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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. On Steve, he's Jane. Now
Speaker 1: we have Ryan with breaking news.
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Speaker 4: not working. I hop into it.
Speaker 5: Start with news about former Arizona quarterback Nick Foles announces
Speaker 5: his retirement from the NFL at eleven years.
Speaker 4: That's where he started. I'm gonna start with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, basketball. Oh yeah, well it's kind of his local tie.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, I'll give you all right, we'll get that,
Speaker 4: all right, Yes, Nick Foles retires today.
Speaker 1: Oh you could have gotten Steve Kerr the local tie. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: nick Foles better. If you would have gone in his
Speaker 1: career when he got out of college, you'd think, okay,
Speaker 1: you know he was pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll probably play quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: He lasted a long time, eleven years and super Bowl,
Speaker 1: super Bowl Champs, super Bowl MVP. More than you bargained for, right,
Speaker 1: not bargain for, but you know, more than you expected.
Speaker 4: You know, I think he was really good here, right, Uh.
Speaker 4: And he didn't start at the beginning, right, He didn't
Speaker 4: spot at the beginning, And there came a time when
Speaker 4: you just thought, Okay, this guy, his his accuracy, his
Speaker 4: his arm, he was very slow and that was that
Speaker 4: was sort of a Okay, he's really really slow. But
Speaker 4: he he looked like a pro quarterback that that last year,
Speaker 4: you know, that that crap game that they lost where
Speaker 4: they got two extra points blocked against a s U.
Speaker 4: That sort of sticks with me in terms of how
Speaker 4: good he could have been, his his legacy or whatever
Speaker 4: have been, and that none of that was his damn fault.
Speaker 4: But you know, right now, you know the best quarterback
Speaker 4: I think Arizona has ever had.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, dude, just in quality and and
Speaker 1: his capability, his talent, quality and cap right, you're right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was a leader. They've had a lot of good quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: but not like that.
Speaker 4: I mean a game that a game that sticks out
Speaker 4: to me is that that Iowa game here right places
Speaker 4: just there were more people in this stadium than should
Speaker 4: have been allowed, right, and a lot of them were
Speaker 4: Iowa people, And that was just an incredible game. Arizona
Speaker 4: beat the hell out of him and and you look
Speaker 4: thinks said, Okay, this is a guy who's really really
Speaker 4: good and he's going to do some really good.
Speaker 1: He was your airport guy.
Speaker 4: He really was. He looked like and you know, and
Speaker 4: by all account's a really nice guy, right.
Speaker 1: Right, God fearing God love.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and uh, you know, good for him. Had a
Speaker 4: great career and made a lot of money, and uh
Speaker 4: he'll have good should have a good rest of his life.
Speaker 4: And maybe we can get him on the show someday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe we can. I was thinking about that because
Speaker 1: he he was under Stoops and I was thinking, maybe
Speaker 1: we can get ahold of Stoops, just not thinking. Then
Speaker 1: I google Stoops and he's at Kentucky, so he's too busy.
Speaker 4: All right, go ahead.
Speaker 5: I think they won the Super Bowl. I think he
Speaker 5: was actually the backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yet we never really gotten the respect that we think, Well,
Speaker 1: he's never been.
Speaker 4: He was never a great starter, right, he was a
Speaker 4: guy who could come in and become a starter. But
Speaker 4: you know, he got some starting jobs and never really
Speaker 4: worst in those for whatever reason reason. But it goes Steve,
Speaker 4: it goes back to when he got here, right, he
Speaker 4: couldn't beat Matt Scott out for the job until Matt
Speaker 4: Scott got so bad that they had to put him
Speaker 4: in and now and then all of a sudden, Okay,
Speaker 4: he took the job. And he I mean, he did
Speaker 4: what he did in Philadelphia, he did it here at Arizona.
Speaker 1: Key. He kept chip Kelly pretty happy. Yeah, isn't he
Speaker 1: was a quarterback at that point. Yeah, and chip Kelly's
Speaker 1: he came in and did so many great things.
Speaker 5: All right, Arizona sucker. They released their first preseason poll.
Speaker 5: They have Air on a sitting down tight tenth for.
Speaker 4: In the Big twelve. In the Big twelve. Yeah, we've
Speaker 4: right with you all the time, with you talking.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, that's gonna be another situation. We have her tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have Beckamorrows, the Arizona soccer coach, will be
Speaker 4: here at three fifteen tomorrow, so Steve will have have
Speaker 4: at it with her to talk about this this season
Speaker 4: coming up.
Speaker 1: No question, a very smart woman of very good coach.
Speaker 4: We're really again we keep saying we're really impressed with
Speaker 4: it the first time we talked to her. Yes, So
Speaker 4: we'll see what she's got on her mind for this
Speaker 4: for the season.
Speaker 5: Switch over to the Olympics USA survives. They're headed to
Speaker 5: the gold medal game after taking down Serbia with the
Speaker 5: late rally. They were down seventeen at the half. They
Speaker 5: were also down fourteen start the fourth quarter. It looks
Speaker 5: like Steph Curry was he was on fire towards the
Speaker 5: end of the game. And they're going to be playing
Speaker 5: France on Saturday.
Speaker 4: He went off for thirty six. I guess had a big,
Speaker 4: a huge shot, right, you know during during the rally.
Speaker 4: Three pointer. But I gotta go see this now. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna have to go watch like the replay tonight. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna have to watch the second half of this game
Speaker 4: to see how that happened. Uh. I was working, Steve
Speaker 4: missed it. I was getting text all kinds of text messages.
Speaker 4: Are you watching the oly the basketball game? And I'm like, no,
Speaker 4: I'm working.
Speaker 1: What did the Serbia's guy have? He must have a good game.
Speaker 4: And well they said Embiid did did a number on
Speaker 4: him in the second half, that Embiid didn't have a
Speaker 4: good first half, but did did a good job on
Speaker 4: him in the second half. And that had as much
Speaker 4: as anything to do with UH.
Speaker 1: Game seventeen eleven. Yeah, but played most of the quarter
Speaker 1: with foul trouble.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So there's a lot of compliments for Embiid Kevin Durant.
Speaker 4: Uh that keeps seeing a video of Jed Devin Booker
Speaker 4: hitting the three out of a off of an inbounce play.
Speaker 4: So just all these highlights that are out there. But
Speaker 4: it sounded like it was the hell of a game. Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, I've read through a lot of the Twitter
Speaker 4: feeds that were going on during the game, and people
Speaker 4: were just going, this is unbelievable. I guess in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter, if you were a gambling kind of person,
Speaker 4: you could have gotten the US at plus one ninety
Speaker 4: five in the in the fourth quarter, And there were
Speaker 4: some people who did that and because they were they
Speaker 4: were you said, a seventeen point favorite. I think that's
Speaker 4: what it was. Yeah, so they would have been plus
Speaker 4: or minus what two hundred and something on the money
Speaker 4: line going into the game. So interesting, good stuff. Odd,
Speaker 4: we finally got to it. You're welcome.
