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This is I on the Ball with
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Welcome to I on the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera.

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You're jagon Zalis. I sound a
little bit different. Do I sound

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a little you know? You sound
the same. Ball? Hey, maybe

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it's too loud, Okay, I
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with this volume, the volume nab
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have a volume. No. I
thought I was gonna be like NiCoT a

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little out over there. I need
to be able to hear him and hear

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this. Okay, you get good, man, My my hearing is bad.

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I blew up my ear several years
ago with a with the fireway when

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you're sitting in a different s yeah. Yeah, So it's it's all that

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stuff. Hello, everybody. Maybe
you get some calls today throughout the whole

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show. We have a different type
of show, you collective type of show,

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right five, five, two,
four one, six seventy four forties

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the number you can call in.
UM, we're gonna start at three fifteen

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with James Reddy UH former he was
he was the first year UM UH trainer

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athletic trainer at the two Sound Sugar
Skills UH. Through his work at Banner

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continues to work with Banners as a
sports medicine guy. UM and Banners doing

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a really a really cool thing this
on Friday. UM. You know,

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every athlete that plays high school sports
has to get a physical. There's some

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athletes who can't afford it, some
who can but don't want to pay for

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it. UM, Banner from about
one o'clock until five thirty on Friday is

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gonna be offering free physicals that meet
the requirements of the AIA. You're gonna

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be doing it at the at the
UFA Football's indoor practice facility, the Cole

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and Jeanie Davis UH Center, and
they'll be over there for about four and

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a half hours offering free physicals to
anybody who needs one. And so James

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is gonna come in and talked to
us about out of just Banner's role in

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doing some of those things, yeah, yeah, because he's involved with They're

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involved with a lot of things.
Yeah, while they're the main sponsor named

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sponsor of the El Tour, and
I see day at the time I wrote

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in al Tour, I you know
they needed you. I was on their

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team for one you need and then
you know James helped me out. So

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uh fun guy. I had a
really good time working with him that first

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year at the Sugar Skulls and so
um, really good guy. But a

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good thing that that Banner's doing this
uh this week at UH at the UFA.

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So hopefully uh we'll get that word
out to talk a little bit about

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how that's gonna work and some other
stuff that the Banners involved in. So

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we'll have that at three fifteen,
and then at four fifteen we're gonna bringing

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Sam Thomas, who also has a
camp coming up this week. I think

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it's Saturday or Friday. Uh,
it's this week her second annual UM second

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annual UH summer camp. UM.
She's going to be doing it out at

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the at the Jewish UH Community Center
and uh uh, so we wanted to

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let her come on talk a little
bit about how that's gonna work for her,

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how to sign up, how do
you become a part of that,

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and all the things you get if
you go to this camp. So it's

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a it's a you know, good
thing for uh boys and girls ages six

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to eighteen. I just just got
it called up and it's on Saturday,

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Saturday. She's still she's still with
the Mercury. I think, I know,

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I don't she could she's so quick
quickly. But it's okay. It's

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the second year that she's done this
camp again. It's boys and girls,

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uh six to eighteen years old,
and they'll be doing it at the JCC

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okay um on on the fifteenth,
which is which is Saturday. Okay,

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okay, So we'll get to that
today. Anybody want to call us,

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please do again? Enjoy said five
two four one six. A lot of

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good feedback from yesterday's show, and
it was a lot of fun with Elijah

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Russian and Mike Conans are also a
lot of the a couple of parents friends

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of mine. So that was a
very good, refreshing type of interview because

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you don't get that very often.
Well, you you have them, but

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you don't get the excitement of a
dad who's right, and that that's what

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we were trying to bring out,
right, because you and I are dads,

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our kids playing sports. Um,
we were very proud of how you

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know, what they achieved and uh, you know and all of that.

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But you know, you hear you
have a dad from Tucson and his kids

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in the big leagues, and that's
that's different. That's hard to do.

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And it was it was very cool
to talk to Mike and and see how

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exciting it was for him, how
it came about. Uh and uh,

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just you know that, uh,
you know, his kids just grew up

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playing baseball, loving baseball, worked
hard at it. You know, he's

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a big league baseball play right right, right? Right? Okay, Cool,

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what's going on today? You you
wont like two two dollars on your

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bed from I want like thirteen dollars, you know, I mean to profit

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right that ten bucks I collected twenty
three? It was just a ten dollars

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bet to have some interest in the
game last night. Uh. You know,

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the the American League had one nine
in a row. You know,

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I grew up at a time when
the Nation League won this game every year,

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right, well, they hadn't won
since twelve, right, yeah,

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the American League had won a ninth
straight. I thought, you know what,

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the Nationals got to win a game. Now, I didn't look like

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they were gonna they were down too, that's why you bet them. Yeah,

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you went against the trend. Yes, well, I guess every blinds

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squirrel. Oh yeah, I would
have gone hadn't been right eighth straight.

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Well again, I only bet an
amount that I was comfortable losing. Yeah,

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thinking I probably was. I look, I root, I still root

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for the National League. I'm a
Dodger fan, grew up a National League

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fan. Um, you know,
I don't. I don't watch the game

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on the edge of my seat like
I used to, and I don't think

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anybody does. Um, but I
was rooting for the National League. You

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know, a bunch of Dodgers were
in the lineup and they wanted to three

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to two on a home or late
in the game. And it's very cool.

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And I got an extra twenty bucks
in my and my Draft Kings account.

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Okay, well, good for you. You know, I went through

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a get off my long kind of
thing with it though, the uniforms,

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because oh my god, they did
look a little boring. Well, first

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of all, you know, one
of the things that I thought was always

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so cool about the Austar game was
all the players playing in their universe of

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their own uniforms, right, you
know when there was that period of time

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in the in the change. Huh
when when did it change? I don't

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know. I didn't. I didn't
think it had noticeable last year. I

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don't. I don't remember. This
must have been I don't remember. But

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you know, that was one of
the cool things. You know, the

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the visiting team would be in their
visiting grays or whatever color. You remember.

