WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:05.519 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez Son Fox Sports 2 00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:11.080 fourteen to fifteen. Subscribe now to the podcast on the iHeartRadio while just surgery. 3 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:14.000 I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back to My the Ball here 4 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:16.839 on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve, He's Jay, and now we 5 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:21.519 have Ryan with breaking news. Let's get in right into it. A video 6 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:29.879 click don't work. We're gonna start with the Arizona Ball first college foot ball 7 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:35.520 game to offer in IL money to players, to all players from each team 8 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.560 for me from both teams. We gotta get more details on this. But 9 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:45.439 Snoop Dogg went and put a video up on social media and the there was 10 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:51.039 some comment from from Kim Aderer but that when the players come to town and 11 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.000 they do this anyways, right, they go to hospitals and they go to 12 00:00:54.119 --> 00:00:57.039 you know, stuff like that, that when they come to town, they're 13 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:00.359 gonna ask them to do some community work. But every play player will get 14 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:06.120 some ni L money by participating in the bowl game. You know, there's 15 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:10.079 a lot of discussion about the implications of that because there's so many players, 16 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:12.560 no players who opt out of their games, right because they you know, 17 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:15.959 go off and do whatever they're gonna do. Uh. They don't want to 18 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:19.239 get hurt. They want to get ready for the NFL. Whether or not, 19 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:23.159 this would be the type of thing that could entice players to uh just 20 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.400 stick around and you know, play an extra game. Some maybe not because 21 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:27.519 you know, like some of the guys that opt out, they're gonna make 22 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.280 a lot of money in the end in the NFL or whatever, So it 23 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:33.560 might not be but for other players it might. It might be enough for 24 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:38.159 them to play. So this nile thing continues to evolve, evolved. I 25 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:41.959 want to bring up a subject after when we have time at the end of 26 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.319 the end of the hour. Yeah, so, uh, but an interesting 27 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:48.319 announcement. We'll have to get more from uh, from Kim and those guys, 28 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:52.079 uh when that time comes along. So let's switch over to the MLB. 29 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:59.079 Some news about one of the one of the games probably worst umpires is 30 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:06.120 effective. Immediately that that brought a big cheer from a lot of people yesterday. 31 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:09.759 He's been bad. If he's bad and we all know that he's bad, 32 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:14.039 how did you continue to be bad? That was my question. It's 33 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.840 like, okay, if I'm doing I mean, the things they have video 34 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:20.840 of his bad calls, Like, how did he how did he keep his 35 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:23.879 job? I never understood that, Like I get and look, I'm not 36 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:25.319 you know, I mean, you know, I've been laid off a couple 37 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:29.919 of times. I'm not up for people losing their jobs, right, But 38 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.120 on the other hand, if you can't do the job, then somebody else 39 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:37.680 should be able to get that job. And it's it's not like you do 40 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:42.039 that job in private, right, you're doing it. This is people are 41 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:44.520 seeing it. People are seeing it. And worst of all, over the 42 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:46.479 last few years, people are gambling on it. And now you make a 43 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:51.719 bad call, uh, and and somebody loses some money on it, and 44 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:55.800 that's you know, that's bad. But he's he's you know, he's been 45 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:01.879 widely considered possibly the worst umpire in the history of baseball, certainly you know, 46 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:06.240 in this generation, because of like you said, everything's on video. 47 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:10.360 Now. I thought he was the umpire who made the bad call at first 48 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:15.479 base on that perfect game that that Detroit pitcher had. Oh it wasn't him, 49 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:17.960 that was somebody else. Yeah. Well, no, I think they're 50 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:23.680 pushing back the automatic camera for the balls and strikes to at least twenty twenty 51 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:27.479 six. Really, that's what I saw over the weekend. So it's not 52 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:30.280 gonna happen anytime soon. They're gonna do wait another year after this. And 53 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:32.759 we don't like it, right, you don't. I don't like it, 54 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:38.479 and I don't. I mean, yes, I yell like everybody else when 55 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:43.520 when a batter for the Dodgers gets a ball called, you know, off 56 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.199 the strike zone and gets called a strike, you know, in back to 57 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:51.800 back at bats showy Otani last week was called got to call third strike on 58 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:54.319 pictures that were a good two or three inches out of the strike zone. 59 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:59.879 But on the other hand, I don't want to see an umpire sitting back 60 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:03.120 and has to wait for a beep in his ear or whatever to call it 61 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:06.919 whether it's a ball or a strike. And I still want the human element 62 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:11.479 in there, so and and you just you just suck it up and deal 63 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:15.199 with it. Yeah, I mean. Another thing is like they need to 64 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:18.240 be more consistent on both on both sides. You know, they need to 65 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:21.000 they're going to call it for one team, they need to call it for 66 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:25.959 the other team. Right, there's so many games where it's like, well, 67 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:30.040 the biggest thing that that that that baseball. The biggest problem that baseball 68 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.600 players have with an umpire is when it's not consistent. They said, if 69 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:38.920 you're bad, be consistently bad. Kind Well, it's kind of a sick 70 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.279 way to think about it. But if you're gonna call this pitch three inches 71 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:45.560 off the strike zone, call it like that for everybody, that's what they 72 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.000 want. You just answered why you had a job for so long. Consistently 73 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:53.079 bad for all these years. But I'm not saying allow you to continue to 74 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:55.839 be consistently bad. But I'm just saying that, you know, in the 75 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:58.920 course of a game, if an umpire, you know that would see, 76 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:01.360 okay, the umpire said strikes. Okay, that's the strike zone tonight. 