Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez. They have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson's
Sports Age yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty streaming live. I mean, iHeart radio.
Wapp Hey, welcome back to Island Ball here on pot Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve, you're Jay got Kevin was breaking news. This is Eye
on the Ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right, So,
as we kind of talked about earlier, the Arizona Bowl now has a
new sponsor. It's Snoop Dogg and Doctor Dre's company, Gin and Juice.
It's a Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl, Jin and Juice and obviously named after a
song from nineteen ninety three. Obviously they have never heard. Obviously, it's
actually was that obvious to you, Steve, Well, I knew I knew
that. I knew that on the bike coming into the bike. Yeah him
in Dre Yeah yeah. But yeah. So it's actually the first NCAA sanctioned
bowl sponsored by an alcohol right beverage. This is what we've come to,
Jay, I mean, now casinos are getting involved with spongship, good Booze
and whatever else sports books and with uh now with kind of like the other
stuff that he kind of does well well, Steve, I mean it's opened
the door, you know to a whole new I don't know, revenue stream
for the you know, for bulls and and sponsorships and stuff like that,
because now you can bring these guys in and nobody could remember it was back
in probably twenty years ago and maybe maybe not that long, but club that
there was a the u of the field, Arizona's field was gonna be like
football field. It's gonna be like casino Dell soul Field or something like that.
And people in this town lost their minds and it never happened. And
that was money that you know, Arizona thought there, and you know,
and people are gonna be upset and n C Double A was gonna be upset
that there was a casino was going to be and it was before any sports
batting or anything, but it was just you know, casino Del Solder does
you know. And people were upset that the field at Arizona Stadium was going
to have a casino logo. So it never happened. And I was like,
don't you wish No, it's well survival, yeah, financially well you
know, and yeah, and exactly that. Look I I worked with,
I worked with the Copper Bowl slash Insight dot combole. It was so hard
to go get a title sponsor. Yeah, the hardest thing in the world
to go get a title sponsor, because you're asking a company to commit usually
you know, back then a million, two million dollars over five years or
whatever. I don't know what they're getting, you know, for this,
if it's half a million year or whatever. But to pry that money out
of somebody is a very hard thing to do. So you got to give
it to Arizona Ball And we'll talk to Kim Adair, the executive director coming
up to the next segment one about how hard it is but to this new
avenue, this new place that there's money available then and that's taking advantage of
it. And in the Arizonaballs case, been very innovative. So there were
a lot of people who didn't like the Barstool Sports sponsorship. It was incredibly
in a vative, you know, it was different, it was fresh,
right, and this is too you know, the Snoop Dog. I mean,
yeah, there was a Jimmy Kimmel Las Vegas Bull but yeah, Okay,
Jimmy Kimmel's not really in this, like yeah right right, Snoop Dogg
is there's I mean, there's a following there, a demographic there, you
know, from you to Martha Stewer fans even but I mean my son who's
thirty, right, yeah, you know, I mean they're capturing a demographic
that those guys, my son and his buddy's on the text that they were
excited as hell. They thought it was the coolest thing. Yeah. I
mean, that's that he released where he said he's taking his talents Arizona was
really cool. Yeah. So you know, here we are, Steve and
I you know, uh, I mean, wouldn't have one foot in the
grave or anything. But we're you know, we're not the demographic anymore.
Here's the problem. Well, I wouldn't say what the problem is. Yeah,
well what do you mean? Well, because because you I'll say this.
Okay, So it's the demographics. So the young kids love it.
Let's see how many young kids go to the game. They might not go
to the game, they may watch the game. Well you know what I'm
saying. Make go ahead, Hi, you're on the air and eye on
the ball. Hey, I just that that that Bowl game is going to
keep a lot of kids in town that usually go out of town to watch
the basketball game. So I think it's gonna help our basketball team. It
could, but I think more of the name. If Snoop Dogg is going
to be at the game, if he's going to be doing events and stuff
like that, there's gonna be people coming to see that. I want to
know if he's gonna have a concert, buddy, Oh yeah, yeah,
no, I'm just thinking basketball wise is going to keep the kids in town
wanting to not give up their seats for the winter game. You're talking to
school kids, students, Well yeah, well, actually the thing there is
that they they the the between Christmas games that students don't get. They don't
get those seats as part of the student season tickets. They might ask their
rich parents. Yeah yeah, I still want my seat to the game because
that's usually our people's only chance, uh to get to see some games.
So they gonna hop on that quick. Yeah, you're that's a good that's
a really good point. And he has a concert like a halftime for like
a twenty minute thing. Yeah yeah, it'll be mega. Yeah, you're
right, good call. Thank you no good, that's a good call.