Speaker 5: I was sticking with the Olympics. USA Grant all the
Speaker 5: way wins the Olympic gold medal in the one ten
Speaker 5: hurdles today.
Speaker 1: Okay, they've done really well, really well last two nights
Speaker 1: of watching those guys were fantastic. The four hundred meters.
Speaker 4: And then I think the US woman who won the
Speaker 4: four hundred meter hurdles just she did a Katie Leadecci
Speaker 4: on them. There was nobody else in the picture in
Speaker 4: that well.
Speaker 1: The four hundred meters men's was fantastic.
Speaker 5: Yeah, another comeback yesterday it was I started Quincy Hall.
Speaker 5: He was yeah, gold.
Speaker 4: He looked like he was out of gas and and
Speaker 4: he got like three steps to the from the end
Speaker 4: and uh and uh and and pulls it off. And
Speaker 4: then I don't know if you were you going to
Speaker 4: the two hundred meters today the two hundred meters, Noah
Speaker 4: Lyles says he and it says he's got COVID. He
Speaker 4: finished third. US guy finished second, and guy from Botswana
Speaker 4: won and won their first medal in that in that
Speaker 4: event in the history of their country. But ye had
Speaker 4: Lyles finished third and then afterwards said he's got COVID.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, what are you doing? Why? Why are
Speaker 4: you running next to a guy.
Speaker 1: He doesn't Right, I was reading the story just now,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that's odd he would not and so odd
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess you don't tell anybody until you right,
Speaker 1: I don't know, right, I don't know.
Speaker 5: All right, Let's switch over to football. Former Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 5: wide receiver now Atlanta Falcons wide receiver. He's going to
Speaker 5: have season ending knee surgery. He's been sent to the
Speaker 5: IR today. Who is that Rundell Moore? Oh that's former
Speaker 5: Arizona you're thinking, I guess just yeah, yeah, just one
Speaker 5: of many, one of many. They got like twenty wide
Speaker 5: receiversas anyway, let's switch over to wrestling. A little bit
Speaker 5: of news Roman, bravo Young. I had a terrible, terrible performance,
Speaker 5: lost thirteen to three. I think that was today, Yeah,
Speaker 5: this morning, this morning, Sunny said.
Speaker 4: High school kid Penn State, two time national champion, four
Speaker 4: time state champion, got into the Olympics to compete for Mexico.
Speaker 4: Had to go up a little bit of a wait, right, Uh?
Speaker 4: And I didn't. I didn't. I haven't seen the match called.
Speaker 4: People have texted me about it. Just said he just
Speaker 4: did not look maybe the way the way that the
Speaker 4: weight class, like the weight might the weight class might
Speaker 4: have been tough for him. Just didn't have it. Thirteen
Speaker 4: when you're losing by ten in the wrestling match, they
Speaker 4: stopped the match. He kind of like basically got mercy
Speaker 4: ruled in that match. So I'm sure he's incredibly disappointed.
Speaker 4: And that was the first match, so he didn't even
Speaker 4: i mean, he didn't even get very far. So I'm
Speaker 4: sure that with all that work.
Speaker 1: Well, he might have been able to do the bronze.
Speaker 1: I think according to how you're he could have been
Speaker 1: able to wrestle for the bronze had the guy he
Speaker 1: lost to advanced. The guy lost the next round.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, so the.
Speaker 1: Guy he lost to, so so because.
Speaker 4: Of that, he can't advance for at least a brown. Right,
Speaker 4: that's too bad, all right, good bad for him because
Speaker 4: again i mean we talked to him, right, sure, you
Speaker 4: know how much for it?
Speaker 1: Very impressive guy, right, really, and if this this is
Speaker 1: the worst thing that happens to come on, the guy
Speaker 1: is fantastic. It's like, what's that thing. I've said this
Speaker 1: before and a doctor called me, You're the last guy,
Speaker 1: do the last guy in the doctor's class of studying
Speaker 1: the last guy in the class, They're still going to
Speaker 1: call you a doctor?
Speaker 4: Still a doctor, He's still an olympian, right, exactly, exactly,
Speaker 4: all right, and he can use that the experience for.
Speaker 1: Right, right, And I think that's that was in the story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in four years he'll be in LA possibly, Yeah, that'd
Speaker 1: be cool.
Speaker 4: Okay, sits number to the MLB.
Speaker 5: The White Sox finally let go their manager, Pedro Gridfall,
Speaker 5: after having a terrible season eighty nine. They were almost
Speaker 5: two days away from tying the longest losing streak since
Speaker 5: eighty eight.
Speaker 4: They're on pace to have the worst the fewest number
Speaker 4: of wins since like the early nineteen hundred. Yeah, back
Speaker 4: when they weren't playing one hundred and sixty two games.
Speaker 1: How does that happen? Is there no money?
Speaker 4: Don't really know. I don't really know what happened to
Speaker 4: it to the White Sox in that regard, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I have no idea.
Speaker 5: I think they started off pretty good and then they
Speaker 5: just started having injuries and to their key player.
Speaker 1: Right, it was kind of like Baltimore, kind of like
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. The thing they had a big lead early,
Speaker 1: not kind of what the Dodgers and the Baltimore Warriors
Speaker 1: had this great first couple of months, right, and they
Speaker 1: kind of gut and now they're kind of holding on
Speaker 1: or doing that.
Speaker 4: Well, I was just looking at the standing. They're only
Speaker 4: two and a half up on the on the Padres
Speaker 4: and three up on the on the Diamondbacks, and they've
Speaker 4: been comfortably in front. But they're only but seventeen games
Speaker 4: over five hundred. Down they were twenty plus games over
Speaker 4: five hundred for long time. There's something like thirty and
Speaker 4: thirty or thirty one and thirty one or something like
Speaker 4: that in their last sixty games, which is just way
Speaker 4: below average.
Speaker 5: I think I read yesterday or the day before that
Speaker 5: they're on pace to lose like one hundred and twenty
Speaker 5: three games.
Speaker 4: Right time by the White Hop. Yeah, yeah, they are.
Speaker 4: It's just that's bad. That's terrible. All right.
Speaker 5: Last thing is currently right now, the preseason is officially underway.
Speaker 5: A couple of games are going on. I guess one
Speaker 5: of the biggest things coming out of the NFL right
Speaker 5: now is the new kickoff role.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 5: I don't know what you guys think about this new
Speaker 5: I saw it last week, did I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't get it. It's not exciting.
