WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.559 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on 2 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:10.480 Fox Sports fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services in 3 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:12.599 Sure your most Prized possessionets. 4 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:17.000 Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball 5 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.920 here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera with 6 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:24.000 me today is my usual Wednesday, Guy Blake, I you're 7 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:27.160 from Southern Arizona, sports tourism and film with thy I 8 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:28.719 know a bunch of other things. Why don't you promote 9 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:29.280 the other stuff? 10 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:32.119 I mean, we've got a Winter League coming right, I 11 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:34.280 can't say too much yet or we're going to have 12 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:38.359 a press conference on the eighteenth. It looks like, oh good, 13 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:41.200 that will be all sent out. But yeah, we're working 14 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:43.719 on that. We've got a big meeting tomorrow, gover comms 15 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:45.240 and super exciting. 16 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:48.640 I'm sure that it's kind of just dotting the eyes, 17 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:50.359 crossing the t's and knowing what to say. 18 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:53.320 Yeah, And we had in our meeting last week. We 19 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:54.600 spoke about it a little bit and we've got some 20 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:58.240 talking points. But I think instead of me leading that charge, 21 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:00.200 it'd be great if the ownership can do that and 22 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.640 then all follow suit. And I think Sarah Horvata Ko 23 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:05.280 is going to do the same. And but you know, 24 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:08.159 I mean, let's face it, we haven't had a permanent 25 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:11.879 anchor tenant at that kind of level of professional baseball 26 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:14.480 at Keno since twenty thirteen. 27 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:18.079 Can you at least say when starting will happen? Start 28 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:23.120 season starts in October? Okay, yeah, okay, great? You also 29 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.680 have one his final days in Tucson. The last couple 30 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:30.159 of weeks has been I've been emotional, Steve. I bet 31 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:35.599 you're kidding because because leaving Okay, get you your favorite meal? 32 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:37.480 Yeah? 33 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:45.760 Call it the castle? What are you sad? As? 34 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:48.000 I mean, has it it's set in obviously at this point, 35 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:49.799 it's been something you've been working on. We tried to 36 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:51.840 say it earlier last week and I got shut down 37 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:54.599 immediately because we weren't able to say it publicly. But 38 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:57.760 I mean, because from our standpoints, really exciting for whatever 39 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:01.359 that opportunity may be, right, Yes, and it's a huge 40 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:03.640 it's a huge chance, an opportunity for you. It's also 41 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:07.319 just a huge move in life. So are you nervous 42 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:10.439 a little bit? Have you lost any sleep over? 43 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:14.120 No? Been more? Actually, how much has your mom cried? 44 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:15.360 A lot? Oh? 45 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:17.759 It's going to be but not as much as my brother. No, 46 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:20.159 your brother's cried more. Oh yeah, I asked him that 47 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:22.879 last week. It's going to be the he said, his brother, 48 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:23.439 his brother. 49 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:23.759 Yeah. 50 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:25.319 I was a little bit surprised about that. 51 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:27.439 Now, Steve, is that weird that his family likes him 52 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:34.120 and yours doesn't like you? Is that still repeat that? 53 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.159 I don't know your family situation to do it here, 54 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:41.360 but yeah, that's amazing, man, It's very exciting, very exciting, mean, Steve. 55 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:47.039 Steve before the show asked me how many students, former students, 56 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:49.560 whatever you want to call alumni have found a job 57 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.039 within the field of journalism within my class? And I said, well, 58 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:54.800 I can name one, maybe two. 59 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:58.960 Yeah, I asked you that question a couple of months ago, right, 60 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.159 I mean, it's not an easy field to get into. 61 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:02.759 There was no jobs. 62 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.639 The fact that you're doing it, I mean almost immediately 63 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:07.439 after graduating is extremely impressive. 64 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:10.360 I think you did it, probably not as right as 65 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:14.319 you as I'd like, but you started early enough and 66 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:16.159 twelve many times, as I tell you, did you get 67 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:18.360 to apply for a job. Applying for a job because 68 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:20.080 you got to beat out not just the people here, 69 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:22.400 you got to beat the people out there too, uscs 70 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.719 as hues blah blah blah because they're looking for jobs too. 71 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:28.240 So no, good, good for you, Good for you. You'll 72 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:30.520 you'll be fine. You'll be fine once you get there 73 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:33.240 and you unload your stuff and you say, Okay, it's 74 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:34.159 the rest of my life. 75 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:36.800 Yeah, that first three months is a real mother and 76 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.159 then after that, like you start to settle in and yeah, 77 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:39.960 it's it's easy. 78 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:40.199 Yeah. 79 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:41.639 One, that's why you went to school. I mean, you 80 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:42.759 went to school for a reason. 