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Good, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome

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

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He's Jagan ZAUS got our guy Kevin
in today. Welcome to Monday.

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I'm glad both of you guys came
back and didn't take a job somewhere else.

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I'm trying, like mister hurl,
you didn't you know, if somebody

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offers me, uh you know,
from seventy million over six years. So

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I'm taking the job. But that's
just me. But I'm also not the

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head coach at it gets up.
I don't think anybody gonna offered me that

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anytime. So the series and maybe
I should have maybe tricked it with one

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of the guys. You have them
on the show. Maybe tomorrow. Uh

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he's he's said that he was I
want to say who this is, but

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he said it was an were going
to happen. It's just not that job.

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It's just not that job anymore.
It's not the job. And that's

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that's a lot of the commentary you
heard when this guy out that Hurley was

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talking to them, that they were
thinking, it's the job is not what

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it used to be under the condition
right your organization is kind of a mess

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right now. They they've got they've
had a run through coaches. It just

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can't seem to get it done.
You've got Lebron there who's like one hundred

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and five years old, and now
they want to bring in his kid.

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I think, you know, there
are probably just too many things that that

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Hurley just didn't want to deal with. And are you actually the coach,

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Kevin? You you know this better
than both of us. Probably are you

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really the coach when Lebron's playing,
right? I mean it takes a special

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coach like Eric Spolster. I think
Eric Bolsher was actually able to do a

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lot of coaching like during Lebron's time
with you. But I think if you

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look at a guy like you know, Dave Blatt, like he was,

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he didn't have the standing in the
league or in the game of basketball to

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say to Lebron not I think we
need to collaborate or this what we need

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to do right. Yeah, been
able to do that. I initially thought

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he was going to take it.
Even today when he didn't take it,

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I was still a little surprised.
But the more I heard, the more

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I read, the more I thought, you know what, what what was

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the what? What you read?
Just that just that it's not the job

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that that that it's cracked up to
be, you know, it's not.

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It's not the nineteen eighties Lakers job
anymore, not even the nineties Lakers job

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anymore, And that there were just
too many things that when you're in the

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position that Dan Hurley is in,
you can get a better job. Do

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you have to live in l A
to coach? You can't do that remotely?

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For sure. I got that I'm
taking a jet into the downtown area

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and getting out of there the jet
exactly so, you know, all the

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other stuff around you know, people
saying, oh, if he takes the

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job, college sports is through.
And then now that he didn't take the

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job, they say, well,
what does it say about the NBA.

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All it says is that this guy
decided he did not want to move from

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Connecticut to l A. He's making
all the money he could ever want or

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need, so he didn't need the
money. He decided to stay where he's

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most comfortable, and that's all it
says. That's funny because I saw some

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of the stuff you're just talking about. Uh, there's always a story,

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right journalists or journalists today, if
you didn't do this, this is the

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reason why. This is always something
right, gotta gotta evaluate, and it's

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sometimes he just didn't take the job, and maybe that his wife just said,

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you go, you're going alone.
Well, I was gonna say,

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Ultimately, it comes down to what
you mentioned, Steve, it's the conditions

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because at Yukon, his conditions are
probably some of the most unique conditions of

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any college basketball coach, and he
created all He's on the precipice of a

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three record, and he his conditions. The Lakers job are a little bit

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more hectic. So why would you
go to a more scrutinized position when you

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have it so nice And he's in
a place he doesn't have to compete with

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with football. I mean, they
got a football team, but it's not

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even good. So he's you know, he's the big dog in you know,

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at Connecticut. You know, I
mean he's got to you know,

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he's got to take a job where
if Lake somebody like from a let's say,

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uh, you know, an NBA
champion retires and there's an NBA there's

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a championship, a Steve Kerr job. You know, if Steve Barbo retires

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Boston, you know somebody like that, you know it's gonna take you know,

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the Lakers are a train wreck right
now. Well, this is also

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an issue I think that in our
world, we we especially in our profession,

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Jay, as we grew up,
you get a job, you stay

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there a few years, you get
a bigger job. You can stay there

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and you get a bigger job.
Right, It's a transitional type of thing

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where where okay, you work here, oh, in a couple of years,

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you get to a bigger job and
then a bigger job that doesn't necessarily

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apply anymore. Uh, you know, especially here, like in TV,

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you see the young kids doing it
here and TV locally, and then they're

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gone. And then they're gone because
everyone not everybody wants or aspires to do

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that. Maybe you feel comfortable and
they treat you well. Imagine that they

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treat you well and they pay you
well, why would you want to leave?

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Right? And again, when you're
talking about a guy who's making five

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million a year now he was going
to make ten. I mean that's a

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lot, that's double, But what
the hell's the difference. You're not gonna

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spend all of that anyway. You
have money, You have money. Yeah,

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So so I, like I said, I initially was surprised, But

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the more I paid attention, the
more I kind of dug into a little

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bit, the more I realized,
you know, maybe this was never gonna

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happen. But he felt he owed
it to himself to go through the experience,

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right to go see what you know, what what does this entail?

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What can you get right? How
much control can you get? Well?

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Plus plus this could be the start
of something down the road where another team

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comes and tries to get him,
and I know that he's maybe available if

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you would have said shut the door
down, and then he says, well,

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he's not available. Well, at
least this kind of shows that he

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kind of is maybe just not the
right time, right place. I mean,

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let's let's say let's say Steve Kurdi
were to retire in two years,

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because I think he signed a three
year contract recently, so he's got you

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know, and that that could be
his last one, let's say in earliest

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still winning. Wouldn't you rather be
coaching the Warriors than than the Lakers?

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Yeah? Very much. So do
you have to fly? Do you have

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to you have to live in live
in San Francisco, But you know you

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can live you can. You can
live over near the arena and just kind

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of hang out there scheduling practice somewhere
else. That's a nice area in Santa

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Clara. Yeah, no, no, I I was not surprised, surprise

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whatever you know the word is,
because he's got a good job. He's

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got it, like you said,
a chance at three. Whether that happens

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or not, very difficult. But
uh hey, college basketball world is back

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in order. He's going to be
favored to win that. Yeah, yeah,

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right, yeah, yeah, don't
tell Tommy Lloyd that who just won?