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The Phillies had the blue uniforms,
the Braves had the blue uniforms.

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Who else had blue? Uh?
Um uh? The Cardinals, you know,

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they had the powder blue in the
road uniforms in the National League and

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that was cool. And then you
know that everybody wore their whites on the

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you know, the home team and
vice versa, you know, and they

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would alternate, you know, and
and that was just a cool part of

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it is watching these guys all play
in their own uniforms. Then they break

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out these softwall uniforms. Yesterday,
the National League had these these dark aqua

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jerseys and black pants. Now,
none of these guys wear stirrups, right,

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so it was just solid black from
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they were playing in you know,
blue jeans or something. I mean,

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they just look like bad softball uniforms. And then the American League had these

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teal shirts to match, you know, one of the Mariners, you know,

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home colors with white pants. It
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Who had the better team? Who
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Kenny did the best team with the
best looking. Because both uniforms absolutely positively

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should ended in zero zero, it
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was almost a tie. The universe. The whole uniform thing was offset because

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both uniforms just suck. And and
again that's me, that's got off my

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long kind of guy. I know
that. You know, do they do

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those jerseys because then they can go
sell the jerseys and YadA, YadA,

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YadA. But am the National League
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Yeah, they did look strange to
me as well. I just watched a

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little bit highlights on the of the
game. I didn't watch it all.

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I hated it. Yeah, you're
becoming more and more like me. I

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like it, I will know.
I'm not sure if I liked it.

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I hate it, but I watched
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I did a pretty nice place,
pretty happy. I did have dinner during

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the games. I missed a little
bit of the game. I saw that,

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I saw the game winning homer.
I was very excited about that.

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But uh, the game doesn't generate
though, the drama and the excitement that

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it used to, like a lot
of things of the of the games where

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you were from other people or in
generally, it just didn't have. I

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think it's part of it. I
think this is what I think. We

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get older, you don't want we're
kids, as your son's younger, but

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not you're really younger. As we
get as kids, we we know the

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status. You know who's wearing,
who's what. And then as we get

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older, we have families, we
have whis, we have kids, you

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know, blah blah blah, and
it becomes you know, okay, maybe

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i'll watch man, does that have
something to do? It? May well?

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Yeah, and get out. I
don't know what what what it is

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that, but you know the game
mattered to me back in the day,

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Back in the day, yeah,
of course, man, I would be

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upset if the National League lost.
I remember the first time the National League,

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but what they had to change,
it hadn't changed itself. I don't

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know what change. No, no
from you. You don't know what change

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with you, No what it changes? When when you could tell it didn't

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matter to the players anymore, the
game doesn't didn't like the tide. But

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there was a tie in the whole
bit the games the game. The players

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stopped ring caring about winning the game. There was a time when and there

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was the time that it was evident
probably probably maybe in the last fifteen years,

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probably what did they started going with
the ties in the if you win

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your But you could tell that there
came a time when it didn't matter to

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the plays. They're making too much
money, they didn't want to get.

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Of course, guys would not play
because they had a or arm. So

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whereas if he rose nearly killed a
guy because he cared so much about the

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game. So now you wonder why
I don't like sports as much as I

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used to. Yeah, at that
part of it, I understand that you

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lose your passion, right, and
you've lost all your pass You have no

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passion I have. I have little. I watch it. I watch it

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because I'm interested, but I don't
have that. You don't edge your steam

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right because I had to put ten
bucks on it to care about the game,

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Well, you do ten bucks a
lot of different times you care about

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But but you know what I'm saying, though, anybody want to call,

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did you purpose he watch it?
Did you? Did you feel the same

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way you care about the game anymore? The way that Jay does give us.

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You know, like my son Adam, he wanted to watch a game,

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but he he follows the players.
He knows all the players. I

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was just gonna say, and he
wants to see how these players do against

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the best player. I couldn't tell
you Mookie played rightie, that's so many

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I could give you. Freddy Freeman, you throw some maybe no five if

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that one? Crapass Soto, Yeah, he hasn't played well, has he?

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No? He was on the All
Star team. I don't know how

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he got when he got the win
of the flyballs? Since how do you

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get on the Yeah? Exactly exactly. But you know, you can tell

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the players stopped caring so much about
the game. So when once that passion

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for the game was gone from the
players, my passion for the game was

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gone. If they don't care,
why why do I care? I can

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say that for a lot of different
things. When I do and I get

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it, get it because that's how
I explain it. If the people involved

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don't care, why should I,
right exactly, So that's that's kind of

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how I've I've taken it for me. And I missed that, Steve.

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This was the best of all the
all star games, right question. The

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Pro Bowl even was pretty good for
a while because guys cared about winning.

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Then that went into the rap the
NBA, the NBA All Star Game,

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so I know it's having a game
anymore. Guys don't even try. They

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just kind of jog up and down. But the baseball game, the Major

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League Baseball game, was a game
that mattered to the players, and it

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mattered to the fans, and winning
the game meant something. It's a beauty

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pageants that that's going away. And
it's funny. I remember you spend the

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daytime. People would take the day
off of work on the Tuesday, you

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know, to stay home and watch
the game because they played at a one

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o'clock in the afternoon, you know, like that like the World Series.

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Do you see how much it cost
the parking sign? I saw that sign,

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that signor but I missed that about
the Oscar game. I wish to

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wish, but that's never gonna come
back that the players they make too much

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money. It's they're not going to
take the risk. They're not gonna go

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out there. And I mean at
the end of the game, did the

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guys run out there where they excited
that they won the game? Sure?

