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Breaking down all the exes at OH. It's Steve Lavera and Jagen Salaz.

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This is I on the Ball on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome

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back to IM about your old Fox
Sports fort fifty MC. He's Jay Kevin

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with some breaking news. This is
I on the Wall, breaking news on

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Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right, so we do have some breaking news.

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We're gonna go ahead and start with
Arizona versus Michigan State is the most

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watched college basketball game in the last
fifteen years. Wow five records season one

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eight million. Wow Wow. Because
it was through the well two things.

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Two things. One, it was
on Thanksgiving Day, Okay, it came

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right after the Lions game. Some
people watching the Lions game Thanksgiving football led

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right into the game. But then
it was still you know, it was

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a great game. One wants Dallas
play. Yeah, yeah, And the

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Cowboys were playing then, and it
was a good game and it was a

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great game. But yeah, you're
right, the Cowboys are playing the Commanders.

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I mean, what, who the
hell wanted kick out of them?

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Ye? So, but still,
man, five over five people watch that

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game. And I don't know if
you saw the arena Palm Springs, where,

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you know, it was pretty I
was talking to some family about that

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because they were like, there's a
lot of people at this game, isn't

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it Thanksgiving? And I was like, yeah, but this is Arizona,

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Michigan State. Yeah, people don't
care. It's some the day off's go

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to the game. No, the
guys that went to the Peterson's and the

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shut said it was a good crowd. A lot of people in Michigan State.

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Yeah, I mean I knew even
I knew a few people who said,

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yeah, let's go to Palm Spring
for Thanksgiving and they went to the

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game when they did a Thanksgiving dinner
and boom and it made it made a

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trip of it. But I thought, I think it's pretty cool for Arizona.

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You know, again, all in
in the interests of Arizona being a

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blue blood. What did you drink
before you show up? Sounded better?

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On that note, On that note, that's not that's that's fun. We're

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gonna we're gonna throw it back to
some more Arizona sports news. Uh.

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Former Cardinals head coach Cliff Kingsbury apparently
has emerged as a favorite for the Houston

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Cougar's job. That would be that
would be the good ship. That would

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be good, right, kind of
like Texas Tech. Yeah, good fit,

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get fired in five years. Get
he he wants to me, he

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doesn't. He doesn't fit in the
pros. Crap. You know they look

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at me, Get away from me
with your giant house and fire. Give

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me a perfect example of that.
Did you know how bad Detroit is in

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the NBA? Like bad, bad, very bad? Fourteen four and thirty

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eighth, it's last year. Well, you know the coach Williams, he's

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not they're not playing for him.
He's four and they're like two and thirteen.

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Yeah, three and twelve. It's
just crazy. And for a guy

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who's one of the highest paid coaches
Williams, I think he is, and

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he's not getting across. Dude,
dude, if they're not going to listen

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to you, they're not going to
listen to you. Yeah. Yeah,

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And part and part of it is
the roster issue too. They have one,

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maybe one too many guards on that
team. But that's that's another that's

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another story. We have more college
football stuff to talk about. Iowa's first

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half over under for their points is
set at just half point. The second

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half is also set at half a
point. Now, if you're a value

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better, you can get Iowa first
half over half a point plus one hundred

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guys. Oh okay, so what's
they're over under for the game? Two

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and a half? Let me let
me check that the Michigan team total for

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the second half was twelve and a
half. The first half is sixteen and

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a half, so under thirty five
ish thirty five and a half in Michigan's

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all of those by by themselves.
Yeah, this is unbelievable. And they're

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ten and two. Yeah, their
record. The record is good. I

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was ten and to the record is
good. And think about it. They

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had that game, they had that
game where remember the fair catch got called.

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They said it was a fair catch
and it wasn't a fair catch,

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and and and and and I think
was it was? It was it?

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Uh? God, who are they
playing playing? Was it the records game

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was? I can't remember who they're
playing to remember? I do remember.

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It was a punt and the guy
waved, and the guy waved it all

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away from the punt. They called
it a fair catch. He returned it

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and then yeah he returned it.
Oh wait, he had picked up the

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ball and returned it, and they
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fair catch because they didn't score.
But speaking of unders, I don't know

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if you guys talked about this yesterday, but the unders for the NFL season,

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uh now thirteen and one on Monday
Night football to the under total,

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as well as twenty nine and nine
and night games, which is honestly shocking.

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But it kind of speaks to what
Brady was talking about with the mediocrity.

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No one's putting up points and it's
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For the most part, I'm still
trying to look up this Iowa what the

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Iowa line over under is just for
them. While you guys do that,

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I will throw at you. The
former Washington QB Brock, who are Heward

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Hewart says that cam Ward has up
to ten one transfer offers from schools like

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Oregon, Washington, Notre Dame,
Texas, A and M and Auburn.

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This is the exact problem with college
athletics right now. It's not about nil

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deals and mobile it's paid for play, simple, simple and easy. Well,

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there was a really funny, uh
funny response to that by yo,

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you're raight because because Michael lev retweeted
you know that that says that he's got

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you know, ten one million dollar
offers, and god, dang it,

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I can't. I wish I still
had this up here. And Michael said

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something. Michael Left said something like
this is free agency, okay, and

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then and oh here it is,
here it is, here is and then

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Yogi Rots Michae Left says, this
is basically free agency. Yogi Rots says,

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basically even worse, it's tampering meets
free agency, meets while meets zero

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penalties for collectives and schools, meets
ridiculous, meets good for him meets CAM

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isn't even in the portal. That's
what I said. As we came in.

