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Speaker 2: with us today we have a couple of people one
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Speaker 3: How an inn Yeah, it just depends on how you
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Speaker 2: parents need says be advised. Whatever that say.
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Who they're learning? Laura, Welcome, Welcome to the shore.
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Speaker 3: Next week, it's time to get out of here, Steve.
Speaker 3: Next week we'll be in our new studio on Tuesday,
Speaker 3: new studio, new phone system. Knew everything, Yes, and hopefully
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Speaker 3: know who calls us, and we're gonna know when you're
Speaker 3: calling usence, we're gonna know. We're gonna have your number,
Speaker 3: and if we don't like you, we're not gonna answer
Speaker 3: your call.
Speaker 2: That's Jay not to me.
Speaker 3: Right afternoon, We got to get out of here.
Speaker 2: What'd you tell me? The line was last week or
Speaker 2: yesterday on Arizona?
Speaker 3: Yeah, forty four and a half thirty five it's dropped
Speaker 3: at thirty five, thirty five points. Somebody foolish has been
Speaker 3: a lot of money. I might have to get up
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 2: Thirty five points. I don't know what happened or what
Speaker 2: Vegas knows, but thirty five points. I remember a ten
Speaker 2: point drop?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean there were a couple
Speaker 3: of a couple of games from last week that you know,
Speaker 3: there was a you know, there was a lines went
Speaker 3: up in the summer, right, so then they kind of
Speaker 3: changed over time. But ten points is a lot. I
Speaker 3: wonder what the hell right that's all about?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: And I thought it was twenty well I heard it
Speaker 2: was twenty eight, So it's a lot more than we thought.
Speaker 2: I assume you're gonna be covering game one, yes again.
Speaker 2: How was your first experience.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 5: It was definitely different because I'm used to being a fan.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, let's go there to let's go.
Speaker 5: The chair, and it was it was hard to hold
Speaker 5: it back. It was fine, it was fun.
Speaker 2: You'll get over.
Speaker 3: You didn't chair in the press box or anything, did.
Speaker 2: You No, No, there was. There was a lot of
Speaker 2: BS talking notes in the press. Did you get that too?
Speaker 2: What I mean, the usual BS talking, you know, the
Speaker 2: reporters talk too much and loud about stupid stuff. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you got that too, right, It's like, you know, no,
Speaker 2: WA's the game.
Speaker 5: It was cool to see all the fans filed in
Speaker 5: like it was cool to see the progression of the
Speaker 5: stadium actually getting filled.
Speaker 3: Tell me you're not the grumpy dad in the press box.
Speaker 2: No, no, I don't say kids shut the hell because
Speaker 2: because that they have the police for that. But but
Speaker 2: that was your first chair, right, the first And it
Speaker 2: wasn't that bad as like in the past. But you could.
Speaker 3: I mean, I do remember that the press box was
Speaker 3: generally deadly silent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, n not anymore anymore, not as much. What are
Speaker 2: they talking about fantasy games? Life less?
Speaker 3: You know, not even the game.
Speaker 2: Not really not really, it's like, you know, stupid stuff.
Speaker 2: That's why you kind of kind of they have to
Speaker 2: tell them a time or two. They didn't do it
Speaker 2: over this last weekend where you know this, Remember this
Speaker 2: is a work box, you know, but it's other stuff.
Speaker 2: You know what I did, my laundry shut up, So
Speaker 2: so you know, I just kind of listened and say,
Speaker 2: please say something.
Speaker 3: About this love.
Speaker 2: No, what is true? I mean, come out? Am I joking?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: No, I mean I ended up talking about how Nick
Speaker 5: Saban did on game day that morning.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but that's what you kind of football related.
Speaker 2: You're in the front, but a lot of the conversations
Speaker 2: are in the front, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But you know, it'll it'll get better. You'll see. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to cover this game this week. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be a fan for the first time in forever. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go a fan game.
Speaker 3: No, No, I have to do the show, to do
Speaker 3: the pre game show. So I'm ready for anytime you're done,
Speaker 3: we all out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you'll be done. Oh yeah, so there's that.
Speaker 2: How many people you think the game? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I bet forty five and change more than the last week. Yes, really,
Speaker 3: because I think there were a lot of you know,
Speaker 3: labor Day weekend last week. I think probably kept a
Speaker 3: lot of people out.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. Don't you think last games performance may keep
Speaker 2: some out?
Speaker 3: No, I don't think the performance will. I think the
Speaker 3: fact that it's in a you might, okay, which is
Speaker 3: why I don't think it'll go to forty eight, But
Speaker 3: I think I think forty five and change.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think it's gonna be lower.
Speaker 3: I've given over under of like forty five four hundred,
Speaker 3: and it's gonna be hot. It could be hot, but
Speaker 3: it's always hot. Steve, you know, well, what's the worst?
Speaker 3: What's the crypto knight of this town? The kryptonite is anything.
Speaker 3: It can be hot, it could be late, early, it
Speaker 3: could be cold, it could be raining. Wellple night. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of that, you know. I mean like
Speaker 3: when it rained last week, you know, during the tail gate,
Speaker 3: I thought, okay, they just probably lost a thousand fans.
Speaker 2: It was good, it was a good thing.
Speaker 3: It was a good thing. It was nice and cool.
Speaker 3: But there are probably I know, maybe a couple of
Speaker 3: hundred fans that said, oh it's raining, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Going Mildred, we can't go out this.
Speaker 3: It's rain and I'm not gonna go. They don't know
Speaker 3: how to drive. Yeah, I'm just gonna watch it. Here
Speaker 3: beers are three bus The seats are gonna be wet.
Speaker 3: I'm not going.
Speaker 2: That's right. Uh. Their fans don't say that you're generalizing.
Speaker 3: I am generalizing. Okay, I hate the bad fans.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's right.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of.
Speaker 2: Them, Yeah, there are. We'll see, we'll see if it
Speaker 2: gets better.
Speaker 3: I still think it gets to forty five.
Speaker 2: Okay, No, that's good. I think this that's a good
Speaker 2: number because you know, any use an a U and.
