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Speaker 3: Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, dere Jiggins, Alas, got our
Speaker 3: guy Ryan with us. Hey, you also knows, Kevin, I
Speaker 3: don't know. Thursday. Today's Thursday, right, it is Thursday. One
Speaker 3: more day with you, Jay?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, kay, well too, Conny Today, Today, tomorrow. Hey,
Speaker 2: when you edit me, well, I have to edit you
Speaker 2: four times a year, dude, you I'm okay with that. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 2: it's the checks cash, the kid, the checks cash. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Thursday Show. We're gonna see what we talk
Speaker 3: about today. We have a couple of good people coming on.
Speaker 3: U College has chimed in there. They have their volleyball.
Speaker 4: Coach, right, Dan Bethel Bethel, Okay, I think it's Bethel, right, Okay.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be at the early hour, the three seventeen hour,
Speaker 3: and then at the four to seventeen hour.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have our buddy TJ. Jesskowitz. Did you already
Speaker 2: I haven't signed up any What have you publicly said
Speaker 2: to him that you're gonna do?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I told h last time he was the last time
Speaker 4: he was on it months ago. Well, last time he
Speaker 4: was on, I committed to it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So we have a big event here on Saturday,
Speaker 3: Loop to loop cyclist know what it is. It's just
Speaker 3: a big party on the loop at the racetrack. So
Speaker 3: he'll come on and talk about that as the temperature
Speaker 3: starts to dip into the nineties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been waiting for that so I could get
Speaker 2: on my horse. Yeah, okay, that's what it is.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's exactly what it is actually, And actually one
Speaker 4: of the things it is, Steve, is that the show
Speaker 4: gets in the way of everything.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's funny because it takes the afternoon,
Speaker 3: but you have to kind of get ready for it
Speaker 3: all day, you know, all day.
Speaker 4: But you know, I always doing and then you know,
Speaker 4: and then there's stuff after the show and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you know, once I, once I kick you
Speaker 4: to the curb, I'll be able to start getting ready
Speaker 4: for a tour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm telling myself. I know, legit, that's
Speaker 2: gonna be My daughter says, she's gonna do it with me.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, she's what she No, she's twenty no no, no, no,
Speaker 3: no miles.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, we need the thirty two miles run.
Speaker 4: So but she she's a she's a she's a cycling instructor. Uh,
Speaker 4: you know, at one of those fitness places. So she's
Speaker 4: in shape. I'm not talk to your cardiologists.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3: So we'll see I got it. Okay, cool, you got it.
Speaker 3: We got it.
Speaker 2: We'll start the show now. Anything else.
Speaker 3: I know that they had a they had a basketball
Speaker 3: interview today. Uh, men's basketball basketball season already.
Speaker 2: It's getting there, Steve.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm talking to somebody in the athletic department,
Speaker 4: and probably by the end of next week the full
Speaker 4: basketball schedule will be out with game times and whatnot.
Speaker 4: So you know, hopefully, well you know't get all that
Speaker 4: all that done so we can get our schedule set.
Speaker 4: You know, I got to know when these games are.
Speaker 4: I'm a busy guy now, Steve. I'm a busy guy
Speaker 4: work because work, work is starting to get in the
Speaker 4: way of things.
Speaker 3: So work is afoord out a word that you can
Speaker 3: actually say in public.
Speaker 4: I stopped still having trouble saying those words in the
Speaker 4: morning to my wife.
Speaker 2: We got to go to work, Go to work.
Speaker 3: I got a job. Yeah, thanks, thanks dear. And she says, yeah,
Speaker 3: get you as to work. You've had it made.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've had it too easy for too long, and
Speaker 4: you're lucky I'm still here.
Speaker 2: She kind of yeah, sort of says that I know
Speaker 2: she does.
Speaker 4: Probably she does, but h yeah, so uh but yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, we're we're getting towards that. Well again, it
Speaker 4: gets you know, basketball season starts earlier and earlier every year.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: The reason I say is because they had an interview
Speaker 3: with one of the transfer of the transfer from Tennessee
Speaker 3: who probably helped near the basket with previous and uh,
Speaker 3: you know power forward right, uh.
Speaker 2: And I just lost his name as usual, but that
Speaker 2: should be good.
Speaker 3: We start here pursuing red, blue and less and two
Speaker 3: what October fourth, ninth?
Speaker 4: I want to say four I want to say. I
Speaker 4: want to say October nine, the first one, the home one, Oh,
Speaker 4: you're right, October four, and then a week later, and
Speaker 4: then a week later October eleven, in Glendale. So we're
Speaker 4: just talking a couple, you know, two weeks from tomorrow, right,
Speaker 4: so yeah, you know, so that and that kind of
Speaker 4: starts at.
Speaker 2: Two weeks from tomorrow. So that's going to be the
Speaker 2: weekend of the Texas Tech game, right the night before
Speaker 2: the Texas Tech game.
Speaker 3: So and then the I was I was thinking of
Speaker 3: something because I was listening to his press conference coming
Speaker 3: in and one of the questions at the end was,
Speaker 3: you know, what are your expectations blah blah blah. What's
Speaker 3: the one you're gonna say. You're going to say, you know,
Speaker 3: final four, possible test so championship.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: So what in the last No, I won't even give
Speaker 3: you tim When was the last time Arizona basketball overachieved overachieved?
Speaker 3: Because we know when the other achieved. When's the lost
Speaker 3: and they overachieved. I came up with one, and we'll
Speaker 3: see I uh, twenty eleven, duke, Yeah, that's what I
Speaker 3: picked it. Twenty eleven, Yeah, thirteen years ago.
Speaker 4: Waysa uh, because expectations are always high, right, expectations are
Speaker 4: elem Put it this way, if you don't get to
Speaker 4: the final four at Arizona's under it, it's just disappointed. Well,
Speaker 4: there's gonna be maybe I don't know if you call
Speaker 4: it underachieved, but it's kind of like that's sort of
Speaker 4: the goal.
Speaker 2: Of the goal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the sometimes unrealistic goal for some of the
Speaker 3: teams that Sean had. That Sean had at the end
Speaker 3: of the end of his career, they didn't have Final four.
Speaker 4: There were a number of those teams they didn't have
Speaker 4: final They were not Final four when you got to
Speaker 4: the end a couple of years. That was never a
Speaker 4: Final four team, correct, right now, those two teams that
Speaker 4: got to the lead eight, Yeah, both of those were
Speaker 4: Final four twenty four teams and they just ran into
Speaker 4: the wrong team in the eight.
