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I on the Ball. Okay, welcome back to On the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay, and he has some
breaking news. This is High on the Ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. All right, So, as we were talking about before, when
can break this? There's a lot of overlap going on in sports right now.
So the Major League Baseball playoffs have started today. There are four wild
card series too in the National to in the American first game of the day
the Texas Rangers uh uh one at Tampa Bay for zip uh this first round
of game, first round of series. It's wild cards, and then there's
two one divisional champion from from from each league. The two top division champions
both got buys in each league. So these series it's it's it's Texas at
Tampa Bay and the higher seed their best two out of three, but the
higher seed gets all three games at their place. So if you're on the
road, you're on the road for the whole series. Of Texas surprise beat
the home team for ZIP, Tampa Bay in Tampa, so they'll lead the
series one. ZIP only got to win one more too advance in the In
the game going on right now, it's the bottom of the eighth, Minnesota
leads Toronto three one. Royce, oh god, Royce Lewis, he's batting
right now, has two homers in the game. That was counted for all
three Minnesota runs. They are up three one in the bottom of the eighth
against Toronto. Minnesota is a home team there for those of you in Arizona
about to get started. The Diamondbacks, Uh, they're at Milwaukee for their
series that starts in about within the next five or ten minutes in Milwaukee,
and we'll see what they've got going on there. But they sneak into the
playoffs. I was making fun of my sister. We are watching right there
at the go a game Saturday night, and the Diamondbacks clenched and she goes,
the damond Backs are in the playoffs, and they said, not for
very long, because they're in the bracket with the Dogs. You might have
just advanced them. You want to just advance them into the second round.
So so they're they're gonna get started here in a few minutes. And then
at about about five h eight our time, it's Miami at Philadelphia. Interesting
stat on the on the Marlins, they've been in the playoffs three times ever
in their history, but they've won the World Series twice two of those three
times. So efficient we'll see how yeah, we'll see how far they go.
And then so then you've got the Braves and the Dodgers who are waiting
to play the winners of these series. And then you've got, uh,
I can't remember on the other side, but well, Houston, I guess.
And who's the number one seed in the in the in the bracket over
there, I don't remember. I should know this, but okay, here
it is. It's it's Houston and the Orioles. So the Orioles, the
Rangers of the Rangers of Tampa Bay. Winner plays the Orioles, the Twins.
Blue Jay's winner plays the Astros, the Diamondbacks, Brewers winner plays the
Dodgers and the Phillies. Marlin's winner plays to me, the prohibitive favorite,
the Braves. Okay, it should be it should be fun, it should
be interesting, all right, some good news and bad news on the UFA
recruiting front over the last twenty four hours. The good news is that Arizona
landed another top one hundred recruit kid four star right four star name a seven
footer by the name of Emmanuel Stephen. He's from from one of those academies
up north in uh in Glendale, the Dream City Christian Academy. He took
Arizona over Kansas, Miami, Michigan in the USC. According to two four
seven Sports, it gives Arizona a top ten recruit in class goes along with
Carter Bryant and Jamari Phillips. Uh, Bryant is I had this hear somewhere
Bryant, Carter Bryant is, Oh, Carter Bryant is UH number of sixteen
nationally and Phillips at number thirty four. And then you've got Emmanuel Stephen who
comes in like at ninety four. Let me ask you something, and I
say this tongue in cheek. I was under the impression that Tommy Lloyd couldn't
recruit. He was horrible at this, and you know, you can't win
games and you can't recruit. I read that on the internet. I read
a lot on the internet April that day that was cussed too, But it's
true. You be to tell me I heard all of it. I heard
all of it. And I'll tell you again going back to that Red Blue
game. You know, I just like the number of guys that they have.
Oh it's good. It's the number of guys that they right have one
great, you know when they don't have a Benedict mathod right. No,
No, they've got ten guys who looked like there. We spoke about that
yesterday with Sammy. I said, ten guys, okay, but realistically,
well historically they'll start to whittle it down to like seven or eight. But
maybe not. Maybe when you're running up and down the court the way they
run up and down the court. Yeah, it's gonna always be better at
half take because you look at you look at the fork river to guys,
right, they're kind of all the same guy. Yeah. Well, let
me let me say and I've said this publicly to people. I'll say that
on the show Keep my Sleeper Dude, My sleeper dude. And I really
like him a lot, his philip I really like that. And then you
see that he wins the three point contest point and you think, oh,
really, where'd that come from? And and like what I said was I
he's he's a better, more shall I say, more polished and more physical
version of Pelly Larson. Uh really, I feel that just that he's taller,
right, he's a more confident shooter, right right. I think Pelly's
a really good defender. He's a really good defender, but he does some
dumb things. Well, this is the year that he has to step up.
