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Ball with Steve Ribera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey,
welcome back to I the Ball here Fur Sports fourteen and fifteen. I'm Steve,
He's Jay. Now we got Jason was the breaking news. Okay.
Arizona Gymnastics has added I'm two new players for their twenty twenty four roster.
I'm Hailey Havinor and Teresa Wise other team announced on Wednesday. All right,
it's supposed to be really good. I'm assuming and they're a good program.
I mean, we've talked to the coach. It's a program. Yeah.
John court Man he got he's got his team to against Doublas again this year.
Yeah, he said in a press release. We are thrilled to welcome
I'm Hailey and Teresa to Arizona UM. They will complete our incoming class for
next year. Both have proved that they can compete at a high level during
the club careers, and we look for to them thriving personally, academically and
athletically during their four years and every in Tucsons. All right, good,
good for John court yep UM round round one of the NCAA Double A Track
and Field Championships. Um, we're today Georgian Geist finished second in men's hammer
throw to qualify for the nc Double A Championships. Yeah, for the finals
next week. Yeah, and he's a guess I guess he's also in the
shot put later today, right, yes? Yes? Where where's that?
Did you see where that? Sad is? Its sacrament? All right?
Yeah? Um, we already talked about the baseball UM team walk off finished
against organ State, second seed Organ State. Um, they will be playing
the winner of Stanford or Cal in the summi finals on Friday, seven o'clock.
Yep, seven o'clock, So look forward to that. Um. Caleb
Love transfer he has UM Arizona amongst one of his UM teams that schools that
he might be going to. How many teams does he have on his list?
Um? I think Texas, Arizona, Gonzaga three. I think it's
three's gonna get in all right? Well, he's the kid that got in
Fest for Portland, North Carolina. Everybody was surprised because he was a starter.
Ye had he had a committed to Michigan right then, couldn't get in?
Hi, miss you couldn't get in right. So um, so he's
back in the portal and Sun. He's got Arizona, Gonzaga and who Texas
Tea. So we'll see how that see how that works out. I mean,
I don't know that that's a guy that Arizona needs, right with the
with the guy that they just got with, the with the Brandon or Jaden.
Uh what's the last ning from from from Alabama? The Alabama kid?
Yeah, I don't remember. Yeah, but yeah, No, they're gonna
be guard They're gonna be good. I talked to a lot of people yesterday
just this because and they think, and I agree with him, that this
team is gonna be pretty good next year, just six weeks removed from people
saying, oh, what are you gonna do? They're gonna be pretty good.
They're gonna be pretty good. I don't want to do sometimes, I
just I just want to, like have ability to throw a mass middle finger
just just sticks up above the horizon, and everybody who knows that it's me
knows that it's for them, making a new logo for us. We have
people cusses on the radio show. You know, well that picture you know
we got with our arms crossed, dude. Remember in high school teams,
would you know people would stick their middle finger out of that they get kicked
out of school and stuff. Couldn't sell the book because all right, the
commanders have their trademark applications denied due to another person already having pending applications for
the name Um Colonel one already existing. Therefore, they might have to change
their team name. Again, they can't work out a deal. How did
they not know that when they took the commander's name. It's a Washington team,
that's what. Speaking of George, Washington University change its changing its mascot
from the Colonials, which apparently some people thought that it was a sort of
sort of like Christopher Columbus, Right, Colonials killed a lot of Native Americans,
so it's kind of offensive to them. To the Revolutionaries, which is
just too long. How you put that on a helmet? Eventually, guess
what they're They're gonna find out the Revolutionaries is not a good name. Media,
Well, people want, you know, people want um Mississippi change its
name from the rebels. Yeah, because of the you know, well,
because they were rebelling against the United States America. I'm surprised that the Conquistadors
have kind of lasted a while, because I know that the back Coleman in
New Mexico and Santa Fe they're taking down statues because of this stuff. Oh
yeah, it's a big deal because people were offended with what they used,
what they did when sixteen coming up through Mexico. All right, Jets worked
out X bills punch mataisa um Ian Rappaport also reported that, um, he
doesn't expect any kind of media media signing for Matt but this could be um
first of many steps that my helping to get back in into the NFL.
Yeah. Yeah, again for our listeners, arising was the punter who got
accused of a sexual assault. Um, the police have come out and said
that he was not at at this at the place when and where it happened,
and uh, you know, he was the top. He was like
a third or four front draft pick up the Buffalo Bills. And as soon
as that report came out, he got released. And now he's trying to
find a job in the NFL. Uh And apparently what now the victim's attorney
is still going to following through with the lawsuits, saying he was there,
but the cops have said they have video evidence that says he was not.
