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Welcome to your Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve Roberta alongside partner Chicken Toast. Got our guys, simmon today,
you have so many different interns, I can't keep you straight. Looking the
man, Let's go okay, let's see again. We're what they're up against.
Hey, man, I said I thought I was a better rookie these
days. But I said I hit the lottery. It'd be very brief money
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good show today. Oh let's say if I will say that there is a
dayline out there where our guy won the lottery and his girlfriend killed him.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well I don't have any powles for that.
They won't tie me either way. Hey, we have TJ just goitz
from the tour that's coming up, So be prepared for people on the road.
Cyclists on the road next weekend. We're starting to come around and the
event is a week from Saturday, right, so we'll so kind of waiting
to see where what kind of issues there is on a football game is gonna
cost? Yeah with that with traffic, but yeah, yeah, you're starting
to see. I mean, well you start to cyclists all the time,
but now you know they're they're going to be increasing over the next week.
And sure, I take it you will not be participating. I'm not you
know. I just got a quarters and shot in my knee. So that's
my good excuse, so till seven and he feels good though, tell seven
what you win? Well, well, I'm sure he hasn't seen the movie
I get you know, got that that you know? No, no,
no, I'm talking about your bike ride. Oh last I was two years
ago. So he did it two years ago. I did only twenty eight
miles. Let's put perspective. So in like in March April, I trained,
he said, okay, hey, i'll do it. I'll do it.
I'll do it, and he trained, and then I did. I
trained, but then I ran it and and TJ did not tell me that
the ride was going to be uphill all the way because we came from the
northwest side. And what you don't realize is because if you know that the
Santa Cruz River flows north when it flows that that's downhill. So coming back
this way, obviously it was hard. It was uphill the whole way.
Yeah, So I was I was spent. I did it. Was the
twenty eight mile ride. Got to the big party over there with all the
tents and the food, and and barfed once there. And then instead of
you know, partaking in the party and eating stuff, went home and then
we got in the car and had to I had to go get my car
and I barfed again in front of the Fox Theater. Twenty eight miles.
I'll do that to you. But I had trained, I had done that,
I had gone in that distance, but it was the uphill. But
it was the uphill, yeah, because I've done that. I've done that,
like trek, I did a little I did a triathlon last year.
Yeah, And going out was easy, right coming back going on uphill and
sometimes you're into the wind. Yeah. And when you do it, when
you do a loop right part of it, you know, if there's an
uphill, there's a downhill on the other side, right. But this wasn't
a loop. It was a straight shot from Marana down to here, or
I should say up to here right. And and the last part of it
was the worst because we went over here off of Speedway and Greasewood and went
up Greasewood which is very uphill over there behind Tuma Mank Hill, and it
was just the end killed me. But I made it. There you go,
you biking this year? No? I worked for him, I work
for What does that mean? Doesn't mean that means you can't. It means
you can. I can't. I'm sure they I'm sure they're I'm sure they
could let you. No, I'm too busy. I think Jay and I
will. We'll find it out and we'll make sure you can bike. Here's
the thing, And don't tell t J. That was the last time I
was on my bike. I hung it up and I haven't been on it
for two years. I keep saying I'm going to and I keep not.
But I gotta work out my knee issues, which are getting better. Cortizon
shot yesterday feels good. It doesn't hurt, It doesn't hurt anymore. So,
so mister, remind me, who's the second hour. So funny.
Hope Pisey, the goalie at Arizona, record breaking goalie, set a set
an Arizona record for most saves, most career saves, and it's like fifth
or sixth in the Pac twelve in career saves. Hope Pisey, who I
met as a little rug rat when her mom was a pe teacher at Saint
Gregory High School. So her, Hope and her little sister would be running
around the gym from time to time. And I'm a serious rug rats.
I've heard some people say Hiszy. It's not Hopey Hi, it's Heizy.
And her her dad, Jason is is the baseball coach at CDO just won
a state championship. And the mom also very you know, athletic and stuff.
So it's not surprising that Hope is a you know, high end college
app right. Okay, So it's Wednesday, a couple of days the duke,
three days to Colorado Big sports weekend, and a reminder, no show
here on Friday. Steve has mentioned he's going to duke. He'll be He'll
be at Cameron Indoor about that time to cover the Duke Arizona game. And
actually Steve won't will not be here tomorrow. I, on the other hand,
will be here tomorrow. I'll be here with with Kevin. So we're
just gonna do the show, him and I. But we'll get We've already
lined up Brian Holl, the beat writer for for the Boulder Daily Camera.
