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Steve Rivera and jaygn Salez. They
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Hey, welcome back to win the
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I'm Steve Rivera, He's Javio Moreles. Now we have Kevin breaking news on

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the ball, breaking news on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. All right, so

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some of our listeners may have heard
between the breaks, the Era Wildcats women's

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basketball program is going to participate in
the twenty twenty four Women's Acrosher Classic.

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They're going to join Vanderbilt Cal in
Michigan State in the event. All the

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games we played in the Akrocher Arena, and that is gonna be the championship

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game is gonna be Wednesday, November
twenty seventh. Those are like those big

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events that you want to see Arizona
in. Men are used to doing that,

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the women not so much. So
that's that's great when we were telling

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that they can actually play Cal in
the tournament. Let me let me ask

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you this because we talk about this
for basketball, men's basketball, specifically Big

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twelve. Arizona's gonna be in the
top three at least that's what we're kind

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of predicting. It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be a lot of fun

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to be tough. Though. What
do the women following in this the Big

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twelve? There's some good programs in
there also, Baylor, Baylor, you

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know, Oklahoma State, Kansas now
better, Kansas is better. Kansas State

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obviously not as as you know,
I highly thought of as the Pac twelve,

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but there's still some competitive programs in
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five possible. I think it's possible. Especially with who they have coming back,

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the core of what was that team
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I think they do have a really
good chance to finish top five and

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the Big twelve. The Wildcats track
and field team is going to wrap up

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their season at the outdoor NCAA Championships
at Hayward Field, Oregon's campus. Uh

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This will be starting to Wednesday,
June fifth, and ending Saturday, June

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eighth. There are six tickets for
the Wildcats that they've punched so far.

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It's going to be Sir Jonathan Simms, Jan Vasquez, and Trayveon White,

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Austin as well as the men's for
by one hundred team that made the championship.

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I'm upset with I'm upset with my
parents not naming me, sir sir.

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Yeah, isn't that like something?
There was a football player here,

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yeah, right, yeah, his
whole name, but I remember and then

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I know you guys want to talk
about a little bit about the Brian Peabody

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basketball camp. It's gonna be going
on for the next four four weeks there,

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Yeah, four weeks. Peabody of
PEMA have your nos all about it.

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He's close to that program. Yeah, he he's He's going to have

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it four weeks. It started today. There's four sessions. Uh, every

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week is Monday through Thursday. So
the sessions that's going on now is going

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to go through the Thursday, which
is a sixth and then you have next

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Monday, the tenth of the thirteenth, and the following week seventeenth to the

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twentieth, and then twenty fourth to
twenty seventh. There is information to register

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for it. You have to go
to just hoops dot org or email Peabody

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at Peabody Hoops at gmail dot com. I coach at Giago or I have

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coached at Geya Goo Intermediate. So
I coached like fourth and fifth grade players

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and I took them to this last
year and it's unbelievable how much they learn

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and how much they go over and
it's like boom boom boom, boom boom.

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There's no there's not a lot of
breaks. It's like we're going from

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one drill the next. And I
think a lot a lot of the kids

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like that and it helped them out. I think I think if you,

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if you're a coach of a youth
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you should check it out. Because
Brian Peabody, he's been a success

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there at PEMA with the way his
teams. What are the things that Ali

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Skagg said that I don't think people
know enough about. And it's kind of

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like we go well with Richard and
all that. How do you become a

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better player? Repetitive it's all motion, proper mechanics, bay well, but

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going to the motions all repetitive and
repetitive, repetitive. You can't get tired

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of doing the same thing a number
of times. Ground Balls. I know

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when I played, my dad was
hitting me ground balls constantly. I couldn't

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hit it worth a lick, but
because he didn't pitch to me, but

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his ground balls ground balls, ground
balls under different circumstances. And that's how

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you become better. The more you
play, the better you are. And

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that's why games And you know this. I'm sure Candre was this philosophy too.

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You get you win games on Saturday, you win them Monday, Tuesday,

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Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from the
stuff you learn and the work you

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put in. It's the ten thousand
hour O right to give me, explained

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Malcolm Gladwell, he has I forget
the number of hours too fancy for me.

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It's like a said number of hours
that he believes if you spend ten

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thousand hours doing anything, you'll become
a master at that thing. Ten thousand

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hours playing makes sense, ten thousand
hours knitting. Yeah, shooting a basketball

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is one of those things. Do
you have to do it properly? Yes,

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you know what I'm saying. I
believe part of it is doing it

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with intent and like you know,
yeah, well, let me tell you.

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Like Jim Purick. You've seen him
hit the ball right, his his

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strow, his swing is like horrendous, but it's his swing and he's fantastic.

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Does that make sense? So he
must have done that ten thousand hours.

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Yeah, like Sean Marion the same
thing. Yeah, with a shot,

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with a shot. Yeah, yeah, you know it's it's uh,

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it's like Mike be A. Remember
when we covered the team, like sometimes

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the late at night I at Michel
Center for whatever reason, we were there

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outside him and Josh he was just
shooting the ball, shooting and who knows

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how long they were there. Yeah, that's what it takes. Yeah,

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yeah, can't be tired. No, I don't want to do it.

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No, you gotta do it.
Yeah, well if you want to be

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good, yeah, it wan't be
great. Yeah, justin Jefferson and the

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Vikings, I finally agreed to a
contract with the terms being four years.

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When one hundred and forty million dollars
and yeah it's it's the highest paid non

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quarterback contract in NFL history with one
hundred and ten million dollars guarantee you.