Whatever that means. Okay, Um, there has been some strong support in
Madison Square Garden to retire Carmela's Anthony number. Um. I know Carmella played
for several different teams. You guys feel like he should have his number retired
in New York. Um. I also saw that he might have his number
retired in Denver as well. So yeah, I don't know. I'm not
a fan of his. I'm not a detractor as well. Right, I
don't know long career. Um, I don't know. It doesn't go anywhere
in my radar. Right. Yeah, he doesn't move the needle for me
either, never had. But but the heack of a player, yeah,
definitely for sure. Um. I know you want to talk about the NFL.
Yeah, So, the NFL has passed basically a similar rule to what
they have in college now, where a receiver on a kickoff can make a
fair catch inside the twenty five and they get the ball on the twenty five.
It's a continuing effort for the NFL to uh, you know, trying
They say kickoffs is one of the most dangerous plays. Uh. In the
game, and so they're trying to eliminate some of that. A lot of
pushback this time because people saying that it's even though it's tough, it's one
of the more exciting parts of the game. You know. You think guys
like the chic Devin Hester, you know, who made maybe getting it or
did he get into the Hall of Fame, I'm not sure, but he's
been he's been getting into the Hall of Fame as a kick returner, and
that will kind of go away because you know, people and you see it
in the you see it in the college game. You know, we catch
about the two yard and here comes the coverage. Okayn't take the fair catch.
We get about the twenty five at the NFL is adopting the same rule
that got passed, I believe today. Do you have to the kid from
Buffalo who got hurt? Who got hurt? Uh? Yeah, he's on
he's on the field. Yeah, the mar hamlet yeah yeah, Yeah,
he's not gonna workout, yeah yeah, he's he's been non contact stuff,
but he's working out. Yeah. Yeah, baby steps. His comeback has
been really markable, like what he wants everything he died, Yeah, I
mean he died, right, Can you say that you just did send letters
to Jay? No? Well I heard, I mean he essentially died when
they brought him back to life when a Scaresman was on TV. I'm just
watching it. I'm like, what the real time I got? I don't
think it was like real? What was I happened? Right? So serious?
Yeah? Um, that's all that I have for Okay, the women's
Tins basketball too. Uh. They got four new coaches or no fur staff
man so, um, because remember a coach left, so their director of
operations got promoted, so they started. They started an assistant coach opening Anthony
Turner. Uh is Uh comes from come Ins from Weaver State. Um.
They you know, So that's a new coach for for them. Um is
a graduate of Colorado. Uh. Young guy graduate in two thousand and eight.
So and then Lauren Flom is now the director of basketball operations. Uh.
She was the director of basketball operations at Tulane, so she'll be She'll
be in charge of scheduling, budgeting, travel rangers. YadA, YadA,
YadA. Ryan Thorne is coming in as director of recruiting Operations. Had been
in the program as a graphic designer. Photographer and doing some other stuff.
Had has a bachelor's degree, uh from the UFA. And then um,
Kyle Hudson comes in as the staff video and analytics UH as a graduate assistant
doing doing all that stuff. So um, so Forney staff members, all
with some of you have mostly some of you have a connections. Kyle has
a master's degree in sports management from Colombia. So there you go. Um
again, if you're if you're somebody who's entring into the traditions. Um.
There's been a lot of talk that both Georgia and Florida did not want to
play the World's Biggest Cocktail Party game in Jacksonville because they kind of wanted to
dig. They would rather have that as a home game every other year.
But it looks like that is going to stay there at least for two more
years. Uh in Jacksonville, Uh, where both teams Uh, you know,
it's a neutral site game and it's it's built. They don't I don't
call it the world Greatest cocktail party anymore because they thought people got it.
Said. Cocktail implying that there's a lot of drinking is a not a favorable
thing, so they call it something else. But I grew up knowing it
as the world's biggest COCKI just because you change the name doesn't change what you
mean what it is anymore. I'm Antonio's about a junior welcome from They just
call it the Cocktail Party, Now, why whatever the hell that means anyway,
So they're going to keep playing that in in Jacksonville. Okay. Brian
Brian Windhorse from YESPN just reported that the seventy six ers have now shown an
appetite to Page James harder than Max. So he's most likely gonna go back.
You had to go back to six ers, So he's most likely gonna
go to Houston, which is what I've been saying. Oh yeah, yeah
circulating, Sure, sure, yeah, I agree with you there. Yeah
what about what about I'm sure you heard this the Lebron could go to the
Golden State Warriors. Yeah, I've heard like the Warriors, Um, because
he said about he might retire whatnot, and the Wars make sense, you
know, him and Curry together. But I don't think it's gonna happen.
Lebron, you know, he has like a sense of like dignity and pride.