Speaker 3: But you gotta remember too, any U fan, you know,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of Tucson and you know Arizona kids,
Speaker 3: you know play for an AU. There fans might you know,
Speaker 3: they'll come. I bet you get to forty five. Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll see. Uh, we'll see what happens. We're gonna have
Speaker 3: so many chimneys that our tail. Gay. Oh there you go,
Speaker 3: you gasped.
Speaker 5: I'm hungry right now.
Speaker 2: There's your chance. There's your chance.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, you had a mountain of fried
Speaker 3: chicken last week?
Speaker 2: Did you you left leftovers?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, I took some home and then my sister
Speaker 3: came over and stole it.
Speaker 2: Did you did you Did you have a chance to
Speaker 2: listen to the show? No?
Speaker 3: Your show?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: No, the yesterday's press conference with Brendan.
Speaker 3: No, I still didn't.
Speaker 6: So no.
Speaker 3: Bringing the knowledge to the show against what what's he
Speaker 3: going to say?
Speaker 2: No, I don't going to say.
Speaker 3: What's he gonna say? You know, look, the defense has
Speaker 3: got to get better, you know, you gotta spread the
Speaker 3: ball around. And he used a really good team, which
Speaker 3: I always say, uh, we got you know, we got
Speaker 3: to play better. We gotta take steps forward. There there's
Speaker 3: the press conference right there Therese you're you're a sad
Speaker 3: reporter if you're tell me that's not the press and
Speaker 3: you're yeah, that's you're right, you right?
Speaker 2: What else could he say? And pick up that pick up?
Speaker 3: You know, justin spears story tomorrow and Mike left today
Speaker 3: and that'll be exactly what's in there. And you know
Speaker 3: they're gonna talk about t Mac and he's a he's
Speaker 3: a great player, one of the best players in the country.
Speaker 2: YadA YadA, YadA, improvement and wanted and yeah, got.
Speaker 3: To make improvement. You know, we gotta gotta get you know,
Speaker 3: get some things in order because we've got a big
Speaker 3: game against Kansas State next week.
Speaker 2: Right, right, and that's gonna be a key to Kansas
Speaker 2: State place too. Lane. This weekend was more about them,
Speaker 2: and that's a Friday night game, so Friday night, so
Speaker 2: they have an extra day to prepare, right, So we'll
Speaker 2: be we'll be busy that Friday at the New Spot
Speaker 2: talking about that game that night. Right, And is it
Speaker 2: a be busy Friday, you'll be here, right, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: sure you're geting cover it online or on on TV.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, our show, and right is the game is
Speaker 3: about to kick off. Last time that happened, it was
Speaker 3: a bad, very bad thing for what happened. I remember it,
Speaker 3: seventy to.
Speaker 2: Seven, seventy seven. You were the game.
Speaker 3: The game started right when we ended the show, and
Speaker 3: by the time I got home, it was all hell
Speaker 3: in a hand basket. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well he lost a coach, which was a good thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, okay, let's let's talk about today's show Friday.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Friday. We'll talk about the game on for tomorrow,
Speaker 2: but first we'll talk to Mike Fader, our friend Mike Vader, right,
Speaker 2: who will talk about the Mexican Piesta.
Speaker 3: Baseball fester coming up in a month, getting prepped for that.
Speaker 3: Arizona will be playing in it, so it should be fun.
Speaker 3: And again we'll remind everybody about all the cool things
Speaker 3: go on.
Speaker 2: For that event, right, and then we're gonna have your guy,
Speaker 2: what's today? Newman?
Speaker 3: Eric Newman. He's the sports editor for the airs on
Speaker 3: the Daily Sun, which is the daily paper up in Flagstaff.
Speaker 3: We had him on the show before the NAU game
Speaker 3: last year, and so we're gonna have him on again today.
Speaker 3: We'll just let him talk to us about ANAU. They
Speaker 3: blasted a team from some small college and in California.
Speaker 3: We'll see if they leaned anything from that. You know,
Speaker 3: Arizona is a better team than they were last year,
Speaker 3: so we'll see. We'll see what they're thinking. I'm sure
Speaker 3: they're not thinking that they're going to come in here
Speaker 3: and beat Arizona, but certainly, you know, I want to
Speaker 3: find out what kind of a team are they? Right?
Speaker 3: Are they going to sling the ball all over the field?
Speaker 3: Can they run the ball? Who they got? So we'll see.
Speaker 2: Well, the last time or lasting memory I have ANYU
Speaker 2: was some kid or two. Well, no, coach. I think
Speaker 2: it was getting in the elevator in the press conference
Speaker 2: press room. We own Arizona.
Speaker 3: Yeah, get out of here. You owned it for like
Speaker 3: five minutes.
Speaker 2: For like five minutes. Yeah, in the next game, and
Speaker 2: remind me how you felt after that game.
Speaker 3: I was pissed. I was pissed. I was pissed, and
Speaker 3: I'd come to the realization that things were one hundred
Speaker 3: times worse than that we thought they were.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because that should never happen under any congression. You can't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we should be able to get eleven
Speaker 3: guys in this building and beat.
Speaker 2: ANAU and you're gonna put on a helmet.
Speaker 3: Yeah you could, Yeah, exactly, you know we could get Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, so that never should have happened. It's it's
Speaker 3: still embarrassing that it did, because because in the modern era,
Speaker 3: Arizona can't be losing to NAU, right, I mean maybe
Speaker 3: they think maybe they did sixty years ago, when you know,
Speaker 3: there were you know, fourteen guys, you know playing football
Speaker 3: for Arizona and there were eleven in NAU and they
Speaker 3: would play and you'd play you know, East New Mexico
Speaker 3: Teachers College, and you know, they would beat you yeah,
Speaker 3: but today, in today's you know, college football, that never
Speaker 3: should have happened under any service. Well he came out
Speaker 3: of that, okay, and that was Washington.
Speaker 2: Were you there? You had to be there? Yeah, you
Speaker 2: were a student high school? Is that your first year?
Speaker 5: Was my freshman year?
Speaker 2: And what did you think?
Speaker 3: Did you kill anybody?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: Did you want to kill anybody?
Speaker 2: Did you cry?
Speaker 3: I wasn't surprised, you weren't surprised if they lost.
Speaker 5: I didn't think we were in a place to be nau.
Speaker 5: We were still that very much on the totem pole,
Speaker 5: really low.
Speaker 3: I know the totem pole, the tone pole is underground,
Speaker 3: but I mean, there's no way you should be losing.
