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Jay Gonzalez. My usual co host, Steve Rivera is on the road to
Las Vegas for his birthday, so we wish him a happy birthday. I
hope he's gonna have a great time. I do have a great co host
and a guest co host, and you're an Adam Gonzalez, my son.
I would call him sports expert man. He's been involved in sports all his
all his life, both both as a just a fan and in his career
a former sports information guy at at Arizona and so he's done a lot of
work there. And then Ryan running the board today for the first time and
doing a great job. Ryan. So this is it. Ryan, you're
up breaking news. This is Eye on the Ball breaking news on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty eight. All right, so we'll just we'll stick with the NBA
for now. Patrick Beverly from the Milwaukee Bucks has been suspended for four games
without pay for throwing a ball into the stands at a fan. The other
night, he threw it the fan, He asked for the fan throw it
back, and then he threw it again right at the fan's face. All
right, huh, all right, what I think that is a weenie weenie
weenie punishment for that. I feel like he should have been suspended like half
the season. You can't. You can't do that. No, you certainly
can't. You throw that. You throw a ball at a player, that's
a four game suspension. You can't throw the ball not once, but twice
at the fan and get a four game suspension. I thought he should I
initially thought he should have been suspended for the season. Really, yes,
do you know you got? You got? We're not gonna. I don't
want to live the malice at the Palace Okayan. I mean I saw it
as it was happening, and you know, we were we were in Vegas
and walked into the sports book as it happened. I was about to say,
you're just randomly watching Patriots. No, No, we we were.
We had had it happened during our our our fall trip to Vegas, and
we walked into the the Mandalay sports book right as it happened. We're like,
what the hell is going on? And they're in there duking it out
with with with fans. It's not it's certainly more than four, okay,
twenty ah the course of the season. I know you can't throw the No,
you can't. I don't want to Ryan. I don't want to be
put in a position where I'm defending Patrick Ryan. I mean I would,
I would say maybe fifteen games. I was gonna say ten. Ah,
Man, I don't know. Oh, well it's four? Four okay?
Do we agree? Four is not enough? I don't really care, to
be completely honest, It doesn't really bother me. It bothers me. I
didn't see four and like, oh, that's nothing like and then and then
what's his name? The Jamal Murray right through the stuff at the refs and
they give him one hundred thousand dollars. He's got that, He's got that
in the coin thing in his car. What the hell? They don't want
to they don't want to suspend it. Now, if he had hit the
ref he would have gotten banged for a few games. But the fact that
it didn't hit anybody, I think. I think Adam Silver is just he
don't want to just you don't want to developing a reputation of being really soft
on these guys for you. You don't want to suspend your guy or one
of the biggest players in the in the postseason for that. I've I'm sorry,
I did. I take that you were going to do that one too.
The one hundred thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars for throwing stuff at
the roof A lot of money. That's not to those Yes, one hundred
thousands. Still lot, it's a black jacket. No, one hundred thousand
dollars. Still it's a blackjack A lot of money. Like, oh,
hold on, hold on, that's fourteenth Sorry it's bad radio. Um.
Yeah, he's making thirty million, one hundred thousand dollars. Still a lot.
Not okay, not enough. He should have he should have lost a
game or two as well. Yeah, well the evil he didn't. So
I'm you're talking to the wall here. So anyways, all right, go
ahead, Ryan. So the New York Knicks Ford oj On Aobi he's gonna
miss Game three of the semifinals with a left hamstring. He had a career
high up playoff career high points the other night after jam and Brunson went down
with the uh so new excuse. I don't know is he's gonna be out
for game three? Is questionable for game three as well. Og is probably
gonna be out for the series. You don't just have a little hamstring.
The hamstrings don't go away after a couple of days. And they only play
like eight guys and two of them already down between O G and uh Robinson.
What do you think of that series? And I like this series.
Both games have been close, right and now that they go to Indiana,
so that should be that should be fun. Do you see the regiment Regi
Miller stuff when Josh Hart came to the Yeah, well that was fun.
Well did you I could hear it? Yes, because there's somebody put up
on you know, on on on Twitter the c and then I mean it
was no mistaking what they were doing. And then he comes and says that
to regiment Edgie Miller on the thing. Then Reggie did a really funny thing
he did. He did a live Instagram live just sitting out on a like
at a park in New York and just seeing if people would come by.
And Tom do you know, give him the effort or if they would be
nice to him, and everybody that came by was really nice to him.
