WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:07.440 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jakin Zalis on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:13.800 fourteen fifteen powered by Nova Insurance Services. Make sure your most prized possessions kat 3 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:18.640 z R two side and i Heeart Radio Station. Hey, good afternoon, 4 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:21.239 everybody. Welcome to YE on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. 5 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:25.280 I'm Steve Rivera, he's Jakin's os. It's just two old men and nobody 6 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:30.000 else today. We'll see how many times we can screw it up. If 7 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.280 you just want to call it, please do make the show more interesting. 8 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.759 Five two, four, one, six, seventy four forty that'd be great. 9 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:40.240 A lot of things not going on this summer. Yeah, we're looking, 10 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:43.880 you know, a little thin for breaking news today. So I don't 11 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:46.960 know what we're gonna do. Yeah, yeah, I was listening to a 12 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:53.479 podcast now with Kilbert Arenas and uh and JJ Reddick have to watch. Do 13 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:57.719 you remember Gilbert Obs. Yeah, the crazy fool that he was here, 14 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:00.000 you know, kind of the stiff. This is a big stages. He 15 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.359 was definitely all of that early stages here, kind of said a lot of 16 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:07.079 stuff and Luke was kind of cringe when you'd say stuff. And Bruce and 17 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:11.560 I would quote him, and and he'd get in trouble for talking to us. 18 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:15.400 He just continues, He just continues. He's got a good show obviously. 19 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:18.959 Well, you know, he's an interesting guy regardless of I mean, 20 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.439 regardless of what he's interesting for. He's an interesting guy, interesting guy with 21 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:27.719 an interesting story, big background, him and his father growing up um and 22 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:34.480 then his life after becoming the star, and and and the word is yeah, 23 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:38.799 he's at least on the list he's that would be very interesting if he 24 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:42.519 were to come here, we'd see more Gilbert less Richard, get him and 25 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:47.760 Richard have this funny exchange of rivalries. Yeah, yea, so it is 26 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:49.359 what it is. Okay, maybe we'll talk more about that later. So 27 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:52.359 what do we have going on today? We have a pretty good show. 28 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.719 Yeah, fun show, right, a fun show because, uh, you 29 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:59.200 know, Brian Jefferies is always fun. We'll talk to him about how uh 30 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:01.159 you know, just you know, we've been talking about what grade would you 31 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.799 give you of a sports this year? I think we both kind of settled 32 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:10.319 on a bus. You know, Baseball They're okay. Softball was way below 33 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:15.639 expectations. Even though football took a big step forward, it still went five 34 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:20.159 and seven, right, Um, you know, basketball and something that, 35 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:23.039 but you know, tennis did Tennis was great, some national champions in track. 36 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:29.039 Um uh. The signature sub basketball is multiple women in basketball, and 37 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.159 women's and men's basketball were good. So we said, I think we settled 38 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:35.199 on the ball a couple of times two. But we'll see what Brian said. 39 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:38.280 I don't know if he'll give him a grade because they pay him. 40 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.159 I was just gonna say it might it might be a bias grade if he 41 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:45.159 does. But I'll be interested to hear. You know, you know that, 42 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:47.000 you know, because obviously he does and he does football, then he 43 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:51.319 does basketball, and he does baseball, um, you know, and then 44 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:53.199 he's obviously you know, he's in McHale, so I've probably got a good 45 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:57.360 sense of what he thinks it was like for them this year. Yeah. 46 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:00.759 Yeah. And then an interesting guy that many people don't know because he's a 47 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:07.080 bus behind the scenes guy for ages, Wendell Neil. He's been the equipment 48 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:12.360 manager or involved in the equipment operation UH at Arizona for over thirty years. 49 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.840 He's got forty years total in the business. He was at Washington State before 50 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:17.520 he came here, but he's been at the OVA and thirty for thirty two 51 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:22.159 years. He's retiring. Um, we just thought he didn't have some great 52 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:25.719 stories to tell, and uh in invite him to the show. He said, 53 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:29.400 he's looking forward to coming and telling some of his stories. So hopefully 54 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:31.080 he's got some some good ones lined up for us. So he'll come on 55 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:35.360 a four fifteen, Brian at three fifteen. But when you know, when 56 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:38.400 you talk about an equipment guy, you know they you know, they see, 57 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:42.080 they see something that not even a lot of athletes see, right, 58 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:45.280 you know, the track guys don't see. You know, what it is 59 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:47.120 to get equipment for the football team and whatnot. But all the things that 60 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:50.759 they got to do, stuff they got to go on the road. He's 61 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.360 more recently been tied very much to the bat, to the baseball team. 62 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:58.199 Uh. In fact, in announcing his retirement on Twitter, he said, 63 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:01.680 I was waiting until the baseball scene baseball season was over to announce this. 64 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.879 It's over, saw him announcing. So but the guy that you know, 65 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:08.719 when we're talking thirty two years, we're talking a guy who's been there since 66 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:11.719 uh, you know, early nineties. So he seemed a lot of the 67 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:16.279 eighties, eighties forty years. No, he did forty years total, okay, 68 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:19.680 with thirty two at Arizona. Oh okay, so thirty two, thirty 69 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:23.160 two at Arizona. I was here before him. You were here. Oh 70 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:27.680 that's that's what I saw bio on the uf A website. What was he 71 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.680 doing before? He was at Washington State for I think eight years, seven 72 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.800 years before that. Then he was at a stout school before that? So 73 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:36.920 he was was he with Living Good? And Levin Goold brought him? We'll 74 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:40.199 ask him, yeah, I will ask him. I don't know, but 75 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:43.040 h okay, but you know, guy again, when when you're when you're 76 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:46.240 the equipment guy, you see and hear a lot of things. There's a 77 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:53.720 lot that other doctor Porter who was there forever retired Wendell now, um, 78 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:56.680 you know they can probably write their own books. You guys are aging man. 79 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:00.720 Guys are you're telling me every time you were it's said to get old. 80 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:03.720 It's okay though, we're moving well, you know, yeah, I 81 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:09.120 mean I'm still having fun, right yeah, yeah, of course, of 82 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:13.040 course, what's having fun? What's a point? Exactly? What's the point? 83 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:15.319 What's the point? Okay again, if you'd like to call five two 84 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:18.000 four one, seventy four forty we'd love to hear from you. Um. 85 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:21.720 Uh, we just kind of are gonna win get as usual we always do. 86 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.399 Yeah, yeah, that's funny. We gotta I got to ask that 87 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:29.720 on Justin's show. Oh what did you go down yesterday morning? He said? 88 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:31.439 He said, you know, you kind of caught me a little bit 89 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:33.959 surprising. He says, just so, what you know what's on tap for 90 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:39.480 your show this afternoon? And I said, I don't know, and he 91 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:41.920 and he and Ali obviously you know, they laughed quite a bit. I 92 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.480 said, I suggested. I said, you know, we talked about you 93 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:46.040 know, news of the day, right, so the day's just getting started. 