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This is I on the Ball with
Steve Rivera and Jagan Zalaz on Fox Sports

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R two SAD and iHeartRadio Station Yet. Hey, good afternoon, everybody.

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Welcome to Eye on the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve

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Rivera, He's Jagan's aus and we
have a possible intern in with us today.

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Henry. Henry. Welcome, Henry. Say what up? Henry?

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Just go ahead and put it down, that microphone down. We should't gotten

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you ready for that. Push it
down. You'll be fine. We'll get

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back to the way the other way
there. You'll learn quickly. We'll get

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to welcome Henry, thank you for
being here. Henry's from New York.

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Yeah, I'm not sure what to
make of that yet. Well, he'll

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have a big like a lot of
opinions like new York, New York.

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Ya. Are you like a Manhattan
all the fan fan of all the New

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York teams or what for baseball?
Basketball and hockey? Yeah? Football mccoles

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soon all right, okay, okay, that sounds good. Just say you're

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Dodgers man and he'll be happy the
rest of his life. Yeah, but

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don't but don't you Yankees are man. Okay, get out that. That's

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one Demerica for not making it the
team. Now that's okay, We'll see

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it's okay. Well, welcome to
Wednesday Show. A lot to get to,

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a lot of things going on,
breaking news and otherwise. Uh,

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we have a couple of different guests, right, we haven't had our first

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guy whatever ever. Matt Reynoldson,
who's the sports director at kV o A

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been here since October reading his bio. He's been wanting to get Arizona for

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a while. He's a Nebraska corn
Husk. Well, he's had a tough

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light. Yeah. Uh, he
came to Tucson working in Green Bay,

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so he's got some pro football background
up there. So we'll talk to him

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a little bit, maybe get a
little bit drafts, but we just want

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to you know, get this community
to know him a little bit. And

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we've been wanting to get him on
for a while, but things have been

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so busy. You know, ran
into him a bunch at the Final four.

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But he's you know, one of
the local guys uh here at kV

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AWAY. So we'll just kind of
get introduced to Matt, see what he's

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up to and how he's doing and
kind of how he likes it here.

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Yeah, okay, second hour,
Second hour, It's it's the It's draft

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eve. The NFL Draft is tomorrow, so we're gonna we're hitting up our

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resident NFL expert, the only one
we have, Pat Finley, former reporter

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at the Star, now at the
Chicago Sun Times. He's covering the Bears,

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who happened to have the first pick, but he's also basically their NFL

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writer, So I think he'll be
able to give us some perspective on on

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the draft as a whole. You
know, what he's hearing, uh,

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what we can expect to see.
You know, a lot of chatter on

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all the on all the shows today
about who's doing what we'll ask we'll ask

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uh Pat what he thinks about.
There's sort of a excuse me an informal

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over under that there will be six
quarterbacks taken in the first round something.

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Michael Pennix is the last of the
sex. He could go in the second,

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but there's there's starting to be a
lot of buzz and he'll go in

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the first. So we'll see what
what Pat knows about that? Okay,

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sounds good a lot of things.
I still think that Rebecca Curros will never

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speak to us again. They got
swept yesterday. I'm sure you saw.

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That's your faulty. It's not my
fault. I think that's your fault.

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I'm guilty by association. It's very
sad. I hope that she comes back,

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that's up. I hope they win
it all. So, hey,

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we were the impetus for kind of
getting it recalibrated. Well, I just

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hope her dad isn't out of the
parking lot waiting for me when we come

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out, because you know he's he's
a part of that. As Rebecca said,

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he works with the still works as
a volunteer assistant coach, is still

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involved with them and U non Remando
for thirty some years. And if he

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was waiting for me in the parking
lot, I wouldn't be surprised. So

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tell Henry why you saying this?
Well, Henry, there's this thing.

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I'm kind of the kiss of death
all things, whether it's a winning streak,

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picking a team in a game,
whatever, whatever it might be,

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it's a it's literally a thing I
seem to have a way of picking teams

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that just and uh so we had
we had Pema was on a twenty six

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game Pima Sopha was on a twenty
six game winning streak, and we got

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their coach to come on as a
guest on Monday, and then they got

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swept yesterday. A double headed so
wow, it was not even the right

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word. It's like we expect that
stuff to happen. We even joked with

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her about that that this could possibly
happen. No worries, no worries.

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Yeah, but I mean we had
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was my thing right right. Well, they've come, they've done a lot

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of great things. They've done a
lot of great things, and and yesterday

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was not They got swept at Central, which is a big deal. So

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anyway, okay, okay, so
a lot of things going on at you.

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We gotta get ready for Saturdays up
right. Uh yeah, your credential

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too, That's what it was.
How we got our credentials to so we

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we don't have to pay to get
in. We're gonna they're gonna allow us

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to go up into the press box. We don't have to set out there

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on the sea if if we don't
want to the most important thing is our

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food probably not, probably not today
from Oh, yeah, don't say anything,

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we'll do Okay, we'll do that
during breaking, talk about that's what

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we come over the breaking. A
lot of stuff like that, but stuff

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like that, right right, right
right. A lot of things going on

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softball in baseball. What's going on
with them? Oh well, women's golf.

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Oh got picked for the nub A
tournament during the Las Vegas Regional.

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Actually moments before I went and picked
up our credentials for the spring game and

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need a mad answer down there,
and he said they'd just gotten the news

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that that golf is in the n
cua A tournament again there and they're gonna

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be in the Vegas regional. So
which means I think you and I need

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to go to go there. Yeah. The expense that I'm not really sure.

