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Speaker 3: is one of our usual guys. I'm good to see
Speaker 3: you as you do it, Okay, Blake, Blake Eager, Yeah,
Speaker 3: thanks thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: Steve.
Speaker 2: Did you was it?
Speaker 3: You were obviously handling the WBC World Baseball Classic?
Speaker 5: Did you was it? Did a met your expectations or beyond?
Speaker 5: I think beyond I mean, and you know, step back
Speaker 5: a little bit. You know, our tendance numbers weren't exactly
Speaker 5: where we would like to have them. It's a first
Speaker 5: time event, first time having Major League Baseball back in
Speaker 5: fifteen years. But you know, we we probably averaged roughly
Speaker 5: twenty five hundred fans per game. The Kids in the
Speaker 5: Park day were an absolute hit. We had six thousand
Speaker 5: kids out there on Monday and Tuesday eleven am. But
Speaker 5: the feedback that we got from Major League Baseball and
Speaker 5: World Baseball Classic far exceeded what we were hoping for,
Speaker 5: and then and then we had six of those games
Speaker 5: were on nationally tele advised on Fox Sports Too and
Speaker 5: MLB Network. So actually Thursday night we got done and
Speaker 5: went did a little post recap with MLB and WBC
Speaker 5: and all the TVs and at the Union were playing
Speaker 5: the game, and it was just it was surreal as
Speaker 5: a kid that grew up in Tucson to step back
Speaker 5: for a second and say, as a community, we were
Speaker 5: able to do this, and I think it puts us
Speaker 5: in the driver's seat on a lot of different things.
Speaker 2: Cool, very cool, and maybe a return.
Speaker 5: Maybe a return, Yeah, working through that logistically, because now
Speaker 5: you have baseball back in the Olympics in LA and
Speaker 5: twenty six, six, twenty eight, so it looks like the
Speaker 5: qualifier would be in twenty nine. But I think we
Speaker 5: would be a front runner for it and I would
Speaker 5: love to have them back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, I want to Throsty. I think a
Speaker 3: part of the issue was a little cold. Yeah, a
Speaker 3: little cold, and well we'll talk about that. You talked
Speaker 3: about fans. This is what I want to talk about today.
Speaker 3: You're a you're a U A basketball fan. You're a fan,
Speaker 3: You're a ticket holder from a long time, I think, right,
Speaker 3: m huh, and you've been doing it for a while. Uh,
Speaker 3: what do you think about the fans in McHale? What
Speaker 3: do you think about the fans the feeling of the
Speaker 3: fandom in McHale?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What should be? And you did you hear Tommy's comments?
Speaker 2: I didn't. Okay, good, So you're I'm blasted, but going ayeah.
Speaker 5: I would start by saying that, depending on the opponent,
Speaker 5: we could be considered one of the top destinations for
Speaker 5: a game. I think consistently, consistently we lack the type
Speaker 5: of energy that other places do. I mean when you're
Speaker 5: looking at Kansas, right, I think we could.
Speaker 2: You did not hear any of his comments?
Speaker 3: I didn't hear any Okay, okay, So, and you're kind
Speaker 3: of going in directions where I okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I So I've kind of taken myself back, and
Speaker 5: I think you and I spoke about it on the
Speaker 5: game on Thursday. I haven't even I haven't gone back
Speaker 5: and watched the ASU game. Okay, I'm just getting, you know, uh,
Speaker 5: secondhand news from other people. But when I'm feeling like
Speaker 5: what I feel there is like when we played Houston
Speaker 5: and Iowa was there, or we played Iowa State fantastic,
Speaker 5: fantastic right when you played other teams. So I don't
Speaker 5: want to say subpar, but subpar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, Jue, You've gone to many, if not all right.
Speaker 3: I look back at you sometimes and I think this
Speaker 3: is what we talk about.
Speaker 2: So what are your thoughts? And I'm sure you read
Speaker 2: you read Tommy's quotes.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, everything Tommy said I was already I had
Speaker 6: already thought. I've already said to multiple people that asked
Speaker 6: me about the crowds and the atmosphere. And I'm gonna
Speaker 6: use Tommy's quote, there are steps between Arizona and the
Speaker 6: Kansas Major Iowa State. Yeah, Houston's and Houston's barely in
Speaker 6: their second year, and yeah they did their forehead.
Speaker 2: I told I saw his quotes. Let me say this.
Speaker 3: That's not the first time he said this. It's like
Speaker 3: the third or fourth time he says this that he
Speaker 3: kind of got on not got on the fans, but
Speaker 3: he says, these are these guys. We're here, and no
Speaker 3: doubt you you said it without being biased pretty much right,
Speaker 3: And it's only for the big games. That's that's the case.
Speaker 3: And we're in Tucson Lake games and all that. But
Speaker 3: he's he said it spun on. He said it when
Speaker 3: he first got here and he went to his first
Speaker 3: game at U of A and he says, you guys
Speaker 3: say you're a good basketball town.
Speaker 2: You didn't come today. You guys.
Speaker 3: If you guys need to be what you say you are,
Speaker 3: show up and cheer the team. Right this is four
Speaker 3: three almost four years ago, three four years ago, and
Speaker 3: I'm thinking he's spot on. He's calling them out, and
Speaker 3: people's got it. They listened, they listened. But to your point, Blake,
Speaker 3: they only come out for the big games, and it's
Speaker 3: got to be crazy.
Speaker 2: And even for the big games.
Speaker 3: I looked back at you, yep, one of those big games,
Speaker 3: and we saw empty seats.
Speaker 2: Where everywhere, almost everywhere near the near the top.
Speaker 6: It's not just the top, there's there's spots in the
Speaker 6: lower bowl.
Speaker 2: Near us, near us, right to the left of us. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, but the thing is, Tommy said a lot in
Speaker 3: that quote, right, he said a lot of Babe.
Speaker 2: We talked about it, but he spot on.
Speaker 3: He's spot on, and he's not talking to the people
Speaker 3: that are actually in the room. He's talking about the
Speaker 3: people that don't go, And I think it was the
Speaker 3: people that don't go.
Speaker 6: We're the ones that were a lot of people were
Speaker 6: upset and they shouldn't be right. They're going to be right, Yeah, but.
Speaker 5: People have a tough time looking in the mirror and
Speaker 5: having a realistic conversation with the selves. You're you're spot all
Speaker 5: of that to mean, you talk about our current climate
Speaker 5: where we're at to have ownership and your mistakes is
Speaker 5: almost unheard of these days. And so as a fan,
Speaker 5: you should take pride in what you do day in
Speaker 5: and day out for this club. And you should listen
Speaker 5: when somebody of Tommy's stature comes and says what he says,
Speaker 5: because he's seeing the other side of it. Yes, when
Speaker 5: he goes to other places, he's commenting and saying, guys,
Speaker 5: we are not in Iowa state. You're not a Kansas,
Speaker 5: You're not a Houston, You're not anywhere near these right now?
Speaker 5: How do you change that culture?