94 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:49.199 So we're we're you know, we're a kind of yeah, um, 95 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:54.519 you know, we win get baby. Unless we have the people in advance, 96 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:56.720 like a day or so, we don't talk about what we're gonna ask 97 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:00.720 I don't know, you just asked, yeah, uh yeah, preparation. 98 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:03.839 What's up? People are so most time you spend when we get to guests, 99 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:06.199 we kinda we just you know, we just do what we do. 100 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:11.079 So sometimes you can tell well yeah, and sometimes you can, but you 101 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:13.360 know, look at look at our show today. I mean this is gonna 102 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:15.360 be a fun show. Yeah, it will be a lot of stories. 103 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:17.360 You know. Uh, you know, well all of our shows I think 104 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:19.800 this week if we I know, I know, we pulled one, you 105 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:24.240 know, pulled one out of our hat on Monday when doctor Robert Oh yeah, 106 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:26.199 yeah that was good. You know, we got we've been trying to 107 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:28.839 get a show set up us on Monday morning and say you can do it 108 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:30.879 today and we're like, okay, do it, you know, and then 109 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:33.199 we then Greg Hanson was available to us and talked a little bit about it 110 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:38.120 about this stuff. So um, you know, it's it's it's uh, 111 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:41.439 you know, we we do what we do. Uh. We talked about 112 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:44.639 stuff coming up, you know, talking about today. It's like you know, 113 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.040 we're hanging out at a bar with you or or a pub or something 114 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:53.079 talking about what's going on today. It is so US Open. I've been 115 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:56.079 watching US Open all day today. Um, I know if you saw, 116 00:06:56.199 --> 00:07:02.959 but uh uh two golfers uh um Ricky Fowler and uh and Xander Shoftly both 117 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:10.639 shot sixty two today. That's a US Open record. Yeah. Ricky Fowler, 118 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:15.160 well because as he hasn't done much in forever. Um he's he started 119 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.600 to play well again again. Recently he's kind of been shown up a little 120 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:21.040 bit. Um Xander Shotley, you know, he's been pretty good for a 121 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:25.879 while. But they both went on shot sixty two and looks I turned on 122 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:30.959 early this morning. They were just getting started and some of the shots I 123 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.920 saw earlier this golf course, I thought, this is an impossible golf course. 124 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:36.360 Impossible. That's a pretty one that I saw. Well, it's it's 125 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:40.040 at La country Club, Los Andres country Club. It's the first time it's 126 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:43.519 ever been played there. It's his start golf course. They don't they've been 127 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:45.959 very private. You don't even see this. You know, there's no tournaments 128 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:49.600 there, no PGA tournaments, PGA Tour, nothing. The LA Open has 129 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:53.480 been at the Riviera country Club. The US Open has never been here. 130 00:07:53.519 --> 00:08:00.319 It's been a very very very private club. Um So while they got you 131 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:05.399 know, they the somebody talked somebody into hosting the US Open, either the 132 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:07.199 US Open talk them it hosted or they said, okay, would like the 133 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:11.560 US Open and they jumped on it. But anyways, early in the day, 134 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:13.040 I'm looking at this golf course. It looks like an impossible golf course. 135 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:18.199 The shots are impossible, The greens are impossible. The rough you could 136 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:22.079 lose a small child in the roof is it is high and it is thick. 137 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:24.839 You see a guy hit a ball in there and the ball just disappears, 138 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.639 it's just gone. And so guys are you know, they're hidding out 139 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.759 a rough and hidding it, you know, one hundred yards because you can't 140 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:35.120 you can barely advance the ball out of there. The sand traps unbelievable. 141 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.799 And then the greens poor. Justin Thomas hit a shot, he's one hundred 142 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.840 yards out, hits a shot into the green, bounces up on the green, 143 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:48.240 it lips the hole. Okay, so it does a little circle around 144 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:52.279 the hole and spins all the way back and ends up sixty feet from the 145 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:56.840 hole because it goes down this slope. He should have it almost went in 146 00:08:56.879 --> 00:09:00.159 the hole, and instead he was sixty feet away and he three putt im 147 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:03.039 there. It's like I thought, you know, that that's the course that 148 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:07.279 I would as much as I would like to play courses like that, I 149 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:11.200 wouldst everyone to play. I mean, if you're not in the fairway, 150 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:15.759 you are hose big time. And then and then so you know, we're 151 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.200 commenting that text exchange and text messes with people, and then you see you 152 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.399 guys go and break the break the US Open record, of course, which 153 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:26.000 shows that, look, keep it in the grass, keep it in the 154 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.039 fairway. You can score and if you're very very good, like a pro, 155 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:33.840 and if you even Ricky Fower I had ten birdies. Ten birdies. 156 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.240 Oh man. That's why amazing me about golf, because like I said, 157 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:41.720 you could go on these runs. Yeah I call them runs, not momentum, 158 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:43.919 but they go on these runs and then we might never hear from him 159 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.639 the rest of you. Well, I was thinking about that on the way 160 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:48.320 and thing, well, you know who we talked about what we said. 161 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.519 He said, you could go out and shoot you know, you know seventy 162 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:54.840 two or as a me, you know, I mean, you go out 163 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.240 to shoot you know whatever. In the next day're gonna go shoot one hundred 164 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:00.480 and five. Yeah, you'll interesting to see, Ah, you gout like 165 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:03.200 Rickie Foller, who's been so on and off. Is he gonna go out 166 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:05.000 shoot seventy eight twoe or is he gonna shoot another low round? But the 167 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:09.440 thing is they going on these three four days, and that's all you really 168 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:11.720 need go on these great road four day, four days, four days, 169 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:16.480 and then goodbye, goodbye. These two guys are five strokes ahead of everybody 170 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:20.200 else. Scottie Cheffer, the world number one, shoots the three three under 171 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:22.759 par and everybody thought he shot a great round. And these two guys, 172 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:26.799 go put up, go put up sixty two. I joked on on Twitter, 173 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:30.600 I posted the last guy to do sixty two at the US Open tin 174 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:35.080 cop in a movie that was That was the score in the movie where you 175 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.600 know he set the he set the US Open record and then got into contention 176 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.519 and the rest of the movie. You know, we won't spoil it for 177 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:45.039 you, but you know that is the record is the sixty two. And 178 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:48.519 uh, these two guys shot that. It's crazy cool, It's fine. 179 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.279 I love the you know that, I