He's become pretty popular. Yeah, he's He's had a busy year, I'm
sure. So Brian's gonna come in here and talk to us, give us
a preview of the game. And I'm trying to line up another another worthy
guest who can also talk about talk about the football game. If not,
we'll try and get somebody can talk basketball with it. So, but it'll
be Kevin and I doing the show tomorrow. And then then I said,
I said, we're both gone on Friday. I'll be in Vegas for my
annual trip that I do this time of the year. So I'll be watching
the Duke game from one of the sports books in Vegas. I might calling
tomorrow. I didn't realize I have a four hour layover in Denver. I
don't get to do four hours. I get to Duke to do Raley at
midnight. Ouch. You know what I've been I've been on that flight.
I've been on the exact flight that you're on. I didn't really when my
daughter was there. She had to come and get me at the airport.
Yes, and the four hour layover in Denver, yep. I didn't take
a shooting my travel person. I have the nice direct flight from from Vague
to sun to Vegas on Friday. Leave here two fifteen, get there at
two thirty their time. So just hop a cab and I'm on my way
to a book to watch the duke game. Where you're staying, we started
a place called the Alara. It's a Hilton Grand vacation right next to Planet
Hollywood. So it's it's in that mall with playing in Hollywood. Fancy fancy
place, four bedroom suite with a bunch of people in that. I haven't
done Vegas like that, so yeah, it's it's very cool. We have
a great time. It's a place that we stay is unbelievable, and so
we'll we'll stay there. We spend Saturday at the west Gate reading college football
all day and I'm talking. We get there at seven in the morning.
We leave after the last game is over. Have you been to the new
place in downtown called the the outdoor place. Yeah. Yeah, no,
I've been there. My son's been there. He said, it's pretty cool,
pretty but it's very expensive to go there. Yeah. They got like,
uh, you know, two lounge chairs for like five hundred dollars or
something like that. You don't have to pay a true place, No,
No, certain places you do have. Certain places like Caesars, you have
to place. The place we go to, we we find a table near
the near the deli and sit there all day. And we get there like
said, seven in the morning so that we get the seats at the tables
that we want, and then we usually leave after the last game is over.
Sometimes that's been a Hawaii game that started at like eight o'clock, nine
o'clock local time, and we're there till the to the bitter end. Just
just fade yourself this weekend. Yeah, yeah, it's it gets harder every
year. It gets hard not no doubt, it gets harder every single year.
But we have a blast. We just sit there and back college football
games all day. Nice not going to the sphere. We'll check it out.
Last time, you know, we were there last year. They were
still building. Still I sat construction, but I'm interested to see what that
looks like. It's right near there. How much it costs? How much
does it cost to get your message on there for a day? Oh,
I want something, it's uh, it's it's definitely a close to a million.
It's something you want to be there for four hours? Whatever it is.
Yeah, we'll see it, we'll see it. We'll see in the
well. I don't know if I'm going everyone who goes plays in Vegas.
I know the Vegas talk about that. The people that I'm talking to that
that's what everybody's got their fingers crossed for the Vegas Bowl, the Vegas Bowl,
because then now they can go over there, catch a basketball game,
catch a football game, and it's a great sports day. They were talking
about being kind of the same as thinking back to that that day when the
New Mexico Bowl and then Florida was here for that you know top ten game.
That was you know, a crazy game. So you know, two
games like that in one day, and there were some people who did both.
So a lot of people talking about, you know, being able to
go see something like that where you go to the you go to the basketball
game, games over you head straight over to the football stadium and watch Arizona
play in Las Vegas play that's what people are rooting for. Well, I
mean you should we should be rooting for the Alimo Bowl because that means we'd
won more games, right realistically, or the Holiday Bowl, but Vegas Bowl
would be would be pretty sweet. Well, you know when Arizona went to
the Vegas Bowl again, the first bowl that Arizona had gone to since you
know, the Dick Tomy years, and it was I mean it was turned
out, the lights and tuson we all went. It had snowed that weekend
in Vegas, which was crazy. That's nuts. It was nuts and it
was freezing. But it was a great game they played by u Ronk was
on that team and it was a great game and it was a lot of
fun and we had a blast. And again, you know when if you're
asking me, there's three things if you could put in one place that I'd
do in a heartbeat, you know, Vegas football, basketball, there you
go. And if you can do all all of those all at once,
man, that is the coolest thing. Six hundred and fifty thousand for day
one day spot. It's pretty nuts. Well, and they're getting crushed financially
really, because are just talking about we were talking about that before this year.
