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Streaming live. I mean, iHeartRadio
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with Steve Robera and Jay Gonzalez on
Fox Sports fourteenth fifty. Welcome back to

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Welcome back, Trying the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve,

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He's Jake now Sammy with breaking news
on the ball. Breaking news.

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All right, guys, So I
guess it's not breaking, but it's feel

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good. If you're football. We
have fifty straight days of either NFL or

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college football at least one game a
night, So for the next fifty days,

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you have something to bet on,
something to watch. That's exciting.

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I love that. It's fantastic.
I love that. Do you watch Do

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you watch like the Tuesday Wednesday match
games? There? I know, but

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it's football. It's kind of like
when you're you know, no Bowl season,

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right, I don't care who's playing. I want to watch it.

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This is on. I mean,
there's usually it's hard. It's a nice

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fallback if, like, you know, you don't have a good TV program

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coming on or whatever you're doing anything
or watch watching but a football game on.

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Yeah, I love that. Or
if you don't have a baseball team

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in the playoffs, you're waiting at
the NBA to roll around. Yeah,

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like when he's not gonna have a
baseball team in the playoffs in about a

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week. We're just trying to get
through today. We're just trying to get

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through today. Also in NCAA football
news, Ole Miss beat LSU this last

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week, one of Lane Kiffin's biggest
wins as an old Miss coach, and

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rightly so. I think the fans
stormed the field. And whether you think

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it's safe, whether you like it, nonetheless, I think it's a good

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thing for college football. But Ole
Miss was fined one hundred and seventy five

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thousand dollars in total for that.
Again, that's trump change for that type

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of university. But do you guys
think it's a safe not even a safe

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thing. Do you think it's okay? Well, did you see there was

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a an LSU player, I think
it was a video. LSU player got

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a beat up another guy coming on
the field. Yes, did you see

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that? It was the dude should
have never been on the field firstball,

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and he was being obnoxious in the
first place, and the guy was I

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don't know what the guy from l
she was doing trying to defend himself or

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whatever grabbed him pretty badly. I
didn't see the whole thing, but you

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saw it. I missed it.
No, And what happened to the LSU

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guy. No, I don't think
anything happened to LSU guys. You should

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have never been acting like a fool. That's the thing, you know,

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And and then and you know,
and then you want you want something to

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happen to the player for defending him, something protecting him exactly. Often right

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when people do that, get up
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I've rushed the field, right and
I but you know I didn't go up

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and jump on a player, right
right, you know, but I saw

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people who did. And you've seen
it on t You see it, you

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know on TV all the time.
You know, I don't know how you

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stop that, but you know,
so often they want to say, well,

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you know, he's a football player, he shouldn't have thrown that guy

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on the ground. Well, that
guy on the ground shouldn't have been on

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you know out there. You're right
if you're going to be a fool and

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you get treated like one, exactly, and uh so maybe tough for that

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LSU player, but Utah football players. We were talking at the break and

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an nil deal saying that they're they're
all getting trucks. Right, each player

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on the Utah football team is gaining
least a truck. When they say the

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least, I guess I don't know
what that means because I'm sure they're not

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paying for it. But you know, the truck has got advertisements on it.

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So basically they get the truck and
they get to drink. But it's

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advertising, I think is the collective? Yeah, you know there's like a

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you know, a QR code and
phone numbers and you know there's a picture

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of one of the trucks. So
but it's a it's a brand new I

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think it's a Dodge Ram. How
do you feel about that? How do

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you feel about that? Somebody said, I wonder how Jerry Tarkanian would have

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felt about it. That's a great
point. Well, you know, if

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it look if if they get to
have a vehicle while they're in school and

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it's within the rules, then one
hundred percent fine. Yeah, I'm not

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sure how I feel about that.
Okay, so everybody on the team gets

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a truck. I'm just thinking,
now, how do you feel? That's

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exactly when this all started. That's
the exact thing I thought about, if

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you're a girl, a woman of
an athlete or a minor sport, a

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person and all and and gear.
What it was his name, the just

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the choppler Jordan guys and he and
he kind of just said, it's not

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about us, it's about the football
basketball players. And he's the he's the

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face of the program right in.
Yeah, it's hard. I think it's

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hard because the ni L is obviously
focused on football, even basketball, some

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some programs baseball. But it is
an opportunity for players in track, swimming

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or smaller sports to where if they
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opportunity. Before an i L,
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I get the the trucks maybe a
little over the top, but that's that's

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the that's the way of the world. That's the way the world is working

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right now. And I get I
see it from both sides. I just

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think that some of these things should
be special. And this is this is

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old man and this is the rivera
thinking which is stupid anyway, it should

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be special. But you get a
truck, Jay, It's like Copra.

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You get a truck. I get
a truck. Simon gets a truck.

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What's special about that? If everybody
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same truck. Oh, you know
what I'm saying. I do. But

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but and there's no point. I'm
not trying to make a point. But

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everybody gets a truck. But what
makes you different? I don't think the

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people driving the truck? No,
I know that. But you know what

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I'm saying. Yeah, that's why
my points moved. But I get it.

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It's nice. Congratulations, we'll move
the We'll move to college basketball now.

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CBS came out with a top five
college coaching staffs in college basketball?