I mean against Steve, they're you know, they're gonna, you know,
we're gonna stick around. My point was the kids going to the games.
They may don't think it's happy and fun, but okay, they watch it
because it doesn't evolve in Arizona. It's right, Tim Buck two, Tim
Buck two. Right. So but but as you said, if if let's
say he's going to come and do a twenty minute performance at the tailgate or
or halftime or his buddy's right or whatever, or he's just gonna be walking
around at the tailgate or whatever, people are gonna want to come and be
a part of that. And so I it's you know, we'll talk more
with about this with Kim. But I think I it's a really really to
me, really smart move on their part to get to get some interest.
I mean everybody. I mean, there are a lot of people talk about
on social media, national people talking about it. I really agree with you
saying it's it's fresh, and I think it is. It's I think to
make it cool. I think I think the whole fact he fits with Arizona's
campus. It's different than him being how old is Hei the reason why he's
an old dude who still still has that group of demographics. Yeah, yeah,
he kind of does cover the entire scope of the spectrum. There snoop
Dog is fifty two years old, so he's not young. He's not old,
but he's not young. Middle aged, one might say. Clark Candiotti
has been named the Pack twelve Picture of the Week after a complete game shoutout
over Stanford this past weekend. He was throwing babies. I got the tail
end of that game. He was throwing gas. He was still throwing gas
at the end. Again, we had that conversation. We talked to Michael
Levin. He said he's not their best picture that the Friday Night guy has.
But Ken, I'm yeah, I've been really every time I've seen Clark
Candiotti throw, he's been throwing. He's throwing well, so I'm I'm his
sort of his momentum comment. Steve has I'll let them use the word out
of content. What do you call that irresponsible? It's not where no one
ever uses out irresponsible. There's a word out there that's I'll come up with.
So Arizona's men's tennis team, number nine in the nation, has secured
it spot in the sweet sixteen of the n CUAA Championships this past Saturday,
after they swept number twenty four Auburn for nothing. And the sweet sixteen spot
is the third for the Wildcats in the last four seasons, right, and
they're going to Colombia to play on Saturday. It's ten o'clock in the morning
Tucson time. They're twenty six and three. I mean, that's a that's
a hell of a record for it for a tennis team. They're the number
nine seed, so well, we'll see how that how that goes. But
yeah, they're, uh, you know, they're let's see what Columbia's the
eight seed. So interesting. So it's sweet sixteen. It's a it's a
sixty fourteen bracket, so they're trying to get to the Elite eight. If
they win, they would play the winner of Ohio State, who's the number
one one seed in the region and or number one seed in the tournament,
and the sixteenth seed Mississippi State. So the winner of that place winner of
Arizona clumbiame. Former San Diego State offensive lineman Jonah Rodriguez also has committed to
Arizona. We learned. Just like today, we have his his his vitals,
his vitals. Let me pull up, let me see, let me
see his blood work here, six four and seventy five pounds. Three star
prospect in the twenty twenty three class. Yeah, big boy. And he's
how mean years of eligibilities does he have left? But we know he picked
stsu over offers for a variety of schools in twenty twenty one. Okay,
So so he played twenty twenty one, twenty two, and twenty three or
three more years of at least at least at least one maybe two. So
there you go. All right, Look, you always need big boys like
that. They're not a diamond dozen the line lines win championships. I mean,
we just watched Michigan have dominant offensive end, defensive lines and walk through
to Tames. Rudy Gobert is questionable tonight. Uh for personal reasons. People
believe that it's due to the birth of his his his son. Oh and
so but there's optimism. I know, there's a there's a reporter out of
Minnesota that tweeted that the baby boy was delivered this morning, and there's optimism
that because it was delivered, So early that he can play tonight. Are
they playing in Minnesota tonight? It is in Denver? And I don't think
jump on a jump on a jumper the jet, go ahead, go ahead.
I see draft Kings being down with it right now. Well I checked
earlier. Plus I think, oh yeah, with the money line for the
tim Wolves is like plus two fifty right now. Yeah, So pat Riley
has had a lot to say after After Jimmy Butler was kind of mocking the
Celtics saying that things would be different if he was healthy, pat Riley kind
of insinuated, you know, be quiet. If you're gonna play, then
you can play. But if you're gonna sit on the bench, I don't
want to hear you talking about how would have been different. But he also
said Tyler Hero needs to you know, if he's going to be a big
part of this team, he needs to actually be on the court as well.