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I know you probably have freaking news. Who just won his his thing

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beat Argentina for the U eighteen the
America America Cup. Yeah, it would

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have been It would have been a
shame had he not wanted, given the

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talent and all that, right,
But that's the pressure that you live with

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too when you're yeah, when you're
coaching USA basketball. Can I stop for

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a second, Yeah, that's an
ugly ass jersey. Whoa, whoa.

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It was a free jersey. First
of all. It was actually one of

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the promotional events like ten Weekends.
Evan's got the Red. It's like the

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red and teal red diamondbacks jersey black
lettering teal teal outline. So you are

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you on my shote or his side
and look good? Play good? Oh

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well whose side of well? I'm
wondering. It's not gonna make you play

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good. If I was a player, I probably would put up like a

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one eighty. You like it either? You just I mean, it was

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free, it was it would be
comfortable. It doesn't mean you have to

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wear it and Arizona things. I
was like, you know, just signed

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by somebody and put it up on
the wall. Sorry, I just stop,

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That's okay. I just I just
looked at you for and I'm like,

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you know, I'm a Cardinals fan. Anyway, That's that's what I

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thought. I'm like, what are
you doing? Was that the last thing

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in your closet? And you do
your wash pretty much? Yah know,

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I have a bunch of clean clothes. I need to put away the thing

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on top of that pile. Okay, all right, so you were next

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time you see with the Dodger stuff, you say, look at that.

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Yeah, there's you. There's nothing
bad about Dodger blue. Nothing bad about

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Dodger blue. That it's like my
beautiful Celtic Kelly Green. Yeah. Part

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part of it is that is that
I'm just pissed that they went to the

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red, the red change of colors. The red. They had such a

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great uniform to go back to the
Randy Johnson. Yeah, the the vest

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with the with the purple sleeves was
just a classic uniform. Okay, all

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right, I'm done Digress. Okay, No, let's talk about who's we

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have on. Yeah, so we're
gonna talk some baseball today. We've got

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Jack McGruder, h our our friend, former writer at The Star. Uh

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works out of Phoenix. But he's
you know, he's he's scoring for the

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Rockies again. He's back as the
official scorekeeper for the Rockies. Are writing

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for Forbes Sports uh website. He's
he's been uh. He was working with

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the gambling site that he says he's
no longer working for. But it's funny

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because he was horrible at his picture. But he does he still does a

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lot of sports writing. Does some
stuff. Uh, just a lot of

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different stuff. He's on the Baseball
Hall of Fame voting committee, so just

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a lot of stuff. We'll talk
to baseball with Jackie's up in Denver as

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we speak, so we'll get with
him at about in the second or in

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the first hour at three fifteen,
and then Andy Lopez is going to join

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us, getting to the College World
Series, is getting ready to get going,

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so you know, we'll just kind
of go back with Andy and just

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talk about his his days, you
know, in the college at the College

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World Series, he won two championships. Just you know what what's going through

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their minds. They're getting ready.
I know the sub regionals are still finishing

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up, but the the World Series
starts, I think on Thursday. So

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we'll talk to Andy Lopez. He
won a championship here in twenty twelve.

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Yeah, any won with him.
It's twelve years ago. It didn't seem

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like it doesn't seem like the you
know, you go to you go to

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the you go to Michaale and Michelle, you go to High Corbett and you

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know there's a big mirror not in
miural, but like a window screen of

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the of that team. You know
with the handsOn Dyce to do you know,

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the behind the bed, the no
doubles thing and uh, and you

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think you didn't feel like that,
that was that long ago. But you

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know, then you see a highlight
and you go, here's here's here's what

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threw it to me. Uh.
There was a video, a highlight video

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of Rob Refsnier making the diving cat. Yeah he's thirty three years old.

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I know, yeah, I know
he had a great highlight like you talk

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about. I'm thinking, God,
God, thirty three in baseball is kind

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of already gain. They said,
here's Rob refs and thirty three years old,

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still throwing his body out there.
And I'm like, he got old.

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Yeah, what about us? Us? I'm two years away from whatever

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I just went to. I just
went to a new doctor today, Steve,

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and she's thirty four. Oh then
she gave me no over No.

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Yeah, well that too, but
I called her a child, and I

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think she was a little offended by
it. She would she would achieve.

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And do you said, Doogie Houser
she played with you know house she might

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yeah, she might not know that. You know, Doogie Howser is heard

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the name no idea and you and
you are kind of like I was the

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last you know some stuff. You're
old soul. Yeah. Yeah, So

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she's a uh, a very very
nice lady. You know, my doctor

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retired, so, you know,
bad, bad time for me to be

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looking for a new doctor, because
I know that I got I'm gonna I

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may be needing one quite often.
But we got we got into a conversation

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and she turns out she's she's a
friend of a friend of my son's,

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somebody my son grew up. Grew
up with the fact. I was out

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this weekend and I met a couple
of years your friends. Your son's friends

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played basketball. I didn't get their
first names. I went to Gregory School

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and uh, you know, you
know, when you be us on the

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table, what do you do?
I told him what I didn't and oh

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do you know do you know Jagins? Yeah, it's my partner. Oh

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do you know your son Adam Adams. Yeah, yeah, we went to

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school him. That instantly made you
feel like six degrees of Kevin Bacon.

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You can run, but you can't
hide from myself. Crap. Well,

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that was the same thing. You
know, she's friends with my with with

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a good friend of my son.
That he grew up with them, So

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I'm like, how old are you? She's actually a little older than him,

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but not by minch. Yeah,
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cool, but it's it's funny just
you know, you get you get to

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that point. Yeah, I just
don't get sick. Yeah, that's it,

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that's it. You know. I'm
doing all right. I'm doing although

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you know what I you ever get
Do you ever go to the doctor?

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Do you weigh yourself at home?
No? You have a scale or anything?

