WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:07.679 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jakin Zalis on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:14.400 fourteen fifteen powered by Nova Insurance Services. Make sure your most prized possessions katz 3 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:18.879 R two side in iHeart Radio station. Yet, very good afternoon, everybody. 4 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:22.000 Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm 5 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:25.760 Steve Rivera, here jakmes As. We're by ourselves today. Is it Saturday? 6 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:28.760 Yet? Almost? Almost? Soon? Man? I can't wait. 7 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:33.320 I'll take a nap. Yeah, we have a there's a scrimmage tomorrow, 8 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:35.719 so I'll get to see some of the players at U of A. Right, 9 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:38.000 you wouldn't have been working hard this week. See what it looks like, 10 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:42.399 uh, you know, in live actions. So we'll see two weeks 11 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:46.399 already, two week, three weeks, three weeks three, we're three weeks 12 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:51.240 from the three weeks from the opener, well already, yeah, yeah, 13 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:55.520 three weeks from the opener and au year Yeah, seven o'clock. I think 14 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:58.759 everyone was gonna revenge day. Yeah, that's exactly why I said that. 15 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:02.560 Yeah, I agree with you. We need I should say we only needs, 16 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:04.200 but like a fifty, you could say we you're a fan, I 17 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:07.000 know, but fan boy. There's still a little piece of me that says 18 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:10.599 you're you're still kind of a journalist. You shouldn't say we on the ring. 19 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:15.640 Good that you remember that. Yeah, do you remember something you're from 20 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:21.560 journalism school that is not a wee? I remember there's no team. Yeah, 21 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.280 there's a wee weakness. Yes, Hey, okay, cool, Hey, 22 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:27.879 we have a different show today, A cool different show. A dream, 23 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:32.400 A dream, a dream for any coach at the little league level. 24 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:34.879 Right, Uh, we've got a mister Mills coming in, Males coming in. 25 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:42.079 He's the coach of the Marana Little League Softball juniors that got all the 26 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:44.840 way to the Little League World Series, and not only the World Series, 27 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:47.400 but I got any of the championship bracket of the world They got a full 28 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:49.840 play, so they got to go up there and experience a full thing, 29 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.599 played a bunch of games. And you know, if you ever coached a 30 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.760 little league, your kid was in a little league, you know, somewhere 31 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:00.799 in your mind the thought entered, how cool would it be without will support 32 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:06.719 or wherever without question? And so we'll we'll talk to Sam Meals about what 33 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.039 that was like for him. Right, No, every little girl's dream where 34 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:14.039 we coach's dream, guy's dream, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, 35 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:15.680 And then we have, of course of Jake Fisher trying to give us some 36 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:22.199 his sound bites on whatever was going on in the world. Uh, you 37 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:25.400 know, controversial with good straightforward. Yeah. You know, we always pick 38 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:28.879 his brain for you know, because he had an experience that none of us 39 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:30.639 had. And e was to play, you know, major college football. 40 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:35.240 There was a what was on the other day? There was a game on 41 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.800 and because there goes Jake, He's on. He's on our show all the 42 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:40.360 time. Oh really, I can't remember. It was a game. Yeah, 43 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:45.120 it was a game from Uh it was a game from the It was 44 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:47.439 the Mike Stoops time. Okay, I know that he probably saw it. 45 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:52.240 We'll ask him, and I remember got it. For some life of me, 46 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:53.919 I can't remember who it was, but you know the goes number thirty 47 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:59.240 three running around over there and uh yeah plays yeah, okay, okay, 48 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:02.199 anything else going on we have? Uh we have, uh, just football. 49 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:07.080 The guys are in Israel, I think now, I no, no, 50 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:10.759 we're seeing We're starting to see pictures. They were in Jerusalem. Uh. 51 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:15.879 The Bruce is sending is posting photos of various events. They're also posting 52 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:20.120 some photos. They had a dinner at at somebody's house, and they were 53 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:29.960 at the the City of David. They were at at the Ventivity. Uh 54 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.599 okay, there was a photo of Lumarbala who could barely fit in there. 55 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:35.879 Where are you? Where are you seeing this? There was on the Twitter 56 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:39.520 Twitter was Bruce's posting some stuff. I don't know who else, but I've 57 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:42.879 seen a whole bunch of different stuff, but it is on Arizona site. 58 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:46.639 One of Arizona's I haven't looked, I haven't paid attention to. Like one 59 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:52.759 was athletes for Israel. They were posting some stuff. Okay, I'm not 60 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:54.800 sure who else. You know, it's funny when you're eighteen, nineteen, 61 00:03:54.800 --> 00:04:00.039 twenty years old or whatever you're seeing this kind of going play and come home. 62 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:03.120 I know that's what it was in ninety seven day when they won the 63 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:05.479 title, they went to Australia and they didn't want to go. They didn't 64 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:08.400 want to go. They just didn't want to go. Let's go home. 65 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.319 It's a long season. But then you get there and it's okay, I 66 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:14.599 guess we'll make the most of it. Yeah, you know, Arizona basketball 67 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:16.319 is posting some stuff. Okay, I saw some of that that I'm look 68 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:20.879 cool right now. Cool some airport shots, some train station shots, and 69 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:25.120 as I said, Bruce, Bruce Past has been posting some stuff. So 70 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.560 yeah, just a lot of you know, just a lot of background. 71 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:31.480 I think there's still a couple more days before they play play any games. 