Speaker 4: Well, it's not. Well, I think it actually kind of
Speaker 4: is because you know you it's like it's like one
Speaker 4: of those things where if you know a running back,
Speaker 4: you know, breaks through the line, he could be gone, right,
Speaker 4: And so, uh, what's gonna what's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 4: see is as we talked about with Bob mcmanhamon the
Speaker 4: other day, who covers the Who covers the covers the Cardinals,
Speaker 4: is that coaches have to figure out how to do this.
Speaker 4: How do you how do you you know, how do
Speaker 4: you block it? How do you defend it? Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: they'll they'll figure some things out. But I think it's okay.
Speaker 4: You know, you got to kick the ball into this
Speaker 4: landing zone. Otherwise they get the all at the thirty five.
Speaker 4: So they're making the kickoff matter. But they're doing it
Speaker 4: in a way that guys don't get killed. So I
Speaker 4: think it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun to
Speaker 4: watch it. Luky. If you're a purist and you say,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, I hate this kickoff again, get over yourself.
Speaker 4: Where it's the game's changing.
Speaker 1: If you're a purist in any sport, it's past you,
Speaker 1: right because things are changing here.
Speaker 4: It's gonna lose your mind.
Speaker 1: Baseball.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine if you were let's say you you
Speaker 4: died in nineteen seventy two, right, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: they dropped you into twenty twenty four, and you watch
Speaker 4: college athletes getting paid. You know, kickoff rules. You can't
Speaker 4: touch the quarterback anymore, you know you you know, you
Speaker 4: hit somebody in the head, you're kicked out of the game.
Speaker 4: All these things that have changed.
Speaker 1: You're what year you're are we coming back seventy it's
Speaker 1: a seventy two. The Raiders suck, the Cowboys suck, the
Speaker 1: Colt suck. Back in those days, then we're all pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, let's go, okay, let's go seventy five. The
Speaker 4: Raiders suck.
Speaker 6: But you know, uh, it's and and and if you
Speaker 6: if you come back from there, you look at the athlete,
Speaker 6: just look at the bodies of these athletes, totally different.
Speaker 4: You go, what the hell has been going on over here? Right?
Speaker 1: The speed of the quality? Yeah, yeah, why you can't
Speaker 1: compare errors because you can't.
Speaker 5: I think the kid off roll is going to be
Speaker 5: kind of like the pitch clock.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just gonna take time.
Speaker 1: To right right, and then everybody loves it.
Speaker 4: I love I love the pitch, I love the It's awesome. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's it. We're gonna take our break, We're gonna come back.
Speaker 4: Jeff Skurn is gonna join us. We'll find out what
Speaker 4: he's up to. I guess he's, you know, still still
Speaker 4: coaching some kids out there, so putting his mark on it.
Speaker 4: And then uh, we'll then we'll break it down all
Speaker 4: after that in the last segment. So uh, we'll be
Speaker 4: right back with jesscar.
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Speaker 2: Breaking down all the exes at oh It's Steve Rivera
Speaker 2: Shacan Salmons. This is I on the Park on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteenth fifty.
Speaker 1: Now welcome back to my I on the ball here
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Fortune Cookie. I'm Steve, He's Jane. Now
Speaker 1: on the phone, we have coach Jeff String. Jeff, can
Speaker 1: I tell you something?
Speaker 3: Hey, any time you.
Speaker 1: Sucking retirement, I hear you're coaching on the side too.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, my wife went told Greg Hanson and an interview.
Speaker 3: She said, coach has only failed at one thing in
Speaker 3: his life, retirement three times.
Speaker 1: Right right right. We wanted to ask you how is going,
Speaker 1: but you're still coaching. We got a guy from Sierra
Speaker 1: Vista saying, now I want to listen to the interview
Speaker 1: because he coaches my son.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I coach your kid. I have kids that come
Speaker 3: down from Phoenix. I coach quarterbacks and uh and a
Speaker 3: couple other kids who play other positions and UH and
Speaker 3: but I really enjoy it. It keeps me, keeps me doing
Speaker 3: what I'd love to do. And the time with the kids.
Speaker 3: You know, it's you know, you could say what you
Speaker 3: want about coaching or this or that, and the n
Speaker 3: IDEO and I held all the problems recruiting the parents,
Speaker 3: the administration. You know what, in the end, if you
Speaker 3: don't love the time with the kids, and if that
Speaker 3: doesn't mean more than anything else. You're probably in the
Speaker 3: wrong deal.
Speaker 4: Well, well, who's this more for? Jeff? Is the more
Speaker 4: for you? Or is it more for the kids? I
Speaker 4: say that jokingly, but yeah, yeah, I want to the
Speaker 4: answer to that.
Speaker 3: That's a that's a fair question.
Speaker 15: I think.
Speaker 3: I think it's a it's it's it's a it's a
Speaker 3: sustainable product. It's kind of like a nurse tree. You know,
Speaker 3: you go your he Sabino Canyon and you see those
Speaker 3: beautiful suaros and and oftentimes they're they're in a sustainable relationship,
Speaker 3: a symbionic relationship, if you will, with with with the trees,
Speaker 3: and and you see four or five and growing in
Speaker 3: a cluster, and you go, that's really it. And I've
Speaker 3: always thought that that was That's that's what coaching should be.
Speaker 3: It's never about the kid. It's never about you know,
Speaker 3: by himself. It's never about the coach. It's never about
Speaker 3: the school. It's the whole package. It's the parents, it's
Speaker 3: the coaches, administration, it's it's always everything working together. That's
Speaker 3: that's how that's how you get success. I mean, my
Speaker 3: my best trait was always my worst rate. And that's
Speaker 3: what I want everybody to go home happy, and that's
Speaker 3: not that's not possible. But when the kids go home happy,
Speaker 3: it's somehow it's okay.
Speaker 1: So now we're in August eighth. I would assume that
Speaker 1: you'd have your team. If you were coaching, you'd have
Speaker 1: your team. Do you have the heb gbis.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's not. That part is not fun. I
Speaker 3: can't lie because everybody around me would call in and
Speaker 3: write and put messages on Facebook and they'd say, coach,
Speaker 3: I never know you to be a liar, why'd you
Speaker 3: do that?
Speaker 15: Now?
Speaker 3: It's not fun, it's this is very, very difficult. I'll
Speaker 3: be I'm going through I wouldn't say mental difficulties, but yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just, you know, it's what I do and I've
Speaker 3: done for fifty years, and you just don't snap and
Speaker 3: break that habit. So I did this summer. I did
Speaker 3: seven weeks of clinics for quarterbacks all over Europe, a
Speaker 3: love in different countries and that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: And then I came back and I put together my
Speaker 3: you know, the kids that wanted I call it Jill
Speaker 3: Eye clean ups, and we do some work on the
Speaker 3: field with the quarterbacks and I see a lot of
Speaker 3: them you know, on Sunday morning, because they still practice
Speaker 3: on Saturdays and I don't want to distract from their school.