love the majors. Sure, US 180 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.039 Open Masters, whatever. And so it's the US Open week this week, 181 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:01.840 you know, Okay, Well, that's all Football's done done, even hockey's 182 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:05.120 done. He's got baseball season. The Diamondbacks are in first place. So 183 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:11.240 the world is all twisted right now and messed up and off kilter because multiple 184 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:13.159 Orioles are playing well too. They're you're right, the world is a miss. 185 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:16.639 So the last night watching the Dodger game, and the Dodger game is 186 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:20.399 getting ready to come on. I looked at the odds. They were minus 187 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:24.960 one and a half and that was minus one fifteen and I one and a 188 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:30.799 half, you know at the White Sox. Yeah, so so I'm like, 189 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:33.279 I thought about then I didn't, And then then the game started Clay 190 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.039 Crushaw's pitching. I still thought about doing it, still thought about doing Now 191 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.360 I'll just fall behind my two breaths. I saw that six, like the 192 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:43.320 sixth and into the sixthe so I go look at the odds again and minus 193 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:48.600 one and a half is plus one eighty and I thought, you know, 194 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:50.440 I think that I still gonna win this. But then I got busy doing 195 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:54.039 something. I ain't even dinner or whatever, so I didn't put it down. 196 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:58.360 Then Dodge about four two, and I'm kicking myself for not putting down. 197 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.480 Putting it down. None of my stas come back and beat a five 198 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:05.159 four. The bed would have lost. I laid off, which was a 199 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.720 good thing, talking about that stressed thing that you're talking about. Oh no, 200 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:13.080 I'm cool, I'm cool. I'm cool, just a little yeah, 201 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.080 right, see, just in a day, just in a moment, he 202 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.600 just went through high and high and low. It was a low than a 203 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:24.360 high, then a low. I could believe they lost it when they were 204 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:26.519 a five four two. I was so mad at myself. I saw putting 205 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:30.759 that down, I saw him pitching, and then I'm not I'm not dutch 206 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:35.120 Mancil. I saw your guy Bowers in trouble again. Yeah, they got 207 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:39.000 uh they he's being accused by somebody else again. That makes I think, 208 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:45.039 um the third person, third or fourth that accused him another we'll have this 209 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:50.559 breaking news another very prominent athlete slash personality also getting accused of sexual assault. 210 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:56.960 Um, I'll save that one for breaking. But but anyways, but you 211 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:58.480 know, looking forward to getting these guys on um, you know, maybe 212 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.840 if we got time, you know, get a little into a little sum 213 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.759 of Brian's uh you know, he's been here, what he's been here just 214 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:09.720 as long as me, so thirty eighty seven and about eighty six, eighty 215 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:13.200 six eighty five around there, because he was he was the understudy for you 216 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.159 probably know who the who the guy before him was. And he's told me 217 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:18.879 that story a few times because he was a chapter in one of my books. 218 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:22.080 Uh yeah, and then all of a sudden, guy and then he 219 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.919 came in and and he well, he pipped him. I remember, I 220 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:28.240 remember when when Arizona got Ray Scott and you remember, you know, he 221 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:31.120 was the guy who would do the old Packers games on you know, on 222 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.720 television, not even on radio, you know, the you know, the 223 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.000 back in those John fascentda Voice of God days, you know, and uh, 224 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:41.600 you know, in the sixties. And I'm like, he's gonna Ray 225 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:45.519 Scott's gonna come to Arizona. It was cool. How well he remember getting 226 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:48.720 no longer around he was. He was pretty old back then. I can't 227 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:54.879 imagine. Yeah, well, no one's seen more basketball than than Brian Jefferson 228 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:58.720 in all these years. Yeah, okay, let's take the break now so 229 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:01.799 we can get him back to back. Let's do that. 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They are one of the leading card shops in the country and have 279 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.359 served our local community for twenty five years. They are located on e Speedway. 280 00:17:56.680 --> 00:18:02.400 That's Showtime Cards. This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and 281 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:07.880 Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Subscribe now to the podcast on the 282 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:11.839 iHeart Radio Whip just Surgery. I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back 283 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:15.759 to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. 284 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.359 He's Jacon's House. Now on the phone, we have Brian Jefferies. 285 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.839 You know him as the voice of the Wildcats. Brian, how are you, 286 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:25.799 gentlemen? Couldn't be better? Great to have some time off, but 287 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:30.039 I know we'll continue. So it's a never ending task. But it's a 288 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:34.160 good time of the year. That's good. You go from like September one 289 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:42.319 still now. But look at those frequent fire miles. Well you know there's 290 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:45.200 a few. Yeah, you gotta you gotta count your blessings there on your 291 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:51.160 bonuses. It's the the hotel points had up a lot quicker than anything else. 292 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:53.799 And so my wife and I were talking about this at dinner last night, 293 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:56.640 said we thought, hey, we can get three or four nights free 294 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:00.319 here. Let's let's go someplace really now ice and you know, blow those 295 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:04.880 points in one stop. Yeah. Well, uh, you just finished baseball 296 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:07.799 season. As we're talking off fair that, you know, you have to 297 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:12.400 plan for Arizona to possibly be possibly be in the College World Series. So 298 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:15.519 you're not you don't have any plans to get out of here like right now. 299 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.119 But um, let's you first, let's talk a little bit about the 300 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:21.480 baseball season. It was kind of an up and down thing, but they 301 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:25.319 snuck into the tournament. Didn't look so good there, But overall, what 302 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:26.880 do you think was the field there at the end of the season with the 303 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:32.559 baseball team? Well, I think you put the best there. Day was 304 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:34.160 up and down, and that's kind of the way the season went. They 305 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:37.960 had the one really down period. They lost those two straight conference games, 306 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:42.000 and that hurt the most. It's hard to recover from something like that, 307 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:45.640 and all quite honestly, they never did because they finished twelve and eighteen in 308 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:49.599 the league. They pick up some extra wins. In the factful tournament, 309 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:52.720 they got an extra win, and the non confidence can stays you, but 310 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:57.359 still finished under five hundred league play, and that's that's hard to overcome. 