72 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:36.199 But there was a picture that you know, they're going back into Israel and 73 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:43.639 going through this checkpoint and there's a guy with a major weapon slung over his 74 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.160 shoulders standing there. Yeah. No, those those are real moments, real 75 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:50.319 moments. So I wanted to start the show a different way, and I 76 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:54.279 think I may have asked you this recently, just in a different way. 77 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:59.639 When was the last time you got you got turned down in the lastic effort 78 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:06.279 to to save a marriage or the same save a relationship got turned down. 79 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:13.600 Well, I've been in one relationship, Steve, for going on actual obviously 80 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:16.519 forty years. So well, okay, yeah, I did at okay, 81 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:19.800 at the air was on the Daily Star all right when when I left there, 82 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:25.920 Okay, I wasn't on trying to say the relationship they were I got, 83 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:29.720 I took I had I had accepted a job at the at the at 84 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:33.079 the Star, I mean at THET I was getting a fifty percent pay raise, 85 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:42.800 okay. And I put my letter uh on on the Imagine editor's desk, 86 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:46.279 my resignation letter on the Maagine editor's desk, and no I was on 87 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:49.560 the executive editor's desk. I put on his desk. And he comes back 88 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:54.800 to me and he says, what can we do to keep you? I 89 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:58.439 says, too late, because I tried for promotion. Oh, he didn't 90 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:00.560 get it. So I went looking for a job. Oh okay, okay, 91 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:06.279 So you initiated. And the reason I asked this is the obvious reason 92 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:11.199 is the PAC twelve. I mean they thought they thought they had something in 93 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:15.600 their hand, or they were cocky or whatever word you want to use. 94 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:17.199 Well, they're a bit full of themselves, yes, and we've known that 95 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:21.319 for a while. Though it started they were up. They started when Larry 96 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:25.879 Larry Scott showed up. Yeah, I used I have been using the word 97 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:30.439 the word uppity because there was all that you know again, and and it's 98 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:31.959 something that you know, Bobby Robin said to you know, to somebody I 99 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:34.839 know very well, said, don't don't overlook the academic piece of this, 100 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:39.079 and then they overlook the academic piece of it, went to the Big twelve. 101 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:42.759 And I don't blame them for going to the Big twelve under the circumstances, 102 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.000 but you know, the academic piece was a big deal to the Pac 103 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:48.160 twelve. It wasn't a big deal to anybody else. Huh. You know, 104 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:50.800 people were thinking, why do you care about the academics, and it's 105 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:58.439 these schools. I felt they had sort of a a common mission academically, 106 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.720 and you wanted to stay together because but you know, in the end, 107 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.560 you know that didn't hold together. But you know, reading what we're reading 108 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:10.360 now, you know there's all the not I don't want to call it Monday 109 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:14.240 morning quarterback, but now everybody's fast what was going on? Sure, it's 110 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:17.720 funny because you know how it always is. No one talks during the when 111 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:20.439 it's going on because they can't. You're afraid of jobs. Blah blah blah. 112 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:25.160 And even an Ashue Guy, a former Area Issue Guy coach, comes 113 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:30.680 in and rips into the program, rips into Richard the a d ray Anderson. 114 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:33.319 But dare him say that during the time, right, because he's got 115 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:36.279 a job. But now no one's capable of no one's smart enough, all 116 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:41.600 these things, and it's funny how all this stuff comes out after the fact. 117 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:45.160 Yeah, And because where I wanted to go with that is that apparently 118 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:48.439 the Pac twelve, where they're gonna get thirty million, they were gonna get 119 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:50.800 what they wanted. I had a deal for thirty million, what not what 120 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:54.839 they wanted, but what they could have survived with. And then they asked 121 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:58.480 for fifteen They told it and and they told George Flaff to go get fifty 122 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:03.959 and I wasn't in the room. I'mon said, they threw him the finger, 123 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:09.560 the proverbial finger, you know. Yeah, Yeah, that's the main 124 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:13.920 thing that we're hearing that a year ago, and it was before it was 125 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:18.879 before the Big twelve got their deal. The Big ten had gotten their deal, 126 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.600 which the number was sixty five million, and somehow the Pac twelve thought, 127 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:26.639 uh, you know, with UCLA and USC gone already thought they could 128 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.039 still get fifty million dollars, and and the and the and that that's there's 129 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:35.240 two things there that to me, that's a sign of having a bunch of 130 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:39.279 presidents who just don't know what the hell is going on when it comes to 131 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:43.759 this. And then the second piece of that with the George Kleavkov, whose 132 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:50.320 jobs should have been Look, people, we're not gonna get fifty million dollars. 133 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:52.480 Thirty million dollars is the deal. Let's go ask them for thirty five 134 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:58.360 and see what they said and getty and they yeah, and get whatever instead 135 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:01.320 they said fifty and ESPN yeah, walked out the door. It reminds me 136 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:07.639 a little of the Internet twenty whatever. It came twenty twenty five years ago, 137 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:09.320 and nobody knew what to make of it. Oh, don't worry, 138 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:13.279 it's gonna go away. The newspapers started saying, no, then we gotta 139 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.600 do this, and got to do that. And then by the time it 140 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:22.559 kind of snowballed. It's swallowing up newswapers, every everything. And then by 141 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:24.399 that time people are thinking, oh, maybe we should have done something different. 142 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:28.159 Well, it's too damn late. It's too damn late, and it's 143 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:31.039 already swallowed you hole it, did you know? I mean, look on 144 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.200 you know. It's it's that it's that ugly feeling that we we always get 145 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.399 when we try and go buy a car, we're buying a house. You 146 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:43.320 know, how much is how much do you ask for you know what negotiating. 147 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.000 Negotiating is hard, and you know there's some people haven't stomached for it 148 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.159 to some people. Yeah, I don't, I don't. I don't either. 149 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:50.919 These guys were dumb. It turns out they were dumb. They thought 150 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:54.600 they were worth fifty million dollars. And then I wonder what they thought when 151 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.000 the Big twelve said, Okay, we're good at thirty one seven, and 152 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:01.240 like, oh god, weet thirty by that time was too late, right 153 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:03.120 right, you know, let's see it's your come up. Please please let 154 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.000 me a better husband please or boyfriend. No, sorry, dude, he's 155 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:09.600 too late. The comedy of airs. And then you know, and then 156 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:13.120 that, you know, the Big they then they still thought they had a 157 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:18.600 deal done on you know, last Friday morning for twenty five, for possible 158 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:22.440 twenty five and and and you know, and they thought Oregon and Washington were 159 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:24.480 in. And then they wake up and they find out Oregon and Washington have 160 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:28.480 left the building. Let me ask you this, and I just just pumped 161 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:31.960 into my head. Okay, so we've moved from the Pac twelve to this 162 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:35.759 to the Big twelve. In five years, there's another deal five years and 163 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.919 well they're gonna start, they're