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Welcome back to On the ballind Fox
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for the day, Jay Gonzalez.
Steve is out for a couple more days,

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and but I do have Kevin here
his last day. Kevin your last

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breaking news. Sure give it to
us. This is Eye on the Ball

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breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty
eight. All right, So for today,

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Monday, June seventeenth, we have
big news for Arizona women's golf.

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They have named a new head coach. It is Giovanna Maimon, who's a

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highly respected coach nationally. Apparently she's
known to be an elite recruiter. She

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was named the University of Arizona's women's
golf head coach, vice president and director

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of Athletics. Uh doesn't re read
France, WI notunce today. Yep,

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she was. Ironically, she was
on the She didn't play on the team

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in the in that particular tournament,
but she was on the on the Baylor

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team that Arizona last beat to let
win its last national championship under Laurie Ainello.

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She's been assisted at Texas A and
M. I think right correct.

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Yeah, she propelled Baylor University to
an n cua A Championship runner up,

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finished as a student athlete, like
you just brought up. Her last three

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seasons were spent as an assistant coach
at Texas A and M. So she's

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a first time head coach. Uh, She's walking into a great situation with

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the with the new golf facility that
they have over there. She'll be working

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alongside Jim Anderson, who's the who's
the men's coach, and we'll we'll see,

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you know. And for those that
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program has been prolific the last you
know, half decade. It says that

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I'm looking at Arizona Athletics site here
it says that she helped the Agis reach

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match play at the NCAA Championships at
all three of the seasons where she was

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on the staff, as well as
including helping Adela No. Six run to

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an individual national championship this past month. Yeah, certainly has the chops,

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you know, Arizon getting again,
getting a first time head coach with somebody

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who looks like, you know,
this is the logical next step for her

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at this time. She's pretty young, and so we'll see how that goes.

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But again we're, you know,
coming into a good situation. Golf

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is uh, they've got some good
players, they've got nice a nice new

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facility. We'll see if she can
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course Laura Ianello who moved on to
Texas presumably because he probably offered her a

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bank truck. So that's the way
it goes, and so we'll we'll try

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to get her on here at some
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Arizona softball has added a pretty decent
transfer here to jay as Saya Swain has

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joined us from Iowa State. Swain
total two hundred and ninety strikeouts over two

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hundred and fifty three and one thirds
innings, strikeouts per inning, and she

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had a career swinging mis rate on
a change up of wow. Wow.

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Well again we've said, you know, pitching is what it's all about in

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the in college softball in Arizona needs
pictures. They had some pictures, but

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they had a lot of injuries last
year and a lack of consistent, dominating

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pitching was its downfall and that could
be her striping. Right, they got

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to the Super Regional without it,
so you know you had maybe add a

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couple of pictures and and see what
you can do, and now maybe go

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look further. Arizona needs to get
back to the College World Series. Yeah.

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Last season she's tallied six six saves
and ranked second and the Big twelve

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and eleventh nationally for saves. So
some clutch consistency they're going to add to

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the roster Arizona. Okay, we
do have some Tom Hanson Medals to hand

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out, Okay to Gustav Strom of
men's tennis and Ali Skaggs of softball.

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Uh. The award medal is generally
awarded just for overall performance and achievement and

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not only your academics, but also
your athletics and leadership abilities. Right,

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well, congratulations to each school gets
a male and female athlete who get the

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Tom Hanson Metal. Tom Hanson being
a long time Packed ten and maybe twelve,

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I guess he was. I mean, I don't know if I think.

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I think he left before it became
the twelve, but a long time

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commissioner of the of the league,
and that that's an award that again every

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school gets a male and a female
athlete in those Arizona So we had Ali

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Skaggs on the show a few weeks
ago. You know, great kid.

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I guess I shouldn't call her a
kid, but you know, she was

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one of the top defensive players in
the history of Arizona Arizona softball, So

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good for her and Gustav you know, tennis team man, you know,

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you could argue that they had as
successful a season as anybody as any team

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in at Arizona, you know,
getting to where they got to, had

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a great way to end the season. The academic tund right year almost round

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that out as well. For men's
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national baseball stuff going on. Garrett
Cole set to return this upcoming Wednesday from

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his long stint. Okay uh,
it's actually his season debut, all right,

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wow, okay, all right,
so we'll see what we'll see.

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It goes on there again, as
we mentioned earlier, you know, Mookie

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bats bust at hand. I'm pretty
bummed about that. And Yamamoto, I'm

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nave can Try's first name. He's
out for the Dodgers, So Dodgers,

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you know, lost a couple of
top players for them, and we'll see

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if they can, you know,
kind of keep things going, hang on

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while they wait for these guys to
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of pitchers they're waiting to get back. You know, Clayton Kershaw hasn't pitched

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for them all year. Uh,
Tony Gonsolin hasn't pitched for them all year,

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and so it's it's been kind of
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their their pitching staff and still there, would you say, seven and a

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half games in front of the Padres. Yeah, eight games in front of

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the Padres and half in front of
the Diamondbacks and they're at They're at the

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Rockies starting tonight. So our friend
Jack mcgrudor, who was on the show

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last week, was a official scorekeeper. You know, I'll be a monitoring

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the game, monitoring his calls.
You know, hit er right, you

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know, strap your Jack, that
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exactly, So we'll have fun with
that. But yeah, Dodgers have

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a three game set in Colorado starting
tonight. The twenty twenty four n c

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DOAA Men's College World Series is continuing
this week. We have North Carolina and

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Florida State tomorrow or tomorrow afternoon,
I suppose at one pm on ESPN.

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And then we also have a game
tonight Kentucky and Texas A and M.

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That is game number eight, right, that's a winner number two. Right,

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that's a winner's bracket game. So
the winner of that is basically in

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the in the semi finals. So
the winner of that would then have to

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lose twice to either the way the
bract works it have to lose twice in

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the in their next thing. So
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tonight. The loser of that has
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Oh you know there was a North
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know what happened there? North Carolina
State Florida or playing today? The winner

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of the loser is out. The
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Texas A and M. Kentucky.
The Gators have defeated the wolf back.

