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They good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to

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Sports fort Une fifty. I'm Steve Rivera,

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He's jagonzas got our guys said back
from the summer break, Welcome back

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from the one hundred and twenty thousand
degrees. Phoenix said, my dad,

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I didn't talk about duns. Yeah, welcome back. Did you get a

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nice ten from your scorcher man?
It was it was hot man that summer.

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He didn't want to go outside.
I know I didn't. It was

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hot. I was like I gotfed
a few times, but there are a

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couple of times it was a little
dicy. No one has not accused you

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of being local. Parents left Italy
without me. So that was my summer

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holo hold alone. Yep, it
might not stick for a twenty years.

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Oh yeah, I guess there's there's
that. Okay, Well, welcome back.

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Got another guy in the studio to
help us with the old mechanism here.

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Yeah, you call this get we'll
get uh, we'll get it all

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up, fired up for this and
uh hopefully by by Monday you'll be you'll

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be all over. It's talking about
good luck with that. I'll pick it

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up. Yeah, it's it's intimidating
to be. But for you kids,

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you guys you know lived on this
stuff. Hey, when they know this

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stuff, yeah, it's yeah.
For me, it's say what I do,

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know what it touches. Hey,
welcome to Friday. Hey we finally

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got here. Uh, you should
have be a fun, fun show,

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different show. If you guys want
to call five two o four one six

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seventy four forty, we'd appreciate it. I know a lot of people.

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Jay are getting more and more people
it says, hey, we listened to

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your show yesterday. To to mister
Turner, Joe Turner had a lot of

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fun and says what did you listen? Well, we caught it on Pecaccios

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are coming in, or we caught
it on the Pipe podcast. Because a

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lot of people, we know by
the numbers were that a lot of people

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watch us on or listen to us
on podcasts, So that was good.

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They liked to show a lot of
fun today should be just as fun.

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Yeah, yeah, you know our
third guy from that uh from that time

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that uh you know Arizona was first
building that's uh building the program under Loot

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in the car ride yesterday, ran
the car ride yesterday. But uh,

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you know we're gonna have Eddie Smith
today and uh Eddie will you know he

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was he was in that car with
Milan, Joe Turner, Pete Williams.

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We had Pete on you know,
just recently. So uh, you know,

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these guys were all part of that
part of the foundation, as we

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say, of of Arizona basketball back
in the eighties. And uh, they've

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been great to join us, and
uh they've been a lot of fun.

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Yeah, so that'd be fun.
And then and the second at the hour,

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there's gonna be a lot of fun
and a memory that's gonna be it

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was long lasting for a lot of
people back in the seventies eighties, right,

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Uh, it should be a lot
of fun. I thought the World

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Series is going on and who better
or there's a couple of people right and

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Rosberg and then Mike carry on,
Yeah, Mike, Mike carry on,

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who was on that seventy three team
I was going through, Uh you know,

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you look them up in Google and
stuff and there's a picture, a

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team picture that team. Did you
go did they have the team? They

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didn't. So I was gonna say, did you know many of them?

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And we'll see where they are.
Maybe Mike knows where they are. Yeah,

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it's fifty years ago, fifty years
ago this year, fifty years ago,

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finished second in the world right right, Yeah, national champions because what

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they would do it It was always
it was an eighteen bracket, four teams

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from international and four teams from They
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yeah, Midwest and so or whatever
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Well, you know, and that's
one of the questions I want to

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I want to ask Mike, I
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say, hey, when did you
guys know that you were when they Yeah,

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I was was it? You know? Was it with with each win?

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Right? Right? Right? I'm
sure these three moments too. So

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we'll talk about that. That should
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we'll see what he's been up to, see where maybe some of the guys

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are. There is sixty two,
right, there's sixty two, most of

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them sixty one, sixty two.
They're not they're gonna be six Yeah,

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well sixty, they're gonna be sixty
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And I'm a year older than those
guys, right, but they must

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have been late twelve year olds then, because well you are by a lot

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of times by the tight right,
by the time you get to the World

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Series, some of these kids have
turned thirteen. You're right, fifty fifty

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years age limit ended August first.
Okay, so thirteen, twelve ten or

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twelve eleven some of the day.
What comes up to twelve eleven across the

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two very o one? Okay,
no, cool, that'll be a lot

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of fun. Again, we'll talk
to a lot about a lot of things

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here. Uh, we get closer
to the game on on Saturday. Press

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conference has becoming on Monday with Jed
returned with that did the women win last

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night? Soccer? I thought I
saw he was he saving the day?

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Yeah? On a on a penalty
kick on a penalty kick? Yeah?

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Okay, okay, are you are
you working for the school paper? No,

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but a lot of my fellow students
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covering some women's soccer, women's for
class. Yeah, I know, I

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just was wondering if you had a
beat already or you probably if you did,

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he probably wouldn't be in here because
it's busy. You get busy.

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Yeah, okay, no, cool
again, you don't get a call already?

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Got wow? Okay, let's take
this. Hi, you're on the

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air and I on the ball.
You tush? This is this is this

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is gay becauserting. How are you
guys? Gay? We're good? How

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are you bat Man? We thought
we'd never hear from you given the controversies

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over Hey, yeah, I'm just
are they busy again? All all those

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things in the order for me to
start taking classes out to U r A

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and so just I'm pretty busy.
So how are you guys doing? We're

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doing fine? Are you Are you
happy that? Are Are you happy now

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that Arizona's in the Big twelve?
Yeah? Definitely, So let me get

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to that. So I seen Jetta
Fish is gonna stay at err Zonna because

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if we're if we if Arizona was
in the past twelve, I think I

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think Jestridge will probably leave and go
to Florida. But the Arizona is in

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the is gonna go into the Big
twelve. I've seen she's gonna stay far

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a lot for a couple of years. So I'm pretty happy about that.

