WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:08.080 Streaming live on the iHeartRadio WAPP. This is I on the Ball with Steve 2 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:13.800 Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to 3 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:16.519 I on the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, he's Jay. 4 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:21.320 Now we have Tevin with breaking news. This is Eye on the Ball, 5 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:26.320 Breaking News on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right, so we're gonna 6 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:32.320 start with the number twenty one Arizona Wildcast baseball team. I laughed because they 7 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:36.640 were. They were ten and thirteen exactly, so far from being ranked exactly. 8 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:39.719 And now because of an eleven game win streak, the nation's best win 9 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:43.439 streak actively, they are now the number twenty one ranked. It's kind of 10 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:46.920 unbelievable, to be honest. This is what that makes them twenty one and 11 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.759 thirteen, right, that'd be great, man. That's where we were eleven 12 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:56.000 mikals twenty one. If you using your toes and your I had that one, 13 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:58.799 I can do that one. And they played They played GCU tomorrow at 14 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:03.799 GCU. All right, Oh, okay, what's what's the pitching, clutch, 15 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:06.519 hitting everything? I mean, they you know, their their game on 16 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:08.840 Sunday, they're down five nothing going to the bottom of the ninth and they 17 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:11.920 rallied for six runs to win the game. I mean, I think when 18 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:15.359 you have an eleven game wins streak, everything has to be going well. 19 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.040 And I think that's more or less what it is. Yeah, and I 20 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:19.239 think pitching has been a big part of it. They have the eighth best 21 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:23.280 team e RA in the country, and across the last eleven wins, the 22 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:29.120 last eleven straight games, the pitchers have allowed more than three runs just twice. 23 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:30.920 Pretty impressive. So well, and they they've gotten you pitching coaches here, 24 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.959 right, So I see. So I think that that's obviously, you 25 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:37.239 know, having an impact. But yeah, I mean, you know, 26 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:40.200 they keep winning games. Who do they have this week? Did you have 27 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:45.480 you looked They're playing GCU tomorrow tomorrow and then their conference series this weekend. 28 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:49.280 I'll look for that. You go ahead. So we had a scary injury, 29 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:55.400 uh in this you have a Oregon softball game. I don't know if 30 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:57.599 we want to talk about that a little bit. There was a player that 31 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:02.799 dove into field and injured herself. Yeah. I was actually watching the game. 32 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:07.080 It was the it was a Saturday game, Saturday night game. Arizona 33 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:14.759 and Oregon. UH player handed al Godo center field of for Oregon. There's 34 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:17.840 this ball into the gap. She dives for the ball, and the ball 35 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:23.039 and the glove. The ball hits her glove as her glove and her head 36 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:28.199 hit the fence. I mean, she laid out and just basically ran headfirst 37 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:32.599 into the fence and then she just kind of rolled over and was clearly clearly 38 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:38.520 hurt and it looked bad. Not that it mattered all that much, but 39 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:43.000 you know, when she you know, you know, the ball clearly hit 40 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:45.360 in her glove and it looked like a catch. But when she kind of 41 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:46.800 fell, I don't know if she lost feeling or whatever. The ball just 42 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:50.560 rolled out of her glove. So it's called a hit and it was ended 43 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:53.879 up being a triple for Arizona. But it took a good fifteen minutes or 44 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:58.360 so. They took her off on a stretcher, took her out of there 45 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:00.800 in an ambulance, and as far as I know, she's still in Tucson, 46 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:05.840 because I think I saw something yesterday and that she was at the University 47 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:07.360 hospital that she was gonna be here for a couple of days. So it 48 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:13.080 sounds bad Oregon did release sus statement saying that they expect her to make a 49 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:16.360 full recovery. But we still don't know the extent of the injury. But 50 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:20.800 it looked it looked bad, Steve. You know, I mean, you 51 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.680 know, she all those things hit hit the fence at the same time, 52 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:25.719 and uh, and you know, and then when you you know, when 53 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:30.319 they hit the fence and then she just rolls over her back. And but 54 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:32.439 she was moving, she was moving her hands and stuff. So but yeah, 55 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.840 but nonetheless, it could be a bad injury. Arizona's Olivia DeNardo has 56 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:40.400 been named the PAC twelve Player of the Week for the first time this season. 57 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:45.159 She hit five hundred six for twelve with three home runs for RBI and 58 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.400 five runs scored UH to help Arizona sweep New Mexico State and then win the 59 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:52.280 series over Oregon. Yeah. Yeah, two out of three against Oregon, 60 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:54.039 which was you know, Oregon was little higher in the standards in Arizona, 61 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:58.039 so they kind of needed to do that. But yeah, they're a little 62 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:00.919 bit of a little bit better position and they are so both as we've kind 63 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:04.719 of football and I mean baseball and stuffle kind of got lost in the shuffle 64 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:10.039 of basketball and the things went on with football. But they're both ranked and 65 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:15.080 you know, so you almost see what happens going on. The w NBA 66 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.720 Draft has taken place in about thirty minutes here. Obviously, Caitlin Clark is 67 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:23.199 expected to go number one. I'm looking at the ESPN mock draft right now. 68 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:28.360 Uh, Stanford's Cameron Brink is expected to go number two. Camilla Cardoso 69 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:32.920 from that incredible South Carolina team going to project it go she's like six seven, 70 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:35.920 Yeah she is. She's really good. Yeah, she is six seven 71 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:39.040 exactly. Well, you're on you're on the ball today, are I saw 72 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.560 I saw her in the South Carolina game. Yeah. And then Alia Edwards 73 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:45.439 is expected to go number five. I looked, I looked at we were 74 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:47.160 talking about it earlier. There are no Arizona players projected to go in the 75 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:50.519 draft. Okay, I really thought, and I didn't see her very much. 76 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:55.560 You saw her a lot more than men that she could just play. 77 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:59.040 She could she can play. She could play, a very heady player, 78 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:02.120 very smart, very good. But but but this the next level, right, 79 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:05.839 Yeah? But and for five years she's she was tentative to shoot the 80 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:10.120 ball when she was one of the best shooters on the team, which makes 81 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:13.600 makes no sense. I don't know what it was, but you know, 82 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:16.480 look, she you know, she's from Spain. She'll probably get head back 83 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:19.439 home and go, you know, make a decent living, uh back there 84 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:23.519 somewhere, so good, you know, good first she probably got a degree, 85 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:27.639 maybe a couple of degrees. Uh and uh, you know she'll she'll 86 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:30.040 have some good things ahead of her. I really liked her, you know, 87 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:32.079 I liked her, you know from the from the day from her freshman 88 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:34.720 year. I I just thought, this is gonna be a really good player. 