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Steve and Jacome Sommings. They have
their I Am the Ball on two Suns

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Sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
They welcome back to Roy the Ball here

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on Fox Sports fourteen fifty or I'm
Stevie, Jane and I didn't expect us

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back soon, but we get we
get to this place here, and it's

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always new. We get new stuff. We learned something new every day.

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Today. We just learned that did
their dead air for about two and a

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half minutes at the top of the
hour or at the end of the hour.

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We can fill it up with ourselves, yeah, which of course is

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a good thing or a bad thing. Yeah, but now we gotta call

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Hurt. It's gin and so we'll
we'll be surprised that he'll that he's gonna

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be on the air, so we
get him on the air. No,

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that's good. Not, that's kind
of maybe maybe we can fill it with

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commercials. Are not maybe we just
dead are Okay? People were asking why

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are you out for two two three
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just to get off. There's a
national national feed or whatever. That's cool,

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so you get two more minutes of
us. Yeah, lucky you.

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So all right, Well, let's
go ahead and gi him a call,

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because yeah, about we're about that. Okay, let me let me okay,

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okay, stand by. Um what
else was there? I think there

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were somewhere. Uh, breaking news
Denver returns tomorrow. Uh. I can't

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remember much of the local stuff anymore. Oh that's great, great, exciting,

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exciting. Keep talking. So we
talked about Chris Paul being traded or

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being cut and all that stuff.
It wasn't exactly that. I mean,

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they can do a lot of things
with his position, whether trade him,

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cut him, move him, whatever. It's just a lot of things with

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him. I'm sure he'll he'll thirty
eight years old, he's got about it

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another year or sold. Yeah,
you might have to come call us,

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you give us contact info. Okay, Sorry, everybody, Sorry, it's

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a two minute thing. It is, it is. How are you gonna

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go? We gotta dial toe the
live radio dudes. Hey, herness,

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you're on the air. Okay,
just like you know. This is Jay

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and Steve from Mind of All.
How are you doing? I'm pretty well

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to day. How are you?
We're good? We're good. You must

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be feeling better after you know,
a win usually right, Uh, definitely

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definitely. This is Steve. Let
me ask you a quick question because Jay

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told me the circumstances of the weekend. Um, how old are you?

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I'm forty years old? Forty years
old because I'm gonna ask the question for

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a reason. So all these games
are these high scoring games, and they

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don't come down to the last second
for every one of them. You're forty

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going on sixty, I think younger
my coaching career. I just ship is

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sipt that that's what come with the
game. And you you know, you

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have to stay even killed throughout the
season. It's not a you know,

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a sprint, it's a marathon.
These are things you got to actually remind

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yourself in the course of a season
to stop you from asian So fast happened?

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I mean, how many times does
happen? Well, every it seems

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like every game, right at least
for you guys, uh, you know,

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this year it's a bit. It's
like every game has just come down

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to the wire, you know,
down to the last second. Last week,

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you guys were down, you know, pretty substantially made a come back.

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Rashi gets the pick, the pick
and the end zone when they were

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going to put it away. You
must have felt a little bit like,

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you know, the quon was your
quarterback last year and he kind of did

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some of those things last year,
guessing you were hoping you would do it

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again. Of course, not have
had anything, yes, and uh,

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just a joke about it. I
actually told them, you know, give

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us a gift before that happened.
But but you know, in the course

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of the game. The good thing
about that whole situation, if you know,

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people that was down by our sideline, you can hear our players just

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saying defense, were gonna get that
one stop. You know, as a

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whole we played well, that's a
very very talented team in this league.

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Actually they wanted the more talented teams
in this league. So you heard the

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people on our sideline kept saying,
hey, let's just get that one stop.

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You know, we might have not
got the stops that we wanted,

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but we got the one that we
needed well. And again, you know,

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your defense as much as you know, we we've talked about, you

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know how how important offensive obviously is, that's where your expertise is. But

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your defense has really kept you in
games. You guys have you guys aren't

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scoring a ton of points like you
were last year, but you're winning more

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games that it's kind of crazy.
Oh yes, yes, you know,

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a lot of it just come down
to the logistics of the game as a

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whole, some coaching aspects and point
is in there and guys just staying of

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course. You know, when you
look at a team like us, you

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know, if you even look on
the west side of the division, you

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think about it, it's three it
was it was three games that was worn

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by one point this weekend last weekend. So that's just how tough it is

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on the outside of the division.
So even when you talk about, you

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know, us scoring in the forty
point range last game, except for the

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time that we fumbled, we might
have scored every other drive. It's just

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slowed down the pace of the game, which didn't equal a lot of points

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in the end. So that kind
that's kind of interesting to me. Let's

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points. Is it better defense or
just towards the deal there? Uh,

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it's both. You know. Some
games played possession games, so sometimes some

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games you get ten eleven possessions,
some games you get seven or eight.

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So it's just they flow of the
game. You know. Even being out

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there, I kept telling the referee, hey, stop slowing the game down,

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because it seems like it happened to
us more than once when we was

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on the road, that they know
we just need one stop. We're down

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the touchdown and the game is just
trying to slow down. The play clock

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would not start, the game clock
was starting. Just things like that that

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you know, sometimes people can't tell
or see if they're not there, and

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it slows the game down, which
minimizes possession. So we're talking to her,

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his chin head coach of the Tiesson
Sugar Sculls. You guys are in

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third place now for you know,
four playoffs spots uh for each division.

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But you guys, as as you
have been most of the year, you're

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all bunched up. All the Bay
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They're seven and three and the Rattlers
appear to be back, so they're at

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six and four. So tell us
a little bit about how you're looking going

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forward. You've got you've got the
six games left, You've got three home

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games of the next four. Um, you know what's your approach right now

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over the next few weeks, One
time to win game at a time.

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We're still in a great position right
now. That's the thing that we let

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our players know we don't shy away
from the position we end is very bunched

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up in our side, but we
know, you know, every game is

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gonna come down, you know,
to the end. The business is on

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our end. You know, we
gotta get the plan better in front of

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the home crowd. And basically that's
consistently just closing our games that we have

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and not turning the ball over.
We know on our side is a bunched

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up situation, but we also know, you know, glass high Food,

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that if we keep pressing forward,
we're still on the top half of things.