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I am don't know. I'm still
not happy that the dumb ass says that

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AFU off coming, So I'm not
happy about that. Wait, look,

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let me ask you something, Dave. Do you have like little brothers or

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little sisters that annoy the hell out
of you? Because that's what this sounds

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like. No, No, I
got insufferable idiot friend that I meant idiots,

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not a friend but acquaintance. He's
at He's a head equipment manager at

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the scum Dell, so he's a
moron. So so so do you spend

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a lot of your time thinking about
these topics because you come up with some

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crazy ones? Are that good ones? And you're making for a great call?

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Hey, I just I just really
love fishing off the scun devil.

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Okay, well, the fishing,
the fishing. I don't think Oregon,

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Oregon and Washington are gonna do really
good in the in the big in the

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Big ten, I think they're gonna. I think they're gonna lose a lot

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of games to a house day.
And also I wonder who get Bill Walton

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the divorce? Probably UCLA or Oregon. So yeah, you come up with

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some great topics. You spent a
lot of time. So we about a

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month ago when you had us on
the show, but we had you on

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the show when you called in.
You were talking about Jetfish going to a

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greater pastors, who's gonna win a
lot of games and leave. Now you

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have him here, how do you
come up with this stuff? Well,

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well, technically unless you another University
Arizonal podcast of Walking Country and Eric Cohen

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was kind of talking about, Hey, should we be worried about jett Fish

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might maybe going to Florida or maybe
going to somewhere else, And I was

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thinking, yeah, he's probably he's
probably happy here. And plus going coaching

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on Florida, coaching on Michigan needed
coaching Michigan coaching at UCLA. I'm sorry,

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that's a that's a lot of stress
and a lot of work. I

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mean, if if jett Fish wins
about ten games and eleven of games,

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we're r A fans, we're building
a statute for him. And also there's

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not a lot of pressure at Arizona, so why why not just staying at

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Arizona. That's just might kind of
thought, okay to me, it's like

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wondering if Galgadut's gonna come after me
her husband. I mean, that's stuff

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that I don't work about right now. He was wonder wonder Woman. Hey,

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I'm about we're talking like he's like
a new wonder Woman. She like

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just came out and we love your
calls. Man, we love your calls.

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Thanks Gabe, and heasy bear down, Arazon. He speculates a lot

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of things. You know, we
got to where he wanted to get to,

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right, but he dang it,
we've brought that. We've brought the

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crappy little brother with us. Goodn't
leave him behind. That's too funny.

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I thought we awesome because all the
problems have been resolved, right, Yeah,

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exactly exactly why I love Gabe.
Yeah, I love him. So

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what were we talking about? I
don't know. I don't remember. I

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have the memory of the Goldfish song. Oh man, dude, that's not

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good. You didn't tell us that
in the interview. Okay, we forget

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everything. You're the young dude.
You don't You're not supposed to forget stuff.

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Dude, you can't. No,
no, no, no, no,

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okay, So no, we got
our guests, right, we got

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our guests football coming in, we
got Monday, everything like that. Uh,

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this weekend, we're gonna go tonight. We're gonna go see South Point

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and maranat Point Mirana at the at
the top point we're looking for. Uh.

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We just we got invited too a
tailgate. Now we got to figure

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out where the tailgate is so still
where the smell is the best? Well,

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and we got we gotta get there
early enough, Steve, so that

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we get we get in on the
Tacos well parking and Tacos Parking and Tacos.

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I drove by there to kind of
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over here to see where to park, and it didn't really help it,

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called sister merrily, yelling and seeking, I borrow your car your space to

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drive. So hopefully UH are our
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on our Twitter feed. I just
sent you a message with my cell phone

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number. Give us to drop us
a text and let us know where we're

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supposed to go today. So you
know, okay? Cool? And you

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said you're gonna have some breaking news, yep, I got some. You

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get some stuff stuff here that's cool. Cool, A lot of things.

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School. How's the school. I
was the school to a lot of people

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bustling, hustling and bustling. Oh
man, it's packed. It is packed.

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If you try to get food during
the first week, good luck.

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The food lines along, Oh man, it is Okay. I didn't even

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think of that. So you're talking
about that's union and all the oh yeah,

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all that, the jam everything.
Okay, you know, I didn't

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even think of that. But you're
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it's all changed from when I was
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which gets like a fruitful Mexican restaurant
now, was that one was like where

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it used to be in the student
union. They had a great Mexican restaurant

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in the student union back in your
day. Yeah, and I'm talking about

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you know, Jimmy Changas and you
know, red chili and beans and rice

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and just a fast food place.
It wasn't a fast food, man.

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They made that. They made it. They made the thing there. They

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had a great salsa and uh that's
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you know, I mean like real
tacos is the whole bit. It was

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a buffet line. Well, it's
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new vot Mexican. Yeah, this
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was really good. And uh and
uh, you're right. First couple of

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weeks of school, man, the
line was out the door, but it

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was always worth the weight. So
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maybe I'll eat there one of these
the one now it's okay, but it's

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not what it's not what it was
like. It's it's more of a new

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vot Mexican food with you know,
you know a lot of a lot of

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avocado. Yeah, a lot of
that. I'm not big on the avocado.

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Yeah. Okay, Well, thanks
for being here, said, look

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forward to its a semester with you. Yeah, I appreciate it, man,

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And again, it's always nice to
have another Dodger fan in you.

