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So I think like today, I feel like it's not really like headlines just
more kind of just like events like the draft, especially, I guess the
biggest shockers Will Levis, which I don't think. I don't think would have
been a shocker if it wasn't for mel Kiper. And there's like mock drafts.
I'll be honest, Well, you know there's a lot of people who
have said, you know who was saying all these great things about him?
Right, and like who you know who made Will Levis you know, a
first round draft pick? And and you know, like you said, some
mock draft guys because they're basically saying none of the teams were saying the things
about him that Malt Kaiper and some of these other things other guys were saying
about it. Well, that's the funny thing about it, because everyone follows
the trends of Arizona hoops the draft stuff. Right, well, he's projected
to be this okay, but a lot of them aren't accurate. They're just
not you know, come on, man, Manion was here whatever the shuretfire
NBA guy, how'd that go? It didn't. There's a lot of hits
and missus that just people from the blue kind of say, oh this guy,
this guy, well, not really right. And you know, and
are are the I mean, if if the actual scouts or whatever the teams
were doing the mock drafts, okay, then right, but you know you
got Malt Kaiper and look, Malt Kaiper is good at what he does,
and they do a lot of homework and they know a lot more than the
average guys. But you know, unless they're in the room with you know,
the evaluators and getting their knowledge, then how do you know? And
you know what, maybe they talk to some of those guys, but who
tells everybody everything about the guys that they're you know, you know those teams
keep that stuff close to the vest. Yeah, yeah, no question.
He um, I'm sure he well he had the if the talent, talent,
talent, big arm can do so much, but accuracy. It's like
the kid that we're talking about from LSU Randall. Yeah, great arm,
good arm can throw a mile. Well, they don't have receivers of the
mile, and he can't hit the mile. He can't hit the mile market
what's the point. He can throw it to old Main but there's not a
receiver standing. Yeah, well it was what he was wide open? Okay,
yeah, so what's you have talent and you know you can run jump
In fact, Jake talked about you know Flowers who's a great talent and need
all those things. But that's and that's what the measurables are, right,
But then you have to hit the Henry kid, right, Chris Henry,
Chris Sander who knocked it out of the park. And then you get there
and they went to the combine and he got everybody all excited and then he
did in material right you know, I mean, come on, you know,
because it takes more than just you know, running the right right,
so now you know, yeah, look, I feel bad for Will Levis
because he obviously was believing the things that you know, I mean, if
he didn't if he if he was kind of wondering, he wouldn't have gone
to the draft. Yes, sure they would have told him they wouldn't given
an invite. He'll be he'll be fine, right, he'll be going to
sale. Well. And somebody said the point, say, Okay, so
he's not a first round pick in the NFL, but he's gonna be a
second round pick. That's still pretty good. Still pretty good. You know,
there's only you know, that makes him one of the top sixty college
you know, football players. Yeah, and he'll be a guy who plays
well, probably have a nice little career in the NFL. Maybe, Yeah,
we'll see, maybe, Okay. Kevin Durant joins Michael's Organ Lebron James
as the only other two athletes to receive lifetime contracts with Nike. So,
I mean that's interesting because I feel like if he's gonna get one, then
I feel like there's gonna be a lot of other athletes like Curry, Like
like I'd give one to Devin Booker before I'd give one to Durant. Urrants
on the downhill side of his career. But but his shoes are still like,
you know, like I'm wearing kgs. No, one's like, I'm
gonna wear the Booker. Do you have one? No, I don't have.
I don't have any basketball shoes. But it's like that those are the
type of shoes are sort of like you know, Kobe's and like Jordan's stuff,
where Kadi's is one of them. I don't put I don't put Durant
in that category. Do you Steve When it comes to like a shoe or
something like that, you're talking to the wrong guy. I know I'm talking
talking the wrong guy. I don't. I don't. I don't pay attention
to stuff like that. You know, we came out of my wife and
I came out of that movie Air and we had this conversation and she was
like, I had no idea that we're a Nike family because of Tiger Woods
and Michael Jordan. Where she did, I just like, I just thought
Nike, you know, or our friend Raymartinez about of sporting the service.
I just thought you like Nikes because they were Nikes. I said, no,
you know, if Jordan and Tiger do you guys talk obviously not about
that. Rather that's success to a marriage. Don't talk to your family.
Adams Adam's first pair of shoes, you know, when you when you started,
uh you know, yeah, around before he's still a baby, wasn't
even walking yet, ye had he had a pair of Nike high tops,
uh, you know with the blue swish. I can still remember that white
with the blue swish. And his uh my grandson now who's just a little
over four months old, got his picture taken with his night is Nike's on.
So it just it is what it is. But she had no idea
how Michael Jordan, you know, I didn't I realize you're Michael Jordan fanis.
