WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:07.559 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jagon Zalas on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:13.960 fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure Your Most Prized Possessions, Kat 3 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:18.760 c R two SAD and iHeartRadio Station. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. 4 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:22.000 Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Yes, 5 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:27.280 I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jagan Zauce. We have Kevin in today. It's 6 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:32.920 not Mick Mouse. I'm sorry. It's still for Friday. You go's got 7 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:35.679 nothing left. I know it hasn't got any better. I did take some 8 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:39.000 allergy pills, so it's getting a little bit a little bit better. A 9 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.159 couple over the weekend. I can barely talk, which is good for people. 10 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:46.200 But welcome to Monday. We'll try to get through this. I'm fine, 11 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:49.759 I'll get right through this. I'm good. Sorry, folks, you'll 12 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:54.200 probably have to listen to more of Jay than me. Please stay tuned for 13 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.880 us anyway. Kevin, Yeah, no go, yeah, no go, 14 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:02.320 So it goes. Busy weekend was yeah, a lot of victories for this. 15 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:04.000 Yeah. I went to I went to two of the three uf A 16 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:07.719 baseball games. Yeah, that did really well. Saw a couple of wins, 17 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.280 and they had another walk off yesterday, and then the women swept softball 18 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:17.359 swept ASU, so things are going pretty well. And and and what and 19 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:21.760 PMA College, Yeah, twenty six in a row, FEMA College softball, 20 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:23.200 twenty six in a row. We're gonna blow them. Behold. Yeah, 21 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.920 we're gonna have their coach, Rebecca KOs who's going to join us today to 22 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:30.599 talk about that. I've been avoiding suggestion her as a guest because I didn't 23 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:34.159 want to just blow the blow the streak. Right. Guess what? Yeah, 24 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:37.439 well we couldn't wait anymore, right, how I mean, how long 25 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.040 are we going to wait? If they keep winning games? So we got 26 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:42.480 to get on here and talk about that. They won the national title. 27 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.159 Yeah, so we'll have her back at that happen. Yeah, twenty six 28 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:49.319 straight softball games for PEMA sop right, So that's great. And then the 29 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:52.239 first time we're gonna have Cody Ritchie, a good friend of ours, a 30 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:55.120 good friend of mine for a long time. Wanted to talk to him about 31 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:59.799 the Heath Pray Foundation or the they're going to develop a scholarship scholarship. Yeah, 32 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:01.000 in addition to that, I said, don't be surprised if we have 33 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:07.280 other questions. I wanted to ask him about about fatigue. Yeah, and 34 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:10.120 I think he'll be willing to talk to us about that and more, you 35 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:13.319 know, because he's been a big boat booster for a time, a big 36 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:16.360 booster personally as well as through his company, Yeah, quest Insurance. So 37 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:22.039 you know, there's gotta be a lot of pressure on on on those people 38 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:25.719 all the way around. In fact, in fact, I ran into m 39 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:29.719 Bertot the golf thing that you sent me to, and I said, we 40 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:31.039 gotta you know, thanks for coming on the show. I was excited, 41 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:34.199 he says. He says, look at me. He says, We're gonna 42 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:37.360 wait till the simmers down. If you want to be back, you're gonna 43 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.280 wait till the simmer stuff. It. Guess what, it's never gonna simmer 44 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:43.280 down. It's not, at least not in not until they get this thing 45 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.360 fixed. It's not. And then there's so many other things, you know, 46 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:49.120 with you know, with the new a D, with the you know, 47 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:51.960 President Robbins, you're going to be leaving in the next year. So 48 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.240 I'm just just all kinds of you know, all kinds of stuff that affects 49 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:59.439 all of that right, So there's gonna be stuff going on all the time. 50 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:01.719 We're gonna play to talk about this summer. Yeah, okay, you 51 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:05.919 know we have to find something because it's kind of already is summer. It's 52 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.080 getting there. You know, we're running out of baseball and softball games. 53 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:14.960 I think baseball's got twelve more conference games. Softball's only got three. Then 54 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.319 they get into their tournament, so you know we're gonna be running out of 55 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:23.360 games to games to talk about. You still got a Track and Field Conference 56 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:29.759 championships plancy shields, and the tennis team won the PAC twelve regular season timely 57 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:35.840 one. I think they're tied for tempered Yeah. And then so there's there's 58 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.719 still plenty to do. What did the maybe you have some breaking news. 59 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:43.479 Did the gymnastics team get to the funal No, No, they were living 60 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:46.360 FoST weekend okay because that was but they got to regional. Yeah, they 61 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:49.919 got to a regional, but they didn't make it out of the first weekend. 62 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:52.919 Okay. So it's gonna be a variety of things for today's show. 63 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:58.159 Welcome back. We haven't heard anything with Tommy and recruits coming in. I 64 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:00.719 think everybody should wait and marinate on it until it happens. A lot of 65 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.000 people still going into the portal, right, has a lot of good names 66 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:09.240 to be out there to be chosen. And then football still a lot of 67 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:13.039 movement here. People come in and going. We talked about the kid from 68 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:16.319 Albuquerque or New Mexico, New Mexico kid, who's going to Texas. Where's 69 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:20.160 you go? Mississippi? Mississippi. He chose the running back. Yeah, 70 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:24.160 remember we talked about that last Friday. Well he was he he uh, 71 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:26.279 well that's right, Ole Miss. Yeah, he went to Ole Miss, 72 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:30.240 Ole Miss. And then somebody left today or last week made his decision. 73 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:32.399 Will wait for that, wait for that news. So a lot of things. 74 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:35.839 Anybody want to call and deal with my voice, please do too. 75 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:42.000 Oh four one six, seventy four forty. Hope to get over this yeah 76 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.439 soon. Yeah. But you know, went to those two games at at 77 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:48.279 at High Corbett with fun people. Yeah. Yeah, over four thousand, 78 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:54.800 both nights, both Friday and Saturday nights. Beautiful nights out there. Uh. 79 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:59.000 You know a couple of good games, especially the Friday night to walk 80 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:00.560 out right. Well, the Friday night game was a walk off. The 81 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.040 Arizona was leading and most of the game, went into the ninth with a 82 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:08.199 five to three lead, gave it up where they were down seven to five, 83 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:11.079 and they scored three in the bottom of the in the bottom of the 84 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:15.199 seventh or ninth excuse me, with the with the help of just a routine 85 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:18.240 dropped fly ball and I heard them he just I mean, he got under 86 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:20.959 it and he had just hit the heel of his glove and he just dropped 87 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:26.399 it. And then Arizona scores three runs to win the and then they handled 88 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:30.040 him pretty well on Saturday. Then another walk off on Sunday, the women 89 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:34.639 the softball team had two walkoffs and a run rule. So but you know, 90 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:40.360 see we were because we were. I was explained to my daughter who's 91 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:44.000 just graduated from the UVA because she went with us. How you know at 92 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:47.680 Sanset Field, which for a while was a great facility, but how at 93 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:51.879 the end it just had died. Remember, and they were getting crowds of 94 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:57.240 six hundred, seven hundred. The concessions were terrible, the restrooms were terrible. 