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Not enough of you guys, No, man, and the Backs are in

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the race as well, so I'm
not they've they've come back. Yeah,

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okay, okay, we got about
a minute. I already got a call

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from our guy and Mike Carry and
he's ready for us. All right,

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Well this would be fun, you
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the Cactus Litle League All Stars that
went to the went to the Little League

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World Series, played in the championship
game. They were on ABC the whole

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bit. Uh. You know,
I don't want to make this about me,

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but their little league team the year
before. Okay, so a couple

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of guys from that team were on
the year before and my All Star team

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played them in the district championship and
they and they beat the hell out.

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Now they beat us four to one, but they beat us to go to

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the state tournament. I think since
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to the Williams Sport, right,
Yeah, the International Years eighty five eighty

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five team that iky, So the
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didn't want to make sure they were
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twelve years apart, not bad for
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with this team. So the year
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for instance, wouldn't have been on
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he was done with that. Okay, but he but he was, you

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know, he was there. He
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The reason I remember all this is
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had played them the year before.
You know when when they well asked him

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about the airport greetiing they got a
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in, and you know, my
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and you know, all that was
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d a little sense of pride that
I played against those guys. Yeah,

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it's fine. What'd you go?
Would you hit? I? Well,

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I didn't want to say this part
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the back. But our only run
was on Hitler And that's not true.

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I thought you never I was.
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as a twelve year old, I
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whoa, what the hell happened to
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but I could still hit Well.
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Check it out, chickens. We
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fifteen. Hey, welcome back to
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Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Vera. He's jakels OUs Now on the phone.

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We have Michael carry On from the
nineteen seventy three Little League World Series.

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Michael, how are you. I'm
good. Thank you Stephen Jay for

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having me on your show today.
It's a great and I appreciate that.

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Great to have you. Let me
remind you that there's no crime in baseball

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as we go back in time.
Yeah, so mikel wait and we're talking

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about the fact that this is fifty
years since that since that time for you,

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before we ask you know how you
think about it today. Just think

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back to that time and going through
that some of the I don't know some

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of the highlights or some of the
things that stick in your mind about that

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time, but you know that you're
in the All Stars. You're going making

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your way through and you get all
the way to the Little League World Series.

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Well, I had shared recently that
one of my most memories, memorable

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memories uh the year the regular season
played leading up to the All Stars.

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I had hit a home run off
of Mike Martinez, who was one of

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our All Star pitchers. And he
was a strong kid and he ended up

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throwing a no hit or later later
on in high school at for South Point.

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through very hard and he was playing

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on mister Atlantic Team, which was
who was our our head coach, and

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I actually got ahold of a fastball
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field fence and my dad was watching. He was He used to sit out

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there in the crowd, because I
mean away from the crowd, out there

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beyond the fence, and I was
rounding second. I could hear him say,

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oh a boy, and he was. That was one of my most

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favorite memories of the leading up to
the All Stars. And I want to

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say that most of us we all
played together for you know, about three

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or four years prior to that final
year because the Major's back then was like

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a four year span, So we
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So most of us were twelve at
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in seventy three and then and then
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Mister Lantick was the number one team, so he was the head coach,

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and that's when we started our tournament
play here in Tucson. Were there any

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I'm sure there had to be some
scary moments that almost prevented you not to

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get there. Yes, I think
our most well, there was two that

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I remember we played four games in
Tucson, and I don't remember any scary

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moments. In Tucson. We beat
some of the East Side teams like Pantano,

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and so I believe it was our
PALAVERTI uh. And then after the

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four games, we went to the
state playoffs and Phoenix, and we actually

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stayed with like Foster family and and
we we had a tight game against Fort

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Wachuca in Shoenix, but we ended
up winning our four games there and then

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we moved on. We were going
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for the Western regionals. And the
only other scary moment up to that point

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was the championship game against California,
which I think Ative Offer pissed a person

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at game that day, and we
won one to nothing. Wow, wow

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nice. And So at what point
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You just would win the next game
and just play the next gamer. Was

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there a point that you started thinking
about the Little League World Series? No,

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not at all. Mister Atlantic was
such a such a legendary coach.

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He didn't let us get happy or
get real comfortable after each victory. You

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know, I think we had we
had pizza after the game and then that

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game was like an instant memory.
He didn't want to say, hey we

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won as far, or we won
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It was, hey, we're gonna
focus on the next game starting tomorrow.

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You know, we'd have a practice
or whatever. But the gaps between games

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were very minimal. I want to
remember. I want to say there was

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only like, you know, maybe
one or two days in between each game

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because it was pretty fast paced and
back then it was single elimination. Yeah,

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no question. Oh yeah, you
lose one game, you were done

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very tenseily. Do you watch are
you watching it now? Have you been

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watched it? I've seen some of
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I've been walking by some of the
TVs. Not not here at home,

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but you know, like when I'm
out out and about. So so let

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me ask you this. Let me
ask you this, so we know that

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you guys are very good obviously for
the time. Do you often think we

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could have taken this team or how
how different or do they play today?