89 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:38.759 She was a really good player. But there was that little thing about 90 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:44.360 not having the ability to pull the trigger when you thought she could or should. 91 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:46.480 Right, we still got to get a deal on I'm trying to get 92 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:50.600 on the show. I thought they they took the final four team to the 93 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:56.319 brink, not once, but a couple of times with the seven person roster. 94 00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:59.639 How did that happen? I think it was inspiring, honestly, Yeah, 95 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:01.720 final you know they're they're fine. If you could get past the well 96 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:05.199 why is all this happening? And just watching them for who they were you 97 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:11.079 thought that they were. That was a very gutty gutty team that they that 98 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:14.079 they ended up with. Yeah right, no, no, no question. 99 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:19.759 Uh. She Rices and his friend Teddy Knox are being sued for one million 100 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:24.319 dollars in actual damages and ten million dollars in punitive damages in relation to the 101 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:27.600 crash, the six car crash. Oh yeah, that they started. It's 102 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:30.920 going one hundred and nineteen miles an hour or something like that, So fast 103 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.360 as you've ever gone. Not that fast. I've gone over one hundred on 104 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:39.600 the freeway. Why how does that feel? It was? It was when 105 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:43.120 we had a new car and I didn't know I was going that fast. 106 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.600 You know, on the drive from California, you know that just deserty gap 107 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:51.399 between blythe and and we took it in two weeks ago, you know exactly, 108 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:56.800 and you know I'm driving, I'm like it look like I'm going and 109 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:00.560 I looked down at the adomator I was going like so, I didn't even 110 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.319 know I was going that fast. You're crazy kids. If I don't know, 111 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:06.639 I don't know that, I would guess like once, why I like 112 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:11.879 once, like just to literally because you could, so just to do it 113 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:14.519 the same reason you're asking us the question I was asking myself the question, 114 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:16.759 what does that? What does that feel like? So I did it, 115 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:23.680 But it wasn't in a neighborhood or anything like that, nobody around. But 116 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:27.079 even I mean, what's it's like getting to call it too in the morning? 117 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:30.399 Nothing good, I know. But if you if you have a nice 118 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:32.800 car, okay, which we did at that time, it was it was 119 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:36.920 relatively new, and you've had a bad car, not a bad car, 120 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.319 but a car that you you could feel how fast you were going. Also 121 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:45.560 you got this cortage just glides and then you realize how fast you're going. 122 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:48.319 I've never been I think I've done eighty five minutes and did a couple of 123 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:51.360 couple of trips ago I think a year before last time the way to Vegas 124 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:58.720 for Uhi twelve pack twelve No, it may it might have been November. 125 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.759 And I got in a line of cars that was just going, so I 126 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.839 just stayed with them, and I'm just in the middle of the like four 127 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:09.000 cars in front of me, like four cars behind me, and we're just 128 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:13.240 going on that stretch between Wickenberg and uh yeah and the and the forty and 129 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:16.720 we're just going. And then I said, I look down. We're doing 130 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:18.759 like ninety five and that's not an easy road. That's just that's a narrow 131 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.480 road from Wickenberg to Well. It was one of the two lane you know, 132 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:26.279 where there's two lanes on each side. Okay, it's a small stretch. 133 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:28.879 Yeah, it's a small stretch. But I was just staying with the 134 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.159 traffic and we were we were hauling. But you too wish the death wishes. 135 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:37.000 I have quick reflexes. Oh yeah, see, I wasn't. I 136 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:41.600 was sure. I was never staying. You get up and I was going. 137 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.200 We went about that fast. I'm gonna say, a good twenty minutes. 138 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:46.799 What did I learn from today? A good twenty seconds? Ask me 139 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:50.399 a five o one? What did I learn from the show? Jay has 140 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:58.879 quick griefs as Okay, I've got a little bit of a lead foot sometimes, 141 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:03.240 all right. So the n c A Men's basketball transfer portal ESPN plus 142 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:07.799 Today rankings for the season, and Umaro is the number one transfer available right 143 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:11.080 now. I don't know about the other transfers, Jay, but this is 144 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:16.879 shocking to me. Maybe because he's too close, I can't see the But 145 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:20.399 you've seen more of him than others have seen. Correct, You've seen the 146 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:24.000 miss free throw. Yeah, yeah, I've seen her without her clothes on. 147 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:30.919 That's why she's my ex. We're gonna get go ahead and get cut 148 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:35.039 off here. But you know what I'm saying, I know you know more 149 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.759 about him than maybe some of the others. You know, they see a 150 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:45.159 seven foot one, seven seven you guy, big dude? Uh does really 151 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:52.159 well play? Yeah, you know, and and you know, I guess 152 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:56.320 people coming off of the whole Zach Eaty thing saying that college colleges can still 153 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:00.399 use guys like Umar, right, you know where Umar is, I was 154 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:03.879 probably not going to have much of a shot or maybe he will get some 155 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:07.679 some kind of a shot at the NBA. But yeah, we've seen We've 156 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:11.000 seen more of it than than some others have seen. Uh, okay, 157 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:13.240 I was gonna put you on the spot, Buty w Would you guys like 158 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:18.080 to guess where Colin Boswell ranked on that list of one hundred, one hundred 159 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:24.159 sixty five. Jay, I'm gonna put him in the forties twenty three, 160 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:26.840 twenty three, yell Stevie started, you know, he started on a team 161 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:30.960 that was I've seen number one in the country. I've seen him too much. 162 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:33.799 Yeah, no, I hear you, I hear you. We all 163 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:35.240 have you know, and we saw that. We saw that. We saw 164 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:39.639 the ups and the downs are not just the ups, right, It's like 165 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:41.960 we've seen more than his highlight d It's like the people that kind of not 166 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:48.360 ruined Arizona basketball season in November, this team could be a national title winner. 167 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:52.080 Yeah, honestly, isn't it the same thing when they never really saw 168 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:58.039 the complete resume? Yeah? No, you're right aboute absolutely correct. The 169 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:03.759 Sons and Grayson Allen just inked a four seventy million dollar extension. That's the 170 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:05.759 thing that happened today. I you know, I would never have that guy 171 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:09.840 on my king. You have a back bias too, Yeah, you have 172 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:13.480 a back bias. You could be a I don't really see him playing, 173 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.360 but you have a you have a back buyers. I just he's the kind 174 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:20.039 of guy I would not want on my king. See, but I don't 175 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.840 I don't think he might have changed. He may not be that guy anymore. 