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us. Yeah. Yeah, So so you know where to find the good
music now, right? Yeah? I do. I guess Jada's too well.
I know where it's at, but I know they we're supposed to be
playing. Let's do it. They're screwing with us. Now, let's screw
them. We got to get our time back. Right. We're gonna tell
you're gonna take it any time from you. You just didn't. They just
didn't. The problem is, I don't know how to get back to Jada.
I can show you. I'll show you. I'll show you the next
break. Okay, so we'll let him. He picked some pretty good What
the heck is that your phone? That was yours? Wasn't it? It
was not me? I don't even know what that wasn't me? Did you
guys all get yeah? Yeah, yeah, that was scared the crap.
I didn't know that was on TV. And I hate those the worst.
I mean, I know that that's the idea, right, they're supposed to
get your attention, But you know, I'm sitting there, I'm I'm in
the zone. Right. What did they say in in in in face in
the Facebook movie Social Network? They say, he's you know, the guys
are you know there's there's a word something in the zone or zeroed in or
or something like that. But I was, you know, I mean,
I'm I'm I'm hammering the keyboard on my on my project I was doing today
and that thing came on and I came out of my shoes. I was,
I was working on something too, and then I couldn't thought it was
just a number of load yea, thought you had lost my anytime those things
come on, though, I'd come out of my shoes. So anyways,
all right, okay, so back to where we were. Yeah, yeah,
so a good show with Fader in the first hour, and then well,
good show the details when they come on. Okay, what else is
going on? Guys? And there's another game just finished? Right? Playoffs
are as we mentioned yesterday, the playoffs underway, and the Tampa Bay Rays
are out already. I mean they're they're I mean the playoffs are still warming
up and they're gone. These are best two out of three series. The
Rays were at home taking on the Rangers. The Rangers smacked them twice in
a row. Sure, yeah, and so they're up the Blue the Razor
out game two of the of another series. The Twins leaded one zip and
they're they're winning to nothing. They they won the first game, yessay,
so they can they can move on to the divisional series. Surprised about your
diamond back, I was, I was, are you like very excited.
I am, I'm homely, I'm part of my breaking news today. Okay,
how much of okay, how much of a Diamondbacks fan are you?
Like? Are you like bleed the whole thing? Yeah? You don't even
know how color to bleed there, you know, if you bleed purple,
we're supposed to bleed red. I grew up with it purple, like young
young when we just won the World Series. Those are the best uniforms we've
ever seen, the best uniform with the shorts, purple sleeves. We love
that. When we bring those back, it's we bring them back every once
in a while, and they're fantastic. But I would say I'm a I'm
a diehard. So you were born as a Diamondback fan? Yeah? The
last playoff game the Diamondbacks one I was at, Yeah, the wild Card
when Archie Bradley hit the triple. I was at that game with my dad
and brother, and then we got swept by the Dodgers next, of course,
but hey, I think it should be I think if we win tonight,
this is a big game for the Diamondbacks. We win tonight, then
we can have Merroel Kelly pitch Game one against the Dodgers, and the Dodgers,
you know, aren't the same. They're not that. No. I
mean, I fully expect them to at least get to the National League Championship
Series, all right, But I don't know how they get past the Braves.
I don't know how anybody gets past exactly, I think Vegas or even
just the eye test lineup. Wise, they should be the favorite to win
the World Series this year, and it shouldn't even be close in the opinion,
right, But it's kind of the Arizona Diamonbacks and Dodgers are kind of
this big brother little brother thing, and the Diamondbacks have been the little brother
for their existence against the Dodgers more. But that's I mean, that's okay
because the Dodge has been around for sure a thousand years. But yeah,
but cool, Well, look, you grew up a Diamondbacks fan. Appreciate
the fact that you know, you stay, you stay true to them,
and then up and take your ass kick. Didn't That's and that's that's the
that's the epitome of Arizona sports. You love them, you love them just
like just like the Sons. And then they tell you championship and then the
Bucks just crush you. Yeah, they do. You're the Cardinals fan and
you go to the Rams and they crush you, and you just just you
just know it's coming, but you don't know necessarily win. And when it
is, then it's expected. Yeah yeah, so all right, okay,
well cool, so no good, we'll see you know. I I'd love
to see it. Well, the Diamonbacks win, that's they'll play. I
mean, that's the brackets set up for that. That'll be. My sister's
a huge Diamondbacks fan. Okay, but that was just because she likes Steve
Finley's but for a long time, Stephen Lee a great baseball player too.