95 00:05:57.560 --> 00:05:59.639 It was just a bad place to go watch a baseball game. There 96 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:04.000 was no ship aid whatsoever, no atmosphere, no beer, most importantly, 97 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:06.480 and then all of a sudden, they just flipped it, you know, 98 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:12.319 flip this thing over, running over to High Corbett. It's a beautiful facility. 99 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:15.959 It's a major league spring training facility. You can you can have beer 100 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.720 out. They're getting crowds of four thousand every game. What do you think 101 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:23.079 is the number one reason why beer? No question? I think they've been 102 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:27.160 able to sell beer at Sunset? What do you think? And it wouldn't 103 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:30.439 been like this though, because the facility is much better. You also have 104 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:33.879 to kept buying some students. But this facility is much better. Here's the 105 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:40.040 thing, though, there were a lot of non students who go now who 106 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:44.480 wouldn't go at Sunset for parking and and you know, access to anyone of 107 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:46.839 a number of things. And then like you said, no shader, you 108 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:50.079 know, not you know, no chair, back seat. But I also 109 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:55.160 heard before I got here in the mid eighties that it was a rocking place 110 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:59.639 when it was at the time for a time you know, well into the 111 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:02.720 you know, well into the eighties, maybe early nineties, but really in 112 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:08.319 the early nineties it was the kind of fizzled out and and by you know, 113 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:09.959 when they moved it over there, man, all of a sudden, 114 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:12.759 they just gave the whole thing, you know, a burst svendery to the 115 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:15.720 point where a su did the same thing. They're over at Phoenix Municipal now, 116 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:17.560 yeah, you know they're not on there on their uh campus state. 117 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:23.560 What I do know now better than I do no, last cut around two 118 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:26.800 months ago, about six weeks ago, is that Chip Hail's a pretty good 119 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:29.879 coach. He's a pretty you know why I know that. No one's bitching 120 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:34.000 about it, you know anyway, well, especially in this time where they 121 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:36.480 bitch about the good ones too, right, right, but you know what 122 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:40.480 when they start to win people, Yeah, are they low? Don't talk? 123 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:44.560 Yeah? No, and Steve, they're good. I mean they're you 124 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:48.240 know, you watch it. They're fundamentally good. They do good fundamental things. 125 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:53.240 They're pitching. You know, I saw Clark Candiatti throw again. He 126 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:55.879 pitched, you know, he pitched really well. He's a Friday night guy, 127 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:58.279 right, No, he's the no, he's the Saturday Sunday he's the 128 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:01.480 second day guy. And you know he threw. He threw. I've seen 129 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:05.160 him throw twice on he's throwing. He threw really well both times. He 130 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:11.680 he looks the part, right, he's got the the the airport look of 131 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:16.519 a picture. Throws throw it right now. You know he's he's young, 132 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.759 but he throws in the low nineties and he's got a lot of good stuff 133 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.720 he's got. He's got some mean offspeed pitch offspeed stuff. He's fun to 134 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.920 watch, and you know he pitches. He's Here's the other thing though, 135 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:31.120 another reason why people are going. It's quicker, you know, the the 136 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:39.600 like they do and soft all the pictures where a wristband where the sign for 137 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:43.080 the pitch comes in on the wristband. It's how does that work? You 138 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.960 know? Somebody and somebody in the doug, somebody in the dug has the 139 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:52.120 thing that I don't know what, I don't know if there I guess there's 140 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.960 a display because they look at maybe it's blinking lights or whatever, but there's 141 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.200 some sort of a display and that's the signal. So the catcher is not 142 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:03.399 even giving the signals anymore. So the game's quacker. The game on the 143 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:09.679 game on Saturday night two thirty seven, you know, I mean four hour 144 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:13.200 games were regular for college baseball, well especially if Jay Johnson was there. 145 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.399 Yeah, so you know, so you got you know, the games are 146 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:20.000 quicker. They're better. They move a little quicker, a lot more action, 147 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.039 a lot of fun to watch. It's it's a great night out there, 148 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:28.360 and the weather's you know over there now is just incredible a lot of 149 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:31.919 fun, especially at night, especially the night because the night time here mornings 150 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.360 and nights. And I think the last time I went to back to back 151 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:41.840 Arizona baseball games was twenty twelve when I went and saw them in the I 152 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:48.639 saw the series the super Regional that they yeah, that they hosted here and 153 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:50.519 they you know, they swept that into and I went both of those games. 154 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.480 I think it's the last time I went back to back. Maybe we 155 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.200 get lipas in here in a week or two before the playoffs started, but 156 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.960 you know there, they're fun. My grandson went on the second day and 157 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:05.679 one of the their director of ops gave him a baseball. That was cool. 158 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:09.080 So he walked out of the out of the stadium clutching the base. 159 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:11.399 Do you walk out or did he kind of like, well he got carried 160 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:13.840 out because he walked slowly. Well, I take it back. If he's 161 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.519 running, he's hard to catch, but if you're just trying to walk with 162 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:18.840 him, it takes a little bat. We carried him out, but you 163 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.600 don't cute kid. Yeah, y had his baseball. So that was a 164 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:24.279 lot of fun. So we had a good time, good, good, 165 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.039 good, Okay, and more games town out of town. I would guess 166 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.519 out of town this week because since they were home, but I know, 167 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.759 I know softball is out of town. That this last series was their last 168 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:37.879 you want to know series? You know how quick time flies? We talked 169 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:41.440 about it as we get older. I don't know does the