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Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera here. Jenkins also
got our guy Kevin with us today. I have a question for you,
Jay, Okay, who's gonna start? You were me? Are we tendative?
We we did today. I think we're both players to be named later.
We are the bitch. But it's no shock to you. I'm sure
whatever you know who we are. I got it. I got exactly what
we do. We're gray shirts, gray shirts. Yeah, great, sir,
don't hit me, don't hit me. We don't know, and he's
not gonna tell us. In fact, he said that today in the press
conference, he was funny. Uh, let's see, let's let's well,
first of all, let's say who've got guests, and then let's just jump
right into the press conference. Of course, something he talked about sign stealing.
He talked about quarterbacks. I got the first question in of the press
conference and asked him about DJ and so he just wanted to say that name.
No, I really don't ever want to say it actually, but real
quick, Kevin Mccabeuh, he covers a lot of high school sports up in
Phoenix, sort of a seen as a sort of a statewide high school sports
uh. Guru. So we'll talk to him, old friend from Channel thirteen
when he was the sports director down here years ago. So we'll talk to
him, and then Les Garrett, who is the sports editor of the Corvallis
uh uh Corvellis something Times Review. He's going to join us and talk to
us about Oregon State, uh and what we can expect to see Saturday.
But jumping right into it, uh, you know your question, who's the
starting quarterback? Uh? Oh, I'm sorry we didn't tell you what we
were doing here. Clip number three up there. He looks like, yeah,
like okay, okay, turn on our volume here and then just play.
But anyways, he was asked, who's you know? Are you keeping
the quarterbacks you know, under wraps until Saturday? Yeah, I'm gonna keep
that till game time. Right now, I think I think they're both ready
to play. Though. I think they're both ready to play, and we'll
have to see you know how it's all gonna end up. But right now
they're both gonna be dressed, both gonna be participating in warm ups, and
both prepared regardless of who goes in. How much cash you over your pocket?
Zero? Never mind, Kevin, I mean I don't carry cash on
me. Okay, you guys are okay, never mind, I don't.
I don't care any give you a I'm a millennial as far as that goes,
carry no cash. So so if you had cash, how much would
you bet that it's gonna be fa fita? I bet everything it's it's it's
okay. I bet a credit card doesn't have money on it. Yeah,
I got something, man something Okay. I bet my draft Kings account,
which is which is? Is that more or less than the credit card?
Take the credit card? But I you know, but okay. But he
was asked, I didn't play his club because it was very short. He
was asked, you know, would you consider because he was asked because Oregon
State has a quarterback that comes in and plays. You know, he's more
of a who's that guy? Who's that guy? For the Saints? Oh
yeah, Travis King is a King some of the Yeah, that Tayson Hill,
that guy, he's got a guy like that. And and so he
was asked, you know, would you think about doing something like that?
He said, have you thought? He asked him if you thought about or
talked about doing that, and he said, we've thought about it and talked
about it. And then that's all he said. So that's it. But
uh, you know it's a sort of you know, we'll find out when
we find out. And he you know, there's no reason for him to
tell us. No, no, no, not surprising. Yeah, So
that that's the news of today. It pobably came out right now. I'm
curious about how did the how did this the sign stealing thing? Well?
He you know because uh sports illustrator wrote an article that the guy, uh
Connor Stallion's was on the staff here at Arizona with under who on Fish under
Fish that you know, Fish knew he was at Michigan. He was involved
with Michigan when Fish was at Michigan. So Fish knows it. And he
said he knew him, but he said he's he's never been a paid staff
member, he's never been affiliated with our staff. He's I know him,
he's come here a couple of times. I saw him at the spring game
a couple of years ago. But he's never been a part of the football
organization. So what was he doing here? Probably trying to get a job,
yeah, he said. Jed said that he was looking for a job.
Yeah, he came in. He was trying to volunteer. So so
he made it clear, he made it clear he's not been you know,
he's not been a part of us, and we have nothing to do with
what going on. That question, that's an interesting question. Justin he apologized
for asking it, said, justin, you need to apologize. That's the
question. You have to ask the question question. That's a you know,
that's an experience. I never would have known that. I never would have
known that. The news and been in s I Sports Illustrated said that he'd
been here. Yeah, and then everybody here for instance, you know,
my son who was on the on his first on Jed Fish's first year,
said I never you know, I don't know who he is. I've never
seen him. So, you know, so Jed knows who he is.
