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surgeon I on the Ball. They welcome back to in the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay, and Jay has some
breaking news. We also have a call. Yeah, well let's let's take
a caller first, then we'll do breaking news after that. You're on the
air and I on the Ball. All right, This is Robert. Enjoy
your guys. Show is always appreciate it. I'm not fustated with the basketball
program. I want to know what's going on with our softball program and baseball.
UA has not had a dominant picture in softball in years, and anytime
they face a decent team, the whole team number one, you know,
one through eight, one through nine, cannot hit, we don't score.
It's a I don't know what's going on because we used to get some good
players and we're not getting the quality of players we used to get. And
uh, I just want to know what you're gonna think about that. Well,
you probably could have called into your own sports talk show. You asked
and answer the same question. Well, the whole thing both teams, both
the baseball team and football team. You said at first, the pitching neither
team is you know, I mean last time Arizona was really good, they
had really good pitching, So, uh, they don't you know, they've
been hard. There's been a lot of missus too, Right, there's been
a lot of pitchings. Oh this is you know, one of the best
high school pitchers ever. Then they get here and they're they're not that yeah,
because they're they're a's of a stab what's your name mets them and that
yeez see, like probably A five probably wasn't even pitch and UCLA some of
these other schools, and I just don't understand. And then, uh,
you know, we can beat the lousy teams. We hit, you know,
spore fourteen fifteen runs, but this weekend against Oregon we'll probably get swept
again. I think it's up there. And uh, and the baseball team
has no pitching whatsoever. And I just, uh, used to have great
programs and now they're they're mediocre. Well I think, um, what was
this rubber? Yeah, so so just last year they were both in the
playoffs, right, they snuck in or whatever the game from. So aren't
we kind of just maybe painting the brush? And I'm not trying to go
all poop poo in on on your comment because you're right, but maybe it's
a one off. Maybe maybe maybe not. But we've seen the program falter
from what we're used to, right, So there's that's fair. Uh where
it goes from here, I don't know, because it's once you're it's not
that it's this is not nineteen ninety five. They will never be nineteen ninety
five, and it's not I think a lot of people still believe that that's
possible. Other teams play hard too and get the get get the recruits too.
It was on a baseball I don't know. I don't know because that's
cyclical too. Yeah it is. And I'm sure that that Jeff Hill thought
he had a better pitching staff than he had. I think he talked about
that when he came on the show. Yeah, yeah, I thought they
were gonna be so well. I forgot about the World Series last year,
but it's still frustrating to watch when they play a decent team the girls softball,
right, well, that's the whole thing that's the whole thing, you
know, Sean, And I use this analogy loosely. Sean left here with
a lot of wins, three hundred and some I don't know how many losses,
maybe one hundred or whatever, and everybody, well he won. Well,
people don't talk about the sixty games he beat against NYAU, right,
I mean honestly again, and you were below, right, so no one
talks about that, But he won a lot of games. You just talked
about them beating the bad teams, right, well, yeah, man,
je, So is that okay? Probably not because you're not Yeah, you're
not competing against the bad teams. You're competing against the UCLAs of the world,
right right. That was like there was a hopefully they had to get
better and transfer that. I'm glad it's gone. I always said it before
Kirt Crease. So you can't go to West Virginia and wish him well there,
but I'm glad that guy's gone. And I don't know if there's a
lot of guys still out there that I think the uas, you know,
trying to get a cup in. But hopefully, you know, I think
we'll be okay. And I think Tommy Lloyd is going to have a great
program here for years of com All right, Hey, thanks a bunch for
the call. Man, I appreciate it. Thank you, guys, take
care, goodbye. No, I you know he's right, and a might
he's right. No, he's right, and look there. And the thing
about it is there's a high standard set for both of those programs that they
won a bunch of national championships, both of them, and it's frustrating when
they aren't good. All right, So let's get to this because we said
we would do that. So this is high news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Okay, belated start to breaking news, but all kinds of stuff breaking
right now. You're just announced of not that long ago. The job Moran
is out for Game two. The Grizzlies player who So, now the Lakers
are a one and a half point favorite in Game two. Lakers already have
a win under their belt. Yeah, that's pretty bad for Memphis. Yeah,
that's memphisis the two seats. So, m that's it's not going well
for Memphis. Uh, not not not well at all. I think that
there's you know, they're they're in trouble. You know, just as we
said the Sons were gonna be in trouble. They lost a second game at
home, so John Morant out for the game tonight against the Lakers. Um
also out Tiger Woods at another surgery, at an ankle surgery on the on
the leg that he blew up in that in that car wreck. Um,
he said, just a lingering arthritic issue. He said, he go in
then get it, get it cleaned out. So who knows when he'll be
Uh he'll be golfing again. But uh, we saw that he had to
withdraw from the Masters. He was limping, uh pretty pronouncing the third round
and then they uh they got delayed for the fourth round, and he just
said he can't play anymore. So Tiger Woods out with another surgery again.
