Steve Rivera and Jacob Salles. They have their eye on the ball on Tucson's
Sports. Stay shat Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to winning
the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve, he's Jay. Now
we have Adam with breaking newsless eye on the ball, breaking news on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. All right, So to start things off for the UFA
basketball we talked about it earlier, but they did add Campbell transfer Anthony del
Orso. He was named second team All CAA was the youngest player on either
first or second team. He appeared in all thirty two games, made thirty
one starts, averaging nineteen and a half points six and a half rebounds,
which were both best marks on the team. I'm curious, Jay, if
you saw, if you read Bruce's over the weekend, I thought that Tommy
was going to hold out till till Bradley and kJ and and Love we're going
to make new decisions. Although I think that kJ was not invited to the
G League. Neither was Bradley. I don't think. Yeah, kJ and
Bradley were not about the league. Caleb was was. So so you're thinking
too, that they're bringing another guy on. You can only say something that
thing they're thinking Caleb Love. They must be thinking, Caleb Love is not
coming back, right right? So and he planned it plays the position of
small small three two. He's a six to six wing guy. What come
I he's a thirty nine percent shooter from three, right, Okay, you
know the guy who can make some three. But you know, and we
all you know, we all know. You know, Moroscus could shoot the
lights out, but apparently couldn't do the other things needed to get on the
court. Right, So we'll see soon what happens. You can only speculate
what's going on. Kind just kind of made me look like a goofball because
I was just some guys this morning that Tommy's done getting guys until we find
out what's happening with Caleb Love, right right. Well, you know,
we don't don't say too much. I told you that five letes ago,
but yeah, you know, and that for he went to Campbell, which
is the same place that Cedric Canderson went. That they came here and played
for a year before leaving. These guys a couple of years of altability left.
Yeah, okay, all right, Austin and college ball. Tad Boyle,
Colorado's head coach, adding Danny Manning to the Colorado basketball staff. And
what's the connection with the U with the U of A. Yeah, U
of his son is an assistant coach or assistant here for Tommy Lloyd. Yeah,
so he's been so Danny Manning was a lot of the games. I
don't know if you knew that. I didn't know that. Yeah, he
was, especially with the tournament. They were at tournament. Andy Manny and
I are old friends. Really, I covered the eighty eight final for so
he was at a lot of the games. And now his son is under
Tommy and now he's going to Colorado. All right, So maybe it was
because he was a head coach where Kenz Danny Manning was the coach of Kansas
did Buffalo Kansas and and Tad Boyle and then were teammates for a long time
ago Colorado many candas, I'm sorry, many years boy played with Danny Manning
the Ken long time ago in mid eighties. Oh okay, how old do
you think Danny Manny is? Well, he's like Steve kerrz Age little fifty
fifty seven, Yeah, fifty seven. So I was wondering maybe he just
wanted to see his son. Now he's not in Colorado's now in a different
the eg On Nono, they're coming, okay, so so coming with Arizona,
so they'll be in the same conference. Right just now, Rudy Gobert
tied the NBA record with his fourth Defensive Player of the ear aword, beating
out Women Yama's French mate. Pretty not unanimous, but pretty once. Sorry
I blew that one. I'm sorry you did, but that I'm sorry.
I should have just let that go. I couldn't help myself. No one
of our calls. I messed that one up. But we don't. I
do it every day, seventy two first places, winning his fourth time,
and he did play last night. Did not play last night. They didn't
need him, and we didn't. We didn't get around to web on Yama,
who was the rooking unanimous rookie year or did we talk about that yesterday?
We did off the here, off the here, okay. Also Jamal
Murray, we touched on it a little bit earlier through the heat pack on
the court. Uh. The NBA is investigating if they're going to suspend them.
He does a heat Chick. That was the one shot he made last
night. Good Adam, you've we've come up rubbed out. That's a good
one. Sorry to see you go. Yeah, yeah, just in time.
Another one, Steve another another grasshopper going on his way, Chick the
box. I did another reference on that one. Do you grasshopper? No,
no, no, no no. I can't say kunng Fu Man kung
Fu the show Told Your Death seventy three. He would know kung Fu THEWN
We called you grasshopper today and he'll know what we're talking about. Oh yeah,
I'll let him know. Rashid Rice under investigation again for allegedly hitting a
photographer on at a Dallas club early Monday. So he's the guy that wrecked
the Yeah, did they cut him? They definitely cut him, didn't they
know? They didn't cut him. No, they're gonna cut him. It's
piling on like they should. Yeah, right in jail. Sometimes this is
the problem. If you're good, if you're really good, Yeah, they
find ways to keep you. Yeah they do. Which he's only twenty three,
just picked. He was a rookie last year. So they need receivers.