He knows enough about him to know kind of who he is. And so
I he said, he's never been part of the staff. But the whole
science stealing issue, you know, came up and he had an interesting comment
similar to what what Dion Sanders said. Uh, I hope it's the way
I feel too. I hope it would be. I think it will be.
It's because it's something that's we talked about. You'll hear what he said.
Yeah, the size stealing thing is very interesting. Uh. You know,
I kind of agree with coach Prime. You got to stop people even
if you know what's coming. And I think he made the comment like it
doesn't matter if a sweep's coming, you got to stop the sweep. Uh.
I think that when I look at it. In my my experience is
I've never I don't know how to do it. I wouldn't know how to
process getting getting a call, being told what happened. Hey, you're going
to get this coverage and getting a play in fast enough to communicate it.
Without these communicators and without the stuff that you have. We signal, we
use wristbands, we go fast, we use tempo, it would be very
difficult. So I don't really get it. I don't understand the huge value
in it. I think we should just play football. But on top of
it. You know, we could get rid of it by just giving coach
to quarterback communicators in our helmets and not say things like, well, we
don't know if it's safe. When we know that the NFL does it,
and we know the XFL did it, and we know the USFL did it.
I think we're the only group that doesn't do it. So if we
just did that, we wouldn't be having any of these conversations. We wouldn't
have to see four hundred different big cards and sheets and all the things that
people hold up, and we wouldn't have to be having forty people's signal and
eighty two different color outfits. We could just press a button, call a
play, and run a play, kind of what we do in the NFL.
I like Jack Fish even more now, I really do, because I
I when I heard the Primes talk about it, I said, yeah,
come on, it's me against you and you can stop be well, more
power to you, Yeah, even if you know I'm gonna come that way
exactly, and and and again. How quick can you possibly see their sick
when they when they're when they're doing their signals, the play is just about
ready to go. Well, you're not going to have time to then change
your play because exactly will you have the personnel available for you to stop that
play at that time? No, no, exactly, it's too quick because
oh no, they have this play coming, we're not ready for it.
Well it's too bad, yeah, exactly exactly in your defense against my offense
or vice versa. Let's go play. I mean, that's like I mentioned
the stoops thing on the guy in the corner trying to look okay, so
you know that we're gonna come with something right, right, Yeah, exactly,
and and that and that and that's true, and that's that is true.
That's the unfortunate part of it, which tells me why if it's that
hard to do, unless unless Michigan has put together a system that addresses that,
right that says, okay, it's how quick we can change our play.
I don't know how where they say okay, we saw this signal,
they put up ten fingers and they move into that. You know, but
it would I think it would still be limited right as to how much you
can do with the other team's signed. Sure, of course, even if
even if you knew what was going okay, so on so so or so,
let's say, you see what defense are, and so you know,
or you're let's say you're let's say you're on defense and you find out,
you know what the play is. If you start moving your guys around and
the play starts, everybody might be out of position. There's so many things.
That's why, And that's actually what what what what? Dione Sanders was
saying, I don't know that we could process the information fast enough to do
anything. Sure No. Then then he he did go into a thing about
the the what when he's called said the connectors communicators, he's talking about the
things in the headsets and the helmets, and he was saying that that would
fix everything if we could just do that. And and the issue has been
apparently that the helmet companies are saying, if you're going to start modifying the
helmets and putting these things in there, we're not going to warranty the helmets.
And said, what the hell are you talking about? And he bakesally
said the NFL has been and everybody else does it. Why can't we do
it in college? And that was said, this billion dollar industry can't afford
to do that, right exactly, Well, the colleges should be able to
afford to do it, but the helmet companies okay, well, okay,
we'll go get a helmet company that will do that. Hell, they're giving
nil deals. One of the kids can pay for it. Savan was on
ESPN today and he described it almost to like a taxis system. He thinks
that because some schools simply can't afford to put in the technology and the helmets,
that we should almost have a system where you know, it's almost he's
he brought up a different rule set for differently funded schools and I don't I
don't know about that, but he did bring up, like if there should
be support system from the nc double A for these schools that cannot afford the
communication to fix don't you think that in the next five years, that's where
it's gonna go. It's baseball. Baseball's moved that way. I mean,
come on, you usually have a little ticker on your thing, and you
know they go to their ears and say tell me what I want to everything's
going to that eventually gonna happen. Yeah, they gotta do it, They've
got to do it. But but anyway, so that that and you know,
it was an inter part of the conversation, and being that Arizona got
in that conversation because of that SI article, it was a time we to
the questions got asked. So let me ask you. They asked about the
quarterbacks. I'm still curious about Wiley. They mentioned his name about today running
back didn't come out ran out of question, and I would I would put
that that the bringing back now is he's not one of the m v P
s. I don't know who is, because he's been valuable at all.