Speaker 3: Impossible maybe a national championship, right, but no, you're right.
Speaker 3: So I was when I was thinking, it's been since
Speaker 3: twenty eleven the Duke.
Speaker 2: Did you get to the lead eight?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we sat I remember sitting down to
Speaker 4: watch that Duke game and I'm like, Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 4: watch this, but this is gonna suck because you know,
Speaker 4: if you're an Arizona fan, you don't like Duke. I'm
Speaker 4: not gonna use the word hate, but you don't like
Speaker 4: Duke their arrival. You're kind of wanting to be what
Speaker 4: they are or what they've been with the national championships
Speaker 4: and whatnot. But it was kind of like, well, you
Speaker 4: got to watch it. It's a sweet sixteen game. You're
Speaker 4: not not going to watch it. And then all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, and then they were getting beat early. Remember
Speaker 4: that they were down like ten twelve points early and
Speaker 4: then came back towards the end of the second half,
Speaker 4: and then blew him out in the end of the
Speaker 4: first half, then blew him out in the second half.
Speaker 2: It's like, what just happened. That's when Williams made his
Speaker 2: name for himself.
Speaker 4: Right, That's when he made He made so much money
Speaker 4: in that one game, a ton of money in that
Speaker 4: one game.
Speaker 2: You talked about Duke being arrival. Just Duke feel that way? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Do you think so?
Speaker 4: I do I think Arizona considers Duke arrival. I think
Speaker 4: Arizona fans considered Duke arrival.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, But I don't think it's the other way around,
Speaker 3: That's what I'm asking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the other I think at one point they might
Speaker 4: have during the Loot years, but certainly not afterlut left,
Speaker 4: you know, because those great, great games they had in
Speaker 4: the nineties. You know, I think it was a nice
Speaker 4: East West rivalry. They played each other a bunch of times,
Speaker 4: and I agree that it also had coach k versus right, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 4: you know, two of the great coaches in college basketball.
Speaker 4: I don't think Duke any longer considers Arizona arrival because
Speaker 4: they haven't been arrival now. Did it sting to them
Speaker 4: when Arizona beat them last year at Duke? Sure, because
Speaker 4: they're thinking, wait a minute, we forgot about these guys
Speaker 4: a long time ago. They show up at our place
Speaker 4: and they kick our asses. We're at home right right,
Speaker 4: So maybe maybe it's might come back a little bit.
Speaker 4: You know, Let's say Arizona beats Duke again this year.
Speaker 4: Now it becomes a rivalrygain, and they're pissed outcause the right, right,
Speaker 4: let's do it again. Let's do it again, right, because
Speaker 4: that's time. And last time they played each other was
Speaker 4: in the tournament. I think, well two thousand and one
Speaker 4: they played each other, but that twenty eleven is the
Speaker 4: last time. I agree with you, that was the only
Speaker 4: game I could come up with the last time they overachieved. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because there is there is a lot of or there
Speaker 4: are a lot of expectations on this team. Did you
Speaker 4: think because I know you considered the two thousand and
Speaker 4: one team the best team, but I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like they were a national championship team
Speaker 4: during that year, did you.
Speaker 3: Well remember the circumstances they started the year number one
Speaker 3: or two?
Speaker 2: Duke, Well, what were the circumstances?
Speaker 3: Bobby also, Bobby died and she had been ill most
Speaker 3: of that time.
Speaker 2: And then Luke took time off in the little bit right,
Speaker 2: they lost.
Speaker 4: They lost it in the festival classroom for the work
Speaker 4: for the only time that they ever.
Speaker 3: Knew Rosboro was the coach at the time. Rosboro took
Speaker 3: over for the next three weeks. Luke took his time
Speaker 3: off two weeks and he surprised and he showed up
Speaker 3: and coach them and they didn't really but one game
Speaker 3: after that, two games in one game in the regular
Speaker 3: season another one at the end, UH, your question was
Speaker 3: did you see it?
Speaker 2: Did I?
Speaker 4: I don't know that I saw that as a national
Speaker 4: championship team, and maybe it was because of what they.
Speaker 2: Were going through.
Speaker 3: Well, there's some point you probably thought that for me,
Speaker 3: having covered it.
Speaker 2: I thought every every.
Speaker 3: Chance Gilbert Jason, Luke, Richard, Laura and all these guys,
Speaker 3: you think, yeah, they're gonna be pretty good. And then
Speaker 3: they then they had didn't have lout. They struggled and
Speaker 3: and let me tell you, I think I consider this
Speaker 3: because it's been in a book or two maybe guys
Speaker 3: off the record and on the record. They were having
Speaker 3: troubles internally because five good dudes and was at job
Speaker 3: one ball right, and where do you go with it?
Speaker 3: So there were some things and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: Luke came back, got it fixed, and they win and
Speaker 3: then went on this role because you're playing for not
Speaker 3: just Luke, you're playing for Bobby, you're playing for the legacy,
Speaker 3: you're playing for all these things. And and I know this,
Speaker 3: the people who are listening are big fans. They had
Speaker 3: every reason to win that game the championship because he did.
Speaker 3: And I don't say this something they kind of got
Speaker 3: homered a bit, a bit, Yeah, don't cut a bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah I'm gonna do the Kamala Harris thing and like
Speaker 4: bite my tongue right.
Speaker 2: A bit they got they could never say that, but yeah,
Speaker 2: time is so bad.
Speaker 3: Even if they wouldn't have won after being the homeward,
Speaker 3: but there was a clear homer. Yeah, you know, it
Speaker 3: could have been a few points here and there, talk about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, I guess, I guess. And this
Speaker 4: goes back to being an Arizona fan. Right, Every Final four,
Speaker 4: including the eighty eight Final four, was a surprise to.
Speaker 3: Me, even that team that was a jergernaut eighty eight.
Speaker 4: I know, Steve, but it was hard to believe that
Speaker 4: Arizona had gotten to that point. Well, you didn't know
Speaker 4: where they could be, where they were a final fourty
Speaker 4: they had lost two games. Okay, look, my skepticism came
Speaker 4: from the fact that the Pac twelve or the Pac
Speaker 4: ten really sucked, that they were really bad.
Speaker 2: But they lost their Stanford, right, the first they lost.
