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here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
You're hearing my voice again at the start

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of the show because Steve has abandoned
us again for the day. Ryan,

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I do know what to say.
He's actually headed up to you see,

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he tries to tell us he's not
a fan, right of stuff. He's

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going to the Reds Diamondbacks game because
he grew up a Reds fan. So

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he's trying to I don't have a
team, Yes you do. He's got

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you know, he's taking the day
off from the show to go to go

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check out the Reds. But I've
got a very able guest co host with

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me today. George made is one
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Welcome. Thank you very much,
very excited, appreciate you being here

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and filling in for Steve. I
know you'll kick his butty. You'll do

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a great job. But Georgia again
has this sports card business We'll probably talk

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some some memorabilia stuff as we go
through through the day. It's baking,

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you know, work well into the
baseball season. So who's hot, who's

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not in the NBA playoffs and all
that kind of lots happening in sports right

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now. Yeah, a lot of
cool stuff, but we put together a

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great show even without Steve. We're
gonna bring in Brian Jeffries at three fifteen,

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the Voice of the Wildcats, on
on twelve ninety. He'll be doing

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his last home PAC twelve baseball series
this weekend when Oregon State visits the Arizona

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It's a huge series. Arizona needs
to win one game to win the Pac

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twelve championship. So one we'll talk
to him about the series, but we'll

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go down memory lane talking about,
you know, the old days, the

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old six pack. You know,
when it was a PAC twelve in Northern

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and Southern Division you had Arizona,
Arizona State, UCLA, USC, Stanford

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and Call in the league. We
talked about that a little bit with Chip

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Hale. He can signed kind of
nostalgic about it, right change, this

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is it, this is the farewell
and this is it the farewell Tour We've

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talked to Brian at the end of
football season about last football season. We

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talked about it as being the last
basketball season. Now it's baseball and this

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is the last one in a huge, rich history of a PAC twelve baseball

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between USC as U, Stanford,
Oregon State, Arizona, all winning national

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championships during during this time. So
we'll get Brian in here and we'll go

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through some of that stuff, you
know, wax a little nostalgic on that,

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and then Arizona softball starts in the
in the Arkansas Regional on Friday.

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We'll have Kenzie Foller. Quinn Nora
is Kenzie Foller from her day's pitching at

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Arizona. She's also an ESPN Softball
softball analyst who will be calling the Stanford

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so the Stanford Regional this weekend.
She won't be with you, of a,

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but she'll be up with Stanford.
But we'll talk to a little bit

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one what she saw from the OV
this year, maybe a little bit about

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her regional, Stanford, one of
the time teams in the in the tournament,

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and then just overall, you know
what what we can expect to see

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in the NCAA Tournament in college softball, so a lot you know, all

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this happening in the next uh,
this coming weekend, so we'll get to

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all of that. Sounds like a
busy time. Yeah, it is a

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busy time, right, Yeah,
so go ahead. It's also great,

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you know we talk about softball.
What's happening in women's sports. Obviously with

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Caitlyn Clark. Today's our first w
NBA game sold out, so we're going

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to see if that's affected like softball. Yeah, well let me ask you.

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Let's let's go there with with your
business with Kaitlyn Clark, right,

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you know, is there anything I
mean, what what? What? Yeahs

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out there and what's it? What's
it look like? Right now? We

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never used to sell women's basketball cards. Now they're coming in and see,

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you know, paying seven hundred dollars
for an autograph, So it definitely has

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the fact that it and we hope
to see you know, it continued.

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So and obviously she would probably be
the number by the seller. But you've

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got others now, right, and
even some of the players who've been around

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for a while now they're getting the
attention because of what it's going into,

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like women's gymnastics. Livy's doing right, she's doing her own things, so

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maybe I'll ask her, is there
someone that's coming up in softball that week

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and potentially see catapult the sport right, right, And you know the softball

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has been been pretty big because of
ESPN, Right, But to take the

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next step in terms of the collectibles
market and stuff like that, that's a

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different step. I mean, what
we saw with Kaitlyn Clark these last couple

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of years in cooking and women's college
basketball, it's unprecedented, right, that

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just doesn't happen. The sponsorships,
the media, the sellout events, it's

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just it's tremendous. Yeah, I
mean we can go back. I mean

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we can name name women's basketball players
from way back. You know, you

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can go all the way back to
Cheryl Miller, right, so really one

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of the first pickers. But you
go back beyond that, Nancy Lieberman and

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some of those kinds of names.
But you going way back back. But

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none of them ever brought what Kaitlyn
Clark has brought. And part of it

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is certainly the social media aspect of
it, the amount of media attention that

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that that she generated. But there
were other players that came along the way,

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you know, Sabrina and Esca,
the girl from from Oregon, right,

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Kelsey Plum. You know some of
these players here, right, Diana

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Tarassi, some of who have been
around a little bit, and it's sort

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of like, okay, kate Leclark
brought it to another level. Now.

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You know what you hope is that
it kind of spreads a little bit,

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right for all of them, that
everybody gets to benefit from this, and

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it will. I mean they're even
today they're chartering planes for them. You

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know, they used to write coach
right, so it's it's definitely changing the

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sport. Yeah, it's very commitment
sport. Okay, So what's what what's

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Kaitlyn Clark memoryle you know, cards
or whatever basket sold fifty dollars card car

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then would have been autographed in every
tegraph card okay ye. And then just

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like a base rookie cards, fifty
dollars were sold out numbered cards or you

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know, they go up from there
and you see one one selling upwards of

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fourteen to twenty thousand dollars. Wow, Yeah, it's a lot of money.

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Yeah, it's big, you know, and they're talking about our contract.

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She's only making seventy eight thousand who
cares. She's getting an endorsement.

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She's making millions, millions and millions
millions. Okay, let's say, okay,

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she's got her her rookie debut tonight, Connecticut's son sold out. Okay,

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let's say she takes that Jersey signs
it. What does that sell for?