time fly for 170 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:46.919 rest? Uh? Probably when Scooping was a freshman? Oh, we were, 171 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.039 we were here, so Bobby, Bobby had a big crush. That's 172 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.000 how four years went by that fast, that fast, because it was four 173 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.240 years ago she was playing, and he talked about her, you know, 174 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:00.639 on the the deal. He was, yes, four years from now, 175 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.399 she's going to be gone. Yeah, I mean here and there. Yeah, 176 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.600 goes by fast, It does, it does. But you know again, 177 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:09.080 she's starting to turn out be a really good player. Local kid. 178 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:13.960 So a lot of a lot of locals on both teams, on both softball 179 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:16.320 and baseball. A couple of home he's playing, you know, on the 180 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:22.960 baseball team. I can't even think of their names. Now, but the 181 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:26.679 catchers that you know, he's good to really good. Sorry, he can't 182 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:33.480 get him his name that got upsets nineteen seventy two is very clear to you, 183 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:37.879 yesterday is not. Yeah, that that really upsets me that I can't 184 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:41.399 think of his name right now. I'm like, I'm offended by myself. 185 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:45.080 Yeah, I don't know anybody on that roster. So so you're on. 186 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:50.639 You're on your own, Immedia. Corona is one of the guys, the 187 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:54.440 catcher. What you say it is the catcher because because Chip talked about him? 188 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:56.120 Yeah, who's mom? That's it? That's it. No, you 189 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:58.559 don't talk about Michael Love talked. I can't think of his first name. 190 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:05.799 Donna's booth, which is a great name. Upset. Yeah, you know 191 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.120 what, I'm going home. I'm surprised you don't my name. Surprised you 192 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:13.600 know my name? Pretty sure? You say Kevin? Hey, I did. 193 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.440 I did say to my daughters, what's your name? I'm sure you 194 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:20.759 call them all their names? But who doesn't. Who's always I do that 195 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:22.120 with my kids? Yeah, I was. I was the fourth of four 196 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:26.919 boys, and my mom always had to work her way down when except if 197 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:31.080 I was in trouble when I was in trouble. She got my name right 198 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:35.919 out of the box, right so, and it was my formal first name, 199 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:39.759 not even you know, my legal first name, not even my my 200 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:46.480 nickname. Have loud, have you get your stuff back here? Okay, 201 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.639 okay, he yah. We got two minutes and then we're gonna have d 202 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.480 Richie for about twelve thirteen minutes. We'll talk some booster stuff with him, 203 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:58.440 and then the scholarship did the putting together in Heath Bray's name, which is 204 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.519 a great, great thing. It's awesome. You know, you know you're 205 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:05.519 somebody when you kick and people do stuff like that for the impact, you 206 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:09.399 had the impact, right, you start to you know, and maybe sometimes 207 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:13.320 you don't realize you're having that impact when you're around, but you know, 208 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:18.519 your family get gets to see, you know, what you meant to a 209 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:20.240 lot of people. Sure, that's a really cool thing for heat Sure and 210 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:24.320 his family. Yeah, and the kids probably are very proud of that too, 211 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:30.200 obviously. Okay, let's go. Let's let's thirteen after we can run 212 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:31.639 that, right, Let's get it, and then we'll get at about three 213 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:33.799 minutes. Okay, we'll take our break. 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Go to azpest dot com to schedule your free evaluation today. 286 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.880 Breaking down all the exes at ohs. It's Steve Rivera and Jagen Salmons. 287 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:57.880 This is I on the par on Fox Sports fourteenth fifty. Hey, 288 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:02.160 welcome back to one of them all here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, 289 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:06.720 He's Jay Now unful. We have Cody Ritchie from christ Insurance and a 290 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:10.400 big UA booster, a guy everybody loves in this town. Cody. How 291 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:12.960 are you hi, Steve? Hi? Jay? Doing well for our Monday? 292 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:15.079 Yeah? Good good. We want to talk to you about a lot 293 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:21.839 of different things, but most importantly about the Heath Bray Foundation or whatever you're 294 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:25.839 calling it with him. But that's very big. We think it's very big. 295 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:30.039 Well, thank you. I mean I think everybody a lot. I 296 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:34.160 know both of you guys knew Heath and a ton of people who've been around 297 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:37.839 since the early nineties. No, Heath, and he was a heck of 298 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:42.680 a guy. He touched every demographic group. We talked about this a couple 299 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:47.160 of weeks ago, but we decided to set up an endowment for Heath because 300 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:52.319 he just he represented everything that was great about you know, the University Arizona 301 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:56.880 and a guy played both ways, came from North Carolina across the country, 302 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:03.039 was an ultimate team guy. And in the same age we passed around, 303 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:04.839 you know, doing something with the nil, and most of us who are 304 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:11.240 contributing to it work with the NIL to begin with. But an endowments stands 305 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.359 to test the time, and we thought it was the best way to honor 306 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:18.079 his his his legacy. I can send you a link to it, Steve, 307 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:22.079 that maybe you could send out to your listeners afterwards. But the goal 308 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:26.319 is to get one hundred thousand dollars. We're already halfway there after just a 309 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:30.759 couple of days and then being perpetuity to on a number fourteen heats bray. 310 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:37.079 So how exactly or have you guys decided how exactly this will be. This 311 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:41.880 will be used, you know, as a scholarship or what it's going to 312 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:48.880 be a scholarship. It'll be a scholarship. They'll more than likely be awarded 313 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:52.839 to like a preferred walk on, which there are a lot of these days, 314 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:56.720 right you know, you know today's walk ons are completely different than you 315 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:00.839 know, yesteryear's walk on. So, uh, that's what that sort of 316 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:07.279 the planned for that and we're modeling after we set one up a couple of 317 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:11.079 years ago for a gentleman who is well known here to so named Armando Rios 318 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:15.079 and j you probably need, right, and we set one up for him 319 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:21.000 because Armando was a walk on here and kind of the guidelines that gave the 320 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:26.559 football program, which because it's a really worthy individual. So ironically enough, 321 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:32.880 last year's winner was recipient was Irbie, the defensive back to the young guy 322 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:37.279 from LA who played such a pivotal part in the almable right right, right, 323 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:45.119 So so one hundred thousand dollars is the is the is the target? 