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Yeah, but you didn't feel that
tension during the game, right, like

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it mattered you know, you know
who who? You know who's winning the

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game. As competitors, Yeah,
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play then try and win the game. You also, okay, change,

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I'll agree, let's say fifteen years
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sports. When you go to the
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go, I go out to go
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Come on, I don't want to
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I don't want to talk about work. So do you think with the guys

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you do it all the time your
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I really only the only time the
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sports, or when we're talking about
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with my kids group with my son, and there's like different like my son

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and my god Son and his group, we'll talk stuff. You know,

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they talk NBA, but they talk
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msure. And we'll get into football. We're talking college football because we got

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a bunch of guys in our group. You know, they went to different

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schools in Washington and Creighton and uh
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different colleges and so I guess we
get into we get into that and we

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talk that kind of stuff. But
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talking you have a sports I'm talking
about football. I'm talking to you of

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about or maybe even The funny thing
about it is when you I'm sure you

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get this too, when you're out
with your buddies. What do you think

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about Jed? What do you think
about Tommy? They just want reassurance suff

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they already know. Yeah, what
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we know, They think we know
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see it. I see, I'm
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All that stuff we play on our
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of it. That's what we know. That's it, that's what we know.

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like talking sports, and I do
talk sports, but I also just you

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know, it's more related to the
stuff that's personal to me. I don't

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find myself talking a lot of Major
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about the Dodgers with my son because
we're both and Bill hates it on the

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show because we're both huge Dodgers and
Bill hates it on the show. It

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bothers him. It's going to continue
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All right, let's take our break. We're to come back. We're gonna

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have James ready talking about the program
that Banners put together to do um physicals

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welcome back to Win on the Ball
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Rivera, he's Jacon's awesome. Now
on the phone, we have James ready

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from battering University Medicine. How are
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Stephen, Jay, how you guys
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You have any remedy for each stroke? I tell you what, James,

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sounds a little rock today. It
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long. I was. I was
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Saturday morning, and I'm still paying
the price for it. James, it's

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a. It's a. I actually
golf twice last week, which is really

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bad. You remember when he was
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and I'm sure you were there right
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I remember. Will do the same
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need the medic that guy get the
film by it exactly. So, um,

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so you're you guys, got a
very cool thing going on Friday at

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at the u of A UM getting
some physicals for some you know, for

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kids who won can't pay for them
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them, but something that everybody needs
to have to play a sports here in

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town. So tell us a little
bit about, well, what banners doing

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out there? Yeah, this is
our third annual and we're lucky enough to

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have some great partners in town with
the Arizona Coyotes obviously with the Tucson road

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Runners and then also the Tucson can
KEISA Doors have been really supportive to be

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able to help put on this event. And then obviously our partners with Arizona

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Athletics at the poll and Genie Davis
Indoor Facility where this will be held from

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one to five. And basically it's
a physical for like, yes, any

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youth athletes, whether they're in Tuson
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getting ready for their high school season, this is an opportunity for them to

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come get their physical done by professionals
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it too is we upgrade every year, right, like the first ones,

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Hey, let's just get these physicals
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also Hey, we added impact testing, which is a good baseline for concussion

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testing. And we've also added Fusionetics, which is an injury prevention app that

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is also at no cost everybody.
And that's the goal is we want to

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provide as many resources youth athletes to
keep them healthy so they don't have to

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come and see us in one of
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big piece of what's been going on, you know, over the last several

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years with all this is the is
the concussion stuff. And you talk about

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this impact test, tell us a
little bit about what that is and what

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it does. Yeah, So the
concussion is, for those people don't understand,

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is one of the hardest things that
not only diagnose, but treat because

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it's not like if you fracture your
leg, we take an X ray,

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boomer you're good, right, Like
we know you fractured your leg. Concussion

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wise, it's a lot of different
variables that factor into this, and return

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to play is also the bigger part
of that. So impact testing is one

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part of this stuff we do,
and it's basically a computer test that tests

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your brain function and how it's going, and having a baseline is really good

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for when you come back. We
can be like, hey, you're pery

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normal, but let's do this test, and all of a sudden, this

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test shows you're only at eighty five
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at. It's probably not ready to
put you back in sport yet. So

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it gives us a good baseline to
help not only help people recover by knowing

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where they need treatment, but also
making sure they're ready to come back.

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You do a lot of great things. This one, Um, you're just

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all over there, You're all over
the place. This must keep you young.

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Um, I like to think I
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also getting older. But yeah,
I mean, Nick say, we have

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a great team and great partners all
across, so that's what keeps just busy.

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I mean I remember when I first
started to hear we had three athletic

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trainers and we just hired our twenty
first. Wow. Right, like the

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Roadrunners were with you. Of ay, we're at many high schools, so

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it's about the growth of athletic training
and sports messon but also providing resources about

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the counts our number one with well, you know, the whole sports medicine

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business with the importance, as you
say, of health, whether it's you

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know, knowing your you know your
your brain baseline or uh, you know,

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all the things were going on and
just so much you know that takes

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place with all this. I mean, athletes are they're very they're elite,

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they're different, they're special, but
then they're also they also break down and

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they've got they have a lot of
work. I mean, you know,

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when I think about remembering when the
first Tommy John surgery was done to today,

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we're like, it's almost like everybody's
having Tommy John surgery. It's amazing

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how sports medicine has evolved over the
last many years. Yeah, it's amazing

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the difference now. I mean,
like I remember back in the day when

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I got this physical done, and
that's quite a while ago, not quite

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as long as you jay, but
I mean it was a quick doc.