I guess you can say that he wouldn't want that to be part of
his legacy, if you know whatever, which would be what do you kind
of you know, hop on gravy train. Yeah, Curry's like, you
know, team and everybody kind of wants have kind of what they said about
Kevin Durant when he was like that, He's just going over there because there's
like I mean, I'm sure bron wouldn't mind Curry come over there. I
don't think gonna want to do that. I'm sure like you half a dozen
one, half a dozen the other. Yeah, you know, I totally
agree with you. Yeah, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did that,
go out on top with those guys. Yeah, I can see him
ending up because he goes out with his son. Right, So if Ronnie
is Ronie was dropped about the Wars, I can see him going there like
a year like that minimum and playing with his son. I don't see him
just going there just like his son. Have you seen the sun play a
little bit? He's not he's a top thirty guy, but he's not in
the top ten. Is that right? Yeah? So's he's marginal at best
for one one and done right, And that's what I have to be.
Yeah, definitely pretty much. I mean, so you're looking at two years,
she'd be forty by that time. Yeah, And we talked about this.
We have three minutes. Anyway, we talked about this before Game four
that you guys said he looked old, and I was kind of saying,
well, you know, that was one of those games. He didn't look
old in Game four until then. Jay says he looked good at you.
They just didn't go to him. Yeah. Yeah, for whatever reason,
he's he's still one of them. He's still tough. Yeah, did you
say I did you see yesterday or last this morning? He said I'm still
better than Yeah, it's probably right I say that. I mean if before
he got his actual foot injury, he was playing he was actually thirty points
like he was playing, you know, he was making like highlight reels every
game, like he was playing like at the top of his games. Still,
I guess. But yes, yes, Lord down because of his age
and some of the injury issues whatnot. But yeah, he's still better than
multiple league. You know. Now, if I need a basket, if
I need a basket, I'm going to Curry. I'll probably go to Lebron
two or three, But I don't want him shooting anywhere beyond five feet on
someone. Yeah, go downhill and go be the train man the train Yeah,
definitely, because it's either gonna he's gonna get a foul, get the
shot or whatever. Yeah, right, play honestly, right, Yeah,
okay, real quick, here's here's a Jacob preseason All American and Athlant sports
magazine that came that came across. And then some sad news for those of
us who go around for a while. Yeah, Tina Turner passed away today.
Yeah. I was a bit surprised, you don't know. I gotta
get those headphones off to go to Spotify. Tina Turner look her up.
There's about She had an incredible create at one point, was like the like
the queen of like like she was Taylor Swift before Taylor Swift a long time
ago. But yeah, but back in the night ye wow, wow,
Yeah I was. I actually in the late eighties and nineties, I saw
her at the Arena on her come back after the whole thing with with her
husband a long time. She was making her way back. She opened for
Lionel Ritchie at at the Two Sun Arena nineteen eighty three and I saw her
there and didn't really know where she was going, but man, she put
on a show. How old is she was? She three eighty something?
Yeah, no, but she was. And then she went huge. She
she was one of those She was one of those artists that went huge because
of the video, the video age. She was, you know, making
videos. And then there was a movie about her about her her husband thing
with Hell is his name? I turn Um? Wow, I was a
bit surprised. We've talked a lot about these iconic uh actresses and actress last
right right, um? And so yeah, so Tina Turner passed away.
And also before you get out of here, Sheldon Reynolds a guitarist guitar player
for Earth Wind and Fire back from the early nineties on. Um actually got
my my son and my family got our picture with him when they we had
we had a backstage passed to one of their concerts. Uh here and he's
wearing the picture with him and he passed away today. He's in his sixties.
I think he died. I think there's a picture of him that looked
like he had cancer something. He had some some disease that killed him.
So okay, Okay, well, sorry to do all this, all of
them. Yeah, okay, So we're gonna come back with big game Boomer,
give him some grief, yes, and information. We're gonna let them
know what's what. As far as Arizona fans, we'll be right back.
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Radio Whip just surgeony I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back to our
back here o Fox Sports Fortune fifty times Steve, he's Jay. Now on
the phone. We have job Whitaker, big game Boomer. How are you
doing job? Thanks for having me on. Yes John, John, we
had your stuff on yesterday and we're thinking where are you getting this stuff?
