Steve Rivera and Jacin Salis. They have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson's
Sports. Stay shat Fox Sports fourteen fifty and they welcome back to Iron the
Ball Here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Riverta. He's Jagen's Aux with
some breaking news. This is Eye on the Ball, breaking news on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. All right, Steve, let's start with some of the
biggest news in the history of sports, involving show Heyo ton oh so Gezha.
Dodgers might take off fifteen minutes, seven hundred million dollars over ten years,
almost double the richest contract ever in Major League Baseball and believed to be
the richest contract in the history of the sports. It costs of do you
a Dodger dog of seventy five dollars seed a Dodger dog. You know what
if if they win a World Series because of it, I'll pay the seventy
five bucks for a Dodger dog. It was funny because you know, there
was all this taught that he was on his way to Toronto, and it
all turned out to be erroneous. Somebody screwed it up. He was going
to be a Dodger the whole time. Dave Roberts in an interview earlier in
the week, pretty much, I was gonna thrown the hint out and stuff.
Here. Here's a funny story. So we're standing for the national anthem
at the Arizona game, right and you know we're where we're down on the
floor. And so when I you know, when we when the nation anthem
comes on, you know, I faced the flag, you're facing that end
of the arena, and my son Adam, who's ten times bigger Dodger fan
than I am. He's to my left at the table, so he's behind
me. When then, you know, when when we're doing the national anthem,
so we stand, I'm looking at the flag. You know, they
announced who the singer of the national anthem is, and then I hear my
son behind me go holy blank. And I turned around like I thought something
happened in the stands or somebody fell or whatever. He goes the Dodgers just
shine jow. Hey, you already knew that. No, I didn't,
because we had been texting you on that thread, uh me and oh I
hadn't seen it, Okay, I hadn't seen it. Okay, Yeah,
you're busy before a games. Apparently your son isn't well. He he took
one, he took a look at his phone for some reason, you know,
and he said, holy expletive, the Dodgers just signed show hey,
And I'm like, you've got national anthem going on right here right now.
But he couldn't believe it. And we were, you know, a little
high fiving and stuff like that. Even Brett Hanson, you know Brett,
he was, he was sitting in the seats across the way from us.
Even even he texted me about it. It was a crazy thing, I
mean, unbelievable. Yeah, I saw him here. I didn't realize for
the game that billis was there, and so was past Yeah, so you
know, I didn't even see that. We went out to dinner over on
University Bovard Friday or Friday night, Friday night over a main gate, and
my daughter swear she saw Billis there. Probably I swear billis, Well,
he's doing the game. Well, he was the third or fourth or fifth
the most recognizable guy there. Right, we'll be the couple being Francona and
Kerr. All right, So you know, it was one of those games
where they brought those guys that brought the house man. Yeah, they brought
the house and it worked. It worked, all right, Okay, a
lot of well, let me get into a couple of other things. First
of all, Team ac Tatoroy McMillan, Arizona receiver sophomore named a third team
AP All American, which you know you do that that always sets you up
for next year. You know you can expect him to be you know,
probably maybe even a first team All American next year. Uh. The the
AP All American team came out today. Not surprisingly, the Heisman Trophy winner
Jayden Daniels was the first team. Quarterback Michael Pennis was second team. Bow
Knicks was third team. Uh. Mcmallan was the only Arizona guy who was
on the first, second, or third teams. But you know, it's
not a lot of surprises. All the guys that that you've been talking about
at receiver, the guys that came in ahead of McMillan, Troy Franklin from
Oregon, really good player, Alike Washington from Virginia never heard of him,
uh. Uh, and Luther Burden at Missouri. Uh. And then I
think those are the second team. I'm sorry because I thought, yeah,
my mylik neighbors, l s U, Marvin Harrison Junior, Ohio State,
Romo Doozy Washington. And I was listening to those guys that I tell you
listened to all the time, Ross Dellinger, Uh Pat forty, uh Wessel.
Wessel is not a Heisman voter forty and Dellinger forty had the three in
order. He had, he had Daniels, he had Panix, he had
he had a Bone Nicks, Russ Dellinger, he had, he had,
he had Daniels, he had Bone Nicks. Then he had the Washington receiver.
