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He's Jay. We have Henry with us today. Two hours of exciting
sports talk, probably because I'll be napping the whole two years. You know,
you make it like you don't want to be here today. I'd rather
be sleeping. It's sleeping. It's hot, I'm tired. There's too much,
too much stuff to do to be sleeping. What do you mean,
too much stuff to be Give me those stuff just what I said, give
me a lift. We're having a hard time finding guess we are. You
know it. It's the dog days and subtle, it's the start of the
summer. You know, people are doing things. But we pulled the one
out of our whatever today we did to get you some uh fireworks tonight Tucson
Jonathan Frolling ye ye, yep. He was excited to be on the show
as always. And then since we're gonna have the ad next week. Right
from an issue, right, I ThReD we did the hold of Bob Kemp
to gauge the gauge the last place finished that they were predicted. Yeah,
wow, we're talking about we're talking sixteen out of sixteen. Yeah. I
already saw something on the internet Issue Fan whatever he's called himself that if that
happens, that Dylan Hamm has already kind of worn out as welcome and I'm
thinking he's been there not even a year. Well, they're not gonna finish
last, you don't think so. No, who's gonna finish last? I
don't know, but not that really well, they got some players this year.
He did, he did the other schools players. Do you know I
think? I mean, somebody's gotta finish last, right, Someone is this
Jay Henry. He's always poopoo on an issue, But not because against Steve.
I just think it's it's wow. I think it's it's the it's the
Big twelve media not giving the four the four new teams any respect. I
want some of that action, but you'd have to give me some odds.
I think, Yeah, no, because I'm not gonna bet you that because
they're not have to rook for them, and I don't want to do reverse,
like want to get god doing that? Okay, that they'll just blow
my whole in. I don't know what the bottom of the barrel looks like.
But they're gonna be there, well yeah, I mean, do I
finish? Do I think they're gonna be one of the bottom four teams?
Probably? I just think Kenny Dillingham has shown he's he can I think what
Look, he's he's the same. He's their version of Brent Brannan, right,
A guy who wants to be there, right, A guy who really
cares about the place he's I mean, he's recruited some guys, you know,
I don't know. I just don't. I just don't feel like they're
they're gonna be the last place team got you, okay? You know it
was one thing to finish last when you were in the Pac twelve when they
were only twelve teams. Yeah. Now if you're the last out of sixteen,
how far back are you? That's bad? It's bad. That's a
lot. Or if finished, if you're you know, if you're eighteenth in
the in the in the Big ten, No, No, it's bad as
much as it's not that great of a conference for football, you know,
it's not maybe top heavy, but it doesn't have a cow anymore. Yeah,
I guess I don't know how a Washington State, you know. I
guess I don't know who the really bad teams are in the Big twelve,
right right, right, right, that's part of it. I don't know.
I think it's a premature evaluation on both our part of premature what evaluation
And that was purposely said, premature evaluation on our part because not knowing and
the media over there not knowing. Right, That's what I'm saying. Yeah,
you're you're right. So I don't know. Maybe maybe they will,
maybe maybe they won't. I don't know. I don't know. It's gonna
take another year or two. Obviously, I think you know, he's gonna
have to pay the jet fish of the of the issue where they kind of
rolls into it and then all of a sudden, boom it happens. Right,
So we'll see, we'll see. Yeah, so we had Bob Campbell,
will have him out for that. I think we're gonna talk a little
about, uh so, maybe some sun stuff because the sons, who knows
what they're doing up there with the basketball team and diving back. So just
cover it all up there. Yeah, because in fact we'll have the a
D do you know when probably the Friday. Well he's he's gonna be a
big twelve im mediateday next week. So we our friend Doug Tamro said he's
gonna he's trying to line him up for Thursday Friday next week. Okay,
cool. You know, look again, I'm gonna be friendly to him,
right, That's the first thing I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna bring a
guest on even though he's from a s U and you know, be mean
to the guy. Uh you know, it's not even the seats, not
even warm. What are they going through? Right? Because here, look,
you know we're okay with it because we feel pretty good about where Arizona.
You know, as an Arizona fan, you know we think Arizona's gonna
be very competitive in football. We know they're gonna be very competitive in basketball
the other sport. You know, Uh, Pat forty did you see Pat
forties call him? He did a column about sort of the I don't know
prognosis is the right word, but just got every team that's moving into a
new conference. What do they bring? Right? And so you know he
you know, he mentioned the Arizona sports. You know, football was ten
and three and finished third. You know, basketball won the league, you
know, and then they ran through as you know, their their their football
team was terrible, their basketball team was under five hundred, their baseball team
wasn't very good, didn't make the tournament. You know, all those things.