324 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:49.960 How much will that be annually? Do you think in a scholarship? Well, 325 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:52.960 whatever a scholarship costs. But yeah, the one hundred thousand dollars, 326 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.720 we wanted to try to you know, blow that out of the water because 327 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:00.240 then you know they might be able to do a second or third with that. 328 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:06.519 And so one hundred thousands just so the interests well fund, you know, 329 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:10.480 in perfectduty so you don't have to really drive right right, No, 330 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:12.599 that's great, that's great. Who came up with us if you can tell 331 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:17.799 us who, well it was it was a group of us. But you 332 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:23.160 know myself a guy named a former player here named bo Ralph up in Phoenix 333 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:26.839 area who's a wonderful guy. I never really knew Bo because he's younger than 334 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:32.000 me, but of course he's another guy that I've been connected to through Heath. 335 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:36.839 And then Bo was talking to type partner Donnie Salem and all those people 336 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:41.519 that the first person I called UH to ask was Jim Klick And and he's 337 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:45.000 just said how much he needs and you know, you know how he is, 338 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:48.160 right, it's unbelievable. Yeah, no, Well, you know, 339 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:51.599 when it comes to stuff like this, though, you know, the community 340 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:55.359 really always always steps up with a guy like Heath, who you know, 341 00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:59.079 just you just knew he loved the u of A. And and you know, 342 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:00.920 I know he was living in Phoenix, but you know, you knew 343 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:04.640 that this place meant a lot to him. You know, he talked about 344 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:08.519 how much of his success he owed to you know, the experience he had 345 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:12.240 down here. And when guys like that, you do that and say that 346 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:15.319 people appreciate that, and that's all you can ask for, because you know, 347 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:19.200 we just in the last couple of shows, actually we've talked about so 348 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:23.000 many of the guys who have stayed connected to the u A, whether they 349 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:27.640 still live here or just are involved like Heath was. You know from a 350 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:30.839 distance, and there's so many guys like that, and you haven't you have 351 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:34.200 to have an appreciation for that. Well, I can tell you from being 352 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:40.119 here now since nineteen eighty seven. You know, Heath Lamont on Ley. 353 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:42.559 You know those guys, they're the ones that have kept everything. And of 354 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:45.519 course I never played here. I just a fan here, Yeah, but 355 00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:48.279 I just I've been here a long, a long long time. And Heith 356 00:23:48.359 --> 00:23:52.200 worked with me for a couple of years. And you know, whether you 357 00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:55.759 played on the team or just a fan of the team, or you met 358 00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:59.359 these guys in business, or you know, I'll run into Lamont a quick 359 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:03.960 trip all the time. But he's he's he'd loved being up in the valley 360 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:07.440 where he ran in a bunch of the sun Devil people. And he would 361 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:11.960 never be shy to tell him that he was a red and blue guy. 362 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:15.920 Yeah, no question. He came on about eighty eight, ninety. I 363 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:18.359 think you were still a young man. Do you remember. Do you have 364 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:21.920 any memories from back in the day. In fact, we met in the 365 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:27.160 back then too, Yeah, you know, I remember. And when we're 366 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:32.240 having his service made the third up in at Bow's house up up in Scott's 367 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:36.720 or Phoenix. And one of the things that I was tasked to do was 368 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:40.319 to talk about this endowment. But one of the things I was going to 369 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:44.720 talk about, and Donnie Taylor and I were talking about this. Everybody remembers 370 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:48.160 the first time that met he, you know, I met the Green Dolphin 371 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:52.079 playing pool, you know, Yeah, And but I remember he was playing 372 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:56.720 at the time, and he was a special team player, and he was 373 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.559 just a maniac. I cut from the you know, the Chuck Cecil mold 374 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:03.680 where he would sacrifice his body and he was the wedge breaker. So his 375 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:07.160 first year he was a special team kind of like, you know, recovered 376 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:11.839 fumbles. I think he had a fake kick extra point for a touchdown that 377 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:17.480 year. Then his sophomore and junior year he bulked up to play linebacker, 378 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:22.359 and then his senior year was quarterback against Miami when they pulled off almost the 379 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:26.079 greatest upset in the history of college football. Ye where they almost upset Miami 380 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:29.440 in that fifty game winning string. And oddly enough, I think I told 381 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:32.319 you guys on the last time he had gone when he came to work with 382 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:34.559 me for a couple of years. One time he had a visit at our 383 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:41.400 office. It was Gino Torretta. Yeah, and Gino I saw a thing 384 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:45.839 on Twitter where he said something to the effective like Heath was the toughest guy 385 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:49.720 the dolphmate Warrior that I ever played against. Yeah, yep, yep, 386 00:25:49.799 --> 00:25:55.920 yep. Okay, anything else with it regard to the endowment, Yeah, 387 00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:59.039 well, how do people contribute to this? Where do they go? Well? 388 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:03.079 I played something my social media page universey Arizona. There's a heat Ray 389 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:07.319 Endowment at the University Arizona. And again, if I could Steve after the 390 00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:11.079 show, I'll send you something and maybe you could put it up on your 391 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:15.920 on your website or your I'll give it to my my social media guy, 392 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:21.440 that would be me, that would be you're good at it, Just shoot 393 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:23.759 it over and we'll we'll definitely get it put it put up on our our 394 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:29.759 Facebook and h and Twitter pages. Okay, thank you. I very much 395 00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:33.039 appreciated. I know his family and cool. You know. The really cool 396 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:37.960 thing is is Coach Brennan invited his son to be a preferred walk on here 397 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:41.920 and his kid was really good. Just had to get his grades up. 398 00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:47.799 I mean, he's he's he's in my mind, the type of kid. 399 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:51.559 He's just like his dad, and he and he and he and he waited 400 00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:53.279 his turn at some world High School, which is a perennial powerhouse up there 401 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:57.279 in the valley. He didn't transfer, Heat went on transfer and he's going 402 00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:03.039 to be the ultimate team guy, just like like his father if he came 403 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:04.400 here. Yeah. In fact, I just google that. People can google 404 00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:07.160 and find it. I know we have it up on all sports twosun dot 405 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:10.960 com. Jay have put it up on ours definitely, so you'll have a 406 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:14.880 variety of ways to find it pretty easy. Thank you. And and you 407 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:18.079 know five dollars tend when anybody can give, would be just very much appreciative. 