311 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:00.000 They were able to do it. They one thing that I don't think it's 312 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:04.839 been maybe publicized enough as the fact that Arizona played one of the toughest schedules 313 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:08.039 in the country this year, and I think when the selection committee took a 314 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:11.200 look at their resume, that was one of the tipping factors that got them 315 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.079 into the tournament. I mean, they were playing really good ball there at 316 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:18.160 the end of the season, not only the regular season, but got to 317 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.160 the championship game, the tactical tournament. But the fact that they played a 318 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:26.279 top twenty five schedule this year. That's every committee in every sport. That's 319 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:30.720 something they're always looking for teams that will challenge themselves and so I think that 320 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:36.119 factor was another reason Arizona made postseason play. And like you said, things 321 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:41.240 didn't work out so well in Fayetteville, and I wish that they could have 322 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:45.440 gone farther because I really liked that team. They had some veteran guys that 323 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:51.039 you know are going to be missed greatly come next season. So I feel 324 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:55.839 for them some great careers there, but all in all, to get into 325 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:57.519 the tournament, To get into a regional like that, I think is the 326 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:02.759 first goal every team has for them to make it to that spot, in 327 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:07.119 particular after that that tough middle stretch of the season, I think is certainly 328 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:11.319 to be commended. He talked about some of the players Jay and I rave 329 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:18.279 about Romero, Kiko, Chase Davis. While the swings that those guys have 330 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:22.519 and just the ability that he have, well, I mean, both guys 331 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:26.599 had twenty one home runs and Kiko sets a school record for RBIs in a 332 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:29.839 single season, and you know, he was just a great addition. And 333 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:32.839 you kind of had a feeling when the season started that Chase was going to 334 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:36.440 have the year that he had because we've seen his talent here over the last 335 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:40.359 couple of years and so great young man, and I think he's got a 336 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:44.759 great chance to be an outstanding pro baseball player. Kiko, like I said, 337 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:48.599 great story coming in making an immediate impact, starting every game at first 338 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:53.400 base and setting the record and hitting home runs and just doing everything they needed. 339 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:56.759 It was part of an offense that let the tax twelve in almost every 340 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:00.480 category you could think of. So those two guys were huge. Uh, 341 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.319 you know, I think Nick McClary, I still think it is one of 342 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:07.519 the best shortstops in the country. Yeah, you know, County Bold coming 343 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.039 back for another year, it was a big help. Mason White was you 344 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:12.519 know, the freshman story of the year, and you can go on from 345 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:17.680 there. They you know, they didn't have as many arms as I think, 346 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:22.440 or as the consistency in the bullpen maybe that they needed ultimately, but 347 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:26.279 you know that's something they continue to build up. What you're watching Chip work 348 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:30.160 now. You know he's got two seasons under his belt now with the program. 349 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:33.079 But what's your sense of, you know, how he has settled in, 350 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:37.119 you know, recognizing he's a college coach now, not a not a 351 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:41.640 not a pro coach, you know, settling into the differences, understanding the 352 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:45.680 game. Uh, that kind of thing. I mean, what's your sense 353 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:49.319 of how he's evolving, let's say, as a college baseball coach versus a 354 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:52.680 pro manager. Yeah, you know, first things first, I think you 355 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:56.839 know, baseball's baseball. It'd be pro or college or high school or whatever. 356 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:00.039 I mean, it's the same fundamentals and and that's what you know. 357 00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:03.240 Chip is so good at coaching, and you just saw the improvement of the 358 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:07.720 team made in particular the last two years on the defensive end. I think 359 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:11.880 that's another thing that really stood out, something that they had not been the 360 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:15.039 program had not been strong at for a while, and he really has turned 361 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:19.440 that area around. And so when you look at two of the three and 362 00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:25.920 I'm talking offense, defense, and pitching, and you've got a good a 363 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:27.680 good defense, you're two thirds of the way there. So you know, 364 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:30.640 I think last season, his first year, Chip admitted that it was a 365 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:33.759 learning experience for him coming back to college ball, and yeah, there's a 366 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:40.319 lot of changes because I one thing he put best is that in Major League 367 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:44.240 baseball, you play one hundred and sixty two games, and you have an 368 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:45.720 off night or two, you maybe lose three in a row. Well, 369 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:49.799 guess what, you can turn it around in college baseball. When Arizona lost 370 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:53.200 those ten straight conference games, that's hard to recover from. Like I said, 371 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:57.640 you really sometimes and most of the times you can't. Where even major 372 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:00.759 League baseball, you can have a ten losing streak and it's not going to 373 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:04.519 hurt you in the Grand scheme of things. So I think that's one thing 374 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:10.640 that he's talked about is that every game takes on at his importance and college 375 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:15.039 baseball, but you could just see that, you know, the players really 376 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:21.599 gravitate to him. They love his way of managing as a coach because I 377 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:25.039 think that he you know, everybody wants to play pro baseball, and I 378 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:29.319 think that with his background, he runs his program a lot in that regard, 379 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:32.160 so that this is what you expect when you get into the pros. 380 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:36.400 And I have not talked to a single player that hasn't raved about what he's 381 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:38.480 been able to do for them them for both on and off the field. 382 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:41.839 So we all know you as the football guy, the basketball guy, and 383 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.039 the baseball guy. Which is more And I know this is a tough question 384 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:49.599 for you. Which is more enjoyable? And I don't mean that to favor 385 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:55.000 one or the other, but I'm thinking baseball must be more relaxing even at 386 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:59.240 work or am I row? Well, I look at it a couple of 387 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:03.000 ways. You know, baseball, there's a lot of preparation that goes into 388 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:08.000 it because the games can run long, and you know you're you're doing it 389 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:11.240 solo and so you've got time to fill, so you have a lot of 390 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:15.359 work to do before the game starts. Yeah, I like it once the 391 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:19.079 season rolls on, and I think when you go into a weekend series and 392 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:22.519 if you're totally prepared for it. Yeah, I love going to the ballpark. 