WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.600 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:08.160 Fox Sports fourteenth fIF day powered by Nova Insurance Services 3 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:10.640 Insure your most prized possessions. 4 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:14.839 Everybody walking through on the ball. 5 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:15.160 You know. 6 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:29.399 Jagan Zalas lived turn that sound your nickname for my 7 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:32.280 nickname for you is gonna be, uh full moon. 8 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:33.320 I see you once a month. 9 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:36.920 I like that. I could go with that. I've been 10 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:40.439 called way worse than that. Full of Yeah, and you know, 11 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:43.240 and you know, you know my history. I've been involved 12 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:44.799 in a full full moon or two. 13 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:49.479 No, I don't know. You know it's cruising speedway. Okay, 14 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:51.479 did you get arrested for them? 15 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:55.320 No, I've never been arrested for anything and pulled over 16 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:58.920 a few times. We've we had those conversations hand cuffed 17 00:00:58.920 --> 00:00:59.960 a couple of times. 18 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:02.600 Welcome to I and Ball. 19 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:06.599 You're again on Thursday from the casino you know, fantastic place. Yeah, 20 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:09.079 there's a big game tonight right right sore at the 21 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:11.239 Sole Sports Sports Book. If you want to come in 22 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:13.599 and join us, have fun with us. We're hoping to 23 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:15.640 have a couple of couple of people. Stop buying then 24 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:18.280 check out the show. But uh yeah you can buy. 25 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:20.319 Oh there's some a lot of you know, a lot 26 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:21.000 of stuff going on. 27 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.239 There's you got NFL game tonight and uh, and then 28 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:25.560 you got the NBA in. 29 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:27.799 Full swing, n b A and then they can always 30 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:30.319 get to get the best for tomorrow's beginning. 31 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:32.879 Well, you've got you got the World Series starting tomorrow, Steve, 32 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.519 And uh, you know, I've been I wouldn't say bad 33 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:39.400 mouthing the Dodgers, my Dodgers, but I've been very not 34 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:42.439 confident that they would get here right right, and and 35 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:46.799 they're here, and I'm just saying that I'm a little 36 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:49.040 surprised that that they made it. 37 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:51.239 I think you gave them the jay HECKX, you said 38 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:52.040 they're not going to get there. 39 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:54.040 Yeah, so it must have been you know, maybe that yeah, 40 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:56.920 a little a little reverse, little reverse psychology on that, 41 00:01:56.959 --> 00:01:59.359 because I just didn't think all year that they had 42 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:02.519 the pitching staff have to do it. But what went 43 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:04.760 on in the uh, you know, both in the in 44 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:09.520 the Division series and then the Championship Series. You know, 45 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:13.199 Dave Roberts just managed that pitching staff incredibly. A couple 46 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:15.240 of bullpen games that they won, They a lot of 47 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:19.199 shutout innings, and they're pitching obviously they hit the hell 48 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:20.599 out of the ball because they were, you know, scoring 49 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:23.800 ten runs a game almost, but more than that, just 50 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.520 the way the pitching, the way he handled the pitching. 51 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:29.319 I think they can win it. I'm not going to 52 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:31.879 sit here and say they can't. They will. They are 53 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:35.919 the favorite, They're favored. Yeah, there are plus I think 54 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.520 like plus one twelve or something like that to win it. No, 55 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:41.039 they're favored over the Yankees. 56 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:47.759 I just have a fifty foot walk to the Yankees then, because. 57 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:51.840 Yeah, the Yankees are underdogs, and you know what, that 58 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:55.560 would be a bad bet. Look, I'm an Arizona, an 59 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:58.360 Arizona fan for life, right, We're used to getting to 60 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:01.400 here and then having our hearts broken. So that's what happens, 61 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:04.400 and and so you know, not so much. Yeah, well 62 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:06.280 the Dodgers, you've been to the World Series a few times. 63 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:08.840 But you know, as as an Arizona fan, I'm used 64 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:11.479 to getting my heart broken when I get my hopes up. 65 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:15.680 So that's kind of what I'm expecting this in this series. 66 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:17.639 I was told by a Bernie that you're going to 67 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:18.840 be on the road tomorrow. 68 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:24.159 Yes, we bit the bullet, you know. My my incredible 69 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:26.960 wife was just said go. 70 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:28.240 You need to go. 71 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:31.840 You know, my my brother ed Immediately, he's a huge 72 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:34.400 Oger fan, you've met him, texted me after the game 73 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:35.840 said if you can go, you need to go. 74 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:38.560 Just go. Whatever it's going to cost, just go. 75 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:42.080 And I and I'm watching the postgame show and they're 76 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:45.039 talking about how the tickets are going to be record prices. 