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surgery I on the Bar. Hey, welcome back to I the Ball here

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on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Steve Rivera. He's Jackinsauce. Now we

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have Kevin with breaking news. This
is I on the Ball Breaking news on

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Fox Sports fourteen fifty. This in
time, So we do have some Arizona

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transfer news to start out with today. We got a new big boy on

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the defensive line, big large six
to three and fifty pound transfer named Chuba

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Mai. Wow. I saw three
seventy. He did you say a lot

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of numbers? I said, he
said three fifty. Somebody said three seventy.

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Somebody else said three forty. By
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big dude. A lot of a
lot of a lot of men out

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there to try to move. You
came from is the Long Beach, Polly?

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Yeah? Okay, No, but
he's a he's coming out of a

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he's a no, the the the
defensive back. He's out of UC Davis.

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But big, big dude. And
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air. You know, I just
remember, you know Joe Drake who was

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just a mountain of a dude who
played nose guard for Arizona in the early

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eighties, and uh just was you
couldn't go around him, right. Uh.

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And one the famous things was that
in the in that eighty two ASU

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game, Uh, he got two
safeties. Again, says you, they

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treat you a ball on the gold
line. They tried to run up the

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middle and he just stuffed it,
stuffed him twice. So well Spears said,

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he's six two, three forty seven. So we're gonna have there.

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You have to investigate, you know, when you're up in the three forty

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three seventy, it's kind of like
another drop of water. The fuck it

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right, it's like show his contract. What's you know about seven and five

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million? Right right, going right, right, right right. But we

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do have more transfer news. Steve
was almost on it. We do have

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a new Indiana player coming in,
uh dB. Jordan Shaw played four games

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last season before he redshirted, but
he did have a nine tackle performance against

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Wisconsin. You know what we got
to do one of these days, maybe

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we get these interns doing some crack
research. The guys who went to with

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coach Brown and see how they ended
up doing, because that was a big

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deal. He took some pretty good
bunch of guys JB. Brown, I

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think, and some of the guys
in the defensive blackfield who were pretty good

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here and decided to go with their
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and again, I mean, there's
so much, you know, so many

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guys that come and go. It's
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track. But how they go,
you know, I mean, how did

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those three guys from USC really do? I know, we've talked about Dorian

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Singer because of his stats, but
then you look at Christian Roland Wallace and

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what's the name of key On Bars. You know, did they have really

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good years? Yeah? You know, I don't know that we know apples

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and apples, probably not. But
Riley Leonard, the former Duke quarterback,

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I don't know if you guys remember
the early start of the year that they

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had. They had a pretty good
start this season before he went down with

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the ankle injury. He has now
transferred to Notre Dame OH. Via his

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x account, Twitter whatever you want
to call it, today he posted a

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nice little video of him walking through
the grounds, kind of getting familiar with

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this. He had been rumored for
a while because Sam Hartman was out of

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there. So, you know,
I think against you had the conversation we're

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having yesterday. You know, these
guys where they can go for a year

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and do well or two years.
We think a couple of years after what

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Leonard might have two Okay, you
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to confirm that. But and then
when you guys got of touched on this

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earlier, but I thought it was
really interesting. Noah a fida, his

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salt and pepper shakers gotta be the
same way, facing, always facing.

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I read somebody you did you read
the story? Yeah, I was kind

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of giving up so and Jay read
the story. You know what. The

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first thing that thought, just randomly, it did it remind you sleeping with

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the enemy? Oh god, dude? Associated where they where the towels were

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lined up cans in a little bit? Yeah, my brother you know which

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one? Rick? Rick? Yeah, yea, it makes sense, makes

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sense, but not in a bad
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you know, you know, I
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over my brother's pantry and every you
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you know the cans are different.
What's that? I don't even know

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what that is? Prigerators exactly.
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see our pantry. No greens in
the frider what like? Like you you

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you re you reach in there and
you don't know if you're gonna get bit

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by something or what right has words
ecosystem. But yeah, interesting story by

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Doug Holler if you haven't read it. Doug's a frequent guest of the show

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with the Athletic, So if you
got a subscription to me, that's like

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he did a really need profile and
know if of just talking about his well

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here's his His dad said people hate
going to his house because there's nothing out

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of place. Uh, and you
go there and and he was asking his

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mom if she cooked because he thought
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were not facing the right wing.
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crazy thing. Yeah, I get
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might like my mad cave that it's
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and didn't And yeah, I mean
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like, like not a lot you
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when you've got a house full of
people that don't live like that either,

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right, right, right, you
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right of course, of course.
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who's out of Florida today. Ashley
Moody is the Florida Attorney General, and

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she is issuing a subpoena against the
college football Playoff selection Committee after her seminoles

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were snubbed. And I think Jay
has something to say about this. Well,

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God, I don't know where to
start, but the Florida Attorney General

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actually moved to launch an anti trust
investigation into them keeping Florida State out.

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I don't know what you think you're
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do if there was some all broken
because Florida State didn't get into the playoffs,

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don't I don't know. But you
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time, effort, and taxpayer money. I mean, like, this is

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the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Their governor was was, you know,

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saying the same thing. He's running
for president, so I don't even

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want to throw his name out there, but you know, this is such

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a so ridiculous. It's sports.
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the break about how it kind of
reminded me of in November we had the

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Virginia Attorney General right do the same
thing for their James Madison team, even

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though they had quite literally agreed to
a contract that would keep them out of

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Bowl selection for two years. So
it's kind of like, you know,

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it must be election season. So
yeah, so now her office is going

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to you know, commit a bunch
of staff to go collect all this in.