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Who Kansas, Michigan, Houston,
Villanova, and Duke Arizona left off that

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list, amongst a couple other squads. It's very who did the who did

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the who authored it? Is it
Nordland or Okay? You know what a

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lot of these guys do. And
this is what This is what endeared Sean

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Miller to Goodman or getting in with
the writers. They they do these little

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lists and then they become friends with
them. Oh you're the guy that put

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me on the list. To the
sharp dressed assistant coach or the sharp dressed

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you know, the coach who should
be at the best at his game,

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you know what I'm saying. And
then all of a sudden they're endeared to

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these reporters because these guys put them
on a list. You know, you

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write something nice about me, I'll
be your friend, be your friend.

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Come on, we see that.
Of course you do well, but that

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you know, and that happened anywhere. I mean, like if if sure,

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you know, if you're covering the
police beat, then you said something

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bad about a cop. He was
your enemy forever? Right, No,

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I get it. No, but
but it's not the right way. But

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it's it happened. It absolutely happened. I agree. I just think the

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last two years, I think Tommy
Wooden and his staff has shown they are

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one of the better staffs in the
country. Exactly. But you know,

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you're coming off a round loss as
the as the two seed, they're gonna

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you're gonna get in lost. Sure, you know, if Tommy takes a

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team to a final four, then
he's in that conversation. I mean,

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you and I and Steve and and
Sammy sitting here in Tucson watching seeing what

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we're seeing seeing Tommy. Okay,
we're thinking he's one of the top coaches

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in the country. They also he's
only been here three but he's done so

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much in in those first two years. We think he's one of the top

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coaches in the country. But he's
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you know, and let's let's not
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he hasn't done. You know,
he's under achieved. Try so you

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know, he's got this schedule.
They're gonna be on national TV a whole

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bunch of times in the preseason,
you know, or in the in the

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non conference season. You're gonna see
a lot of Tommy Lloyd. If he

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wins a bunch of those games and
then does something in c double A tournament.

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Now he's in that conversation as one
of those guys and don't be and

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don't be now you just think this. People know who Tommy Lloyd is percent

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you know. Some national sports news. The twenty thirty World Cup obviously not

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this next World Cup, which will
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following that. We'll span over three
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It'll be in Spain and Portugal,
Africa, Morocco will host some Games,

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and then South America, Argentina,
Paraguay and Uruguay. So I don't

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know how much sense that really makes. They'll probably have the groups already picked

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out obviously well beforehand and get them
there. It's where they're gonna play.

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So Uruguay is celebrating its one hundredth
year as a I don't know if a

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country, but so they just got
added to that list and so it'll be

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interesting to see what that looks like
in twenty thirty. Well, I wasn't

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a geography major, but the you
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sense right. Sure, they're probably
close to the same time zone, but

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then you're gonna go over to South
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of the world, I know.
So we'll see, we'll see what happens

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there. Other national news, Lexi
Thompson will play in this weekend's PGA Tour

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event, the Shriner's Children's Open.
So if you don't know Lexi thoms I

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know we have Judy McDermott coming on. She will definitely know who that is.

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She's the youngest woman's US Open qualifier. She qualified when she was just

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twelve years old back in seven.
She's the youngest winner on the LPGA Tour

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at sixteen. And it's worth noting
that no woman has made a PGA Tour

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cut since nineteen thirty five. So
that'll be maybe something interesting to run by

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Judy and the Yeah, I know
that was late. And Alexi Thompson's she's

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been really good. She's kind of
faded a little bit the last couple of

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years, but certainly, you know, big hitter, long hitter can probably

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you know, handle that. Probably
she's not gonna be one of the long

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hatters among the PGA Tour players.
Probably hits long enough to be able to

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play, you know, whatever the
courses that they play. Yeah, so

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we'll see. So we'll just I
mean, it's just a it's a good

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story. I think that hasn't happened
in a while. So and le say

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Thompson a great person to have out
right here. You remember Anika Sorenstan played

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in a PGA event. Yeh didn't
she missed the cut, but she you

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know, and she and that's when
she was at the top of her game

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and still didn't make the cut.
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last couple of things we talked a
little bit about the MLB. But the

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Twins won yesterday. They're up to
zero I think right now. So yesterday

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was their first playoff win in over
eighteen years, and so in that span,

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how many times have been in the
playoffs in those eighteen years? Honestly,

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probably quite a bit. Joe Mauer
was probably pretty good. And they're

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looking for their first series win since
two the year before that. So it's

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good for the Twins. They're up
to zero. Like we said, the

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Rays obviously bounced earlier this morning.
Both games were at home, and there's

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been a lot of discussion about so
Tampa and the Rays are building a brand

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new stadium for themselves, but in
these last two games, they haven't been

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able to sell out their own stadium, not even twenty thousand, Yes,

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not even twenty thousand. I don't
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was today, but the attendance was
nineteen and changed last year. And people

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are making a big deal about all
the all the empty seats. So that's

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that's that'll be something to look for. If they can't sell out a playoff

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game, how are you going to
sell out a new show the stadium?

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I think the statement of building is
going to have like less than thirty thousands.

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Good. I think I've been so
obviously growing up Diamonbacks games. When

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it's not full, it's not time, so I agree. But speaking of

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the Diamondbacks, they won six to
three at Milwaukee yesterday. They're the sixth

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seed in the NL and now they
have their ace, Zach Gallen going up

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against Freddie Peralta to try and win
the series now and then go play the

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Dodgers big brother little brother style.
It's it's only a matter of time if

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if the e Backs do win today, a matter of time for what for

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the little brother to finally finally beat
up the big brother. And we talked

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about it before the show. If
it were to be in a year,

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this would probably well, yeah,
the Dodgers there there there, they don't

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have the pitching too write to do
this this year. They just don't.