393 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.960 It's just a great feeling. There's just something calming about getting there early 394 00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:33.359 and watching batting practice, etc. You know, the most. I say 395 00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:37.039 this because I love doing all sports. Basketball is probably the most because the 396 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:40.960 pace of the game. I mean, it's just NonStop and you're done in 397 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:45.079 two hours and so that that's fun. But football, on the other hand, 398 00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:49.240 is probably the most exciting of the three because the potential were big plays 399 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:56.319 and big crowds and just what when you played twelve games again kind of like 400 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:00.079 you know college baseball, where every game is magnified, and football it's magnified 401 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:04.079 even more so. It's it's the advance of football build up to that Saturday 402 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:07.480 and then the pageantry of the game that makes it so special. Yeah, 403 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:12.160 that's it. It's kind of like, that's sort of it's almost obvious that 404 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:15.119 you know, as you say, you know, basketball is NonStop, you 405 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.759 know the football, You've got you know, you might have forty fifty thousand, 406 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:21.640 or you go to a big place, you got seventy eighty thousand people 407 00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:23.119 at a game, and the excitement of that's just got to be, you 408 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:26.200 know, unbelieved. Plus you get to go to all of the games. 409 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:29.160 We only get to do it a half of them. So anyway, but 410 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:30.240 that's well, you know, it's like, you know, this year, 411 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:33.920 Arizona is going to go down to Startville and play Mississippi State. I'm already 412 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:40.119 excited about that simply because it's an SEC school And no they're not Alabama or 413 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:45.640 LSU or several other schools in the SEC. But it's a strong program. 414 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:48.839 They'll have a pullhouse there, and it's I just think the atmosphere is going 415 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:52.359 to be fun to watch and witness. So Steve and I we've been talking 416 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:56.720 this all week about Okay, let's grade the you know, the season for 417 00:26:57.079 --> 00:27:00.759 you know, all the sports talking everybody, including you know, softball, 418 00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:03.880 everybody like that. I know you do those three, but I know you 419 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:04.839 pay attention to all of them. I mean, you work in a kale 420 00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:08.200 right, so um, you know, Steve and I gave a B minus. 421 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:12.079 Uh softball, didn't you know, get up to expectations. Baseball, 422 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:15.359 yes, they got into the tournament, but they worked great all year long. 423 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:18.200 Football, you know, my put in my position on that they took 424 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:22.079 a big step forward, but in the end they were still five and seven 425 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:27.000 basketball and a great regular season PAC twelve Chat Tournament championship flamed out in the 426 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:32.200 in the tournament. Can you can you or would are you willing to grade 427 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:34.759 the program as a whole over this last year and you could be a Russian 428 00:27:34.839 --> 00:27:40.960 judge? Yeah, uh yeah, you know, I I'm not going to 429 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:45.799 put it. The only y hook at it is uh is each and every 430 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:51.319 program making progress. And that doesn't mean that you double your wind total or 431 00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:53.720 anything like that, but are you getting better? And maybe it doesn't come 432 00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:57.039 into an area of wins, but maybe it's coming and you know, more 433 00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:02.480 depth on the roster, you know, going key roles, et cetera, 434 00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:07.279 shoring up things in areas that maybe you'd been weaker on before. And so 435 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:10.920 that's the way I look at it, And you know, you look across 436 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:14.839 the board at the sports this year and it would be hard to argue that 437 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:19.440 more more more than less, we're making progress in the in the right direction 438 00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:23.119 and Yeah, it was a tough season for softball. They lost some key 439 00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:30.160 players, probably didn't get you know, some some some things out of a 440 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:33.720 couple of positions that they'd hope for this year. But you know, that's 441 00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:37.079 that happens, and it happens to every sport and every school every year. 442 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:44.359 That's sometimes the beauty and sometimes the the hard part about college sports is you 443 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:47.279 don't know what you're going to get every year. You think you might know, 444 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:49.839 but you don't know until you actually play the game. So I just 445 00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:53.039 I look at the idea. Okay, if you're making progress, and so 446 00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:57.079 you know, the sports I mostly involved in, Yeah, football made a 447 00:28:57.480 --> 00:29:02.119 heck of a progress. I mean, ball continued what it's been doing. 448 00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:06.920 Baseball continued it's doing, so you know, that makes my job easier. 449 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:10.319 And I look at what has happened in the other sports, and I just 450 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:14.319 I like the idea that you know, they're moving forward in areas and you 451 00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:18.440 see good things happening and there's a positive vibe around the programs. I think 452 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:21.240 that's really important. Yeah, we talk about this every note and again. 453 00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:25.480 And you've been here since the late eighties, I think maybe in mid eighties, 454 00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:30.119 this era, this era of US athletics has a vibe of the mid 455 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:34.240 nineties when it was the heyday, at least in my mind, where a 456 00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:37.519 lot of the school, a lot of the teams are very very good. 457 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:40.920 I think it's headed in that direction, even even after maybe a little hit 458 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:45.160 up or two here. Well, it's you know, you guys know it's 459 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.839 cyclical, and yeah, you go through those periods where everything is going great, 460 00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:52.480 and then you go through those periods where things aren't going so well, 461 00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:56.319 and you adjust to it and you have to you have to wait your way 462 00:29:56.319 --> 00:30:00.960 through the times and enjoy the good times. And yeah, if you go 463 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.079 back, Steve and you guys know this, I mean, really you can 464 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:08.920 trace it back to you Larry Smith and lud Olson because they were the new 465 00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:12.759 count Erry Kendall was already there and saw not putting him into that area. 466 00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:17.799 Mike and Drea. Of course, those two guys, they kind of they 467 00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:21.720 had good times. It seemed all along. But I'm looking at the guys 468 00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:25.440 that kind of in the period you're talking about, the kind of spark plug 469 00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:32.240 the two programs and got them on the map and made them respectable programs not 470 00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:36.079 only in the conference but around the country. And so that's to me when 471 00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:40.599 I kind of started, and yeah, there's been some up and down years 472 00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:44.039 since, but at the same time, I go back to that respect factor. 473 00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:47.559 And when I get a chance to travel around the country, it amazes 474 00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:55.400 me how many people know about Arizona Athletics, respect Arizona Athletics, and are 475 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:59.240 envious of Arizona Athletics for all the things that have gone on on campus over 476 00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:03.440 the years. So I'm looking at the at the u of a basketball roster 477 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:06.279 and I'm wondering, if You're gonna go up to Tommy and say, can 478 00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:11.680 you give me like a John Smith and a I mean, though there are 479 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:12.839 some names in there, how the hell are you going to do that? 480 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:17.720 Well? There at least, you know, you know, the toughest ones 481 00:31:17.799 --> 00:31:22.559 for me actually are the hyphenated last names, and so once those are gone, 482 00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:29.440 I'm I'm a happy man. I'll figure out. You know, I'm 483 00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:32.680 not even gonna try myself. I can give you a both of beach In 484 00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:34.039 and that's as far as I can go. Right, Okay, we didn't 485 00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:37.240 even have that one, and he's been here a while. Yeah, so 486 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.799 you know, I you know, we'll figure The thing I do is you 487 00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:44.759 know, I go talk to those guys, you know, once they get 488 00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:48.200 on campus, and I usually record them saying their name very slowly, and 489 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.440 then I can go back and practice it and get it down and not have 490 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:55.880 to worry about it. But yeah, Tommy's put it. How long ago 491 00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:00.720 was it that social media was ablaze with the fact that Tommy wudn't recruit and 492 00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:05.039 you exactly, Well, that's where I was going to go get rid of 493 00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:09.759 him. Now I've lost faith in him. He can't, he can't recruit. 