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We're our own expense, Yeah we
are. My boss will not allow

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that. But but no, you
know, good for Lori and Llo and

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her team. Uh, you know, they were national champs if you not

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to not too long ago, so
we'll see. You know, Look,

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you can't win if you don't get
in it, right, So they're in

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it now. They can have a
shot at it, and golf is one

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of those things where you can just
get on a roll, you get hot,

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your team, you guys start playing
good and the next thing you know,

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you know, you're you're you're winning
the thing, right right? Okay,

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okay? What else is going on? A lot of stuff? Uh

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in U N I L Well did
you see? Well? I know this

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is breaking news. This is not
breaking news. We wouldn't talk about in

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breaking news anyway. You see what's
going on in Texas A and M.

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No, they're firing a lot of
people in the in the department, big

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time people, like long term people, people who make money people. Guess

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what? Uh, someone I one
of one of my guys I was speaking

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to today before I saw this news
was guess what. Every every college situation

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is gonnappen like this. Arizona was
in no different rule, but that became

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public and it's they're they're changing the
thing. If you google it, Texas

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A and M is changing the landscape
because it has to it says, uh,

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given the given the construct of what's
going on today, Uh, it's

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just crazy. Some big time people, long time people, and nothing that

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they did wrong. They just had
to make cuts that the money. You

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know, the money, the money
is being has to be spread around differently,

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right when you when you're having to
come up with ni L money and

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stuff like that. Right. So, and it had nothing to do with

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the Jimbo Fisher debacle. The millions
they had to pay there, that was

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probably from a different slush fund or
whatever. Uh. That this is the

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way of the world. I would
venture to guess, Jay, this is

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going to be the first ball to
roll in a lot of different areas well.

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You know again, and we've talked
about there, you know, as

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as we talked about with Cody Ritchie, you know, yeah, days ago.

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Yeah, there's only so much money
the boosters, not just the boosters,

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but the fans as a whole have
to give. Yeah, these programs

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who need more money than they've ever
needed. Now, yes, did because

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they didn't see this coming. Or
these school spending hundreds in some cases one

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hundreds of millions of dollars on facilities, and then the increased coaching salaries,

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all those things. They were just
money, money, money going to all

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these things. Then all of a
sudden, wait a minute, you know,

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we could have used that money.
You know, I heard today that

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somebody wrote a letter to the editor
complaining that the fourteen million dollars that went

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to the golf facility, they should
have spent that on the debt. Right,

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two separate things, very separate,
and they're not going to do that.

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And let me tell you, Jay, because you know, I was

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there at at the ribbon cutting.
I'm doing a story for you. And

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they made sure they made certain the
president did and I think we erecked in

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that none of those funds were from
anywhere else but friends of the program,

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right, boosters, right, and
those boosters were giving their money for that.

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They weren't going to just hand a
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the death that was not gonna happen. So for somebody to suggests that

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is one of the most ridiculous things
I've ever heard. It tells me that

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it's somebody who understands zero about how
all this right. Well, this is

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the problem. I have a hard
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I have no stake in the game. For someone else telling somebody else how

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to spend their own money, well, that's in the end, that's the

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bottom line, and that is that
it's my money. If I want to

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build a golf facility. I get
to build a golfice, that's right,

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That's right. And if I don't
want to, if I don't want to

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help the u A pay its bills, then I'm not gonna help the v

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A paid. I'm curious to what
the person who wrote the letter, what

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have they given exactly exactly? And
I happen to know who the person is.

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I'm gonna say zero. You do? Is it in the paper paper?

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I just heard about this, somebody
having a conversation with me Wednesday lunch.

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That's that's the difference. Don't,
don't, don't. That's the difficult

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thing. You know, Jay,
you have twenty bucks in your in your

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pocket. Why don't you do this
with it? You don't guess what,

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Jay, that's your money. You
do whatever you please with you know,

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buy this burrital, this size of
no, no, no, you do

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what you want, you know.
And I'm sitting here and in my particular

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situation. Whether this matters to anybody
else, you know? For for however

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many years, we've had two season
tickets, my wife and I for football,

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for football. My son is you
know, he's been working at the

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in the side department. My daughter
rach worked in the side department. My

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other daughter Lana hasn't been in town
because you'd be going to school. That's

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so for a number of years to
you know, to two season tickets,

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and that's been my contribution, and
that's really for my particular financial situation.

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All I could do right now,
Well, I got my two daughters in

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town. Now I gotta buy two
more season tickets. And you know,

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might I have given that money as
a or some of it as a donation,

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maybe, but now I can't because
I've got to buy two season tickets.

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Prices have gone up, and so
my contribution this year is for for

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season tickets and a tailgate pass instead
of too. So you know, everybody

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does what they can do. That's
my that's my bit if they decide to

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do that, right and that's and
that's what I have to do. And

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everybody does what they're gonna do or
what they want to do. You know.

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Also heard heard another story that that
you know, the Jenny how the

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Jenny Clements Academic Center got you know, how she gave the money for that.

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Jenny Clements is somebody who has been
handed out money to the u A

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because she loves the U of A. What was what was that somebody else

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was going to put the money in
for that and then backed out, and

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then she she stepped forward. Well, yeah, they acknowledged her big time

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because she's done a lot for that
school. You know. Uh, there

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was that they had somebody else lined
up to to to to do that,

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and then that person decided to do
something else with their money. And then

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you know, Jenny Clemens, don'kay, I'll do it, you know,

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a couple nine bucks. Yeah,
So I was wondering about that. There

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was something I read today billions.
It's oh, you saw you saw the

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the golf. I don't know you're
gonna do breaking news the golf. Tiger

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Wood gets a hundred thousand, n
hundred million whatever it was just to stay

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loyal to the LPGA. Have you
You haven't even seen it, to the

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PGA. So they gave him a
ton of money. Uh, and and

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and Rory a fifty fifty million I
think Tiger for one hundred million fifty to

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being loyal to the to the PGA. And it was one point five billion

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dollar one point five billion dollar fund
to ward reward on some of the local

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who decided to do this. Right, So I'm thinking what would you do

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if you had a one point five
billion dollars? Would you do this with

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it? Obviously they have more than
that, but you know what I mean,

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you know what I mean, come
on, who has that type of

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money just to do that? Give
Tiger one hundred million dollars just for being

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Tiger Woods, the last guy you'd
expect to need it. Yeah, you

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know, God, I'm just looking
at this right now. Oh my god.