Speaker 3: When I say, and I think want will agree with me,
Speaker 3: you can agree with me or not. When I say
Speaker 3: Arizona's not a blue blood, I mean it realistically. We've
Speaker 3: had that conversation and do you agree. I agree with you,
Speaker 3: But these people think they are, You're not. You know,
Speaker 3: I think I'm Brad Pitt. Guess what I'm not. I
Speaker 3: just just the way the world is. And you can't
Speaker 3: overthink this that you're better than you think you are,
Speaker 3: because you're not the fans. Like I said, he's not
Speaker 3: talking about the people in the room in the Michale.
Speaker 3: He's talking about the people that don't show up and
Speaker 3: fill out this stadium.
Speaker 5: And I think the question is like for me as
Speaker 5: a two sewn in and looking at what we currently have,
Speaker 5: and I'm talking about across the sports spectrum, we want
Speaker 5: to stand up and we want to complain about the
Speaker 5: things we don't have and not recognize the reason of
Speaker 5: why we don't have them anymore and not willing to change.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: You're a perfect example of it. And you just had
Speaker 3: an event with Major League Baseball. You want baseball, we
Speaker 3: want baseball, we want baseball. Oh here's baseball.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh I couldn't go yeah, Oh sorry, yeah, sorry I couldn't.
Speaker 5: It's like, hey, these were the most affordable tickets you
Speaker 5: possibly can. You had Manny Ramiers on the freaking field
Speaker 5: when Brazil won, going crazy. You had stephie Graff and
Speaker 5: Andrea Gatacy and that's outside of the fans. And then
Speaker 5: you look at that field and you're like, there's big
Speaker 5: leaguers all over the place.
Speaker 2: And it was a ten dollars ticket. Here we go.
Speaker 2: So we got to call it. Hello, you're on there
Speaker 2: around the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 7: This is Vic Vic?
Speaker 8: Here's the gustel that Well, I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 8: Tommy can go suck a big one because guess what
Speaker 8: his team is playing like crap? And he watched the cut.
Speaker 8: It was it was that timing Blake. See, you can
Speaker 8: say how great Kansas is and say, hey, that's a
Speaker 8: great environment, but don't bring the Arizona crowd into it.
Speaker 2: It's that timy.
Speaker 9: You've lost five, five.
Speaker 8: Out of eight you're coaching suck. You can't defend the three. Everybody,
Speaker 8: some five eight guys from Arizona State goes off on
Speaker 8: you for thirty and you're gonna talk crap about the crowd.
Speaker 7: Dude, come on all that?
Speaker 5: No, Vic, So, I mean, I think the question on
Speaker 5: eart standpoint is that Kansas had a they haven't had
Speaker 5: very good year and they're still running that gauntlet and.
Speaker 8: That's okay, that's okay. I can't talk about the guy
Speaker 8: at the bar that leads with a hot chick because
Speaker 8: he's fricking porked over a whole bunch of money for it.
Speaker 8: I just have to deal with it. I just have
Speaker 8: to deal with it.
Speaker 2: So you are you saying timing was not good?
Speaker 8: Now, timing was horrible for him to come out and
Speaker 8: say that. And like I said, if he would have said, hey,
Speaker 8: Kansas has a great environment, second to none, it's awesome,
Speaker 8: that's cool, and leave it at that, But then to
Speaker 8: bring the Arizona fans into it, then that's that's what
Speaker 8: bad times.
Speaker 9: Vick.
Speaker 2: I love you. You know that.
Speaker 3: I see you everywhere. You on my autograph here, every
Speaker 3: time I see you. Thank you. But how many games
Speaker 3: do you go to a year?
Speaker 8: The man probably about six.
Speaker 2: Have you been impressed with what you've seen.
Speaker 8: At times?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 8: That I was State deal was great, Duke was great.
Speaker 8: So yeah, they were pretty good. I just came from
Speaker 8: the I just came from the football game, twelve o'clock
Speaker 8: game on a Monday, and it was pretty cool. So
Speaker 8: I was impressed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's that's softball. They're running, they're running well.
Speaker 3: So I Vic, I hear you. I understand that.
Speaker 8: And I didn't see Tommy at the softball game.
Speaker 2: Did you look where's this sorry at? So do you
Speaker 2: think he should be at every other sporting event?
Speaker 8: He should be at a few. He should darn well
Speaker 8: be at a few.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Okay, I got to make sure someone doesn't
Speaker 3: piss in your break breakfast next time.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 8: I like I said, if you were, if you were
Speaker 8: out there winning and you were second seed and ready
Speaker 8: to roll next week this week, but we all know
Speaker 8: what we're going to say in this radio show that
Speaker 8: they can't go any farther than second game in the Big.
Speaker 7: Twelve and maybe second game in the tournament.
Speaker 8: You're gonna say at geeve Blake going, I'm going to say.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you did.
Speaker 3: But this is a town and you know this, but
Speaker 3: Vic your your Sonan who left, But it's back Blake,
Speaker 3: You've been to the games. This is a front running town. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all over across the board.
Speaker 5: It's a million and a half people that we struggle
Speaker 5: with drawing crowd to support our local communities in our
Speaker 5: economic impact.
Speaker 2: Would you agree?
Speaker 8: Oh, definitely definitely.
Speaker 9: But so I mean sod U s La.
Speaker 8: I mean I lived in La and went to see
Speaker 8: I used to go to more UCLA games in my.
Speaker 3: Ucla But hell, if I'm at Ucla, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to drive two and a half hours to the game.
Speaker 2: That's my first au.
Speaker 8: But that's an excuse if I at nine o'clock starts
Speaker 8: or an excuse.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if he if like today.
Speaker 8: Twelve o'clock game, I was there at the softball game.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna get We're gonna get you a job. You gonna
Speaker 3: get you a job. Big, thanksfully call. I appreciate you.
Speaker 8: I do you go, and I can't wait to hear
Speaker 8: what the rest of the game says.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, thank you. I think we're gonna get
Speaker 3: another call. Here, we got another call already. Hello, you're
Speaker 3: on the airline the ball. Who's hello, you're on the
Speaker 3: airline on the ball.
Speaker 2: Hey, Steve Carlos, Carlos Carlos, Hi, thanks for the call. Hey.
Speaker 3: I read one of your posts over the weekend about
Speaker 3: fans and and it was maybe you know, they was
Speaker 3: so negative or whatever.
Speaker 2: I can't remember what you said.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just said it's basically the the I mean,
Speaker 7: lack of a better term, the ghetto banter just saying
Speaker 7: that we suck. You know, I understand being critical, I
Speaker 7: get that, but this is not being critical, you know,
Speaker 7: saying that we don't you know, our transitioned or slower
Speaker 7: or defensive is you know, defensive looking so good? Different
Speaker 7: than just badgering on the team and a coach. And
Speaker 7: I'm totally guess that to me, that's not.
Speaker 2: A fan base.
Speaker 5: I mean we've done Carlos, You're not wrong. I mean
Speaker 5: we've had the same conversation.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 5: You go on the message boards and it's a it's
Speaker 5: a peak and valley situation where the blame always lies
Speaker 5: with the coach or with Caleb Love, and it's his
Speaker 5: consistency after consistency, which I understand is a fan you
Speaker 5: want to go and air out some grievances, but at
Speaker 5: some point we're still going to be a four seed
Speaker 5: in the tournament and we've done a pretty good job
Speaker 5: of turning the season around from our early start.