You think, what's their perspective. We're you know, we're okay about
moving over there, and we're kind of excited about it because we think Arizona's
gonna be competitive probably in most sports, you know, certainly tennis, certainly
golf, you know, and then you know the two major sports. Obviously
they feel good about women's basketball, you feel good about baseball. If you're
an RCU fan, how do you feel if you're going over there and you're
limping along with your program? And that's going to be interesting to see what
their perspective. Limping along is a good phrase. Henry. You came from
Sheboy in New York, connected in you or wherever in New York, Manhattan,
New York probably right? What brought you here? Sports? I wanted
to go to the school that's sports. So you didn't even think about an
issue. No I did. I was, you're a su in Oregon,
so okay. But when I toured SUS too big, so okay, okay.
So yeah, So then that's kind of the appeal, right because they're
competitive. They're competitive in a lot of the sports. It's a good place
to live. It's a good place if it's it's a fun part of your
social life, right. You know. I think when most people say they
want sports, they don't really care if it's that good. They just want
like a football team and basketball team and stuff like that. M hmm.
Well, you could have gotten to Oregon. It would have been a great
campus, great college place. But you can landed here. You haven't been
on did you go to did you? I can't remember. You said you
haven't been to campus in a while. Any issue, you haven't been a
long time. Don't go there. It's a city. It's a it's a
little city of unbelievable. Look, it's all over the place. Yeah,
well you know town. You know we went to we went to uh when
we had the final four. We went to dinner, you know, over
there off of Mill Avenue. And I don't know what you know, and
there's the journalism school, right and the campus is the way the hell over
there, you know stuff in downtown. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, because
it's right there. Yeah, so you know yeah, I mean I could
see you know. I mean it's ACU. Doesn't feel Arizona has always been,
you know, it's just this place. Arizona's a place, right,
It's it's a campus. It's kind of Yeah, there's pieces of it on
the north side of Speedway, on the south side of sixth Street, you
know, but in general, when you think about the Arizona campus, you
think, you know, Speedway to sixth Street, Campbell to euclid or Park
that it's a beautiful campus. Yes, but so you think about it being
in a central place. ACE is not that. No, No, it's
a it's a big seventy five thousand people going to school there. Whatever it
is, Okay, So we look forward to that with Bob camp who will
have a little fun with always do uh and then talk about peerlman. They
have the fire the fireworks tonight and all that. I mean, do we
talk to to Tucsons who are it's about a month ago or something like that,
they have anything clime with it because it's so slim pickings here that it's
hard to see. Uh fireworks. Yeah here, I'm sure the casino has
it. Maybe tonight or tomorrow. Yeah, and it's already July. Jay,
it's already July, and a month we're we're doing football tomorrows July fourth.
Man, it's lot you know, this is where kind of you start
to get the feel of it, right, yeah, you get pack.
I feel like you get after July the fourth. Now it's kind of like,
okay, yeah, we're you know, we're gonna start getting serious about
this stuff right well, and then because football starts like late July, late
July, right, practice starts, and then uh in a month later the
game start and then here we go, yeah, here we go. Are
you you're when does the school start? August twenty something? August? It
doesn't come soon enough. You just kind of wait to chill. Yeah,
yeah, okay, what else? A lot of things I'm sure a lot
of things going on at Uba or not maybe not a lot of things going
on at you it's kind of very very much so you know, so we're
having again, we're having trouble finding people, right, you know, because
everyone's gone. Yeah, everyone's gone, and we want to make it relevant
to today. We don't want to talk about other things. But well,
you know, next week, well should be We're not on tomorrow Friday,
but next week we start kind of maybe even looking at other schools to yea,
getting the other schools in here. We need to do that. I
want, you know, I want to hear from the you know, like
for instance, you know, we need to find somebody from Utah. Right,
they've been picked to win the league, you know. Uh, yeah,
well we'll get somebody from the school, but certainly somebody from you know,
the media up there. You know, we've talked to those guys in
the past. Yeah, we talked. You're right, and they're going to
be very competitive. Yeah, we need to talk to somebody from Kansas State.
Didn't. Who do we have? We did? We had no who
do we have? Last week we had Kansas covers kan poo poo your your
thought on I think this is a big deal for us. No, it's
called Tuesday for us played Arizona. We see these games all the time.
Yeah, yeah, you're not that good looking to a girl, Jake.
We' I'm not worried about you the exactly exactly exactly, so you know,
we'll we'll, you know, we'll see what you know, what uh what
we got. But uh again, as I said, i'm, I'm,
I'm I feel like it's about time to start having some fun, you know
with all of this. And really really it's sort of been that thing that's
kind of been out there Big twelve. Yeah, it's kind of been out
there. It's gonna happen eventually, but you know, not yet. Let's
get through all these seasons stuff. Well we're through all the seasons. Let's
uh, you know, let's start, let's start ripping into it. Well,
people are still reminiscing. I know, we try to get Michael lev
on today. I didn't see his call. Maybe I'll look at it now,
but you read it. He revenue, you know, yeah, it
was it was kind of thinking about all the all the cool things that happened
in the past. You mentioned that, you know, the time he spent
covering USC and you know, covering uh, you know, Reggie Bush and
things like that, and how all those things are kind of gone and you
know, here we are and uh, you know, the here's the next
you know, here's the road we're on, you know, the next the
next thing. Yeah, so you know I think, uh, I don't
know, it's it's uh, we got to get past the emotion of it.