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I mean they their offense is incredible, but you get you still gotta have

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pitching. And the d Backs showed
that last night six and the something going

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here and here you know right here, Hey, okay, if well we

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gotta win tonight, yes, you
gotta wint win tonight. I believe they

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will that Gallon is really good.
He's been. He was on my fantasy

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team all year's money. He was
on your fantasy day. He didn't screw

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him up. I did not have
money, thank god. But I think

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a win tonight and I'll feel a
little bit more comfortable about the Dodger series

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because then we can start meal.
Kelly, you can get our bullpen some

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rest, which went six and a
third inning last night. So contingent on

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winning tonight. I'm not going to
say I love the d Backs to win

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this series. But it's a it's
a five it's a five game series,

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right, I think we I think
I think you'd go five. It's better

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for the Diamondbacks that it's a five
game series. I agree seven, but

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yes, because the longer it goes, the more like we're young, we're

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not deep, we have firepower,
but it's it's a matter of time.

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We Sorry, No, no,
i'm not. I'm not criticizing we.

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We are the Diamondback. No.
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you're not a journalist yet, you're
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for me, it would be difficult
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enjoy your time even if you're at
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know, because you're you can say
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but you're trying not. Yeah you're
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you know. I guess I probably
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do. No qu I do it
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Oh oh man? Because I used
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to I was a statisian for them. Yeah. So we're on site games.

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Yeah, this was senior year ice
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home games. This is when we
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I met Mark Cuban in the process, real real cool guy, and watched

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the only player we have left in
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very cool. Cool. I'd say
we're one of us. Ye, all

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right, let's get out of here, take a break. We're gonna come

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back. Judy McDermott will come to
l ask her about about uh, Lexi

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Thompson, you know, playing in
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about that, but uh uh.
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We have Judy McDermott from first t
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Hall of Fame. Judy, how
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How are you doing you? We're
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show that we do. That's how
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You need to up when you found
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were to be when you're gonna get
inducted. How what did you think when

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you first heard this? I'm like, oh, what am I gonna say?

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I'm a behind the scenes person,
not an upfront person. Well,

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you've been out front enough for them
to notice you. Yeah, look,

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you gotta you know, you gotta
take it and say, okay, I

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have done some stuff. I really
appreciate it because you have me. You

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think of how many I actually had
the lunch with Wade down again today and

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Hey and I both talking about that
because obviously it's nice for people from Tucson

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to be recognized. Well, you
mentioned the well you mentioned Wade. I

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mean I saw the thing yesterday.
I don't know how I found it.

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But Wade's just as quiet as you
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so you guys are you guys are
doing quiet scenes and enough to be recognized

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by the people up north, correct, correct, Yeah, So, but

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it's it's it really is an honor
obviously, and you know, golf is

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such a great game, and we've
done so much in golf in all of

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the state and so it's very excited
and be inducted with Peter Costas and Howard

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Twitty is you know, just obviously
an honor. So yeah, very humbled.

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Those are big time names. So
you're you're, you've been you've been

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at First Tear for a while now. You got out of the got out

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of the game over at the at
the PGA tournament. But just tell us

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about, you know, some of
the stuff that's going on over at First

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Tea. You mentioned you've got to
you're you're you're on your way to get

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a cake for a senior tonight.
Just some of the stuff that you get

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one of our great kids. It's
been on our program since he was five

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years old. Frankie Felix. He's
a senior at Tucson II and he's a

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captain of the golf team, and
tonight's a senior night, so he's as

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his last home match at ol Rio
tonight and we're going to have a party

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for him to celebrate his senior night. And one of the girls in our

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program, Olivia Munyos, made him
a fat head. We were pranting around

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with a fat head. Winnikita.
Let me ask you. I know you

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haven't been with the First Tea for
a long time, but you've been involved

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with the kids for a long time. How cool is it when you have

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a kid who's started a five and
now he's what seventeen eighteen years old and

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doing what they do. It must
be very rewarding. It is so rewarding.

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I have to tell you. It
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to wake up in the morning and
go to work. And the hardest part

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is missing these kids. I was
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couple of weeks ago when two of
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Pickering, play at Pebble Beats in
the PGA Tour Champions event and that was

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just a dream of little lifetime for
those two kids. And Chase played with

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Michael Allen from the PGA Tour Champions
and James played with Scott McCarron. And

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the topper of it all was the
pro am players that they played with CEOs,

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you know, CEO of Nature Valley, CEO of a Hedge Fund.

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One of the groups. They were
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talking to Charles Schwabs throughout the day
the day at Spyglass, So it was

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there was quite an experience. And
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a national organization. There's all these
national opportunities for these kids to apply to

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and it just makes your heartful.
Well when you talk about, you know,

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the program here and you and kids
playing golf, where does Tucson rank

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in terms of it's involvement of kids? You know, are there a lot

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of kids in the First Tea program
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I mean, what's the involvement here
and how many kids are playing golf?