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And then we have a padres infielder
by the last name Marcano. I'm not

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going to do him a disservice by
attempting his first name. They believe that

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he is actually facing a lifetime ban
from the MLB for potentially placing bets on

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the Pittsburgh Pirates, a team that
he played for last season when he was

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injured with a torn a cl he
made some bets and that sportsbook reported to

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the MLB, and now they're looking
and investigating into that he was with the

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team. Correct, he majored on
the Pirates, who he was signed for

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at the time, and he was
on the al kind of like a Pete

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Roase thing. He bet on his
own team. Correct. These guys are

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are told numerous times not to do
that, right, I mean, you

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have to think every time before the
spring training starts out, either a meeting

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or manual or it's you know,
hit into their brains enough where you don't

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do that. And I just don't
understand why somebody would take a risk on

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their whole career over something like that. It's just I hope, I hope

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something happens where he's cleared of it. For the reason it's not it's not

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confirmed yet, right still, Yeah, So I just hate to see a

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young guy throwing his career over something
like that. Yeah. The same thing

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with John Taey Porter in the NBA, kind of throwing away what could have

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been a seven figure eventual earnings for
him. For I believe it was like

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two hundred thousand dollars or eighty thousand
dollars he would make it on these bets.

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So yeah, it's really curious decision
making. Yeah. The twenty twenty

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four college baseball super Regionals have been
set u with Florida just winning their most

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recent matchup about an hour ago.
I believe, so state one. Yeah,

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so of the sixteen seeds, how
many events? How about about what?

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So we have we have number one
Tennessee versus Evansville, number two Kentucky

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versus number five teen Oregon State,
number three Texas A and M versus Oregon,

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number six, Clemson versus Florida number
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So there's still two games I believe
that are that are unresolved, the

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Norman Regional and the Chapel Hill Regional. LSU is playing North Carolina? Is

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that okay? The North Carolina say
three three seats, four seeds, four

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seat okay? Because you didn't do
the four or the five? Who's the

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five seed? Who's the five seed? Because you didn't mention the five?

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Yeah, there's I think they're still
in competition. This this is just the

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list of the matchups for the next
round that I'm looking at here. But

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yeah, it looks like it looks
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three, currently three teams that have
made it through that are unranked or at

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least not numbered by the It's gonna
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Carolina, then West Virginia play L
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L s U right, even though
both teams aren't aren't seeded. This has

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happened before, I don't know.
Yeah, where both teams win and again

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and they beat or they come out
of regionals where the team is or another

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the host was was the seed.
So how many do you know? The

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sixteen season? Is Arizona the only
one that has that? Wake Forest lost

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they were a seated team. Okay, they lost the day before Arizona,

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the day of Yeah. Yeah,
so Vanderbilt was not a seed, no,

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because it got to be two.
So I'm just curious because Arizona Arizona

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obviously needed to get not needed to, but but it was good enough to

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get to the next round, and
they were seated well enough to get to

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the next round. Yeah, it
looks like Oregon won the Santa Barbara Regional,

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so they weren't They weren't seeded.
Evansville won the Greenville Regional, they

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weren't seeded, and Florida won't beat
Oklahoma State and they were four. Five.

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There's five. There's Kansas State in
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Regional, West Virginia out of here, out of Tucson, Oregon out of

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Santa Barbara, Evansville out of Greenville, and Florida out of Stillwater. Yeah,

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okay, what else you got?
Caitlyn Clark is the w NBA's Rookie

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of the Month. Okay, yeah, I don't know. Maybe well Reee

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has done fantastically well. So it
was a brink, right, is id't

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brink? Yeah? Yeah, it's
hard not to pick Caitlyn, but Caitly,

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I'm calling her by her first name. But did you see the game

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of the weekend? You got more
stuff? I don't have any that was

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okay, So let's go kind of
go there if you want. I'm gonna

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mention the McAfee. I saw that
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What did you make in the weekend
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curiosity in the w n b A. Yeah, I did not catch it.

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It was where she was bumped and
I saw the foul. I did

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not catch the game. Yeah,
what did you think? And how do

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you think they're treating her? And
you can just be careful what you say

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because we don't need anything. I've
been I've been talking about this with my

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friends all year. I think I
think you're saying kind of like a similar

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I think it's unfair what some people
are saying, where some people are putting

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this in a way where it seems
like the whole league is again it's Caitlin

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Clark. All the players hate her, and you know they're all jealous,

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which I don't think is true.
I don't think. I don't think that.

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I think some people are saying that
about the situation, which is not

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fair. They're generalizing. I think
in reality, we're seeing a situation similar

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to when Lebron entered the w A
or the NBA. Certain players took it

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personally because either he's taking minutes from
them or money from them, or that's

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how they see it. And so
yes, they're going to have a little

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bit of envy in that way,
but that's probably like a handful of players

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throughout the entire league, and so
I think that it's a miss it's a

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it's a it's a miss communication.
I feel like between the media and the

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players and well being in the media. A new Javier, we know that's

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possible because she's great for the game. I think anyone that loves basketball knows

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that, and so I think it'd
be a small small number of people that

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are envious of her. Can we
can we not generalize it to I agree

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with you, but let's move it
to like real life stuff. You have

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this hotshot person coming into your company, and you have people who have been

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there a long time, and I've
seen it where or the people that have

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been there a long time resent the
new kid on the block and treat them

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like crap, like crap because well, you didn't earn your chop, you

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didn't earn the lead. It took
me forever to do this. So it's

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not just in sp and I see
it a lot in sports, but I

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see it in real life too,
just where. And it's an envy thing,

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it's a jealousy thing. Just do
your job, I mean, just

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do your job and shut up and
watch watch them thrive. I mean,

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what's the It's not affecting you.
It's like a Karen you know, well,

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he's pantence to your world before you
start worried about other people's worlds.