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It's got a list of the information
that they want, including emails and

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notes and communications between the conferences and
the committee and all stuff, and like,

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what are you doing? What are
you doing except just trying to say,

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okay, you know, vote for
me because I'm I'm you know,

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I'm doing this. I don't know. It's just ridiculous. Yeah. And

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then for any hockey fans out there, we do have Connor Bandard playing It's

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Connor McDavid tonight to the league's best
superstars facing off. You don't get that

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all the time you lost me at
hockey, I figured I did over there.

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Yeah, Like, okay, am
I supposed to know those guys person

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Bagel and Mustard, but you might
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I mean, because we we got
nothing, man, we got nothing.

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And that's that's honestly all I had. I mean Pat Mahomes, you

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know, like you mentioned Kevin Durant
again not playing tonight, and so that

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those guys can't seem to get their
their big three on the court all at

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the same time. An interesting one. That's gonna be interesting to see how

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it develops because we I think we
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talk about show his contract and now
he's he's structured, so six hundred and

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eighty million of the seven hundred million
is being deferred. So he's only going

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to be paid twenty million dollars while
he's playing in the in the TENU on

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the ten million year, two million
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all his endorsements somebody I heard a
number of fort He made forty six million

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dollars in endorsement endorsements last year.
But you know the word is that,

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you know, it's in terms of
the taxes he's going to pay whenever he

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starts taking this money. If you
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taxed in California, it'll be ninety
eight million dollars compared to the three million

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dollars he's going to get taxed on
the money he's right. An important thing

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to note is that show, hey
did this in a very smart way.

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I was I was reading through I
believe it was Jeffasson's Twitter. I can't.

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I don't really know for sure,
but he would. Someone brought up

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how if you are not a California
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you do not get taxes same so
if he moved to Miami, Texas,

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right, he's just getting the full
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the law right now. But what
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we need a law and we need
to get some of this money, and

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that they're gonna go They're going to
try and figure out a way to go

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after it. Isn't that crazy where
sports contracts are at right now. It's

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unbelievable. It's unbelievable, unbelievable.
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was pretty cool, but I thought
it was cool to see what show If

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he's making two million from his contract
and he's making tens of millions, you

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know in endorsements. Why does he
need all the you know, he'll go

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to a state that doesn't have incos
Florida, I think Texas, to Texas,

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Florida and Texas. You know,
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places. I think in Vegas,
Vegas if they have a yeah, yeah,

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so it says show, Hey,
we'll make twenty million from twenty twenty

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four to twenty thirty three, and
then six hundred and eighty million dollars from

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twenty thirty four to twenty forty three. Crazy. If you guys are familiar

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with the story of Bobby Minia,
yeah, oh yeah, we know all

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about his contract, Bobby, his
contract payments and in twenty thirty four thirty

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four, just thirty four. Okay, so he's full transition of power from

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one long deferral to another long deferral. Yeah, it's great, he did

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it right, all right. You
need to throw this one out there,

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because we talked about this back when
it happened. But that San Diego State

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punter got drafted, got accused of
sexual assault, then they decided not to

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prosecute clear or whatever reason. Now
the lawsuit that the that the alleged victim

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had filed against him. She's dropped
the lawsuit and he's dropped his defamation suit

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against her. So everybody's just walking
away. Nobody's paying anybody anything. But

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you know, nonetheless, I think
his football career is still in the because

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because he was with the Buffalo Bills, he got he got drafted pretty pretty

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immediate, was with the team until
they started got pretty quick too. Yeah,

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so that that that happened today his
uh, his uh, the lawsuit

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was dropped by the alleged victim,
and so they're just the things over apparently.

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So anyways, I just had to
throw that one out there, all

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right, And then Caitlin Clark got
another n I L D to become the

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fourth college athlete to get to get
a D with Gatorade, I mean,

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no one better, right, Yeah, And it includes it includes a a

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i'd call it a community service amount
that Gatoray's putting some like twenty two thousand

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dollars into a foundation that she's that
she's formed for, you know, money

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to go to worthy causes. So
so you have been paying attention to the

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off sides from the Kansas City.
So Mahomes was caught, you know,

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yelling and screaming at the reps and
anti anti Mahomes actions. And this is

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pretty much coming from general public who
just watches football. You know, how

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do they do that their competitors.
I mean, I'm not gonna apologize for

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him, but you know, he
was pissed because there was called, but

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it was it was clearly over the
line. Two days of it. It

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still continues. Yeah. Well,
and I mean his receivers have been letting

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him down week oh weeks after a
week, sure after sure, between these

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last two weeks the bad we're not
bad calls. This one was a genuinely

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good call. I saw video.
Daniel Lofski was talking about it. Tony

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was offsides four different times in that
game. He was lining every time he

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lined up almost he was that exact
same amount offside. And it's so easy

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to not line up upside. All
see the receivers, they go out there,

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they point at the rest, they
checked, They tell them and and

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and and uh what's his name?
And you know Andy Reid came out and

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said he did not check with the
ref on that particular play. Like it's

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all on him, It's all on
him. I heard Mike Gollick on a

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show just say what the hell?
You know, they don't give defensive linemen

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a warning when they when they get
them for lining up offsides. Why should

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they give a receiver he said?
You know, he said no, I

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said, I got called. I
don't know how many times I got called

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for being over the line. You
just it was a call that needed to

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be made because it was so blatant. You know. The ref said I

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couldn't see the ball from behind him
there, which meant he was standing in

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front of the ball. Plain and
simple, you throw it. And he

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threw the flag immediately and it wasn't
on the raft. It was the guy

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who was over the line. Yeah, so I think I think white people

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are so not worked up about this, but it's got so much attention.