When it comes down to it, when you see someone face to face,
most people, yeah, they're not going to do that. They're not gonna
do that. But that was that was pretty funny. All right, go
ahead, Ryan, So switching over to University of Arizona, the women's are
good to say softball team is headed to the PAC twelve. Right is the
game at six point thirty in Stanford. They're taking on University of Washington.
They got Washington as U one last night and the sort of the play in
game where the early bracking game and they won, and they they played this
morning, No this morning or do they played this afternoon or they were taking
on UCLA probably soon if not right now. They UH Utah beat I saw
the Utah beat Oregon this morning. Utah's the the lower seeded team there.
They were the six, Oregon was the three. UH. The game was
tied in I just happened to have it on. Game was tied in the
sixth inning and UH Utah hit a three run homer to win that. I
didn't see what happened to the uh. The next game was going to be
Stanford and who who's Who's Like Stanford beat Calk you start, okay, and
then Arizona in Washington. Uh, the automatic bid into the NCAA tournament goes
goes to the tournament champion. But you know, I think, you know,
I think Arizona's safely in. It's just yeah, they want to host,
they do, they want to host. It would be great for the
fans here. So all right. The last thing is Glenn Davis, former
NBA Ford has been sentenced forty months in prison over you remember a big baby,
Oh, big baby, that guy? We do do you want me
to go? He basically like tried to defraud the NBA. It's like insurance.
Oh oh, I remember that, right, I remember hearing that.
Okay, yeah, okay, So he's going to prison. Prison, He's
going to jail forty months. You said, Brian, that's a long time,
long time. That's three and a half. Yeah, well and plus
three years supervisor release. I'm sure he'll get out early. Yeah, but
still if he's Look, when you've been in the NBA, anytime in jail
in prison is tough time. That's a that's a tough go. Wow,
I don't remember watching I think it's eight Finals Celtics Lakers when Huhlen Davis and
Nate Robinson we're watching some point. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah. I have vivid memories of that. Yeah. Okay, wow,
big baby man. Well we'll see if he We'll see if he's a big
baby. Anyway, I'll just leave that. I'll just leave that sit right
there. I'll leave that sit right there. All right? Okay, is
that is that it? You got any Okay? All right, I want
to have this conversation. We got about five minutes before we go to break
and then bring in Greg Hanson. Okay, here's the show hay topic on
this morning on Dan Patrick, Tim Kirchen was on because they're talking about.
First of all, Dan Patrick came across his stat that Baby Ruth won one
MVP, only one really, but that was because they didn't start giving it
until nineteen thirty one. Then also you were only allowed to win it one
time. So so he said, dumb rules back in like all sports,
like the early nineteen times, and Kirchen made the comment, if it was
like today, that Baby Ruth would have won ten. Okay, but then
he got into the whole you know, he was a pitcher, and then
he was pitching for for for Boston, and then he went over to the
one to the Yankees, and the Yankees didn't want him to pitch anymore because
they just wanted him to hit it because if he became a hitter. The
discussion about show Hey was you know, Patrick asked, asked a Kirsten.
Do you think show Hay will ever pitch again? Yes, that you know?
Will he will he come back and pitch? Well, the Dodgers let
him pitch, Will he want to pitch the hit or maybe go do what
Babe Ruth did and go play the outfield. I don't think he'll ever play
that. They wouldn't have given him that money if they didn't intend to have
him pitch again. Here's what I think is gonna happen. He will be
a starter for the next two three four years. Right as long as he's
you know, his arm is good, I'll go be the closer. Oh,
John Smoltz kind of thing. I would honestly even be okay if he
was. No, I do want to I want a couple more years of
him being cy young starter. Yeah, I think he's going to be a
closer. Here with him. Oh, that's a cool one. That'd be
an I'd love that. If he was doing it for the Dodgers, he's
going to well, I know, but you never know them. They're not
gonna they just they just put out another They have another Japanese sponsorship. They're
making so much much money, they're they're paying for the salaries. Right,
and then Yamamoto. Right, you have those two guys. I mean,
the craziness of all that. There's another guy coming next to you, but
he says is better than seriously named Roki Sasaki. Yamamoto was throwing is gas
before last was harder, and he threw a rehear ball. He threw a
curveball that would have made me cry. Okay, he because he's throwing you
know, he throws me high nineties, high ninety, high nine. And
then he throws this curve ball that it broke like four feet. I mean,
it's just it was going at the guy's head and then just dove right
over the plate, and it's like, what do you do with that bitch?
And the splitter he has unfair. It was just I'm like, the
way you get to him is if you get to his fastball, his fastballs,
hittable. Right, he's gonna have to figure that out. What his
other stuff is? Yeah, who do you go? He went like,
I think seven or eight innings the other night, seven seven innings. Ever
since that first came money, Yeah, Dodgers freaking won six in a row.