This just has to happen. He has historically done some dumb things on
offense or of eaching, and you feel like he walks on the court he's
got all he looks like he's got all the confidence he does, but you
don't want the funny thing about it. And he's a French or freshman right
to me, you know when you're a freshman, you don't know any better.
That's him, Yeah, because you you do real and you don't know,
well, I don't know I'm supposed to be here. It was kind
of like, yeah, even on the print on the on press conference thing
on the day I said, he was kind of like, oh, I'm
just happy to be here, happy go lucky. And I think this guy
really doesn't know what he's doing or how good he is, all right,
the bad news on the on the recruiting fronts in football, where Fiona will
Hite, one of the two defensive events from from sal Point who was very
baally bally hood when he committed Arizona on our show right with with Elijah rushing
his you know, his buddy on the line. It's as decommitted from Arizona.
He's a three star guy. But uh we saw him very impressive.
You know somebody's come along, well, well you will, you will you
immediately assume Yeah, is that somebody's come along and said, you know,
come over here, we'll give you X. Yes, yes, but jay,
and this is part of the problem, right. You have the locals
who are who are dying to be recruited, uh and should be because they're
good enough, right. And then Arizona's beloved in this town as anybody as
they all shouldn't be. But but then you have some carrot or golden star
over here shining on you. Uh and and maybe and maybe this is not
an escape for for someone in them they realized, well, we're Arizona and
we're not gonna get him anyway. That's why we're not going to recruit you.
Although that's an at lame excuse, alame excuse. And now now you
don't blame the kid, right if yeah, I mean yeah, because if
your son is being recruited and but Arizona and you make the commitment and you're
happy and you're thrilled, and then Texas are whomever comes in. Here's a
bag, here's a bag, and you'll play and you'll get this and get
that. What are you gonna do? No, yeah, you look,
it's it's just that's the game that we have. Now, that's what that's
what we're dealing with now in college. But we've always had it. We've
minus the money because they they would decommit. Sure, they would decommit for
whatever reason, right because you know, look, if you if if you've
committed to Arizona and all of a sudden, oh how stake kids, you
go call exactly that you know maybe you know or you know salth points halfway
through their season, maybe somebody has seen him that wasn't wasn't around before now
they are. Now he didn't say I'm going here. He just said I
decommitted from Arizona. Maybe stay mill wind up at Arizona or with somebody's apparently
has come calling that wasn't hauling before. You just don't do this on a
whim, right, you just don't do this on a whim. No,
No, there there's there's there's something in play there. Who knows what the
heck it is, but it's certainly not uh, it's it's gonna this is
gonna happen more and more, sure, more and more often. Sure anyway,
all right, soon as he's playing Colorado this week, So we're starting
as if we weren't already seen enough Deon Sanders stuff. But you know,
there's starting to be some whispers and I'm just gonna say this that you know,
we're at the time about it, Well, how long is he?
You know, he's gonna go to a Florida State or he's gonna go to
you know, some big job that opens up in college. What about the
NFL. No, he said he's not gonna do that. I would say
the big school though. The thing about it with that, it'll be him
sticking to his word that he's gonna stay here for a while. He loves
Colorado apparently, But but what what school any school would want him? On
the just for the marketing value. What if his kids get drafted to US
place. I don't I don't think that. I don't think that because deon'sdon,
right. But if you're talking to another NFL dude, Okay, Dan
whatever, you know what I'm saying, it's you're not on that level.
But but that would be. But see if you're don that would be a
reason why you would go No, no, because I don't think he want
I don't want to think he wants that challenge. I don't think he needs
that challenge. Let's call him an as he's not. No, you were,
you were incorrect and says when they had Colorado on the list, he
says he's not coming. It's too cold. Remember you say he's too cold?