Speaker 5: Any at that point. We didn't even have u our
Speaker 5: starting quarterback figured out. We were figuring out that game.
Speaker 3: I know, but you should have been able to come
Speaker 3: out of the seats and play quarterback that night and
Speaker 3: win that game.
Speaker 2: I wanted to you could have.
Speaker 5: I tried yelling it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I would have put you in.
Speaker 6: Ye.
Speaker 2: Cruise was the guy, right, was that Cruise?
Speaker 3: Well they used they used Cruise and Plumber in that game.
Speaker 3: Jordan McLeod, he came in at the end of that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, because he was a UCLA he was the
Speaker 2: head guy at UCLA by that time, right that year,
Speaker 2: he was the bing guy. Eventually, McLoud, well he did
Speaker 2: until you heard, right, but they had already gone through
Speaker 2: the two and then McLoud Yeah, yeah, Well here you
Speaker 2: are have a quarterback and they have a receiver, and
Speaker 2: they have a lot more brew players, better players.
Speaker 3: I like the over under in that that's sixty one
Speaker 3: and a half.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good number.
Speaker 3: That's a good number. I mean you figure, well, look
Speaker 3: if Arizona puts up fifty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, forty nine seven touchdown seven touchdown?
Speaker 3: Yeah, or you know, I think that's a I think
Speaker 3: that's a reasonable and I'm sid sixty even with sixty
Speaker 3: one good luck because you said fourteen, you'd give fourteen? Yeah? Say,
Speaker 3: and he scores a couple of touchdowns were you know,
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk to Eric Newman. He's gonna tell us
Speaker 3: if any you can score a couple of touchdowns, and
Speaker 3: if they can, I'm taking the over.
Speaker 2: I'll bet you. I'll bet you right now that he says, yes,
Speaker 2: they'll score at least fourteen.
Speaker 3: Okay, just in which case farzeone scores fifty you cover, Yeah,
Speaker 3: forty nine.
Speaker 2: That's very likely, revery likely. Okay, we'll talk about that
Speaker 2: when he comes on the show. We'll talk to Mike
Speaker 2: here in about ten five minutes or so. And anything
Speaker 2: else going on to the clearing house. Uh, you have
Speaker 2: breaking news, right anything going.
Speaker 5: To some good stuff, some NFL extensions and contracts. Okay,
Speaker 5: getting ready for week one. There was a good game
Speaker 5: last night.
Speaker 3: What about that game last night? Do see my thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw your thing.
Speaker 3: I hear I hear him by that much of a
Speaker 3: toe by toe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good game.
Speaker 3: After after my head exploded thinking that they had scored
Speaker 3: the touchdown because it would have been a push on
Speaker 3: the point spread. The line was three. So if if
Speaker 3: the Chiefs win by three, which often happens, then over time,
Speaker 3: you know, I lose that. You know, I had the
Speaker 3: over that was that was done. So I my head
Speaker 3: exploded when they when they hit that pass and I thought,
Speaker 3: I thought I'd lost it. And then I immediately saw
Speaker 3: in the replay I thought his toes.
Speaker 2: On, Yeah, right right away. You could tell that. Do
Speaker 2: you think that? I think all the talk today was
Speaker 2: that Baltimore got screwed officiating wise. Oh, a lot of
Speaker 2: the personal.
Speaker 3: Well, they kept doing their own stupid stuff. They have
Speaker 3: kept having guys lining up too far back, their tackles,
Speaker 3: kept lining up too far back. They got that called
Speaker 3: like four or five times, like okay, you get it
Speaker 3: called once. Baltimore, Yeah, Baltimore. Yeah, they're they're they're they're
Speaker 3: offensive linemen. They kept getting called for lining up in
Speaker 3: the backfield because they were they were sitting too far back.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many times that happened. I didn't
Speaker 3: see anything referee wise. It made me think somebody was
Speaker 3: getting hose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was some some personal penalties. Number zero got them.
Speaker 3: Late hits they I don't even called. They crushed Patrick couple.
Speaker 3: They crushed Patrick Mahomes out of bounds and didn't call that.
Speaker 3: Did you see that one? I mean they said the
Speaker 3: guy when he touched him and was trying to hold up, No,
Speaker 3: he wasn't. He pushed him and he pushed him like
Speaker 3: four yards out of bounds and they don't call it. Though.
Speaker 3: I thought they were going to kill the refs on
Speaker 3: that one. So no, I didn't. I didn't see that.
Speaker 3: All I saw was that Knas City won by enough
Speaker 3: for me to cover and hit a Dube two lake parlay.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the excess at OH, It's Steve Rivera
Speaker 1: and Jaden Salvez. This is I Am the Ball on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Wrying the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jacobs Sauce. I'm
Speaker 2: now on the phone. We have Mike Vader from the
Speaker 2: Mexican Baseball Fiesta How you doing, Mike.
Speaker 6: God, how are you guys?
Speaker 2: We're doing okay. We figured you're a month away and
Speaker 2: we want to check in. How's it going. Are you
Speaker 2: kind of already hectic? Are you just kind of easing
Speaker 2: into this?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 14: Not, And you know we've done this for twelve years,
Speaker 14: so I would say he is right. A lot of
Speaker 14: stuff to do there. It's more than me working on it.
Speaker 6: So we'll be fun.
Speaker 14: We've got we're working.
Speaker 6: On the games in Phoenix. You know the stadium at Camelback.
Speaker 6: I'm sure Jay is very familiar with the facility. Uh huh,
Speaker 6: and you know, so it's just it's just a matter
Speaker 6: of just getting things done. I mean, uh so, No,
Speaker 6: I feel good about where we are.
Speaker 2: You are you at the Grand Canyon? You're breaking up
Speaker 2: a little?
Speaker 6: I mean actually in my office behind in the back
Speaker 6: of my house is sometimes the signal. Right, So I'll
Speaker 6: try and talk closer.
Speaker 3: To the phone, but don't fall because we know you're
Speaker 3: still in that boot for your for your torn up achilles.
Speaker 3: Remind me how many where where are the games played?
Speaker 3: I know Tuson, you got Phoenix and then Vegas or
Speaker 3: is there any anything?