Um, maybe out is uh Trey lance. The versions that the forty nine
ers have Trey Lance on the trading block really brock Purdie having emerged as a
as a potential starter. Um, it looks like the uh there's I'm not
saying he's shopping around, but what they're saying is that forty nine ers are
taking calls from people interested in trade. Remember all the future and blah blah
blah. Right tells you what Wally pipped and totally Wally and Purdy was isn't
spectacular, but he's again one of those guys, right, just get the
job done, right and just get the job done absolutely so. So there's
some word that Trey Lance, the quarterback, uh the forty nine ers on
the trading block. Interesting. Um, we talked about this minute ago.
Um about the women's golf team. Uh, they do get to the regionals
having finished in fourth place in the Pac twelf tournament. Okay, so more
work for you, yeah, more work for Jason all right? Um?
Uh so Uh a lot of profanity lace video on Twitter today from from baseball
games. Uh, the Reds manager went off, Uh, you know what
the field mics feel. Good news is the field mics are getting better.
Bad news is the field Mexic getting better because they're picking everything up. And
so did you see the Cincinnati Red one? Yeah, that's I saw it,
but I didn't I didn't listen to it. What was the deal?
He a picture through a hindside pitch and the Reds manager wanted him thrown out
of the game. I saw I saw that part. So then then he
got and then he got tossed because he came out tossing and chasing the umpire
around the field and the whole bit he got tossed because it was to me,
it was like the few f bombs there. Then there was another one,
I think it was the Mariners manager, a bunch of a bunch of
F bombs that got caught. And then M. Max Scherzer got tossed from
his game. I was watching this when it was happening. They were playing
the Dodgers, pitching against the Dodgers. So he's coming off the field.
You know how they checked their so they were checking in his hands and they
felt like there was something stick in his hand. The umpire got his glove.
It felt like there was something sticky inside the glove. They told him
he couldn't use the glove anymore. He was really pissed. Went in,
comes back out and he still got sticky on his hands and they told him
and he's trying to tell him it's Rosin, but they said it's too sticky
and they tossed it and he was very unhappy. Oh well, it's called
baseball. I mean, that's what baseball. Baseball's kind of crazy, but
it's fun. Yeah. Um, they're getting thrown out in an f bombs.
That's called Tuesday. The funny thing that was that listening to watching the
game, I was watching the MLB TV, so I was watching the Dodgers
broadcast. Oral Hirscheizer, who's you know, announces four of the Dodgers.
He actually was upset that hurt that Scherzer got tossed. He basically said,
if it's borderline enough that you're not one hundred percent sure, what's gonna let
him pitch? Forty three thousand Dodgers fans came here to watch the Mats and
Max Scherzer throw against the dog, and now you're tossing. So he was
actually standing up for Shures, which made me think, how much did but
yeah, that's sixty sixty scoreless innings run. Uh he was back in nineteen
eighty eight. So anyways, but Max ers it gets tossed and he wasn't
at So you can go on you can go on social media or whatever.
You can see all kinds of video of guys getting really upset at things going
on in their games. Um, I'm happy to report that the that the
Diamondbacks got their butts kick fourteen to five. So the Dodgers, even though
they lost to the lost to the email Mets. They don't lose ground on
the Diamondbacks, who are in first place. Steep, Wow, they're in
first place. It's May. It's April nine and they're in first place.
Yeah, okay, there in first place. Good luck and uh and so
oh another one. You can see some some Madison bomb Garner got started yelling
f bombs that uh at a batter who. I don't know what the batter
did, but they got in a heated, uh verbal altercation. So,
like I said, i'll kind of like the field mics are picking up everything.
Yeah, no, I get it. It's uh baseball, but this
is what it is, all right, This one's for you, Steve,
Okay, for your San Diego Padres bet Okay. Fernando Tatisus comes back because
he was destroying to see a picture from the minor leagues called him and called
him achief. That was about two two three weeks ago. I guess he'd
hit a bomb against it. Yeah, the balls over there. Yeah,
I guess what. I'm not here. I'm not gonna be here in a
couple of weeks. You are shut out. Pull the shack. He might
be scoring more points, but I would to make a lot of money like
that. So for now that that he's eighty game of suspension, suspension from
uh uh in a performance enhancing But you said, who was the partner that
Scott hurt? Did somebody get hurt from the padres? No? Soda is
playing like crap, So Manny Machado's not doing well. Who I talked about
one? SODA's batting under two hundred although he hit Wait wait wait wait,
let's start to the problem begins. You dropped him. I've got both.