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That's that's a that's a tough question
because nobody knows, you know what,

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Yeah, Michael Jordan, but somebody'll
pay right, Yeah, yeah,

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Michael Jordan has sold upwards over ten
million dollars, but this is her first

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one. So it's just tough to
say. You know, it could be

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ten thousand dollars or it could be
one hundred thousand or half a million.

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We don't know. Well, how
does okay, how does the how does

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that market get set? I mean, what what has to happen? She

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she has to sign it and put
it up for sale, or somebody gets

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it. You put it at an
auction house, and then whatever someone's willing

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to pay for it. Usually the
rare stuff. Every time it's resold,

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it's sold for a hiring value,
so it always usually appreciates the good stuff.

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Yeah, okay, if you're if
you're lucky, lucky enough to be

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outside the locker room. She walks
by, she signs a jersey and hands

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it to you. What are you
doing with it? What do you what

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are you trying to get for it? How? Oh? A couple of

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thousand dollars? Yeah, yeah,
for sure. Yeah, she's she's the

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top. She's really a couple of
thousand. Yes, not ten, not

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twelve, not fifty. Well,
it depends game used or not game US.

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If it's a game use jersey,
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it's fine. She's you know,
she's walking to the locker room. Yeah,

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and then she does the you know, like the soccer player and you

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have jersey. She's got sports bronze, so she's not naked, and she

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signs this, she signs the scenario
he's creating. Yeah, I'm just trying

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to figure out, you know,
Okay, you know, what is what

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is somebody going to be looking for
if they if they get say that,

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like, in my professional opinion,
I would say five figures, so at

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least ten thousand jersey. Wow,
there's a lot of money. Yeah,

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we've never seen never nobody else in
women in all women's sports, we've never

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seen it. You don't golf is
you know, they've had some LPGA that

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that have been like national sensations,
but not like this. Right, this

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is just I mean even we were
watching tournament games, betting tournament games,

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and it's just it's really changed things
for sure, And I mean, and

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we hope it does it with softball
and others. Any value to any of

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the Women's Olympic soccer jerseys of any
of those ever been out there? Those

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are? Where are the you know, where are those at? Like I'm

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thinking of nowhere? Nowhere? Ye? Who you know scored the goal through

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off for Jersey? Did that?
Did that? Never hit them? Fetching

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I don't know, I don't know
on that, you don't see it often,

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but not fetching those you know,
ten thousand dollars you know, yeah,

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maybe a couple of thousand on those
Yeah, on those. Okay,

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interesting just but but still unprecedented,
right for Jersey to go for ten thousand

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dollars. You go, Okay,
that's never happened. Never happened, Yeah,

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never happened. We we love it. Yeah, it keeps going very

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cool. Good for them, they
well deserved. Yeah, and it's great

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for the business, right absolutely.
I mean when people are there's something else

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to collect, right, that's got
to be great for the business. When

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they're coming in and asking for a
cards and we're sold out. Wow,

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yeah, yeah, Okay, all
right, all right, well let's uh,

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well, let's let's we've got a
couple more minutes. Lets Stelvin.

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It's baseball season. It's baseball season
right now. I mean, I know

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I've asked you. I need to
get a show Hay card at some point,

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but you know who's out there that's
get you. I haven't gotten it

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yet. Okay, one more invite. You know, in a baseball season,

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I think I don't know if we've
had this conversation before. A baseball

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season starts. When somebody gets hot, they're playing well there, you know,

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their value goes with that. Or
does somebody lose value if they're off

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to a horrible start. How does
that work? Yeah, obviously it's based

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on player performance. So if they're
hot, they're doing well, you know,

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the card increases. They can be
hot like Mike Trouts are off fire

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and then he gets hurting. Right
now, it's the fourth fifth time they

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in a row, seasons in a
row, that he's gotten hurt. People

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are starting to lose. Interesting,
I'm not going to you know, invest

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in him, so let's go to
Otani, you know, and he's well

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loved. He's kind of the face
of MLB. You've seen the the uh

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gambling allegory. What did that do? Anything? It did? It dropped

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it and dropped it twenty five percent? Wow, it was that. MLB

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was kind of smart. They swept
it on their right, yea, because

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he's the face of the sport and
his you know, he's he's up there

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again and people are asking so did
he come back? Oh yeah, absolutely,

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yes, Okay, yeah, who
else is out there right now early

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in the early this season. That's
uh, you know, people that are

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the people are asking for. There's
a lot of young rookies. Like today,

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people were asking for Bobby Witch Junior. Normally you don't not see no

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lesser as Corbyn Carroll. You know, they're your young rookie people are speculating

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on it to invest early by them, hopefully they have a great career.

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And they just came up in Pittsburgh
Paul Skeans skreens yep, oh great.

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People love him. You know,
he had a pretty good outing, right

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yeah, Well he's pitched one game
and his card goes to oh yeah,

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absolutely, oh yeah. A lot
of times they're they're sold higher on speculation

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than actual performance, so they sometimes
never meet what what you know, even

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if they play well, they're like, you know, their cards are selling

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just so high above right, that
is right. Somebody that's come up like

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that. Who do you remember somebody
who just immediately as soon as they hit

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the one shot up in the air, the one I remember, and it

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was crazy with Steven Strasburg. That
was maybe a decent twenty eleven, but

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he was just you know, he's
the number one overall pick. He was

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a pitcher and went to Washington Nationals. His cards, everything was just fired.

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He did Arizona Fall League. Here
they're selling out games over there,

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and then halfway through a season he
gets hurt. That's never it just never

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come back, never came back.
Interesting. Interesting, Wow, it's it

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again. It always fascinates me.
How that? How that? I mean,

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you gotta love it? I mean, do you? We love it?