Speaker 4: The only lost they only lost. The one conference game
Speaker 4: they lost was to Stanford at Stanford and then New
Speaker 4: Mexico and then they lost to New Mexico and that
Speaker 4: was it. But you know, it was kind of like
Speaker 4: you you thought they should have gone undefeated in the league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it targets the gods. Yeah yeah, but but
Speaker 2: but but my point being that.
Speaker 4: Each game that they won in the in the in
Speaker 4: you know, I thought they were not the first two.
Speaker 4: I thought the first two they were going to be
Speaker 4: in the tournament. Okay, sorry, I thought they were gonna be.
Speaker 4: But then they played Iowa again I thought. My thinking was,
Speaker 4: you know, I was pissed about the December loss, and
Speaker 4: then they beat the hell out of Iowa, and I thought, well,
Speaker 4: there's no way they beat North Carolina. And then they
Speaker 4: did that. So that was a surprise to me. The
Speaker 4: ninety four they were coming off that awful loss to
Speaker 4: ninety two Santa Clair. The so ninety three, the ninety
Speaker 4: four final four team was a surprise. Obviously ninety seven
Speaker 4: was a surprise. That was a shot shot.
Speaker 2: And then again they underachieved in ninety.
Speaker 4: Eight, right, so they right, So then two thousand and one,
Speaker 4: it's kind of like, Wow, you sit here as a fan,
Speaker 4: you think they can or should get to the final four.
Speaker 2: I've always thought I didn't really see this coming on.
Speaker 2: They get there.
Speaker 3: I understand what you're saying, because I was close to
Speaker 3: the team optually come and cover them.
Speaker 2: You saw that that was a possibility.
Speaker 3: After the death and and what happened subsequently, you kind
Speaker 3: of think, we'll see. But when he came back you
Speaker 3: could see that they were gonna bond right, and just happened.
Speaker 2: There was a definitive bounce in their step when he
Speaker 2: got back.
Speaker 4: There was a jolt of momentum, energy and energy and
Speaker 4: motion in the way they played after that, No doubt.
Speaker 4: I saw that from the floor, you know, watching those
Speaker 4: games from the floor, no doubt. But still you get
Speaker 4: into the tournament and we sit there and think they
Speaker 4: should get to the final four. But then on the
Speaker 4: other hand, it's like, when they do, you go, dang,
Speaker 4: that was really hard. But they got there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and they had great players at the time.
Speaker 2: I you know, if you ask me who they played
Speaker 2: outside of the one game in the final four, I
Speaker 2: couldn't tell you because I don't remember, and I should.
Speaker 3: But I think they lost. And this is the honest
Speaker 3: truth for me. I thought they lost the national championship
Speaker 3: at the semi final level, not from their end, because
Speaker 3: they beat Michigan pretty Michigan State pretty badly. But Duke,
Speaker 3: if you remember, played Maryland and Maryland had them by
Speaker 3: double digits, and you think, if they could just get Maryland,
Speaker 3: they're gonna kick the craft out of them. And then
Speaker 3: Duke came back and won that, and you're thinking that's
Speaker 3: when they that's when they lost the championship, because Duke
Speaker 3: was fantastic. They were really good. They were just equally
Speaker 3: as as talented as as Arizona. And then and then
Speaker 3: Gilbert gets hurt, Luke gets hurt, and they were kind
Speaker 3: of playing one handed, one behind, one hand behind their back,
Speaker 3: and then they get a little job or two, you know,
Speaker 3: a couple of bad calls, and you know, loose legacy
Speaker 3: would have been totally.
Speaker 4: Different, even though we're two championships, two championships, though, it's
Speaker 4: the legacy is pretty solid, pretty solid and incredible.
Speaker 2: Yes, if he gets a second one, it's even.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then he gets the second one, you know what,
Speaker 3: you don't think of Chicago?
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, And and that's the lasting taste for fairs.
Speaker 3: And that's kind of exactly because they were right there. Okay, cool,
Speaker 3: let's talk about Pima, all right, volleyball here on the
Speaker 3: other side, and then we'll talk more open lines and
Speaker 3: all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Steve Ravera and Jacin sALS they have their eye on
Speaker 1: the ball on Tucson Sports Station Chat Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Today, welcome back to you here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 3: I'm Steve Roberta. He's Jaginsauce.
Speaker 2: Now on the phone.
Speaker 3: We have coach Dan Dipple from Pima Pima, the volleyball
Speaker 3: coach there.
Speaker 2: How are you get Dan? You there? Oh? You got
Speaker 2: to put him on? Dan? Are you there?
Speaker 12: Hello?
Speaker 2: How are you You're on there? Ryan? Forgot to pitch
Speaker 2: on So you're gonna throw him under the bus. You
Speaker 2: know where you are? We don't know where the hell.
Speaker 4: We are? All good?
Speaker 12: I'm doing good, guys.
Speaker 1: How are you guys?
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 3: Right, you're coming off a pretty solid weekend. What went
Speaker 3: on with you guys?
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was a pretty terrific week for us last week,
Speaker 12: winning all three of our matches, and we just, uh,
Speaker 12: you know, really found a good groove and certainly executed
Speaker 12: a lot of our game plan and the things that
Speaker 12: we've been trying to do consistently. We we were able
Speaker 12: to do that at a at a pretty high level
Speaker 12: and pretty consistently. And certainly we hope that when we
Speaker 12: do a lot of the right things, we points go
Speaker 12: our way and and that's the way it works out.
Speaker 12: And and uh, fortunately that that happened for us last week.
Speaker 4: When something like that happens, when you get on a
Speaker 4: little bit of a roll like that, can you sense
Speaker 4: what caused that? Uh, you know, something happened in a
Speaker 4: practice or or in a huddle or you know, in
Speaker 4: a in a talking to the team or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you see do you see it?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I mean you can definitely sense it as it's happening
Speaker 12: and as it's kind of growing and building. But I
Speaker 12: don't know that, at least this week or for us,
Speaker 12: it wasn't like a specific moment that kind of sparked
Speaker 12: that Honestly, we came in on Monday, and we didn't
Speaker 12: have a great practice on Monday, which you know, normally,
Speaker 12: you uh, you want to start the week off right,
Speaker 12: and having a match right away on Tuesday is a
Speaker 12: little bit out of the ordinary for us. Normally we
Speaker 12: go Wednesdays and Fridays, and so we did have an
Speaker 12: extra match that week, but you know, it wasn't we
Speaker 12: didn't have a terrible practice, is but we certainly felt like,
Speaker 12: I hope we can be a little bit better tomorrow.