And what's funny is Craig Counsel, the manager for the Brewers, who the
Dbacks are playing, is it somewhat of a Diamondback icon. He has the
really weird batting stance and all those Diamondback fans know exactly. Yeah, it's
it's a picture, and so it's, uh, it's funny that his old
team is giving it to him. Right now. Yeah, that game will
start at the top of the hour, so we'll give some updates a second.
All right, sounds good, okay, Steve, I almost crying with
you guys talking about Steve was a Red fan for a while for a while,
and I'm not a sports that anymore. He's not a he has he's
not a fan of any teams anymore. No teams. I like my Sundays.
I like to sleep Monday morning. I don't have to worry about who
won, who lost. That's unbelievable. I just don't doesn't doesn't. I've
been in this business a long time, like a long time. I've been
jaded totally. And guess what you're supposed to do as a journalist focus keep
it for I didn't go to you of a I don't have any you know,
I will against you. If they win, they win, if they
lose, they lose. I have no I don't care. It's one of
the reasons he got out of it. He got out of it, right,
Yes, because I wanted to be a fan. I wanted to be
a fan of teams, you know, I see that's that's I don't know
what Steve has been doing this so long. He's like a big turtle with
a shell that you can't penetrate. He's just like, I'm just gonna be
this big nothing fan of he likes sports, okay obviously because he does what
he does, but he's not a fan of any sports. I think in
today you can rebuttal all all you want on this, but I think more
and more you're obviously you're not allowed or shouldn't be a fan when you're a
sports journalist. But I think you see more and more people are adopting that,
whether that's all the guys, the other guys that we deal with on
a daily basis, you know, the the Mike Luke's and the Shears and
the Peterson's and all those guys, they're all fans. We I sat next
to if you grew and there were the kids going to school, it was
like it was like, oh, I'm like, guys, you're not supposed
to be doing that. And I didn't say anything. You can see who
am I I don't care what they do, but it's it doesn't one look
good and it's not part of the profession. You know what I'm saying.
You're just not supposed to. And I'm one hundred years old, so you
know, what does it matter to me for you? I get it.
You're a student, you can have but eventually, yeah, when you're when
you're fifty five or whatever, You're gonna see that, Rivera. He was
pretty accurate. You know, I could give a crap if I go to
the game today, you know. Yeah, I think it's one thing to
be a fan of a team and express that in your work, as opposed
to they won't allow it, exactly as you used to you you weren't allowed
to do that. Yeah, and I think you see, I mean,
I'm a ESPN watcher, I'm a Fox all all this time and the other
And I think the guys that do that, they do a good job of
letting people know who they root for outside of work, right. I think
that's one thing, you know, and you can do that, you know,
like like you know, you see these guys like Scott Van Pelt and
Steve they've all got their favorite team, right, But when you see them
on the job, when Van Pelt is doing Sports Center or you know,
when whoever, you know, when they're doing their show or whatever that is,
they have to keep that out of it. And the good ones do
yes, right. You know, Mike Greenberg famously, you know a Jets
fan. Uh, I think he's a greene is. I know he's a
Jets fan. I don't know who's who he's a fan of in baseball.
It wasn't New York. It's either the Mets or the Yeah, but you
know, but he's a he's a huge Jets fan, and so he would,
you know, openly say that. But you know, as a as
a uh an anchor or whatever, you didn't know that, right, And
that was the thing, you know. I mean, I was a huge
Arizona fan when I was covering Arizona basketball Arizona football, but I worked hard
and it was hard for me to do that to keep that out of it,
right. I mean, I was excited as all hell when Arizona got
to the Final four and eighty eight. I mean I really partly because I
really wanted to cover Final four, but I was excited for the school.
But when I wrote the story, I had to be work real hard to
not to not let that jump into it. And for me, I don't
have to work hard. Yeah, he just doesn't deal with it because it's
one thing for you and I to sit here and talk about the game on
Saturday and say how we think Arizona might have a chance. But that's just
because we're just a little right, We get to do that in exactly and
that's part of That's why I tried. That's show. I bring it back
to reality. By the way, Steve around the table today, the whole
bunch of us Arizona's got a shot a butcher. You would you have Margarita's
for lunch, No chilcohol at the table at all. A bunch of bias
you of a fans sitting at lunch talking about the game. I'll bet them
to fourteen points. They all said I was stupid for fourteen I gave him.