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Yeah? Well, in our program
registered in the course of a twelve

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months period, we have about a
thousand kids that go through the program and

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then in our competitive tournaments that we
run, and we have like another two

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hundred kids that play in those.
We have some kids that are not necessarily

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part of First Team programming but play
our competitive tournaments because we started running the

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competitive golf tournaments for kids here because
basically nobody else would and we didn't want

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kids to always have to go to
Phoenix to play if they wanted to get

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into competitive golf. So we're a
great developmental training program for kids to learn

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how to play competitive golf, and
their scores are sent to Junior Golf Scoreboard,

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which helps them get ranked for recruiting
to go to college to play golf

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of you know, any division.
You know, you don't have to just

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be the one school obviously, but
we rank right up there. We're very

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respected because we're at like ten locations. We're actually hosting a fall meeting with

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other First Tea chapters next week at
our chapter at El Rio. So our

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home base is at Olreo Golf Course, but we operate at ten other locations,

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and like I say, that number
about a thousand kids is a sub

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chapters are more more than us because
they're bigger, you know, footprints,

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but we rank right up there,
very nice. So it's little Stevie Rivera

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wanted to join this at whatever age. In fact, I wish I wish

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I would have done this a long
time ago. But what's the process.

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All you have to do is register
become a member. It's only thirty dollars

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for the year, and you go
to first T twoson dot org and that's

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all spelled spelled out FI R S
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org. Make sure you spell Tucson
right, yeah, And so it's only

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thirty dollars to be a member,
and that covers a course of the year

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and you get a hat and a
shirt, and then when you pass the

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etiquette and golf ability test, you
get a golf card to play the city

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courses and the other courses where we
have programming such as Crooked Try. And

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then when you sign up for a
class. Classes are usually three or six

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weeks where you come once a week, and that range is only from like

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ten dollars to twenty dollars for all
that time, so it's not it's not

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of financial aid. So let me
say this, just to give you a

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heads up. I hope you vet
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be getting an application for about a
five foot nine, gray haired dude with

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dark skin, yeah, to be
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me. You know, I'm a
you know I'm a I'm a twenty two

405
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handicapper, So I don't know how
much good I'm going to be over there.

406
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It's not. We're teaching life skills
my friends in the golf until they

407
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get later. And that's what's great
when they really really want to have true

408
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golf lessons. We have PJ pro
Hank Ravenal that helps us and Don Pooley

409
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of all people, let me tell
you a great story. We started doing

410
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more with high school golfers this year. Of all the kids that practice for

411
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high school golf at al Rio,
and Don Pooley has been teaching the kids.

412
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Don Pooley's been out there helping the
Sunnyside Golf team, the Choia golf

413
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team. We have a kid that
was shooting sixty six for nine holes and

414
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now he's shooting forty four for nine
holes in one golf season. Wow.

415
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Well, I definitely don't want to
play play that kid for sure. But

416
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but just you know, thank goodness, we have people like Don Pooley.

417
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They are willing to help the program
and it's just it's just wonderful. Well

418
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you know, and those are the
things that make a program like this go

419
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right. You got to have people
who want you know, they're credible,

420
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but to they care and they're going
to come out and give their time for

421
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stuff like that. Yeah, and
true mentors. You know, we have

422
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retired engineers from raytheon and you know, we're teaching these kids how to stay

423
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in school, how to set goals, you know, honor their key commitments,

424
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and just learn how to you know, it's it's life skills. But

425
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we make it fun and it's all
group lessons and the kids just come out

426
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and have a good time. It's
not a bunch of pressure of left arm

427
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straight, you know, keep your
head down, do this. So so

428
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are you are? Is First Team
really the only youth program here? Not

429
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because there was the old Ricky Rahrick
there was Iron Eagles and stuff like that.

430
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We yeah, we took over Ricky
Rare. So that's the our junior

431
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golf programs on Mondays and Tuesdays if
you want to play in a golf tournament

432
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and you don't have to be great, it's just going out and actually turning

433
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in a score. And then we
run Southern Arizona Junior Golf which is once

434
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a month on the weekends on Saturdays
and Sundays and the months that it's not

435
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summer, and we run those tournaments. So we just weren't Fredding Golf Course

436
00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:25.039
just this past weekend and we had
about sixty five kids playing. Normally we

437
00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:26.680
have about eighty eight, but with
it being the high school golf season and

438
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things, some kids don't play because
they're so busy with their high school golf.

439
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:34.440
But we have kids that play in
the competitive tournament six years old all

440
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the way up to eighteen. So
I've known you for a long time,

441
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:41.440
and I've really only known you as
the executive director of the Tuosung Conquissators.

442
00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:45.359
So niciness. In looking at your
stuff from the Hall of Fame, I'm

443
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:52.359
thinking you came here from UCLA as
a marketing person, right, I guess

444
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:55.960
there's something like that, and it
started to be who you are today.

445
00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:00.119
Did you ever imagine this career of
yours? No? And I never I'll

446
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.839
be honest, I never imagined staying
in Arizona. I moved here from California

447
00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:08.599
in nineteen ninety two, and I
was running LPGA tournaments in California, and

448
00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:14.039
I came here because I was so
impressed with the Conquistadors as an organization,

449
00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:18.079
and I wanted to give, you
know, selling the PGA Tour event to

450
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try. And honestly, I thought
I'd be here a couple of years,

451
00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:26.000
and then of course Tousson bit me, and I could never leave. I

452
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:29.920
was offered, you know, a
lot of different jobs, and I just

453
00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.440
I never could pack my bags and
get out of here. I just I

454
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:36.440
just love it well. And you
and you know at the Conquistors, you

455
00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:37.759
had to go through a lot of
changes there, right. The tournament kept