gonna start negotiating them in five years. Okay, 164 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:43.000 So so let me ask you, what if, what if there's a 165 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.440 chance to return to the PAC twelve. Well, again, I think not 166 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:52.000 to the Pac twelve, but to the to the west. What I would 167 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:54.639 like to see, and I've said this and what I would hope would happen, 168 00:10:54.440 --> 00:11:00.120 was that, you know, they'll they'll they'll organize the upper echelon on 169 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:05.240 of you basically power of five football, and organize a regionally and then everybody 170 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:11.679 saying everybody gets money and relax. Again, I don't have faith that's going 171 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:13.320 to happen, because the Big twelve, I mean the Big Ten and the 172 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.159 and the SEC are is such a powerful position. They're gonna try and grab 173 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:18.559 as much of it as they can. Or they're gonna say, okay, 174 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:22.159 we'll organize like that, but we in the Big ten and we in the 175 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:26.080 SEC get more money than you guys who are coming from the ACC and the 176 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:31.039 Big twelve. Yeah, but I'm talking I'm talking more but organized the regionally 177 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:33.360 yeast. But that's what I'm saying. You know, you take all the 178 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:37.759 team. What I'm saying is that you got what eighteen teams. Now in 179 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:43.200 the big ten, you still got sixteen teams in the SEC. Those thirty 180 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.960 four teams are gonna want a bigger share the pie than the other teams that 181 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:52.120 are currently there, not that aren't in their league. And that may be 182 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:56.000 how it happens, but I would like to see everything get organized regionally. 183 00:11:56.200 --> 00:12:01.200 Well, everybody does see that coming. And there's always that team like Florida 184 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.960 State or like USC which I've seen on Twitter. Now that's saying they blew 185 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.440 it when they didn't give you a see a bigger share, because because you 186 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:13.440 see what a bigger share just to make them happy, keep them in, 187 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.000 keep them in step. No, they didn't do that. And you see 188 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:20.360 Florida State say we're Florida State. We're the biggest piece out here in the 189 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:22.240 ACC. We want more. Well, sorry, you already saying what you 190 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.600 say. What what they need to do is the football needs reflects its muscles 191 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:31.240 and say, okay, TV networks, you want our product. Everybody. 192 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:37.759 These these sixty four teams all get seventy million dollars and you can have us 193 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:41.399 and it's an inordinate amount of money. It's a huge amount of money, 194 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:46.159 but you get it all for seventy million dollars, you get a playoff, 195 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:50.000 you get you know, and you givvy it up however you want between Fox 196 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:54.679 and ESPN. That's the number. You guys, get your butts together, 197 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:56.679 get in a room, figure it out, and you come back to us. 198 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:01.840 And when you got seventy or seventy five million dollars for every every school 199 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:05.279 and of these sixty four however many teams it is. Now we're talking, 200 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:09.840 then what's the TV you get? Then? And then but then if everybody 201 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:13.799 is getting the same amount of money, then you can organize it by read 202 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:18.039 what what po what? How much his bread? In your world? I 203 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:22.320 just had I just had a sugar free rip beer and I think it's because 204 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:28.000 but that. But that's that's what that's that's where you got. That's how 205 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:30.919 you got. You're trying to make everybody happy. They or you might say, 206 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:33.960 okay, SEC and Big ten are currently getting sixty five. You give 207 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:39.759 up, we get seventy five, You give fifty to all the others. 208 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:41.399 That's the pot of money. You need to come up with it. If 209 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:46.399 you don't do that, guess what we're gonna stream. We're gonna stream everything 210 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:50.159 you don't get it. Yeah, but they're not gonna they don't want to 211 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.799 do that either. That's a bluff. Let's call you. If you're gonna 212 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:54.759 make a bluff, you're gonna be able to form our own. We'll form 213 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:58.919 our own. You know college football? Well, uh, you know streaming 214 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:03.360 network in every game will be streamed and we're gonna make this much money because 215 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:07.759 people are gonna buy it. Will you hould you buy it? That's a 216 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:09.399 good question, right, you would buy it? See questions. You're not 217 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:13.840 gonna not watch college football? Uh no, No, I'd buy it. 218 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:18.679 I'd buy it, I guess, go reluctantly. But you'd pay as much 219 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:20.039 as you pay for direct TV, if not more. Yeah, and I 220 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:22.480 don't pay for that. Yeah, well you're going to but yeah, actually 221 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:24.919 I paid a lot for Comcast, which I don't want to. Yeah. 222 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.679 Yeah, I guess maybe, yeah, maybe, but likely. Okay, 223 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:33.320 Hey, we're gonna get a call here from coach Mills here and then we 224 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:35.919 have Jake later, so we'll have some fun with this one. All right, 225 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.320 We will be right back. For more than twenty years, the Window 226 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:43.639 Depot has provided the best price and the biggest inventory on in stock vinyl windows, 227 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:46.559 and now The Window Depot is more than a window store, offering homeowners 228 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:52.039 and contractors, a one stop warehouse offering interior and exterior doors, rammed in 229 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:56.000 courts, countertops in stock, cabinetry, and skylights to finish your project. 230 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:00.480 Their team of professionals will help with everything from free kitchen design to to orders 231 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:03.799 from leading manufacturers like mill Guard and Gelwin. 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He's jakins as now and if we 300 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:12.039 have coach Sam Mills from the Moreno, Italy Junior softball team, Sam, 301 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:17.480 how are you doing fantastic? Steja, How are y'all doing the seven end? 302 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:22.920 We're doing well. How long was this summer for you? It actually 303 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:27.559 feel like it flew by a very very fast, you know, day by 304 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:33.200 day as you're preparing for these kind of things that it seems long, but 305 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:37.440 now looking back, it just snapped the finger and now now it's August. 