Speaker 3: But you know that that just gives me a little bit. Plus,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm planning and I'm doing a lot of
Speaker 3: different particularly in my charity in Mexico. What you guys
Speaker 3: know about.
Speaker 4: Well, one more question before because we want to get
Speaker 4: to that. But but did you ever I mean, with
Speaker 4: the way things have have changed in sports all the
Speaker 4: way down to the high school level, where you know,
Speaker 4: the kids even at that level are talking about how
Speaker 4: much money can I make? And you know that all
Speaker 4: the issues with parents and stuff like that, were you
Speaker 4: ever getting tired of that? Did that you know? Or
Speaker 4: was it just you just accepted as part of doing
Speaker 4: what you were doing?
Speaker 3: Well, I survived this long and coaching, and I emphasized
Speaker 3: the word survived because sometimes it really felt like that
Speaker 3: because of these changes. And I've always prided myself on
Speaker 3: being the guy that doesn't matter your your Your age
Speaker 3: is not age doesn't make you old, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: getting getting set in your ways and not not accepting
Speaker 3: inevitable change and not wanting to roll with the times
Speaker 3: or use technology or whatever it is you know, I've
Speaker 3: really wanted to be that guy that was not necessarily
Speaker 3: out in front of it. But I could roll with it.
Speaker 3: You know, I've always got my go go back to things.
Speaker 3: And yeah, there was there's some it's gotten a lot
Speaker 3: more difficult, and let's face it, what it's done is
Speaker 3: it made it very very difficult on the upper levels
Speaker 3: of football for any team in Tucson to win because
Speaker 3: if these kids are going to up and go wherever
Speaker 3: they want, you got over five million people in Phoenix
Speaker 3: and they're going to go to fifteen schools. You know,
Speaker 3: you've got less than a million people in Tucson and
Speaker 3: they're going to go to seven or eight schools. They're
Speaker 3: going to Magnet to those things. And guess what, you know,
Speaker 3: that's six million is a tough five million. Whatever it
Speaker 3: is up there, that's a tough number to be and
Speaker 3: particularly with now people offering deals and and they're legal
Speaker 3: in some states, and al's and high schools and recruiting
Speaker 3: has been done for a long time. I mean, you
Speaker 3: know kind of what's happening, and we're getting Tucson kids
Speaker 3: that are going up to Phoenix to play and at
Speaker 3: a much better level of football, and I just like
Speaker 3: the kids are coming down from Phoenix sometimes to have
Speaker 3: me coach them, and it's this is what parents are
Speaker 3: willing to do. You turn on the Olympics and you
Speaker 3: watch and you listen to those people and they talk
Speaker 3: about the sacrifices that their family made so they can
Speaker 3: get their chance to make it to the top. And
Speaker 3: that's really part of the package. And I think as
Speaker 3: a coach you kind of had the role with that,
Speaker 3: but it really didn't make it really easy when you
Speaker 3: really liked the model that I did before, where you
Speaker 3: developed kids, that has now gone out the window. College
Speaker 3: coaches do not coach kids anymore. They recruit and they
Speaker 3: build what they have into a team. And that's a
Speaker 3: fine art and to itself, don't get me wrong, but
Speaker 3: it's not the same as it used to be where
Speaker 3: you got the kids and you made them. The Dictomy
Speaker 3: model doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 4: It really doesn't.
Speaker 1: And that's the shame funny you say that because I
Speaker 1: have to agree with you, because now it's about management
Speaker 1: and all that. Do you think this may be a
Speaker 1: dumb question. You may have already answered it you saying
Speaker 1: goodbye in however, you said goodbye was just the right time,
Speaker 1: because I don't I can't remember how old you are,
Speaker 1: but you know you've done this before. But do you
Speaker 1: really feel this is the right time now because of
Speaker 1: all the stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't think that that's a great question,
Speaker 3: by the way, thank you. I don't. I don't see
Speaker 3: the world that way. There's there's there's I'm getting phone
Speaker 3: calls now, there's opportunities. I don't know if I'm done
Speaker 3: or not done. You know, each each opportunity is a
Speaker 3: new world unto its own, and I take it that way.
Speaker 3: And I've never been into absolutes. There's never the best
Speaker 3: of anything. There's never the worst of anything. You know,
Speaker 3: things in general, that they're there. I got to look
Speaker 3: at each opportunity as as it is to my family,
Speaker 3: to my wife, uh, to my grandkids, you know. And
Speaker 3: I've got a very supportive family. And if something good
Speaker 3: comes along, you know, I'm gonna look at it. I
Speaker 3: just don't like making the same mistakes over. I did
Speaker 3: that once in Europe, you know, I went down to
Speaker 3: Rio Rico to help out. It was a great experience.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad I did that. I can't tell you
Speaker 3: how much I learned about a different culture. How much
Speaker 3: I'm I feel attached to some of those families and
Speaker 3: kids still, by the way, and I'm really glad I
Speaker 3: got that opportunity. But you know, I did what I
Speaker 3: could do down there, and and you know, it's just
Speaker 3: like anything else, I want a new challenge, but I
Speaker 3: got to be supported in that, and it's got to
Speaker 3: be something that makes sense at this point in my
Speaker 3: life and with what I want to do, because frankly,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I'm out. I'm working three or
Speaker 3: four different jobs right now. As a consultant, I do
Speaker 3: expert witness testimony in courts. I'm doing these clinics, you know,
Speaker 3: really around the country. I'm I'm working as a consultant
Speaker 3: for for for organizations, trying to go do business in
Speaker 3: Europe because I'm there a lot, and I find a
Speaker 3: way to stay busy. But having a team, not having
Speaker 3: a team, that that that that dichotomy there, It really
Speaker 3: is meaningful to me. And I'm trying to adjust to
Speaker 3: not having my own team, and that's that's that's really hard,
Speaker 3: it really is.
Speaker 1: Would you ever think about not having your own team
Speaker 1: but like an assistant.
Speaker 3: You know, again, that thing stands on its own. It
Speaker 3: depends upon who and where and stuff like that. You know,
Speaker 3: I would have gone to work for a guy like
Speaker 3: Dick Tomy or my buddy Dirk Cutter, who's now retired
Speaker 3: from the NFL. You know that there are people like that.
Speaker 3: I had Gary Barnett when he was at Northwestern. We
Speaker 3: had that opportunity, and you know we you know, I
Speaker 3: went up there and in Michigan State when John L.
Speaker 3: Smith was that coach and I'm sitting in his office.
Speaker 3: He's looking at me at eight degrees outside. The snow
Speaker 3: is literally blowing sideways. My wife was from Michigan. I'm
Speaker 3: from Ohio. I'm looking out the window. He says, you're
Speaker 3: not coming on you. I said, I can't do this.