Speaker 2: Carlos, I know you did that.
Speaker 3: But here's and I don't post this very often or
Speaker 3: respond to this because I think it's frivolous, but if
Speaker 3: Carlos or Jim Bob, Jim Bob who gets on the
Speaker 3: on the on the Facebook post or whatever, you don't
Speaker 3: wellcat whatever, and they say these things, what does it matter?
Speaker 2: What not?
Speaker 9: Not?
Speaker 2: What does it matter?
Speaker 3: What are they trying to prove that they know basketball?
Speaker 3: That they just want to say that because you could
Speaker 3: go outside your house and yell yell it to the
Speaker 3: rooftops and guess what, no one's going to give a crap,
Speaker 3: just like no one should give a crap about this
Speaker 3: on Facebook. Does that make sense?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean the only reason why I do is because
Speaker 7: people do want that.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no. Why do you think they
Speaker 2: do it?
Speaker 3: Because you were, you responded to it, you you did it,
Speaker 3: and you can't you get because you're tired of it.
Speaker 2: But what do you think they get out of it?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: And usually it's the type of people that doesn't go
Speaker 7: to the games. Is not a booster, you know. They
Speaker 7: they're basically again getting the little feet of we lost
Speaker 7: or what the stats were, and they might you know,
Speaker 7: watch a little bit on ESPN or whatever. But most
Speaker 7: of those people do have nothing invested into this.
Speaker 2: But I just think some people.
Speaker 7: Are just you know, wired negatively. They don't know what
Speaker 7: it is to coach. I've been coaching for thirty years
Speaker 7: and people think, oh, yeah, let's go, you know. And
Speaker 7: at the same time, you know, we had three guys,
Speaker 7: three starters that left last year that were pivotal players,
Speaker 7: you know, huge, and now we're making the adjustments and
Speaker 7: they want us to be first place. Don't ever lose
Speaker 7: a game, and then if you didn't win by thirty,
Speaker 7: you won horribly, right.
Speaker 5: You know, I just don't get what the purpose of
Speaker 5: doing it is. It's therapeutic for them in what way?
Speaker 5: Because maybe they don't listen and I'm not getting in
Speaker 5: personal spaces here, but maybe they don't have that at home.
Speaker 5: Maybe they don't have an outlet, and that's their way
Speaker 5: of we'll call controls. That's their way of getting their
Speaker 5: point across and feeling like they're adding something to society.
Speaker 3: Well, here's like being at the keyboard. This team needs
Speaker 3: to rebound better. V Show needs to play better. Caleb
Speaker 3: loves these to shoot better.
Speaker 2: Period.
Speaker 5: No crap, no crap you and everybody knows that. Why
Speaker 5: I post it? Yeah, I mean in game decisions like
Speaker 5: Carlos is talking about. From a coaching standpoint, nobody understands that.
Speaker 5: Nobody really sees it, and they put all the blame
Speaker 5: on one person, and then they go up and say
Speaker 5: the same three things every single time. I can't believe Calebs.
Speaker 5: I can't believe Caleb's taking that shot. It's like that's
Speaker 5: what he does. Like you either love him or hate him.
Speaker 5: But hell, I'm glad he's on our side.
Speaker 3: Right Well, Carlos, you're gonna have to save us from
Speaker 3: our Facebook people.
Speaker 7: I don't know, man, I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 7: I mean, I doubt anyone keeps track of me, but
Speaker 7: I never react. I read those posts and I have
Speaker 7: to bite my tongue. You go, whatever, what do they know?
Speaker 8: Whatever?
Speaker 2: What do they know?
Speaker 7: And it's like, you know, I see I got a
Speaker 7: little tib But what you are talking about before about
Speaker 7: you know, attendance and stuff like that. Have you guys
Speaker 7: ever been to the pitt New Mexico.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, it's ridiculous. Oh, Carlos, I see this all
Speaker 5: the time. What's embarrassing about Tucson is you have albert
Speaker 5: Querque and El Paso that support their sports more than
Speaker 5: we even come close to supporting oursel Well, let.
Speaker 3: Me also say this, Carlos, because I grew up in
Speaker 3: that area. It wasn't like that it hadn't been like
Speaker 3: there forever, and they even have worse fans because they
Speaker 3: thought they invent They think they invented the game, and
Speaker 3: they haven't been to the second weekend of the tournament ever.
Speaker 3: But it's only good when they're running good. And like
Speaker 3: everybody else, if you're running hot, they come and show up.
Speaker 3: But if you're not. That was a ten thousand, nine thousand.
Speaker 3: That's how they were when they were bad, and they've
Speaker 3: been bad for a long time. Now you see it
Speaker 3: because they're running hot and then they'll lose the first
Speaker 3: round and then you won't see them again. They're like
Speaker 3: they did last year, and that's it's And I'll get this.
Speaker 3: If you're running hot, teams come, you lose and they scatter.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, So.
Speaker 7: I mean yeah, But and then what gets me too
Speaker 7: is we are kind of guilty of that because our
Speaker 7: stands are not we should be sold out. And I'm
Speaker 7: used to our stand being piled out, even with worse records,
Speaker 7: and I'm like, why are we not sold out today?
Speaker 7: That thinks they're just too expensive, you know, or I
Speaker 7: don't know what the reasoning is. But a big doctor too,
Speaker 7: is those nine o'clock games I don't mention any games a.
Speaker 2: No question, No question, I re questioned.
Speaker 3: Just for the purpose of the show was to called
Speaker 3: or text to someone to give me some numbers on
Speaker 3: the numbers four season tickets. I didn't get a response.
Speaker 3: But let me tell you it started happening at the
Speaker 3: end of end of Sean when he had those bad
Speaker 3: two three years and you can see the people start
Speaker 3: showing up less and less and they even had to
Speaker 3: run ads. When was the last time you saw ads?
Speaker 3: And then and they started showing ads because he wasn't
Speaker 3: getting the crowds. Yeah, he also wasn't winning a lot.
Speaker 3: Now he's gone, so okay, we got to go. Thanks
Speaker 3: Carlos for the call. All right, buddy, every day we
Speaker 3: gotta go. We're not gonna have a guest at three seventeen,
Speaker 3: so we'll take some more calls. You're gonna be here
Speaker 3: tel whenever you want to be here, senor, and we'll
Speaker 3: talk more one about all this crazy crep.
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Speaker 1: on the ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen
Speaker 1: fifty eight.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to a The about hero Fox Sports
Speaker 3: Sports is because the I'm Steve Rivera, You're Blake Eager,
Speaker 3: and now.
Speaker 2: We have somebody on the pot who's this. Hello, who's
Speaker 2: this this? Charls Charles? Give me your thoughts.