456
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:41.119
changing. It was a match play, it was a you know, it

457
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:44.640
became a senior event. I mean, there were so many things trying an

458
00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:47.799
opposite event. I mean, the
the bigest story there is that, you

459
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:49.240
know, we were a regular PGA
Tour event when I came here, and

460
00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:55.160
then and then we became an opposite
event, opposite the match play, and

461
00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:57.839
you know, that was a pill
to swallow for us. And then we

462
00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:03.039
really rallied res Perlok, one of
the conquistadors. We had a newspaper article

463
00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.960
that my mom had actually sent me
where Tiger Woods said while he was at

464
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:11.000
LaCosta being interviewed, he said,
it's not raining in Tucson. Why aren't

465
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:12.799
we playing there? Yeah? I
remember that, and we and we took

466
00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:17.440
that quote and we ran with it
and we secured you know, the censure

467
00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:19.519
match play here for eight years.
Well, I didn't know that. I

468
00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:23.319
just what a story. Yeah,
you know, And I remember that quote

469
00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:27.039
because it was well because you put
it out there. I mean, we

470
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.400
we all saw it was okay,
get over here, you know, and

471
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:32.960
then we all went out there to
the to the to the match play.

472
00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:37.519
It still sticks in my mind.
The year that it snowed at the match

473
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:41.640
play, Well, how crazy that
was and that had to be a and

474
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.359
it made it made like international news. So censer was happy about it.

475
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.359
I mean, what was that like
for you guys running that tournament and trying

476
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:52.880
to get through that. It was
crazy and it snowed more than one year.

477
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.880
But the one year where it really
really snowed, where we you know,

478
00:31:56.160 --> 00:32:00.200
the rules officials thought we could play
the next warning like at ten am

479
00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:04.799
and the course didn't clear until late
late late that afternoon. It was just

480
00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:07.440
crazy, but we still got the
whole tournament in. It didn't finish on

481
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:12.440
a Monday or anything. Visions no, one couldn't predict how how long it

482
00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:15.079
takes for snow to melt on on
a fairway exactly. I sat visions of

483
00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:21.359
watching the the video of you know, Ricky Fowler, you know, starting

484
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.759
the snowball fight out in the player
parking and all that stuff. That was

485
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:30.759
just great and crazy stuff. So
on our Breaking US today, Sammy mentioned

486
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:36.359
that Alexi Thompson's going to play in
a PGA tournament coming up. I thought,

487
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:39.920
you fine, yeah, I mean
Anica did that. It's a tournament

488
00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:45.720
in fort Worth years ago at Colonial. But yeah, that'll be something,

489
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:47.559
you know, I mean, she's
she's been a great player and you know,

490
00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:50.880
one of the longer hitters and that
type of thing. How do you

491
00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:53.400
think she'll do. Oh, it's
really hard to say. I mean you

492
00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:58.119
have to manage the nerves and right, you know, the distance. So

493
00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:02.160
it's quite interesting. So I haven't
read you know, I haven't read all

494
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:06.839
the headlines yet on it, but
I look forward to doing that I'll be

495
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:08.599
you know, I'll be rooting for
her, you know, because you want

496
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:14.079
to say, somebody do that,
right, nobody's done it, Sinsonica,

497
00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:19.480
so it's it's going to be interesting. Well, we appreciate you coming on.

498
00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:22.160
We always well, thank you guys, and thanks for the recognition.

499
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:25.079
But it's all about you know,
like say, just I'm glad two sons

500
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:29.960
getting the nod. So well,
congratulations. It's a big honor. So

501
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:34.000
you take it for that. You
earned it, so you know, good

502
00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.559
for you. You could either I'll
buy you a beer at the shanty.

503
00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:43.640
There you go. Thank you,
all right, Judy, thanks about well.

504
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:46.720
Bye bye, Judy, one of
the great, great, great ladies.

505
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:50.279
Yeah right, and again you know
it's funny that she said she never

506
00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:53.079
intended to stay here, and now
her Twitter handle is Tucson Judy. That's

507
00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:57.799
that's awesome. Jay, And I
know you've never left here. I mean,

508
00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:00.839
you don't know any other places with
this place with was fright. But

509
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:02.240
I came here in eighty seven.
I was gonna be here. You know,

510
00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:05.720
we all have dreams. A couple
years, gonna move on to next

511
00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:07.400
one. And then you say,
you know what, this is a pretty

512
00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:09.239
good town. Yeah, pretty good
school, you cover, Yeah, why

513
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:12.400
would I leave again? And then
we you know, we think of all

514
00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:15.000
the people who have come here over
the years and we've stayed right. Yeah,

515
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:16.320
people like that, you know,
the Huntleys come to mind. Yeah,

516
00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:20.440
all the basketball players that are still
here, sure, baseball players that

517
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:22.000
are here. You know, various
sports and it's not a big thing,

518
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:24.880
and it's not it's not. Yeah, we're trying and keep that a little

519
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:30.679
small town, all right. The
Twins just clinched their series, so they're

520
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:35.719
moving on. Who they beat.
They beat the Wow so they're moving on

521
00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:37.880
in their series. But they were
the home team they were. Yeah,

522
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:39.840
all right, let's take our last
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523
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Got a guys, sim me here
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you guys want to call? Please
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know what we've said or how we're
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He sent me a note, talked
about his time in Tucson. No,

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there's a lot of there's a lot
of mees here and a lot of

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views and natives kind of like,
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stay here. But there's a lot
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finally stay and that's the cool thing. And that's why, you know,

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we get a guest on I say, how did you wind up here?