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Okay, it was an interesting thing
in the Texas A and M Florida game

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that took place on Saturday. A
deranged fan fan got over and was was

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at the from the seats, but
next to the Florida dugout, screaming into

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the dugout at the at the at
the players and the coach or whatever.

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I don't know what he was screaming
about. There's this video that was shown,

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and then the video was of him
beating had scorted out, you know,

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obviously getting his you know, thirty
seconds of fame on on TikTok and

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whatever else he's gonna post that on. But you know, somebody over there

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just making a scene got taken out
of the game and Florida ended up losing.

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Florida ended up losing that game three
to two, so they dropped into

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the loser's bracket. But now they
won, so they'll be back playing the

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loser of Kentucky and Texas A and
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for me today, there was an
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Nayuk has told Jaden Daniels that the
forty nine ers do not want him back.

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And you might be wondering why Jayden
Daniels, like, why so there's

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a TikTok posted by Brandon Nyuk.
You just mentioned TikTok, right, Brandon

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Nayuk posted a TikTok. It was
a FaceTime. It was a video of

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Brandon and I facetiming with Commander's quarterback
Jadan Daniels right, and Jayden was showing

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him some Niners highlights of Ayuk,
and Ayuk was kind of getting sentimental.

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He was like, well, they
don't want me back and Jade Daniels response

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is that the truth? You know? Is that it? And he goes,

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yeah, you know, just a
couple of as you guys having a

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tough time. I don't have an
issue with that. I'm just you know,

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look, Brandon auc has already made
a good amount of money, but

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he'll some you know, he's a
good player and he was a really good

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player for the Niners. For whatever
reason, they don't need him or want

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him anymore. So he's gone.
He'll he'll find a place to play if

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he's got skills, right, It's
not like I'm still good but nobody wants

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me. You know, He'll he'll
get picked up somewhere. We'll see what

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happens there. Yeah. We were
talking between the break off air about the

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over under number in the in the
Boston Celtics game. I think you have

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some breaking news by on the number. I'm taking the over over two ten

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and a half. I thought that, you know, I took. I

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had a couple of unders in the
first couple of games I didn't do I

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didn't do uh game three or I
did Game two and three, I don't

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remember it. Anyways, I hit
a couple of unders. But it's down

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to two ten and a half.
I think that the Celtics are gonna play

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well. I think the Mavericks are
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think they're gonna go over. So
I didn't put a little ten dollar bet

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on the on the over to ten
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that, unlike that major league umpire
who got kicked out of the league or

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who got suspended for doing stuff.
It's funny though, an interesting uh.

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You mentioned the Dan Patrick show.
They you know, they do all these

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all these poles, and they put
out they put out a poll on is

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it worse for a player to be
caught gambling or or an official to be

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caught gambling official? And it was
overwhelming officials people feel like how much?

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But that an umpire could really or
an official could really influence a game?

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reason I say official instinctively is because players

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they're still checked. There's still checks
and balances through like you know, officials

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officially arrests the league now that now
the actual sports books themselves are keeping track

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of things like this and strange activity. But I do think it's more impactful

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if officials are involved in it because
it's it's not just affecting one team or

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one locker room. It's affecting multiple
outcomes, multiple different franchises. Yeah.

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I think you saw that with the
NBA scandal. Yeah, yeah, well

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I just looked up the poll.
With thirty three hundred votes, an official

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gambling was was considered worse by ninety
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That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot, people, is

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way worse, way worse, uh
way way worse than than than a player

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game. To me, a player
gambling, if they're gambling on something else,

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I have zero problem with it,
right, I don't want them gambling

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on their sport. But if you
know, if, if, if,

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if an NFL player is gambling on
the NBA, I have no issues with

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that, and there should nobody should
have any issues with that. I do

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have issues with the NBA player,
NFL players gambling on NFL sports, maybe

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even college, but more like more
just your sport, your league. You

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can't, you know, you can't
gamble on that. You just just stay

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away. There's no reason get out
of it. If you don't. If

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you want to gamble on the NFL, then quit the NFL. See,

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I see you see which do you
think is a better situation? What he's

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thinking? Exactly it is? Yeah, exactly. So I don't know.

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All right, Okay, here's a
couple months since I've got few more minutes.

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Jaylen Brown over under twenty four and
a half points for him tonight.

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Ooh ooh, I think you said
twenty four and a half twenty five.

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I say no, I say no, I say he lands in the twenty.

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He's averaging he's averaging twenty point eight
in in the finals. Yeah,

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so twenty three for the reg of
the season. Yeah, yeah, I

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say no. You say, oh
you go under right? Yeah? Oh.

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And this just came across the Dave
Roberts is saying that Mookie Bets is

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expected miss roughly six to eight weeks. Crap, that's crap. My my

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wife was very upset when she when
she saw what happened to him. She's

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a she's a huge Mookie fan.
She made she made my my grandson hug

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her Mookie Bets bottle head wow to
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whole thing. But yeah, six
to eight weeks now they're saying on Mookie

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with a fractured hand. So and
then you know, then the guy comes

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back from that, and how long
before he's any good. That's that's a

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drag. It's a huge drag.
It'll be interesting to see who they put

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in the leadoff spot. I don't
you know, I don't know who goes

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up there and who plays shortstop.
I mean, you lost your best player,

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you lost your shortstop. And people
argue, well, show he's the

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best player. Well show he doesn't
play in the field. You know,

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if you want to argue that,
show he's the best hitter. Go ahead,

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right, go yeah, go ahead. But right now, you know

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Mookie Bets as their shortstop, as
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the whole deal. He's the MVP
favorite. You lost your best player,

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and you've lost him for six to
eight weeks. It'll be interesting to

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see how how the Dodgers hang on
through through all of that. Do you

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do you have any quick thoughts on
the NHL Stanley Cup Finals? No,

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you know, I I've only watched
pieces of it. I tend I tend

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to watch the Stanley Cup Final win. It gets towards you. If it

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gets to a game six or seven
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It's It's similar to the to the
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Same same thing. If the if
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you got a series again, I
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could be very cool, very cool. All right, we're up against the

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next break. We're gonna take a
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Kenzie follow or Quinn Union hurt Kenzie
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All American back in the day.
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we've got Kenzie Foller Quinn, the
one of the new members of the University

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of Arizona Wakats Sports Hall of Fame, announced last week. Kenzie, welcome

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and congratulations on the honor. Thank
you so much, appreciate it. It's

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now you're You're already in a hall
of fame. You're in the Pema County

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Sports Hall of Fame. You greg
to high school career on top of a

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great career at Arizona. But how
is this one different? Is it the

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same? Does it feel It obviously
feels good, But what do you think

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of this one? Yeah, you
know, both very special obviously the different

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though, I feel like the Pima
County Hall of Fame is more about I

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don't know, maybe just me in
my city in Tucson and growing up here,

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going to high school, and of
course playing in town at Arizona.