408 00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:22.559 Okay, let's talk real quick. We have about seven minutes to talk 409 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:26.559 about other things. What do you think, Well, you're a big guy 410 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.559 at the u of A, and you've been very very consistent and very loyal 411 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:36.480 to the UA program even though you're not a lum. Why is that you 412 00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:38.799 know? What's your connection? Well, I am an alum. I got 413 00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:41.400 my master's degree at the U of A. I came down here about the 414 00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:45.759 time I met you, Steve, and I actually interned over at that FLIC 415 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:49.039 department. So my dream was to be a college afflet director. So I 416 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:53.079 came down worked for the Wildcat Club, did a bunch of various, you 417 00:27:53.119 --> 00:28:00.119 know, just odd jobs for them at the time when Ted kiss All and 418 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:03.480 Tom Sanders were down there, and Judy Kessler, who's still there, was 419 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:08.640 my supervisor. We laugh about that all day, all the time. But 420 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:14.000 I didn't end up pursuing a career in sports, although I did a little 421 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:17.720 stint over there with the Tucson Toros. And every time I see Mike, 422 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:22.559 he reminds me to remind people that I used to work for mister Mike State. 423 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:25.599 Or were you a Touro? Were you at the Toro one time? 424 00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:27.240 Did you wear the head? No? No, no, no no. 425 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:32.200 I was never the Toro. But they'll take up the remaining six minutes we 426 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:36.319 have. But there was a famous deal Steve Well, you don't remember where 427 00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:41.400 Mike had that the dash for cast when Tuffy would get on second base and 428 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:45.640 the other person start at home plate, and it was a progressive jackpot. 429 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:49.160 And one day it was up to a thousand bucks and Tuffy was walking home 430 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:53.400 and some kid just piled drove him like a Chuck Cecil hit and uh, 431 00:28:53.839 --> 00:28:57.000 it made national News it was playing here on CNN. Do you remember that, 432 00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:00.400 I do very much. Yes. Two weeks later, the San Diego 433 00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:04.519 Chicken came into town and it was the talk of the mascot world. Everybody 434 00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:08.640 was talking about and and Ted Gianolas is the San Diego Chicken. He was 435 00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:11.920 asking Mike about it, and he said, I have an idea. Let's 436 00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:15.839 recreate it. Have tuck for you walk out to second base, pull a 437 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.519 hamstring and there's like a ten thousand people that game and Mike, you said, 438 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:26.240 people on Morning Track, And Mike said, tonight you're racing Toffy And 439 00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:27.720 I'm like, seriously, people have to watch me run in from you know, 440 00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:33.160 like it's embarrassing enough. So we recreated it to where I caught the 441 00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:37.559 chicken between third base and home tackled them, and he wrestled me, and 442 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:42.559 then and then all the mascots, Chester, the Cheeto, the Red Baron, 443 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:47.759 Tuffy himself on crutches, they all just promptly beat the crap out of 444 00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:51.400 it, you know. Yeah, So that was the last time my sports 445 00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:56.240 career. Well, you've done very well since then. So just how difficult 446 00:29:56.359 --> 00:30:00.000 is it being a booster these days? Given you know, everyone's asking you 447 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:04.440 contribute to the program, to contribute to basketball women's blah blah blah. It 448 00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:08.200 must be tough. And now nil and now inn al well, can I 449 00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:14.240 do a little sameless plug anybody and anybody who has a reason and it can 450 00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:18.640 and wants to buy insurance from us, please do because we're the hometown guys. 451 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:23.839 And honestly, at this point, it's tough because we start out, 452 00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:26.920 you know, at one point, just a season ticket holder, and then 453 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:30.960 you've become a sponsor, and then you become a donor, and now you 454 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:36.440 have nil and on top of nil, you have these coaches subjects that you're 455 00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:41.680 asked to contribute to you and it gets it gets very difficult. And it's 456 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:45.279 telling Steve when we were talking pre show that sometimes it'd be fun just to 457 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:49.039 be a fan from Sierra Vista who just loves the university and comes the game 458 00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:53.720 and nothing's expected out of you, and you know, and ninety nine percent 459 00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:59.400 of the people are so thankful and gracious and the university is, but there's 460 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:03.200 always that one person who's like, how come you're not given more? And 461 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:07.640 it's just it is tough, but we'll gladly do it, you know, 462 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:12.400 to the best of our ability. Cody, this is a question that you 463 00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:17.400 know, everybody has their reasons about why, you know, they support a 464 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:19.960 program. Is it because I went there, or I put my kids through 465 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:23.200 there, or you know, I'm just you know, I want to be 466 00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:26.279 a big part of the community. I want to contribute to this. But 467 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:29.119 you know, at some point there has to be a little bit of a 468 00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:33.200 return. You know, for you what what is it for you? What 469 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.240 what do you get out of this when you're when you either you personally or 470 00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:41.400 your company is putting money into the athletic programs at Arizona. Well, I 471 00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:44.920 don't know. I'm a big r o I guy, and I don't know 472 00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:48.559 if one hundred percent we get our ro I back. However, the feel 473 00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:55.039 good, it feels good to help out, and the athletic department has been 474 00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:59.960 very good as far as appreciating you and you know, doing nice little things 475 00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.839 for you. However, you know, I go back to where you know, 476 00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:07.480 my wife's a native born and raised here. My kids, a couple 477 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:10.279 of them went to school here. Probably more than half of the people I 478 00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:14.119 work with went to school here, and not only here, in two somebody 479 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:16.960 in Phoenix too. The people that work with up in Phoenix, and I 480 00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:21.240 mean it's brought great joy to me over the years. I was there with 481 00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:24.599 my boss, Bob Mueller and Birmingham when we beat Kansas and I was at 482 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:27.839 the leap. I was fortunate enough to be at the leap of the lake. 483 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:31.240 And so a few years ago for me personally, I felt like there 484 00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:37.279 was apathy. And during the Kevin Summlan years, a lot of people had 485 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:40.079 stopped giving and just stopped caring, and I was one of them. And 486 00:32:40.119 --> 00:32:42.839 I was like ashamed of myself, and I'm like, you know what, 487 00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:45.079 I'm gonna jump back in and contribute how I can. And by the way, 488 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:49.440 there's some people who are way higher up the food chain than I am. 489 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:52.920 But we do the five different tiers, you know. We do the 490 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:57.400 coach attention, we do the nil, we do the you know all the 491 00:32:57.440 --> 00:33:00.799 other stuff I talked about. But you're Jay, at a certain point of 492 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:06.079 time, one is enough enough and other people need to step up. You 493 00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:08.440 know. I went to a basketball game this year. I'm not gonna name 494 00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:14.160 names, but