606
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:46.840
Right? Because I'm fascinated by that. You know, some of these guys

607
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:49.840
come here. You know, some
people you know come here for you because

608
00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:52.119
they come to college or whatever.
But there's a lot of people to just

609
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:54.000
come here and they just wind up
here. You know. I've done some

610
00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:58.559
interviews with you know, some you
know business stories right where uh you know,

611
00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:00.760
people say, well, I you
know, we were we were gonna

612
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:04.960
go here, but we stopped in
Tucson and we just never left, you

613
00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:06.719
know, stuff like that. Let
me let me do this guy. I

614
00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:09.960
saw some of the Tucson I'll plug
shamelessly plug my story, but I saw

615
00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:14.119
your story. You did a couple
you're doing for Channel four right, How

616
00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:15.719
how was that? I was that
was cool because that that was a history.

617
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:22.360
It's Channel Channel four KVAA celebrating at
seventy fifth anniversary seventy seventy seventy seventy,

618
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:25.639
right, seventy and so you know, when when that came up as

619
00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:28.760
a as a story that we're gonna
do for the magazine, I said,

620
00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:30.840
I want to do that because it's
history of Tucson. I loved write about

621
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.760
the history of tuson. You know, talk to Lupetamurdillo, who's been here

622
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:37.559
for a thousand years. Uh,
you know, a couple of other people

623
00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:42.079
who been around for a long time
and just growing up watching TV here,

624
00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:45.920
you know, and you saw many
of these people, well her Sean Moody.

625
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:49.119
It's a business of transitory, right, they don't stay very right,

626
00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:52.840
and they you have people who have
stayed for you know, I interviewed Jimmy

627
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.519
Stewart, right, who was the
you know, who was the weather guy

628
00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:59.800
for twenty years, you know,
after following another guy, Michael Goodrich,

629
00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:02.559
who the weather guy for a lot
of years. And and so you know,

630
00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:06.079
I love telling, you know,
telling those things because then you get

631
00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:07.840
talking about, you know, the
history of Tucson, things that happened,

632
00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:12.599
you know, Uh, Lubita who's
been again, she's got forty years in

633
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:15.639
this here. You know, she
said her first what she considered her first

634
00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:21.039
really big story was that plane crash
that happened right near then we talked about

635
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:23.280
I remember that day. Yeah,
I remember that day. And and so

636
00:42:23.400 --> 00:42:29.400
you know, uh, a guy
named Almazeka who's been a behind the scenes

637
00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:31.199
guy, but you know he's got
forty years. Then we're just talking about

638
00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:36.239
things that happened that they saw,
you know, as part of their their

639
00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:38.880
work in the news. So they
were in the middle of big things happening

640
00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:43.400
in Tucson. So I love talking
about that stuff. Yeah, I saw

641
00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:45.760
that story. Uh. And we
did a big thing on our tour.

642
00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:50.320
I did something on the Loop.
Uh. And and then you're my guy

643
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:52.480
with I did a couple of stories
on Tommy Lloyd. Uh and those were

644
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:55.000
fun because we don't get I don't
get access to him. Those are really

645
00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.159
good. Seven I got that was
some of your best works. Really really,

646
00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:00.880
you know, you can tell my
best work when I have fun doing

647
00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:04.079
it. Yeah, and it was
easy to do it, but you know,

648
00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:07.239
because these things are hard, and
you know, to explain to some

649
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.280
folks out there is that when we
ask you to do a sports story,

650
00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:14.840
we somehow need to tie it to
business because we're about business. And and

651
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:17.199
you really got you know, captured
the business angle of what Tommy Lloyd is

652
00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:21.320
doing here by being on in the
community, being out among business people and

653
00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:23.239
all that kind of stuff. And
it's a it's a great read. I've

654
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:25.599
been telling people to read it.
Well, the funny thing about it and

655
00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:29.159
I didn't realize this, and I've
done a number of stories for you guys

656
00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:32.000
how business is centric to the issue, uh the thing about it And I

657
00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:37.000
can't see the acronym here. He's
not a Byes or he's not He's not

658
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:38.840
a Byes, sir. And he's
just a normal dude talk. And that's

659
00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:43.559
why it was so good because he
just spoke right and that and that was

660
00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:45.679
the headline of the story, and
it was easy headline. You know,

661
00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:51.159
there's a normal dude, your guy
from Peter Rabbit Peter called him a regular

662
00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:53.880
guy. I read that quote.
I'm like, that's the headline, right,

663
00:43:54.119 --> 00:43:57.519
And and then you know, well
I saw him at the game on

664
00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:00.480
Friday night, Right, he goes
up to you guys what you guys were

665
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:02.719
laughing whatever he was saying, because
he came up. Yeah, yeah,

666
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:06.840
he comes up and talks to us
about I can't even remember what what he

667
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:09.159
what he but he was kind of
joking. He comes by all the time

668
00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:13.639
and and jokes with us that he
used to do. That guy, he's

669
00:44:13.679 --> 00:44:15.239
that guy. Well if you remember
when when we had him on the show

670
00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:19.400
the very first time, you know, after he got here and I you

671
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:22.239
know, being on the stack,
Tommy, we're just gonna ask you one

672
00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:25.440
thing, come by and say hi
before the first game, and that's it.