If you learn anything here at the internship, do not tell him what you're
doing with anybody, got it. He'll he'll he'll miss death, He'll kill
You'll kill you right here the opposite. So you can get that and you'll
be clear. I'm not. This happens way too often for it to be
a coincidence anyway, So uh get they get there, they get their star
back, I believe tomorrow Thursday, Thursday night. Yeah, so I supposedly
he'll he'll be the lead off here for the pot on Thursday. So he's
back. Um, okay, do you like you've seen it? You've seen
the the turnover sword that you a football has. They get you know,
they take the football and they kill it on the sword. The Mariners.
The Mariners have a home run try, Oh okay, it's gone to Major
League Baseball now, well anything, they're most of kids playing anyway, they're
twenty two, twenty five whatever, the big gold home run. Tried that.
They somebody who who hits a home runs. It's like really and then
I'm okay, all right, I just anything the motivate the motives very silly
to me. Um all right and then um okay. So uh. Seth
Davis from the Athletic did an interview with Bob hus saw that. I saw
Bake said are you retiring sometime soon? And he said no, he's sixty
nine. Yeah, he's sixty nine. He sell a lot of wins,
nine hundred wins. I think his quote to Seth Davis was, come on,
do I look old? I'm having fun, man? Why would you
quit a job you have fun? See. I think that he's changed in
terms of our perception, the public perception, because everyone says Curs gonna get
eaten up over there, blah blah blah. I don't think so. I
think think Cur's gonna thrive because he'll be able to do some of the things.
But did you say, do you see later in the story about how
he'll do well? He liked Morgantown, right, That's why hwai kere well
and the two and a few hundred thousand dollars that he's gonna be right right
right. So, I mean, I look at the at that eighty ninety
eight, two thousand and seventeen, UM sweet sixteen that hasn't lost his eighty
Okay, West Virginia was there for I sat on on Bob Huggins end of
the end of the court for two games, and I was just like,
man, he was scary, he was. I think his reputation. I
think that's well, that is his reputation. And like you said, maybe
he's you know, and maybe he's loosened up because he has to loosen up
because he can't continue to be there. And he's kind of slow because of
the heart attack. I think he had a heart attack or something like that.
Um, you know, just he is who he is. When he
we were talking about there was someone who were in number and when when Simon
hit the the three quarter court shot against Cincinnati, he tore up the locker
room and through that's that's kind of the guy. That's the guy that we
think, are you almost done? Yeah, well, let me tell you.
They told you before the show started that Kim make In, the former
UFA basketball player from East who left and transferred to Mexico State. It's part
of a part of that which one guy said in the document, in the
court document hazing that that's lightens the load of it was sexual harassment. So
he's part of the lawsuit that's going on, which is who who what A
couple of the players, A couple of the former players who are going to
transfer shooting everybody the border, regions coaches, blah blah blah that it was
bad. That was real bad. I've been communicating one day when they kill
your season because of it, you know, Yeah, it's it's unbelievable that
this would happen at the college level. You hear about it at the high
school level, which it should never happen. But come on, guys,
grow up, especially guys who aren't are marginal players. Right. No,
absolutely, it's absolutely and you know what, it's just not the time for
that. No, of course, that's not the time for that anymore.
All right, let's go take our next break, We're gonna be back with
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Sports spurteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to AM about you know Fox Sports
fourteen fiftie. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jackon's also know the phone up.
Lamont Tunley, one of our great splusters and a former Ulate football player.
How are you, Lamont? I'm doing good man, I'm doing good though,
sitting there on the south side of town and almost fork out about you
guys, I apologize, okay, no problem, in problem. We're forgetful
kind of guys. It's easy to forget, so we get Yeah, you
know, you're very forgetables. I was reminded, you know, all those
days that I sit in for you, they said, well, shit,
he's very forgetable. Won't you stay, Lamar, Let's remember you gotta keep
it clean. That's true. All right, we're I think I got the
dump button in times. I think we're good. So we want to talk
about a lot of different things. Lamont. You saw the spring game.
I know you saw a lot of the your older friends from back in the
day, and then you have something with your brother this weekend. Let's start
about Let's start about some of the guys you ran into. Who were you
who were the most surprising guys you ran into? Well, you know,
I mean there was a lot of you know, errors of guys. But
you know, one the wine guy that that really shocked me when I saw
him was Bruce Hill. And wow, you guys, I think, I'm
sure Jay, I do remember they've been around for a second. But man,
it was so great and they trust me, Bruce, Bruce Hill did.