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I was like, well, he's
not even actually transferring air quotes yet.

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Yeah. So, and he's the
reason the kid why de Laura left

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right at the end of the day, he's he's ready to get out of

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there. Man, this is the
world we live in. Oh, let's

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pay the kids back to what that's
maybe full circle moment, maybe, I

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mean, this is the world we
live in. But then somebody posted,

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uh that, he said, the
person that's posted this, it's called blue

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Blood's bias whatever that is, says
that it's been confirmed. I'm just reading

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this okay, because I don't even
know who this guy is. That Miami,

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Ohio State, Texas, A and
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interested in Yeah right, yeah,
yeah my listing. Did it also include

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Auburn and Oregon? It was Oregon, Washington, Notre Dame, Texas,

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A and M and Auburn. Yeah, Oregon is losing. Bonis the ancient

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quarterback. Speaking of full circle,
we kind of brought how Jane delore might

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you know, jokingly go full circle
and go back to jazuo h. Bobby

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Petrino is has that agreed to return
as offensive coordinator and a deal is being

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finalized. Sources tell ESPN, you
guys want to talk about Petrino behind you,

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I saw the universe Markets has a
policy that if you've been I've just

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read this, if you've been fired
for cause from a job at the university,

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you can't come back. He's not
going wait, except with special special

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permission from the president of the university. Would be a football coach exactly.

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So they're gonna bring this guy back
who embarrassed the crap out of them.

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He's the one who got riding his
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the of the of the football office
they hired that he had hired. So

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obviously there was a little something going
on over there. Rex his motorcycle with

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her on it, and he you
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she was also a member of the
volleyball team before she graduated. What what

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price fase? What not? What
price fame? But what price victory?

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You know, why not? Go
ahead? Unbelievable. So I guess he's

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sounds like he's going to get that
special permission from the waiver from the president

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to get to take that gotta win, gotta win baby. The thing is

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the nerve the nad of the Arkansas
football program to do, say screw all

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you, I don't care what you
think. We're going to take this guy

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who incidentally was on the staff of
a football coach that just got fired,

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you know, because they why,
because they couldn't generate enough offense. They

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were only twenty five, they were
just top twenty five. They were fine.

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You know, it's not good enough. I know, we were just

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talking football. Justin Jefferson has been
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light, Yeah, one day late
for sure for Jays, for Jays more

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help God, could you've seen more
worse football game than last night? Wasn't

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that? I immediately after the game, got got a text from from my

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brother said that had to be the
worst football game I've ever seen. He

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goes, I want all my money
back that I bet on that game because

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he lost, but because it wasn't
fun to watch on a clear day.

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I mean, there was no snow, there was no rain. You know,

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you see those games on the snow
day. This was a perfect game,

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and they couldn't move the ball,
or they did, but other people

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got it. The scoring was five. That's awful. It was just awful.

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I mean the amount of that.
That was the most text I've received

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talking about I'm just thankful it's football
on because in March we're gonna be wishing

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we had this game. But I
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wish I had this game in March. Conversely, Arizona's most watched game,

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this might have to be the most
least watch. It was horrible. It

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was awful. People, I was
looking for the weakest link. You know,

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you're gonna change it to snap.
That's quality television. I was in

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on that decision. We're talking like
datelines, little brother, it wasn't even

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date line. Like you said,
you kind of have a good life.

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Tiger Woods is making his next comeback
at the hero World Challenge this week.

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He was talking about how his ankle
feels a lot better. He's a little

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more sore in other areas because of
that, but overall he feels like his

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health is in a good place to
compete right now. You know, as

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I've told you guys before, I
why I look at ik talk for an

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hour or two every time you hit
the sack. Just keep you young,

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keep you young. Right. But
I and you know, it's one of

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those things where whatever you see,
you then start seeing more of it.

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So I get a lot of Tiger
Woods on my thread. And you go

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back and look at the things that
he used to do to you know,

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you look at him today and you
see what he did back then, you

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go the guy was inhuman. He
was not human? Yeah uh. You

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know shots that he hit or rounds
that he had, or you know,

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just things that he did and you
go, you know, how does this

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guy? How was this guy able
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we we knew we were seeing something
spectacular. But I don't think we realized

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how spectacular it was, how rare
when it was happening. Exactly exactly you

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were watching something special, but you
didn't know we might never see this come

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back around. You know, there's
certain talents where you're like, oh,

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this is this is great, this
is all time. But well you never

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know that until till Nicholas and all
these other guys, and you look at

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Tiger Woods, Notine, you go, you know, there's nobody like that

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and there, and maybe there never
will be me. Maybe his kid will

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be I don't know, yeah maybe
maybe maybe you know, but the kid,

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wouldn't that be something? Huh yeah, that would be That little kid

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really pisses me off because oh,
that's what he does. That's all he

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does. It's like, it's like
the Europeans coming to play basketball. What

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do you do for living? Play
basketball? Go to school? Play basketball,

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go to school, play basketball at
school. Last last bit of breaking

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news has to do with basketball.
Last night, Lebron James and Lakers suffered

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a forty four point loss that was
the worst loss of his entire career.

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Uh, they are missing a ton
of guys, but that Lakers team is

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just not up the snuff right enough. And something closer to home, the

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Golden State Warriors. Holy crap,
it's like Peyton Place every day. Peyton

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Place every day. I guess Kela
Commie, I don't know if you know.