494 00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:15.039 Don't you just love it? Brian? I was gonna say, so 495 00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:19.240 what my guy here, my partner here off the ledge, although he's kind 496 00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.599 of a little off the ledge now, he's dying to know about the PAC 497 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:24.519 twelve and the PAC ten because he doesn't know what he's going to do the 498 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:29.000 rest of his life. I'm a guy who's just tell me where to go, 499 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:30.279 put me on a plane, whatever, just let me get there. 500 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:34.480 Where do you stand? Is it bother you that much? They hasn't been 501 00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:38.680 determined yet? Are you okay with your patients? It doesn't bother me that 502 00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:44.960 that nothing's been determined yet, because I have to trust the leadership in the 503 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.119 conference. I think they've got a smart guy running the league, and I 504 00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:52.559 think he's doing everything. He can't make things right for the ten schools that 505 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:57.240 are going to be in the league a year and if they add anymore. 506 00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:02.599 So the thing that I have no patience with is all the yahoo's on social 507 00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:07.480 media who think they know the answer when they really don't. It's also it's 508 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:15.440 actually to me, it's become my daily comedic escape is to go on Twitter 509 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:20.160 and hear about and read about different guys who claim they, oh yo, 510 00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:22.960 they know they have the source, this is how it's going to happen. 511 00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:27.680 And of course they don't know because they don't have the source because there's only 512 00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:30.920 one source. And until you're going to quote the commissioner, then I tell 513 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:36.240 you what you don't know. So I enjoy read. It first bothered me 514 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:38.519 when it first started, when you started. I started reading all this stuff 515 00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:43.079 about you know what's going to happen and this that and the other thing, 516 00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:45.960 and then I realized, well, no one knows, and they can tell 517 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:50.960 you all day. I read one yesterday from somebody who I'd never heard of 518 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:52.079 before, and that's the way it is. You don't know who these people 519 00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:59.559 are and It's like I have contacts through every school in the PAC twelve, 520 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:04.960 and I know exactly what's going to happen. This is unequivably the way it's 521 00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:07.440 going to come down, and blah blah blah. I'm like, no, 522 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:12.480 you don't. I mean, because if you did, then you know everyone 523 00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.719 else would know it too. So yeah right now, Like I said, 524 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:21.000 I just laugh every day when I read stuff from people that obviously don't know, 525 00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:23.559 because no one knows except the head guy. And I'm going to trust 526 00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:27.679 him at that, I will say. And I think, you know we've 527 00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:32.880 talked about this before that Bobby Robbins and Dave Hekey have only one thing in 528 00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:37.360 mind, and that is taking care of the University of Arizona. And if 529 00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:42.119 that means they're in the PAC twelve, the PAC ten, or the PAC 530 00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:45.159 fourteen, or the Big twelve or the Big sixteen or the Big twenty, 531 00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:49.920 they have to look out for what is right for the University of Arizona. 532 00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:54.360 And I guarantee you every president, chancellor, athletic director in the PAC ten 533 00:34:55.559 --> 00:35:00.079 is doing exactly the same thing as because if thing don't work out, if 534 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:05.679 the money isn't there, and you've got to have money to survive these days 535 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:08.280 in college athletics, then you've got to go find the best deal for your 536 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:13.920 school. And I'm sorry to the other people in the league. You know 537 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:16.960 you tried, but if you don't come through for us, you know, 538 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:20.639 we got to take care of ourselves. I think that's every school has got 539 00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:23.679 to look at it that way. I am that's That's the one thing I 540 00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:28.079 do know. The one thing I do know is that Bobby Robins the day 541 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:30.840 Peak are looking out for number one, and I believe they want to stay 542 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:36.199 in the current alignment. I think everybody does. But if it's not right 543 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:40.719 and you're talking about survival and you've got to find another place to go and 544 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:45.119 exactly it, I mean, that's exactly. But but Brian, I really 545 00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:46.280 do want to know, and I want to know, like right now. 546 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:54.280 That's all I can say. Well, my sources tell me put it on 547 00:35:54.280 --> 00:36:00.320 Twitter, Brian. All right, Brian, thanks a bunch, and have 548 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:04.360 a great summer and then we'll we'll catch you. Uh, everybody will be 549 00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:07.920 back in August. Right, we'll be suffering at the old old fall fall 550 00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:20.679 pranks. Uh yeah, fall in parentheses exactly, Thank Thun And he's right, 551 00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:22.880 that's exactly it. I mean again, I do want to know. 552 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.800 But in the end, just what Robin said, you know on our show 553 00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:29.800 on Monday, we're gonna do what's the best thing for the University of Arizona. 554 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:31.039 You know, we'll talk. We can talk some more about that as 555 00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:35.880 we go along, because it's uh, I mean, that's that's that's how 556 00:36:35.880 --> 00:36:40.079 it's got to work. 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A Team offers a fun and exciting opportunity to work in the sports 600 00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:55.679 and entertainment industry, with flexible schedules that are perfect for those looking for a 601 00:39:55.719 --> 00:39:59.920 part time job or a second income. Come be a part of a winning 602 00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:04.519 team. The A Team apply online today at a team security dot net. 603 00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:10.519 Steve Vera and Jacoons Solens they have their Eye on the Ball on two Suns 604 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:17.000 Sports Station five Sports fourteen fifty. They're welcome back to Ye on the Ball 605 00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:21.679 here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty from Steve Rava. He's Jacob's house. That 606 00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:25.159 was good to talk to Brian Alight Alway. So it's gonna be June, 607 00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:29.960 July pretty soon August. Yeah, I mean we're mid June. It's the 608 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.920 fifteenth today, so you know, the middle of June. Five more days 609 00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:38.199 till summer five. It's to be hot this weekend for the first really talk 610 00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:42.679 day coming up on Sunday. Yeah, you got going anything going on for 611 00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:45.519 nothing. No, might go to the backyard and in the pool. Where 612 00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:51.480 are your boys? One's Baltimore ones here? Yeah yeah, so we'll see, 613 00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:55.480 we'll see what happens. Yeah yeah, um Baltimore. Baltimore works for 614 00:40:55.559 --> 00:41:01.119 the University of Maryland. Now, oh, our kind of communications communication guy, 615 00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:07.079 make a living at this better than better than you saw you would you 616 00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:12.599 saw what happens at Uh. Well, the athletic right Athletics lost twenty fantastic 617 00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:16.360 writers, twenty twenty of man the NBA, and then anybody we know one 618 00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:20.280 guy in Phoenix, I don't remember the name. I don't recognize the name, 619 00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:22.920 but twenty of them. So there's four twenty percent of the people. 