306 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:40.640 Yeah, so let let's start at the end. You got to the World 307 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:44.799 Series, which is which is the goal. You're made it into the championship 308 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:47.680 bracket, you know, which again, you know, it's just a hard 309 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:51.680 thing to do. Talk talk to us about getting to the world you got 310 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:55.079 you got there, the experience that that you had, and the kinds of 311 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:59.880 things that that that that the girls and and you know and you guys got 312 00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:03.480 to see got to experience, got to do well, just fills in on 313 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:08.559 some of that experience. Was it was humbling to get the opportunity certainly one 314 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:15.480 of those things that just grateful that the girls got that experience, and as 315 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:18.039 a coach, they just kind of sit back and see the smiles that come 316 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:23.039 along with with everything that they got to participate in. You know, it 317 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:27.920 was it was a whirlwind. Once you arrive there in Seattle. They they 318 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:33.039 have you, you know, trying on uniforms and getting fitted and you know, 319 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:37.200 filling out ESPN questionnaires so that you know, they can make sure they 320 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:45.640 let everybody know that I think every girl's favorite singers, Taylor Swift and and 321 00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:51.160 you know what they what their favorite dinner food is, and you know, 322 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:55.519 favorite TV show. It was. It was fun for the girls to kind 323 00:21:55.519 --> 00:22:00.960 of sit down and and sill that out and hear their response and then have 324 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.759 him laugh about it when they were talking about it when they were watching later 325 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:10.039 on. So we talked about having kids and pood plaid sports and this is 326 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:11.359 kind of a dream come true. At foreign a parent and any coach, 327 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:15.240 at what point did you kind of have time to pinch yourself and say, 328 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:18.200 God, look at this, look at what we're doing. We're winning State, 329 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:23.279 We're going to the to the to the Nationals and TV. I had 330 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:30.759 to pinch myself along the way multiple times. I think it hit me which 331 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:34.759 was a neat moment was during the opening ceremonies and we're sitting there standing on 332 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:41.119 the field looking around and you've got ten teams and when they started singing, 333 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:45.720 you know, four other national anthems from Mexico, Canada, the Philippine, 334 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:52.079 Czech Republic, and then obviously are fantastic star Spangled banner, which was emotional 335 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:56.680 and just a neat moment. You know that that was I think one of 336 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:00.200 those pinching moments where like, we are at a world series, this is 337 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:08.480 best competition out there, and it was probably one of the times that I 338 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:12.319 pinched myself along the way. So so you you got you're you're there and 339 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:15.559 you're you're getting ready to play games and whatnot. Oh, you know, 340 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:18.839 with all, as you said, all the other stuff that was going on, 341 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:21.960 at some point, you guys have to start thinking about games, right. 342 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:25.599 Was there was there any nervousness among them, you know, oh we're 343 00:23:25.640 --> 00:23:29.319 on TV or you know, we're playing for the world World Championship, you 344 00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:33.079 know, nervousness among the girls that you got a sense of, or did 345 00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:36.559 they just kind of take it all and we'll here, let's play. I 346 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:38.400 mean, how how did how did you sense the girls were handling all that? 347 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:42.559 No, there definitely was a sense, and it's it's one of those 348 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:48.640 things in hindsight, you know, You're we were just kind of thrown into 349 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.079 it as such a you know, we won regionals and within you know, 350 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:55.559 less than twelve hours, we were on a plane to Seattle. So you're 351 00:23:55.559 --> 00:24:00.279 just you're you're really just kind of rushing through the moment. But you saw 352 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:06.359 it in the dugout and talking with some of the girls during innings and those 353 00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:08.599 kind of things. It's like, oh, I'm on ESPN, you know, 354 00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:12.640 and you heard them say little little things like that, and you're trying 355 00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:17.640 to be the calm, reassuring voice. Hey, it's just a game. 356 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:21.119 Everything's fine, you know, don't worry about it. Everybody, you know, 357 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:26.359 makes mistakes here and there or whatever. But it certainly was was prevalent 358 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:32.079 and a reality we had to work through. And I think each girl handled 359 00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:34.640 it in their own way, but at some moment, I think every single 360 00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:42.720 one probably felt something different. Obviously. I mean I even cut myself going 361 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:45.400 and talking with the Empire and then all of a sudden, I'm staring up 362 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:48.720 into the campus. I was like, oh, yeah, what am I 363 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:52.000 here to talk about? You know, it was just one of those surreal 364 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:56.319 moments of oh yeah, this is on TV. It was. It was 365 00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:00.559 pretty funny. It's funny because I was watching it today, the Little League 366 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:03.440 World Series, uh in the West part because they're getting ready to play in 367 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:07.079 Williamsport and the coaches getting miked up, right, some of you guys get 368 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:10.240 licked up, and I'm thinking some coaches are down and it's bottom of the 369 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:14.079 sixth they play sixth ennis, and I'm thinking, if I'm a coach, 370 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:17.640 I'm sure there's a time in there where I'm gonna be pissed, you know, 371 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:22.279 and the camera's gonna be on me. But you're not. You're you're 372 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:25.119 coaching twelve year olds. You can't be you know what I'm saying, you 373 00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:29.160 can't be. Yeah, we, I guess, I don't know if I 374 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:33.000 want to say we luckily at the juniors level didn't have the mics on us, 375 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:37.720 so whether for better or worse, uh, we didn't have to go 376 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:42.240 through that. But still with you know, the TVs and microphones along the 377 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:48.640 side, you know certainly what you were yelling out and whether it was instructions 378 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:51.680 or anything. You're like, Okay, I just want to make sure i'm 379 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:55.319 I'm saying this the right way. No, yeah, okay, I'm gonna 380 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:57.279 get a chair in my asking you this question. But your daughter's on the 381 00:25:57.319 --> 00:26:02.839 team, you're at the World Series, you know, excuse me any you 382 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:06.599 know any moments you had with her to talk about, you know, the 383 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:10.680 goal that you know you two had achieved together, you know, on this 384 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:18.799 team getting into the World Series of coaching player, I'm getting goosebumps just you 385 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:22.720 saying that I walked up to field in tears with her we after our last 386 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:29.880 game get into Canada. I just kind of took her aside and talked with 387 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:34.279 her, and it was a special moment I'll always remember with her and just 388 00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:41.880 being able to thank her for letting me coach her. And and you know, 389 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.039 obviously all the girls you create a bond, but when you have your 390 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:47.839 own, your child there, I mean, that's why I got into coaching, 391 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:52.119 was so I could spend more time with my kids. And to have 392 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:56.880 that with her was was so special and very reflective as looking back on Regional 393 00:26:57.160 --> 00:27:02.720 and all the hard work that we but in how difficult is this? And 394 00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:06.599 we see it all the time when you have a coach and and and the 395 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:11.480 daughter or the son plays and that fine line being tough but not tough, 396 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:18.000 you know, because you have other kids to coach, you do, and 397 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:25.039 you know, I'm surrounded by other amazing you know, coaches that help out 398 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:27.440 along the way. And so I think we each play our our roles, 399 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:32.039 you know, Chris Beck, Jason names of Brett Winter, Jim Sayer. 