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Moving forward. We just gotta hand
a lot of business. So the

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last time we talked to you,
I think I told you a little story

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of Atkins going home or doing a
strong on him. When he went home,

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he struggled a game, right,
he had a lot of pixe or

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he didn't have a great game.
Now that he's returned against the same team,

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what do you expect from him?
I think he's grown since then.

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So again, you take that game
and you look at that game. We

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spotted him a couple of points.
We started up nineteens up. So when

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you that game with our first two
possessions, we do two interceptions. After

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those two interceptions, we started clicking. We probably we scored maybe maybe one

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other drive, but we scored every
other possession after that, And that's just

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something to build. No, we
just got to stop spotting people points in

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the beginning and we'll be just fun. So you got those guys coming in

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again. And I think I've asked
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asked Dixie this question last year.
Does one team or the other, you

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know, the team who won last
time have an advantage or the team who

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lost having an advantage. How do
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lost is going to make some adjustments. Are you trying to guess you know,

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if you won, are you trying
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How do you approach playing the team
for a second time like that, You

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just look at where you went wrong. The advantage goes to the team that's

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playing well at that time of the
season. So you know, when it

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comes to like I say, I
look back at the game we played last

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week, we actually played well.
You know, sometimes people don't understand that

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is a very talented Vegas team that
we played that we played well and we

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have stuff to build, we have
stuff to move from. Again, you

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go back to the first time we
played them, We just started the game

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off with two turnovers right away,
and that's hard. And they started the

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game with making a couple of gooses
also, they made a like I want

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to say, two dooses, you
know, at the very beginning of the

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game though, spotting people those amount
of points, you look back and make

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a correction here, correction there,
and take care of the ball and you

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find yourself in better positions, you
know, in the course of the season.

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So I just feel like, right
now we're playing good football. We

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just need to keep minimizing the mistakes
moving forward. Let me ask you a

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question about yourself. So last year
you were the assistant coach to the head

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coach. Obviously, how is it
moving over one seat over to be the

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head guy for you? How has
it been what you expected? And it's

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actually grutiful, you know, it's
it's like basically just seeing plants and getting

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to see him. Honestly, that's
the That's what keeps me smiling, that's

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what keeps me energetic, that's what
keeps me motivated, you know, even

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when everybody outside of that locker room
can't see you know, the growth and

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the player as men and on and
off the field. The fact that we

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can see it internally is a beautiful
thing. So, you know, I

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had to only deal with one side
last year, and being a head coach

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this year, I get to you
know, be more involved as a whole,

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as an overseer on the defensive side
of the ball. Also, I

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get to sit with you know,
coach X, coach Hendricks, and we

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get to talk about game plans moving
forward, what they like against other people

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offenses, and you know, feel
great about it. So it's having to

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see that whole. Overseeing the seeds
grow is a beautiful thing and I'm enjoying

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it. So speaking of that,
then talking about you know, some guys

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on the defense, obviously a kid
like Rashi Hodge, you know, play

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the Arizona fans, you have some
familiarity with them. Had a big play

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for you guys against Vegas, had
that interception that kept the Vegas from getting

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the clinching or that's a little bit
about what he's done for you How how

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you think he's grown into this sport, you know, coming out of college

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in Arizona. Yeah, you know, last year. It was his first

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year he came in, but he
came in at a not unfortunate time for

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us because we were trying to feel
spots that we had a lot of injuries

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that so not by his choice,
but we just had them out of position,

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you know, not by our choice
either, but by injury. So

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coming you know, fast forward to
this year, getting him in positions that

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he's comfortable in. And you know, you got coach Hendres and coach Jackson

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over there putting them in certain positions
what suits him. That's what it's about.

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You put him in positions that suits
him and he's able to be comfortable

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there, which allows him to play
freely and play well. And he's been

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just a great spark in our defense
coming up with big players game out of

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the game. Well what's been What
has he done well for you guys?

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He's just been a like an unsung
hero when it when it comes time to

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make a play, you can depend
on him. So on offense sometimes you

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just need someone to make a play, whether it be a catch up break

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tackle. You need sometimes on offense
for somebody to make a play. He's

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been that person on defense when it's
time to make a huge tackle to put

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them behind the change behind the sticks. He's that he showed up. When

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it comes time for a big interception
in the game, he showed up and

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some some of that stuff. You
know, part of it is our coordinators

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putting him in a position, and
part of it is hard just wanting to

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make it play, having that mindset
to hey, I know the coach is

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going to put me where I need
to be and let me make a play.

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So he's been a great deal and
a big part of us when it

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just comes to making plays. I
also think that Jay the attendance has been

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better this year and more excited.
Yeah, you're like, yeah, it

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has been. It has been.
You know, you talk about the game

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that you know, like the Area
game, it's it's it's on us at

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home. Just to Sini, you
know, we've been we've not been doing

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a great job of finishing at home, and we got to keep those turnovers

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down. When you talk about the
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year right now as we speak,
when we just played them a week ago,

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Bay Area, you know, we
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We turned the ball over, then
they kicked the ball off to us.

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It hit off us and they got
it back. We're spotting people points

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at home, which doesn't allow us
to play well. Our other loss was

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Man's at home. We had five
turnovers in the game. It still had

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a chance at the end to go
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to take the league. So we
just got to minimize that at home and

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we'll be just fine that. Speaking
of that, this is a personal question.

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Hurt us because I'm the one that
talked the owners, Kevin and Cathy

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and dud getting a red uniform.
We've seen them for the last time because

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you guys are owing two in those
uniforms, or well, we see the

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Reds game. I'm not a superstitious
person myself, but I listened to the

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people around me. So if the
people around me look comfortable black, so

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be it. Because I saw I
saw the little video you guys did of

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what uniforms you're gonna wear at the
last home game, and and the Xavier

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Jackson just kind of took the red
jersey and threw it to the side and

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said, we're not wearing that anymore. We're owing too. So I don't

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know influe the people around me with
uncomfortable and I'm gonna listen to the people

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around me. I asked only ship
where I asked the players and my coaches

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like, what are you all coomfortable
with? Let's do it? All right?