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So there was a lot of pride
in that Hall of fame. And I

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have a lot of family members in
that Hall of fame as well, so

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there was, you know, those
emotional ties for me. As well.

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But yeah, going into the Hall
of fame where you choose to go to

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school very special. And you know, just look into class that I'm going

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in with. It's the staffed class, so very different, but both,

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I mean, I'm such it's such
a big honor to go into each area.

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Well, and it should be.
So let's go back to the very

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beginning, because you know, your
whole family, I was reading your bio

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a bunch of family members or you
know, Arizona grads and stuff like that.

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Did they have to recruit you or
were you coming to Arizona no matter

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who out of cdo technically, yes, they did have to hurt me,

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but also yes, I was coming
no matter what. I committed really early

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it was you know, at the
forefront of the early commits, if you

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will. It was like one of
the first first fourteen year olds to verbal,

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which is, you know, looking
back crazy at the time. You

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know, now we have legislation or
not legislation, but ruling to say that

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you have to be you know,
your junior year to commit, which is

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how it should be, right.
But whether I was four teen, whether

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I was sixteen, my answer still
would have been the same. So she

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answered your question. Yes, I
was coming here no matter what. I

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did have some visits set up,
you know in my time when I was

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young, and had to cancel all
those visits because I ended up committing a

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little bit by accident and didn't really
talk to my parents about it, just

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went in committed, came out of
Code Candre's office and they were just kind

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of looking at me, going,
why are you crying? And I was

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like, well, I committed and
they were like, excuse me what.

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It was just kind of a funny, funny way that I ended up committing.

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But yeah, even if it would
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it would have been the same deal. So we just kind of got it

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over with earlier. Okay, Well
when was he not at that time?

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Was he allowed to you know,
recruit you, to pitch to you to

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I'm not pitch literally pitch, I
mean to kind of come to and say,

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you know, we want you to
come to Arizona. When was the

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first time that you had that conversation
with him and who did you have to

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engage him or was he able to
say Kansui wantrot Arizona. Yeah, it

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was kind of tricky. I'm not
sure what the rules were, but I

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was able to get mail from coaches
when I was fourteen, so I was

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getting letters and questionnaires from you know, all the schools around the country and

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all the Pac twelve schools and everything, but you couldn't take official visits,

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so they couldn't ask you to come
on a visit. So they would kind

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of go about it where they would
send you a letter or they send you

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the questionnaire, and then you had
to take the initiative to call them and

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say, hey, I'd love to
walk around your campus unofficial, and so

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that's what I did, and I
just kind of weaseled my way into his

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office with a couple of ended up
being a team hates later, christ and

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Ariola and Leany Kurrea. We were
all on the same unofficial and they went

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in and then I just thought it
would be cool if I went into his

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office after. And I went in
and was like, hey, I heard

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they committed. Can I commit too? And he was like excuse me,

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really? And I was like yeah. He's like, well, I've been

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waiting for you to say that,
and I was like, Okay, let's

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do it. That's awesome. That's
kind of how it went. It was

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a little bit strange and unorthodox,
but yeah, a little backwards done.

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How did your parents react to that? They had no idea it was going

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on. They were in the hallway
with the other parents of my teammates,

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and like I said, I came
out of Coach's office and I was,

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you know, my face was all
spotchy because I was crying. I was

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so excited, and they were just
looking at me, was concerned, going

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why are you crying? What's going
on? What did you say? And

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so then I told had to tell
them, well, I committed I'm going

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to play here at Arizona. And
so then they're like, well, you

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better call these other schools and cancel
these un officials because we were getting ready

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to go to these other trips.
Where else were you looking at? Where

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did you have a trip set up? I had lined up? Well,

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I had already taken a visit at
Washington and and then I had scheduled UCLA

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and AFU. Okay, all right, well you weren't going to ASU.

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I can tell you I would have
stopped you from going to ASU, So

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we weren't going to let that happen. Well, so you know, as

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you were going through the rest of
your high school career. Was there ever

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any doubt or anything like that.
Did you ever second guess yourself over that

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about committing early, about commedting to
Arizona. Yeah, No, I was

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happy to get over with. I
obviously growing up in Tucson, like this

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was the school for me. I
was ten years old when Jenny Finch was

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pitching and fell in love with softball, mostly because of Arizona and the success

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that they had, and it was
packed over bus. So you know the

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fact that I was able to,
you know, get my commitment done and

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then I could kind of put my
head down and go, Okay, this

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is my this is my goal,
this is what I'm working for, and

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talk to TOAs Candre about what do
I need to do to be ready and

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all those little things, you know, were put in motion so early after

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my freshman season, and so no, I was really happy to get it

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over with and just kind of focused
on what was the next thing for me.

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Right, we're talking to Kenzie Foller
Quinn, one of the all time

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great pitchers at Arizona now on the
Arizona Sports Hall of Fame. So,

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so you get to Arizona as a
freshman, You've been seeing the program since,

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as you said, since you were
a little girl, but now you're

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wearing the uniform. Tell us a
little bit about, you know, your

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first days with the program. I
guess I'm assuming you know in the fall,

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right when you you got to start
fallballing that stuff. What was that

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like for you? As again somebody
who grew up here, you know,

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had idols like Jenny Finch. Did
you ever have to just pinch yourself?