But obviously I don't see how they don't need these kind of receivers,
right, so it's not it's not looking good as the Astros. GM says
they don't expect to sell this. He says the team is too good despite
being ten games under thirty four games in twelve, you gave you gave him
the kiss of death, you and Francisco. That was the purpose purpose visit
that Francisco, let me give him the kiss the exactly exactly. They're terrible,
yeah, twelve and said that with a smile. They did. I
didn't even have to look at him. I just felt it that he was
smiling when he said that. Okay. Also, the Tennessee Titans signed Tyler
Boyd one year, four and a half million dollar deal. He leaves the
Bengals. Titans have a nice receiving crew. Now, yeah, but their
quarterback is Will Levis. Is he really that good? He had that one
good game? Yeah? First, right, but then yeah, they're they're
all going crazy saying, oh they the Titans are something now like wait a
minute, you still have a quarterback? You know, I don't know,
okay. And then the Knicks versus Pacers last night, refs made four airs
in Game one ending, but they said not on the controversial screen the last
two minute, because you what, I want to have been sleeping on this
one? Who won the game? We don't even next next squeaked them out?
Yeah, well, good for them. Did you have the boy o
Caitlin Clark thing, ted Ted Doyle, I mean do animals. Yeah,
he's been suspended for a couple of weeks. Good has decided to come in
and step in and give them me and he can't and he can't cover the
team. He's a creeper for that reason. You know that reason. Even
if he was trying to be funny, you didn't worry. Yeah, that
stuff doesn't fly. No, No, yeah, okay. That was pretty
much all I've seen so far, unless you guys want to add anything else.
No, but there's still been buzz, a big buzz for the for
the Bowl game. Obviously a lot of people. I asked her. I
asked uh Cam a question yesterday in addition to yours about you know, there's
a lot of positivity, but there could be some negativity. I've saw,
I've seen some negative and I'll show, I'll show, I'll send it to
you and it won't be a surprise. Who said, well, because of
the connotations well more than anything though. This is one of those you know,
if you know, all news is good news because airs on a bull
needs visibility. Look, I certainly don't think that the blowback is more than
no barstool, no right, No, I know that at the break the
breakfast that I was at this morning that with business, everybody was talking about
it's a big girl. All talking about about Snoop Dogg. Whether it was
in a joke, you know, or you know, when Snoop Dogg going
to be on your show. People were buzzing about the whole Snoop Dogg thing
and sort you know. And these are all you know, mostly you know,
fifties and older guys who you know, uh, you know talking about
Snoop Dogg. So I in the end, I think it's going to be.
In the end, it's a win win win win, huge win,
no question for especially if they have like and I think the kids, the
kids that we talked about. There's a concert, halftime, pre game whatever
with with a group of his buddies. Yeah, there's some packball softball awards
coming out right now. Taylor Beale at Arizona, the uh shortstop, I
guess she's a co Defensive Player of the Year along with Paige Sneaki from Oregon.
The u c l A coach is the Coach of the Year uh and
the u c l A players the Freshman of the Year. I'm just reading
these off of off of their their Twitter feed. I haven't seen a news
release with all this. Let me ask you did did the women who left
here to go to u c l A was that last year? Did still
playing? Yeah? They're still playing. Yeah. In fact, you know,
Hanson had a comment in in in one of his columns about what's your
name? The outfielder, the lead She was the lead off hereter here became
the nine hereter u c l A. And now there was a game where
in the last inning against Arizona and they put a pinch hitter in for her
and saying like, okay, it's obviously not going as well as she probably
would have hoped. You know when she left here, Janelle that you know,
you know she would never would have been pinched. Well, sometimes it's
nice to be a big fish in a small pond, and you know,
in Arizona's not a small pond, and you softball, so you know,
it was interesting that you know that that was noted the pitcher of the years
from Stanford, so uh and player of Thermaya Brady from u c. L
A. Is just really good. If you ever seen her play, she
just does all the things. So there you go. Yeah, we were
talking yesterday. It's likely, we think likely that they should be able to
get into the into the Yeah, you know they're there. They finished fifth
place in the league. You know, the PAC twelve should get five or
six teams in the tournament. Anyways, I think they're still ranked, so
I would I would expect that they they'd get in. The question is you
know for Arizona they'll getting in. Your part of getting it is hosting,
you know, to be able to host. If they're you know, on
the road, then that's sort of a not quite as not quite where you
want to be if you're Arizona. Right. So, oh, here's when
Emily Shep from Arizona is on the all freshman team, so there's there's people
coming through it. So anyways, so we'll get more on that as they
when there. Whenever they announce the whole thing or whenever we get the release,
it's got the whole thing. So anyways, all right, well that's
it, yep. Okay, what do we have coming up or Justin Yeah,
we're gonna have Justin Spears. We'll talk some Arizona football. You want
to just let's just go because by that time it will be four seventeen.