400 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:36.400 I mean, you know, they they're all awesome. And so I think 401 00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:44.599 between the balance of us working with our own daughters and that also knowing how 402 00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:48.559 to approach each one because we've we've been together for you know, I think 403 00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:55.279 four or five years, that that helps you know who who needs to go 404 00:27:55.359 --> 00:27:57.799 talk with that one at that time, at that moment. So it's a 405 00:27:57.880 --> 00:28:02.000 it's a good balance. We talked about your being in the regionals that you 406 00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:03.960 had, you had the home field advantage, they were here, But at 407 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:07.039 what point did you think you guys had a chance to do this, you 408 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:10.279 know, to get to the World Series. Yet you thought you were good 409 00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:11.960 enough and if I could act to that. Was there a game in there 410 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:15.680 where you were maybe one out, two outs away from not going or advancing. 411 00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:19.279 Yeah, no, it was, you know, I'll tell you a 412 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:25.720 little bit about that. But like the moment that I felt like the team 413 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:29.480 was ready and prepared. It was pretty neat. We was about a month 414 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:34.880 out from regionals and we sat them all in the dugout and I took a 415 00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:40.039 Washington postcard and handed it to each one of the girls and I said, 416 00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:42.880 I want you to write a note to yourself, as if you've already won 417 00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:47.359 regionals. I want you to describe how it felt to win regionals. I 418 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:52.039 want you to talk about a play that you might have had in regionals that 419 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.279 you know was the game winning catch or home run or you know strike, 420 00:28:56.359 --> 00:28:57.880 you know, striking somebody out. And I said, I want you to 421 00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:03.000 hang this up on your mirror and every day I want you to look at 422 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:06.640 it. I want you to touch it. I want you to say, 423 00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:11.119 I'm going to Kurtlyn, Washington, which is where you know it was held. 424 00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:12.920 And I was like, you you visualize that, you verbalize it and 425 00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:18.000 said it and it was it was. There was like a special feeling in 426 00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:19.680 the dugout. It's like, you know, you're kind of as a coach 427 00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:22.000 is like, how are they how is this going to be received by the 428 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:26.440 girls. It's going to be goofy or whatever. But there was a buy 429 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.680 in with smiles on their faces and you could kind of sense that. And 430 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:36.799 fast forward to the regionals and in game two, we faced a tough Washington 431 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:42.039 team and we actually lost. They beat us ten five, and it was 432 00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:47.440 one of those moments where as a coach you look in their eyes and in 433 00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:51.359 their faces and every single girl is like, we got this, we got 434 00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:53.680 this, We're going to do it. We have a goal, We've put 435 00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:57.480 in the hard work, and we're going to do it. And that was 436 00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:03.200 just rewarding as a coach to see that response. And then we went back 437 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:07.920 and won five straight to win out the regionals. It wasn't easy. We 438 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:12.279 had a tough game against Nevada, we won two to one against Alaska, 439 00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:17.039 and then we had to go back and beat that Washington team twice in the 440 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:23.200 championship. But and you did, and you did right, So yeah, 441 00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:27.440 you know, so you know, Steve and I have talked and you can 442 00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:32.319 you can plug this into you know, teams at all levels. There has 443 00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:36.200 to be a certain you know, obviously you don't have a locker room in 444 00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:38.440 the Little League, but you know, there's a lot a feel in the 445 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:41.839 locker room, a feel among the players to be able to do things like 446 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.920 this. You can have all the talent in the world. Father players hate 447 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:48.240 each other, you're not gonna you're not gonna win championships, or you can 448 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:52.839 be less talented than others. But if your team is you know, very 449 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.559 together and all on the same page, you can achieve more. Did you 450 00:30:56.599 --> 00:31:00.359 get that sense from your team that there was there was this commonality that they 451 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:03.799 all had, uh you know, playing together, liking each other. Uh, 452 00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:07.079 you know, no drama, all that kind of stuff. Was there 453 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:11.559 a sense of that? Oh? Really, there really was. I mean, 454 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.839 they their friends off the field as well. You know, they're they're 455 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:21.559 just a tight knit group. And you know, they've got amazing parents, 456 00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:25.759 They've got amazing you know, extended family that you know, we've got to 457 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:33.279 know throughout the years. And and that family extended not only just the girls, 458 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.200 I think is just such a fantastic support group. And couldn't be more 459 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:41.680 grateful to be associated with each one of those girls and their parents, and 460 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:45.240 you know everybody that comes up to support us at the Games, and that 461 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:52.680 was supporting us here and you know Marana Southern Arizona when we went off to 462 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:55.640 the World Series. So so you know, we're both parents. Like we 463 00:31:55.680 --> 00:32:00.359 said, Uh, then you win the regional here and you think, we 464 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:02.839 know, we've got to come up with money to get to Seattle or how 465 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:07.480 or how is that because you know it's not cheap, Well, it's it's 466 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:14.200 fortunate, Little League. When you go to the World Series, all of 467 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:20.640 the players and coaches, their expenses are covered. They take care of the 468 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:24.759 flights, the food, the hotels, accommodation and everything, which was a 469 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:30.480 huge benefit. And then there were some you know, amazing people and group 470 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:35.279 that helped to you know, chip in to you know, make sure. 471 00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:38.480 I think every single one of the girls had parents there during the week, 472 00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:43.319 if not the whole time, at least we're able to go and watch them 473 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:46.319 play. And you know, there was just an overwhelming amount of support. 