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Is that Patrick Mahomes the scene is
a good guy, good sports, doesn't

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complain a lot, and he's losing
his mind over there. Yeah so I

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get that, and that's kind of
where I wanted to go. But the

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normal person, the general fan doesn't
get that because, like I talked to

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when we talked to the Francona,
these are competitors. I mean, this

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is what they do. Uh,
and you're screwing with what they do,

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and you get pissed. I mean, come on, how many times have

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you your coached or you played and
you say that was a bad call and

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you go berserve your use your mind
because to me, you it's everything,

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and it's as simple as whatever.
It is, a bad striker, a

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bad whatever. And I remember when
I was a kid and I played a

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lot. I used to be paid
in the ass. I got tossed from

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games in three different sports. Well, given your take, given your takes

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on the show, that's not a
shock, not at all. But you

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understand what I'm saying. I mean, he should, he makes millions,

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he should be able to run.
But and you only get so many cracks

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at the apple at football. You
know, if an umpire messes up a

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call in baseball, all right,
we got one hundred and sixty one other

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games to try to make that right. So did you see one of the

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memes. It's funny to be so
with Kelsey and Taylor Swift. The people

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who don't follow football or her followers, right, Oh, isn't it nice

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that Taylor Swift let them use the
arena for the stadium, But she's always

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in. Come on, it's just
people who don't know. Yeah, and

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they don't know. But it's funny. This is a nice us. All

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right, let's take our next break. We're going to be back. Helena

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Player, senior guard for Arizona women's
basketball. They got a big game tomorrow

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with Texas. It's also the the
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their Eye on the Ball on Tucson's
sports stationed Fox Sports fourteen fifty Hey,

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welcome back to Ian About here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Roberta.

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He's Jagginsaus. Now on the phone. We have theres little basketballs Helena

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Poya. How are you doing,
Helena? Hi? I am doing pretty

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good. Thank you for having anything. Thank you for joining us. Welcome

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to the show. We hadn't talked
to you since you've been at that.

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We were talking how did you go
five years without being on our show?

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I'm not really sure, Helena,
but we thank you for being here today.

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Thank you your decision to come back. How big of a decision was

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that? I mean it was pretty
big for me. I mean I was

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I just wanted to come back for
one more years, you know, having

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the opportunity to have been a part
of this program again and just like you

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know, like win more games,
you know, take this program, you

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know, like this and I just
wanted to come back and just play for

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my coach. Well, when you
think about you know, again, I

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was saying off, Eric, I
can't believe it's been five years that you've

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been here. I feel like you
just got here. Think back to your

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decision on coming into Arizona, why
you came here, and if any of

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those things played out, has it
been what you expected? Not what you

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expected, because it was just different. I mean, what kind of thoughts

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did you have coming in? I
mean it was a really litle thoughts.

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I always wanted to be a white
before, and just like having the opportunity

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to have one more year. And
also for me being from a different country,

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I don't have the opportunities of o
there. So I'm just trying to

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enjoy this time here one more year. So I'm just trying to, you

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know, like take this team really
high and just having the opportunity to play

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for my coach at the Avalance and
just just I'm just trying to, you

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know, like win more games.
When you first decided to come here,

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what did she sell on you to
come here one? And when you came

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to Tucson, I'm sure it was
the first time you ever visited Tuson.

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What were your impressions. I mean
for me, just the big thing for

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me just being a different like from
a different country. Just for me,

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one of the most important thing was
the fans, the huge far I think

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also here in Susan, so huge
far. So you know, like the

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family we have right here, like
coaches like Calgos. He helped me a

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lot doing my whole recruiting. He
sticks funny, so he really helped me

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a lot with the language before.
So I would say that when you think

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about you know, where you were
as a freshman coming in as a player,

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Uh, you know what kind of
players were. Obviously you were good

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enough that Ada Barnes thought you were
good enough to play Arizona. What are

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the things that you feel you've most
improved on, you know since you've been

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here, that you feel really good
about the development that you've had. Are

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there some specific types of things?
Yeah, I mean I would say first

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my defense, Like I didn't really
play defense before when I was in Spain.

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I was more like as an offensive
player, so I didn't really like

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learn how to play defense. Are
good, So now I think during these

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four years they teach me really good
to like play defense, that's why probably

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I go like more like award for
like defensive players, but I mean I

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would just say defense. And then
also you know, just like being more

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aggressive. Just I mean, I
think I'm more like as a leader right

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now of the fifth year, just
having more experience. Yeah, you're going

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to talk about defense. I thought
you were a defensive player coming in,

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but I was wrong. Not too
many players, men or women at this

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age want to be defenders. Well
how did that come about? I mean,

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as I say, I mean I've
been working on defense right now for

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like four or five years. And
also you know, like I'll go,

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like a deal, they just teach
you like they're like, you know,

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the small details. I think that's
really what helped me, just to learn

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like the program, the system here, the conference. So I think that's

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why when when if I were to
ask you, you know, what is

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it what's the most important thing that
you think you're getting from a Dea Barnes

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in terms of what she wants from
her players, Right, you know,

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there's got to be something that she
sees when she recruits you. So what

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is it that you think is most
important to her about your development as a

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player? I mean I would say, like leadership. I think that's a

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huge point, like especially now as
a fifth year and now you know,

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just like somebody who can play like
both ends like defense and offense. I

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think I learned the system really fast, and I think that has like applause

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for a player and just you know, being able to understand every since she

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wants as a defensive I'm not so
like offensively. So probably the last night.

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How has the last four four plus
years now been for you, given

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all the success you've had, uh
with with Airy and and all that,

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how has it been for you as
a guy as a person coming in as

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a coming in? I mean for
me, it was really great having you

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know, every man Donald and I
mean that kind of play will help me

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a lot doing the four years for
me. I mean, I've been looking

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like how they learn, how they
play. I'm just trying to get all

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of them, like everything from them
and just trying to like, you know,

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convert that stuff into my game right
now, just what I'm trying to

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do. Let's go back a little
further. You know you became a basketball

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player in Spain. When did basketball
become your sport? Was there was there

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a particular time what other sports did
you play, were you interested in and

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how did basketball become the sport that
you were going to play. Yes,

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I mean I really I always like
to play sports. I loved to play

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soccer before. I was a goalkeeper
you know, in my school before.