I'm not a big fan. I mean a huge fan, he is,
but you know, I mean he was like, you gotta get Jordan.
I'm a potographer because because because babe whatever you call her, because babe,
if you don't look good, you don't play gad. She knows that.
She knows that. That's why my kids always got the good the good
gear. They always got the good gear. H No, I mean he's
kind of right though. Good shoes. You know, you gotta have to,
don't. You have to have the right shoes. I love Steve.
When I played, when I played a little league and when I played well
the one year I played a popcorn of football. If I got into high
school, my mom wouldn't got my shoes that Kmart. Oh, I get
it. I would have been I could have been a pro baseball player if
she would have gotten me like pumas, which were the big deal. Back,
you better bless her heart or I got the damn five dollars kmart football.
We were slow ever since I just wasn't good, you know, I
just I didn't feel good about it. What about the glove, Well,
you know what, I had a really good glove, but that was because
my brother bought me and it brought me a Wilson and I made all stars
that glove. Okay, just the one year, the one year, twelve
year old year exactly. It's it's the it's it's like any any competive person
with emotion. It affects that. Okay, soccer was your sport, right,
Yeah, And didn't you go out and get you You do? You
absolutely do. Steve, my sons did too. I get it. I
get it. Yeah, but it doesn't make any sense. It makes all
the sense in the world. No, you can wear a gunny sack and
little sandals chunkolas and you'd be fine. No, no, you can't wear
Chunk doesn't play soccer or golf or football. Some people in other places they
have their feet. They've just played with the feet. That's why they're good.
You saw and all those God, I don't want to talk to you
anymore. Oh there is a god, all right? Um let me see.
Oh yeah yeah. Bryce Young says that he tells the public, um,
he's not entitled to anything as a top draft pick. So that's well,
he better be damn good though, better be good. There's a lot
of so much hype around him. But Bryce Young, Oh yeah, God,
I could see the same problems with him and Murray. Him and Kyler
Murray. You probably don't, but but but what Bryce Young? Though?
Bryce Young isn't the whack job that Kyler Murray. Well, once you start
getting paid a lot of whack job money. No, Kyler Murray was a
whack job even before he, uh, you know, got into the NFL.
I don't say any of his pre draft interviews and stuff like J to
me, okay, um, yes, Justin Verlander strikes out six in his
rehab start, so we're double a triple A. Let me see because we
saw Tatis, we stuck to killing it at every level of minor leagues.
And now he isn't done. He's been terrible. He's been He's not on
my team. So this is the non Gonals and you can't blame me for
his craft round. If he's sucking, he's on his own stuck. Yeah
yeah, that was that was double. So I don't know how much don't
hold don't hold your breath, So yeah, I mean, I don't care
anyway. So the Lions are receiving calls on DeAndre Swift trades after drafting a
running back and the first round, okay, so that I mean, okay,
the Lions will be better than people think I I. Yeah, well,
there's there's already some I think I saw that in the early going on
the futures bet for the Super Bowl that there that they're bringing in the most
money, you know, and part of it is probably because they're odds,
but the people the odds that people are getting on the on the on the
Lions, they like the odds. So there's a lot of money coming in
on the Lions early on. So you know, I'd love to see the
Lions get better. I want them to. You know, I love watching
their game on Thanksgiving Day and it's so sad sometimes because they're so bad.
So the Cleveland Cavaliers president states that their head coach is not going to be
fired after their exit, which I think is honestly the right move because they
hadn't Dude, pretty good, d A good season? Are good year?
I like it because Luke Walton I was still on the staff. I don't
want to, Oh is that? Where's that? Good for him? All
right? May get him on the show. Now that the seasons over,
I might be able to look. You guys lose, it was your season
of failure. No one you could ask you to different ways. What did
you think about the uianness talk? You know, because I remember in two
thousand and three, I think it was whatever was he lost to Oklahoma member
and he was distraught whatever because he's the other guys who just freaks out when
he loses. And he'd probably be like, Shack, they didn't something if
we don't win, And people have attitudes that are different, and that's fine.
You can feel that way if you want to, and and uh and
but you know that's not how I feel. Yeah. I did a story
on exactly that with him. Talked to his mom, Susie, and she
said he's always been like that. He couldn't stop playing until you want.
And that's how why some of those guys, some of those thinking like that,
that's why they're saying, that's why they and good at what to do
because they get lose because they can't. They hate to lose. They give
it everything they had. Yeah, So Draymond Green came out with quote yesterday
where he said, um, it's no debate Stephan Curry. His NBA's go
over Jordan and Lebron. So that's he probably I feel like this is he's
doing that because he probably pissed Curry off. Like I'm thinking, I know
one knows about he's trying to do everything you can. So like because he've
always get he wouldn't even be there beyond this year, right, I don't
think so. I don't think so. I mean, if he's played really
well, Steve Curry, I'm tired of him. Yeah, you see game,
you see last game, but like he eats he eats up so much.