176 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:26.159 It does seem like he has matured in whatever way that might meet. 177 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:28.039 He does seem very level headed now. And I don't know, I don't 178 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.120 know. I wouldn't pay anybody more than two million dollars, So I don't 179 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.559 know. Yeah, we were talking about how the NBA none. We were 180 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:37.399 saying, we didn't really pay attention until it's starting to kick off. Well, 181 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.720 they actually have averaged a record eighteen three hundred and thirty two people in 182 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:46.120 attendance per game. That is one and a half percent up from last year. 183 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:48.320 The NBA is booming, apparently, even though it doesn't. It doesn't 184 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:52.399 feel like any we're watching. No, there's some man, there's some arenas 185 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:54.919 that look pretty empty if you ask me, Right, that's what I'm saying. 186 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:58.960 That's kind of how I feel. Well, it's probably because the other 187 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:03.799 teams, the Nicks and the Oklahoma that they just filled it up every because 188 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:07.639 they're winning, right, they're winning, especially somebody like the next have been 189 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:09.080 so bad for so long, all a sudden they're winning. The Kings as 190 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.720 well, the playoff team again, you know, they were so bad for 191 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:16.360 Golden State. Usually does the Phoenix playe to us? The average? What 192 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.440 did Phoenix end up at six? What do they do? What? Oh? 193 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:22.720 Was it wasn't It wasn't a list. It was just so Yeah, 194 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:28.039 but there there's sixty sixteen. People in Phoenix are really down on these guys, 195 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.000 the three the three games, so close to an NBA championship, and 196 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:35.720 they thought that the Big Three, the Big Three quote air quotes, you 197 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:37.440 know, we're gonna we're gonna take them to the promise. They're talking. 198 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:41.120 I was spends a lot of what eight days of the last two weeks there, 199 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:45.639 they're just the chemistry is bad, they're not playing together, all these 200 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:48.240 things. What's wrong? No one's really saying, because you can't really identify 201 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.200 it until you see it. Let's get Jody tomorrow. Uh yeah, yeah, 202 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.000 that's fine, right, Yeah, with the playoffs getting ready, all 203 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:01.559 right, last thing from me obviously with Calipari moving into our and saw he's 204 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:05.120 losing or Kentucky is losing all of their commits. Yeah much. They've lost 205 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:07.679 three five stars, a four star. Three players have transferred out, like 206 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.039 all in the last week. So you think it's because of color Party going 207 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:13.600 to they're playing They went there to play for him. Yeah, they're going 208 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.840 to Yeah, they're following him. You know, Mark Pope comes in Kentucky. 209 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:22.039 Guy, did you see the the Yeah, no, dy, I 210 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:26.759 saw the entrance was that was was crazy very smart, Yeah, very smart, 211 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:30.000 very cool. But you know what the think is ninety six. Well 212 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:31.440 you know what to piss you off a little bit, It was I one 213 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:37.159 in ninety seven. Those dues are old, man. Yeah he was on 214 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:41.559 that team. Those are old. And that's like another Well. I saw 215 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:45.720 Tubby Smith, who remember he took over Kentucky. He was at the year 216 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:50.320 after uh you know, in ninety eight, and I saw him at the 217 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:52.519 final four. That dude is old. He said, right behind us, 218 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:54.879 yeah, right behind us, and it was yeah, he was old, 219 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:00.360 which means that we're old. Three three year old. Dang. I saw 220 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:05.399 that entrance, which Jay okay, so so cal party has this reputation right 221 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.840 bringing athletes here. He's oh, I'm gonna change, nothing's gonna change. 222 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:13.120 He's got the same coaching staff. They're gonna do all. They're just picking 223 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:16.679 up and moving it over there, and they think it's gonna work. Right, 224 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:20.799 We'll see, we'll see, we'll see. Yeah, well, well 225 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:22.799 we won't do it again. Yes you are, because that's what you know. 226 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.240 Yeah, well yeah, you know, and they're going to play for 227 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:26.559 you in Kentucky. Fan I think is just happy to say, okay, 228 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:31.759 that didn't somebody right and see what happens. So good on them. All 229 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:33.159 right, We're gonna take our break when come back and talk some hockey with 230 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.799 road Runners. Uh head coach Steve Potman will be joining us. They're in 231 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:41.559 the playoffs. 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Let Arizona Pest Control get rid of your 297 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:19.519 bad bugs, termites, bees, or rodents serving Tucson and southern Arizona since 298 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:23.759 nineteen forty seven. Go to azpest dot com to schedule your free evaluation. 299 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:30.559 Today. This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez, 300 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:36.400 soun Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Subscribe now to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app 301 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:40.160 just Surgeon I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back to E on the 302 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:42.880 Ball Here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jaco Zalaz 303 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:48.079 Now infoe. We have Steve Pudlin of the Twucson Roadrunners, the head coach. 304 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:51.200 How are you, Steve. I'm doing well, Thank you, Thanks 305 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:53.160 for having us on. Yes, no, great, you guys are rolling 306 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.160 here at the end the end of the season. I go ahead to Jay 307 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:00.240 with your discas I'm going to say, so, you've got a nice position 308 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.720 of your regular season isn't over yet, but you've already clinched the playoffs. 309 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.000 So tell us a little bit about, Hey, your approach this week and 310 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:11.039 then what you're doing to get ready for next week when the playoffs start on 311 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:14.240 Wednesday. I previously said I thought they were this Wednesday, that a week 312 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:17.480 from Wednesday in Tuson. But tell us a little bit about between now and 313 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:19.200 then. What's going on with you guys. Well, we'll between now and 314 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:22.400 then, we have we have three more games. We've got a pretty good 315 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:29.400 rival that we're heading up the interstate to play in Coachella, the first place 316 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:32.400 team, and so they've you know, they've sort of set the standard, 317 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:36.400 so we're looking forward to that matchup. We had a good practice here today 318 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:40.079 and take a bus ride up there tomorrow, and then we finish at home 319 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:44.680 against San Jose and we play them twice before we head off into the playoffs. 