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Kelakami is pretty good. He had
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because Clay jumped him on a question. It's just a great story about nothing,

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you know, great story about nothing
because Clay's not playing well, Wiggans

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not playing well, and Steve Kerr
God help him because he gets a lot

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of money to deal with this stuff. Yeah, I mean it's not about

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basketball now. He's been dealing with
non basketball stuff for a lot. About

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it. Steve has always been able
to handle it, handle it, yeah,

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but it feels like it's gotten so
bad that even he can't. And

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dream On is not even involved,
yeah, because well he's not involve because

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he was involved, right, he's
not involved because he had his neck around

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or his arm around with Yeah.
He comes back tonight, so and they

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play they play sacrament Sacramento, right, yeah, right, the beam more

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power to him. They get him
millions of dollars. Good luck with that.

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I guess I would put up with
it too, you know. You

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know what, he give me five
hundred K and I'll just sit next to

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you and I'll fight all these guys. And he's coached tam USA for a

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long time too, so he's been
talking to all these guys. All right,

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we're going to talk to some just
some Arizona sports or Southern Aarson Sports.

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And he's with the the head of
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Authority efforts to get spring training back
here if to see if there's anything going

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on Triple A bas awesome changes would
cause by the yoaklan Ase moving to Vegas.

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Uh, just whatever's going on over
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This is I on the Ball with
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Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome
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the four we have Blake Eager from
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How you doing, Blake, I'm
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having me. Sure sure you guys
are busy? Guy up there? What's

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going on? Any breakthrough with any
possible spring training news? Oh? We're

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just jumping right off, just jumping
right into it. Huh yeah, we

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we we we're planning our Southern Southern
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It's currently being championed by the Arizona
Diamondbacks and Derek Hall. We're hoping

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to have one to two teams from
Mexico. There'll be housed out of Keino

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Stadium, uh, you know,
sports Complex, and we'll have teams from

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the Cactus League come down and play
hopefully multiple games. So we'll create a

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similar aspect of spring training back in
Tucson in Southern Arizona. So there's a

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lot of movement around the big leagues
with the Oakland A's moving to Las Vegas,

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and is there will there be some
other shuffling, I mean, like

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are some Triple A teams going to
get shuffled and things like that, and

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you know what, you know,
is there any potential there for us down

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here? Yeah, that's a great
question. So we've we've actually gone down

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that path a little bit looking at
the potential of bringing back a Triple A

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team to tuson on it. There's
still talks to be had. There's a

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lot of moving parts until everything's confirmed. As you know here in a couple

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of weeks or not too far away, they're going to have the GM meetings

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Winter Baseball Meetings. We should know
some more information after that, but we

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are going to continue to work on
anything from the professional base class that we

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can do down here in southern Arizona. So how optimistic are you? You

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know, it's funny. I'm a
twoson in right, born and raised.

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I've moved and lived all over with
my career path, but I've always come

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back, and optimism has always come
back to bite us in the butt here

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a little bit in Tucson. But
I am. I am fairly fairly optimistic

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that something special is going to happen. And we've got a lot of help

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from our Phoenix partners in this,
and we've got a lot of help on

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MLB from MLB and MLB International and
from Mexico. Tucson is a perfect landscape

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and a perfect place for professional baseball, and we're hoping that we can make

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all the right connections and get this
thing off the ground and and create a

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sustainable event for the long term.
You sound like Jay, who's an Arizona

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football a little fan who's good doesn't
want to go there because you never know,

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and it's guys hesitant. He's been
bidden enough times that you know to

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be optimistic. But good for you, good for you. Well, you

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know what's you know, what's funny
is that I probably wouldn't be so optimistic,

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but we were able to get this
this bill passed through and become an

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official authority. Our big brother authority
is the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority in

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Maricopa County, and they own and
operate the State Farm Stadium, so they

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bring in the Cardinals and the Final
Fours and the Super Bowls, Taylor Swift

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concerts, if you may. So, we've been very fortunate on that.

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And our sister bill was a was
a film and centive bill in the state

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of Arizona. So we were able, I should say Senator David Gallen was

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able to do uh we call it
political jiu jitsu, and get both our

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bills passed through. So optimism is
at the forefront right now. For me,

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it's awesome. So you know,
look, we've got a long history

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of baseball here dating back to you
when the Cleveland Indians came here for spring

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training. It's kind of always been
a part of who we were. But

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you know, obviously, you know, we lost that, you know,

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over the last you know, several
years. But I mean we still have

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that, like maybe that core of
people who would love to see baseball back

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here, don't I mean, what
what what you know? How are you

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reading the tea leaves out there as
far as that goes? Yeah, I

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mean for me, I'll and be
honest every time I talk. You know,

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for our authority, we cover six
counties and all the tribal nations amongst

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them. We have four distinctions.
We have sports, we have tourism,

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we have film, and we have
workforce development. First question that I always

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get is spring training, baseball,
professional baseball. So I think everybody's really

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excited. We're hungry. We want
to make sure that we're supporting professional sports

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in southern Arizona. We've got a
great relationship with the current professional teams down

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here, and we're here to support
them. I think I think we're hungry

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to have a professional baseball back down
here. Yeah, you know, I

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mean it was great when they're you
know, the UFA baseball team moved to

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High Corbett, but they're done in
June, you know, and you've got

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the whole rest of the summer,
and there's that gap from between when they're

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done and football gets going, and
we've got to have something down here,

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whether it's you know, Triple A
or whatever. I mean, there's got

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to be something going on here as
far as sports goes, because I think

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we are a sports town in our
own way. I mean we're not you

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know, New York or Pittsburgh or
one of those, but you know,

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we've got our own way of watching
sports, and I think having something like

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that, you know, we we
should be ready for something like that.