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Uh? They're well, I think
they're there's they're pretty some pretty high caliber

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twelve year olds out there. Now. I want to say, maybe back

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then. I think now they have
these, uh, these club leagues that

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the kids are involved in. Yeah, so they're playing basically playing year around

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and they're traveling. So that's a
lot more events than we were because we

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only played a regular season of about
fifteen games and then we tried out for

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the All Stars and then if we
if we lost in the All Star play,

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it's not until next season, you
know. So now these kids are

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playing year round. Yeah. So
now so you've won the regional, you're

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in the Little League World Series.
First of all, when you won that

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game, well, what's going through
your mind? Like, you know,

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we're going to Williams Sports. What's
the first thing that you thought of when

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you realize that? For me,
it was pretty shocking. I mean,

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I thought it was pretty amazing that
we were all of a sudden, we're

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playing a team from Oregon, and
then we're playing a team from Montana,

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and then we're playing a tough team
from Hawaii, and I think Hawaii,

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we only beat them like three to
zero. They had a pretty Italian a

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team, and I'm like, here
we are in California. I had a

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bunch of families there because that's where
I'm from. I was actually born in

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San Ferdino, and my mom and
dad were far from that area, and

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we moved to Tucson when he got
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how we ended up hear in Tucson. But sam Radino, I had a

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ton of cousins and aunts and uncles
and family that was there at the regionals.

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That was the home of the Western
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So so we beat Oregon, Montana, and Hawaii and then all of

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a sudden, you know, we're
facing off the big, the tough California

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team. I think they were from
Concord, California. And after that first

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inning we scored a run, I
think we scored a running a first inning,

407
00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:30.440
and then both sitchers pretty much silenced
the hitting after that. And as

408
00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:33.079
I was running into the dugout at
the end of the game, you know,

409
00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:34.640
a couple of my teammates were in
tears, and I said, Hey,

410
00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:37.319
what's going on? They were like, hey, we're going to the

411
00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:41.279
World Series. We're flying to the
Pennsylvania tomorrow. Also, it was right

412
00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:45.640
away you should so yeah, I
was right right away. So I'm wondering

413
00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.839
if if you guys are ten twelve. You know, eleven twelve years old.

414
00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:51.640
The scene didn't hit you, but
the parents surely did, you know,

415
00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:53.599
Like, hey, now we got
to get ready to go east.

416
00:27:56.359 --> 00:27:59.599
Yes, well, at that time, there wasn't There wasn't a lot of

417
00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:03.920
parents, you know, because of
economics or affordability. Only a couple of

418
00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:07.680
the families were able to go,
because we were going to board the plane

419
00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.480
right away and head out to Williams
Fort. And what I do remember is

420
00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:15.559
I think we celebrated, you know, we normally celebrated with pizza after the

421
00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:18.680
games and family time, and we
stayed like in a dorm in California.

422
00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:25.759
And what I remember most is and
seventy one. I was a Pittsburgh Pirate

423
00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:30.000
fan and I really loved watching Roberto
Clementi. So I said, Hey,

424
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:33.240
we're flying to Pennsylvania. And I
was like, I wonder if there's any

425
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:37.200
chance I'll see any Pittsburgh Pirates out
there. I mean, how many of

426
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:41.920
you guys were getting on a plane
for the first time, right, Yeah,

427
00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:44.359
that was like the first time trip
for several of us. And like

428
00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:48.160
I said, only a couple of
the families were able to go. So

429
00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:52.240
we flew into Pittsburgh, And that's
when I was hoping to see some of

430
00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:53.480
the pirates walking around, but you
know I didn't see any video. Of

431
00:28:53.480 --> 00:29:00.799
course, many saying Gain or Roberto
Clemenni walking around. So this reminds me

432
00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:03.279
of this is seventy three, right, seventy three, I think when Bud

433
00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:07.599
Bad News Bears come out, like
seventy six, seventy seven around there where

434
00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:10.759
were you just had a bunch of
dudes, a bunch of dudes who were

435
00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:12.759
playing really well, and they go
to Houston the Astronaut and all that stuff.

436
00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:15.519
How did it feel? Was it
that much fun with a bunch of

437
00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:18.960
twelve year olds? Uh? Yeah, it was a blast. But like

438
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:23.240
I said, mister Lantin he was
he was really strich with us. He

439
00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:29.279
was very disciplinarian. I mean,
he's these days of the All Stars in

440
00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:33.200
the Little League were they were like
life lessons, you know, they were

441
00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:37.960
they went way beyond the baseball field
after after the playing days, because we

442
00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.599
were structured, Hey, we want
today, but we're gonna we're not gonna

443
00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:44.680
sit back on our hills because we
want today. We're gonna be ready for

444
00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:48.119
tomorrow now. So that's what how
he kept us focus for tomorrow. So

445
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:52.440
he didn't let us get cocky or
comfortable, and we were focusing on the

446
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:55.279
next game tomorrow. We were you
know, doing bad in practice and we

447
00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:57.839
were going to gear up and we
uh, he never let us get cocky.

448
00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:00.160
He always wanted us to hustle.
So a lot of those lessons we

449
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:06.480
carried on and into our lives afterwards. So we get to Pittsburgh and we

450
00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:08.960
were going to catch a smaller plane
to Williamsport, So we had to go

451
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:12.000
on to like a shuttle plane,
you know, just a small passenger plane.

452
00:30:12.680 --> 00:30:15.200
And I want to tell you when
I got to Williamsport and we were

453
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.720
pulling up into the camp there,
because that's the little legue headquarter camp,

454
00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:25.799
it was the first time that I
ever saw fireflies. Wow. Okay.