He's like he's like I've got fours, I got four kids, three
of him are great, and I spent ten percent of my time on them
at ninety percent of the time my time on this one to keep him out
of jail. But like he's he's one of the reasons why they won.
He's without questions, without questions, and so I feel like, if you're
Steve Kerr, you know more about that than anyone else. Yeah, but
he is the heart and soul emotionally, but other than that, because he
won without him in a big way, exactly. You know what, Go
get a player like him, but not like him, right, Go get
a player who plays like him but doesn't bring all the other crap that comes
with it, Like who I don't. I don't. I feel like you
have to find that guy. Go get KD again. Yeah. Um,
that's kind of all the news I got, all right. Um. I've
been following the Arizona Man's golf in the PAC twelve. They're not doing so
great. They're in a tie for six, but um, four teams are
kind of running away from the field at as U and Oregon are at sixteen
under par Washington and fourteen Colorado at twelve. Right now, Arizona is even
par tied for six place, so they're in the second round. They played
thirty six holes today and then eighteen tomorrow eighteen Sunday, But kind of in
the middle of the pack. I think you've got to get up to number
four to move on to a regional. So we'll see what they how they
do. But not going so well for Arizona again in the middle of the
pack. They're one of six teams that are that are ranked going into ranked
in the top fifty point into this and so they're number eight team. Yeah,
well, I always go to all sports two songs. Former Sunnyside standout
Roman Bravo Young was named to the Scholar a Scholar All America list by National
Wrestling Coaches Association. He's got a great future, but I wonder what it
what right it was. I don't want that kid to go into MMA.
Man. You you they knock your brains out literally in there. H just
a lot of a lot of athletes who've left the area have done well at
some of the schools of just you know, you feel like, Okay,
I don't know. I mean, if if he can go make a nice
living at that, I just don't, you know, fifty years old,
one would be like, you know, needing a drool cup. Or something.
I just want to see you know you love you love to see that
kid do be successful at something that doesn't cost him his his his hell,
because he has so much to offer. He really does. And we'll have
more more next week about some of the high school successes that have gone on
to this point right as as the school year ends, and we'll have some
of the coaches, maybe some players beginning next week. South Point Women girls
beach volleyball three years in a row, row, Meal Box Girls have been
fantastic in that. Yeah, we'll break some news next week with that if
we can. Um I was texting them earlier. Um so, and we
have a coach on coach either more trying to get more Martin and Martin Martin
one of those one of those hypated words. Yes, all right, um
uh, what is it basketball? Or is it football? No? Basketball
has until the thirtieth tent or the transfer I think, well, no,
I guess after tomorrow April thirty. Where's it football? I don't know because
the NBA he's in the thirty first of May, so that's well, that's
yeah, I don't know, Yeah, no, that's it. But the
transferport I believe shuts it down here pretty, and there's a guy. Well,
here we go, and Jake might have been referring to this the kid
from Texas just uh, just a decommitted from Texas six with ten guys.
I guess he's a former teammate of kJ Lewis's. So guess what the internet's
doing. It's going crazy, it's going crazy. Hey, he plays,
he had a cup of company with He passed kJ Lewis on the street.
He's coming to Arizona. He was in town at Ringkon Market. Oh,
he bought a house in the foothills. Are those? Oh god, here
we go? All right, Rick Patino, Okay, let's take our break.
We're gonna be back and we'll have Bob Kent from Phoenix. We'll come
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welcome back to Wing the Ball here on four Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve
Rivera alongside partner Jagnsas Now on the phone and on the clock, Bob Camp
from KUS. What do you any breaking news for us? Well, they
got Cardinals have a minute and forty seconds before the uh, they're going to
make a selection, but I think they might actually be trading down, so
we'll see how this goes. Interesting. They're trading down and trending down,
that's for sure, that's no doubt about that. But you can the fact
that Pittsburgh did not have to Actually Pittsburgh did not make a trade with the
first pick in this second round. The guy would assume the Cardinals business is
much more brisk, considering I assume somebody might try to come up and take
one of these quarterbacks and wasn't pick last night. Well, Adam Schefter is
on the screen, so I don't know if if if they've decided to trade
the pick. It looks like they might have, but the clock is still
running. Oh they did. They traded the pick to the Titans. That's
interesting. They did with the Titans, because there's there's been rumors for like
two or three weeks they were going to trade the first round pick for the
Titans. So we'll see what They'll announce this at some point. Sometimes this
is a while before they actually announ the trade, so we'll see how that
come. Let me let me ask you, what have you been up there
forever after leaving this place? But do you have any hope and maybe that's
a strong word, that this franchise will eventually get it together? Well,
they actually did for a while. I mean they've had a couple of pockets
of getting it together. I've been here covering this team on a weekly basis
since you know, two thousand and two, and that first year I was
here, they got off to a nice card and then David Boston was injured
and they went nine one and nine the rest of the season, and that
result, unfortunately Dave McGinnis, who was like nicest human being in the world,
being fired as a head coach. And then we had to sit through
the Dennis Green era, which was just a controtal joke that Ken wizzen hunt.