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Yeah? I remember our very first
ball game looking at the lineup. I

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was starting pitcher batting force and I
was going, okay, so yeah,

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that was my first pinch me,
mom, was our first ball game,

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which, like you put on the
uniform right then, and it's not,

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of course, you know, the
real season, but you're getting on the

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field and you're pitching against a team
that's not your your own team. You're

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not doing it inner squad, you're
doing it for real and then looking up

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and seeing your friends and family like
this. It never, you know,

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got old, being able to have
the support physically there every single game that

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I took the field, and just
a little bit of pride like I was

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that young kid just you know,
four years ago, sitting in the stands

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and watching these players and now I'm
able to be that that player for the

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next generation and give the autograph after
the game. And I have so many

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pictures of girls who are in college
now are just now graduating, of when

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they were ten years old and I
was giving them an autograph. And so,

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you know, it's what it's all
about in that inspiration, something that

407
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you can tangibly touch, and you
can take a photo with an athlete and

408
00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:48.240
you know, stare up at the
stare up at them and they look ten

409
00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:52.319
feet tall and looks like they're throwing
one hundred miles an hour. They're just

410
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larger than life, right, So
I remember what that was like and being

411
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able to represent tooth Lin. It
was just everything well at that and at

412
00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.079
that time it was you. It
was the Wildcats and the Bruins, right

413
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.519
a year in and year out.
You're a freshman. Tell us about the

414
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first time you stepped to the mound
against U. C. L A.

415
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And you know, in the regular
season. Yeah, it was tough,

416
00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:18.440
and it was so good. Obviously
we were good too, but it was

417
00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:22.279
a battle from my freshman year to
even you know, the last game that

418
00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:27.240
I remember pitching against them in my
senior season. It's it's sad that that

419
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:32.400
rivalry will be no more. You
know. I hope that maybe they find

420
00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:36.440
a way to schedule, but I
don't know. I really don't know how

421
00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:38.720
that's going to shake out. It's
going to be a different era for sure,

422
00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:42.559
seeing the Wildcats not in the Pact
twelve. I'm going to have to

423
00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:47.279
form some new rivalries for sure.
So so you throw a perfect game that

424
00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:55.720
year? Right? Oh? What
what was that like? I don't remember

425
00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:59.000
it. I'm be honest. Come
on, you throw a perfect game and

426
00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:03.759
you don't remember remember. I know
you threw a whole bunch of them in

427
00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:08.559
high school, but this one had
wow? Okay, all right, well,

428
00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:14.200
all right, okay, I mean
I bet they remember it. A

429
00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:18.079
holy hicck that that. I mean
again, incredible freshman year. Right,

430
00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:19.880
you're an All America and All American
your sophomore year. I know you had

431
00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:23.240
some injury issues, but you look
back on your career and now, you

432
00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:26.000
know, be named to the Hall
of Fame. What you know, what

433
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:29.559
are the what are the things you
think about? Right? Some of the

434
00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:33.839
whether it's a specific game or a
memory, or a player or coaches or

435
00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:37.119
just a feeling, you know what
do you think about when you think about

436
00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:41.759
your softball career at Arizona. Oh, that's a heavy question, you know.

437
00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:47.000
I always say I kind of recognize
the fact that my career in college

438
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:52.039
was a little bit backwards and just
flipped in terms of the beginning. In

439
00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:56.599
the end, I feel like my
beginning was how most athletes hope to end

440
00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:02.079
their career. And obviously I had
to medically retire, wasn't able, wasn't

441
00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:06.599
able to finish out my last senior
season due to injury. But you have

442
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:11.799
my freshman and sophomore year obviously saw
my majority of my success, and I

443
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:15.279
had a lot of innings. If
you look at the stats, I was

444
00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:19.119
pitching a lot, and you don't
see peers pitch that much anymore, right,

445
00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:23.799
So, I don't know, it's
it's there's so much to be proud

446
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:27.960
of, Yes, some things,
you know, what if this goes differently

447
00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:33.240
here and that there, who knows, But you can't look at it that

448
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:37.319
way. I there's so much that, so much good that came out of

449
00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:41.400
me being a Wildcat, you know, talked about the representation of playing in

450
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:45.960
Tucson, meeting my best friends,
my teammates, whipping bridesmaids and my wedding

451
00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:52.359
met my husband who played football and
still able to stay around the program.

452
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:57.359
And I work in in Arizona Athletics
and so Arizona has been very good to

453
00:30:57.480 --> 00:31:02.119
me. There's not much complain I
can I can have about my time as

454
00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:03.480
a weldcut well. And then you
know, you're you're one of the lucky

455
00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:07.720
ones, right because a lot of
people don't don't have you know, the

456
00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:10.720
lifelong thing with that. You know, you're starting from when you were a

457
00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:12.039
little kid, and you know,
you get to you know, you get

458
00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:14.839
to go there, you get to
play there, and then you get to

459
00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:18.400
you get to stay there. When
you think about softball as a whole,

460
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:19.960
you know, we've talked about this, uh you know when we talk to

461
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:26.440
you as in your your work as
an ESPN announcer. Softball now today it's

462
00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:30.319
different right from when from when you
were when you were playing the nil picture

463
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:34.799
and all that kind of stuff.
What do you still treasure about the what

464
00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:38.960
do you still like about the game
today and what don't you like about it

465
00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:42.880
right now? Well, I think
this college sports as a whole is different

466
00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:48.119
right even today into the softball news
today, the player of the year.

467
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:53.359
Nigerie Cannedy, who is at Stanford
last two seasons, is now in the

468
00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:57.599
transfer portal and where is she going
to go? So you just kind of

469
00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:01.839
touched on it a second talking about
the loyalty and you know, the long,

470
00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:07.279
the lifelong relationship that you have with
the school. It's kind of a

471
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:10.279
dying breed right now. It's very
interesting to see how things are shaking out.