I saw these two guys at the game and I found out 495 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:17.319 to one of other guys at work that they had decided to move to somebody 496 00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:21.839 outside of Tucson, and that's their right, that's they're one hundred percent they're 497 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:24.720 right, But I don't know if they're strategically thinking that. You know, 498 00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:28.839 if we all do business with the hometown guys. Paul Volti over there, 499 00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:32.920 you know at Volti Mortgage. I mean, he's incredible, and you know, 500 00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:37.359 people should be calling him and doing business with him, and and all 501 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:39.599 the way down the line, doctor Rosen. You know, just a ton 502 00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:45.079 of different people, and but it takes a village. It takes all of 503 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:50.039 us to to make this thing work. And you know, Jay, you're 504 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:52.440 native of here, and Steve, you moved here about the same time I 505 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:57.839 did. We're not we weren't the University of Washington. We are not USC 506 00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:00.960 But in my opinion, I think we're better than they are because we're a 507 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.559 big, small community. And I think finally, you know, as a 508 00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:09.559 fan, our head coach is chif Hale, Edia, Uh, Tommy and 509 00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:15.360 now Brent Brennan. I think they're they're they're kind of have a reflection of 510 00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:19.320 our of our fan base, which is pretty cool. Yeah, very much 511 00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:23.400 so, lebbe the last quick question we talk about fan or booster fatigue. 512 00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:28.519 You talk to a lot of these people even without giving too much away. 513 00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:32.280 I'm sure you hear that all the time from your buddies. Yes, yeah, 514 00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:35.840 I I do. I do. And you know, like what I 515 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:38.199 tell a few of them is like, listen, and some of the guys 516 00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:44.440 they've done the nil collective guys have done a really good job, and a 517 00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:46.400 lot of them are kind of new to this, and it's kind of like 518 00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:51.679 the song Hotel California. You know, you can never leave, and so 519 00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:53.400 you gotta be careful. You got to. You got to give to what 520 00:34:53.440 --> 00:35:00.280 your your your capacity is you you have to. We got to get ROI 521 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:02.360 right. I mean if they're winning, it's going to be great. But 522 00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:06.760 what happens if we if we're losing, it's like political donations, you're gonna 523 00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:09.840 stop giving. Yeah, So yeah, I mean that's there. There is 524 00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:14.920 some fatigue, but at the same token, at the same time, what 525 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:19.800 I'm hearing is a few of our mega donors that were kind of sitting on 526 00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:22.400 the sidelines or are dipping their toes back in with the U of A. 527 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:28.760 And that's really encouraging, because you know, we're only as good as if 528 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:30.840 everyone is contributing. And it kind of goes back, like to the heath 529 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:37.159 and downment. If somebody can't afford you know, a thousand or ten thousand, 530 00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:40.239 one hundred thousand or a million dollars, give fifty, give twenty five, 531 00:35:40.920 --> 00:35:45.079 and and and that helps out too. Thank you go to these always. 532 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:47.840 Cody, thanks a bunch, man. I appreciate all that. All 533 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:54.039 right, great day, great week. But you know, he's really you 534 00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:57.639 know, and and Cody's in the middle of that. And and the perfect, 535 00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:00.559 the perfect thing about Cody and that conversation was that you're right, he's 536 00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:04.800 not the you know, he's not the mega donor who's just got falling money 537 00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:07.159 raining down on him. He's the guy who's here in business. You know. 538 00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:10.800 Yes, he's got a great business and he's I'm sure he's doing very 539 00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:15.519 well, but you know, the demands, the asking that's going on out 540 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:17.760 there, man, it's got to be well. I know, I know 541 00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:21.480 this song is not that big of a town, right, it's a big 542 00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:23.679 time, but it's not darn many of them. And I'm sure you can 543 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:28.679 name him, right, you can play the name, and eventually I can't 544 00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:30.679 do it anymore. Yeah, I mean I was looking, you know, 545 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:31.639 looking when I was at the at the ballpark, you know, I was 546 00:36:31.639 --> 00:36:35.280 looking out on the at the field, and you know, looking at the 547 00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:38.159 signs on the outfield fence, and you know, seeing who's out to the 548 00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:43.480 Nova Home Loans and banner, and you know, and all these all these 549 00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:46.760 companies and organizations, and you know, you just you see them everywhere. 550 00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:50.559 You see them at Arizona Stadium, right, you see him at Kale, 551 00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:52.840 you see him at High Corbet, you see him at Hillim. Right. 552 00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:58.880 They're doing a lot and they're still not ever sure enough. All right, 553 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:00.400 let's take our break. Where to come. 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Here a 594 00:39:55.559 --> 00:40:00.239 Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay Coup Kevin with the for 595 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:02.079 twelve and a half minutes. If you were trying to call, I think 596 00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:06.199 I may have seen it buzzing. I'm not sure I'm blinking. Please call 597 00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:09.039 back five two zero four one six seventy four forty I've got a text. 598 00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:14.719 Day. Really enjoys the Cody, Yeah, despite the voice, you know, 599 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:16.840 it really encourage people, you know, go find this. You know 600 00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:21.519 we're gonna post this this link as soon as we get it, you know, 601 00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:23.559 to to you know, contribute to this. It helps And as Cody 602 00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:27.079 said, five bucks, you know you've got five bucks, you got ten 603 00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:30.039 bucks. You know, whatever, it's gonna go to a good cause, 604 00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:31.840 it's gonna help with it's gonna help a kid in school, that's the that's 605 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:37.280 the one thing I think about the normal people who complain and should be fired 606 00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:42.719 and they're not playing well because they're not they're not contributing right to the nil, 607 00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:45.599 to the collective or whatever. And if you want to be part of 608 00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:50.760 success, you have to be part of the success, whether it's five, 609 00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:53.719 ten, fifteen, twenty dollars and yes, that may be a lot of 610 00:40:53.719 --> 00:40:58.800 money to you or not. But if it is, isn't and you can 611 00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:04.880 complain, here's your payoffs exactly exactly so you know, yeah, it'll give 612 00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:07.079 you a whole better feeling about yourself when you're yelling at the coach. Well, 613 00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:12.639 j you know, Jimmy, you you called the coach, he should 614 00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:15.280 be called him out. You should be fired. What have you contributed to 615 00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:17.039 the to the collection? Twenty bucks? Okay, then that was a twenty 616 00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:20.440 dollars rent. Yeah, there you go, twenty dollars rent. No, 617 00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:22.599 but but you know, and look and again, those of us who had 618 00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:27.559 a chance to know Heath Bray, you know, meet him, know, 619 00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:30.320 