320 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.519 And the best thing is that, you know, it's been six years 321 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:52.119 since we've been able to play in front of our fans, so we're looking 322 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:56.200 forward to it. Coach, I think, can you wet here maybe refresh 323 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:59.640 my memories, but I think you guys started out very well at the beginning 324 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:03.519 of the year, and did you kind of see that or set the tone 325 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:07.480 then to what you're seeing now. Yeah, No, definitely we started out 326 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:11.240 really well. I thought the middle part of the season we did a good 327 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:17.839 job of maintaining and then just recently we've you know, emerged again, and 328 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:22.799 I think the guys rallied behind each other and pushed each other, and really 329 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:26.119 they were, you know, very looking forward to the opportunity. A lot 330 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:30.440 of guys have been called up, and we've had some injuries, so some 331 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.279 guys have been really you know, waiting for an opportunity to get a little 332 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:38.359 bit more ice time and put into different situations. So they've been really thriving 333 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:44.200 under that that ice time and the pressure of trying to secure your home ice. 334 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:47.319 Well, what's the big what's what's the toughest part of that challenge in 335 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:49.079 terms of as you said, you know, guys going up and down and 336 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:52.279 and that kind of thing to kind of keep sort of a you know, 337 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:57.119 a team sort of intact and with a with a level of I don't know, 338 00:21:57.319 --> 00:22:00.960 cohesiveness or whatever you want to call it, you know, to be 339 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:03.559 able to play well enough to get to the playoffs. I mean, how 340 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:07.519 hard is that when you've got guys moving around like that, you know what 341 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:11.359 it's it's I think it's it's harder to imagine, but I think when you're 342 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:14.359 in it, you know, we've got so many good players and so many 343 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:18.319 good people that they're they're ready for it, and it's just part of our 344 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:19.960 business. They understand it. Of course, a lot of the players would 345 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:25.240 you know, like to be the ones that are called up and are you 346 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:27.400 know, are getting the opportunity. But if you look at our season, 347 00:22:27.480 --> 00:22:32.440 there's been a lot of call ups, and I think the players all feel 348 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:36.599 valued and they all feel that there's there's an opportunity, and you know they're 349 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:41.839 they're not far and you know, we just try to maintain focus on what's 350 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.759 important right now, but also keeping keeping in mind what their long term vision 351 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:49.519 is. So it all comes for you know, it's all, it all 352 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:52.519 comes down to a long term vision. If they want to play, they've 353 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:56.920 got to remain you know, with a positive attitude and keep on the on 354 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:00.880 the right page in order to give themselves the best. Well, I was 355 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:03.759 going to say, so, do you see that with guys who know they're 356 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:07.160 close or maybe they did go up and they say, okay, I got 357 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:11.119 to get back there. You know, do you see a difference in how 358 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:14.200 they approach things as the as the season goes on, and you know, 359 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:15.720 they get a little more bounce in their step when they know they're that close. 360 00:23:17.799 --> 00:23:19.480 Yeah, you know, I think so, you know, it can 361 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:22.480 it can go both ways. Sometimes guys come down and it takes them a 362 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:26.640 couple of days or you know, a week to kind of get over it 363 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:30.359 a little bit. And then once they settle back in, Yeah, they 364 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:36.599 get right to attack mode and they understand that hey, these next future games 365 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:41.119 are going to impact their their future, and so they they definitely dive into 366 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:45.240 it and they look forward to the progressions, you know. And so sometimes 367 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:48.480 guys come back and they see that it's it's such a cap or it's such 368 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:53.359 a they're they're capable now, and it's it's not they're not that far man. 369 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:56.759 That just builds a lot of enthusiasm and they can't wait to get at 370 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:00.559 it. So was this your second or third year? I think it's your 371 00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:04.799 third year? Correct with these guys, it's been six years with the organization 372 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:08.640 or eight years with the organization. This is my third year of being the 373 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:11.920 head coach, and prior to that, I was the assistant coach. Without 374 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:18.279 the third year, is there sanchie maybe some consistency with a coaching situation where 375 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:21.319 the guys know you, they know your system, and they know what to 376 00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:26.519 expect from you, because three years is very a long time now. Yeah, 377 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:30.319 absolutely. I think the guys that have been here with us understand the 378 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:34.160 process, there's no doubt. And you know, then those players help out 379 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:38.440 with the new players that have, you know, just coming in that they're 380 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:44.839 starting to understand our process and it's good to have some players that were here 381 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:48.839 that can help with that. Is there a good mix, good mix of 382 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:52.119 past and be present? Oh yeah, yeah, we've got a good mix 383 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:56.119 of players that have been here at least you know, for two years or 384 00:24:56.400 --> 00:25:00.480 some of them have been here as long as I've been here, So that's 385 00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:04.039 very helpful. So I'm going to assume that you're probably like most players or 386 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:07.519 coaches, right, you want to get you want to get to the bigs, 387 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.599 and uh, I'm just going to make that assumption. But what's what's 388 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:15.880 the challenge? How different is the challenge at this level? Then maybe what 389 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:19.759 you think you would see, uh in the NHL. You know, I 390 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:23.640 guess in the NHL that's a little bit more predictable. You know, you've 391 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:27.880 got certain guys getting paid certain amount of money, So those guys get a 392 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:33.759 certain amount of minutes, and they're typically you know, in line with the 393 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:37.720 first position in line of you're making the most money. You're probably in one 394 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:41.720 of the first lines, you know, and so on and so forth. 395 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:45.799 I think there's a little bit more predictability that way. Here in the American 396 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:49.599 League, we're a lot about developing development, and so you know, the 397 00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:53.039 young guys are going to play and they're going to have to earn their ice 398 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:56.359 time, and you know the vets are going to have to do the same, 399 00:25:56.480 --> 00:26:00.839 and they're they're expected to help guys, the young players and you know, 400 00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:07.519 hopefully they involve as they help the other players develop and grow as well. 401 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:10.039 So do do you coach them different? I mean, are you are 402 00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:14.000 you spending more time you know, individual coaching with these guys trying to make 403 00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:18.240 them better as opposed to coaching schemes and things like that that you would need 404 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:23.720 to do at the at the at the higher level. Yeah, we teach 405 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:27.880 from from both sides, and you know, we've got assistant coaches and skills 406 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:32.799 coaches that help out with that as well. So you know, I think 407 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:36.759 the guys get a pretty good balance of structure and skills. And you know, 408 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:40.799 what we try to make sure they also understand is that we're trying to 409 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:45.319 create leaders and build leaders and you know, both on and off the ice. 410 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:48.480 So there's a there's a pretty good balance there. And we always say 411 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:52.440 that they start out as prospects and then they turn into pro players and then 412 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:56.000 eventually they turn into men. Yeah. Well, being