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I do? I did, but
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you know, And and I don't
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and that fluctuates so much. You
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a day, right, depend on
how much? Why their scale had me

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five pounds over? Is that?
Is it a thing? The doctor's offices

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all time is broken? I know
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whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa? This is after take it

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out my wallet, my keys,
yeah, put my wallet, my keys,

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my phone, my you know everything. You know, I said,

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it all down and then don't get
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you know, I'm wearing my heavy
shoes today. And when they measure

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you that you're always shorter than you
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our age. You shrink, drink, we're shrinking. I'm not five nine

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anymore. I used to be.
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I was only five nine once.
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quite a while. Yeah, yeah, the way down. I was five

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to nine for quite a while.
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measured me at five eight and the
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doing. I said, I'm shrinking. He goes, yeah, you probably

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are. I'm like, what he
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spine starts to compress and so you
shrink. Yeah, so that's a bummer.

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That's again, I'm not talking about
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I don't really radio. It's all
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exactly. Okay, Well, well
you know we have the Jack all right,

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I've got Jack and then Andy Lopez. So we're gonna yeah, let's

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go and take our break. We're
gonna come back. Jack McGruder, we

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joined us. We'll talk some baseball. Ask him about his Hall of Fame

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year's class, and just kick it
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Ball with Steve Rivera and Ja Gonzalez
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welcome back to ID the Ball hero
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.

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He's Jakinsauce. Now on the phone. We have Jack Good, writer

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performs magazine and online. I'm sure
Jack Hawaii great. Steve. How you

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doing, We're doing fine? What
a what a dream job? As we

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all get older, you want to
have jobs of you you have a nice

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one. Well, it's it is
fun. It's it's part time, which

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is also nice when you get a
certain age. I like your joy.

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You guys have the great chat.
Well they're on the sports all day.

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Yeah, that's true, you're right
nine answers. Hey, let me ask

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you. So you go to the
games, and you know, we always

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kind of aspired to be that guy. Just go to the games, watch

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a game, and you go home. But is there how much I'm skilled

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would's and how much pressure is there
to make the right calls? And I'm

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sure if you don't you hear about
it. Yeah, I mean there isn't.

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I mean there's internal pressure because you
want you want to make sure you're

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doing the right thing. Like everything
else. You know, you don't want

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to exkew you the record incorrectly.
You don't want to kind of be known

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as a guy who favors the home
team rather than a visitors that kind of

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thing. But like you guys,
we've seen enough baseball a week kind of

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have an idea of what a hit
and what an air is and right,

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they have a process where they can
appeal calls. Players can appeal calls for

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seventy two hours and that's a great
process. You know, do you go

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through that? If they don't like
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a committee and then the committee takes
a look at it. There's up or

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down, right, But it's pretty
basic for our listeners. Jack is the

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is a is an official scorekeeper for
the Colorado Rockies. So you're up in

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Denver right now. So yeah,
I mean, you know I did that

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once for a Arizona Baseball regional and
it was. It was nerve wracking for

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me. You know, you know
he said hitters in the air. Everybody

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looks at you like, Okay,
it's like you're Julius Caesar, right,

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You're sitting there putting thumb up or
thumb down. It's like I thought.

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It was a lot of pressure the
especially those regionals, right, everybody's so

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into those. Yeah, yeah,
so you're so you get to see a

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lot of baseball with this, you
know, your thoughts so far on on

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what we've seen so far. There
was a great series over the weekend with

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the Dodgers and the Yankees. You
know, the Phillies are playing out of

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their minds. I know the Rockies
aren't aren't playing that great, but you

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know, there's there's been a lot
of interesting stuff this year, a lot

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of interesting stuff. It's been a
lot of fun. We might have seen

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the World Series preview, I think
last weekend with the Dodgers and the and

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the Yankees at least direct because if
I can look like that, it's it's

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fun to watch. You know what
the Yankees have done with their pitching staff.

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You didn't think they you knew they
would probably hit, but Lucas Gill

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and Clark Schmidt and those guys.
Marcus Stroman has been a nice Carlos Rodon

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has pitched as he has in the
past. That's fun to say. And

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the Dodgers, I'd love I know
you guys, Jay, I know you

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you're a partial to the Dodgers.
That first four that's Osani, Uh,

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Freeman, Freddy Freeman and Smith.
How do you get through that? You

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got to face that four times a
game at least, that's a that's a

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pitcher's nightmare right there. I love
that first four. Weez has been as

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good as anybody the last, the
last something like that. That said,

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and Jay, because I'm not following
the Dodgers and I just don't care.

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But are they are they? Are
they better than you thought? Right now?

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What are they overachieving? Under achieving
or the Dods? Yeah? Well,

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you know, with all that payroll, you'd thought they'd win one hundred

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and fifty five games, right Yeah. I think they're right where they should

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be, right, I think they
do. I think they're a little short

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because I don't think you know,
they're pitching had you know, they don't

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have good, great pitching right now. So many of their pitchers, you

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know, are are are on the
shelf. I would have expected them to

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win a few more games. I
mean, I mean, you followed the

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odds and they they're supposed to win
every game, right, I think that,

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I literally, I mean I think
only maybe three or four times all

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year have been have they been on
the plus side on the money line,

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which is nuts for baseball. Where
they were the last weekend they were they

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were on on Sunday and then they
got b you know, they were like

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plus one oh two or something like
that. But they're expected to win every

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game, and you know, obviously
they don't. They're you know, they're

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I think they're playing about six hundred
balls. I think they're a little less,

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but mostly because of the pitching,
because you're right, they've got an

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unbelievable, uh batting order. I
guess Bueller is not quite back in and

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the form, you know, he'll
right after the surgery'll it'll take him a

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while, but once he gets back, they still got a strong rotation glass.

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That was a really good picture,
really good, you know. Yeah,

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and Otani will be back next year. I suppose. I guess he'll

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be pitching again next year. I
mean, this is if you get to

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catch the Dodgers. Maybe this is
the year because Otani's not on the mound

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and Dealer's hurt and all that stuff, but they're still awfully formidable. Them

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in the Phillies. I think the
Phillies are pretty strong. Phillies are crazy

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good. They too. Yeah,
yeah, they're crazy good. They're playing

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really well right now. They're really
good. Well, what do you think?

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Two weeks ago I wrote something on
forb was about them that, you

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know, they had the best start
in franchise history, and they're looking back

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to twenty twenty twenty twenty three and
they're frustrated about the way the season ended.