So pat Riley was not holding back this past weekend when it came to
his players unavailable during the playoffs. Yeah, well, you know, yeah,
go after pat Riley. He's not done much in the NBA, right,
I mean, I don't know. I like pat Riley when he talks
like that, because it's it's rare that you get a guy put these guys
that much like right, you're not you know you really you think you're somebody,
you're not exactly right. And I like that. You know, we
had the Patrick Beverley conversation on Friday where you know, I would be all
for not letting that guy ever play in the NBA again. You'll get something,
yeah, sugar, it a lot. Texans owner Tom McNair says that
the wide receiver Tank Dell will make a full recovery from his gunshot wound he
suffered a couple of weeks back. Okay, wow, and I know that
I heard about it. Hear about that. Yeah, so he was caught
in like a crossfire somewhere there was a shooting and he had like hitting the
thigh. Yeah, okay, you's gonna make a four recovery and I guess
be back for the season, be low average. But yeah, that's all
I had for breaking news today. All right, Okay, Well, following
up on the on the tennis thing, we talked about women's golf. They're
in a in fifth place in the in the regional baseball place there tomorrow up
at a s U a non conference game up at a s U. Then
they go to Utah for the weekend. Softball starts their Pack twelve tournament on
on Thursday. Arizona's got Washington. Arizona's the five seed and Washington is the
four seed, and that game, that game, the tournament is up in
Stanford and then uh, you have Pack twelve track coming up at the end
of the week also up and bolder up in Colorado. Air then air for
some of the long distance runners. Elevation, yep, elevation. So you
know, all the you know, conference tournament stuff coming up. Baseball still
got a ways to go. They still got some more uh some more,
some more games left to play. To mention, they've got they've got Utah
schedule. Yeah, I was wondering, did they get beat by Well,
we gotta have a chip in before. Yeah, this all gets crazy because
you now at the end of the year and the summer's gonna come and we'll
be searching for people. Yeah, Okay, They've got Utah and then they
close out the home season the following week with Oregon State. That'll be a
tough, a tough assignment. But if they're at home, you know,
they got to shot at then the Pack tof tournament starts May twenty first,
that's up in Scottsdale. So so two more series for baseball and then Pack
twelves and there still in first place. Man, Yeah, which is great.
They were picked Tull they finished ninthy picked the really is low. Yeah,
before the season starts. So so I mean they swept Stanford, so
they're still up. I think they got a two game lead. Oh,
I know what I want to we reported last week. Greg of course,
Augie Bush, Oh god, yeah, I got that parted ways. They
the two words that they always use. Yeah, when we've had his dad,
we think a lot of obviously had the program going with one of the
best in the country, well both both women and men, and then he
left to coach the USA team or to be ahead of the USA, and
they've gone downhill ever since. Well, and Greg, who's always been Johnny
on the spot with with uh swim stuff, with swim stuff, you know,
I mean always you know, in his notes call him you could always
find stuff about swimming. He wasn't like criticizing the decision. You just said,
they haven't been good for a while. And regardless of the name in
the end. You have to you know, you have to you have to
show right, well the numbers haven't the numbers were not bear it out.
Yeah, yeah, so there was that, you know what the shocking thing
about that was. And I've seen her at the games. I thought she
was just visiting. I didn't know what a man de Beerr was an assistant
coach. Yeah, I didn't realize that. I saw it some games and
think, oh, it should be great to have on the show. So,
hey, what are you doing? Well, no, she's doing she
was an assistant coach on the program. Didn't realize that. Yeah, okay,
yeah, so yeah, I know that. You know again historic name,
right, That'd be like if Loud Olson's kid was coaching here, BROI
was surprised with here and he got fired. What's another one of those legacies
and names for you? You know, how do you do this? Well,
a new ad comes in and you know, said, well I can
hear. Yeah, well, I don't know if you saw another another the
administrator. I knew that. In fact, he's gonna be part of my
story because he was. He was. He helped instrument lead the lead the
way for the golf of the new golf facility. Yeah yeah, so yeah,
no, he's gone. I checked into it because I didn't know how
to identify him. He's doesn't take the job till June. Okay, so
he's here. He'll tell you a a all right, yeah yeah okay,
but yeah, you know, good stuff. Nice job, Kevin. Appreciate
it. Appreciate you. Thank you for stepping and stepping in and doing it.
Okay, real quick, we're gonna take our next break. We're gonna
come back. Kivi Adair, executive director of the Snoop dogg Arizona Blew,
presented by I what Gin and Juice. Gin and Juice will be on to
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Steve Rivera and Jacob Salez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back
to One on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen five. I'm Steve Rivera,
he's Jacobs als Now I want to pull We have tim a Dare of
the new Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl. Is that correct? The real The full
title is Snoop Dogg Arizona Bole presented by Induced by drand Snoop I'm interested.