here three years, 413 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:00.400 I'm assuming that you've noticed this that it in Tucson, if you win, 414 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:04.599 they will come right. How has that been for you with the fans? 415 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:10.640 Oh, it's been great, it's been great. You know, I think 416 00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:15.720 COVID hurts a lot of that process. I think, you know, obviously 417 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:19.039 it kind of set us back a little. But we've had a successful season 418 00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:22.000 and you can see the fans are turning out more and more, and you 419 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:26.240 know, hopefully we can get them back and you know, getting we want 420 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:29.759 them addicted to the sports. So they do, they do come back, 421 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:33.200 and when they do come and watch, most of the times you can see 422 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:36.799 that there's you know, there's going to be some goals, there might be 423 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:40.720 some fights, some heavy hitting. It's an entertaining game. Yeah. So 424 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:42.799 all right, so let's talk about the weekend coming up, your last home 425 00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:45.680 weekend. You've got, as you said, you got San Jose coming in, 426 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:49.119 You've got a fan appreciation night. What do you want that? What 427 00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:52.640 do you want the fans to know about this last series coming up? And 428 00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:56.720 you know, to get them out here. Yeah, you know, we're 429 00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:00.680 we're excited about heading into the playoffs and we want to try to finish as 430 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:06.039 high as possible. So of course, anytime the stadium is full and they 431 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:11.279 get behind us and they bring the energy, it's so helpful for the guys 432 00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:15.039 and we so appreciate them when when they're tiering the guys on and you know, 433 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:19.680 it really makes an impact, a serious impact. It's like having a 434 00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:25.000 sixth man, seventh man on the ice. Yeah, okay, maybe one 435 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:27.119 of the last questions is there's all the talk and fetix about the team moving 436 00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:33.319 what you're probably not even concerned because you have a team to coach, you 437 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.640 know what at this point, Yeah, we want to give our guys the 438 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:41.839 respect and the do and our fans the do of this season. You know, 439 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:47.599 our guys have worked hard to put themselves in this position, and you 440 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:52.160 know, unfortunately, there's not a lot of information out there that's coming from 441 00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:56.920 internal sources. You know, it's we don't really have any information on any 442 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:00.119 of it, and so we're doing the best we can to focus on on 443 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.920 the on the players, our team, and our fans. To be honest, 444 00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:07.680 Well, maybe you can bring home a title title here for the two 445 00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:11.200 sons that have been loyal to you, and then well Tucson needs one of 446 00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:14.640 these titles. Yeah, yeah, Well, thank you all. That would 447 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:15.359 be a lot of that would be a lot of fun. That would be 448 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.920 great. That's our that's our vision. Great. Thank you, Steve, 449 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:21.359 good luck to us, you appreciated, good luck, good luck. This 450 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:23.759 week and in the playoffs. Thank you, fellows. I appreciate being on 451 00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:26.880 sure, thank you so much. Cool. Yeah, and you've been part 452 00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.599 of it, Jay, You've seen it all your life, all your life. 453 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:33.359 I've written stories many years ago, and I can't remember the teams, 454 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:37.039 remember the teams that have come and gone, coming, gone, coming, 455 00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:37.759 gone, coming, gone, And we can say the number of times. 456 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:41.759 Yeah. Well, and you know you brought up the thing at the end 457 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:44.400 of night. You know, I think we feared there wasn't gonna be a 458 00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:48.000 lot that that he Steve could say about what's going on. But you're hearing 459 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.240 that the Coyotes. The NHL is actually forcing to move the Coyotes to to 460 00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:56.920 Salt Lake City. Uh, you know they had they don't have an arena. 461 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:02.720 Uh, they're supposed gonna play in the in the or they've been playing 462 00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:07.440 in the the a s U's small five thousand seed arena. There's a plan 463 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:11.279 to build an arena for the Coyotes, but you know, you're talking about 464 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:14.839 an arena that's not gonna be done for four or five years, and the 465 00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:18.319 NHL doesn't want to wait for that, so they're looking at making the team 466 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:22.160 move to to Salt Lake City, and then the trickle down effect of that 467 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:26.559 might be that the road Runners then possibly move up to Phoenix and play in 468 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:32.920 that arena that's more suited to a minor league balk, What does this mean 469 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.160 to Tucson? What is it in the grand scheme of things of teams coming 470 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:42.000 and going or whatever. Well, you know, there's there's not a hell 471 00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:45.559 a lot that I think Tucson can do in a situation like this. Right, 472 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:51.920 the NHL is forcing this. If this happens, it's happening because in 473 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:53.680 spite of in spite of the right, it's happening because of the Coyotes. 474 00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:57.400 Arizona has nothing to do with this, right, and and so Tucson has. 475 00:30:57.480 --> 00:31:00.160 You know, Tucson is just kind of like, what can we do? 476 00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:06.240 Yeah? You know, now, I've you know, seen some comments 477 00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:07.559 that you know, the owner of the road Runners would like to keep them 478 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:12.440 here, but you know, operationally, you know, if if the big 479 00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:17.119 club is in is in Salt Lake City, it would make more sense for 480 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:19.880 the minor league club to be in Phoenix for easy you know, back and 481 00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:23.319 forth, for players to come and go and those kinds of things. There's 482 00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:27.480 a brand new arena that they can play in and those kinds of things. 483 00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:30.000 So I don't, you know, I don't know, I don't know. 484 00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:33.720 In this particular case, there's much you can do. This is not like 485 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:37.119 spring training right where, you know, I mean, there were a lot 486 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:41.240 of things Tucson could have done better, like built a downtown stadium and those 487 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:45.799 kinds of things. But in the end, you know, spring Training left 488 00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:49.559 because the major league clubs didn't want to piss off their their one hundred million 489 00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:53.599 dollar players and make them take a bus down to Tucson for games. Even 490 00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:56.799 if they would have know that you say, downtown stadium, even if have 491 00:31:56.880 --> 00:32:00.960 they built that many years ago, it probably wouldn't have prevented them from leaving. 492 00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:04.599 No, but I but I but I do think we would have a 493 00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:07.480 minor league, a triple A. It was a downtown true, y true, 494 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:10.680 I think that. Yeah, you know, I don't know that, 495 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:15.279 uh, spring Training would have stayed here because you know, you had you 496 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:17.319 had a team playing a high corbett and two teams playing at the at the 497 00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:21.599 spring training facility. The bigger, the bigger issue there was that you couldn't 498 00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:25.279 get the so called stars of these teams to come down to split their squads 499 00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:29.000 and all the Double A guys would come down for the games here, and 500 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:31.359 fans got tired of seeing that. You know, Barry Bonds wasn't coming down 501 00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:36.200 here, and you and all the all the big big players from those teams. 