Speaker 3: So each opportunity there would have been a lot of money,
Speaker 3: and who knows what it would have launched. That was
Speaker 3: fifteen seventeen years ago. Who knows what that would have
Speaker 3: launched in my career. But you know, you take each
Speaker 3: opportunity to comes, and you got to look at your family.
Speaker 3: And it's not a decision just for me. But my
Speaker 3: wife's very supportive and she knows I may not be done,
Speaker 3: but we're trying to build a life with with without
Speaker 3: me having a team. It's hard. It is hard.
Speaker 1: So let's let's move on to what your net us
Speaker 1: project or you've done this before obviously with the kids
Speaker 1: in Mexico. What gives you the idea to do this?
Speaker 1: And you continued to do it well.
Speaker 3: I got asked to do it at one time. I
Speaker 3: had a friend and she was down there trying to
Speaker 3: do this, and she was looking at some of the projects.
Speaker 3: She saw, you know what I was doing, you know,
Speaker 3: raising money for schools like Santa Rita and you know
Speaker 3: which you were traditionally have not and everything I did
Speaker 3: to raise money to build the program at Team of
Speaker 3: College frankly, and you know. And she approached me a
Speaker 3: long time ago and she said, would you take this on?
Speaker 3: And I said that's some spare time And I said, sure,
Speaker 3: why not. I'll go out and raise a few group
Speaker 3: and go down there. And it was nice. It was
Speaker 3: so rewarding. I cannot begin to tell you the respect
Speaker 3: that these people have, I mean, the discipline these kids have.
Speaker 3: I did a thing or to last Christmas and I bought,
Speaker 3: you know, raise several thousand dollars and with the help
Speaker 3: with some business people in town here went out and
Speaker 3: got you know, a bunch of toys at a real
Speaker 3: cheap price, and filled up my van and filled up
Speaker 3: you know, a trailer and took that stuff down there.
Speaker 3: And I had five hundred kids that got brand new,
Speaker 3: you know, unused toys that they've never gotten in their lives.
Speaker 3: And we were an hour late getting there and they
Speaker 3: were still lined up in the streets and discipline, and
Speaker 3: it was I tell you what it was, really it
Speaker 3: was really a special experience to get with these kids.
Speaker 3: Now I'm doing a boxing group and these kids. It
Speaker 3: really these kids they would be on the streets and
Speaker 3: being recruited by the cartels and gangs and doing nothing.
Speaker 3: And and I've always believed that getting kids involved in
Speaker 3: sports keeps them engaged in something positive, both physically and mentally,
Speaker 3: and it keeps them off the streets. And that's what
Speaker 3: my work is all about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes sense. Let's explain to the to the
Speaker 1: listeners what you exactly you do, maybe what you need
Speaker 1: and how they can and get help for you.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I encourage people you reach reach out
Speaker 3: to me on social media if they've got any interest
Speaker 3: in helping. But what I do is I go down
Speaker 3: there and I have four groups really that I support
Speaker 3: and a few other small ones things, but but basically,
Speaker 3: I've got a softball team of all battered women that's
Speaker 3: kind of like a counseling group that we put together.
Speaker 3: And they have nothing, and they're in the barrio with
Speaker 3: practice on streets with sewage running down the middle of it.
Speaker 3: You know, I've got I've got kids on a soccer
Speaker 3: team and I've been to their their you call it homes,
Speaker 3: but it's shacks and it's no running water, and it's
Speaker 3: and it's and they have nothing, and they play on dirt.
Speaker 3: And as you know, Paul Saicala, you know, he went
Speaker 3: down with me several times and filmed it so people
Speaker 3: could see it, and it's still on my Facebook page
Speaker 3: and and it's just And I've got a baseball team
Speaker 3: that I work with. And now I got these kids
Speaker 3: in boxing, and these are real part scrabble kids. I mean,
Speaker 3: these are kids, and it's boys and girls, and they
Speaker 3: start them real young, and they have no equipment. They've
Speaker 3: got the city built them a place to go to,
Speaker 3: but then didn't fund any of the stuff. So I
Speaker 3: need shoes, you know, boxing shoes, I need bags, I
Speaker 3: need I need tape, I need boxing gloves, I need
Speaker 3: head gear, I need soccer cleats, I need shin guards,
Speaker 3: I need shoes, I need uniforms. I need baseball bats
Speaker 3: and gloves and catchers, equipment and AND's and gently used
Speaker 3: stuff is just as good to me as cash. And
Speaker 3: of course I need money to go down there, because
Speaker 3: I got to pay some people, because they leave their
Speaker 3: jobs to come and help me. And so I've always
Speaker 3: had this thing. I don't want people doing anything for free.
Speaker 3: I don't want, you know, particularly working people down there
Speaker 3: that don't have. So I put this whole thing together
Speaker 3: and it's working. And I've got a field down there
Speaker 3: named after me, and I come to town and these
Speaker 3: kids all turn out and they sing. Some guy wrote
Speaker 3: a song for me, and Paul was already filled in
Speaker 3: the whole thing. It's just I can't tell you how
Speaker 3: rewarding it is. Obviously you could hear in the excitement
Speaker 3: of my force. I'm going to be heading down a
Speaker 3: week from tomorrow again, and we're setting up a big
Speaker 3: deal for October, and I'm just trying to get some stuff.
Speaker 3: And these kids have so those hard working coaches down
Speaker 3: there can deal with more more students, and you can't.
Speaker 3: There's so many kids that want to join, but they
Speaker 3: don't have any money, they don't have any equipment. And
Speaker 3: I step in there and try and fill that.
Speaker 4: Boy, but where specifically are you doing this?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Mostly, and I work creata, but we're trying to
Speaker 3: expand a little bit. We've done just a little bit
Speaker 3: of work in amor Ceo. I'm working with Paul Sicala
Speaker 3: now to try and set something up and see dadures
Speaker 3: across the line, I work with an American football team
Speaker 3: and across the line in the Galla Sonora, And so
Speaker 3: I tried to spread it out a little bit. And
Speaker 3: and again, you know, it's funny because the kids I coach,
Speaker 3: some of them don't have any money to pay for
Speaker 3: the lessons. And I don't I tell you, I tell him,
Speaker 3: don't not come, don't ever not show up because you
Speaker 3: don't have the money. And and at some point I'm
Speaker 3: trying I'm working on starting the foundation here so that
Speaker 3: kids can can get coached. Because really, what's what you
Speaker 3: see happening on the nil and all that level is
Speaker 3: now trickled down into the lower levels and a lot
Speaker 3: of kids they wanted, they have the interest, they have it.