77 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:05.680 Yeah right, And that might not be the strike zone for that umpire the 78 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:10.240 next time he's or maybe that's always his strike zone. And you know, 79 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.920 if this umpire is umpiring, he's calling this pit. If I'm a right 80 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:16.839 handed hitter, he's calling this pitch two inches off the outside corner every time. 81 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.480 If you know that, you're okay with that, sure, I mean 82 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:25.199 you wish you'd bring it in, You're okay with There's also the human factor 83 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.680 of sometimes you're writing sometimes wrong and the opinions better. By the way, 84 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:31.720 anybody, the person who tried to call us last hour, you go ahead 85 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.920 and free fe feel free to call us now, Yeah you can. We'll 86 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:39.199 break into this. Yeah, all right, let's switch you over to the 87 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:44.839 ladies. PGA. Lexi Thompson twenty nine years old. She's retiring from golf 88 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:50.000 full time. What yep, Lexi Thompson's retiring. Yeah, she's twenty seven, 89 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:55.839 twenty, Yeah, she's retiring. She's gonna spit her family and friends 90 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:58.480 and all that stuff. She's got a lot of titles too, Like fifteen, 91 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:02.319 she was. She was the the hottest golfer for a good period of 92 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:08.720 time, not like Nelly Cord now who's won like six tournaments in a row, 93 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:11.399 got beat. She's, you know, hands down favorite to win the 94 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:14.240 next major. So if she was, she didn't win like that. But 95 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:16.319 she was the most dominant, you know, she was the dominating golfer for 96 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:20.000 a couple of years. There really good one of those like six foot tall 97 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:23.720 golfers that just can knock the hell out of it, hell out of the 98 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:26.079 boy. I think she tried to play in a I think she played in 99 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:30.839 a PGA tournament and didn't didn't farewell, but twenty nine years old man, 100 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:31.920 but she made a bunch of money, so she probably got You know, 101 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:38.639 she can do it because you her fifteen career worldwide wins and eleven PGA Tour 102 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:42.000 wins right there, you go, it's pretty good. Good number. The 103 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:45.839 good thing is the good thing for people like that at any level, in 104 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:48.279 any sport or life. Actually, when you're able to call your old shot 105 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:51.240 yeah and say goodbye and say yeah, isn't that the best? Yeah, 106 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:54.879 I'll be living, I'll be working here till I'm ninety. Yeah. You 107 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.000 know, maybe she wants to go have babies and stuff, you know, 108 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:00.439 I mean esperiously, you know, raise a family and stuff. If you 109 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:02.879 if you do that, you know the the you know, the the grind 110 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:06.279 of a of an LPGA career. You know, it makes it tough to 111 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:11.120 have a family, you know, and some players do, but it's hard. 112 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:14.399 And look, you and I know it's hard enough to raise a family 113 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:18.800 without without being you know, traveling every weekend and stuff like without question. 114 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:23.160 Yeah, yeah, well good for her. So sticking with golf, we're 115 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:28.759 gonna move over to the University of Arizona Men's golf season ended this weekend yeap 116 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:34.439 over in Carlsbad. They were number fifteen and the end of their weekend fifteenth 117 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:38.839 place at forty one over Park. Yeah, they were trying to They needed 118 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:44.000 to get into the top eight to get into the final round of stroke play 119 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:47.920 and then and they didn't get there, so to get into the match play 120 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:51.240 and they didn't get there. So but you know, they got pretty far. 121 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:57.079 So good, good season. Yep, We're gonna stick with. So 122 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:01.600 it was just recent news. Back to the Major League Baseball. The Negro 123 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:09.040 League's statistics will be incorporated on Wednesday, so tomorrow, into the into the 124 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.920 MLB. The MLB, so part of that will be part of their MLB 125 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.279 stats is what you're saying, right, Because like players like Jackie Robinson, 126 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:20.839 Willie Mays, Hank Aaron Hank, Aaron, Don Newcombe, all these guys. 127 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.959 So I wonder if that gets Hank Aaron up past Barry Bonds for home 128 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:30.079 runs. Has there been anything about that to look into that. It just 129 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:33.320 just broke. It just broke. I would have loved that. I would 130 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:39.759 have loved that. Get out of here Berry the cheater. But I'm not 131 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.159 bitter, no at all. You know what, I'm glad about that he 132 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.799 never won a World Series. I'm really glad about that they never cheated his 133 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:50.279 way to the world So I was gonna open up ten of WORL I know, 134 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:54.080 okay, all right, And the last thing I got is just NBA 135 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:56.519 NBA playoffs. Oh yeah. The Celtics are now in the finals. So 136 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:01.720 we're down to three teams in the playoffs, and I his Game four between 137 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:03.279 the Wolves and the Mavericks. To lose any money over the weekend, No, 138 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:05.840 I didn't bet because I didn't know which way to go with any of 139 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:07.679 them. But let me tell you, I know who made a lot of 140 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:13.279 money this weekend for the playoffs. TJ. I don't know his contract now, 141 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.639 and no one's getting paid a lot of money. He's we were talking 142 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:18.200 about this last night. He's supposed to make nine million dollars next year. 143 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:22.879 He's going to make more eventually, because the dude, as hard as he 144 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:24.679 plays and as well as he plays, is going to land on a team 145 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:28.480 that needs him and we'll say and we'll use it and come come with us. 146 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:33.080 Unless he loves his place where he's not, and he probably does. 147 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:37.840 But he'll be ten years into the league many people, probably including me, 148 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:43.120 didn't think he'd be one. No, yeah, and and you know, 149 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:46.000 yeah, and he's wrapping up his this is his tenth year, right, 150 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:50.679 so no, no, n this is so next year will be his tenth 151 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.360 year. Okay. Well, and he's not an airport guy, definitely not 152 00:09:54.399 --> 00:10:01.399 an airport. Watching the game the other night, my daughter maid made the 153 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:05.840 comment of he's so little, and he's really not. But when you see 154 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:11.279 him among the trees of the the NBA players right where even the even the 155 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:15.279 the two guards are six six seven and six eight, you know you see 156 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.679 him, right, he's what maybe six two the most? You know he 157 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.240 does. There are times when you know, you just get a camera shot 158 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:26.279 of him and they're shooting his head and then somebody walks by and all you 159 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:28.279 can you can't see them from the neck up because they're out of the camera 160 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:33.480 shot. And then she would just say that he does seem kind of kind 161 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:35.440 of little out there. I was just happy that, you know, he 162 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.919 got this far with that team and he's doing so well. He's he's just 163 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:43.440 one of those guys you cheer for. Oh is that it? So? 164 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:48.759 So today's the twenty eighth I'm assuming I'm assuming correctly or otherwise, the klab 165 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:52.720 Love will let us know tonight or tomorrow to the twenty ninth is the day, 166 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:56.600 right, Yeah, whether he's gonna come or go or stay or do 167 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:00.960 whatever, because he's got he's got like three options. Come back to Tucson 168 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:05.399 and play for Ubay, stay in the NBA and take his chances league, 169 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:09.080 or go to another school, right or go to another school. I think 170 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.919 he can do that, or or you know, G League Europe or whatever. 