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And the fanatics has evolved now they
bought they bought tops, so they're

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trying to bring the average sports fan
to become collectors. You know, and

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even if we could get a small
percentage of people. It's another radio or

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to you know, going to a
hobby shop and pick up some cards or

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autographic memorabilia. Hey, we love
that right now? Do does does a

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card get valued like locally? Like
say it's a guy his car is more

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valuable in Tucson than if he was
in La or somewhere. Yes, what

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I like to call it is like
regional pricing. So it could be like

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Benedict Mathren. You know, they
sell higher here because you know, Indiana

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Pacer, but you know someone in
in Texas might not really care. But

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you know, yeah, he's okay, he's an average, you know,

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above average basketball player, but we
absolutely love him here. So there's like

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a little yeah, down to the
sentimental value of all of that interesting stuff.

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Wan so too, I got I
gotta bring up his nick because he's

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on my fantasy based on fantasy now
exactly, So how much did his value

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about some of this stuff. But
coming up, we've got Brian Jeffries,

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a voice of the Wildcats. He'll
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series. Oh let's packed tall baseball
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Friday, Saturday with Oregon State coming
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heading into the postseason, but last
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So we'll talk to him and as
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lane talk about the old six pack. Brian's been here since the late eighties,

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phone, we've got Brian Jeffries,
the voice of the Wildcats, the voice

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who will be calling the last PAC
twelve baseball series for Arizona coming up this

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weekend with Oregon State coming to town, and almost poetic that Arizona's got a

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chance to win the Pac CULF championship
this last one, Brian. But welcome

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to the show and thanks for being
here. Okay, George, great to

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be with you. And yeah,
it's going to be on weekend, not

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only because you've got a championship on
the line, but just the fact that

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this tip for the PAC twelve in
terms of regular season games, this this

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is the last three you'll see on
the Arizona campus and it's kind of odd

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to think about, kind of sad
to think about, but it's coming to

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an end. So closing it out
with a championship, boy, that would

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be sweet. Well, you know, you know we've talked to you about

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you know, at the end,
we talked you at the end of the

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football season about the last football season. We talked to you at the end

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of the basketball season might have been
the last basketball season. But for some

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reason, baseball has a different feel
to it, just kind of a you

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know, it's been kind of a
warm and fuzzy sport for Arizona particular.

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They've you know, they've pretty much
always been good. You know, a

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lot of you know, fan following, they've won some national championships, and

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it's kind of like everybody's sport,
right It's not too big, but it's

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big enough that it matters to people
in this town and it has for a

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long time, and now it's coming
to an end. But you know,

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you got this Oregon State Series where
you know, again, as we said,

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Arizona's got to win one game to
win the championship. But how big

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of a deal it is this for
Arizona sort of to be the last ones?

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Do you think? Oh, I
think historically that's something that you'll look

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back maybe, you know, with
fondness, or I can think of a

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couple other adjectives other than that,
it's not going to be anything and in

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any of the sports that the last
championship. I think once we get a

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few years down the road because the
conference that will dissolve. I don't think

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anybody other than the people that may
be played in that game, or you're

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avid fans who certainly remember some of
those games, I don't think it's going

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to stand out because it was the
last one. It's I think for Arizona,

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the bigger picture is to win this
one and what it could do for

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them in terms of possibly hosting a
regional here in Teissan, or you know,

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just getting themselves in a great position
for a regional coming up. So

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I look at it that way.
Maybe I'm wrong about that, Jay,

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but I'm just not one that's gonna
if Arizona wins the championship, I'm not

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going to say, well, that
was great they won the last one.

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I think of all the others,
the great teams they've had, and all

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the great success they've had, which
can still continue. It will be in

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a different conference, but you know, they'll still be one of the best

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baseball programs in the country no matter
what happens this weekend or this season.

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Right, Well, let's first talk
about Oregon State. What what do we

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expect to see from those guys?
I mean, they're good they're all's.

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They weren't always good, but they
won, They won national champions back then.

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They've been good since then. What
what do you know about them?

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And what can we expect to see
in these three games? Yeah, you

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know, you're right, they weren't
always good. And then a guy that

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then Pat Casey came along to be
their head coach and they figured it out.

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He I think some of the Northwest
schools for a long time thought they

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had to recruit kids out of California
to win. And of course they were

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taking the back seat Arizona, ASU, USC, Stanford, UCLA, cal

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those schools were getting the best players
from southern California, you know State,

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Pullert and Lungach. I mean,
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Well, Pat Casey figured out that
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and he still recruited California heavily,
but he found the best talent in Oregon

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and Washington and a guess what that
got that program going. That's been good

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ever since. And so they were
favored to win the Pac twelve this year.

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They still could win the Pac twelve
this year. They had the best

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player in the PAC twelve and Travis
Zana. They have an outstanding pitching,

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they hit the ball like nobody else
in the league. And it's just amazing

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that they've lost twelve games. In
fact, I was looking back at their

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losses today, Jay, and they've
lost twelve games, eight of them by

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two runs or less. And so
that's how close they are to even having

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a better record. And I think
a lot of people forget outlived this Oregon

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State team really is. And so
the Watcats, you know, they're gonna

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have to play their best. This
is not the home field is certainly going

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to help, but you know,
Oregon State's not coming in here thinking that

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they are the underdog in this thing
by any means. Hey, Brian,

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So speaking of home field, if
someone that doesn't hasn't gone a game all

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season, what do they expect to, you know, go out there the

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last last games of the PAC twelve. Should they go out there? What

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kind of ambiance is going to be
out there? What's the atmosphere going to

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be? Like, well, I
Georgia, it should be electric all three

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games. You've got three six o'clock
games, so the heat is not going

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to be a factor. You're playing
for a championship. There's so much on

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the line. It is the last
three home games. Sparring a possible regional

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host site, and so the baseball
crowds have been great this year. Arizona

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draws twelve thousand fans this weekend,
so you know, if they draw twelve

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thousand, they would leave the PAC
twelve in home attendance, and I think

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that's a pretty special marks. Yeah, but they but they need twelve to

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thousand over the three games. We'll
see if they can get it. I

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think it's certainly possible. But the
atmosphere should be great. I think the

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place will be as full as it
possibly can be. I mean, High