Hell right, So you kind of don't worry about it, you know,
when nobody's asking, because it's not it's not felt like it's something that's gonna
make or break. What's gonna happen and which which is he's a fantastic runner
all of a sudden, you don't even talk about it. Fortunate Arizona that
that it's not an issue. I did ask about because I've been harping on
DJ all summer long. I don't know it. Yeah, and and do
you like that? I love it? So I I did ask him.
He didn't really answer my question, but he did talk about him. But
here's here's what he had to say about about DJ. I didn't say I
don't think DJs any good to you. I didn't say it like that.
Let's see what you did you ask Did you put your question on there?
Yeah? Yeah, Here here's I asked. Here's what I asked him.
You've played three of the what we're considered the top quarterbacks in the league in
the last three league games. Where does DJ fit in there? Okay,
okay, here's what he said, League of quarterbacks. DJ has come in
and really gave a great spark to their passing game. I think they're they're
up maybe thirty or forty yards a game. They're they're playing at they're making
explosive plays down the field. They're they're hitting on you know, those deep
crossing routes and big plays down the field that have really enabled them to take
their offense one step further. And he's also making good decisions in the red
zone. They're the number one red zone team in the country. They're twenty
five out of twenty five down there. And so I would say that he's
another great quarterback that we're going against. You know, I've known of him
or you know, throughout his time when he was recruited to go to Clemson,
and then certainly know, you know watching him play. Now that it's
another good quarterback. We're gonna play and we've got good quarterbacks and they got
good quarterback and it'll be a good game. So, Jay, I'm gonna
ask you a question, just to being a fan. Doesn't Oregon States scare
you? Yes, not to the degree of the last few opponents, but
they should I think not to the degree of Washington. Now, remember I
thought I thought Arizona would play well. I I again, I'm going into
this game thinking Arizona can get blown out, or they can or they can
win the game. Oregon State's good. I'm gonna I'm gonna give up and
say they're they're good? There? What are they six and one? But
yeah, yeah, there's six and one. Well, not that they're here
and they're in front of in front of us in this game Saturday, they're
pretty good. I'm still not believing them as being one of the top three
teams in the league. Yeah, and I think they're in the next level,
still ahead of Arizona. I feel like there's those three guys maybe maybe
you stick you, maybe they're four. Now that Utah's beaten uh uh u
s c uy C and then there's a next group. But you know,
then you've got Oregon State. They're kind of like by themselves because you U
c l A doesn't scare me at all. Okay, they've beaten Washington State,
and then after that it's Colorado, Cal, Stanford, and ASU.
So I think I think Oregon State kind of sits in that middle. I
feel like if Arizona can win this game, they move up to that next
level, right below the top four in the league. If they don't,
they're still down there with say Washington State and maybe yeah now yeah yeah,
so no, don't do themselves a huge favor if they pull this off than
you If they can win this game, now you start talking about Arizona being
in the top half of the league. Yeah, yeah, very possibly,
right, which is good, which is which would be incredible because of the
darkness we've been in. All right, let's take our break. We're gonna
come back. Kevin mckab will talk to us about some high school sports just
around the state, and then we'll we'll have a less Garrett talk to us
about Oregon State. He's from the Oregon State, from the Oregon his favorites,
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iHeartRadio WAP. This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jacin Salez
on Box Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball
here Fox Sports fourteen fifty from Steve Rivera. Here's Jacin' sauce. Now in
the phone, we have Kevin McKay from a see PEPs Live ninety eight points
in Phoenix. Are you doing, old buddy o'pal? Well? I see,
I did not know this. I knew I was coming on with Steve
Rivera and jacins alas. I. Did they let you guys both out of
prison on the same day or do you have to have those ankle monitors?
What? No, we can't. We got a special waiver that allows to
two Mexicans on the radio at one time, saying to catch up with you
boys. You know, you guys taught me many years ago as a young,
skinny sportscaster how to do it right. And it's great that I'm able
to get back in touch with you guys. Wait, wait, wait,
wait, I don't get it. We're not that much older than you.
You got it. You gotta what are you talking about? Don't you know?
What you guys were were the beloved scribes who were true journalists, and
you taught this this TV guy who put makeup on that. You know,
hey, there's more to it than getting the twelve second sound bite. So
no, I know, mad respect for all you guys, the newspaper guys
who showed me the right way, and I was able to trans from that
and fool a lot of people. Now forty four years I've been fooling them,
So it's great. Four years, so I appreciate that. How long
has it been since you left Tucson at one and two? How much do
you miss it? You know, that's a great question, Stevie is.