He didn't even have Michael Pennix in his top three. How do you
tell how did he justify that? Did? He just said he just saw
Washington and he just put no no. He said he specifically when he thought
row he thought Michael Penix was really good because of Romo Denzy, and I
just don't agree with that. I had my ballot on Twitter on on Sunday
morning. I had, I had Panics, I had Nicks. And then
when Marvin Harrison Junior, I just felt, and I still feel that that
Jane Daniels was just a stat accumulator. He piled up a bunch of big
stats on games that ultimately didn't matter. They lost that first game to to
Florida State. They were never in it. Thought he accumulated stats the course
of the year. I get it, his numbers were huge and and you
know, Michelle Gardner made a comment that it's not a team award, that
she thought Jaye Daniels servant. Well, well, my point was it was
a team award back when a couple of Stanford guys should have won it,
and they gave it to the best player on the best team, both of
them from Alabama. So back then it was a team award. And all
of a sudden, you know, the great teams that should have had guys
that should have won it are on the West coast. Well, we're gonna
give it to the individual guy who had great individual don't dis abdun't. In
fact, the boat Nicks is a victory or two away from winning it.
I think because he lost two games Washington, I said I would still take
him over Pennix, and I couldn't tell you why, but I really liked
the way he plays. Well. My vote came down to the winner of
that Oregon Washington game that was it I decided, you know, I hadn't
decided on my third place. Guy. Oh, I'm sorry. We have
we have a guest. Oh gee, we forgot about him, right,
Oh, we did forget him. Must have guilt, right, right,
so he's I just got a text. Okay, so we'll we'll hold on
to this. We'll hold on to this. Let me see, go ahead
and give me one more right now. Yeah, yeah, we were supposed
to have I know, I forgot. Yeah, I was looking the thing
thinking, why am I looking at the thing? Well, that was it.
I'm gonna have them. Yeah, we can go a little longer and
then we'll we'll we'll wrap this up on the other side. But anyways,
that that was my point. And then that's you know, so I'm not
surprised Daniels won because you know, and then the other argument made this had
been flipped Jaydon Daniels on the west coast and Panics and and Nicks are on
the you know, in the east, one of them would have won.
Totally agree that had given it to the quarterback of the best team. Sure,
just just and that's how that's how I looked at it, Because if
he's that valuable or that good. Should have his team playing better, right,
nine and three finished third in their division in the CC. Sorry,
you gotta do better than that. All right, Well let's hopefully Gil.
Look that was stupid. Okay, well we'll see what We'll see Gil already.
Uh, I'm just selected to the uh Pemama Community College Sports Hall of
Fame along with our friend have your Morales and a couple the guy's Jack holl
is going to be a guest of the show tomorrow. So what Gil's Gil
was a great picture Pima, great picture of Arizona. Ten years in the
major leagues. And hopefully he's gonna he's not mad at us. He's gonna
go. Yeah, he's out, He's out and about somewhere. Here we
go, Here we go, Here we go. Let's see. Hey,
this is Steve Raveraron Jakins Omas, Is this Gil? This is Gil?
Do you Gil? Hey, don't get old like us old dudes. We
we we had you, we got you know what the hell do we know?
Son of a gun? Thanks for calling us. I know where you
at. You're like at disney World or no work. No, I'm in
back, I'm not in bikeyard. Yeah, I'm in dian Well thank you
for calling. We we had we usually have our guests in and then we've
been talking and said, oh God, we got Gilled Jo Gil. Great
to have you. I'm hoping you can stay on for a little bit.
Congratulations on your announcement of Pima. How how big is that for you?
Oh? It was a great advent. Honestly, I think it was one
of the most recognized events that I've been to where I actually felt the energy
and I felt the I guess that's what happened. When you get older,
you feel the warmth of what people have touch that helped you and become mentors.
And that's what exactly I'm doing now. I'm not a teacher, I'm
an instructor. I'm a pitching coach, and I know how important it is
to be able to communicate and give people opportunities. You know, Gil,
you're on one of the rare guys, particularly in that period of time,
that came out of Pima and got an opportunity to play play at Arizona.
How do you think that you know that time that you had at PEMA set
you up for a couple of years that you had at Arizona, which included
the College World Series Championship. Well, I think it was, like I
spoke on it yesterday in my speech, where I got the opportunity from Coach
all Day coming from the Gallas, the in program that we had down there
when we were always contenders in the state tournament, but coming into the junior
college realm of things, I kind of it was an easy move. Not
easy, it was a more comfortable movem instead of a major university, I
guess for a young eighteen year old kids. But no, they gave me
the opportunity. The teammates that I had there as the higher classmen, sophomores,
Bobby Field, Jeff Heard. There's a lot of pitches that I learned
from, but I also learned some of the stuff not to do, and
it was just a learning experience. So at what point, kind of to
go with Jay's question, at what point did you kind of feel you have
potential to be a major leaguer. I know you're probably still young thinking not
even thinking that, or maybe you do, but at what point did you
feel that? To be honest, I didn't think. I mean I never
thought about being a major leaguer until I was probably in the minor league playing
Triple A, thinking that I had the opportunity. But when you really get
to call, when you really had that opportunity to get to the top,
then you're going, Wow, that's what it took to be able to get
to the highest level but not want to be able to stay there. Yeah,
But I didn't think anything like that when I was a little leaguer.