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They they didn't actually come out and
say it, but I know they

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felt that the are the better team
than the Diamondbacks. Maybe somebody actually did

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say that. I can't remember.
But they were fueled by that Game six

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and Game seven loss at home.
Terrial guys said, you know, we

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that that shouldn't have happened. We
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what they're That's why they're kind of
motivated now. Motivation is a hard thing

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to hold for one hundred and sixty
two games. But their talent is strong,

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that's for sure. Yeah, what
do you What do you think of

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them going to play a couple of
games in London the way they did over

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the weekend. Do you like that? You're not like that? You think

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it disrupts things a little too much. I mean, because that's there's a

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lot of recovery time in preparation time
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of that, but nobody asked me. But it's all money, right.

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We saw with the pack, we
saw with the pac twelve MMLB wants to

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expand its market. MNLB wants to
have more global, global interest and global

408
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following, so that happens, just
like the NFL and all those other sports

409
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league. Yeah, I don't.
I don't protect we care for it myself.

410
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I don't even they play. They
played Wembley Stadium, Yeah they Yeah,

411
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they played in Wembley and they they
made it a baseball stadium. It

412
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looked like the baseball stadium. Uh
and you know, and it was full.

413
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It was full, uh and and
you know, but you know it

414
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also came on at like nine o'clock
in the morning our time or something like

415
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that. Is weird. Yeah,
I'm just not a big fan of that,

416
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But you know, anymore, these
guys travel all the time. What's

417
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at six hours to England or whatever
it is, So I think that's maybe

418
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not as big an issue. But
just they're trying to expand the market.

419
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I don't know. I guess they
need it, but I guess they think

420
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they did so, so you know, I know, you're just gonna get

421
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to the Hall of Fame stuff in
the second. But I went to my

422
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first game in a while about a
month ago. Uh, I'm curious to

423
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see because you see guys come and
go into the rosters and and at the

424
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ctitium. Who has been maybe a
player or two that you've been really impressed

425
00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:55.319
with. Don't talk about Dodgers.
I'm retired of. Yeah, we don't

426
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need to talk about that. We
know we're impressed by all. I want

427
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to throw a name at you,
just in case he's talking about just this

428
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year. He's well, specifically the
Reds guy, Deyla Cruz. Have you

429
00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:10.559
seen himyet in person? Oh?
My, he's pretty impressive. Yeah,

430
00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:12.160
I saw him, and I saw
he's in the middle of the slump when

431
00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:15.400
the red came up here was like
he was actually one for eighteen during a

432
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one for eighteen slump, and so
the second, the game of the series,

433
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of course, he hits a four
hundred and forty foot home runs the

434
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center field. He's phenomenal. I
mean, he'll make mistakes because he's a

435
00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:27.240
young kid, he's twenty two.
But you can see the tools I think

436
00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:30.880
he had when they were here.
He had thirty two stolen bases, which

437
00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:33.839
led the majors. I haven't followed
him recently. I don't know if he's

438
00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:37.799
got more. The new rules really
helped him, and he's smart enough to

439
00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:41.839
apply it too. Yeah, and
it's funny because he looks up but he

440
00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:44.759
doesn't have the manager. He does
a great job with that young team too.

441
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It's fun to watch the way they
play because they play hard. They

442
00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:52.079
played like like like you should.
They played like the Diamond Bicks did last

443
00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:55.920
year. They just everybody all for
one and one for all, and they're

444
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He's quite talented. I feel like
he he I feel like if Ken Griffy

445
00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:04.319
Jr. Had been right handed and
an infielder, that's who he is.

446
00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:10.440
He's like, he's like a Ken
Griffy junior for the infield, just you

447
00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:15.920
know, fast, incredibly athletic,
ahead of everybody. Like he's so smooth

448
00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:22.680
and he's so athletic. I think
that's a great call. They or maybe

449
00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:26.200
they'll move, maybe Ellie'll be an
outfielder eventually. But man, that's a

450
00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:30.920
that's a good call because Griffy was
special, we know, right, and

451
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that's what anybody else, anybody else, you know. Uh, the more

452
00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:41.680
you watch Bryce Harper and I know
he's uh the fans are he does.

453
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He does all the little things right, just like he plays hard. He

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plays the way to he plays to
win. He's uh. Now he's an

455
00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:53.680
old timer, right, and we
all know how good he is. Lookie

456
00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:57.839
wise, they've got that pitchure Ranger
Suarez who's off to a great start.

457
00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:02.519
I think this is since thirty here
he's ten and one. Now he's he

458
00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:06.160
throws strikes. You know, he's
done a really nice job. He looks

459
00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:10.759
good too. The Rockies have a
really nice young player in Ezekiel Tovar,

460
00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:15.119
the short stop. They signed him
to a long term deal this spring and

461
00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:18.440
spring thinning when they were down in
the Phoenix. He's pretty solid too.

462
00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:23.000
He does it on both sides.
He's a really strong defender and his bat

463
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:26.039
has really come around. It's fun
to watch these young kids and he's a

464
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:30.640
guy I'm going to try to keep
it. Pay attention to the as the

465
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.160
years go on, just to see
how how he improves. So speaking of

466
00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:36.680
the Rockies, they've got a guy
going into the Hall of Fame and Todd

467
00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:40.640
Helton, who I you know,
I hated watching that guy hit because he

468
00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:45.160
could hit so well. I mean
as pure a hitter as as you can

469
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.720
imagine, right, just a guy
who just knew how to hit. Not

470
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.440
not quite to Tony Gwynn, but
certainly in that neighborhood. Just walked up

471
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:53.599
to the play and thought, this
guy's going to get a base hit every

472
00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:59.720
time he you know, he's going
in with Adrian Beltray, Joe Mahuer and

473
00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:03.839
Jim Leland. I can't believe Joe
Maher is already Hall of Fame, you

474
00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:07.799
know level, because I still think
of him as a kid. I right,

475
00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:12.480
he was a kid. Hey he
talking about Healton. You're right on

476
00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:15.599
that Tony gwyn comparison, because he
could drive that ball to left center,

477
00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:19.960
a double to the double of the
wall and left center for a left handed

478
00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.599
banner, that's not easy to do
it. He was so good at picking

479
00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:26.839
his spots and going pulling it at
at inside, taking it the other way

480
00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:30.440
of the top side. He's I
understand why as a Dodger fan you would

481
00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:36.839
hate him, but he could really
hit. The guy could rig. Did

482
00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:38.559
did you like this class? These
four guys? Did you vote for all

483
00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:44.680
of them? Well? I hate
to I didn't vote for all four of

484
00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:48.559
us. I think Beltray was obvious
to me, and and Helton. I've

485
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.599
been voting for Helton for the whole
time. I can't recall this is I

486
00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.519
think this is Beltray's first year.
I don't recall Joe Mauer. I did

487
00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:03.480
not vote for and I look at
his number and they just didn't jump out

488
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:06.319
at me. He's a good player, they just didn't jump out of me.