We wonder where you get this stuff. We needed to talk to you specifically
about the Arizona fans because you put on yesterday the list of the most sensitive
fans and least sensitive fans, and Arizona was we felt was on the wrong
side of that graphic. They need to be on the most sensitive fans because
they're basketball fans lose their mind. So give us that, give us the
thought process on who who were the least sensitive fans and who are the most
sensitive fans. Yeah. I guess when you when you wrote basketball into it,
I could definitely see Arizona being on the sensitive side. I mean,
gosh, you guys lost to a fifteen seed, but this year. Yes,
yeah, And I mean so I could see where you guys are coming
from. I'm just looking at it on like a national perspective, you know,
where I don't see Arizona fans in an uproar about college football. Okay,
that makes sense, that you're right, and yeah, and what we
were saying about that was that but that the basketball fans more than offset sort
of the nonsense, pensitive approach of the of the football fans, the football
faners kind of we're just used to being losers, right, So you're just
okay with it exactly. That's a very good That's a much better way to
put it than the way I just put it. Yeah. So so where
do you come up? We've talked about this before. Where do you come
up with this stuff? And and did you compile that list specifically? Yeah?
No, I put together every list myself. I mean it's just me.
Um, I am big game. You know, I don't know that
I would want to see, like what the inside of your brain looks like.
That can't be healthy or something, and it must be scary. People
have said that about me for a time or two. But you think you're
really I think it's really scary to think about things that are moving around in
your brain. So, well, what are some of the ones that you've
done recently that you've maybe gotten some great response from. Well, I mean
the sensitive fans one always gets a great reaction from. And it's just it's
my opinion. I mean I almost daily talked of pretty much all of these
fan bases, UM, so I'm very in tune with with you know,
how they interact. Um. And I've been you know, all over the
country too, so I can see a lot of these well in person.
But I mean I just come up with these lists. I mean they I
just come up really up with them. I kind of have a schedule.
I've been doing this for two years now. Right now, I'm in the
middle of my player rankings for every position, and I just got called out
by Brett Bulima or the Illinois head coach on my cornerback list. So every
list, it's a different response. It's you'll love me one day, she'll
hate me the next day. How often does like a coach or an athletic
director or somebody in a position like that respond to you or reply to something?
And is it pretty much every list? Or how often does that happen?
Say, I mean we've got one hundred and thirty three. They almost
every let's get a reaction from some coach or official accounts or for some radio
show, guys, article and sports illustrated battle list. Probably, I mean
it's every day. So is that the response you're hoping for? Yeah,
I mean I just I kind of just start doing this on a women and
yeah, I wit, I lot to seeing people argue about it. Did
you respond? Did you respond to those guys, the coach and maybe the
ads? Ye? Oh yeah? And what's our reaction? Okay you make
sense or you're still full of it? Yeah? No, no, I
like I've had jet Bish on my podcast before. I mean, the great
guy. That's why I'm kind of rooting for Arizona because of my experience with
him. I want to see him succeed there. Really nice guy. Well
where are you? Where are you from? Where'd you go to school?
So I want to tell you, Okay, I live in Oklahoma? Oh
you live? You still live in Oklahoma? Okay? Yeah? How are
their fans? We're pretty sensitive, I would say, I mean with the
Lincoln Riley leaving to USC, I mean, our fan base is still not
over. It'll take years to get over that, right, right. So
I think though, that because you're in the hotbed of that program, you
know that program, right, But it's hard to kind of know other programs
because you're not in the heart of that program like Arizona. Uh, you
nailed it for football. For basketball, it's a totally different beast. So
your confidence in picking the list, even though you're not in that city is
okay. You're okay with that final nags. It creates for great discussions.
Well that's true. That's true, and it has you. You have no
idea how many times one of those has come across in our last segment of
the day, and it gives us something that gives us something to talk about.
So you want to let us know something. You mentioned player player rankings,
but what are some other stuff that's that is coming up that we need
to keep an eye out for. I'll start some of player rankings, I'll
start doing coach rankings by position. Um. That always seems to get people
fired up. And then it's really just I mean, gosh, we're almost
in June it's just you know there there'll be stuff coming out every day that
I do. Um, how do you get through the dog days? Because
we know that you know, once once the NBA playoffs are over, you
know we can we can think about football. But it's still three months away.
Um, how are we gonna feel the how we're gonna feel that void?
Well, you've got, I mean all kinds of stuff. I've still
got my my implement stadium bathroom rankings. I'm out towards the start of the
season, and that that one is always a great debate. Um, so
I'm having fun fun list like that, and then stuff the serious with the
players and coaches back and a lot of time, uh research and the stuff.
And so you have one that came out I guess a couple of days
ago, the top twenty five quietest college football stadiums. I don't see Arizona
on this, so you really haven't been here, Steve Well. I know
when the Zona Zoo, the student section is in full force. That stadium
can get loud. When it's in full force. Well, and you're not
there in the second half of the football game. Sucked for a while,
but get the stadium can get hoppy Jason, So thank you, Jason.
I mean because I know the basketball Atmateur at McHale is one of the best
in the country, so that I next kind of translate the foot ball before.