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Yeah. I think she's so much
in the public eye, so much of

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a person that's like carrying this image
and people's like the media and people say,

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well, she's she's she's the one
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a great And here you have these
players who've been in WNBA the last few

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years, some of them like more
than ten years, and they see that

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and they're like, well, what
about us? We sure we had great

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calls? Real quick? How you're
in the air on the ball. Hey

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buddy, it's Rick. How are
you. I'm good. How are you

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doing. We're doing fine? What
you got? What you got for us?

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Got about a minute? All right. First of all, I think

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all these players that may are being
hard on Caitlin they would love to have

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her on her team. Number one
and number two is you know what you

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said it earlier. There's a little
bit of newcomer and be coming out.

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But what she's done is she's elevated
everybody's else's opportunity to have a better play

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of living, and she's gonna get
knocked around and she's gonna give it back

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and by next year all this stuff
will be blown over. I totally agree.

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I think over time it's gonna go
too much out of everything. Yeah,

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no, I totally agree with Thank
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agree with that in time, and
it'll eventually say, and you know what's

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gonna happen, Like we see other
people in businesses, Oh my bad.

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Yeah, sorry for treating you so
badly. It was a flake or foul

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we're talking about. This is a
commotion about it. One flagrant foul.

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And I know there's a lot of
physical play involving Kaylyn as well. But

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the big situation with the Chicago skyplayer, I believe it's it's a hip check.

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Yeah, it's a hip check.
And so it's Caitlin Clark and that's

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the story. And there was video
before that of looked like Caitlyn was kind

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of clearing her out with her with
her elbow. She didn't really elbow,

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but she was clearing her out.
Here's the other and then she says something

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up the court when she was run
up to the court. But still,

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I mean, you know that doesn't
you know it doesn't, doesn't You know,

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it shouldn't end up with somebody hip
checking you. Sure, it should

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just be cooler heads prevailed. But
their competitors, No, you're on the

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money with that, and that's what
they do. They compete. Yeah,

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and they want up, you know, mark their territory in terms of don't

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mess with me here because this is
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Michael, how are you. I'm
doing fine. How are you guys?

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Fine? Let me just go straight
to the question, what the hell

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happened this weekend? Yeah, of
course, I mean that's what everybody wants

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to know. Regarding Arizona baseball,
a very disappointing ending to the season.

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Kind of those games kind of felt
like those Oregon State games first two of

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that series a little bit, where
they just didn't go flat. They didn't

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do anything very well. I think
that, you know, getting off to

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a bad start in both games kind
of staff their energy and confidence a little

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bit, even though I mean they
had proved throughout the season that they could

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rally from from any deficit. There
were some key plays in that first game

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that they they had gone the other
way. Guys, had you know,

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made better decisions out there in the
field that might have been a different story,

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but it was not. Just wrote
a column for publication today talking about

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expectations, you know, and at
the beginning of the season they were low.

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By the end of the season they
were high. And I think depending

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on how you look at it is
how you feel. Yeah, yeah,

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it's a good yeah. No.
In fact, I guess I'll have to

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read the column, and I don't
know if this will spoil spoiler alert,

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but when you go back and you
go on to grade the season overall,

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start to finish, how would you
do that or what would you give it?

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Yeah, I would say maybe like
a B plus something like that.

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I mean, look, they're picked
to finish ninth in the conference. Okay,

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I mean take those preseason coaches pulls
for what there was, but that's

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what people thought of them, right. I think D one Baseball in their

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season three view had Arizona finishing ninth
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you know, I mean, they
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they won the FACT twelve tournaments,
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So in that context, I would
say great season, right, But they

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set a standard during the year.
They raised the expectations with their play,

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so in the context of kind of
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positioned, it is disappointing. Uh. You know, if you just looked

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at, you know, like what
was expected of them as a host with

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the record that they had, you'd
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D right or D minus. But
I'm trying to look at the big picture

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here of the entire season, what
was expected them from them from the starts

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as well as you know, like, what is this like a positive step

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forward type of season for the program? And I would have to say it

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was, Yeah, I agree with
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thing, and then the eight walkoff
wins that that kind of rose the well,

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the the fan interest level, and
yeah, expecting like they're going to

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do a walkoff win almost every week. But you look, you look at

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that they want eight of them.
They could those they could have went the

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other way too, right, So
that so they they were playing on the

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on the on you know, on
the edge there and they were able to

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win those games. Pitching was a
big difference as the whole year with three

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guys being first team All Conference selections, and then the pitching kind of just

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didn't wasn't there in the in the
Tucson Regional. Like you you pointed out

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in one of your story about their
walk totals. Just why do you think

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that? Why do you think that
happened in that case where they're the pitching

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kind of let them down a little
bit or failed them in the Tucson Regional.

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Yeah, well, I mean the
walk total in the first game was

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an absolute outlier. They had not
It's like that pretty much the whole season.

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The example I gave on social media
was Dawson Nests had three walks the

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whole season, and he walked the
only two battery face the last two battery

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season. Well have face. As
a collegiate player, someone who's made I

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think eighty nine appearances in Arizona uniform, it's a bummer for him to go

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out like that. You know what
is it? It's probably nerves, it's

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pressure, it's facing really good teams
that have disciplined hitters who know how to

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take a good at that. So
it's all of those. And then with

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Cam Walky the next day, I
mean, he only walked one batter,

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which is about part for the course
for him, but he also gave up

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a home run two home runs,
right fact, and you know, like

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Arizona really had not given up a
lot of long balls. Season hadn't proved

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a lot of pitches, you know, right down the middle for hitters to

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take out of the park and invade
themselves. The Wildcats did not hit a

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lot of home runs. Crazy stats
where you they lasted a home run Hary

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corbet Field on April thirtieth. Eight
straight games Yaro home runs in their home

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park. If you're not getna hid
for hour Bridge, which they didn't really

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do this season either. They were
under two eighty for the first time since

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nineteen ninety four. Got you gotta
compensate for that with power or stolen basins

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or something, and so there really
wasn't a lot of life to that offense

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towards the end, right, I
think Mason White hit that walk off home

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run against UCLA. Was that the
last one or close the last one?