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Our our people here should want that. Yeah, and jac if you guys

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both know this, But it comes
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when we're lucky enough to get something, we've got to make sure from

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a public standpoint that we're willing to
support it. Summer is always going to

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be tough. I mean, we're
we're not blind to the fact that it's

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taught down here. But you know, if we're able to pull something off,

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we need to come together as a
community. And I'm not just talking

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about Tucson, but I'm talking about
southern Arizona and coming out here and making

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sure that we can stand in a
positive movement to maintain, create something and

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sustain it for the long term.
There's a couple other different obstacles that we

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have in our way. You know, from a Triple A standpoint, a

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lot of those teams have signed the
long term lease to the current stadiums that

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they're in, so we're actually looking
at different routes and that could be potentially

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bringing a Summer League team from Mexico
to Tucson or a Winter League team here

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to Tucson and the Winter League team
is the one thing that I think is

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it would be really impressive we're able
to pull that off. That's a great

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time of year, that's a huge
market. It gives you the opportunity to

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compete and play in a Caribbean World
Series. There's a lot of things there

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that would happen. So we're really
trying to turn over every rock we possibly

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can along those lines. What else
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I had a meeting, I've had
several meetings with Bob Hoffman, the than

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from the Tucson Roadrunners. We want
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uh them in any way possibly can. But also the NHL preseason game that

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they had last year, about bringing
that back. I think it's a huge

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event. So anything from that nature
is important. Uh, hopefully start having

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some conversations here soon about potentially bringing
the Phoenix Suns down here or even maybe

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the Arizona Cardinals. Anything that's on
the table we want to explore. You

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know, we're we're a new eventor
at this standpoint, we're a political sub

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body of the state of Arizona.
Our job to really promote, market and

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assist in anything we possibly can,
and that's what we're here to do.

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So besides, obviously, you know, some of this obvious stuff aout getting

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pro sports and stuff down here.
But what what other what are what else

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are you tasked with from a sports
standpoint, because that's obviously what we're most

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interested in. The other types of
things, you know, whether it's youth

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tournaments or you know whatever, what
are the kinds of things that you have

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targeted as far as stuff like that. Yeah, so we're talking about p

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MAC County only, but working with
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Tucson on the event that they currently
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and uh, were we'd be the
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sponsor of those. One of those
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Championships. We were a sponsor of
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of those avenues as we possibly can
to bring them here, making a connection

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or being a partner with large national
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which is baseball or prospect Wire.
That prospect Wire was just here.

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Hopefully they're coming back two times a
year. I don't know if you guys,

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if you guys know this, but
Phoenix is kind of the mecha on

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the coast for youth baseball and you
softball, pretty much anything youth sport,

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youth sports tournament wide. We would
like to we would like to be involved

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in that market and make sure that
we're able to to have some of those

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tournaments come our way. Well with
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of the update on the one.
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facility that they're talking about building out
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hockey, hockey rinks and all that
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So we we had a meeting with
Frank Nott the other week for the Mosaic

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Quarter. It's it's I got to
see the new rendering. It looks phenomenal.

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He's got a three phase approach to
what's going to happen there, and

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if if we're able to be lucky
enough for it to succeed and get built

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here, we're going to be very
fortunate. It's unlock anything else in the

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United States, and you pair that
along with what's currently it's the Kino Sports

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Complex, we would be very very
lucky, and we would be high on

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the high on the market list for
anything youth sports wise. We'd be able

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to handle anything you can think of. So let's maybe take away, get

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away from sports a little bit.
Today's one of those marketing days for Tucson.

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What's seventy five nice great weather,
the reasons why you're here? What

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is going on with that? Any
any films being planned things like that.

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Yes, so there's there's a lot
of movement, so I hope everybody's aware.

419
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But the strikes have ended in Hollywood, so it is it's o season

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right now for any potential film projects
being filmed in the state of Arizona and

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in southern Arizona. So our film
chair Peter Catalanotte, who's also the film

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Tucson, is extremely busy fielding those
phone calls and doing just a phenomenal job

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of making those connections. So there's
a lot of things moving there. I

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don't know if I can stay specific
on that, but we're really excited to

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see what's to come. I just
had a meeting this similar this morning with

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Tony Sanders from Old Tucson. They've
got things happening there, a lot of

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good things and potentially growing some projects
and different events. So we're we're really

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excited with where that's going. Tell
us break it to us, because no

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one listens to us. No,
it's just between us three are we are

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we pulling at Howard's start on me? Am I going to start opening up

431
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and crying on the radio. I
don't know how many specifics I can get

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too, because I don't want to
crush any projects. But let's just say

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you guys will be excited to see
what's coming. Do you do you get

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to or do you have an opportunity
to work at all with the with the

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U of A, with their facilities
that they have here, try you know,

436
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long ago, I mean they used
to do stuff with Michale. We

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all know about that concert back in
the seventies that was at the stadium.

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Are they just not interested in doing
that kind of stuff anymore and keeping their

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facilities to themselves? How's that relationship? Yeah, so, because we're so

440
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new, we've met a couple of
times, but we we haven't got down

441
00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:36.519
we haven't gone down that road.
Are One of our our first big sponsors

442
00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:41.359
sponsorship was the Arizona Bowl, which
is the second largest event in southern Arizona.

443
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They have a great relationship with you
of a they use the football facility,

444
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so I know there's there's Uvey's great
to them and they've they've had a

445
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great partnership and a relationship. So
all I know from that end is is

446
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what I hear from that side.
So I know you as I know you've

447
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Ay's opened two different things, and
we would love a strong partnership. You

448
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know. The Old Guard, we're
all old enough to remember the Old Guard

449
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:06.960
is kind of a separatist movement,
and you know, we don't like Phoenix,

450
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:08.160
and Phoenix doesn't like us. This
is ours, you don't touch it.