No, you do know, I've made you more than nowhere to that
for. But no, I think he's gonna keep pitching. They wouldn't have
signed him ten years, seven hundred million to just be ah. I mean,
he's he and I guess we knew this. But since he was with
the Angels, he wasn't as available, right, Yes, he was to
watch every day he was. He's just as available as the Dodgers. But
I mean nobody, nobody. I mean, because the Dodgers now are they're
the regional broadcast every day. They didn't do that with the Angels. So
it would when he pitched, when he pitched, okay, but not every
single day. Now the Dodgers are there, must see TV because you know
he's gonna come up, come up to hit, uh, you know,
every day and and you and you have that. So it's I'm I'm really
happy with the Dodgers. And I know Greg Hanson, who's gonna come on
here in a couple of minutes, probably is not. That's been fun.
Here's if you want to When he was in Japan, I was like,
I don't want to say following him. I knew about him. You knew
about him for multiple years before he came to the United States. I was
like, they need to go get this guy. Yeah, yeah. How
did he wind up with the Angels? I think there's there's a lot of
theories to it. Some people say he wanted to play with Mike Trout because
at the time, Trout was the best player, and he wanted to see,
Okay, this is the best guy. What do I need to do
to play with the best guy? And the Angels really just botched that up
and Trout guy, you know, injuries and sure, but they just didn't
do enough for the The Angels to a higher degree did like kind of what
the Sons did. They're putting Okay, we've got Albert poolholes. Now.
I don't blame really forgetting Albert Poohles, good player, but like even recently,
like oh we've got we're gonna go get Anthony Rendon and spend a ton
of money on him. We look at all these big, really good players
that we have. What could go wrong? Well, everything, everything,
everything I didn't like to I remember, you're gonna laugh that I can remember
this when I don't remember other easier things. I was at a car wash
when the when the news came across to the Albert Pooholes had signed with the
Angels, and I'm like, what are they doing? Yeah? He was,
he was Cole on the On the down side, he was very old
to give that big contract. I've had conversations with Angels fans, they like,
why would players ever, why would teams ever give players these like ten
fifteen year deals. I'm like, well, most of them don't get them
when don't start them when they're thirty three years old, right, yeah,
exactly. Like Bryce Harper signed a thirteen year deal. Well he signed when
he was twenty six years old. Yeah, Mookie Bets signed I think a
twelve year deal. He signed it when he was twenty seven years old.
Yeah, that's when you sign those exactly. All right, Okay, we're
at time for this segment. We're going to take a break, We're going
to come back. Greg Hanson's going to join us. We'll talk about a
lot of this stuff coming back. Greg's a big baseball fan. Unfortunately he's
a Yankees fan, but we let that slide whenever we bring them on the
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Welcome back to On the Ball. You have Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Ja Gonzalez. My usual partner, Steve Rivera is on the road today and
tomorrow, so he'll be back on Monday. I've got Adam Gonzalez here sitting
in Steve seat and doing a great job. And then we've got Ryan running
the board. And now on the phone, got Gregson, the esteemed columnists
from there is on a daily Star getting ready for a big golf match this
weekend in the National Football Foundation tournament. And Greg thanks for joining us.
Glad to get you off the golf course and to hang out around with us
for a few minutes. What's up? How are you? You know?
We played in that we were on teammates were two years ago in that tournament
and didn't We finished second. We we we won something, as I recall,
but we also went we also went in there thinking we'd won the dang
thing. Because Ryan Dunn played with us. You couldn't play. Where was
I you? You couldn't play? I think you were doing some baby stuff,
I think, yeah, I think I think your wife might have been
with child and you decided you shouldn't play that day. And it was me
and Greg Ryan Dunn was obviously really good and uh and then wasn't it wasn't
it? Uh? Jim Purty, wasn't it. That's an unbelievable group.
It wasn't unbelievab group. How was the square you think? How was the
screen? We went in thinking we were going to win the thing? We
came close, We came close. It was fun. So how's your game?
Did you play today? Yeah? I did play this morning at silver
Belt. It was pretty pretty good weather out there was nice. Is in
good shape? Yeah, it's fine? Yeah, all right, all right,
cool? I got this. Okay that when we finished second in that
tournament two years ago, you made about a forty foot putt on eighteen,
didn't you. You can do that from time time? Yeah, that's all
I'm good for once in a while, Greg, to roll in a putt.