Speaker 3: But but coaches don't teach anymore. That they put together
Speaker 3: the team, they organize, they do travel, they do all
Speaker 3: that stuff. But the building foundation now so much of
Speaker 3: it is done privately. I don't know that that's a
Speaker 3: good thing. But this is something that Jurgen Klintzman, the
Speaker 3: guy that coached USA soccer, the German national coach for years,
Speaker 3: he was something he talked about what we call the
Speaker 3: inverted pyramid. And I had a chance through Nike to
Speaker 3: work with him several times. And this is this guy's
Speaker 3: really a genius and really understood the failure of men's soccer,
Speaker 3: not women's soccer, because they saw and did it right,
Speaker 3: that's the failure of men's soccer, uh in the United States,
Speaker 3: and how it's built through the private programs so that
Speaker 3: only those that could afford the lessons and the coaching
Speaker 3: privately kind of like volleyball and stuff like that, you know,
Speaker 3: and only those that could afford it, you know, they're
Speaker 3: the only ones that get to get the advanced training.
Speaker 3: And I just never thought that was right. I just
Speaker 3: never thought that was the way to go.
Speaker 1: Well, coach, well, we appreciate your time. Good luck. I
Speaker 1: reach out to you on social right and Facebook and
Speaker 1: otherwise because you're out there and they can help you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if anybody does call, if they can't do that,
Speaker 3: if anybody calls the station and they're sincere, please feel
Speaker 3: free to pass along my number. I give you that
Speaker 3: permission because I just have to rely on our Tucson
Speaker 3: community like I've done for years. Tucson's been so good
Speaker 3: to me. It's my home since nineteen eighty four. That's
Speaker 3: a long time now. And I've had a chance to
Speaker 3: leave and go other places, but it's always Tucson. That
Speaker 3: that's always TWUSN. That's home.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: We enjoy your reclaimer. If you have one so you
Speaker 1: can relax a little.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Thanks again.
Speaker 3: No, I do not, and I don't want one, because
Speaker 3: I got to get out and I had about five
Speaker 3: hours of yard work today. I went hiking in the
Speaker 3: Canon and yeh, I'm trying to stay busy.
Speaker 1: Good good and you see who you are.
Speaker 3: Thanks coach, Thanks a lot for having me.
Speaker 4: Guys, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Jeff, he's like the energizer, but well you know what.
Speaker 4: He he almost went all Bill Walton on us for
Speaker 4: a little bit they're talking about the cactus.
Speaker 1: Did one question? Thanks Jeff, Thanks Jeff. Okay, let's take
Speaker 1: a break and come back.
Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 4: put that up tonight. Who usually get it gets up
Speaker 4: there every night, but every once in a while I.
Speaker 1: Slip and uh, you know, you have a pizza tacoko.
Speaker 4: I slack a little and and miss it. But it's
Speaker 4: usually up within about an hour or so of the
Speaker 4: end of the show.
Speaker 1: And you won't be here tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I'm not here tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm with my guest. Is gonna be Dave Silver Yep,
Speaker 1: So all right, cool.
Speaker 4: He's he's always a lot of fun. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 4: of history with him.
Speaker 1: You got to use my defibrillators with him. He's got
Speaker 1: to get his excitement level up. Oh, he's very very
Speaker 1: calm and cool and colick.
Speaker 4: He is. He is that. But again, guy who's been
Speaker 4: here a really long time, came here, stayed here, and
Speaker 4: then recently retired. So called it to day. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm running off to San Diego tomorrow. I got to
Speaker 4: go help my daughter find an apartment there. Uh, she's
Speaker 4: she's gonna be working for the San Diego State Athletic Department.
Speaker 4: Very exciting for her. So you know, we keep keep
Speaker 4: running interns out here out there, Steven, they keep getting jobs.
Speaker 1: And stuff, right, you know, that's what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 4: That's what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: But don't get our jobs until we leave, exactly right,
Speaker 1: exactly you can wait. Anybody want to call. We have
Speaker 1: fourteen minutes five to oh for one six seventy four forty.
Speaker 4: Talk about.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 4: He's not going to. He's not going to, but he's
Speaker 4: now he's saying he's not going to compete anymore with inlays.
Speaker 4: He's not he's not going to run the relayser or
Speaker 4: anything anything like that.
Speaker 1: Well, he but he's not allowed to because you have to,
Speaker 1: don't you think?
Speaker 4: Right some requirements. They said he was diagnosed with a
Speaker 4: two days ago. So I guess I don't know what
Speaker 4: the protocol is.
Speaker 1: Any protocol and where would you have caught it had
Speaker 1: you not been with other athletes?
Speaker 4: Right? Right?
Speaker 1: You know there's a lot of things going on in
Speaker 1: that athlete U dorm.
Speaker 4: I know a lot of stuff. They complain about the food, right, Uh,
Speaker 4: not only the well, they're.
Speaker 1: Kicking people out too from doing crazy things, which is
Speaker 1: not a shock. You have you have young people doing
Speaker 1: crazy things. I'm shocked. You have old people doing crazy things.
Speaker 4: I'm shocked. But you know, there's always issues like that
Speaker 4: around there. But I don't know, you know, it's uh,
Speaker 4: it's wrapping up. So I think they're done on you
Speaker 4: said on Saturday. Yes, this weekend, Saturday. So I've had
Speaker 4: fun watching it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been good. It's been different for me because
Speaker 1: it's delayed, right obviously, when I was in Australia, I
Speaker 1: think it's Australia. I did a show with the country
Speaker 1: station ninety nine point five with those guys became FM,
Speaker 1: which is one of our stations. No, no, no, No, ninety
Speaker 1: nine point five is no, it's not worse. We're ninety
Speaker 1: two point nine.
Speaker 4: No what the country station for this group.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I did one for ninety nine point
Speaker 1: five back in the day and the time difference for
Speaker 1: like twelve hours, so I was like up late to
Speaker 1: get them up six in the morning, and it was
Speaker 1: kind of weird because they hadn't seen it yet and
Speaker 1: I was telling all live stuff and it was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. But now you know when the delay
Speaker 1: is that long. Although I did see something live yesterday.
Speaker 4: Or too stuff live. Yeah, certain in the morning and
Speaker 4: if you're up in the morning, stuff is on and
Speaker 4: you can catch live stuff. Well that the basketball game
Speaker 4: was shown live that started at noon our time, which
Speaker 4: is eight o'clock their time, So right right.
Speaker 1: I didn't watch. I didn't because I didn't search for channels.
Speaker 1: I was too busy. But I watched the volleyball USA
Speaker 1: and Brazil. That was fantastic. Yeah, and there's you know
Speaker 1: one that USA came back and went won it. It
Speaker 1: was pretty exciting.
Speaker 4: So I'm they're in the knockout? Is where are they?