Yeah, they just lost. They're losing money like crazy. They spent
spent two billion to be build a billion over budget and and they're losing revenue
like crazy. The lost one hundred and seventeen million that said this year,
and I wonder why shares are down to buck in the quarter. Yeah,
well, I don't change things like that. So tend they tend to take
time to get a foot and when you have billions and billions, let's think
about all the money the DraftKings lost over the first couple of year. Yeah.
True, And Dolan's not going to stop spending money on that thing because
it's it is really cool. The tickets are probably more expensive than they should
be. And well when you when you go double, when you go a
billion dollars over your budget, that's it's it's yeah exactly. But yeah,
Dolan's not going to stop spending money into it. And they'll get a basketball
team within the next five years and it'll be more and more. Yeah,
yeah, we'll see. Okay, Uh, we have the game on Saturday,
a big game, which is a bigger game. Well, and that's
a tough call, Steve. That's a tough call because let's say there's one
that does something really stupid and they go beat Duke. That that that shine
will last the rest of the season and they'll begin the no matter what happens
the rest of the year. Say, yeah, but we beat Duke.
It's that kind of game, though, Yeah, you know what I'm saying,
though, Yeah, happen. No, they could come right on.
Yeah, but like it's Sandy that's a fan. Yeah, but we beat
Duke. Yeah, yeah, I know we lost the Michigan State and they
suck, but we beat Duke at their place. I guess it depends to
like what Duke does the rest of the year. Two Yeah, if they
kind of I mean they probably won't. Similarly to the Michigan State, they
was the first game. Okay, it's a big game. It's a big
game. Second game. But I've said this Jay, and I don't know
if it's true or not. I just in my opinion, Saturday's game is
the biggest game in the last nine years. Remember the circumstances. Yeah,
yeah, since twenty fourteen, since the A game of twenty fourteen, right
when they when they won that game to win. The Pack club sound rights
so much, you know, so much because of the future, so much
at Steak, a lot of things, even though we didn't even know what's
at Steak. It's just kind of like the the ride has been so good.
White screw it up. Yeah, first first game away from home in
three weeks. Yeah, Colorado. The hype is obviously in the game.
It's more it's one more win on the way to ten. Yeah, just
that you were here yesterday. I did talk about it Monday. Monday,
we looked at it. That includes the team we don't know who is playing.
So got me. I'm having lunch with my brother and our Wednesday crowd,
and I said, you know, I said that, I said on
Monday that I called ten wins for Arizona. Then my brother Rick goes,
he goes, you know, when I call ten wins, you you tell
me I'm an idiot and I'm stupid and i don't know what I'm doing,
and I'm over I'm over Homer. Rick. The difference is when you call
ten, it's before the season even started. In fact, I think you
called ten. And one of Kevin Sumlin's years, I said I called ten
after they already had six. Yeah, you can't cry wolf. We shot
his thing down really fast. It's pretty funny. Well, I know the
answer to this. But you would rather have the football team win. Yeah,
the basketball Well, see, if the basketball team loses, it's not
it's not the end of the world, right exactly. They in fact,
they're supposed to lose. They should lose. If they played them well to
the wire, that's just as good. They should lose. What you don't
want for them to get over there and get blown up by twenty ers.
No, yeah, you don't want that. But if it's a game and
they lose the game, so what Yeah, but the thing is, uh,
the Semi Arizona historically plays in November. Unbelievable, this game, they
win this game. I've seen it. I've seen it the four years i've
been here, early on. Yeah, Michigan State, just a few years.
I won't tell you what happens so March. Yeah, exactly, we
know. We don't want to talk to you anymore. All right, let's
take a break. We're going to come back. TJ just skits from me
from the twenty two, so I will be here talk about the event coming
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Hey, welcome back to Ian the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
I'm Steve Roberta. He's jigins as Now on the phone, we have
TJ. Jesskowitz of the executive director of ELK Tour to Tucson. TJ.
How you doing? Hey? Doing good? Guys? You getting any sleep
right now? TJ? Or is it like twenty four hour ago? It's
go time, no doubt. We're just about ten days away from the big
event and it's uh, it'll be here before we know it. Yeah,
no question. This is your third go I think, right since being named
the executive director, you got to hand on this now, Yeah, I
think I think so, you know, third time for sure. You know,
we tried that first year and it didn't quite go, but the last
two went pretty good. So we're ready for another one. Yeah, so
you know, what are there? Well, I guess I'm trying to figure
out the right way to ask this that you can tell as you go along,
what are the things that you're learning, you know that help you improve
the improve the event? You know what what do you know? What do
you learn each year as you as you get ready for the next one.