I didn't play brucill Bruce Hill was before me, right, So when
I when I came here as a student athlete, myself as a football player,
all I knew about this guy, Bruce Hill, the one two three
backfield, and you know, and I was like, man, this is
this is unbelievable and um and you know, throughout my my my time at
the Arizona always saw Bruce come back. But then for years Bruce would never
come back. And so I walked up into the practice and there he is,
Bruce Hill. Man. It was so so great to see him and
so delightful to see him and and her his story. He selfed there and
give me and Ricky Bide Bear Hug and you know, and and and and
and and those are the those are the nice memories and nice wonderful things as
far as you know, being a former athlete that you can get and and
and and and bring back to be a part of, you know. Naturally.
There was quite a guy that played with me. It was Rat and
again the John Baltalls of the world, Um, Kurt, the Jocomos of
the world. Um. You know, we went to a couple of events
together, played golf light be together, and then of course, you know,
just's finishing it off. I sit up there with Bubba Gross and and
Greg Turner and Marshawn Gray, Byron Evans, you know the name of two
and modern Rudolph. You know, guys you haven't seen in a long time,
you know. But it was wonderful, man, it was. It
was just a great weekend all the way around. And I was so so
blessed to be a part of it. Wow. Yeah, that was just
a whole bevy of names that I just you know, you know, come
back to me from you know, those times you know, I was in
you know, I got out of college just before you got there. But
Bruce Hill. I mean I was in high school. I was in high
school when he was playing here, and that as you said, that one
two three backfield, Bruce, Willie Hamilton, Jim Up Church And I've always
remember there was this great picture in the newspaper after one of their games.
I couldn't remember what game it was, but Bruce Hill is running breaks a
long touchdown run and he's running down the field and he's in the middle and
number two Willie Willie Hamilton is on one side, Jim Up and he's on
the other side. You see the one two three, and it's a shot
from the ends when it's a great photo, And that's next in my mind,
you know, from me time that I was, you know, that
was when I first really became a hardcore Arizona football fan with him. T
Bell was, you know, the receiver on that team. Man. Those
things those guys were that they set a tone Bruce Rocket Army Rocket arm for
Bruce Hill, right, yeah, you know, And you know, and
the thing is, like you say, um, Jay, they said a
tone. They said a tone for me and and and I really never see
the guys play live, but you know, when I got here, I
saw films on these catch and the and the way they played the game and
with passion and fun, right, you know, and they enjoyed each other
and everything. And and then you know, once I was here as an
afternute myself, they would come back and then they would be a part of
the weekend and you know, make things happen. So it was just the
joy that you know, this guy you know, with would just come up
to me and give me this big bear hug and you know, embraced me
to w he embraced me. So you know that that's that's very that was
very flattening for me and very very rewarding for me to be a part of
that. So the month anymore today, or the last couple of years at
least um, a lot of the alums have come by, come back.
They're welcomed with open arms. And so the spring game is even more so,
not some more much about a football game, but a reunion, which
which helps with with the feel good moments it does, and you know,
and also and allow of these young kids that look at the future, you
know, in regard to the futures, what I'm saying is that it gives
these kids an opportunity to say that it doesn't end once you're snaps is over
here this university. You know, once once you've got on with your family,
maybe had some kids and unlock career, you know, the door is
still open for you to come back and be a part of this, not
only the campus, but the community too. You know, we we Friday,
you know, we have about seventy plus guys out that came and played
golf and played um gofflp that el conquis the door. Um. You know,
some guys that probably don't play golf, but they chose to come out
to be a part of that and and hang out and enjoy enjoy the team,
the atmosphere, atmosphere you know, be around each other and just have
fun times. And you know, and and honestly, I have to give
that all the craze to Brandon sanders Man. Brandon's is doing a marvelous job
as far as making people want to come back, you know, and be
a part of be a part of this program here at the University of Arizona.
And and and he's welcome in everybody. I mean, if you if
you play the snappie at this university, he wants you back on this campus.
Which is awesome. Yeah, no, and that's a great thing about
what he's doing. So we had Chris mccallistern on the Friday afternoon, and
uh, you know, I saw he did like a little promo video and
I wasn't the only one who said he looks like he could still play.
Well, I told that man's body he looked like and feel like you could
play. Tell you that guy got the more snaps in here for sure.
That was fun to see. So so what did what impressed you the most
from the spring game? What did you notice? Well, the one thing
that impressed me the most is basically the confidence that I saw in the offense
as far as the guys out there on both sides. I'm talking about one
and two just the first teams, but the first and second team players.
Um. The number one thing, I just saw the confidence that they showed
in themselves, you know, from lining up you know, to to to
actually knowing their players, knowing their assignments normally they need to be. Um.