474 00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:52.440 Get parents there or they could experience to vote with their girls. Okay, 475 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:59.440 so when when did this group of girls win a stake championship somewhere? Well, 476 00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:02.039 we've got to ten of them headed to Morana High. We're trying to 477 00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:06.799 get the two they're going to Ironwood and cdo they need to come come and 478 00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:14.039 stay in Mirana so we can foster that championship there. But you need to 479 00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:16.599 see that's exciting. So let me ask you, where did you come up 480 00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:23.839 with the postcard thing? I just one of those inspired I'll give it my 481 00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:29.119 one, my one good idea as a coach for my entire career. I 482 00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:31.559 guess I don't know. It just it just came to me. I was 483 00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:36.240 like, there needs to be something they can do and see every single day 484 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:37.920 so they keep their eye on the mark. And that's that's what I came 485 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:43.119 up with. And the cool part was we took those postcards with us and 486 00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:46.759 then they put them in the mail and send them back. They sent them 487 00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:51.680 back to their their homes and we're able to receive them once they got back 488 00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:55.200 home. That's so cool. Well, that's a nice lasting memory. And 489 00:33:55.240 --> 00:34:02.519 maybe what is your lasting memory from this? It's hard to sum up in 490 00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:10.960 in one I think just the softball. I don't know outside of the team 491 00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:16.519 and family and all that, but was just the softball community and experiencing it 492 00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:22.559 from a worldwide perspective. When you hear Banish being spoken in the dugout in 493 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:28.079 check and the Philippines, and to meet players and coaches from all around the 494 00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:32.239 world, you know that that to me would be hard to rectlicate in anything 495 00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:37.760 going forward. And you know you're on a bus after a game and you 496 00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:45.400 got girls from the Czech Republic in Canada and Arizona seeing and justin beaver baby 497 00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:50.159 baby at the top of their lungs. You know, just you know, 498 00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:54.559 you can't those are those are things that they're just one that will will be 499 00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:59.880 with me for a very very long time. Okay, coach, great, 500 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:05.199 have you on the show. Congratulations coach No, Steve Kay, thank you, 501 00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:07.480 appreciate the opportunity. A lot of fun thing. All right, thank 502 00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:10.360 you very much. Well, we'll see you in about four years. I 503 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:15.840 guess let's put it on the calendar. All right, thanks so much, 504 00:35:16.599 --> 00:35:20.920 good afternoon. You know that's cool. That's that's a dream come true for 505 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:22.480 coaches and kids and all that stuff. You know. I mean, you 506 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:25.599 know, I was the I was the one of the coaches on my son's 507 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:29.239 twelve year old team, right the team that plays for Williams. We don't 508 00:35:29.239 --> 00:35:30.800 even get out of districts. But you know, you had that little thing 509 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:34.719 though. I think we're really good, you know, we have a chance 510 00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:37.039 at this. Yeah, and then you get out there and you play and 511 00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:40.039 guess what, everybody else is really good too. That's my lasting memory of 512 00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:44.440 my little little league team. We played in the state tournament and then got 513 00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:47.920 beat, got beat. It was tough stuff. Okay, let's let's take 514 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:51.280 a break. Okay, maybe get some calls in there. We'll get some 515 00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:53.360 calls. We'd love to hear some little league experience. There've been some teams 516 00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:57.480 I've been very much in another World Series, very much so. Some teams 517 00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:00.719 that got to the regionals this year. Canyon View, the twelve year old 518 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:02.440 team got to the regionals this year, so you know, one state. 519 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:06.519 So I would love be here here from some folks five two zero four one 520 00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:09.000 six seventy four four. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you'd know 521 00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:13.519 it's been successful for newly forty years now. Take a look back at the 522 00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:15.320 Ludolson era. In my new book, Lessons from Loot. 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Subscribe now 571 00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:05.039 to the podcast on the radio. Hey, welcome back to twy on the 572 00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:07.519 Back here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, he's Jay. We 573 00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:09.679 have about twelve minutes. You'd like to give us a quick call five two 574 00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:14.840 o four one six seventy four forty that'd be great. That'd be great. 575 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:17.000 If you want to talking about your little league experience, that'd be cool. 576 00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:21.440 Yeah, I we'd love to hear that. There's been a lot more than 577 00:40:21.559 --> 00:40:23.599 five. I mean, well there have been in the various World Series. 578 00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:27.519 I know, you know when you're talking about teams that have been to Williamsport, 579 00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:31.360 there have been two two right right, the Vosburg Ex team and then 580 00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:37.400 UH team in eighty five. Yeah. I did a twenty five year reunion 581 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:39.119 from those guys. Yeah, and he showed me Tims. It was a 582 00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:42.360 lot of fun. The one thing, this is, what are you guys 583 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:45.960 talking about? Well, our girlfriends us talking about it. Well, you 584 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:51.079 know, I had a I had a weird, just a crazy trip covering 585 00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:53.119 that team. Because are you are you told me about that? It was 586 00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:57.519 a crazy you had to get their name or something. Well, in in 587 00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:04.480 all of our in all of our uh uh, we just didn't think too 588 00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:08.639 because at that time at the paper, it was a single elimination tournament with 589 00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:13.199 eight teams. Single elimination. You lose one game, you're gone. So 590 00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:19.519 our our management didn't think that maybe we should go cover them to to where 591 00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:22.760 Williams. You didn't go to December the day. No, no, we 592 00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:24.880 didn't even think about that. We just had them call in and so they 593 00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:32.199 so they qualified for Williams Sport they're going for So they get there. Nobody 594 00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:36.159 thought, you know what, maybe somebody should be there. So they win, 595 00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:38.840 they win their first game. Now they're gonna play for the national champ 596 00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:43.599 for you know, the American National American Championship, and so you know the 597 00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:46.519 games in the afternoon, they win, and I'm in the office working doing 598 00:41:46.599 --> 00:41:49.639 whatever I'm doing. It was a summer, right, and they said, 599 00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:52.199 hey, we need somebody to go, and you're in because I was at 600 00:41:52.719 --> 00:42:00.440 guy Steve Emery, probably Chuck Kramer, Ramer sevem co manage because an internet 601 00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:01.679 somewhere. I don't remember this, but okay, you were, you were 602 00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:07.039 an Internet but you weren't news. Were you in news in sports? Well? 603 00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:10.320 I started sports right before that, maybe a couple of weeks before. 