I didn't think anything when I was in Bebrue. I didn't think anything when
I was in high school. Once I got drafted the first year, my
freshman year at Penas, that's when I started thinking, when I have an
opportunity. I know, the guys get to the big leagues right away,
but it was not the case for me. I knew that there was going
to be a lot of hard work and you know, determination to be able
to get to the highest level, but to be able to continue to do
that hard work, because we you know, we hear the stories. Being
in the minor leagues is not easy. I know, there's probably a lot
of people that got there or you're a professional baseball player, and how hard
can it be? But it has to be a lot of work and a
lot of ups and downs. You know what what made you keep working?
Did you always you said you didn't know if you're gonna get to the majors?
But was that the carrot that was out there in front of you?
Were you Were you thinking about that as you did the lifting and the workouts
and all that kind of stuff. Oh? Absolutely, I mean when I
worked, when I ran, it's a grind, not only on the field
or off the field. But you have to have the full support as far
as all around, as far as a team. You know, my my
wife, my family, everybody has to be in to be able to have
a support group that always has you know, your back. But it always
comes down to the individual as far as Yeah, you can work as hard
as you want, but you got to have that drive and determination and you
got to have luck too. I mean, you definitely have to have a
little bit of luck. Yeah, time a time and going with the right
team and all that. For two dudes who played the little a little ball
and then dreamed the dream, how was it being a major league player?
Just like what you guys are saying, the greatest feeling. It just brings
back a lot of your your fruits of labor that that you've done and you
continue doing what it is, and to be able to stay there is really
the hardest thing to do, you know. And and that's what I accomplished
by still going down in the minor league's learning and making adjustments going back to
the league, big league, going back to the minor league. It was
just like that roller coaster that I'm at here in Disneyland, right, yeah,
sure, sure we're talking. We're talking to Gil already. PEMA College
Sports Hall of Famer National Championship at Arizona ten year Major League. What was
the first stadium for your first major league game? And what was that like,
you know, walking out of the dug out onto the field for the
first time. Where were you? I was in San Francisco playing in Candlestick
Park. It was an afternoon day game on Sunday, I believe, and
we were playing the Saint Louis Cardinal. I came in relief because we were
getting beat pretty well, and it was a great opportunity for a rookie to
come in and pitch. And I think, I I believe that I've only
got one out, or maybe I finished one any but I ended up giving
I believe I gave up five runs. It was and I gave up a
home run. But it was just a field that I was pitching in a
big league ballpark and all my senses were just going to one hundred percent,
and it was I remember, it was a great feeling. Yeah, it
was that I wish I would have done better. Yeah, but I got
there and everybody just came back and said, you know what, that's your
first one and you're gonna be better than that. Sure, and you had
a pretty good career. I think you finished above five hundred right after all
those years. I did finish above five hundred. I did pretty good into
realm with things as far as staying healthy. I think I can always take
a lot of pride in saying that I'd never spent one day in the in
the injured list. So that's that's a big accomplished accomplishment for me. Uh.
And not only that. I did do some offensive work too. I
did get some base hits. And you showed my own that I can handle
the bath sure are you? Uh? I guess if you went back to
No Gallas, you'd be the mayor. You could run for the mayor.
No, that's my that's one of my good friends from that I had from
high school. Our quarterback from high school is now the mayor in a gallaxy.
He tells me that there's a lot of there's a lot of what's the
great word to that? I guess it's politics, you know what. Everybody
you can kind of craft if you want to deal with, we won't we
won't kill you. Yeah. God no, So I do not want to
be the mayor. No, the honorary Mary. Maybe for one day I
would take but that's it. I no, no what and uh you found
you're out. You must be enjoying life now, not having you teaching kids.
I'm sure you get a lot of questions about how how do we become
guil Well, that's really the important questions that everybody asks. And I work
with a lot of Latin players, which is one of my forteses because I'm
bilingual, so I can teach and talk to with Dominicans, Venezuelan, Panamania.