You know, I think the offense, particularly the offense, is going
ahead. And I think the particularly the offense, is a much better position
that they were last year at this time. UM and and everybody's yelling together,
um as far as a complete unit per se um. So that the
end that the thing that the court minds the most by all, which the
fact that the confidence that those kids show as soon as they lined up um
and and and and and on the line and made things happen to themselves,
they there was no hesitation whatsoever. They knew exactly where they wanted to be,
you know, where they had to be, and the ball was delivered
to him. So you know, you have a you have a lot more
expertise than it's in terms of just what these players look like. Um uh
um. Justin Flow walked into the press conference with like a half T shirt
on and and you look at his body, you go, holy crap,
How does a twenty one year old kid get like that? But there's I
mean, it seems to me like there's a lot of that. There's a
lot of different The team just looks different, right, you know, the
offensive line, it's it's much bigger. Um. They they look much stronger.
Their body composition is different than what it's been in the past. You
know, there there's guys that that I I I courred. I look,
that's what I call an upside down pair. You know, where your hips
are bigger than your shoulders right now that they are fret where the shoulders are
important to what their body should be. And when we get offense alignment that
particular way in which we do have okay on that end of it, and
and and it's and and you know you can get something that love to the
strength coach. And there's also the kids themselves. The kids themselves are dedicating
themselves to being in the weight room. The don't care to yourself nutrition wise
too, because that's part of the battle. Also, they're eating right,
they're eating healthy. Um, They're not doing crazy things with their bodies.
And they you know, they got that desire to want to win. Um.
And you know, again winning is personal. So that's what Jed is
saying. And these these kids are taken as arm you know, personally,
and they trying to make a difference as far as ripped themselves. And then
one to one is turning out. We got loving guys becoming one at this
point in time. So you know, they challengeing one another, They challenge
you want another to do these things off the field, you know, versus
you know, just hanging out on the street corners or with your girlfriend,
let's do some things off the field to make yourself a better football player.
So about you talked about the offense looking confident and better. But I think
the success of this program is going to lie on the defense because we all
know that they can score a lot of points, but they couldn't keep teams
from scoring points. And you're absolutely right, Steve, and I still I'm
still not confident in our defense. Still, I still think that there's still
a couple of players that's missing, um, the guy they have an understanding
of what the defense is doing. Um. And once those couple of players
get into play, and hopefully these couple of players are players that again educating
themselves or learning the system right now, and then when they get into the
uh the some ball of of of camp, then they become turnkey from them.
It's not the thinking they're reacting, but there, I mean, there's
a couple of guys that still missing on that defense that gotta you know,
show up and in order to make the defense be competitive. I'm not expecting
the defense to stop many people see. I'm expecting that the defense to create
turtles stay on the sideline and offense score a lot of points, and if
the offense score thirty points, we should win games. And I think that's
gonna be the mindset. We have to score third points. Keep the defense
off the field. You know, defense gotta be the philosophis, let's create
turtles. Let's let's get out there and run havoc and and make things happen,
and stay off the field as much as we can. Um. But
because the fact that I'm the kind of you know, in some cases,
they still a little a little light and not as big as what we expect
that we should have. And when I said that, that's I think our
linebackers are kind of light in there, and they're short more than anyone else.
Um. You know, I think we got a couple of guys that's
that's that from the UCLA and um the kid from from Georgia. UM.
I think those two kids does bring some weight on the on the defensive line.
Um. But see, we lost the two edge guys. So those
edge guys that we got gotta understand what difficul is and hopefully they get that
and make a difference there. Do you when you're watching Arizona do you pay
closer attention to the linebackers since that was a position you played, you know,
I don't. I think. I think what I end up doing is,
well, first of all, I have myself fixed or the defensive line,
because you know, Ricky's coaching the defensive line, so I find myself
going there first and then then once and once I see what those cats are
doing, then I have myself going to the defensive back aspect of things,
because you know that's the next level and something's going to happen off that end
of it. You know, unless you know these kids that if the linebackers
become you know, players that I think a players that can be impacted players,
my eyes will be there and I think my new will be one of
those players. Eventually, he's not that player, but he could be that
player where I would want to watch him day in and day out. But
you know, at this point he's not that the impact player that that's going
to force my eyes to say, what this kid is gonna do for us?
We have about two minutes. Are you and your brother are gonna be
cooking for some people this weekend? How good is that going to be?