171 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:18.399 Yeah, I imagine and Broadley too, because he isn't he hasn't said 172 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.519 anything. I imagine that he's his goal is to get in the NBA. 173 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.080 So he's not gonna leave Arizona to go play overseas for now. I don't. 174 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:28.480 I wouldn't think. I would think he's either going to come back here 175 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:35.600 or another school and stay on the radar for the NBA rather than go overseas. 176 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:41.039 But his chances will get into the NBA are probably equal because he well, 177 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.279 let me ask you, if he's not ready for the NBA today, 178 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:48.120 today, tomorrow or otherwise, do you think he's going to be ready for 179 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:52.080 the NBA in a year. It's hard to know, Steve. If you 180 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.559 know, he makes other parts of his game better if he has better Let's 181 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:56.759 say he's a great shooting here. Let's say he's one of the top three 182 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:00.600 point shooters in the country. Yeah, maybe because you can say, well, 183 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:03.360 he worked on a shot, that's what he needed to do, But 184 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:05.159 he's got to do a lot of things. Part of what you would hope 185 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:11.039 is that in going through this process, both him, Jade and Bradley whatever 186 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:15.960 he's been doing j lewis that they got a sense of, Okay, this 187 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.559 is what I need to do now. Flip side of that is you worry 188 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:26.240 that are they going to sacrifice the team right, right right to do the 189 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:31.120 things to help themselves. Sure, he's gonna shoot more, is he gonna 190 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:35.960 shoot less? Is he going to force some things because that's what he was 191 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:41.720 told he needed to do in order to be an NBA player, And he's 192 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:46.279 going to do those things to the detriment of what Tommy Lloyd wants. And 193 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.679 there's the dilemma because if you you what he needs to do is work on 194 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:52.639 a shot, obviously, become more consistent, right and maybe even he can't 195 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:58.919 go into those right and become more of a point guard ball handling guy. 196 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:01.799 I don't know if he's that guy, but the shot for sure. The 197 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:03.799 thing is he gonna be one year older. No, he's gonna be twenty 198 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.440 three, twenty four. And in the league where it's a young league, 199 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:11.320 there's a lot of things. Yeah, and don't forget Jay and I l 200 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:13.960 how much budget deserves ought to have to pay all to pay him. Doesn't 201 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:16.519 have the money to get him back. And if they might say, we 202 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:20.120 won't have any money for you, he'll go somewhere. Yeah, And we 203 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:22.759 don't know, We don't know the answer to that. I imagine he's gonna 204 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:24.840 play college basketball next year. That's mine, that's my that was my guest. 205 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:31.039 My guess he's playing college basketball somewhere. I think it's probably about And 206 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:35.279 I don't have anything to base this on. Sixty forty Yeah, I'm gonna 207 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:37.919 say about a sixty five percent chance that he's coming back here. Oh no, 208 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:39.360 no, okay, I was gonna say, what's the percentage of people 209 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.159 who want him back? Oh, that's sixty four. I was saying sixty 210 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:46.159 forty. Yeah. There are some people out there who think that they they'd 211 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:48.480 rather not have the packed ball player of the year back and I don't. 212 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:52.240 I don't get that, but okay, I know some of those people. 213 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:54.639 Yeah, no, I do too. Okay, No, I hear you. 214 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:58.080 I think anything else. I think anything else breaking news? Yeah, 215 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.039 real, real quick. As I saw this, you know it's not breaking 216 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:05.240 news, but it's it's something I thought was very interesting. So there are 217 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:11.360 six teams, six teams or six schools that had a team make an FBS 218 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:16.360 bowld make the NCAA tournament, and men's and women's basketball, baseball, and 219 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:22.679 softball. So those five things and the six are Tennessee, Alabama, Duke, 220 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:28.519 Texas, A and M Texas and and pretty good company. That's pretty 221 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.279 cool. I mean you see these logos and which logo doesn't belong there? 222 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:37.559 Right, there's a one two? Well what Texas if you count Texas is 223 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.440 an SEC school coming up? You know four teams are going to be in 224 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:45.080 the SEC next year, an ACC team and then Arizona. So there you 225 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:46.679 go, all right, sacred break. 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Randy A seta here inviting you to join us for the TMC 298 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:51.640 Meet Me Downtown five k Night Run and Walk coming up on Saturday night, 299 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:56.640 June first, and featuring the free Raising Caines High School Mile, a free 300 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:00.960 kids mile, and rock and roll on the main stage. This is Tucson's 301 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:07.559 biggest running party. See run Tucson dot net for all the details. Steve 302 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:12.799 Rivera and Jacin Salles they have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson Sports Stage 303 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:18.720 Chat Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to Eying the Ball here 304 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:22.359 on Fox sportsporteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jackins always Snow on the 305 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:26.440 phone. We have Bryce Miller, columnists for the San Diego Union Tribune. 306 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.880 Bryce, how are you doing well? How about you guys? Fine? 307 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:33.680 Thank you? Before the show started about an hour ago. I'm taking and 308 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:38.920 one of my buddies from a long time ago USA today is uh uh, 309 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:42.960 I forgot your name, Bryce, Bryce? You forgot your name right? 310 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:47.960 Just get an old Bryce. You know that you know? Yeah? Yeah, 311 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:51.599 Well it's always nice to know that you've left kind of a lasting impression. 312 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:56.160 Well you did yesterday when I saw your call him on Bill Walton. 