All the Latin players which come from Latin America have a great opportunity to
be able to do what they want to do as far as their dream.
But the biggest key for them now is players are being They're different now.
These guys have big arms, they have big velocities, and what I try
to teach them is the importance that to be able to control the zone,
to be able to control fastball. And that's one thing that it's hard to
teach because that takes practice and hard work in both and all that, if
that makes any sense, makes a lot of sense. Can you wrap your
mind around at all? Around shotany in a seven hundred million dollar contract.
I knew that questions we're gonna I knew that question was gonna pop up.
And I work for the Angel You do? Oh? You do? I
know that? Okay? Yeah, obviously I saw him warm up a couple
of times in spring training, and I talked to his assistant or whatever he
called his guru getting his velocities with these little portable velocity readers. He is
definitely a unicorn. I just didn't know that he was really that good of
what he does with both sides of the the spectrum with baseball. It's unbelievable.
He's a unicorn. Yeah, could you in your time and this may
be a dumb question, but could there have been another show hey in the
last twenty five years if they really wanted to. We see a guy at
Colorado going both ways. Now, could we have done that before? And
you know what, there was a lot of good pictures that can hit,
but they never obviously give him the opportunity. I do remember some of the
pictures going in there and pinshitting so they can bunt. But there was some
guys I don't know if you guys recall a guy that used to pitch for
the Diamondback. His name was Micah Only. Yeah, he was a very
very good He was a guy that can hit home runs. I mean,
this guy can hit. But as far as the the aspect of what shohe
does compared to what he does, I mean, Johy can run. He's
also fat, he's left handers, he can I mean he does it all.
Yeah, well that's kind of crazy. But you know again, none
of us have ever you said, a unicorn, none of us have ever
seen this, and it's it. It's been fun to watch. I happen
to be a Dodger fan, so I'm kind of happy with how this thing
turned out. So how about the Dodgers. Yeah, well, the whole
craziness of the of the last few days, you know, oh, he's
going to Toronto and all this stuff. Just just the magnitude of what was
happening. Yeah, just watching the Baseball the Major League Network and seeing what
has opened because there's still a lot of free agents that are in the market.
And I don't know if you guys understand, but I don't know the
logistics to the contract, but I think a lot of some of the money
is deferred, so that still gives the opportunity for the Dodgers to still sign
some premiere arms or hitters to make them even that much better for the regular
season. But the bottom line to any organization or any team getting to the
playoffs is obviously getting to the World Series and winning the World Series, and
that's even harder to do. So what do you do for the Angels?
I'm up to own a pitching coach. I'm an actual minor league pitching coach.
Oh okay, and I worked for player development. I've been doing it
for four years with the Angels. I did it for thirteen years for the
Diamondbacks. So it was fun to see some of the players that pitched and
had success in the World Series. So dumb question. So when you were
a kid growing up in Nogaas, what did you want to do when you
grew up. To be honest, I wanted to be a pilot, like
a like a pilot, like an armed military pilot, navy aviator. I
love planes. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a pilot.
And obviously that changed real quick. Right after my senior year in high
school, I found out that there is a lot of demand. Got to
study, you got to do this and that, and I'm going, nah,
I'm gonna Hey, it's a lot of math. Man. I've seen
Top Gun a couple of times. It's a lot of math. Yeah.
And I was really good with math, and that's why I liked it and
I enjoyed. But I really enjoy the thrill of the aviation and all the
military planes that I'm I'm still a big, big advocate to that. Well,
baseball has been very very good to you. As they said, No,
no, baseball was really good. Yeah, Gil, thanks so much
for sticking with us. I appreciate your patience. Man, Oh, no
problem. Let's see if we can get those talent for lines better. No,
we just didn't see it. We just didn't see it. We're it's
a long story. We don't want to know long story. I thought I
would have to start a campfire. Please do, please do the next time.
It probably works better than our phone system. Thank you, Gil.
We appreciate it much, all right, enjoy be well. Thank you appreciate
it. Give ready from the angels. I didn't know. All right,
let's get the heck out of here. We'll be back and we'll wrap up
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You're Jay more breaking news or now I got a few more than okay,
we didn't go there, going to go to them. We'll got much time.
We got about ten minutes just under and then we're gonna take a break.
We're gonna take a break and then we'll wrap up. Okay, I'll
take your calls right now to someone's calling right now, let's do that.
You are on the air and id the ball. Hello, you're on You're
on the air. Yes, are you doing it's more? Move tank Garra
sounds like moan Garra? How what you did? You butt? Dallas?