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Well, uh, it heard us. We appreciate you know this.

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We know this was the last minute
ask to come on the show, so

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we do appreciate you doing that.
But you guys got uh you got Duke

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City on Saturday, six o'clock at
the Bone Yard. You'll be fired up

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for that definitely. We know we
know this a big game. It's a

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key game just to keep our pace
in the race on the west side of

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the division. We're very aware of
the moment. So we had a great

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week of practice and I told you
guys out to do day's practice. If

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this week just translates to the game, we'll be in a great position.

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All right, sounds great. Hurt
Us, We'll see you on Saturday and

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good luck. Thank you. Appreciate
cool all right, And hurtis Jen's he's

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such a good guy. Always always
a smile on win or lose, he's

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smiling. Let me say see this, Uh, because are you been involved

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heavily in it? I've had the
coaches on here for a show or two.

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All of them good dudes, all
of them, yea, none of

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the good dude. None the coaches
have been jerks, right, none of

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them. No, they are cold
right and uh and Dixie and the assistance

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that they bring in. Um you
Malcolm Nelson who coached you know, he

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stepped in and coach at Tucson High
for a season. You know, he's

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one of the assistant coaches. You
know, we go out there pregame and

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we talk to these guys and you
know, it's kind of shoot the bull

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and there's just a bunch of good
guys out there loving coaching football, right

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and that that that's a lot of
fun. All right, We should we

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take our break, Yes, So
we're gonna come back. We're gonna have

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um Mark Biogic head coach of the
FC Tucson. They've got their season going

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and things seem to be going pretty
well. So we'll talk to Mark Boggi

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He's Jacin's aus. Now on the phone,

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we have Mark Biagi coach of FC
two Sons, Mark, how you

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doing. I'm doing great, guys. Thanks for having me on. Yes,

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great to have you on. A
lot of things going on FC Tucson.

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How's it going for you? Yeah, so far, it's been great.

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It's been uh it's been a fun
six seven weeks and having the guys

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and good results. We're back home
for a nice stretch, so we're we're

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excited to get back into a game. Anytime we have a game, it's

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uh. So was the most uh
the most fun we played tomorrow nine.

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So you you come into the you
know you're new as a as a head

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coach of the club. Just what's
been your approach? I mean when you

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when you got the job and then
you're getting ready for the season, you

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know, what are the things that
you felt were most important to you to

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get in place, to get ready
and get things going. Yeah. I

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think for me, just consistency,
consistency with my message and I should say

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our message from from ownership all the
way down to me, and consistency of

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the type of players we want here
in Tucson and at FC Tucson, and

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a consistent message from me and my
coaching staff to players assistant messaging to their

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college coaches, to agents about who
we are and what we want to be

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here. And it's a different game
because of the you know, the new

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system that you have here, the
new team you have here. How they

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responded to you as a coach so
far, I think very positively. The

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guys have you learn the new systems
that we're trying to put in place,

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and you know on some of the
standards that I'm trying to hold them too,

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which are obviously going to be a
little bit different. And they're players

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from all over the country and all
over the world really that are here,

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and so far, I think the
response has been really positive, and I've

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got a good relationship with most of
the guys. Pretty open conversations have been

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had positive and sometimes some hard conversations, but that's part of it. And

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I think the guys have been very
responsive to me, and my coaches do

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a great job helping, you know, keep the guys in line with some

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positive conversations and some nice reinforcement moments
as well. How would you characterize yourself

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as a coach? You know,
what kind of coach are you too?

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You know, we at here about
a players coach or a guy who coaches

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defense or offense, or any one
of a number of things. How would

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you character guards yourself as a coach. Yeah, it's funny you asked that

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because yesterday I was talking with a
player, actually the captain of our team,

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and I mentioned to him that I
would consider myself a players coach,

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someone that can put their arm around
the players and hear them out, but

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also hold them to standards. It's
um, I take a lot of responsibility

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among myself and my staff, and
I also hold the players to a certain

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standard in those same responsibilities. So
there's thirty six players that all have thirty

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six different things going on on any
given day, right with family and soccer

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and school and a lot of other
things. And so I'm here to help

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mentor and teach these guys while also
trying to maintain the highest standard possible for

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for the soccer and so, um, some some tough conversations, but a

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lot of it is trying to to
mentor these young men and and obviously being

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future professional soccer players, but also
future future people as well that are you

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know, a nice part of society
and they can always lean back on their

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FT two sun experience as a positive
one. So the conversation with a captain

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did he did he say, well, coach, maybe you're not. How

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did he take that? Well,
how did that conversation happen? You know

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why didn't happen? No? It
was, it was it was funny,

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it was great. Yeah, maybe
I don't think what I am right.

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Um, it was actually a pretty
positive conversation. He came to me with

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with a concern that a player had
and this player had actually previously spoken to

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me, but as a captain,
a lot of the times I'm not in

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the locker room all the time,
right, he feels a differ and pulse

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of the team, right, And
so he brought to me a a valid

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concern that a teammate was having about
a family issue, actually nothing concerning FC

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Tuson, but just what this individual
player was dealing with personally and his personal

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life. And we had a great
conversation about it. Then again I put

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my arm around the player and the
player is going to go home and see

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his family and do what's that's for
him personally. So the captain had that

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moment of a chat with me and
I I told him I appreciated the conversation

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that he's doing what he needs to
do to keep and I keep tabs on

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what's going on in the locker room, and you know, ultimately I said,

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of course, I'm gonna support the
player going home to see his family

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if that's what's right for the player. Right. That's how it came up

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that I'm a player's coach, and
and you know, because I care about

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the player and he wasn't in the
right mindset to perform at his highest level,

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and he was really having some some
family things, and so he's going

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to go and see his family in
South America and take care of take care

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of himself first, and I fully
support that. So is that a part

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of the job that you like or
don't like or just the reality of it?

