday if needed. And now now good news on
on the injury front with the players who had left the game, and then
Zach and the honor back with us. All right, so could you give
us your schedule? You got a couple of games coming up this weekend,
right, That's one of the reasons we called you. I wanted to get
you on the show. See but tell us a little bit about those games,
tickets, opponent, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, we're home
Friday and Saturday, both this week and next weekend, and honestly, I
don't remember us being home for three straight weekends here. It's it's pretty cool
to be able to settle in at home for a little bit. So Friday
and Saturday this weekend with Bakersfield Chicago. Next weekend. Friday night, we've
got NASCAR Night. We're gonna have a show car on display. Phoenix Raceway
is going to be involved. We got a ticket package there that fans can
enter a win to NASCAR tickets. Saturday is our Fright Night. We have
trick or treating before the game on trigger treat bags for kids, and we
have a special Halloween party and on the on the party deck as well that
folks can get involved in. And two Sundroadwunners dot Com slash fun for that.
And then next weekend we've got Military Appreciation Night come up on Saturday,
November fourth. So good to settle in, Good to be home and looking
to take advantage of this six game homestand last time we had a six game
homestand with January last year and you talked about just being settled and just being
able to enjoy two. So we went five and one on that, so
hoping to do the the same here early on in the season. All right,
sounds good, So two Sunroadrunners dot Com for tickets and whatnot, and
all right, and you guys are be home for a couple of weekends.
It sounds great. Yeah, yeah, crazy be home. It's just it's
too bad U of A's going head to head against us the next two Saturdays
because we like to go to the games where they started the afternoon. Yeah,
we were open for afternoon games too. Roadrunners Happy Hour also tell us
about that. Yeah, every Tuesday from from five to six. Uh,
myself, Kim Cutter, Robless, and Brett Ferris, sports editor from the
Arizona Daily Star. We uh, we talked Roadrunners, We talk hockey.
We have a good time and always have a special guest, either a player
or coach or executive from from the team. So it's kind of we call
it our usual Tuesday night get together. And we've got it podcast form as
well, just like you guys on on the iHeartRadio app with Roadrunners Happy our
podcast and then our our traditional podcast, the Insider podcast has new episodes dropping
every Sunday during the season with me and Jonathan Schaeffer. All Right, super
Adrian, thanks a bunch man. Thanks for being Johnny on the spot for
us. Appreciate it. Always my pleasure. Guys, thanks for having me.
Take care too. You will cool? Uh this, you'll just take
my four thousand at the game? Is that's nice? That's pretty cool.
That's that's a good number. All right. Yeah, let's go take our
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and oh's it's Steve Rivera and Jagen Sammis. This is I on the Ball
on Fox Sports fourteenth fifty. Hey, welcome back to IE on the Ball.
He know Fox Sports foteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's jacking USS.
Gotta guys send me in today. We have fourteen minutes. If you
guys want to give us a quick call five two oh four one six four
forties. Do you have a quiz or something? Yeah? Well, real,
real cool. You know. Brett Gleason was the sports information director for
UH Arizona Baseball. Just put up a list of players Arizona Baseball players who
have been in the World Series and on the World Series. So I quizzed
you who was the last U of A alumnus to to win a World Series?
And yeah, you hit it on the nose. I mean I was
a guess because it's you know, it's been a while in a while,
and I would have never guessed. Ninety seven, nineteen ninety seven, Ed
Bossberg, South Point, Catholic Kid, Cactus, little League kid World Today.
You of a guy won a World Series with the Florida Marlins or now
the Miami Marlins in nineteen ninety seven. Last one to win it now the
last one to play well. All this was in the context of Kevin Ginkle,
a relief a picture for the for the U OF a few years ago.
He's with the Diamondbacks. So he's now in the World Series two thousand
and two. The last one to play in one besides Kevin Ginkle. Kevin
hasn't even played in it. Yeah right, So j T. Snow two
thousand and two was the last one to play with the Giants in a series.
They lost to the to the Angels four to three. Another former guest
of the show. Because we've had Ed Orosburg on the show, We've had
George Ariason, he's been on the show. He played in One with the
Padres in nineteen ninety eight. God, I would have never thought that they
remember Zip by the Yankees. Trevor Hoffman was in one ninety eight, then
Ed Osberg in ninety seven. Then you got to go back to ninety one
when ninety one god Ericson oh Man laid in One with the Twins. Oh
God, I remember that? Yeah? Was that with Joe Carter and them
back in the day. Didn't they pay Toronto or somebody got They lost to
the Braves in that one. He was with the Twins. Ron Hassey played
in three in a Row with the A's, including the one on the show
too. He's been on the show three, three, I two Eye on
the ball to son to give him Wait. We had Joe McGrain on two
once. Did we didn't get we were trying to get him in Florida.