502 00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:39.680 Why Tucson can't have anything nice? You can't here in your in your 503 00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:42.920 lifetime, now that we have some time, you know about two minutes. 504 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:47.160 Uh. And you're a sports guy kind of kin, kind of which you 505 00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:52.000 were as a kid. Any of the teams that left save you the most, 506 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:54.599 because you've had some volleyball, you've had some baseball, obviously, You've 507 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:59.319 had a lot of different things that have left that the fat bitch, you 508 00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:02.519 know, unfortunately, Steve, I wasn't a big you know, they're like 509 00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:07.880 that. The Tucson Gunners basketball team and the volleyball team. It was it 510 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.880 was like it wasn't even a G league. Well maybe it was a G 511 00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:15.200 league kind of you know kind of for whom was it have no no they 512 00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:16.640 it was its own. It was an independent league. You know, the 513 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:20.759 guys from there would were trying to get into the NBA. So teams like 514 00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:22.880 that. You know, I've never been a hockey guy, so I didn't 515 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.920 you know really follow the hockey. Went a few Ice Cats games, but 516 00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:30.480 you know, so really none. I was sad when when the sidewinder slash 517 00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:34.960 tw I grew up with them, you know, and you know my kid 518 00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:37.200 like going to those those games. We'd like taking the family of those games. 519 00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:40.400 And could we have gone more from sure, but we went to as 520 00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:43.559 many of them as you know, we felt, you know we could. 521 00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:46.640 It was the thing that we would do. Those teams leave. That team 522 00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:50.640 leaving was I was saddened by that. Yeah, and I think that's probably 523 00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:52.799 the most impact because it's recently and there's still a lot of people. I 524 00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:55.880 mean, it depends on the elementary school when they got here. Yeah, 525 00:33:55.960 --> 00:34:00.160 you know when the Tucson Toals, I think nineteen sixty nine, right when 526 00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:04.079 the Indians, you were already here for spring? Can the Indians have been 527 00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.440 here since the late forties. Okay, let's take the break and maybe we'll 528 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:13.199 get some calls. What team left that saddened you when they were here? 529 00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:15.159 I didn't know how good the Gunners were, because they were good. I 530 00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:19.079 think they want a league championship. If they were names will bring those names 531 00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:21.360 up. I don't know who played for them. Yeah, all right, 532 00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:22.880 we'll be back. Give us a call five to zero four one, six, 533 00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:25.840 seventy four forty. 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The A Team Apply online today at a team security dot Net. 576 00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:32.960 Steve Rivera and Jacob Salas they have their eye on the ball on Tucson Sports 577 00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:38.679 Stage Chef Fox Sports fourteen to fifteen, hy welcome back, joining the ball 578 00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:42.239 here on Fox Sports Fortune fifty M. Steve, He's Jay. You got 579 00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:45.400 Kevin with us? We get fifteen minutes. If you want to call five 580 00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:51.159 two zero four, one sixty Yes, I want to make sure you get 581 00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:52.159 pos You got it right. So what did you get from me? The 582 00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:55.559 gunners or the okay? Well, it was one year. They were here 583 00:37:55.599 --> 00:38:00.760 for one year. The Tucson team won the championships for the Old Western Basketball 584 00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:07.239 League championship. It was the seventy seventy nine Trophy. I don't know. 585 00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:12.760 Maybe the coach who was a guy named what the heck was his name? 586 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:17.400 I had it, I had it here. Herb Brown, a guy named 587 00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:22.000 Herb Brown was the coach. Her Brown. Yes, Gerald Henderson was a 588 00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:28.320 player who got to the NBA. UH. Phil Taylor, who played for 589 00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:31.840 Fred Snowden was on that team. There was another NBA guy named Bob Carrington 590 00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:36.079 who got to the NBA. It was a six to five UH. I 591 00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:39.800 guess a forward at that time. Oh one more guy somebody named Norm Cook, 592 00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:44.480 a guy to Kansas who went to the NBA. James Lee, a 593 00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:47.880 player out of Kentucky, played for them. But I remember they played the 594 00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:52.199 games of Catalina High School because at that time Catalina had the best gym, 595 00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:57.599 high school gym in Tucson. That's where people remember the old Tucson Sky Volleyball 596 00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:01.079 Pro Volleyball franchise. They played at Catalina. That was the best best gym. 597 00:39:01.719 --> 00:39:06.000 And in fact, when the Sons came down here and played an exhibition 598 00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:08.559 game for their first season, that's where they had that exhibition game. Really, 599 00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:15.639 this is that's in late sixties Slid Droit Pistons play. Uh, the 600 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:17.880 Sun's there and that was the only that was the only Sons game I'd ever 601 00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:22.159 been to until I went to one probably in the nineties. You didn't go 602 00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:27.920 to the one here when the Sinton was the what with Barkley, Well know 603 00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:30.440 that, but that was that wasn't a Sun's game. That was San Antonio 604 00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:34.119 played. Uh. I thought that was in the Sun. I think so. 605 00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:36.800 I think so I did go that. I did stats for that game. 606 00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:38.679 Yeah, and then the Sons came down here. Will work out maybe 607 00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:40.960 ten years ago, whatever it was. I did stats for that game, 608 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:44.840 and that was weird too, because stats for you know what, you san 609 00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:47.280 Antonio versus somebody, because you know why I remember this Lucas who was the 610 00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:51.400 coach at the time. It was a jerk. He was a jerk. 611 00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:53.519 And then that's how I remember San Antonio. Yeah, but I didn't think 612 00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:58.239 it was the Sun. Yeah, somebody might be right in San Antonio for 613 00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:01.079 sure. I thought, yeah, okay, yeah, I remember where that 614 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:06.719 was. But I remember doing that people whatever, you remember that game was 615 00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:08.559 here? So that was really going to a Sun's game, like you know, 616 00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:15.320 you've been to one since? Wow? One game? Why well, 617 00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:19.679 I've never been that interested in the NBA, and so therefore I was even 618 00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:24.400 less interested in the Phoenix Suns. But you're going they've never you know, 619 00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:30.440 I might have had to go to the bathroom. I don't know. You 620 00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:37.800 know, the Sons have just never been a thing. I know there's some 621 00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:40.920 Suns fans and fans in Tucson, right, but they've just never been embedded 622 00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:45.440 in Tucson. None of the Phoenix teams. The Diamondbacks were for a while, 623 00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:49.239 but the minute they high tailed it at a time after spring training. 624 00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:52.519 Do you find a lot of Diamondbacks fans that do so for the World Series? 