Yeah, it's a struggle, you know. And the sad part is
Greg, that I used to be I used to be the number one player
in our group, right, I'd be the guy who would hit last,
And I remember that day being the okay, you go ahead and try and
get one in the fair way and then we'll go yard. Right. I
don't think I've ever played golf with you, Greg, I'd love to at
some point. Maybe my dad will and hey, well you know we dan
well Danny Martinez in a blown out knee. You know, we need a
fourth for the summer. So we'll call you from time to time. Greg,
all right, you know who would be a better You better call George
Aria instead? Can can he go? He's in our he's in our group
on Saturday, and someone told me he drove the sixteenth hole at El Rio,
which is like three sixty. I'm trying to think of the hole.
Okay, yeah it's now number seven, but right, wow George, yeah,
that's crazy in one on one uh yeah, yes, yes, I
was like like two rolls away, yeah, from a hole in one on
yeah, on on that part four exactly, that's three fifty. I got
all that one he did? He did? All right? Greg? So
we've been talking, we were talking about and I want you, I want
you to weigh in on this. Conversation about show Hey o Tani and you
know Tim kirkchen On on on the Dan Patrick Show this morning said Patrick asked
him, do you think show Hey will pitch again? And they went into
a discussion about Babe Ruth and how we went from the Red Sox to the
Yankees. They didn't want him to pitch anymore. He wanted him to head
and so he know he didn't. He didn't pitch anymore. But you know,
show Hey with the with the with the arm injury and stuff. You
know Adams was saying he'll pitch. He at least pitched a couple more years.
What do you do you think he needs to pitch to continue to be
show Hay as we know him. No, I don't, because he's so
extraordinary as a hitter. I think he's established himself just in that alone.
But I'm sure hope he keeps pitching because he's an All Star as a pitcher.
Don't you think he's mean? He cy young candidate is a pitcher.
Yeah, so I floated this. I think he'll pitch for a couple of
years as a starter, two or three, four years, and then he'll
become a closer. Yeah, I think that that would be a good thing.
Yeah, yeah, just to so now, are you are you mad
that he went to the Dodgers or do you wish you'd gone anywhere else?
Or are you okay with where he is? Yeah? Because the Dodgers.
Dodgers elevates all of maj League baseball, I think, and having him in
that visible position helps the game and uh makes it more interesting than me because
I hate the Dodgers and I love watching him. I love watching it.
Yeah, I mean I turned on the TV to watch him, and I
would, you know, anyways, because I watched the Dodgers, you know,
every day. But you know, when he was with the Angels,
you know, if I if I saw that he was coming up to bat,
I'd go to the TV, you know, I put on you know,
the NB TV to watch him hit and and you know, and it's
unmistakable, you know, his home rooms. It just sound so much different.
I know people keep saying that, but they really do. I mean,
somebody hit a monster shot the other day and I don't know who it
was. I mean, like a four hundred and fifty foot shot, and
I watched it to see what it sounded, and it sounded nothing like show
Hayes Homers. Was it Stanton? Wow? Could have been Stanton? It
might have been, and it just didn't say it just didn't sound the same.
He swats the ball Stanton does. But Stanton had the the fastest home
run yesterday of the season so far, like a one hundred and twenty miles
that god have struck out after he's struck out twenty times in a row.
What do you think of your Yankees? My boy want Soto. I mean,
he's having a good year so far. Man, he's I didn't think
he could be as good as he is. He's the best player in the
American League right now, I would think. And they're a contender. That's
all I would ask for. Yeah, and you know he is on my
fantasy baseball team. So oh, I think when the time comes this summer
or this winter, you give the Yankees need to give one Sodo whatever,
Yes, yeah, whatever it is. And he's still very young, and
he's unbelievable. He's he he's a Yankee. I see him, and he
makes sense in the pinstripes to me. I don't know if you feels that
as long as he just looks like it, just as long as players at
that level like Mike Trout don't get hidden anymore. Like, yeah, that
that's that's been one of the most unfortunate things that's happened to a great ballplayer,
the career path that he's had, and you know, really not been
able to, you know, be at the top of the I mean,
he's wide, he recognizes, you know, one of the top five best
players in me in the majors, and yet you never see him. He's
never in the playoffs. He you know, you know, and then he's
hurt now and all the time, and it's just like you just feel so
bad for the guy. Yeah, But I also don't think he wants that
kind of spotlight. He doesn't want to be the face of baseball. Yeah,
he never did, so I think it goes both ways. He had
a chance to get out, yeah, and I think he wanted to win
it, win win something in uh Anaheim, But he's comfortable there and I
think he values it. Do you do you do you do you like baseball
right now? I mean, in terms of all the changes that have happened
the way the game is played, DIDs different? Do you like it?
