WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:06.679 Steve Ribera and Jacob Salads. They have their eye on the ball on Tucson 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:13.199 Sports Stage shat Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back tying the ball 3 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:15.880 here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay. Now we 4 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:21.719 have Kevin le breaking news, his eye on the ball breaking news on Fox 5 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.800 Sports fourteen fifty. All right, so let's just go ahead and start with 6 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:31.000 the news kind of touchdown earlier Tommy Lloyd going ahead and leading USA Basketball under 7 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:38.039 eighteen to the gold medal at the America Cup FIBA tournament out there. Yeah, 8 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:40.359 I didn't know that. Well, he took some of his guys justin 9 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:44.280 there's a picture of him. Yeah, yeah, no, no, that's 10 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:48.159 great now now he just say no, they just started workouts. We saw 11 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:52.280 some clips right now, there's a there's like a world. What else did 12 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:54.240 they do they have? I don't think I think that's it. Oh, 13 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:56.759 that's it. He's done. He's done for the summer with that. Okay, 14 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.640 yeah, all right, And we saw clips about on I'm working out 15 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.239 better winning than losing it, man, for sure. Right, you don't 16 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:06.799 win one of those things that like, what the hell we invented this game? 17 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:08.719 Why are we winning this? Yeah? And Steve mentioned earlier that you 18 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:11.719 know, people expect to win and then when you lose or upset, but 19 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:15.000 if you win, they're not nearly as happy as you might expect them to 20 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:18.439 be. But it's funny. He in there. I'm looking at the Arizona 21 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:19.239 Daily Star. He had a quote where he said, I have the same 22 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:23.719 pressure in my day job when they asked him about, you know, always 23 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:27.760 being expected to bring home gold these kind of situations. So I'm good on 24 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:30.200 him. Where where was this at? You know, Argentina? I think 25 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:36.120 it was Argentina. Wow? Cool, all right, very good. Five 26 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:42.519 Arizona baseball pitchers have been selected to the College Sports Communicators Academic All District Team. 27 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:49.040 That would be Cam Walty, Anthony Sussac Dawson nets, Tony Pluta, 28 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:53.280 and Casey hints all right and then uh, smart dudes, yes, yes 29 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:59.480 Smiths McDonald has gotten her one hundredth career steel in uh the La Spark's latest 30 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.200 victory over the Las Vegas Aces. That was fast, yeah, because she 31 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:07.040 was out for Yeah she did played for a while. Yeah, fast the 32 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:09.000 century mark even faster hands, you know, yeah, no, kiddy, 33 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:15.319 Arizona was listed as the number twenty four overall team in the most recent espn 34 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:20.879 FPI Power Index for the upcoming preseason. At the preseason for coach football, 35 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.680 Yeah, big twelve man, ready to go, Big twelve, let's go, 36 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:25.680 Steve, I'm ready to go. I don't. I don't even think 37 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:29.000 we can make a road trip, right, we have to. You know, 38 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.199 all the coaches in the Big twelve football football, No, there no, 39 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:39.319 no basketball mostly but not football. No, I'm lucky to get third 40 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:43.599 of them. Yeah, no, I'm I'm the same way. We got 41 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:46.159 a lot, got a lot of homework to do, Steve before football season 42 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.199 next. Well, I think your idea of getting someone like a sky Riders 43 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:53.400 tour ye here, Yeah, definitely on a weekly or yeah, I'm going 44 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:57.080 back to the w n B A. But what are your thoughts on this 45 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:00.960 whole deal about Kaitlyn Clark not being on the Olympic tak good question. I 46 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:04.759 don't think that's fine. That's fine, she's not. There's two sides, 47 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:09.680 and both have powerful arguments. But she's not. She's not. Players. 48 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:13.680 No, if she's not, probably the top of the top fifteen. So 49 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:16.319 there might be a player who may not be able to be ready because she's 50 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:21.240 injured from Vegas. I guess, so there's been a spot open. Possibly 51 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:23.680 she's still not, she's still not. I mean fair is fair. She 52 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:27.000 shouldn't be on the team. Yeah, she shouldn't be on the same but 53 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.159 you know, but the flip side is what you know, as you said, 54 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:34.240 the WNBA has they've got another agenda. They've got to they've got to 55 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.319 get people to follow the sport. Sure, but they're doing that. They're 56 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:39.800 doing that. No, let me part of horse racing that we did over 57 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:44.280 the weekend and I do every now and again. Is the beauty is your 58 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:47.680 money goes against my money, and everybody's money is collected and that's how it's 59 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:51.120 paid out. Right, So if you want to be foolish with your two 60 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:54.400 dollars on the win ticket war power, that's you because I'm gonna get that 61 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:58.800 money if you're wrong, and you're gonna get mine if I'm wrong. So 62 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:01.719 so I forgot where I was with this. Whereas there's no right or wrong 63 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:08.800 answer, but she's there's many women who are ahead of her, So so 64 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:13.080 is there is there a right answer for publicity or for politics or whatever. 65 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.319 Her guess what her time will come? You know, and I just think 66 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:18.480 with what she's going through right now, with a lot of the uh, 67 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:23.680 you know, for lack of a very word, the resentment towards her that's 68 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:27.759 built up, that if she gets on the team, it would just add 69 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:30.720 even there's some there's already so many people saying what about me? What about 70 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.000 me? And I get it, she's bringing, she's bringing the eyeballs to 71 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:39.480 the sport, and whether you like it or not, you know, you 72 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:42.040 need to make the most of that. But on the other hand, something 73 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:46.240 like this where the olymp being on the Olympic team is about whether you're good 74 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:50.000 or not sure, not about whether somebody's watching you. I thought it was, 75 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:54.639 you know, I have zero problem with them not putting it on The 76 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:58.720 other I was going with the permutual thing is mostly the people who don't know 77 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:02.600 the game or don't know just have some kind of opinion about it or chiming 78 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:06.480 in when they've never watched the w but never watched college basketball, but now 79 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:10.519 have an opinion about it. Have you sat down watching the NBA game, 80 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:14.560 I still never have. I watched the one where she got bumped in the 81 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:16.319 bike. Just one Sunday or Saturday morning. I said I'm gonna watch this, 82 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:21.199 and it was there's no question they're treating her differently. But guess what 83 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:25.160 it happens in sports, and if you're the star, they're gonna give you 84 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:29.399 the treatment until you're one of them, until you're one of them, until 85 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.319 you unquote earned it. And see, there's too many people who don't know 86 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:34.759 the business who are talking to It's like me talking about finances. What the 87 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:40.600 hell would I know about finance now much just because a dollar in my bucket 88 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:44.720 doesn't mean much, well, not anymore after after the damn Belmont Stakes. 