Speaker 6: No Vegas? So the weekend, the weekend before we are
Speaker 6: in the Phoenix area. Uh, and we're going to be
Speaker 6: the first day on Thursday. Let me get the date
Speaker 6: here for you. Uh, it's it's well, we're in Tucson
Speaker 6: October third or fifth and six, so it's one week
Speaker 6: before that. We're in Maryvale on this Thursday, which is
Speaker 6: a home of the Brewers. And then Friday's there Sunday
Speaker 6: were a camp Back Ranch?
Speaker 2: Is that by design or how does that work?
Speaker 6: Well? Not? We you know, we want quality facilities. We
Speaker 6: were at Slowm Park for a long time and it
Speaker 6: was just time to make a change. And we think,
Speaker 6: you know, we just thought how great the camp Back
Speaker 6: Ranch facility was. It's as the home of the Dodgers
Speaker 6: and White sax and and we just, you know, we
Speaker 6: we wanted to make the change. And the West Valley
Speaker 6: is fairly populated in the Sapanic community. Uh, And we
Speaker 6: just we just thought it was it was time to
Speaker 6: make the switch.
Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you, so is that atmosphere
Speaker 2: that I'm sure it's the same as Tucson, But is
Speaker 2: it a different vibe up there compared to here? How
Speaker 2: was it not?
Speaker 6: Not at all? It's it's it's the same people who
Speaker 6: love the Mexican Winter League. It's the same people who
Speaker 6: who's grandma and grandpa and mom and dad has lived
Speaker 6: in Mexico and went to games down there, so it
Speaker 6: virtually is the same. We you know, we've talked over
Speaker 6: the years about a group called Lobresa Labreca will be
Speaker 6: up there. Contacto Norte, another big band from Mexico will
Speaker 6: be up there. So now it's I I guess to
Speaker 6: give me a good example, the person who plays the
Speaker 6: music for the Animal Seal team is working the games
Speaker 6: in Phoenix and Tucson, so he creates the atmosphere. So
Speaker 6: it's it's it's the same.
Speaker 2: So after twelve years, does Mike Faders speak better Spanish
Speaker 2: than the Gazales in Rivera?
Speaker 6: That would be knowing you guys both have Hispanic names
Speaker 6: and I don't. So that's that's what partners are for,
Speaker 6: exactly exactly, and you know, and his son quite oddly,
Speaker 6: I mean, we we found over the years. Uh, most
Speaker 6: people are are acclimated that they could speak some English,
Speaker 6: so I never feel out of place at the if
Speaker 6: I do, I reached over to somebody five feet for
Speaker 6: me and get to help me.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, so how big of a deal is it
Speaker 3: for you guys to get the U of A in
Speaker 3: this And I don't know we've ever even that. I
Speaker 3: know we always talk about the fact that they're in it,
Speaker 3: but how how meaningful is it to the event down
Speaker 3: here that you know that you get them to play
Speaker 3: in this thing? And and and for the same reason
Speaker 3: do you get I mean, I don't know. You don't
Speaker 3: get a SU to play up there?
Speaker 4: Do you?
Speaker 6: Well? Chip Ale actually said that that Derek Derek Coach
Speaker 6: was interested in doing it. We we just couldn't work
Speaker 6: it out this year. Okay, So I guess you guys
Speaker 6: know me well enough. Do you want me to give
Speaker 6: you an answer or political answer?
Speaker 3: Honest answer? We always went on his answers.
Speaker 6: Okay, So it does it? Is it one of the
Speaker 6: events that draws an enormous amount of people? Know it doesn't,
Speaker 6: but in my opinion, it really has credibility. Both of
Speaker 6: you have been to the fiesta and place yourself in
Speaker 6: high corbage field, uh and look around the fan base.
Speaker 6: Will tell me what it looks like.
Speaker 2: For these games, for these games, for the for you
Speaker 2: of A games for you again? Oh god, I haven't
Speaker 2: been there forever, so I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well where I sit is well the students, you know
Speaker 3: the answer where I said, is where the students sit,
Speaker 3: But you go sit underneath the you know, in the grandstand.
Speaker 3: It's all old people, correct, well.
Speaker 6: So the and I think they are a great crowds.
Speaker 6: So the U of A crowd is a lot of
Speaker 6: older people, the older Arizona Wildcats fans to go to
Speaker 6: High Corbett. The fiesta is a little maybe a little
Speaker 6: too much because of all the music in the sound.
Speaker 6: But I'm going to tell you right now, the people
Speaker 6: who follow the U of A casually love it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: Chip Hale loves the event. Uh you know it's Ship.
Speaker 6: When I asked Chip if they want to come back
Speaker 6: the following year, I do it when I after the game,
Speaker 6: when I thank him, and he says, yeah, put me down.
Speaker 6: I mean it takes that long to make a decision.
Speaker 6: And he feels that it's a great incentive for his
Speaker 6: players to get used to rock his crowds and music
Speaker 6: and noise and and and he if anything, I told
Speaker 6: the story on the air with you guys before a
Speaker 6: few days before Ship blows the music out Hispanic Mexican
Speaker 6: music and the practice is played under those under those
Speaker 6: circumstances because he wants his players to get used to it.
Speaker 6: So he said, his players love it. So I do
Speaker 6: think it's it's good for us to have it because
Speaker 6: the U of A is such a great brand. Uh
Speaker 6: And and and they're very very helpful with us. I
Speaker 6: mean they do everything. They help promote it. You know
Speaker 6: Brett uh the s I d he'll do anything. I mean,
Speaker 6: he's the spring scheduled today and the theft that was
Speaker 6: mentioned prominently, and there's the first exhibition game that the
Speaker 6: Wildcats play. So it's it's just something that we love
Speaker 6: of the Arizona Wildcats.
Speaker 2: I would assume too, that benefits them because it's probably
Speaker 2: the best competition they'll see until the actual rigular season.
Speaker 6: Without rushing and think about this one. The two teams
Speaker 6: that played last year on the Thursday night were the
Speaker 6: Arizona Wildcast against the Airmo Ceo Non and Harrows. Right,
Speaker 6: both of them won their conference championships. Uh uh And
Speaker 6: we'll Ceo won the Mexican Winter League and went onto
Speaker 6: the Caribbean World Series. So I guess there might have
Speaker 6: been something lucky about being playing in the beginning of
Speaker 6: the fifth.