BOYD sure has evolved different to watching all the strikeouts and all the relief pitchers
and but yeah, because I, you know, from just like you,
from a kid, a kid, and now I never lost my interest in
it, but never kind of ebbed. So I'm still in it as much
as I used to be. I think baseball fans there, we're different.
I don't think there's that many things that Baseball could do that could drive away
their core fan base. I really don't. The only thing I missed is
every day reading the box scores in the newspaper because the papers don't run the
box scores anymore. I think, like all these rule changes and it's we're
still here, yeah, you know, yeah, And I think they're trying
to get all these new fans, which I don't know if it's worked or
not yet. I think we still need a couple more years to see.
But I don't think there's anything that they could do to run off. Yeah.
I still can't get used to it, and it's still happening now,
even though they've got the rule. I still can't get used to a line
shot, a great ball being hit hard up the middle and it's an out
more often than it's not. Did you see the play today with with Elie
Dela Cruz. Do you see this. Somebody hits a mash of a line
drive right up the middle, right past the picture's head and he was standing
on second base and he caught it, and he don't and then and he
doubled the guy off and he was standing on the base. I'm honestly surprised
it took this long for baseball teams to realize, Hey, we should put
our shortstop in the middle when this guy is up to bat. It just
kind of like, have you ever seen videos of bay Ruth batting. I
wonder if they had that shift shift on him. Definitely not, Yeah,
but not he was hitting it over their heads anyways. But yeah, But
I mean I like it, and I like, you know, when you
talk about the other relief pictures and stuff like that, that what they've done
with the clock and all that stuff and those things. I think those things
have helped because you can sit down and watch a game in two and a
half hours, so you know, and so I do like to even even
you of a baseball I mean, I've I've been to I've been to three
games this year. All three of them have been under three hours. Man,
all three It wasn't that long ago with those games before. Yeah,
just all all three of them under three hours. You know, a four
to three game, a three uh you know, three to two game,
and you know there was even when that you know, there are more runs
in that, but it's there's just all under three hour games and it's just
so refreshing to do. To be able to do that. What what have
they cut last year? They've cut off like twenty six minutes from the year
before something like that. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. That's that's huge.
I mean, i mean we went to you know, you go you
go to a Dodger game, you know, up in Phoenix or whatever,
and well, that's what we've done. You know, you're not you're not
getting home at one o'clock in the morning anymore. That's the only issue though,
is that you drive for four hours and you could have a two hour
well okay, god, this one you're speaking of that so that you back
in the day, you know, get when getting to Dodger Stadium what still
is a really special thing. But I mean it's like, okay, I'm
looking forward to all this year. You go to Dodger game in Dodger Stadium
and you just hope the game lasts while I saw. I had an hour
in fifty four minute Dodger game against the Cardinals one year, and I was
so upset because I mean, it took me longer to just get out of
the stadium. Then the game took right. It was a I remember Gary
Templeton was playing shortstop and he made a couple of incredible plays. Was like
a less than a two hour game at Dodger Stadium that year, and I
was so upset because it was like the only game I was going to for
the summer, and I hated that. Remember remember all the tail lights in
center field game every game, every game. The best one is when you
see Kirk Gibson's home and you see the tail lights and the breaks all come
the break lights all come on when as the ball is landing in the pavilion.
That's one of the great, the great images of that, of that
whole thing. All Right, we got a couple more minutes, So Greg,
we've been talking. You know, we talk about the fact that we're
still talking about football and basketball because of all the transfer, portal stuff and
everything that's going on. Your kind of take on both of those and you
know what's happening with both the football team and the basketball team right now,
how things are getting built. And you know, again another one of those
things. Are you used to this? Are you okay with it? You
know? What do you think about the way this all develops every year?
Now? I love the poetry of the Pac twelve, knowing where every weekend
was going to be and how in rhythm it was and everything, And of
course that's gone now and I'm really going to miss that. But it looks
to me like Arizona is going to be even more competitive in the Big twelve,
So maybe the average fan will enjoy it more even though it won't be
as familiar for a long time. And I mean, well, we get
psyched up when Kansas State comes in to play football. You know, I
was ranked fourteenth, and will that'd be the same as watching Stanford coming in
rank fourteenth. I guess it's going to be a tough change in a lot
of ways, but uh, especially in things like pack Cluve baseball, and
I just love pack Flulve basketball the way it's all in symmetry all those years.
And now, I mean, now, what you're going to play five
teams twice? Miss six teams all together something like that. In basketball.