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You know, hey, you're a
brand, you know, yeah,

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you are a run I mean a
hundred million? Really? He play said,

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okay, you know whatever, Yeah, crazy, but there you know,

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there was rumor, a rumor floating
around that he was that Rory was

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he would have if he he would
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he would have done it knowing that
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of yeah, a lot of criticism, criticism if you don't. You know,

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look, you got fifty million.
How much more money do you need?

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Right? You know? They need
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dollars more than you need that age
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gonna something's gonna happen with all most
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coming from is from us, Steve. You know, from a fan or

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a company. You know, a
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know, the price of the price
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know, at the Phoenix Open just
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all this money to keep these players
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quick, I know, Hold are
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Okay, we'll get to we'll get
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be okay, so we'll talk to
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okay, all right, let's go
take our first break. We're gonna

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come back. Uh, Matt Matt
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and Matt Rynoldson gave you a sports
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we're just kind of introduce I know
he's introduced himself all over time,

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but we're going to introduce him our
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little bit. And so stick around
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fourteen fifty streaming live. I mean
iHeartRadio. Wapp Hey, welcome back to

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Eye on the Ball here Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's

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Jacinsaus. Now on the phone,
we have Matt Reynoldson. He's sports director

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at KVOA. How you doing that? Hey, good you first time guest,

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longtime listeners, long time you don't
want to think of I was with

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Matt and Brian in LA I think
it was for the tournament. And you

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know already hate Matt. He's only
twenty eight years old. Twenty nine years

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old. I have T shirts older
than Matt, Yeah, I think.

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Yeah, I'm not one hundred percent
sort, but I think the under where

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I have on her Well, let's
how does that make you feel? Matt?

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You know what? I have some
T shirts pretty old too. I

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think some are still in the circulation
for my middle school days. Oh.

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I can't judge anybody for having an
old, decade old T shirt. Yes,

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we all have our favorite stuff that
we appreciate. That. Well,

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man, welcome to the show.
Thanks, thanks for joining us today.

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We've been wanting to get with you
for a while. You've been here a

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few several months, right, I
think your your bio on your website says

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October Right, that's correct. Yeah. I came in on the first day

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of the U of a football win
streak, So consider that lucky, if

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you will. Nice, Nice,
what was your What was the big reason

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why you decided to come to Tucson
after seemingly having a pretty good gig where

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you were before. Yeah, you
know, it was a real big step

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for me to kind of take the
step to be a sports director for the

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first time. You know, I
thought that that was a real big appeal

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of you know, being in that
spot where I could make a lot of

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content decisions for how I wanted to
build the department and stepping in with someone

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like Jenna, who has just been
incredible is it has really been a really

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nice journey for me to see exactly
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in a way that we have and
the energy that she brings and you know,

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the kind of trying to get to
everything energy that I bring is something

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that I take a lot of pride
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why I wanted to come here.
Plus I've always loved Arizona, so that

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was a no brainer decision for a
location standpoint. You mentioned that you got

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your drink in the middle of the
football season, so you know what was

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sort of your first order of business. I mean, where you just you

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know the proverbial you know, fire
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Was so much going on or did
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kind of get the lay of the
land and start doing stuff. How did

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you manage all of that? Well? Yeah, for me, first of

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all, it was just get in
and get as much stuff done as I

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can. You know, my third
day, I think it was it was

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a basketball media day, and I
know they had that kind of late in

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the afternoon and still came back and
anchored the six o'clock show. I was

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anchoring my third day here. So
I was just itching, ready to get

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going and ready to get rolling and
ingratiate myself to this community because I saw

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from a distance with Paul Takala,
my predecessor, you know what this community

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did for him, and you know
all the things that all the ways that

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he invested into the community, and
so I just really wanted to hit the

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ground running and start doing that myself. And I thought being on air for

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the first time very early on was
the best way to break into that.

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Well, let me tell you one
suggestion. Please don't be shooting any selfies

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with shirtless stless and actually don't don't
hit the ground running, because the right

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funny thing about Paul is that he
did hit the ground running literally in Vegas

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the clip. So those are two
suggestions. A couple guys, So what

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was what have been your biggest impressions
so far? You've been here a while

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now, but what were your biggest
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I think, first of all,
there is just a really passionate sports

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community here, and it ranges beyond
just one sport. You know, you

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go to a lot of campuses that
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and here it's so well distributed energy
wise, amongst all the sports at the

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U of A. You know,
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in Phoenix as well, people care
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the Roadrunners and FT two Son,
and that that energy is just really well

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placed kind of throughout and it makes
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because it feels like everything I'm covering
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And then twofold, I love living
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incredible, but be I mean just
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been fantastic. I'm a big hiker. I've hit probably over a dozen trails,

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maybe two dozen trails. I've been
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busy season, so I'm looking forward
to continuing that even with the hot weather

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coming. Okay, so your your
your last job before here was Green Bay,

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right, so you get pro pro
football. I'm sure it was that.