472
00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:15.079
And you know, it's interesting for
me now I'm in my thirties,

473
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:21.039
but looking back as myself as a
player, I have a completely different head

474
00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:24.480
on my shoulders now as I did
then. And I'm so thankful that I

475
00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:31.079
have. I've had the ability to
stick with one school and have that relationship

476
00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:36.720
because it's not just the four year
relationship, it's the lifelong relationship. And

477
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:39.839
I feel like that's something that maybe
our athletes don't have sight of right now,

478
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:45.519
because again, they're navigating waters that
I didn't have to navigate with right

479
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:49.480
with Nil and you know, the
things that you can do that I just

480
00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:52.039
wasn't able to do. Right I
couldn't even get a bagel for free,

481
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.960
it's a breakfast. It was it
was you as an extra benefit to have

482
00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:01.160
a bagelad of breakfast. So it's
it's different now. But if one thing

483
00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:07.200
I could tell our athletes that are
navigating this NIL is obviously, yes,

484
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:09.640
we want you to get your bags. It's important. I wasn't able to

485
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:16.400
do that. We were scholarship or
nothing. And it's a lifelong it's a

486
00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:22.000
lifelong thing. It's something that you
can touch on when you're thirty, forty,

487
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:24.599
fifty, sixty years old and you're
going to be a part of that

488
00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:29.599
program for life, and there's so
many benefits that come with that. So

489
00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:34.200
it's interesting to see these athletes kind
of jump around in college sports right now.

490
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:37.880
It's a different era for sure,
and you know, I'm what I've

491
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.640
loved to have been able to dive
into NIL. Yeah, I've of course

492
00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:45.240
done a little something there being from
Tucson, but you know, I'm very

493
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:49.039
thankful to be an athlete of the
era that I was in. Well you

494
00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.480
were, again, you know,
one of the best ones. So we

495
00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:54.279
do appreciate what you've done here that
you know that you've stuck around Like I'm

496
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:59.240
a local, right, I love
it when somebody grows up here, loves

497
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:01.680
it here, stay here and continues
to be committed and does good things,

498
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:05.920
and then you've done that, so
we do appreciate that. Oh, thank

499
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:07.800
you. Yeah, two sons my
home. I choose to live in Tucson,

500
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:12.039
you know, born here, raised
here, and not gone anywhere,

501
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:14.719
that's for sure. Thank you appreciate
that. All right. Well, Kensei

502
00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:16.840
Foller Quinn, thank you so much
for joining us, and congratulations again.

503
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:23.039
The when's the ones like the ceremony
and all that stuff? Have they told

504
00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:28.239
me that great question? It is
the day before the first football game of

505
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.559
the years. Okay, all right, the celebration will be like Atlasloma,

506
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:37.039
I believe, and then they will
recognize of all of us at the football

507
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:39.280
game. So let's get a sold
out crowd so we can wave to all

508
00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:42.400
of you in the same all right, we'll do that. Kensie, thank

509
00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:44.559
you so much again. We'll be
in touch. We appreciate it. And

510
00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:49.639
congratulations anytime. Thanks so much.
It's Kenzie Foller Quinn, one of the

511
00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:52.280
new members of the Arizona Sports Hall
of Fame. One of the great pitchers

512
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:55.199
here. Again, unfortunate end of
her career with some with medical issues,

513
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:59.039
but man, for those first couple
of years she was as good as they

514
00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:00.679
get and has there her way into
the Hall of Fame. So hey,

515
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:04.079
stick around. We're going to come
back with our last segment. Five two

516
00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:06.400
zero four one six, seventy four
forty If you want to give us a

517
00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:08.920
call, it's Kevin's last segment.
If you want to say goodbye to Kevin,

518
00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:12.880
or you find I don't know,
maybe tell him to hit the road.

519
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:15.679
We're tired of you. Whatever you
want to say. Kevin will be

520
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:20.199
here for his last segment and he's
moving on with his life. So stick

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around. Five to zero four one, six seventy four, forty five.

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Breaking down all the exes and oh's. It's Steve Rivera and Jacob Salmas.

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This is I on the Ball on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Welcome back

566
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down on the Ball on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. I'm Jacob Zalez. Steve

567
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Rivera is out today. I do
have Kevin here for his last segment of

568
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his Eye on the Ball career.
Kevin wait thing man only heck dono bittersweet.

569
00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:52.199
I'm excited to move to Phoenix.
Yeah, I'm excited to not be

570
00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:53.760
able to so come in here and
join you. Steve all every week.

571
00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:57.199
Well, you've done a great job. I've loved you and we've had you

572
00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:00.440
on a bunch today because Steve's gone, So do appreciate your, uh,

573
00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:05.239
your chipping in on this on this
show. So I told you Afy,

574
00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:07.360
I wanted to bring this up because
we've talked about it before and we had

575
00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:12.159
a situation again over the weekend.
And I just don't want people to think

576
00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:16.800
we're, you know, we're ignoring
this right in in a in a in

577
00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:21.320
an in an o w NBA game
a couple of days ago, Kaylen Clark

578
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:25.599
was filed hard by by Angel Reese. Uh, we know the rivalry that

579
00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:30.360
they've had since college. You know, a lot of a lot of stuff

580
00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:32.800
going on even you know to today. Uh, it was a it was

581
00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.039
a it was a foul that was
ultimately considered a flagrant against Angel Reese.

582
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:40.440
She was trying to block a shot
that you know, Caitlin Clark was going

583
00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:44.880
down the lane, tried to block
it from behind when she when she swiped

584
00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:46.079
at the ball, she caught her
on the side of the head. That's

585
00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:52.440
an automatic, an automatic flagrant.
I'll just remind everybody I did say and

586
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:55.039
I and I continue to believe this
is a non event. Right If it

587
00:39:55.119 --> 00:40:00.760
wasn't Caitlin Clark and and and Angel
Reese, nobody would be saying anything.

588
00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:02.280
There's people out there who you know, who want to say, oh,

589
00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:05.840
you know, she she she did
that because you know, she's trying to

590
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:08.760
hurt k Caitlin Clark. No,
I said, when when this thing happened,

591
00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:14.079
where where she got or Kaitlyn Clark
got knocked down by the other player,

592
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:17.400
not in the course of a play. I said, that was that

593
00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:22.400
was not? That was unnecessary?
And I thought I thought the player should

594
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:25.960
have been suspended on this one.
And I said at the time, look,

595
00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:30.039
if she's going down the lane and
there's a hard foul, that's part

596
00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:34.599
of the game, and it is
and this was Do I think angel Reese

597
00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:37.239
would have taken that same swipe on
another player? I don't know, but

598
00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:40.480
I do know that she's going to
take that on Kaitlyn Clark every time.