Speaker 9: Well, I'm with Vic and a lot of what you said. Okay,
Speaker 9: I'm a season ticket holder on football and basketball. Great,
Speaker 9: I go to all the games Iowa say. The people
Speaker 9: from Iowa were saying this was definitely a bucket list,
Speaker 9: that this was someplace that you got to see, loved it,
Speaker 9: and Texas Tech was the same thing. Those seats up
Speaker 9: at the top. The problem with that is those games
Speaker 9: are sold out. You go to the Arizona website, they're
Speaker 9: sold out. But you go to Vivid and you get
Speaker 9: a thirty dollars ticket. Now you're paying one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 9: Nobody wants to do that. I want a construction. I mean,
Speaker 9: I make seven hundred, eight hundred dollars a week and
Speaker 9: I'm paying one hundred dollars for popcorn and a beer.
Speaker 9: And you know, two people, and they keep asking for
Speaker 9: more money, and the product keeps going down. Football, the
Speaker 9: product's going down. They want the season tickets got raised
Speaker 9: two years in a row. Now they're they're adding on
Speaker 9: this nil and they're adding on for basketball. I couldn't
Speaker 9: even get the seats I wanted in basketball because I
Speaker 9: could afford the seat, but I couldn't afford the five
Speaker 9: hundred dollars extra donation, you know, like you know, and
Speaker 9: then and they were I mean, this Dryden's nuts. You know.
Speaker 9: I'm a vivid I'm Arizona up to the book, you know,
Speaker 9: I love.
Speaker 2: So So let me ask you. You you make.
Speaker 3: A great point, and you're probably very You're right, you're
Speaker 3: more than right. So you're once in a year and
Speaker 3: you go to the games. You go to the games,
Speaker 3: right trump.
Speaker 9: I go, I don't miss a game.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So and I have Blake here too, who doesn't miss
Speaker 3: a game too. So you're in the building. You're in
Speaker 3: the building, and there's thirteen and a half fourteen thousand,
Speaker 3: right of a fifteen thousand? So do you do you
Speaker 3: have issues with the way the crowd is?
Speaker 2: And hold, how old are you older?
Speaker 5: I do?
Speaker 9: I'm I'm actually I'm a young fifty.
Speaker 2: Four years old. Okay.
Speaker 3: So you're part of the kind of the group just entering.
Speaker 3: Sit the hell down, you know, sit the hell down.
Speaker 2: Be quiet. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, don't But they're they're young, they're.
Speaker 9: In the building, I know. And that was my problem
Speaker 9: my first three years, I barely became a season basketball
Speaker 9: season ticket holder like the last three years. And uh,
Speaker 9: that was my problem was right away, I'm getting cold,
Speaker 9: sit down, sit down, be quiet watching a game. And
Speaker 9: I'm like, and now I picked my spots when I
Speaker 9: could stand up and cheer, and I have to stand
Speaker 9: out in the in the lane. And yes, you're right,
Speaker 9: like that's one of the biggest things. I take friends
Speaker 9: with me. I always have a next ticket. I take
Speaker 9: friends with me, and there like, man, I'm not sitting down.
Speaker 9: I go, you gotta got to because you know, the
Speaker 9: people are nicely behind me. The people were nice behind me,
Speaker 9: and I don't want to. You know, I already fought
Speaker 9: with them year one.
Speaker 3: And then you know, we'll let me tell you charuck.
Speaker 3: That's that's who Tommy's talking about. The atmosphere and the
Speaker 3: excitement needs to change. He showed up last game one night.
Speaker 3: I looked at you. I can't remember which game. There
Speaker 3: was empty seats at the top, and Tommy comes out.
Speaker 3: It was the it was a seven o'clock game or
Speaker 3: six o'clock game when the fans hadn't shown up yet, right,
Speaker 3: it was like ten minutes left or five minutes.
Speaker 2: Stuff.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of empty seats and I even
Speaker 3: posted something on Facebook and he looks around. There's it's
Speaker 3: like ten thousand people. Did you go to that one?
Speaker 3: It was very apparent that it was empty until.
Speaker 2: And everybody got there. And he's talking to.
Speaker 3: He's talking to the people, show up early, have fun
Speaker 3: and get these guys going.
Speaker 9: You can't show up early because I mean, here's well,
Speaker 9: here's my problem. This might not be everybody's problem, but
Speaker 9: it's so expensive in there to show up early and
Speaker 9: have a beer or popcorn. And you're you're talking one hundred,
Speaker 9: two hundred dollars for two people. And and I could
Speaker 9: go sit at uh at dirt Bags for an hour
Speaker 9: before the game and spend forty dollars, you know, I
Speaker 9: mean Friday, the same thing, all of them. It's so
Speaker 9: expensive in there too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what Charles is saying, spot on. I mean, you're Charles,
Speaker 5: You're right about this. Like the cost inside the stadium
Speaker 5: for an average fan a twosonin is substantial. Like you
Speaker 5: can't afford going there and having a beer, popcorn. Let's
Speaker 5: say you get get a hot dog, I think a
Speaker 5: sausage or polish dog. Is like fourteen dollars, right, Like
Speaker 5: who can afford that soda?
Speaker 9: Soda if you get it in the cut tim Bucks.
Speaker 9: But also I noticed the souvenir cups because I get
Speaker 9: one every year, I have to get one or two,
Speaker 9: and I noticed this year they're like paper cups. They
Speaker 9: are so thin they went they I have a bunch
Speaker 9: of them in my cupboard and the new ones are
Speaker 9: paper thin. So you're getting less and less the products.
Speaker 9: The teams are going down that we're not getting the
Speaker 9: top recruise. I mean, yeah, the one and done. Maybe
Speaker 9: that's not the way.
Speaker 2: To do it.
Speaker 9: But at least I got to go see Aaron Gordon,
Speaker 9: you know, I gotta see I gotta see Nico Man,
Speaker 9: and I got to see all these guys that we're
Speaker 9: gonna be in the NBA.
Speaker 5: What's you know, guys, what's the solve? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: you've you've got a problem. In two sons, we love
Speaker 5: to point out the problem, sometimes we don't point out
Speaker 5: a solution.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 5: I think to George, to Steve's point, I think once
Speaker 5: we're there, we have to be more engaged with what's happening,
Speaker 5: and that maybe that means standing longer.
Speaker 2: Maybe it doesn't.
Speaker 5: Maybe it means being louder, right, being present and like
Speaker 5: one set earlier, that makes a lot of sense. I
Speaker 5: think when you yell at a fan to show up
Speaker 5: more often, but the prices are not affordable, somebody has
Speaker 5: take ownership. Then on the other side, so there's got
Speaker 5: to be a happy meat in the middle. And when
Speaker 5: we're getting hit with nil dollars on top of our
Speaker 5: which we were not, nobody told us until you told me, Steve. Right,
Speaker 5: And no matter what if it's fifty dollars or it's
Speaker 5: five thousand dollars, it's money that I have to spend
Speaker 5: now to something that I don't even know where it's going. Yep, Charles,
Speaker 5: thanks for the call. Great call. Don't disagree with you.
Speaker 5: I just know is there a solution? I have no idea?
Speaker 5: All right, Thanks Charles, Thanks for listening to a bunch.
Speaker 5: I thank you, thanks a bunch. I mean, I think
Speaker 5: Steve to partly my solution is that you can go
Speaker 5: to a softball game. You can go to a baseball
Speaker 5: game for U of A and it's very affordable, right.