604 00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:14.480 Okay, I hadn't been in sports. I went over to sports after Sam 605 00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:15.960 Pollock and okay, yeah, yeah, yeah you were there. That was 606 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:21.119 a year after that noise. Okay, So they say, hey, we 607 00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:22.880 need we need to send somebody now, and they're like, what the hell? 608 00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:27.559 So they put me on a ten pm flight out of Phoenix. Okay, 609 00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:30.000 so it's a red eye, red eye of Pittsburgh, puddle jumpers to 610 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:34.800 to uh to Williams Sport. I get to Williams Sport race. You know, 611 00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:37.320 I got no sleep, right race to the Little League office. The 612 00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:42.159 gout a credential for me. I, you know, go over and the 613 00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:45.840 game is about to start and I covered the game. Didn't you spend more 614 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:50.079 time with them after the game? After they lost? So then they win 615 00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.719 again. So now they say, now we need a photographer because they played 616 00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:54.800 for the champions. Wait wait, so you went there and saw them win. 617 00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:57.920 I saw them win. Okay, Okay, I saw them win the 618 00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:00.840 American champil that's right, because they they win. So now they say, 619 00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:05.320 now we send a photographers. So they send Benji Sanders, the photographer on 620 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:09.239 the same deal. You had, the exact same fly. I got him 621 00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:14.280 at the airport. We raced over to to to the Little League office. 622 00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:16.760 He gets his credential. We raced to the stadium and we get there in 623 00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:19.480 time for the you know, for the start of the game. And we 624 00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:22.000 cover the game and they played, Taiwan played, Taiwan got beat bad. 625 00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:25.400 Taiwan had a bunch of eighteen. That's what. That's the one thing they 626 00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:29.360 always talked about these guys. Look, their picture was bigger, The picture 627 00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:31.320 was bigger than me. And he had hairy arms. That's what. That's 628 00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:36.000 what they said. That's what they said. He picked up his catcher and 629 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:37.559 he held him like a baby, you know, just like he heild him 630 00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:42.880 on his step like a baby. That's so so Now, so I, 631 00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:45.679 you know, I gotta do the you know. So they asked me to 632 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:49.679 a game story and then do a color story on the kids. So I 633 00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:52.559 go to their dorm, you know, because they've got dorms. So I 634 00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:55.559 go to their dorm fully expected. Walk into this dorm and they're gonna be 635 00:43:55.599 --> 00:44:01.519 crying and upset. They're jumping on the jad having a party. They're having 636 00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:06.960 a great time. They did them. It was I was I felt I 637 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:08.599 was more sad about it than they were for that. But I thought that 638 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:13.760 was such a great thing in that and I'm sure the photos the photos were 639 00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:15.440 perfect, oh yeah, and that they were just having a great time and 640 00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:17.639 they loved being there. They had a great time. So I just went 641 00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:21.519 up to each kid and asked for their favorite memory. And that was my 642 00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:24.039 story. I just did a you know, every kid on the rosters, 643 00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:31.360 easiest story. But but so who's the coach? I can't remember. I 644 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:35.239 had to. If I could have google the citizen, I would do that 645 00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:37.239 because I remember we had pictures and all that. A lot of a few 646 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.639 of them have passed away. I have the newspaper clipping somewhere because okay, 647 00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:45.360 because my dad before he passed away, gave me a box. I'm he 648 00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:49.320 saved all my sports clips to your death. Yeah he was. There was 649 00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:52.840 a big guardboard, Bob, you know I still have it. Have been 650 00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:55.079 a hoarder. I don't know what he was doing. Man, I'm gonna 651 00:44:55.119 --> 00:44:59.440 see if your can kind of google, you know, from your natually do 652 00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:01.159 all this stuff. If they can find that. But it was great. 653 00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:05.639 I loved it. They were having a great time and it was a great 654 00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:07.840 story, and I felt really good about it at the end because I felt 655 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:10.679 like they weren't having it great. Their kids being kids. Kids are being 656 00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:14.960 kids, you know, it's that's what it's supposed to be. You know, 657 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:19.480 we get nervous, we get upset with Sure, I'm not saying they 658 00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:21.519 didn't care because they cried on the field. Sure, of course. We 659 00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:23.039 got to the doorman, they were I mean literally, I thought somebody kid 660 00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:27.400 was gonna break his neck because they were jumping from one bunk bed another. 661 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.000 Something like that happened that a couple of years ago. They were doing that. 662 00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:34.039 But it was great. They you know, I love those kids. 663 00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:36.079 Or a couple of them went on to play. You know, they were 664 00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:38.360 good, you know, high school baseball players. But it was a great 665 00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:42.599 experience for me. It's it's one of my highlights as a sports writing Yeah. 666 00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:45.000 No, those memories are fun and it's an easy story to write because 667 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:49.719 when they're there to have fun and quotable, and the coaches are fine and 668 00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:52.559 they're just not a worry in the world. They didn't worry about what they 669 00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:54.119 were saying. I was having to it. You know, I loved this 670 00:45:54.199 --> 00:45:57.199 and you know, this was a great time. I loved the you know, 671 00:45:57.400 --> 00:46:00.599 that's a cool bucket list story that that's you should It was one of 672 00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:01.679 those things that you know, and not a lot you know, not everybody 673 00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:05.079 gets to cover that. It's all of these teams are from small towns and 674 00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:07.760 stuff like those reporters. They're not at the New York Times in the lap 675 00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:12.360 stuff there weren't you know, the airs on a daily Star and the Kurpland 676 00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:15.760 newspaper, remember, you know, And it was a blast. I had 677 00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:19.039 such a great time. But and then back then it was had a great 678 00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:21.920 time. They gave me a clip from the it was ABC. I remember 679 00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:24.719 they showed him an ABC on the VCR and it was just nothing. Not 680 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:29.440 how they do it now. It's it's a production. Yeah, yeah, 681 00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:31.400 it's a big product. It wasn't near what and the stadium is much not 682 00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:34.960 I mean I got to the stadium, right, I got to the stadium 683 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.840 and it was leaking water in the bathrooms and stuff like that. It was 684 00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:42.840 it was you know, you know two or