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COVID's a big, big ballfield,
but if you get five six thousand people

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in there, that can be an
intimidating atmosphere. And it will be interesting

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because Oregon State is a losing road
record this year and so they played They've

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only lost two home games, but
they've had some struggles on the road,

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and it's a big High COVID,
it's a big ballpark. Oregon State's a

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great home run hitting team, but
trying to get it out of High Covid

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is a challenge. So I think
there's a lot of factors there that could

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just make this weekend really good.
But again, wild they got to play

406
00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:45.480
their best. They've got to pitch
their best and play out standing defense,

407
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and they're going to win a game, two games of three games. Yeah,

408
00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:52.640
I mentioned to Chip that. You
know, I've been to three games

409
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this year. I've loved to have
gone to morrow. I'll be going this

410
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weekend. But every time I've gone, I've gone and I've seen Clark Candyatti

411
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throw, and I see him throwing, I think, okay, if Ara

412
00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:02.920
Zone has got a better pitcher than
him, who start? You know,

413
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who's the first night started? Then
I want to see who that guy is

414
00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:10.759
because he's been very impressive to me. But this first matchup on Thursday night,

415
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I mean that's a big one.
You know, Arizona wants to get

416
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this championship thing done and not have
to think about it beyond Thursday. What

417
00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:21.839
do we expect from that pitching matchup
on Thursday night? Well, you know,

418
00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:23.839
if it goes according to plan,
and I don't see any reason why

419
00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:26.599
it's going to change. Jackson can't
goes for the Wildcats, and he's been

420
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:30.880
there Friday guy all season long,
one of the PAC twelve leaders in strikeouts,

421
00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:34.880
and like every pitcher on this Arizona
staff, they just don't walk many

422
00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:38.559
guys, which has been a major
key to their success. The team leads

423
00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:42.880
the nation and the fewest bowks allow
for nine innings. And then the twist

424
00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:45.880
all of this if Oregon State,
and I'm sure they're going to go with

425
00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:51.759
Aid and May was an Arizona Wildcat
last season and he transferred up there,

426
00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:56.240
and he's five and zero having a
great year, and you know, so

427
00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:59.799
there's gonna be a little extra instead
of probably on both sides. I think

428
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.039
that were teammates with him here last
year certainly would like to beat him,

429
00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:07.720
and not for any reason other than
they just want to win the game,

430
00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:10.720
right, And I'm sure he's going
to come down here thinking, hey,

431
00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:14.480
you know, maybe I wasn't as
good at Arizona and now I blossomed into

432
00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:18.359
this outstanding pitcher and I want to
show my stuff. So there's a lot

433
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:21.759
that I think is going to go
into that, probably more from Aid May

434
00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:25.559
side than Jackson Camp. I think
it has the makings again of a great

435
00:28:25.559 --> 00:28:29.039
matchup a mantra. All right,
So we got this series coming up Arizona,

436
00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:30.519
you know, safely in the tournament. We'll see if they, you

437
00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:33.799
know, if they do well enough
and get it, get an opportunity to

438
00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:37.039
host. Right now, the RPI
is is is a little low for that,

439
00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:40.440
But I don't know how the PAC
twelve champion doesn't host. So I

440
00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:41.920
would think that, you know,
if they can win the league, they

441
00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:45.160
would get that. But we'll we'll, you know, we'll leave that to

442
00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:47.880
the powers that be. So let's
go back in time a little bit.

443
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:51.799
You you came here to me sort
of at the height of the city,

444
00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:55.559
the old six Pack, the PAC
twelve Southern Division. You had the Bay

445
00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:57.880
Area schools, the LA schools,
and the Arizona schools playing in the league

446
00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:02.680
together and that was just us,
for lack of a better word, just

447
00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:07.599
fun year in and year out.
All those teams were good every year when

448
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:11.279
you walked into that What was that
like for you to start calling those games

449
00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.839
and seeing the competitiveness of that league? Well, I think all you have

450
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:21.599
to do is look at this,
Jay, Stanford, USC, Arizona and

451
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:26.920
ASU are four of the ten winningness
programs in college baseball history. And that's

452
00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.519
all you have to know right there. They even though for a lot of

453
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:33.559
those years they've played each other twice, and they beat each other up all

454
00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:37.599
the time. They are still for
the winning his programs in college baseball history.

455
00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:41.720
And so that tells you right there
how good that six pack was.

456
00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:45.799
And in particular when it started out. I mean when I first got here,

457
00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:48.759
it was, you know, USC
was the team to beat under Rod

458
00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:52.799
Data, right, and you know
Stanford got good under Mark Marquiz and you

459
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:56.759
know Jerry Kendall and Jim Brock,
and I mean, you just had these

460
00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:02.039
great coaches and these outstanding progra grams. I mean Bob Mulana when he was

461
00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:06.039
coaching at Cal, they ran the
bases like I've never seen anybody, you

462
00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:07.359
know, they would steal two hundred
bases a season. I mean, it

463
00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:11.839
was. It was just crazy what
a lot of these teams would do.

464
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:15.160
And it was fun because of that, because you you had and primarily I

465
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:18.400
think of the great offenses that were
part of the six Pack, and that

466
00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:22.759
made it high scoring games. You
have the illuminum bat. For those of

467
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:26.759
us broadcasting the games when it went
four hours, that wasn't exactly you know,

468
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:30.000
what you were cut out for on
a week daily basis, But it

469
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:33.400
was a lot of fun because they
were they were wild, So I missed

470
00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:37.640
those days. I think because of
the emergence of Oregon State and now Oregon

471
00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:44.119
that the in Utah got good this
year, that the conference is a little

472
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:47.920
more balanced, and I think that's
that's helped that make a better conference than

473
00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:49.559
you know, when the six Pack
broke broke up, there there were a

474
00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:56.079
few years where it just didn't quite
right. Was there was there a let's

475
00:30:56.200 --> 00:30:57.759
let's keep it to the six pack? Was there a favorite team that you

476
00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:02.440
had so you got here, what
eighties, six eighty seven? Right,

477
00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:10.640
yeah, I started doing. My
first baseball season was actually nineteen, I

478
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:14.359
want to say eighty five. Okay, So from then until the six Pack

479
00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:17.880
broke up in ninety eight, favorite
teams that you saw, whether they were

480
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:22.039
Arizona, Stanford, whoever. You
don't say ASU, but but you know

481
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.160
the teams that you know that you
remember that stick out to you. You

482
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:29.680
guys that had a bunch of guys
who went to the pros or whatever.