625 00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:55.239 Yeah, you don't. I mean I remember one year, not too 626 00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:00.000 long after the the the Cardinals had gotten here. I wanted to take my 627 00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:04.000 son to a Cardinals game. I couldn't find a place to get tickets here 628 00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:07.119 because when they first got here, they used to sell tickets at the Diamonds 629 00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:10.880 or Dillard's box office. Remember you could get so I'm thinking, I was, 630 00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:14.079 you know that's where you I went to Dillards and I said, you 631 00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:15.599 know, stood in line, get to the front of the line. I 632 00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:17.559 said, I need a couple of tickets to the Cardinals. Said, we 633 00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:20.960 don't sell tickets to the Cardinals. They're like, what you know, we 634 00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:23.760 stop selling. This would have been well, you know, well you know 635 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:29.320 who Jake Plumber was playing for, because I remember we had because we ended 636 00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:31.599 up going to a game your son more than ninety four, ninety three, 637 00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:36.400 So it hit mean about ninety eight, yeah, late nineties because his last 638 00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:38.920 Jake plumbers last season with the ACU was ninety six, so was after that 639 00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:44.880 and you couldn't get a ticket, and so you know, I actually called 640 00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:49.480 the Phoenix Suns I mean the Cardinals ticket office and said where do you buy 641 00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:52.000 tickets in Tucson. They said, you can get them out of a vending 642 00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:55.719 machine at a Safeway on the northwest side and one on the east side. 643 00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:00.480 And that's the only place you could get Cardinals tickets in Tucson. I mean 644 00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:04.000 that was before you could get buy tickets on the internet, so otherwise you 645 00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:07.360 had to just go to Phoenix and get a ticket. Now, it wasn't 646 00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:08.719 like they were gonna they were selling ot or anything. Were playing at Sun 647 00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:14.079 Devil Stadium, and we went to a September game and it was one of 648 00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:19.039 the worst football experiences I've ever had, and worst of all worst, worst 649 00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:22.519 of the worst. I shouldn't tell this piece because somebody to make fun of 650 00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:25.039 him. My son made him buy me a chick. My son made me 651 00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:31.559 buy him a Jake Plumber jersey. I hope not. I hope not. 652 00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:39.920 Okay, But it was the point being that the Phoenix teams have never embraced 653 00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:44.679 Tucson ever. They tried. They've tried to. They tried to do that 654 00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:46.480 with the Diamondbacks by doing spring training here, and that was the intent. 655 00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:52.199 But then again, as soon as they couldn't you know, somebody built him 656 00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.119 a nice stadium up there. They said, we're out and Phoenix for the 657 00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:59.119 least whatever years. And you know this better than me being a native, 658 00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:04.199 they've kind of always poop pood Tucson. Yeah, always No, it's just 659 00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:07.480 a monster, you know. And look, the son's Philip, the Phillip 660 00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:09.760 their areena. So they don't need well the Philip because they're winning, right, 661 00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:13.280 there was a time when they weren't winning there nobody's going yeah, but 662 00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:16.039 when a he was playing at sun Devil Stadium and drying crowds of forty thousand, 663 00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:19.960 you know they needed well you know what. In fact, Jay, 664 00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:22.880 this is a topic when I was driving up and I spent a lot of 665 00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:25.360 time, I just said in Phoenix, Uh a issue? Would they because 666 00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:30.000 the the guys at the radio show. Now I'm gonna forget go ahead right 667 00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:31.880 now, let's take this call. Hig you're on the R and I on 668 00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:37.239 the ball. Hey Jay, Hey, what's going guys? Hey, J 669 00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:40.519 I just found out your brother plays golf with my father. That's pretty cool, 670 00:43:40.599 --> 00:43:44.639 man, because that must mean he's really is your father really old? 671 00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:49.320 Because my brother's really old, My father's really old. Yeah, over seventy. 672 00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:52.400 But yeah, no, but it was just funny. Your your brother's 673 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:55.159 got his name's got to be it's not j but it's like that, it's 674 00:43:57.039 --> 00:44:00.639 it's Gene, It's Gene Gene. Yeah. I don't know. It starts 675 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:05.559 with that that like wow, yeah, yeah, I know, jing gons 676 00:44:05.599 --> 00:44:08.679 dolls And I was like Jacobs All like no, Jinginsalls, I'm pretty sure. 677 00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:14.360 Yeah, on the radio, and he called your brother and your brother 678 00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:16.880 picked up and he's like, yeah, no, my brother's on the radio. 679 00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:19.719 Yeah, I don't know. I thought it was kind of funny. 680 00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:23.039 Yeah, no, he's any No, what are you going to say is 681 00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:27.320 that you didn't call just to tell me your dad knows my brother, did 682 00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:31.639 you? Kind of but not really. Guys wanted to what you guys thought 683 00:44:31.639 --> 00:44:37.320 about the Coyotes being shipped out. Yeah, you know, it doesn't register 684 00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:38.599 for us. I don't think, you know. I mean, I think 685 00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:42.920 it's meaningful for a lot of people if the Roadrunners leave with them, right, 686 00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:45.800 because there's I know, there's a lot of Roadrunners fans in Tucson, 687 00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:47.760 so I mean, I'm not specifically one. I've been to a couple of 688 00:44:47.840 --> 00:44:52.159 games, but I think there's a lot of a lot of there's still some 689 00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:54.239 hockey fans here and you know, you know, I mean the ice Cats 690 00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:59.079 used to drop big, but I think that I think the Roadrunners have a 691 00:44:59.119 --> 00:45:00.800 pretty good following. I I think it'd be a lot of disappointed people if 692 00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:05.159 that, if that happened. I mean, if if just the Coyotes go 693 00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:07.760 to Salt Lake City and the road Runners are still here, I think there's 694 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:10.880 minimal impact. But if the road Runners high tailored out of here too, 695 00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:14.559 I think they'd be So are you calling because you're a fan or are you 696 00:45:14.719 --> 00:45:17.960 just curious? I'm just curious what you guys like if you guys are more 697 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:22.360 in the know that I'm in the know. I heard that that that the 698 00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:28.079 that the mayor of Scottsdale kind of shut it all down, and I guess 699 00:45:28.199 --> 00:45:30.679 that's why it's all happening. Yeah, you're not He said, you're not 700 00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:32.079 moving to our place, and he kind of softened it a little bit. 701 00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:35.280 But it's not gonna happen though, kind of like it's kind of like they 702 00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:38.320 well and I don't know if there's something with the with the with the Coyotes 703 00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:44.280 organization that rubs people wrong up there, or because they they basically got kicked 704 00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:46.039 out of the Glendale Arena. Uh, you know, they asked them to 705 00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:51.000 leave. So I don't know, I don't know what the deal is on 706 00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:52.880 that. Well you can come. You guys were just talking about, you 707 00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:58.119 know, like how like Peenage kind of rubs people the wrong way down here. 708 00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:01.000 How you were talking about, hey to go to Dillard's to wait in 709 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:06.159 the line to get tickets. Yeah, like they don't seem to bring us 710 00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:09.480 two into their market, like we have to go out of our way to 711 00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:14.440 go get there, right and to go see their teams. So yeah, 712 00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:17.320 I don't know, it's that came up in my head. Yeah, you 713 00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:22.159 started talking about that, how it's hard for you to even go there or 714 00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:24.440 even want to go to a game or anything like that. I mean, 715 00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:29.320 that's the that's the issue that I've