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So I mean I'm start playing basketball
when I was like four or five years

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old. So my older brother played
basketball before, so I think that's probably

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why I started playing basketball. But
yeah, I was, I started really

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really John. So, So let
me ask you, given that you're Hispanic,

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you know, albeit from Spain,
and the community here is mostly from

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from Mexico, has the community adopted
you, given you your Spanish speaking?

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Yeah? I mean every game we
have your city people you know, like

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Ogain Spannis to me. And that's
really really nice because you know, I

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get the chance it's ogan spanning with
with other people. And also like really

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feels me like to be like at
home. Well, has a family or

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two kind of adopted you to kind
of maybe visit them and feed you Mexican

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Mexican food. No, yeah,
but I'm waiting for that. All right.

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Well, we'll have to take care
of that. We got to make

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some contacts. Somebody give Helene a
call well, does she have a favorite

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restaurant or do you? I mean, I really like Whatalajara is one of

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the Mexican places games and I really
like right, yeah, they're good.

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So let's talk about this years team
a little bit. You guys are seven

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and two. You've got a big
game tomorrow with Texas, obviously something that

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you know is a big challenge for
you guys. But what what's the makeup

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of this team again? You know
ideas, you know there's a big turnover

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and roster, a lot of new
players. How have you guys been able

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to kind of start coming together after
these first nine games? And where do

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you think you guys are as a
team? So, I mean as a

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day and as I've seen, we're
really a really young team. I think

409
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we're just still trying to figure out
like how to connect every piece of the

410
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possible. But I think we're just
doing a really good job right now.

411
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I think there we are all learning
from our mistakes and at the end of

412
00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:32.279
the day, I think that's what
you have to do. It doesn't matter

413
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what teams you have to in front
of you. You just want to,

414
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like, you know, like pray
hard, just go for the win and

415
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just and we don't care if we're
like eight players with ten players. We're

416
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just going to do our best give
percent every game, and even if we're

417
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a joint team, we just like
learning, and especially me and Esma and

418
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Martinez as a fifth year, we're
just trying to like you know, like

419
00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:56.559
give some experience to them and just
like teaching a really small details. I

420
00:27:56.599 --> 00:28:00.079
was going to ask you, since
you brought it up before you, how

421
00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:04.839
is it is it scary not playing
with very many players excited when you get

422
00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:10.160
more playing time what you're feeling.
I don't think it's scary. It's just

423
00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:14.039
I think it's actually like better for
me. I think because you get to

424
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play more with the same people.
So I think you just like get used

425
00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:19.519
to and you just like learn from
that and you just you know, like

426
00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:22.880
play with the same players at the
same time, it really holds you.

427
00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:26.519
And then practicing a lot. So
it just I think it's just like easier

428
00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:30.200
to play with the same players,
and that's what we're doing, right.

429
00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:33.039
So I don't want to bring up
a bad thing, but you guys got

430
00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:37.920
beat up pretty bad at YOUNLV and
then you came out against San Diego and

431
00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:41.960
just throttle. Those guys only allowed
them thirty eight points. Was there something

432
00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:45.599
that happened during that time that you
guys, you know, did you get

433
00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:48.599
a fire lit on you? Did? Ad just say, you know what

434
00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:51.680
did she? How does she react
to that with you guys to get you

435
00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:55.599
to come out the way you did
against San Diego? I mean, you

436
00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:59.960
just gonna get hit sometimes, and
I think it's better before season and stuff.

437
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:03.839
Right now, so I mean we
I think we're going to like lose

438
00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:07.519
games with this. So I'm the
thing which is like trying to figure out

439
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:11.839
some stuff from the court and just
I mean, as I said, we're

440
00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:15.440
a joint team. I think we're
really we're doing a pretty good job right

441
00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:19.839
now. We're just like practice more, just like trying to learn from our

442
00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:23.400
stuff. But I mean I think
we sometimes you get hit, but you

443
00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:27.200
also like get hit back. So
I think that's what it is. So

444
00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:30.519
what did you get your degree?
And what do you have your degree in?

445
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:36.519
And what do you hope to do
after Also I have my degree in

446
00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:41.839
psychology, and after college, I
just want to play overseas back in Europe.

447
00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:44.680
I would look, I mean I
would like to play in Spain,

448
00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:48.200
of course, but you know,
any country that they want me to I

449
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:52.279
would be really happy to go for. But yeah, yeah, so it

450
00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:55.480
is there. You know, how's
the international basketball over what we call it

451
00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:59.160
internationals here. It's not international to
you when you're over there, but you

452
00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:02.839
know that the level of basketball over
there, how do you think you can

453
00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:07.559
fit in over there? I mean
the level is really high. I played

454
00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:11.240
before in Europe and I think it's
I mean, I love that game.

455
00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:15.039
I love paying in Europe. That's
I think. That's how I'm as a

456
00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:19.640
profive player right now. I love
Europe. I love playing in Europe.

457
00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:23.680
So I mean, I think I
will feel really good. He also depends

458
00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:27.519
on the team, you know,
the league, but I think it will

459
00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:30.440
be a really good place for me. I'm guessing you guys, you know

460
00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.319
you've got Texas tomorrow. I'm guessing
you guys have been watching you know,

461
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:37.400
some film and getting ready for them. What do we expect to see tomorrow

462
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:38.880
night with Texas? So what kind
of team are they? You know,

463
00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:41.839
what do you guys need to do
to win a game? These guys are

464
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.720
top five, so they're pretty good. Yeah, I mean really good team.