But one of the things is to be a good listener and find out the
things that people really like or are things that people really didn't like? You
know, can we tweak some of those things that we can improve upon and
really accentuate the things that we're doing doing well. And so you know,
hearing from people in the off season and going on rides with people, you
know, just bumping into them over a coffee or a beer, and you
know, just hearing from different people just say Hey, I really like this
about ELI to War, but I wish you would think about this. You
know, we've been able to implement some of those items that can improve the
event, but you know, overall, it's a pretty good event. Didn't
need that much tweaking, so a lot of the same good riding, good
fun, and good al tour. So obviously earlier this year, USA Today
named El Tour the Tucson the best bike ride, best bike ride in the
country. How did that help, bust, How did it help boost your
attendance this year? Well, we're seeing record numbers this year, and I
don't know if it's just because of that, but a lot more people throughout
throughout the country and throughout the world know about El Tour to Tucson just by
being named that, you know, number one, you know, road cycling
event in the entire country. So I think a few people were introduced to
El Tour, took a look at it and say, hey, this looks
like a lot of fun. We're looking at nine thousand cyclists, which we
haven't seen you know, anywhere close to that lately. So we had seventy
five hundred last year. That was up from you know, the year before.
That. So we we've steadily been going up one thousand, fifteen hundred
each year for the last couple of years. Wow, So what's the number
this year? Yeah, we're gonna have nine thousand people on bikes, plus
another probably seven hundred and fifty people that'll be running in the five k So
that's about, you know, close to ten thousand active participants in downtown Tucson
that day. That's a lot of people to look out for. Man,
that's for sure, right, that sure is right, And there's gonna be
a lot We had a meeting today, Tell the listeners how many enforcement officers
and all that, all the good stuff, all the other numbers. Well,
yeah, well, when it's all told, we probably got four hundred
law enforcement officers from City Tucson, Pema County Sheriffs, City of South Tucson,
Satarita, I mean, you name it. All those municipalities have their
officers out working that day. It's gonna be a busy day in Tucson.
Got a little football game going on later that day as well. So there's
gonna be a lot a lot of people that are having some fun in too
soon that day. Yeah, no kidding. So so TJ when you talked
about, you know, different things that you're doing. Are there a couple
of new things that we can expect to see this year that you know,
are new ideas or things you've been thinking about doing for a while. You
know. The we added the run that used to be part of L Tour
that used to do kind of an adventure run or something along that line many
years ago. But since we've got all these law enforcement officers already in place,
and we've already got all the barricades in place, why not, you
know, slip a five k run walk in between there. And so we
partnered with Run Tucson with Randy A. Setti, who's kind of like the
guru. He's kind of like I guess the they're like the L Tour running
in this area. So they've they're putting together the five k course and probably
about seven hundred and fifty people will be involved in that. And don't forget
the venue. Well, yeah, we're on the newly renovated TCC side.
Now that they're completely done with the West side, I'll have a new look.
We're back in the big X Hall. It used to be we would
fill up two thirds of the X Hall we actually take the entire X Hall.
We've already sold out the expo, so people can come even if they're
not riding El Tour. They can come by the two convention Center and the
main X Hall and take a look at all the neat fund and and excitement,
lots of good food, some good live bands, and then of course
the Dragoon beer garden, so all lots of fun. So do you guys,
do you guys track, for instance, like how many first time riders
you have or maybe you know new you know ages, those kinds of things.
What do you track as far as that goes in And I'd be interested
to know how many new people you get each year? Sure, yeah,
for sure, it's it's over thirty five percent brand new to l Tour,
and you know that's a big number each and every year. So if you
think about that, it's probably you know, thirty five hundred people that have
never been to El Torta tuos on are coming out this year. And the
number of our nonprofits alone, we're close to seventy nonprofits that have a team,
and most of them are new riders that are just getting introduced to the
sport. So you know, definitely tracking all that stuff. Those people,
we want them to have a good time, go back home, tell a
few friends, and bring some friends for next year. In fact, Jay,
we have a cyclist from every state. Oh that's cool, every state
in a few countries. Yeah, that sounds very cool. Absolutely, yeah,
yeah, No, it's real busy right now. What about the other
rides. The smaller rides are still the Fun Ride, and they're the thirty
two and you're able to have electric bikes in that one. Yeah, So
the Fun Ride is going to be basically one or three miles. It's mainly
for like elementary age. We just gave away a lot of bikes, if
you haven't heard, we gave away three thousand bikes through Boys and Girls clubs
and serve our City and David Mouth and Air Force Base. So three thousand
new bikes are out there with young kids that are elementary age kids and some
middle school kids. So we might see a big bump in that Fun Ride.