had forever here, you know, I 716 00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:32.000 mean I grew up here. So it just it just didn't seem like the 717 00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:37.760 Phoenix organizations really it kind of felt like they didn't need the Tucson fans. 718 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:43.360 So they just so what's your name real quick? You're calling it George, 719 00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:45.760 I'm talking oh yeah, yeah, or your voice, Well George, you 720 00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:49.559 can call us Gene. You can call us Ray, just don't call for 721 00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:55.440 dinner. You guys have a good day, man, appreciate we're making your 722 00:46:55.480 --> 00:47:00.199 family favorite. Well, speaking of my brother Jean, who does that with 723 00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.519 me, he just texted me it was the Suns that played in that exhibition 724 00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:07.400 with Barkley was on that case because Sidon had to have some connection to the 725 00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:09.920 Suns. Yeah, but it was so it was the San Antonio and the 726 00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:14.679 Suns. So so go back to the thought I had real quick. So 727 00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:16.639 I was up there listening to Bicley and all those guys, and and how 728 00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:22.320 back in the day there was only the Suns and ASU right right, And 729 00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:25.000 that's probably where I thought. Maybe that's everyone said it was a sleeping Giant 730 00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:29.679 because people went because there was two options right right for the pro Now it's 731 00:47:29.719 --> 00:47:32.639 a major league city with so many options. But now they're losing this h 732 00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:37.440 And now that makes sense how a issue is kind of dwindled because of the 733 00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:42.079 dollars A SU had seventy two thousand seat stadium that they filled up every game. 734 00:47:42.199 --> 00:47:45.360 You couldn't get tickets to the total sense now and and and when the 735 00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:50.280 Cardinals came in, When when the Cardinals came in. You knew that that 736 00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:52.320 was going to be the end of that, and it was. It makes 737 00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:54.559 total sense, but it was put piecing it together. And there were you 738 00:47:54.599 --> 00:47:59.679 know, because because Phoenix comes off as a as a major because hey, 739 00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:02.119 we're we're poop poop poop, right, we're a major league city. This 740 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:06.119 is another chink, uh, not a like a what do you call it, 741 00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:10.760 a king or in the in the armor of being the hostel. Yeah, 742 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:14.400 yeah, we're they're leaving, right, which is they're not as major 743 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:19.320 league anymore. Yeah. No, so I you know, again, if 744 00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:23.599 they if they needed Tucson, they would they would come out sure, and 745 00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:29.639 I think the Diamondbacks kind of felt they did initially and they did. You 746 00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:34.079 know, they they established a lot of Tucson fans in that time, but 747 00:48:34.199 --> 00:48:37.880 then they left and now maybe there's still some of them around. Like my 748 00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:40.840 sister is a huge Diamondbacks fan. But you know, if you're ten years 749 00:48:40.880 --> 00:48:45.239 old, but she's she's also up there. No, she's here laying my 750 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:47.679 sister and she was here, she was up in pieces. Yeah yeah. 751 00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:51.920 But you know, if you're if you grew up here, let's say you're 752 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:54.239 fifteen years old, you've never been to a spring training game in Tucson, 753 00:48:54.280 --> 00:48:57.119 so you don't really care about the diamon. Right, So you're a Dodger 754 00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:00.760 fan, or you're a you're an Angels fan, or you're a Yankee fan 755 00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:06.519 or whatever. So and there was another thing, Uh, the two teams. 756 00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:10.000 I just lost my thought again as usual, Uh, of the importance 757 00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:14.599 of oh when when the Cardinals finally got here, right, they weren't the 758 00:49:14.639 --> 00:49:20.360 Arizona Cardinals they were, and that pissed people. Pissed people. Yeah, 759 00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:23.400 that really because because when they when they were coming here, they talked about, 760 00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:28.079 oh, we're gonna be Arizona's team, and then they named themselves the 761 00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:31.880 Phoenix Cardinals. Well that alienated all the Tucson fans. So that that was 762 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:37.880 that. So you know again, it's just that was just very typical of 763 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:43.679 what what what Uh, you know, those teams have done and those organizations 764 00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:45.239 have done. And that's fine. If you just want to be Phoenix, 765 00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:50.280 then be Phoenix. But don't don't get pissed off if you're not being supported 766 00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:52.519 by Tucson fans. You know, well Tucson never supports as well because you 767 00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:57.079 never supported du Sure, of course, it's it's a chicken and egg thing, 768 00:49:57.199 --> 00:50:00.760 right, Yeah, but they've always felt that way, even even today. 769 00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:04.039 You know, where are you from, Tucson, Okay? So whatever, 770 00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:07.639 And that's probably at least in the schools, in the school systems why 771 00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:13.119 they hate each other so much in the big city Phoenix in Arizona. Yeah, 772 00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:16.320 yep. So I don't know, you know, And it looked it 773 00:50:16.440 --> 00:50:21.480 may may all sound like sour grapes to you know, to Phoenix people when 774 00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:24.440 we're talking about it. Oh, you don't love us. Well, yeah, 775 00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:28.119 he's got to be real, you know. There has to, yes, 776 00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:30.599 exactly, there has to be a give and take. You know. 777 00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:32.800 I think I've told this story before when I was when I was the two 778 00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:37.000 Sound Electric Okay, and I had been involved with the Diamondbacks, and the 779 00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:40.679 Phoenix Suns felt like they wanted to come down and establish a presence here. 780 00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:45.599 The Cardinals wanted to come and establish a presence here. And they sent uh 781 00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:49.360 Michael Bidwell down here with a couple other you know, cardinals, and they 782 00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:52.800 met with some people they thought, some community people, sports minded community people. 783 00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:54.519 And I got called in to this meeting and they came down here and 784 00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:55.880 said, well, we want to do this. We want to do this, 785 00:50:57.199 --> 00:50:59.039 And I said, look, if you want to, if you want 786 00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:01.199 to Son to support you, you've got to come down here. You got 787 00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:06.199 to come down here. Maybe come practice for a week, maybe play an 788 00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:09.719 exhibition game, do some stuff in the community. Okay, they did that 789 00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:14.400 for one season. They came down here one season, one preseason, held 790 00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:17.639 a few practices here, made a couple of appearances, never played an exhibition 791 00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:22.599 game here, and then they never came back again. And so they asked 792 00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:27.800 and we told them, and then they kind of you know, I have 793 00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:30.480 this cut in my leg. What should I do for it? Can you 794 00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:31.719 tell me? And then I don't do it? Yeah, put a band 795 00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:35.039 aid on it. Well I don't really like band aids. Yeah, you 796 00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:37.360 know whatever. There was a phrase for that, but I don't want to 797 00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:42.280 see that. All right, all right, Well it's good to be back, 798 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.760 Steve. I'm glad you came back different. So we're gonna gout. 799 00:51:46.239 --> 00:51:49.559 You know, we'll have plenty of stuff to talk about. This transfer portal 800 00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:53.599 thing is just something new every fifteen minutes or so. Caitlin Clark did did 801 00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:57.280 draw the number one pick in the draft. Cameron Brink went number two. 802 00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:00.039 Cameron Brink the Stanford player number two. So all right, we'll be back 803 00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:05.800 tomorrow three o'clock. Give us a call, follow the podcast and we'll see you tomorrow