What's going on? What's going on? No? Min now? Do everything
fine? Thank you? Good to hear from you. Yeah, what's the
word? What's the word? Well? How about that one? Is this?
Did you just text me? No? Okay, okay, okay,
because I got a call from what I more? Talk about that? How
let's talk about that? What do you see? Uh mo? I mean,
what what how do you feel he's progressed over the last couple of years.
I think like he he's got place where I think it's gotta do with
the coach because for foreign players like him, he'd been through to lie he
was in the Spain. Let home go to the Spain. So he bounce
run and find someone like I can't trust you. Like I think that the
environment and what the coach said for him, a guy him do things like
you know some amazing stuff. Yeah, I think it's the coach, the
boundary between him and the head coach like Tomments. I think that's that's all
I see what I watch because I see myself, you know, like when
you have with the environment is in right now. It's just he's got everything
around him and the rest is just he's got to perform. He worried about
anything like I was worried by Home. I was worried by then. So
he don't he does not have any And I'm just saying, like, I'm
so excited every game when I watch, I just like, oh my god,
you don't know how much child, I'm excited with the program and with
a bottle into it is amazing. So now they play against the best player,
at least the biggest best player that they'll face this year. How do
you defend? How do you defend a guy like that? He talking about
different defend the battle he's going to face. Yeah, man, I think
I think it's the will. Like he he recognized where he at. I
think he knows what's going on. He's wearing of everything right now. I
think he is just preparing the way that preparing him, the way he prepare
at himself. I think he's gonna he will be fine. Then it's it's
uh, you know, I mean one of the things that's been great about
what we're seeing in Arizona's You've got Umar who's starting out there, and then
off the bench comes this you know, Mo Crevis, who's you know,
played pretty well to give them a one to two combo in there. You
know, what can what can Ballow do to help Creevous, who is a
true freshman, you know, get his footing and and how can he help
him? I think mentoring, he's kind of you knowep communicating with him,
make sure, uh, just cheering for him because every moment that you know,
the backup big men come in, He's gotta windn't think that's the bonus
for him, Like, you know, I him going back and do his
things. Just be one of his biggest fans and to get bent on him.
I think that's all he needs to do is because the rest I mean
boats taking care of that. So he just gotta be uh big bonotype the
stuff that the backup big man can do and he cannot do. He's gotta
be able to the really you know, cheer for that chick game. You
know, he's he's not fast as on the bigs, but he can do
stuff. So if that if the cover of you with some some minutes and
they get in, get a good minute when you come in, you gotta
finish it. And at the same time, you gotta let those guys know
what they did. Uh, just be cheer for them, like whatever time
thead right right, Well, how how good you think this team is?
We've been talking about that. How good are they? No? You know?
Then the crazy thing about this, like when I watched the game I'm
watching as a fan, that's kind of like that's what I'm really really kind
of like a scary I don't even like trying to, you know, watch
the game as a coach or I'm just like, like the biggest fan.
I think it's gonna be excited because that know they've been through to say almost
same scenati. Last year we had a really good run and you know,
we got hit in the mouth right the first So I think they know what's
going on. I think we're gonna be good. I mean, knock on
the hood, no injury. I would say we're good, but we got
some injury. I don't wish that's gonna be the thing, but that that
mature doesn't know what's going on. You got a mature of the team,
and that's a scary. So let me ask you a dumb stupid question because
well you know I asked dumb stupid questions. Uh so you so you came
here with the dream of playing here, and you did it with lout and
then unfortunate situation with Kevin. But I'm sure you wish that your your career
would have been like bollows, Yes, and then that that's I think that's
what I become his biggest fan because the stuff that I was in I was
set to achieve. I didn't. So if I see him achieved, Dad,
like man, I'm like I'm satisfied. Yeah, like I don't have
any more graduate like one went wrong winning with Arizona because Bao, when I
watch him play and when I watch him perform, when he's he's do things
and the way he's celebrating, it's just like I love it. I think
he uh, he's in the great stitition. I wasn't a great stitition,
but I was not lucky to be his level. But I think he he
make he make my day sometimes when I watch him play. Honestly, it
sounds like you really love watching the guy. Is Is he an NBA player?
Do you think I would say yes? I think if if you're getting
a situation when someone take a chance, because he's uh, he's a big
man who's more down but you know in the NBA we don't have that anymore.