Speaker 5: You can go to other pro sports in Tucson, it's
Speaker 5: very affordable.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: If we're able to now bring all those up others up.
Speaker 5: You're starting to solve a solution a little bit. And
Speaker 5: that's all you're asking for, is well, three hours a
Speaker 5: week of your time.
Speaker 2: You're going through it right now.
Speaker 3: And you just mentioned the softball and baseball and side
Speaker 3: not sidewinders, but the road Runners and.
Speaker 2: The two sugar skulls, all of them. Have all of them.
Speaker 3: I'm assuming the road runs, I don't go roadrunners have
Speaker 3: space for more people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: And the Roadrunners, you're looking guys on the ice right
Speaker 5: now that are going to play in the NHL that season.
Speaker 5: You're looking at first rounders. And I'm not a huge
Speaker 5: hockey for like, if you asked me about the NHL,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna sound like an idiot, but like, going to
Speaker 5: a hockey game is a great experience, right, Mostly you
Speaker 5: get to watch white guys fight, right. So one, that's
Speaker 5: the reaction. I'm hoping you have two aspens in here.
Speaker 5: That's what I mean.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying any hold on going and ex because
Speaker 3: I think you were. He kind of re jumped your
Speaker 3: your thoughts on the present thing.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, We've had this similar conversation in one of
Speaker 6: my classes. It's one of the other classes, and we're
Speaker 6: trying to figure out how to fix Arizona basketball. And
Speaker 6: he mentioned you go to dirt Bags forty bucks and
Speaker 6: you have a almost the same experience that shouldn't be
Speaker 6: a thing, that shouldn't be a thing to where you're
Speaker 6: having the same experience at dirt Bags as you are
Speaker 6: at McHale Center, and maybe even a better experience.
Speaker 2: So r o I R O I is important, right,
Speaker 2: return on investment? Yeah, I want to. I want to.
Speaker 2: I want to. I want to create a memory when
Speaker 2: I go.
Speaker 3: Okay, so if you spend one hundred bucks on your food,
Speaker 3: drinking all that stuff and you have a good memory accomplished.
Speaker 2: I think for me it is I mean one of
Speaker 2: the things that's changed for me.
Speaker 5: When you go on site now when they have the
Speaker 5: dust DJ out there, it feels like an atmosphere.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 5: I want to feel like I'm going a to college
Speaker 5: campus where young people are there to have fun and
Speaker 5: it's engaging and there's energy, And I want a good
Speaker 5: product that's going to have a chance to win every
Speaker 5: game it plays.
Speaker 6: I don't I go ahead, Well, I was just going
Speaker 6: to continue. You know, I'm a student I've been going
Speaker 6: for three years. Yeah, it's there's no fans. There's no
Speaker 6: fans in the student section anymore. It's just students who
Speaker 6: show up for maybe a half. They want to use
Speaker 6: basketball ball. I mean across the board, across the board.
Speaker 6: You know, students aren't fans anymore. They want to go
Speaker 6: to say they win. They don't want to go because
Speaker 6: I want to see Arizona basketball win. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 6: the same experience anymore. Yeah, which is a bad thing,
Speaker 6: very bad. God, I lost the thought of something to you.
Speaker 6: You talked about return on investment. I don't get what
Speaker 6: the issue is with some of these fans saying, well,
Speaker 6: you know, maybe they don't win anymore. And no, I
Speaker 6: looked this up as a student at Whole Games. I
Speaker 6: I say eyes, and I was from Arizona winning these
Speaker 6: games a sixty and seven record over the last four
Speaker 6: years at home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 6: You have almost an eighty percent chance of winning when
Speaker 6: you go to a game against.
Speaker 3: And by the way, by the way, you're not always
Speaker 3: going to win because you're not always the best team.
Speaker 18: Ya.
Speaker 3: No, I mean this weekend, they thought they were going
Speaker 3: to be Kansas. They pay them well, they didn't win.
Speaker 3: That that they're to be Houston, they didn't win. Guess
Speaker 3: what those teams are fantastic, Oh heroes. I traveled with
Speaker 3: the team for twenty three years, went to different places
Speaker 3: all over the country. I've always said to Stanford, I
Speaker 3: went to do last year just to get the experience
Speaker 3: Kansas a few times.
Speaker 2: Arizona thinks highly of themselves.
Speaker 3: These are people that don't go to other venues to
Speaker 3: see how it is. And there was another thing I
Speaker 3: saw that it's a little stale in the room. It
Speaker 3: is the entertainment you talked about the DJ. I'm wondering
Speaker 3: if I'm sixty, I have no problem with the music
Speaker 3: and all the kid music blah blah blah. I'm wondering
Speaker 3: what the older people do the crowds because they don't.
Speaker 2: Know that music. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: You know music, you know music because people are in
Speaker 3: the billion sixty five years old. They're playing stuff that
Speaker 3: you listen to one and do you think they get
Speaker 3: that music?
Speaker 6: No, not at all.
Speaker 5: Hey listen, and this is coming from a coaching standpoint.
Speaker 5: It's a culture that we've created in southern Arizona, in Tucson,
Speaker 5: whatever you want to call it where Now, if you're
Speaker 5: looking at athletes, young athletes from Tucson that want to
Speaker 5: move on to play collegiate whatever it is, whatever sport
Speaker 5: they're in, they always want to try to stay as
Speaker 5: close as they can to home, and they compare themselves
Speaker 5: with the athlete that they see on the other side
Speaker 5: of the field, when they don't compare themselves with the
Speaker 5: kids in Florida, with the kids in Texas, with the
Speaker 5: kids in California, Like it's a different world out there.
Speaker 2: We don't know what we don't know.
Speaker 5: So when you're saying that we think highly of ourselves, Steve,
Speaker 5: you're absolutely right, and we need to have a little
Speaker 5: bit of a culture shock, and maybe that's what Tommy's
Speaker 5: trying to do at this point. So I just got
Speaker 5: a text from the person I asked him about the
Speaker 5: season tickets estimate for me guess guesstimate seton tickets holders
Speaker 5: in the UAO basketball out of the fourteen thousands of
Speaker 5: the I think it's fifteen fifteen o.
Speaker 2: Six. Okay, wait, we phrased it season ticket holders.
Speaker 3: All those fifteen thousand people who suppose they go, how
Speaker 3: many of those are season ticket holders?
Speaker 2: I could do.
Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you, Okay, I couldn't tell me six thousand.
Speaker 3: Why you say.
Speaker 17: That, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm taking a stab in the dark.
Speaker 5: It's ten thousand out of the fifteen, so that means
Speaker 5: fifteen five. That means five thousand available per game, available
Speaker 5: per game. Yeah, And they like I say, I covered
Speaker 5: loot for a long time, A little. That's just sean
Speaker 5: half the time.
Speaker 3: And I couldn't remember them doing ads come and buy tickets,
Speaker 3: and they still do and come and buy tickets because
Speaker 3: there's tickets available, tickets available.
Speaker 5: And I gotta go back. I'm making the same argument
Speaker 5: that one made. If you're complaining about the product on
Speaker 5: this field, that's going to be a four seed in
Speaker 5: March madness, we's a that's a well, that's a first
Speaker 5: class problem to happen.