I left in nineteen ninety and came up to work for Channel ten. I
was at Channel thirteen, and yeah, I'm one of the few people in
the valley who does. I really do miss Tucson. I love the mountains,
I love the people down there. I hate I hate your traffic and
I fight that. I think your traffic in Tucson's worse than your Phoenix.
All right, wow, now, no, No, we have freeways and
they're always jammed up. But we know that. But you know, going
east to west in the Old Pueblo, man, that's that's brutal, brutal.
But I do love it. I love Tucson. That is cool.
So so you're you know, I've seen a bunch of things that they think
you're. People think you're like the high school sports guru for the whole state
way Way Way Way. They dubbed me. And because you can't make up
your own nickname, you know, you do, you know, they called
me the dean of high school. The dean. So what did that mean,
Kevin? What does that mean? My transcripts? God, what does
that mean? He's been in forty four years? Well, that's it,
that's you know. They I started in eighty one and I was fortunate enough
to cover you know, Flag High and Coconino when I came out of school
at NAU and moved to Tucson and fell in love with it. I mean,
Vernon Freedley and Howard Bryant and you know, watching a kid at Choia
High School, Sean Elliott and you know man, you know the Baits fan.
I fell in love with high school sports. And I think down there
too, guys everybody did high school football. But I said, Wayne,
why do we stop? Right? So I covered Remember Dick Bart I covered
girls volleyball and his daughter was a star, and you know, covered baseball,
and uh. It just so I still love it, and that's right
now. I wouldn't trade it for anything. I love high school sports.
I don't know if i'd ever cover a pro sport event again. So even
if they get even if they asked me to cover the Diamondbacks in the World
Series, yeah, I take a lot of money. You know what,
You and I and UH and Jay and the people who have been in it
a long time know exactly what you're talking about, exactly, and you know
you know what I'm saying. Because people say, oh, it's so glamorous,
you know, and listen, we had the greatest life in what we
did and the access that we had back in the day, and now they
really limit the access that you have. I mean, we'd finished up live
shots with Charles Barkley and he'd say, let's go, we're gonna go have
let's go a little hockey man, We're gonna go have dinner. Or you
know, Luis Gonzale, you know, you you got to run around with
these guys, and now you know everything is really they control the narrative and
they control who's the access. So we had a really glorious time. I
know you guys enjoyed it too, with loot And and Jerry Kendall and Dick
Tomy and Larry come on, those guys and they you know, you'd go
to their house for dinner something because they could built that trust and they knew
you were going to do a job. And I do miss all that.
Yeah, very cool. So so as that as the dean of high school
sports up in Phoenix, you know, we're obviously you know down here too,
particular when it comes to football down here in Tucson. I feel like,
you know, the little brother South Point, you know, the sort
of the elite of down here went up there and just got his butt kicked
a couple of weeks ago. But you know, what's the what's the landscape
up there? Is there? You know, are there any openings for you
know, Tucson teams to come up and you know, make a make a
dent up there in any of the divisions. You know, it's so challenging
and it really saddens me because I do love all those schools in Tucson and
watch what they've done and and and watched you know cdo and coach dustin Peace
and watch him grow up and Pat Nugent what he's doing at Micah and obviously
so I was at that Cell Point game and I and granted liberty, Liberty
just had you know, they buried him. Mean, liberty is are just
this a national power? So to answer your question, it makes me sad
that that they are the Tucson is. I mean almost they should almost have
a Southern Arizona a championship or have a city championship because they get fed to
the wolves up here, even if they don't have the student body, they
get and that's and that's Chandler Wolves, that's all the teams. So it's
no but I I because I'd love to see those kids who enjoy their high
school career. I'd love to see them finish with a state championship because they'll
never forget that. And I know that sounds like give everybody a riven.
No it doesn't, it doesn't. It just means if you go eight and
oh, you go ten and oher your first round playoff opponent, you shouldn't
get beat forty nine to six, and that's you know, you should you
should play for a title. So maybe we should do away with the Open
or just have the Open be the elite of Phoenix and let's move on.