Well, because then you're on the show saying how I think Arizona can
win the game. So he I, you know again, I'm playing with
house money. We're going double or nothing on it debt, right, So
he said no, he came in more positive than that. I really think
that they have a good chance to win this game. Will they? I'm
not sure, he said, but I think they have a good Okay,
I'll give you four I'll give you guess that. I think they have a
better chance than they had against Washington, So I'll giveing him fourteen points.
I think it's tough because it's going to be in California, being home against
Washingington. I do think you get a couple more points. Yeah, like
against the spread, I guess. But the it's the over should be said
at like seventy points because nobody's gonna be able to stop anybody. Well see,
And that's the thing I disagree with that. I think Arizona will be
I think Arizona will be able to keep Caleb USC under forty and then under
forty. Arizona's not scoring thirty. Dude, we could get eleven guys together
and score forty against USC. No, he could. USC would give up
forty in our in our Turkey Bowl. Absolutely. And that's why I say
Arizona's got a shot is because they are going to be able to score.
They're gonna come out, They're gonna score. Look, and I think we
talked about I know, we gotta go talk about this a little bit.
I think the fact that Jadene de Laura spent last game on the sidelines,
if he plays this week, I expect to see a better version of him
than we've been seeing all season long. Interesting, Okay, he says that
he hasn't picked anything right. Oh yeah, your honor about don't take our
spread? I had Morgan to state last week. He's three and thirty.
I think whatever it is all right. Let's say, let's take our break.
Who do you got Mike Fader coming in right, we'll talk Mexican baseball.
Guess what starts tomorrow? So we'll get ready with them. Stick around.
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Rivera and Jacobzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to albre
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's jakesaus Now on the phone.
We have Mike Vader. How are you, Mike? The Mexican Baseball
Fiesta? What's going on? Pata? You know what? It's funny.
I was always driving to the was always driving to the studio. I said,
he's been doing this a long time, maybe ten and a half.
I was just gonna say, how how good is your Spanish? Now?
Do you have all the customers? Not good? It's just it's enough to
do little tiny words like the beer stand is over there, the hot dogs
beer, I know, uhna even trying to take them. That's that's one
of the things. I know. I know that, I know that.
But it's been Betty, Betty good to me, I know. But yes,
that's a good one, Corona, especially your aches. So you excited
you know? Wait, wait, you better say model medello for sure?
Yeah, but medello is Spanish? Is medello in English? Is medello?
Yeah? Okay, all right, Okay, so no I excited. I'm
not sure excited it's a good word. I am anxious. Yeah, I
am crazed. Yeah, I am ready for it to be over. This
is the third stop already. How many stops have you had? Three?
Yeah? Maryvale, Mesa and here. Okay, you didn't go to Vegas?
Are you going to Vegas? No, we didn't going to Vegas this
year because it was in the middle of their minor league season. I'm sure
you guys know, but Major League Baseball has dictated to Minor League Baseball the
Triple A teams go to the end of September now, and so it just
boxed us out of any dates we want to do. Okay, all right,
all right, so you guys get started tomorrow. Uh, you've got
you've got a couple of games tomorrow over to going in Navajaa, Navahoa famous
for Fernando Valanzuela from being from there right then and the Wildcats. So first,
how do things get going? Uh? What's it looked like for tomorrow?
Uh? Well, I was talking to somebody over at the complex.
To me, the best thing that I saw is looking at my weather app
and seeing all yellow balls, uh for the next four days. Yeah.
Yeah, So you know, if you remember last year at lightning delays and
people that will leave the stadium and it was crazy. So uh, the
weather looks great. Uh. You know, Chip Hale's excited. Uh.
You know Breck Gleason, who you guys know, is Ke's sending me credential
requests because people want to come out here. Uh. And you know,
I think you know, Thursday of the four days, Thursday is the smallest,
Okay. So if anybody's listening and be worried about tickets, don't worry
about tomorrow. Tomorrow, you'll be fine. We'll probably have three four thousand
people, okay. Uh, and then and then it builds. So Friday
we have in the release, I said, we now have added fireworks,
which we've never done. That's gonna be between games as a doubleheader. On
Friday, we also have Advantage West Family special at the branches. Uh.
And then Ammalcio overgone. I mean that's that's the rivalry. Yeah, so
they're back back on Friday and Saturday. Saturday is is just a great day
and it's you know, we'll have five six thousand people. Uh, and
it's because of the rivalry and because people come up from Mexico, right.