They had some really good years there, but you know, some lean
years at the end of that and the Arian zero was good. But it's
been slim pickings, with the exception of the already two seasons ago when they
got off to the great start, last undefeated team. Right now, though,
I think they're horrible. In fact, you know, both the NFL
Network and UH and ESPN both last night at some point of their coverage declared
that the Cardinals have the worst current roster in the NFL. And I'm not
familiar with the other thirty one teams, but it's hard for me to imagine
that there's any roster or that's currently worse and the Cardinals right now, how
did this happen? Yeah, I mean, yeah, how does that happen?
Well, okay, let's just go back twelve months roughly within the right
about this time last year, they extended the contracts of Steve kim, If
Kingsbury, Kyler Murray, also DJ Humphries, who may be traded after they
selected a tackle last night. So there's a good start of how it just
went to hell rather quickly. Well, the Titans just took Will Levis,
so there you go. Yeah, that makes sense. It's good for him.
Well, loves loves, by the way, Levis went home to Connecticut
last night after he didn't get picked, so he's he's not even there to
night. I felt bad for that guy. Yeah, he's kind of a
cocky dude, and so I didn't feel that bad. Okay U. Plus
I don't know if that was his girlfriend or his wife. But you know,
life's going okay for Will. So there we go, Oh, all
geeks and be the good looking guys with good looking women. Yeah. Yeah,
who's gonna make some money? I forgot about that part. All right,
Well, what do you what do you think of the Cardinals pick in
the first round. I'm again, when you're the Cardinals, you need somebody
everywhere. So what do you think about about the first of all them trading
down and then getting that guy. Well, I've been advocating, I think
most people were advocating, whether it be drafts, you know, pundits,
insticators, whatever we're supposed to call them, that they trade down and you
know, they, as we just mentioned, they have not a good roster,
so they need as many good players and they see it, they need
as many picks as they can in this draft and probably next year in the
draft at least. So I was toldly for that to trade down. The
best thing that I happened to the Cardinals last night is they got the number
one Texans pick for next year. And while the Texans are going to be
better, I mean, I don't know how much better they're going to be,
So I assume that the Cardinals have a good chance to be to have
two of the top ten picks in the draft next year. So that's a
good thing as far as the actual selection goes. And I'm an Ohio State
fan, for better or for worse. Born in Columbus, Paris Johnson,
I'm not sold that he's a left tackle in the NFL. I think that
he might be a guard. E. J. Humphries is one of the
three or four best players it's been on this roster for the last three or
four years. And as soon as they took Paris Johnson, the DJ Humphrey's
trade speculation. I'm not gonna say rumors, but speculation started. Even though
I will say that if you Monnie Austin Fort, the new general managing the
Cardinals and the postgame dot the postgame they post a first round presser last night,
would not commit that Johnson is going to be there. His left tackle,
which is a smart thing. I mean, why would you if you
don't have to. But just as somebody who has watched every down of Ohio
State football for like fifty five sixty years, I'm not convincing a left tackle.
Okay, the of this team? Do you take calls at your place?
Yeah? Do you? How how are the fans treating this team?
I'm sure poorly? That's a good question. Um, well, I'm not
positive I'm exactly dealing with the real fan base here, because I've been known
to be objective or critical depending on your viewpoint, over the years. So
and also the shockingly i'm sure studying to you, Steve, certainly. Yeah,
I've been known to run off some collars occasionally if they're just not going
to inform me or challenge me or having creative conversation. So I don't know
if I'm the right person to judge on the fan base, but I think
it's clearly the clear to say that they've got some issues. Obviously all the
front office stuff with Bidwell now in the last few months, the bad season
they had last year. Kyler Murray's not going to play until we have no
idea when Kyler Murray's not very good when he does play, in my opinion,
So I can keep going if you want. You know, you were
talking about them having that the Texans the first round pick next year. If
Kyler Murray doesn't have a really good year, would they even though he's got
this massive contract, would they move on from him after after this year?
I think they would like to. UM, I don't know if it's financially
or salary cap possible, quite frankly, and there's nobody in the in America
that's worse than trying to understand the NFL salary cap than me. So I
used I used to get ahold of Mike Jarecki, my former colleague at Katie
US, and I asked him about salary cap things. Uh so, uh,
maybe I just leave at him and maybe I shouldn't learn a little more
about the cap at some point. But they'm not sure if that's possible.