489
00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:10.519
Especially I think he caught for six
years and then he played first base

490
00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:15.599
for another six years. And if
you look at those numbers compared to a

491
00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:18.759
first base when they're not there as
a catcher there as a catcher there,

492
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:22.440
you know they're they're pretty good.
And I know he's a great guy and

493
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.839
another good hitter that could go all
the go both ways. I just didn't

494
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:29.759
vote for him this time. I
probably would have gone around to it.

495
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:33.720
Who who do you have on your
ballot? Now that you feel needs to

496
00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:40.599
get in. Garry Sheeffield got screwed
for ten years. He's to me,

497
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:44.119
he's the best player who's never been
in the Hall of Fame. He's got

498
00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:47.240
I don't know. I didn't even
look it up. I'm this was his

499
00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:49.640
last year and people didn't vote for
him, so he's not. Now he's

500
00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:53.160
got to get the Veterans Committee.
He's got three hundred homers and three hundred

501
00:31:53.160 --> 00:32:00.119
stolen bases, a long career,
a lot of a lot of postseason and

502
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:06.039
plenty of plenty of leadership qualities there. I just don't understand why people messed

503
00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:07.440
him up. Well, I do
understand because I think he was mentioned in

504
00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:13.279
the in that rapport. They can
accuse him of anything, but his name

505
00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:20.000
was dropped and some people. But
he's got great numbers. Some of the

506
00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:22.680
other guys, Bobby Abrad who has
great numbers, he doesn't get a lot

507
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:27.000
of the Moore He's got great numbers. Andrew Jones is probably the best defensive

508
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.759
center fielder of our generation right but
sometimes that doesn't hold as much weight as

509
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:35.640
as strictly offensive numbers. You know, he might have a chance later on,

510
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:42.599
but right now he's kind of on
the outside looking at Those are the

511
00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:45.720
guys that kind of to mind for
me, and I'm sure there's others.

512
00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:50.240
Do you pay attention to the American
League? I follow a team now that

513
00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:53.319
i'd never followed before of Baltimore because
he continued to be pretty good with a

514
00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:59.279
bunch of young kids. That's pretty
impressive. Yeah, I do follow them.

515
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:04.119
That's fun to w because every every
week they're bringing up some new kid

516
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.039
from the miners and he steps right
in and and does a great job.

517
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:10.839
I think they're doing it. And
signing Corbyn Burns to me, was one

518
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:15.279
of the greatest. He's one of
the best pitchers the majors. And signing

519
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:21.359
him while this team is young and
then it's prime and learning to win really

520
00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:22.799
gave them an ace at the top
of the rotation. I think they'll get

521
00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:25.720
to give the Yankees a little bit
of a run. We saw him last

522
00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:29.200
ye remember last year, I think
you know, in the first round last

523
00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:31.319
year. Yeah, they were not
quite ready to win yet, and their

524
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:37.400
rotation wasn't quite there. This year
with Burns and Grayson Rodriguez is pitching wall

525
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:39.119
this year, I think they'll get
the Yankees and run for it. We'll

526
00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:43.759
see what happens. You know,
the Yankees still have to they still have

527
00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:46.400
to prove to me that a guy
like Lucas gill can make it through the

528
00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:52.119
season. And you know, pitchers
like that. I like that. I

529
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:54.480
liked watching they was a little bit
like the Diamondbacks last year with all that

530
00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:59.400
young talent that kind of seeps its
way into the lineup and fun to watch.

531
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So if it's not the Dodgers and
the Yankees in the World Series,

532
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:04.880
who do who do you? Who
do you look at? You know,

533
00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:09.039
aside from those two teams on each
side, I look at the Phillies for

534
00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:13.800
sure. Phillies and Dodgers are gonna
have I would look at Atlanta, but

535
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:16.000
akun is down now, and yeah, it's hard. I don't see how

536
00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:20.519
they overcome him in the long run. I mean they'll they'll still have a

537
00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:23.159
good year, but you know it's
up to replace. Okay, Philly's Dodgers

538
00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:29.440
in the NLCS, I think.
And however, however that breaks and Balermo

539
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:30.800
with the Yankees, I don't I
don't see too many other teams. But

540
00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:36.079
Waukee's having a nice year with Pat
Murphy as the manager. They're doing they're

541
00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:38.119
doing a nice chap here. But
I think those four teams that we just

542
00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:42.639
mentioned are kind of a class of
baseball right now. What about having a

543
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:45.199
nice year too? But I'm not
sure if they're quite up there. What

544
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:49.960
about the Rangers, I mean,
they're they're the defending champs. They're struggling

545
00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:52.719
though. Yeah, their pitching is
down a little bit. It's hard to

546
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:58.079
be It's hard to be the defending
champ, right Yep. I've never been

547
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:01.119
a defending champ. So I don't
know. Next week season, six week

548
00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:06.360
season, that's longer than everybody else, and pitching gets tired and you get

549
00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:09.440
tired. He's a great manager and
maybe they'll be back. But I kind

550
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:12.679
of like, see, I don't
actually, yeah, they've got a real

551
00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:16.400
strong rotation, and they might.
I don't know. We've talked about this

552
00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:21.440
before. I think I really look
at pitching as a as a big deal,

553
00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:24.840
and they've got a real strong rotation. Well, Jack, appreciate you,

554
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:30.639
hey, as always, Jack,
A lot of fun. I always

555
00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:34.039
have a blast make the right calls, Okay, I'll uh you know,

556
00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:37.079
if you're doing a Dodger game,
I'll text you during the game until you

557
00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:39.639
got it wrong. And we look
forward to hearing from you during the old

558
00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:45.920
Picks Weeks football. I can't wait. That's that's that's good for then you

559
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:52.239
know who not to Yes, thank
you all right, Jack, appreciate it.