313 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.759 What a fantastic story on him. You've known him for a while. How 314 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:06.359 many stories have you done on him? Oh? I don't have any idea. 315 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:11.440 I would guess I don't know. Maybe at least ten, maybe, 316 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:17.519 well more so. I tried to I tried to lean on him when I 317 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:22.359 could because he's just such a fascinating guy. We will will we'll have our 318 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:26.599 different impressions of him. What before you go into the story, what was 319 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:34.119 your blasting impression of him? Just how how singular he is he and I 320 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:38.000 mentioned it in the column, he's kind of one of one. Uh, 321 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:44.000 there there won't be another Bill Wilton. Sometimes people say there will never be 322 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:48.079 another this guy or that guy. But but in Walton's case, it's true. 323 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:55.000 The combination of his you know, Hall of Fame basketball success and then 324 00:21:55.200 --> 00:22:03.519 the humanitariany was the philanthropist that he was just the kind souls particularly meaningful in 325 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:07.839 San Diego, because like I had written, he's not just the biggest cheerleader 326 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:11.039 and ambassador for this city. He's kind of the soul of it. He's 327 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:15.640 he's as San Diego a thing about San Diego as there is in a lot 328 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:19.240 of ways. But he just even though San Diego is the eighth largest city 329 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:22.480 in the country and people don't always think of it being that size, it 330 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:26.640 kind of has that reputation of a you know, sleepy coastal found out here 331 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:33.319 in the corner. Despite that, almost everybody in the city seemingly has a 332 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:37.400 story about meeting him. He was just out there. He was available, 333 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:45.559 he interacted with people and just giving money and supporting causes on every level. 334 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:49.319 He was just a completely singular human being. Was he was he able to 335 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:53.880 you know, be around town and you know, live his life and that 336 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:59.359 kind of thing. Or was he just a guy that attracted folks everywhere he 337 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:02.880 went? I mean, how did San Diego handle him as far as that 338 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:08.200 goes? Well? And everybody wanted to be around him. But he was 339 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:14.559 kind of known for you know, he had nearly forty surgeries in his life 340 00:23:14.759 --> 00:23:21.200 related to all his injuries and everything from foot to back to almost everything in 341 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:25.880 between. And he had told a colleague of mine years ago that he had 342 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:32.519 considered suicide because the cane was so intense and unrelenting. And but once he 343 00:23:32.599 --> 00:23:36.960 got a surgery that allowed him to get back on his bike. He loved 344 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:41.559 his bike. In fact, there's a statue that was commemorated in twenty sixteen 345 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.079 to him and the statue it's a huge bronze statue. It's him and his 346 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.680 bike. The bike is part of the statue. But once he did that, 347 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:51.359 you just couldn't keep him off that bike. He would even in my 348 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:55.759 little community. We see him come through, and so many people have stories 349 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:57.480 about, Oh I saw Bill on his bike today. You know he didn't. 350 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:02.359 He didn't hide in his house on the edge above the park. He 351 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:06.440 got out and lived life. If there were community events, if there were 352 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:10.359 plays, if there were concerts, if they were charity events, it was 353 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:17.279 just Bill was always there. He was unbelievably, unrelentingly there. And so 354 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:19.880 he lived his life and he lived it right in the part of this city 355 00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:26.039 and among people. And that's why so many people were affected by this, 356 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.200 and it was the sense of loss was so profound because again, almost everybody 357 00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:33.680 felt like they knew him in some way. Yeah, no question, We 358 00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:36.319 talked about that. Yeah, everybody has a photo of him. How I 359 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:38.039 made him at this place or that place. There was a there was a 360 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:41.319 quote in your story that struck me, and I got a screenshot of it. 361 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:45.000 You can tell me who said it, And this was about him. 362 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:49.079 Athletes usually aren't very good about giving back because they're trained to take all their 363 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:52.119 life, and I thought that was brilliant. But if you get it and 364 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:56.599 realize that the real honor is to give back to your community, Bill Relish 365 00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:02.319 is that that was fantastic. Yeah, that was the late kind of iconic 366 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:07.640 broadcaster. Dick Embert he had told me at the time when I was writing 367 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:10.720 that piece about Bill, and I think it was in relation to the statue 368 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:15.279 being unveiled. They became great friends. Obviously, Dick covered him during his 369 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:19.119 the heyday of the u c l A winning all those national titles, so 370 00:25:19.880 --> 00:25:26.200 they had that exposure between them in the UCLA days, but then both living 371 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:30.359 in San Diego, that developed into something more. And you know, Dick 372 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:33.039 brought up a really good point. You didn't hear a lot of from a 373 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:38.359 lot of people as athletes at that level of success. For him not to 374 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:45.119 be selfish, for him not to have a gigantic ego that matched his size, 375 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:48.559 that's another thing that made him special. Thank you. You mentioned you 376 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:52.640 thought you had ten, maybe a dozen stories about him. What were the 377 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:56.160 when you want when you needed to do a story wanted to do Stroy. 378 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:59.039 Where were some of the things that you felt you needed to talk to him 379 00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:02.400 about or that you needed to bring to your readers. What did you want 380 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:07.440 them to know about him? Well, I, you know, the statue 381 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:10.079 of veiling. Not to keep going back to that, but I took that 382 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:14.160 opportunity and ended up on one A and the sand Union Tribune back at twenty 383 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:17.400 sixteen when we did it, partially because I just did a deep die and 384 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:21.079 talked to a lot of people that he knew and didn't just write, Hey, 385 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:26.240 there was a statue on veiling. Here's Bill. He's happy about it. 386 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:30.720 It was try to understand his life, try to understand how much he 387 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:34.599 and his wife Laurie had done for the community. Try to understand a little 388 00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:37.079 bit of what made him tick. And so if you go online and you 389 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:41.480 find that story, I think you'll get a sense of him there. And 390 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:47.119 and then the column I wrote yesterday is kind of a more broad brush sense 391 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:51.599 of what he meant here and the type of person that he was. But 392 00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:55.119 I talked to him about anything I could almost at any point, you know, 393 00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:59.799 when the Celtics were back in the NBA Finals, he's fallen up and 394 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.440 he'd have great stories. He's told this story. But the time he was 395 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:08.559 running late with kids and he's going to this playoff game and might have been 396 00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:14.599 the finals, but he got with it a few blocks of the Boston Garden 397 00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:17.880 and he was going to be late. So he just met these guys on 398 00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:21.200 the street. He rolled down the window and he gave that got out of 399 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:25.359 his car and he gave them his car, and they said, if you 400 00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:29.279 can, could you drive this behind the garden and ask for I forget the 401 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:32.440 guy's name, Tony or whoever, and he'll know what to do with it. 402 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:37.519 Because it was deadlock, bridlocked traffic. So these strangers he had never 403 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:41.160 met. He just gave them his car. And he came out after the 404 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:44.960 game and there was the car because they were like, well, it's Bill 405 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:48.000 Walton. We're going to go park his car. So I mean, who 406 00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:55.160 does that? But you know that's just one of a million slipvers of life 407 00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:59.119 that explained Bill Walton. Yeah, no question. I'm sure you talked to 408 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:03.759 his kids as well, who he loved tremendously as part of the stories. 