89 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:48.000 Right, But you know what I'm saying a lot of people one hundred percent 90 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:51.519 agree with you that you know, if she's if she's not good enough, 91 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:55.800 then she should have been on exactly. And the people who are making the 92 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:59.199 decisions are pretty good at what they do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 93 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:01.160 And for the record, people are kind of upset on her behalf. You 94 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:04.319 know, she came out today and said that she's not disappointed by the by 95 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:06.680 the snuff, she feels like she hasn't earned a great point and that she's 96 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:11.519 going to use it as motivation. Sure, that's why she didn't say she'll 97 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:13.800 have her chance. She didn't say this, but I'm gonna say she's played 98 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:15.240 a lot of basketball and non stop for the last eighteen months. Yeah, 99 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.759 she's three and a half. You probably ybe Yeah, awesome for her. 100 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:23.439 She's been through a lot, you know, not nothing too negative, but 101 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:25.680 just a lot of publicity, a lot of media, a lot of games, 102 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.040 a lot of all of it. This is the worst thing that happens 103 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:30.439 to King Clark, She'll be okay, Yeah, exactly, a good point. 104 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:34.560 Exactly. The Steelers have given Mike Tomlin another three year extension. This 105 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:38.639 follows up the last three year extension that he signed in twenty twenty one. 106 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:41.360 How old is he? How old is I only asked, because he's been 107 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:44.439 there forever like one hundred. He could he's never has she ever? He's 108 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:46.720 next to fifty two? He said, he's only fifty two. He said, 109 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:50.600 dude, he's been there since he was twelve. Then, because he's 110 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:56.120 probably the longest tenured coach in the league, probably he looks forty five and 111 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:59.879 and he's probably can do no wrong. He hasn't. No, I mean, 112 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:05.079 you know, he's got put two championships. I don't know, I 113 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:09.199 don't know what I think I thought there's two more than I thought he had. 114 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.040 Yeah, things got too he got he got the one against the Cardinals. 115 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:15.720 Right, Oh, he was the guy No. Two nine ish. 116 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:18.839 Yeah, but he was a coach I think he was. Was it was? 117 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:24.199 He not? Yes, there's two super Bowls. Well that's why he 118 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.519 can do he can do whatever he wants to seven and seven af North. 119 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:30.079 But he's not because it's not a it's not a it's not the franchise that 120 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:33.959 used to be. No. Uh, and it's not very exciting, right, 121 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:36.720 is very exciting? Well they're not. Yeah, they don't, you 122 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.879 know, yeah, they don't. When he did have an exciting team, 123 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:45.519 those players are kind of loco. So with Roethlisberger and all this guys, 124 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:46.560 one time he did have some excitement, they kind of got a little too 125 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:49.360 exciting. So, God, he's only fifty two. Yeah, I would 126 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:54.639 have I would have put him late fifties, early sixties. Yeah. We 127 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:58.639 already talked about what happened in LA with their coaching situation with the Lakers, 128 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:03.240 but their former head coach, Darving him has now returned to the Milwaukee Bucks. 129 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:05.319 Says there their top assistant, which was his previous role before he was 130 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.360 So what do you think with the Lakers finally get j are they going to 131 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:15.079 get Yeah, to get that hope. I feel like that. I feel 132 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:18.600 like he's doing such a good job doing what he's doing now doing the podcast. 133 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:22.560 It's more it's more about whether can he coach an NBA team? What 134 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:24.279 the hell? Well, it's it's he's never been to coach. He's along. 135 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:28.759 He's a lot like Steve Kerr. Yeah, I think he could coach. 136 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.240 I think the kids, no question. And it's whether the people believe 137 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:37.639 in him and play in the league and all that. I think he's got 138 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:41.159 a lot of Steve Curry, all right, Yeah, okay, I I 139 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:46.519 I never paid attention to him except when they were trying to say that he 140 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:50.200 was a better shooter than than the style. He's very bright. He's very 141 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:54.639 bright, and he's and he doesn't go back down to the stephen A's and 142 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:56.759 the and those guys. He's very bright. All right. Obviously he's went 143 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:03.080 to Duke before. Did Barkley thing? Did you see that? You didn't 144 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:07.039 see this Charles Barkley want to punch a guy in the face. No, 145 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.919 he was, he said he was going to. He was a guy he's 146 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:16.360 walking into the arena, you know, for for and there's some dweb I 147 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:20.879 shouldn't even give him the attention, you know, probably you know, probably 148 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.159 a twenty year old dude yelling at him. You never got a ring you 149 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:30.279 saw And then and and uh, Barkley was heard on the video. You 150 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:31.279 know, the guy was doing it for a click, right, somebody's video. 151 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:35.600 And and Barkley's heard on the video talking to his escort of his bodyguard, 152 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:41.039 saying, what if I just punched him in the face. He kept 153 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:46.399 walking. You remember what happened to the last time, through the guy, 154 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:48.080 through the guy through a window. Right. But you know, again, 155 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:52.799 just a typical thing, you know, troll out there just trying to get 156 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:54.720 the trying to get himself on TikTok. And he did. Because there's been 157 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.279 like this video has been seen by like a million. No, I didn't 158 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.759 see that. Yeah, I'm looking at it now. The video of a 159 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:03.639 young a very young kid, and like Luca donchis Jersey, he's probably like 160 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:09.559 about like sixteen or whatever. And the quote is you're you're Michael Jordan's son. 161 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.120 Imagine not winning an NBA championship. That was it. That's what he 162 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.519 said. Some dude who probably just learned how to wipe his own butt or 163 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.159 maybe still doesn't know how. You know what I'm saying something one of those 164 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:22.559 things when people don't know you can see this stuff because well, it's right 165 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:26.840 to go back and hang out in your mom's basement. Exactly. While we're 166 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.879 on the topic of internet virality, James Harden has gone over the last twenty 167 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:33.000 four hours. I'll bring this up. Well, I mean, I know 168 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:37.159 it's an audio platform, but James Harden and his girlfriend we're at a wedding. 