455
00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:29.200
So so you get so you get
to Williams Part and you see there's a

456
00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:32.559
stadium. You know, the whole
thing. I mean, it's kind of

457
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:36.720
they've they've really I'm fixed it up. But you know you're playing in the

458
00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:41.359
stadium now, the whole deal.
You know, talk about walking on walking

459
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:44.240
out there the first time, what
that was like, and then we're actually

460
00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:48.200
playing a game on that field.
Yeah, what what happened was what I

461
00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:52.680
remember most is we were we were
shuttled from the smaller airport in Williamsport,

462
00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:56.920
like on twelve paths of your vans, and we get into the complex and

463
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.559
we get out and the stadium is
kind of sunk camp and because if you

464
00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:03.319
look at the games now, you'll
see that it's kind of sunk in on

465
00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:08.240
a hill. There's there's hills that
kids would slide down to the outfield fence.

466
00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:12.240
And then you can look at the
stadium and nowadays there's another stadium behind

467
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:15.319
that stadium, but because I think
they have two stadiums there now. But

468
00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:19.599
what I noticed most it was green, it was humans, It was kind

469
00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:23.640
of overcasting, and you know,
it was the first time we saw fireflies

470
00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:27.400
buzzing around the camp because it's kind
of like a almost like a cabin style

471
00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:32.000
camp. Brown. So you win
a lot of games, then you get

472
00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:34.480
to the finals, right, Well, the first game, the first game

473
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:40.640
on deck was against New York,
so we I think we had a quick

474
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:44.640
practice the next day and then we
were going to face New York. And

475
00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:48.839
I can't quite remember the team where
they were from. I knew they were

476
00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:52.720
near like Rochester. I believe I
thought it was Albany, but I wasn't

477
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:55.839
sure about Albany. But so I
think we beat New York. It's like

478
00:31:55.880 --> 00:31:57.039
four to nothing and not of a
big deal because I mean, here we

479
00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:00.799
are playing a team from New York
now on that field in the stadium,

480
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:05.920
and that stadium for US, I
mean that was I think it has like

481
00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:12.599
a ten thousand person capacity or something
like that. It was pretty pretty a

482
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:15.240
pretty big step up from our neighborhood
Lileague Field in Cactus, you know here

483
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:20.599
in Tucson. I'm looking it up
as a team from Colony, New York.

484
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:22.920
Colony, New York. Yeah,
I don't know where that is.

485
00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:28.279
So then well I had a guy
right to me yesterday because I posted my

486
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:32.119
post on the Vintage Baseball Post and
he said that they were defeated by Colony

487
00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:36.720
in Rochester, New York, and
then Colony went on to play US.

488
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:39.160
Okay, got it? Okay.
So the teams that were there were from

489
00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:44.319
Michigan, New York, Florida,
and UH and then Arizona. So what

490
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:47.359
happened was we would have they had
these practice fields outside of the stadium,

491
00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:52.480
kind of like High Corbett has their
practice fields in the background like an annexed

492
00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:57.599
fields. They have the list of
the minor leaguers practice beyond the stadium,

493
00:32:57.599 --> 00:33:00.960
but the major league's practice in the
stadium, so they had these warm up

494
00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:06.480
fields in the background outside the stadium. So after we beat New York,

495
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:10.440
we didn't know but we were facing
Michigan next, so and that's when I

496
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:14.119
had it. I think that's when
I personally had my best game because I

497
00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:19.599
was two for three and I hit
a double off the left field wall there

498
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:22.799
and I was pretty excited because I
also I hit a line drive between the

499
00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:27.400
shortstop and the third basement, so
I ended up two for five going into

500
00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:32.039
that final World title game. But
it was exciting because there was big crowds.

501
00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:36.519
The other teams were watching us,
and of course there was a lot

502
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:40.960
of families and I even had I
even had a girl that asked me for

503
00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:46.960
my address and she became a pen
pal for me after. Well, I

504
00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:50.839
liked the story. Now let's go
on. So you guys, you guys

505
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:52.559
get the championship game. You're gonna
be on wide world of sports. You

506
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:57.400
know, on national TV. Are
you playing this Taiwan team at a time

507
00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:00.519
when Taiwan was just killing everybody.
I'm up on Wikipedia here it says that

508
00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:06.200
Taiwan had three no hitters, didn't
allow a hit or a run in the

509
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:08.760
right in the tournament. And but
going into that game, I mean,

510
00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:15.440
just what do you guys think and
how do they look? They looked they

511
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:20.440
looked very militant, and they looked
very professional. They had these warm up

512
00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:23.760
jerseys that they were wearing for their
practices. I mean almost like the Tokyo

513
00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:30.119
Giant type of uniforms. And they
ate at a table with their own catered

514
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:32.960
food in and they had their own
interpreters, they had the whole entourage.

515
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:39.320
Did they look did they look like
they were twelve? Uh? Well,

516
00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:44.159
it's kind of hard to tell sometimes, but according to our coaches, you

517
00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:46.519
know after the fact, I mean
I think their picture was like six foot.

518
00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:51.039
You know, he was a big
dude. I remember him. Yeah,

519
00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:53.280
I was batting and he looked like
a giant compared to me. And

520
00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:57.360
he was thrown like the equivalent of
over one hundred miles an hour. You

521
00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:00.480
know who pitched in that game?
Was that Martinez or bus there? Who?