What's the media prize gonna be? Yeah, not what you're thinking, Oh
man, I'm thinking of juice. I know you're what you're We know what
you're thinking of. Steve. It wasn't it wasn't rocket sized to figure that
one out. Well, congrats to you guys. Honestly, this created a
national buzz. Yeah, we're really excited about that. You know. Creating
all this terrific visibility for Southern Arizona and our community is certainly something we always
are trying to spotlight and and it happened today. I mean, we're just
so thrilled about this new sponsorship, this new presenting sponsor. It's just an
incredible day for us today. Tell us a little bit about how this came
together, because you know, Steve and I were talking and you know,
I'm a I'm a veteran of the old you know, copper bowl inside dot
com bol committees, and I know how hard it is to squeeze money out
of people. I know, I know it's a different era, a different
time right now. But how does something like this come together that is one
unusual let's call it unusual, but a better word for it, I think
is incredibly innovative. For you guys, How did this come together? Thank
you? So, you know, after we did our barstool deal, we
earned, you know, a reputation of being open and out of the box
and kind of risk takers. And when we started the search for a new
title sponsor, we worked with the consultants and they understood this about us and
knew that, you know, basically everything was on the table. Let's try
to figure out the most innovative approach to this sponsorship. And someone on that
team had a relationship with death Row Records and they made an introduction and a
day later we were on the phone with the president of death Row and immediately
she got it. She loved it. She could see how new passions could
be integrated into everything they do. And then at the Super Bowl they have
just launched been induced by Jerian Snoop canned Ready to Drink beverage, and we
invited them into the party. I was able to get, you know,
for the first time approval from our conferences in the NCAA to bring in an
alcoholic beverage beverage as a presenting sponsor. And you know, every step of
the way, it's like, can we do it? Can we do it?
Here we are? We did it, and it was It's been an
awesome It's been an awesome journey. There's no question. I think you guys
think out of the box with with with Ali yourself. When did not the
aha moment, but did you kind of like raise your eyebrows when they first
came to you and said, oh, this is boss building and thinking hmmm,
I think this could work. When they raised it, I was like,
absolutely, get it done. Get me on the phone with them.
I would love it. I just think it would be so amazing. Everybody
knows, like, you know, first of all, Stupid's an icon in
music and entertainment and pop culture. He has this huge love of college football,
right many people know that. You know, this summer, he is
the face of the Olympics for NBC. He's doing the opening and closing ceremonies
and all the athletes interviews. He's you know, he's an icon. And
having him involved with our game and having him really embrace what we're doing as
a game, you know, the pieces of it, and then wanting to
even elevate that it's super excited, super exciting. I mean, it's just
been a joy to put this together and share it with our community. So
so you've got you've got a name like this that you know, everybody recognized,
even you know, two old guys like Steve and I. You know,
we all know who's knew. What's this going to do for you?
Not only you know, with the local community in terms of you know,
more sponsorships, more attention, more, but nationally and when I could would
there be some blowback because of who he is. Right, So what it
does for us is you're exactly right. It puts us really at a national
level as far as sponsorships coming through, Like we've already been approached by by
a lot of national sponsorships, just sponsors just today who want to be involved.
It also helps us, I think from a fan at standpoint, you
know, people are excited to come here and see their teams play, but
there's now an extra motivation for them to make the ship to Tucson and then
to activate fans both in Arizona and around Arizona to come and have this experience
at the University of Arizona with the Snoopdog Arizona Bowl. So it just is
going to hands everything that we're doing and just put more butts and seats.
More butts and steeps means more money for charity, right, and that's what
it always comes down to. So now is there barstools also your you know,
your your TV contract. Is there something in place there or what's what's
going on with that? And if you're working on that, how does this
help that? Yeah, So we have a national linear broadcast partner that we
are just finalizing a contract with. We couldn't get it done in time to
make it for this announcement, So there will be another announcement here in the
next week or two detailing who that TV partner is. But I can tell
you one of the you know, exciting things about what we're doing is that
Noop will likely be in the broadcast boots for the game, so either part
of it or all of it. He'll be the color commentator, which is
going to be fantastic. It's going to make this one of the most watched
games outside of maybe this you know, the CSP play. It's just gonna
be really fun, really innovative. He's got a terrific perspective. You've got
excellent at it if you've seen him do it in other places. Like I
said, he's doing a lot of this for the Olympics this summer, and
he's going to be a fan favorite. So oh, my question before you
came on was maybe he'll even have a concert with maybe some of his buddies.
I think. I think everything is on the table, Steep, you
know, bringing music and elevating this whole thing is part of the plan,
and we're excited to start, you know, now that we're the announcement stage
of this, we're excited to start putting together the details and that will definitely
include you know, musical guests and special special surprises. I think, okay,
I'll put that in the neither could confer or deny this song. This
is so this is so cool for two songs. Because he's been here a
number of times, this is kind of like a spot for him. Yeah.