I'm not one hundred percent. You remember, this is now a new GM,
new head coach. They weren't here when they stayed, you know,
even when last year they weren't even here when they extended Kyler Murray's contract,
let alone drafted him. I wouldn't be shocked if they take a quarterback at
some point, not today, but you know, tomorrow, and be surprised
that they take a quarterback, in part because maybe they're not totally convinced on
Murray. The other thing is that, you know, Colton McCoy's a nice
backup, and he's not healthy all the time and was injured at the end
of last season. They've got a couple of their quarterbacks and the roster who
are just the camp bodies or preseason third, third and fourth quarter type of
guys, and that's it. So I wouldn't be shocked that they actually took
a quarterback at some point the next two days, specifically tomorrow. This is
a franchise that's really screwed up that quarterback situation. Murray the previous Josh Rosen,
I mean, how can how could you? How could you mess up
the most important position out there constantly? Well, I got a bet.
I mean I wasn't. Again, I was not exactly. Let's let's start
with Murray. I wasn't completely in on the Murray thing, but as soon
as they hired Kingsbury, it wasn't even worth a discussion to say that they
weren't going to draft him because they were going to draft him obviously. As
far as Josh Rosen, I was in on Josh Rosen. You saw him
play, Yeah, we all saw him played UCLA. And I think most
people when that draft occurred, will you know, they'll go back and gues
take some guts to admit this, but it seemed like he was the most
NFL ready quarterback of that group, right. And I knew two weeks into
training camp, and that's when I went to every training camp practice in those
days. We knew that wasn't doing one we talked, I talked about this
was several of my colleagues here that covered the Cardinals and human opinion I respect,
but we knew within like two weeks between that and the fact that Steve
Wilkes was a pathetic head coach here and completely in over his head the first
time he was a head coach. The combination of those two things is there
was no chance, and I mean no chance. They didn't even play a
preseason game, and we knew that there was no chance that that was going
to work out. Yeah, yeah, I tell you truth. I didn't
like him in college. I didn't like his arm. I didn't like his
attitude and use smart, smartest guy in the room. Whatever. I'm with
my right behind you with that one. Well, I liked the I was
okay, I kind of like the attitude a little bit. But yeah,
a sport. Yeah, you have a lot of the office to drop the
field stuff. And you remember the hot tub in his dorm room or whatever
was that kind of stuff wasn't great. I actually like this talent and he
could throw the ball. Uh. He just uh didn't seem to really understand
the NFL game. Yeah. Interesting, Interesting you want to go to all
right, Yeah, let's move on to the Suns. Uh, you know,
got past the first round. Uh, still being picked to be the
representative out of the Western Conference. So what are your what's your take on
the Suns? And they've got to you know, they're playing the number one
seed now in the uh in the in the Nuggets. They do This is
really interesting because yeah, they they're playing they're the fourth seed, the Nuggets
are the one seed, the Nuggets have the home court, yet the Suns
are favored to win the series. Uh. Yeah. For the biggest reason
for that is is is that there's so much liability in almost every sports book
in the world on the Suns, because there's all this money on the Suns
to win the NBA Championship or the and or the Western Conference that they've got
to try to figure out how to get. You take some of their losses
just in case, and have some Nuggets money. So then if a week
ago, I would have actually picked the Nuggets to win this series. But
the more I watched the Nuggets struggle against the Timberwolves, who I think are
just a complete joke and a horribly, horribly constructive franchise. The more I
watch that series, the more I then thought, all the Suns are going
to be okay here. And in addition to that, I don't really care
if they're playing. I think Money Williams is doing the right thing by playing
the starters for like forty minutes plus the game for the most part, because
their bench is off of other than bid Back Beyond Bo, who's a tremendous
rebounder and a good defender, you don't know what you're getting at any point.
The rest of the bench, I mean, they're just it's usually a
disaster. Yeah, occasionally, you know, Kogi does a couple of good
things, but then he does a couple of the dumbest things you've ever seen,
and you know, campaigne is just if yeah, he's been out because
he's came back and played a whopping three minutes to their night. He's actually
he's a very good scorer as far as a backup point guard, but he
is the worst passer for any backup point or any point guards, back up
or starter ever. And he's a horrible defender. So you don't know what
you you don't If he's not scoring points, you got to get him off
the floor. Terrence Ross I thought was a really good addition of this team,
but he's another guy that's not guarding anybody, and he almost got no
time in the last series after the first game or so, which I don't
necessarily disagree with because he's done the guys. He's got scoring points. You
got to get him off the floor. So I don't have a big problem,
but I'm playing every you know, money, playing everybody for like forty
plus minutes. It might be I think more of a problem in this next
series because you have the altitude in Denver, even though there's a couple of
stretches in this series that the schedule is, you know, really this series
is if it goes seven games, it's over a long period of time.