And then we also have the thirty two mile, which has picked up
a lot of those new nonprofits that are coming on a lot of first time
riders, people like I'm hoping that Jay will be out on the bike again
for that thirty two mile, and then of course the longer distance the one
hundred k or the sixty three mile and the one hundred and two mile,
which is considered a century ride. And so we'll probably have over three thousand
people in both the larger distance rides. And that's just an incredible amount of
cyclists out there. And why it sound like a downloads but can this ever
get too big? I mean, is there a point where you might have
to just say, Okay, that's as many as we can take because of
you know, law enforcement and all that other stuff that goes into doing this.
I mean, how long can or how big can this get? And
you guys would comfortably be able to do this? Yeah? I think if
it was just one big ride, it would definitely have a have its limitations.
But since we kind of break them up into the three different distances,
it naturally breaks up that crowd. Is it a huge crowd? Absolutely,
And we may take a look at it and evaluate and say, hey,
you know what our number should be about x? And you know, we
our most important thing is can we safely have people come and do the ride
and get home back to their loved one safe? You know, that's the
most important thing, and if they can have fun along the way, so
be it. Yeah, yeah, no, that'd be cool. I mean,
you know, because it's like I mean again, this is one of
two son's signatory events. You know, every year, there's a few things
that we do in this town and have done for a very long time,
and you know this is at the top of the list when you think about
an annual event that happens. Oh well, well, you know, I
mean, I'm sitting here today and it's what about eighty degrees out today,
and I was talking to my daughters in school in Maine and it's already snowed
on her. So you know, people want to come ride their bikes where
it's a you know, fun and exciting place. We've got the greatest food
in the world here, We've got incredible weather, just delightful people to be
around. Why wouldn't you want to get out of a place like Canada or
Wisconsin and come down here and ride your bike. So I just think,
you know, the Lord grows and each and every year people go back and
say, you know what, that was a lot of fun, And then
when they get back to there, they have to scrape the snow off their
car at the airport in Milwaukee. They realized, Hey, that toucson Rae
was a lot of fun. I'm going to ask you about the prologue.
I think that's it's full, right, it's obviously full. But will they
were people like you and me and anybody out there be able to see some
big timing big timers just walk around. Oh sure, We're gonna have about
eight eight to ten different pros from from all over the world. We've got
George Hinkappi, Christian van Devel, Bob Roll, Jens Voight who's coming over
from from Germany, Mari Holding, Kristin Armstrong, Rassam Bahati, and Bobby
Julick. Those people have been, I mean literally some of the best cyclists
in the world over time. Kristin Armstrong is the most decorated female cyclist of
all time. So they're gonna be rubbing shoulders, I mean at the start
line you can certainly talk to them. They're gonna stop at rest stomps.
But we're also gonna have an autograph session on Friday at five o'clock where if
you want to come in and meet any of them, take their photo with
them and get an our graph. Uh, you've got an opportunity on Friday
afternoon at five o'clock at the TCC. All right, well this you know
again, we know it's always gonna be a great event that's in good hands
and street that's free, right and free if you don't write right and and
but you know, just to be a part of our tour. I'm look,
I'm still waiting for a game time for Saturday. So I don't know,
but you know, I honestly, I mean, I did it two
years ago. I had a blast, even though you know, I had
had a rough goal when the race was over, but you know, I
still probably I have my I have my metal hanging above my desk, and
I've got my my number in the whole bit and it was a proud moment
for me to finish that. So I think there's probably people like me who
you know, not not serious bike cradits, but who it's an accomplishment for
them, And I think that's probably one of the lures for people like,
you know, an average person to go in and do this. I mean
no doubt about it. You can line up next to a yends void who's
you know, one of the most accomplished cyclists of all time, and you
can literally be on the other end of the spectrum the worst cyclists in the
world, and there's a place for you in el toor de Tuccon. Now
I'm figuring Jay, you're probably towards the worst cyclist in the world on that
spectrum. I'm very close to it. There's there's always a place for you
to come back and and remember the pain that you went through that day exactly
and get another medal to pair up with the one on your desk. Yes,
okay, yeah, tejer, You're not far off. There was one
one ride that I did. It wasn't Eltro, but it was another one
and I finished third to the last, so yes, I'm right there and
the hey, all right, but I finished it there you go. Yeah,
Well, so can you still register or is it over? No,
you can still register. Prices go up drastically. We want you to register,
so if you get in by by tomorrow, it's still fairly reasonable.