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What that was, you know,
mostly all about me, I'm you

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know, being up there. There's
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Wisconsin. You know, Milwaukee's not
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So you know, but did you
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a football background approach angle, you
know, and then you came during football

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season? How you know what did
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here and we're you know, you
talk about all the different sports are important,

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but yet you know, you came
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where it was football season. I
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the uba was really turning things around
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I'm such a football junkie, if
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I didn't play the game for very
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know, just being able to be
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well as a football crazed state and
so got to really study the game and

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learn it from an analyst standpoint,
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know, be able to learn about
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it helped me translate to Green Bay
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here as well in the middle of
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very fun to see the success of
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I'm I'm curious you're you're twenty eight
or twenty nine, right, I

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can't remember which one it was,
twenty eight, twenty eight, So you've

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been in the profession of relatively short
time, I'll estimate six years. Has

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it changed much since you've gotten out
of school? You know? I think

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I graduated at a very very unique
time in that things were sort of starting

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feel like that transition has gone maybe
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or that it seems, with all
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I think the death of linear television
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it's always been sort of a backdrop
to what I've been doing. Obviously,

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everybody went through a lot of changes
in twenty twenty, and that actually happened

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right as I was transitioning jobs between
Lincoln and Green Bay. So it was

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unique to learn about the new things
and at a place where a lot of

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for me because transitioning anyway with that
while everybody kind of transitioned to a different

408
00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:11.920
style of work, was maybe a
little bit easier for me than it would

409
00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.039
be for what would be for some
people that had been in one place for

410
00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:18.880
a long time. So I'll say
this, all six years have been completely

411
00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:22.599
unique, and I wouldn't change anything
for the world. So, you know,

412
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.000
we all always talking to the you
know, the other media people here.

413
00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:30.279
We in fact, we had Damien
Alameda on the show late last week,

414
00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:33.240
and I'm sure you know you've met
Damien, you know, Jason Barr,

415
00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:40.599
you know those guys just how quick, how drastically? Though, is

416
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:44.039
it changing because it's different now,
I mean, Steve and I, you

417
00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:47.400
know, we're we're guys who are
doing this in the eighties and nineties and

418
00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:51.440
whatnot. It's so much it's way
different for us, but it's still you

419
00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:53.759
know, you talk about, you
know, the social media aspect of it

420
00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:57.039
and those kinds of things, sort
of the twenty four to seven aspect of

421
00:27:57.039 --> 00:28:00.759
it. That's kind of what you've
been doing the whole time. More list,

422
00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:03.759
isn't it. Yeah, it is. And I think I've started my

423
00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:08.319
junior year of college as well.
I intern for the Rivals Network at Nebraska

424
00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:11.680
and it was basically in a full
time capacity, but it was in that

425
00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:15.680
I learned how to be a beat
writer that paid attention to everything all the

426
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time. So, you know,
I got a million Twitter notifications on my

427
00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:22.920
phone, I've got you know,
this email that I keep track of,

428
00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.279
this message board that I keep track
of, and at some point it just

429
00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:30.599
sort of becomes a rhythm. You
know, it doesn't feel like you're constantly

430
00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.799
just buried in your phone catching up
on things. It's just okay, I

431
00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:37.039
can ignore this. I need to
pay attention to this. And I feel

432
00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:42.079
like because I came up in that
and was trained by really good people that

433
00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:48.160
were exceptionally diligent on that, it's
been a pretty easy transition as far as

434
00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:49.880
that. But I think at the
end of the day, as much as

435
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:56.000
this business is changing, there is
between TV, radio, print, you

436
00:28:56.079 --> 00:29:00.359
name it. There will always be
a value in low sports and a value

437
00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.480
to going out and telling the stories. And you know that's what I just

438
00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:06.519
take a lot of joy in it, and so I love this job.

439
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:08.079
Well, you mentioned that telling the
stories. You know, again, when

440
00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:11.440
we're talking to Damien, he's talking
about how you don't so much as do

441
00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:15.559
the scores. No, right,
it's about telling. It's about telling stories.

442
00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:19.079
You know, people can go get
the score of the Yankee game and

443
00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:23.000
the Dodger game and wherever they want
and a million different places. So you

444
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:26.319
guys aren't putting your time into that, right, You're trying to tell different

445
00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:30.960
types of stories. Is that the
approach that you have as well? You

446
00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:34.079
know it is to some extent,
But I honestly just take the approach of

447
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:38.359
let's get to everything and then see
what stories come out of it. I

448
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:41.960
think the biggest thing about being in
a new place for the first time is

449
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:47.599
getting your hands in as many things
as you possibly can and being at everything

450
00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:51.160
and watching the stories sort of unfold
in front of you. You know,

451
00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:56.039
there will always be incredible stories of
triumph at every level of sport, and

452
00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:00.279
whether you tell those in a two
minute format where you really dive into you

453
00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.680
know, the history or the or
the person's past or the emotions or things

454
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:07.039
like that, or you just do
that in a thirty second highlight and you

455
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.880
watch, you know, a baseball
player buried at the end of the bench

456
00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:15.039
hit the walk off for the first
time he's ever done it. I think.

457
00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:18.440
I think it just for me at
the position that I'm at, comes

458
00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:22.160
down to being at as many things
as I possibly can and watching those stories

459
00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:26.519
unfold, and then circling back and
finding the stories you know when it makes

460
00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:30.839
sense to tell them. Yeah,
no, that's exactly right, especially because

461
00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:33.640
you only have two and a half
minutes three minute stops probably to tell those

462
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:38.880
stories exactly. Yep, it's that
condensed format, but you know it's something

463
00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:42.400
new every day, which really does
make it feel like so much more than

464
00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:45.359
that three minutes. That's what we're
talking to. Matt Reynoldson, sports director

465
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:49.079
at KVOA. So, Matt,
Iran and you probably a number of times

466
00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:52.799
you know you're covering in the Final
Four. Tell me, you know,

467
00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:56.200
tell the listeners you're covering an event
like that. Yes, it's in Phoenix,

468
00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:00.400
so it's semi local, but you
know Arizona's and I in it.

469
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.240
What stories are you looking for there? What were you trying to do there?

470
00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:07.759
I didn't get to see your newscast
because I was up there the whole

471
00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:11.119
time working the thing, But what
what was your goal when you were and

472
00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:14.799
I saw both you and Jenna up
there? What were you guys looking for?