But his strength, like he's strongness under the basket. I think somebody
can use that. Yeah, I think if he gets in the great situation
where they're going to develop him, like helping him, not not to say
okay, we're gonna get you the frenchise tag, but let's let's see if
we can develop you, like, you know, be more quicker. And
because he's got the high, he got the defense, and you know,
and in the NBA, that's a couple of bigs, but he can't really
play against. I mean, I hope, I mean that's my dream.
I want to see him in the NBA, but I think he needed some
work when he gets that though. No, you just need to teach him
how to shoot pritos, right right. I know it is so big and
tight. I think that it's like a second baby shot. Just got to
hit those. Hey, thanks for the call. We got to see each
other, no problem, no problem, thank you, all right, thank
you, all right, thanks much for a nice surprise. Thank you surprise.
That was a great surprise. Yeah, thank Aaron Man. But you
know, again, you know, if a guy a guy, a guy
who knows exactly what Umar Bellow is joining and going through. And it's great
that he calls, right, I know that he he left, he left
not a good terms. I mean, he played for Kevin and Kevin didn't
play him. Yeah, yeah, and in that situation was just what it
was. Uh, but good to see him kind of living through right right,
and that and that's very cool because he's obviously he has you know,
has an influence on him and wants him to wants him to do well,
and as he said, he cheers for him big time. So that's very
cool. All right, let's go take our last break here. We're gonna
come back. Still haven't wrapped up breaking news. There's a couple more things
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is High on the Wall with Steve Rivera and Jacob Salez on Fox Sports fourteen.
Hey, welcome back to Winning the Ball you know on Fox Sports fourteen
fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, Peter Jacobs. As we got about thirteen minutes.
If you guys want to give us a quick call, we can take
your call. So I just got to tech. There was a cool call
from low Yeah, very cool call from Tangara out of the blue, out
of the believe, talking about rumor Ballo. You know, I feel like
Umar has kind of been lost in the shof a little bit, you know,
because of you know what's happening with with Keisha Johnson and Caleb Love and
I've call him about all those guys, but he's still been solid. He
had a couple of big plays. He had that throwdown dunk that I still
don't know how he was able to dunk it from where he was on that
pick and roll from Caleb Love. Yeah, he didn't really dunk it.
He just kind of threw it in the basket from from the top. Brought
the house down. He had, you know, he had a couple of
those, and it was just he was umar. You know, he was
one point one, one rebound short of a double double. And you know,
as was a keishat Johnson. So you know, just again solid all
the way around for Arizona and that's why they're winning games. They're eight now,
all right, So let's do this one more time. Let's get the
last of it in. I'll go ahead and play. The thing is high
on the ball Breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Somebody listening to the
show is going, what the hell, it's not four o'clock. What's what's
going on? This is the breaking of the breaking news for the broke news.
The breaking news is that breaking news didn't happen when the breaking news is
supposed to. All right, So we did mention Arizona State at number one
in the in the AP Pole. The cool thing about the cool thing about
the poll this because that Perdue moved up a spot. So they're number three.
Neither Arizona or Purdue plays until they play each other on Saturday, so
it's gonna be a one versus three on Saturday. And you know, the
biggest complaint of this is it's on Peacock. That's the biggest complaint. This
is how the world works. The world works. So I work for real
tour and blah blah blah, and and it's the same time all the time.
You know it's coming. People don't get it because the traffic and blah
blah blahlah. You know what's coming. We tell people all this stuff,
but they don't know until it's on top of you. Right. So now
they've said it's gonna be on Peacock for a while now for a while now,
people are still it's going to be on Peacock. How did this happen?
It was gonna be on Peacock months ago. This is didn't happen.
We've known, we know for a while a lot of Big ten games are
on Peacock. Right now, they've got a contract. Peacock is a is
a it's sort of a it's an offshoot of NBC. That's where they're kind
of over overflow stuff. Nobody thought there was gonna be a one versus three
game, you know when they when they set that game, and and you
know, and and again big the basketball is different from football football. The
games get set on their networks a week and a half, about two weeks
ahead of time, sometimes only a week ahead of time. It fluctuates.