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I mean, how do you feel
about doing that part of it?

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Yeah? I think it's just the
reality of it, right, I mean,

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you know, obviously we're there for
the soccer, but there's there's you

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know, there's those moments where a
player was here a couple of days ago

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and then he got a phone call
from his family and his father was put

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in the hospital, and so all
of a sudden, his reality changed,

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right, And I think that,
Um, I'm very supportive of my players

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in that I certainly I want the
players here selfishly, but obviously I have

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to care about what's right for them. And there's luckily my experience have taught

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me that that's just part of it, right. And you know, if

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I I force a player to stay
for lack of a better, you know

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better word, it's not going to
be right for them, and it's not

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going to be right for the team, you know. So that is just

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kind of part of it, right. There's there's things outside of football that

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that are going to affect that the
thirty six players I have and my coaching

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staff has similar types of things,
and I have similar types of things,

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but just kind of comes with it. I just human nature a little bit.

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So I'm trying to be as supportive
as I can, but then also

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have hard conversations when I have to
have those hard ones about and maybe just

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is a bigger deal, maybe this
isn't as big of a deal. How

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can I help you through those moments? Right, That's part of the mentorship

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of it. Yeah, so coach, you obviously work for somebody who's freaking

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guests of ours, A friend of
mine, Perlman high IQ and soccer.

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How's that relationship with you two.
Yeah, that's great. I've known John.

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He used to he might get mad
at me if I aid him here

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a little bit, but he used
to coach me, so, um,

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you know, I've known him for
quite a long time. And uh,

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he's someone I still ask questions of
and just hey, what are your fonts?

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How do you think this went?
And I can always I can always

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ask him his thoughts because we've been
in the you know, we've been on

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the sideline together when he was the
head coach, and we share a lot

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of the same soccer ideas in front
of some of our soccer philosophies about how

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we want to play and who we
want to have here to represent this city

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are very much in line. So
it's been it's been a good relationship.

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Obviously, he's stepped the more away
from the technical side and let me,

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you know, any piece trusted me
to do to do that, which I

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which I appreciate the support from him. But he's always nice to be able

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to ask another Uh. Yeah,
it's another pair of eyes that has seen

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the level and knows the level and
has the experience. It's always nice to

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have someone in my you know,
right down the hall to ask some of

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those questions about just to get another
opinion. So on the field, Um,

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you know, what, what do
you feel, you know, what's

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the makeup of your team? What
characterizes your team right now in terms of

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you know, who the guys are
and how they play. Yeah, good

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question. I would start by saying
that we have a lot of players that

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are very good with the ball,
have a very high understanding of the game.

410
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And that's how I would category categorize
our team kind of in a nutshell.

411
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We have a lot of players from
various cultures, different parts of the

412
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world, but the one thing that
unite them all is uh, we taught

413
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their character, their drive to be
a professional soccer player, their technical ability

414
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on the ball, their decision making
in in in difficult moments. Those are

415
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the those are the things that attracted
us to these players. And then obviously

416
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we always like to make sure that
the players we bring here are embody what

417
00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:07.799
we want to embody as far as
being coachable, you know, having a

418
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willingness to learn, being ethical.
They're going to support the badge, you

419
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know, and they're not going to
be you know, troublemakers so to speak.

420
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But those are kind of the foundations
for the soccer in the club.

421
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But obviously the soccer we're looking for
players that are very good on the ball,

422
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can make decisions like the play attacking
minded football. We want to have

423
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the ball a lot, create a
lot of chances. So those are the

424
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type of players that we like to
have here at Tucson. So I can't

425
00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:37.359
find a roster, but historically,
you guys, you typically have a player

426
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or two from from Tucson or the
area. Is that the case this year

427
00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:51.000
it is we have a number of
guys that are from Tucson. The I

428
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would say the primary player that we
have from two Son that will be featured

429
00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:59.160
quite often and already has been featured, is a player named Tommy Silva.

430
00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:04.640
He is currently the left back for
UCLA. He's played a number of games

431
00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:08.599
with us so far, but he's
actually still in school for another week and

432
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so he won't be able to join
us full time until the middle of next

433
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week. I believe. So Tommy
Silva is through and through Tucson. I

434
00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:22.279
coached him as a kid for a
period of time and have known him and

435
00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:26.640
his family for over over ten years, and Tommy is he's going to be

436
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:29.680
a big part of his team when
he gets here. He already has played

437
00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:33.319
a number of games with US as
we've traveled out to California. Um,

438
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:38.279
but Tommy is certainly one player that
is going to be influential in this in

439
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:42.880
the success of this team this summer. Wow, Tommy, his older brother

440
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:47.240
too, played with mich Well how
old are you? Yeah? So,

441
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:49.160
yeah, so I know I know
you your stun team the ninety five.

442
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:52.880
Well I'm thirty eight, okay,
yeah, so you know exactly, very

443
00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.400
good group, yeah, very good
group. So jaylen Wade used to live

444
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.200
right down the streets for me,
and I knew his dad very well.

445
00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:03.119
And then obviously Trevor went to the
same high school I did. Obviously much

446
00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.400
ten years later, right, but
um, but yeah, there's some there's

447
00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:14.519
some history there for sure. But
yeah, so so Tommy is two thousand

448
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:18.319
and two born, but he did
obviously have an older brother that uh played

449
00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:22.680
some soccer but obviously focused more on
the cross country right at Stamford. Very

450
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:27.200
very good family, unbelievable family.
Yeah right, okay, cool, cool,

451
00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:30.079
All right, Uh, well,
let's talk about tomorrow's game. A

452
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:36.279
big weekend too, right, A
lot of things going on Yeah, it's

453
00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:40.920
massive any any anytime we have a
home game, a chance to get three

454
00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:45.359
points, put a string of games
together, a string of results, it

455
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:52.079
is big for us. We m
so we've had three away games to start

456
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:56.359
to start the league play, so
obviously coming home last week getting a result

457
00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:00.960
against Cappo is big for us.
And then obviously we'd to follow it up

458
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:05.519
tomorrow night with another game against Socas
Sea Horses. So we're excited to get

459
00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:07.960
back on the field at seven o'clock
tomorrow night. It's it's bride night,

460
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:13.000
so uh, you know, a
little something something specially going on there.