Uh? Well, well, it's it's something I just learned of which which
is I'm fine with it. I'm fine with it. And you know,
and and and it's something that that Ricky and Michelle um been putting on for
been trying to make happen for the last six months or so. And unfortunate
Rickie had to coach football and then he had a Ritney replacement. So I
found out from Ricky actually this time that it is happening. That's gonna happen
this weekend on Sunday. And I can't remember the name of the church that
we have in this event at but but but but it's a it's a beautiful
venue. There's gonna be some salmon and that's gonna be cooked, have some
some key lied pie that's gonna be available. Uh, you know, we're
gonna have you know, uh, some some nice crisp vegetables for those that
maybe don't eat this salmon that rick is gonna cook. But we both we
both have a tendency of putting ourselves in the kitchen and you know, enjoying
the moment in the kitchen and hopefully you're gonna be the steam and before you
can be be one of those persons to sample our cookie, I will and
don't put one aside because I don't know that has something to do with so
you put something extra in that, don't trick. It's okay, it's a
hey now that now that I know you're gonna be that, I'm gonna put
on specially in the Catalina United Methodist sits on Speedway twenty seven. I think
she said it's already sold out. I could be wrong, but I think
it's a flying apron to flying aprons to Sun dot Com if they want so
the Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to it. And hopefully
if they're spots for people to come, please come and John and and you
know, watch out Rick and I cut up in the kitchen and then uh
and if anything it may Yeah, I mean you you're gonna have a nice
fool Ellie of a good fool and and hopefully we can entertain in between.
Yeah, okay, great, well you did when you guys, you two
are on the show together three weeks ago. That was a good show.
Okay, thank you, thank you much, heyman, Thanks Hobouch as always,
all right, guys, it's always good to talk to him on He's
very insightful for the base and he's realistic about the football team too, right.
I mean he's saying, you know, we got there. They've got
guys, but they're guys. You still have some work to do and what
especially the defensive So he's gonna get on his brother. Yeah, he's gonna
get on his brother. Right. Okay, let's let's go and take our
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want to call, please do whole bunch more breaking news since our last breaking
Okay Steve Um real breaking news. Yeah, Yannis Tenta Coopo. It's out
for game versus the Heat tonight. WHOA, So he's dirty down one zero,
already down one zip and they got a game tonight. The point spread
dropped from the Bucks being an eight point favorite to US six. And then
with the John morn what that game is underway? What's with the score?
Yeah, the Lakers lead seven six right now? Um? Um. With
the John Morant announcement that he wasn't gonna play, that spread went from Lakers
by one and a half now Lakers by three and a half. So anyway,
so Jannis is out again. They're they're down one zippe or zero one
at home, so they could be interesting to see what happens there. Well,
okay, so um, and then the um the Nuggets and the Tea
Wolves are are tonight at uh at seven o'clock our time, and the Nuggets
are an eight point favorite against the Tea Wolves. Okay, all right,
then another one, uh, Mike Brown, Sacramento coach, was named NBA
Coaches. Yeah. That deserving, very much deserved. Gotta give it to
him, don't you. Yeah, yeah, no, he's done that.
Franchise has been floundering forever forever. Now they have a cool stayed on the
brink of you know, two losses and on the brink of getting eliminated eventually,
right, God Draymond who was on the other suspension? Who was the
other suspension? Just suspense? Is just the elimination? Yeah? Uh yeah
four years, don't win this next game, it's yeah, they're gonna be
done. Three three. It was you can see you can go catch this
on catch his clip? Uh, Aaron Judge robbed show Hey Otani of a
home run. So wouldn't that be fun if at the end of the year
the home run raceful was decided by that one catch and it was a great
catch or some great still shots of it, but the yet, the actual
video of it is really cool to the Titans of the game. Yeah,
but the Angels are at Yankee State. Who would you rather of those two
guys? I take show Hey all day? Yeah, me too. He's
just if he if he can pitch and hit, he's he's just a much
better right, He's gonna be able to do more things for Yaron Judge can
yet all the home runs you want? And yes, he made a great
grab on this on this play, and he's probably a decent outfielder, but
you know he's he's a guy that can just hit home and show Hey can
do so many other things. Plus he brings in the big bucks for year
for your franchise, and then okay, here's a fun one. You remember
the thing? I think it was back in the eighties when Rosie Ruiz jumped
on the subway during the Boston Marathon and it came in and acted like she
had won the race, and uh, well, in somewhere in I guess
I think it's in Liverpool. Um, there was a Ultra marathon, um
um, and then Ultra Marathon her named uh what's her name? It was
a female? Um. Oh god, I had her name here just a
second ago. Anyways, Oh, she's a doctor. Josiah is a grushki
or something like that. I'm not sure if I want her operated on.
Well, she hitched a ride in a friend's car during the fifty mile race,
but she she didn't get enough of a ride to win the race.