560
00:35:52.320 --> 00:36:00.440
Man, be well, Jack's one
of the good guys. The ball

561
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:04.320
the ball, Yeah, okay,
all right. So that's that was fun.

562
00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:07.639
So Jack mcgridor from calling in from
Denver. So we're gonna take a

563
00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:12.480
break. We've got Andy Lopez coming
up next hour. Top of the hour,

564
00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:16.639
we're gonna have Algama's called you Keith. Kevin. Kevin is going to

565
00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:20.199
be doing breaking news, a lot
of breaking news. But we will take

566
00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:22.599
your calls in this next segment five
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Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve,
you're Jake. Good to talk to Jack

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if there's wisdom on the baseball field. I have a quick question though,

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Okay, Kevin, what would it
take for you to cut that those long

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locks of yours? Mister Sampson was
the Delilah I should have been thinking about

602
00:38:57.320 --> 00:39:00.840
this question. I don't know.
They would have to either gets so long

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that they're like too heavy, or
like I would have to be taking like

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not good, not very good care
of them. And so if an employer

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said, hey, I'll give you
the job, but no, yeah,

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I'm not doing it, okay,
what if it maybe change your mojo?

607
00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:19.320
That mean? Oh, like yeah, that is the thing people some people

608
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:22.039
believe in that. Well, look
who might have changed his mojo exactly,

609
00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:27.760
mister cale Love. There's a video
of him in a in a U of

610
00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:31.079
a workout that's circulating on social media, and and he cut the dreads,

611
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:35.360
cut the dreads to see if it
can make him a better shooter. Look

612
00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:38.519
good, play good. So what
are you gonna say, mister Gonzales,

613
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:42.199
did you say you say that didn't
look good? Last year? Well,

614
00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:45.519
there were times that I wondered if
maybe he was getting dreads in the eyes

615
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:51.400
and that's why he was missing shot. Did it affect your schoolwork and all?

616
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:53.280
No, not my schoolwork. That's
why I put them up at the

617
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:57.880
gym so I don't have like sometimes
I am watching like the NBA because they're

618
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:00.480
really popular in the NBA. Now
I feel like good. But I feel

619
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:04.760
like there's some guys like Jamn Brunson
with his he has he has braids,

620
00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:07.679
there's different, but he still lets
him hang down in his face and I'm

621
00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:09.199
like, why would he do that? I've never gotten that, or like

622
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:15.960
Emmanuel Quickly, you know who bother
me? The football players like Larry Fitzgerald

623
00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:21.280
who have the long braids and dreads
hanging out the back of them, and

624
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:25.199
that stuff's gotta be heavy? Does
had you would feel it? Like you

625
00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:30.760
know, I didn't play football,
especially didn't play when I had hair like

626
00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:32.719
this, So yeah, but I
feel like with all that you know,

627
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:35.840
weight and like all the stuff you
got on, I feel like you wouldn't

628
00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:39.559
wouldn't even it doesn't make a difference. Do you remember Oscar Gamble? You

629
00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:44.519
remember that guy with the giant afro, A giant I mean I'm talking a

630
00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:47.199
massive afro, Kevin massive. And
then you put a baseball cap on.

631
00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:53.280
Okay, I've seen I've seen this
guy's baseball car before. Just how does

632
00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:57.920
that sit up there? Well,
it's like your guy, your guy bollow

633
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:00.920
remember when he took the thing and
he had his hair afro for a little

634
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:05.159
bit, right, and then Bruce
for an angle. You think that's gonna

635
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:09.199
make you play matter. I know
it's a question, but it's a cute

636
00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:12.679
question, you know, because it's
all part of the story. To me,

637
00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:16.119
it's about stuff like that. It's
about distraction. I feel like sometimes

638
00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:21.320
that's I don't sometimes I don't understand
how it's not a distraction. And guys

639
00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:23.360
play, you know, however,
they're comfortable, right, and that's fine

640
00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:28.079
to me. It's it's distracting to
me when I see guys with the you

641
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:30.639
know, the super long dreads hanging
out of a out of a football helmet

642
00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:37.840
and and now you know, now
it's not too hot, it's not too

643
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:42.159
heavy. Yeah, I wouldn't worry
about the Me personally, I wouldn't.

644
00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:44.599
I wouldn't be bothered by like if
I had a football helmet. For me,

645
00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:45.519
it's like, as long as out
of my eyes and out of my

646
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:51.239
face like my forehead, we're good
as if I'm doing something athletic. And

647
00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:52.320
that's what you're used to. I
mean, that's who you are. You've

648
00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:55.519
done this all your life, I'm
sure, so you know it's a little

649
00:41:55.519 --> 00:42:00.119
different for for you. You have
a lot of I've got I've got the

650
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:05.760
helmet. Steve Steve. Steve had
a mullet for the longest I was for

651
00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:09.159
the girls. Did you say girls
for the girls? For the girls?

652
00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:15.840
Oh my god, I had I
had the helmet here. So you know

653
00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:23.320
when my friends sent send me a
picture of a promo shot that we had

654
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:28.119
when I was uh first started in
sports at the at the at the Star.

655
00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:31.840
And it was me and Bill Baddington, remember Bill and Danny White.

656
00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:36.480
We were the high school sports guys. And there's a picture of that.

657
00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:40.000
It literally looked like I had a
football helmet on with my with my hair.