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How you've been Okay, good,
you're out right now. I mean,

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we're catching heart murmurs with their cardiac
streaming. We were catching so many things

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that we were never caught before.
And it allows them to get the right

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treatment they need. But it also
allows them to educate themselves on how they

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could be a better healthy individual,
just not in sports. I mean the

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sports is kind of the spearhead,
right, like this is what you're here

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for, but it is about healthy
living in Altar. Well, Jay,

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we probably need to talk again.
No, just don't make him turn around

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and come. I'm a lost cause
you know you're talking about this this impact

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test, and I'm afraid if I
came over for one of those tests,

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you just find zero brain function and
that would be my baseline and I would

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have nothing. Yeah, I think
you got a little bit more than that.

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Yeah, So how many kids are
coming through do you expect? You

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know, that's always a good question
because of that, it's no cost.

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I mean, our goal is to
sort of every kid that needs in Tucson.

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I bet you. I mean we
average anywhere from two fifty to five

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hundred normally had events like this,
so I bet you we're somewhere in there.

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Right. But now that you've been
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kind of double right. I mean, that's that's probably the case, and

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I stout educating that. But I
tell you this, last week, my

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phone's been both my work and my
personal so like, hey, when's this

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of people need something last minute because obviously

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I mean Sun Federation just started this week.

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So there's a lot of people that
need this. And obviously we do

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love for people to go see their
pediatrician and get it done, but we

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also know some people can't afford that, some people don't have their right earns,

408
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or some people just can't get in
right. This is the best thing.

409
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And so if we get I mean
we have plenty of docs we're ready

410
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to roll for I mean up to
six seven hundred people if need be.

411
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Yeah, no, that that's one
of the issues is getting in to see

412
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your doctor if you want to get
it done at your doctors office. There

413
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were I think I think I would
call one year, all of our kids

414
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who are all playing a sport.
We ended up going over to over to

415
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TMC and they were doing something.
There was a long line there, but

416
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you know, we got it done. So uh yeah, I mean there's

417
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some people who just can't get into
their doctor in time to get this,

418
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uh to get this physical. So
do you you take a look at what

419
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the very organizations like the AIA or
football, what they require, and then

420
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and you make sure that the exam
meets all of those requirements. You guys

421
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do that. Yeah, most of
the most of the people that will be

422
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at this event will we will use
AI a form that they have. Um.

423
00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:19.680
It covers pretty much most everything we
need. We do. Obviously,

424
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our dogs are some of them are
naturally trained as well, so we make

425
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sure if there's any other stuff we
want to kind of add in. It

426
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may not be on the form because
AI is the form you need, but

427
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they're going to check it because if
it's a red flag, then they might

428
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talk a little bit off to the
side on their next part of the physical.

429
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But yeah, it's we pretty much
use AIA form. Okay, dude.

430
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Now, do somebody who wants to
get physical, do they need to

431
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bring anything? What do they have
to show up with? And do they

432
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just show up and then and stay
there until they get their physical? Yep,

433
00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:52.960
it's pretty much a walk in,
first come, first serve. Obviously

434
00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:56.880
it will probably be spread out through
the day a little bit, but all

435
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we need is it's under eighteen.
Your parents, either a parent or guard

436
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in or the AIA with consent to
treat which is for eighteen and under that

437
00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:07.359
form. We do have some forms
available, but obviously that would make you

438
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wait a little bit longer and it
takes some time to fill that out.

439
00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:15.480
So I do recommend bring that in
besides that good spirit and we'll get you

440
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in and get you out. So
hopefully the way it won't be too long.

441
00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:19.920
So we get you guys, take
carels all right, So cool,

442
00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:22.720
So let's talk about other things.
Banners out there doing a lot of Greek

443
00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.000
things in the community, very important
to them. One of them is IL

444
00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:32.799
Tour. You guys work about four
months away. It sneaks up on me

445
00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:36.599
every year that I'm like, man, l Tour is almost here already.

446
00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:40.759
It's a great advantage that it's obviously
one of the biggest events in the city

447
00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:44.599
and we're proud to support it and
the community. I mean, it really

448
00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:48.160
comes down to Banner is a huge
part of this community, one of the

449
00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:52.240
top employers, and I think Banner
is really wants to be part of the

450
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community to help out whicheveral way it
can be possible. L two is a

451
00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:59.880
perfect example, and I expect the
TJ on a bike again this year.

452
00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:03.279
You know, we gotta get it. We gotta get this event off the

453
00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:06.319
day of a football home game.
Man, I mean, that's it good.

454
00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:08.799
I'm sitting sit here, James,
I'm kind of weighing this out,

455
00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:11.720
right, do I want Do I
want to go to a football game and

456
00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:15.400
tailgate? Or do I want to
go to a bike do the bike ride

457
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.640
and throw up? I'm not feeling
which I'd rather do? Yeah, I

458
00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:22.480
do both that day, So I
think we can make it worse. We'll

459
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:25.559
figure it out. We'll do it
in the day before for you, Jacket,

460
00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:29.039
we could prevent all this, but
him starting to work out right now,

461
00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:33.200
that was it. I'm not gonna
lie, James. That was a

462
00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:36.160
tough day for me. It took
me. It was a And the thing

463
00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:38.319
was, I had done that distance
when I trained, so it's not like

464
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:42.119
it. But no, again,
as I told as I told a T

465
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:48.079
J. Jessica Witz, nobody told
me that that the twenty five mile ride

466
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:52.599
from Marana into downtown was all up
hill. You wouldn't think that, right,

467
00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:55.039
I had no idea it was all
up hill, and it was,

468
00:29:55.599 --> 00:30:00.000
and it's at the very end was
the most uphill. Okay, that's good

469
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.759
for you healthy as that right,
Well, I would I would have argued

470
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:11.359
that the health part of it with
you that day. No, but it's

471
00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:15.680
good. We'll see you with all
this because in the next four months a

472
00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:18.599
lot of riders and all the cyclists. Do you have other things coming up

473
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.960
as well? I mean pretty much
if there's a sporting event or something in

474
00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:27.599
town, we're probably there. Obviously
high school sports starting which we're at.