483
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.559
Well, I mean the other teams. I mean, honestly, I don't

484
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:37.039
think much of the other teams.
I mean, I think of them,

485
00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:41.440
but I don't There's none of them
to me that I think will they they

486
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.799
were all really good, right,
So I can't tell you like there was

487
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:48.759
one. I just think of that
when I got going and when we got

488
00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.079
for example, nineteen eighty six when
Arizona won the national championship, which was

489
00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:56.039
there third at the time, and
that was my first time going to Omaha,

490
00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:01.680
and that was Todd Trafton, Chip
Hail, Steve Strong, Mike Senny,

491
00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:07.279
Tommy Heinzoh. I could go on
from there. I mean, those

492
00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:09.119
guys were always special to me.
And I'll just give you a little personal

493
00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:15.559
side note that when we were over
in Berkeley this year, Todd Trafton shut

494
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:19.079
up at the ballpark and I probably
hadn't seen him, and he said he

495
00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:22.000
hadn't been a Tissan maybe in over
twenty years or something, and that just

496
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:27.079
brought back all these great memories to
me to sit there and Bobby Ralston was

497
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:30.240
with him, even though they didn't
play together on that team. You know,

498
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:34.279
Traptmon was on that team, and
just it brought back all these great

499
00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:37.519
memories of those guys, and for
me being in Omaha for the first time

500
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:40.559
at old Rosenblad Stadium, that's always
going to be one of my favorite teams.

501
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:44.880
Anytime you win a national championship.
It's a favorite team, but because

502
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:49.799
it was the first one I got
to be at, it's the most special

503
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.559
one for me. Yeah, you
know, I got to cover that eighty

504
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:57.200
nine team that unfortunately didn't get out
of its own regional. But that team,

505
00:32:57.240 --> 00:33:00.200
you know, with all those major
leaguers on that team, you know

506
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:04.039
Lance Dixon, Scott Ericson, J
T. Snow, Hall of Famer,

507
00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:08.160
Trevor Hoffin playing shortstop instead of pitching, right, I mean, that team

508
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:13.160
was incredible And I remember covering that
team thinking, how did these guys not

509
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:15.759
win their regional? And it was
it was disappointing, But you look back

510
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:20.359
on that team, that team was
the first one that I think won the

511
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:24.039
won the six pack outright, right, I think I believe so. And

512
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:29.759
you forgot one You forgot one name
there, Jay, You've got one name

513
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:34.359
that played right around there, didn't
I don't remember he was on the eighty

514
00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:37.680
nineteen or not. I know he
played with those guys. See my memories

515
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:40.359
a little fuzzy, and that's Kenny
Lofton. Kenny Lofton, but he hardly

516
00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:44.160
played, right, He he came
up and hardly played. And then the

517
00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:47.519
next thing you know he's in the
majors. I don't believe you have to

518
00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:51.440
go back and check the record books. I don't believe he ever had an

519
00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:54.039
at bad Arizona. I think it's
simply a hitch runner, or maybe he

520
00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:58.440
played some outfield, played in games, but I'm not sure he actually had

521
00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:01.079
an hat at. But yeah,
that's one of the great trivia questions.

522
00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:07.000
I still have a box score somewhere
that has that has Kenny Lofton, Scott

523
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:13.679
Ericson, Trevor hoppin JT. Snow. I want to say, I'm Kevin

524
00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:15.039
Long. Kevin Long was on that
team, right, he was the center

525
00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:17.679
fielder on that team, I believe. Okay, so there you go.

526
00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:23.440
How about that for one one game? And I've still got that box score

527
00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:28.920
somewhere because when you look at you
know what those guys went on to do

528
00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:32.000
when Kevin Long is still in baseball. Uh. And of course Kenny Lofton,

529
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:35.719
as as you just mentioned, even
though he was not a baseball star

530
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:37.800
at Arizona, he certainly became one
of the all time greats. He did

531
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.760
he did well. Brian, this
was fun. I appreciate it. Uh,

532
00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:44.760
Hey have fun this weekend. Uh, you know, shed a tear

533
00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:46.280
for everybody because it's a it's you
know, it's sad to see you go,

534
00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:50.800
but you know it's been it's been
a great run for Arizona in the

535
00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:53.000
in the league. And we'll see
if they can pull off a Pack twelve

536
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:57.760
championship with here in this last weekend. That'd be great. Thanks guys,

537
00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.880
all right, thanks a bunch.
Has Brian Jeffrey his voice of the Wildcats.

538
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:05.119
He'll be calling that series Arizona and
Oregon State Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

539
00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:08.840
all six o'clock games. Get out
there, just for for nothing else.

540
00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:13.800
The dang sunset. Oh man.
You see if you're sitting in the

541
00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.440
anywhere, you sit over there and
you catch the sunset at High Corbett for

542
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:21.000
an Arizona game, it's awesome that. I think they'd love to get crowds

543
00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:22.719
of five, six seven thousand out
there. It's a big stadium, they

544
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:27.679
can fit a lot and it should
be a blast. And again win one

545
00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:30.760
game, and uh, you know, we were making we were making plans

546
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:32.920
to go to the Friday game,
and my daughter goes, We're going Thursday

547
00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:36.480
because they could win it on Thursday
and I want to be there when they

548
00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:42.239
win it we day, So get
out there and and uh it's a it's

549
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:45.400
a great time too. And you
know what the four hour games are thing

550
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:47.639
of the past, you know,
I, uh, I one of one

551
00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:52.119
of I told you won those three
games Clark Kanyaty was like a forty two

552
00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:54.519
game or something like that. Two
and a half hours, forty five.