And then after you get to the to the I think the fourteenth, it
goes up to about two hundred bucks. So so you really don't want to
wait till the last minute. Eltwortatucson dot org. It's the website. And
again we're able to support a lot of charities. We've raised in the forty
years one hundred and fourteen million dollars that have gone to charitable causes throughout throughout
the country. So it's a good thing. And just just keep in mind
when you're if you're if you're stuck in traffic or something like that, just
you know, be patient. The cyclists will get through and then you'll be
on your way. But you know, there's a lot of good that happens
due to due to l tour and so, uh, to just keep in
mind there's there's people out there that are riding for a cause and riding for
their enjoyment and h we appreciate you sharing your roadways with us for that.
That one day in November, well said very well said well t J.
Any, thanks a bunch, get some sleep eventually the other week and have
TJ go get them all right, thanks much. Yeah, it's going to
be busy here in a while. Oh yeah, a couple of people from
England showed up last week. Uh what are you doing now? We came
with the bike ride, we visited, we found out this was happening.
So we're here and we like Tucson. We're gonna do it because we like
cycling. Yeah, you know, look, I mean I'll say it again.
You know, finishing that race when I was coming up, We're coming
up six sixth Avenue, and you know, the the finish line was was
in the distance. I mean, I just got this incredib a feeling of
accomplishment and it was very cool. I mean, I'm I was so happy
that I did it. I felt like crap. I mean, there's probably
been four times in my life that I felt that bad, and the other
three were because of i'm sure drinking. So you know, it was awesome
to do that. So let me say this. I mean this in a
good way. Don't and my listeners don't listen to any take it badly.
So you're brown, right, Yes, you were white that day. I
was white that day. I was Yeah. People get me. I mean
there are people who saw me said you don't look good. I remember you
coming to the to the that time. It was downtown in the Armory Park.
So I was gonna say, well, you don't look too good.
I gotta go. It took a couple of days to get past that,
you gotta take a couple of days. All right, let's take our break.
We're gonna be back. We'd love to take your calls five Tuesday,
four and six, seventy four forty. I'd love to hear if you got
had an experience in out tour. But they we're also talking about weekend.
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mean radio. This is High on the Ball with Steve Ravera and Jay Gonzalez
on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to trying the ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve. He's Jay Casammy behind the board
to what a call us? Please? Do I think we have about thirteen
to fifteen minutes player call? What bigger? What's a bigger game? The
basketball game? What's a bigger game? Maybe what's the most important game?
There's all kind of different categories obviously for what do you what do you think?
What's a what would you rather win? Would I rather win? Yeah,
I'd rather win the Colorado game? Yeah? Because of Colorado. You
win the Colorado game. You're that's a game that if you lose, it
takes a lot of juice off the football season because you know it should be
Colorado. A month ago. You didn't know you're gonna win this game or
have a chance to win the game. And you know, Colorado's having his
struggles. You know, they got a lot they you know, they they
got a lot of injuries. You know, they haven't won a game in
a while, so a lot of the shine has come off of what they
did those first three games. The reality of you know, Power five college
football and what it takes to to continue winning has has hit them over there
in Colorado. There's there's a sense of, you know, just the shine
has come off. You know, they you know, they're replacing their offensive
coordinated that kind of stuff. Let's take this call. Hi, you're on
the Aaron on the ball. I'm basketball all the time. Ball basketball.
We know you are. I can never find a spread until the day of
the game of the Duke game. What's the spread, Steve? You guys
know that's how it is in college basketballning of Beau. Yeah, because football,
since there's no games in between and stuff like that, you know,
you can post a spread as soon as the previous game is over. College
basketball, they're usually day of There's there's a few that to put out early.
But I have not seen the line on our my life would be about
three, maybe four I'm more like five or six. I think. Yeah,
I would say five or six, but I'm taken. I'm taking the
points in the U of A for sure. What if it's three or four?
Four? Maybe not three but four. Oh, I got a question
for you, Jay, I watched it on my phone. Oh wait,
wait, there is a line on Duke on DraftKings. Oh what is it?
Five? Oh? Yeah, you got. But I got a question
about the women's the men's basketball the other day. I was really confused because
we have a player named Lewis, guy who didn't play, But do we
have a girl professional that practices too? But they had her for the Lewis
score scoring a woman named Lewis, a professional thirty years old? So what
was a woman's not allowed to play? Especial that she was a pro?
Right? kJ? Lewis is the player for Arizona. Yeah, kJ,
Yeah, But what they had on this actual score with borrowing all the other
people, they had a woman for under Lewis. Maybe she's a practice player
for thirty year old practice with three names in the box score. Yeah.