620 00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:25.719 Twenty guys, four percent. A lot of the early times, the goals 621 00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:31.599 some people. It's this business sucks, all the journalism business. Do you 622 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:36.599 know? Communications? You know, I mean, you know that's what eventually 623 00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:37.880 you know? I know number kids, you know some kids that you know, 624 00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:44.280 kids of our friends, you know who've gotten getting journalism degrees but using 625 00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:49.280 it to go into you know, some of communication. Not necessarily you're trying 626 00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:52.079 to get a job at a newspaper or whatnot. Um, you know, 627 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:58.360 a friend of my daughters just graduated from journalism at at George Washington University. 628 00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:00.840 You know, she's trying to get a job of an NBC or you know, 629 00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:05.679 or maybe some TV. Yeah, some news service or something like that. 630 00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:07.559 You know, it's not necessarily you know, it used to be your 631 00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:12.000 journalism. You go to newspapers, right, newspapers, wire service. When 632 00:42:12.199 --> 00:42:14.639 back in the day, when I was at when I was going through journalism 633 00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:20.440 at the UFA, it was it was like sacrilegious to say I'm interested in 634 00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:27.159 TV or funny. My last year, my last year of school, I 635 00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:31.639 signed up for a um because radio and TV was separate from journalism. Radio 636 00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:36.599 TV was a department, journalist department, and I signed up for just a 637 00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:40.400 history of broadcasting class in the radio TV department. And my advisor saw my 638 00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:44.880 schedule, What what are you doing taking a radio TV class? I said, 639 00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:46.280 look, I just think it's an easy class, and you know, 640 00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:50.199 I just need some units and I thought it would be an easy class. 641 00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:52.559 He says, i'd want you taken that, and he kind of made me 642 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:57.760 drop it because he didn't want me dabbling in radio and TV. And it's 643 00:42:57.800 --> 00:43:00.079 a different it's a different writing style too. Yeah, he didn't. He 644 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.920 didn't want me to have anything to do with radio. It makes it makes 645 00:43:02.920 --> 00:43:07.360 sense. But back and back in those days out yeah we're talking nineteen eighties. 646 00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:10.519 Yeah, but you know still it was, it was and then you 647 00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:15.400 know now you they're kind of like intertwined. Have you, by the way, 648 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:22.159 have you spoken to our guy um or La guy or Montana guy or 649 00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:25.400 non Montana guy? You go, will will you give me advice that was 650 00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:29.719 different than mine? No? Man, I don't haven't heard sent him. 651 00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:34.079 He's got a job. I haven't heard from him. If you listen to 652 00:43:34.199 --> 00:43:37.360 us, well, you shouldn't take my advice. Can't live with your parents 653 00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:40.840 time. Sorry, I didn't miss you up. I didn't screw up your 654 00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:46.360 career. It's tough, man. It's like it's our guy um Jason here, 655 00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:49.920 he's got a senior year left. I said, you gotta get your 656 00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:52.800 stuff together. I gotta get do it right away. Yeah, you know 657 00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:55.280 you have no time to time. I mean you need to be doing that. 658 00:43:55.320 --> 00:44:00.000 You know. Between my junior, sophomore and junior year college, I 659 00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:02.599 got that job in bull Hit City and that was probably the best thing I 660 00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:06.760 ever get. I got. I got newspaper clippings out of time. Yeah, 661 00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:08.760 the newspaper clippings and those things helped me get a job, and I 662 00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:12.639 got I got a full time job, and then at the years one day 663 00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:15.159 to start ran out of college. If I hadn't done all that stuff, 664 00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:19.199 I wouldn't been I wouldn't have gotten you know. So those experiences, your 665 00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:22.039 experience got ye absolute Yeah, yeah, anyways, but yeah, it's good 666 00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:25.000 to talk to Brian Jefferies. He's uh, he's always fun, you know, 667 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:28.840 a good sense of humor with us. He h but you know, 668 00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:30.760 he's he's the guy. You know, I was like, he's nineteen eighty 669 00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:34.119 six when he got here. Yeah, you know, he filled in and 670 00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:36.559 then he took over. You've been here even a little longer than Wendell. 671 00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:39.159 Neil's gonna be yeah, a little bit. But a guy who's seen a 672 00:44:39.159 --> 00:44:44.840 lot I wanted to ask him, was Jase Davis the prettiest swing he's ever 673 00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:46.360 seen? You know, because he's seen a lot of well, he's he's 674 00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:52.639 seen some great guys. Who's the catcher last year the previous year, who 675 00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:54.960 who we thought was amazing? Right, Um, so there's been a lot 676 00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:58.719 of great project comes to great players that come through. Your guys have played 677 00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:00.280 a lot of time, you know, go back to the who was the 678 00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:02.800 center field of that was just so smooth two or three years ago. Uh 679 00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:06.320 he roamed them. Well, yeah, we had him on our show. 680 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:08.119 He was fantastic too. And I can't remember his name. God, he 681 00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:14.320 was fantastic. Yeah. He covered a lot of ground, could hit, 682 00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:17.519 hit to get on God, I'm looking, I'm looking through our old old 683 00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:22.159 things. But yeah, no, uh oh man like Dante Williams, fantastic 684 00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:29.079 player. Another guy who just yeah, yeah, it was you know who 685 00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:31.719 did that too, which of course it was bad for him too, was 686 00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:37.880 Clid. Clid. He didn't look like he was playing. It looked after 687 00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:40.880 playing, except that when he was playing in the next level he needed to 688 00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:44.360 play harder, you know. But he was one of those guys who was 689 00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:46.960 just so fluid, effortless, just like fluid, just looks so effortless and 690 00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:51.360 thought not trying all that hard, right when he was just good. Yeah, 691 00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:52.679 he was just good, and that was the problem. He was just 692 00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:55.639 good when he could have been, like Damon said, if he worked as 693 00:45:55.639 --> 00:46:00.000 hard as me, he would have been in the league forever. Yeah, 694 00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:01.159 yeah, no, And guy, and guys are like that. You know, 695 00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:05.639 we always running guys like you know, I wish I had had his 696 00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:07.280 talent, that would have done something with it, that would have worked harder. 697 00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:10.719 It's like Gilbert Gilbert Arena, come on, big guy was fantastic and 698 00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:15.960 if he wouldn't take guns into arenas and kind of a fool he'd be, 699 00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:19.920 he would have been fantastic. There is that. There is that, but 700 00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:22.920 uh, yeah, you know, but you know, I'll tell you another 701 00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:25.440 guy because I was watching this the other day as well, um Antoine Quisson. 