409 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:08.880 Well more, you know, I did some stuff on Luke when he was 410 00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:14.480 you know, coach of the Lakers briefly, and you know some other things 411 00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:19.200 for sure. But you know it was if you guys dealt with Walton, 412 00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:22.720 which I know to some degree you did, and I'm sure he did. 413 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:27.200 You asked him one question and it was twenty minutes later before he came breap. 414 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:32.440 So if you were writing about Bill, it was more or less talking 415 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:36.799 to Bill. You didn't you didn't have a lot of time or bandwidth to 416 00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:40.519 be talking to a lot of other people. But that's what made him really 417 00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:44.279 interesting. If you want to see something really funny, go online and searche 418 00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:48.640 Bryce Miller, Bill Walton Festival of Books and we have a festival book thing 419 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:52.920 and there's a video I taught again. He just said yes to everything. 420 00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:56.240 My paper said, can you get him in to talk about his book? 421 00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:00.519 He had a book out about his wife, and so he tried into the 422 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:03.599 paper and all I wanted to do, all my goal was because I know 423 00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:08.440 once he started talking, he wouldn't stop. And I wanted to just say, 424 00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:12.880 I'm Bryce Miller's sports column with san Diego Uch and this man needs no 425 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:18.319 introduction, but I'll give him one anyway. A Hall of Famer, NBA 426 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.720 champion, now best selling author Bill Walton. Bill, you know than you 427 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:27.759 go to the video and here's what happened. I go, I'm Bryce Miller, 428 00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:32.319 and he goes and I'm Bill Walton, and I'm the luckiest guy in 429 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:33.599 the world. And he goes on for like two and a half minutes and 430 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:37.599 I haven't explained why we're sitting there and what we're doing, what this is 431 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:44.119 about. And I'm just laughing because I lost control of this, like in 432 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:48.920 the first five seconds. And that was Bill too. He was just so 433 00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:53.759 energetic about everything that, as his late brother Bruce Walton told me once, 434 00:29:55.720 --> 00:30:02.880 you know, he overcame debilit any stuttering as a child, really paralyzing and 435 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:07.400 made him shy and reserved. And Bruce said, once he started talking and 436 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:11.279 he never stopped. And it's it's true. He had so much he wanted 437 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:14.759 to stay to the world and then if he got a window to do it, 438 00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:18.480 he did it. Well, we laughed because the last time he was 439 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:22.119 on our show, this is back in December of twenty two, Steve says, 440 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:25.960 bringing me in, Steve says, Bill, how you doing? And 441 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:30.799 he went for seven minutes. Oh, and it's hilarious and it was all 442 00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:36.400 great stuff. Yeah. Of course, I don't know if you guys saw 443 00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:40.720 the Scott Van Pelt review on ESPN, but that's worth looking up too. 444 00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:45.359 That they're talking to him after a cow game and he just starts talking about 445 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:52.799 bears and it's not like talking about like bears. The animals and you look 446 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.599 at Scott van Pelt. There's a photo of Van Pelt just slumped over his 447 00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:00.519 arm like I've never seen a broadcaster on live TV, and he looked so 448 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.079 defeated. He's like, well, I've lost control of this interview and Bill's 449 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:08.319 going to talk for ten minutes about bears and it's just everything was an experience 450 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:11.519 with Bill, and that's what made it interesting to talk or do your own 451 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:15.640 so you can kind of get an image of what's in his head. I'm 452 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:21.039 sure you went to the house where the famous TP where the TPE is and 453 00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:25.880 the collective. It's just so eclicktic, well, so many things. Yeah, 454 00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:29.599 yeah, he went is there was a range of things I needed to 455 00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:32.880 talk about at one point and he said, just come to the house. 456 00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:36.720 And of course, you know. The other thing is he's just everybody knows 457 00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:40.640 he was the biggest grateful dead fame in the world. We'll get over there 458 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:45.640 in his house and we're sitting there at breakfast and there was this kind of 459 00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:49.920 moving tray thing that had these breakfast items on it, and we both sat 460 00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:55.079 there for like two hours talking about two or three things, and the little 461 00:31:55.160 --> 00:32:00.680 napkins were grateful dead Napkins, of course, and then he points over to 462 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:04.759 a landline and he goes, do you know you know what call I took 463 00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:07.240 on that phone? And I'm well, of course, I have no idea. 464 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:12.559 And he goes, that's the phone where I got the call oh help 465 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:15.799 me out here, the lead singer to Jerry Garcia. Yes, he said, 466 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:17.279 he said, that's the call I got from one of the band members 467 00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:22.920 that Jerry had died and so. And he also had in the area of 468 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:29.119 his kitchen which kind of blended into sort of the living room, but he 469 00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:34.640 had a giant drum bongo kit It just kind of awkwardly sat in the middle 470 00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:38.319 of all this stuff. And he would play sets with a group called the 471 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:44.480 Electric Waistband in San Diego when they do grateful bed stuff. So, you 472 00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:49.079 know, he dove into music, he dove into bike broadcasting. Just he 473 00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:53.759 no one made sure they they did not get cheated into life as much as 474 00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:57.440 Bill Wong. You know. One of the interesting things that we we talked 475 00:32:57.440 --> 00:33:01.839 about earlier Steve was that, you know, the people were mixed in terms 476 00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:06.640 of what they thought of him as a broadcaster. Right. There were some 477 00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:09.359 people who just couldn't listen to him and that, you know, but nobody 478 00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:14.759 since he passed has said they didn't like him, right, you know. 479 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:19.200 I mean he he was an acquired taste as relates to what he did on 480 00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:22.640 UH on a on a game broadcast, But you didn't hate him for it, 481 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:27.200 you just you know, And and that's that That's what's the amazing thing 482 00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:30.400 to me about it is that people who really disliked how he did a game 483 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:37.519 still liked it. Yeah. He the traditionalists who just wanted to score and 484 00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:40.759 some analysis because he understood the game of course, you know the level he 485 00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:45.680 played it at. Yeah, it was frustrating