The one on the phone that I'm just telling you is the word. There's
no way that's right. No, no, no, and I don't know
how that would have happened, but it did. I'm saying. I looked
at Lewis and it had the woman came up and it was a three name
Lewis Professional. Oh I see, okay, that might yeah, that might
be an ESPN thing because it's was it website or something. It was totally
Yeah, it was just me looking up the game, a game just on
the phone, I mean on Google. Yeah, okay, I see what
you're saying. No, and I follow it the score. I just follow
the score to see how much blowing them out by ye who knows what the
heck that was. It was weird. I go, there's no way a
woman, whether she's you know, could play, even though she bet she
could play with the guys. She's five point eleven. I bet she could
play. She's a former professional. Hey, Howard, A quick question.
So last time we saw you, when you were at the card shop,
did you buy anything? Yeah? Oh, actually you just bought supplies there.
It's funny thing. I just went to the post suffice the first time
in twenty years. I put in twenty three cards to be graded, mostly
basketball. Twenty three. You know how much money just the fee to grade
them is for those twenty three cards, No, four hundred and twenty five
dollars, that doesn't count the insurance when they send it back, and then
the shipping four hundred and twenty five degrade twenty three cards? So what are
you think it's going to be? What are you hoping for? What's give
me a number one? Oh? Oh? The cards? The cards are
going to be worth four thousand, no matter what. Okay, that's a
low bit, that's a minimum. That's it's all. If someone wants to
buy him. Do you know that eighty six eighty seven Jordan is going for
two hundred thousand? If it's a ten or more? Do you have a
lesson? I think I have one left. I used to have seven,
seven of them. Hey, hey, dad, could you addut? Seriously?
Step and look? Yeah, and this the old story. My dad
doesn't know Craig Sager is you guys both know Craig Sager, especially Craig Sager.
When I was in the Atlanta show National he bought but I wasn't at
the table one of the ones I had, but I got that at a
trade he bought, you know his so his family has that Jordan that they
got he bought it for only four hundred bucks. Nice. Nice, Okay,
how well, thanks so much. We'll see guys. Thanks much,
man. Yeah, so there it is. It looks like it just popped
up because it's the only Friday game that there's a line for on DraftKings,
and it's Arizona by five with I mean Duke by five with a with an
over under one and a half. It's because neither of us are playing until
then. That's probably why. Yeah, it could be could be five five
I would take I think I'll take five, that's right about the number.
And then i'd go over one fifty two. I think, so yeah,
oh yeah, because there's going to score eighty, but score we win or
lose. Arizona scoring eighty, we'll see. What would you say under I
just think Duke runs. I'm just saying. I just think it'll be eighties,
a lot of points for you. They to score in what will be
the loudest, craziest atmosphere that all those guys have played in. I think
I think the I think the first twelve minutes of the game will be a
very feel out. But but you know what, I'm going to say that
this is a group of guys that playing there is going to get them more
juiced instead of intimidated. And this is the kind of game that they came
here to play. Sure they're good, but they're good dudes. They're good
player and it's not March. So yeah, Will, it's funny. It's
funny. I think about this all the time. You know, here we
are talking about other people's lives and how they deal with stress. They don't.
We don't have a clue how they'll react to that. I know exactly
how they're going to react to it. Steve, I don't think so there
he's the guy. He's at the putt. He's gonna put He can't handle
it. Shut up our job though, that's our job. That's why half
of them don't know what they're talking about. Hey, what do you I
went to a cheeseburger. You know that we can't run a thousand miles.
That one fifty two does seem very low. That's me, he does.
Yeah, it's seventy five one hundred dollars on that. I think there's a
reason you haven't put one hundred dollars. Well, my my unit changes when
I go to Vegas. Oh that's right. Your wife said a different time
zone, but no, she'll be there. She's doing well. You can
put it one hundred dollars, you know. I'm not putting one hundred dollars.
I don't bet one hundred dollars. The unit should change and you go
to Vegas, the unit does change. But see my unit, My unit
here is ten bucks right now. No, yeah, it's every bet.
I make its ten bucks because it's okay. I'm just trying to have fun
exactly over there, I'm trying to win. Yeah, I want to trying
to sweat. I feel it more. My heart gets pounding, I get
all sweaty. Next step, I think, I think to go back to
that number. If you have A wins the game, I think it's it's
an over. Yeah, but people into overtime too. Sure, but if
you have a, if you have A struggles hence they won't win the game.
I don't know if they get to that that number, I don't think
there's a team in the country that can keep them under eighty. Is that?
Is that like a ceiling thing or is that? I think every night,
the way they play, they're going to score that pretty much every game.