77 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.120 So immediately went on the on all the sites and 78 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:49.000 they were over a thousand dollars. Eleven hundred dollars was 79 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:52.159 the cheapest ticket. I saw no upper deck seats for 80 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:56.879 eleven hundred bucks. Fifty thousand dollars for the good seats seats, Yes, 81 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:00.840 fifty grand a ticket. So I text her Mac, I said, 82 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:02.879 there are eleven hundred bucks. I'm not going. He said, 83 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:04.240 there's any way you can do it. 84 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:04.759 You need to go. 85 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:08.840 So the next day, I'm working at home. I've got 86 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:11.280 the Dodger the replay of the Dodger game on. My 87 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:13.719 wife and I are sitting there and we're both working, 88 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:14.360 but the game is on. 89 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:15.680 Do you have a tear in your eye? 90 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:16.040 No? 91 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:18.439 No, no, no, And I laughed. I said, I said, you 92 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:20.240 know my brother Edward telling me we need to go. 93 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:23.040 And she goes, what do you mean? I said, well, 94 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:27.399 and I read the thread. She goes, then go, You said, 95 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:30.399 then go? Are you out of your mind? She said, no, go, 96 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:32.720 So I have money for you. Yeah, And so I 97 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:34.639 text my son, I go, you want to go to 98 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.120 the game. He's like, what game could you possibly be 99 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:38.759 talking about? 100 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:40.160 So you want to go to the World Series game? 101 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:40.519 He goes. 102 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:45.079 First he says, holy cow, and then he said we're texting. 103 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:48.240 Then he says, are you serious? And then he said, 104 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:54.199 asked how and I said, it's all your mom. Oh okay, 105 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:58.800 And we got tickets twelve hundred bucks apiece, and. 106 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:02.399 We're going nice. It's a nice day trip with the sun, trip. 107 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:02.759 Of a lifetime. 108 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:03.160 You know. 109 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:05.279 Well, he's you know he you know, we went to 110 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:07.759 the we went to the US Open and Peddle Beach 111 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.439 a few years ago. To me, I thought, that's as 112 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:12.800 good as it's going to get, you know him and 113 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.639 I and he said, Dad, we may never do anything 114 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:16.199 better than this. 115 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:18.560 So that's one of your deals. I'm going to be 116 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:20.120 gone next week. I'm not gonna have a show on 117 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:22.480 Thursday or Friday because I'm doing my bucket list. 118 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:26.680 I'm going to the Breeders oh Man yeah. 119 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:29.079 So I'm leaving Thursday and getting there Friday for the 120 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:30.680 first day, and then second day you can sear a 121 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:33.879 friendly over that we've already talked. Yes, I'm looking to 122 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:36.839 talk to Baffert and all those guys. Congratulations. That's cool too, 123 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:39.319 That's very cool. So yeah, that's cool. 124 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:41.279 So we were just there we go, just a couple 125 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.560 of old guys getting some checking some things off the list. 126 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:46.600 Right we have we're running out of time. You don't know, 127 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:48.279 we've run it out of time. You got to get 128 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:50.560 those things up. Hey, good, good to have you here. 129 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:53.399 And the show has been a kind of crazy week. Uh, 130 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:56.079 I don't know where you're at with the football team. 131 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:58.959 What level of disappointment. Yeah, but there's a lot of 132 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:04.439 people now it's become disappointing. Well I'm not talking about results, 133 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:06.160 I'm talking about how they've played. 134 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:09.560 Yeah, yeah, well both Steve, you know, I'm disappointed and 135 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:10.319 how they've played. 136 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:12.600 I'm disappointed and how they've been coached. 137 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:18.720 Right, I'm disappointed that because because where Arizona, they're going 138 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:21.240 through all these injury issues and all these things that 139 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:26.720 are happening that that are working against against the program, 140 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:31.680 and it's I mean I'm disappointed, But Steve, I'm kind 141 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:33.600 of like I knew this was going to happen. 142 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:37.319 Well, it's because you're used to it four times, four times. 143 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:40.879 Yeah, for the four previous uh no, three previous, uh 144 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:45.160 this fourth Yeah, four previous ten win seasons have been 145 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:49.000 followed by not so good season season. Certainly not a expectation. 