Speaker 3: Well, let me say this. I posted today. They're no
Speaker 3: longer in the top twenty five. They hadn't been a
Speaker 3: few weeks in this year. It says if they were ten,
Speaker 3: what would have matter, If there were seven, what wouldn't matter?
Speaker 3: Now they're not not even talk twenty. It doesn't matter
Speaker 3: what The rankings don't mean anything. And some guys, some
Speaker 3: guy comments he may listen to the show. He says,
Speaker 3: that just means we suck, and I think, no, mean
Speaker 3: that's exactly So my response was, it just means you're spoiled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're spoiled.
Speaker 5: Playing in the PAC twelve, where you're seeing two three
Speaker 5: opponents a year that really should give you a run
Speaker 5: for your money. Where now, when you're playing in the
Speaker 5: Big twelve, every single game you play in is most
Speaker 5: likely going to be the second or third best team
Speaker 5: you would have seen in the In the PAC twelve,
Speaker 5: I mean you had a chance to win every single week.
Speaker 5: Now you're five and seven right in the last or
Speaker 5: your two win seven in the last seven games.
Speaker 2: And anybody who didn't see that coming, and I wrote
Speaker 2: you said it over and over again.
Speaker 3: Look, I go to a room and I'm the best
Speaker 3: looking guy, and if I can't pull a girl who
Speaker 3: may be not pretty or whatever, I'm going kind of
Speaker 3: weird with this, uh, and then going to it, going
Speaker 3: to it, it'd be sad. But if I go to
Speaker 3: a to a room and there's a lot of juke
Speaker 3: girls and they don't want me, I'm expecting that, right.
Speaker 3: I expected then to lose a lot of games on
Speaker 3: the back end of this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it's a better team. It's a difficult Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a difficult schedule. But I will ask this, out
Speaker 5: of those five losses, how many of those five losses
Speaker 5: did we not have a chance to win the last
Speaker 5: few minutes? Good point and no one realizes that good
Speaker 5: point lost going toe to toe with the number three
Speaker 5: team in the country out in Houston, that you should
Speaker 5: have most likely be Yeah, okay, Kansas, I mean you're
Speaker 5: you have no You've got a two time All American
Speaker 5: and a Hunter Dixon that you literally don't have any
Speaker 5: answer for, right I think, listen, and we haven't talked
Speaker 5: about this and we might not get into it, and
Speaker 5: I just because I don't have enough time. But our defense.
Speaker 5: I was the most frustrated with our defense against Kansas
Speaker 5: that I've been all year, just on help coverage and
Speaker 5: our guards not rebounding. But still you're going in to
Speaker 5: the end of the game, in the last two minutes You're like,
Speaker 5: there's I mean, we're you never know, Yeah, we got
Speaker 5: a chance. It's not like we're we're not getting blown
Speaker 5: out of the water. The only the only exception to
Speaker 5: that was Iowa State.
Speaker 6: Even then I believe almost every fan kind of fell.
Speaker 5: You're a revenge game at home, and they haven't lost
Speaker 5: at home in the senior game and forever. There's a
Speaker 5: circumstances of events too. Let's take a break. You can
Speaker 5: stay for another twenty before. Yeah, it's a good conversation.
Speaker 5: Thanks everybody.
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Speaker 1: Streaming live on the iHeartRadio app. This is I on
Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Ramira on Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 3: Well, welcome back to I the Ball. Here a Fox
Speaker 3: Sports Sports you fifty I'm Steve Rivera. You're a blake
Speaker 3: eager and we got one at the controls these If
Speaker 3: you guys want to call, you have about twelve minutes.
Speaker 2: Give us a call.
Speaker 3: Five two zero four one six seventy four forty. I
Speaker 3: just got a text one with my friends. Kind of
Speaker 3: no stuff going on. Tommy was mad because the fans
Speaker 3: didn't stay until midnight on Senior Night. Listen to speeches
Speaker 3: that nobody knew about. He's kind of been, you know, insightful.
Speaker 3: What we gotta call. I'll say the rest of later. Hey,
Speaker 3: you're on the air and iine the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's this?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 2: This is Bill? Bill? What's the word?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 18: Hey?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 18: You know do them. One of my past lives, I
Speaker 18: got to go to a lot of games and a
Speaker 18: lot of a lot of places. I've been to Big
Speaker 18: ten games, SEC games, ACC games, and two Sons not
Speaker 18: that kind of town. It's just not going to support
Speaker 18: the school the way that Tommy wants. And Tommy wants
Speaker 18: that cloud going crazy like the Duke game or the
Speaker 18: Texas or the Iowa game. He wants that every game.
Speaker 18: Because that's why it is, is the fact that I
Speaker 18: don't think if they're playing in Wolford or you know,
Speaker 18: Upstate Tech, they're like that every single game. They're crazy.
Speaker 18: The football games they start tailgating to two days before.
Speaker 18: And that's what that's what everybody wants in two some
Speaker 18: But we're never going to get that because we're front runners.
Speaker 18: Even when our when our football team had a once
Speaker 18: in a lifetime season a few years ago, we didn't
Speaker 18: start really getting behind until it won six or seven,
Speaker 18: eight games in a row. You know, then we get
Speaker 18: behind them, and then the next year's show me again.
Speaker 18: You know, I'm not gonna buy my tickets.
Speaker 8: Show me.
Speaker 18: And that's why it's going to be and that's why
Speaker 18: Tucson is unfortunately.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, Bill, we we talked about this before.
Speaker 5: The difference between how we recognize ourselves and see ourselves
Speaker 5: when you go to the SEC or the big ten,
Speaker 5: especially from a football standpoint, it's a completely different world.
Speaker 5: I've had the you know, I've had the opportunity to
Speaker 5: go to the Florida, Georgia largest cocktail party in the
Speaker 5: world game in Jacksonville. Uh, it's a different environment, like
Speaker 5: and I think it gets to the point in those
Speaker 5: areas that doesn't really matter what happens on the core
Speaker 5: or the field. It's the events that are taking place
Speaker 5: around it that are what matters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, first, there's that song. They're not like that first.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I was at that first Big Ten game when
Speaker 18: Nebraska played Ohio State. They were down by twenty seven.
Speaker 18: It was rainy, it was aferential, drownt down for nobody left.
Speaker 18: They were down by twenty seven and a half. I
Speaker 18: happened to be in the tunnel where the team was
Speaker 18: coming up the field and then Nebraska.
Speaker 7: Fans are telling Boklean, you got them right where you.
Speaker 18: Want them, coach, you're going to get him in the
Speaker 18: second half. And they came back and won that game in.
Speaker 8: The second half.
Speaker 18: And I've never seen anything like that in my life.
Speaker 18: Because Tucson with the rain come in that heart that
Speaker 18: had been fifteen hundred people in the stadium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're absolute, right, Bo.
Speaker 18: Yeah, yeah, absolutely we are.