Speaker 12: And then you know, even kind of getting going against
Speaker 12: Chandler Gilbert on the road, it was a little bit
Speaker 12: of we were a little floppy, I guess is the
Speaker 12: way to say it in the beginning, but we were
Speaker 12: playing hard and we were pretty determined, and then kind
Speaker 12: of as we built through the match, we just started
Speaker 12: to realize that, you know, we were we were being
Speaker 12: we were playing hard and being pretty connected and just
Speaker 12: a few things kind of went our way and started
Speaker 12: feeling a lot more confident, and certainly I was able
Speaker 12: to take care of business at at the very end.
Speaker 2: So you hope that continues. Obviously.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me ask you, are you a coach where
Speaker 3: every game is a season, and I mean that by
Speaker 3: every game has its own individual thing, and then the
Speaker 3: next one is the season. Then you move on from
Speaker 3: that to the next one because you have three great wins,
Speaker 3: but you have another season.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think you know, one thing that we talked
Speaker 12: about with the kids this week is we have to
Speaker 12: continue to grow and learn. And obviously we should feel
Speaker 12: really confident about the way we're playing and the way
Speaker 12: we're working with each other as a team, but we
Speaker 12: need to keep getting better. And we're going to play
Speaker 12: all of those opponents at least one more, maybe even
Speaker 12: two or three more times depending on how playoffs go,
Speaker 12: and everybody's going to get better. And if if we're
Speaker 12: not one of the teams that's at the forefront of
Speaker 12: that improvement, then we could find ourselves in a spot where,
Speaker 12: you know, we aren't able to be a team that
Speaker 12: we've beaten previously. And so it's certainly a process. And yeah,
Speaker 12: like getting better through the through the match, or getting
Speaker 12: better through the practice, or getting better through the week
Speaker 12: is certainly something that we pay attention to.
Speaker 3: So coach, let me give you this background on my
Speaker 3: partner here and his next question, whatever that is. So
Speaker 3: we were talking do the softball coach here, I don't know,
Speaker 3: four or five months they had one twenty six straet
Speaker 3: something like that, and my guy here Jay, you know,
Speaker 3: he's his nickname here is kod and then I'll let
Speaker 3: him take the story over from here.
Speaker 2: Well coach well a coach Ketos. They had won twenty
Speaker 2: six in a row.
Speaker 4: And I right about a week before they got to
Speaker 4: that point, I said, we need to get her on
Speaker 4: the show. And it was of like, no, let's not,
Speaker 4: let's not jinx it or anything. And then finally, you know,
Speaker 4: they get to twenty six, we got to get her
Speaker 4: on the show. We get her on the show, and
Speaker 4: they lost the next two.
Speaker 12: Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, I know.
Speaker 4: What to tell you. I hope you don't take that
Speaker 4: wrong or hang up on us or something like that.
Speaker 12: Well, but to me, that is that's kind of that mentality,
Speaker 12: right in terms of just keep grinding and you know,
Speaker 12: let's let's celebrate when we have a trophy sort of thing, right, right,
Speaker 12: you know, and we certainly appreciate the coverage and the
Speaker 12: exposure and that's all part of the game these days.
Speaker 12: And but yeah, there is a little bit of don't
Speaker 12: jinx it and let's uh, let's let to keep riding
Speaker 12: sort of thing, right.
Speaker 3: Let me let me suggest going to taking your team
Speaker 3: and a bus to the send out of your mission
Speaker 3: and get the anxiousism from Jay over with.
Speaker 2: You'll be funny, well, definitely.
Speaker 4: So so as you you know, as you kind of
Speaker 4: you've gone through the stretch to do it, you're doing
Speaker 4: really well. You know, what, what do you have to
Speaker 4: do to keep their focus on that, you know, to
Speaker 4: keep their focus on the things that have started working
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's certainly a constant challenge, and you know, part
Speaker 12: of it is really paying attention to to being present
Speaker 12: and being in the moment. You know, we have student athletes,
Speaker 12: we have so many responsibilities and distractions and things like that.
Speaker 12: You know, we don't expect them to, you know, dedicate
Speaker 12: an amazing amount of time. You know, it's a couple
Speaker 12: hours for a practice, and obviously if you're on a
Speaker 12: bus or something, it's a little bit longer. But you know,
Speaker 12: hopefully we do a good job of being able to
Speaker 12: take care of our business away from the court so
Speaker 12: that when we are together we can be really present
Speaker 12: and really focus on the things that we are trying
Speaker 12: to get better at and the things we are good at.
Speaker 12: And that's a constant challenge, and I think it gets
Speaker 12: harder the farther you go into the semester. Your classes
Speaker 12: get harder, you get more workload. You know, those expectations
Speaker 12: change a little bit, especially when you are winning. Now
Speaker 12: it's like, oh, maybe we should win this game instead
Speaker 12: of let's just keep about our process and keep chipping
Speaker 12: away and trying to to you know, achieve the small
Speaker 12: victories that we're we're looking to get every day. But
Speaker 12: it is a challenge and it's something that we talk
Speaker 12: about and we try to pay attention to and certainly
Speaker 12: give the kids tools that maybe help them focus and
Speaker 12: help them, you know, be present and be ready to
Speaker 12: get everything to have.
Speaker 4: So so we know that that team, it competes in
Speaker 4: the league that's highly competitive nationally in a lot of
Speaker 4: their sports, softball, you know, comes to mind. You know
Speaker 4: you've got you know, men's and women's basketball, soccer, all
Speaker 4: those all those you know teams. Uh, you know, what
Speaker 4: how is your league as a league nationally in volleyball?