473
00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:18.119
Yeah, that was a very unique
experience for us, just because neither

474
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:22.480
of us had covered the Final Four
before and Jay, as you saw hundreds

475
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.880
of media there. It is extremely
well organized as well, major credit to

476
00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:30.200
the NCAA for how they organize it. But if you've never been to one

477
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:34.680
of those things before, it is
extremely overwhelming and the walking distances are a

478
00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:40.200
lot further so you have to allow
more time for everything. But what Jenna

479
00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:42.880
and I were doing, we were
covering it and always planning to cover it

480
00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:48.759
from an Arizona local interest perspective because
it's a major sporting event going on in

481
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:53.200
the state. But we have sister
stations through our ownership company, which is

482
00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:59.720
Alan Media Allan Media Broadcasting, and
our sister stations in Huntsville, Alabama and

483
00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:05.839
what Lafayette, Indiana had actually sent
a you know, materials like mic flags

484
00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:09.559
and things like that to cover these
events for them. So we covered practice

485
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:14.920
day and went in the locker room
and talk to these players from a from

486
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:20.039
almost a beat reporter perspective for Purdue
in Alabama, but also at the same

487
00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:22.559
time we would throw a question in
there on hey, what does it mean

488
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:24.279
to be here? Hey what do
you think about walking onto a court that's

489
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:28.400
raised in the middle of a football
stadium? Things like that, so we

490
00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:31.559
could tie it back into our local
stuff. But doing things for three stations

491
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:37.000
were was a unique boust and it
was a very fun and very hectic five

492
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:40.880
days. So outside of the work, because there was your first one,

493
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:44.640
how did you enjoy it? Because
people think, you know, I've been

494
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:47.480
to I've been to nineteen of them. Jay's been to a few. It's

495
00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:52.359
it's work It's not oh, go
ahead foot in the final four, right

496
00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:54.039
right? It really it really is
a lot of work, and you know

497
00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:57.880
it was. I won't lie,
it was an exhausting weekend for us.

498
00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:00.160
But I think when it comes to
this, and I've tried to be more

499
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:05.839
intentional about this as I've had so
many new experiences in this early stage of

500
00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:09.799
my career, is just taking those
moments whenever you have a moment to stop,

501
00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:15.359
keep the phone in the pocket,
look around, breathe in and feel

502
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:21.119
this thing that so many people care
about. Feel the seventy five thousand people

503
00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:23.640
around you, feel the swell of
the crowd, and you know, listening

504
00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:28.240
to one shining moment live on that
court and things like that. I've been

505
00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:32.680
blessed to have a lot of incredible
experiences, and it's always those moments that

506
00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:37.599
I remember where I just stop and
let the goosebumps kind of roll in and

507
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:39.519
realize, hey, this is a
pretty cool job too, in addition to

508
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:44.319
the work we're doing. All right, So you've been through a basketball season.

509
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:49.079
You saw what that can be like
around here. Sort of your impressions

510
00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:53.000
not so much of Arizona and the
teams, but the fan base watching you

511
00:33:53.079 --> 00:33:58.160
along with those lines. Can you
can you compare the green Bay fan base

512
00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:02.920
to Arizona's fan base, because they
seem so not disappointed, but you know,

513
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:06.599
they have all these high expectations and
then at the end of the year,

514
00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:09.239
it's like, oh God, here
we go again. Well, I

515
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:14.400
think that is every fan base to
some extent. I mean that stretch of

516
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:16.599
January through April. I love living
in Green Bay and I loved my time

517
00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:21.320
up there and the people up there, But that stretch right after green Bay

518
00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:25.440
loses into playoffs, that becomes a
really sad stretch of time in the dead

519
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:30.360
of winter up there. So everybody
everybody has I mean fanas short for fanatic.

520
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:37.239
Everybody has somewhat unrealistic expectations of their
teams. I do too, I

521
00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:42.320
mean we are we are people that
are close to these programs and love these

522
00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:45.000
programs and are conduits to the fan
base, and so we feel the same

523
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:49.760
swells of emotion that they do.
And then our job is to put it

524
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:53.360
all in context. So I have
just seen I have just been so impressed

525
00:34:53.360 --> 00:35:00.320
with the incredible fans support, the
incredible attention to all the details of all

526
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:04.079
these different sports, with the u
of a and as I mentioned earlier,

527
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:07.519
the interest with Phoenix Pro Sports too. That Diamondbacks World Series run was on

528
00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:13.920
my second or third week. It's
so fun to see people care and latch

529
00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:20.199
onto these things and just breathe in
the nitty gritty of the matchups those things,

530
00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:22.400
but also in the broader effect,
the stories that go with it,

531
00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:29.400
and the greater context and the historical
context and what it all means in relation

532
00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:31.159
to what it means to be in
Arizona sports. Then well, if you

533
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:39.079
listen to us enough and you may
have their longtime sufferers and first time callers,

534
00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:44.440
well I am. I am a
no time sufferer, but first time

535
00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:47.719
color and long time listener. Now
I pop you guys on the radio every

536
00:35:47.719 --> 00:35:52.480
afternoon. I'm always kind of running
around the old Pueblo getting stories and doing

537
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:54.440
different things, and you know,
all my days off while I'll showing you

538
00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:58.199
guys in Well, you might be
the youngest listener. Thank you very much.

539
00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:00.800
I appreciate that very much. Thanks
man for coming on. Hey,

540
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:06.000
thanks a bunch, all right?
Thanks? You might be him and Nico

541
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:13.199
Nico old, Yeah, I found
out that is really Oh man, what

542
00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:15.320
are you gonna do? I remember
when I was turning in, I was

543
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:16.599
like, kind of can't wait till
I get old. No, I don't

544
00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:20.519
want to be as a sports director. Yeah, I'll tell you what I

545
00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:22.679
will say. He sounds really smart. Yeah, he sounds really really smart.