169 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:41.399 Yeah, and they're a part of a lot of a part a part 170 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:46.960 of a lot of traditional weddings. Yeah. They have the bouquet over the 171 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:48.759 shoulder and whoever catches it, you know, it's supposed to be next. 172 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:52.360 Yeah, James Harden's girlfriend so happened to catch it and look on his face. 173 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.879 He got about and wide eyed like, oh no, Yeah. I 174 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:01.799 saw a clip yesterday kind of similar to that, where the difference between men 175 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:03.840 and women at at catching the bouquet. Yeah, the women dive for the 176 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:11.799 guys scattered when when they shoot the garter at you, Yeah, nobody wants 177 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.399 to catch it. But I do have some NBA Finals stuff for you guys, 178 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:20.919 So this is a pretty interesting stat. Drew Holliday, who might just 179 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.200 be the Finals MVP as it stands right, it's either her, him or 180 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:28.360 Jalen Brown. Drew Holliday has thirty eight points, nineteen rebounds, and eight 181 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:33.559 assists with zero turnovers through games one and two of the NBA Finals. Wow. 182 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:37.519 The last player with thirty eight points no turnovers uh in games one and 183 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:41.600 two of the finals Michael Jordan in nineteen ninety eight. Wow. Pretty cool. 184 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:46.879 And then I really thought the Mavericks are gonna win yesterday I did. 185 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:50.279 First game. Yeah, I just thought they're gonna split the you know, 186 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:52.679 they canna split the first two games, and they, I mean they were 187 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:54.360 in. They hung with them for a while, and then of a sudden, 188 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:56.480 you look up and they were down twelve. And I was telling I 189 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:00.600 was telling everybody, all my friends that were asking me because my friend's not 190 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:03.360 the Celtics fan, so they're asking me, you know, what do I 191 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:05.960 think about the series? I was saying, Celtics and five, we win 192 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.519 the first two, lose three, yeah, and then two and two? 193 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.320 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree, totally agree. Yeah. Buster 194 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.279 only twitter account got hacked today? What did he report what did the guy 195 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:22.039 report? So Buster only Twitter account, which was hacked, reported today the 196 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:26.480 season is canceled due to COVID. Uh. He also reported that sho Heotani 197 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:30.240 has been banned for life from the MLB in connection to card with gambling. 198 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:33.200 His trial is on August twenty eighth. It is speculated that he could get 199 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:37.279 life. We got a lot of attention. I mean he got he got 200 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:41.799 almost a million views whenever this got screenshoted, and that that was probably it 201 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:46.679 was like the guy about about half hour forty five minutes that reported, uh 202 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.320 news coming out soon that that Hurley's going to take the job of the Lakers. 203 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:52.679 Soon after that came out in the tweet, he was not good with 204 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.759 me and the dude was roasted, of course, of course, and that's 205 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:00.399 what that's what that's what it's become. Yeah, who's first. That stuff 206 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.360 now is considered media, right, it's considered I wanted to, I want 207 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:05.000 to. You have a lot left? No, I just have one? 208 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:09.759 Oh yeah, pretty much. Buster only Twitter account got hacked today and he 209 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:13.200 had some interesting stories. But Connor McDavid and It's an oiler star admitted that 210 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:16.399 he felt really he kind of felt some butterfly, some nerves and ahead of 211 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:20.159 the game one clash in which the Oilers lost three to nothing, which I 212 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:26.080 thought was pretty interesting that the biggest star in the sport will come out after 213 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:28.840 they got shut out. Yeah he's good. So so did you see the 214 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:33.639 exchange between Stephen A. Smith and the guy the former GM with the gold 215 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:37.639 Golden State. So so they're talking about who the best players in the Boston 216 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:43.440 Celtics states and a couple of people had your guy who's got and the other 217 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.120 guy in jail? He says that's device, you know device? Uh So 218 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:52.840 that creates problems within the locker room because people talk about this when it's more 219 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.039 about the team. Do you do you think that happens, not specifically this, 220 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:00.360 but other places. I think it happens in absolutely good. I think 221 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:03.559 there are some guys with a personality that I've seen it. Yeah guys, 222 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:07.399 Yeah, guys with the personality that if you if if people are saying he's 223 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:11.279 not the best guy, it disrupts things. Absolutely. Quote the quote from 224 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:15.320 Bob Myers on the show is we tear teams apart more than we ever have, 225 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:18.799 maybe on purpose. Maybe that guy down there, Stephen A. Smith 226 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:20.200 and then he was done, and Stephen A. Smith says, not me, 227 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.840 not me, that's social media, not me, which I feel like 228 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:26.679 that's wrong. He's wrong. He knows, yeah, exactly what he's doing. 229 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:30.000 You are, so you are the social But that's my point, where 230 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:33.960 one guy says, there's one says, and then there's strife inside the house. 231 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.120 Yeah, when when there shouldn't be the old what about me thing? 232 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:39.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen I've seen it here here yeah, 233 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:45.559 oh yeah, you see it. Yeah, yeah, you want to be 234 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.960 People talk about the alpha dog, right yeah, and how they don't have 235 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:50.159 it or they have it or whatever. That's kind of part of it. 236 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:54.320 Yeah, no, I and there are teams like that, you know, 237 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:58.440 a lot of teams, especially the ones on sand they're not they don't have 238 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:01.559 a foundation, right exactly. All right, let's take a break word to 239 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.320 come back to Andy Lopez will be joining us. We'll talk about the getting 240 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.600 ready for the College World Series. Get some of his thoughts on Arizona's baseball 241 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:09.559 season this last season, and see what he thinks and just what's going on 242 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:11.960 with him and again, you know, would he have taken the Lakers job? 243 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:15.600 All right? 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Now on the phone, we 314 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:14.720 have former Arizona baseball coach National champion Andy Lopez. How are you? Coachy? 315 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:17.000 Bill Will thank you for having me. Great, great great to have 316 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:19.039 you. I always love talking to you one of the best storytellers we have 317 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:23.640 on our show. Now you have any pressure on me? Now, well 318 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:27.200 we need some hits, so you who to call it? And so this 319 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:33.279 time of years, as the World Series begins, do you become more sentimental 320 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.680 or just to kind of happy just to watch? Uh? You know, 321 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:41.079 I think the further I get away from it in terms of actually being in 322 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:44.359 the profession, yeah, I do. I do get a little bit more 323 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:48.200 sentimental. Just a lot of memories, a lot of just a lot of 324 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:51.440 thoughts, you know, from the five or six times I was there, 325 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:55.680 and then obviously the two national championships are always great, great experiences. But 326 00:20:56.160 --> 00:21:00.559 yeah, a little bit more sentimental. So as you ause, these teams 327 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:03.119 are getting ready and as you you would get your teams ready for the for 328 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:07.680 the College World Series. You know, let's let's say you know you're in, 329 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:11.279 so you've go on your Super Regional or your Regional or whatever it was 330 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:14.759 at the time. You know, what's the first thing you wanted your team 331 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:19.400 to know or do once you knew we're going to the College World Series? 