Now. It's all over with. You know, didn't we do that
two days ago? When I give you grief about it? You did?
You did? And I and it over. I'm gonna have to I'm gonna
be like share share on what was the one where he slapped that guy?
The move cokut moon moon struck? He slapped him and get over ready,
yeah, get over it? Yeah, yeah, no, I hear you.
You know, that's what we have to do. We have to we
have to get over it and and and get on too, you know this
next thing and uh you know, be uh be talking about the games now.
I really want to talk about the games. Yeah, well soon enough,
they'll be here. Soon enough, they will be okay, And it's
any calls of course, we want to have him call in five to two,
four, one, six, seventy four forty help us get through the
day here, Uh, in between our guests. Anything else that you had
in mind? No, no, just you know, you know, were
just again just beating the bushes for people and just finding out different things.
I you know, got some interesting information. They can't can't talk about it.
But you know, people are all worked up about something that they don't
need to be working, right, I'll just say that. Let me let
me say this. I saw a game. I saw the highlights last nay
the Dodgers, Oh yeah, and show he hits that home run, and
I think it. I don't know why it doesn't happen more often, But
the kid gets bumped in the head because okay, got hit because on the
home run, the towering home run, people grabbing it and it didn't know
nobody got it and some kid was sitting there and Boom hit him on there.
Oh I didn't see that. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
Yeah, you know, with people grabbing, grabbing and hit somebody in the
face or something. I love the ones where like a guy has got a
baby on the front and a pack, you know, make the catch one
handed and hold his beer. That happens a lot. Yeah, this kid,
Tobio got hit in the head, but you know it's still watching it.
No, no, boom, you kind of google it, Okay,
because I was watching the game. Obviously, I hit another four teamer with
that one last night a four laker, same thing as I did the other
night. And again I never should have won that because the Dodgers were losing
in the top of the ninth, came back and went in the bottom of
you again, I've got this little Here's here's my gambling tip of the day
for all you out there. My gambling tip of the day. I love.
I picked three guys to get a base hit. Then I picked the
Dodgers to either win the game or cover the spread. And so I had
I had Shohy and Freddy Freeman, and I had Andy Pie has the rookie,
and and go to the eighth, the game's tied. Pie has was
oh for four, oh for three, got he gets his base hit.
So I got my three guys. But then they fall behind, and uh,
the Dodgers down five four going to the bottom of the ninth, and
then they win the game. So I hit it. So I've hit two
of those in a row. Now, So Henry your journalist, right,
So if if someone tells you this or that, check out his fourte you
better make sure that he's telling you the truth. The four teamer, because
you know we live we're in a world of I did this check is fourteen.
If you want to see it, you want to see it, I'll
show it to you. I will show I trust you on this one.
I'll bring on my accountant show it to you. What did you put on
it? Ten bucks? Yeah? What? What was it? Yeah?
It was too okay, So it seemed like you could have been done.
The only thing you sweated was the game? Was the game? Yeah?
Well yeah, I mean I was sweating the hits too. But then when
Pie has got his hit and I just need the Dodgers to win the game,
yeah, both, and then they did, which is cool. I'll
take that every time. It's fun, you know, it's a it's a
it's a fun it's a fun way to do this because you know, it's
I just sit there and watched the game and I'm rooting for stuff and rooting
for them to you know, get base hits, and I'm rooting for them
to you know that kind of stuff, and I just have a lot of
fun with it. It's not a hard bed. I'm not betting the mortgage
on it. Yeah. Yeah, you're you're You're just having fun with Nicol
and I'm good. Yeah, just having fun with it. Yeah, okay,
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you writing about home Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's chickensauce,
snow and the phone we have. John Prolman, HELDEFCI Tucsons. John,
how are you gee? You great to be on Jay? How are
you, buddy? We're good, Man, We're good? How are you
good? Good? Is too little bit warm? But tonight well, you
can always change your season to this winter, right, you can always change
You're not gonna do that, No, not all good johns. Let me
ask you. Is today one of the bigger nights of a season for you
guys? Yeah, it's it's our it's our biggest, you know, regular
season game of the season. Always the third of July has been a massive
celebration of obviously Tucson soccer and uh, of course you know with us,
you know, these end of these July games are really the difference between postseason
and not postseason again. Just like last year, this game was massively big.
We're in second place right now, in playoff position, with control of
our own destiny, and it's a great fireworks show and it's one of those
pits where it's you love to be out there and you love to be part
of the fans fare tonight because it's going to be great soccer and just a
lot of fun. So you're you've been building up to this for a while.