Uh, so that works out really well. And then Sunday, unfortunately,
you guys have heard me talk about Labresia too much. H. Well,
they're not coming. Well. Uh, there was some work visa issues and
so we didn't have them in Masa last Sunday either. But the band that
came in Contacto Norte. There was nobody complaining about not having Lebresa because I
guess this band has played at Chase Field on Hispanic Heritage Day. They're a
huge band out of Sonora, out of airmo Ceo, and they're more of
a younger crowd. Uh, you know, old farts like me. Uh
probably like Lebrisa a little better. But we've also had Labresa four straight years.
So people are ready for a change, and we believe that this band
is going to really present a great product. So Jay, I might have
asked you this before. Have you been to these things? Yeah? I
had my first one that I went to. I was saying this, this
is what they do. Yeah, it's a party. It's a blast.
It's a party in the look and I will tell you nothing like a shameless
plug, but launching Gatta from downtown, it's handling our music. And if
you look at the release, you guys, I should have it. We're
bringing in a lot more bands this year for during the week. Uh.
And and I think that's there's a band on Saturday that I can't remember their
name, but they're supposed to be really good as well. Uh. And
that you said it, I mean that's part of who we are. Uh.
It's it's the it's the music, it's the food, it's the it's
the atmosphere. Uh. The music we play in the press box is played
the same it's the music that they play at the games in airmo Ceo.
It's the same guy that plays it up there plays it here. The PA
announcer from aermo Ceo is the PA announcer here. So the most important thing
for us is that it's toughetic. But well, when you this is your
twelfth Daniels. So when you guys, when you say you've been here twelve
years, I mean it's a tradition. Now, it's a you can even
call it a classic, right, I mean, you guys are here every
year. It's something that is uh, it's exciting. You know a lot
of fans get out to it. And then like I said, it's the
food, man, I'm there for the food. I know that. But
I could see that looking at you, just something like but you guys,
you know, you guys have been doing this, but not only doing it
for a long time, but doing it well so that people keep coming.
Oh thank you, and I appreciate that, and that it is a tradition.
I mean it's probably the largest Hispanic sporting event in the calendar year.
Yeah. Uh you know, so that's a statement. Yeah, I mean,
you know people could say SC two sign, Well they don't. It's
not the same as as the amount of people we draw for our four days,
right. You know, we hope, we hope they do well,
but it's just you know, people look forward to it I mean, and
they so many people, and you guys have both been here. There's people
that don't even sit in their seats, that just hang out in the concourse,
talk to their friends, listen to music and dance. You know what,
if that's what they want to do, that's fine with me. You
know, you mentioned this thing with the band, any any other new challenges
this year or things that you tried to do different you know, based on
you know, feedback and stuff like that. I mean, what you know,
or do you just kind of have a formula that you go with.
We know we have a formula, but there's always challenges. I mean,
it's you know, dealing with the venue. It's just sometimes a challenge,
right. Uh, you know, it's just but you know, we we've
the ticketing thing we've got handled pretty well. The concessions I think are good.
The sponsorships are good. You know, right now we're actually in the
concourse looking where the concourse booths are going, you know, and people,
you know, people respond very well to that. But I think the change
of our big act on the Tuesday before the the start probably is insanity.
Uh but but if anything, it probably gets us more publicity. Yeah,
I don't think you've talked about the UA. They play tomorrow night, right
more night, tomorrow night. How big of a deal is that to Chip
into the uh maybe the locals. Well, it's a big deal to Chip.
I've heard Chip will have practices preceding this where he plays the music really
loud and he plays Hispanic music, Uh, just just to get his players
used to it. So so that's always nice. But Ship Ship knows the
value of this because his players get to play against older professionals. Uh,
you know, some guys that have been around a little. But but the
real difference is a college player throws harder and runs faster. Uh, That's
that's the one thing. But yet the Mexican teams have had success playing against
the u of A. Yeah, so it's I mean, Schip knows that
this is a great step. You know, he wants his young players exposed
to something different in kind of a raucous area, and we achieved that.
You know, Chip told me that he's got he's got some young position players,
but he's got some veteran pitching. So and we we actually play nine
innings instead of seven, just to allow they and Aermalcio to run extra countries
out there. So tell us a little bit about the teams, the Mexican
teams that have coming here, because you mentioned em and nobody going are being
a are you know, big rivals. Tell us educate us a little bit
about these teams that are coming down here, how they do in their leagues.