451
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We're at day and age now where
we all need to come together and

452
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it's not a Cumbia kind of moment, but it's it's a sense of,

453
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Hey, if we can help each
other out for the greater good, that's

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what we're here. And we're here
to make sure that the community that we

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represent has a strong workforce and a
strong future in everything that we possibly can

456
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do. Is there anything on the
wish list that you guys want to happen?

457
00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:36.119
Oh? Man, Yeah, there's
a there's a big one. For

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me. It would be to figure
out a way to, let's say this,

459
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if Major League Baseball expands to two
more teams, finding a way to

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00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:51.200
build a new facility, hopefully spring
training facility, youth multi use facility,

461
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and drawing one of those teams down
here as one of our own in southern

462
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Arizona. That would be on my
That would be a big thing on my

463
00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:00.799
wish list. I think that's a
big thing on a lot of people's wish

464
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:04.880
lists. Again, those of us
who've been around a while and used to

465
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:07.960
love going to those spring training games, you know, you know, breaking

466
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.000
away from work or whatever and you
know, going and catching a game on

467
00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:15.519
a March afternoon. I mean that
was like a thing, right you know.

468
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:17.640
So yeah, we would love to
have something like that. You know,

469
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:25.000
you mentioned the authority that's up in
Phoenix and them owning us the Cardinal

470
00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:30.000
Stadium, them being the ones that
bring in the final four. I mean,

471
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that's that's huge, that's big time
stuff. Do you get involved with

472
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:36.640
you do you help out with any
of that? How involved can you be

473
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:40.319
in that type of stuff? Yeah, we're we can't be involved so much.

474
00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:44.839
So. The counties that we represent
are panal Pima, Santa Cruz,

475
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:49.400
CoA Chise, Greenley, and Graham
and then all the tribal nations within So

476
00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:53.440
Maricopa Counties out of our jurisdiction,
but we would support it and they need

477
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:59.519
from our counties down here are we
were formed a little differently. They were

478
00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:02.720
formed through props, so they were
they went into with the authority. We

479
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.920
we started as a taxing authority,
but we don't have we currently do not

480
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:12.640
have the ability to tax the accountanties
that we're in and uh, it's not

481
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:15.000
you know, we're looking to do
in the near future. We want to

482
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:19.480
be able to create a sustainable revenue
source so that way we don't have to

483
00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:22.599
go out for voting rights at this
center or a campaign and uh, and

484
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:27.599
make sure that we're we're strong with
what we're doing before we ever go out

485
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:30.759
for that. On your website it
said something that I was interested in.

486
00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:34.000
You talked about amateur sports with the
kids and stuff, but you talked about

487
00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:37.119
pro sports. Do you do you
kind of bring together pros or x pros

488
00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:43.640
for events, autograph sessions and stuff
like that. Well, so the autograph

489
00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:46.319
sessions we haven't gone down. We're
we are. We're really not in the

490
00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:52.359
realm of creating our own events currently. We're more of sponsoring events or helping

491
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:55.480
promote events. One of the events
that we helped promote just not it's just

492
00:33:55.519 --> 00:34:00.559
in October with an event called Tennis
Congress. So they bring tennis amateur tennis

493
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:06.240
players, anybody can go out there
from around the world and they bring in

494
00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:10.519
top notch coaching instructors, They have
seminars, they have nutritionalists on hand,

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00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:15.639
and it's a three day event that
they host at Elkin Keithsber And I was

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00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:17.519
out there. It was a phenomenal
event. You had amateurs on the corporate

497
00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:22.920
you had professional coaches or professional level
coaches out there coaching them. I think

498
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:27.480
those are the kind of events when
we're talking about merging merging amateur and professional

499
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.679
sports together is what we're looking at, or we've talked about potentially putting on

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00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:35.440
youth clinics when we do bring professional
teams out here, would speak to that

501
00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:38.880
at a greater need. Okay,
makes sense. Well, thanks so much,

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00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:43.119
Blake, Thanks for joining us.
We'll probably touch base again. You

503
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:46.840
and Edgar have been very good to
us. Anytime you guys anything you let

504
00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:50.800
me know, it's a pleasure.
I'm honored to be on the show.

505
00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.239
I listen to you guys all the
time. You've done such a great job

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00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:57.760
of keeping everybody informed on what's going
on. I can't thank you enough,

507
00:34:57.800 --> 00:34:59.920
and I don't think the community can
thank you enough. You guys are can

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00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:05.480
checks in the mail, checking the
mail. Thanks so much. Guys,

509
00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:09.039
have a great day. Thank you. That's nice. So people do listen

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to us, they do, Steve, at least at least one person firm

511
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used to look, I'm gonna I
get text pretty much every day about something

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stupid that I did on the radio, and sometimes that guy that guy,

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Yeah, thank guy again. How
can you remember that? But you can't

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remember the guy that they talked to
you? Right? Okay, Well,

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app just Surgeon I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back to Whying the

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Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay got Kevin

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with us today about thirteen minutes.
If you guys want to call in please

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do we have plenty of time for
your calls. One of the things we

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didn't talk about yesterday, Jay and
maybe happened after the fact. But today

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00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:52.039
you kind of mentioned Stevie Rocker hit
now entered the portal, did not play

576
00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:54.880
this year? You remember they were
really he came out early. Yep,

577
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:58.760
he came in and they were very
high on him and his potential. A

578
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:02.880
good kid, obviously you're very dynamic
looking. Uh, but but has decided

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00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:07.840
to move on. Let me ask
this, and I don't even know halphrase

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it, because you know, whatever
local kid comes to his maybe dream school

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and it doesn't work for him,
no, you know, sorry to hear

582
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that, but it happens. And
then you have the two kids who say

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yes and then they say no.
That's kind of the dynamic of local kids

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at their local university. I mean
in terms of should they go, should

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they not go? Am I gonna
play? Am I not gonna play?