But you know, back when Richard Regrez is there'd atmosphere. I try
to not base it based on you know, when a programs that's the very
bottom you know of their where they are, you know, with being good
or bad. Um obviously you expect that stake and to be quiet when he
was on the eleven um. So I try to try to, you know,
give the only person I'm giving Steve some dirty looks right now. The
only person you hear the football stadium is the Gonzales family when they go to
when they go to football games. Okay, is there what which sport do
you think has because you know you got football and you got some places with
basketball. Which sport has the absolute I don't, I don't with the right
word is just the craziest fans where you just go. You guys have lost
your minds college football football, I meanege football. Uh yeah, only the
most popular people are the most passionate about it, I know, and you're
part of the country they're probably more passionate about basketball, but from the nationwide
dampoint, it's definitely called football. And who who tops that two or three
list as the most sensitive? No, no, no, the craziest like
Jay's definite were you? It's like nothing else matters right on game day.
Every fan base except for Vanderbilt and Miszoo are just crazy terms of posting anything
interesting. All of them. Well, I mean, you know they did
you see somebody went into a dollar store or something like that a couple of
weeks ago and set all the Alabama gear on fire? Did you hear about
that? Now? I didn't ride that. Does that? Do you get
a lot of grief from the Oklahoma State people given your sooner? Yeah?
My wife they went to Oklahoma State. So I'm not to be honest,
guys, I get more flats from Oklahoma fans. I bet you. I
bet you, yeah, because I try to be fair, Yeah things,
you know, unbiased as possible, and so ou fans don't like that.
They think number one thing, So I kept at a flat from them.
Yeah, I've got I've got a guy in a breakfast club that I go
to. He was like he played it. He played football at Oklahoma like
in the fifties and heat. That guy the minute I walk in the door
every every Tuesday morning, he's going off about the softball team and how they've
won the last one game. And they said, you know what, they're
just paying their players better than anybody else. That's all. That's all.
Yeah, Well Oklahoma has been more, has been, was dominant before the
nil era. Yeah, they were. So. Are you gonna see one
of those lists the best nil deals in codes, football or programs? Yeah,
I mean I do. I mean I did one not too long ago,
like the best uh school for nil opportunities in every state, which I
think right now for you guys, definitely Arizona um bad words from the state.
Didn't care at all about any and that's why we're from. Yeah,
the game. Yeah, we like your maps that always have. You know,
it's it's the best, this, the best that, if whatever in
the state, and it's always Arizona. I know there was one with you
the other day. I can't remember what it was, but you know we
were like your map. We like your maps with the with the top schools
in each state. That's good. Yeah. No, I'm I'm bear bear
down. I mean I liked Fish is doing so, so I want to
see next step this year. Got to make a bowl game. That's tough,
but I think it's duable. I think they can get to six and
six, seven and five, maybe eight and fourth. They like the upset,
like the dig in two CLA last year. Okay, so I just
see another one from last week the top twenty five greatest college softball teams of
all time us LA. Of course, of course, after their little debacle
last weekend Oklahoma two Arizona three. Was that one of those favoritism for Oklahoma.
Well, living in the moment right now, like I just can't imagine
Arizona being as dominant as ou. I mean, oh, you kind of
changed the game in softball, and softball used to be a slapped the ball
around the park, you know, score one run, two runs here.
Now it's it's a it's a home run derby. And that really started from
Oteum. So that's why I kind of gave them the non over Arizona that
two spots, all right. I mean, look, he's got an argument,
right, It's a good argument. So that's all right. The fans
do take their softball here extremely seriously. Yeah, and they're they're not very
happy about how things are right now. But that's that's where it goes.
That's where it goes. Okay, all right, well John, that this
it's always fun. We're gonna want to talk to you some more and maybe
as we get closer to football season with some of the lists you you're gonna
have coming out looking forward to the bathroom list, because I can tell you,
I can tell you with a certain amount of authority, the Arizona has
a new end to their stadium. In the bathrooms in the new end part
are great, but the bathrooms in the old part underneath where my seats are,
it's scary, just just scary. But they're not gonna do anything because
they're they're gonna knock down that side of the stadium coming up, so you
know, it's still they still have a trough. That's all I gotta tell
you. So it's just very scary down there. So yeah, well,
thank thank you John the Husual, thanks for having fun with us. All
right, thank you well, John, John Whittaker, fun fun guy.