She finished third. Well, you don't want to read suspicious. Did you
ever read you read my story on Tiber on the book. Yes, I've
written the story a thousand times. So so when he was first year,
when he got here, they have them run the lapse blah blah blah in
the mornings or whatever. So he would run with the guys and then they
would run and he would jump into the Ua fountain, Ua fountain, hide
there, hide there until they came back, right, so he wouldn't have
to run the whole thing, and he'd come back. He'd come back soaking
wet and with sweaty and then run the rest of the way. So they
think that he was he was working. Yeah, no one knew. They
wouldn't. No one would write him out. A couple of the managers would
kind of make sure this wouldn't happen. One of the managers saw him,
didn't write them out, didn't write him out. But eventually they got caught
because Luke, I guess funny approached. Yeah, but I think this may
have been after the fact. But isn't that typical to it's told it's you
know, another guy that did something like that was grown quit two or three
years ago when he filmed five days. Oh that's right. It was the
same thing you're trying to work out, right with the change of shirt,
change of shirt showing him working out, he really wasn't working. A smart
diabolical you know, you do what you do, man, You do what
you do. I sort of did that in high school. This one time
they took us out for a run off campus and we ran by my house,
so I still I went into my house. Then I jumped back in
when they came back the way. I did it one time though only one,
but that's probably why they what the hell are you doing here? I
knew she wasn't gonna be home. Shouldn't you be in school? I just
jumped in, got something to eat, then jump back in the line when
back the other way. So you know that, while Talber was that's a
pretty good thing. Not original, not original. That's too funny. That's
too funny. Um No, but you know, good talking to Lamont Hundley,
you know we were talking before before we went off on our break that
he's again very realistic guy. Yeah you know, you know he cares like
crazy. You know what happened to go to all these it's basketball football,
you know. Again, another one of those guys that came from somewhere really
far away and it makes this on his home stay. He's in business here,
one of our sponsors Arizona Hell, but very very much involved with the
program. All that's one of the guys who's around. I know he talked
about, you know, golfing at this tournament that they had on Friday.
I didn't want to remind him the first time I saw him with a golf
club in his hands. Oh you should have, because I heard they had
a fun time. Just wasn't very you didn't know how to swing a golf
club. And then the after party it was pretty funny too, because I
was trying to do another guy. Who's there? I bet those guys can
cook, dude. Oh yeah, they're not. They're not lacking for food.
Yeah you know, but I mean you know this thing that they got
coming up on it? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no,
no, in fact, because you know, Ricky lives with Lamont,
right, they didn't if you listen. I can't remember because my memory sucks.
But somebody cooks in that room. I don't think it's the wife.
It's maybe Lamont, Yeah, cooks, because they're always never there. I
mean, Ricky's out and doing right and Lamont. I doubt if he cooks
at him. I have to go back and see. That'd be that'd be
an interesting Yeah, no, it really interesting. Well, they they've done
that thing with over John Feena's house. Right, it's it's just it's an
offs to that. Okay, it's the kind of continuation of that. Yeah,
yeah, all right, um uh the the road Runners getting ready to
get get into the playfform Well, that's right, that's right tonight, that's
right. Yeah, two soon Tucson. If you didn't know, I guess
those things going on. Se Tucson is always really good on the show coming
up right right, Um you know in fact that we can't get in tomorrow,
we can try to tomorrow. Yeah, but you know, get well,
I'm getting back to the Sugar Sculls seriously. I mean, guys,
and I'm when I say guys, I'm coming. You know the fans out
there, get get to one of these games, right with the pro sport
here town. We fight hard for this. We talk about how we don't
have enough of this. We don't have spring training, we don't have this,
we don't have that. Well, these things are here. There's things
that are here. The road Runners do well, the Sugar Skulls need to
do well. And and you know, we wanted to be here. And
it's fun. It's just a ton of fun and they make it fun.
I'm you know, I'm you throw my sugar sculls hat on as you know,
as somebody who works with them, and try and go to this game
on Saturday night. You're not doing anything else, Let's go. It should
be fun. Yeah, that should be okay, especially if they're winning that
that helps drug people. Yeah. I don't know how many old old people
remember this guy. But Dave Wilcox, um Hall of Fame football player NFL,
Justin Wilcox's dad, the coach, passed away today. Um but I
didn't know he was Justin Wilcox's dad. But I guess it makes sense,
right caauled Jeans so and Dave is I think it was the Hall of Fame
tight end right, Um, uh, but passed away today. So you
know, sad, sad. So you saw that toy I was thinking about
retiring, Yeah, retiring from football. Yeah yeah, but don't blame him.