146 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.120 If you have not listened to me at all, Jake, 147 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:54.360 I said, this program is cursed, and this is another 148 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:58.199 example that it's cursed. Whether it's coaching, whether it's performance, 149 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:02.519 whether there's kids, whatever, it's just unbelievable what's happening. Because 150 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:05.279 you could point this is kind of you can point 151 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:07.240 to a lot of different things, right, if not all 152 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:08.560 of them, Right, are the issues? 153 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:13.160 They all add up to this. Everything adds up to this, right. 154 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:16.199 And you mentioned the coach, and I totally agreed there's 155 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:20.000 something there or not there. The players aren't living up 156 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:25.160 to expectations or playing up to expectations. Uh so that's 157 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:29.360 part of it. Yeah, maybe maybe maybe we all and 158 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:32.959 included he overestimated this team with the new coach, with 159 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:33.560 a new. 160 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:39.639 Coach and some key holes to fill that are being 161 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:41.519 very a lot tougher to fill. 162 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:42.759 Than maybe we expected. 163 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:45.600 Right, the Jonah Coleman leaving, right, well, they got some 164 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:51.120 running back, Jacob Cowing him being gone, Uh, Jordan Morgan on. 165 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:52.120 The line, you know. 166 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.040 And then now you've got these injuries you got you know, 167 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:58.120 Jacob Manu and and Gunner Maldonado and and and. 168 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:01.920 Tragan Stukes and all the guys. Right, you got a 169 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:03.040 lot of injuries, you know. 170 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:05.759 To me, another big one was Bill Norton leaving the 171 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:09.959 the nose tackle who left and went back to he 172 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:13.439 went to Texas. So, uh, you know, I think those 173 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:16.480 those holes have turned out to be bigger than any 174 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:19.519 of us thought. Combined that with a new coaching staff 175 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:24.680 and unfamiliarity, Combine that with you know, I don't know 176 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:27.120 if what's going on with no Flafiita has more to 177 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:31.279 do with system, or to do with over confidence, or 178 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:33.159 to do with a belief that he can do more 179 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.759 than he can anyone of a number of things. 180 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:40.480 All three are very visible because everyone thought highly of him, right, 181 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:42.240 So if you're thought highly and he can play, we 182 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:44.720 see him play, right, We know he can play. It's 183 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:47.159 just not doing it right. And it's not just him. 184 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:50.320 The team mackets him with everybody with everybody. You know, 185 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.000 you just see some balls that look, we're easy balls. 186 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:57.559 Last year, you know, overthrows interceptions again, then you know 187 00:08:57.600 --> 00:08:59.480 this the whole thing of trying to do too much 188 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:03.159 and those are leading to interceptions and fumbles and mishandles 189 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:05.519 and things and just it's and it's all adding up 190 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:07.759 to right now, with three and four seasons, what would 191 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:10.879 you put your finger on as the most troubling. 192 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:15.960 The most troubling is is the inability to scoringy points 193 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:19.960 with the talent that they have. Yeah, okay, and again, 194 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:22.759 how many aspects are there to that, right? 195 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:24.600 How much of that is coaching? How much of that 196 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:25.240 is system? 197 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:30.480 How much of that is uh, you know, the personnel, right, 198 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:32.480 the personnel losses and that kind of thing. 199 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:36.440 It's the case of and everyone talks works sometimes negative 200 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:39.559 or whatever, but it's the case of Arizona. You can't 201 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:40.200 have it all. 202 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:43.639 What we don't The problem is, Steve, we never get 203 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:44.080 any of it. 204 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:47.399 Well, that's that's consistent because you had a great last year. 205 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:50.519 Yeah, you get to have that, but that's all you get. 206 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.360 Right, It's gonna take a while to get back to 207 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:57.440 that level from year, right, because once you start losing, 208 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:00.480 how do you how do you put the you know, 209 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:01.320 the holes in the diet? 210 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:03.720 Well, and this fan base is already losing its mind, yes, 211 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:06.480 right again, it's it's it's it's a time of social 212 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:10.799 media and and everybody gets to have a platform. But 213 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:12.799 you know, there are even some people who you feel 214 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:17.159 should know better who are saying stupid stuff because they can't, 215 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:19.200 because they can't, because they can't, well, because they can, 216 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:22.000 and get some gets people listening to that, right, It 217 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:24.639 gets people listening to their podcast and reading their stuff. 