332 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:23.319 How did you what was your approach to that? You know? And now 333 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:27.160 was the I was huge on this I really was, and I really think 334 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:32.039 that that's I really you know, I'm really happy to say this. But 335 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:34.480 you know, we never went on in too. We always went there and 336 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:37.480 played for a while. And you know, twice twice in my experience, 337 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:41.079 you're there for two weeks and won the dang thing. But I think it 338 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:45.720 had a lot to do with our mindset and the mindset that I always established 339 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:49.200 and tried to establish. As soon as we clinched it, as soon as 340 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:52.200 it was Clinton, it was over, and everybody got done with the celebration. 341 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:55.359 All the rest. I would just tell the guys, hey, you 342 00:21:55.359 --> 00:22:00.160 know what, this is now a reward, Like this experience will now be 343 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:03.160 a reward, So enjoy it. Like you've got to have a good time. 344 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:04.839 You've got to really go out and enjoy it. Sure you're going to 345 00:22:04.920 --> 00:22:08.000 be anxious. Sure you're gonna be nervous, and those those are things that 346 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:12.079 you can't deny as a human being, as an athlete and as a competitor. 347 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:15.640 But man, you you will regret it. You will regret it to 348 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:19.440 the day you leave this Or if you go there and you just play tight 349 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:25.079 and you play timid and you play scared to make a mistake. This is 350 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:30.359 a reward. Postseason for me was always a reward for a job well done 351 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:33.240 in a you know, fifteen week stretch. I mean when you're just out 352 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:37.680 there grinding on a Tuesday midweek game or a Wednesday midweek game, or a 353 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:41.039 double hitter on Saturday somewhere, or you know, going through the conference, 354 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:45.279 which is always a challenge for me. I just a postseason. It's a 355 00:22:45.319 --> 00:22:48.240 reward. And if you don't look at it that way, you guys are 356 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:51.920 absolutely out of your mind. Because I'm looking at it that way. This 357 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:53.960 is a this is the best time of the year for me. Yeah, 358 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:57.640 I always enjoyed it. I love to post season. I really did. 359 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:00.960 You might answer you may have just aswer this question that I was going to 360 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:03.160 ask you about psychology of the sport. I'm a firm believer in it. 361 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:07.599 You must be because of this. Go out and have fun, play, 362 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:10.640 you know, played as best you can. But there's got to be some 363 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:12.799 outside of talent. You have to have more than just talent, which is 364 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:17.319 you know, head game psychology of it. How big is that with you? 365 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:19.680 Yeah? Well, I mean I was. It was huge for me. 366 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:23.440 I read a book way back called Psycho cybernetics, and you know the 367 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:26.720 whole theory that your muscles don't know if it's practiced or a game, and 368 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:30.200 you developed muscle memory and all these other concepts. So I was a big 369 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:33.119 one. I was a huge one even when I played Steve is a funny 370 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:37.240 story, but I was at UCLA in seventy four, seventy five, seventy 371 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:40.160 six, and one of those years and both here was seventy four to seventy 372 00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:42.440 five, I took us a coaching psychology cleft. Lord, forgive me, 373 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:49.279 I don't remember the professor's name, but he he basically was teaching us visualization, 374 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:52.519 right, And I was sitting there and I was in. I was 375 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.640 locked in, like, well, what's he talking about visualization and visualizing your 376 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:00.440 steps and your moves and this and that. Well, there was an a 377 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:06.200 young athlete like myself in that class, and he was on the track team, 378 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:10.000 and lo and behold. About a year or two later, I'm watching 379 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:14.519 this guy in the Olympics and I'm watching him go through the visualization. Dwhite 380 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:18.720 stones the high jumper, right, and he's and he's in the Olympics and 381 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:22.200 I'm seeing him go through the visualization and I'm like, Wow, yeah, 382 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:26.599 that's that it works. It works. So I incorporated into my coaching, 383 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.200 I incorporated in a lot of things that I did, I incorporated in my 384 00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:33.359 private life quite Stanley, I don't think it's hocus focused. I think that, 385 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:37.519 you know, the mind is a is an amazing thing. And I 386 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:40.680 guess someone once I read someone where someone says, you know you only lose, 387 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:42.599 you only use if you're a genius, use ten percent. I mean 388 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:47.279 I'm using about one percent, you know, my mind. So I got 389 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:51.359 to work on it harder. But yeah, I really believe from day one, 390 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:52.880 I mean from the very first time we're on the field, we're talking 391 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:57.079 about I mean ore too. Like we would always talk about Omaha every day. 392 00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:00.359 We would talk about Omaha every day. If we ran a practice and 393 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:03.039 it was a really good practice, I would say that practice will get you 394 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:07.000 to o Mall. On the other side of that coin is if we ran 395 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:10.279 a practice that was sloppy and careless, I said, fellas, forget about 396 00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:12.000 it, don't even think about it, Like, don't fool yourself. You'll 397 00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:17.240 never get to the World Series based off of today's effort, you know. 398 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:19.920 And we talked about that a lot, you know, I and I when 399 00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:26.519 I was at Pepperdine in nineteen ninety one, we were eliminated by the eventual 400 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:29.960 national champions of that year, National champions that year, and I got the 401 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.839 tape that the ncule that used to send out, and I played that the 402 00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:38.559 College World Series tape of nineteen ninety one every single day in the clubhouse. 403 00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:41.799 And the players were they thought I was nothin. That was out of my 404 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:45.519 mind. But I played it every single day because you know, cleverer and 405 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:48.920 I didn't go a lot of College World Series and for me to talk about 406 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:52.440 playing for a national champions for most of people, but it was that's to 407 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:55.759 be out of my mind. But I played that tape every single day when 408 00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:57.359 they were getting dressed. And then after it was in, I said, 409 00:25:57.359 --> 00:26:00.599 you can put whatever you want to tell them what we played every single day, 410 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:03.240 and lo and behold, ninety two we go back there and win the 411 00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:06.839 dog on thing. You know, I peper. So, yeah, I 412 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:08.359 was a big believer. You got to get your mind right, was there? 413 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:12.079 You know? In terms of that approach? Then was there something different 414 00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:18.160 or something noticeable about the two teams that won the championship versus the teams that 415 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:22.400 didn't could you know, if you if you think back to that time, 416 00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:27.119 Yeah, from a tangible standpoint day, From a tangible standpoint, pitching and 417 00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:30.640 pitching is the key. I don't care. I don't care what anybody says. 418 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:34.160 Pitching is the key. If you pitch well, you got a chance 419 00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:41.200 to win. Whether it's a Saturday over the line game or a midweek game, 420 00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:45.440 or a slow pitch game, or a little league game, or you're 421 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:48.759 in the National championship game. If you pitch well, you're going to give 422 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:52.119 yourself a chance to win. So pitching was the was the biggest tangible. 