You know, they're kind of their status down there. You know,
what are we going to see from some of these teams. Well, you're
gonna see great baseball. I mean, this is spring training. Always keep
that in mind. They're just just like we have spring training in the States.
They're just four in their teams, and they want to they want to
give different people different opportunities. AMI, looks really good. They've got,
uh they've got some good uh players coming from the States. You know,
Alfonso Rivas, he's actually going to join h the Ammill Seal team on Sunday.
Uh. And he's been in the Big league's a good portion of this
season. UH. And so there's there's a number of guys that former big
leaguers, current Triple A players with some major league time. I mean,
each Conn Karates, you know, third base of the Tampa Bay still plays
in this league. UH. And you know, and so there's there's a
number of guys like that. Because he's from Mexico. I will tell you
that the team that you follow, one of the pitchers that was on that
team this year that's from Mexico will not be playing here. Okay, do
you want to do you want to reveal who that is? Had to be
the picture with the glasses, Oh you're eus. Yeah, I'm mad from
Mexico. I know I'm mad at him. You even forgot who he was?
Yeah, yeah, he's out of my mind already. He's gone.
He's he's yesterday. And well he showed me because you're not going to see
him in Dodger Blue for a long time ever. I don't think we'll ever
see him in Dodger Blue again. So did you, by the way,
not to change the subject, did you see Trevor Bauers what he said,
yes, about how it was all it was? He was set up and
well and now today you're getting people coming back and saying that Trevor Browers just
flat out line. Well, there's a second court situation. Yeah, so
so you know I would take I would take the side of the people that
say he's lying. Yeah. Yeah, Well, well who's Yeah, who's
what you know, where's the big gain? Right? The gain? Yeah,
he's he's just trying to get his career back. And we don't know
that, no, right, I think. But what I heard, I
heard he pitch pretty well in Korea. All right, Mike, Well,
so we'll have we'll have decent players here. Are there names that people in
Tucson, No, probably not. Are there names that people who were familiar
with the teams in Mexico? Without question? Last night we had a cigar
event. Uh, the largest cigar company in Mexico was at Charles Stake,
and we had the pitcher who was the either first or second best picture in
this league. The shortstop was the best defensive player in this league, in
the center field, or who could play in the big leagues. But they're
all a little older and they and I don't know if you understand how the
posting system works. It's not quite like Japan. But but if somebody wanted
to take a player from Mexico who's under contract, they have to pay the
team and I heard it could be as much as two million dollars out well,
so we got running out of time. That was a quick one.
Tell us what the wait, wait, tickets, tickets, tickets and all
that stuff. He's going, Mike, I can't get no action. Is
that you already have that on? There's not stuff from our from our side,
tickets working to get them. How much you know stadium or online and
Mexican Baseball? Yes, great, thank you, thank you. Sounds great,
Mikey, have fun and we'll we'll see how it goes. Appreciate it.
Great, Thanks you guys. Yeah, sort that music was coming from
I can play it. Oh no, no, all right, let's get
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exes at OHS. It's Steve Rivera and Jagen Salviaz. This is I on
the Ball on Fox Sports fourteenth the Hey, welcome back to Winning the Back.
Here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. We are Fox Sportsvjay get sad me behind
the board playing some music for us, spitting the two days man regular Djy
over here. Yes, it's good stuff. Let's tie anybody all please do
five too? O four one, six, seventy four forty. I think
I'm gonna try to make it out to the Mexican thing. Yeah, it's
a lot of fun. I know that I'd loved about there. Tomorrow,
especially if there's not as many tomorrows could do and the food lines might not
be as long. Yeah, yeah, no tomorrow if you're if you don't
like crowds, Tomorrows plus this year paid. Yeah, I'd like to see
what they get. Right. No, that's a good idea, Jay,
because weekend straight from here. If you thought you broke a hip last week
dancing, you're gonna probably break a hip this man. Well, No,
it wasn't the hip. It was the knees. The knees. The knees
have gone bad, you know, And I'm you know what I'm I mean,
look, I shouldn't even be out there, right, you know,
it's it's kind of not a good look. Click before your old fart out
there cutting the rug cutting the rugs. If you have to say that,
yeah, that's too old. Well, you know I used to be I
had fun. We had fun. He's a great, great wedding back in
the day, one of those kids that I've known since he was this tall.