Like we actually say we were gonna get our guys all right for seventeen.
This will get us to you know, four fifteen. Y'all comment about well
for minutes. Okay, all right, we'll grab back with Justin Spears from
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I the iHeartRadio. Wapp Hey, welcome back to my in the ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jacob Zones. Now
on the phone, we have Justin Spears from the Arizona Daily Star. Are
you doing just that's how we're doing? Well? Have you caught up?
It seems like it's always busy. Your byline's all over the place in this
town. Yeah, it's a busy, bisny time of year. And of
course with the transfer portal, that adds a whole nother element to covering college
football. So they're keeping me busy until the summer. They're definitely getting the
moneys worth out of me at the Arizonadaily Star, that's for sure. Well,
it's become a you know, three hundred and sixty five day a year
job now, and then it's it's kind of hard. So let's first go,
let's go to spring ball. You know, just general impressions, uh,
you know, you know it's Brent Brandan's first, uh first spring ball
at Arizona. Just in general, what did it look like to you?
Because it looked a lot of the same to me. Sure, And by
the way, I do apologize my phone has been dealing with some issues and
the battery stink. So if I actually hang up on you, guys,
I promise you it's that's not me, it's this damn phone. So I
apologize if I do hang up on you. But you know, regarding Brent
Brennan, the you know, in terms of the same stuff, yeah,
because there's a lot of the same people. You know, you got No
Fafia, your star quarterback, you got Team Act, your star wide receiver.
You know, the best quarterback receiver tandem arguably in college football back and
they were the ones who galvanized most of the team and the nucleus, the
players that were part of the twenty twenty three team. And so yeah,
I mean, I think a big reason why you're seeing a lot of the
same stuff is because of the fact that Arizona has a lot of players back
from twenty twenty three. Came in and honestly, I think that you know,
the coaches realize that you know, the previous staff, Jetfish and company.
They did a great job of rebuilding the roster, getting the team back
into a player first relevant again. And you know, Brent Bent will be
the first one to tell you, like what jetfish and has got this here.
Were great. Now we're looking to double down on it and build on
to what they already established. You So, can you after a few practices
fifteen or whatever, and just from the temperament of everybody, can you tell
that they're going to be better than last year? Or is it way too
early to tell? I think it's still way too early to tell, because
I'm still concerned with the guys they have on the defensive line because they lost
nine scholarship players from the defensive line last year and all of them are starters.
You know, Arizona's gonna have a whole new starting defensive line in this
upcoming season. So can those guys still be able to be productive like the
group they had last years? That's one thing that I'm paying attention to.
But I'm very confident in what they got right now because ty tay Yuga is
a versatile defensive lineman who I think is really going to turn the heads this
year. And then you have all Mountain West defensive end from Santa s State
and Tray Smith who has shown a lot of great things practice, and you
know, and one thing I won't say that gives Arizona fans a lot of
optimism regarding deeps. The line is. You know, last year Isaiah A.
Ward wasn't on anybody's radar, and then he just shot up the depth
chart and really became a mainstay in Arizona's defense. Big Bill Norton, you
know, he transferred to Georgia or excuse he transferred to Arizona from Georgia.
And we're wondering, is that because Georgia has such a great defensive line or
is it because in terms of his production and what he showed. Is that
because Georgia has a great defensive line, or is it because Bill Norton's dead?
And it showed last year that no, Bill Norton's good. Georgia just
had a great defensive line. He just needed an opportunity. So the guys
that they're getting in the transferportal, like Chewba, my Eye and Trey Smith
and all these other guys, I think if they can come in and be
productive, I think Arizona's defense is gonna be great again. Because Jakob Manu
at linebacker, I mean, Danny Gonzale is the offer of the linebackers.
Coach. He said that Jacoman, who is the best linebacker in the Big
twelve. And then when you add in Trade and Stokes to Caario Davis,
Gunnermaldonado and Dalton Johnson, most of that defensive secondary coming back and they're gonna
be blitzing more under Dwayna Kina. I think this defense could be really special.
And then we all know about Noah and Timac on the other side,
but you know, who are the other complimentary pieces. Who are you know,
some other wide receivers that are going to step up? Who are some
running backs? Because remember Arizona's losing Michael Wiley, DJ Williams and Jonah Coleman
so well Speedy Luke and Quality Conley. Will those guys step up and have
big time seasons? So there's a few question marks, But right now,
I look at this Arizona football team being really a surefire top fifteen, top
twenty two. You know, again with all the transfer portal movement, a
guy leaves, another guy comes in, and Kevin Green is gone. They
you know, they get another receiver. Are these things kind of like trade
offs? Is that? Is that how you see a lot of this stuff.