423 00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:57.680 That was the biggest tangible. Again, the intangible for me was what have 424 00:26:57.759 --> 00:27:02.880 we been discussing it for LESCo minutes? I just I went to Omahall quite 425 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:04.880 a few times, or you know, and and I always, well, 426 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:08.440 there's I won't mention the name of the school because I wouldn't be fairedom But 427 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:11.680 there was a school that I played when I was at Florida. We played 428 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:17.160 them on a regular basis, and in February, they and the head coach 429 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:21.200 they were loose and man, they were wild. They hit and ran, 430 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:25.039 they stole bases, they laughed, they joked, man, they were out 431 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:26.559 of them. I mean it was like envious, the man you looked at 432 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.440 them in February. In February went wow, man, these guys are so 433 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:32.880 far ahead of us, you know, because February is the start of the 434 00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:34.680 season. I'm sitting around looking at my guys, trying to figure lose my 435 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:38.200 pitch. All rest these guys were just rolling. And we played them in 436 00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:44.319 the Cultural Series three times in my time at Florida three times. Twice we 437 00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:48.359 eliminated them in the elimination games. And oh my gosh, what a difference 438 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:55.559 February to June. They were tight as a drum. There was not a 439 00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:59.519 smile to be found in that dugout talking to the head coach before the game 440 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:03.440 in February, laughing, joking, laughing about this and that. In June, 441 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.480 man, it was it was brain surgery. It was brain surgery, 442 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:11.279 it was heart surgery. It was, man, it was it was dead 443 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:14.039 serious. And I understand that because you know, you want to go to 444 00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:15.079 a win, But like I said, I always felt like, man, 445 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:18.920 if you go there that way, you're probably going to play tight. And 446 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:23.640 we all know as athletes, man, that's not a good result. When 447 00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:27.359 you're tight. Let me ask you a couple of quick questions within one question. 448 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:30.880 It's been twelve years since you retired. No, No, twelve years 449 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:34.599 since you won the title and nine years since you retired. Does it seem 450 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:40.000 so long ago? Or like yesterday? When the World Series shows up, 451 00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:45.000 it seems like yesterday, Like like I'll watch a game on Friday if my 452 00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.480 schedule allows it, but I'll watch some games here this weekend. And when 453 00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:51.759 I'm sitting watching and they so shocked to it and talk about it. And 454 00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:53.920 I was fortunate I coached in Rosen Oh. I was pretty lucky in fact 455 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:57.519 that you know what. I Someone sent me an email about a week or 456 00:28:57.559 --> 00:29:02.599 two ago out and Ray Tenner and the only two guys that won national championships 457 00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:10.440 in Rosenblatt and uh, well what's now Charles Small? I guess yeah, 458 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:14.519 they changed the name out of the new part anyway, And so I was 459 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:18.279 really lucky to do that. And and when I watched it, yeah, 460 00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:22.640 it feels like it was yesterday. It really does now when I have ex 461 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:25.960 players call me up and tell me about this or that. Hey, I 462 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:29.480 went and spoke to Chips team this year in right before Christmas break to the 463 00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.359 Arizona Walcats, right, and one of the players, one of the freshman 464 00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:33.599 players, because I says, hey, coach, how are you doing? 465 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:37.319 And un introduced himself, Hey, you coach my dad. I said, 466 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:40.160 I coach your dad. He said yeah, and he gives me a kid's 467 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:42.160 name beginning your dad's name, and I go, oh my god, I 468 00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:45.160 coach your dad at Pepperdine. And when I walked out of the club off 469 00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:48.920 after I got that, speaking of what wait a minute, that's his son, 470 00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:52.359 Like, man, I'm an old man. Ye, what the heck 471 00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:55.400 is that? Yeah. Well, at the at the top of the show, 472 00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:57.680 Steve and I were talking about the fact that we saw a highlight this 473 00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:03.240 weekend of Rob Refsnighter making a diving catch in the game and the announce you're 474 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:07.680 saying it thirty three year old Rob Refsnight putting his body out there. I'm 475 00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:11.319 like, thirty three years old. Oh my god. That's when, Yeah, 476 00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:14.079 that's when it hits me a little bit. But no, when I 477 00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:15.720 when I when the World Series comes on, I sit in front of the 478 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:18.799 TV like everybody else and watched and I do I feel like, Wow. 479 00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:22.039 Just a couple of weeks ago, we were we were back there, Hey 480 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:26.000 were we back from two years ago? But now I know it's a it's 481 00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:30.720 a great experience, it really is. I'm a little sad by, you 482 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:33.880 know what we're what we're gonna see. Uh, you know, you're gonna 483 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:37.279 have two conferences obviously, two conference are gonna are gonna play with a natural 484 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:41.680 time, right and sec and that that that's a little that's a little disheartening. 485 00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:45.279 But but I think that's just the reality of where we are now in 486 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:49.119 the twenty first century and in life and college athletics with n I L and 487 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:52.119 Portal and all the rest. Is that you know, the rich are going 488 00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:57.920 to get richer. And it would it would shock me if we didn't see 489 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:02.960 what we're about to see this next two weeks in terms of uh, you 490 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:07.599 know, two conferences pretty much dominating those eight spots. You know, we'll 491 00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:11.440 see how it goes. So what's Chip hal going through right now? He's 492 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:14.680 got uh you know, he's been to the you know in the postseason three 493 00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:17.920 times now but not done well. And he's got you know, he even 494 00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:21.079 said himself, I got to figure something out. What would you say to 495 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:25.799 him about about all that? You know what Chip and we texted each other, 496 00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:29.880 in fact, after they were the weekend co scill what have you. 497 00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:33.039 You know, I always I like Chip. I've known him for a long 498 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:36.680 time, long long since the eighties, and and he's done a great job, 499 00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:38.279 and he'll do a great job here, and he'll he'll get over this 500 00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:41.759 hump. I mean, you know, he's he's a good baseball man, 501 00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:45.640 he's a great human being. So he's gonna get good players in here, 502 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:49.559 and and they're gonna get over that hump. Honestly, I'll be very, 503 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:53.440 very blunt about this. I think Chip is gonna is gonna chat. Chip 504 00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:57.799 is gonna his biggest challenge is gonna be with a lot of programs, especially 505 00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:01.200 on the West Coast, are going to face and that's again, it's the 506 00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:07.440 nil It the nil issue. It's hard to compete with people that can offer 507 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:10.119 a kid one hundred thousand dollars and a new car to drive around for the 508 00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:15.039 year. And I don't care what kind of smile you have. I mean, 509 