All right, So Hassey uh played in eighty eight, eighty nine, and
ninety though he was one of the first yet and actually Hassey and Lefferts Craig
Lefferts played against each other in that eighty nine series that was interrupted by the
earthquake. Craig Lefferts was with the Giants. Who were you when that happened?
I was watching it on TV. I was I was at the news.
I was watching it on TV when it happened. You know, I
might have been in the newsroom. I remember why. I remember seeing it.
I might have been in the newsroom as well. And then I finished
got home and there, so I was watching it between the remember Rick Savage
or the kid you know what kid, the Savage wonder you're swinding? Oh
yeah, I know Savage guy. Yeah, I want to say, I
know who you're talking about. But while I was coming football, I mean,
you're probably coming football too, So I'm sure I would have been in
the news. And then we had to wait to fly out the Bayer of
the next week, right, Yeah, I remember trying to get to the
game. It was and all that. Yeah, little scary some scary seeing
the bridge collapse. They played cal They played cal Yeah, they played cal
So the okay first the first Arizona guy to play in a World Series,
you'll get to Stevie. It happened in nineteen thirty six. Again, the
first Arizona player to play in the World Series, Hank lee Berg played for
the New York Giants. He then New York Giants played him back to back
series against the Yankees. They lost four games to two and four games to
one, and then they went from nineteen thirty seven to ninety eighty four.
Who before another U of a guy was and that was Lefferts, who was
in who got in the World Series with the Padres So it's Lieber Lefferts.
Joe McGrain played and one with the Cardinals. Ron Hassey played in three.
Lefferts played in another one, so he forgot to play in two. I
would really like to talk to some of those guys. Yeah, Ericson,
Oh, you know, it was funny good. We had that brief conversation
with the Pat Darcy, you know, about his time in the World Series
and stuff. He remember, I mean, that's the thing, right,
we were all little kids, we were all little kids saying, you know,
they were in the World Series artom of the ninth and you know you
hit a home run over the you know, over the fence and you bust
a window or something like that. So that's very cool. Now, we
also need to mention that another guy who's been on the show and who were
trying to get on again, but he's gone through going through some hell things
is Terry Francona won two Arizona player, but who won two World Series as
a manager with the with the Red Sox and actually got into another and a
game seven of another with the Indians a few years ago that year that the
Cubs won. And so yeah, Sarazna's got some history back there. Maybe
you know, schools like USC even a su with you know, Barry Bonds
and Reggie Jackson. They've got some other other guys, but uh, you
know, not a bad history of Arizona guys playing in the World Series.
Very cool. There is a baseball mecca, or at least no, yeah,
it is. It is known for then been for a really long time.
I mean at least since I was a little kid going to Ari Zone
baseball games, you know, I mean all the way back to when they
their field was that what the old Sants that used to be, but it
was bleachers, it wasn't a grand stand. And then when they had big
games like ASU, they'd go play at High Corbett Field. Yeah, and
then there would be so many people at the games at High Corbett there weren't
enough seats and people would sit on the on the warning track, around around
the around the fence, and if a ball got hit into them, it
was a ground row double. So let me ask you, so back in
then I got here in eighty seven, when they were really good in the
eighties or their kindle really good, would you say that they were but a
savvy group the fans. I'm talking about the fans. Savvy group kind of
like because the basketball did the basketball, I'm seeing those fans were a way
ahead of the basketball fans. Yeah, in terms of popularity. Yeah,
because it did they sell out a lot? Did they fill up the well,
yeah, that fill up. You know. They had some huge games,
you know, that's why they built it. That's they built the grand
stand that the old Sanset field that you remember, because I mean they would
have some huge games there. And so yeah, and and the Arizona a
SU rivalry was a hundred times more intense than it is now because they were
really good. Arizona was really good. They were both winning College World Series.
USC was winning a bunch of them at that time. To Stanford was
due. So the I mean the you know back what people remember the old
six pack, you know, the six teams in the in the league,
the Southern California schools, the Bayris schools, in the Arizona schools. Let's
take this call. Hi, you're on the air and I on the ball.
Hey, you guys, this is Gabriel. How are you guys doing
well? Good? Gabriel, how are you? I'm doing pretty good?
Hey? Can we talk about Kevin? Someone issues? Just don't coach yet.