I mean, you can look at it like that, but you know,
Kevin who's going to be a guy competing for starting snaps right? You
know, is Ray Melo Murphy a guy that's going to come in and start
or is he going to be another depth piece, a guy that you could
just throw in, you know if one guy gets hurt, I don't know.
Now you also have to think that you know, Kevin Green probably just
wanted to go to Kevin Cummings or in Jet Fish, and he probably felt
most comfortable with that staff and realized, you know, even though I may
have a good thing here, I can have something better at Washington. So
everyone has their own arguments or cases as to why they're going. But I
mean Raymelo Murphy. You look at his explosiveness last year at Old Dominion.
I think he was top thirty in the country and yards per catch, So
he's a he's a pretty good audition. Just because you're losing Kevin Green doesn't
mean that you know your wide receiver room is is crumbling right now. I
think Arizona's receiver room is in a great spot. And a lot of the
youngsters in springs Ball, like Brandon Phelps the freshman and Jackson Holeman who got
banked up towards the end of the spring, those guys showed a lot of
promise. So I know people talk about t mac as the main guy,
but Arizona's receiver room is in a really good place, not just this year,
but also moving forwards. Uh guys not named t mac or or Fafita
who were maybe a key guy that returned that will help him next year,
that didn't decided not to leave. Well, I mean, I'm an offensive
lion snob, so I really think that big Jonas Savianea that was that was
big time getting him to stay in, to stay locked in. Same with
Raymond Palito. I think those two as your as your bookend tackles is a
really good recipe for Arizona. But outside of the guys on the offensive line,
I think the tight ends are really going to emerge this year. And
I really think that Roberto Miranda, the guy from Germany who's entering his fifth
year at the u of A. I don't know if you guys know this,
but we have a nickname for him, since he's from Germany. We
call him dos Gronk, and dos Gronk is a man amongst boys. The
coaches will even tell you, like Brent Brady said that when he first met
Roberto, he thought like he was a like a staffer or like a coach
or something like that, because he just looked like a man compared to everybody
else. But you know, Roberto, he's an interesting story because you know,
he was a guy in Germany who was just run track and one of
his buddies said, Hey, are school's having football trayofs you want to come
play? And he said, yeah, sure, So he went discovered his
passion for football, and then he was so good that he started getting recruited
and started getting letters, and then he came over to Arizona as a Kevin
summer recruit in twenty twenty. And think about this, a guy from Germany
going over to the United States in the middle of a pandemic. He was
going through all sorts of things over here, and despite the multiple coaching changes,
he stayed locked in and in the spring, he has showed his abilities
to be pass catcher. He's been mostly a run blocking or pass blocking tight
end. Anytime you see him in the game, he was mostly used to
block. He's only got one catch in his whole Arizona career, but he
has showed a lot of promise in spring, and I think with you know,
Brent, brentan tweaking the offense a little bit and going more twelve personnel
and having two tight ends out there, you're gonna be in this. You're
gonna be seeing a lot more of Roberto, Miranda and Cambernet. But Roberto,
you know, only one catch at Arizona in his four years. You're
gonna see that man have double digit catches. He's gonna be a really big
time addition to Arizona's offense. Well, we talked about, you know,
what's going to be different. I mean, I think clearly that's gonna be
one of the things. I mean, you know, dating back to Grom
people have been dying, you know, and coach has been saying, we're
gonna get the ball to the tight end. We're gonna get the ball to
the tight end. All through Rich rod Well, nobody. They didn't get
the ball to Anybody called Kevin, someone was here. But then uh,
you know with uh you finally saw with Tanne McLachlin last year. I mean,
that's something that we're going to see that's going to be a lot different
in terms of you know, Roberto mentioned it during the postgame spring game press
conference that the tight Ends, as he said, are getting a lot of
love this with this group. Yeah, and it's they're getting really creative too
with the tight Ends. They're you know, motioning them and having Roberto going
and lining up as a fullback and being a league walker for speedy Luke or
quality. Oh there goes the phone. Yeah, we lost him. He
warned us that that guy. Let me ask you the same question. I
asked him, do you think that this team, as little as we know,
right, yeah, will be better than last year year? Well,
you know, they're they're going through a lot of change, but so is
everybody else, right, everybody. Everybody's roster's turning over. I was,
I was going through. Uh. The Athletic posted. Eric Wasserman posted his
latest uh you know, top twenty five for next year. The highest rated
team had in the Big twelve was Kansas State, followed I think at fifteen,
followed by Arizona at nineteen. You know, and Arizona plays Kansas State
in a non conference game in the third game of the year. So we're
gonna find out something about, Okay, who's really good in the in the
Big twelve and next year that game is over there, it's up there.
It's the third week of the season. You know we're gonna find out early.