Oh, I hadn't heard that that that the structure of that's a twenty game
season. I haven't seen natural structure. Right, No, it's a twenty
twenty game conference season. Yeah, there's got to be. I bet there
are years Arizona doesn't even play Kansas. I don't think so. I think
the big smart to not they They can't every single every single you know,
you mentioned Kansas State and football. That's a that's a has become a even
though it's a non conference game coming up with the in the football seam,
that's going to be a huge game because that's really going to give us a
sign of where Brent Brennan and the Wildcats are early on, don't you think?
Oh? Yeah? And plus plus Iowa stayed in Kansas for top twenty
five teams this year. Yeah, So where's an easy touch Houston? Maybe?
Oh as u a Colorado as in Colorado, exactly where it was last
year. All right, Greg, appreciate you giving us some time this afternoon
and getting off the golf course, and well you will we will see you
on Saturday at the Football Foundation tournament. Both have and I will be there
and we'll we'll fill you in on Adam's dilemma with what he's got going on
with his foursome. It's it's gonna be a little bit of a struggle for
him. I'll have Chuck Sa, I'll have truck Stace will come over and
beat you. Yeah, all right, Greg, thanks again. We'll see
you on Saturday. Hey later. All right. That's Greg Hanson from the
Ares on a Daily Star. Longtime friend, great friend of the show.
Love having him on. And he's gotten really good at golf. So well,
we'll see about that. All right. We're gonna take our last break.
We'd love to take your calls on anything we've talked about today. Five
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teamsecurity dot net. Steve Rivera and Jacob Slams they have their eye on the
ball on Tucson Sports station CHET Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Welcome back Toime.
All here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. We thank you for being here.
It's our last segment of the of the day. My partner, Steve Rivera
is out. He's gonna be out today and tomorrow. He's celebrating his birthday
in Vegas, so we'll he'll be back here on Monday. I've got Adam
Gonzalez, my son and a just a sports freak like the rest of us.
Right well, it sounds about right. Yeah. Done a lot of
work at the u of A in their athletic department, and then Ryan is
here working the board, doing a great job in his in his debut as
the as the uh uh as the ones and twos, the show producer.
So there you go, man, we got we've got it going on.
So it's been it's been a fun show. We've had. We had Jim
Anderson talking about the Arizona men's golf coach talking about they're getting started in the
in the regional up in West Lafayette, uh in the NCAA tournament. And
then we just had Greg Hanson on. Had some a lot of baseball conversation.
Greg, you know, big big old school fan like me grew up.
You know, he was a Yankee fan, big Mickey Mantle fan.
We we we've always had a lot of give and take on that, me
being a huge Dodger fan. So I've known Greg forgot d Adam, it's
been forty years. I don't know him, but always always had great,
great baseball conversation. And we're having the conversation about show. Hey, and
you know kind of what he means, you know, how how much he
means to for him to keep pitching. Uh, you know he's had the
arm injury, so he's not pitching this year. You know, the question
came up this morning on one of the other talk shows. You know,
will he pitch again? You you like the idea? Yeah, and I
think he will too, you know, but again they're also not going to
risk him, you know, having some sort of a career ending injury because
of that. Yeah. I don't think they're concerned about that. Yeah,
he's already throwing thing. Yeah I saw that. Did They've been They've been
doing that. So it's a and and again he's he's a he's a page
turner. He's somebody to watch and people do. So it's been great.
So else we've got our our buddy, Adam. Adam is client saying he's
got three years tops on the uh pitching at three Yeah, three to four
is about right. And then and no, he has not hit. This
last surgery was not Tommy John because if you had Tommy John, you wouldn't
have been hitting, right, So what do they do? I have no
idea, no idea. All right, Yeah, I think three four years
starting, and then I think he moves to the pen, the little pen,
and just the closure, the idea of him being a closed So I
remember the remember the World Baseball Classic, he was U Japan's closer struck out
Mike Trout the final out of the World Baseball Classic. You're right, yeah,
I forgot about that. I still that clip still shows up on my
social media feeds, the lasted bad against Trout. I mean, what for
an event that I don't know. I don't know how much people follow that
event, but it was such a big, big deal in such a big
classic confrontation between those two guys, and it was so cool to watch.
Had fun watching that. All right, we've confirmed our guests for tomorrow.