Yeah, no, good point. Let me ask you the reason why did
you go to Liberty and sub Point? Did you have an inkling to look
at the sub Point two power guys? Absolutely? And I hadn't seen them
and fell in love with both of them, will Height and and you the
one kid who decommitted from the u A and saw his pops there and I
wanted to see them, you know, because I'm like I can and and
they played well, but again, they're two great stars, and Liberty just
goes so deep. Liberty passes the airport tests and then they bring it on
the field. Every one of their linemen are six five and two eighty five,
and so it's a it's it's a difference of that, Kevin, I
passed the airport test. It's just in petticoat junctions past the airport test,
when you're stopping off at Chick fil A at the airport. That's what it
is. Kevin. That's one of my favorite phrases to use. And Steve,
Steve bounces it off my head all the time. You know, when
when a good when a good team that you know, look that looks,
you know, it looks good in the airport gets its butt kicked, it's
that I get my butt kicked on that by all the time. So oh
yeah, it looks looks like Tarzan and plays like Jane. That's what I
you know, I always see that. But no, I you know,
I have great love for two sound and that's at all levels. And you
know, maybe if you know sold Point, but but sold Point would steam
roll all the three eighteen they play in four it. I'd love to see
them play for a four A state championship. They think they have a good
chance of winning that and they can compete with teams like Arkadie up here,
and but that's where they belong to Hope. They did as much as it's
sexy and it's we want to be one of the top eight teams. No,
that's not how Coronadal soul, coronadill soul. That was where my kids
were playing. They went, they went ten and o and they were,
guys, we want chandler. I said, no, you don't know,
and they did. They they lost fifty two to three. And that's how
you end your high school career after going ten and oh. No, no,
you know, go to the semis, go to the finals and lose
there. When you're ten and o, it sounds like you're you're well,
that sounds I know, you're having fun because you're not chasing the you know,
the Fitzgerald's and the Barkleys anymore, or the Bookers and all that stuff.
No, and you found your not found your niche because you already had
your niche. You know, when when I left television, you know,
they started hiring pretty young people to do it, and I'm none of those,
as you guys can relate, I'm not pretty or young. And Jeremy
Hathcock, who coaches at Blue played at Blue Ridge and coaches up there and
they won state championships with Paul Morrow. He said, you are Arizona High
School. You know you've covered him for so many years. So I kind
of reinvented myself now. I took a job in mainstream employment with Honor Health
Foundation here, so they allow me Monday through Friday to do what I do
with healthcare, raising funds for our six hospitals. But during the weekends,
this is my drug. This is what dare I say. It gets me
high is seeing all these great coaches and kids and the families. And I
guess the greatest story was is a couple of years ago, I'm covering Saint
Mary's High School basketball and there's a kid named Rodney John's Plan And I said,
was that your dad that played for Grand Canyon in the national championship for
Paul Westfall in eighty eight? And he said, no, how's my grandpa.
So that I'm seeing some grandkids play, I'm seeing I'm seeing Larry Fitzgerald's
kid as a wide receiver with Brophy. That's kind of fun to see Larry
as a parent. I guys, I just love it. I love the
genuine genuineness. You know. I still keep in touch with Verne Freeley's his
widow and and you know, see a lot of my people from Tucson when
they come up. And so I just love high school sports. All right,
we're talking to Kevin McKay, former Channel thirteen Okay k Weld sports director
but now working up in Venus covering preps. Tell us what what is Azy
Preps Live and what how do people from Tucson access that? And what will
they hear that they come to your show? Well, Saturday mornings from nine
to eleven, we do two hours on Arizona Sports ninety eight seven. So
you can go to Arizonasports dot com and you can pick us up on the
old fashioned internet. There's also an Arizona Sports app now which I found.
It's you know a lot of people using that for diamondback games and this little
World Series thing they're in. But I'm on for two hours and I really
try, guys, and I'm stealing all your stuff. Is back in the
day when we went back in the day, young kids, when we were
growing up, there was a Saturday morning newspaper and you got that or Saturday
after and you looked at the box scores and and oh, who you know,
who is this babbyc Heavery and who is you know the you know the
the you know the great teams from down south? You know who are Who's
this kid? Who's Sean Elliott? And I tried. It's not really a
scores and highlights driven show, but more of a storylines that we can mix
in and and share some people, because all that is, guys, It's
Phoenix is you know massive, almost six million people, but it's a bunch
of small towns all come together. So people from Foothills, from from Fountain
Hills, from the West Side, from Avondale, they can relate to Chandler
and they got kids going to high school. And so that's what you'll hear.
Two hours of stories that that hopefully you can relate to and and and
make you feel good on a Saturday morning while you're while you're driving the home
depot to get your your your stuff for your house, or you're headed to
the gym. Headed to the gym. Well, well I'm sorry, not
you two, because Jim, what the hell is that? Jim move?