586
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You know what I'm saying, it's
a very difficult situation. Well, well,

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in Stevie Rockers case, I mean, it just became a case of

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where the program just got better.
And you know, Stevie Rocker would not

589
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be recruited today by Arizona, you
know. So, I mean he was

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a guy that you know, had
potential. Uh, he fit, he

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fit with the level of talent they
needed, they needed, you know,

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a kid like that. You know, he was local, he had an

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opportunity. But you know, like
like I mean, even jade Delora pretty

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much god recruited over by Noah Flafida, right because he's you know, he's

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so damn good and we didn't know
it at the time, but you know,

596
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Jadeen delare is not gonna play at
Arizona anymore because no Fafida is.

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You know, as as a program
gets better players, you know, I

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mean, think about some of the
basketball teams, right, they had guys

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and then all of a sudden,
you're bringing another guy and he's way better

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than the guy who maybe even started
last. I'll give you one right now,

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Gilbert Arenez comes in, a Ruben
Douglas decides this kid's good. Yeah,

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he's really good. So you know
that's gonna happen. So you know

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what, what you just hope is
that it's a good parting of the ways,

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right, that that Arizona does what
it can to help get these guys

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another opportunity. Say thanks, you
know, we appreciate what you did,

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but you know what you're you know, we've kind of lapped you a little

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bit. And and that's what happens, you know, when the program,

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you know, starts getting better.
I mean, think about those early guys

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00:41:55.239 --> 00:42:00.920
that that you know started Arizona under
lud Olsen. Right, he Williams would

610
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:05.960
not have been you know, recruited, you know, eighty nine ninety ninety

611
00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:09.239
one by Arizona. Yeah right.
And he was an undersized center and big,

612
00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:13.880
you know, physical dude, good
player and really well did well what

613
00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:16.559
he did. But there's two guys
him and Steve Kerr. Yeah again,

614
00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:20.960
Yes, Steve Kerr a slow you
know, a slow guy. He shoot

615
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:22.559
that hell out of it, but
couldn't guard anybody, right, that kind

616
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:25.800
of thing. Let's take this call. Hi, you're on the air and

617
00:42:25.880 --> 00:42:31.079
I on the ball. Hey,
Jay and my buddy Steve. What's going

618
00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:36.280
on? What's that powered? Okay, I gotta I can't talk long.

619
00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:39.239
I got a meeting. I'm walking
to my car. Go wild Cats,

620
00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:45.920
Go Sons. Oh okay, I
have so much stuff to talk about.

621
00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:50.719
But you know, I've been to
New York once. I was on the

622
00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:55.400
outside of Madison Square Gardens. The
Sons pretty much crushed him. But I

623
00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:00.639
was on a Zoom meeting and they
in the Nicks came back. But I

624
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:06.280
wanted to tell you, Steve,
I'm going to agree with you one hundred

625
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:10.760
percent or ninety nine point nine that
that's a dump because the city outside is

626
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:15.760
a dump. And you've been inside
the Messice Square Garden. I've been there

627
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:19.280
five times. I hate it.
It's all five times. I think you

628
00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:23.280
know it. Hey, Steve,
You've been about over coming the small and

629
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:28.360
the big venues at least ninety venues
around the country, right, yes,

630
00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:36.559
yes, at least yeah place.
And the reason I went to Duke was

631
00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:38.199
there's one place I hadn't gone to. The next one would be Kentucky.

632
00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:44.800
And I think I completed your arena
to your point, Howard people. Then

633
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:50.440
they carried the dome right or the
whatever it's called, to your point.

634
00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:52.960
I went to Yankee Stadium like three
times, the old one, the old

635
00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:57.119
one, the original, and now
the hell Yeah. I mean you you

636
00:43:57.199 --> 00:43:59.719
got there and you thought, okay, this is Yankee Stadium. Damn.

637
00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:04.440
I went to Soldier Field before the
before the renovation. Again you go,

638
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:08.159
and it's because they were old Comiskey
Park. I went to Comisky Park,

639
00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:12.840
the old Kmisky Park, and I
go to the bathroom and something's dripping on

640
00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:15.599
me from the ceiling. And I
looked up. I'm like, I hope

641
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:17.760
this isn't a two story, you
know, bathroom and I'm getting leaked on

642
00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:21.320
because you know, I mean that
kind of thing. But you know,

643
00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:22.800
but then you go to Fenway.
I went to Fenway, and Fenway was

644
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:27.679
clean and you know, not modern, but not a not a not a

645
00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:31.000
decrepit in any way. Right,
Hey, Jay, did you say you

646
00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:37.760
were Soldier Field. Yes, I
heard in the old days, probably even

647
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:40.559
before you were there. I heard
they had because I'll make construction, they

648
00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:44.760
had it shored up with like two
by fours and two by sixes. It

649
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:45.960
was ready to fall down. Well
you know what, I went on a

650
00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:51.679
day that was so cold, I
didn't even look around. Uh but that's

651
00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:53.719
underneath the stadium. Yeah, yeah, they hold it up. They held