Well, starle is gonna make the fight the thing and and the things
do do gruns runs. Yeah, it's true, you know, true,
you know it's good. I think both teams go over eighty. There's just
I know the cover. Yeah, one of them get the eighty one of
them on a little gifts there. We'll see I think ranked early games or
they're not gonna nobody's gonna be nervous about this game. They're all gonna they're
all gonna have a blast. Took off already, they went a day early.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to to seeing the game. I'm just I
just want to see those two uniforms on the courting. Yeah, you know,
you know. At the same time, it's been a long time and
I can't wait for them to come and do it here. That's one that
I mean. I hope that game is like on a Saturday at two o'clock
in the afternoon, CBS or eight, you know, or ABC or somebody
is here game day. I hope it's that kind of a game here,
you know, next year, and it's not on a Friday night or Thursday
or something like that, that it's a Saturday game, you know, with
all the hype and hoopla that comes with that. When you walk into the
arena, then you can feel the buzz because there's a distinct buzz to games
like that, and especially when it's on you know, a Saturday, a
Saturday afternoons and it's Duke. You can't say, especially you go to school
in Arizona, whether it's a su wherever it is, you can't say many
times Duke came and play basketball, right, and especially it's you of a,
it's Kale. It comes. Yeah, and I'm sure I'm sure Duke
fans are excited that they want to play that game, you know, I
mean, you know you saw how you saw did you see the press commerce
Monday night? Listen to it all after the game? Yeah? No,
she was good about it because we know the history, right the coach k
and Newton wouldn't want to play each other on the home court. Kaki didn't
want to come here, and I wanted to play on a neutral court.
Yeah. Yeah, uh this happened like you know, hey, play okay,
Yeah, let's play it, okay, have a gay, let's get
it done. Yeah. Simple, That's who he is. And I hope
there's because you know, there's more and more coaches like that. You know
the different you know the tom is those chefs guys, they're gonna say,
no, I'm not coming to your place. But you know, it's kind
of like they're above that. Well no, they're all old school and they
but what I'm saying, you know, they're these Hall of fame guys who
say I don't have to go play it place. Well, i'll play you,
but I'm not gonna play you. Well, you did it. They
did it back in the day, not anymore back then, but it's been
a long time since we've happened. Well, guess what happens, and you
do it. You're perfect example. You get older, you get cranky.
You don't my house, you're way more cranky. You don't want to go
anyway. Pass me the cheese burger, dude, and Arizona's on tonight.
I got the over. You know those guys, they're gonna be too nervous
to be there. I got it. I know it. Sure you don't
know. Oh my gosh, I may go fifty on the Oh you're not
gonna do it. I know you're not gonna do it. Your unit doesn't
change. My unit will change my you, it will go a unit in
Vegas will be minimum twenty five bucks. Okay, so we want this is
what we want from you. If you do it, you put it,
I'll show you the chicken ship. I'll send you the ticket. I want
the under. You're taking the under? Yeah, you would bet against me?
Yeah, you want to win. I'm just before you, before you
even said though, you know what, I'm not talking to you the rest
of the day. Forget it. Smart move kid, smart long enough to
know I'm just I just I just think the unders. I like it.
Now. Life's too short to be betting the unders. Sammy, life's too
short. You can't bet the under. That. That's kind of a saying
that we It's a saying that we have in our gambling circle with good coaches
win, great coaches cover. Life too short to bet the under. No,
I've heard it before. I just I'm all over it prime time.
Give me give me the unders like sixty five, seventy No way, no
way, no way, no give the now with the way these guys run
the ball, sixty four? What is seventies? Okay? You want to
go side bet side bet? Yeah, how much? Let's go twenty bucks?
Twenty bucks? No, no, go over under. Yeah, I
was gonna say give him, give him a number one and a half.
No, but let's let's do the line. You know, I'm not going
to cheap him out like you cheat me out all the time you did for
the USC game. But I still won that bad. You're come on,
okay, one fifty and a half. You got the under, I got
the over. That's what it is. Yeah, we said you need to
seventy five. Yeah, I still like it. It's one fifty two and
a half yeah under. Okay, all right, twenty bucks and you know
what, And I know you're college shooting stuff, but I'm not going to
feel bad. It's okay, you got of course I did. Okay,
sweet, all right, Steve, you wrote that down. You know what.
It's recorded. It's it's it's recorded out there on the pot. It'll
be on the podcast tonight. But I think that Jay's gonna be right the
first time. It's a whole new bull. It's a whole new game that
makes me feel so much more comfortable. All right, both you guys are
on it. Okay, all right, let's get let's hit the road for
the hour. We'll be back. I think Sam he's got some breaking news
for us. There's a lot of stuff out there. It's a signing day
today, so there's some signing stuff. It was all right, we'll be
right back. Sony is hot, NATO Clark is moving slow, and so
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