Now, what what's you know? What's been the makeup of what you're
doing so far? What? What the character of your team or the characteristic
of your team? What? What? What? What are you? The
team is super talented and it's really a team that can beat you so many
different ways. Right now, we have our you know, we've had injuries
in the front line, and we had we switched a player to the number
nine, Ilian Aguilar, and Ilian's broken the team record with six goals in
six games, which is now a new team record, and he's been in
great for him and William Arniston is a league leader in points total points for
the USL And you know, for us again, we've had just tremendous performances
from local players like DeAndre Pickett will be starting tonight and Brandon Sanchez, and
you know, it's just great to have those guys like Gego Belize, the
guys are from Tucson on that team, contributing, Jared Allen and just we're
excited for a big performance sight obviously play Arizon Arsenal, who's our rival from
Phoenix. We already won the Golden Sorow Trophy, which is a combination of
our women's team, our youth academy games, and our men's team, so
we already raised that trophy. But again, tonight's about playoffs. You know,
we win the next three and we're in, so it's very clear what
the target is. We have the talent, we've got a great head coach
at Sebastian Pinedo who's really got the team playing at Sebasta the key moments of
the season right now. But it's a tough conference and uh there's a lot
of teams stacked up very close, so you can't drop points at home.
So we're not going to do that and we're going to celebrate with a big
fireworks display tonight. Hopefully the fireworks will start early, Hopefully in the first
ninety minutes. So let me ask you, you must be by the sound
of the voice and you're in the successful part. The move to leagues has
been a good one. Yeah, I mean for us again, you know,
when we look at it overall, like I said, for US,
League two was somewhere we were able to really you know, showcase our amateur
players here, our top amateur players across the country and especially Tucson players in
League one. Obviously for us to return there, which we'd like to do
as an organization, if it fits the model, you know, it's going
to require a lot of upgrades on our current venue or a different venue that
really has kind of that uh, that swagger to it to really draw the
uh, the non soccer fan. But as as we operate in the summer
with our fantastic partners at the Stadium District, we've we've had the best summer
we've had. We they have great new management there. They've done an incredible
job of elevating our platform. And uh, you know what it's like,
Steve, You've got to have the kids. Now, you got to get
on the TikTok, you know, the dirt. So I got smart people
doing smart things you have Jade to help you with that. He's dancing with
his girls. My TikTok game is just like my vernacular. It's mid.
Uh. We're just going to keep me away from that, and my job
is just to keep the guys going. We just have a great front office
right now, and a great technical staff and a great women's team who's sitting
in second place as well. So it's it's been a wonderful celebratory summer and
we want to keep doing that. Momentum going, okay, cool, Uh,
how many people would you expect? I'm sure you so get a pretty
good crowd, right. You still have the Defend Club. I don't want
to send their names, you know, I mean, yeah, the Captain
Pricks. You know, we haven't seen them, but they tend to come
out on the big fourth of July. And as we get closer to the
playoffs, we get you know, we have a good we have a good
loud supporter section right now. But for us, I mean again, you're
looking right now. We're hoping somewhere between you know, seventeen hundred and two
thousand tonight for this, so that will be massive for us, and the
tickets are flying out the door right now. So if you just go online,
buy them before you get here because it's always a longer wait and you
want to get in quick, get scanned. So uh FC two Sun dot
Com seven o'clock kickoff, Keno North Stadium Fireworks show after you know, John,
I we're coming over here and Steve and I've been complaining about the heat
and whatnot with the teams that are in the league. Is there any advantage
for you guys? Is whether a factor for you guys? Does it help?
Does it you know, what's what's that piece of it? Gay?
Great question. The answer is it does help. And I tend to schedule
home, have schedule on the second part of the summer. I really want
to finish off at home in the heat. So the hard part is we've
had two games at home which we performed tremendously, but there's been a little
rainstorm before, so it was like the two nicest days to be out there.
I mean we had these like two games it was like eighty three,
eighty four degrees, and I was thrilled for myself, for the fans who
were there, but for the team they were playing, you know, a
California team, but right now when you're playing Arizona Arsenal tonight from Phoenix,
that's not where the advantages come. It's got to be on the quality of
the player. But in the last two games we have at home, absolutely
I'm hoping you can't. You can't get hot enough for me other than I
want our fans to be comfortable. They can do that through alcohol. You
got to sell that stuff, exactly. So, John, you talked about
maybe moving up in the near future or whatever, but the venue has that
been talked about? Yeah, we've We've had a lot of ongoing discussions with
a lot of parties and you know, obviously you know the challenges and again
we're certainly not analogous, but you know, and I'd like in our operation
to a very community friendly one. But obviously the loss of the uh the
fact that we were able to keep the h GCC going and keep the road
Runners here I have to do with the quality of the venue and what what
the you know, Rionuevo and everyone here in Tuson is being able to do
to keep that team. Conversely, obviously the Arizona Coyotes could not play in
that arena that they were in and they couldn't get a new one pass that
would allow them fiscally to meet their goals and meet the league's expectations. So
Keeno North Stadium is a wonderful venue. The county is a great partner.