Right, I was his te ball to Elvis. Yeah, exactly,
exactly. All right, Well this just came across and I you know,
I love getting these little tidbits during a break because it gives us something,
something interesting to talk about. So Michael Lev posted, I don't know if
he saw this, he says, not judging, just putting it out there.
According to Michael Lev, dorian singer in twenty twenty two at Arizona,
sixty six catches eleven hundred and five yards, six touchdowns. At the current
pace at USC projector over twelve games, twenty nine catches three hundred and seventy
seven yards and seven touchdowns. Okay, so let me say this to you.
Okay, what's the point being that if he went over there to get
the visibility he needed to get to get himself into the NFL. That was
a piece of it. He's not a cheating I don't think he's achieving that
well. Okay, so let me give you this, and I'll use this
example because I'm gonna go the opposite with you. We know he's very good,
right, you know he's very capable. He would have been great here.
Right, he's very good over there, same guy, same guy,
just less catches. Okay. So, and I use this example all the
time because it makes this point. So, Richard Jefferson was playing in two
thousand and one with Gilbert and Richard Gilbert, Gilbert and Luke and Lauren and
all these guys were final fall. Right. He was not a great score,
but he could jump out of the gym and he was a pretty good
basketball player. Right. So one of our friends we found him on the
show National Beat. Writer Richard declares on the radio, the guy says he's
not good enough. He's just not good enough. Look at his stats.
He's twelve points a game, six six rebounds a game. And I'm thinking,
it's not about the stats. This is nothing about stats. If you're
if you're good enough, you're good enough to play and guess what singer is
good enough to play the Difference band though Richard Jefferson was getting the minutes,
he was a starter. She was playing, sure, and he was visible.
Sure, if you're barely getting on the field where you're not getting catches
and things like that, at it's probably Look, he's I'm sure he's not
regretting. Oh where he is based on he's probably getting some you know,
form of nil and now you know and you'll probably still get a look.
In the NFL, it's like this too, Uh with Michael Jordan and Sean
Elliott. Who's the only guy to keep Uh? Who to keep a shot
into sixteen points a game? Loud Olsen. Yeah, because he didn't have
to score the points has nothing to do with anything. If he's got the
ability, he's got the ability find out. Yeah, the thing is it
can just make it a little harder for you to get I totally get the
point. But he is who he is. They're going to practices, they're
going there, scout, they're doing Whether you catch the ball in a game
or not, it doesn't exclude you not catching the ball anytime. And I
mean all it takes is for this Weekend singer to go eleven catches, one
hundred and eighty yards and two touchdowns and on Espno, well that's not gonna
happen again, Well, I'll give you any team it would happen against Theirs
and Jay give another point. Remember how Song Adams senior year, he was
fantastic, He was fantastic, right, Uh that he's had a lot of
points, could play, he was six foot four, six foot five and
could do a lot of things, but he wasn't good enough. At no
time did I think Adams had an NBA exactly because that wasn't an NBA guy,
right, So yeah, point well, mate, because he's heck of
a player, right, but not that he didn't fit that, you know
exactly and a bunch of guys have come through it, you know exactly right,
comes to mind exactly again, a guy who was very productive as a
as a as a college basketball player, but you just knew he didn't have
that game, correct, That correct? Right? And I think Nick Johnson
that that was exactly right. He was a player of the year between your
guy, he was a good college player. Miles Simon, Yeah, come
on, yes, yeah, true, same thing. So that was kind
of a point. Okay, yeah, I hear wow, I get a
point for Jay. I write this stay down, write this day down.
We're gonna put over you know you? Actually I never say anything nice about
you, man, Write that down. I think I found another one somewhere
in the drawer there. That's just not even true. Oh my God,
made me sound like the ogre sitting here on the other microphone just crapping on
you all the time most of the time. And it's not like that.
Usc. Your receiver room is bad. If they have guys, that's the
poor riceist kid is there. He filled it up last weekend. They have
this Taj Washington guy at a seventy five year old what's the kid's name that
they said that was the next Reggie Bush. He didn't play last week.
That's that's why I didn't hear his names. They were saying, he's like
the most explosive dude in college, so why didn't he play that. I
think he's heard heart. That's the reason thing that keep him off of Zachariah
Branch okay freshman freshman, true fresh true freshman because the first game he had
like a return run kickoff return whatever I missed this yesterday. We missed this
yesterday? How do we miss this? Yesterday was the twenty fifth anniversary.