553
00:35:55.639 --> 00:36:00.760
Those are great and the beer they
got beer. So all right, let's

554
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.519
take our breakword and come back.
We'd love to take your calls five two

555
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zero four one, six, seventy
four to forty. If you want to

556
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go back on memory Lane on Pac
twelve baseball, I would love to do

557
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that. If you're planning to be
at the stadium this week, would love

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to hear that. So excuse me
again, give us a call. Five

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tonight, you know, claiming he's
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598
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you know, we're kicking around this. You know, some of this

599
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:13.639
history of Pac twelve Pac ten six
pack baseball, which you know growing up

600
00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:15.599
here was just just awesome. And
even before that, you know, Arizona

601
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:19.199
in the whack with a SU,
a lot of great times there. I

602
00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:22.000
mean, some of the players and
we saw come through here. Barry Bonds

603
00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:25.960
played at a SU, which gives
me one more reason to hate the guy.

604
00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:30.840
But you know, Rachiel Jackson,
Rasseel Jackson was at ASU, A

605
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:32.679
lot of these guys who we saw
on It's not that it's the end of

606
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:36.519
bag college baseball here, and you
know, it's just the end of the

607
00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:39.719
Pac twelve fact. Just like you
said, it's the chapter closes and new

608
00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:42.800
chapter opens, you know, and
he's like, it's no big deal.

609
00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:45.559
It's yeah, end here and you
start over here. I know, still

610
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:50.079
tugs at the heart for no finish
line. You know. But remember going

611
00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:52.880
to those games, you know in
the old six pack and every series against

612
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:58.880
every team was a battle, you
know, you know because even we mentioned

613
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:02.639
a su Arizona, USC and Stanford
know all in the among the top ten.

614
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:08.039
But col was never a slouch.
And and uh and uh was never

615
00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:12.639
a slouch. I mean there were
some great, great battles and some of

616
00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:15.599
those games they were awesome. You
know. There'd be at Sansett Field,

617
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:19.440
which was the field on campus.
There were times when they would have to

618
00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:23.159
the seats would fill up and they
would actually sit folks out in the grass

619
00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:27.239
and fall territory, you know,
and that if at ball of the ball

620
00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:30.079
went in, there was like going
out of play because there there would be

621
00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:34.639
ten thousand people there in the place
set sat like seven. Right. So

622
00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:39.039
a lot of great times. Even
before that that was built, they played

623
00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:45.400
some games at High Corbett did they
high for the for the beer for the

624
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:49.840
situation? Right when when when they
found out that they if they were off

625
00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:55.079
campus they could sell beer, they
were going we're going, you know,

626
00:40:55.159 --> 00:41:00.119
the the Diamondbacks and and and the
Rockies, you know, spring train and

627
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:01.880
had left. So they said the
stadium was sitting there. It said,

628
00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:06.639
that's a perfect venue. It's a
Major League Baseball spring training venue. It

629
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:09.400
really does. It's a great facility. And they said, let's go there,

630
00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:14.320
and they did, and immediately the
crowd started coming. They've been leading

631
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:16.960
attendance in the Pac twelve. Yeah, since that's awesome. Since it's been

632
00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:22.079
uh, I think I know the
twenty twelve team that won the National championship

633
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:24.800
played there. I think there was
one or two years before that, so

634
00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:29.800
maybe twenty ten, twenty eleven.
So even next season, they're going to

635
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:31.320
continue to play there, right,
Oh yeah, Yeah, that's their host

636
00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:36.719
that's their home stadium. And you
know, it's it's funny because other schools,

637
00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:39.800
particularly in the PAC twelve, have
taken that model. ASU hasn't also

638
00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:45.960
had an on campus stadium, and
they're not Phoenix Municipal for the same reason

639
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:50.599
in Utah, you know, Chip
explained to US yesterday. Chip Hale explained

640
00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:52.880
us yesterday the reason they was only
played at ten o'clock in the morning on

641
00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:59.000
Friday and Saturday last week and then
Sunday night because the minor league baseball team

642
00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:04.800
baseball team process, so they share
the stadium. So and the Triple A

643
00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:08.400
team gets first priority. So Utah
is in, you know, a bigger

644
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:13.679
league facility. So they do that
and for you know, to sell beer,

645
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:16.320
bigger crowds, bear facilities, beer, baseball on hot dogs. That's

646
00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:19.800
the perfect thing. So it makes
sense they had to do it. Yeah,

647
00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:22.000
you know, and you go to
High Corbett and you know, if

648
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.360
you want to get a seat and
get a chair, back seat under the

649
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:27.360
under the shade, you can,
or if you just want to sit out

650
00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:30.400
in the bleachers and what's it's general
admission or yeah, general admission for the

651
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:35.400
bleachers, but there's reserve seats,
you know, behind home plate, there's

652
00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:37.159
box seats, right, I mean
we're going to be there on Thursday.

653
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:40.960
Home plate. Yeah, it's it's
a great it's a great place to watch

654
00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:44.199
the game. You know, I
grew up going there, you know,

655
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:46.800
going to the Toros when they got
here in sixty nine, I think,

656
00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:52.280
wow, and they were the farm
club of the White Sox for early on.

657
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:55.000
Do you think they failed to build
that ballpark like it's you know,

658
00:42:55.360 --> 00:43:00.199
facing the wrong direction as opposed like
TP faces the other you don't get the

659
00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:06.719
sun actually in the bat I think
it's I think it's perfect. I think

660
00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:10.199
now, yeah, I mean yeah, you know with the TP they built

661
00:43:10.199 --> 00:43:13.599
that so that you had the view
of the mountains in the you know,

662
00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:16.599
in the outfield, you know.
But I mean that who knows, they

663
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:20.440
built that back in the forties,
so I don't know why they built it

664
00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:22.760
that way, but they did.
But you know, it's it's fine.