599
00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:45.000
She wants Kate and Clark to know
I'm here. I'm okay with that.

600
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:47.840
I got I got one name that
I'll throw out at you if you're if

601
00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:52.480
you're wondering, was that was that
reasonable? Was it not? Was it?

602
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:57.960
Was it something that angel Reich should
be get in trouble for Bill lanebeer

603
00:40:58.519 --> 00:41:01.320
guy, for the you know,
the the Detroit Pistons. He assaulted people.

604
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:05.159
You know, we're talking in the
eighties. He assaulted people. I

605
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:07.400
know, you know that game,
that's not the game anymore. But there

606
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:12.760
were some assaults that took place back
back in the day, right and you

607
00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:15.679
know if but all of it was
in the course of most of it,

608
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:17.760
I guess was in the course of
a game. Somebody comes down the lane,

609
00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:21.679
you're gonna let them know that they
can't do that. And that's where

610
00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:23.559
I saw this ass I said,
you know, if Caitlin Clarks can go

611
00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:27.199
down the lane, somebody's gonna throw
her an elbow, put a forearm in

612
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:30.239
her chest, whatever. That's part
of the game. And if you get

613
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:32.079
away with it, you get away
with it. And if you get caught,

614
00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:36.079
you get a file. Angel Rees
got caught. It was a flagrant.

615
00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:38.480
It was clarly fragrant. Do I
think Angelice was trying to elbow her

616
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:40.119
in the head? No, I
think she was trying to block the shot.

617
00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:44.599
And she was really trying harder to
block the shot because it was Caitlin

618
00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:45.880
Clark And I'm okay with that.
And when you watch the clip, her

619
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:50.239
eyes Inee's eyes never leave the basketball, right, like I think, and

620
00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:53.199
I think we've seen it in the
NBA sometimes when players take liberties and try

621
00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:55.079
to make it seem like they're looking
for the ball. You could tell their

622
00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:59.440
targets exactly. They always get that
one little spatial peak, right, got

623
00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:00.800
to know where the person is.
I'm going to try to hit somebody.

624
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:05.039
Yeah, but her eyes never left
the basketball. That was a basketball played.

625
00:42:05.199 --> 00:42:07.119
Wasn't unfortunate? Yes? Is it
a clear flagrant? Yes? Should

626
00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:10.440
she be suspended? No? And
to her credit Kaling Clark said, it

627
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:13.800
was a basketball play, you know, and she's getting used to it.

628
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:15.039
I mean, that's how she's going
to be treated. They said, that's

629
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:17.679
how she's gonna be treated. Other
players said that's how she's going to be

630
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:21.800
treated. And she is getting treated
like that. And there's no problem with

631
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:25.719
that if all of that is in
the course of the game, if somebody's

632
00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:29.000
fought. You know, she had
she had a three point shot the other

633
00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:30.440
day where you know, she went
up, she took the shot, and

634
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:35.599
and and and her defender put a
farm in her chest and knocked her down.

635
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:38.199
Guess what, that's a foul.
She gets it, she makes a

636
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:43.280
shot, she gets a free throw. That's that's it. But it wasn't

637
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:46.480
like she you know, she took
the shot and came down and then she

638
00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:52.239
blindsided her something. Those things are
going to happen. It's those things are

639
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:55.159
okay as part of the game,
and I just hope that people realize,

640
00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:59.559
you know, so, you know, I think it was. I think

641
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:01.440
it was. Aaron Tauris, who
was on our show Friday, said there's

642
00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:06.280
people trying to use Kaitlin Clark is
a political pawn. Did you see that.

643
00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:09.719
I do believe think it was,
And that's true. There's some people

644
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:12.800
are trying to do that. They're
trying to make it a racial thing.

645
00:43:13.239 --> 00:43:16.679
Is it a racial thing? Maybe
a little go through Twitter just now across

646
00:43:16.719 --> 00:43:21.639
my feet Robert RG three, uh
yeah somewhere tweet yesterday when he said Kaylin

647
00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:24.440
Clark the Angels are being used in
a political way. That is not fair

648
00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:29.360
to either athlete ball right. Do
I think that there's some racial aspect to

649
00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:31.920
it? Yes, I do,
because I think ra Angelice's basically said,

650
00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:36.639
look, we're not getting the attention
that she's getting. Well, of course

651
00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:38.360
you're not, because you can't hear
a three pointer like she can't, and

652
00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:44.119
that's why also shoots like from the
right. So yes, maybe there's a

653
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:45.400
there, There is some of that
in there. I'm not gonna I'm not

654
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:49.079
gonna deny that there's there's not some
of that in there. But on the

655
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:52.960
other hand, if they're playing the
game and they're in their their rivals and

656
00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:58.280
they see themselves as rivals and they
compete and they compete hard, and there's

657
00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:00.360
files and things like that, I
got no problem with it. And I

658
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:04.239
didn't have a problem with this,
with this thing that I that I the

659
00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:07.880
first headline I saw was Angel flag
called for a flagrant on Kaitlin Clark,

660
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:10.599
and I'm like, what now,
you know, I'm like, what now?

661
00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:14.199
I think we're looking for the video
when it was fine. Yeah,

662
00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:17.440
Cheryl Swoops had a great quote.
She was on Gilbertarinas's podcast Yeah recently and

663
00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:20.960
she said, it's it's the clip
they want to post because they're you know,

664
00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:23.360
they're gonna get all the interactions because
it's Kaitlin Clark. But ultimately she

665
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:27.079
got in the head of course.
But should it be a flagrant? Yes?