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:19.160 that's just the reality. Okay, here's the story. Okay, on 510 00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:22.200 Friday, the first day, the first game on Friday, they played Grant 511 00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:28.039 Canny College grect. That morning, I had breakfast with David Esker. He's 512 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:31.400 a longtime friend and couch at Stanford University of Baseball because his son Gabe was 513 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:36.559 on the Wildcats. So David comes into town with Lynn, his wife and 514 00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:40.200 his daughter, and we have breakfast Friday morning. And I hadn't seen Day 515 00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:43.759 for a while, so we have breakfast and we get to talking. Now. 516 00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:49.440 Listen, I recruited against Stanford for twenty five thirty years. Okay, 517 00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:55.079 every time you've heard Stanford was on a player, you pretty much wasted your 518 00:32:55.119 --> 00:33:00.440 time and backed out and went after somebody else for one reason. They told 519 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:06.079 you, or they told the kid, come here play for us. It's 520 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:07.359 a good program. It's a very good program. It's a great program at 521 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:13.440 times. But more than that, you get a Stanford degree, right, 522 00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:17.720 a Stanford degree, right right? Okay. Well, the other night, 523 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:22.279 my ex assistant and next player, Mark Waisa Kalki, they opened up against 524 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:25.039 Texas A and M of the super Eagel and bring the Montgommery Texas and the 525 00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:29.279 right fielder breaks the ankle in the first inning there play at the plate. 526 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:31.480 And I talked to Walla this morning when he was getting on the flight coming 527 00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:35.519 back and going back to the Gene, Oregon. We spoke this morning and 528 00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:37.599 I said, hey, what have the Montgomery said, they broke his ankle. 529 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:39.000 I thought it's too bad. Well, the breakfast I had with David 530 00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:44.559 Ester, I said, David, a Stanford degree isn't enough anymore. Yeah, 531 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:49.559 said it's not anymore. Wow, it's not enough anymore. Well, 532 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:52.279 the thing is not enough anymore. Back back in the day, you competed 533 00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:54.559 with the major leagues coming after you. Guys, obviously give him a ton 534 00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:58.680 of money. Now it's the nil coming after you with a ton of money. 535 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:01.960 Oh, the Major leagues is competing with the nln OWT too. Yeah. 536 00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:06.599 Yeah, there's players. Now, there's players that are drafted in a 537 00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:09.039 tenth round that are good getting it offered one hundred and twenty five thousand, 538 00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:14.159 and somebody really needs an outfielder really bad and says, we'll give you one 539 00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:17.960 fifty. Crazy. So he goes in place college baseball, Where are you 540 00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:21.800 at? And so huh, Well, I said, where are you at? 541 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:24.199 Now? Are you sitting on the couch? Yeah, you must be 542 00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:28.480 enjoying left to deal with this car? Yeah, no, I'm Lenna. 543 00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:30.480 Say hey, let me tell you something. Okay. One of my ex 544 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:36.159 players has got released from his job at Pepperdine three four weeks ago, and 545 00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:39.000 and to be very can with do you someone from the alumni reached out to 546 00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:43.280 me as a coach, Mopez. I watched you on TV a few times. 547 00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:45.880 I talked to people. They say, you're in great shape and everything's 548 00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:47.000 fine. You feel great. I said, well, I don't know if 549 00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:50.519 I'm in great shivvy. I you know, I try to walk every day 550 00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:52.519 and swim during the summer and all the rest. He says, how about 551 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:54.840 you come back and get us back. I get us back on track, 552 00:34:54.960 --> 00:35:00.440 which get us back on track? Okay? And I said, I wouldn't 553 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:04.079 do that if you said you were going to give me five million dollars a 554 00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.239 year, I said, I said, there's no way I want to be 555 00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:12.639 a part of it. I just I'm I'm astounded by what's going on. 556 00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:15.960 Sometimes I don't even think it's real. Sometimes I get just a bad dream 557 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:19.119 that I'm going to wake up and shake my head and go, WHOA, 558 00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:21.639 that was a weird dream, right, I mean, they got guys, 559 00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:24.599 right, they got guys. They're just buying players, right. Well, 560 00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:28.719 yeah, we were going to ask you. We're going to ask you coaching 561 00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:30.599 because Harley turned out. When we were joking, would you have taken the 562 00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:36.679 Lakers job or something similar or something similar, like on a major league Yeah? 563 00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:38.079 Did you? Did you ever turn down a big job like that, 564 00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:44.079 you know, something bigger, maybe something bigger than where you were. Well, 565 00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:45.800 yeah, in nineteen ninety six, I turned down the Texas job. 566 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:50.199 I was at Florida. I was at Florida University of Texas. Call. 567 00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:52.079 They were going to increase my money and all the rest of the things to 568 00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:57.320 miss and that, and and and my wife and I we looked at each 569 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:01.800 other with no, you know, no, that's okay. I'm gonna hey, 570 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:06.000 here's the deal. I'm thirty two years old. I'm like cal State 571 00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:08.599 Deminga's Hills, right, I'm at hell State Deminga's Hills, a Division two 572 00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:14.280 program, no money for assistant coaches. I dragged the field every day, 573 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:19.960 even before games, in my own personal car, my own car. I 574 00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:22.400 hooked the drag on the back of my bumper and I dragged the field with 575 00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:25.679 my with my own car. That was my life. I'm thirty two years 576 00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:30.320 of age. There was a gentleman named John Scollis who's passed away, who 577 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:32.960 was one of the greatest coaches ever Division two coach were a Division two teams 578 00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.159 and a great Christian man and a dear, dear friend and an unbelieved other 579 00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:40.800 than my father, one of the greatest influences on my life. He comes 580 00:36:40.840 --> 00:36:44.519 to me and he says, hey, I hear you're in the running for 581 00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:46.679 the Pepperdine and the Long Beach stage job. And I said, well, 582 00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:50.000 yeah, they've they've reached out to me, coach, and he says, 583 00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:52.400 he grabs me his shoulders. He looks me right in the eye and he 584 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:57.400 says, hey, Annie, that's a rat race. And I went, 585 00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:00.519 okay, Coach. He says, do me a favor if you take one 586 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:07.159 of those jobs, be successful, but don't become a rat. Let me 587 00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:10.280 let me ask you one quick question. We're kind of over, but uh, 588 00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:14.840 in today's world and you you did this game for a long time. 589 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:20.960 What makes a good coach? Now? Oh? Wow, you only have 590 00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:27.599 a couple of minutes. Wow, I mean I obviously obviously, he obviously 591 00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:29.840 you need to be a good teacher. Obviously you need to be a good 592 00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:34.280 teacher. That's why she's gonna be fine. He's a great teacher. But 593 00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:37.920 boy, you know, Steve, you know you're wearing a lot of hats. 594 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:39.679 Man, you're wearing a lot of hats. Now, I mean you 595 00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:43.360 got to go out. You got to get an i OL money some way, 596 00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:45.960 somehow. If you want to compete, you gotta get in IL money. 