665
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:25.320
You know. I like it too, I guess. I mean, I've

666
00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:29.320
I've had I've been for it.
I've played a few games there when I

667
00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:34.159
played in the city League baseball or
tournament championship, and it was fun.

668
00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:37.320
And I remember there ever being a
problem with you know, with the sun

669
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:39.519
or anything like that, you know, and the facilities, you know,

670
00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:45.039
improving it and the sun goes down
behind the Terry francona batting facility in the

671
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:46.960
trees and stuff like that pretty early
on, right within the first couple of

672
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:51.960
innings usually, So it's not it's
not bad at all. It's a it's

673
00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:53.119
a great place to go watch games. It's a lot of fun. So

674
00:43:53.400 --> 00:43:58.159
nice you go. Do you go
to many of those yeah, I mean

675
00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:04.000
a couple of years ago tickets.
Oh wow, okay, the third because

676
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:07.440
it was a really good view.
I mean you're definitely getting I mean,

677
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:14.519
like you said, said, give
it a couple of innings and yeah,

678
00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:16.599
yeah, it's it's it's a great
place and you know, the background is

679
00:44:16.639 --> 00:44:20.239
great, and it's just it's just
a good facility. I do. I

680
00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:23.480
will say that I do not remember
the grass looking like back then when I

681
00:44:23.480 --> 00:44:29.039
played on it. Like it does
not. They really take do a nice

682
00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:32.360
job with with the facility and and
and you know they've improved the concessions and

683
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:39.159
the restrooms, the locations. That's
why Tail location over there. It's it's

684
00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:42.800
easy to park. I mean,
look, you're gonna walk a little bit,

685
00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:45.920
no matter what I'll give you.
I'll give you a tip. Park

686
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:50.360
out there by the annexed fields,
beyond the right field fence. There's always

687
00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:53.960
parking out there. That's why I
park every time. And one you don't

688
00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:58.320
get hit by a ball. You
know your windshield is not going to be

689
00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:00.440
busted and into it. It's easy
to get in and out of there.

690
00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:04.039
So that's that's a good place to
go. Let's get out there. Yeah,

691
00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:07.000
they do have ticket deals. By
the way, this weekend, for

692
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:10.079
a game, you can buy two
tickets for twenty for twelve bucks. It's

693
00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:15.280
bucks a ticket, right, normally
I think it's eight or ten, like

694
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:20.360
ten bucks a ticket. There's so
two bucks two tickets for twelve or for

695
00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:22.599
if you want to buy a ticket
to all three games, you can get

696
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:24.599
all three games for twenty four dollars. So they've got those things going on.

697
00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:27.840
Nice, we're all gonna get out
there and break that record. Yeah,

698
00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:29.800
let's go, man, Let's let's
get out there. Have some fun.

699
00:45:29.840 --> 00:45:32.880
It should be fun, all right, George, NBA playoffs, Man,

700
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:36.480
what's going on? I know some
big games tonight. You know a

701
00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:39.880
lot of these series tied up to
too, so it's interesting. You know

702
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:45.840
the Denver the Denver series, Yeah, you know Denver Minnesota Minnesota started off.

703
00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:51.159
You know, they went into Denver
and won two games and like everybody's

704
00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:53.760
thinking, Anthony Edwards is the next
Michael Jordan, right, and they're gonna

705
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:58.920
sweep the chance And no, they
went back to Minnesota and they won.

706
00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:02.119
They took two backs. Yeah,
I was I was watching one of the

707
00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:07.960
one of the Twitter accounts that I
followed. I think it's covers dot Com

708
00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:13.159
was saying that that after after after
a couple of games of people just being

709
00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:16.840
all over Minnesota to win the series, now all the money is coming in

710
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:22.119
on Denver after after winning those joking
going on, nobody's beating on Minnesota anymore.

711
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:25.199
It's crazy. And then we talked
earlier about how like you know,

712
00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:30.440
player performance or performance affects cards at
the Edwards cards after those first two games,

713
00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:34.079
sword, right, you know,
now they settled back down. Yeah,

714
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:37.480
Now people are people. People bought
high and now the little bug by

715
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:42.280
that right absolutely, yeah, yeah, I call him the next next Michael

716
00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:45.039
Jordan that I mean, they were
annoying to him. Yah. You know,

717
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:46.159
people are saying, oh, he's
got the same shot, he's got

718
00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:52.239
the same yeah. Yeahs the face
of you know, and we hope that

719
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:57.880
would happen, but it's you know, yeah, do you getting back to

720
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:01.400
that that whole business. Do you
root for certain guys like that that that

721
00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:05.079
they're value? You know, honestly, we do, we do. We

722
00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:07.559
we root for As a as a
hobby shop owner, I do root for

723
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:12.679
what's good for the hobby and then
sometimes even my own personal collection. You

724
00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:15.320
know, if I'm holding a big
card, you know, and I want

725
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:19.440
this player to do well, you
know. For Yeah, well you're talking

726
00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:22.320
about Ben Math Now he's got a
little more value. And what about TJ

727
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:24.920
McConnell, right, he's getting a
lot of attention. Yeah, I was

728
00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:30.159
just taxing. David Miller was in
town, the ex assistant coach here at

729
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:32.800
Arizona. Good for him and TJ
are best friends, and I you know,

730
00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:36.320
I bought him some cards and gifted
him some cards, and I was

731
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:38.599
like, look at TJ. He's
like unbelievable. Yeah, you know he

732
00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:42.320
you know the same thing he brought
he brought them back, you know,

733
00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:45.519
the Pacers. Yeah, you know, this game was tremendous on Sunday.