Speaker 3: Okay, I guess there's that, right, Yeah, yeah that Hey,
Speaker 3: you know you take all the good luck you can get,
Speaker 3: so no doubt, and you're you're.
Speaker 2: A baseful guy, so even quite athlete.
Speaker 6: This year, we've got a larger group of teams than
Speaker 6: we probably have had in a long time. We've added Jalisco,
Speaker 6: We've added Wave uh you know, and the typical one
Speaker 6: there will see over Go in Mexicali uh Alvahola. They're
Speaker 6: all returning. So we've got a great lineup of teams.
Speaker 6: So the only team that people ask for that's not
Speaker 6: here that might be in Phoenix this year is Coolia.
Speaker 6: Cooliacon is one of the name brands in the Mexican
Speaker 6: Winter League. Uh and and they actually have a really
Speaker 6: good following in the valley, more so than Touso because
Speaker 6: of geographics.
Speaker 2: So I think we've probably asked you this in the past.
Speaker 2: Of course, Uh, you covered the Triple A team or
Speaker 2: you're the GM with the Triple A team here forever.
Speaker 2: What level is this likened to.
Speaker 6: I think it's similar.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 6: Some people will tell you not as good. Others will
Speaker 6: tell you it's it's it's approaching you know. I I
Speaker 6: think you guys know him a big cub stant. Uh
Speaker 6: he's Scott Parades. That comes their baseman who's not hit
Speaker 6: worth a damn right now. Uh, you have played for
Speaker 6: Air Mustel last year in the last half of the
Speaker 6: season and in the Caribbean World City. Uh. So you've
Speaker 6: got players like that, you know, Uh Salazar sat Salazar, Yeah, Uh,
Speaker 6: you know he obviously played for the u of A.
Speaker 6: And and now is it a big leaguxact leave with
Speaker 6: Uston Astros. Uh so you have fringe guys. If you're
Speaker 6: a darting player in the big leagues and you're gonna
Speaker 6: play six months, you're you're not coming down here. Uh.
Speaker 6: You know, you gotta rest. But if you're a guy
Speaker 6: who's maybe not getting as much playing time, uh, then
Speaker 6: you might consider it. You know. The Cubs also have
Speaker 6: a pitcher who I'm trying to think with the glasses,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. No, okay, I'll think of
Speaker 6: his name. But he pitched up the last two three
Speaker 6: years and and it really helped him and getting ready
Speaker 6: for the big league.
Speaker 2: Okay, No, that's and do you have I know you're
Speaker 2: really busy as you walk around and try to facilitate
Speaker 2: for the people that are there. Do you have a
Speaker 2: chance to watch you personally have a chance to watch
Speaker 2: baseball at all?
Speaker 6: No, not really. I I'm more interested in the music
Speaker 6: and the food and all the other things that are
Speaker 6: going on. My partner, Francisco Gamez, is the general manager
Speaker 6: of the Animal Sale team as well. Right now, he's
Speaker 6: watching every inning of every of every game. So as
Speaker 6: long as he's watching nets, I like, here about I
Speaker 6: do nothing that affects who plays in that in that yes,
Speaker 6: so I just I just want them to have a
Speaker 6: good game and enjoy themselves and hope that nobody gets hurt.
Speaker 3: All right, if I go to the game, or if
Speaker 3: anybody goes to the game, what specific food item are
Speaker 3: you recommending?
Speaker 6: I'm the worst answer to that question, and Steve knows why.
Speaker 6: I am the pickiest eater around. Okay, so I would
Speaker 6: never eat any of the Mexican food because you know,
Speaker 6: I got kind of the tender tummy and the spices
Speaker 6: would tear me up.
Speaker 3: Oh you big baby, Come on, you've been here like
Speaker 3: one hundred years.
Speaker 6: I would agree with you. I mean, Jay, you've been there.
Speaker 6: What do you eat when you come?
Speaker 3: Everything?
Speaker 6: Okay? Well, there's the answer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jays tell me has never been.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's why that's why I was asking you,
Speaker 3: because I'll eat everything, but you know, I'm looking for
Speaker 3: somebody who's got something specific. They say, Okay, this is
Speaker 3: the best thing over there.
Speaker 6: Now they I watched people, you know items in Mexico.
Speaker 6: They it's cruchy salta. They put salta on ships, and
Speaker 6: they put fruit and they put all kinds of stuff
Speaker 6: and they and they vented in the stands. People love it.
Speaker 6: I'm it's not one of the people of eating it.
Speaker 2: So like, let me ask you this. Give me the
Speaker 2: percentage because I would take a guess some probably be wrong,
Speaker 2: but maybe maybe not. You have a baseball game, you
Speaker 2: have a party. How many people go to see the
Speaker 2: baseball game, and how many people go see the party?
Speaker 2: Percentage wise, I would.
Speaker 6: Say forty thirty percent go to watch a baseball game. Wow,
Speaker 6: those are the loyal ones who know those teams from Mexico.
Speaker 6: And I would say on Saturday, that's higher because we
Speaker 6: get people traveling from Mexico uh to come to the games.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: And so it's their team. I mean they want to
Speaker 6: see their team UH play and you know and and
Speaker 6: get ready for the start of their season. So, uh,
Speaker 6: it's important to them. I would say, if I were
Speaker 6: to ask you, guys, and you've been to games in
Speaker 6: and out, how many people could tell you the score
Speaker 6: of the game or who won when they leave the stadium,
Speaker 6: I would say it's not a great percentage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they probably the last score they knew was before
Speaker 3: their their first.
Speaker 6: Beer or whatever, well or third or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a dance party, yes.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 6: And let's just say, uh, what is the prevailing concession item?
Speaker 6: That would be called something called surveys? Yes, by the way,
Speaker 6: the name the name are I was trying to think of.
Speaker 2: Is Javier Asad Alvira sad?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 6: Is that a really good cup?
Speaker 2: Okay? Okay? Anything else you want to add? Tickets available
Speaker 2: now or do you have to wait?
Speaker 6: Tickets go on sale in Tucson next Tuesday at nine o'clock.