652
00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:58.239
it up with two by six is
and two but short up that's what it

653
00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:01.519
means. Sure you put Oh yeah, you're there to make sure it doesn't

654
00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:05.400
fall down. Yeah, I went
I went to a I went to an

655
00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:08.159
NFL playoff game with the forty nine
ers and it was had a wind chill

656
00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:13.960
of minus twenty seven. Now imagine
the Tucson guy going to a game like

657
00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:19.239
that, But I stuck it out. But I was born there so I

658
00:45:19.320 --> 00:45:22.039
could. My blood is finally starting
to sit out after being here for more

659
00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:27.119
than fifty years, you know.
And we're and we're getting old because I

660
00:45:27.239 --> 00:45:31.119
love the cold, but well I'm
getting I'm getting more mature. We all

661
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:37.480
three are sure. I'm sure,
Well, okay, thanks that I don't

662
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:40.239
care. But really he does make
a good point though, some of those

663
00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:43.840
same I mean, right Masson Square
Garden. It's like I gotta go there,

664
00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:45.079
you know, Yeah you said I
had to go yeh, yeah,

665
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:49.639
yeah, God those places were just
dumb right right right, Well, because

666
00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:53.880
you there and you have this is
why you don't meet your heroes. No,

667
00:45:54.239 --> 00:45:57.920
no, right, you don't want
to meet your heroes because they don't

668
00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:00.239
turn out to be the guy you
thought you did be. Go to the

669
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:02.920
bathroom, just like they're just dudes. They get dripped on in the bathroom,

670
00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:07.920
just like, Yeah, did you
used to think that your elementary school

671
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:12.400
teachers didn't go to the bathroom.
I never thought about it. I thought

672
00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:16.559
I really did. I hadn't thought
about where they live like that. They

673
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:20.679
you know, these teachers, they're
like these figures, you know, and

674
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:23.119
you go, they don't. They
didn't even go to the bathroom. That's

675
00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:29.639
funny, thoughts. I took us
into the gun or literally sixty years ago.

676
00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:36.400
It was not quite but okay,
where were we going? Oh well,

677
00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:39.639
you know again, it's just you
know, that's just the the evolution

678
00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:43.920
of a program. Yeah. The
guys that you would have recruited back then,

679
00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:47.039
you don't recruit now. And and
you know, and again I know

680
00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:51.719
one I would say, knowing,
but thinking what we think of Jed,

681
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:54.239
you'd like to think that really he's
doing whatever you can to help him getting

682
00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:58.800
you know, get another place,
good references, all that kind of stuff.

683
00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:00.119
Because he was a good soldier.
Right, we had one of the

684
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:05.360
original soldiers to come here and like
gunder Cruise, right, Gunner Cruz,

685
00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:07.760
who we all were pulling our hair
out watching him play. He's a graad

686
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:10.800
assistant. No, he's gone now
because he got gone there. In fact,

687
00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:14.599
he was at the game an issue
and the President, Bobby was talking

688
00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:16.920
to him. He was talking about
working somewhere abroad. Now, Uh,

689
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:22.519
you know, he's he's your he's
your typical, your typical airport dude,

690
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:28.039
looks great in uniform. But and
then they got a five foot nine dude

691
00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:31.119
who's just killing it. Who's killing
it? There's I hope that kind of

692
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:37.280
squays your mind from the airport.
Does uniforms are precise? Doesn't know.

693
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:44.400
I'm happy with no FA And but
I was. I was skeptical. Was

694
00:47:44.559 --> 00:47:46.320
why why because he's so sure?
No? Yeah, but we saw him.

695
00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:50.440
We saw him. We go to
the practices in August, and he

696
00:47:50.599 --> 00:47:53.840
looked fantastic physically. We just didn't
know if he'd find a way because Jane

697
00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:58.760
was the guy right or or we
just didn't know if that could translate onto

698
00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:02.840
playing at USC and Washington and all
those guys. Oh and here you go,

699
00:48:04.039 --> 00:48:07.119
here you go. I think that
Murray, who I give a lot

700
00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:09.840
of grief to because he is the
same size about and he's running around,

701
00:48:09.960 --> 00:48:15.320
he's real almost getting killed every play. But not Fafita. Well see,

702
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:17.960
because Kyler Murray. I don't even
say this right now, in terms of

703
00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:22.360
operating a passing game. Yeah,
no, ifl Fita is a better quarterback,

704
00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:25.840
he's because Kyler Murray, he looks, doesn't see somebody in you run

705
00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:30.760
right, his game is to be
running around or no, if a Vida's

706
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:35.400
game is to find a receiver and
get him the ball. I'd rather have

707
00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:37.159
that guy, Oh of course,
right, of course, I'd rather have

708
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:43.519
that. And that's what's stunning about
what Fafita does is that you know when

709
00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:46.239
he's going to complete a pass the
way he steps into a throw, right,

710
00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:49.480
he steps into throw and says,
Okay, there's a guy out there.

711
00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:52.360
I was watching the sixty minute version
of it, and in that in

712
00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:57.360
Arizona's first drive, they had like
a third to twelve and he goes back

713
00:48:57.400 --> 00:49:00.760
to throw and he turns and he
steps into a throw. You know they're

714
00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:02.039
going to get the first down here, and they did. You know,

715
00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:06.800
because you you in that flash of
an instant that you your mind can well

716
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:09.639
can translate that. He looks like
he's found to receive. He knows the

717
00:49:09.679 --> 00:49:14.440
purpose, he has his purpose.
There's there's only one flaw I think is

718
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:17.480
from time to time he overthrows guys
because he can't throw the long b he's

719
00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:22.960
right, And Jed was asked about
that. He said, he just,

720
00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:25.719
you know, he's It's a thing
that you you get with experience because he

721
00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:30.559
you know, he's missed some guys. Although he dropped one into Jacob Cowings

722
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:32.400
hands at the end of the at
the end of the second I remember that.