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I think it was the Grand Camp
I think it was Grand Canyon on that

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twenty four to eight game. Actually, really Garan Caulfield hit a home run

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in that game. That was the
last one. I mean, they hit

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a lot, you know, they
hit a bunch on the Arizona Utah Road

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swing. They hit some at the
Pactoral Tournament. But you know, they're

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not hit any your in your home
park for that many games in a row.

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I mean that sounds like as much
of a statistical anomaly as anything,

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but it's also indicative of an offense. That was the way I put it

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in the column was like, never
great, this even at least by Arizona

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Standard. So you know how fans
are, You know, they know what

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they know, and they follow it
at the end when things are going very

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well. When you saw that the
regional would be these four teams, and

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Joe Blow, who doesn't really follow
it, Look, okay, West Virginia

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and West Virginia, what do they
know about baseball? Grand Canyon, we

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should be beating them even though we're
losing to them. And then Dallas Baptists

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a smaller school, but they're a
baseball school, and people who don't know,

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and then you're thinking, and then
you're thinking, if you're just a

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normal fan, you're thinking, how
did these two teams beat us? Well,

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Michael, I think even some of
the coaches said that, yeah,

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that was the region of death.
Yeah right, yeah, if you look

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now, RPI, we are not
in love with RPI as a metric,

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but it is a way of kind
of comparing the team side by side right.

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If you look at the rpas and
heading into the region, Dallas Baptist

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was seventeen fourteen spots higher than Arizona, so they easily could have posted a

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regional right and West Virginia was thirty
seven, so they were only six spots

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behind, and they were a three
seat, so we had one of the

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highest two seats and one of the
highest three seats. West Virginia went nineteen

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and eleven in the Big Twelve this
year, even though they missed were missing

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their star player JJ Weatherholt for like
a month of the season with a hamstring

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injury. And on top of that, Grand Canyon you could argue to be

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was like the worst four seed they
could have possibly faced them because Grand Canyon

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did not care. We was not
going to be intimidated by facing Arizona because

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they faced them all the time,
not going to be affected in any way,

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shape or form by the weather.
They play in practice in that weather

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all the time, and they know
the dimension at High Covid Field because they

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played down here all the time.
So you put all those things together and

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it was a very difficult challenge for
Arizona that they obviously were not up to.

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That mean, uh, you know, I think D one baseball,

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right, it is the toughest regional
in the in the nation, proved to

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be. Yeah, and then Steve
has a question for you about some of

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00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:15.759
the peripheral little stuff. Oh yeah, okay, okay, So so I

408
00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:19.359
don't cover games like you know anymore. You cover them a lot. Levin

409
00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:23.240
and Javier was there your theory.
Javier is one of the theories. One

410
00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:26.160
of the things that he came up
with that there may have been too much

411
00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:30.519
pressure playing at home. You have
your home fans. Uh, you have

412
00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:33.079
your your field. Uh, there's
a you know, you've got these teams

413
00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:37.039
coming in, and maybe there was
some factor it fixed me upon wrong.

414
00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.079
It's just the fact that they you
know, they're coming off two weeks in

415
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:42.839
a row, they win a walk
off, huge walk off wins, and

416
00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:45.440
then they're coming home, they hearing
about how great there are the family,

417
00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:49.559
their families are all there there.
I just felt like, and it's a

418
00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:52.759
huge crowd if they're not used to
that. I mean, they're just a

419
00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:55.920
big crowd, but not an eight
thousand plus crowd. And I just think

420
00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:59.880
that kind of they laid an egg. If there was a factor to that,

421
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:03.079
Yeah, I just thought that for
some reason they couldn't match that.

422
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:08.640
That use that word again, that
expectation going into that scenario is that do

423
00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:17.039
you think there's something to that?
I think that it's a good theory.

424
00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.759
They definitely played tight, right,
They didn't seem to have their usual like

425
00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.559
verve and energy. And again I
think a lot of that had to do

426
00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:29.680
with getting off to a slow start. You fall behind in the first inning

427
00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:33.279
in both games. You know,
it kind of affects affects your psyche a

428
00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:37.240
little bit. But I would I
guess my accounter argument would be this is

429
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:40.920
this is what they wanted. Yeah, exactly, that's exactly what they wanted.

430
00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:44.759
Like they wanted to be at home. Uh, they love playing at

431
00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:48.920
High Corbett. There. They get
to use their weight room, they get

432
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.519
to use their own you know,
batting facility, they get to sleep in

433
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:56.640
their own beds, all of those
things. It should have been a huge

434
00:29:56.680 --> 00:30:02.039
advantage for them, and it was
not. And again, when you look

435
00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:03.839
back at this season, that's one
of the things that you end up being

436
00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:10.079
disappointed about is that they did all
this work. The things that they wanted

437
00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:11.799
and then they couldn't take advantage of
thee Yeah. No, I totally agree,

438
00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.319
totally agree. Look at look at
West Virginia that they come from all

439
00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:18.960
the way across the country and they
I mean that that's a good team and

440
00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:22.519
they handled their business. They took
care of business. I didn't see very

441
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:26.920
many flaws in that team. You
know, they're not playing at home,

442
00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:30.200
they're playing away. They never got
a test to play Arizona here this is

443
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:32.680
this year. Let me let me
ask you if I can, because you

444
00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:34.839
guys know Chip and you guys spent
a lot of time with him. Was

445
00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:37.799
he in his demeanor? He's a
good guy, right, he doesn't really

446
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:41.359
show his emotions or maybe I'm wrong, I'm thinking too much. How was

447
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:45.079
he? Was he disappointed? Was
he? What was he? And and

448
00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:48.799
you saw the internet, you know
all the Twitter and blah blah blah that

449
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.240
people were saying, you know,
what the hell I mean, fire fire

450
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:56.640
trip, which makes no sense,
But your thoughts on that, Yeah,

451
00:30:56.680 --> 00:31:00.880
that's a common refrain comes to Chip. But a lot of people just didn't

452
00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:06.000
like to hire from the get go
because they thought it was sort of an

453
00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:08.799
easy way out. Just hired an
Arizona guy who won't leave Ester J.