Speaker 12: Well, right now, so this if I'm if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 12: it's been a really long time, but all of our
Speaker 12: fall sports teams are ranked right now, and volleyball were
Speaker 12: ranked number twenty two, and I know soccer is you know,
Speaker 12: the men are at number four, I want to say,
Speaker 12: and the women are number ten and are across country
Speaker 12: team is ranked nationally as well. Additionally, for volleyball right now,
Speaker 12: five out of our seven division opponents are all ranked
Speaker 12: in the top twenty five. Wow, okay with with Scottsdale,
Speaker 12: the team that we beat on Friday was the highest
Speaker 12: at number six. And so our conference top to bottom
Speaker 12: is as good, if not better than any conference in
Speaker 12: the country and Division two and it's it's just a grind,
Speaker 12: like you there are no no nights off, and uh,
Speaker 12: you know it's it's great in terms of knowing that
Speaker 12: you have to prepare for that, and you know, it's
Speaker 12: like being in the Pac twelve. I know that's not
Speaker 12: a thing anymore, but you know, like the Pac twelve
Speaker 12: was in terms of basketball and volleyball, and you know,
Speaker 12: every night was a battle. And so there are obviously
Speaker 12: some tough things about that, because you're going to be
Speaker 12: hard to win a lot of games, but certainly there's
Speaker 12: some good things and that you you know, you have
Speaker 12: to rise for the Rise to the Challenge.
Speaker 3: So you haven't mentioned any of your players yet, but
Speaker 3: let me do that, Hayley, and I don't want to
Speaker 3: say your last name in correctly, so that you and
Speaker 3: then Jasmine Gillin and then Jasmine Joseph. So you had
Speaker 3: the top defensive and top defensive players of of the week.
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, we did. Those guys obviously UH kind of
Speaker 12: led us uh in those categories last week, and especially
Speaker 12: playing three matches, it's really difficult to have somebody play
Speaker 12: that consistently, you know, to be honored by the conference.
Speaker 12: And that's the coaches that do vote on that. It's
Speaker 12: not just uh, you know, it's not a popularity contest
Speaker 12: or something like that. But those guys certainly carried a
Speaker 12: huge load for us on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 12: and uh and well well deserved honors for both of them.
Speaker 4: So as you as you go along, then you're you know,
Speaker 4: you're trying to keep your focus on all this stuff.
Speaker 2: How do the players you know approach this?
Speaker 4: You know, have you seen a change in how they're
Speaker 4: approaching every you know, practices and games and and you
Speaker 4: know a point right, a little more bouncing their step,
Speaker 4: a little you know feeling, you know, more confident.
Speaker 2: What do they look like, Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You know, things that that we struggled
Speaker 12: to do a month ago now are kind of you
Speaker 12: know in the bag in terms of whether it's running
Speaker 12: a play or kind of understanding you know, making a
Speaker 12: decision or something like that. We're definitely you know, we've
Speaker 12: definitely come a long way as a group, and like
Speaker 12: you said, there is there's confidence about what we're doing.
Speaker 12: You know, we have high standards in terms of what
Speaker 12: we expect our kids to do, how hard they need
Speaker 12: to work, and what they have to pay attention to,
Speaker 12: and so they're still, uh, you know, they're still trying.
Speaker 12: It's not like they're coming in and it's casual and lazy,
Speaker 12: and you know that's sort of a feeling. But certainly, yeah,
Speaker 12: there's a little bit of a confident air about how
Speaker 12: we're doing our things and that allows us to hopefully
Speaker 12: level up and kind of you know, be even better
Speaker 12: as we Like I said, we kind of get good
Speaker 12: at one thing, we move on to the next thing.
Speaker 3: We taught you head coach and head VOI ball coach
Speaker 3: at Pima, Dan Bethel, I was wondering they're pretty good
Speaker 3: and they're ranked. Now, how long you've been at PEMA
Speaker 3: one and is this one of your better teams or
Speaker 3: where would you put it?
Speaker 12: Yeah, so this is my twenty fifth year at People. Man,
Speaker 12: I've been here, Yeah, quite a long time, and we've
Speaker 12: we've seen a lot of a lot of teams come through,
Speaker 12: and you know, maybe even more so than a four
Speaker 12: year school. You know, every team is so different because
Speaker 12: you're kind of turning over about half a your roster.
Speaker 12: And I will say this is one of the better
Speaker 12: teams that we've had in quite a while. And not
Speaker 12: that it's you know, we're talented, there's no question, but
Speaker 12: I think, you know, our our superpower, excuse me, our
Speaker 12: superpower is not our talent level. I think our superpower
Speaker 12: is our determination and our grit. And it's certainly enjoyable
Speaker 12: to coach teams that don't quit and don't question kind
Speaker 12: of oh I hope this is going to work out,
Speaker 12: or gee, what's going to happen?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 12: They just kind of put their head down and they
Speaker 12: and they bust their butts a little bit. And so
Speaker 12: I think that that is definitely a cornerstone of this
Speaker 12: group and they've really bought into that as well. It's
Speaker 12: not by accident that they want to be that way.
Speaker 12: And so I think, I think we have the talent
Speaker 12: to get where we want to go, to get to
Speaker 12: the national tournament. But really what's what's keeping us going
Speaker 12: is kind of that determination, which is which is a
Speaker 12: ton of fun.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping this is not not too much of a
Speaker 4: downer of a question. But you know, with the changing
Speaker 4: landscape at the you know, at the four year level,
Speaker 4: with you know, Chansfer portal and yeah, the way recruiting
Speaker 4: has become and it's focused on you know, there's they're
Speaker 4: just players moving around at the four year level as
Speaker 4: opposed to there's less high school kids getting scholarships.
Speaker 2: And how is that affecting you? Where? Where are these
Speaker 2: girls who.
Speaker 4: Are playing here now? Where are there opportunities going forward?
Speaker 4: And are there fewer of them? Are they just different?
Speaker 12: A little bit of both. It's it's definitely different. But
Speaker 12: I believe if you were to kind of measure it
Speaker 12: out a little bit, I think the opportunities are shrinking
Speaker 12: for the college transfers, you know, and volleyball, uh is
Speaker 12: a little bit different than you know, the big sports
Speaker 12: like football, and certainly men's basketball because luckily, unless you know,
Speaker 12: you have to throw out the Texas and the Nebraska's
Speaker 12: and the you know, the absolute pinnacle of the financial
Speaker 12: kind of world in college athletics. But for the even
Speaker 12: the good Division I schools, money is still not a
Speaker 12: real pushing factor for for women's volleyball. Yet it's it's
Speaker 12: getting that way more and more, But ultimately, I think
Speaker 12: the opportunities are getting a little bit smaller and a
Speaker 12: little bit harder for you know, kids to find exactly
Speaker 12: what they want. And really for us, that just means
Speaker 12: that we've got to we've got to work harder, and
Speaker 12: we've got to do a little bit more work. And
Speaker 12: I think that you know, there's always value and kids
Speaker 12: that have experience, and that's really are our big cell is.