597 00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:47.679 Then you got to figure out who you're gonna You got to keep him 598 00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:54.159 so happy that they don't leave in the transfer. Wow. Uh, you 599 00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:58.920 know what, I can't answer that. Take take your time with well. 600 00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:02.599 I just I obviously that. Okay, the tangibles are you've got to be 601 00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:07.360 a great teacher, and you've got to have a you've got to have a 602 00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:10.039 desire to lead, right, You've got to have those other lead young people. 603 00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:14.800 I think every young person wants to be led. Okay, perfect, 604 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:17.480 Those are the tangiles. But now you've got these other tangibles that have showed 605 00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:22.400 up. I've got to get nil money. Why because my best picture might 606 00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:28.960 leave me this year because someone in the SCC or ACC is going to offer 607 00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:31.039 money and I don't have any money to give them. Yeah. So now 608 00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:34.159 now I gotta go out now, No, Now I got to go out 609 00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:37.280 and be a fundraiser, I mean a really good fundraiser. Right, Okay, 610 00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:43.480 Now, I've got to make sure that I've got a pulse on every 611 00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:50.239 single athlete in my program in some capacity, because that second line guy that 612 00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:54.280 I know in two okay, in two thousand and eleven, Brandon Dixon. 613 00:38:54.400 --> 00:39:00.559 In twenty eleven, Brandon, Brandon Dixon doesn't play a day in the in 614 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:05.239 the lineup at the Universey Arizona. In twenty twelve. We pinch hit for 615 00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:07.039 Brandon. We pinch hit Brandon Dixon. He gets to double in the national 616 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:13.039 championship game and we win the national title. Right. Yeah, he's not 617 00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:17.320 an everyday starter for two years. Brandon Dixon doesn't start at Arizona in two 618 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:22.400 thousand, In two thousand and ten and two thousand, I'm sorry, twenty 619 00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:27.880 eleven, twenty twelve, Brandon Dixon doesn't start. Twenty thirteen. He's the 620 00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:31.440 Pac twelve Player of the Year. He's a third round draft pick. He 621 00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:36.320 plays in the big leagues for seven years, but he doesn't play us first 622 00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:38.880 two years here. Yeah, he's not here. Day's world. Yeah, 623 00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:43.320 he's not half world. Yeah. What does Brandon Dixon doing. Yeah, 624 00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:49.320 he's gone. He's gone. Unless he's got phenomenal parents who've really established commitment 625 00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:52.320 and loyalty and all the things that everybody says are stupid and corny, but 626 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:55.639 truly are the biggest thing on the greatest thing on earth, and we're not 627 00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:59.880 seen a lot of it anymore. Right, right, We'll have to get 628 00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:01.960 this again when the next time you come on, Andy, as always, 629 00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:06.920 thank you, you're the best man. Hey, thanks for having me Philowsky 630 00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:09.719 be great job, great, Thank you, Henny Lopez. Yep, I 631 00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:12.920 want to go back to that once we come back. As we're way over, 632 00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:15.159 I want to talk to you about something like that, he said. 633 00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:16.599 Okay, sounds go. Let's go and take a break. We're gonna be 634 00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:20.280 back when. 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Apply online today at a team security dot Net. 676 00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:29.480 Extreamly live on the iHeartRadio app. This is Eye on the Ball with 677 00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:36.119 Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back 678 00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:38.320 joining the ball hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, You're Jay Kevin 679 00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:42.039 with us today. Got about nine minutes, went over, but it was 680 00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:45.599 well worth it. Enjoyed talking to him. You mentioned something at the end 681 00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:47.519 of and this was brought to be about a way about ten days ago. 682 00:43:47.639 --> 00:43:52.400 I was out somewhere and in your coach and you dealt with this. What 683 00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:58.639 are the things that makes good athletes and good kids are parents? He talked 684 00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:01.599 about that, you know, to get the bag or there there, and 685 00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:06.159 they want to be coached. Uh. And people are asking me, so 686 00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:08.039 what makes that? What's the mix the difference between a good dude or a 687 00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:13.400 good athlete and their parents because they know one not to be yelled at, 688 00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:17.079 but they know the difference between whatever. And I'm sure you you, having 689 00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:21.400 coached you pay had to deal with this. No, I certainly did. 690 00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:25.320 And you could tell which kids were you know, brought up in a way 691 00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:30.599 you know, they had respect, they had Oh, we got to call 692 00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:34.280 it coming. Let's take this call, hire on there and the ball. 693 00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:39.320 What's hey? First thing? Man, that was a great interview. Thanks. 694 00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:43.519 Yeah. We got a couple of messages saying the same thing. Thank 695 00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:45.719 you, Nico. He's probably one of the best you have. No, 696 00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:51.719 we love he's we love and and he's great everything every single time. And 697 00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:57.079 uh, Steve, I want to thank you man. Hello, Hello, 698 00:44:57.320 --> 00:45:05.400 about why I want to thank you for nipping that Dodgers you go, thank 699 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:10.360 you for calling in. I can't hear that stuff. Did credit man, 700 00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:19.400 he's passionate. Man, it sounds like he's pitching in his pants. I 701 00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:22.960 don't think we have to block that out, dude, But I've never even 702 00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:27.000 heard that before. You go, that's a good one. I'm just saying, 703 00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:29.519 man, it's like I know more about the Dodgers in the diving back. 704 00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:34.760 I want you to go, thank you. Oh that's because the Dodgers 705 00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:39.639 are good. Good to hear from you before. You have never heard that. 706 00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:44.159 I've never heard that before. Okay, we didn't. I feel like 707 00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:46.559 I've heard a lot of stuff. Okay, So you're going with the kids 708 00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:49.039 with the kids, Well, I was gonna say, you know, you 709 00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:52.760 could tell, but I fortunately had you know, was in a program where 710 00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:54.840 you know, all the kids are you know, good, yeah, pretty 711 00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:59.360 good kids because you know, I mean you're at a school that is you 712 00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:02.159 know, of money to go to and not and and uh you know, 713 00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:05.679 I mean kids from a lot you know, because through scholarships and stuff, 714 00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:08.280 you had kids at all levels, you know, but you felt that if 715 00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:12.559 their parents cared enough to put them in this school, they really cared about 716 00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:15.440 the kids, right right. So let me go somewhere to we might get 717 00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:19.039 another call here where we know this because we see it, we hear it, 718 00:46:19.079 --> 00:46:21.519 and we know the people with a lot of a lot of high schools 719 00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:25.840 in this town where the parents are dictating a lot of these the athletic decisions 720 00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:29.760 with coaches, because can we see a lot of coaches leave, A bunch 721 00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:32.960 of coaches leave, successful coaches and we don't have to say schools of where 722 00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:35.800 it's happened. We know who they are. But we know who they are, 723 00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:37.840 and it's happening more and more. Yes, it is, which is 724 00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:42.400 sad it is, but you know, and they and you know when you're 725 00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:45.159 making it hard on coaches to coach, Yeah, because because of