454
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:15.240
Johnson left. Doesn't have any college
experience, and there really isn't much he

455
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:18.720
can do to change those people's minds
except go to the College World Series.

456
00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:22.880
Maybe he even has to win the
College World Series to completely win them over.

457
00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:27.119
But he, you know, he's
pretty steady. His demeanor doesn't change

458
00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:30.319
that much. You guys, gets
frustrated at times. There are times in

459
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:36.079
his post games, well press conferences
or interviews where he's a little bit short

460
00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:38.559
and you can tell that he's perturbed
and not happy with the team. He's

461
00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:42.279
actually been I think better about that
the last two seasons than he was the

462
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:47.119
first year. I think the first
year he wasn't used to how quickly he

463
00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:51.119
would have to talk after the game, like maybe there was a longer runway

464
00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:56.119
when he was in pro ball.
But I think Chip has done a great

465
00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:00.799
job and he's proved to be more
adaptable then you might have thought for someone

466
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:07.000
who's, you know, nine fifty
nine turning sixty. He he changed the

467
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:14.000
pitching coach and he's working behind He's
been working behind the scenes and getting nil

468
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:20.119
going for baseball. So I think
he's a very open minded and smart guy,

469
00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:23.039
and I really truly think that he
will figure it out. His recruiting

470
00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:28.559
class ranks for the next two years
are pretty darn good. I think they're

471
00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:34.880
twenty four class's ranked twenty ninth by
Perfect Game, so to me, the

472
00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:38.880
ears pointing out Yeah, Like you
said, though, postseason is going to

473
00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:43.920
be a big factor with him because
they have lost five in a row under

474
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:47.160
him, right dating back to the
Coral Gables, and they haven't been close

475
00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:52.039
losses most of them. So I
think he's going to have to go have

476
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:53.680
a deep run, go to the
World Series, and like you said,

477
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:58.960
even win the World Series, and
there has to be multiple trips for people

478
00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:02.759
to actually believe that he's the right
higher. I think. Let me ask

479
00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:07.400
you this, Michael, the core
fans. You know how you have your

480
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:09.599
Arizona basketball fans, you have your
football fans, and they're rabbit and they're

481
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:14.960
crazy, whatever. What's the baseball
fansom like, Because if you have a

482
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:16.680
lot of people saying Chip's not the
right guy, or is it just a

483
00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:22.039
you know, smattering of fans or
is it a big group, It's hard

484
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:25.640
for me to tell. My followers. Some of them are really smart,

485
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:30.400
some of them get it. They
understand how baseball works. They have some

486
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:37.440
perspective on like the history of this
program, and other people just they just

487
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:42.319
they wear their hearts on their sleeves
and they get mad when they don't win,

488
00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:49.480
and they have certain ideas about effort
and things of that nature that I

489
00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:52.759
think are way off face. This
is not an issue of the guys aren't

490
00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:59.119
trying hard or that they don't care. Is baseball is hard, and you

491
00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:04.240
know, the deeper you go,
the hard quality of opponents your face and

492
00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:07.279
you know sometimes you know you don't
have it for a couple of days in

493
00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:08.679
a row, and that's all it
takes. Right you drop out of the

494
00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:15.920
postseason. But I agree with you
on your overall premise that now established himself.

495
00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:19.880
Now it's all about the NCAA tournament. How far can you get in

496
00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:22.599
the NCAA tournament is how you're going
to be judged, right, which is

497
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:25.320
a sad way to look at it, But that's too sodden. That's kind

498
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:29.760
of sports everywhere you are. So
okay, Michael, thanks to look forward

499
00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:32.119
to your column tomorrow. I guess
it's competing tomorrow or will be online today.

500
00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:37.039
It will okay, okay, will
please check it out. Good by

501
00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:39.800
to the points that I just made, but some additional ones as well.

502
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:43.559
Great. Thank you, Michael,
appreciate you. Thanks Michael. Thanks.

503
00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:46.800
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Hey, welcome back to ying Thebaull
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Steve Rivera's he's Javier Morales and we
got a guy Kevin with us today.

550
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Oh, we're going to take some
calls. We've got fifteen minutes five two

551
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:17.440
oh four, one, six,
seventy four forty. Got a good call

552
00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:21.480
from Rick earlier. I thought he
hit his points perfectly, But I thought

553
00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:24.639
about Lev's stuff. I'm looking forward
to seeing his story because I kind of

554
00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:28.639
agree. I'm kind of in agreement
with all you said, and in your

555
00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:32.440
observation you kind of paraphrased it differently, and I like how you said it,

556
00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:37.039
yes the second time where it was
just kind of maybe not distractions,

557
00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:43.440
but I mean because it happens,
it happens. Yeah. Oh your talking

558
00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:45.920
about in basketball when they play on
the the West Coast. Yeah yeah,

559
00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:49.400
yeah, where they have you know, families there and all that stuff.

560
00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:52.280
Yeah, I I'll agree with you
to some degree. I didn't at all.