475
00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:30.799
We provide a lot of medical care
for a lot of the high schools in

476
00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:34.359
town as well. And then you
have a sports ramping up, like I'll

477
00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:37.440
tell you tonight, I'm going to
Becka Morris soccer camp, but over at

478
00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:42.000
the u A helping to support them. So our goal is a bitch sports

479
00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:45.920
in town, especially youth or ve
a. We want to support it.

480
00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:48.039
But I mean the colder guard we've
been out there the last couple of years.

481
00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:52.039
I mean it's what we could do
to support the community and also provide

482
00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:55.880
the best healthcare possible. Well,
tell us a little bit about how this

483
00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:57.640
has developed into such a huge business
for you guys, right, I mean,

484
00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:00.920
you've got this, this whole unit. I guess, for lack of

485
00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:06.559
a better word, that's involved in
sports Men for Banner with all the other

486
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:10.240
things that Banner does with the hospital
and the clinics that it has and all

487
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:12.319
that kind of stuff, and then
this fits in there as a as a

488
00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:15.000
giant unit where you, as you
say, you guys are all over the

489
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:21.759
place. I wanted support from leadership
and people in the community. And I

490
00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:26.039
think about this all the time,
but I think it's really sure that two

491
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:30.359
sounds of handshake count, right,
like most people you know, and the

492
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.359
more good people you know, the
better things happen. And a lot of

493
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:37.359
times lobbies are it just happens We're
at a different event and we're talking to

494
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:40.359
somebody and they're like, hey,
we need this. I'm like, hey,

495
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:42.599
let's talk about how can we help
you, like when you need it,

496
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:47.559
Let's let's do it like we do
our tour. But a spinoff of

497
00:31:47.559 --> 00:31:52.039
that is the two sound bite classic
bag goes on and that just happened,

498
00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:53.480
like hey, we don't have any
medical coverage. Can you guys help us

499
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:57.839
out please? And we get it. It's like nine people we're here to

500
00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:01.480
help no matter the sun because of
part of the community, and that's real.

501
00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:06.319
I think how it's grown is not
only to the support and resources that

502
00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:09.720
Banner does provide, but also the
relationships look good about right right now,

503
00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:15.039
you guys are have a great presence
and thanks for doing all this absolutely and

504
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:16.279
then thanks for this thing on Friday. I mean, that's really cool.

505
00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:20.359
You know, as I said,
I was a parent three kids that had

506
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:22.559
to do sports and had to get
physicals and you know, having something like

507
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:25.279
this around, I know how much
it means a lot to uh do the

508
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:28.480
parents out there, so they're good. On you guys for doing that.

509
00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:31.839
It's our pleasure. And thanks to
our partners because we couldn't do it without

510
00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:35.880
them. Of course. Thanks James, Hey, thanks a whole bunch.

511
00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:39.000
Be well and appreciate you reaching out
and covering this for us. And let's

512
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:42.880
do it again. Sounds good.
And Steve, you need to be a

513
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:51.480
little nicer on baseball right I'm not
gonna do that, James. I apologies,

514
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:53.720
all right, James, thanks so
much, man, talk you later

515
00:32:54.599 --> 00:33:02.599
than James. By the way,
thanks for listening to love baseball. I

516
00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:07.279
know the thing. I know you
love sports because you would be here if

517
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:10.000
you did, and you love talking
about it. I also but I also

518
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:15.440
see you know how how sports you
know, it's it's not the sports that

519
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:19.200
we grew up exactly. It's not
to say and it's it's totally um,

520
00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:21.759
how can I say this? You
know, it is you're a little about

521
00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.039
because of how it things have become
with without question. And one of the

522
00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:28.480
things that I learned a long time
ago is you do don't want to meet

523
00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:31.200
your heroes. And not that I've
met my heroes, but I've met kind

524
00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:35.160
of my heroes. You find out
things you don't want to you don't really

525
00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:37.480
want to know. It takes away
sort of the uh, the lamor of

526
00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:43.640
it or what you didn't you know, getting behind the scenes in Arizona football

527
00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:45.240
and all that stuff has changed how
I look at sure, how I look

528
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:47.799
at all of it. Absolutely I
agree with that. That's the best way

529
00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:50.960
I can explain it. Yeah,
I agree with you. Okay, okay,

530
00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:52.920
let's take our second break. We're
gonna come back. We'll take your

531
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costs five two zero four one seventy. Uh. You know, if you

532
00:33:55.799 --> 00:34:00.599
need some more information on that on
the on the the physicals on Friday,

533
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:04.480
we'll put that up on our on
our social media. So it's so it's

534
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handy for you. But we'd love
to take your calls and take your comments

535
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on all this stuff going on,
So keep listening. We'll be right back.

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Here's a very personal question. Oh,

584
00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:45.239
I don't have to answer it.
Do you remember your first physical? Oh?

585
00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:50.719
I know, kind of kind of. I had to be like six

586
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:54.199
or seven playing baseball, playing base
well, they did not ever, I

587
00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:58.039
don't remember ever get anyone from litter
league baseball. Yeah, we remember.