461
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:16.839
Tickets are are available on your on
your website and that type of thing.

462
00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:20.960
You know. The crowds, Well, who's the crowd that comes out to

463
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:25.640
see you guys? Who are they? Yeah, good question. I think

464
00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:30.440
it's it's it's a crowd from all
different kind of walks of life of Tucson.

465
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:35.240
I mean there's certainly the you know, the family that it has,

466
00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:38.559
the sixth and nine year old that
play soccer in various parts of the Tucson

467
00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:45.240
community that come out. There's there's
connections to Tommy Silva type people. The

468
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:50.480
Tucson people that come out and support, um, you know, some of

469
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:55.200
the local people. There's a soccer
enthusiasts that come out and enjoy, uh,

470
00:32:55.559 --> 00:32:58.400
you know, a game, and
then I think that there's some people

471
00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:02.839
that just enjoy coming out and being
entertained, right, And so I would

472
00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:07.440
say that that the games are pretty
entertaining. The crowd always has a lot

473
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:12.480
of a lot of energy and uh
you know, good energy for us.

474
00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:15.000
It's a good support for us,
and then sometimes the right energy towards the

475
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:17.480
other team and the rest sometimes which
is part of it as well. Right,

476
00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:22.240
So we've we've gotten pretty good crowds
this year so far, so we're

477
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:24.119
looking forward to another good one in
the more nine. Well, one of

478
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:27.799
the great things that's happened so far
in too soon as the weather has been

479
00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:31.519
fantastic, especially a night for you
guys. Yeah it had, And if

480
00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:35.160
I'm being fully honest, I'm actually
a little bit upset at the weather.

481
00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:38.440
Right. Usually I would complain,
but when when it's when it's seventy degrees

482
00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:42.519
in southern California, I want it
to be one hundred and six here,

483
00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:47.759
obviously, that's a pretty good uh
you know, being twenty five excuse me,

484
00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:52.920
twenty seven hundred feet in the elevation. Plus you know, starting a

485
00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:55.960
game when it's ninety six degrees is
it's difficult for some opponents. Right.

486
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:00.720
Of course, it's been beautiful the
past week two, so we'll have to

487
00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:04.960
get it, you know, we'll
just have to make sure that we take

488
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:07.400
care of it and without the without
the weather's help tomorrow night, March.

489
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:10.239
For selfish reasons, I'd like it
the way it is. Listen, we

490
00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:15.400
win under these good conditions, that's
all. That's it. Yeah, we're

491
00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:17.159
gonna do that for you. Thanks
coach. All right, coach at seven

492
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:23.000
o'clock tomorrow, Keno North Stadium.
Uh, the Southern California Seahorses, all

493
00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:30.840
right, take care of all right, coach, thanks a lot. Yeah,

494
00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:32.320
he's got some pretty good stuts player. No wonder what did there?

495
00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:37.719
Four and one. Well, they've
got a couple of exit out of league

496
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.960
wins, but they're one, one
and two on some other they won,

497
00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:45.920
Yeah they won't. They won a
couple of others. Um, but they

498
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:51.000
won last week at home, so
uh, or on you on the road.

499
00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:53.559
So they're they're now at home and
they've got a couple of home games

500
00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:57.519
in a row. You know,
it was last week they won at home,

501
00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:00.840
and they got another home game tonight, and next week they go back

502
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:04.400
out on the road. But you
know, just uh, look, you're

503
00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:07.280
always trying to win, whether it's
whatever level you're in, whatever division you're

504
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:10.639
you're always trying to win. Yeah, and so we're trying to get three

505
00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:15.320
points for for home game torn right, So yeah, okay, well that's

506
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:17.320
cool. I guess well, you
two Sons always kind of been a sucker

507
00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:22.559
place. The your your football team, the Sugar School is getting some people.

508
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:24.119
It's good. The busy weekend this
weekend, right, you got you

509
00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:27.679
got se two Sons at home tomorrow
night, and then you got the sugarst

510
00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:30.679
Cloths at home on Saturday. So
hopefully some Arizona sports fan or two Suns

511
00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:36.199
sports fans will get out there exactly. And the weather's beautiful, beautiful,

512
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:39.360
weather beautiful, and even if the
home field advantage is gone, all right,

513
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We'll keep an eye on the light this

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time. We also uftually two sons. The women started their season two,

575
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so we got to get it.
Get um NC double A basketball just sent

576
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out some rules changes for next girl. Yeah. The first one being that

577
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these had all been forwarded to the
to the oversight committee. Now these are

578
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every official rules. One and the
one that's obviously gonna draw the most attention

579
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is what constitutes the charge? Right, the blocker of the charge. It's

580
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always been that, Um, you
had to plan established before the guy went

581
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up in the air, okay,
but once they're up in the air,

582
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:51.920
you can't. Now they're saying you
have to be in position before the player's

583
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:54.599
foot goes down to go up in
the or you know, or you know,

584
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:58.159
or you hit them. So so
if so, if their foot is

585
00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:00.880
already down and you get in front
of um, that's a that's a block

586
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:05.800
right, So supposedly it's gonna be
easier to call. There's not gonna be

587
00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:08.320
as many charges called. You still
got to be outside the art to draw

588
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:13.199
a chard. But it's it's you
know, it's a fraction of a second,

589
00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:15.760
but it's still a fraction of a
second that it is gonna make a

590
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:19.840
big difference. And it's kind of
like, you know, when they made

591
00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:22.559
the bases bigger in baseball, it's
like they're an inch bigger. I'm like,

592
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:24.119
how much difference does that make?
We'll think how many times the guy's

593
00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:29.000
been within an inch of being saved
and now and now he you know,