673
00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:28.840
Just come by, he goes,
I'll come by every game, and

674
00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:32.480
every game he came by the table
and went all the way down the table,

675
00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:37.519
giving everybody knuckling. And one time
he forgot all right, he went

676
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:39.880
and said hi to the other coach. He walked right bast well looked at

677
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:43.519
him like, you know, are
you coming, you know, like little

678
00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:45.960
kids, right, and he walked
right back, got to his huddle and

679
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:49.719
came back. You know, he
said sorry guys, you know, and

680
00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:52.599
and gave us all. You know, he greets us. And he's that

681
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:54.800
guy that will you know, we'll
he'll talk to anybody. Well and not

682
00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:59.519
to compare him to the last guy, but he's just a dude. He's

683
00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:04.360
just a who likes to do it. And he he gets his ramification right.

684
00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:07.119
He knows his bandwidth. If it
takes ninety minutes to coach him.

685
00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:09.880
That's all I'll take. What are
you gonna tell him in two hours?

686
00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:13.440
You can't do a ninety minute?
Well again, and look, I mean

687
00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:15.400
I know this. This town loved
Luke, but lou was very protective of

688
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:21.599
him, very much of his away
from the court person I did that to

689
00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:24.360
him, yes, because he could
talk about he couldn't do much out of

690
00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:28.639
Biowa. Yeah, so it was
hard to get lout to kind of loosen

691
00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:30.679
up to, you know, just
being among people. Sure, right,

692
00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:35.760
Sean, forget it right? He
never did. And then you get that,

693
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:37.519
you get Tommy, who's you know, my my? You know the

694
00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:39.920
guys that I was having lunch with
they talked about they went to one of

695
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:46.960
his one of his uh uh radio
shows at at at Union and during while

696
00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:49.760
he was on the air, one
of the guys kind of a way for

697
00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:52.440
him to come over. They took
a break and he came over, you

698
00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:55.079
know, and then they just want
to ask him a question. He said,

699
00:45:55.599 --> 00:46:00.159
I thought you were gonna buy me
a drink. They had to write.

700
00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:06.079
But he's that guy that will do
that and hard to Jetfish. I

701
00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:08.360
think is a lot like that very
much. I haven't seen him so much

702
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:12.360
because we don't. You know,
I'm not on the stat crew ring,

703
00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:15.679
I'm not around the football program as
much. I'm around basketball. But you

704
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:19.480
know, you get the sense that
Jed is a similar kind of I don't

705
00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:22.039
know for sure. I think that
seems like I think, you know,

706
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:24.679
and I think if they allowed him
to and I don't even know who who

707
00:46:24.719 --> 00:46:30.360
would be the day is because they
protect him too, the university does,

708
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:34.320
and I'm sure he protects himself.
And it's mostly the program. You know,

709
00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:37.559
we had no access to someone because
of the hangers on there. But

710
00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:43.119
Jeed is more. He's looser.
Yeah, he's looser. I'm sure if

711
00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:45.599
I'm sure we can get him on
the show too, he'd say, sure.

712
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:47.559
Well it was funny like he I, you know, I missed the

713
00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:50.840
Monday press conference, right, but
I heard the very beginning it. He

714
00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:53.559
walked in and yeah, Leve wasn't
there. You know, where's Lev?

715
00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:58.559
And then Justin said, well,
he's doing a basketball thing. So then

716
00:46:58.639 --> 00:47:01.760
Lev walks in in the middle says, we're your priorities as a football but

717
00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:06.719
he's poking at yes, of course, and Tommy pokes at Bruce Pascal all

718
00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:09.199
the time, but in a fun
way. And it's it's it's refreshing.

719
00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:13.639
That's more than an it's refreshed.
It's easy to poke out when when he's

720
00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:15.719
not you bet yelled at like the
other guy, you say, yell at

721
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:17.400
them. We all been there,
all that, you know, all that

722
00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:21.559
stuff is refreshed. This is not
brain surgery, just not Steve, you

723
00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:24.480
know, And it's not hard.
No, no, we're not. And

724
00:47:24.519 --> 00:47:28.719
I'm not speaking as a journalists.
It's not a town that wants to go

725
00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:30.480
after you, right, it's just
not Yeah, the New York Times is

726
00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:34.519
not here, The La Times is
not here. You know, the Chicago

727
00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:37.480
Tribune is not here. These are
guys, the guys who are covering you

728
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:40.119
are just guys who are doing a
job and really and in a lot of

729
00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:44.800
ways, they're rooting for you.
No, I'd say that all the time.

730
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:46.199
Look at the room, I don't
you Well you were in the room

731
00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:51.599
last year, right, Yeah,
Okay, dudes like Bruce me, Jay

732
00:47:51.960 --> 00:47:55.679
Greg we bring up the age group
tremendously. But if we weren't there,

733
00:47:55.920 --> 00:48:00.239
it's a bunch of twenty somethings.
Yeah, right, wasn't there almost every

734
00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:01.800
game? So you got to do
you know what I'm saying. Oh yeah,

735
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:05.119
here you guys are talking going back
and forth about Tommy. It's like

736
00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:09.079
as a student. First he comes
in and he just is able to talk

737
00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:13.280
to a crowd and talk to his
fans and like you can sense a real

738
00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:16.159
passion obviously that's undeniable. Then as
soon as he steps in that press conference,