After they played Tomorrow night and then Monday night, Game three is not until
Friday night. And then if it goes if it goes seven games, game
six is on a Thursday. In Game seven is done until a Sunday.
So is that I think that that the scheduling part I think benefits the Suns
if they want to use their guys for a massive minutes. I think the
fact that the you know, they're playing in Denver, and if they's the
game seven it would be in Denver. You know, that could be an
issue. But at least you got two days off in between before that last
before between game six and seven. If there is such a situation. So
do we have a podcast of this interview? So I want you to go
back and listen to what you just said, and you're gonna rethink and say
Denver is gonna win this. A week ago, I would have bet on
Denver to win this series. I really would. In the end, thank
god, we can illegally do such a thing and I don't have to call
my friends in Vegas and try to do something that's below you know, Agans
something. But yeah, the which I you know, I might have done
for years, um, but nobody has any proof of that. But a
week ago I would have bet on Denver. Now I just after watching the
last two games in the Nuggets and the Timberwolves, I can't do that,
So I'm just kind of a passing. I took the Sun to win the
series, but I'm not betting on them either, so hopefully business purposes,
it's great. I hope they played seven games and they you know, that
would be the best case scenario for me. So, Bob, this is
your this is a caller from Vegas. Uh what about those kneecaps. That's
you didn't have those kneecaps anymore, that's true. Yeah, yeah, well
I know some people in Vegas you might know something about neecaps vitally. I
don't know. That's a good thing. Yeah, well well, yeah,
we've lived there for several years, and yeah, I've been known to frequent
Las Vegas since nineteen seventy nine. We're starting to find some of their work
at the bottom of Lake Mead, So you know, it's I have not
been to the bottom of Lake me but by a lot of times, and
I've actually been on a boat in Lake Meat a few times, so maybe
I should have been looking for people at the bottom of lake. Well'm glad
that you're not in like exactly but as usual. Thank you. I hope
you're doing okay healthwise. I'm great, Thank you very much. Okay,
great, great. We'll talk to you again sometime in the summer. When
the Diamondbacks collapse. Well that could be tomorrow. I'll be here. Thanks
about well, okay, okay, guys, thank you about Cab from kd
us. Have a chance to listen to him. Oh, it's a great
conversation. Love him. He's fun, He's he's he is you know,
I don't know if I'm the typical sportswriter you or he is. That dude.
You look at him and he's kind of that's him. That's Oscar Addison.
Yeah, pretty exactly, exactly perfect. All right, let's go and
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They have their eye on the ball on two Suns sports station, Fox Sports
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minutes. I don't call. Give us a call five two old four seventy
four forty. We'd like to hear from you. What's going on this weekend?
Who do you have tonight? What do I have tonight? Who are
they? Who do they have tonight? Don't touch it tonight. I don't
even think about to. I'm not taking anything tonight because I have to.
I'm not gonna be able to watch any any basketball because I'm going to a
dinner. I'm going to a banquet. That's my white shirt right there,
so I gotta put on. I was just wondering how to put on like
a dress shirt and everything. I had to like clothes, I got dress
shoes on, and I've got slacks. One are you the type of guy
where if I like pointed out like a little tiny speck on it, it
would bother you, like, you know, like if I just if I
look through it, um, it might it depends, you know, I
mean, if I can cover it up with my sport because I have a
sport code in the car. Okay, sweet, But you think notice though
that I didn't put the shirt on to come. Yeah, as it comes
to the station, I don't even know how you brought it here. This
fends right here as ask me, ask me if I would would you would
I even care? Now I'm looking to have a white I mean, I'm
a little worried that the shirt has been there and nothing's happened to you.
I mean, I think, I think I think most things should be worried
about is the fact that he's right here, and like I'm right here,
you're right there. I know, you toss your soda cup and then you
can splash against my shirt. We haven't had chips and say, what's the
shirt doing? You're touching it exactly. That's the point. That's the point.
Yeah, But I'm you know, but I had a water burger on
the way in, and I just wasn't gonna wear my shirt trying to put
down a water burger in the car that I was in a rush. But
so no, I'm not if if if I were to be playing these games
tonight, I would probably take the two team money line parlay on the two
home teams tonight, even if it just you know, an even money bet,
just for the juice, not for any other reason. Yeah. Nice.
So so what'd you say you have? I have the Warriors, and
I have Warriors money line, Warriors money line, and then minus under minus
two twenty under two twenty two twenty in the Lakers got it, got it
a pretty good price, three three to one three all right, all right,
which is surprising to be Okay, that's the only reason, twenty bucks,
I'm waiting for you, because you know Milwaukee screwed me and lost double
or over time. Yeah, I had that to you. Did you done?