594
00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:31.199
he is so. Um, so
that's the big one. Um. A

595
00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:36.039
big one for me is as a
stat guys, that they're going to allow

596
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:40.519
players to wear numbers from zero to
ninety nine. Before, the rule in

597
00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:45.320
college was you couldn't have a number
higher than five on your jersey to allow

598
00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:51.000
a referee to signal, you know, to the score. Now you know

599
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:53.519
the the NBA has had that for
a long time, so they're gonna allow

600
00:41:53.559 --> 00:41:55.639
that. So now, you know, the thing is we have to see

601
00:41:57.199 --> 00:41:59.400
what you know, when they put
up you know, a five and a

602
00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:01.719
four. Is that number nine or
is that number forty five? You know,

603
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:07.920
that's gonna be an interesting thing to
figure out. Um, they're gonna

604
00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:10.440
make it okay because I think they
had taken this away, but it's it's

605
00:42:10.519 --> 00:42:15.360
back. I don't know where whatever
it is. If you're let's say you're

606
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:17.320
trying to save a ball or you're
going for a ball that's out of bounds,

607
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:22.039
you could be in the air,
catch the ball and call time out.

608
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:23.360
Before they used to be able to
do that they used to be able

609
00:42:23.400 --> 00:42:28.599
to look it away and now they're
they're they're saying you can do that again.

610
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So that's one of the things.
Um, I don't know why you

611
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would do this. It says bench
personnel who are not students will be allowed

612
00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:43.159
to serve as peacekeepers when an altercation
occurs. Basically, they're saying coaches and

613
00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:46.559
whatever can go out on the floor
if there's if there's a fight or something

614
00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:51.360
like that, because I think you
know people, but I guess it says

615
00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:53.199
for are not students. I guess
means players still can't go out on the

616
00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:58.920
court if there's some kind of a
fight or something like that. Um Oh,

617
00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:02.239
anytime the ball hits the rim and
the offense retains possession in the front

618
00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:07.199
court, the shot cluckle reset to
twenty seconds, which I thought they already

619
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:12.280
did, so I don't know what
the deal is there. Um So anyway,

620
00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.039
so there's just a few things that
are that are happening. Then they're

621
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:17.840
they're they're going with an experimental thing. They're gonna allow the time in the

622
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:24.119
second half. The media timeout times
will change because yeah, because in the

623
00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:30.840
second half they always allow one extra
TV timeout. Um. At the first

624
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:34.199
uh, four minutes for you know. But but like like say, there's

625
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:38.960
all there's there's an extra TV timeout
in the second half, and it's it's

626
00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:44.199
uh so we have sixteen twelve and
eight right right? Those are right,

627
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:47.599
yeah, sixteen twelve, twelve,
eight and four right right, And then

628
00:43:47.639 --> 00:43:54.000
there was always one more that would
be um at a at a you know,

629
00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:58.039
at a dead ball after a certain
amount of time. Now they're saying

630
00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:02.719
it's gonna be the first ball under
seventeen fourteen eleven, eight and four.

631
00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.320
Now, that's that's an experimental So
conference can do that if they want to.

632
00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:10.840
They're going to use it in the
in the NI in the preseason or

633
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:15.320
in the n I D. But
you know, that's just something that that

634
00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:19.760
they're checking out. So instead of
one TV time out being kind of a

635
00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:22.119
floating thing because you know, sometimes
there's like a TV time out, they

636
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:25.440
come back at one possession, then
there's another one they're trying to avoid.

637
00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:30.760
Those are a few things. So
I yes, somebody yesterday or yeah,

638
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:34.960
last time maybe with the with the
guys that was with uh, do you

639
00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:38.360
like baseball? You like baseball?
Now like baseball? Probably? Yeah?

640
00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:44.760
I think I think the clock thing
has gotten has made it better. It's

641
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:47.159
not such a grind to watch a
game. There's not so much dead space,

642
00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:51.400
you know, Guys are you know, taking a swing getting back in

643
00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:54.360
the batter's box the next picture,
because it's it's it moves along more.

644
00:44:54.559 --> 00:44:57.119
I told you I went to the
get you know, I went to that

645
00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:02.079
game at Fenway Park. And whereas
normally when I go to a game,

646
00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:06.599
I want it to last as long
as possible for the experience. Yeah,

647
00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:08.800
I'm sitting for sixty three years old. I didn't want to be there three

648
00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:13.400
hours and it was freezing cold.
The game went a little over two and

649
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:16.039
a half hours and it was great. So yes, I like. I

650
00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:20.559
like what they've done with that.
I like. I like that they've taken

651
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:23.360
the shift away, you know all
you know, you're while you're looking from

652
00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:28.840
that that camera behind the picture,
and a ball gets hit, get gets

653
00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:30.760
hit up the middle. It's a
base hit again, you know, because

654
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:34.480
of the shift and stuff. A
ball here, you know, I never

655
00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:37.719
got used to a ball going up
the middle being an out, and now

656
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:40.840
it's a hit again, you know, because because you know, because you're

657
00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:44.880
you don't have a guy standing there
all the time. So I like.

658
00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:46.599
I like that. I like what
they've done. I like the taking away

659
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:51.000
the shift, and I like the
clock. I really really do. Um

660
00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:52.159
I watch, you know, I
do. I do. I'm watching a

661
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:55.760
lot more baseball. I watch the
Dodgers every day. And if I'm sitting

662
00:45:55.760 --> 00:46:00.360
around I'm working, uh you know, at my desk and the middle of

663
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:02.400
the day, if there's a baseball
game on, I'll put it on.

664
00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:06.000
I don't care who he's playing.
I'll just put it on as background,

665
00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:08.239
just to have a baseball game on
because I enjoy it a whole lot more.

666
00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:13.000
Um it, it's just more fun
to watch. I think, what

667
00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:16.639
did your guys say, Oh,
they said what you said, it's crooker

668
00:46:16.719 --> 00:46:21.559
game, easier game. They're glad
the shift's not there. Other than that,

669
00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:25.000
that was about it. The same
thing, the shift. I never

670
00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:29.000
really liked to shift, but it's
it's you know, but it made all

671
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:30.760
the sense if you could do it, sure, why not? Right?