three, right, there's two. 685 00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:49.079 It reminded me of a mini Comiskey Park. Just it was old, 686 00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:52.360 and you know, there were their beams in the you know, in the 687 00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:55.920 seats and stuff like that. I remember that, you know, and they 688 00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:00.440 they they've dulled it up really nice for ESPN. Sure, No, no, 689 00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:04.079 it's it's a fun time for the kids and all that. I didn't 690 00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:07.039 I didn't realize that the girls softball team played there too, because I was 691 00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:13.559 watching it today with girls Majors whichever ones it was. It was today and 692 00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:15.400 they were playing in Williams Sport. I said, I guess they used it 693 00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:20.000 the facility before they changed over to them with the boys. It's a it's 694 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:22.239 a it's a massive facility with practice fields and stuff like that. But back 695 00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:27.199 then it was the one stay and that was it. Yeah, you know, 696 00:47:27.239 --> 00:47:30.159 and that was it. No, no more power and more power great, 697 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:31.960 great for the kids. Uh And maybe we could talk about this down 698 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:36.280 the road if we get you know, more high school more literally naturally, 699 00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:40.440 the Cactus team that went with Bosburg and those guys, my little league Gosbar 700 00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:45.079 team played against them the year before they You said that, you said that 701 00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:47.000 Bosberg wasn't on that team, and they were pretty good and a bunch of 702 00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:52.480 those guys they won. Yeah, they went who was the Hispanic guymbers that 703 00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:55.039 there was another guy with must tell Mike Fembers and there was had to be 704 00:47:55.079 --> 00:48:00.280 another Mike Fembers was that he was a little left handed. Pictures Stu who 705 00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:02.320 had a ball to end all. Yeah, and he was he was their 706 00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:07.159 ace. And the next year Bossburg was the number two pitcher on that team, 707 00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:10.719 but he was their ace. And what I remember was he they they 708 00:48:10.760 --> 00:48:15.920 would he had he was he had an asthma medications. They wouldn't let him 709 00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:20.880 use it. Oh, because the drug STUF and there was a big controversy 710 00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:24.679 over you know, interfected him. But they also played Taiwan and they also 711 00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:29.920 got their asses kid. Yeah, Tian Taiwan used to own that thing. 712 00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:34.199 But you know, very fun, very fun experience. And I can only 713 00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.880 imagine the spectacle that it is now with with you know, with the ESPN 714 00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:42.400 and wits, because back then all they all that you saw on TV was 715 00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:45.039 the championship game on Sunday. I'm going on Saturday. That's it. That's 716 00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:50.320 the only thing that that was televised was the championship game. Now now they've 717 00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:52.679 got regionals, you know that they're that are on ESPN, So a lot 718 00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:55.039 of fun, a lot of fun, a lot of dreams of those kids, 719 00:48:55.119 --> 00:48:58.719 do you man, you know what I know ed? Bosberg went on 720 00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:00.280 to play, you know, in the Major and stuff. One of those 721 00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:04.679 kids you made, they some of them played high school stuff. That's their 722 00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:07.320 memory. Yeah, sure of course their athletic. There was another guy, 723 00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:09.199 and I'll have to come up with the name. Maybe i'll uh, and 724 00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:14.239 you st Mark's Yeah, that's it. Yeah, he was. He was 725 00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:15.239 on that. That's the guy was saying. Yeah. He played at that 726 00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:20.519 point with Bossburg and also played it. He was also the Major And and 727 00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:23.119 you think, who do we talking about these girls here? Uh? At 728 00:49:23.159 --> 00:49:30.239 some point either they get burnt out or catch up up. We're gonna We're 729 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:31.239 gonna see. You know, when when you play, when you have a 730 00:49:31.239 --> 00:49:36.039 team to get there's one or two girls in there and they go or players, 731 00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:38.039 I should say, whether boys or girls, they go on and do 732 00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:42.280 great thing. Well, I'll be a great picture or a great hitter. 733 00:49:42.840 --> 00:49:46.480 I saw I covered something at the start of The Citizen fifteen twenty years ago, 734 00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:49.679 and there was a little girl, a little blonde girl with a ponytail. 735 00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:52.960 She had to be eight ten years old. And I'm taking this little 736 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:55.320 girl could play. I mean, you don't see little girls who can physically 737 00:49:55.360 --> 00:49:59.280 play and they look great. And then she turns out to be the kid. 738 00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:02.440 Uh, I can't remember Foothills or somewhere in the Northwest. And then 739 00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:06.960 she plays at Stanford and they have the sisters, the sisters, and they're 740 00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:09.960 unbelievable. If Hobbiers listened to me, they're just the bostrooms, the bunch 741 00:50:10.039 --> 00:50:15.360 rooms. These girls are just amazing. I'm thinking I would draft here tomorrow. 742 00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:16.760 Yeah. No, it's it's it's yeah, no, I mean, 743 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:21.760 it's just it's it's great to see them because you know something, like you 744 00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:24.039 said, some of them stop, but some of them keep playing and they 745 00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:27.920 go right. You know, Eddie Bosborg, right, played in the Little 746 00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:30.360 League World Series, you know, played in the College World there's only one 747 00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:35.119 of three lay in the Major League. Only one of three dudes. Yeah. 748 00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:37.199 Yeah, we've had him on the show a few times and these we 749 00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:38.840 talk about it all the time. Yeah, very cool. Yeah, it's 750 00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:45.239 just it's a it's an experience that I hope that at least with the with 751 00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:50.960 the Williamsport piece of it has gotten too big where it's not fun for these 752 00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:52.920 kids, nobody. But if you're able to have a pool play and you're 753 00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:55.480 able to stay there, now you get to go play some you spend some 754 00:50:55.559 --> 00:50:59.519 time. It's not a one and lose one and go home, go home, 755 00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:01.239 right right, right, No, that's that's always always should have been. 756 00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:07.360 Yeah, we maybe we would have survived, but yeah, okay, 757 00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:09.199 so this is a good first hour. We're gonna have what are you gonna 758 00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:13.239 breaking news? Yeah, we've got some breaking news and more discussion of all 759 00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:15.880 the realignment stuff that's leftover stuff that's going on. And then Jake and then 760 00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:20.159 Jacob will remind everybody coming out of our show, uh, the airs one 761 00:51:20.159 --> 00:51:24.000 of Cardinals first preseason games tonight at seven o'clock against Denver. Right after our 762 00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:28.440 show, we go into the Cardinals the pregame show and then they kick off 763 00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:32.320 at seven o'clock on our station right here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. So 764 00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:36.599 we hope you'll stick around for that. We've got Jake Fisher coming up at 765 00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:38.639 three fifteen and breaking news here at the top of the hour, so I'll 766 00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:42.719 stick around for all of that.