Speaker 6: Ticket prices are the same they've been the last two years,
Speaker 6: twenty five dollars for box seats, twenty dollars or general
Speaker 6: mission kids under six to sixteen or ten dollars. Seniors
Speaker 6: are ten dollars. So it's it's affordably priced and they
Speaker 6: will not be on sale at the stadium till the
Speaker 6: Friday preceding our first game.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you you on the top of
Speaker 2: the head. You know these things at the park. How
Speaker 2: many people are able to go in there like to see,
Speaker 2: to sit and watch?
Speaker 6: What's the capacity when when Lebresa plays again, I'm not
Speaker 6: telling you that the best crowd is when Airmaltel plays Overgone. Uh,
Speaker 6: it's when this great band called Lobresa out out of Sonora.
Speaker 6: When they'll play, they'll have seven eight thousand people.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, no, it's a standing room only top of
Speaker 2: the crowd.
Speaker 6: Well, that's it's close. I mean because we don't we
Speaker 6: don't necessarily see people in the in the Uh yeah,
Speaker 6: but we will never have a crowd of nine thousand
Speaker 6: or greater because in our configuration, he couldn't handle it comfortably. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but no, I mean for the Ammal seel Over game
Speaker 6: Overgone game on that Saturday every Saturday is traditional. It's
Speaker 6: a huge rivalry. We'll have five six thousand people.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, good luck with that this year. We'll talk
Speaker 2: to you more later about it.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you checking in. Well maybe we before let's
Speaker 6: get a little more detail.
Speaker 2: Okay, so just real quick for tickets, the Google Mexican
Speaker 2: Baseball test. How do they find the tickets?
Speaker 6: Well, Google say Mexican Baseball yester dot com.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's it.
Speaker 6: You go, okay, Elsie. And if for some reason you
Speaker 6: have relatives in the valley, they went on sale this week.
Speaker 6: So they're on sale right.
Speaker 3: Now online Phoenix. Okay, perfect, all right, Mike, thanks man,
Speaker 3: Thanks Mike, have a very weekend. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Let's take a break, come back and maybe we'll
Speaker 2: get some calls a lot of different things. Uh, are
Speaker 2: you done with your picks?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you might do well this way. You might do
Speaker 2: well this way.
Speaker 3: I mean I've been look every week. I mean I'm
Speaker 3: listening reading stuff about games. If I have some games
Speaker 3: in mind, there's only one game that I'm set on,
Speaker 3: then I've got probably I'm curious about that, probably about
Speaker 3: eight games that I'm looking at. So I just got
Speaker 3: to decide I gotta pull I gotta pull the trigger
Speaker 3: on these games.
Speaker 2: So we'll talk about your one game that you liked
Speaker 2: last week, how that went, you know what I'm talking about?
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Speaker 1: Streaming live on the iHeartRadio Whip. This is I on
Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteenth fifth Day.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball hero Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Ribera, He's Jagan Zau's got
Speaker 2: one with us today, got Laura in the house. We
Speaker 2: got fourteen minutes. We want to call five two zero
Speaker 2: four one six seventy four forty. We'd like to hear
Speaker 2: from you, maybe your thoughts on the weekend game. Are
Speaker 2: you gonna go? Is it too hot?
Speaker 6: Is it this or that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I mean it is gonna be really hot.
Speaker 3: Be prepared for that, you know. I mean we got
Speaker 3: lucky last week because you know, when it rained and
Speaker 3: the rain ended. Normally it rains like that and it
Speaker 3: becomes like a sauna, and it didn't do that. It
Speaker 3: was a little breeze. It was nice and cool. It
Speaker 3: was actually pleasant the whole night on Saturday. This time
Speaker 3: is supposed to be dang hot. But you know, again,
Speaker 3: either you're a fan or you're not, so just go
Speaker 3: and shut the hell.
Speaker 2: Up and go right you you by the way you
Speaker 2: you students you were were you a student?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: You worked?
Speaker 2: Uh that's the best they that's the best they've been
Speaker 2: in a long ting time.
Speaker 5: I was actually talking about it with the people up there.
Speaker 5: I said it was I think it was about an
Speaker 5: hour before kickoff and it was pretty much full. Ye said,
Speaker 5: they doesn't get this way until about five minutes into
Speaker 5: the game, right, And they stayed.
Speaker 2: And that's what it pressed me the most. They stayed
Speaker 2: still the whole thing, and it was they didn't need
Speaker 2: to because there was a blowout, which you know, neither
Speaker 2: here nor there, but they stayed.
Speaker 5: I think it was the fact that it was and
Speaker 5: mcmaillan they were putting on a show.
Speaker 2: So well, there's that and that could be a good thing.
Speaker 2: I mean that, yeah, maybe, and maybe that is it.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's a part of it is that you know,
Speaker 3: it's worth sticking around to see what they do, because
Speaker 3: you know, they were doing stuff till the very end.
Speaker 3: I thought, I you know, kind of what you know,
Speaker 3: going away from the subject, I thought Fefitita stayed in
Speaker 3: a little longer than I expect. I thought that that, uh,
Speaker 3: maybe five minutes left, maybe the second to last possession
Speaker 3: they got it put in the backup quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Did they score on that second to last they did?
Speaker 2: I can't remember that. In the last one, they didn't
Speaker 2: sixty one. I can't remember.
Speaker 3: Run. It was a long run. Yeah, so he was
Speaker 3: not gonna be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 3: I mean they didn't throw they ran the ball more.
Speaker 3: They didn't throw the ball as much. But I still thought,
Speaker 3: you know, I was a little surprised when Faffita came
Speaker 3: in for the last series that he came in for.
Speaker 3: That's fine. You know, they were trying to cover. They
Speaker 3: were in striking distance. Yeah, so they gave up that
Speaker 3: last score by you know, in New Mexico. At that
Speaker 3: last score, they had a chance to cover.
Speaker 2: The fumble fumble fumble.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, see, I'm going perfect this week. I've got
Speaker 3: my picks.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna throw it out.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw it out for everybody. You want to
Speaker 3: be here for the last segment of the show, because
Speaker 3: you're gonna get five winners.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go back to some history here. When was
Speaker 2: the last time that happened.
Speaker 3: That I had a perfect I know I didn't have
Speaker 3: one last year the year before.
Speaker 2: Okay, last year you didn't come close.
Speaker 3: I know I didn't come close.