Speaker 12: Like you guys mentioned earlier, our conference is so tough.
Speaker 12: Kids that do well in our conference come out with
Speaker 12: a lot of experience, and so hopefully we can we
Speaker 12: can keep generating those opportunities for our kids.
Speaker 3: So we've had coaches like you and the Division one
Speaker 3: level obviously for you A and other places, a lot
Speaker 3: of them have gone out, you know, Ca Andreas and
Speaker 3: the Lopuses and all these guys. You've been around the
Speaker 3: A D you know, Dave Rubio, Rubio another guy. So
Speaker 3: they don't they don't want to deal with this crap
Speaker 3: that's going on in IL.
Speaker 2: I'm curious.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's reached the the j C level,
Speaker 3: but I could be wrong there.
Speaker 12: Correct, there are murmurs. There is nothing really that has
Speaker 12: taken over in terms of you know, a group of
Speaker 12: schools or an individual school. That's that's kind of you know,
Speaker 12: said hey, we have we we have all this financial
Speaker 12: opportunity for these kids, and so it's still there. There
Speaker 12: are some regulations, there are some companies out there that
Speaker 12: are doing some marketing type stuff like hey, if your
Speaker 12: kid signs up with our program, will help them with
Speaker 12: n I L you know, things like that, but definitely
Speaker 12: not at the level that most of the Division I
Speaker 12: schools are having to manage right now, which, to be honest,
Speaker 12: is uh, you know, is a real positive for us.
Speaker 12: That's that's a layer that is reality now unfortunately. But
Speaker 12: you know, in the I guess the pure sense of
Speaker 12: college athletics, it's it's a little bit of a convolution, right,
Speaker 12: a little bit.
Speaker 2: Hey coach, thanks so much for joining us. Good luck
Speaker 2: the rest of the way.
Speaker 12: Yeah, thank you guys. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 4: Dan Biffel, Yep, you know, I mean they turned it
Speaker 4: around because they didn't get off to a great start.
Speaker 4: They're eighty six now, Yeah, they've turned it around. They're
Speaker 4: they're five and two in the league, which is which
Speaker 4: is what's important. And again, you know, Steve, you just
Speaker 4: wonder why are the Arizona junior colleges so good at everything? Yeah,
Speaker 4: but they're good at baseball for years, soccer obviously, basketball, basketball,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, they're all all these teams from Arizona.
Speaker 2: You actually ran, you would know this better than me.
Speaker 2: You haven't grown up here.
Speaker 3: They're just like you said, they're gritty two sons, one
Speaker 3: of those gritty I'll prove you wrong type of town.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the players that you know, and I'll say this,
Speaker 3: a lot of them are Hispanic. They don't get the
Speaker 3: college scholarships to go D one yet whatever. And they're tough,
Speaker 3: they're they're gritty, they're they're determined, and not just Hispanics, obviously,
Speaker 3: everybody in town. Determined is a great word because because
Speaker 3: they've been slighted. I think I could be wrong, It
Speaker 3: might be it might be so, you know, hell with
Speaker 3: the other people who're gonna kick your ass.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, coming plays, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Come plass, We'll show you yea yeah, so's I could
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera and Jake and Salez they have their eye
Speaker 1: on the ball on Tucson Sports State Chet Fox Sports
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to whining the ball hero Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jacin Zalaz. You've got
Speaker 3: our guy Ryan in with us. Forget about twenty I
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Speaker 3: please do five two zero four one six seventy four forty.
Speaker 2: That was That was fun.
Speaker 3: We I don't think we have we ever talked to
Speaker 3: to coach Beth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had him on once before. Okay, again, I
Speaker 4: had his head shot in our file. That's how I know.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize he had been there twenty five years. God,
Speaker 2: that I didn't know.
Speaker 4: And you look at his piggy it doesn't look like
Speaker 4: a guy who's been coaching twenty five years, right.
Speaker 2: That's why they asked. I wasn't sure if he was
Speaker 2: a young dude or an old.
Speaker 4: Not one of those grizzly old, gray haired, gray bearded
Speaker 4: guys like you.
Speaker 15: Like me.
Speaker 2: This is my character. I know, it's like you're all grey.
Speaker 4: Great, you know, not that I could grow facial hair,
Speaker 4: but if I could, it would be great.
Speaker 2: And my wife says no because of me or because
Speaker 2: of the spotty, because you can't grow beard. Yeah, both.
Speaker 2: I did it once. I know you tried well. I
Speaker 2: know you're better with the five o'clock the two day things.
Speaker 2: Did I tell you the story?
Speaker 4: So I did it back when, around the time Rachel
Speaker 4: was born, my daughter who's now twenty three yea and
Speaker 4: twenty two twenty three, and I had a picture of
Speaker 4: her and I on my desk and an employee at
Speaker 4: the place I was working walked in and said, oh,
Speaker 4: is that your granddaughter.
Speaker 2: I shaved the next day. That was it.
Speaker 3: It was, it was all gone. It was all gone, Papa,
Speaker 3: Papa Jay. Okay, you can't hear I can't hear you.
Speaker 3: We're trying to get a callar in here? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: so cool cool, all right, all right, well let's take
Speaker 3: this caller.
Speaker 2: Hi, you're on the air and I on the ball.
Speaker 16: Hey, guys, how you been?
Speaker 2: We're good? How are you? Who's this?
Speaker 4: It's oh my god? Well, you don't talk to me.
Speaker 4: You talk to Steve. You're just like you.
Speaker 2: You know, you forgot about me.
Speaker 16: I just forget about you. You're the one that took
Speaker 16: me out of the group chat man.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 4: Well, because we've got a bunch of degenerate interns anymore,
Speaker 4: and I just didn't want you to be subject to that.
Speaker 2: So how are you doing?
Speaker 16: I'm good. A little Bertie told me that you're you're
Speaker 16: leaving the show.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 4: I'm breaking up with Steve. I've I've had it, you know,
Speaker 4: he's always talking bad about ex wives and things, and
Speaker 4: I've just decided I can't see this.
Speaker 3: So d before you go on, when do you quit
Speaker 3: your job? And when are you coming back to be my.
Speaker 16: I mean today's Thursday, Friday?