Oh I think I saw this. I don't know the Leap by the Lake
alrighty twenty five years nineteen ninety eight, Holy crab, I would have never
get sat. That's like twenty fifth. You know what you're talking about.
We know what we're talking about. Flipping to the end zone against Washington.
Google it, kid, It's right here on my on my screen. Wow,
twenty five years. That should make you feel old. Everything makes me
five years old. I thought I would have said twenty at the most,
man, because look, twenty five. It is twenty six since since the
UVE won the title, right, ninety seven, ninety seven, twenty six?
Uh, what is it the thirty five? Is it thirty five eighty
eight? What's idiot? Since it was the final four for the first time.
Man, God, when's my retiring? We're aging. We've talked about
this. You're not retiring. No, I've never return You're never going to
retire. But not a blue blood. No, there was one we talked
about that we talked about with him on money. Oh see, that's why
I didn't listen to the show. And he was with you. He was
with you until I told you he was with you until but he was like
listening to twenty teams? What the hell my thing was? Then then his
dad came in and Game five and that was it. Yeah, there's I
think there's five. There's five, Yeah, there's and there was one.
It's not one of them. Yeah, there's one. It's kind of a
light blue blood. That's kind of what we ended on. Yeah, it's
like the color they're teetering. Yeah, uh okay, yeah, I you
know, see I hear you on on on on on Durian Singer. But
still, you know, guys want to catch the ball. Sure, right,
they go play at a place like that because they think I'm gonna see
the ball more, I'm gonna have more opportunities. I'm gonna be right right,
you know, I'm at USC, I'm gonna be you know, on
TV all the time, I'm doing all this stuff. Sure, And it's
that part of it just does seemed to be panning out. Yeah, no,
true, but it's beyond that. I mean, if you're good enough,
you're good enough, right and if that's the end goal. But I'm
sure one of his goals was to go to usc and be on ESPN and
ABC and Fox all the time, and and uh have a chance to win
a national title, right which they're gonna lose this week. He surely wouldn't
have it here. He surely wouldn't have it here. That's going away on
Saturday. See, I shouldn't be giving him any points. That's how he
came in yesterday. They're gonna win. Well, if you're gonna win,
it's like asking me, you want to win one hundred yard dash? Sure
can I get thirty yards lead? If Singer would have stayed, do you
think you of A's receiving room is one of the best in the country.
Is it still is good? Because because you know mont Canda, Lamonious Craig
is gone. Great is a nice, very great job. But yes,
I mean there would be a notch above that. But to me, you
know, one of the issues is the way Jade Delauria has been playing.
So who knows how much better they would be with Dorian Sera because DeLaura hasn't
been the quarterback, you yea, And so you know if he starts this
week, which you know he might, you know, obviously we hopefully we'll
know more tomorrow. But I don't think Jed is going to give up.
You know, he's going to be definitive, uh ahead of the game.
Why would Why would he? But let's say Delaurian does start again. My
hope is that, you know, the week off got him to give him
a chance to kind of regroup, gather himself and realize, you know,
what he's been doing hasn't been working. He's got to do something else.
And I thought nor Flafia did a nice time. No look, no,
Fafieda was not perfect, but he did He did a lot of good things.
Mostly he got the ball out of his hands to open receivers, you
know, making throws that looked. I know it's not easy, but to
him looked easy, looked routine, look easy to complete, and gained yards
and kept Arizona in the game. And you hope the Lawy is sitting there
on the sideliner this week watching film and jets in his ear, like,
hey, see what happened to we get the ball out? Ball out quick,
get it to your playmakers. See what happens exactly. I hope.
I hope he sees that and is like, that's him giving us a chance
to win this Saturday, because the man I'm telling you, Steve, the
opportunity is there for Arizona in this particular game. I really like that.
You know, it's one of those matchup things, right. I think Arizona's
got a much better defense than than us. He has played all year long,
and so you know, I don't see them putting up fifty points.
And then I just think, you know, USC's defense is so bad that
that as bad as Arizona has been, they're still gonna be able to score
something. So what are the characters names in Dumb and Dumber? You just
I'm not dum no no, Well, it's like mother, Jim, Jim,
Will Jed. I think you have a chance. I think you have
a chance. You know what, don't talk the rest of the You do
have a chance. There's a reason why they're twenty two point dougs. Alright,
let's hit the road. We got to get out of here. Breaking
news coming up with Sammy, and then maybe I'll talk to again.