Speaker 2: I had three I think did you have three?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: So we'll see, we'll see. Come on, you gotta catch
Speaker 2: me now. I got I. I hope we don't have
Speaker 2: the same one.
Speaker 3: I'm good this week. I'm really good this week. I
Speaker 3: got this.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you, because I know his his
Speaker 2: answer to this, and I'll ask quiet, So do you
Speaker 2: listen to other sports talk shows?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, good, okay, No, never mind, it doesn't apply because Jay,
Speaker 2: he's the guy who studies too much.
Speaker 3: I don't study too much.
Speaker 2: They just hear things. He hears too many things, so
Speaker 2: that kind of sways him too how he thinks about
Speaker 2: the game. And I'm all for that because he gets
Speaker 2: good information, but he then he processes it and then
Speaker 2: he screws it up.
Speaker 3: This analysis.
Speaker 2: But that's that's what I love about you, because you you,
Speaker 2: especially for this contest, you listen to a lot of
Speaker 2: people and then you kind of well, this guy said
Speaker 2: and this, that doesn't that doesn't mean anything. Who the
Speaker 2: Stephen again?
Speaker 3: And again, I don't. I don't pick my games based
Speaker 3: on what other people pick. I picked my games based
Speaker 3: on information that I get from other people, and I
Speaker 3: process that myself. So just because wait to know, Stanford
Speaker 3: Steve or whoever picks a game X, that doesn't mean
Speaker 3: I take the game because he picked that. But if
Speaker 3: he gets I get some information that I don't have,
Speaker 3: I use that.
Speaker 2: So two years ago, when you stay close to me
Speaker 2: and beaten by half a point for you were taking
Speaker 2: Stafford Steeves or whoever the.
Speaker 3: Group again, you're taking it wrong. I was listening to
Speaker 3: those guys because I was getting information from those guys.
Speaker 3: But I wasn't picking games just because they picked that game.
Speaker 3: I was getting information from them. That's what I do.
Speaker 2: We have still have our your tapes on the We're
Speaker 2: gonna to go and review those. I'm gonna need the evidence. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm with it with it. How you pick your game,
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 3: I get information then I then I use it. I
Speaker 3: interpret it myself. Just because Stanford Steve and they may
Speaker 3: like Chris Filica the bear he gets. Stanford Steve had
Speaker 3: that show together and I would listen that to religiously,
Speaker 3: but because Chris Filika would come up with trends and
Speaker 3: stats that I thought were useful. They are and they are,
Speaker 3: and he and Chris Filica still does, but he does
Speaker 3: it for Fox now, and he doesn't do it now.
Speaker 3: He does it in the weekend, right, yeah, on the weekend,
Speaker 3: So you can't, you can't, right, right, right? So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm on Saturday. I'm going crap. I didn't know that,
Speaker 3: and they didn't know that. I didn't know that. I
Speaker 3: didn't know that. I wish i'd known that, Okay, But
Speaker 3: I do listen to others, and I read a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff on social media, all these a lot of
Speaker 3: these you know, betting sites who put their experts on
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. So I just get information and
Speaker 3: and then I decide on my own. Now, this week,
Speaker 3: I'm telling you that I'm just going with some some
Speaker 3: teams that I've got sort of a gut feeling you're
Speaker 3: playing that way? Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm trying real hard,
Speaker 3: real hard to not overreact to what we saw last.
Speaker 2: Week, right, And that happens a lot, and that's another week.
Speaker 3: Two Is the time for that?
Speaker 14: Is?
Speaker 3: Okay, you saw one game the previous week, that's how
Speaker 3: it's going to be the rest of your year.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not sure that in that case. For Arizona,
Speaker 2: I kind of wish that they were playing somebody like
Speaker 2: Kansas State because you improve some of the most in
Speaker 2: the first to second game, right, and it's second to
Speaker 2: third because that will happen.
Speaker 3: And we're really not going to know how much Arizona
Speaker 3: improves after they play in.
Speaker 2: AU, even even when they played Kansas State, because they
Speaker 2: played these two teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so we'll see. Yeah, So I'm looking you know,
Speaker 3: you got me all wrong.
Speaker 2: Now now I'm just looking forward to your picks.
Speaker 3: You got me all wrong. I got five good ones.
Speaker 2: I hope they're not much.
Speaker 3: I didn't feel good about my picks last week.
Speaker 2: You you were, you were here. Wasn't he gung ho
Speaker 2: on those picks?
Speaker 4: One?
Speaker 5: I was a gun ho?
Speaker 3: But like, well, I thought they were good picks, but
Speaker 3: I didn't feel like, you know, I'm going five for five.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't see it the way I do right now.
Speaker 5: Last week, you don't see the fire.
Speaker 4: This week you do.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, I got this this week. Are you
Speaker 2: here Friday next week?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll talk about it. I got this, man, Okay, No,
Speaker 2: that's cool. That's why we got to pick some pro
Speaker 2: games this week. I have those, I have them written down.
Speaker 2: I should move on sheet on other side, so you
Speaker 2: don't look at.
Speaker 3: We have to pick the Lions Rams game. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: the one I'm fired up about this, Steve. I'm going
Speaker 3: I'm going yard.
Speaker 2: Okay, should we change the subject until next hour, next home? Okay,
Speaker 2: anything else, but we have to have six minutes. Would
Speaker 2: you want to call five two o four one, six,
Speaker 2: seventy four forty we'd like to hear from you. Anybody
Speaker 2: out there that micre, anybody.
Speaker 3: That car on Umbrassic game though, that's one of the
Speaker 3: best games of the day. Yeah, I'm really looking for
Speaker 3: to that. The rivalry, you know, there there was stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, there was a lot of talk before last
Speaker 3: year's game. This year, the kind of all talking nicey
Speaker 3: nicy about each other, and I respect him and you
Speaker 3: know all that.
Speaker 2: Did you read the course heat today or a good
Speaker 2: good He kind of just kind of touched the surface
Speaker 2: of him.
Speaker 3: Well just basically, Dion, quit being a big baby. You're
Speaker 3: you're you're like the.
Speaker 2: Man you should be used to it by now. You're
Speaker 2: the guy.
Speaker 3: You're the Hall of Famer, like what we've been saying,
Speaker 3: You're the Hall of Famer. You're the guy's got nothing
Speaker 3: to prove why are you being such a big baby?