You know, where does Arizona sit in the Big twelve if in fact
Kansas State is that good and considered the best team, you know, the
best team out there in the league. So we'll see. I mean,
I think they're still pretty good. Steve the question. Look, there's always
some getting used to each other, you know, when it comes to actually
being in games right. You know, it's different from last year because you
know, the way maybe the way Brent Brennan and his staff run manage a
game might be different from the way these guys that you know did it under
Jed Fish. But you know it's a coach's job to try and minimize as
much as they can of that to make things go as smoothly as possible.
I think the biggest difference will be on the defensive flight. Like you said,
I think the offense is going to continue to flow. I think the
biggest gloss that they have, and I thought he was fantastic, was Coleman
who went to Jed because he was such a workhorse. Just you give him
the ball used to get you six yards no matter what. And defensively they
have their pieces right except for like you said, maybe on the defensive money.
Yeah, but then you know, you know what effect does Duayna Keena
have on this defense in terms of making these guys, as Duyne Keene used
to talk about, you know, guys running around with their hair on fire.
Does he get guys to play a little harder, a little more enthusiasm,
a little smarter, a little more passionate. How much does that elevate
you know, what they're trying to do in terms of or what their talent
that they have, because that was that was what Arizona was when Dwayne and
Keenan was was here as a defensive coordinator and an offensive coordinator, getting guys
to be better than you thought they could, coaching him up and yeah,
coached him up, and that's you know, I'm certain he's probably bringing that
back, you know, to to this and then Dino Babers doing the same
thing on the other side of the ball. So you know, I think,
you know, well, we'll find out again relatively early with that Kansas
State game. I was just really reading that about you know, reading that,
I thought, God, this Kansas State game is suddenly a really big
deal for Arizona because if they go off and they go up there and win
that game, now you're talking about a team that people are talking about as
a as a potential favorite in the pack in the Big twelve. Right.
I thought the other guy that they got, which was a great get,
was to Cario Davis. To get him back, to get him back.
It's important even though the dbs are going to be very good, right,
he adds to the list of good players, right right, And you know
that again, guy, Getting guys like that, uh, you know,
is important to this team, and you know, keeping the guys, you
know, I didn't realize I saw that there was a somebody. Fifteen guys
went to Washington from Arizona. Now, how many of them were guys that
you know, top you know, top end got their a couple of recruits,
as you mentioned, Jonah Coleman went there. We just talked about,
you know, Kevin Green, you know some other guys. But it's kind
of like, Okay, they're gone. How can you blame them right now?
I mean they know what they know, they can they know their coaches
go ahead. I don't get into the you know, shame on you,
Jed, But now no, no, it is what you know. I
don't care. You know, look, Arizona got a bunch of Santos.
They state guys, right and you know, hopefully the best of the best.
At Sanders they state you don't have. Well, they wouldn't have taken
them if they weren't, if they didn't think they could compete at this level,
right, And that's kind of in the world we live in. It's
all about leveling up where you can play and how you feel comfortable. Now
I'm looking forward to before before Justin's phone died, I wanted to I wanted
to ask him, you know what, what are fans going to think of
Brent Brandon? You know, when they see him on the sideline, they
see him, you know, actually coaching, you see him in press conferences,
what do you think of it? I think the goodes. I think
he's gonna be dick tomy like he's very not sedate, but he's very uh
low key. Doesn't get excited. Even in his press conferences there are more
about hey, this is what we're gonna do. He doesn't get excited in
those either. Kind of tells you straightforward not an exciting way. It's almost
not in a boring way, but but in a in a friend almost a
matter of fact kind of way. Matter, that's a matter of fact way.
Uh, it's not. It's quotable, but not quotable, if that
makes any sense. Some days, yes, some days no, it's gonna
be back. You want it back. You want to me to coach?
You got got him? You got him? No, you got him.
And guess what, he'll win some games. It's now about winning the big
games. Yeah. Well, and then then the question will be, look,
well, you know Jed Fish and his staff were incredible recruiters. They
got some guys here that you did you know, especially coming out of the
the death March that they were in that you've got guys to come here and
did. I mean, he couldn't turn it around if you hadn't gotten better
players. So you got to give him credit for that. A big question
for me is Ken, Brent Brandon, continue to recruit at that level because
you were we only got too many stuff in this one. I know,
I'm gonna ask you a dumb question. I think I know the answer too
already. You're not. You didn't come off bitter when he left. No,
I didn't blame him for leaving. I kind of didn't like the way
it went down. But in terms of Jedfish going to Washington, I had
no problem with that. He had seven and a half million reasons to go.
Sure, I get that. There's still no issue with that. There
still a lot of people in this town who are but they need to stop.
I agree they need to stop. You know, were months removed.