Yeah? Money? Hey, so Kevin, let me ask you, let
me bet this. So you've been in this business a long time, forty
four years. I'm still gonna bet five bucks that there's no better high school
basketball player than Sean Elliott in your lifetime that you've seen, unless I'm wrong.
Yeah, you know what, I've got Sean third and and I actually
that's it's based on. You know. Number one is Mike Bibby. Bibby
has the title belt from his four years in high school. He was so
dominant and unbelievable, and then he goes down to two son wins in national
championship as a freshman. Bibby's got the title belt. Marvin Bagley hasn't an
asterisk next to his name. He would have been. He was like Lebron
in high school up here, but then he went to the prep schools and
then I got Sean Elliott. I've got Sean fat Levers. In that conversation,
Jared Bayle is, I don't have Richard Jeffer. I mean I have
Richard Jefferson. I don't have Channing Fry because Channing wasn't a very good high
school player. Project he blossomed under Loud Olson and what they were doing down
there in two. But Sean Sean is still one of my favorites of all
time. He taught me how to you know, his mom let me into
their house to do interviews, and that's you know, those are the stories
that you love to do. Go into Ricky Huntley's apartment with shag carpeting when
he was drafted with the Cincinnati Bengals and waiting at six in the morning because
we didn't have ESPN back then. We were waiting for the call from the
Bengals. So those are lifetime I ran into a Chris Singleton last night up
here. His daughter's playing volleyball at Desert Vista, and to see those to
see those wildcats, see those guys that I've built relationships and friends. You
guys, man. When I say you guys, when I see you,
you know, there's a look that we look at each other and go,
yeah, yeah, it was pretty good, boys, it was We had
a pretty good run. So you know that they can never take Cochi's.
I tell the story of coaches that we were down there on a Monday night
and we went into Douglas, you know, all to have some dinner and
maybe have a drink. And they were having either a kinsinta party or I
think a you know, a bachelorette party, and we're dancing in Douglas,
Me and Dave Silver and Edsret. We're dancing in Douglas, Arizona. So
the Bulldogs were, you know, then they went back to stay Cookie.
No, I love Tucson. I missed you and miss those people down there.
I just I do. I genuinely do. And I think people down
there know that. And I still see a lot of them up here.
And it's been thirty three years. I left in ninety and I still I
still love it. I love watching what's happened, you know, what's happening
with the with although I'll tell you this, Jedfish has been banned from my
show, Jetfish. I'll go ahead and out. This is good. I'm
gonna because when he came to town, he did all everybody's show. He's
doing podcasts and we tried to get him. We couldn't get him. I
said, wait a minute, the dean, I mean I married a whilecat
you Steve Curze, my guy, he wouldn't come on the show. And
you know Ricky only Chuck, See those are my guys. Brandon Sanders has
come on. They're always so. Jed Fish has been banned. He's let
you know, if he called me, we can probably work right now,
it sounds like he banned you. No, don't, don't turn the narrative
on me. Now, come on, if we want to thank you for
joining us, we also want to say we've got to take another trip to
Douglas where you, me and Jay will all be tens again. Yeah.
I love it, boys, catch thank you so much for letting me share
some memories and some stories. Love you guys, appreciate it. Kevin thanks
him, Thanks the whole bunch. Always good. I can again, Dougie,
Oh God, every time I think of Kevin, I think of Kansas
City in eighty eight, and he and his photographer had a station wagon and
all the reporters piled into the station wagon went bar hopping with you, and
it was I mean, Dave Silver was in the car, Bob Young from
the Republic was in there, Greg Hanson, we were all in one view.
They're about nine one vo. Hope to do that in March with no
station wag exactly. All right, that was fun. We'll be right back
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just surgery I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back to Anne about here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jake, got Kevin in
today with us. We have ten and a half minutes for this final segment.
What are you doing tomorrow. I think we're hanging out at a place
called Showtime Cards a couple hours. Our first remote in a while, yeah,
you know it is. It is our first remote and in quite a
while. We're gonna be out there with George Moidis, who's been a guest
of the show, and we're just gonna get you know, get out there
and uh, you know, try and have some funnas. Maybe well maybe
I'll let us open a pack or something that'd be cool and maybe come up
with some webbin Yama card retire but Showtime Card fifty eight oh one e Speedway.
We'll be out there from three to five. Uh. Jason Terry is
supposed to be out there tomorrow as well. Yeah, he's here signing.