I want to let you know, as mentioned, Calviny Fund is going to
join us at three fifteen. We'll talk some more about this whole idea about
NBA players playing in the NFL and vice versa. Calvin was came to Arizona
in the Loudulcin years as a basketball recruit and wound up being a star on
the football team. He was one of the keys to that nineteen ninety eight
twelve and one team. So Calvin will be able to give us a first
hand experience with you know, a basketball player going to play football. So
we'll talk to him. And then we just confirmed that Kevin Guy, the
owner of the Tucson Sugar Skulls also happens to be the head coach of the
Arizona Rattlers. He's coming on. The Rattlers play Tucson in Tucson on Saturday,
So we'll get a little a little bit about probably a little bit about
both teams. We'll see how things are going, not only with the two
franchises, but how things are going with the league. The Arena Football League
kind of started up again and immediately started having all kinds of troubles. So
I think the Indoor Football League still is the premier indoor league in the country.
They continue to expand, and the Sugar Skulls are here and they're in
their fifth year, believe it. In that fourth year nineteen twenty, nineteen,
twenty nineteen was the first year, no season, twenty twenty, twenty
twenty one, twenty two, twenty, this is the fifth year, right,
fifth year, all right, So we'll have Kevin Guy on tomorrow.
So if you want to join us for that talk. It should be a
lot of fun NBA playoffs, Adam, You know, are you liking what
you're seeing or they are they fun? You you haven't? Yeah, that's
what's the most intriguing series to you right now. Yeah, probably it's the
wool Timberwolves and Nuggets. Yeah, because, as we said, Anthony Edwards
is kind of like the next guy here in the league. And the Nuggets
haven't been punched in the face like this. It's been the last couple of
years. It's been a while. They're in big trouble. They're in very
big They're in big trouble, are they tonight? No, tomorrow, they
play Friday Friday. That's tomorrow tomorrow? Yeah, yeah, today Thursday.
So yeah, Cleveland Boston tied right now, and then I don't know what
the Cleveland Boston series. I have no idea. The Celtics are to win
four, maybe five, Okay, all right? And then Dallas, Oklama
City today and what about that one? Interesting to see if these young thunder
keep playing well without any sort of playoff experience, because generally in the NBA
you need to get your ass I say that, you can say, I
gotta get your ass kicked at least once before you actually take that step.
And the one Seaton, they're the ones, they're the number one. I
had no idea. I mean, if you'd asked me three weeks ago,
Hey, who's the number one seed? And you know I would say,
well, I guess the Nuggets, right, you know, so and cruise
pass. The Pelicans cruised in Game one against the Mavericks. Are they just
going to keep doing that? Yeah? I think they'll run into But again,
neither of the Timberwolves. I mean there are the three seed. Again,
the Timberwolves haven't had any sort of like those guys really have had real
playoff success. Yeah. Yeah, they're they're actually you know, they're they're
actually been fun to watch. I said, I don't have no idea on
the Celtics uh Cavalier series, because that's one that I it's that's so far
out of my mind because I've been so zeroed in on the nixt Pacer series.
You know, the what the Timberwolves are doing after they you know,
they laid the wood to uh to the Suns. The Celtics are to me,
they're like, it's kind of theirs to lose. Okay, they've gone
through everything, even with YEA, even with the Nuggets, you know,
you know, coming off the championship and the whole they've gone through that they've
gone through the playoffs. Each of these last couple of years as a favorite,
losing heartbreaking fashion, you know, always doing well. Yeah, and
just come up a little short. Yeah, I think it's the time.
Yeah. I guess somebody was just trying to call. We missed that,
We missed the call. Give us a call back. We still got a
few minutes. Sorry about that. Uh got to got to talk and Steve
let us know that somebody has been trying to give us a buzz. But
we'll we'll take your call. So please call back if you're if you're trying
to call in I you know what about you know, Kyrie Irving and the
and I think, oh, let's take this call right now here we go,
Hi, your ian, you're on eye and the ball. Hey Jay
you sir Rick Hi Rick now here. Hey listen, you got a great
partner today. He's doing a good talking about playing with some golfers in two
thousand and four. In two thousand and five, we used to have these
docks and then di'mond backs and the Rockies over at our restaurant. McMahon's right,
right, So I played golf. We had two golf courses down in
Green Valley. So if Isaac Giano, yeah, Canerko and then uh,
uh, the guy that Frank Thomas and I should have best a weapon him,
I mean demand, I mean, he just punished the golf ball.