522
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:05.440
Well, that was another amazing story
because Vosburg and fip No, Martinez

523
00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.760
was our third pitcher. We had
two lefties, Eddie Vossburg who went on

524
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:13.280
too the Major League and Mike Fimbers, who was also a very, very

525
00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:17.000
tough and dominant pitcher. And I
actually had a really tough time hitting off

526
00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:22.559
Novembers regular season, but he baffled
the Taiwan East for like three innings and

527
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:28.639
was zero to zero and they finally
but Dailier problem is he was fighting in

528
00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:34.360
like a flu virus, and mister
Lattick was really hesitant about leaving him in

529
00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:37.000
the game, and I think once
one of them connected for a home run,

530
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:38.639
he pulled him out of the game
at that point. And I think

531
00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:43.079
it was like in a third inning
because it was zero to zero and we

532
00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:45.320
were like, hey, these guys
are dominant, but we're right here zero

533
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:49.079
to zero, you know. And
Fimbers in his curt he had a nasty

534
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.880
curveball and he threw hard. He
had he had the Taiwanese baffles compared to

535
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:57.159
the other two teams that they played. Yeah, so you had the roster

536
00:35:57.280 --> 00:35:59.719
or whatever. Are you still friends
with many of the guys? Do you

537
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:01.199
keep in touch? I know this
is kind of like a sappy question,

538
00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:07.400
but no, no, it's not
happy. I think Eddie and I stay

539
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:13.119
in touch the most. Eddie Bosbury
Mike members. I don't you know,

540
00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:15.159
he's on on social media, but
I've you know, we've keeping We've kept

541
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:19.400
in touch over the years because he
played a lot of the city league ball

542
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:24.400
here in Tucson with my brother Manny
and Gerard Paisa. He moved to He

543
00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:29.679
was also a firefighter like myself,
and we stay in touch a little bit

544
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:38.519
on Messenger and Facebook and also David
Meash yeah remember and so we uh so

545
00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:44.000
right now, we were notified that
they're gonna induct us into the team of

546
00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:50.360
County Hall of Fame and they're gonna
do news press conference in October I think,

547
00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:54.199
and then a banquet in November.
Have you absolutely deserved that, you

548
00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:57.639
guys, I'm sure a couple of
teams have ever done that. You know.

549
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:00.360
I remember the big welcome home them
at the airport, A big crowd

550
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:04.320
of people went over there. You
know, I went to you know,

551
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:07.480
my mom took me to for that. You know, I was a year

552
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:10.000
older than you guys. But just
talk about that whole thing. What what

553
00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:14.800
is a kid your age thinking when
all of a sudden there's this mob of

554
00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:19.679
people. They're welcoming you, you
know, at the airport. But what

555
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:22.960
if I could take you back to
the World Title Game just for a second.

556
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:27.599
They had a tape delay thing on
the Wild World of Sports. I

557
00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:30.039
mean, back then they did have
the Agony defeat the Thrill of Victory,

558
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:34.159
and it was on Saturdays, and
that was the only televised game was the

559
00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:37.199
World Title Game. Right when they
show they show play at the beginning of

560
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.519
the highlights, and so after the
game they were like, Hey, if

561
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:45.159
you guys want, you can watch
the tape lay game. And and then

562
00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:46.960
we you know, we felt kind
of mad. It was our first loss

563
00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:52.800
ever, you know, and we
didn't we didn't hang our heads down or

564
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:55.639
we weren't really too depressed because these
guys were dominant. Yeah, and they

565
00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:59.079
I mean they were thrown you know, over one hundred miles an hour.

566
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:01.119
They hit like four five home runs
off of us. No, the team

567
00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:06.199
had ever done anything like that stuff. And then and then all of a

568
00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:08.480
sudden, the suspicions kind of came
up about the age and they ended up

569
00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:13.119
getting suspended for like four years after
that, but they still let them keep

570
00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:15.960
the title that year, right,
but then they said, well, since

571
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:20.920
we're here and we're here in the
area it's part of the World Series tread,

572
00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:23.280
we're gonna take you guys to the
Baltimore Oriole Games. So we saw

573
00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:28.840
the Baltimore Orioles and the Royals play
at Memorial Stadium, and we went to

574
00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:30.840
go see the Money in Factory where
they make the money at the Mint.

575
00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:37.800
And then we went to the White
House. So we got a tour of

576
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:42.199
the White House and then uh,
and that's when we we boarded the plane

577
00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:45.920
to get ready to come back to
two some come back home to family and

578
00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:49.360
friends that we loved. That's very
nice, very nice. Well what great

579
00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:53.480
memories, right, I mean what
every little boys dream. Yeah, it's

580
00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:55.760
not every day you get to We'll
go to the White House and walk around

581
00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:00.360
in the Rose Garden out there and
stuff and get to be pent pous with

582
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:07.760
another little girls, you guys.
Yeah, So we we boarded the plane

583
00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:10.119
backs, you know, to Susan. I know it was a long flight,

584
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:13.920
but I think most of us kind
of caught naps on the way back

585
00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:16.639
home. And we arrived in Tucson. I'm not sure exactly what time it

586
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:22.000
was, but I want to say
it was maybe around ten o'clock and there

587
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:27.159
was a huge thousands of people waiting
at the airport. And then they had

588
00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:30.960
all the dad's line up as we
boarded off the plane and they placed this

589
00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:35.239
on their shoulders and carried us through
the crowd. So I sent a couple

590
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:37.800
of pictures where my dad is the
one that actually had propped me up as

591
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:44.119
we walked through the airport crowd.
And then Jim Jim Click provided a police

592
00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:49.000
escort to another location. So they
gave us a police escort to some other

593
00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:52.119
location, and then we ended up
going to several events in Tucson shortly after

594
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:55.320
that. Like back then, boxing
was big, so I remember we were

595
00:39:55.400 --> 00:40:00.159
introduced at a boxing match at the
TCC and stuff like that. They took

596
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:05.119
us a couple of VIP events here
and then we before you know, we

597
00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:09.079
were starting junior high and in our
house field of area. Very cool,

598
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:14.280
very cool, great, great memories. I'm great to share that. I'm

599
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:16.159
again as a little kid, I
just remember you remember you guys doing that,

600
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:20.440
And you know I would watch the
Littleague World Series every year because you

601
00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:22.599
know, I love baseball and I
played baseball at the time, so it

602
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:24.760
was it was very cool. And
I remember I just remember you guys doing

603
00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:29.239
that. I remember Vossberg, you
know, left hander Fambers and all those

604
00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:31.599
games. Very cool. Well,
from from that era, there was three

605
00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:37.840
major leaguers that came out of that
that cohort group. Eddie Vossers went on

606
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.880
I think he pits like fourteen years
in the majors and he was the only

607
00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:45.000
pitcher that went to the Little League
at college and the Major League World Series.