She's signing Saturday. I think he'll be We're not sure. I thought I
thought that was on Friday. No, he's signing tomorrow, Saturday. Tomorrow
is Friday, Saturday. I'm signing Saturday. Okay, my bad. So
well he might almost if we have to stop by, but if not,
we're gonna be out there doing our show with George at the Showtime Cards fifty
eight to one, talking to the Sweetway, talking to whoever's there, if
you want to come by, it's got some stuff to say about football,
basketball, anything. Would love to I would love to have you out there.
It's gonna be a bunch of geeks on Friday. Yeah, card show,
George and I gotta go find my kids Pokemon cards and get them over
there with them, get a appraisal. Yeah, I don't know where they
are. They're in there. There's somewhere. I know. I didn't throw
them away for this reason that you know. They're in a box somewhere.
So we'll see what I see. We got anything, man, but no,
it'll be It should be fun. We haven't done it, Like I
said, haven't done a remote in in a while. Our boy, our
boys said better come through. I know he's got to. He's got to
run the board right. Yeah. Pressure is gonna be on, pressures gonna
be on Kevin to come in in hell. Yeah, so got we got
a couple of clips to play from the from the Jet Fish press conference.
He uh, we hold that thought. Oh we got a caller, got
a collar not anymore. Well, if you're calling, give us, give
us a call back. We'll keep an eye on the light like a little
light now yeah, I believe Yeah, there there he is. Okay,
you're on the air and I on the ball. Yeah that was me calling.
I know he's called it the bad time. Hey, I had I
had a good view of JA last night, believe it or not. My
first exhibition game. Yeah, the women and you were like a woman who
was on each shot of you. We were sitting right across from you.
You say there, my wife won a raffle. She goes, I try
to pick the ones with the least tickets. But that was the reason why,
because it was an exhibition game. Yeah, we got we were a
little we're a little uh, we're differently for women's basketball. Both of those
are one of them happens to be my daughter, but both of them are
are student interns who help with stats as opposed to the old, grumpy old
guys were there for for men's basketball because you're not always in that location either
or your body no where where. That's where we're in that spot. That
seems spot every time every time. But we're good. It's fun. But
okay, what do you think of the ladies? What do you think of
the ladies? The Sons are going to be without Bradley beal and right of
way. When we beat his team, Golden State, even though I know
he doesn't have a team, but he likes them. He said, oh,
didn't have Draymond. Draymond is washed up, just like Klay Thompson.
Okay, yike, but but no, but I didn't say this. Other
guy said Clay Thompson. I'm just going by what other people are saying.
But I agree with that. Yeah, I know, I hear you.
I hear you. I think they're still gonna be in the top four or
five teams in the West. Yeah, we'll see you know for sure,
there's no question there. Do you like your son? How do you like
your sons? Now? Without Ayton? Oh god, did you see his
debut? And of course he's already saying, oh it was in fall trouble.
Oh he's terrible. Well, he's terrible in general. Do you see
what his line was? He had the worst. He only had four points
on his debut. He had ten rebounds, but he had four points.
Yeah, well you're pretty glad you saw him leave everybody. Yeah, anyway,
I'll have to say I'm not going to be rooting for the Diamondbacks.
I'm gonna say I'm gonna root for the Rangers because it's bad for baseball that
the Phillies aren't in there. I don't know. I know that it matters,
sure does. There's no main name recognition which you want to say,
Corey seeger for on the Rangers, which you did? You know? It
just isn't. Everybody's saying that. Yeah, okay, Howard, all right,
Howard, you used to see us. Maybe you'll see this tomorrow strong
coming in strong, right, Yeah. Wow, That's how we're always done.
That's how as long as you come up with bad words. Were good?
Okay, run out of time here at the top of the r I
do want to play a couple of clips, So let's play the Yeah that
one, Uh, just jetfish thing. You know, expecting a very very
very tough, physical game on Sunday on Saturday. It's gonna be a heavyweight
fight. It's gonna be a heavyweight fight, There's no question about it.
Uh, these guys are physical. Everybody's healthy, you know. I know
they're centers back and the running backs are really good. And our defensive line
is healthy and ready to go. Our offensive line for the most part.
I I don't think Polito will be ready to play. But he did practice
a little bit yesterday. He did, he will practice today, and he
will probably be available to us in an emergency situation. So you take that
out of the equation. Everybody's good. I think it's going to be a
big, a big time brawl inside, and our guys are excited about that
challenge, and I know that that's the type of game they like to play.