561
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:54.599
But I kind of agree with you. I just think that it was

562
00:38:54.679 --> 00:39:00.960
just like a perfect storm the expectations, Like Michael lev was talking about playing

563
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:05.400
at home, crowded, a large
crowd. Let me give you this one

564
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.480
great teams or and you can give
me a one scale of one ten.

565
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:14.639
Or maybe they just weren't good enough. I don't think they're I don't think

566
00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:19.119
that was the case, because they
they did win the PAC twelve regular season

567
00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:22.960
in conference tournament, so they're they're
they're a good team. But I mean

568
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:27.360
you're talking about not good enough against
the other three teams over here. Yeah,

569
00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:30.000
to get through this, Yeah,
I can see that where you can

570
00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:32.440
see that Dallas Baptists might have been
a better team. West Virginia definitely.

571
00:39:32.559 --> 00:39:36.519
Grand Canyon has their number. I
think they went for last six games right

572
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:38.719
at High Corpet So yeah, in
that sense, yeah, they might not.

573
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:42.679
They might have been the fourth best
team out of that field, right

574
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:45.320
And guess what. Sometimes that happens. Yeah, you know my guy vic

575
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:49.800
Vic who jokes with me every now
and again, but it's sometimes serious.

576
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:52.760
You know, Uh, these guys
should be better or whatever. Sometimes you're

577
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:55.480
not the best looking guy in the
room. Sometimes you get into the room

578
00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:58.880
and you're not the best looking guy. Just how it is. And we're

579
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:00.159
talking about it. How how many
day? Like a three day span?

580
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:04.719
Yeah, you know I'm much gonna
happen in three days that might not be

581
00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:07.039
expected. Let's take this call.
You're in the air, eye on the

582
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:10.800
ball. How's it going? This
is Brian, Brian. I was at

583
00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:15.679
the games, all the games this
weekend. Give me an explanation. What

584
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:21.400
did all happen? Our weaknesses finally
showed. You know, we weren't a

585
00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:24.679
great hitting team. And you know, this team could not pile up the

586
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:29.960
runs like the teams that we saw. And we you know, if we

587
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:32.280
have to play from behind for three
four runs, we're in trouble. And

588
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:37.480
that happened immediately in all the games. You know, we got behind quickly

589
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:42.079
and we don't have the offensive power
or whatever to come back and win a

590
00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:45.679
game. Yeah. Now, if
you watched, if you watched a lot

591
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:50.840
of the at bats, I wouldn't
quite call on quality at bats. Swinging

592
00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:53.559
a lot of bad pitches, taking
a lot of pitches. I don't know

593
00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:59.199
how many strikeouts that were in the
in the Saturday morning game, our Saturday

594
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:01.719
afternoon game, but there was a
lot and a lot of a lot of

595
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:06.119
looking strikes. Brian, let me
ask you, because you follow sports and

596
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:10.320
you and you're you're well spoken about
it in the disappointment category, tell me

597
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:15.840
about that for you. Well,
it's it's it's always disappointing because the team

598
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:19.320
you want didn't win. You know, we we we we got what we

599
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:22.840
wanted. We got the home regional. But if you would have watched this

600
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:30.119
team all year long, I mean
you look at our last five or six

601
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:34.559
home games we played at High Corbett, we got hammered and for of those

602
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:39.079
losses, the two Oregon State games
and the two tournament games, we got

603
00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:45.800
to be bad. And if we
couldn't keep the game closed with our pitching

604
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:49.440
staff, there was no chance we
were going to win a game. We're

605
00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:52.559
not outslugging people, right. That
was a great point that lev had,

606
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:57.039
Like the last eight home games and
the home run they had some time we

607
00:41:57.239 --> 00:42:00.679
hits, but they didn't have any
hits or one thing. Yeah, yeah,

608
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:02.400
you know what, And if Mason
White doesn't hit home run, that's

609
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:06.239
kind of sad. The smallest guy
that one of the smallest guys in the

610
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:10.719
team is your power guy. Yeah, yeah, he's he's legitimate. I

611
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:16.119
mean, I mean you watch people
some of our supposedly physically bigger guys,

612
00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:20.519
you know, just weren't big power
hitters. And one thing too, I

613
00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:23.599
know, like Tommy Splain had a
difficult time this year, but one thing

614
00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:27.880
two people have to remember remember last
year he was surrounded by a lot of

615
00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:30.840
great hitters on that team last year. Yeah, well, and so it's

616
00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:35.719
it's it's when you don't have that
kind of hitters around you, you don't

617
00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:37.559
get those pitchers anymore. Yeah.
What I thought was interesting in the very

618
00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:40.960
first day of the press conferences,
West Virginia was up there and one of

619
00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:45.239
the players said, they don't have
Chase Chase Davis anymore? Do they?

620
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:49.039
So they even they even know that, like he's not on the team,

621
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:52.559
that that he's he's the guy that
they were thought of last year when they

622
00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:54.039
were here, But he's not there
anymore, don't They didn't think about a

623
00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:58.440
player in that category. So did
you hear the interview with Dulan lev Or

624
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:01.239
No? Yes, I okay,
So so give me a grade front to

625
00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:06.840
back, front front to Now how
was it the season? Oh? You

626
00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:08.639
know what I thought? I thought
it was an excellent season. I mean

627
00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:13.639
this if this team was picked to
finish ninth in the conference, you know,

628
00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:15.679
we had no idea where we were
going to be. We wanted a

629
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:20.800
new pitching coach. We've run all
new pitchers. Basically, our our lineup

630
00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:25.280
turned over with with graduation and people
being uh uh going in the draft last

631
00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:29.679
year. So I think, you
know, anywhere in the top two or

632
00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:31.800
three would have been great for me. But they wound up winning the conference

633
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:36.039
and the tournament. I mean,
it was a very successful year. Now

634
00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:38.440
the thing that Chip has to do
was try to find more pitching because he

635
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:42.880
lost his three studs, and also
try to figure out where am I going

636
00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:45.760
to find some hitting? So you're
so now that yeah, and now Steve's

637
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:51.320
going to open up his wallet this
summer for the ni L then get some

638
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:53.920
players here. I can't even I
can't even spell N I L, So

639
00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:58.960
you're not, you're not. And
then someone spotted me the N and the

640
00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:04.079
LU. So you're what do you
think about Chip? The right guy?