We're upgrading the the concession area this this winter. It's going to be amazing.
But what's hard is you really need feedbacks, you need sweeps, you
need a deal that makes it makes sense for a long term. So we're
working all towards that. I you know more, we've got to find a
venue with another partner, a big partner, whether it's you know, downtown
or it's with the univer that also has a need where it can solve to
people's problems. So all those conversations are undoing, and for me, it's
continuing to diligently do that by looking at our company where it is, which
is healthy right now, the healthiest it's been. So we just have to
find the right partner in the right then you if you're going to make that
step in that next level investment, did you John, when you were I
don't know, twenty years younger. I think I probably I probably knew you
then, if not before that, and you were a coach on the East
Side. I think it was in the Sabino tankoverty area. Did you imagine
yourself doing exactly what you're doing now or did this you know, did you
fall into it because I always thought of you as a coach. Yeah,
I mean, I think the thing what happened, to be honest with you,
was, you know, I was very much as a coach in the
year. I can remember very clearly when we were looking at you know,
twenty ten. I really was happy where I was as a coach, and
I was ready for the next challenge. So it was looking very much like
I was going to go into the college ranks. There was an opportunity at
Saint Mary's University in the WCC to be an assistant coach, and the wife
and I were looking at places, and then, you know, I had
the opportunity to do this and to be part of FCT John's first opportunity.
So it wasn't my goal. My goal was to be a coach, and
I was halfway through my master's degree because I thought that was the way that
the world was going. So this kind of was a u turn for me
on the business side of it, you know, again, it was something
we all learned on the fly, Greg Rick myself, you know, we
just learned about people hadn't done preseason soccer before, people hadn't really monetized the
League two team before, and so it was kind of learned as you go.
That really wasn't a template to go from. But yeah, I mean
I still see myself as a coach. I was on the sideline with the
academy team today, I'm a technical director. I was with a U fourteen
ECNL team this last weekend in San Diego fighting against Seattle United to advance out
of our group. So yeah, I'm still doing the coaching. It's it's
my greatest passion. But I want to do as much as I can possible
for the overall soccer community here. If that means serving as a president and
running a Elite two team and having a pro level academy at U twenty and
doing these types of things with the women's team, I'm happy to do that
because I want there to be a legacy here when I'm gone and something for
people to enjoy and aspire to, no matter what level we end up being
at. Finally, so yeah, I'm a coach at heart. There's no
question, and I still do plenty of coaching. Well, it kind of
coincides with with the time with Beckham here. You know in the in that
thing you had the copa I can't remember what it was called. In February
or something like that. You have a diamond cop I love it, Yeah,
because that's when kind of all the hoopla started at that level. Did
you did you not have it or did you have it? This year?
And we did. We had a pre season, but we only had one
MLS game. So right now we just had a bunch of meetings to we're
looking to bring back a four team MLS tournament. We're looking for that Cup
again. But like I said, we've had some big players in there.
Obviously, there's a little guy who's pretty famous. I think it's a layout
something. He's playing Forriner Miami and so they're doing a lot of stuff down
in South Florida. And then you know with Coachell, that's the owner of
the Galaxy, Philanshoots has a property in Coachelle where he's invited all of his
MLS friends to play there. So we have to create an incentive and we
have to have a situation where it's a good fit for MLS teams to come
here again with all that competition out there. So we're working really hard with
PMA County and with another company that it directs teams where to go for preseason.
So I'm hoping to have some big announcements in the next couple of months.
Okay, great, and maybe lastly, can you kind of remind everybody
how to see tonight's matchup and who to get tickets? Yeah again, tonight
seven o'clock, Keno North Stadium FC two sound dot Com tickets ups store family
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it's a big night. It's the Fireworks Extravaganza. We have a show
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you can have double your pleasure this this Fourth of July holiday. So looking
forward to seeing everyone. Get your tickets online right now and you look to
see you tonight and now let's get a big win for the city. Well,
thanks, Jonathan, We appreciate it. Thank you so much. Guys.
Jonathan Perlman, I'll see two son if you have a chance. So
you haven't thought of anything to do with it, you know, hey,
I mean fireworks always a blast, right, Yeah, I think you can
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they have their eye on the ball on Tucson Sports Stage yet Fox Sports fourteen
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the ball Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Why are you laughing? I'm Steve,
you're Jacobs. I'll just listen to the commercial on. I'm thinking we
have our eye on the ball. We just can't remember who's playing with the
ball. That guy, that guy, the guy with the ball. What's
his name? Oh man, it's summer. That's our excuse. It is
so in the winter. It's winter, that's our excuse. I guess okay,
okay, can you call anybody? Want to call? Please do five
two oh four, one, six seventy four forty. You're going out to
celebrate the fourth tonight tomorrow. I was just asking is Deil Saul having a
firework place. I couldn't find it. Typically they have it on the third
I think that's why Jonathan probably said that they're the premiere firecracker. Well there,
I mean, there's a few places right, you know, like like
over by our house. You know, we're She's country club does a big
thing and so we you know, we we if we want to, we
can go just take a little walk on the other side of the houses.