658
00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:44.360
I was like eighty five is probably
eighty five, nineteen eighty five,

659
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:49.519
and uh, but yeah, I've
always had the helmet going on. So

660
00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:52.960
okay, so maybe maybe maybe the
switch would love will help. Well,

661
00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:55.960
you know, guy guys just you
know, sometimes you just like to change

662
00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:59.880
things up. You know, maybe
we're some different socks, maybe a different

663
00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:07.039
shirt or whatever. You know,
just something to just change change the motive,

664
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:09.639
change the juice. Uh, people
do that, you know. You

665
00:43:10.199 --> 00:43:13.639
know there are guys, like in
baseball, there are guys who one day

666
00:43:13.639 --> 00:43:17.360
they're wearing their pants long. Then
they go into a slump, so they

667
00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:21.000
pull the pants up just you know, below the knees. You know,

668
00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:23.360
different things like that, so or
they or they change your socks. You

669
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:28.199
know, the Jason Terry sleeping in
his in his cat socks and always having

670
00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:30.920
to have his cat socks with him
and those kinds of things. I mean,

671
00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:35.480
look, if it if you think
it affects you, then it does,

672
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:38.639
is the way I see it.
You know, if you if you're

673
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:43.320
on the court and you're thinking,
I gotta have these socks on, then

674
00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:45.639
it affects you. Yeah, there's
no question, in fact, in fact,

675
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:49.599
because this is your decision, right
and and change your mind. In

676
00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:52.400
fact, if Kevin Leman was listening, maybe you can call in and talk

677
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:55.880
about that psychology of the sport where
you if you believe in it, it's

678
00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:59.199
going to be true, right,
whether it's true or not right, but

679
00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:01.960
you believe it. Yeah, yeah, like like like, uh, you

680
00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:05.239
know, when I was coaching high
school baseball, my son's on the team

681
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:09.440
at Saint Gregory. He had to
have the Carolina Blue sleeves because those were

682
00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:13.280
those were coach. He had to
have the sleeves. And like one day

683
00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:15.239
he forgot his sleeves and it was
like a mess. We had to get

684
00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:20.960
his sleeves to the school before the
game, and we did. But you

685
00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:24.320
did that? Play fine? Because
this ruins me. Jason Gardner uh,

686
00:44:24.519 --> 00:44:29.280
the Pac twelve tournament Pack ten tournament
at the time, forgot his jersey.

687
00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:31.159
Forgot his jersey. They had to
scrabble to find it. He had a

688
00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:35.119
horrible game. They lost to ucl
A member there's a number one seed.

689
00:44:35.559 --> 00:44:38.000
Uh And and people are saying that
was great because they lost, they could

690
00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:42.639
rest for the tournament. But but
I get it. You you freak out,

691
00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:47.599
you do you have you have.
It's it's more about routine than anything

692
00:44:47.639 --> 00:44:52.880
else. And sports, you know, athletes have routines, even if even

693
00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:58.760
for me when I'm not a you
know, elite, I'm just playing city

694
00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:00.679
League baseball. I had a routine
when I put on my when I put

695
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:04.599
on my uniform, right, how
did that go? Right? Sock,

696
00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:09.679
left sock, right shoe, left
shoe. Sometimes good. Well, I

697
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:15.199
just did it all the time,
so I never, I never, I

698
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:17.079
never did not do it. So
I don't know what would have happened if

699
00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:20.960
I didn't do it. But it
was just like that. That's how I

700
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:22.239
felt. I Mean, there were
times I'm getting dressed in the car,

701
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:25.360
you know, on the way to
the game. I'm at stop lights,

702
00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:30.360
you know, put in my uniform
on and I still went left, right

703
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:34.119
sock, left sock, right shoe, left shoes. I never, you

704
00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:36.840
know, I put on I put
on my you know, I put on

705
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:40.960
my undershirt, then my pants,
my jersey, you know, and it's

706
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:45.320
just either I just put it on
and let's go. You know. I

707
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:50.519
was gonna ask you, is that
something that you like did because it came

708
00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:52.239
from within your own brain, or
was it something that you understood like,

709
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:55.960
Okay, this is how you like, it's a superstision helps people. That's

710
00:45:57.039 --> 00:46:00.119
just how I That's just how I
got dressed. I'm telling you. I

711
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:04.760
started doing that in literally in little
league. It was just a thing.

712
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:07.840
I was very superstitious about stuff.
You must you must have learned that from

713
00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:09.760
somewhere. You had to. That's
that's one of my questions, like did

714
00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:14.199
you learn that from think it was
just an order, you know, and

715
00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:17.480
then it became a conscious order.
And you didn't do that with like going

716
00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:20.679
to school, like if you were
going to school, No, I do

717
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:23.599
it. I still I still when
I get dressed to this day. Right

718
00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:27.920
sock, left sock, right,
she left you. Now, every once

719
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:30.400
in a while I don't because because
maybe I drop my sock over there and

720
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:34.639
I gotta go pick it up.
But I still go right sock, left

721
00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:40.360
sock, right sho, left shoe. You think you're more bizarre than yeah,

722
00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:47.280
I just hope to get sock.
I don't care the white I It's

723
00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:52.400
just it's just the thing we ask
people. Are you that way to guys?

724
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:54.760
Anybody want to call police? I
get it. You know, what's

725
00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:59.199
his name? He used to call
us look good, play good, just

726
00:46:59.239 --> 00:47:01.000
play. Just put him on and
let's go, let's go, just get

727
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.920
a double gets to each his own. Man. It really it's reaches own.

728
00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:09.280
It really is. It really is. But to me that that was

729
00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:13.519
the thing, and I you know, it was just it was just it's

730
00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:17.199
what made my routine feel right,
and it just made me Okay, I'm

731
00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:20.679
done. Well, I've got my
I've got my uniform on, I'm ready

732
00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:22.599
to play. So let me ask
you and I'm we're talking personal stuff now,

733
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:24.840
which I really don't like to do
it. But so you're on this

734
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:29.400
baseball team with told me, you
know that was there a guy on on

735
00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:34.119
the team that didn't give a crap, and I'm sure he was pretty damn

736
00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:37.440
good. There were some guys just
didn't put on a paraclets and yeah,

737
00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:39.360
just give me, give me the
ball and let's go. There were some

738
00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:43.719
guys, but there were a lot
of guys who wore their uniform just so

739
00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:50.199
and there again and it's to the
individual. Yeah it is Dick tom me

740
00:47:50.599 --> 00:47:53.599
right, he just put on his
uniform. But he was pretty good.

741
00:47:53.639 --> 00:47:58.119
But he's pretty good baggy pants.
You know, sometimes he wore sleeves.

742
00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:02.000
Sometimes he didn't. You know,
that's my guy. You want to put

743
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:05.719
me, I'll be you know,
whatever cap you got, just give me

744
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:08.880
a cap. Right. But you
know when we when we actually had uniforms,

745
00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:14.159
you know, he wars uniform,
but you know one you know one

746
00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:16.480
one pant leg would be up and
one pant leg would be down. Right.