702 00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:30.800 Yeah, another guy effortless, just he would just glide around, you 703 00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:34.760 know, kick returns and interceptions and things like that. You don't you know, 704 00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:36.960 he had his time in the league. And I'm not saying that he 705 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:40.880 didn't work hard. I'm just saying when a guy who just was natural lot 706 00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:45.079 Trump candidate Trunk Candid was another guy, very natural. They're just just a 707 00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:49.800 fluid. Did you say fluid? That that that that's a good. If 708 00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:52.199 you have a guy that we risching, just give us a quick call. 709 00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:57.320 Uh, there's a lot of those fluid. One of those guys because he's 710 00:46:57.519 --> 00:46:59.599 he was one of your bus guys. He'd come up the bus and you 711 00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:01.440 say yeah, and you just look at him. You Okay, that's a 712 00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:06.079 player. Yeah, that guy's really really good. You know, guys like 713 00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:09.639 guys like that in baseball, Guys like that in basketball flip out pretty much 714 00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:13.880 every sport you know, who just do things, you know, so fluid. 715 00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:16.400 You know, he's pissing me off. He's like that Tiger Woods kid. 716 00:47:16.679 --> 00:47:21.880 Oh yeah, I know, but you know what you could you know 717 00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:24.760 what, you can have somebody show you how to hit a golf ball and 718 00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:30.599 you know, show you all the shots. But there's there's a thing that 719 00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:34.599 you know that that like, that's what you're meant to do. Oh yeah, 720 00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:38.079 kid is he's growing up. He's growing up too fast. But you 721 00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:40.880 know, there was a there was a I think it was a TikTok, 722 00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:45.599 you know, just taking a swing at a tournament that he played in recently, 723 00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:49.880 and he looked looked just like well when they when they played a tra 724 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:52.079 version of it when they played together in the father son thing and they show 725 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:57.159 side by side stuff. He has a spin of the club and like I 726 00:47:57.199 --> 00:47:59.480 said, no Tiger can show me how to hit a golf ball, But 727 00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:02.400 I'm not gonna look like Tiger getting a golf ball. You know, when 728 00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:06.719 you learn, when you learn in language, when's the best time that we're 729 00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:08.800 learning as a kid. That's how you're doing. He's not gonna teach you 730 00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:13.639 at sixty one. But I know. But still, I mean, you 731 00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:16.159 know, he could Okay, he could go go find another seven year old. 732 00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:21.119 But if the seven year old doesn't have, of course, the gifts, 733 00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:24.760 the gift or the god given talent to do that, he's not gonna 734 00:48:24.760 --> 00:48:29.000 look like Tiger. Of course. Of course this guy was born with it. 735 00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:30.760 I know he's got and he and you know what, he got it. 736 00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:34.119 He got all of it. Dude. It looks like he got all 737 00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:37.840 the plus that's why you see the Gilbert Arenas, the sons and the sons 738 00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:40.280 of players. Can Griffy kN Griffy Junior at the park all this time? 739 00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:44.679 You know that? Yeah, I mean we're starting. There's so many sons 740 00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:51.000 of the guys that we grew up, you know watching Um, well there's 741 00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:53.280 one now I just saw him. I just saw him. Who's the guy 742 00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:57.960 that we talked to? Maybe, uh he's the coach now at the at 743 00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:00.599 the California School, not Smith, but the other guy, oh Man, 744 00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:05.360 I just saw him on Facebook. His son's got a commitment from Notre Dame 745 00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:12.199 UM football player. Yeah, smash oh Smigel, Smigel, Sigel, his 746 00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:14.840 son, know what I mean? Yeah, But nobody was gonna argue that 747 00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:16.719 Joe Smigel was like one of the greatest athletes around. He was alignment, 748 00:49:17.079 --> 00:49:20.679 right, right, So that's my point though they are all but but but 749 00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:22.199 you're right, you know, well, well they get two things out of 750 00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:25.960 it when they get the jeans, right, the jeans, but then they 751 00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:30.440 get the knowledge, sure right right. And if they don't get the jeans, 752 00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:35.519 they had the knowledge, who are the technique watching, watching a film? 753 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:38.599 All the things that other people don't get to fright right? But I'm 754 00:49:38.639 --> 00:49:43.519 trying to think of the dude play the place for the Blue Jays right now, 755 00:49:43.800 --> 00:49:46.800 Um, push the Blue Jays. Um his dad played for the Angels. 756 00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:51.679 Um, my friends are gonna yell at me for this. He's playing 757 00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:54.280 one of your guys. Guys. He hits all the home run spring Springer. 758 00:49:54.599 --> 00:50:00.079 No no, no, no, um ah, come on, Steve, 759 00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:04.480 no, come, I don't follow that stuff. I'm not I'm not 760 00:50:04.519 --> 00:50:08.719 a I got I got, I got My kid is going You suck you 761 00:50:08.840 --> 00:50:15.079 really Vladimir Guerrero Ja you know, and his dad. But you know, 762 00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:19.760 Dante Bichette's kid plays for them. Boba Schett again, you know one of 763 00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:22.079 those guys. Sure when you grow up, grow up around that and you 764 00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:27.280 see it taking cuts every now and again. And then you see Michael Jordan's 765 00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:30.119 kid, I mean he played college. No no, no, he's just 766 00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:35.960 no, he's just sleeping with the Scunny Peppers. So they have different, 767 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:42.280 different things going off, Oh my god, different, they pull it in 768 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:46.519 a different way. That's too funny. Steve, I can't believe you. 769 00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:50.920 I know that stuff, but I can't take you Yeah, yeah, yeah, 770 00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:53.920 you remember that, but you couldn't remember Laddie Junior's name. I'm into 771 00:50:53.960 --> 00:51:01.480 I'm into curtains and it's so bad. It's an addition that is not terrible. 772 00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:05.320 But you know, but yes, I mean we we're seeing all those 773 00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:07.880 guys and you feel like, okay, you know, they were born with 774 00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:10.280 the gene and they get kind of get to get all the other things. 775 00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:15.880 You get the s kind of all these all the you know, Bob Boone 776 00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:19.320 and his kids, you know, Brett and Aaron Boone. And then sometimes 777 00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:22.119 you mess like the Piros of sons and those guys, the Bogie Barrows and 778 00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:24.960 the yeah and all those kids, they don't quite get there. No, 779 00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:29.559 they don't quite get there. So and my son is kind of like that, 780 00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:34.079 you just didn't do me any favors genetics was you didn't do me any 781 00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:37.880 favors. I'm not six feet, I'm not incredibly athletic. Well, you 782 00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:39.679 know, he's very he's very athletic, and he's more athletic than me. 783 00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:45.000 But it's it's like a generation or two down the road before he's got a 784 00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:47.239 kid that's got you know, I know, guess what happens. Guess what 785 00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:52.159 happens. As as your son gets older and my sons get older, they'll 786 00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:55.400 realize how smart you were. And when he has his sons grow up now, 787 00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:59.360 or his son goes up now, he'll say his son will say, 788 00:51:59.639 --> 00:52:02.559 Dad, what the heck happened? What did you leave me? You give? 789 00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:07.760 You give crap to a pop pop? Was? Was my grandfather really? 790 00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:13.480 That dumb and that unathletic son? Just listen to his tape. Listen 791 00:52:13.480 --> 00:52:20.719 to the tapes. I'd say it for you. Here was a podcast exactly. 792 00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:22.480 I mean that what can you? Yeah, I mean, what can 793 00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:24.679 I say, he doesn't give me some funny looks already, I don't know. 794 00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:29.639 We're trying to make them into a left handed picture. All right, 795 00:52:29.679 --> 00:52:31.119 let's take our break. We're top of the hour. We'll be back. 796 00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:36.119 We've got breaking news or some It's been a slow day, but still some 797 00:52:36.199 --> 00:52:37.960 fun stuff to talk about. School. Great back