Hey, just okay, just looking back to this, h got just a
little over a week ago, Best fifty fifty Best College tailgating in the Unite
in the US. Arizona is on the list at thirty two. Thirty two,
Okay, and Alice, he was number one, which I've always heard,
old miss at the Grove, I've always heard, I don't know how
what's special about Iowa state and South Carolina up there, But um, Washington
has got some great tailgate and I've been I've done tailgating at Washington. Yeah,
um uh yeah. Michigan in the top twenty, but Arizona is at
thirty two. The thing about Arizona, it's got a great it's like one
specific area. It's just a huge party. Then that's good. Yeah,
when it's rocking, it's rocking. Yeah. Good food like good food,
good good food, good scenery because it's still hot and people are, you
know, kind of just having fun on the on the park. So I'm
glad to see he put Arizona in the top fifty of that one. But
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Fox Sports fourteen fiftie. I'm Steve, He's Jam. We have Jason with
us. You have about sixteen minutes to give us a quick call. Five
two old four one six seventy four forty In fact, who was trying to
who I was trying to call in? But here was HI? You're on
the R and I on the ball. Hey, what's going on? This?
Is Vic. Hey, Vic, I just wanted to kind of argue
your guys point with a list about Oklahoma Arizona and him saying Oklahoma changed the
landscape of yea of a football and he's crazy as all get out. I
mean, they do have Lauren Chamberlain at the top of the home run list,
but Arizona still has like four, maybe even five of the top and
home run leaders of all times. Yeah. I got a text out the
chambers Uh, Lauren A. Spinoza and without looking a couple more in there,
Yeah, Arizona there, Sharon, so of all time. He has
to put Arizona second. The Oklahoma rules scene now, but it's not even
I gotta text exactly that same thing. The landscape where I'll be honest,
my kids one have graduated from college without Mike Andrea. You know, I
think you can argue that Oklahoma wouldn't be Oklahoma if Arizona hadn't been Arizona first.
So no, that's it, that's it. I gotta text exactly,
Oklahoma isn't Oklahoma without Hey. Yeah, So, I mean that's what I
said. Soft If Oklahoma is great and softball, it's because of what Arizona
and UCLA did before that. Well, like I said, I'm telling you,
without without Mike Andrea, my kids doesn't even graduate from college. Yeah.
No, I agree with you, and my daughter said that many times.
Yeah no, I agree with you very much. That's a hell of
a statement. But we still need ditching on both the people. Oh this
is this is Vic. Okay, No, I know who's calling. Okay,
No, Vic? Are you right? You're right because you know the
game? I know you do. Um, this is your did you see
that? Did you watch the game today? Vic? Oh? Heck yeah,
every every Okay. How comfortable were you at when Arizona was up twelve
to eight, like in the seventh in he was texted you about this at
all? I actually texted that. I was crying my butt off pitching and
they still don't have enough runds and they did not. Yeah, it could
have been fifteen to zero and I'd have been crying in the night. Relaxed,
Vick, relax heay, they get to play another game. Man,
Live to breathe another day, Live to breathe another day. I'm telling you,
man, I'm excited. I always get excited. Um, but you
know, I know you guys laugh at fans and stuff. But I'm gonna
tell you you can be snowflake fans or else that your team ain't gonna get
better. That I agree with you. I agree with you. But point
is they're not. They're not listening to you. Guys complaining because they have
they have to work, they have to do their job. You're crying,
no, exactly, But I mean yesterday Jay said Tommy Lloyd is not going
to go after guys that can't score. And I started laughing because I thought
of Ramy and Henderson and I'm like, I could have beat both of them
in the whole game. That's not true. They scored at times, they
just didn't score consistently. Okay, they didn't score against Princess Kay, Okay,
I'm with you on that, but they did against you. Vic.
We gotta get you to some happy counsel. How to be a happy man?
All right, Jig, I'm telling you, but a couple of pictures
in baseball and softball and somebody that can put the three in the hall and
I'll be happy. We'll see, we'll see if they come up the exactly.
All right, Vic, Thanks by appreciate it, Thanks for listening.
How did you realize this is Vic who who's no, No, that Vick
because he texted me earlier. Is it come out relaxed a little? His
last name, you don't know what you know his last name. It's very
out to you after the show. But I said, no, no,
wonder he's always unhappy and that might give you a hint of what his last
day. But that he fixed as fine. I love that, but it's
you know, it's the same take too. We need pitching, both women,
and we need pitching at three point shooting. I love that score,
right, But you don't didn't know what everybody wants, oh Jason. One
thing you learn in this business, no one's ever happy, no one.
I've noticed that. So yeah, and you'll become a disgruntled sportswriter and no
time, Yeah, trust me, Yeah exactly. That's what he got out
of the business. He liked to do much. God I did. Man.
I wanted to be miserable. No, no, you gotta because you
didn't want to I know, but no, But I wanted to be miserable
as a fan a sports right. But there's two different there's two different things.