672
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:34.920
Sure? And if guys weren't going
to be dropping bunts going down the other

673
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.880
way and they were gonna try and
swing and hit the ball through the shift

674
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:40.000
and make him try. But I
do like that they took it away because

675
00:46:40.039 --> 00:46:44.159
I think it's attitude the game,
plus with the speed of the game now

676
00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:50.079
changed because of of the time pox, So what if there's some moregens and

677
00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:52.440
some more runs, the games are
still I think they're running about half an

678
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:55.920
hour shorter on average, which is
a lot. I mean, there's been

679
00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:00.039
some games that have been in under
two hours, which is great. Have

680
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:01.960
you seen this kid from Cincinnati showed
you the highlight of his home run?

681
00:47:02.159 --> 00:47:07.280
Yeah? Day the ball? He
is really good. Well yeah, do

682
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:08.920
you see the thing about the ball? Yeah? Yeah, the dude who

683
00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:12.920
got who caught his home run?
His first home run? You know.

684
00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:15.079
I mean, if this guy turns
out to be a Hall of Fame or

685
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:16.400
whatever, that ball might have been
value. But he gave it back.

686
00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:20.800
Yeah, they were talking about ten
thousand dollars or that is that what they're

687
00:47:20.840 --> 00:47:22.920
talking about? No, no,
no, they got there was a bunch

688
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:24.480
of kids. Yeah, a bunch
of kids went in there, like the

689
00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:29.079
Brady bunch. Kids were out there
and they just went down and took pictures

690
00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:31.159
and got a bat. Yeah I
got some gear maybe. Yeah. Yeah,

691
00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:35.599
everybody gave the ball back. What
would you do? You're giving me

692
00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:38.079
ten thousand dollars? Sure? Okay, but Okay, let's say you're that

693
00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:40.880
guy. Okay, you catch the
ball. You're at the game. You've

694
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:45.480
got the ball, right, you
know? Are you? No? I

695
00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:47.360
think I think you're You're not gonna
have a chance. You got to find

696
00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:51.920
out the value of the boasts for
ten thousand dollars and they're gonna give me

697
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:54.000
something maybe two, I guess,
and maybe a broken bat and a player

698
00:47:54.039 --> 00:48:00.320
to be named season tickets and a
gear yeah, just signed jersey. Yeah

699
00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:05.039
like that right exactly? Yeah,
yeah, And I'm I'm a guy yea

700
00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:08.039
to the like five degrees now five
percent, And I'm thinking, who is

701
00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:13.119
this kid? The guys built like
a built like a stick, and he

702
00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:15.400
can crank the ball. He had
a triple yesterday. I saw that,

703
00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:21.559
did you see? Yeah? He
takes like three steps between bases fastest first

704
00:48:21.639 --> 00:48:27.360
or third of the year second literally, yeah, three or four steps will

705
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:35.159
be a Dodger about five years yankee
to three years? Why was this guy

706
00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:38.199
still in the minors? With question? True? Somebody talking about what do

707
00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:43.679
they call it? Um uh time
serve manipulation you know what that is?

708
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:45.760
No, but but no, but
I kind of know. I read a

709
00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:50.679
book called Sway. Have you ever
book called Sway White People do what they

710
00:48:50.760 --> 00:48:54.039
do. Then it's like Michael Jordan. Let's assume for a second Michael Jordan

711
00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:59.880
didn't turn out to be Michael Jordan. But you spend tons of money Mike

712
00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:02.199
Jordan. So you have to invest
in Michael Jordan, whether you know you

713
00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:06.599
screwed up to pick or not.
And that's probably what you're talking about,

714
00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:08.840
where they have to put him in
in his spot for a while. Yeah,

715
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:14.159
that it stick him in the minors, right, so that so that

716
00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:19.079
he wouldn't be so young and with
this much time in the major bag so

717
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:21.800
then he could get his big contact
or whatever. Yeah, really that's what

718
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:23.639
Yeah, Yeah, that's kind of
crazy. If you're good enough, you're

719
00:49:23.639 --> 00:49:27.840
good. So you stash him in
the miners and they'll probably send him back

720
00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:30.440
to the miners at some point so
that he doesn't get his full year.

721
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:34.519
That's there's a certain amount of time
he's got to be up. That's to

722
00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:38.320
get a full year um status as
a as a major league baseball at the

723
00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:42.559
real success, I mean, at
the cost of success. Look, what

724
00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:45.760
are these guys about. They're all
so much about the money we've been talking

725
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:47.559
about that. Yeah, and this
is administration. Right, yeah, yeah,

726
00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:52.239
but he's really good. He looks
really good. No, he doesn't,

727
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:55.519
and he doesn't. He's just a
thin dude who motor mechanics. Ye,

728
00:49:55.639 --> 00:50:00.880
he's got it all. Yeah,
very very U I know, flame

729
00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:02.880
boyance the right word. You hit
that home run and you know his back

730
00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:06.519
lip and the whole thing. The
first time I saw that, Yes,

731
00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:15.079
I'll please. Somebody said yeah yeah, and the guy like exactly the same

732
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:17.199
body language, same everything. Yeah, yeah, he looks really good.

733
00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:23.880
But you just wonder what took him. He'll be a ranking again. We're

734
00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:29.840
talking to our guy. They called
about the George. That's what I talk

735
00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:32.599
about, George Aaron Judge running through
the fence and Dodgers saying, okay,

736
00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:37.280
we'll fix it now that he's gone. Yeah, these guys, you know,

737
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:39.559
George and some of these guys,
Yankee fans, Boston guys, Saint

738
00:50:39.639 --> 00:50:45.320
Louis guys. You know, come
on, let's just play, Come on,

739
00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:51.119
guys. That's that's why we watched
Sports fun. Dodgers beat the Red.