Yeah. You're getting hit and you're getting hit the head. That's more
than one lifetime of impact. Yeah, more than one. He's gonna have
issues, Getty as he gets older. Yeah, you know he's gonna have
issues. Um, you know, it's uh, you can't avoid that,
you know. As as about as bad as he said, he I'm too
I was too young to not be doing it. So hopefully he gets taken
care of. Yeah. Yeah, he has to be careful moving forward because
once you get a concussion, it is easy to get another one, another
one. And he's already had like what two or three, don't right?
Yeah, And it was right in front of us, you know, right
in front of us, so you kind of say, what are they gonna
do well? And that's kind of started the ball rolling for protocols being more
taken more seriously. Yeah, I don't think we talked about this yesterday.
Nless. It happened after the show that Edny produce, Ednie declaring for the
draft. Zach eat tall guy applied for the draft. Okay, yeah,
so I think to keep his eligibility to I don't know what said. And
we're talking a minute ago by Max chers are getting possible from the game.
They thought he had a foreign substance. He could have a ten game suspense.
Really, isn't that what the rule are? Yeah? So now what
they have to check it? And I said that I didn't. I mean,
I'm assuming that somebody went had to go to him and you know,
check him before he could go, you know, go wash his hands or
whatever, because they're basically saying he thought he had something on his hands.
He was saying that it's a combination of sweat and rosin made his hand stick.
So I guess we're still waiting for the kids from Creton, right.
So one of the better players that Utah State when when Arizona was a Sacramento,
Utah State was there playing. So one of their guards was leaving to
Craton. So you know, it's just a it's just a it's a what
do you call it? The three card monty? You get here, you
got eight ball here, blah blah blah. And then again it's gonna be
like that forever. I don't know how they I don't know how they rain
any of this in. Well, we'll talk to Dave. He were scheduled
for him on Friday, Okay, Um, And nothing's really changed with the
conversation because it's it's been the same for a while, right, it just
seems like it's escalated, exactly. It seems it just seems to be so
much worse. As you said, it keeps momentum keeps, you know,
being gay, it's gaining momentum with all this movement. Yeah, and again,
before, at least it was players who weren't happy where they were.
Yeah, it's not that anymore. When you throw, you're throwing the nil,
but you're also thrown in. You know the kid from Crayton when they
got to the lead eight. Yeah, it's like, why do you want
to leave? Right? No, this is one of the reasons why I'm
not a sports fan. I watched sports of me, but I'm not fan
like you. And it's the constant change of rosters. You know, I
grew up with Cincinnati Red fan. I'm no, I couldn't tell you who's
on the roster now because just because you know your Dodgers, because you're I
don't know that many of them. So there's a lot of them that I
Dodgs. Right, You're not loyal to the people playing for the due I
watched. I watched their games pretty much every day. And and what my
point is, you follow them, and you follow the Dodgers. Could have
been Joe Blow playing for the Dodgers. But to me, it's just like
there's no sense of loyalty. And that changed a long time. I'm going
don't saying anything new, but now it's like, you know, what do
you want to do, well, let's go play for this guy and basketball
or they build these super super teams, right you know, Kevin Durant,
right, superstar. How many teams have you been on the right? Four
teams? Now, yeah, four teams. I mean, you know guys
like that, you would go to a team and they wouldn't let him go,
you know, and they'd want to stay right right, and it's it's
crazy. But right now you know basketball again, you know, I mean,
I don't know, it's it's it's it's tough, you know what.
It also makes it hard for people to have a favorite team, right.
You don't have a favorite team anymore. No, No, not at all.
It's because there's no point in because they're gonna either disappoint you or they're
gonna who's this guy? Who's that guy? Dallas? You know, I
used to be Dallas, keviny live in Dallas. Before I call here,
I couldn't tell you anybody outside of the quarterback yea, even then I just
lost his name exactly. But everybody else has been Eliot's been gonna let go
and everybody really that's part of the problem. Everybody's changing. Yeah, and
it's and it does make it hard to be, you know, a family.
I didn't know. It's a new world. And I mentioned I mean
Packers fans are going to be like, what the hell when when when Rogers?
Rogers leaves right, you know. But if you're a Packers fan,
aren't you just go already? You're sick of it? Yeah, you're just
tired of come on, enough of this drama. No, you do get
sick of these guys. It is a lot of drama. Sometimes it's too
much drama. Just go already, let's move on. All right, well,
let let's go already. At the end of the day. Uh,
you know, good show. I thought it was fun. Good comments from
Lamont, all the sugar Skulls talk. Hopefully some fans will think about heading
out there on Saturday. We'll have some more great guests tomorrow, Dave Hikey
on Friday. So still more work to do. Happy hump Day, Thanks
for being here. And Jason's on the clock. Jason's on the clock.
That's right, all right, we'll talk to you again tomorrow. Thanks for
being here. I remember my bab Stockhold