546
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:25.280
Okay, thanks Matt for being on. We're gonna take our break.

547
00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:28.639
When you come back, I would
love to take your calls. Five two

548
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zero four one forty. As Steve
says, a lot of stuff going on

549
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586
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here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
I'm Steve, you're jay uh if you're

587
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listening to a live I'm sure you're
listening to us. We would have known

588
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:27.719
something's going on, right, but
one of our listeners is saying that they're

589
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having a hard time giving us on
the app. Okay, but not sure

590
00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:36.199
why not sure? Why put bars? I know we're everybody else we're laughing.

591
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:38.920
Yeah, right, so okay,
they may have turned it off by

592
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now. Right, Wait, it
was good to talk to met see what

593
00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:46.000
was quite? You know? You
know all of them though, well,

594
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Jason Barr has been around him while
he's been a well no, yeah that

595
00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:54.639
Damien. This picure forever cos got
a young crew. Everybody is Do you

596
00:39:54.679 --> 00:40:01.079
watch locals? Do watch local news
occasionally? Part one channels all of them?

597
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:04.480
Yeah? Just yeah, I'll flip
around. Good answer, So I

598
00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:09.239
watched you I flip around. I
watch because you know, the the the

599
00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:15.559
sports casts aren't as regular as they
use There's some days, you know,

600
00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:21.199
a broadcast won't even have sports on
right, or there are different times like

601
00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:23.599
it used to be like twenty one
after the hour, that's when sports right

602
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:27.679
right after the weather. You know, it's not like that anymore. So

603
00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:30.199
I go back and forth, right, so I would. If you watch

604
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:35.639
there's twenty five years old, they're
twenty eight years old. It's very rare

605
00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:39.440
to see Sean Mooney, guys like
Sean Mooney up right, uh doing the

606
00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:45.960
anchor. Very yeah, it's a
it's a it's a young person's uh yeah,

607
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:46.679
it's the young person singing. I
mean, you know, the old

608
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:52.880
and we'll go and this used to
be a mid major, mid major market.

609
00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:58.159
Now it's people coming out of college. Yeah, yep. Well but

610
00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:00.480
it's like it's like that, you
know, across them or you know,

611
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:06.639
pretty much everywhere. You know,
you go watch the Phoenix stations and yeah,

612
00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:08.800
well a lot of it has money
to pay, right, you're gonna

613
00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:12.639
pay the young guys and the old
guy. I know. That's why we're

614
00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:17.360
sitting here. I'm okay with that. Who's your boss? You? Yeah,

615
00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:22.840
I guess I am. You like
him. He's always tough to deal

616
00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:29.679
with. Sometimes he's a big giant
Steven pile, you know what, teams

617
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:32.800
and he knows that. And you
can change the clothes and you can cut

618
00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:36.800
the hair and do all those other
things, and he gets up on the

619
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:42.559
wrong side of the bed. Man. Now I'm getting a text that that

620
00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:45.719
that the hap the app is just
playing yesterday's show. Yes, that's what

621
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:50.000
this guy was saying, because he
said I was saying Tuesday. So I

622
00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:53.199
haven't said Tuesday since yesterday. Okay, well yeah, I just got we

623
00:41:53.239 --> 00:41:58.280
have no. We have no,
Yeah, we have no because Jim called

624
00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:01.239
a couple of times yesterday or at
least once. Yeah, okay, we'll

625
00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:04.800
have to call this up and see
what. Yeah, we'll toget with with

626
00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:07.599
me, Paul or yeah, but
we'll go on here. We're on the

627
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:12.719
radio still, I'm assuming, but
who knows what's going on with the app?

628
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:15.199
Okay, A lot of stuff,
a lot of breaking news going on.

629
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:17.440
I know you're gonna have some of
that. The draft is tomorrow.

630
00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:22.719
The draft is tomorrow. Some of
your a guys, you think anybody at

631
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:27.360
least one or two maybe tomorrow.
Jordan Morgan is supposed to be drafted tomorrow

632
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:30.440
by one of the breaking news items
is where he's at in one of the

633
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:36.679
one of the more prominent UH mock
drafts. But Jordan Morgan is since last

634
00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:38.679
year, has been talked about as
a first round draft pick. He's an

635
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:45.320
offensive lineman. Those guys are hard
to come by. Uh, you know,

636
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:47.800
he's sort of at the at the
tail end of of round one according

637
00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:51.920
to according to some of these mock
drafts. And we'll talk to Pat Pat

638
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:54.559
feeling about about some of that.
But you know, as as always,

639
00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:58.719
the focus is on, you know, the quarterbacks. You know who's you

640
00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:01.800
know, who's which quarterbacks are drafted
where I think, you know, we've

641
00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:06.400
known all along that Caleb Williams is
going number one, and they're saying that

642
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:12.360
Jade and Daniels will go number two. Then after that, I don't know,

643
00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:15.119
yeah, you know you got you
got these guys, uh, you

644
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:19.679
know these there's these six quarterbacks that
looked like potential first d Well, did

645
00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:23.760
you see a meme like I saw
one yesterday this morning where the draft class

646
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:29.400
of three four years ago, the
Fields, the kid who's just got to

647
00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:34.159
will Wilson, Lawrence. Yeah,
all these guys except for baby Lawrence,

648
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:37.360
there're all been busy, yeah,
or been traded yeah, or just kind

649
00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:42.280
of just there Fields, Wilson,
the Wilson's, Zach Wilson, he just

650
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:45.760
got you just got traded to your
backup and they didn't pick. And there's

651
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:53.039
another one. There was four of
them right right, So that Dallas Dallas.