740
00:50:51.199 --> 00:50:53.519
Finally today Dodgers lost two on two
walk off by the Red. We

741
00:50:53.719 --> 00:50:57.400
at the back and then they beat
it. If I can recall, we

742
00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:00.440
played do we make a bet,
you and I did. We say we

743
00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:04.519
have the same bet whoever goes furthest
in the playoffs? Yeah, I think

744
00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:07.440
we did. If I can recall
correctly, I could still be two years

745
00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:09.360
ago, I think. So,
I don't even know what. Dodgers are

746
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:13.760
pretty good, right, so San
Diego should be. Uh. I think

747
00:51:13.800 --> 00:51:15.519
San Diego's right there. I looked, I was looking at the standard.

748
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:20.400
Did pay attention to where San Diego
was? But well, yeah, let's

749
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:22.599
just do the Saxon. I think
the Diamondbacks are yeah, yeah, yeah,

750
00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:25.960
then we're talking about the Diaonbacks.
Last shut you go away. You're

751
00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:29.920
gonna go You're gonna go away.
We'll have to talk to somebody. Maybe

752
00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:39.280
we can get Gonzalez again or maybe
um uh no one former player. UM,

753
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:44.639
let's see. Yeah, the Diamondbacks
are a game and a half in

754
00:51:44.719 --> 00:51:47.840
front of the Dodgers. Uh.
San Diego is Oh they're way back,

755
00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:52.280
are they? There are eight games
out of first place, the six and

756
00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:57.599
a half games behind the Dodgers,
So uh, they're there are four games

757
00:51:57.719 --> 00:52:00.119
under five hundred. They're like a
forget, I don't know the four games

758
00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:04.880
they had a Colorado And have you
seen how bad. The A's are in

759
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:09.320
there. That's just a disaster.
Fourteen and fifty, that's just a disaster.

760
00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:15.480
Fourteen to fifty. I'm here hearing
that the stadium deal, yeah,

761
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:17.199
is blowing up in Vegas. Right. They didn't vote on it, yeah,

762
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:22.039
because they don't want to. There's
a lot of opposition to giving giving

763
00:52:22.079 --> 00:52:27.199
them like three hundred and eighty million
dollars in tax money for for the stadium

764
00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:31.400
on the heels of them voting down
or not having budget for a bunch of

765
00:52:31.880 --> 00:52:35.800
social service stuff. And people are
kind of pas, yeah, no,

766
00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:37.599
you know, do you see where
they're gonna put it right right? Trump

767
00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:43.119
right on the how that place is
going to be a jungle? It already

768
00:52:43.239 --> 00:52:45.119
is, I know exactly, it's
gonna be more of a juggle because there's

769
00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:50.440
how do you put this massive thing
there? And there seems like there's no

770
00:52:50.599 --> 00:52:53.199
space. But no, yes,
I mean you actually would be looking out

771
00:52:53.239 --> 00:52:57.639
to in the right field at the
MGM Grant is the way it is,

772
00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:00.159
the way they've got it set up, a cordy do the renderings that that

773
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:05.199
they put out there? Could you
go to the game there if I'm there

774
00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:07.239
already, or just go up there? No, I was just making just

775
00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:12.719
go to Diamondbacks. No, because
you're cutting into my fun time. You

776
00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:15.679
wouldn't go either. That's the Dodgers
are there. I go see the Dodgers

777
00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:17.920
there. Yeah, but yeah,
but yeah you can see the Dodgers.

778
00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:22.920
Like I want to go to a
Raiders game. I really can't much money,

779
00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:25.400
but I can't. That's it.
You know, we because last year

780
00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:28.880
when we were in you know,
our our our weekend that we go for

781
00:53:30.119 --> 00:53:34.199
college football November November, and they
were at home. Yeah, and the

782
00:53:34.400 --> 00:53:39.079
cheapest ticket was three hundred. There
was three hundred some dollars before you got

783
00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:42.719
all the fees and stuff. You're
gonna be up over four hundred bucks.

784
00:53:43.039 --> 00:53:45.280
I'm not four hundred dollars. I'm
not gonna spend four hundred. I might

785
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:51.360
spend one hundred and twenty five maybe
on the outer ridge off to see the

786
00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:54.239
Raiders. Totally, you're not spending
three four hundred dollars. But people do,

787
00:53:54.719 --> 00:53:59.039
and they and they go that that's
the price because people are paying the

788
00:53:59.119 --> 00:54:01.800
price. But I'm I'm pretty sure, but I would love to. I

789
00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:05.519
mean we you know, we went
to the game at that Arizona played there.

790
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:08.199
That's a cool stadium. It's a
great bank. It's right there on

791
00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:10.559
the Well you went to the game, you were a fan, Yeah,

792
00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:14.159
well we were in the we were
in the media area and it was a

793
00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:17.360
no one's yeah he up there,
but it was it was very fun.

794
00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:22.360
We had a great time at that. Okay. I love stadiums. I'm

795
00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:27.960
I'm a guy that loves stadiums.
You know, if I if I go

796
00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:30.679
to a you know, I mean, I made the drive to Santa Clara

797
00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:36.239
from San Francisco to see the forty
nine ers new stadium because it was almost

798
00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:37.480
done. It was a year before
they opened it. I just wanted to

799
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:42.519
see what it looked like. And
I actually drove the forty five minutes or

800
00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:45.480
or so from where I was to
just go see their stadium. Yeah,

801
00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:49.840
and it's very cool. So I'm
that guy. I don't know why,

802
00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:52.440
but I am all right, man. Fun day. Yeah. Thank you

803
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:57.960
to hurt Us Chin, the Tucson
Sugar Sculls, Mark bac two soon for

804
00:54:58.559 --> 00:55:01.119
joining us today. You go out
and support those guys. Check out their

805
00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:07.360
games. Uh FC two Sun playing
Friday night seven o'clock at Keino and then

806
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:10.880
the Sugar Sculls six o'clock Saturday at
the Tucsons Arena aka the Bone Yard,

807
00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:20.320
So be sure to check that stuff
out and we'll see you tomorrow. Come on,