That's the way that system is set up. College basketball games, they set
those before the season, months before the start, because they just got so
this game got set at a time when certainly nobody thought Arizona was going to
be doing what it's doing. And that and that you know, we stopped
producing. Gonna be goodcause of Zach Eatie. But yeah, you know,
nobody out there about this is gonna be a one versus three games. Otherwise
it wouldn't have been on Peacock. But it is. Deal with it,
right, Steve, Well, you have no choice. You can complain how
he was no choice. Okay, all this hoopla, not hoopla, just
this stuff about that that call in the Chiefs game yesterday. Oh the over
duds off side, he was He's off side, and Andy Reid came out
today and said that if you ever watch the wide receivers, they go out
to their spot, they look at the ref, they point at him,
they get a thumbs up or a thumb's down, or he'll tell him to
back up or whatever. Andy Reid admitted that Cadarry Tony did not do that
for that play. If you had to look to the reft, the reft
would have said back up, and that never would have happened. Right,
So anybody, including the Chiefs, were saying it was anybody's fault, but
his blaming the ref because they never call that. Dude, it was so
blatant, so obviously they had to call it. I didn't see if they
don't call it, the bills are pissed. Sure, sure, No,
I didn't see it until I saw the highlight of it. It was a
nice play. But yeah, I know you're right if your flag came out
immediately, I mean the play started and you saw the flag in the air,
right, and you knew it was something on the chief The more concerning
part of the whole thing is what's going on with the kind with the Chiefs
big picture? Yeah, right, because they're supposed to be better than they
are. They ate five hours. Yeah, they're just not playing by Yeah,
they're not certainly not the world champion Chiefs. And I'm pissed because I've
been picking them all year. I think I've picked them five times this year.
They've only covered for me, so they're not to you. They are
dead to me now, well five times the Chiefs. I mean, you
can keep picking because you keep thinking win. You know he's dead to me
too. But Baltimore, your Detroit. Oh they disappointed me three times.
Oh yeah, not only have they not cooked well, no, I think
they've lost twice and then didn't cover against the Bear. I was the accidental
picker last week with them because I saw well because I didn't tell you my
myla Lock and you had no idea how much. I didn't want to pick
the Lock because you had picked them. But then I had no choice because
Baltimore didn't do anything. I'm still not sold on Dallas, so I couldn't
do that. So I went to Detroit because they've been fairly good to me,
and then they just, oh god, they're not that good. Maybe
I was sold on something from earlier in the year. Because they're not the
team anymore maybe or did you don't don't. I don't want to know what
you've done anything with them because it's thirteen points. That's a lot of points.
But I need the point. I need the one point. Again,
if we said it was either gonna be bad for you or good for me,
and it was bad for you, yeah, well it's still you have
two points. So if you need this game tonight for two points, I
need to Yeah. Yeah, not good, not good. Hope I didn't
wreck your season, wrecked my season. I got four more weeks to really
do something. Well, Hey, we were talking about Arizona's ranking. PEMA
College men's basketball or women's basketball. Bro ranked ranked fourteenth. The men should
be up there to they're kicking there ain't no when they're killing people. I
didn't see that. I just saw the women's Yeah, I'm yon who's texting
me earlier because they're killing they're scoring a ton of points. Yeah, you
said they're undefeated, right, I think they're eight No, two, Oh,
they're also fourteen. They're fourteen two. Okay, about fourteen in the
country. When you think about the number of junior colleges out there, that's
that's pretty damn right in their style of play. They'd like to run.
Oh no, they're doing great, all right. Uh, the transfer portal
is all over the place. Guys opting out of boat Bowl games. Sam
Hartman, the quarterback of Notre Dame, says, I ain't going to al
Passo. He's not gonna play in the sun Ball when they're playing Oregon State.
I think they're playing. So he's he's not gonna play in the sun
Ball. And then lie up, lie up, lay out to lat To.
The defensive lineman from u C. L A said he's skipping the l
A Bowl where they were going to play Boise State. Again. Guy's gonna
be a number one draft pick. He's a PAC twelve defensive Player of the
Year, first team All American. He's gonna say, I'm not gonna go
to play Boise State. So there's there's been some of that, and then
one thing one more. You know, we saw that the Lakers one that
didn't see the tournament. People are having fun with that, saying Michael Jordan
never won one. So they said Lebron James is greater than Michael Jordan.
Jordan. Sure, sure, I saw some of it, and they were
pretty good in the wholes. Yeah. Uh, but Bronnie did play.
We talked about that while I was gonna bring that up. Ronnie James got
in and played, and then they probably got beat by Long Beach by Long
Beach State, Ucla lost it lost to Villanova. Over the weekend, we
were talking with Gabe Gabriel. You know the Pack basketball again is looking to
be not very good. Well, that's the whole thing outside of Arizona.