Yeah, he's really a fan of youth on and you know, he
has this youth football league that he has in LA. It's like the biggest
one. He's had sixty thousand kids go through that youth football league. He's
got forty kids in the NFL and street kids I went through that program are
on the team at the University of Arizona. So he got a soft flat
for Arizon. He loves Tucthson and you know he's excited to be here and
it's just a quick flight from LA all right. So you guys have really
got to put your thinking hats on right to figure out the way to make
the most out of all of this. And I'm sure that there's some thoughts
and ideas that you haven't even come up with, right, I mean,
what's that going to be like for you guys going in? You know,
going into the game, you've got a lot of time, but sometimes you
don't depending on what you want to put together. What's that going to be
like for you all? It's one of the you know, my favorite parts
of the job, Jay, is that I get to come up with all
these work with people and come up with these creative of any fun, exciting
ideas. And you know, with a platform like this with Snoop and Gin
and Juice Viberiant Snoop involved, it's it's really the sky's the limit, our
imagination is our is our limit here, and so we're really excited to be
able to, you know, put Gin and Juice Viberiants Snoop on the map,
which is a new breadth beverage. A lot of people haven't heard of
it. It just launched it at the super Bowl. It's fantastic. I
have never had gin before, and I am like, I'm a true fan
of this stuff. Now I'm I'm typically a vodka drinker, but man,
I'm in on a delicious and so it's really exciting to be able to put
our sinking hats on and figure out ways to elevate all of us throughout this
process. And I've already had so many calls some local restaurants and bars and
just you name it, saying we want to get this in our in our
bar so that we can start supporting them and promoting the bull. So we're
excited about that. So you've kept us under the wraps for how long?
And how difficult was that? Oh god, it's probably been the most challenging
thing of my life. Can you imagine not being able to help people that
you're talking with Snoop? So yeah, we've been working. You know,
we've been talking with Nuop and death Row since about October. Nup's representatives along
with master P. His good friend master P came to our game, did
check it all out and see what it was was like, and Snoop was
being facetimed and being shown everything live, so you know, they loved the
experience and we all knew kind of right away that we were needed to figure
out a way to make it all work. And so it's been it's been
something that was been working hard on and oh my gosh, today's a great
day. The best Monday of my life, I think we're talking became a
Dare Executive Doctor of the Now. Snoop Dog Arizona Bowl presented by Gin and
Juice and Doctor Dre and Snoop and something like that. Yeah, I got
most of it right. So is there now we know we have the date
of the game right, but do you do you have a time for the
game yet or is that gonna Could that change when you get your TV thing
done? So the game will be December twenty eighth, and I think kickoff
will be around two thirty pm local time, which is which is where we've
been kicking off, you know, the last few years. So that's a
Saturday two thirty great time and date. We expect seventy two degree weather.
Just kidding, but it should be a great time all round. Okay,
I have one. I have an idea. Just hit me. It just
it was just one of those lighting boats that hit me. You get Snoop
Dog to ride the taco down on the taco drop. He's like waving a
cowboy hat or something, riding it like a bucking bronco all the way to
the ground. Jay, he doesn't have enough meat on him to come down
to talk. I'm just saying, right, you just have him like sitting
on the taco coming down and and he's on the he's part of the drop.
There you go, Could you tell mething's possible to everything possible? Could
you tell that came from an old man who doesn't know any Snoop Dogg songs?
But I do know tacos. Yeah, there's that. There's that.
Yeah, you can. You can appeal to a lot of the younger crowd
obviously because of who he is. What about the older class, older guys
like Jay and and myself, even though I kind of know him or is
that a problem? Probably not even an issue. No, I think Snoop
crosses all demographics. I mean people are fans of his, you know,
of all ages, which is really exciting. And you know, the Gin
and Juice song that that nuke created thirty years ago is really coming back around
again. There's different versions of it. Uh On Sinco Demayo. They just
released a mariachi version of Juice a week before the country music artist released a
how you know, a country music version of it. And I think there's
a couple more versions this will come, which really crosses all types of demographics
and barriers, and so it's really exciting to see see that. I think
that he's widely popular from you know, teams all the way up to people
our age, well, Kim. You hit a home run. Everybody there
hit a home run. So we look forward to it. We'll talk to
you more. Yeah, it'll be fun to see this thing come together.