that, 726 00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:49.760 you know, you know, you as a parent, who are doing doing 727 00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:52.119 things that you think are helping your kid. Maybe they're helping your kid, 728 00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:54.639 but they're kind of wrecking the rest of the program. Yeah, and a 729 00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:58.920 lot of long term they're not helping the long term right because it might be 730 00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:02.159 you know, how come in my little Judy or playing Yeah, we're gonna 731 00:47:02.159 --> 00:47:05.480 do it. I mean, Steve, I listened to this. I got 732 00:47:05.719 --> 00:47:10.400 stuff like that in girls middle school softball. Yeah, there was a there 733 00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:15.559 was a parent, a specific parent that got you know, when I gave 734 00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:20.239 all the kids my email address, I got phone calls and emails from her 735 00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:23.599 about her daughter not playing it and what was your girls? Don't call me 736 00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:29.639 answer? I said, Look, I said, I this is you know. 737 00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:31.880 My answer was, this is middle school softball. Everybody's gonna play. 738 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:35.800 Yeah, and if your kids not getting enough playing time, I'm sorry, 739 00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:37.719 that's just too bad. Let's take this. Hi, You're on the arm 740 00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:42.639 and I on the ball. Hey, guys, what's Vic? What's going 741 00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:47.159 on? Vic? I just wanted to kind of expand upon what you guys 742 00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:52.400 are talking about. Coach Andy Uh. He mentioned John Scalinas, who was 743 00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:58.440 the phenomenal coach a cal Pally Pomona wherever, Jay, you ever heard the 744 00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:01.239 story of seventeen inches? I don't know if I want to ask that. 745 00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:07.559 So it's Goalinas was giving a clinic and he had a home plate in his 746 00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:10.840 hand, and he tells all the high school coaches there, how big is 747 00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:15.360 this plate? They all say, seventeen inches? Okay? He says, 748 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:17.840 how about college? How many college coaches I got out here? How big 749 00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:22.159 is this plate? Seventeen inches? And then he tells the same to the 750 00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:25.519 pro guys that are in there, and he says, they don't expand it. 751 00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:30.840 If your kid can't throw seventeen inches, they don't widen it to eighteen. 752 00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:34.679 He says, they don't widen it to twenty if your kid can't throw 753 00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:40.159 a strike, he goes So you need to just put those rules in your 754 00:48:40.199 --> 00:48:45.159 team. When a kid gets caught or coming late, you don't. You 755 00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:49.719 A lot of guys widen the rules for him, right, right, that's 756 00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:53.639 a plate. They don't widen the home plate because your kid can't throw stripes. 757 00:48:55.360 --> 00:48:59.719 Yeah, he goes on and tells a longer story, but basically that's 758 00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:04.920 a of it is. You got a whole and kids aren't held accountable today. 759 00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:07.599 A lot of them aren't. And that's that, and that's the big 760 00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:09.519 issue, you know, and you see that, you know different players getting 761 00:49:09.559 --> 00:49:15.159 handled different ways, and it's like, you know, you have to you 762 00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:17.480 always have to have the overall good of the team in mind when you're doing 763 00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:20.360 things to make a decison. Hey, Vic, I'm sure you like to 764 00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:22.760 interview, but let me ask you. Did you coach at one point? 765 00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:29.800 I did. I did youth ball and Almani and we were fantastic. We 766 00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:35.039 OLMNI was a hotbed of baseball in the San Gabriel Valley and coach some of 767 00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:37.840 the best. A couple of my kids made it to the majors. Don 768 00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:43.719 Kennedy and Freddie Diaz had a whole bunch of college guys, and uh, 769 00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:46.599 we're coming out of that area. It's pretty you know, it's the Latino 770 00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:53.079 area gang infested, and uh, we we held our kids accountable. Well 771 00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:55.880 let me say I still keep in touch with a lot of them. Well 772 00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:59.800 let me say this real quickly, just a minute in your response. Uh, 773 00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:02.400 back then, were the kids coachable or did they want to be coached? 774 00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:06.519 Because that's the question now do the kids today want to be coached? 775 00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:12.000 No? It was definitely a different type of kid back then. Yeah, 776 00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:15.719 a different type of kid, and you you could be a little harder on 777 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:19.000 him. They wouldn't go home and cry to mama and all all that kind 778 00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:22.480 of stuff. So definitely a little bit different kind of kid. You you 779 00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:27.159 say a cuss word today and you're gonna lose your job, right Yeah, 780 00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:30.039 no, yeah, yeah, absolutely, all right, a little bit. 781 00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:34.719 But that Andy Lopez guy, Yeah, the more you have on him, 782 00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:37.199 I can't get enough on Yeah, one of the good ones, one of 783 00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:39.840 the good ones. All right, Vic, Thanks abouch, I appreciate it. 784 00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:43.639 You guys, take care. He's right, He's right, no, 785 00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:45.840 you know, and and and uh, you know, different teams have different 786 00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:49.519 issues, and you know, The funny thing is, to me, it 787 00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:53.079 seems to me that the whole word that we hear about entitled, and then 788 00:50:53.159 --> 00:50:58.480 the teams that seem to be less entitled are the teams that are just kind 789 00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:01.599 of in areas where you know, they're not a bunch of you know, 790 00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:07.039 they haven't been been spending thousands of dollars on travel ball and you know, 791 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:08.920 getting all the things that come with that, where they seem to have to 792 00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:10.800 work for it a little harder, I guess is what it is. What 793 00:51:10.840 --> 00:51:14.760 I'm saying, Well, well, the play doesn't move to eighteen inches right 794 00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:16.119 at seventeen inches, no matter what. That was a good story. Yeah, 795 00:51:16.159 --> 00:51:19.719 that's good story. Yeah, all right, Well this show went fast. 796 00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:22.280 It was good, So good stories shows fast. All right, Hey, 797 00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:25.840 Brent Brennan, Tomorrow we're gonna have the head coach Airson Football coming on 798 00:51:27.239 --> 00:51:30.440 talk about what his summer's been like and what's going on. Yeah, they've 799 00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:32.440 had a lot of guys coming in and so and then they're in the Big 800 00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:35.800 twelve now right, No, we're talking about the Pac twelve. They're in 801 00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:37.840 a Big twelve. Yeah, I'm sure there were a lot of tributes to 802 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:39.840 say goodbye over the week. Is it's done. Yeah, it's also it's 803 00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:44.679 over. It's all done and tracking, everything's all done. And so we're 804 00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:47.599 we're on to uh onto the Big twelve. So Brent Brannon will be on 805 00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:51.119 later on in the week. We're gonna have John Wilner, he'll join us 806 00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:53.800 talk about sort of the business of what's going on around around the country. 807 00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:57.239 A lot of stuff going on there. So so we'll see our our Pac 808 00:51:57.320 --> 00:52:01.760 twelve attire on sale on eBay. Now. I wear packed Off shirt all 809 00:52:01.800 --> 00:52:07.119 day yesterday t shirt. I cleaned the yard in it, because what's gonna 810 00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:12.280 that's what it's gonna be for. I went on and did some yard work 811 00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:15.119 in my Packed Off. Don't come back in that jersey next week. You 812 00:52:15.159 --> 00:52:19.280 can't wear that jersey or my Cardinals one that I don't care. That's fine, 813 00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:22.039 that's that's just an ugly jersey. Sorry about that. Last week is 814 00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:25.719 next week. The guy at the gas station said it was cool. All 815 00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:28.840 right, Hey, thanks for being here everybody. We'll see you tomorrow.