641
00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:06.760
The good you know? Yeah,
I mean, you know, to me,

642
00:44:06.840 --> 00:44:09.639
he's fine. I mean he's been
to the tournament is three years,

643
00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:15.480
Okay, I know, Jay Johnson
got to the World Series twice, but

644
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:22.800
that first time basically was the players
from that Lopez had you know and so,

645
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:28.000
and then after a few years and
built back up. And it's so

646
00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:32.079
hard to judge it now because of
this nil that. You know, it's

647
00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:37.079
it's every year is different, you
know. It's like I said last week,

648
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:42.119
every sport is going to be a
crap shoot every year. Yeah,

649
00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:45.960
the rosters are going to turn over
fifty sixty percent. That's unfortunately the way

650
00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:49.280
sports is now, right right,
Well, Bill, thanks for the call.

651
00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:52.239
I appreciate you, thanks for listening. Yeah, so, so you

652
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:54.159
guys, you guys, and I
like it that people, well he had

653
00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:58.400
the previous coaches and I think that
we I've heard this before. You know,

654
00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:02.719
he had add these ship had Ship
had Johnson's blah blah blah. Don't

655
00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:08.440
you still have to coach? Coaching
matters, right, They got to play

656
00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:10.920
hard for you to believe in you. You still got to coach, whether

657
00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:15.440
you have how many teams have you
covered where you saw some pretty good talent

658
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.559
but it sucked, Right, It's
like Steve. It's like Steve Kerr.

659
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:22.880
Steve Kerr. And if you guys
say, well, I could coach that

660
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:25.639
team. No, you can't guess
what because you have to deal with a

661
00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:30.239
bunch of personalities, and you know
how difficult it is to coach a bunch

662
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:35.280
of personalities. It ain't easy.
No, Steve has been at it so

663
00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.519
long, Steve Kerr that he knows
what to do in certain situations, and

664
00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:44.239
he's a people person. He understands
the dynamic of people. So Chip has

665
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:45.599
to do these things. And you
talk about a da bringing in new people,

666
00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:49.800
all of them have to have these
people skills and be a pretty good

667
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:54.199
coach because it's constant turnover. I
think that he has learned. Now she's

668
00:45:54.239 --> 00:46:00.199
still what seven eight years now your
tenure, so I think she's learned learn

669
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.360
how to handle that situation of coming
off to the National Championship appearance, on

670
00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:08.199
how to handle players and how to
how to address the exactly because I think

671
00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:12.320
she's learned a lot over the last
three or four years, so I think

672
00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:15.719
she knows more what to do.
Uh. Chip Hale is like, like

673
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:17.880
Michael lev point out, he's he's
he's this is his first time as a

674
00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:22.920
college coach, so he's he's adapting. He's getting some good assistant coaches,

675
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:27.480
which any good coach will get a
good assistant coaches. One one complaint that

676
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.480
I laugh at is, uh,
Chip Hale's lucky he's got a good pitching

677
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:34.360
coach. Well, guess what.
He's the one that hired that pitching coach

678
00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:37.599
and he relies on that pitching coach
to do what he has to Do's saying

679
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:39.159
these things. You you can see
it on Twitter all the time, like,

680
00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:44.239
oh, he's he's lucky that they
got Kevin Vance. Well, he's

681
00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:46.400
hired Kevin Vance. He put him
in a position to get make them successful.

682
00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:55.159
I don't know any thanks for calling. You're on the air is done.

683
00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:58.599
You must have gone to the game
too. I saw you on Twitter?

684
00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:02.880
Or did you? Actually no,
I didn't make it out this weekend.

685
00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:07.159
I was going to. I think
I mentioned last week I said I

686
00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:13.039
called him when I first saw on
Twitter that they were sold out game,

687
00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:17.400
which was awesome to season. But
you did you did comment on Twitter about

688
00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:23.719
something. I think that Chip is
the right guy. You know a lot

689
00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:29.360
of people there, a lot of
people are chirping. But Chip has been

690
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:32.960
making the adjustments year by year.
You know, he went on he got

691
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:38.519
him, he got him a pitching
coach. That that I think better suits

692
00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:44.599
the way he wants to do things. It's just a matter of getting the

693
00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:50.360
hitting and getting more pitching now.
But I think Chip is the right guy

694
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:55.599
only because I don't think there's another
job that that Chip is gonna want.

695
00:47:55.840 --> 00:48:00.159
He has a house here as long
as he wins. And and like,

696
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:06.039
like you asked, Brian, if
this hes In was a success, you

697
00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:07.480
know, I go what Brian says. You know, we don't know what

698
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:13.519
we were going to have. I
think we lost him. We lost him,

699
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:15.280
call back, we got to We've
got some time. So yeah,

700
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:20.639
yeah, coaching matters. I think
he does a great job. He's a

701
00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:23.599
good guy. I think the guys
play hard for him. And who would

702
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:28.480
have thought this right? Who would
have thought this to this point? Uh,

703
00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:30.639
he's he's mister U of a baseball
too. I mean, let's not

704
00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:35.679
forget that he was. He was
Kindle's favorite, you know, favorite player.