Speaker 1: Think they're in the finals. I think the women's indoor, Yeah, women's, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's the finals. I think it's the finals.
Speaker 1: Could be the semis.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So while all these gold medal games coming up,
Speaker 4: so the the the the men's gold medal game is
Speaker 4: on Saturday. I think I saw it as a twelve
Speaker 4: thirty two song time and the women's gold medal game
Speaker 4: right there in the gold medal game? Are they? Are they?
Speaker 6: Not?
Speaker 1: Which one?
Speaker 4: The women?
Speaker 1: I don't the beach women basketball? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's Saturday. I think it's Saturday. I think it's also Saturday.
Speaker 1: I think, so it's later this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh and they got they did, they've done well yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And then there women's soccer. That's that's got to
Speaker 4: be coming up pretty quick. Yeah, that semifinals a couple
Speaker 4: of days ago, so you know, we'll see what what's
Speaker 4: going on over there. But it's it's it's been fun.
Speaker 4: I think I paid more attention to it this year
Speaker 4: than I thought I would because things have been interesting, right,
Speaker 4: The basketball has been interesting, and you I know, you know,
Speaker 4: I know people say, well you should you shoul kill him,
Speaker 4: you shoul kill him, you shoul kill him. No one.
Speaker 4: It's more fun when you don't, you know, I don't
Speaker 4: you love the drama. But two the other countries are
Speaker 4: just gotten good.
Speaker 1: And France and now France with the and other guys.
Speaker 4: So it's funny. I was listening to a Bartley was
Speaker 4: on Charles Barkley was on the Dan Patrick Show, and
Speaker 4: he was asking about this game and he said, they
Speaker 4: better watch out, you know, they better watch out for Serbia.
Speaker 4: He said, because he goes you know, and he's been
Speaker 4: in an Olympics right, and he said, look, you know,
Speaker 4: as bad as it as us beat him in the
Speaker 4: in the in the pool game, they didn't really care.
Speaker 4: All they wanted to do was get into the knockout round.
Speaker 4: And then that's when the game mattered. Serbia is going
Speaker 4: to come out to play, and they've got good players
Speaker 4: out for Serbia. You know, if they go out there
Speaker 4: and and you know, screw around, they're gonna lose. And
Speaker 4: it looks like they were screwing around and they were
Speaker 4: gonna lose, but then they got their stuff together in
Speaker 4: time to come back and win. So women's basketball semifinals tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Finals tomorrow, I thought they were.
Speaker 4: They were to the finals, okay, so obviously not Australia.
Speaker 4: They're taking on what's on the other on the other side,
Speaker 4: France and Belgium.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's tomorrow and then Saturday probably final games,
Speaker 1: two games, all right?
Speaker 4: And then so did you look up soccer yet? See,
Speaker 4: because when I think that's.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow, so the eleventh is going to be the final
Speaker 5: Runs Runs medal game and the gold medal game for basketball.
Speaker 1: That's Sunday. Sunday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's time I checked.
Speaker 1: I haven't written a check in a while so I forget.
Speaker 4: And and then and and soccer is coming up, right,
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah that's the finals I think for sure.
Speaker 1: With Rodman's daughter in the.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, she's really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, you know it was really good. This one
Speaker 1: shocked you. Uh is uh his and and she's a
Speaker 1: Georgetown is u Ben and Davison's daughter, the oldest fantastic
Speaker 1: soccer player, got that same athletic ability most of them
Speaker 1: do just kind of like, you know, run like Gazelle's
Speaker 1: well you know, yeah, because he's he was talented.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was incredible physical ability. Yeah, that guy.
Speaker 4: You know, we didn't get those genes, Steve.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good, looks man, you can't have it all, at
Speaker 1: least me at least me can't have it all. Man,
Speaker 1: would be fair to everybody.
Speaker 4: My son gets upsetting me sometimes for not having you know,
Speaker 4: professional athletes.
Speaker 1: My parents, my sons too. Yeah, I guess you know.
Speaker 4: My dad, my dad was not an athlete at all,
Speaker 4: and not at all. He was a he he did rodeo, right,
Speaker 4: he was a bull right really?
Speaker 1: Yeahs that ain't easy, yeah, the tough way to make
Speaker 1: a living.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that you know, we were all bo legged.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, is that why? No, let me tell you something,
Speaker 1: because you guys do walk alike your brother's walk like, yes,
Speaker 1: do so you guys, it's all it's a learned trait,
Speaker 1: you know, Like my son, the youngest, walks like me
Speaker 1: and talks like me. Old this talks like to me
Speaker 1: a little bit. He's the good looking one in the family.
Speaker 1: But but right are you guys? You guys didn't wake
Speaker 1: up just like that. It's a learned thing.
Speaker 4: I think we did.
Speaker 1: It's a learned thing. No, you know, because your your son,
Speaker 1: you you kind of learned because he wants to be
Speaker 1: like you, you're his dad. There's a lot of that.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of that. I'm sure that there is.
Speaker 1: That's to me, it's too often that happens, Like my
Speaker 1: youngest walks like me, and like it just doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: you know. It's an environment type of thing. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: your gate, watch your gate, watch your son's gate, and
Speaker 1: I say it, it's insane.
Speaker 4: People have said that a bunch, like if they're walking
Speaker 4: behind us, like when walking from our tailgate park, they say,
Speaker 4: they say, you look at legs and you can tell
Speaker 4: who the brothers are in this family. Right, and then
Speaker 4: my sisters at the same one.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure that your dad was walking and then
Speaker 1: your sons. The son's kind of emulated him. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I got some news about the women's soccer.
Speaker 5: It's going to be Saturday at eleven am Eastern time.
Speaker 4: Okay, eight o'clock in the morning. That's the finals. That's
Speaker 4: the go yeah against Brazil. Brazil. Okay, I think I
Speaker 4: need that. All right. They take their soccer seriously down
Speaker 4: there in Brazil. Oh yeah, yeah, they do just a
Speaker 4: little bit, all right. Okay, so all right, so they
Speaker 4: all well again, that's called all the gold medal all
Speaker 4: the gold medal games coming up over the weekend. I'll
Speaker 4: be a my recliner.
Speaker 1: You're the retirement with the recliner.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got I got it for Sunday football, which
Speaker 5: is nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is nice. Just with a clicker. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: anybody call anybody else want to call? Please do Part
Speaker 1: four forty.
Speaker 4: Got about five minutes, five, five, four and six four forty.
Speaker 4: So what are you gonna without me tomorrow? Steve? Say
Speaker 4: that again, What are you gonna do without me tomorrow?
Speaker 1: The party? Bring your cake. We didn't have a cake
Speaker 1: for your birthday. I had none by non non diabetic cake.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you didn't. Actually, we had a Caro cake
Speaker 4: in my house last night.