And he and he and he did it. I would I would bet
not a lot of money, but some money that he's not gonna go do
the NFL at least not anytime soon. But but the Florida States or whatever
Florida's I just feel like when whispers like that start happening, you know,
it's like you know, where there's smoke, there's fire, kind of sure,
sure, No, I get it, I get it. Who is
that smoke coming bro just different media media. Oh, I haven't seen I
haven't seen that. Dan Patrick was talking about it today talking about how,
you know, Pete Carroll is well into his seventies, he's the college draw
rock guy. Yeah. No, I don't think Dean would be perfect to
go you know what, Pete Carroll calls it quits in the next couple of
Yeah, No, I don't. I don't think he's like or is Bill
Balichick's time about to be over in New Yeah? Or the New York guys,
the New York giants stuff. Yeah, I just don't think that's part.
That's I could be wrong. I could be wrong. If I am,
you can get all over me. It's not that I won't be a
first all right. So that's kind of really all I have said. Okay,
I thought somebody, did you just hear your boy, your boy Bauer
has Yeah, I still don't want him around. Yeah, I don't,
at least I don't. I don't think anybody does. I don't think.
I don't think he's gonna have a tough time getting a job. I don't
think he will. I don't think he will. People just say he bought
his way out of it well, and it says that there was no money
transferred. No money was no money. She got some insurance money for something.
I don't know what it's, but but there was no money transferred either
way. And he spoke publicly yesterday for four minutes I guess on Instagram or
wherever talking about it. And he was free to talk about it. All
right. So did you see that the Buffalo a kid hunter. He's gonna
be out another week or two, maybe two or three? Actually, oh
really? Yeah, so you know there's that, there's that. Yeah,
and we're gonna talk more with the with the Sault book. Been from p
h n X in Phoenix about the Suns and then it started yesterday. Maybe
we get Kuron and you know he's never busy in the summer, right right,
I mean we thought, yeah, we tried to call him in the
summer thing it would be busy to call and during the season, all right,
so we will yeah, right, you know we need to get to
it is Francona and he right, we'll reach out to Terry. You're pretty
pretty soon. I'm sure we'll see Hm around de McHale. Yeah, this
uh, this season, he sits right behind me around in front in front
of you. Dude, No, he know he's behind us now. Oh
I thought he was across the cross away. Hell, he's moved from there.
He was in the front row, behind the scores table, like right
in mid court. Oh, then your that's your task. He's on my
side, that's your task. Will come my side of the of the Okay.
I didn't know that, Yeah, because he used to. I thought
next to he had one of those scholarship row seats right over by where president
was president. But no, last year he was, he was he was
kind of behind it to my last Oh we got a minute. Let me
ask you, what was your impressions outside of the depth that Arizone had of
of the Red Blue Game and I we texted each other and I'm sorry to
say this because I know it's a big deal with people, but to me,
it's it's it's not it's it's kind of a long, boring thing.
But to you and I, I just wanted to get to the game.
But you know, I've asked Ronald like did you like that? And they
said, yeah, it was fun, fun seeing Richard Jefferson out there,
funcying Chinese Fryn. It was those things were cool. The videos. You
know, Uh, here's a stupid thing that I saw somebody on Facebook sad
that Ada Barnes was inappropriately draft Oh what what what she really? Yeah?
What sense? I don't know. Everybody. Everybody went on a rip.
This person said, what the hell are you? Was in a matter of
a woman? Was a woman? That makes sense? Told you, yeah,
she pulled down the thing. Everybody has an opinion, but that,
Yeah, that's like she wasn't there like in a bathing suit or anything.
No, I just I just I just thought I saw that. I saw
that. But I think people enjoyed that. I think the feedback is that
it was it was kind of fun. It took you long. It took
you long to get to the game. It did, it did, and
it was there were moments when you were there. It took There were stretches
where they just talked yeah, you know, because they were doing other things.
But I think fan fo seeing those guys because it's it's a different crowd.
It's a different crowd. All right, Hey, let's take our break.
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phone. We have saw book been from pH and X Sports and Phoenix.
How are you saw good? How's it going on? Well? Fine,
thank you, thank you. It looks like you're going to be busy this
year. Another like you've always been busy the last few years covering the Suns.