I won't so you know how, you know how Arizona fans like to
feel like feel about Kevin? Someone listened. I think he's worth I think
he was worse to the Arizona program compared to John mcca. Here's why,
and here's the only reason why. Seventy to seven and clearly he didn't careish
he didn't care about this job. And basically, I mean, I'm I
mean, I'm not surprised he I mean, I'm not surprised he he had
off the fields, Ye, he was, like he spent more. I
mean, he's he spent most of his time at the bar and not and
not coaching on it and not coaching at Arizona, unlike I mean, Jeff
Fish is spending all of his time at Arizona. I'm not blowing all of
his money at the bar. So that's my honest Thingion be nice. I
know you aren't, weren't already, but I hear you, Gabe. You
know he was he was bad for Arizona. You know, he he really
put us in a hole for a really long time. And I and I'm
I'm still angry at him. Obviously you're you're still angry at him. Well,
I think you're. I think your nickname of him the last time you
call it was pretty funny. Vin. So yeah, I mean, I
you know, I think the main reaction you're hearing about what happened to him
over the weekend is that people aren't surprised. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, I'm not so, Gabe, just we had and also did you
and did you guys all of the Tucson media guys kind of note that something,
something is not right with him by justin kind of hinted we heard things.
We all heard things, you know, I mean there wasn't any any
proof. We all heard things, but it wasn't anything you could report because
you didn't have, you know, verification of stuff. But we all heard
stuff, so we're not surprised. And also one more thing, I think
I told you guys that my bull pradition is for Lencoln Riley too for next
year to not to not coach at USC. So that's my bull predition I
think is going to be the next raging narcissist at USC. So. So,
Gabe, what do you go to school? You may, right,
Yeah, what do you study? I'm curious? Uh? Biology? I
wanted to be a conservationist for reptiles, Okay, I thought I was going
to major in sarcast That's okay, not apart. We love you, Gabe,
thank you for calling. Appreciate it. Thank you guys. He's past
the semester with smart Man. He got halfway there, didn't he got halfway
there? I saw you're for the button he was, he was half there.
We're I mean, you know, you just never know me, just
like okay, I got I gotta get I gotta get I gotta get this
someone stuff off my chest. So I'm gonna call those guys right now.
That's so funny. I love him. I love that guy. You know
this makes us laugh, man, Yeah, that makes us laugh. We're
like, oh, come on, well we're on edge. Yes, we're
definitely on edge. But that was that was good. But anyway, so
yeah, you know, but anyway, going back to the Arizona stuff,
you know, it was a big deal. You know, Arizon Baseball was
a big deal. And then you know, Drake Kendall won that that first
you know, national championship in seventy six. It went, I mean it
went off the charts. After that they won they won uh uh, you
know three championships in well eleven seasons, you know, yea seventy six,
eighty eight. I don't think he this might be stupid, probably saying this
because I don't know enough that he doesn't get enough credit for what he did.
Oh he gets plenty of credit. Where where I just among people who
you know, people who know what Arizona baseball, they give all the credit
because you know, we talk about he did this. But you know what
I'm saying, Jerry, Jerry is Jerry is widely regarded, at least from
where I said, Jerry's widely regarded, not quite to the Loudolson level because
of the sport. No, no, but because basketball is a bigger deal.
That's because of the sport. It's you're right, because of the sport,
it's a bigger deal. But in terms of you know what loodoles the
impact Ludolfson had on basketball compared to the impact that people feel Jerry Kendall had
on baseball and put base you know, put baseball on the map. Yeah,
he gets he gets a similar credit. Well to me, it's like
Kendrew who wouldn't love Kendra? Right? Eight championships and no matter who comes
along after right, right, and and Jerry had three come on. If
Loot would have had three, oh, come on, that statue would have
been out of gold. Yeah yeah, or there would have been like three
of them rather there have been one in the front, one in the back,
and one on the side, right right right. You know what I'm
saying, it's no, he can he Kendle gets that's not easy because he's
not Kendall does get that that level of credit close to that level of credit
because but the thing is with with with baseball, you had guys like Andy
Lopez come along, you know, wins another national champion, Jay you know
Jay Johnson. You know, I'm you know, nearly one one in a
very short period of time here, you know, so no, I think,
uh, and then chip Hale, like you know, look, if
not for Jerry Kendall, there's no chip Hale coaching and right so there you
know, it's the legs, you know, chip Hale is that legacy that
Jerry Kendall left sort of like you know, a legacy that loot left for
some of the guys here. So I think that's the way people see it
that way. I really And you said, I don't hang around the baseball
crowd, so I wouldn't know. But you know he did a lot.
He did a lot, Yeah, he really did. You go needs a
statue head to High Corbet or something, you know, but you know they
but then there's Frank Sanset, who you know did a lot as well.
You know they have a field for him, Yeah, he had a Field's
gone. Well it's I can't help you. I think it's Sanset field a
high Corbet something or something out of them that I know. There's a plaque
for him. It's there's a plaque for him. You have a plaque,
I know. But I put that up myself. Nobody. All right,
we got to get out of here. I had it, I had it
made myself. All right. We got to hit the road. Uh,
I'll be I'll be at the women's basketball game tonight, so I'll report on
that a little bit tomorrow. And women's got women have exhibition tonight. So
we exack tomorrow with some some more great guests. See you later. Get
some rest. Man, all my friends, we're all Miss Austin, say
stand for nothing in there's no way we have a can now,