There was a reason? Why did he cover? Oh god, that's
this is the last time I'm telling you what I'm doing. All I said,
how could they have done us? He said? He said he wasn't
gonna touch I wasn't going to but I got home and anybody said, I'm
not gonna tell Steve this happened. I had it. Sorry, don't tell
him anything. I thought it was so funny. It's why we can't have
nice things. I'm just thinking. I'm just thinking Jay was probably like he's
probably when he's when he like when won the result happened, He's like,
he's never gonna know. So well, this is this might piss you off
even more. Oh no, don't tell me. Don't tell me. Well,
because I wanted to have. Okay, let's take this. Let's hope
it takes nine minutes. Hi, you're on on the ball. Hi,
guys are Jim? Hey Jim, what's up? Well? Their Dodgers are
starting to pick it up in the back end of the lineup. It's about
time. You know. Max Mounthy actually hit is hitting the ball? Now,
who is Max Munsey? But oh well yeah Max munths he's killing the
ball. But I've got to get Will Smith back in the lineup. He's
he's he's not only is he missing, he's on my fantasy team. Yeah
that's a problem twice. Yeah. Now the guys I'm talking about her Altman
and Vargas, I think they're both gonna stick. Yeah. Altman is really
good. He is he could be their center fielder for a long time,
and that's sort of why they were comfortable letting go, right right, No,
I really like him a lot, all right, I've vargained is gonna
be a good player. Yeah. Last I saw though he neither he nor
Roehuse were hitting the ball. Vargas picked it up. Yeah, all right.
He's not going to hit thirty old rounds ever, but he's gonna be
a productive ad bat at number seven or eight. Yeah. No, I
like that. You need those altho. I'm a little worried. Tony Gonsolin
came back and he was terrible in his first game. He's a different sort
from the word go. I I even watched him once in a while on
the bench. You know how he lakes the other guys and he doesn't he
doesn't much. Yeah, yeah, no, I you know, I'm still
not feeling great about him. You know, they they've just they've gone.
They kind of become a little bit average, you know. But so is
everybody else in that division. I mean, if the Diamondbacks are leading your
division, you got a shot. Well, I think I think the Dodge,
who's put this down right now, I think the Dodgers will win ninety
eight games somewhere in there. Wow, well the over under was ninety seven
and a half. As I recall at the start of the season, haven't
checked I haven't checked it lately. Then I'm light on the money. Yeah,
I haven't checked it lately, but yeah probably yeah, maybe maybe still
get there. They gotta get better pitching, though, They gotta get better
pitching, especially in the back end. The bullpend still not a champions bullpen,
exactly, exactly. Okay, we'll a good one for that. Hey,
thanks, man, appreciate it. We're welcome. Fine, I'm gonna
bet him right now. You know, I'm did tell my son, did
James Alban he's he's the guy sent fielder for the for the Dodgers, and
uh Adams over the house. We're watching the game. We're watching game and
Alban goes yard as I come come into the living room, Alban goes yard.
I'm gonna go get him. And then Adam jumped on his phone and
picked him up before I could get him, and he took him and he's
got it. It's a cruel world. And that I shouldn't. I never
should have said anything to him to my point there, Dad, I mean
sometimes Jay's learning. Sometimes he used to keep his mouth. So, hey,
the Falcons picked up and they're used a second round pick to pick up
an offensive tackle to block for Beijan? Will you will you pay more attention?
Will you watch the Falcons? Yeah? Now to see him play?
Yeah? I think so. You know how many guys from Arizona fit this
bill right? Right? And then in his position that you can actually watch
him play, right, Not an offensive line man, because there's guys from
Arizona who were in the league, but you know, not a guy that
you're gonna turn on the TV to see that guy. You know, Nick
falls is probably the last one of those guys. You know, I'd watched
Nick Foles when he was you know, with the Eagles or whoever he was
playing for. You know, I put on the game to see how he's
doing. But Bejan, I think I'll watch the Falcons a whole lot more.
I think it'll be cool to see because he's I mean, everybody says
he's gonna be a star, and I'd love to see that. Yeah,
we'll see what happens, but it'd be more interesting. It's gonna be more
interesting because he's playing. I don't really watch the Falcons at all, you
know, Yeah, I watch the red zone. So you don't get the
games, you get moments. Yeah, speaking of that day, have you
seen what YouTube? You know, YouTube's got got a Sunday tickets starting this
year. Have you seen what they're doing. They're charging extra for red zone.
Okay, you know you can get red Zone by itself, but if
you get the Sunday ticket package, you know where you get all the games.
If you want red Zone, you gotta pay expo. You have that,
and you have that YouTube. Um you can get it on YouTube or
YouTube TV, so you can buy it. Stand that. So I want
to get I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna get trying to get rid.