218 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:25.759 You know. 219 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:29.320 Again, the whole lack of journalistic professionalism that you and 220 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:31.600 I have talked about many years. You and I would 221 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.039 be covering this team differently from some of these other 222 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:38.120 guys who are covering the covering and be more straightforward 223 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:41.399 and asked the questions and get the answers and let 224 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:43.879 the columnists provide the opinion. 225 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:45.919 Right, No, I hear you, you know. 226 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.039 But but the fan base, you know, people are already 227 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:50.320 saying he needs to be fired right now. 228 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.879 Okay, Like I've said with you and maybe others all week, 229 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:55.559 is how much money you have in your pockets are 230 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:55.960 gonna help? 231 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:56.720 Right? 232 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.240 They're not gonna do there, right, They're spending other people's. 233 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:01.919 And you fire here, and then what yeah, if you 234 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:03.679 fire him, and then what who do you who's gonna 235 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:06.279 come here? These are to a program where they fired 236 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:08.320 the coach staff for seven games. It's not that bad 237 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:10.360 that he needs to be fired right now. If it's 238 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:13.200 like this in two years now you start thinking about it. 239 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:15.840 This is the same people that don't contribute to nil, 240 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:17.919 right to the collector or whatever. 241 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:21.360 Look, am I incredibly disappointed in in in in the 242 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:25.720 in the the performance of the coaching staff and the team. 243 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:27.799 I absolutely am. 244 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:29.919 This team should not be three and four, at least 245 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:32.440 we certainly didn't expect him to be three and four. 246 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:36.759 But there could be a multiple multitude of things causing that. 247 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:39.120 Well you're three and four. They could be very well 248 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:41.840 four and three. But it's how they're they're not even 249 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:42.759 being competitive. 250 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:46.200 The lack of the lack of competitiveness in these last 251 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:48.559 two games and in that Kansas State game. 252 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:50.840 It's like, no, no will to play well. 253 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:52.639 The thing is, yeah, go ahead. 254 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:55.600 No will, no no will to play well. And even 255 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:57.559 if they added in them, it's not going to be 256 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:00.159 even close. But the thing is, Steve, you know it's there. 257 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.080 Well you can because of the way they beat Utah. 258 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:03.440 I get it. 259 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:06.039 Utah is not the Utah we thought they were. But 260 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:10.080 they still went up to Utah and beat Utah. Where's that? 261 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:14.080 That's only we've seen that one time, right. We didn't 262 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:16.519 see it in New Mexico. We didn't see it against NAU. 263 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:19.039 We didn't see it in the three losses or the 264 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:23.240 four losses. We've seen it one time. Here's the problem, 265 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:25.000 so we know it's there. You have four or five 266 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:26.559 more games, right, it can continue? 267 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:28.679 Can it can continue? Or it can turn? 268 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:31.639 I think I think again, this game once again is 269 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:33.639 going to tell us where this team's mind is. That 270 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:35.480 if they come out and lay an egg the way 271 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:38.360 they did against Colorado again, then that's. 272 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:41.879 Who they are. Different, right, then that's who they are. 273 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:44.600 It's funny though, that we're talking about this there three 274 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:46.919 and four and we're still giving them a little a 275 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:49.559 little slack, right, We're still hoping. 276 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:52.039 Well, you know what, well, had they gotten their asses 277 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:54.559 kicked by Utah, right, and now they're on a four 278 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:59.320 game slide or five game slide and showing no signs 279 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.559 of anything, then you would know who they are. But 280 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:04.960 because of that Utah game, you think there's more there 281 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:06.600 than we're seeing. 282 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:07.200 Somewhere. 283 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:10.200 It's in there somewhere. Steve, you know you're a guy 284 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:11.879 who can never live without hope. 285 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.519 Well, Steve, you know what, as an Arizona fan, if 286 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.639 you don't have that, you don't have anything, right, You 287 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:19.279 got to have that. 288 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:21.360 Let's talk about our guests real quick. We're not going 289 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:22.600 to take calls today, right. 290 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:23.960 Yeah we can. No, we're not. 291 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:25.639 Yeah, we can't take calls. We are gonna we are 292 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:29.399 going to get on the phone with Francisco or Merril. 293 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:32.000 He's the Spanish play by playing. That's a good for 294 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.000 the Houston Nationals. Good friend of ours. 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