for some and he knew he 486 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:52.200 wasn't for everyone in the sense of that, but nobody wasn't entertained, a 487 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:59.799 bit, a little bit informed. You talk about anything and you just appreciate 488 00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:05.480 it. A kind of kind of person, even if even if that's not 489 00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:09.360 how you generally want to watch a game. And and Bill was just gonna 490 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:12.840 again, even if it was in his work life, he was going to 491 00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:15.360 live life on his own first. Yeah, no question. Anybody who wants 492 00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:20.920 to read Bryce's calling, please do just kind of Bryce Brycemailer, sendye your 493 00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:23.519 Union Tribune. You love it. Thank you Bryce for joining us telling us 494 00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:27.480 about it. Yeah, I'm glad to be good to talk to you. 495 00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:31.199 Well, take care of our guys. Yeah, Ryan, uh yeah, 496 00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:37.159 yeah, yeah. He told me today that that you guys were in some 497 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:45.440 football pool or something. You're gonna be talking to my guy today. Yeah, 498 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:46.719 we'll be sure. Tell them me be sure. You know, we 499 00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:51.039 know things about Ryan, so you know, if you ever need something like 500 00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:55.800 that, feel free to share anytime. Thank you. Okay, guys, 501 00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:59.199 you got it. You know what are the great writers in the West Coast? 502 00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:02.480 Price stuff? Google him if you haven't had a chance. There's plenty 503 00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:06.480 of stories, yeah, all over the country about it. All right, 504 00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:08.400 so we're gonna take our last break. We'll be back. We'd love to 505 00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:12.000 take your cause if you called earlier and we didn't take your cause because we 506 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.239 were right up against the top of the top of the hour. So we 507 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.519 will be right back. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you know 508 00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:22.000 it's been successful for nearly forty years. Now. Take a look back at 509 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.840 the Ludolsen era in my new book, Lessons from Loot. It was a 510 00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:28.880 labor of love through the eyes of twenty five former players, coaches, and 511 00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:31.719 friends to give insight to the coach and the man who led them, competed 512 00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:36.159 against them, and inspired them. Twenty five chapters for his twenty five years 513 00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:39.480 as Arizona's beloved coach. 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Steve Rivera and Jagen Salez they have their Eye on 548 00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:30.320 the Ball on Tucson Sports a yet Fox Sports fourteen to fifty streaming live. 549 00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:34.199 I mean iHeartRadio. Wapp Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball Hero 550 00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:37.800 Fox Sports fourteen to fifty of Steve Rivera. He's Jacobs Awa, Scudder guy 551 00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:40.159 Ryan after Control. We're gonna try it again. Yeah, I think we 552 00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:44.360 hopefully have fixed a problem. I think we've got this thing cued up. 553 00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:47.840 But we're gonna play the first the first seven minute clip, so you can't. 554 00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:52.320 We're gonna take a call, right so our lines are busy right now. 555 00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:55.840 We'll take a call after after this if at plays, So bear with 556 00:38:55.920 --> 00:39:00.320 us. We're gonna hit play. And this is the from December of twenty 557 00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:04.920 twenty two when we were talking to Bill got Bill on the show. He 558 00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:09.840 was talking about that team. But you'll you'll see still here in the beginning 559 00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:13.519 and you'll just go, this is gonna be a seven minute clip. So 560 00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:15.880 here we go. Let's give it a shot. Hey, welcome back to 561 00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:19.880 my on the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Romera, 562 00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:22.960 He's Jiginsaws, and now on the phone we have the great Bill Walton. 563 00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:28.800 Bill, how the heck are you? Oh my, I'm sitting in my 564 00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:37.360 own desert garden with the long shadows on a cool, actually freezing cold afternoon, 565 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:44.039 and I'm underneath the proteas and the euphorbias and the cacti and the succulents 566 00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:51.320 and the aloes and the dragon trees, and I'm thinking about the incredible experience 567 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:58.679 I just had watching the World Cup semi final France two nothings over Morocco. 568 00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:04.159 It was just absolutely spectacular. I'm a huge World Cup soccer fan, and 569 00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:08.239 to see how hard. Everybody tried to see the fans. They're passionate, 570 00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:15.559 their passionate commitment and their willingness to go to such lengths to help their team 571 00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:20.880 win. And I was just reminded one more time of the big red Army 572 00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:23.400 of the West. And when I come over there to michale and I can't 573 00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:27.760 wait. I know there's snow one mountain Lemon right now. We just had 574 00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:31.760 a big two day dump of some much needed rain, and it's just been 575 00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:37.480 so beautiful here. Even with all the problems that we face on a constant 576 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:43.000 basis, so many of them self inflicted. But if we can find some 577 00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:45.320 piece, if we can find some solace in the world of sports, in 578 00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:52.000 the world of community and coming together, and we can find that sense of 579 00:40:52.280 --> 00:41:00.239 that sense of normal sea that the desert gives us, and that inclusiveness diverseness 580 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:05.480 and the animals and the plants and the sun and the air and the nature, 581 00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:08.920 and somehow we find that way to look at each other and say, 582 00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:14.039 hey man, we got to get this done. And to see what Tommy 583 00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:16.519 Lloyd has been able to do. And the team is just on fire right 584 00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:21.079 now. I was shocked, shocked at the loss of a Utah. But 585 00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:24.039 Utah, like so many of the teams in college basketball. Man, when 586 00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:28.679 they got it going and they got their crowd behind them, we saw what 587 00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:32.519 Morocco did. And then last night or whenever it was, you lose track 588 00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:37.800 of time in my life, but to see to see the Arizona Wildcats come 589 00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:42.639 right back, and with the big game coming up on Saturday nights, even 590 00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:45.920 though it's a late tip off, eight thirty Mountain time, Tennessee, don't 591 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:52.239 ever forget what Tennessee did to the University of Arizona a year ago when Arizona 592 00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:58.079 went in undefeated on just a remarkable run and start, record setting start for 593 00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:00.679 Tommy Lloyd. But then they were not ready. They were not ready to 594 00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:06.000 play. And one of the great things about being the champion being the best, 595 00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:10.159 which Arizona, Tommy Lloyd, Dave Heikey, Bobby Robbins, all the 596 00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:15.800 guys, everybody in the community of Tucson. It's just what the standard of 597 00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:21.440 excellence is. I mean, that's what lude Olsen created there and to be 598 00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:27.079 able to carry that on and it's not just happening in the city of Tucson, 599 00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:30.000 it's happening up in Phoenix with the Suns. It's happening in Tempe