It's gonna cost what yeah? What? Yeah? What? What? Yes?
Oh I can't get it? Never mind. Hey I've gotten it.
I've gotten I got it through Direct TV on a on my gravy chain on
my daughter. So I was paying, I paid, I paid, Uh
what was it for for for the ticket for for Sunday ticket okay, okay,
and then it so, I I mean there's h they've been they've been
advertising on Twitter and don't you have don't you have you don't have Comcast.
Do you have Comcast? Don't you? Yeah? I have? I get
that red zone but okay, and what's the difference. But I don't know
if they're going to do that anymore. Okay, Comcast seeming there's not going
to be that separate red zone channel because there there were two red zone channels.
There was the red Zone channel that you could get on Comcast. Yeah,
I think that's gone. I think that's okay, okay, and then
there was the red Zone channel with Andrew Siciliano. That came was Sunday ticket.
Okay, if so, what they're saying now is Sunday Ticket is Sunday
tickets where you get all the games, right, and when you got that,
you got red zone right all right? Now, if you buy Sunday
Ticket and you want red zone, yet have to pay for red zone,
Oh that's not important. And I don't know if you can get red zone
stand alone, that's not enough. That's crazy. I wouldn't do that.
That's not to important me. And you can't here it is. It's it's
uh Sunday ticket on YouTube TV. So you've got to have YouTube TV.
H and do you have that? I don't like sons. But if you
want, if you just want to see it on YouTube, okay, it
right, it's gonna be four hundred and fifty dollars if you get it now,
there's one hundred dollars off. And that's just Sunday ticket that I mean,
that's just the games. And if you want red zone, it's an
extra forty bucks. No, I don't think so. And it doesn't look
like you can get just red zone. No, I'll watch it my way
and no, no, no thing. You just get the crappy Cardinals games
every week. No even then you can just go watch it at the bar
and you'll be fine. You know, I watch it, but I'm not
into it like crazy. I picked the games and that's it. No,
this is not that important to him. Yeah, so anyways, but I
know, sorry Jim, Sorry Jim, because Jim was the guy who said
to be uh off the air. Um and sorry, I'm talking about but
the guys when we do the fantasy sports blah blah blah, and don't call
me when that happens because call it call you right, because I'm not part
of that crazy. But I say I love getting all the games. Um.
Oh no, no, you're because you're not because of fantasy. I
just love getting all the games and I'm a big I'm a big NFL fan.
That's why I watched the Red Zone because you don't have to, and
that's why my attention span is what it is. You go to different games
at different times and you get all the games, except you know the game.
Actually yeah, so anyways, um, anyway, so that they but
they're really they're really put it to you know, putting to us. I
paid. I paid one hundred dollars for Sunday Ticket for the last three well
since I read a direct TV um. And that's because I was able to
gravy train off my kids and use their use their college emails to get them
to get my acca again, send their emails to uh Jay, not to
me. Speaking of look at this I'm looking at I called up Sunday Ticket
on my computer, just you know, to get all this pricing. And
now an advertage shows up on my on my iPad. Oh I get it.
They know they know where we are and who we are. SKI.
No, we don't be googling that. You better watch out, man.
You better not be going to places you're not supposed to be. You don't
go to the Sunday ticket or anything like that. Ah. So anyways,
it's gonna cost like four hundred bucks for Sunday. It's just as much as
you're your tailgate thing, yeah, isn't it. Yeah, but it's if
it's worth it, you know, four hundred bucks for how many weeks?
Eighteen weeks, twenty dollars a week, it's worth it. It's worth I'm
bad again. If you win maybe a week or two, your prize pool,
your pay that's paid. Yeah yeah, maybe all right anyways, but
yeah, I've been a big fan of Sunday Tickets. I've been a subscriber
to that since that came out, as I was a direct TV guy for
a long time, and so the minute they the minute they came they came
out Sunday Ticket, I was on it. We only have a minute left.
But you know what we haven't talked about this week, I don't think
at all, which is great, is the PAC twelve media media crap.
It's because it's behind us now without being behind us. Well, next week
we have phone. Please get him out, get him on Friday. Okay,
I'll get him on Friday, all right, Okay, Well that's the
week, Steve, it was a good week. It was fun. Good
week. It's fun. Congratulations getting to be Jean Robinson and his family.
Thanks for all the calls, too cool and we appreciate all the calls this
week. One thanks for good good that you came back safe. They didn't
put you in a wood chipper. And and and Bob says, the bench
still sucks. He does, he does, it does, and then because
it does, he doesn't. He doesn't do because he does not playing it
right exactly, and Monty needs to play him more. All right, we
will see you next week. Everybody, have a great weekend.