652
00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:57.480
He's a backup there who will never
see the time of day. Trade

653
00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:00.480
Lance was the I remember, I
was the myster of that draft. Like

654
00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:06.599
the guy had played one season,
Yeah, one season in North Dakota State,

655
00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:10.159
not even a D one school.
Yeah. And then they the Packers

656
00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:14.639
movement, I think drafted in tenth. The Niners took him. I mean

657
00:44:14.679 --> 00:44:16.679
the Niners, Yeah, took him
at number ten. I think it was

658
00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:21.079
hard as number three. I think
they gave up like three first. Yea,

659
00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:24.639
that's why we have you, Henry. You can remember that stuff that

660
00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:29.000
was yesterday week. We can remember
back before you were moving. And he's

661
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:30.920
not even reading off, not for
his thrownery. He just knows this stuff.

662
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:36.119
Yeah, he just knows this.
But uh, you know, do

663
00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:37.599
you watch the draft? Do you
like it? Not? Not? If

664
00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:39.840
I don't have a rooting interest,
and I don't, so I don't.

665
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:44.800
And it's a long process. It's
funny because I know I don't watch I

666
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:46.320
don't watch it after day one,
but I do watch day one. I

667
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:50.880
can't pay attention, but I don't
watch it. So the w NBA Draft

668
00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:53.159
was what last week? Last week? Yeah, and I think everybody kind

669
00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:57.639
of paid attention because of Kaitlyn clark
uh and some of the other ones.

670
00:44:57.760 --> 00:45:00.760
And it was done in an hour
or two, right, it was done.

671
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:04.440
And I'm thinking, that's not even
the first round of the NFL draft,

672
00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:07.920
right, because it goes so quickly. Well, everybody's got to get

673
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:09.599
their words in, you know,
with the way it gets covered. But

674
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:15.320
I do like the first round,
but I don't think yeah after that,

675
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:20.400
I'm just I'm just looking on Twitter
to see when Arizona guys are getting drafted.

676
00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:22.039
And that's it. Here's the funny
part. Well, and we talk

677
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:24.400
about sports, right, and you
know how much a fan I am,

678
00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:30.719
not of a team. I don't
you know now that I pay attention because

679
00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:32.880
I want to go see the Reds
here. I don't know people's people on

680
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:37.159
the rosters. I don't know.
I mean, I don't know. Do

681
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:39.119
I care de la Cruz? I
do that because it's kind of a sensation.

682
00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:45.320
Other than that, you know,
maybe some Yankees, maybe some Padres,

683
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.960
some Dodgers. Outside of that,
you know, when you see the

684
00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:52.119
betting lines and the money lines and
the pictures, I have no idea who

685
00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:58.320
they are. If you asked me
to name my fantasy baseball lineup, I

686
00:45:58.639 --> 00:46:01.599
could. I I could probably come
with three guys, maybe four. Don't

687
00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:05.280
you know that that whoy that I
know. I don't even know the names

688
00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:07.679
of them, just guys that ESPN
says, this guy's got good stats,

689
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:09.920
to go get it. I'll want
up. You and Henry. You probably

690
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:13.880
know this better than us, is
that you look at the rosters in the

691
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:16.239
NBA. No, not rosters when
they're playing the games in the NBA.

692
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:21.280
There are some dudes you've never heard
of, right, and and we covered

693
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:23.360
college basketball. I'm pretty good with
college basketball. Some dudes, you're thinking,

694
00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:27.480
I never heard that name a Kansas
or or whatever. You don't,

695
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.079
Yeah, because we would have known
if he was at Kansas. Well wait,

696
00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:31.239
you know, Adam and I,
my son, we were watching.

697
00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:34.920
He was over the house and we
were watching. We had an NBA game

698
00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:37.800
on and I can't I can right
now, I can't even tell you what

699
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:39.960
game it was. But there was
a guy. I looked at him.

700
00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:45.119
I thought, how was that guy
in the NBA. He's just a big,

701
00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:49.199
tall guy, big heavy, tall
guy with a beard, running up

702
00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:52.840
and down the floor and he's in
the NBA's No, it wasn't Jokic,

703
00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:55.239
And it wasn't Jokic, right,
but it was a Jokics kind of looking

704
00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:59.280
guy. Yeah, all right,
except with a beard. And I'm like,

705
00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:02.079
who is that? And Adam Yew
his name, and I said,

706
00:47:02.239 --> 00:47:05.840
never heard of him. He goes
he's been in the league like seven years,

707
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:09.400
and I'm like, you know,
what's you know? I look at

708
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:13.159
that guy and I think m Bell
is better than that guy. Well you

709
00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:15.920
think, but he's obviously not.
He's not. So we'll even look at

710
00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:20.360
the Toronto or the guy from here
went to Toronto and I was on the

711
00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:22.840
d L Coloco. I mean,
come on, we thought he would be

712
00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:25.719
making it and now he's injured or
whatever. So the kid, the kid

713
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:32.960
who's at Toronto Toronto, he's with
Indiana now yuk yuk? Oh no,

714
00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:37.480
no, no, not Pearl.
Yeah, okay, So where you go

715
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:42.000
to school? I know, in
New Mexico State. I would have never

716
00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:45.480
known this. How you know three
four years ago this guy could play a

717
00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:50.920
guy? Yeah exactly when New Mexico
stay grad And I'm thinking, where'd that

718
00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:53.039
dude play? He's pretty good And
I'm thinking, how did I not know

719
00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:57.480
this? But he was pretty good
during the time that they were pretty good?

720
00:47:57.559 --> 00:47:59.920
Right, and he was the reason. That's right, they were good

721
00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:04.320
there. Yeah, took Auburn to
the overtime. Yeah, two three years

722
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:07.000
ago. But again again, but
this was a guy and he's a foreign

723
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:10.719
guy. But I'm like, hey, how's the guy like that get in

724
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:13.960
the league? And then how does
he stay in the Well, that's the

725
00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:15.960
whole thing. You got to thirty
two teams in the first round and all

726
00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:20.440
these guys with dreams of being in
the NBA, and guess what the for

727
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:23.840
the the international players come in and
invade and there's very few spots. Yeah,

728
00:48:23.960 --> 00:48:28.239
you go, you just go to
the google the G League rosters.