with 600 00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:35.920 the Sun Devils, and so it's just absolutely fantastic. I watched the Sun 601 00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:38.119 Devil's play I know this is a UFA station. I watched the Sun Devils 602 00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:43.480 play man, and they are really fun because they play free, they play 603 00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:46.000 easy, and they make it exciting as can be, and they're not looking 604 00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:50.559 over at the coach every time for a structured play. They're saying, hey, 605 00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:52.480 look, this is what we have. We may now have the big, 606 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:59.480 huge studs and so many of the superpowers like Arizona, like maybe UCLA 607 00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:05.800 C certainly has, but this is going to be a remarkable Pac twelve Conference 608 00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:08.559 A champion seasons. And just as we were coming on, I was told 609 00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:13.440 that there was news of the day coming out about Sean Miller and if you 610 00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:15.760 guys can clarify that for me, so I don't say something that is not 611 00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:21.239 accurate. But I'm a big Steve. I'm a big Sean Miller fan. 612 00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:23.519 And I got to have a little bit of contact with him up at PK 613 00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:30.079 eighty five, and it was just a spectacular run for his new his old 614 00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:35.159 Xavier team, and they got a really good squad and I like the fact 615 00:43:35.199 --> 00:43:39.280 in college basketball, the good teams are playing each other one more time. 616 00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:44.159 And I don't want to leave anybody out. I'm a big guy about inclusiveness, 617 00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:47.559 about diversity. So you guys can maybe tell me what Grand Canyon University 618 00:43:47.639 --> 00:43:51.760 is doing and Bryce Newell is doing as well. Well. I take a 619 00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:57.800 quick breath and adjudge my sunglasses here as the shadows keep getting longer. And 620 00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:02.639 I moved myself over under the purgeon there and see all the Bonzai specimens that 621 00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:06.639 I have right there. Oh, there's the tpe right back there in the 622 00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:09.599 corner. What a beautiful day we have in San Diego, and I hope 623 00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:15.320 you're celebrating the wonders of nature and life as well. Thank you, Eve. 624 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:16.800 How are you guys? Well? Thanks for doing us. Bill, 625 00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:22.280 we've run out of time, the t says Bill. We're freezing over here. 626 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:29.119 For Hey, Bill, you had that freezing the other day. And 627 00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:34.039 I'm super sorry that I was not able to make the show on whatever day 628 00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:38.119 it was. But I was scheduled and my car broke down and I couldn't 629 00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:42.679 move and I was stuck and I couldn't get anything, and it took four 630 00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:45.480 to five hours out of my life to get back to my dance, to 631 00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:51.960 get back to order. But finally order was restored in the universe, and 632 00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:54.400 I'm back at it now and good to be on your show. Eye on 633 00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:59.360 the ball, because that's always what I try to teach, is to keep 634 00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:02.159 your eye on the ball, because if you're going to ever get the ball. 635 00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:07.559 And when you look at these guys like, oh my gosh, ma 636 00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:16.800 Bappi and Hernandez and Girard and oh the greaseman and all these guys from France 637 00:45:16.840 --> 00:45:22.079 who were just playing so hard in Morocco. Morocco was playing with such spirit. 638 00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:24.920 But the goal is just in the fourth minute of the game, and 639 00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:30.840 there was a very dangerous attempt defensively and then you know, in soccer, 640 00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:35.360 so many of these games come down to just one play and one mistake, 641 00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:38.079 and the guy went for a steal that he didn't need to do. They 642 00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:43.440 had the French guys under control. He went for the steal and all of 643 00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:46.000 a sudden, now France is wide open in front of the goal and they 644 00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:50.599 got the goal, and oh man, and from then on they just eventually 645 00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:53.079 wore down the Moroccan team, which played with a lot of spirit, a 646 00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:57.199 lot of pride and hearts, the kind of things that I look for in 647 00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:00.519 all kinds of athletics, but really look forward to in the conference. A 648 00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:08.199 champions pack, twelve basketball wow, vintage. But we didn't even get to 649 00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:12.159 what we wanted to talk about. I don't even remember what Shaw the sewan 650 00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:15.760 breaking up? Yeah, what that break was here, So it didn't really 651 00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:19.320 matter, h Yeah. And then we had one more question right now, 652 00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:22.519 Jackson, you asked him a question about the Arizona big man. It just 653 00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:27.039 said you might. You started to ask it, and then and then he 654 00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:30.760 kept going. He asked him that it's another seven minute clips, so we 655 00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:35.320 can't play the whole thing. But it was again, it's not so much 656 00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:38.280 what he said in these things, it's just that how he said it, 657 00:46:38.519 --> 00:46:43.039 right, and just the conversation. And you know, yeah, I mean, 658 00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:45.760 as he's painting a picture of his backyard to us, right sure, 659 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:50.800 talking about you know what he's doing, and we never mentioned the backyards. 660 00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:53.280 No, And that's what he wasn't in the broadcast. Right. It's funny 661 00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:57.719 because I could I get it when I didn't travel with the team, obviously, 662 00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:00.320 we listened to the games at home, and I could understand and why 663 00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:02.920 people got frustrated. But Jay, when you go to a game, right, 664 00:47:02.920 --> 00:47:06.840 when you go to a game, physically go to a game, what 665 00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:08.159 do you do? You watch the game? I watch the game. You 666 00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:12.159 don't need anybody telling you about the game, right, Why don't they just 667 00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:15.119 turn down the TV and watch the game. Well, that's what some people 668 00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:17.840 would do. They'd say, I've got to turn him off. I actually 669 00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:23.320 showed somebody you can listen to Brian Jefferies and watch the game. You just 670 00:47:23.320 --> 00:47:28.440 got to time your you know, your your your TV with with you know 671 00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:31.440 where it's coming over the over the radio or whatever there was. You know, 672 00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:36.559 I never did that. I loved I'm not gonna say I loved listening 673 00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:40.320 to him. I I would listen to him and watch the game, and 674 00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:44.840 he was he was kind of like background talk to me. You know. 675 00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:49.239 I would kind of I would kind of hear him and and and uh, 676 00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:52.239 you know, sometimes I'd pay attention to what he was saying. I'm like, 677 00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:57.320 what's he talking about? But it was fun for me. There were 678 00:47:57.320 --> 00:47:59.559 other people who just said, I absolutely can't listen to him. Well it 679 00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:01.880 was nice story from seven nine years ago. I think it was he knew 680 00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:07.159 everything about Ducsan, the birds, the species of birds, the weather tempts, 681 00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:09.119 the Mountain Lemon because he wrote it. He said, I know there's 682 00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:14.480 snow on Mountain Lemon right now, remember, because that we were it was 683 00:48:14.519 --> 00:48:17.079 cold that day, is what I recall. And the funny thing about is 684 00:48:17.119 --> 00:48:21.440 Arizona fans the ones who you don't hear from now. He said all he 685 00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:22.960 hates us. He hates us because all he does is rip us, right. 