So Jay, when I heard that quote, that's gonna be a heavyweight
fight, so on Twitter, I'm saying, well, I don't know about
that. That's Washington, that's Oregon. This is more of a wealth to
weight fight, kind of like a wealthy well fight with weight class middleweight middleweight
middleway. Marvin Haglin, Okay, it could be, could be, but
it's not. When you think heavyweight fight, you think you know Georgia Alabama,
Yeah, you know Georgia, Ohiowa State, Alabama, Michigan. Right.
No, it's gonna be a good game. It's it's a good game
between two pretty good teams. I'm not gonna say they're evenly matched because Oregon
State is six and one. You don't know, but I'm gonna say there,
you know, it's a closer matchup for Arizona than certainly Washington was.
It's maybe a little tougher matchup than Washington State, but it is at home
and then that hopefully that makes a big difference. Although he's saying that they're
probably expecting about forty two forty three thousand people out there. Really he's very
you can tell he's very disappointed in that. Why is that that's really that's
strange. Yeah, it's just what the ticket sales are. It's Oregon State,
it's another late game. Homecoming is next week, right right, it's
Ucla next week with homecoming. People going, if I'm gonna go to one
of these two games, I'm gonna go to the UCLA game. Yeah.
That's that's that's our fans, welcome to That's that's the Arizona fans. See,
the Arizona fan is not the Arizon fansays I'm going to a game no
matter what he did say, you know, he did come to the game.
You know like that, it's like, go to the game no matter
who's playing, because they do that for basketball, right Yeah, no,
I know it's only twelve, thirteen to fifteen, whatever, but always ask
come to the game because it's Arizona, not because it's Arizona versus Oregon State
or Arizona versus UCLA, or Arizona versus Washington. Well, I think,
and that's been that's historically a zone. And here's the problem. They have
too many of Kevin's and not enough of yous. And I say that because
Kevin's a transplant for a little time and they're from somewhere else. They have
no royalty. You have a loyalty, right, And there's not enough of
you guys. There are enough, Steve, They just they just they don't
go Money. Money a factor, No wallet, Nope, are you sure?
No? I think the biggest factor is TV. I think I'd rather
watch on my on my h D t V. I mean, I know
people who would rather go to a bar and watch on one of their TVs
than then come to the game and and like that atmosphere. I get you,
you know, I think I think it has to do more with that
that that you know, I'm gonna set on my couch, I'm gonna sit
somewhere where I can just sit at a bar and drink some beers and stuff
like that, you know, and then they're they're I mean you remember the
one one intern we had what was the name of the blonde kid skatered idea.
You know, he said, what do you do on a Saturday show
when there's a game justin Oh, we play video games? Right, I
mean, he's in here. He's interested in sports. I'm not I'm not
trying to rip on Justine, but he's interested in sports. He wants to
be involved in sports. If you go, he likes sports. But you
know, we asked him, what are you doing this? You're going to
the game Saturday. Now we're gonna hang on play video games. Those are
the guys I'm talking about. Yeah, I don't know. There's there's a
lot of people and the like you there's people at the tailgate that don't actually
go to the game, right, there's a lot of those two, a
lot of those two. Now, it's it's it's a it's a combination of
of a bunch of things, you know. I mean, I mean,
like, let you know, I'll take my brother Rick, who just is
a devout a fan as anybody right physically because he's got some health issues right
now, he can't go he can't go to the games. We said,
I'm just as happy going over to Union and watching the game there with some
friends sitting at the bar, big TV in front of me. My car
is right outside the you know, right outside the door. You know that
I'm having a great time doing that. And then yeah, could you go
and go back to the games, to go back to the you go to
the establishments, and you see guys having fun at those places watching the He's
having fun still watching U of a games by going to a bar. And
then that's what that's what it is. If I had the chance to do
that too, with a good group of people, and I'd watch the game
that and not go to the game in and being the press box and that
and that's and that's kind of how it is. So I mean, I'm
gonna go. I'm gonna go no matter what I'm you know, I am
gonna go. But I can see where somebody who just says, you know
what, that's such a hassle park that. You know, the food is
expensive, the drinks are expensive, it's hot. Sometimes I'm gonna go send
a nice cool bar, you know, and have my favorite drink and watch
a game with a couple of buddies at my side and listen to the announcer
of the whole Well, this show is it is perfect for that because that's
what you're doing, you bes with your buddies watching the game and just saying,
you know, that guy sucks her, well exactly. All right,
Let's take a break. What's what's the guy's name? Quarterback name? We're
going see DJ. Let's you be saying that all after all, right,
let's take a break. When you come back, and Kevin's got a whole
bunch of breaking news for us to st