Speaker 3: So you agree you can't identify yourself because you don't
Speaker 3: know who you are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you you haven't seen what the other edge of
Speaker 5: the sword is or side of the sword is. You know,
Speaker 5: we were talking about this, and I can just speak
Speaker 5: about the opportunity that just happened with the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 5: You know, Monday night last week, we had a little
Speaker 5: bit of weather, right it was, it was chilly, and
Speaker 5: I knew, like Bill said, I knew that was going
Speaker 5: to kill our chances of bringing in a large crown,
Speaker 5: and it absolutely did. The frustration on my end lies
Speaker 5: with like we were honoring Bill, the Bill and Bill
Speaker 5: from Keno Baseball, which this is a personal thing, Like
Speaker 5: we wouldn't have youth baseball without them, fifteen year anniversary.
Speaker 5: Like if I'm a coach in this town or a
Speaker 5: kid that's played in that, I'm coming to go come.
Speaker 5: And they were free tickets for those kids to coming
Speaker 5: to honor. That's I think we don't put our people
Speaker 5: that we need to on pedestals and take I mean
Speaker 5: we put Loot there, right, Loots in that, like we
Speaker 5: put Jerry Kendall in there, we put Kendra in there.
Speaker 5: I get it, But like Bill said, like we have
Speaker 5: to be consistent, and what does that look like? Is
Speaker 5: it going to be thirty thousand that show up to
Speaker 5: a U A football game? Is it ten thousand that?
Speaker 2: I mean? What what are we.
Speaker 18: Well, all of your callers that have called to that
Speaker 18: were passionate, and you can hear the passion in their voices,
Speaker 18: but it's like, what about me? What's in it for me?
Speaker 18: You know?
Speaker 9: And I grew up here.
Speaker 18: I've been going to games. I'm a flame Wells grad
Speaker 18: like you, Blake. So I've been going to games since
Speaker 18: nineteen sixty nine. I've been going to baseball, football, and
Speaker 18: basket well ever since then. I was in the last
Speaker 18: game at Bay Down Gym and I was at the
Speaker 18: first game at Michale. So I've been going to games
Speaker 18: my whole life. And it's and I'm going to continue
Speaker 18: to go to games the whole life. I'm gonna continue
Speaker 18: to sport the team, you know in the school. But
Speaker 18: those guys like you know, I want a winning product.
Speaker 18: Well everyone wants a winning product.
Speaker 7: But you got to be.
Speaker 18: There on the games when it's when you're playing NAU
Speaker 18: or when you're you're you're playing someone, or you're or
Speaker 18: you're having a down season, you've lost the injuries or whatever.
Speaker 18: You know, you couldn't get a ticket during lout Olsen's time.
Speaker 18: People used to call me all the time, are you
Speaker 18: using your tickets? Gonna?
Speaker 6: If you're not going to go?
Speaker 5: Call me?
Speaker 18: You know, it's not like that anymore.
Speaker 2: It's not like that.
Speaker 18: And and the prices, the prices are a redeal. I
Speaker 18: know the guy running concession there now, and that's what
Speaker 18: I used to do. And it's it's expensive. It's it's
Speaker 18: a costly ticket to go.
Speaker 5: Bill, we probably don't want to go down the air
Speaker 5: mark model that they have right now. But you're one
Speaker 5: hundred percent right when you know, yea from a from
Speaker 5: a wholesale cost perspective of what's happening there. Like people
Speaker 5: get mad at you of A and UVE really doesn't
Speaker 5: have a ton of control on the on the cost
Speaker 5: surplus piece of it. But Bill, you're spot on with
Speaker 5: everything you're saying. And it's great to hear that from
Speaker 5: another f A little caberro.
Speaker 18: If you go to if you go to a pro game,
Speaker 18: you know, Diamondbacks game, the price of beer is outrageous.
Speaker 18: Price of parking is outrageous. The dog is outrageous. Like
Speaker 18: you talked about the polar sausage at u of A,
Speaker 18: that's that's a big ticket item now, you know. And
Speaker 18: so but it's like that's kind of the world we've
Speaker 18: gotten into. So I don't, I don't. I don't have
Speaker 18: an answer, but I'll keep going and keep shutting out
Speaker 18: my books.
Speaker 5: So I know it's it's Once we create a solution
Speaker 5: for this, I think we're all going to be very
Speaker 5: successful in life because this is a really difficult problem
Speaker 5: to understand how to change.
Speaker 3: Thanks to the show, guys, Thanks, thanks, thanks for calling
Speaker 3: in all these good perspectives.
Speaker 2: We got another call, Hello, you're on the air, and
Speaker 2: one on the ball.
Speaker 21: Hey, I just had some some some ideas. You know,
Speaker 21: I'm kind of going to uh JR.
Speaker 2: Is my name A?
Speaker 21: Yeah, No, I was thinking, I mean, I would, I'm
Speaker 21: I'm I'm.
Speaker 9: A school principal.
Speaker 21: And we got we got the amazing opportunity to have
Speaker 21: kids go to the World Baseball Classic for free, you
Speaker 21: know what I mean. And and it filled up the stadium.
Speaker 21: It was a meaningful experience for the for the kids.
Speaker 21: You know, got access to a venue and an experience
Speaker 21: that they would never have had before and most likely
Speaker 21: you know, and and I'm just thinking if we think
Speaker 21: creatively and not think about the dollars, but if they
Speaker 21: have some type of waiting section, you know, outside of
Speaker 21: the football stadium, outside of the basket McHale for when
Speaker 21: the you know, the kid whoever chooses to go back
Speaker 21: to Green Valley or to go back to their frat houses, whatever,
Speaker 21: and you pop in the next people in at a
Speaker 21: discounted rate or or even if they want to consider
Speaker 21: it for free, just so that the crowd is there
Speaker 21: and the true fans are there, because I do think
Speaker 21: we do have the vibe of the true fans. They
Speaker 21: just don't have the access to to to be there,
Speaker 21: and they would stay there if they could afford it.
Speaker 21: And you know, and that again, thinking how many season
Speaker 21: ticket holders are are are taking up McHale's spaces, you
Speaker 21: know that that is even a harder ticket to get into.
Speaker 5: You know, So your first and foremost the spla thank
Speaker 5: you so much for coming out and bringing the kids out.
Speaker 5: I will tell you right now that we blew Major
Speaker 5: League Baseball and World Baseball Classic socks off by doing
Speaker 5: that and it was unbelievable to have the kids in
Speaker 5: the park. And I think I said that in an
Speaker 5: article that we're creating future twoson ins or Southern Arizona
Speaker 5: fans for the sports that we have here. I really
Speaker 5: like that idea having some activation zones throughout the season
Speaker 5: for our sporting events, whether it's through our kids piece
Speaker 5: of it or through our Pemic council on aging our
Speaker 5: older adults. I think you're creating a cyclical or a
Speaker 5: positive cycle for our fan experience and future fans. That's
Speaker 5: a really good point you are.