705
00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:38.119
A lot of a lot of the
former players would acknowledge that that he's

706
00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:43.239
he's mister U of a baseball.
He wears he has red and blue in

707
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:46.239
his blood. He and he's he
wants Arizona to be successful. He's very

708
00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:51.440
determined. I was in the press
the clubhouse. Last week when they had

709
00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:58.519
the selection show, he was walking
around like like expecting father in there.

710
00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:00.159
He knew it was going to be
in the in the tournament, but he

711
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:06.440
was he's so driven to want to
have this, this program be successful.

712
00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:09.960
Yeah, and his parents, his
players pick up on that. Sure he

713
00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:15.239
was. He talked to the players. They they they they get along with

714
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:17.639
him. I think I think he's
a good hire for Arizona. I think

715
00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:22.559
he's gonna do better as he goes
on, just like a deal will do

716
00:49:22.679 --> 00:49:24.840
better as she goes on. Yeah, don you got to cut off.

717
00:49:24.840 --> 00:49:27.880
So if you want to give us
a quick call back, we have a

718
00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:30.760
minute or two to take another call. Anybody who wants to call on you

719
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:34.719
can five to two zero four one
six seventy four forty. And to me,

720
00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:37.440
coaching matters. Obviously talent. Talent's
a big thing. Obviously you win

721
00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:43.039
with players, but it's not always
the case where some of the best teams.

722
00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:45.280
Look look at the NBA right now. The best team out there has

723
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:49.079
probably been all year is Boston.
Minnesota is there. They think they were

724
00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:53.199
a four seat or something like three
or four seat And it's not always a

725
00:49:53.239 --> 00:49:58.599
case where talent gets you there,
no, and there There is a legitimate

726
00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:02.360
concern about him recruiting because he doesn't
have a college recruiting background Chip Hale,

727
00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:07.639
but he's been able to hire coaches
that can recruit, like Trip Couch and

728
00:50:07.960 --> 00:50:13.840
like Kevin Vance. Is a young
guy, relatable, and I think Chip

729
00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:17.880
knows scouts through his major league background, his extensive major league background. So

730
00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:21.559
I think some people have to just
give him some time and don't be so

731
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:24.440
you know, you know, not
giving enough time to prove himself as a

732
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:27.920
recruiter. He's only this is only
his third year. So let me.

733
00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:30.320
It's only to ask you this because
I asked have the same thing. So

734
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:31.920
we know the basketball fans how they
are? You know, I love you

735
00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:36.039
until they don't. Football, it's
kind of we don't know who they are

736
00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:42.239
loyal, but they're not a baseball
A baseball what's the loyalty factor? If

737
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:47.000
you have ten guys, how many
of them really care about you? A

738
00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:51.800
baseball In a sense, I kind
of lost to train of thought to ask

739
00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:54.760
you the question. But they're not
all they're all loyal. There may be

740
00:50:54.800 --> 00:51:00.679
seven seventy percent percent because it's a
it's a different group. I don't know

741
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:02.920
any I don't know anybody, no
one, no one. I don't think

742
00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:07.400
it's ever asked me, just even
knowing who I am. How's the baseball

743
00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:12.320
team gonna look? Never? I
get that mostly about basketball, basketball,

744
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:15.280
and to a degree, some women's
basketball, but yeah, I don't.

745
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:21.079
I don't get that for baseball.
But who are all these people we saw

746
00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:25.280
we saw Friday? Yeah? Were
they familiar faces? I couldn't see.

747
00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:29.000
You know, I don't Lev goes
a lot more games than I do.

748
00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:31.000
I can't. I couldn't recognize a
lot of the people that were there because

749
00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:35.960
there were so many people there.
No, I think I think the people

750
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:38.280
get on the internet and all that
stuffy. They're just kind of fans for

751
00:51:38.320 --> 00:51:42.480
the moment and want to just talk
a lot of crap. Right, And

752
00:51:42.519 --> 00:51:47.119
they're there, since they have a
keyboard from they know everything that's Arizona should

753
00:51:47.159 --> 00:51:52.519
be doing, which is if they're
they're entitled their opinion of sure, sure,

754
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:54.800
but not you know some of the
things that that you hear read,

755
00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:59.400
it's just like, where's it coming
from? Give it some time, man,

756
00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:02.400
He's chip Hale's only been here for
three years and he's done things like

757
00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:07.920
like was it don Don just mentioned
that he's made adjustments year to year so

758
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:09.519
far in those three years, right, well all the year. And I

759
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:14.960
said this to my other partner,
my real partner. Uh you, you

760
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:19.679
didn't hear very much tripping about his
coaching because what he was winning, right

761
00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:22.280
when they were winning the show.
Last couple, they go away until they

762
00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:24.920
don't, right, and show up
until they don't. So okay, same

763
00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:29.199
thing with the deal that's your.
You hear a lot the last month of

764
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:31.159
the season season because they were winning, right, yeah, right, winning

765
00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:34.840
the big and the most important part
of the season. Yeah, winning cures

766
00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:37.960
a lot of things. Uh you
hear. You didn't hear much about Tommy

767
00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:43.000
until he's losing, you know,
final game or whatever, Clemson. Uh

768
00:52:43.039 --> 00:52:44.800
but that's the nature of the Beast
too. You. I mean, you

769
00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:49.039
get paid a lot of money for
for big decisions. Yeah. They can

770
00:52:49.079 --> 00:52:52.360
take it, yes, and I'm
sure, oh maybe a couple of them

771
00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:54.400
don't like to deal with it,
but it's part of it. Okay,

772
00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:57.599
Thanks guys for coming in, Thank
you, hav your for sitting in.

773
00:52:58.119 --> 00:53:01.159
Thank you Kevin. As always,
we're gonna have Matt Reynelson back for one

774
00:53:01.199 --> 00:53:05.000
more day before Jay comes back.
On Wednesday. Thanks guys,