And that's always that's always good. One time we did a really dumb thing
and we all got up on the roof, including our little kids. We're
fine, but now they think about it's probably not very smart thing to do
because because little kids up on the roof and trying to get them off the
roof, but that's spilling them into the back here because it was getting down.
Yeah, exactly. The mount I don't know, haven't heard doesn't Yeah,
I haven't heard it. The mountain doesn't. Star Pass used to do
them. I don't know if there's still soul. And then up in the
up in the hills where I'm at, uh, the up in over Cole
Overvell and that area has their own bunch of fighters. They sometimes some remember
they burned down the mountain that one year. Yeah, I was that because
yeah, it was a fireworks thing. I literally burned them out eight mountain.
Yes, I was thinking one on on the hill up on an oracle,
the the push ridge up there. Yeah, no, that was that
was like that was a light strike. Okay, that was a lightness I
thought, because it was okay, be safe, yes, be safe.
Okay, And we go on to coll please do fifteen minutes five to four,
one, six, seventy four forty. Uh, lot's going on,
a lot going on. What else is going on? But well, you
know, just's still so much uncertainty about what's going on at the U of
A right, right talking about that all the time. You know, it's
a big deal to me because you know, my son's and employee of the
u A I should say, was and you know that all that whole situation
just a lot of I'm gonna ask you a question that may or may not
be answered or want to be answered. I'll think about my answer in a
second. But a lot of change and change, uh it comes about with
bad blood or feeling sometimes. And I don't I don't envy desiree. I
think part of her job to come in was to not so much clean house,
but to do some cleaning of house because they had to anyway, right,
because of the salaries and stuff like that, they had to. And
again what they've been doing all this time has not been working correct, right,
right, you know, it got them in the trouble that they're in
exactly, so it'd be justified to do it. But we may or may
not know some people that are coming and going, and I know that,
you know there's certain people there no names, that are scared and unhappy.
Am I You got the same vibe? Yeah, oh there are you know.
And again and there's just a feeling that it wasn't their fault, but
it kind of was right, And there's some people in there's some people in
positions who could have kept all this stuff from happening, and they didn't and
so well. In fact, I can for you say who because I don't
remember the whom, but it was treated And I just throlut this for a
while now and I've been gone, I've been covered the team for twenty three
years. The paper clothes that would do it from other sources that it was
kind of like a country club rent kind of like a country club. I
don't know if you feel that way, almost almost like they had unlimited credit
card, right right, No, no, you felt that too. In
some ways there were, but like in other ways there weren't. Like,
for instance, they don't pay their stack creed. They give, they give
you, but I've done it because it's it's fun. But you know,
there's little things and they you know, well, we can't do that because
we don't have money to do something like right, and then you go,
okay, you know. But but on the other hand, there were some
things going on over there. They're just well, that's funny because I won't
say to whom, because you know, we're in the press conference at the
end of games and it's rare that they give us stats anymore, the paper
SATs, you know, and before they just hand them out. Yeah,
we stopped printing stats at the table a long time exactly. It says,
come on, I'm an old dude, I'm an old school I need the
stats in front of me. I'm not gonna get them like Peter until go
home and run. And they said no, and they said no, becast
money. I'm thinking I've seen guys travel all over the country. You're not
worried about money that way, but you won't give me a statue. It
doesn't make sense. I'm out. I'll tell you the story. I mean,
we went. We had a little of that because, uh, you
know, a statu sheet for the press room at the basketball games. They
said, we're just taking a printramid. That's what I'm talking about. Is
that where you're talking about exactly what I'm talking about you in basketball? Okay?
Yeah, they they And you want to see the numbers we print?
We now only print stats for the coaching staffs. Yeah, that's it.
And thankfully I had your daughter who likes me appreciate it. Can you sneak
me one? And she would, Rachel, would you know because of you,
she's not working there anymore. Give me one right away and kind of
give the rest out to the kid, the kids on the podium because still
I'm not going to fire up my computer and see see who did what.
But but it was funny. It was funny because oh, I've seen traveling
party of one thousand. I was standing there when that decision got made,
and it was like, we're not handing out paper anymore. We're just not
everybody can get it on their phones and their iPads, and we're just not
gonna hand out paper anymore. Yeah, oh we're killing trees, Steve,
But give me a paper. And I see all these people traveling to Duke
to everywhere. I'm thinking, well, we have actually we give you know,
we give crap to visiting teams who want more than five or six stats
at timeouts to go, how many coaches do you have? You don't you
don't need ten, and they're gonna be by twenty Those stats don't get there,
you don't need you know, you don't need ten of these. How
about how about we give you six? Now. On the other hand,
the U of a bitch gets ten. They get their ten because the entourage.