Well, we'll see you on December twenty eighth. Well, thank you,
thank you, Kim. All right, thanks bhie Kim. And what a
fantastic thing. Even more that she talks about it, because it becomes more
clearly. Well, I tell you that the minute I heard of it,
and you know again on a on a text ed with with my son and
some of his buddies, I said, that's you know. I've done stack
Crew for the Arizonable every year except this last year because I was out of
That's a stack crew that I want to be on because I want to get
whatever the partying gift or whatever the the media gift is, whether it's a
you know, maybe a nice flask with some gin and juice, a six
pack of it or whatever. You know. I'm an I'm not. I
don't like like like the the what the premid? Yeah, like the what's
it called the bear claw and beer? Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
bike law. I don't drink any of those either. But because of
this, and I'm i am a little bit of a gin drinker. I
will try I will probably try this. What could have happen to that's the
that's the that's the idea, right, yeah, yeah. What they could
do too is maybe have especially can from the Arizona Ball. Right, it'll
tour has its own beer with right, tour beer. Right, that'll be
cool. They'll be collecting stuff like that. Right, we'll see. All
right, Hey, thanks to Kevin Dare, executive director of the Snoop Dog
Arizona Ball I'm not gonna say the best. All right, We're gonna take
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exes at all. It's Steve Rivera and Jagen Salvaz. This is I on
the Ball on Fox Sports fourteenth the Hey, welcome back to my I on
the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, you're Jagan's
aus stept Kevin. Here for fifteen more minutes and then we're done for the
day. If you're missing podcasts, there's a reason Jay was on his death
better pairents. I was, And you know, I just hit me.
I didn't even post a Friday when and I was on the show on Friday,
So our podcast Wednesday, Thursday Friday, I was on my death on
the one I think if you could post it was the one with with Tom
Tounncliffe because I love you know here, I promise he was good. He
was very good. And he said anytime we want him on, he can
come on. He's a daughter coming here to school now, Okay, so
he's gonna be living a little partly here about the house. So it'll be
good. It'll be good heaven for football to do some analysis. You know
what I'll do. I'll put like, I'll put all the guests together of
those three shows and I'll post that as one podcast. They don't want to
hear you and me'd be good. There were some good things. Uh,
there were some great things while you were Goda. It happens, Steve,
you know, I sometimes, you know, sometimes things things just come together
when I'm not around, and it happens that way. I got to tell
I was sick. For those out there who care, don't care. The
neuro virus is what I had, and it was it's that awful stomach the
virus that you get and it's just a violent, violent for yeah, for
for twenty four hours, you just go, you just go. It's go
time in every different direction. And then then it takes a couple of days
to recover from that. But it's incredibly contagious and all four of the people
in my house got it. And my son, who's not in our house,
he started he got it first, and then the four of us all
got my wife and my two daughters, and so from Tuesday through Friday afternoon,
it was death in our house. You just didn't want to be there.
Okay, there you go. I mean, more information than you need.
But when I was, you know, I was on the show from
home on Friday, and my daughter was in the in the in the back
room wretching while we were on the while we were on the air. So
that good that we didn't hear that. Good. She went to the fire
bathroom to make sure you didn't hear it. I mean she she literally thought
of that. She said, I I don't want them to hear me.
Yeack, you know my dad show. So she went, so she went
into the fire bathroom so we couldn't hear her. I didn't know it until
afterwards. But that was my week last week, Steve, How was yours?
This is fine? It was fine, No big deal. There's another
day, the life of coming here, working, working my butt off.
Here we go get a call. All right, let's take this call.
Aight, you're on the air and eye on the ball. Yeah, man,
Jay, how do you get this disease? Man? You you get
around somebody who's got it so uh that or who's about to have it.
So that's how it's it's just spreads. Me. Let me say something.
I think the happiest man in Tucson with the Arizona Bowl is Nico Nico.
Do you hear about that first voice? Yeah? Hey man, I missed
the segment. You just smoking a giant endorsed by Nico the Snoop dogg Arizona
Ball Nico, He's gonna be on like real TV. Yeah, we don't
know yet, but it looks like yeah, they're they're they're finishing up their
contract. But uh yeah, Snoop's going to be here for the Bowl game.
Hey man, he has a show at half time, show up at
half time and then that's what that's. Let me ask you something. Do
you think it's going to be a hit because of who he is or because
he's not what represents But guys like you, younger guys, what are you
kind of feeling a demographic? Yes, of course you're one of our youngest
listeners, you and Gabe. I'm feeling tireeted. But yes it will work.
Okay. See that's all I needed to know. I am putting you
in the corner. So nobody puts Nico into the corner. Just Jeva,
what's up? Man? Did you have to say it on like one of
those little blow up Nico that's for hamorrhids. I don't have that in a
demographic I needed. I needed k pads, Nico, I needed pads.
That's what I needed. That's sorry, Sorry, sorry about that. Thanks
for calling that. Well. I think Nico will be a fan of the
Year Arizona. I think Nico is gonna get a ticket. Yeah for sure.