465
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:49.000
One of the best in the country. Rank is five. So I

466
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:52.960
mean, I think it's a really
big opportunity for us. We need all

467
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.240
the support from too soon. We
need to pack my kil tomorrow, and

468
00:30:56.279 --> 00:30:59.559
I think it's a really big tallenge. We can show who we are and

469
00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:03.480
that's we have a big opportunity.
I mean, I think I know they're

470
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:06.319
a really good team, but I
think we have we can you know,

471
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:08.920
like say them and just show them
who we are. And you know,

472
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:14.359
even if we're like let's players,
just go hard and just show them.

473
00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:17.759
Well, Helena, thank you for
joining us. Very much. Good to

474
00:31:17.799 --> 00:31:21.720
hear from you. Thank you all
right, appreciate, good luck to good

475
00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:23.960
luck tonight, thank you, thank
you great great to have her. And

476
00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:26.519
again mentioned it's a teddy bear toss
tomorrow, so if you are going to

477
00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:30.440
the game. I've been hit by
a few of those at those games,

478
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.000
but they're they're kind of fun.
They're just a ton of teddy bears get

479
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:36.960
thrown out there. I saw the
road Runners are doing one too, so

480
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:40.359
okay, I don't think they do
that the men's games, but no,

481
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:42.559
it's kind of a yeah, but
yeah, it should be a good game

482
00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:48.400
tomorrow. It's at seven o'clock at
McHale. Number five. They're number five,

483
00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:52.119
texted number five and the eight people
and so we'll see man, you

484
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:53.359
know everyone who went over and beat
them at their place, you know,

485
00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:57.000
a couple of years ago. So
this is that return game. It should

486
00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:00.079
be fun, It should be fun. Super gonna talk to her. Yeah,

487
00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:02.000
yeah, it was good. I
thought it was interesting to find out

488
00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:06.400
she wasn't always a defensive player.
No. I thought she right, right,

489
00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:09.319
right, right, because she that's
what she specialized in the right right.

490
00:32:09.559 --> 00:32:12.799
In fact, she doesn't take very
many shots, right, and she's

491
00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:15.079
one. I mean, I think
she's one of the leaders in the league

492
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:19.599
and steals and those kinds of things, and she's been a real good assist

493
00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:22.000
person. She's uh, you know, she just a kind of a good

494
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:24.200
all around game. I know a
lot of people think she should be shooting

495
00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:28.440
more, but if they're scoring points
with the way she plays, then this

496
00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:32.200
is that's the most important. Is
she one of those proverbial blue guys?

497
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:36.960
I think she is. Here's the
thing. When the ball is in her

498
00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:40.839
hands, right, you know,
you feel like it's in pretty good hands.

499
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:43.839
Right, she doesn't make very many
mistakes, you, no, right,

500
00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:46.359
and she she you know, she's
in charge out there. But you

501
00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:51.119
know, she she's only averaging four
points a game, but she's averaging She's

502
00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:54.680
got twenty nine steals in nine games. That's ridiculous even with a small roster.

503
00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.759
Yeah, that's a big number.
She got thirty two assists in nine

504
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:01.880
games. You know, those are
big numbers. You know, there's a

505
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:05.519
big numbers. She blocks shots,
she doesn't have a lot of turnovers,

506
00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:08.119
so it's you know, it's like, okay, so you score a lot,

507
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:10.519
but you don't do the other things. Which which would you rather have?

508
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:15.000
Right? So she's you know,
again five years you can tell when

509
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.559
she walks on the court, you
know what is doing and you can always

510
00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:21.799
find someone to light it up well, and that that's been Kaylen Gilbert that

511
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:23.680
you know, she's basically the new
point guard this year. She's been really

512
00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:29.079
good. She scores a lot of
points and she'll shoot anything. And then

513
00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:31.960
they're trying to get Jada Williams,
who's a freshman you know, to come

514
00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:37.119
in and stuff at that position.
So they've got a good mix. It's

515
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:40.559
just they're very young and very new
to the program. So it's kind of

516
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:46.240
changed everything again. So see what
happens tomorrow. Okay, all right,

517
00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:50.000
yeah, okay, let's hit the
road. We'll come back. We'll take

518
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579
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Please do five to two oh four
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583
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man, yeah, different, guess
yeah different, yeah right. A couple

584
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of good guests. But Jerry francon
in the first hour if you if you

585
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missed it, the podcast will be
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586
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Helenaquayo just now. The funny funny
thing with Francona is that we really don't

587
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know him, right, We just
know we've talked him a few times,

588
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but don't really know him. But
it's a it's a conversation like we've known

589
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:12.760
it for a long time. Yeah, for a long time. It's just

590
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a casual kind of like what we
want to do here? Yeah, we're

591
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just two dudes at the bar,
halflip talking. Ask you questions. Sugar

592
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sugar free coke or not? Where's
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593
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Coke? I've got zero zero there? Couldn't think that's it? You

594
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have something in there now or what? All right? Steve? Going to

595
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get our Christmas tree today? Are
you? Yeah? So you get one

596
00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:44.599
live? Yeah? Yeah, we
go get a live one and then yeah

597
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and then by the by the time
it's done, man, getting it out

598
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:50.880
of the house is the worst thing
ever. It's like it just drops stuff

599
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all the way to the door.
Got it, put it on the top

600
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:57.079
of my car, take it to
a recycled place. But it's quite a

601
00:39:57.119 --> 00:39:59.760
thing. But just the season.
It is the season. It is the

602
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:01.960
s So our family gets together and
does this. It's a big deal to

603
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:05.559
the family. You know, it's
the first time for a grand kid.