Holy moly, Yeah, you know it's big, it's big, but
it's it's it's it's fun. Let's say it's funny because little things like,
you know, like we should joke with my mom that she would you know,
you know, drive across town to save a nickel on the candatuna right.
Well, no, my mob was gas yeah, gas too. Yeah,
she she'd go pat, you know, there'd be it would be you
know, well in our day, right, it'd be twenty eight cents a
gallon. Would I'm not paying twenty eight cents a gallon, I'm gonna go
pay twenty six or spend the money to get the money. No, kind
of far as that goes, Yeah, it's kind of funny, but you
know, it's it's just that's on my mind a lot right now. You
know, uh, just you know, because we're going through some stuff there
as a family, and it's it's I'm sure it's not a it's not a
light thing. It's a big thing. Yeah, you know, having been
having been the paper closed and you have to kind of figure out what you're
gonna do and who's gonna hire you, what are you gonna look bub That
ain't easy. No, it's not. It's not. It's hard, and
uh so, well, you know, we'll, uh we just keep battling
through it. And it's kind of on our minds a lot right now because
we're not you know, we're not going to football games on the weekend,
we don't have basketball, there's nothing going on as far as all that stuff.
But it's like everybody's mind is on that, and it's kind of its
kind of it gives you time to think because you're not active. Right,
it's kind of tough. So but you know, we are where we are,
so we'll, you know, we'll get there. We'll get through it.
You know, in in less than a month, we'll have like we'll
start seeing guys and pads and stuff like that. I'm trying to figure out
whom I'm gonna ask for paper stuff. Yeah, well, because your daughter's
out there and football. They don't really do it either. It's it's kind
of theytop doing that. Ye yeah, it's kind of like you find it,
you find it. Yeah, it makes no sense. I know it's
old school, but still yeah, no, you know, yeah, they
just stop. I mean, god, the thousands of stuff that we I
mean, the pages and pages and pages, I mean there were I mean
even even so still again, I don't know if if anybody's bored by this,
but when we print stats at a time out, we usually print twenty
to twenty five because we give them out. You know, Brian Jefferies and
Ryan Hansen get one. They're the busy radio gets one. Coaching staff send
some across the way to the TV guys, you know, and I'll tell
you what. The first time we don't get one across to the TV guys,
you hear are coming back? Where the hell is my stats? I'm
like, sure, I see your iPad in front of you. Yeah,
you know, I see it there. I can see it from here,
you know. And then they still want there, they still like you.
They're old supposed. Yeah. It's like the newspaper. Some of us of
the age read the news. I read this. When was the last time
you held the newspaper? And let me tell you a story. Uh had
to be ten days ago. And and I went to pay for it,
is like three bucks, I said, three paper, What the hell?
And then Sunday's five bucks. I said, no, wonder the papers are
folded. Who's gonna pay five bucks for a newspaper? I went to.
I went to a doctor's office. It was a new doctor, you know.
I got a new doctor who she has no idea what she's in for.
But I got a new doctor. And there was a newspaper sitting there,
and I picked it up and I looked at it, and I'm like,
wow, pretty thin coolin it's thin thin, right, not a lot
in it, right, And it's old, it's and it's old, yes,
And I had read a lot of it already, right, so that's
that's the problem with that with the newspapers today, and obviously it's killed him,
but I couldn't. And the price is the price three three bucks for
something you and what are you gonna know that you don't already know? You
know? And kind of I'm sorry to say this too on because we make
mistakes all the time, you know, mispronounced, do this, do that.
There's a lot of editing mistakes in the paper where they don't have editors
anymore well because and most of them are not local, they're in Schenectady who
don't know how to spell aina or say I know or saw what he does.
Well, Our friend Mark Kimball is notorious on Facebook watch pulling stuff out
and you know that man he spells You know that the star says tucscon in
you know, in the paper. So you know, I don't know Mark's
listening or if he listens to us, but a lot of people who listen
to us. Do you know Mark and know that you know he's a former
editor and he you know, he's you know, he calls people out on
that or have the headlines and the wrong stories and things like that. Yeah,
you know, one of my favorite ones gave of that and again going
telling old war stories. There was because you know, back when they should
just do a lot of stuff were just okay, we got to hold a
spot. You remember that the newspaper was then there's a Daily Star one day
and there was a guy that got somebody had been had been arrested for some
big crime and he was this big bald black guy with a big giant hoop
ear ring and they had a mug shot of him. Okay, well,
somebody in the back room put that mug shot on four other stories where they
were supposed to be the same size mug shot, you know, and then
they're supposed to replace him, right, and one of them was a story
about Queen Elizabeth. Well they got into the newspaper and so there was there
were five pictures of this guy and all five of them got in. Yeah,
it was before they computerized the layouts, you know when they were when
they were you know, printing out the stuff and then pasting painting on the
on the on the pages. And somebody put five of those and then forgot
to take them all out, and one of them was a story about Queen
Elizabeth. So there's Queen Elizabeth for a day was a big ball black guy
with a big giang golden spearing years. Yeah, those the newspapers had good
old days. Yeah, but I couldn't. I couldn't believe it. Three
dollars, five dollars. Yeah, you know, I I guess. Yeah.