What did you see yesterday at media Day? No, I just think
the vibe was really, really good. You know, they have a lot
of energy, a lot of optimism, obviously with the opportunity to win the
franchise's first championship, and you know, I think more than anything else,
the guys are just ready to refresh this whole season and get past what's happened
last couple of years and get over that hump, you know with DeAndre Ayton,
you know, coming from here, you know, not a bad guy,
but just didn't bring a I would say, a good vibe to a
team, right. It was just it would just always seemed to be some
issue with him. He wasn't playing hard enough or whatever you wanted to say.
Is there some sort of a lifting of that off off of this team.
Yeah, I think indirectly you can point to a few things that were
said by people about, you know, just behind the scenes, what was
going on. Nobody would get into any specifics, but he definitely felt like
there was there was some issues off the court in terms of where DeAndre Aden
thought he should be used and how he should be used to what was actually
being produced by him on the court. And I think really what it boiled
down to was just you just never knew what you were going to get from
DeAndre Ayden on a night to night basis, and because of that lack of
trust, you know, the Suns could never really fully buy into what he
was going to bring to the table. So I thought that just caused,
you know, a kind of a rift within the organization and him and I
think both teams are actually happy to move on, to be honest with you,
Yeah, no question. And they had some talent, right. I
thought Monty did a fantastic job. Who didn't think Monty did a fantastic job,
Because he did, and that mixture of him and DeAndre and you just
said that he didn't like the way he was being used the last time I
checked, it's not up to the players that determine that. Yeah, it's
up to the players. I actually would probably oppose what you just said about
money Williams, to be honest with you, I think he did. I
thought he did a terrific job the first couple of seasons, But I think
what ultimately really changed with Monty was the fact that he was pretty stubborn about
his rotations. He you know, we talk a lot about DeAndre Aden's inconsistent
Yeah, I think Money Williams inconsistency in terms of his rotations and not really
going with guys and really getting them comfortable in the roles was also a factor
in the inconsistency of the entire team as a whole, outside of Devin Booker
and Kevin Durant. And I think that ultimately costs in the last two seasons.
So that's kind of where I were gonna look. Okay, that makes
sense, So so at At you know, your first comment was that there
seemed to be a pretty nice vibe and media day, what's uh, you
know, what do you look at or what do you feel like is the
biggest change or the biggest difference in that vibe this year compared to last year
in terms of the guys that have come in, I mean, how have
they changed that? Well? I think, you know, first of all,
I think the fact that you had so many you know, veteran minimum
free agents that signed here and signed here for a reason because they wanted to
play with the Big three and they they knew they had an opportunity to win
a championship. And some of these guys have never been afforded that opportunity.
You look at Kata based the up, you look at you know, you
to wat An abby Uh and the list goes on and on. And these
guys are coming here for an opportunity to win a title. So with that
sense of optimism, you bring in Drew Eubanks as well, and then trade
for you know, a guy like Yusuf Nurkitch, who was you know,
the Trailblazers were competitive before he shattered his leg grace and Allen's been with the
Milwaukee Bucks, but they just got bounced in the first round last year.
Now, now they're all coming here with a renewed sense of optimism, fresh
perspective. And let's be honest, folks. And there's worse places to live
in the country during the winter than Arizona. Yeah sure, yeah, no
question. So the vibe in the city, what's that like? Given the
you know, they were there in the finals not too long ago, a
couple of years ago, the city was going crazy. I'm sure they have
some some of that vibe. But Denver is still going to be good,
Golden State's gonna be good, Lakers are going to be better. All this,
all these teams in the West are going to get better. Yeah.
True, But I think everybody's excited. I think everybody's excited for the opportunity
to prove everybody wrong. You know, everybody's going to be pointing out the
Nuggets. That's really the one team that everybody's pointing to in terms of who's
really above us right now. And that's because, hey, listen, when
you're the champion, you got to beat the champions to take that throne.
And they deserved it. They beat everybody pretty handily last year. But yeah,
I mean the West is loaded, the East is loaded, you know,
I mean from top to I mean, the top teams in each conference
are going to be really, really tough to deal with. But I think
the vibe here in the city is no different than than it really was the
last couple of years. A little bit more optimistic and definitely a refreshed kind
of outlook on the season. And I think DeAndre Aiden, Let's be honest,
I love DeAndre Aden. I think we all do down in Tucson because
he's a he's a wildcat. But I think we were all kind of exhausted
by the storyline that was DeAndre Aiden. So I think it was that by
itself kind of refreshes everybody. Well, you heard part of the comments in
Portland that he's kind of renewed some freshness or whatever. He said. You
know, he and everyone that I saw on Twitter who've seen him places.