666
00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:30.320
But can we keep playing basketball?
Yes? And that's what that's what

667
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:35.559
it's really about. I think this
has been blown and it will continue to

668
00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:38.719
be in the social media environment,
and I think you know, you see

669
00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:43.000
with with with I'm gonna use the
word frail, but I mean that in

670
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:46.280
terms of just a physical descriptor of
not being bulky mostcularly. You know,

671
00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:50.480
you saw something similar with Steph Curry. We started to pop off in the

672
00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:53.239
NBA. He started getting a lot
of form, a lot of shoves,

673
00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:55.800
a lot of hard screens, because
you need to knock him out of his

674
00:44:55.920 --> 00:44:59.920
rhythm within the flow of the within
the flow of the game, and if

675
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.599
it's always done in the flow of
the game, then it's done. So

676
00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:06.639
I was okay with it. I
just wanted to throw that out there because

677
00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:09.199
we had talked about it before and
that was my opinion. And exactly what

678
00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:14.519
I said is what I still believe. If if they're gonna be if they're

679
00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:16.440
gonna make it hard for her in
the course of the game, and you're

680
00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:20.360
gonna say you come down the lane, get ready, you know, get

681
00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:22.679
ready to catch something, I'm good
with that, all right, Enough of

682
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:29.559
that. Rory McElroy has issued a
statement about why he's not going to play.

683
00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:32.599
I know we talked about him in
Breaking News. His quote, I've

684
00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:37.639
shown my resilience over and over again, over and over again in the last

685
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:39.480
seventeen years, and I will again. I'm going to take a few weeks

686
00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:44.400
away from the game to process everything
and build myself back up for my defense

687
00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:47.599
of the Genesis Scottish Open and the
Open at Royal True. So he's gonna

688
00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:52.320
take some time out. I would
I would have quick cough. If I

689
00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:57.440
had done what he did, I
would have taken my clubs. I'd have

690
00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:00.719
gone to a dumpster and put him
in the dumpster and said that's it.

691
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:05.199
I'm never playing again. You know, I mean these guys, you know,

692
00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:07.559
especially in golf, it's such an
individual things like you don't have a

693
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:09.960
teammate that you can put your you
know, who can come up and you

694
00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:13.000
know, put an arm around you
and say, hey, you know it's

695
00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:15.360
going to be okay. He had
to go back to his hotel room.

696
00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:17.840
Well, not take back. He
went back to his private jet and went

697
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:22.800
home. But you know, I
liked worry do I like what he did

698
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:30.199
yesterday bye by not ever congratulating Bryson
to Shambo and just leaving, not not

699
00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:32.960
doing the media stuff. No,
I'm unhappy that he did all that.

700
00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:39.159
I think it's I think it's bad
for his for his look. But he

701
00:46:39.239 --> 00:46:43.079
did it, so you know,
he's not the first one to do that,

702
00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:46.400
and so you know he'll I think
he'll lands for it at some point,

703
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:50.280
you know, next press conference when
if that's in three weeks at the

704
00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:52.599
Scottish Open, he'll probably come and
say, Okay, I'm better. Now,

705
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:57.440
here's you know, congratulations to Bryson
and Shambo. Maybe he'll issue a

706
00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:00.559
statement, you know, to that
effect. Anyway, So and he We've

707
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:02.679
talked about this off the air a
little bit, but I wanted to know

708
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:06.639
if you had any thoughts about Charles
Barkley. H And I don't think that

709
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:09.079
after next season, after the last
season of Inside the NBA, he will

710
00:47:09.159 --> 00:47:13.840
be off of television. I'll miss
him. I'll miss him. I like

711
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:19.400
I you know, I'm entertained by
by Inside the NBA. You know,

712
00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:22.880
I'll watch that's a post game show
I watch. I watch almost no other

713
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:24.920
post game show. That's the post
game show that I actually look forward to

714
00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:29.519
more than some regular season an NBA
game. Right there are some games that

715
00:47:29.599 --> 00:47:31.639
I'm not as interested in watching.
Uh. And then I learned it's on

716
00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:34.679
T n T it's a Tuesday or
Thursday, and I'm like, oh,

717
00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:37.360
I gotta watch them. Four,
I gotta watch the half, and I

718
00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:39.519
gotta watch those four guys. Those
four guys you know, Shaq, Kenny

719
00:47:39.559 --> 00:47:45.400
Smith, Charles and then Ernie Johnson. They're fun to watch. I love

720
00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:47.199
I love Ernie Johnson's role. He
let he lets these guys go at it

721
00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:52.559
and then he corrals them sometimes and
and it's a it's always fun to watch.

722
00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:54.000
Let's take this call. Hi,
you're on the air and I on

723
00:47:54.039 --> 00:47:58.920
the ball. Yeah, like your
show. I'm gonna miss Robert. I'm

724
00:47:58.920 --> 00:48:00.960
gonna miss Bark next year. He's
great. I like him and Shack when

725
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:06.800
they start going at each other having
fun. Great show. And one announcer

726
00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:10.440
I wish would go away next year
is Doris Burke on ESPN. Wow.

727
00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:15.119
Woman, she can ruin a basketball
in any game. She needs some damn

728
00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:22.239
speech therapy so everything she comes out
doesn't sound like an s's horrible. Listen

729
00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:27.360
to her guys just in their shies
and they're pasture bush and nobody speaks like

730
00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:31.360
that and get the job and announcing
she's terrible and all right. I hope

731
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:36.800
they get rid of her next year. I knew every time I'm watching the

732
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:38.480
Celtics, they're my team. Every
time I'm watching the game, every time

733
00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:43.800
she starts speaking I hit the mute
button. All right, Well, I

734
00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:45.320
guess you feel strongly about that,
but I agree with you, Barkley.