588
00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:01.880
I remember the first physical that I
remember was I played baseball. Was then

589
00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:07.480
back in popcorn and football you yeah, yeah, had to have a physical

590
00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:13.360
for that. I have a job. I just turn around a cough pretty

591
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:15.719
much, that turn around a cough. Yeah, I just remember, Yeah,

592
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:20.800
what's six maybe eight? Baseball all
the time with baseball, you really

593
00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:24.039
for literally think so I think if
I can remember correctly, this is this

594
00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:28.360
is for yeah, well for literally
baseball. We just had to sign a

595
00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:30.280
medical release that we said, you
know, if you were healthy the head

596
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:35.239
right, and we're healthy, right. Nobody did any impact baseline on me?

597
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:38.000
For sure, I'm not sure.
Just think of how the times have

598
00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:42.519
changed. But yeah, no,
you have to write because so many things

599
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.360
happening. But I remember that first
physical and you know it was my doctor,

600
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:47.800
right, you know my mom took
me to my doctor. Yeah right,

601
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:52.880
and I remember I remember him.
I just mean remember being handled in

602
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:55.559
places I wasn't used to being handed, right. Well, that's how I

603
00:38:55.679 --> 00:38:59.639
remember it because it was like a
bunch of dude young boys kind of just

604
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:04.719
yes, I knew that I went
to my doctor in an exam room.

605
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:07.440
No, I went through that once. But I remember the lines of baseball,

606
00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:09.760
baseball, but that well yeah,
but then you know I got when

607
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:14.800
I went to play freshman football at
S there was that, right. I

608
00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:17.679
remember going again, going for the
physical and I'm starting my freshman year in

609
00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:22.599
high school and I just really really
wanted to weigh one hundred pounds and I

610
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:25.239
did it, and I was really
up because you needed to be to play.

611
00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:30.079
No, I just wanted away,
actually I got I wait a hundred

612
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:31.480
prods. I wanted to be five
feet tall. I wasn't five feet tall.

613
00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:38.480
I was four eleven and change what
age? Fourteen? Really? Really?

614
00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:44.000
Oh wow? How much did you
weigh fourteen? I wait one hundred

615
00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:45.079
I wagh one hundred and five pounds? Yea, but I was I was

616
00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:50.480
four eleven. I was really upset. Okay, how it's a proportion kind

617
00:39:50.519 --> 00:39:52.639
like you are now? Yeah?
Well, no, I was much skinny.

618
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:57.599
I was a skinny kid. So
that whole summer weightlifting, and well

619
00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:00.920
and here's the fun, here's the
thing. And you know you talk about

620
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:05.239
regrets. Right at that size,
I wasn't gonna be a football player,

621
00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:07.920
right right, I mean at age, at that size, in age,

622
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:14.079
I mean yeah, in my class, in my class, there were three

623
00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:19.119
guys who all played major college football. Two of them played in the NFL.

624
00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.519
John John Missler was one of them. Okay, okay, I was

625
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:24.679
he was in my class. No, No, that was markmus I was.

626
00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:29.239
John played at ASU. Then he
played a bunch of years for the

627
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:31.719
Giants. And then a guy named
Reggie follerho I just found out I went

628
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:36.079
to prison. But he played,
uh, he played some professional football,

629
00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:38.360
I think in the USFL or something
like that. But but Anyways, there

630
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:43.239
were some big guys in my class. So I my big regret from high

631
00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:46.440
school is that at my size that
I didn't wrestle. I could have been

632
00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:50.199
a good wrestler, a low low
weight one hundred, two hundred and five

633
00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:54.320
pounds, and I didn't wrestle because
I played football my pressman year and I

634
00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:58.840
was so beat to hell from football
that wrestling season. Dude was starting right

635
00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:00.920
up, and I did not want
to go. I didn Dude. You

636
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:05.480
there's a special personality to be a
wrestler. Yeah, it takes an SLB,

637
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:08.119
but just a tough, tough man. I should have wrestled, or

638
00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:13.719
I should have run track. Was
very fast. Was very fast because I

639
00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:16.800
wanted to play baseball and at the
same time, Well, I did both.

640
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:20.920
I did both. I did I
did both. You remember Ruben Berry,

641
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:22.360
Yeah, so he play If he
ran a trek at Hobbs, he

642
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:24.719
fast as hell. Yeah, he's
a year older than me. Because I

643
00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:28.920
ran fast, I ran state and
he was one of those guys. The

644
00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:32.239
most unbelievable thing I've ever seen in
my life. There were for Hobbs.

645
00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:37.480
Hobbs is like the number of premier
team in the state. Yeah, big

646
00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:40.880
dudes, big dudes, fast dudes. Uh they they and they dropped.

647
00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:45.119
I was at State. It was
a state under class hundred and we were

648
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:51.679
ready for a fur forty relay.
They they dropped the baton and still up

649
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:58.039
and one still one. I had
never seen that before. Well, they

650
00:41:58.039 --> 00:42:00.880
couldn't drop the baton out of their
lane and had to fall right in the

651
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:04.920
leg, pick it up and run. Oh my god. My brother helped

652
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:07.519
recruit Ruben Berry. Here he was. He went with some guys and they

653
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:13.159
saw they went to see Tim Smith, right, remember he ended up went

654
00:42:13.199 --> 00:42:15.360
to Texas Tech. Then he went
then he was with the Red Kids,

655
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:19.000
had that great, great time with
Redskins. But they saw Ruben Barry and

656
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:21.679
he helped to get Ruben Berry over
here. He didn't play much here though.

657
00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:23.000
He was just he was just fast. He wasn't great, he was

658
00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:27.760
just fast. He could you do
ransom kickoffs back, little receiver. He's

659
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:30.559
like, we didn't see much from
the Speedy this year. He think I

660
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:32.840
think we will. I think they're
gonna find a way to use them.

661
00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:37.920
I got to right at least like
that. Right, we'll see. But

662
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:43.079
anyway, but that that there,
I've I've thrown out. I've thrown my

663
00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:45.960
heart out for everybody. I should
have run track, and I should have

664
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:50.079
I should have wrestled instead of peny
weenie trying to play football and baseball.