Okay, we've heard that before, but now you have to do it.
I mean, they're not wrong. Yeah, I mean I've heard I've heard
that a year after a year, you know, from DeAndre and about how
he was refocused and he was ready to prove everybody wrong and this, that
and the other, and it just never came to fruition. You know,
you can't listen. One of the things that you just can't do, and
what ultimately will cost you is if if you don't show up in the playoffs,
and I mean listen, man, you might as well see him on
a milk carton because he was not around during the playoffs at all, and
he was at MIA and people were trying to find out what was going on
with him, and they could never put a finger on it. And so
that ultimately I feel like it's really what caused him to be moved. You
got to you got to show up when your team needs you the most,
right, Right, So you talk about the big three, But you know,
does this team need to be any one guy's you know, I would
say it's his team. Does it need to be that or can it be
you know, three guys or however many guys. There's have to be a
focus. Make no mistake about it. This is Devin Booker's team. Okay.
You can you can sense that when he walks into media day. You
can sense that around the valley. This is Devin Booker's team. When Kad
and Beal talk, they always talk about Devin Booker in that light, like
I came to the valley because of Devin Booker. Like you don't make that
move for a second or third option, like that's Devin Booker's that dude,
Well he's bitter since nineteen ninety six. That was a pretty good line for
me yesterday. It was it was a listen, we're gonna put that on
a shirt and sell it. Let's go. You better you that smart move,
smart move, I would assume, you know, having lived here forever.
But now the Suns are Phoenix's team diamond Backs. Okay, yeah,
the Cardinals are the Cardinals. But if the Phoenix Suns are rolling, Phoenix
is just a happier place a million percent. No different than you know,
when you think of two son, you think of you of a basketball,
you know, it's that's the number one and then everything else's second, third,
and fourth, right, And that's how the Suns are. When the
Suns are rolling, that's the original franchise. That's that's that's the darling of
the city. That's the baby, and that's the one that everybody wants to
win the championship the most because they've come so close so many times. So
yeah, without a doubt, how much does Kay do you have left?
I think he has a lot left, to be honest with you. I
think he's got two solid years where he's gonna give you all the start level
of performance and then maybe he'll start to tail off. And even if his
performance tails off a little bit, I don't think it's going to be a
severe to where it's gonna cost you games. You know, I think you
know, you look at Chris Paul and how he performed at times in the
playoffs when he was healthy, and you can point to that and be satisfied
in the KD can perform like that, They're gonna be in good hands.
Yeah, Okay, you're gonna be busy a lot of fun too, because
you know you're gonna see a lot of who do you think the favorites are
giving your top four? Top four in the West, top four in the
West. I'm gonna go, uh, Milwaukee, Boston, Phoenix, and
Denver. Milwaukee's done. West. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, like overall
overall. Just give me the West though, just the West. Okay,
I will give you Denver. I'll give you a Phoenix obviously, I'll give
you the Lakers. And then I'm gonna go with the sleeper because I think
they're going to make a move at some point. I'm gonna give you the
Clippers. Oh wow, wow, Okay, so you think Sacramento was a
one shot deal. I'm not a big believer in Sacramento. I am all
about uh the OKC thunder That is my basketball side piece this year, if
you will, I am a big fan of the Thundering. Wow, and
you not mentioned the Warriors. Now, I think I think they're going to
get exposed this year as being a little too old and too long in the
tooth. And they're younger pieces are nice, like I like Jonathan Cominga,
but I just I think I just don't. I don't believe in them.
I just don't. Don't discriminate again, don't discriminate against us old dudes.
Man. Listen, man, I'm forty four, I know way do you
know? Years? Well, So we appreciate your time, of course,
thanks year, we'll see we'll talk again. Appreciate saw book from pH X.
It's gonna be interesting for sure, right because you know, they went
and got these pieces that on the surface don't look like a bunch of great
pieces. But when you're talking about the fit that these guys need to have,
well that's it. That's it, right. So he kind of he
he kind of he said, he pooh pooed my thought on Williams. So
Williams had the same guys, he had a great group of three or four,
but he didn't have anybody to fill in what's the difference issue? But
I mean, had you heard of you for this tra That's my point.