604
00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:08.519
So and I won't remember, well
he won't, you know what, And

605
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:12.840
we have to figure out a way
to keep him off the tree. Off

606
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:15.159
the tree. Well, you could
get him as many presents as you like.

607
00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:21.880
The best president will be the the
wrap wrapping paper exactly. The wrapping

608
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paper makes noise and he'll be going
in and out of at least that's how

609
00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:29.400
it is for four year old two
year old? You are? You are

610
00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:31.320
on correct? Yeah? What's his
denty frog? Now? I want the

611
00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:36.480
paper? Oh a bike? Give
me? I like the paper? Yeah

612
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:38.199
you know, no, it's no
I hear you. That's the way.

613
00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:45.679
And you know, what's what's the
favorite favorite gift you've ever had? Very

614
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:50.639
gift? It's uh, it was
actually last year because idly tilled the switch

615
00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:53.480
and the new Pokemon came out,
game came out, and so my brothers

616
00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:57.679
they both buy it for me,
and so they give They came with the

617
00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:02.119
two Pokemon games and they give one
to me. How long does that last?

618
00:41:02.119 --> 00:41:04.920
And you know when you have a
kid, you play with it for

619
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:07.320
a day and then you throw it
away and you know, you give it

620
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:10.760
a how long you're still playing it
a little bit? Yeah, we're getting

621
00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:15.280
okay, all right, let's take
the call. Hi are on the air

622
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:20.360
and eye on the ball. Hey, I'm gonna make this real brief.

623
00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:24.159
How you guys doing the show.
The show is great and I heard show.

624
00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:28.320
He's going to defer most of his
money to where in the end,

625
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:32.039
almost all about twenty million or something, right, that's what. Yeah,

626
00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:36.599
you obviously missed that part of the
conversation, but yes, he's yeah,

627
00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:42.320
I didn't listen. Yeah, and
the podcast. I'm sorry for calling you.

628
00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:47.840
That's you not but I'm going to
slam you Jay totally because of your

629
00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:52.280
swill. You play you know,
for bumper music. I love it when

630
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:54.559
the other guys play it. I
just got to hammer you. I could

631
00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:59.480
never listen to a podcast here if
you still play your if you're in charge

632
00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:05.119
of the music, Wow, terrible. Hey I used to be. It's

633
00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:08.719
terrible, inner sand man, you
know, step on a crack from Devo

634
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:14.159
anything, but that's Will. Well
before before you, before you start yelling

635
00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:15.760
at me about this, I'm gonna
tell you that Steve and I are kind

636
00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:20.199
of on the same page on the
music. He likes the music I like.

637
00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:22.960
Yeah, But then again, he's
the guy that had a mullet,

638
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:32.519
So get me a break you Steve
doesn't count at all. Cut this guy

639
00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:44.400
off. I'm out how he said
he came on for thirty seconds and just

640
00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:47.159
lit both of us up. Holy, he tells me a dinner Now,

641
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:51.880
that's probably why you you, Kevin? What's your favorite? Your favorite gift?

642
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:55.199
I think I would I don't know. I think it's probably close,

643
00:42:55.679 --> 00:43:00.920
like I like you right now.
I think it changes year by year.

644
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:04.239
I don't know if I have one
off the top of my head, trying

645
00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:05.679
to think I don't have a one
off top of my head. I would

646
00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:08.679
say close, I can wear for
the year. Let's let's see you again

647
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:13.119
next year. You know, yeah
that I got to go back to a

648
00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:16.519
little kid, right I once I
got a baseball and you baseball glove for

649
00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:21.599
Christmas and it was like an awesome
glove and then hot wheels. Oh yeah,

650
00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:23.119
yeah, when you're really young.
Yeah, I was probably like seven,

651
00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:28.679
yeah, yeah, like yeah,
seven years old. My almost a

652
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:35.679
BB gun if I can remember Carl
BB gun and uh maybe a Dallas Cowboy

653
00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:40.519
cheerleaders poster. I have a BB
gun story because my dad didn't allow we

654
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:45.000
didn't have guns, but you got
what. My brother Jean had a BB

655
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:45.960
gun and he did agree with it. Then I got a BB gun and

656
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:51.719
I would have been nine or ten. I opened it on Christmas morning and

657
00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:55.480
I shot my sister the next day
and that was the last time I saw

658
00:43:55.519 --> 00:44:02.559
it. Was it by accident.
No, oh, got her right in

659
00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:07.840
the leg, which one was like, oh, she tell me, she

660
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:09.920
is tell me that story. Yeah, she is. I wonder she's pissed

661
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:15.760
at you. Literally, no,
I take it back. I opened it

662
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:21.239
on Christmas Eve and I shot her
on Christmas Day. You have the short

663
00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:22.880
lived with that gun. It was
gone. It was gone. And the

664
00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:27.760
good thing about it is my mom
took the gun and didn't tell my dad

665
00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:30.480
that i'd done. Of course,
and somehow my sister never told me,

666
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:32.039
you may not be here. I
would not be here. I would I

667
00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:36.920
would not be here. Yeah,
no, one hundred percent. Because that

668
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.239
was his little girl. She was
she was like five or four, and

669
00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:44.440
you did it purposely. She had
skinny little legs. I'm not sure.

670
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:47.480
I'm not sure how I was.
It was just for talking practice. Didn't

671
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:50.280
want to shoot his own eye out, so he said, you know,

672
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:52.039
I got to use this thing.
She was not on his fantasy team,

673
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:54.920
so I can that wasn't. The
thing is it was a lucky shot,

674
00:44:55.239 --> 00:45:00.599
okay, because I'd been we were
shooting at cans and bottles. I hadn't

675
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:02.599
hit anything. And then like she's
jumping around, she's yelling her to make

676
00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:05.280
it and I'm said, I'm gonna
shot you, and she kept her on

677
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:15.480
shot her, you know, so
that that would have been my favorite gift

678
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:20.280
if I had had it longer.
I swear I never saw the TV gun

679
00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:22.960
again. I don't know if my
mom was able to take back or if

680
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:25.480
she said it on fire? Was
she pissed? Oh are you kidding me?