665
00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:53.519
Well, life would change. Life
would have changed. I might be a

666
00:42:53.599 --> 00:42:55.920
little stronger, I'd be a little
more fit right now if I had done

667
00:42:55.960 --> 00:43:04.880
that or not or not. But
the wrestlings. Wrestlings are tough, tough

668
00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:07.159
thing like boxing. It's a tough
way to make a living man. But

669
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.599
there there's some tough dudes. That's
like the kid Bell, didn't Bell?

670
00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:15.639
Who's the guy from the same David
that told me he recruited? Uh,

671
00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:19.360
same David I think, wasn't it
He was a recruiting He was a wrestler,

672
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:22.079
was that Bell? Marcus Bell?
Yeah he wrestled. No, Marcus

673
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:27.320
Bell was up in Yeah, but
he was up in uh uh sholo pinetop

674
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.559
era. Okay, we came from
that, just a wrestler. Yeah.

675
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:34.480
Those dudes know how too, from
as I believe, o. Kay,

676
00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:38.679
maybe that was just angles how to
use their embody leverage all that stuff,

677
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:43.559
right, all that all those guys
you know and and Sworrow at the time,

678
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:46.880
was they weren't sunny side but they
were right behind Sunny Side as a

679
00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:51.679
wrestling program. Howard Bryany, Yeah, yeah, yeah, coach. He's

680
00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:53.159
still he's still coaching. He's around. I don't know if he's coaching,

681
00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:59.320
he's helping. I how old he
is. He was old when I got

682
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:04.639
here. He was my brother ricks
junior high football coach. Wow. So

683
00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:08.679
he in high school. Yep,
he's seventy three. Well, I mean

684
00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:13.159
he's gonna be at least eighty.
I knew that he I whenever got here.

685
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:16.880
I spoke to him. Great guy, and him wound up at Swar.

686
00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:21.199
He ended up and I had him, had him for PE class.

687
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:24.239
The legend with the legend with Howard
Bryany, because that he'd been in the

688
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:29.480
military. Legend, the legend if
he came up from behind him, if

689
00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:31.639
he touched him from behind. I
saw him throw a guy. Yeah,

690
00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:37.159
yeah, the guy accidentally totally accident
because he was you know, was a

691
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:42.519
soccer It was a pe class and
we're playing soccer and this kid tossed him.

692
00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:45.239
I thought he was looking and tossed
him the ball, and just as

693
00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:49.400
the ball went into the air,
Bran turned his back and then hit him

694
00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:53.480
in the back of the head.
And he literally grabbed the kid and threw

695
00:44:53.639 --> 00:44:59.559
him like ten yards. He was
a really skinny kid and he launched him.

696
00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:02.639
I he got in trouble later for
allegedly uh head biting the kid over

697
00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:06.400
at ring convict. That was back
in the day when that was acceptable.

698
00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:10.960
The exactly it was acceptable, that
would have been, you know, nineteen

699
00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:20.880
seventy five. But hawrd Brian legends
legend and two. Okay, we got

700
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:23.719
about six minutes. Anybody else we
Huggins is still in trouble. Blah blah

701
00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:29.880
blah. The Northwestern thing. Now
Pat fitz Jald's he's looking to sue.

702
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:36.039
He wants his money, right was
his l Well, he's got forty million

703
00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:38.280
dollars left on his contract, so
he wants as much of that as he

704
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:45.079
can get. What he's claiming is
that they when they agreed to give they

705
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:51.960
signed a thing that gave him this
two week uh suspension. So he in

706
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:57.199
his mind he had he had been
punished. He had a signed document of

707
00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.559
some sort or some or maybe it's
a verbal contract that this was going to

708
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:07.039
be his punishment for what they did, and then three days later they fire

709
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:09.159
him. So he's claiming, wait
a minute, we agreed to this.

710
00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:14.960
I agreed to this, and now
they decided because there was blowback from the

711
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:20.199
public and because social media went crazy
on the punishment. Now they fired me

712
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:24.000
everything that they fired before they knew
on Friday when they gave me a two

713
00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:29.079
week suspension. Yeah so, I
you know, heard on one of the

714
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:32.280
talk shows that that they talked to
a lawyer that handles a lot of this

715
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:36.719
college stuff. They said, the
lawyer thinks he's gonna get every bit of

716
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:40.119
whatever he wants because because Northwestern screwed
this up. No, they did,

717
00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:44.320
they did, They definitely did.
Yeah. Um, they should have waited

718
00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:50.639
longer to make a punishment. Well
either that or you know, you know,

719
00:46:50.840 --> 00:46:52.880
Steve, you vet the stuff right, Yeah, you know they they

720
00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:58.440
they again, they they have this
investigation. They kept the results of it

721
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:00.679
completely private, private school, so
they didn't have to let it out.

722
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:05.440
So they've got it. They didn't
let it out. They met, they

723
00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:07.320
put this punishment on it, thought
everything was gonna go away, and then

724
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:12.039
it didn't. And now there's all
this. You know, if they had

725
00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:15.960
if they had put the you know, put the results of the investigation out,

726
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:20.639
let the public react to it,
and then made a decision. They

727
00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:22.800
could have said, no, you
know, we were trying to figure out

728
00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:24.519
what to do and now here's what
we've what we've done. Instead, they

729
00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:29.000
thought they could they could uh,
you know, sweep it under the carpet

730
00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:31.679
and nobody was gonna care and give
them the two weeks and now all hail

731
00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:35.840
Brooke lists in Northwestern they're gonna whole
a bunch of money. Yeah, and

732
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.079
then what happens through the program.
It's already gone into the toilet. They

733
00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:42.440
went one and eleven last year,
Um, you know, and they were,

734
00:47:42.599 --> 00:47:45.920
you know, the long time laughing
stock of college football, got to

735
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:49.760
a Rose Bowl, two, came
semi respectable, gone into the toilet.