Let's move on you. You are who you are. Somebody's gonna give you
a five million dollar raise. You're gonna go, sure, and no matter
where you're at, well, I'll probably go to anywhere. But as U,
I don't know about that. I think you would do that. No,
I would five million dollars more. No, that's easy to say sitting
next to me. Okay, if I'm making if I'm making two and a
half or three million, which is plenty of money, all the money I
w whatever need'm they're gonna give you seven and a half. I'm gonna tell
me, I don't know. I'm gonna throw the finger. Put the light
detecked her on him right now, strive him up. I am I'm throwing
the finger. I told you my daughter got a full ride to a CEO
you never even saw. She never even saw that one in recycle before she
even got home from school. That boves her, doesn't involve you. We
gotta fact check that one true story. Okay, let's go, we gotta
go. That's a true story. All right, Let's take our next break
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High on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen to
fifteen. Hey, welcome back to Win on the Ball here on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, he's Jay, got at him and Ryan with
us. We've got fifteen minutes. If you guys want to give us a
quick call five two zero four one six seventy four four zero Jay, you
have some movie? Yeah? Okay. So we got the release on the
All Pack twelve team as it relates to Arizona. Three first teamers, Dakota
Kennedy left fielder, Reagan Shaki, the freshman centerfielder who's really good, and
then Ali Skaggs, the second baseman. She was named to the All Pack
twelve team, the first team I think for the second year in a row.
But those are the three first teamers. Ali Skaggsho was Defensive Player of
the Year this year, didn't get Defensive Player of the Year because her teammate
Taylor Beiald, a shortstop, did get. She was a co Defensive Player
of the Year. And she was also on the on the third team and
on the All Defensive team. And then Carly Scoop in first baseman and a
Yasta Silva the pitcher. We're named to the second team. Silva's leads the
league with twenty one wins. She's fourteenth in the n C Double A and
wins, so she's got she So they were both second team. And then
has mentioned Taylor bille the co Defensive Player of the Year. Then Emily Shep
she was named to the All Freshman team. So seven uf A players had
got some sort of all conference honor. So that's the complete list. Well
some good things scooping. Uh we had our guy, uh, Bobby Bobby
four years ago already, yep. Do we just celebrate her four years?
How time flies? Yes, because she was a study coming in from the
local local touson high right high, I think yeah. And now her career
is all a bit over, she's a senior. But anyway, so you
know is good again this year. Not Arizona good when you think about the
Mike the Mike Candre years. But nonetheless, uh, we'll probably get in
the n C Double A tournament. The question is that, you know,
I don't think they're going to be good enough to you know, be a
top sixteen seed or in host a regional. But you know, who knows.
But they're you know, they're pretty good. So they'll be what we'll
see them in the postseason, I'm sure. Yeah, okay, cool,
A lot of good players. I mean, honestly, the shortstop is must
be fantastic. Yeah yeah, and then went well and and shocky the center
fielder. She's the lead off hereter centerfielder. She's fast as hell? Who
is what? What? Great is the shortstop sophomore? So I gotta go.
I should have gone. See I love those people in midfielders. Yeah,
the one to the short stop and second basement would be a great combination.
Yeah yeah, well that at least I think else is a senior.
Yeah yeah, so wow, so she'll be gone, Okay, super yeah,
but you know, good, you know, good, good for them,
good for they play, you know, they played this weekend. They
play Thursday, they've got Washington. They're the last game of the day in
the packed Doug turn I think it's like scheduled for six thirty or so.
Yeah, yeah, I think it starts Thursday and it goes yeah yeah,
yeah, there's four games on on Thursday, and so they're they're they're the
last one on the list and that that tournament is up at Stanford. Okay,
a lot of things going on now at the end of the year with
baseball doing so well. Next week, right, they start up their tournament
next week. No, No, they've got no weekends. Yeah, they're
They're on the road at Utah, which is a turnament, which is uh,
you know for for Utah's in the second place, so Arizona. I
don't know if they can clinch it, but certainly if they if they put
some distance between themselves in Utah being good position to do them. But then
Oregon State comes in. Oregon State, I mean, they're like in third
place in the league, but they're the highest ranked team in the rankings.
They're they're a top ten team. They'll be coming here for a three game
series that in its rank season next weekend. We you know, we had
a collar yesterday he said, you know, fans need to get out there,
right, maybe that's what I probably go see it because this should be
fun. They're fun. I've been a few games this year and it's just
fun. It's a it's a blast. The food is good. Now you
can spend a fortune on food out there because they've got they got some exotic
food out there, like the servisas. They've got a they've got a stand
where you can get the like the deluxe nachos and burritos and all that and
stuff. Or you can just go get your standard, you know, get
a couple of dogs and a beer at the at the regular stands, some
nachos. You'll probably do that next week in sixteen seventeen. Yeah, it
should be fun. And then uh, and then they go into the Pack
into the Packbuff Tournament, which is going to be up in Phoenix the following
week, so that their their season got extended, uh you know, because
I mean the College World Series ends like at the end of June, right
right, it seems like if you're a baseball player, the the year agost
forever. Yeah, whatever, those guys are done with school for a month
before their season ends. If they if they get that one. Okay,
so should be right, man, Okay, what else is going on?