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, yes, so monday. You can be here by Monday?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Probably They already have a house here, no kidding, How
Speaker 2: are you. What's that?
Speaker 4: How's the work going over it? Are you're still with
Speaker 4: fan Duel and all that stuff.
Speaker 16: I am still with Sandal. Work is good. I've been
Speaker 16: kept busy and given new projects. I'm going out to
Speaker 16: lost Al for the next couple days for the last
Speaker 16: few days a day or two week meet before we
Speaker 16: go back to stand Anita, and I'm doing some reporting.
Speaker 16: So all exciting stuff there.
Speaker 2: Very cool. We're very happy for you. We see I
Speaker 2: see your Twitter every now and again flirting with the jockeys.
Speaker 16: That very well might be happening.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no kidding, And I you know, honestly, I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, I love that stuff because you know they
Speaker 4: dabble a little bit and you know, on on fan
Speaker 4: Duel and and stuff, and uh, you know, once in
Speaker 4: a while, if I'm sitting around on a Saturday afternoon,
Speaker 4: I'm just kicking my heels up.
Speaker 2: You know, they might throw something down on a race
Speaker 2: or two. It's been fun, so.
Speaker 16: Racing to be had seven days a week, so lots
Speaker 16: of good things, bought good opportunities.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you go to send you? Were you at
Speaker 2: del Mar for a while? You had to be?
Speaker 16: I did? I went down for three select weekends. I
Speaker 16: was down there for their opening weekend week two, and
Speaker 16: I was down there for the Pacific Classic weekend. So
Speaker 16: I got to see gold Phoenix have a three peak
Speaker 16: in the Delmar Handicap, which guarantees him a spot in
Speaker 16: the Breeders' Cup turf nice. And I got to see
Speaker 16: Mixo upset in the Pacific Classic big time. He went
Speaker 16: off at like a like either fifteen to one or
Speaker 16: twenty to one. He went off at a massive price.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that. It was huge. Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: you're going to.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Well, you're you're at los Olemids. Obviously it's September.
Speaker 3: Now are you going to be going to the Breeders It.
Speaker 16: Looks like I will be at Breeders' Cup in some capacity,
Speaker 16: so that'll be really exciting to be back down at
Speaker 16: Delmar the first week end of November. I'll probably actually
Speaker 16: be down there about ten days leading up to doing
Speaker 16: our Breakfast show, working in the truck and working in production,
Speaker 16: so all exciting things. I've been told it gets very
Speaker 16: cold there in the morning, so that makes me a
Speaker 16: little less excited. But to be around those kind of horses,
Speaker 16: in that level of horsemanship is just unreal.
Speaker 4: Well, I was going to say, look at you. I
Speaker 4: mean we're talking. You know, you're talking Breeders Cup. That's
Speaker 4: that's big stuff. That's like Super Bowl kind of stuff
Speaker 4: that you're there.
Speaker 16: The super Bowl of horse racing. Except what makes this
Speaker 16: so much better, you guys, is there's individual teams and
Speaker 16: you can have twelve teams competing against each other in
Speaker 16: twelve different events. There are so many different events that
Speaker 16: you can wager on. There's huge fields. These horses are
Speaker 16: top of the top of the class all across the world,
Speaker 16: from Europe and Japan and South America and of course
Speaker 16: all over North America, whether it's from Canada and they're
Speaker 16: coming from Woodbine or Kentucky or Florida or New York wherever,
Speaker 16: everybody's going to be there.
Speaker 12: At del Mar.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not I'm not gonna lie that. You know,
Speaker 2: my daughter's moved.
Speaker 4: My daughter's living in San Diego now, she's working at
Speaker 4: San Diego State. But we had to make the drive
Speaker 4: a couple of times up to LA when we were
Speaker 4: moving her in and doing some stuff over there, and
Speaker 4: every time I went by Delmar, I seriously, I literally thought,
Speaker 4: there's d she's over there doing doing whatever she's doing,
Speaker 4: because it's I love looking over there and seeing the
Speaker 4: track from the freeway and it's like I.
Speaker 2: Want to be there. I want to get over there
Speaker 2: and do some stuff.
Speaker 16: Picturesque it is. It's definitely the place to be for
Speaker 16: the summer. I have enjoyed the week that I have
Speaker 16: been able to go specific Classic weekend. I was getting
Speaker 16: a trail of corn Nakatani Hall of Famer around as
Speaker 16: he was doing some stuff with us and just getting
Speaker 16: to pick his brain about racing and where he kind
Speaker 16: of sits these days. And it's it's been a lot
Speaker 16: of fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome.
Speaker 4: Well it's well, d I gotta tell you, I appreciate
Speaker 4: you calling because you were one of the best over here.
Speaker 2: You're pre shaped the studio we're in now. You know
Speaker 2: that little dive bar that we were in over there
Speaker 2: on an.
Speaker 16: Oracle moved into new place. I'm like, oh, this is
Speaker 16: the place they kept telling me about.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful place. It's a beautiful studio. It's clean.
Speaker 4: It's it's so clean they won't even let us bring
Speaker 4: food into the studio.
Speaker 2: I think that's a Steve Rull I think that's a step.
Speaker 4: Man, that that place got Steve's corner over there. You
Speaker 4: saw what that used to look like it got it
Speaker 4: got to be the worst it was. It was pretty
Speaker 4: bad over there.
Speaker 3: So if you can't make it down here to be
Speaker 3: my partner here, I think your dad wants to.
Speaker 16: Oh, I'm sure he would give collar Doug some time and.
Speaker 2: He will make time.
Speaker 13: We will.
Speaker 16: We will all be down there for sure in December
Speaker 16: for my brother's graduation. So we're all excited to be
Speaker 16: convened together.
Speaker 15: Into Okay, maybe we'll see you the very cool let
Speaker 15: us know absolutely.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, Hey, thanks about appreciate your calling.
Speaker 16: Of course, it was good to talk to you guys.
Speaker 4: Thanks a bunch of That was one of the good ones, man,
Speaker 4: one of the good ones, you know what I got.
Speaker 4: I gotta say we saw it coming right when we
Speaker 4: brought her in and she started doing the show, and
Speaker 4: it was like, I'm the reaction we got from people listening.
Speaker 2: To the show because she had a voice, She.