Yeah, I mean Nikos a fan. Anyways. I don't know if
you could go to the airontle ball anyways, but he will go to this.
His dad will have to take him. That will have to take him,
supervisor supervising. Yeah, go get out of the car. Hi,
you're on the air and Hine on the ball. Blair, first time,
long time, appreciate it. It was Colin, what what are we gonna
do to get more people out to Arizona baseball? This is probably our best
team we've had in five or six years for regular season or at least the
twenty twelve, and I mean we get a decent crowd, but we got
a huge series coming up, not only this weekend in Utah, but in
two weeks against Oregon State, which will probably be for the regular season championship.
So blurr. Do you go frequently? I do my wife and I
try to hit two out of the three games. Okay, So tell me
what do you see? What's the tennis like? Well, I know we
were just shy of ten thousand for the series this weekend, so I think
I think we there was like thirty nine hundred Friday night, thirty six hundred
Saturday night, and I think they had like twenty seven or twenty eight hundred
yesterday. You know, Blair, you know, you know how the fans
are here. You win, they usually come out. But I think I
think baseball is part of it. I think is maybe you know, they
got a little bit of a slow start and people didn't realize that these guys
could be really really good. But they've been really really good for a while
now, so I don't know, you know, I know, you know,
I mean, I've gone on to a couple of games. I love
watching watching Clark Candiotti pitch. I love watching him pitch, but I think,
uh, you know, it's the last you know, Oregon State people
got to realize Oregon State's a big series that you know, they're they're huge.
So I don't know, you just keep talking about it and you know
what, we're gonna try and get Chip on you know before that. But
you know, just uh, I don't know, I don't know beyond that.
So so what do you think? So they got what you said ten
thousand ish? What do you how many more could you get there? Maybe
a day? What's what's it tendance? Five thousand? No, they get
more than that. I mean when I went to in twenty twelve when we
hosted the region and then the Super Regional, they were getting like that an
eight thousand fans and instead of you know, at High Corbett. Yeah,
I think if that happens again, you'll get that. Yeah, but not
now. I mean, I think four thousand is a good crowd, but
you'd like to see more, especially for a team that has been this good,
and it's been this good for you know, the entire conference season.
So uh, you know, I keep talking about it, keep plugging it,
and we you know, we talk about it plenty here because I loved
it. Look that, as they say, there's a sunset at the at
the at High Corvett on the night of the UFA baseball game is as good
as it gets out there. So yeah, with the palm trees and the
palm trees and all that in the background, right, can't beat it,
right, you can't. You can't. So hey, keep going and we'll
we'll try and drum up some more crowds for you. All right, Thanks
guys, thank you, thanks for calling, Thanks for calling the first time,
first long time. No, there really isn't. I can't imagine that
there, Kevin, you go probably go out there. I can't imagine there
are much better settings in college baseball. And the weather's been that well,
there's been, it's been. It's been perfect. I mean, yeah,
the couple of games that I went to recently unbelievable. I in fact,
I went to two of the the Washington State series and it was just unbelievable.
The funny thing about it is, I think maybe you'll agree, or
maybe you know this been to me. Wasn't it just a month or so
ago? Chip couldn't coach or whatever? Yeah, people are saying little over
a month ago, people were saying this, and the question whether we did
the right higher YadA, YadA, YadA. Yeah, and now they're probably
gonna win the league. No, those trippers are chippers. Trippers are gone.
Yeah, you know, and and look, the food is good,
the beer is there, it's it's a good time. But you know,
once they hit the playoffs, I think people are yeah, they're hosting.
Yeah, if they're hosting, they'll get the crowds. But there is a
big series. Well, the Utah Utah is in the second place. I
went and left up the standards series, y Stanford, right, and they
got you. They're at Utah. That's a big series. They could win
the league in this in this series. And then they've got Oregon State,
who's you know, are good every year coming up after that, so that'll
be a big series as well. So yeah, you know, fans got
need to get out there and get this team going. I mean, six
games left, they can win this league, which as good as Arizona has
been over the years, they haven't won the league a bunch of times.
They always go to the not always, but they often go to the NCAA
tournament stuff like that, because you don't have to win the league to do
that. But you know, winning the league is not an easy thing.
It's a it's a tough league. Still. Yeah, and then you did
surprisingly well surprisingly I don't know if that's the right word anymore. Good for
Chip, good, good for Chips. But for a guy who wants to
be here, yeah, does it probably won't leave if he finds success.