734
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:49.760
Yeah, so and that series is
also to to that that comes on here

735
00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:52.119
what at five o'clock and you don't
see him, you don't talk. But

736
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:57.039
now that he's on the playoffs,
TJ McConnell's you know, national news right

737
00:47:57.199 --> 00:48:02.719
right, what big dude for Denver? I kind of think of his name

738
00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:08.800
joke. Yes, what big value, big value on that guy. Yes,

739
00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:14.239
yes he is. You know,
I just don't see how he creates

740
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:15.800
any excitement though. I mean,
he's just kind of a big lumbering and

741
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:19.880
he doesn't sign. Yeah, and
he doesn't want it, you know,

742
00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:22.199
he doesn't. He's like, oh
my one day, I don't care.

743
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:24.119
I just want to win the championship. He wins a championship, I don't

744
00:48:24.119 --> 00:48:25.679
want to go to the para,
don't want to go home. So,

745
00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:29.760
yeah, you're right, he's not
the face. You know, we really

746
00:48:29.800 --> 00:48:32.280
don't want him, but he still
sells because he wins. Yeah, because

747
00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:36.920
he wins, because he went He's
winning these awards and stuff. But you

748
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:39.480
what did you make of that?
They're making a big deal of of of

749
00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:45.840
a lebron being at the Cleveland game
last night, and you know that there's

750
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:52.039
all the speculation exactly where he gets
drafted by Cleveland so he can go back

751
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:53.000
and play there. But people are
making a big deal, Well, he

752
00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:57.000
went to the Cleveland game, so
he must be coming back. Absolutely,

753
00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:00.559
I don't know. I mean,
they're even talking that he could possibly go

754
00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:07.559
to Atlanta because they might draft uh
Bronnie number one. Because that's ridiculous to

755
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:15.320
me, absolutely ridiculous. So who
knows if the Lakers drafted him second round.

756
00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:19.639
But don't you think, don't you
because don't you think though that a

757
00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:27.159
fan would be upset if you draft
Brownie James because he's not that good.

758
00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:30.000
He shouldn't be in the NBA.
He's not ready, he's not right,

759
00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:34.440
is he? We don't even know
if he's good enough to be in the

760
00:49:34.519 --> 00:49:38.000
NBA ever ever, exact absolutely not
draft So you say, well, we're

761
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:40.639
going to use a draft pick on
him so we can get Lebron, who's

762
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:45.559
thirty eight, thirty nine, whatever
he is, so you can get another

763
00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:50.280
squeeze another year or two out of
Lebron. Would you do that? No,

764
00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:54.000
I wouldn't do that. That's it's
like like a publicity thing, right,

765
00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:58.639
What would you be upset as a
fan? Though? If Lebron James

766
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:02.440
is who's your favorite market? He's
your favorite your Mavericks. Okay, if

767
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:07.000
the MAVs were to were to say, we're drafting Bronni so you can bring

768
00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:09.719
Lebron over here, but they make
you happy. I don't want Lebron.

769
00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:15.119
I mean, yeah, he's a
he's a great player. But we got

770
00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:20.679
a good team we don't need,
right, No, that was that was

771
00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:22.800
a game last night. I can't
believe that. You know, so you

772
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:25.719
never know what happens. You know, we had the game in the first

773
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:30.599
quarter and then it just kind of
in the fourth quarter. You know,

774
00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:34.519
you guys have the game. It's
what were they the ones that like didn't

775
00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:37.119
make any free throws last night?
Yep, twelve something. I mean,

776
00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:40.840
he never misses, and he missed
the clutch free throw and I ultimately cost

777
00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:46.280
them the game. He's had trouble
just this playoffs with free throws, Like

778
00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:51.920
you expect him to go up there
and make him and yeah, you know,

779
00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:53.800
he's playing hurt. And sometimes when
you're playing hurt, the adrenaline,

780
00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:58.199
but once you stop and slow down
take that free throw shot, it could

781
00:50:58.199 --> 00:51:02.000
affect you. Well. Left the
last series when they played the Clippers,

782
00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:06.519
I think there was one game he
had like the cold or like the flu

783
00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:10.400
or something, and he was still
playing. Like you're like your knees hurting

784
00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:15.199
you. You're That's why I love
him, though they'll go out there and

785
00:51:15.199 --> 00:51:17.760
do that. You don't like Kawhi
Leonard, He'll take a seat for anything.

786
00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:22.079
Yeah, yeah, no, I
hear you. So what do you

787
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:27.280
what do you think tonight? With
the next to me, the most fascinating

788
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:30.480
series is The Next Pacers. I
love that series. Been paying attention to

789
00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:35.360
that watching TJ. McConnell. I
really hope the Pacers pull that off.

790
00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:38.800
But same day, can you imagine
a fan was playing Mathern was playing on

791
00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:43.119
the tem Yeah yeah, he was
healthy, and yeah yeah, some some

792
00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:45.519
frier zone the fans. But you
know they they're they're there are too to

793
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:50.400
Minnesota, Denver too too. Both
of those play tonight. I think Cleveland,

794
00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:53.159
I think Boston will close out Cleveland
tomorrow. I think that one's done.

795
00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:57.639
Yeah yeah, and then I mean, people ain't a big deal in

796
00:51:57.679 --> 00:52:00.159
Cleveland won the second game up in
Boston and the oh guy here comes,

797
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:06.599
Boston's gonna kill him. You know
they're gonna kill Yeah, they certainly are.

798
00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:10.960
And Boston is probably gonna win the
East, right, I mean they

799
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:14.639
should, they should, they should, but you know, you never know.

800
00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:15.960
But you know, you get into
those series, man, and any

801
00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:20.679
any one of those teams, Yeah, I mean the only you look at

802
00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:23.079
the you look at the the eight
teams that are left in the only team

803
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:27.159
that you think can't win it is
Cleveland, right, I mean, any

804
00:52:27.199 --> 00:52:30.480
of the other seven teams could conceivably
win it. You know, some have

805
00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:32.440
better better chance than the others.
All Right, we got to get out

806
00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:36.400
of here real quick. So we're
going and go to break and we're gonna

807
00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:38.119
come back. And Ryan have breaking
news.