They're two very different things. So no, I've chosen to be okay,
there's one minute. No, that's only time for calls. I'm still
feeling bad about Tina Turner Man, and I feel even worse that Jason doesn't
even know who Tina Turner or was four of Donna summers or Donna summer there
before my time. So there was a lot of things before you tend.
We gotta get you some pump, you know, Michael Jordans, Yeah,
I do. Well, that's because I'm around basket. Okay. How big
of a music dude are you? You got headphones on every time I every
time you're here. Are you listening to music or like watching like podcast sports?
Yeah? Okay, see I just assumed you were listening to so yeah,
I'm out. You're not huge music guy, Not really. I mean
I listened to the people nowadays, you know, like some of the you
know, prominent people now but like you know, the older kind of music.
Music isn't shaping your life, not really. No, I'm gonna be
honest. I am who I am because of music. That's great. That's
actually a bad thing. Yes, But you know, I hear a song
and it takes me to a spot. Okay, right, that always does
me too. I mean, it takes me to a moment in time,
right time, girls dumping in dumping me, you know, maybe how drunk
I got on a certain night, you know, or some girl who didn't
want to have anything to do with me. You know. But there's every
song pretty much, you know that I hear and mind I don't listen to
new stuff. I'm stuck in the seventies and eighties. When I hear a
song, there's always a moment that comes with that song. Everything always oh
yeah, because that it was, that was a big deal because we didn't
you know, we didn't have video games. We didn't you know, we
have three channels to watch TV one and all that stuff. So so music
was the big deal in music in the car, music in your room,
A country skate cut. You have no idea how many songs taking me back
to skate country couples only man by himself we did skate with now at the
Flying V. We we you know, we just had breakfast on Saturday and
what used to be the Cactus Club. Did you ever know? You but
I know what you're talking about. He was the Cactus Club. The Cactus
Club and the Fine V. I Flying V were the two nights in the
in the mid eighties. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, it's it's a
Venezuelan restaurant now, okay, and it was very good. It's very good.
We were losing people right now. No, actually we're not people going
God, I remember that. I remember that. I remember that. Actually,
yeah, we were. Do you know what the record is? Yeah?
Have you ever seen one like live in person? Like held win in
your hand? Um? I think I have. Yeah, I haven't liked
it. I like the covered, yeah I have, But I've never liked
played one play in person before. No, but I have seen one.
Do you know what a forty five is? Um? I don't think so.
No, it's it's it's a smaller record this month song. But I
don't think I've never like seen a one person before. You gotta watch a
movie called Diner. It has the whole thing about forty fives and albums and
stuff like. Ok let me another something else started to yesterday Fiucci Pegasus.
Remember the horse that won the preakn won the Derby in two thousand, that
one he passed away yesterday, twenty three years ago he won the Derby.
Remember that horse? I remember that horse. A lot of just man,
it's just weird. It's just weird. Yeah. And then I think we
talked about bat Her taking his to the Bellmont National Treasure taking into Bellmont.
I don't think he'll run or be well in it because the distance, long
distance, long race. Yeah, we'll see if we'll see if the Todd
Pleasure comes back because he had been suspend in trouble, right, got suspended
for drug drug testing on Forte and other things that really fourte from back in
September of last year. So we'll see what happens with that. So the
third leg is going to be interesting, all right, we'll see what happens.
Well. I think it's kind of like there's nothing to it, right,
there's no triple crown winner, there's no great horse. Kind of like,
okay, we'll run the Bellmont because we always do, right, right.
You remember when it ran it in September October and we're kind of not
interested. It was kind of like because it was so it was so far
fetched. Yeah, and there was no nothing really going only not behind it.
Yeah, I mean I'm still be interested. I don't probably if I'm
home not doing anything, I'll watch it. So tomorrow we're gonna have some
pretty good guests. Right. Um, we're while we've lined up Brandon and
bringing it up, right, Brandon Sanders is gonna come in, gonna talk
about, um, all the football camps that are coming up, just things
going on in the summer for for Arizona football. See what they're all up
to. And then it hurt his chin. We were still trying to nail
down the time on that. But he'll come up and he'll talk about the
Sugar Skulls, the game they just had and then a big huge game coming
up on Saturday against the Bay Home Panthers home game, six o'clock. Um,
it's a it's a game for first place. The Panthers are half a
game ahead of Arizona two Sons two sons, tied for second with a four
and three record. Those teams are all bunched up in the in the West
Division. Um, the Rattlers, who are three and four going into last
week, got their quarterback back and immediately blasted in order to the Arizona put
a sixty burger on those guys, and so they're at four and four.
So all those teams in the West Division are bunched up. Four teams.