747
00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:20.800
I get it, I totally because
that's what that's what he wanted was.

748
00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:23.000
He just wanted to write that's who, that's who he wasn't bring up.

749
00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:25.719
I should ask you that question a
long time ago. It was eliminated

750
00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:30.800
look good, play good, because
that's what it is. It's individuals and

751
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:34.159
some people kyo left field. He
doesn't look part of the team. Well

752
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:37.159
he's pretty damn but he's pretty good. Yeah, no, yeah, I

753
00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:38.519
mean, it's it is. I
mean, and that's the way it is.

754
00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:43.280
So it just, uh, it
just depends. But again I'm just

755
00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:47.760
I'm I'm very routine oriented as far
as stuff like that goes, and and

756
00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:52.360
I'm superstitious when he comes to well, it was like obviously the late great

757
00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:58.000
you still lead coach wouldn't when he
when he started practice first day, learn

758
00:48:58.039 --> 00:49:00.800
how to put it on your socks
right, so you won't good callouses or

759
00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:02.760
whatever you get blisters and blah blah
blah. The guys, coach, you've

760
00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:07.239
been through this, we're gonna do
it again. Yeah. Nothing, everything

761
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:12.079
had reason and and and and there
are reasons for for all that stuff.

762
00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:15.440
But it just again, it just
depends on the individual. But I that's

763
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:19.960
that's me. I believe in that. And uh, but I will say

764
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:24.280
that when when I was coaching high
school, Okay, I told those guys,

765
00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:28.599
you're gonna wear your uniform like you're
supposed to wear your uniform. Now,

766
00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:31.599
you know, the uniforms fit differently
on everybody, right, And when

767
00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:35.639
you're when you're saying, Gregory,
if if all you have left is an

768
00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:37.679
x L and the guy who's getting
the last guy to get a jersey needs

769
00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:42.360
a medium. That's just the way
it goes, right. But you know,

770
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:46.320
there was an expectation that you're gonna
wear your uniform properly. No,

771
00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:49.760
I get it, because you're the
boss, right, and I'll have to

772
00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:52.400
listen to the boss. Well,
there are some people who we got about

773
00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:55.880
three minutes who said, well,
okay, all right, but they did

774
00:49:55.880 --> 00:50:00.960
it right. They did right.
Yeah, And and I mean that's to

775
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.079
me, that's part of being on
the team, and that in that case

776
00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:04.639
I would have done the same thing. Yeah, you know, I would

777
00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:07.239
have. I don't know if I
would have resented him. But this wasn't

778
00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:09.760
a recreational team, right, This
was a high school baseball team. So

779
00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:14.079
there was an expectation that you were
your you know, your uniform. Everybody

780
00:50:14.119 --> 00:50:16.320
wears the uniform the same that we
did the same thing with softball. Let

781
00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:19.679
me let me tell you a quick
story. So Little League All Stars twelve

782
00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:22.719
years old, we're playing in the
state tournament and we're playing and we lose

783
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:25.639
a one zero in our in our
in our game. Uh. And the

784
00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:30.159
president of the league, whose son
was pitched, pitched the game lost.

785
00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:34.119
We lost. He was so upset
because you're the president. His son lost.

786
00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:36.320
Comes to me, and by the
way, you didn't cut your hair

787
00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:38.440
short enough. You didn't cut your
short because you all required to cut your

788
00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:42.159
hair, you know before, you
didn't cautch. I mean, he wanted

789
00:50:42.199 --> 00:50:45.679
to lady and everybody who you know, and I was thinking, we lost.

790
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:50.159
Come on, guys, just lost. I heard it. Why.

791
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:52.639
I think it might have he could
have, but it wasn't. You know,

792
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:57.519
you just kind of like you and
you and you and we lost.

793
00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:01.679
Yeah, you know again, everybody's
got their thing. So very funny.

794
00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:06.599
Okay, So next hour we have
coach Lopez. We had coach Andy Lopez

795
00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:09.480
coming up. Well, it's getting
ready for the Cold World Series. I

796
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:15.280
think there's one more Super Regional going
on today and I can't remember who's left

797
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:19.960
who's playing. There's one more that
needs to be decided. The other seven

798
00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:23.840
spots in the World Series have been
decided. And then so we'll talk to

799
00:51:23.880 --> 00:51:27.079
him about, you know, getting
ready for the Cold World Series where these

800
00:51:27.119 --> 00:51:30.400
teams going through, right, and
then talk to him a little bit about

801
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:32.079
the cats. You know, what
he thought of them this year. You

802
00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:36.320
know what, what's Chip Hale going
through? Right, He's he's got this

803
00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:39.800
thing now on his back about about
postseason where it hasn't gone well for him.

804
00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:44.519
He's spoken to him, Get right, what kind of advice can you

805
00:51:44.679 --> 00:51:45.639
if you haven't spoken to him,
what kind of advice do you want to

806
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:50.760
give him through our show? Yeah? Right, so it'll be you know,

807
00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:53.440
it should be a good conversation with
Andy always a great guy. You

808
00:51:53.480 --> 00:51:57.960
know, ask him, would you
have taken the Lakers job? So let

809
00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:00.719
me ask you or a big job? Don't ask some We had about a

810
00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:04.519
minute after you cannot explain to our
listeners because we don't do this often enough.

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Someone approached me astery, what's the
up with the with the two minute

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airtime? Right right at the top
of the hour. There's a two minute

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of blank dead air. That is
it. That's a block of time that

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the National iHeart Office gets, so
obviously they apparently they don't fill that with

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anything. So if you hear dead
air going into going into the second hour,

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it's not us, and we'll uh
uh, you know, we come

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on right at the top of the
hour, So don't hang with us,

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don't run away, just you know, go through it. Maybe go to

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the go to the restroom, you
know, go get yourself a sandwich or

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maybe a beer or whatever, and
then come back to us at the top

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of the hour. All right,
let's go and take our break. We're

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gonna come back, uh and top
of the hour we're gonna have breaking news,

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and then Andy Lopez, let's stick
around.