Speaker 4: Had a voice, she was knowledgeable about the things she
Speaker 4: was talking about. She would challenge the two of us
Speaker 4: all the time, and and very much appreciated. In fact,
Speaker 4: I just gotta I just got a text saying, uh
Speaker 4: uh that.
Speaker 3: You'd hit a home run if you could get her
Speaker 3: to join you. Yeah, it would be fun too, because
Speaker 3: she'd give me grief. She give me grief, we give
Speaker 3: it back.
Speaker 4: And well we were like her sur good dads, and
Speaker 4: she was like, you should pound on us. And it
Speaker 4: was fun in a nice way.
Speaker 3: Right, So that's how you get better this, see, right,
Speaker 3: you just gotta give us grief, Ryan, And but not
Speaker 3: to a certain extent, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, she's she's she's you know, she's
Speaker 4: on camera a lot, uh and then in the whole
Speaker 4: horse racing on the horse racing broadcast with Fan Duel,
Speaker 4: and so you can look for her, look for her
Speaker 4: there and.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 4: And she grew up you know, as a as a
Speaker 4: you know, a horse, a competitor in in in hot
Speaker 4: with horses. So it's part of her life, you know,
Speaker 4: since she was very young. And so the fact that
Speaker 4: she's working with horse racing is sort of right up
Speaker 4: her alley. But yeah, so she's she's been great. So
Speaker 4: no knock on you, Ryan, but he was pretty damn good.
Speaker 2: He was pretty good. Yeah, we've had a love You
Speaker 2: guys are all good. You guys all done, great job,
Speaker 2: because by.
Speaker 3: The end, you guys know what you're doing and can
Speaker 3: be prepared to get a job in the world.
Speaker 15: World exactly exactly, that's why you're here. Yep, exactly good,
Speaker 15: very well good. It was good here last night. We're
Speaker 15: going back to all cold. Okay, cool, yeah, very cool.
Speaker 15: Letting ever, let me let people know the show. Hay's
Speaker 15: gone yard today.
Speaker 4: So he's at forty nine homers and fifty one steals
Speaker 4: and he went big fly again way in the upper deck,
Speaker 4: one of those that you just stand there and watch that.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers are killing the Marlins again. But he he's
Speaker 4: four for four.
Speaker 8: With a.
Speaker 4: Single, two doubles and a homer, and on one of
Speaker 4: those doubles, he got thrown out at third, so he
Speaker 4: would have had a cycle already if he doesn't get
Speaker 4: thrown out. But he's a four for four five RBIs,
Speaker 4: two doubles and a homer, trying to hit number fifty.
Speaker 2: I don't know what their schedule is.
Speaker 4: I'd like to see when when they head back home,
Speaker 4: to see if he would do it at home. I
Speaker 4: think this is the start of a road trips. I
Speaker 4: think they'd be on the road over the weekend as well.
Speaker 4: But he uh uh heuh, you know he's there.
Speaker 2: He's going to get that.
Speaker 4: He's got ten games left, I think, to get the
Speaker 4: one to the one home run. He know, he's going
Speaker 4: to get it. So it's very cool something to watch, man,
Speaker 4: it is really special to watch this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, there, they're headed home to Colorado this weekend
Speaker 6: and then Padres are coming to town.
Speaker 4: I'll take Colorado. They're at Colorado this week you know,
Speaker 4: Colorado at home. Oh so if he doesn't do it today,
Speaker 4: he should hit it at home then because yeah, they've
Speaker 4: got uh, he's on deck right now though, Yeah, he's
Speaker 4: he's about to he's well, he's in the batter's box
Speaker 4: right now. I've got it on. So but you know,
Speaker 4: I think, you know, when things like this come along,
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of times people don't have
Speaker 4: an appreciation for it until it's done. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: next year or in ten years, they're going to talk,
Speaker 4: you know, talk about the year that show he went
Speaker 4: fifty to fifty, and you're gonna go because I remember
Speaker 4: when jose Canseeko went did he go forty forty? I
Speaker 4: don't remember, but you know you just go. Man, that
Speaker 4: was something. Yeah, that was really so.
Speaker 2: How much time do we have? I don't have my
Speaker 2: not get a call. We've only got about a minute.
Speaker 3: Okay, you might have to put that call to rest. Okay,
Speaker 3: we've got a minute just missing. Yeah, how much time
Speaker 3: we have? We got two men's Okay, let's take the
Speaker 3: call real quick. Hi are on the air and I
Speaker 3: on the ball.
Speaker 13: Hi. Ja, how you guys just gave?
Speaker 3: We're doing game?
Speaker 4: Hey, gab, we only got about a minute, so you
Speaker 4: got you gotta make it quick.
Speaker 13: Okay, how are you doing? Jay?
Speaker 6: I hope you're doing okay from Arizona's lost on.
Speaker 2: Good Well, I got I got it.
Speaker 4: I got a kind of stomach bug over the weekend
Speaker 4: and people thought it was because of the football game,
Speaker 4: but no, I'm doing fine. You know they're fine. There's
Speaker 4: there's nine games left on the schedule that they'll be
Speaker 4: all right. Yeah.
Speaker 13: Hopefully, hopefully they will correct everything that needs to be correct.
Speaker 13: The one thing, the one thing that I'm furious.
Speaker 6: In regards to Arizona football is in the n C
Speaker 6: a role that the New Mexico running back can play.
Speaker 6: And then all of a sudden, now he can't play.
Speaker 6: I don't understand this. This is this is ridiculo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know what's Uh, the situation is there, there's
Speaker 4: something going on.
Speaker 2: But uh and I don't think if he hasn't played
Speaker 2: to this point. Yeah, I don't feel come, I don't
Speaker 2: see him coming back. So Gabe, give us no word.
Speaker 13: Kind of smells like it's kind of smells like that
Speaker 13: team on Nor Problem to do done something can dealing
Speaker 13: him Tom Devils definitely smell like conspiracy.
Speaker 2: Okay, we gotta go, Gabe. We gotta go, Gabe. We're
Speaker 2: thank you. We're out of here. Thank you, thank you, Gabs.
Speaker 2: We gotta go.
Speaker 15: How much we know and show he just hit his
Speaker 15: fiftieth Oh wow, he's got fifty fifty one.
Speaker 2: Bro, you just messed up his leading the run news.
Speaker 4: All right, bring it up again because we say people
Speaker 4: will talk more about the back. Right.
Speaker 2: We got to get out of here. We'll be right
Speaker 2: back