I picked up that paper and I didn't look to see how much it
costs. I just looked at it the recent Uh yeah, a couple of
weeks ago. So it's about three bucks. Yeah, weeks ago. But
no, it's fun, you know, fun stuff. But you know,
just but but you know what I'm I'm kind of in the middle right when
I read the paper. When I read the paper, I read the electronic
version on my iPad, so it's the newspaper, but it's not paper,
you know, it's on my pad. I don't I don't like read.
I don't like when I read the paper. When I sit down to actually
read it, I don't go to the Tucson dot com and go through the
links. I call up the E version of the paper so I can turn
pages. I see what the story looks like. And she's paper with the
photos and all that is that constantly changing. That paper is it already set.
How you can change the pill they add to it. It's like like
you pick up the Sunday morning sports page. Okay, and it's got what
you know, like the front page might not have the game story from the
night before, but they add it to the end. So they add another
page in the design sports page. There's some extra pages from what came out,
you know, what got thrown on your to add right, to add
those so that those are there, so you know, I get up Sunday
morning and to read the Star story on football game, right, I'm not
going to get it on the front page of the electronic version. But you
go back a f your pages and there's the games that that leve or or
or Justin Spears stuck around to write. Okay, that makes sense. But
they leave the layout of what, you know, what got delivered. Then
they add pages in the end for the late stuff and so you still get,
you know, kind of the paper, the newspaper version of the story.
That's how I read it. Well, the evolution, I mean,
yeah, you know, I think back to the days when you know,
when the internet first started and they just put the newspaper up there. Didn't
think someday that that was going to kill him. You know, it didn't
make people pay. Well, that's the problem. That's the problem. Back
in ninety six and I said, whatever it was, there was no solution,
and they said, just give it to people for free and see what
happens. Well, no, the demise, that's what happened. Yeah,
And to this day, I mean, people hate going behind you know,
paying you know, I you know, I do it because I was a
journalist and I support and actually I have more subscriptions now than I did when
they would throw you the newspaper because you would read everything. And I read
the stuff, you know, for the show and whatnot. And I've got
I've got the Washington Posts, in New York Times, uh, the Well,
the Star, the Arizona Republic. I'm about to give up the LA
Times because those guys aren't you know, we don't have to read about USC
and U c l A anymore. Yeah, that's a tough that's a tough
preaking that changes. That's changed a lot. But then I got other ones
like the Athletic and stuff like that that I you know, I've got all
these subscriptions, and uh, I think part of how we have the New
York Times subscription. Is my wife loves the the recipes and word. So
there you go. I know what to tell you about that. But you
know, I do read the Washington Post. I know a bunch of guys
who worked there, so yeah, I read their special. Yeah you're still
there, you know, you know, and I know a bunch of the
writers from knowing from knowing Tom, so I know those guys. And then,
uh, you know, obviously I need to keep up on what's going
on up in Phoenix. Why I you know, I subscribed to the Probably.
I just recently gave up my Mercury News subscription because it got too damn
expensive. It was thirty bucks a month to be able to read Wilner.
His stuff comes out in the in the Star comes out a day later,
you know. I like getting it when it's hot off, you know,
when it just hits. The things usually comes out of day later in the
Star. But I can't, you know, thirty bucks a month, twenty
eight it's too much. But you know, for when I only read John,
don't read anything. Okay, Well that's your future and started to press
you. Yeah, you said, I heard him, our guest. You
said to Leah Henderson. All right, yeah, so what she's going to
study in school? And she says, you know, sports journalism and communication.
He starts telling her not to do it. No, I didn't say
that. I said be prepared to be broke, be being haired to be
broke. Basically, that is telling her not to do it. Okay,
what you interpret it is your problem? No, no, no, But
in fact I should not have said that, because it's probably if she's very
good and she sounded very right, this is not that she's in the right.
She gets into the TV, in the TV, into the broadcast and
yeah, and she sounded very very good. In fact, a couple of
people liked our show yesterday with the paral Paralympics. Yeah, because it was
different, right, and then obviously, uh, miss Henderson, because she
was so bright, she was she was really good. Yeah, sure,
very good. Okay, No, and if you have a chance, you
got you can go find the podcast. I hope, yes, got them
all up last night. Okay, I did get them out. So just
how do they do that? Real quick? We gotta got two tents,
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