723
00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:36.480
It is like, how did that
pass not result in the touchdown?

724
00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:39.440
Right? Even the throw he made
him McMillan. McMillan was off by himself,

725
00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:43.960
just a nice throw on the run. Didn't have to come back and

726
00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:46.039
get it. Nobody in the neighborhood. Nobody in the neighborhood. Yeah,

727
00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:52.039
that that game was fifty nine whatever, that could have been very well,

728
00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:54.719
seventy to seventy to something. Well, they two touchdowns that they didn't get,

729
00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:58.519
that they that they should have gotten, and that could that would have

730
00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:02.119
put him at seventy three, which
so fun. I was thinking about that,

731
00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:05.639
like about halfway through the game.
I was like, what if we

732
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:09.519
drove seven zero it was seventy six
on p seventy six to sporurteen maybe yeah,

733
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:10.840
early, Yeah, that's what I
was thinking. I was like,

734
00:50:10.880 --> 00:50:15.519
what if what if that happens?
Like that would be ultimate revenge on that

735
00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:19.000
sun. I still I still believe
that's what his purpose was because he was

736
00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:23.119
passing with passing and passing with forty
point leads. You know, he wanted

737
00:50:23.159 --> 00:50:25.639
that back. Oh yeah, you
know he wanted that back. Yeah did.

738
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:29.599
All right, I'm gonna change the
subject on you. That's a relationship.

739
00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:32.239
Comeback Player of the Year award,
Okay, okay, I thought Comeback

740
00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:37.000
player of the year in baseball,
right, in baseball, you win that

741
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:42.559
when you had you come back from
an injury, you had some sort of

742
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.920
a tragedy, something that happened to
you that that costs you a season or

743
00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:50.519
whatever, and then you come back
the next year and have a great year.

744
00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:52.639
The American Lye Comeback Player the Year, Liam Hendricks, you know,

745
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:58.079
cancer survivor comes back, you know, he gets your ward, and then

746
00:50:58.159 --> 00:51:00.639
nationally they give it to Cody Bellinger, who all he did was sucked last

747
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:06.000
year, right, he just sucked
and then he had a great year,

748
00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:08.840
not even a really really good year. Yeah, and that's all he didn't

749
00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:13.000
have. He didn't break a leg, he didn't blow a knee, he

750
00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:15.360
didn't you know, lose a family
member, he didn't have a disease.

751
00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:19.920
He just sucked and now he's the
Comeback Player of the Year. I don't

752
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:23.079
get that. Yeah, maybe I
don't. I don't agree with that.

753
00:51:23.519 --> 00:51:29.519
Was that was the field just weaker
in no options And look, I love

754
00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:31.039
Cody Balinger. He was a great
Dodger, helped him win a World Series.

755
00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:37.199
Nothing against Cody Balinger. I'm just
it's like, you have to do

756
00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:40.360
more than suck then to be able
to get Comeback Player of the Year.

757
00:51:40.679 --> 00:51:45.800
And you know, the people are
talking about it for Russell Wilson, that's

758
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:47.920
all he did was sucked last year. Why should he get Comeback Player of

759
00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:52.199
the Year. Give it to somebody
who really had something bad happened to him

760
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:53.239
that he had to come back from. And it's kind of like it reminds

761
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:57.440
me of the conversation that always year
after year gets had with the NBA's Most

762
00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:00.360
Improved Player award when they really just
give it to a thirty year guy who's

763
00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:05.159
making the expected deep. It's like, wait, isn't most improved the guy

764
00:52:05.199 --> 00:52:07.719
that was horrible and now he's amazing, Not the guy that was pretty good

765
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:10.400
and now he's great. Yeah exactly. Yeah, a guy who he thought

766
00:52:10.679 --> 00:52:13.639
this guy's not gonna be in the
league very long and all of a sudden,

767
00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:15.119
man, he you know, he
impacted the team. Yeah, most

768
00:52:15.159 --> 00:52:19.039
improved. I'm a little disappointed.
Yeah, I mean that's fair to be

769
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:22.239
a little disappointed in that one.
I think, especially especially because of the

770
00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:27.480
circumstances in which they was given up. Yeah, okay, well, good

771
00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:30.639
show today, all right, Blake
Eager, thank you for giving us the

772
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:34.280
lowdown on what's going on sportswise here
in southern Arizona. And then John Whitaker,

773
00:52:34.400 --> 00:52:37.400
the Big Game Boomer. Big Game
Boomer likes Arizona. Dude, he

774
00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:43.599
likes Aazon. He's gonna have a
shot at Arizona when his Oklahoma Sooners player

775
00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:45.679
zone in the Elet know, Bolt, that's the one game that everybody's saying.

776
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:49.639
That game is like satin. You
know, it hasn't been finalite,

777
00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:52.159
but it should be a fun one
though. I think I'll be real watcha

778
00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:57.559
road trip on the ball road trip. All right, thanks for being here,

779
00:52:57.559 --> 00:53:00.280
everybody. We'll be back tomorrow.
Uh spite where our Facebook page says

780
00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:04.039
this isn't the last show of the
week. We'll be back tomorrow. Dok

781
00:53:04.079 --> 00:53:08.280
to you tomorrow. Stom On Hold
Wayne