736
00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:52.960
And now how much worse is that
going to get before it gets better?

737
00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:57.519
You know? And they're in the
Big ten. I mean, here comes

738
00:47:57.599 --> 00:48:00.519
UCLA and USC you know, a
year from now, and where is how

739
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:04.960
far? You know, Northwestern drops
a couple more notches in the Big ten?

740
00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:08.519
No, I know, once you
reach that top ishue, your top

741
00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:12.679
issue, there's no question you want
to stay there. And it's like Kansas.

742
00:48:12.719 --> 00:48:15.400
I just saw saw something from Kansas. They're kind of like Arizona.

743
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:19.840
Haven't had success, haven't had success. They found some success. Now they're

744
00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:21.760
just kind of like, now,
we just got to continue to build,

745
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.039
trying to continue to build on it. And teams like that, Northwestern Kansas,

746
00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:29.360
Arizona or Northwestern again they committed.
They you know, look, they've

747
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:32.480
been a program that was I'm not
gonna say they were happy with just having

748
00:48:32.519 --> 00:48:36.719
a football program, but you know, they got better. They made an

749
00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:42.679
investment there. They've built a hundred
some million dollars football facility that's sort of

750
00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:45.840
the palace of all football facilities.
SIT's right on Lake Michigan, in the

751
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:50.519
whole bed and they say that there's
no other place like it, and they're

752
00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:52.639
gonna build them a billion dollars stadium. Yeah, and now all of a

753
00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:57.079
sudden, your football program is going
through this. How is that gonna work?

754
00:48:57.159 --> 00:48:59.599
How are you gonna how is it
gonna work? Yeah? Very difficult

755
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.039
of cool, Okay, Yeah,
I mean you know that that that's I

756
00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:08.000
mean that that thing that's a mess. That's gonna get messy, right right,

757
00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:10.920
and uh, we know what coach
is gonna come in and well it's

758
00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:15.960
it's still obviously a very serviable,
serviceable and very good job. You'll find

759
00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:17.639
somebody. But but you know,
it's it's got a it's got an up

760
00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:21.800
at e you know, alumni base, because Northwestern is one of the top

761
00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:25.639
academic schools in the country, particularly
in journalism. Right, so there's a

762
00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:29.320
lot of journalists. We're keeping it
out what's going on. We're gonna teach

763
00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:32.280
how to become good journalists. Just
don't write about us exactly, right.

764
00:49:32.719 --> 00:49:36.760
And so that's gonna be interesting to
see how this develops over time and whether

765
00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:38.960
or not how long it takes a
football program to recover, because they're gonna

766
00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:43.760
they're gonna spend this next season within
RM coach, which again I brought I

767
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:46.119
brought this up to the day begs
a question, Wait a minute, Pat.

768
00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:52.639
If Pat Fitzgerald got fired about for
this, for either not knowing or

769
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:57.760
knowing and not doing anything, what
about the rest of the staff. I

770
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:00.360
know you can't fire them all because
you got a football season to run,

771
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:04.639
but how do you keep them after
this next year? Because they had to

772
00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:07.559
have been as much a part of
it or as oblivious to it as Pat

773
00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:10.639
Fitzgerald. One of the two which
both turned out to be a fire and

774
00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:15.440
defense for Pat Fitzgerald, how do
you keep these guys exact. Wait,

775
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:21.239
the defensive coordinator who they've named the
coach got from south from North Dakota State.

776
00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:23.920
He was, he was defensive coordinator
North Dakota State. Everybody else if

777
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:27.639
they've been there any more than a
few years. This has been going on

778
00:50:27.719 --> 00:50:30.000
for a while. No, it's
it's tough because you've got to save the

779
00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:35.719
program to one extent, to a
decent extent, uh before the transition fully

780
00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:37.320
happens. Yeah. Um, we'll
see what happens. I don't know many

781
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:39.760
it's a it's gonna get messy and
then and then I don't even want to

782
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:44.000
talk about Bob Huggins anymore. I
mean, holy cow, Yeah, that'll

783
00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:46.960
work itself out. Just people are
shaking their heads about that, Like who

784
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:52.000
who's advising Bob Huggins? If there
is some oh there's a lawyer talking growth

785
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:57.280
that that letter for him, but
who's why is anybody listening to Bob Huggins

786
00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:00.679
say I gotta get my job back? Yeah yeah, yeah, there makes

787
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:06.599
no sense. I didn't resign,
Yes you did about ten times. That's

788
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:10.360
your wife exactly about how about your
how about your players? Right? Who

789
00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:14.280
you went and told that you resigned? And your staff? Who you told

790
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:17.880
you resigned, and then you cleaned
out your office telling everybody you resigned,

791
00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:20.840
and now you're saying, no,
I didn't. They're making a lot of

792
00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.559
they're making a lot of fun of
it with George Custanza thing, which has

793
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:25.920
been funny. There was an episode
of Seinfeld where you quit, but then

794
00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:30.159
he kept going to work and saying
you didn't. You didn't think I was

795
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:35.039
serious? Did you want to quick? So there's there's a lot of that

796
00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:38.559
going. I'd breath until okay,
oh my gosh, you gotta go.

797
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:40.960
All right, we gotta go to
take our break top of the hour.

798
00:51:42.119 --> 00:51:44.760
Coming back, we'll have some breaking
news for you, and then we'll take

799
00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:46.000
your calls. After that, Oh
we're gonna have Sam Thomas. I forgot

800
00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:49.360
at four fifteen. We'll drag back