681
00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:30.800
She lost her mind? You're lucky
she was. She could have killed

682
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:35.239
me if she did. Well,
everybody knows about it, but nobody told

683
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:37.559
my dad. I don't. I
think my dad might have gone to his

684
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.639
grave not knowing that I shot her, which is probably a good thing for

685
00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:43.000
me as well, because if he
had have found out, if he had,

686
00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:45.840
if he still would have found out
when he was seventy, you still

687
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:50.639
would have kicked my ask would you
with him? Yeah, he would have.

688
00:45:50.679 --> 00:45:52.239
He would have said, yeah,
you know, you shoot my little

689
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:55.119
girl? Are you kidding me?
But but again, it was a lucky

690
00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:58.960
shot she had. She had like
you know, it's like one of his

691
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:02.079
pigs. I hate to use the
term. She had kind of chicken legs

692
00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:05.760
as a little girl. She was
knock kneed in the whole bed and I

693
00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:07.480
don't know how I hit her at
the thigh. I think she still has

694
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:15.320
a mark. You remember, it's
just a regular you know, kmart bb

695
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:17.239
gun man. I mean, you
know, back in the day, there

696
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:22.800
weren't very many choices. You just
got gumping. And I'm pretty sure my

697
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:24.800
mom was like, I'm not giving
you a bb gun. How old were

698
00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:28.400
you? I would have been nine
or ten? Yeah, I would have

699
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:30.639
been ten, ten years old,
And like I said, I hadn't hit

700
00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:35.599
anything all day. We lived behind
a convenience store over here on Park and

701
00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:38.119
Park and Bilbi. There's a convenience
sto right there. We lived right behind

702
00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:42.480
it, so there were all kinds
of cans and bottles and stuff that we

703
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:45.159
got out of their trash cans and
stuff to shoot at. And there was

704
00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:47.280
like a dirt lot next to him. So we were doing target practice and

705
00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:51.840
I didn't literally didn't hit a thing
until we were in the backyard and then

706
00:46:51.840 --> 00:47:00.559
a shot. Well there's there's something
to be proud of. It's it's still

707
00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:04.360
a family story, that's what it
really is. Pretty funny, Okay,

708
00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:08.760
So there you go. You asked, Yeah, well that's actually pretty funny

709
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:13.199
though. Okay, we got about
six minutes. Anybody want to call,

710
00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:16.840
We'll get a last minute mullet story. I guess Hey, let's talk about

711
00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:22.599
the show tomorrow. Jack Holl coming
on, a former Major leaguer, laid

712
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:24.440
at Pima, laid at the u
of A, got into the major leagues,

713
00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:30.599
played a bunch of years with the
Angels. Yet he got inducted in

714
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:35.039
PEMA College Sports Hall of Fame over
the weekend along with Gil Heredi, who

715
00:47:35.079 --> 00:47:37.920
was on our show yesterday. So, Jack Hal and I've talked about Jack

716
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:40.599
Hall being one of those guys who
just did the work right. I had

717
00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:45.360
a friend who was his age playing
high school baseball who basically said to me,

718
00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:49.280
I don't know how Jack Howell is
making it because he wasn't that good

719
00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:52.400
in high school. He was obviously
good enough for Rich all Day to bring

720
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:54.400
him in a Pima, sure,
and then and then he good enough for

721
00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:58.880
Jerry Kendall to get him to the
u of A. Then obviously good enough

722
00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:01.679
to get it and have a great
career. Right. Well, he comes

723
00:48:01.679 --> 00:48:07.519
from a very strong athletic family.
Yeah, his dad played basketball right right.

724
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:12.079
And then of all things, I
coached with his son Dallas at Saint

725
00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:15.639
Gregory. He was the baseball coach
Gregory when I was a smoer. So

726
00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:19.400
we would travel together to games.
Oh the girls and the guys played the

727
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.000
same school. Yeah, yeah,
just different fields. Yeah, because we

728
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:27.599
had to travel to you know,
Alfrida and Aho and you know places like

729
00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:31.000
that, so the teams would go
together. Mixon, Yeah, Mixen so

730
00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:35.880
and so he was the baseball coach
I was. I was the softball coach

731
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:38.920
or an assistant softball coach, I
should say, with Jim, with Jim

732
00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:45.639
know, with with vic Vicuna named
Vicacunya. We had fun. We had

733
00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:49.280
a lot of fun. So those
guy, he'll be on tomorrow at three

734
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:52.719
fifteen, and then we believe we're
waiting for confirmation of a U of a

735
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:58.639
basketball a man's basketball player tomorrow.
So we're not gonna say who it is

736
00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:01.079
because we're we haven't got confirmation of
it. But we were just waiting to

737
00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:04.760
make sure that that we're going to
get that guy right. And then on

738
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:07.480
Thursday, we're gonna have Donnie Salem
right, we're gonna talk to him.

739
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:10.320
I asked a couple of questions about
Gronk just there. He's very close to

740
00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:14.760
that family. Yeah, just kind
of being a tag along guy. Yeah,

741
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:16.760
and spending some time with that family
and how crazy it'd spent. I

742
00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:20.360
remember being there the day that he
got a scholarship. He was a walk

743
00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:22.559
on. Were you there? It
was the coaches right, remember where you

744
00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:25.920
know they were. Dick had got
the players on into practice and he announced

745
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.480
that Donnie, and it was that
whole celebration, right, everybody went crazy,

746
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:32.079
right, No, I remember,
And he's from Denver, I think

747
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:36.239
he was from Denver. Was very
tough dude, just a tough dude.