Yeah, I know what he'll say if we ask him, you know,
do you see that or listen to that? And he'll say no, you
know, you just I just go on and do what I do. But
you know, you have to know that people are out there saying, you
know, questioning whether you're the right guy for a program like this. Well,
it's people that have no business even you know, saying anything. Right,
pretty much right, That's what I've learned the guys, And not to
disparage that, but it's true. I mean, just they do something and
it's not good enough for them. Look, and then again, a guy
you know who's you know, through all this baseball travels, you know,
in the major leagues of his family has lived here. His family has lived
here since you know, since I don't know since he left college. But
you know, my kids went to school with his kids, right well,
they were his kids went to the schools that my kids you know went to,
you know, attended, and so it's uh, it's great that he's
here. So let's take this call. Hi are on the air and on
the ball. Hey Jay, glad to have you back. Hi, Steve,
this is done. Hey, don real quick. You responded to I
think one of the things that have you been listening to the show all day?
Not No, it was I was talking about some of you because you
responded to somebody talking about the people who are dying for information, like the
girl who transferred. I think you chimed in on this and said, doesn't
work out that way. If you get the news early, you get the
news early. Football doesn't uh doesn't purposely give you information. Oh yeah yeah
yeah. On the Facebook thing, yeah, somebody was complaining that they're not
they're not coming with all the information. Well you can't have all the information
and unless you're on the staff, right, Yeah, No, I thought
it. The guy was annoying to me. He just was annoyed to me.
I yelled at my phone, Steve. I was like, dude,
what are you asking for I go, don't be stupid, go apply and
go go see if they'll let your let you be a manager on the team.
And then you you're still not going to get all the information exactly.
They're gonna shut They're gonna shut the door when they start talking exactly exactly.
Okay, it wasn't just me. I knew you were on the thing.
I've seen who is this guy? What's this guy up to? Whatever?
Okay, what'd you go with that? Dot? Well, I was gonna
call about the baseball say the one of the bad looks about High Corbett Field
is that it's set up for spring training and having eighty five hundred people there
because the bleachers go all the way to the fence, right. It's a
big stadium. It's a it's a huge stadium because opening night in the twenty
twelve season, we had like ten thousand people there. That night. I
had to park over in the service in the service parking lot at the Zoo.
But we got in, We got in, and that season there.
I mean, I mean, this this season is turning out to be really
good. I'll be there next Thursday when they play Oregon State and then we'll
see what happens the rest of the weekend. Yeah, you know, and
I mean I I think I know Blair who just called, you know,
would like to see more folks out there. And you always want more if
if you can fit more. But I think four thousand and four college baseball
crowds is pretty good. Pretty pretty good. You know when when you know,
when you go to a game, there's four thousand people there, there's
atmosphere. It's not like, you know, you're clapping and everybody, you
know, everybody can hear. I mean, it's it's a good atmosphere with
that many people. Would you like a few thousands more? Sure, But
I think that it is. I think it's there. And Arizona led the
fact twelve in attendance since they moved to hy Corbon. Yeah yeah, every
year, every year. I mean, Oregon's got a nice, pretty field,
but it's a bandbox. I mean it's you know, what's its seat
like two thousand? Yeah, you know, if Arizona gets to host,
and if they were to get it get into a super regional, that place
is gonna be rocking and it's gonna be hotter than heck, yeah, it'll
be rounded. June I went to the Super Regional and I went to the
sun. The last game there was a Saturday afternoon game where was maybe a
Sunday, wasn't It was like one o'clock game Mississippi whoever they played in twenty
twelve, twenty twelve, and my wife and my daughter went with me and
they left after the second inning and I said, I'm staying because I'm gonna
cut this out and if I die, I die, you know, because
it was that hot. It was unbelievably hot that day. It was.
And in twenty twelve was the same thing when Louisville came, Well that's what
I'm talking about, and they and they brought their black uniforms. Yes,
yes, yes, we thought, oh man, so it's so good that
it's so hot. Yeah, that's the game of that's the game I'm talking
about. The twenty twelve, the twenty twelve a super here that was ridiculous,
unbelievable. But yeah, we'll be there, right Donny. But it's
a home field avantage. It is, it is, it is. You
know, that's a that's a real home field and vantage in baseball. So
Donny, just you know, I'm going to send all the people that annoy
me to you, just just at me. Double team. All right,
we'll go with the old school Ludolson matchup zone, all right, don Hey,
thanks a bunch man, appreciate the calls all the way. Guys.
Ye, all right, it's this is a fun day, good day.
Congratulations again to the Snoop dogg Arizona Ball for that sponsorship. That's good.
I think it's gonna be really good for for the bowl game, man for
Tucson. A lot of visibility for Tucson coming out of that. And and
again thank you to Chris Rastat or some fun stuff talking about you've got to
do this again tomorrow. We gonna find us to know, all right,
we do, we do. We will do it again tomorrow, So be
sure to come back tomorrow and we'll bring it on again. So see you tomorrow.