It was I felt bad to the golf ball when he played. I can
imagine him hitting the ball, and he was actually pretty really pretty decent around
the greens for a while. So, but you were talking about playing with
George Arias, and when I get a group together for charity, I'd called
Eddie Leon, Yes, George Ericas the other guy. My brain just went
blank and myself and so I didn't have to even worry about driving the golf
ball. I just left it to George and Eddie sometimes. And uh,
but I missed those days. I miss those minor league. But from my
fiftieth birthday in two thousand and five, Hermschneider was the trainer for the White
Sox and I had just dealt with some colon cancer issues. But I'm postoped,
and I told Bob McMahon, I'm going to the Yankee Stadium for my
fiftieth birthday. I'm a die hard Yankees fan. Washed them first listening to
radio in first grade. The Nuns. So they got me seats, hotel
room and seats. Three of us went uh and watched the Yankees play the
White Sox on my birthday in two thousand and five. And you talked about
a class group of guys. They were all all all three teams. They
were all great guys and you could see them at our restaurants and nobody would
bother them. They were just down to earth, you know, good old
folks. And do sound really blew it when they got when we got rid
of those, because it was it was a great win for something. There
was a lot going on here with all. So I actually played with Conerko
one time too in the in the in the you know, they would have
that spring training UH charity golf tournament here, so we would always got a
player in our group. So I played with Conerko. I played with Randy
Johnson once I mentioned I played with Bo Jackson and he showed up with just
a seven iron and just played the plate, played most of the round like
that, and we had Those were great times. They were great times.
Adam was mentioned, he got a big smile no his face when you mentioned
Eddie Leone, because Eddie's pretty much Adam's un like my own. He's my
wife's uncle. I've played I've played golf with Eddie a few times. Yeah.
Well, Eddie's just great people and you know, down to earth and
uh, you know their Tucson. Watching the Indians play, we'd have the
Giants here, everybody, everybody. It was always black. We do miss
it. We do miss it a lot. Okay, kay, I appreciate
the call man, Thanks for the memories. Appreciate it. We will talk
to you later, you too. Yeah, you know, those were great
times, you know, and it's signed. I mean, the Indians were
here for a long time and and you know, but then when when spring
training had the three teams, that was it was great, but it was
kind of short lived. It didn't last a long time. I remember it
pretty well though. Yeah. Yeah, we went on to some spring training
games and you know where there was the Diamondbacks, the Rockies, the White
Sox, you know, and then we're playing these golf tournaments with those guys
and and and they were and they were fun. They were great to you
know, great to be around. I remember, uh, one of the
spring trainings that we were at the we we've told this story. We even
had him on the show. Uh, when we were at the Big party
at the at the golf tournament and Luis Gonzalez, you know, we got
him to call my sister. Were come to call her up and she unfortunately
wasn't home, so we left her a message on her on her message machine
and she still has the tape. But you know, they would do stuff
like that, right. We just went up to Louise and said, hey,
Louise, would you call my sister. She's a big fan of yours.
And he did it without even you know, with a big smile on
his and it was it was great. And those are the kinds of guys
that they were. You know. Randy Johnson had this reputation as kind of
a brooding, quiet guy. We golfed with him and I mean he wasn't
like, you know, leading the conversation, but he chatted with us and
we had a great time. We had fun with him. He's a photographer,
he's a photographer now and he and he hit one of the best.
Okay, let's take this call. Hi. You're on the air and eye
on the ball. Hi, guys, it's Jim. Hey Jim. We
only got about a minute. Yeah, that's why he works out. We're
past time of the year. For all the little leaguers to remind all the
little leaguers, if you want to be a better hitter, swing it better
pitches that I took my son. We took our son to you'd all the
other day and we were just kind of having having him run around, and
there were some little league games and so we walked over there for a few
minutes and watched some. It was probably like double a. Yeah, the
kids are pitching. Adam. Let me ask you, what did you learn
during your littleague career about hittie. Uh, don't swing at the dumb ones.
That's true. You don't want to go after that inside basketball because it
looks sweet. Yep. You were a great hitting coach, Jim. Hey,
look, we got to run. We appreciate the call we got.
We're at the top of the hour. We got to hit guy to get
out of here. Thanks Jim. But thanks for calling Jim, Thanks for
saying hi. All right, take care Adam, you too. All right,
we got to hit. Jim was Adam's little league coach one year.
It's a great time. It was a lot of fun that year. We
were champions too, man, we were champions. All right. Hey,
Hey, this fun show Adam, Thank you. Thanks great job, Ryan,
nice job on the board. Thanks to Greg Hanson for being with us,
Jim Jim Anderson for being with us. Good luck hairs on a men's
golf on Monday. We'll be back here tomorrow. Dave Silver, former Tag
and sports director, will be my co host and we'll have a couple of
great guests, so be sure to come back tomorrow and join us for the
end of the week. So see you tomorrow.