But apparently, you know, I kind of try try to pay attention,
like, Okay, how did this guy get in the league, and why
is he in the league? And how good is he? And all you
hear is that he's just a guy was gonna be the complimentary guy, you
know, Louke Callard that DeAndre Ayden wasn't used to be. Let me tell
you this, Jay, let me tell you this, and you talk about
this a lot. We talk about this a lot. You have ten good
dudes, you have one bad apple. That apple grews up a lot of
crest, especially on a basketball team, where one bad apple is a higher
percentage of bad apples than one bad apple on a football team. And Saul's
words himself not the way he wanted to be used. It's not up to
you. Am I wrong? Right? A coach coach is to get you
to do things a certain way that they want things done. And then you
said, well, I'm not gonna do that. When you get the hell
out of I'm not gonna And how many times have we seen that? Yeah,
all the time, all the time. This is not it's not just
basketball or whatever, it's everything. No, come on, we'll talk about
you in the corporate world and things like that. If you have a dude
who's a pain of the ass and it is not part of the team effort,
it's it's a downer man, their own idea of how they want things
done. Yeah. No, either you got to get rid of them or
you say enough. It happens. Wherever it happened to me, a guy
just said, I don't like the way you manage and I don't want to
do things the way you want me to do them. And I said,
well then you're fired. Yeah, but you know, I mean they got
grace. I mean, like, no, I think you need guys like
that. Well, now we'll see. Here's the thing. If the Phoenix
Sounds weren't Tucson, people would have lost their minds over that, because,
yeah, because he's there, guy, he's heard college. He's a dukey
up there. He's not those things. No, no, right, no,
because he's one of their Yeah, yeah, you know, he's he's
our ugly baby. Yeah, oh what a baby. He's an ugly baby.
He's our ugly baby. Exactly. Yeah. Okay, let's take a
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Wam Hey, welcome back joining the ball here o Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve, You're Jay. We have thirteen minutes. Anybody wants to
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We've always got not always. I didn't you know what. I just realized
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up more people will listen. Well, I've got the Diamondbacks game on over
here. They're down one zip in the bottom of the second. The Brewers
have a runner on first with nobody out and some one zip on the on
the Diamondbacks best two out of three and all of these uh, these four
series that started today. Okay, Okay, I was gonna get back to
my explanation of why I think Arizona has a chance against usc You're poop pointed
a minute I said it. I I gave you fourteen points. Okay.
I just think I've been saying this all summer long, that USC is just
thinks too much of itself. They still don't play any defense, and they
are going to lose three games, three games the regular season. Yeah.
And in the regular season they're gonna lose three games because they still gotta play
Washington. Hold on, I'm calling ninety one one. Someone's kidnapped. Okay,
Jay, what three? They gotta play Washington? Okay, they still
gotta play Oregon. Okay. I think they're gonna lose both of those.
Okay, and then they're gonna lose one unexpectedly, and yeah, I don't
see that happen. They might lose three overall, but not in the regular
season because it was the league is very good. But I get what you're
saying, and I totally get what you're saying. I also think that USC
is one of those teams that needs a challenge. They need a challenge,
and they haven't been challenged. Yeah, honestly, we saw that first game
with the smooth and San Jose State. They look horrible and blah blah blah
and every moore the poo poo that one. I think they need to play
that Colorado game. Could have just gotten one hundred and Okay, here's the
rest of their skit. Okay, tell me there aren't three losses in there.
Okay, obviously Arizona this weekend at home. No, Okay, they
go to Notre Dame. A good game, should be a good game.
Uh possible, Yeah, possible. The spread would be about two. They've
got Utah coming to their place. You think cam RISI played by then.
I don't think that's a loss that I think they'll beat at home. They'll
be at home, they'll beat Utah. And then they got they go to
cal they'll win that. And they got Washington at home. Okay, Washington
travel, Okay, let me go back. They could lose to Utah.
I don't think they will, but I think the looser Notre Dame, because
it's add Notre Dame. I think Washington beat him just because I think Washington's
that much better. Yeah. No, and that's a game between you and
me because the difference in in in our in our And then they got to
go to Oregon, okay, and then that's a losible game. That that
that's not a losible game. That's a sure loss. Okay. Well,
and then they got then they got UCLA. No, that's not a less
they'll lose. They lose two three, Okay. I'm fine for you.