So we we're finishing up. Anybody, we'll call again, call five two
O four one six four four zero. We'd love to hear from you.
What game is tonight in the NBA game tonight Austin and Cleveland the first game
right now? The first game Boston's up forty two thirty four. And then
tonight Dallas is on the road at Oklahoma City. Especiuld be very good.
Seriously is that one just starting that series? That's tonight, that's game one
at six thirty. Ye. So ol clem See is the number one seed
right in right in the west. Yeah, what do you think? They're
young? But they swept the New Orleans. I think that they the five
of us could have swept New Orleans while there's only four of us here.
Christ On points we got to call it talking crazy stopping right now. Hi,
you're on the Aaron Eye on the ball. Hey, guys, how's
it going. This is Sean, that first time caller, a longtime listener.
Appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, I love listening to you guys.
We have a cure for We have a cure for that shot go ahead?
Is there a lot of feedback insite? Is it okay? Yeah? No,
we're good. We're good. Cool. So, uh tonight's baseball game,
Summer Hill threw some some shade at these guys es U after they beat
us. They swept us last time here. I'm I'm nervous about it now.
You know what are you? What are your guys thoughts about you know,
saying well, we want to beat him by a hundred. I believe
it. I love it. But it's also like throwing fire gasoline on the
fire that we don't need to Well, I'm with you. Is that in
that? You know what, especially in a rivalry. Is it a conference
game and it's not a conference game, but nonetheless, but you don't want
to go up there and get your butts kicked, especially when you've been talking.
So I it's you know, to me, it's better left alone.
But you know, yeah, you gotta appreciate the passion or whatever. Right,
Yeah, definitely got my interest. I know where my my eyeballs are
gonna be. It's not gonna be on NBA. It's gonna be uh watching
that. You know. Have you been going to the games here locally?
Yeah? Yeah, my son and I actually caught uh Friday against Stanford.
We we didn't make it the whole time. That game is just took forever.
It's just crazy like Saturday's game. You know. I look at my
son had his baseball game at seven thirty at you know all and I,
you know, I listened to the game all the way there, and I'm
like seven thirty and they're already in the fifth, like it was like eight
twenty. When we finally got past the fifth on Friday. It's just like,
yeah, it's just it was a long, long game. But I
listened to a different color. Yeah, I think it was maybe yesterday.
I was talking about the crowd. I think it's perfect. I mean there's
enough people. I'm a big guy. I don't I don't fit in the
in the stands as it is, so when I get the two people are
in front of us, it's perfect, you know. Yeah, so what
we were saying, because you know, I know, you know, you
always want more people and that kind of stuff, But I you know,
four or five thousand people. Four thousand people for a college baseball game,
I think is pretty good. And and you know you got it, you
got it good and as we say, as I think we said yesterday,
you know, there's always got it good. It'll be it'll be more as
we progress here to get it deep into the or into the playoffs, because
that's how I think the Oregon State Series is gonna So depending on how we
do, you know tonight in Utah, I think that's gonna really grab it
should grab Tucson to cut out and support them because we're playing the second ring
or you know, standing second place and then in the third place teams the
next two weekends. Well we better show up for that. So let me
ask you real quick, seven minutes left, you what do you like about
this baseball team? It wasn't good early, but now it's very good.
Yeah, So I totally was not interested in watching early and then they just
kind of turn it around. I follow, and so it's like, Okay,
if it's good baseball, I want to go watch. If they're out
there getting you know, swept by a s U, I don't. I'm
I'm not a fair Weather fan, but I don't want to go out and
watch a SU come here and beat us three games in a row. So
yeah, I would say, I like, uh, the pitching, I
think pitch is pretty good. And Mason White, he's my son's favorite player.
He's like, the guy's so fast. Yeah, I'm like, that's
how you have to run the bases. So yeah, it's just fun to
go out with my son and you know, he's so into baseball. So
it's, uh, it's just our little hangout bonding. It take to go
and it's just it's a nice evening sun sunset. It's just it's perfect.
I don't know, I don't know why more people don't go. That's what
we've been talking about. Sean, thanks so much, man, appreciate the
call. Yeah, goodods, all right, appreciate it. Thanks for listening
to. His name was Sean. Yeah, okay, thanks for that up.
Steve, Well, you make everything else, like the assists and turnovers,
and we don't make up assists, all right, we don't make up
you have to. You took that whole thing wrong, the whole thing wrong.