608
00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:51.719
And and then my brother was was
drafted by the Met's oude of South

609
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:54.719
Point. And then Tom pi Nazi
was drafted out of Arkansas from rink On

610
00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:58.679
and he went on to be an
All Star catcher for the Cardinals. You

611
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:00.480
know, right, Yeah, there's
a reason you guys got to the World

612
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:05.039
Series. Yeah, we had peg
Narzian last year. So we have added

613
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:07.800
every now and again. Thank you, Mike and Michael. We appreciate it,

614
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:10.360
man, that was very fun,
very fun. Yes, I really

615
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:14.480
appreciate it anytime we get to share
some memories of my teammates. We're looking

616
00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:16.719
forward to getting together for the Hall
of Fame induction coming up in a month

617
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:20.039
or two. All right, we'll
part. It'll be nice to see whoever

618
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:22.079
can show up. Yeah, yeah, we'll get back to that. Okay,

619
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:25.559
thank you again. Appreciate your time. Stephen Jay, thank you so

620
00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:28.639
much. It was an honor to
be here. I really appreciate it.

621
00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:30.480
Yeah, thank you. Cool dude, cool dude, cool memories. Very

622
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:32.199
cool. All right, we got
it. We were way long, so

623
00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:35.000
we got to get the head out
and we'll come back. We'll break.

624
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He's got about seven minutes. Give a

682
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quick call if you want. We
got a little time. But that was

683
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a lot of fun. We ran
a little along with that was fun,

684
00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:02.000
fun conversation. Brought back a lot
of memories. Just remember that time watching

685
00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:05.639
that team, go do, go
do what they did. And the coolest

686
00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:07.400
thing was that they were on you
know, they were on National TV on

687
00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:13.239
Saturday. And I don't recall that. I guess Mike, Mike would would

688
00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:15.199
have known, but I don't recall
that it was tape delayed when we saw

689
00:46:15.239 --> 00:46:19.760
it and the game was already over. But you know, we didn't have

690
00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:22.760
the internet and stuff to be able
to know what was You got three you

691
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:27.719
got three channels. I remember wh
I remember watching it as if I was

692
00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:30.880
watching it live and very disappointed to
see how they they got crushed. But

693
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:36.079
that team, it was the final
scores from twelve. Both both Tucson teams

694
00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:37.800
lost twelve and nothing. I think
it was only one persons from the team

695
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:40.800
got on the first pasi and that
was it. Yeah. Yeah, but

696
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:45.000
hey, come on, this is
fantastic because because one loss, I mean

697
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:47.920
one loss in your home. Yeah. And you know I and I told

698
00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:52.559
you you know when I when I
covered the eighty six team from international,

699
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:54.199
you know, when I saw those
kids after the you know, after they

700
00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:58.360
lost the championship game, you had
never known they had lost the game.

701
00:46:58.400 --> 00:47:00.800
They were having a block. I
just could think, like I said about

702
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:02.199
news bearers, I knew how you
know, kind of stilly and fun that

703
00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:05.800
was. They're just kids wanting to
have fun, right, and they were

704
00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:07.960
and and that was awesome. And
so what a memory, I mean,

705
00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:10.639
what a memory for you know,
every kid who ever played a little Sure,

706
00:47:12.119 --> 00:47:15.519
sure, you know you thought about
Williamsport. I'm sure defeat hurts,

707
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:17.519
But when you look back and you
think, God, look at what we

708
00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:21.840
did. How many teams didn't get
there? Right? Right? Because you

709
00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:23.760
see him now and they're just fantastic
players. Uh. You know, of

710
00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:29.679
course there are twelve year olds and
they make mistakes, but but some fantastic

711
00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:35.920
plays, some fantastic talent. Wow
wow, well again three major leaguers coming

712
00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:37.440
out of that uh, coming out
of that group of guys. I mean

713
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:42.159
there was a reason they were really
good, right sure? Sure, and

714
00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:45.960
like you said, his brother peg
Nazzi and then Vosburg Vosburgh. Well,

715
00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:50.199
I guess I didn't really realize that
peg Nazzi was in there. Yeah,

716
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:53.119
the catcher you know who's good friends
with him? Are our referee guy?

717
00:47:57.440 --> 00:48:00.639
No, the other one Scofield?
Scofield close here like brothers. Uh.

718
00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:07.840
Yeah, we had to be had. I want to know what took so

719
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:13.840
damn long to get these guys into
the Sports Hall of Fame. Fifty Yeah,

720
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:16.559
you could have done it at twenty
five years whatever, was nice memory

721
00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:21.119
We get on handsome about you said
eighty six, right, so that's eighty

722
00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:23.400
six, eighty six, so that
would be thirty seven years now, so

723
00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:27.559
they'll play wait for forty Come on, man, you gotta get on the

724
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:30.559
stick. That's that's a little long
to have to wait to get in there.