You've been wrong all year or so. That's my defense with you, your
honor. Oh yeah, here's an individual games. Well these are individual games,
but in all there. But getting back to the point though, is
that you know they could lose to Arizona. I don't think they will,
but they could, and I think that there's of course, there's there's a
higher chair, the cold. It was a high chest and there was against
Okay, go ahead, let's take this. How you're on the right on
the ball, Nico. What's up? Man? Seven straight? Nico?
Hey, man, get to that. I get to the first thing.
Jay, you could have took my seat, man instead of standing there all
day? Well, you know I stood there for ten minutes. It was
no big deal. Hey, what do you get a sat by my dad?
And uh, you guys sit in that corner. Yeah, six and
thirty four. Okay, all right, all right, very cool, Row
eleven six, seat sixteen. If you want to see, I would have
had to take some stairs, and by that time of the day, I'm
not taking any more stairs. Man. Those stairs killed me. Man,
I'm not gonna lie. By that time, I wanted to talk about the
game. Okay, your thoughts. I thought, I thought the lawyer played
good. The lord didn't play the Lauren so Fida, Yeah, exactly,
exactly. Now there was a big difference. Then there's a big yeah.
No. But he he played well because they simplified the offense, didn't do
anything crazy with them, and he shined. Right. What if they did
that with Delora? I don't think the Laura would do it exact exactly.
You're exactly right. So yeah, and I blame the lass on those red
uniforms. I gotta get rid of that. Sweet Well, what's your They
look good? They look good, they look good, So what do you
Okay, if they don't warm blue, they don't lost my morning? Sure?
Sure, so, Nico, what do you think about this guy talking
out of his butt about this weekend? Hey, man, I think he's
not tagging out of his butt. I think it's true. Do you think
that they have a chance to win. I think they have a better chance
of beating that season they did Washington. Did I just say that? I
thought, I just said, what does that mean? I got Nico,
who's crazy half the time, and you were crazy all the time. I'm
with you, honest, he has no defense. Man, When you don't
have a defense, you can lose. Arizona has not had any offense in
five games. They just haven't. I don't know. I know you're hoping
against hope they have an offense. But is that? Is that wrong?
I think it's in there somewhere. Oh okay, okay, it's good for
you. You think it's in there, Nico. Yeah, it's like an
eably decline. Man. Eventually it will be nice. Good luck, good
luck with that, good luck with that. Of course I am a downer
because I'm not a fan in the room. Well, I gotta go do
something. That's the thing you're not taking apart. Arizona's offense is not what
you think it is. But I think in score against USC I do they
couldn't score against other teams, But you think they're going to score against you
see on the road let me say this to you and I'll give you this.
You see, and I said this last night on the podcast that Arizona,
for whatever weird reason, plays usc tough all the time. A lot
they do, they do unexplainably, even even carold very much bad teams.
They went in there very much. So I have no idea why that happens.
But they could be close. And I'll give you that, but I
just don't see it now, and you will see. I think they finally
needs to. They're well aware of the defense sucks, yes, and I
think these kinds of things matter. How much more bounce in their step are
guys like Fafita and McMillan. We see that all timon who gonna have when
they can step on the We see that all the time. We see the
all time because it's a story being written. These guys never recruited you,
They overlooked you, they thought you weren't they did recruit you. They're still
saying, I'm from there. You know everybody I know is going to be
at this game. Well, did you hear you saw you heard this quote
about but we're not gonna blay kumbaya or whatever. That's not with you with
the guy from the other two right, right, the guys who were here
last year, and that's another incentive both ways, yeah, both ways.
Yeah. So no, I you know, I I'm looking forward to this
game. I like fourteen that I'm giving you. I like fourteen. Okay,
that's fine. What are we what are we betting on that there's a
double or nothing on your loss in the in the playoffs? Yes, that
was that was a stupid That was a bad, bad probably suck and they
came on late. Right, well, what did it matter? Makes no
sense? All right, Well the Diamondbacks are now down three zip after two.
It's over. They're toast. No, they're toast. So anyways,
all right, so no, I'm you know, I'm looking forward to it.