729
00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:31.320
There are some pretty damn good players
in the G League. And you know,

730
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:34.960
today at lunch we had that,
we had the discussion that we had

731
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:38.320
a little bit yesterday. kJ Lewis, Yeah, and and uh and Dale

732
00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:43.239
and Terry the similarity between what they're
doing and how and what they say.

733
00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:47.519
The expert in the room, who
is my son, Adam, He says,

734
00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:51.480
kJ Lewis, you know, we'll
be back. He said, he's

735
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:54.760
you know, he's good, but
he's not He's not. No, he's

736
00:48:54.800 --> 00:49:00.800
not Terry n He'll play in the
league, just not now. Not now

737
00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:05.000
yeah, that he'll be out.
Yeah, but he because he's even you

738
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:08.679
know, even with all his you
know, physical attributes and all those things

739
00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:12.480
that he hasn't played it. He
hasn't even played enough. He said,

740
00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:15.239
Dayling Terry's better. Well, here's
the problem is better at this point,

741
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:17.800
here's the problem with him. And
like Dylan Terry, you go and you're

742
00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:22.679
probably going to play on the fifty
to fifty. You're gonna play here sometimes

743
00:49:22.679 --> 00:49:27.199
maybe, but you're gonna play a
lot in the G League. Really,

744
00:49:27.239 --> 00:49:30.480
if you're good enough, you should
be able to stay there for for for

745
00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:32.159
a long time, right right,
right right, you know, am using

746
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:37.119
my hand like people can see in
the radio stuff. But you know,

747
00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:39.000
but and you know the one he
talked about it when we thought because that

748
00:49:39.039 --> 00:49:43.559
initially said that I think k J. Lewis is better. But I think

749
00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:46.360
he maybe because he looks better,
he looks like he'll be better. He

750
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:50.360
will be. Maybe today he's not
better, he will be, but you

751
00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:52.360
know, you never know, you
got you know, he goes and starts,

752
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:54.119
you know, playing in these games
at the car you know, at

753
00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:59.480
the campus and stuff like that.
When somebody sees something right and says,

754
00:49:59.480 --> 00:50:00.360
you know, what let's not let
this guy go back to school, let's

755
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:04.760
go get it. Sure, you
know, but then again, what about

756
00:50:04.880 --> 00:50:09.960
ni L what's he gonna make here? Be comfortable here? And I don't

757
00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:14.599
know if college is good to you, Henry, but you want to stay

758
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:16.360
in college as long as you can, as long as you can. This

759
00:50:16.440 --> 00:50:22.480
real world is not a fun place
sometimes, well, especially at the NBA

760
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:29.119
level. Your your lifespan is not
it's not a long one, UNSI Lebron

761
00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:32.719
or someone like that. Sure,
and how many Lebron exactly exactly, Yeah,

762
00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:37.039
no, I I mean, I
hear you. I it's I.

763
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:40.320
But I'm kind of still in the
where you are. In that I could

764
00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:47.440
see, I could see kJ lewis
catching on with somebody takes one, takes

765
00:50:47.920 --> 00:50:51.320
if he if he goes, and
somehow he gets in sort of his own

766
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:54.559
plays well shows well, somebody might
say, you know what, that's the

767
00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:58.760
guy that we needed. Well,
it comes again to this thing where we

768
00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:02.079
saw what we talked about for a
fell combine. You get the measurables right

769
00:51:02.079 --> 00:51:06.239
there, jumping and leaping and the
blocking and all that all he has to

770
00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:09.199
do is break out of that,
right And someone say, oh, look

771
00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:14.360
at this guy even though you can't
play basketball, you know, not with

772
00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:15.840
kJ. But you know what I'm
saying, well, who's the Henry guy?

773
00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:20.280
Who is the guy from here?
Henry Chris Henry? Who did he

774
00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:22.840
do a year? You know he
did okay, but then he was just

775
00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:28.360
such a physical specimen. He couldn't
ignore that, right, They certainly couldn't

776
00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:31.239
ignore that. And he got drafted
and didn't do much. But you know,

777
00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:36.360
he got drafted. It's not an
exact science, and and people even

778
00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:39.719
at that level screw it up.
We just talked about it with the quarterbacks,

779
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:46.440
all those quarterbacks that that that haven't
made, they make one great thrown

780
00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:50.440
and every things, they're gonna be
the next great quarterback, right right,

781
00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:52.760
And they want to find, uh, the next Mahomes. They want to

782
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:57.639
find, right, everybody's looking for
that nugget, right, that that nugget

783
00:51:57.719 --> 00:52:00.440
somewhere and say they see somebody that
nobody else sees, so that in the

784
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:02.400
end they can say, guess what, I was smarter than you. You

785
00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:05.760
remember that one time we threw side
on him? Could you do that again?

786
00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:08.599
She's a number of times? Yeah, no, I yeah, I

787
00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:12.280
mean that's that's that's the way.
That's why it happens. So all right,

788
00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:13.960
well, we'll see if we can
get this figured out of what's going

789
00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:15.800
on with the APP. But we're
gonna going to take our break now,

790
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:20.960
we're gonna be back, but breaking
news, a bunch of stuff coming up

791
00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:23.559
today. Uh, we'll be we'll
be uh going through that. And then

792
00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:27.679
we have Pat Finley and we're gonna
get kind of get knee deep into the

793
00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:30.559
NFL draft with him. He covers
the NFL and the Chicago Bears for the

794
00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:35.079
Chicago Sun Times. So stick around
for all that and we will be right back