a regular guy on the show. What they're trying to do with this, 620 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:35.679 uh is in honor of a guy who is just just a good guy around 621 00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:38.119 around the athletic program. He meant a lot to the team back in the 622 00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:42.400 early nineties. He's had he had a successful career, he's got a good 623 00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:46.159 family. It's it's a shame that he's gone. Uh and you know, 624 00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:50.800 people should really, you know, help recognize, you know, how important 625 00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:53.119 he was to a lot of people. It'd be good if people would just 626 00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:57.920 go do that right and then we recall, please do we got ten minutes 627 00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:00.679 and then we're gonna have Kevin Would breaking news. Was a lot going on, 628 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:05.559 Yeah, we're finding we're finding a lot going on. But got the 629 00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:07.440 NBA. I watched a little, a little, not very much. There 630 00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:12.760 was only really one good one truly. The Thunder and the Pelicans was really 631 00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:15.239 the ly compelling one. I mean you had Anthony Edwards and KD going at 632 00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:19.719 it, which was compelling. But the game itself I don't think was played 633 00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:22.679 tonight, right the the Sun's Suns and the Sun, Yeah, the Sun's 634 00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:25.480 come back tomorrow. I think I'm a little ahead of of of our guy 635 00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:30.800 god what's his name? I just lost it from the Sons or Son's calor 636 00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:35.559 Howard Howard because he talked a lot of crap. Said, okay, call 637 00:42:35.599 --> 00:42:37.639 me back, well, you know, yeah, I mean, and funny, 638 00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:38.800 there's so many people who were saying, you know, the Suns are 639 00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:42.920 six seed. They're saying, well they should be, you know, they 640 00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:46.039 should win this series. Well, there's sixties, right, there're certainly not 641 00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:50.119 supposted based on what they did all year, right, because they were so 642 00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:52.599 inconsistent and that first game showed it. And then you have then you have 643 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:57.440 the seventy six ers who came through the play in they're they're the second favor 644 00:42:57.559 --> 00:43:01.719 to win the Eastern, right, and then all season long after you know, 645 00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:06.320 after they fired the Bucks coach and and Doc River steps in and all 646 00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:08.519 he's done is complain about how terrible they've been. There's the three Seed. 647 00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:10.719 I mean, if you if you listen to Doc Rivers, it sounds like 648 00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:15.320 they hostage. Hostage. You have to the three Seed. It's not like 649 00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:19.159 they're you know, their crap. That's what I'm doing. I'm doing my 650 00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:27.880 uh yeah, I watched some of it, some of it. I you 651 00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:30.320 know, my son was over for dinner esday, so we had that, 652 00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:34.559 we had the games on that were on uh late yesterday afternoon. But you 653 00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:37.199 know, to me, it's still like it's got to get a little further 654 00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:40.719 in the PLAYFFS for me to really start. You're for a lot of people 655 00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:44.880 that feeled that way. You know, although you know I did get asked 656 00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:46.480 you you have something on this game? You have something on this game because 657 00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:50.119 you were watching. I didn't. Yeah, because I didn't, did you? 658 00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:53.079 Pinky promised that I can't. I can't. I didn't bet on any 659 00:43:53.159 --> 00:44:00.880 NBA this weekend. Smart, not at all, but a little bit, 660 00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:06.360 a little bit. Well, you know, this weekend for all three days 661 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:10.320 they had a DraftKings had a thing where if you bet a money line, 662 00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:15.599 take a money line bet. If your team goes up by two runs point 663 00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:17.079 in the game, you win the bet, whether or not they win the 664 00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:22.800 today. Well, I lost Friday and Saturday. But the Dodgers, yeah, 665 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:25.559 because he wanted to move them out yesterday. They was like, Okay, 666 00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:29.360 we're gonna score all these runs today. You know, you know, 667 00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:34.840 I don't want to fuel your fire and everybody in turn wisier. But they 668 00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:37.360 haven't been playing well, right, they have not. They lost seven of 669 00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:42.159 nine and then they won yesterday, so they had dropped a five hundred, 670 00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:45.599 so you know, they won yesterday, they got day off today they're back 671 00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:51.360 to on they go to Washington. Oh, speaking of, we're probably probably 672 00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:55.440 gonna go to the Dodgers Diamondbacks next Wednesday, sob okay, plan, I'm 673 00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:58.800 blowing out here a little early. I have a friend who's a pretty good 674 00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:01.480 Dodger fan, pretty big, and he doesn't like Roberts. He just doesn't. 675 00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:05.079 He doesn't think they'd get out of it. He gets enough out of 676 00:45:05.119 --> 00:45:07.280 them. Well, there's there's a lot of people have said that over the 677 00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:10.519 years, because you know, they've had they've had the rosters and the talent 678 00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:15.199 to win two or three World Series and they've won one. Yeah, you 679 00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:20.079 know, I mean last year getting swept by the Diamondbacks and the you know, 680 00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:24.880 in the divisional Series, that was just no, you know, I 681 00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:28.880 mean, I like Dave Roberts, I like him a lot, but I'm 682 00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:31.920 in agreement that that he hasn't he hasn't gotten them to where they need to 683 00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:36.719 get to. How long has he been there? They've had he's quite a 684 00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:38.800 few years, so he should have more than one, at least trips to 685 00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:43.360 the World before the one before they won the one in twenty twenty. They 686 00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:45.079 should have won two others. You know, they had the teams to win 687 00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:49.280 and didn't get there, and because he well they got cheated out of one 688 00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:53.239 by those damn crap ass will but head astro little take another seven minutes. 689 00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:59.119 So why do you think they keep him? Because he's a good guy and 690 00:45:59.239 --> 00:46:01.400 he's doing he's doing a pretty good job. They just haven't finished. So 691 00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:05.840 he's been there for nine years. Yeah, I mean, he's not done 692 00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:08.320 a bad enough job to be fired, don't you know? In my mind? 693 00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:10.920 And if he were fired, somebody would pick him up, and exactly 694 00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:15.760 he'd be a great coach somewhere else. He just hasn't won at all except 695 00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:20.760 for the one time. You know, it's kind of like and you know 696 00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:24.159 they're I mean they're great, they're really good every year and you know they've 697 00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:27.679 got a chance to do it. They just happened. And so I don't 698 00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:31.000 know, I I don't think in the end you say they haven't he hasn't 699 00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:35.039 done he hasn't been bad enough where oh this guy's doing a terrible job. 700 00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:37.679 He should be fired. But there are a lot of people who don't like 701 00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:43.079 how much he's gotten done because it hasn't been enough. And today's point, 702 00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:47.360 he's only gone under one hundred wins since he got there twice in one of 703 00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:52.000 