739
00:48:16.199 --> 00:48:20.000
he's the same guy. Yeah,
you ask him anything, you ask

740
00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:24.639
him about what he did last night
or about the team on the floor,

741
00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:28.360
He's gonna be honest with you too. And that's something that's I think really

742
00:48:28.440 --> 00:48:30.880
nice. Well, I love this
summer, you know, both before and

743
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:35.280
after, when he talked about how
much that overseas trip meant to him personal

744
00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:37.960
right, right, he gave us
a little insight into who was who he

745
00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:42.239
was and those kinds of things,
and that those kinds of things matter where

746
00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:45.280
you know, his life isn't just
about basketball, right, No, no,

747
00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:49.320
no, right, that's exactly who
he is, right, It's about

748
00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:52.039
travel, it's about family, it's
about and when he says that, you

749
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:53.079
know, when you say, well
my family, well other people and all

750
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:58.119
my family, and really no,
he actually he actually means he really means

751
00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:00.880
it, and and he and and
he acts it, which I think is

752
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:04.360
just very cool and again, more
than anything, refreshing when you see so

753
00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:07.599
many coaches that coaches that have come
through here, but coaches that are the

754
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:09.360
places where you feel like you can't
get near them, right, you can't

755
00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:14.000
touch them, you can't talk to
them. Uh. And and maybe some

756
00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:17.320
of those coaches are a little looser
with their local media and whatnot, but

757
00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:21.920
you see them on you know,
other places you feel like they're they're up

758
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:25.360
on this hill that you can't get
near. And and it's you know,

759
00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:30.039
and if you feel like it,
as you said, it's not that hard

760
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:35.800
to be who you are. You
can connect well, to be connected to

761
00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:37.159
the to you know, to the
people that know of course, that know

762
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:39.480
that you feel like you should know
you the most. Yeah. No,

763
00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:42.639
In fact, they went down south, right, they went to the South

764
00:49:42.679 --> 00:49:45.559
Side not too long ago, maybe
a week or so ago. That doesn't

765
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:49.480
happen very often. Yeah, uh
And and that was great. It was

766
00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:52.880
a decent crowd, I was told. But opportunity for people to beat him

767
00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:57.079
who wouldn't have the opportunity otherwise.
Yeah, yeah, no, again,

768
00:49:57.280 --> 00:49:59.440
you know, one of the things
that he did after his first season he

769
00:49:59.480 --> 00:50:05.239
invited the entire scores table. All
right, everybody for lunch. He better

770
00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:07.840
pay it. Well, I think, man, that'swort paid. But you

771
00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:09.800
know, we went over there.
We went over to the Sands Club and

772
00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:13.480
we got and we just sat around
the top. You know, he sat

773
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:15.239
in the middle of the table.
You know, it was a long table.

774
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:17.519
He sat in the middle and just
had a conversation with everybody. You

775
00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:22.639
know, that was cool. How
easy right, how easy and how it's

776
00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:24.440
not a huge effort, but it
means a lot. It meant I know,

777
00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:28.280
it meant a lot to all the
guys, all the people, not

778
00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:30.440
just guys who were you know,
we're at that table and felt like there

779
00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:35.800
was some appreciation for what we were
doing. Yeah, no, he gets

780
00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:37.800
it. Yeah, many times you
don't get it. And you know,

781
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:42.920
you just hope guys like that stick
around, right, you know, you

782
00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:45.039
know there's always the the you know, the court sort of the thing on

783
00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:47.880
the side that says, well,
when Mark Few retires, he'll go back

784
00:50:47.920 --> 00:50:53.480
to Gonzaga sure or something like that. You hope that he loves it enough

785
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:58.440
here that he'll stay. You know, does Jed Fish love it enough here

786
00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:02.000
that if he's having success and uf
A wants him to stay, that he'll

787
00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:06.199
stay, you know, I mean
that. I think that's why Dick Tomy

788
00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:10.840
is so you know, everybody just
enamored with him when even it ended badly

789
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:15.239
with Arizona. Well, him and
him and I come on all these years,

790
00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:19.239
but yet you know, he you
know, he remained attached and people

791
00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:22.840
were kind of sorry. You know
how everything happened with Dick right, Well,

792
00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:29.000
I think revisions history. He's become
more of a great coach now than

793
00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:30.880
he was than they thought he was. Right, because you're hoping for those

794
00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:36.400
times exactly whatever River those times,
they weren't always great. They weren't great.

795
00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:38.159
They weren't great. And you know
what, I Mike, because he

796
00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:39.920
was such a good friend of mine
at that time, you know, because

797
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:43.760
I was out of out of the
sports department, going to THEIRS on football

798
00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:45.360
games when he was the coach was
very stressful. I got headaches from that.

799
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:50.280
And that's why and that's why he
got out. Yeah, I got

800
00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:53.599
headaches from because I wanted I wanted
the attendance to be great. I wanted

801
00:51:53.639 --> 00:51:59.000
him to win their I bought body
and you know I wanted him to win

802
00:51:59.119 --> 00:52:01.639
for this, for himself off and
for this community. All right, good

803
00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:07.079
conversation. All right, we'll be
back tomorrow. We're heading towards the USC

804
00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:08.880
Arizona football game on Saturday, so
we'll see who. We came up with

805
00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:12.440
some guests for you, but trying
to line up some things. So we'll

806
00:52:12.559 --> 00:52:37.079
be back. Hope, hope you're
here. Well, well, well times