81 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:45.759 Yeah, we talked about that's that's what I've been talking 82 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:47.599 to my family. But I said, I want to do 83 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:48.199 something with this. 84 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:48.639 I want it. 85 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:50.319 Might as well go for it now. It may not 86 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:53.000 be what I'm doing in life, but I at least 87 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:53.479 got to try. 88 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:55.000 Yeah. I mean, what did you want to do when 89 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:57.520 you grew up? I want to be a professional baseball players? Okay? 90 00:03:57.520 --> 00:03:57.919 And you did? 91 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:00.759 Yeah, I mean, but like that was that? That's your life? 92 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.879 I mean that's a rare circumstances. Yeah, Like I never 93 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:04.439 say enough. 94 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:07.240 You'll do that kind of You can even latched onto 95 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:09.159 a professional team If. 96 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:10.719 I don't have that interest in me, I just knew 97 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:13.120 I wanted to agree that I agree it. Yeah, okay, 98 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:15.159 I think what I'm doing right now is my dream 99 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:17.920 scenario able to help the community. In two sents, but 100 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.079 getting back to one, you're right, you're at the age 101 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:22.759 too right now where who cares? You're so young, like 102 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:26.199 you go make your mistakes, go fail, like you don't 103 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:28.160 have a family to take care of, Like this is 104 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:29.879 the greatest time of your life. 105 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:32.959 Yeah, right now, without question, because you're stepping into a workforce. 106 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:33.800 You have a job. 107 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:36.800 Fifty bucks a week is good, Like you'll figure it out, 108 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:37.800 you'll make it work, right. 109 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:40.279 True, So no, that's exactly right. It is the best. 110 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:42.199 You don't have a family to worry about. You know. Also, 111 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.240 you know when I go play poker or whatever, and 112 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:46.920 I have the kids playing poker, and you know, they're 113 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.639 hot shots and they're good. Actually you gamble, it's it 114 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:53.079 says yeah, they say, yeah, this is what kind of 115 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:55.199 you know? Well, this and stuff like that is are 116 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.199 you married, you have kids? They say, no, you haven't gambled? 117 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:04.680 Yeah yeah, yeah, this little stuff you're doing here, I 118 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:08.639 was spinning a chamber of my gun in the party. 119 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:12.839 You have a house to go to, Yeah, just what 120 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.720 it is? Well, thanks everybody for listening. Welcome back, my 121 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:18.160 first show in a week. I was out. I had 122 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:20.680 a little surgery here and I'm allowed to come outside 123 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.360 and play. So here I am. Thanks everybody for being 124 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:26.000 concerned last week or the last few days. I'm okay 125 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:29.360 so far. So here we go. A lot to talk about, right, 126 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:33.120 a baseball team. You're closer to that than I am. 127 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:35.839 Blake the Chip kind of works his magic at this 128 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.720 time of year. Yeah, he kind of does really well, 129 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:42.959 kind of slumps and then regroups, and that's been the 130 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:45.560 case this year. Yeah. I mean, did you guys watch 131 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:47.439 the championship game, Big twelve? I did not. 132 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.040 I was impressive. They fought. I mean it was one nothing. 133 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:51.560 Then Andrew hit a bomb in the nineth Indy and 134 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:55.399 it tied up. We call those pumps, right, hit a 135 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:57.279 pump in the ninth inning and tied up big, big, 136 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:59.839 big hit, And then they secured it with another run 137 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:01.519 in the next inning and came back or I think 138 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.000 two innings after that. When I go twelve, there was 139 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:05.839 ten was a ten yes in the next inning. Sorry, 140 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:10.480 I did watch it, by the way. Just a phenomenal game, great, 141 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:13.560 great show of grit and grind from that team. I 142 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:15.519 think they can do some damage. I think that that 143 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:17.279 bullpen looks a lot better than I thought it did 144 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:18.000 the start of the season. 145 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:19.000 So I don't know if I talked to you this, 146 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:20.680 because I've talked to it with the guys all the time. 147 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:24.680 I've done it for years now since Jay momentum one. 148 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:28.560 Do you believe in it? And are we here with it? Yeah? 149 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.759 We've argued about this all the time. I believe in momentum. 