Speaker 2: You know what? What is the matter to you?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 2: What people think?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's you know, you're he's supposed to be the
Speaker 3: grown up in the room and instead he's a spoiled
Speaker 3: little kid. Went and told mommy and daddy what their
Speaker 3: people are doing.
Speaker 2: Well, you just said that, and that hit me. He's
Speaker 2: the dult in the room. He's the advisor or the
Speaker 2: mentor for the kids. Right, but what's he what's the
Speaker 2: advises kids.
Speaker 3: Whining to mom and dad?
Speaker 2: You know who?
Speaker 3: Study director? Will you send out a news tell those
Speaker 3: people not to talk bad about me?
Speaker 2: And here's the second thing. Here's the second thing because
Speaker 2: we talked about this maybe a little when when Colorado
Speaker 2: defended him on not talking to the reporter. Uh, why
Speaker 2: would why would the school get I know why they
Speaker 2: would get behind him? But don't don't go there.
Speaker 3: Why I bet there, I bet because he told them
Speaker 3: or else to do that or else or else. I'm
Speaker 3: out of him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this will be it. This will be it.
Speaker 3: If you don't if you don't back me, if you
Speaker 3: don't have my back, I'm leaving. Yeah, or not not
Speaker 3: saying it that way, but basically saying, you guys need
Speaker 3: to have my back, and they interpreted that to be sure, Okay,
Speaker 3: we better have his back or he's gonna leave after
Speaker 3: this year because everybody thinks he is anyways.
Speaker 2: Right right, Well we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but it's the whole thing, though, Steve of
Speaker 3: there's nothing for him to have to do or say
Speaker 3: yeah to say he's great. People think he's great. They
Speaker 3: think he's great as a coach, they thought he was
Speaker 3: great as a player. There's nothing that they that they
Speaker 3: should have that he should have to be thinking about
Speaker 3: as far as that. Yet he's sitting there and whining
Speaker 3: like a big baby.
Speaker 2: So next the next time they played Colorado, which is
Speaker 2: maybe a month or so, whatever, we'll have Brian Howins,
Speaker 2: how many people do you think the fan base of
Speaker 2: Colorado who likes him and doesn't like him because you know,
Speaker 2: there's the nut.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna say ninety five percent of the fans
Speaker 3: like it because they're saying he may be a butt heead,
Speaker 3: but he's our butt head.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ninety five. I think that's maybe for me, maybe
Speaker 2: eighty eighty five.
Speaker 3: But I seve, if you're a Colorado fan and you
Speaker 3: see what he's done for the program. How do you
Speaker 3: not like?
Speaker 2: Well, because you can kind of be like us and
Speaker 2: see through the b but we're down here on Arizona. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I still think that.
Speaker 3: There's well that's not that's to me, that's five percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay. I mean there's some people, you know, and
Speaker 2: there's some.
Speaker 3: People who absolutely all their entire lives hated the Cowboys
Speaker 3: and the Niners and all the teams he played for,
Speaker 3: and so they still I hate.
Speaker 2: Sure, they're pissing, including those on my list. I'm a fifteen,
Speaker 2: but I.
Speaker 3: Think I'm going to say, well into the nineties that
Speaker 3: people like what he's doing, support what he's doing. They're
Speaker 3: mad at the media.
Speaker 2: Well, the best thing they happened in Colorado was deone centers. Yeah,
Speaker 2: whether whether they like it or they do not like it, right,
Speaker 2: and they knew what they were getting into, probably because
Speaker 2: of the surgeon and all this stuff. But how long
Speaker 2: and you probably that it's not It's gonna be two
Speaker 2: or three years and then goodbye.
Speaker 3: Again. I shouldn't be this way, but I'm a I'm
Speaker 3: a I don't know what the right word it is.
Speaker 3: I'm not bitter I'm just I'm I'm a hater. I'm
Speaker 3: a hater, and I just gets the living crapped out
Speaker 3: of them this week, just to shut him up for
Speaker 3: no other reason, just shut him up for a week.
Speaker 2: It'll be, that'll be if that's happens, it'll be the
Speaker 2: start of the demise of the season. You could be,
Speaker 2: because did you see that either one and eight versus
Speaker 2: really good teams or a better team? Yeah, or go
Speaker 2: decent team?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Well well they went, they went three and
Speaker 3: oh and then they would one game.
Speaker 2: That game they had Stanford on the ropes and they
Speaker 2: couldn't put that away. And that was when it all started,
Speaker 2: all that stuff. So I'm just.
Speaker 3: Again, I get upset with people who have everything and
Speaker 3: then they still go find something to complain about. That's
Speaker 3: that's I guess. That's what bothers me about him. He's
Speaker 3: got the he's got the world at his feet, and
Speaker 3: yet he's looking for stuff to be a big baby about,
Speaker 3: and he is, and that that bothers me. I I've
Speaker 3: never really disliked him. I didn't kind of like a
Speaker 3: lot of his flashiness. And you know, I'll look at me,
Speaker 3: look at me, look at me. Stuff throughout his pro career,
Speaker 3: but I didn't dislike him, and then I didn't even
Speaker 3: dislike him that much last year, but almost since the
Speaker 3: off seat, you know, because he got he got shown
Speaker 3: how hard this is. Yeah, you know, over the course
Speaker 3: of the season, and I thought, uh, for the most part,
Speaker 3: he was pretty humble about it. Yeah, but then you know,
Speaker 3: then this off season and all this stuff, and then
Speaker 3: now you know, the a writer write some stuff about
Speaker 3: you that you don't like. So you're you demand at
Speaker 3: your school that your entire athletic program banned the guy
Speaker 3: and not let him ask questions.
Speaker 2: Come on, yeah, well he not let him ask. He
Speaker 2: asked questions, but they don't have to answer.
Speaker 3: Or no, they said they're not taking questions. That's what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. He can still ask questions, but then they're
Speaker 3: not gonna they're not going to take they're not even
Speaker 3: they're not gonna even let him ask a question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, let's come back talk to horror.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll fired out, Steve.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm here for. One your next it's a Friday, Steve.
Speaker 3: I don't want to get out of here, like with
Speaker 3: my head explode.
Speaker 2: Feed to him some nachos, that we'll be falling all right,