686 00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:27.599 And the funny thing about it is, I probably think that every team 687 00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:30.239 in the conference felt the same way because he that's who he was. You 688 00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:34.360 talked about the teams right well, the schools. Yeah, he did it 689 00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:37.880 and you no, and he didn't hate anybody. Yeah, it's just the 690 00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:43.480 perception that people are right right. Yeah, you know again, we're gonna 691 00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:46.199 miss him, We really are. You know, when when they're when when 692 00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:52.599 you know Arizona is that playing wherever they're playing, and and you know Dave 693 00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:54.880 Pash maybe maybe doing a game, or Roxy Burns, he might be doing 694 00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:59.199 the game and they're not with Bill Walton, you're gonna go, wait a 695 00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:02.079 minute, there's something missing. Yeah, yeah, well I remember the one. 696 00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:07.039 There's two big stories that I remember. The most so nineteen ninety two. 697 00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:08.639 I think it was had to be ninety two. He was here with 698 00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:13.719 to do a game somehow, and he came in and he was talking to 699 00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:15.159 Lute on the court. That's when we were able to go to practice blah 700 00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:19.199 blah blah, and Damon, Damon, who was from Portland, Yeah, 701 00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.280 was on the floor and he he kind of acted like a two year old 702 00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:24.480 a ten year old when he went to go shake Bill Walm's hand for the 703 00:49:24.519 --> 00:49:28.280 first time, and he was like, holy crap, I get to meet 704 00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:30.119 mister Bill Walmen, who of course paid at port in Portland, right, 705 00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:34.400 And Damon must have been a kid back then, yeah, and he was 706 00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:37.800 like, holy crap, I'm meeting Bill Walden for the first time. Yeah. 707 00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:40.320 That and then when he paid, uh, when he paid for the 708 00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:45.280 airplane ticket and got Richard Jefferson in trouble, I remember, and he was 709 00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:49.599 very very because we had to do the stories, right, he was very 710 00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:52.360 apologetic. He's Rich's one of my sons. Yeah, I'm buying it together 711 00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:54.920 for one of my sons to see my other son, right. I remember 712 00:49:54.960 --> 00:50:00.119 all that. I remember all that, and he was just he just he 713 00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:07.360 had good intentions always exactly. Always, even in his commentary, you know, 714 00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:12.440 on a game broadcast or where he was on our show or somebody else's 715 00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:16.360 show, the intentions were always good. He was never trying to make anybody 716 00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:21.159 look bad. He was never mean, he was never you know, he 717 00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:24.800 just was You could tell he was just having fun. Yeah, without realizing 718 00:50:24.840 --> 00:50:28.239 he was having fun. He did it because he was just doing what he 719 00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:31.159 became natural together, right, He wasn't trying to create fun. He was 720 00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:35.679 just that's who we were. The funny thing is I did that story nine 721 00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:37.039 years ago. I think it wasn't And I asked him, what do you 722 00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:40.159 think about the fans kind of like loving you and not loving you at the 723 00:50:40.199 --> 00:50:44.639 same taxes. I don't know. I'm just trying to be me, trying 724 00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:46.559 to be me, And I don't know how to answer that, because again, 725 00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:50.159 I'm just trying to be me. And he was so polarizing. People 726 00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:52.519 loved him or hated him. But Larry Scott's the one who kind of brought 727 00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:55.960 him to the PAC twelve Yeah, and says I like what I see and 728 00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:01.360 I'm going to keep him. Yeah, So you know again, and he's 729 00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:06.079 one of those guys that you don't you know, you don't think about him 730 00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:07.480 in terms of am I gonna miss him when he's gone? But then once 731 00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:12.440 he's gone, you go, okay, yeah, you know I do miss 732 00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:15.880 I do miss the one. The thing. I sent Luca a note yesterday. 733 00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:19.519 I feel bad for their sons, obviously, you know what. He 734 00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:22.880 was only seventy one, and you know, I don't know if that's old. 735 00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:25.519 And he's only six years older than me, so well six and change. 736 00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:29.119 You would think that, uh, well, but the thing is, 737 00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:30.880 he's only sent me one. But he had a fantastic life. He had 738 00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:32.960 a fantastic life, but in a lot of ways, a tough life, 739 00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:36.800 very much right. First of all, living in that spotlight is hard, 740 00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:39.079 no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's hard. But then 741 00:51:39.400 --> 00:51:43.519 you know all the health issues that he had. We saw that, and 742 00:51:43.960 --> 00:51:47.199 very well known health issues. And Bryce said forty forty and not simple. 743 00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:52.800 Yeah, how many back surgeries, foot surgeries and all that stuff. I 744 00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:55.599 mean, you know, I've told you know again. Having breakfast with him 745 00:51:55.920 --> 00:52:00.960 in those times in chime, he would get two chairs from the table and 746 00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:05.639 back them so he could sit there. He was already tall enough. And 747 00:52:05.639 --> 00:52:07.039 then you're sitting with him at breakfast. You're looking up at him. Well, 748 00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:09.400 you get a kick when you watch the show. Eventually, when you 749 00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:14.400 watch the show, and then we'll read the other Mouchy story. On this 750 00:52:14.440 --> 00:52:19.760 trip homework, he talked about having to sit in chairs like for kindergarteners. 751 00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:22.039 Yeah, oh, in these kindergartener chairs, you know, just normal chairs 752 00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:25.079 that you and I would sit in because he couldn't. His legs were too 753 00:52:25.159 --> 00:52:30.559 long and his knees. I can't even imagine him getting in airplane and stuff. 754 00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:34.480 Yeah, he got tired of doing that With the NBA. They finally 755 00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:37.519 said, sorry, you can't do this anymore because he was traveling so much. 756 00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:42.440 Right, all right, well again we're gonna miss himself. Yeah, 757 00:52:42.440 --> 00:52:45.159 but you know the thing is we're talking about him and it's all fun and 758 00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:49.079 fun. Yeah, fun and good stuff, you know, because that's who 759 00:52:49.079 --> 00:52:52.079 he was. That's who he was. Yeah, So celebration of life, 760 00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:54.760 Yeah, very much. All right, we're out here. I'm out here 761 00:52:54.760 --> 00:52:59.280 for a week. I will be back a week from tomorrow. I'm going 762 00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:01.199 down to Rocky Plat and spend some time on the beach, get my summer 763 00:53:01.239 --> 00:53:06.920 color, and uh so Steve will be here with some great guests, already 764 00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:08.000 got some guys lined up for tomorrow. You have color? What are you 765 00:53:08.039 --> 00:53:13.119 talking about? I need more, I need more. And then I will 766 00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:15.159 see if they let me back in the country. Well might look might be 767 00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:20.960 looking for a new all right, I'll see you guys in a week. 768 00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:23.320 Steve will be back tomorrow with some great guest host and some great guests, 769 00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:25.119 so we hope to see it. Thanks a bunch