Speaker 21: Yeah, and I grew up, you know, eighties and nineties
Speaker 21: as a kid here going to the not whole section
Speaker 21: where we honestly had season tickets as kids for I
Speaker 21: think it was two dollars a game. I'm not saying
Speaker 21: to go that that cheap, but that was a huge
Speaker 21: significant area of the at that point. It was the
Speaker 21: north end zone that was filled every single week, regardless
Speaker 21: of we played at a very inexpensive cost of the
Speaker 21: families who ended up having to shell out money for
Speaker 21: their own tickets and stuff. But visually seeing that as
Speaker 21: as an opponent, visually seeing that on when we were
Speaker 21: on TV, it sends a message a lot bigger messages
Speaker 21: than an empty scene, I think for recruits and and
Speaker 21: you know that whole cyclical event of of having someone
Speaker 21: interested in coming to play for us, They're not going
Speaker 21: to want to come if there's not that many people
Speaker 21: in our stands. So I think it translates to success
Speaker 21: and and and dollars in another way.
Speaker 2: G R, thanks for calling, Thanks for listening to the show.
Speaker 21: Yeah, I'll go babe it on Chris Rogers too, But I.
Speaker 3: Wut blame Chris. Uh No, it's very packing that people, right,
Speaker 3: I think that, and it's not gonna get any better.
Speaker 3: N I l Apparently high prices of the food, high
Speaker 3: prices of the ticket. Apparently I have a credential, so
Speaker 3: I don't know about the prices, but if I had,
Speaker 3: if I had money, I'm trying to convince my son,
Speaker 3: maybe sure some ticket to get in. To me, the
Speaker 3: Big twelve is a fantastic You were not if you
Speaker 3: have tickets, And if you told me you were bored
Speaker 3: with the games that you saw, that's on you, because
Speaker 3: you saw some very good games there was to me
Speaker 3: worth a ticket price.
Speaker 11: No.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a heavyweight boxing match. Yeah, we got to
Speaker 3: go buyby last call. Hello, you're on the air and
Speaker 3: one on the ball. Who's this, Hey, Steve Howard, give
Speaker 3: me something.
Speaker 11: Here's the real quick thought. Of course, uh, I usually agree
Speaker 11: with Vic because he's a Monday man. But he's wrong
Speaker 11: a lot because you've been saying it's like Tommy is
Speaker 11: he really is a good coach. And if it was
Speaker 11: just harping on the people not staying well, then that's
Speaker 11: a pick them. You know, that's a personal decision. I
Speaker 11: would have sayd if you're going to stay up that late,
Speaker 11: you're gonna stay especially.
Speaker 18: As U.
Speaker 11: And you're right the big the conference where and they're
Speaker 11: just tough. Everything's tough, and people don't know just because
Speaker 11: we're not in the top twenty five. We're still in
Speaker 11: the in the middle of the fifteen or fourteen in
Speaker 11: the net.
Speaker 7: I eat a ken pump and and you have a fans.
Speaker 11: Better realize what that means.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree with you.
Speaker 5: Hey, you're a four seed right now we're predicting, like,
Speaker 5: who cares if we're in top twenty five, you're a
Speaker 5: freaking We're terrible.
Speaker 2: How can you be terrible? Before? Say, go into March? Yeah,
Speaker 2: the first year in this conflict exactly.
Speaker 3: I think the fifth I think they're a pig fish.
Speaker 3: They were a pig fish. So you know, you can't
Speaker 3: have it all. You know, you got to identify who
Speaker 3: you are first. And you're not that guy. You're just
Speaker 3: not that guy.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 3: How Thanks, We're gonna get ready to go. There was
Speaker 3: something I'm always forgetting. I'll tell you how much time
Speaker 3: we got left? About two minutes perfect, Okay.
Speaker 5: Can I tell you a personal story, but braklef okay,
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna show you guys in this booth all right.
Speaker 5: Uh so it's today, was like I would like treat yourself.
Speaker 5: You ever watch Parks and rec Yeah, okay. So I
Speaker 5: was like, hey, I'm gonna get a haircut, get a massage. Perfect, right,
Speaker 5: So wake up, work out, go and get your haircut.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: And so she's trying to fade my side of the hair. Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take my hand off. It is literally the
Speaker 5: worst haircut I've ever had in my life. Like I
Speaker 5: look like Gary Oldman in the Fifth Element. It reminds
Speaker 5: me of my aunt Doris. My aunt Doris was ahead
Speaker 5: of the team Stirs in Cleveland. She drove a Lincoln
Speaker 5: town car and smoked a cigar. I'm not saying she
Speaker 5: knows where half is buried. There's a good chance she
Speaker 5: knows where half is buried. This is the worst haircut.
Speaker 5: And I wish that the rest of the people could
Speaker 5: see this, but I'm actually pretty happy that you can't.
Speaker 2: So she just destroyed.
Speaker 5: Oh it's awful once, just just yeah, And like I
Speaker 5: could not believe when she got done, I was like,
Speaker 5: what what did you just do?
Speaker 2: Why did you just do this? Is this your regular person?
Speaker 5: No, it's it's a person I went to because I
Speaker 5: had I went to Supercuts.
Speaker 3: I shouldn't. Oh wait wait wait so so so which
Speaker 3: side did she start?
Speaker 2: All?
Speaker 5: First started on my right, she started on my left side,
Speaker 5: and she was trying to she was trying to blend it,
Speaker 5: which I wanted her to fade it. And I kept going, okay,
Speaker 5: like this is gonna take forever, like take one and
Speaker 5: a half and go up, like just fade that side piece.
Speaker 5: And so then I wasn't looking because her arm was
Speaker 5: in there. And then she got done, and I was like,
Speaker 5: what in the hell just happen?
Speaker 2: Why does she do the other side? Then the same
Speaker 2: The other side's fine, I'm following, but.
Speaker 5: She started because I think at that point I was like,
Speaker 5: just get this over with, Like I was like, please.
Speaker 2: Just be and like it's Arizona. Just get this overweight. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: And so then I was like, uh, you know, I'm
Speaker 5: so frustrated, flustered, and I'm just like complaining the whole time.
Speaker 5: And I complain anyway, but then I go to pay
Speaker 5: and I can't believe he's charging me for this haircut.
Speaker 5: And then I go, you know what, I go, I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: but I'm only gonna tip you three dollars.
Speaker 2: In my mind, I should have been like, yeah, so
Speaker 2: your wife hasn't seen it yet.
Speaker 5: Oh she saw it, and she laughed, Aly, so it's
Speaker 5: gonna be hat city. And then she tried to go, no,
Speaker 5: I'll just go I'll go no, Blade, I'll go, skin,
Speaker 5: I go, why would you do that?
Speaker 2: It's gonna take even longer scross first down. I don't know.
Speaker 2: She was flustered. I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's the worst to say. I gotta go back to
Speaker 5: my barber. I screwed up, man. Well maybe he can't
Speaker 5: fix it. There's no fixing this, Steve. This is my life.
Speaker 5: For the next three months. I'm gonna be a recluse,
Speaker 5: not coming out of the house.
Speaker 2: I gotta take meetings with ownership, a gonna wear a hat. Hey,
Speaker 2: why are you going to this funeral wearing the hat? Yeah,
Speaker 2: one hundred perc.
Speaker 5: I'll figure that out right, all right, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 5: It was good stuff, good stuff.
Speaker 3: We gotta go to break come back, breaking news, and
Speaker 3: we'll have Halveo Morales talking more about this.