A lot of a lot of cool stuff this weekend. A lot of
games, a lot of good games, a big game. Boomer put out
his upset alerts today on it. He's got Texas, who's giving six and
a half to Oklahoma, the Red River rivalry at the Coliseum. He's got
Georgia, who's got to play Kentucky. Kentucky's undefeated. They're playing really well,
they're play well. Right, that's a good one. Every team.
I see him on the sideline stops. I'm thinking, yeah, you guys
hired the wrong stups. He looks really old. Yeah, you just see
him. He's gonna be because he did that thing during game day where they
you know, they give him a headphones and he's on the field, you
know, during warm ups and he's talking to the game day guys and they
put the camera on him, like he got really, really old. Do
you think this is an easy job? You know, you get paid a
lot of money, but you age quickly. It's like the President of the
United States. Yeah, he's got so he's got He's got Texas, He's
got Georgia on there. He's got Ohio State, who's playing a very surprising
Maryland team Maryland. I know State's giving twenty points at home, but man,
Maryland is Maryland is pretty good, you know, Notre Dame. He's
got on there. Who should have lost this last weekend but didn't. I'm
trying to I had that who they were, who they were playing? Who
is it? Where is it? Oh, Louisville, Louisville. They're at
Louisville. Louisville's five and all. Who's that's uh? Really? And and
Louisville's getting seven. But there should be a good weekend to extend my lead
to Fresnel States Wyoming. I'm mad at Fresnel State, but I should get
back on that bandwagon. Like you know what I was thinking about this Oklahoma.
I got off the bandwagon after one one loss from these guys, would
get on it, stay on it, right, I'm telling you because I
say, now Oklahoma bandwagon I went. I told you last week when I
picked him, I specifically said, and you heard it. I said,
I'm going on that wagon because you're because you're getting off, I'm gonna get
back on it not a minute next to Oklahoma. That's our special this week.
By the way, Yeah, I know where I'm going with that one.
I know I already know where I'm going with that one. But anyways,
those are some of the some of the upsettlers. The big game Boomerath
Washington on their last weekend wasn't that far off. So there you go.
But you but you did not have USC on. What's the biggest game in
the league to this week in the NFL. Uh, I think it stirs
only USC. No, that's the big game. No, I don't couldn't
be. Let me see who was what is Colorado playing? They're playing Colorado
at a SU. Yeah that's boring. Yeah, Colorado, the Colorado story
is kind of well, that's that's gonna be overplayed eventually. Washington State at
UCLA off to a really good start. You see all these three and one,
so it's not like they're horrible. I don't you know, I don't
give them much of a chance. Oregon you see all these favored by three
and a half. So whom still looking here at the rest of the games?
Uh? Colorado at ASU, Colorado a SU is giving four? Giving
four? Really? Yes? Oregon State at cal So it looks like it
looks like h is off. Okay, Oh yeah, yeah they're off because
they play they play USC I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, there
you go another there's another No, no, no, no, no,
yes, he's got him at the end of the year. Look ahead,
do they play somebody who's looking ahead us? He's got I didn't go Washington
next. Let me see, is it a break though? Here we go?
Yeah, that's another thing. You start looking ahead. That's not good.
Looking at their schedule. No, they got notre dame. No break
Okay. In week to week to week. Actually they don't have, man,
they don't have another buy because they had to buy. Well, they
had that they played early, but then they had to buy after their third
game, and they don't get another one. So they got Arizona, Notre
Dame, Utah, Cal Washington ore again without a break. So I was
gonna ask you about this schedule for I was gonna be really out of time.
It doesn't really matter. It doesn't really matter because we know it's a
gauntlet and you're still gonna have them win six games. You're gonna have them
beat Colorado, I do and a issue and then then either organ state or
yell, good luck with you, good luck, good luck, good luck
with that. What are those two, Steve, They're gonna get their six
As Bill would say, go ahead and pick them. You're gonna owe me.
You're gonna owe me. You are you are, don't say you're not.
I'm gonna win a lot this year for me. It'll pay off.
I gotta I gotta pick some games this week. All right, Well,
I'm glad to be back, Steve. This was fun. Thank you Jim
Monica for being here. Saut Bookman first time on the show. Since you
and i've been together. Good stuff on the suns and we'll be talking for
more usc Arizona as we go along. We'll be back tomorrow