No, they're not going to like you took that. You took that
whole thing wrong. But but he makes it. He makes a good point,
is that you know, and and I said that you know because when
we're talking to I think it was his name was the Blair. They called
you to say, you know, at the end of the year, it
didn't look great and you thought this team is struggling. You know, people
were saying the Chip Hill yah YadA, YadA, YadA, and and so
maybe at the you know, since they weren't great at the beginning of the
year, some people just kind of forgot about them. But they have been
incredible to watch. They you know, they're seventeen and seven in the league.
You know, they're they're they're in first place. You got a good
chance to win the league. I think the last time Arizona won the league,
you know, they won the National Championship. So uh, you know,
I don't think they've won it since that. Since that twenty twelve.
Have they gone in a second the next year? Remember they came back with
Johnson? Yeah, so the next couple years. Yeah, So, I
mean, you know, this is a good team. It's good and that
Oregon State series is going to be it's I mean, they really got their
work cut out in these six games, you know, playing Utah who's in
second place, and then Oregon State, who was just really damn good.
So it should be an interesting couple of weeks. We're gonna really try and
get Chip Hale on before the Oregon State Series next week and we'll we'll just
get his take on how his season is gone and was it I mean,
has it been a roller coaster or was it just like you know, where
was his head early early in the year, right, right, It takes
some time to marinate. And they hit. I'm sure pitching has a lot
too in their hitting. And well, you know again, uh well we
mentioned uh Clark CANDIOTTI you know, picture of the week, you know,
through a complete games shut out this weekend, and he looked really good.
I mean again, he's my favorite pitcher. I love watching him throw because
you're just out there in no fear. Right, He'll or whatever pitch he
thinks he needs to throw, and he's going to make you hit it,
and it's hard to do. Every time I've seen him pitch, he's pitched
great. Yeah, okay, so cool. All right, we've got three
minutes. Anybody else want to call? Three and a half minutes. Actually,
if you want to call, talk to us real quick. I hope,
I hope you do. First time callers that We've got a few of
those. Now, Yeah, that's great, you know, I think people
are getting to know what Steve. It only took four years. I'm still
wondering why people listen to us, man, No, no, I know
people listen. It's very cool because we see it on Facebook and we see
them finance. Is that you know somebody that they said I knew something was
wrong with you when you were on the show. Oh yeah, well I
was that pitch checked in on me. I was at the grocery store here,
whatever, what's this a MPM school? Replace? Uh? So,
I said, could you give me a snow cone? He says, are
you in the radio? He says why? He says your voice? You're
the other guy? Which one? Are you? The other guy? You
know who I was? So? Who are you? I said, Steve?
Oh yeah you and Jay? Yeah. I listen to you guys at
the AMP. Whatever the q Q t you? So that's crowd to get
you guys here? We have you got up your game? Dude? You
be hanging around with the QT guys over. I gotta go give me some
thirst busters whatever. Our QT is just a scary place, you know it
really is. But hey, look you want some good people. One of
the sponsors now we just I love their chocolate donut. Ice cream is good
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This is last day. Yeah, thanks for we said to be Okay,
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we'll wait for tomorrow. Okay, thanks for helping us. Absolutely, What
the hell? Why did you do this? What joining us? Experience?
Experience and exposure? Okay, cool? And what exposure? Exposure? Exposure
to? What t you've been You've been exposed, probably been exposed to COVID,
probably neurovirus, whatever, You've been exposed to anyone of a number of
things. Maybe so, but I'm still here, Yeah, you are.
Thank you. We do appreciate it. And Ryan's gonna RAN's gonna be here
for helping us this summer. So Ryan, we do appreciate that as well.
So you don't have a microphone yet, but you'll get one, so
we'll graduate with that. Okay, all right, So the you know.
Yeah, you guys have been fun. You guys are all our interns have
been great. You know, we've had some some good you know, I
see I see d On on the fan duel TV thing all the time.
So she had a great get yesterday or today. So here she had spoke
to Mike Smith, a longtime Hall of Fame jockey on on Twitter today.
It was just great. She's grown up. It's a lot of fun,
cool stuff. She had the second place winner. We were on we were
on chat all weekend with with winters. I'll still upset at that's Steve.
I had the second and third place horse in that race. Didn't have the
winter. I know I had the winner would have been nice. And the
thing is is that I flew into into the house and the race was coming
on so real fastin I threw down to bed and then I lost in the
photo finish. Yeah, you and nobody had all right. Hey, thanks
everybody for being here, Thanks for our new caller, and we'd love to
get more new calls, so Sean, Yeah, we appreciate you guys listening,
and as always, a podcast will be up again tonight. So yeah,
all the podcasts from the lat from those days that I missed last week
are all up as well, so we'll see you tomorrow with some more great
guts. Catch you then,