There's eight teams in the division. Four teams make the playoffs and so,
um, it's gonna be tight, and every one of these games is huge
for the for the Sugar Scalls. You want to get into the top two
in your division so you can host a first round game, which Arizona or
two Sundays Night had a chance to host a playoff game yet, but very
nice game that they played on on Saturday. Okay, And then we're gonna
have Randy of Seta, who's got to meet me at me And there's a
big run a big run for uh uh for Memorial weekend downtown, So we'll
have him on at some point in the day tomorrow to talk about that.
Um so, okay, we got about five minutes left. If you want
to give us a quick call, like Vick did, talk about baseball,
if you'd like, no basketball tonight, huh, no basketball tonight. We're
gonna do with ourselves, No clue, what are you gonna do? Jason
Wash some highlights. Maybe I don't know, listen to his podcasts, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I guess, I guess. Listen to Turner,
Yeah listen, yeah, go listen to some damn Tina Turner. Yeah,
we still have some No, I mean like you know, oh yeah,
our home, that homework. Yeah, and then some Donna Summer too.
Yeah. Okay, okay, I'll look her up. Look up some pictures
of Donna summer. Okay, she was. She was very attractive. I'll
just say it that way so I can get in trouble. Yeah, who
your wife for? My wife's not listening. She's busy doing some other stuff.
She knows, she knows that the Donna Summer was one of my h
was one of my heart throbs back in the day, you know. Just
Tina Turner not so much, but her music was awesome, you know,
yeah, and a lot of energy, very legend. She does a tin
and then she did it when I um when when I saw her, she
did a cover of um, the Al Green song Let's Stay Together, which
was just more of a beat version of it, which to this day I
have it, you know on my playlist, say it was. It's a
great song. It's a great version of it because that's one of my That
song that the original is one of my top ten songs ever back in the
day. That's a seventies song, maybe in the late sixties song, probably
seventies Whereverend L. Green? Yeah, okay three minutes. Did you have
like a go to like to me, it's earth Win to Fire. Did
you have a go to which we have the same music type of? But
I mean, was there one one or two that you basically went and bought
all their albums? No, didn't even didn't even hear the album came out
of you went and got it? No, Well, I think back in
seventy six it was the Saturday Night Fevere album. Yeah. Um, but
we have the same type. I'm a commodos guy like all old school seven
mid seventies, a later seventies. Um, you know, I cried for
Edmund Fitzgerald. I'm joking, of course, But but I bought earth Wind
and Fire album came out, I went and got did to wait to see
which ones were going to be the hits off of it? I went and
I went and got There's a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff the
Gap band back in the day, Come on, bs man, Yeah,
there's so many but only one of those guys left. Really, yeah,
so there's so many stuff. I don't know what. I can't even tell
you what's today we could probably the equivalent of you know, I would throw
out some names that people would say, those guys are so yesterday, you're
showing your age. If I'm gonna throw out any name of current people,
I mean there's something that I like, but you know, um, they're
freeal far between my daughter. My daughter says I have a gap because I
basically stopped listening to anything newer than nineteen eighty six or eighty seven up until
about when I became the play by play announcer at the Saint Gregory basketball games
and I had to play music at timeouts and stuff, so I had to
get some stuff that was like up to date, so from like late eighties,
maybe ninety ninety two until like twenty two, thousand and eight, anything
in there. She calls my gap because I don't know if any any songs
or anything thing that was a large gap. That is a huge gap,
and it still remains. It's a big gap. Yeah. A song will
come on and I'm like, oh, this is a great song, and
my daughter goes go that that's like twenty years Yeah, it's about right,
Yeah, it's about yeah, roll up the windows. You're embarrassing. I
like, like I was, I ran across a song by the weekend in
Ariana Grand du I love this song. Yeah that came out like two years
ago. Yeah, yeah, okay, you know what can I say?
I just heard it for the first time for the first time, and I
like, don't touch my buttons. Yeah, exactly, don't touch anyway.
Okay, okay, fun show today, All right again, Brandon Sanders from
You of a Football. We'll coming on tomorrow and you'll be the three fifteen
guests, and then we're trying to nail down a time for hurdis Chan of
perfecably in the second hour. We'll see what we come up with there.
We'll talk some sugar scalls football. Yeah, maybe I'll talk some more music.
Hopefully nobody else dies. You're not here tomorrow, Jason, but Friday.
Yeah, I'll be Friday. Jay. You're you're on your own with
him. Good luck? Yeah, thank you? You and me on right
a dude, Yeah, all right, so'll be fine. We'll get we'll
go, man, we go, And then then we're off on Monday for
a Memorial Day. She's gonna still be out floundering around somewhere, so we'll
take Monday off and then uh, I'm back for a day and then I'm
gone for a week. Yeah all right. Thanks for being here today.
Thank you for to our guests. We appreciate it and we will talk to
you tomorrow.