725
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:31.800
I mean, I mean, you
know, I hope all these guys

726
00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:37.199
are still around. Yeah, right, sixty two they're probably really he's like

727
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:38.679
a bodybuilder. Have you seen You've
seen that. He's a big body.

728
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:45.760
He's like a champion body, like
a world powerwerfer's doing like killing it and

729
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:50.239
killing it a world record rights.
I think so cool. Good to have

730
00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:52.039
him on the show. Uh.
Now next next hour, we're gonna have

731
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:55.599
Adye Smith from the U of a
form of UA, one of the big

732
00:48:55.840 --> 00:49:00.400
recruits for LOOT and one of the
guys here for the Fantasy Bat basketball camp

733
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:04.840
which is this weekend. A bunch
of those guys in town. I saw,

734
00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:07.440
I saw the picture, Uh,
Tommy Lloyd hanging out with all these

735
00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:12.360
guys. I get one more thing, and I know these guys. It's

736
00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:14.880
great that these guys are here.
But one more thing that you see that

737
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:19.559
Tommy does going out and shows and
braces these guys who were here, you

738
00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:22.320
know some of them forty years ago, you know, sure hanging out.

739
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.840
He knows the legacy. Let me
say this. I said this to somebody

740
00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:30.719
either today or last night. You
know Tommy gets it. Tommy, it

741
00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:32.280
doesn't take much to go out and
say, hey, shake your hand,

742
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:35.639
Hey, thanks for thanks for coming
to see us, coming to you,

743
00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:38.559
thanks for being here, thanks for
carrying on the tradition. Right, not

744
00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:42.719
even the public, you know,
even the public say thanks for showing up.

745
00:49:43.320 --> 00:49:45.920
Pretty simple. No, it's very
cool and it's uh, it's really

746
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:50.280
cool to see him do that.
But you know, I saw Bennett Davidson's

747
00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:53.199
here, don Al Harris. Who
else did I see in there? Oh

748
00:49:53.440 --> 00:50:02.119
yeah, Eddie, Eddie, let
me see Pete Joe. Uh their practice,

749
00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:12.519
Reggie was coaching today. Uh yeah, Andy Brown and oh upilling,

750
00:50:14.199 --> 00:50:19.159
Bennet Davidson. There was one more, Harry Thompson. Harry Thompson. Yeah,

751
00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:22.039
yeah, wow, all right,
very cool, good, good group.

752
00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:24.400
All those guys played for Luke.
Yeah, and the stories last night

753
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:28.920
were very, very compelling, you
know. Uh. Motang Gara given a

754
00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:32.840
very moment, moved in here talking
about his time and how Luke saved him

755
00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:37.119
kind of like not from poverty,
but his he grew up with nothing and

756
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:42.000
Luke found him and brought him here, and just those type of stories.

757
00:50:42.039 --> 00:50:45.199
Yeah again, you know, I
mean, you know, you see those

758
00:50:45.199 --> 00:50:47.760
guys, they've been successful, a
whole ton of them. Yeah, you

759
00:50:47.800 --> 00:50:51.719
know, with Steve Kirby and the
Golden State Warriors coach if he had come

760
00:50:51.719 --> 00:50:54.679
and play for yeah, who knows
the course of your life. Yeah,

761
00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:58.280
I mean, you know the things
that can happen, you know, you

762
00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:00.039
know Sean Elliott in the NBA now
he you know, we've been living in

763
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:04.840
San Antonio doing this radio stuff and
just and it cruising along having a great

764
00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:06.880
time. Yeah. You know.
One of the things that there's so many

765
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:09.639
doing radio and coaching that I thought
that and I think this is very important

766
00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:15.400
that let them be dudes who were
able to do this. Steve was on

767
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:20.000
it forever, t and T Sean
does it, uh mule Bach, Reggie

768
00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:23.119
dew All. These guys have careers
because they were allowed to talk to us,

769
00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:29.199
develop skills that we skill this type
of deal and and just a feel

770
00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:34.519
for it right right, you know, the game rights to people. You

771
00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:37.400
get good at it at some point
exactly, and people trust you and what

772
00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:40.119
you say. Corey another one.
There's a lot of a lot of dudes

773
00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:45.559
coaching and then doing the media's right
absolute with that. I've always thought that,

774
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:49.039
you know, I mean there's I
mean, like you know, there's

775
00:51:49.039 --> 00:51:52.800
some schools and my kids schools wonder
them where they make you start doing speeches

776
00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:57.639
and presentations, you know, in
the fourth, fifth, sixth grade.

777
00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:01.400
By the time you get and I'll
tell you what, that's fantastic Like that,

778
00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:05.679
you can you can do a lot
of stuff that's fantastic, especially when

779
00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:09.000
you're in this business. The last
thing you can be is shy. Yeah

780
00:52:09.039 --> 00:52:14.360
exactly. You know. Look,
see, no, when when I'm in

781
00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:17.000
a group of people with my friends
and everything, you gotta know when they

782
00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:21.559
let loose and when quiet. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure your

783
00:52:21.639 --> 00:52:23.199
dad said. You know, you
get to know your time and circumstance.

784
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:25.840
Yeah, yeah, time and circumstance. Okay, cool, all right,

785
00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:29.000
Well let's let's take a break here. At the top of the hour,

786
00:52:29.079 --> 00:52:31.559
sit says he's got some some breaking
news for us, So we're gonna find

787
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:35.800
out how good he is at this
right out of the shoot. So I'll

788
00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:37.400
stick around breaking news. There's a
little kind of stuff as we head to

789
00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:40.840
the weekend and the start of the
college football scene, So stick around.