748
00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:39.320
He was a badass. One of
those moments in time, you know,

749
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:43.840
for me, didn't have a big
impact on me from the standpoint of you

750
00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:46.079
know, Donnie Salem here was a
guy, but for some reason. That's

751
00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:50.039
one of all the things that I
remember from those seasons, right, that's

752
00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:52.719
one of them. I remember in
his scholarship. Yeah, what a cool

753
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:55.239
deal that way, Yeah, that's
true. That And you know another one

754
00:49:55.360 --> 00:49:59.239
back in the day is was I
don't know if you went to the to

755
00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:04.679
remember we to go back to the
the team posts, the awards ceremonies.

756
00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:07.920
I don't met the Hill and I
can't remember what but Cedric Cedric and he

757
00:50:07.960 --> 00:50:13.920
was giving the wards out and Cedric
talked about Anthony Smith. Anthony Smith and

758
00:50:14.039 --> 00:50:16.719
his you know you guts familiar and
remember any Smith is and he said,

759
00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:21.039
because he came from Alabama pretty much
had nothing in blah blah blah. And

760
00:50:21.079 --> 00:50:24.159
he says the one said the saying, The one advice I got from Anthony

761
00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:27.920
is you can always live without hope. Oh you can, you could,

762
00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:30.599
You could always. You can never
live without water. You can always live

763
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:34.199
without water and food, but you
can never live without hope. Given his

764
00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:37.000
situation, and then we all know
what happened to Anthony Smith. He became

765
00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:40.800
a first round draft. Let's just
say, some big, big trouble.

766
00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:45.000
But one of those guys, it
was very big and very intimidating, obviously

767
00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:47.199
very very very very good at what
he did. And it was at the

768
00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:51.639
time of the Singletons and and and
and that group. You know. I

769
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:57.360
I interviewed him for the sort of
the consummate Anthony Smith profile, right,

770
00:50:57.559 --> 00:50:59.800
and you could get a guy alone. Yeah, And we went and sad

771
00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:02.079
it's seats of McHale. Good dude
too, though, he very good seats

772
00:51:02.119 --> 00:51:06.119
at McHale. And he started talking. He started talking about his past.

773
00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:08.360
I could tell he's getting really mad. And he might kill me right now.

774
00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:10.800
Yeah, but he was what he
said he was. He was opening

775
00:51:10.840 --> 00:51:15.679
about a lot of that stuff.
Yeah, very very back and back then,

776
00:51:15.719 --> 00:51:19.559
a very just humble guy, you
know, spoke Yeah, but again

777
00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:22.360
got in some big, bad trouble. Right, let's just say he's in

778
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:25.280
prison right now. But unfortunately,
but Donnie sailing from that from that group

779
00:51:25.320 --> 00:51:30.000
of guys, you know one you
know, the toughest defenses that you can

780
00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:34.320
argue that you have ever had.
Right, that was the beginning eighties,

781
00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:37.360
the beginning in the nineties. Right, well, you know what I try

782
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:40.400
to try, Well, he hasn't
responded mcduf. I'm trying to reach out

783
00:51:40.440 --> 00:51:44.960
again. So you know, kind
of the beginning of the of the year

784
00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:47.840
what became desert dessert swarm, right, because we covered him in eighty eight

785
00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:52.000
and eight the ninety and you were
out right and then you know, like

786
00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:55.320
the fastball, but it was that
start, right that start, and that's

787
00:51:55.360 --> 00:52:00.760
where Dick was building those defenses that
were just crazy good. So Donnie Salem

788
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:06.079
will come up and then again we
are off on Friday. Steve's got a

789
00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:08.639
head out of town. I've got
stuff to deal with this weekend, and

790
00:52:08.679 --> 00:52:10.800
so we just took that Uportune.
We're going to take a day off on

791
00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:14.920
Friday, so Thursday will be our
last show, and we hope we'll be

792
00:52:14.960 --> 00:52:16.599
everybody back on Monday. We'll be
talking about that. Purduers on a game,

793
00:52:16.599 --> 00:52:19.840
all right, purdueers on a game. I'm not gonna be here for

794
00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:22.480
Wednesday, going to the Phoenix game, uh, you know, Alabama game,

795
00:52:23.679 --> 00:52:27.880
and then Friday again with the biggest
game. I will be here on

796
00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:30.760
yeah, if you insist. Yeah, you'll have a good show with the

797
00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:36.639
kids. You're gone too, Yeah, you're gone. You're going to the

798
00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:39.000
game in Phoenix. Yeah, okay, all right, I guess on radio,

799
00:52:39.039 --> 00:52:40.960
they really don't know who I'm talking
to you. Yeah, exactly,

800
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:45.039
Like okay, Kevin's like pointing at
you. Okay, No, good show,

801
00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:47.239
guys, all righty, good show. Thanks for you. Kind of

802
00:52:47.239 --> 00:52:51.639
get it, you kind of see
yeah, I kind of get it in

803
00:52:51.719 --> 00:52:55.159
high school just a little bit.
Yeah, all right, carry the two

804
00:52:55.239 --> 00:53:02.760
minus the one, all right,
all right, and then take us out.

805
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:06.840
Let's get out of here where.
We'll be back tomorrow again. Jack

806
00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:08.760
Hall, Jaye and Bradley will be
here. But I just said it right.

807
00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:13.239
We're hoping to get him, so
I just I just spilled it.

808
00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:20.079
Okay, all right, we'll see
you tomorrow because Cat, I'm gonna have

809
00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:22.679
a good samp holding in that set
the box in the Atlanta Sass. I'm

810
00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:27.199
gonna get loose. She's on fire
and he's so fun.