Speaker 1: Plenty of cake to have, Yeah, there was, there's lots
Speaker 1: of Yeah, then you're gonna enjoy it this weekend.
Speaker 4: Nice car I saw the dinner. It was very cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you doctor, I hope your doctor doesn't listen to this.
Speaker 4: It's not what I told you to. My doctor was fine, man,
Speaker 4: he gave me.
Speaker 1: He gave me a good That was not the okay
Speaker 1: to do whatever? Are you doing pretty well? Okay? That
Speaker 1: means I can cheat a little.
Speaker 4: You try to gain those pounds and then lose them.
Speaker 1: Just in time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well of one, I can say I lost
Speaker 4: the ten. Well, get back to where you were.
Speaker 1: Then you found him, You found it in your ass.
Speaker 4: You can't say ass on the ring.
Speaker 1: We just did twice.
Speaker 4: I know you did. So just remind everybody back to morrow.
Speaker 4: So we'll be joining us tomorrow. If you want to
Speaker 4: hear some Arizona soccer stuff like this is her fourth season.
Speaker 1: Yes already, Yes, this goes by.
Speaker 4: Real fast, really fast, but her fourth year here, not
Speaker 4: in the new league, right, we're gonna be dealing without
Speaker 4: talking about having that conversation with all the coaches at
Speaker 4: some point coming up, Uh, women's volleyball. It starts later
Speaker 4: in the month, but we'll have it. We'll have the
Speaker 4: head coach from the volleyball team will join us at
Speaker 4: some point and then uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll do people ye stuff.
Speaker 4: Hey, we've got to call her, save us from ourselves.
Speaker 15: Hi, you're on the air and eye on the ball,
Speaker 15: Thank guys and change.
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 15: Well, yeah, I'm wondering if your Dodgers are gonna go
Speaker 15: down in a ball of flames or not.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not as comfortable as I was, Jim, But
Speaker 4: you know what, I've resigned myself to the fact that
Speaker 4: I don't think they're you know, they're not gonna get
Speaker 4: to the World Series. You know, they're they just they
Speaker 4: just don't have enough stuff. And then they're gonna start
Speaker 4: getting guys back here quick. Max Munsey is starting a
Speaker 4: rehab thing this week, and you know, they got some
Speaker 4: guys coming back. But I don't they're not I don't
Speaker 4: They're good, but I just don't feel all that good
Speaker 4: about them.
Speaker 15: Well, it turns out that the National League West is
Speaker 15: a pretty strong division. Yeah, the Padres is playing really
Speaker 15: good baseball right now, and so are the diamond back Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, the Diamondbacks are like when fourteen n out of the
Speaker 4: last sixteen or something like that. But they get to
Speaker 4: run up against the Phillies starting tonight, so we'll see
Speaker 4: how they do there.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so we've got they're going two and a half,
Speaker 15: three games back something like that.
Speaker 4: The Philly the Padre two and a half, Diamondbacks are three.
Speaker 4: So it's bunched up more than it was. Again the Diamondback,
Speaker 4: I mean, the Dodgers are like five hundred over the
Speaker 4: last sixty games or something like that.
Speaker 15: So there, Yeah, you know what, Dres, The Dodgers still
Speaker 15: have the same problem we've had for the last five years.
Speaker 15: They do not have a closer, right.
Speaker 4: It's stunning to me. It's stunning to me.
Speaker 15: It is then you spent all of that money on anything, but.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep, yeah. I don't even know what to tell you, Jim.
Speaker 4: I mean, everything everybody says to about the Dodgers to me,
Speaker 4: I just have to take it right now. I got
Speaker 4: I got Bill over here on your listener, Bill sending
Speaker 4: me text messages during the show and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 4: So you know, I just hey, it is what it is.
Speaker 4: I am going to get to see him. I'm going
Speaker 4: up there in a couple of weeks, so it'll be fun.
Speaker 15: Well, I'm not giving you a hard time. I'm just
Speaker 15: sort of trying to point out the facts.
Speaker 4: Well it's yeah, it is, and they are the facts,
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Jim, you sound like me. What's up with that?
Speaker 15: Well, that's that's been the case longer than you know.
Speaker 1: Well, you're calling me grow up. You look at the mirror.
Speaker 1: That's two of us now, like.
Speaker 15: Well, you grumpy and and what is it that have
Speaker 15: you blaming me for something? I had no idea about it?
Speaker 1: I think did he didn't he not say I was grumpy?
Speaker 4: I think I called you grumpy on the call that Jim, Joe, Jim,
Speaker 4: I don't know. Check the fact, check the tape.
Speaker 1: Check the tape. All right, Jem, thanks much, man, thanks
Speaker 1: for saving us for two and a half. We can't
Speaker 1: we can't take any calls anymore because we have a
Speaker 1: minu and a half. Yeah, so, so, uh so see
Speaker 1: you Monday.
Speaker 4: Right, I will be back on Monday. Monday, and you
Speaker 4: can't keep getting knee deep into the basketball stuff. We're
Speaker 4: going to keep trying to go around the big Big
Speaker 4: twelve and get some more media people in here. Who
Speaker 4: should we get next?
Speaker 1: Well, I want to well, we'll get in New Mexico
Speaker 1: guy in a couple of weeks ago when the game
Speaker 1: comes out the week of so I don't know, we
Speaker 1: can see. We don't even have to day.
Speaker 4: We've talked to Kansas, We've now talked to Texas, Tech
Speaker 4: Talk Colorado. The Utah guy doesn't give us the time
Speaker 4: of day, never talked to me, forget him.
Speaker 1: He's so we get a TV. We'll get a TV.
Speaker 4: We'll get a TV guy or one of the one
Speaker 4: of the fan sites. Who else is Arizona have on
Speaker 4: their schedule? They don't, They don't play Oklahoma State, they
Speaker 4: don't play Iowa State. B Yu. We can get somebody
Speaker 4: from up there, b YU. That's the game that Oh,
Speaker 4: we can.
Speaker 1: Just wait for the for the week so the play.
Speaker 1: But it'll be fun, it's gonna be exciting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as we can get close to where we're getting,
Speaker 4: we're getting much closer to it, which is very cool.
Speaker 1: So all right, okay, well thanks everybody.
Speaker 4: Okay, once again, Becka Morrows the Arizona soccer coach, will
Speaker 4: be joining Steve and Uh and guest host Dave Silver.
Speaker 4: I'm out here, headed to San Diego for the weekend,
Speaker 4: and I will be back on Monday. We'll be back
Speaker 4: here with Henry's on Monday, right, Henry, Steve and Dave Silver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, once tomorrow. You said Monday.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, Wan tomorrow. That's right, Henry. I get
Speaker 4: those guys confused, me too. All right, Uh, we'll be
Speaker 4: back tomorrow. See