735
00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:51.039
He's a lot of fun. I
like, you know, I love his

736
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:52.800
interviews outside of you know, inside
the NBA when he's on down you know,

737
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:55.480
some of those shows Dan Patrick,
he's on there quite a bit and

738
00:48:55.559 --> 00:48:58.840
you just know he's gonna talk.
He just he's like, this is why

739
00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:02.559
I am, and I'm just gonna
say what I'm gonna say exactly, and

740
00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:06.280
that's it. Yeah, appreciated,
Robert, Thanks a bunch, and we'll

741
00:49:06.280 --> 00:49:13.679
see what we can do about Doris
Burg. All right. You know you

742
00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:16.119
don't have any issue with that.
I don't know. Yeah, here's a

743
00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:21.960
funny thing though, honestly, you
don't like Regie Miller. He kind of

744
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:27.360
annoys me. Everything's kind of I
can't do what does Henny his reactions,

745
00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:30.480
he's very like like you know,
and he's very on the fence a lot

746
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:31.519
like, oh, I don't know. He kind of does that Tony romo

747
00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:36.280
thing. I don't know. I
don't know. You know, I couldn't

748
00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:37.960
stand Reggie Miller because I saw I
saw him, you know, finish his

749
00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:42.280
career at U C. L A
and he and Walt Hazard were just two

750
00:49:42.440 --> 00:49:45.679
big, giant, steaming piles of
you know what, and they fed off

751
00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:50.599
of each other. And I just
thought he was a complete jerk. Even

752
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:52.840
during a lot, during a lot
to his NBA career, he did the

753
00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:55.119
choke thing and you know, stuff
like that. I've come to like him

754
00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:59.599
as an announcer. Yeah. And
I actually stopped and talked to him once

755
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:02.840
at a at a regional. You
know, we're passing each other in the

756
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:05.920
hallway, said hey, Reggie,
you know, you know, love the

757
00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:07.960
stuff, and we talk and he
talked to me and stuff, and he

758
00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:14.840
was very friendly, and I I
like him. I feel like he's he's

759
00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:20.679
a guy who's a really good player. He uses that experience to talk about

760
00:50:21.639 --> 00:50:24.079
how other guys can be good players, right or I feel like he kind

761
00:50:24.119 --> 00:50:29.480
of tells us what a really good
player would think of this thing that's happened

762
00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:32.440
or that thing that's happened. And
I like that. So I like him.

763
00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:37.079
Yeah, I like him for that. I mean, I still don't,

764
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:38.920
you know, appreciate what he did
at UCLA because he was a big,

765
00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:44.440
big, big butt head. But
I've liked him, and he's another

766
00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:47.239
guy that Dan Patrick gets on all
the time. I love the conversations that

767
00:50:47.480 --> 00:50:52.719
that they have. Uh, there
are a lot of times yeah, exactly,

768
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:54.320
and I feel like yeah, and
I feel like he's become really friendly

769
00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:59.639
in that way. And he was
a big giant jerk coming out of college.

770
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:01.719
Me not to college. He was
like, I'm like this guy,

771
00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:06.960
they're gonna kill him in the NBA
because they're not gonna like him. Yeah,

772
00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:08.719
I will say that I don't have
any issue with him the regimenter of

773
00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:10.920
the person. It does. I
just don't. I think. I think

774
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:15.960
sometimes his announcing of actual play by
play can be a little literal, like

775
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:17.559
sometimes I'm like, yes, Reggie, that is exactly what I just watched,

776
00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:22.079
thank you. But he does get
peeks behind the curtain, like you

777
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:23.760
said, which will be pretty interesting. Sometimes he's not all bad. But

778
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:30.760
I was saying, of my least
favorite announcers, I'm surprised that Thorsburk he

779
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:37.199
really doesn't like her to get that, I know, thankfully a nice call

780
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:42.599
by Robert. So anyways, Uh
no, uh, for the most part.

781
00:51:42.639 --> 00:51:44.800
But you know, getting back to
getting back to Barkley, you know,

782
00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:49.199
I like that show and I'm with
you. You know, there's sometimes

783
00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:51.599
the game is ending, I'm like, okay, I'll watch this to see,

784
00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:52.599
you know, to catch a little
bit of the post game show.

785
00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:55.280
I like those guys. I like
that, you know, when they do

786
00:51:55.559 --> 00:51:59.639
you know, the the final four, uh and the and the and the

787
00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:02.000
inc A tournament stuff. I think
they're very good at what they do.

788
00:52:02.360 --> 00:52:06.360
They're probably the best. Now I'm
probably a little young to be saying this,

789
00:52:06.519 --> 00:52:08.920
but I would assume that it's fair
to say they're the best desk team

790
00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:15.199
of any sports in a while,
I'd have I'd have a hard time trying

791
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:17.679
to think of a better one.
You know. Greg Gumble is a guy

792
00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:21.079
that I liked when he was doing
n C double A tournament. I like

793
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:23.079
him a lot because I had some
drinks with him one time, so he

794
00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:28.440
was a lot of fun. I
have. I did like him. I

795
00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:31.280
could probably go way back to,
you know, some of the NFL uh

796
00:52:32.039 --> 00:52:37.880
uh shows, all the way back
to you know, Brent Musburger and those

797
00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:42.199
kinds of guys. But yeah,
I mean, they're again entertaining, but

798
00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:45.039
you also learn stuff when you watch
them. You feel like you find out

799
00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:51.039
what I just saw and maybe something
that I missed, And it feels like

800
00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:53.920
everything you said about Reggie Miller with
Pigs behind the curtain. They do times

801
00:52:54.000 --> 00:53:00.199
ted right between Shack's experience, Chuck's
experience, Kenny's experience, and there he's

802
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:02.800
just lifetime of watching basketball exactly exactly. So I think it was the guys

803
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:07.079
are good. Well I'll miss him, Yeah, I'll definitely miss We just

804
00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:08.320
didn't see who they come up with. Man, I hope it's not Draymond

805
00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:10.599
Green or one of those guys.
I think he was gonna run that Tuesday

806
00:53:10.639 --> 00:53:15.039
crew, right, Adam left,
Coo kandas Parker and then fill in.

807
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:17.159
Yeah, we'll see, we'll see, all right. Kevin, hey man,

808
00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:20.400
thanks a bunch for all the time
you've spent here. I know,

809
00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:22.920
uh, you know, we haven't
paid you a cent, but I hope

810
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you hope you had a good time. I hope you learned something. Appreciate

811
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:29.159
it all right, Thanks again,
thanks for being here. We'll be back

812
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tomorrow with some great guests, so
be sure to come back tomorrow.