those times, and that's excluding a COVID season. Yeah, but only the 704 00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:57.039 two pennants and one series to show forward as well. So yeah, yeah, 705 00:46:57.079 --> 00:47:00.239 so you know, uh, you know, I uh, I I 706 00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:01.599 like him. I think I think he's good for the Dodgers. I think 707 00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:05.920 he's a good guy. He seems like a guy that can run a team 708 00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:09.480 like this, who can handle the egos and the you know, the money 709 00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:13.480 players and stuff like that. But you know, it's it's always been one 710 00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:15.719 thing or another. You know, Clayton Kershaw, who it was horrible in 711 00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:20.280 the postseason until you know, he won a game in twenty twenty, won 712 00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:22.079 a World Series, and now he's been hurt a bunch, and you know, 713 00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:25.079 things like that. This year. There's no excuse with the money that 714 00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:30.960 they've spent for them to not you know, when all are come close to 715 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:32.480 it, but they're not. They're also not the favorites I thought they were. 716 00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:37.360 Yeah, maybe they are. I thought I was thinking of Atlanta, 717 00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:39.599 But you're right, I think they're favorite over. I just got my first 718 00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:44.679 text to beat l A. You know, he'll go away, He'll bill 719 00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:47.639 to go away. Did you get the same text. I'm not even looking, 720 00:47:47.639 --> 00:47:52.000 you know, get my phone's upside down, my iPad is upside down. 721 00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:55.280 I'm not even looking. But Bill can it's his figure prints? Yeah, 722 00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:59.719 oh yeah, absolutely absolutely, I get it. I get those routive 723 00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:07.280 relatively frequently. I don't think you'd get I know exactly. The Dodgers are 724 00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:10.320 still short favorites at plus three sixty, with the Brain is falling very short 725 00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:15.360 behind them at plus three seven. Of the Rangers the Rangers that I would, 726 00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:17.320 I would what is it to what the Rangers are plus fifteen hundred? 727 00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:21.719 What? What are the what the Dodgers? The Dodgers are plus three sixty? 728 00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:23.840 You should put some some corn on the three sixty. You're not gonna 729 00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:27.039 get a bit of price. In fact, it's gonna go smaller. I 730 00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:31.760 already did, Okay, would you get it at plus thirty five? Probably 731 00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:35.800 less than that. I don't remember. To eighty, I don't remember, 732 00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:37.719 because I'm sure this is down from what it used to be. I'd have 733 00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:42.280 to go back to the well, silly me thinking that you didn't put it. 734 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:50.719 This is this My voice is affected, my brain? Yeah, I 735 00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:52.400 should have done, should have The sun is up. I got money on 736 00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:55.360 the Dodgers. I mean, what the hell, it's two to one that 737 00:48:55.400 --> 00:49:00.440 you get up tomorrow, sun Rose. Today it's a good day to gamble 738 00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:02.800 some money. Yes, exactly, exactly. Okay, we've only got about 739 00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:07.239 three minutes. Anyway, We're gonna have Kevin four for breaking news. Then 740 00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:13.840 we're gonna go to mis Curroos. Rebecca knows the heads off. I'll coach 741 00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:16.960 at Pima. They won twenty six in a row. Uh, we're going 742 00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:20.679 to try to make sure that we're not the kiss of death on on that 743 00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:23.360 streak. We've already started this ball, I know, you know, if 744 00:49:23.400 --> 00:49:25.800 we do price, that's the presious coming on. Hey, let's take this 745 00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:30.000 call. Hi, you're on the air and on the ball. That's all 746 00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:34.960 this Jim, Hey, Jim, how are you good? Are you? 747 00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:39.960 Jim? Hey? You got about ninety seconds. The Dodgers managed their roster 748 00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:46.239 like there is no seven, eight and nine. He told me that too. 749 00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:52.320 But the guys, what do you mean by that? Their bullpen has 750 00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:55.159 let him down for five years? Oh yeah, yeah, I said the 751 00:49:55.159 --> 00:50:00.639 same thing, right. It killed him over the weekend a billion dollars getting 752 00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:06.039 hitters and pitchers, and they still haven't filled up that bullpen. Yeah, 753 00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:10.039 you're you're one hundred percent correct. I was losing my mind both on Friday 754 00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:15.800 and Saturday in those games against against the Mets. It was like, what 755 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:19.639 the hell are they doing? It was awful. Well, the bullpen comes 756 00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:24.800 into play probably forty to forty five percent of the innings they play. Yeah, 757 00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:28.280 and that's it. And they've been like that for a while. I 758 00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:30.719 mean, going back to those teams like that, you know that were really 759 00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:36.000 good, but they just didn't have the bullpen to to finish. You're right, 760 00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:38.519 they didn't. They couldn't shut people down, and so that's not day 761 00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:43.360 Roberts fault. Yeah, yeah, I agree you. And there's some guys 762 00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:47.000 throwing that. I'm like, who the hell is that one? I said, 763 00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:50.559 they bring some guys in from the bullpen. I'm like, who the 764 00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:52.760 hell is that? And where did they get that guy? You know? 765 00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:54.800 Yeah, I know, And it's crazy. It's crazy with all the other 766 00:50:54.880 --> 00:51:00.119 talent that they have, so to show, Heytani and then and then they've 767 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:07.840 got Larry, Larry the the handyman. So you are you on Facebook? 768 00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:14.880 Just curious? What are you on Facebook? I'm just curious? Oh, 769 00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:17.679 because I told the story, and that's true. Someone created a fake Facebook 770 00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:21.920 account send me a note saying that I hate Tommy Lloyd. I told you 771 00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:24.519 that story about a month ago. I'm trying to figure out who was kind 772 00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:28.519 of I have an idea because I don't hate Tommy lod obviously, but I 773 00:51:28.519 --> 00:51:30.599 guess I said something bad or in their mind, because I've never said that, 774 00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:34.400 I know, I know, haven't. Do you think the Dodgers win 775 00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:37.800 it this year? Though? Jim? No, yes, no, maybe 776 00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:42.079 if they can pitch the eight and nine. Yeah, well that's yeah, 777 00:51:42.119 --> 00:51:45.039 that's for everybody, and the ten. Yeah, but that's for them. 778 00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:49.280 Yeah, yeah, for sure. All right, Jim, we got to 779 00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:51.519 run. We got top of the hour, so hey, thanks about talk 780 00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:54.000 to you soon. All right, Yeah, no, I mean, Jim, 781 00:51:54.119 --> 00:51:58.199 Jim makes a great point that that's that's been the thing that and that 782 00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:00.559 was you know, they they've scored a bunch of runs over the weekend, 783 00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:04.000 but they just got beat again. You know, just driving me nuts watching 784 00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:06.920 them play against against the Mets. Okay, we've a lot of your time 785 00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:09.599 for the Dodger Okay talk, and now Dodger talk is over all. Right, 786 00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:13.599 let's take our break. We're gonna come back. We've got a breaking 787 00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:15.440 news with Kevin here at the top of the hour, and then at about 788 00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:19.800 four to twenty becke kidos. We'll be talking to Pima Softball and their twenty 789 00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:21.599 six game winning streaks. I'll stick around.