Arizona, Arizona, and we've seen this before. We've seen this dance,
but with somebody else, Gonzaga, right, they go through their breach through
their league. Uh, they they don't get tested very often. They started
to play tougher teams. But so this is like Gonzaga two point zero for
Arizona. They need to because the league is not gonna give him any any
They're not gonna ge him any help both from a from a strict schedule arranged
exactly the strength of schedule health. So, oh, just came across Washington
State quarterback cam Ward is going is expected to visit Miami. Huh, and
he's thinking about also visiting Florida State. Well, i'd be good. They
need a fourth string quarterback, yeah, yeah, so it's you know,
hey, that Army Navy game. You just see it. That was fun.
I didn't see it until those games. Men always come down to them.
And they had no chance with like two minutes left, I know they
were up two touchdowns, the Armies up two touchdowns, are two minutes left,
and Navy goes down the field like, don't with the feet up.
I mean, they're just how did they get the ball back? Four out?
Three? Three and out with about a minute? Well, yeah,
three, Well it was three and well they did it on side kick.
Oh, I got it and Army got it. Okay, Army got it,
got it three and out and they punted. Oh and it was in
eleven yard punt, so they got the ball like the thirty five yards.
How much time with just under two minutes left? Oh oh, so there
was a quick one. It was a quick one. So they yeah,
the Navy had timeouts, so they moved down. So they went down and
got it to the one yard line, fourth down on the one with twelve
seconds left, and they ran a sneak and didn't get in an Army one.
And I covered a game. You will tell you what he's talking about.
He's horror about something, and then you do you do? You like
getting pools and bet on games and things like that. Actually, I'm not
very knowledgeable in sports. Well that makes two of us in this room,
and you talk about himself, all right, but we're gonna we're gonna fix
that or or e or jah. Okay exactly. But uh, I know
that that came always a great game. And I told you I didn't you
know, I didn't know what to do, and I didn't find five NFL
games I wanted to play, so I decided to take the game. I
didn't really flip a coin. It's kind of like eenie meenie miney mode,
which one do I take? And I just took Army because they'd won their
last two games. They were both five and six. They were so even,
they're both five three points spread. Yeah, it had it had all
the makings of a push, and but I took Army and I hit it,
and then I didn't hit another game until last night, which it just
sucks less. So Dallas, Dallas look good, but maybe they did or
maybe not as good. Yeah, you know they've been they've been drilled two
games in a row. My good teams, they played the Niners. I
mean hard. It's hard to go back to back playing the Niners. In
the cop right, they had the Niners at home, but they got rolled
there and then they go to Dallas and they got rolled again. So when
you're one of the favorites to be in the super Bowl, you should at
show up. I mean, it's still got three losses, so they're still
you know, it's sill pretty good. But yeah, it's just been the
Chiefs. So I'm still pissed about the Chiefs. You know, at home.
I think the Ravens looked awful until they won on a cre right,
and that was a game I thought they would kill and they didn't cover right,
Steve, I don't understand. And I'm still doing pretty well in Draft
Kings. They didn't have a good week this weekend. I lost everything that
I from. I would tell you love it, she loves you, check
it out. I got to see that Draft Kings acount. You know what.
I'm tracking my stuff because I want to know. I got to make
myself feel better, so I want to know if I'm doing good. I
want to know that I'm doing good, and I am. But man,
it's just I can't and the thing. Here's the thing, though, I
think one of the reasons is I'm not taking my poll picks, and I
feel like you broke so I bet on other stuff. You get other stuff.
You'd be broken if you're taking your your pool picks. Yeah, yeah,
okay, Hey, good show. Fun be surprised by Mo Tangara all
in talk and talked about Humarballo. We made GILHARREDI awake, but we got
him. He was good, and he was good talking about that to the
major leagues. You know, I don't know about you, he said,
when he was a little kid, he didn't think about playing in the Major
League. I sure did. Everybody does everybody, especially when you're playing Now,
do you realistically think you're going? And I thought about it. You
just don't know what it takes. I hit those phantom home runs and stuff
like that. But you just don't want to take me because I think he's
right. Well, I know he's right. Wouldn't you get up there?
The difficulty in staying there is just that's hard. That's really hard. All
right. The big, big, big show tomorrow, Terry Frankclona is gonna
join us. We've been catching him at the Arizona basketball games. He was
We saw him at Duke. He was at he was there on Saturday.
He's been around. We're gonna we'll talk to him about show him. Man,
what does you think about all of that? But Terry frankcne will join
us, followed by Mayan aji Uh the center for the women's basketball team.
We'll get her on. So it should be a good fun show tomorrow,
so be sure to come back. See you tomorrow