150 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:32.040 Yeah. 151 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:34.560 I mean, I know it's worked for me, like I've 152 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:35.360 gone both ways. 153 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:38.160 Okay, yeah, I call it a run. So do they 154 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:42.720 have momentum? And the team they're playing, do they have momentum? Yeah? 155 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:45.360 So you know what I'm saying. My point is either 156 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:47.000 you're good or you're not good, and you're gonna win 157 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:50.360 that day because both teams, guess what has momentum or a. 158 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:54.160 Moment Yeah, they're both stepping into the same kind of atmosphere, right, 159 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:55.560 the same culture that they have. 160 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:56.360 What's happened. 161 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:59.959 But I just think the I think you've as talent 162 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.519 is a little higher. It should be, it should be right, 163 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:07.279 And I think that now that they're lining up somewhat healthy, 164 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:10.160 I would say and argue that they can they have 165 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:12.639 their people back. They've got their people back. Yeah, they're 166 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:14.680 a watch party at the Monica. 167 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:15.040 I think. 168 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.319 Ray text me yesterday Friday. Yeah it's one o'clock. It's 169 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:20.040 a one o'clock Yeah, and he's like, let all the 170 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:21.759 kids know. And I was like, I guess school is 171 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:23.839 out right, So yeah, yeah, I make them. I might 172 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:28.480 drop I hadn't be with Raoul ro and I went, no, 173 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:30.399 I might do that just to go for any or 174 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:31.160 too and then get here. 175 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:33.680 Yeah let me know. Yeah you going to go. Yeah, 176 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:35.000 I might all be at my office, which is like, 177 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:37.120 oh okay, yeah, okay, that might be. That may be 178 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:39.079 have a little sandwich there or something. What do you 179 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:40.680 guys think? I mean, what do you think about this 180 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:42.240 you BA baseball team? I know we talked about it. 181 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:43.600 I don't know enough. I don't know if that's why 182 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:44.600 I wasn't trying to pick your brain. 183 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:46.480 Did you cover the team at all? I covered maybe 184 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:50.319 three games, and they're very talented. They're never out of 185 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:53.639 a game. Yeah, but do they show up for every game? 186 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:55.319 Not necessarily? That's that's the thing. 187 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:56.839 And I was gonna ask you. I don't know Chip 188 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:58.839 very much. He's very good when he's on the show, 189 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:02.240 and I know his history obviously, but he has this pattern, right, 190 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:06.920 I guess we all have these patterns of what he's done. 191 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.360 He's done well well enough to get to do to 192 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:13.680 the postseason, the number of times, what is his magic sauce, 193 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:15.560 and we all have blind spots. 194 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:17.959 I don't know if you could go to those blinds. Yeah, 195 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.160 I mean, I'm I can only talk to my personal experience. 196 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:21.800 Ship's a friend of mine. As you know, I've been 197 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:24.160 very fortunate to both be on the field and off 198 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:28.199 the field with him. He's not only been a mentor, 199 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:31.439 but he's been a friend. He's he's he's who he is, right, 200 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:34.000 So when you're having a conversation with Chip, it's never different. 201 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.200 So from a players standpoint, I know what I'm getting right. 202 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:40.080 I think when you get into the circumstance, he might 203 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:41.960 need to he might need to find a different gear 204 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:45.320 just to light a fire as needed where he's calm 205 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:45.720 and collected. 206 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:49.240 Okay, so you know, no question. In fact, I was 207 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:51.519 talking to out coach today about other things and just 208 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:55.320 the good coaches have this bite to them because they 209 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:57.399 just have to have this bite. Sometimes coaches don't have 210 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:59.039 that bite and you can tell that they're not going 211 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:01.399 to be successful. You have to have that bite. No 212 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:02.679 one to kick him in the ass and no one 213 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.799 to hug them, and that gives you some they get, 214 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:07.679 they get some respect that are playing hard for you 215 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.679 because you have that bite for you know, they lout lute. 216 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:13.840 They played out of respect for him, played hard for him. 217 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:15.440 He was very good at what he does. But a 218 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:17.240 lot of it was playing for your And I've been 219 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:19.679 told this a thousand times, playing for your grandfather. And 220 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:21.399 the last guy you want to disappoint in your life 221 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:23.960 is your grandfather. Yeah, so you played your butt off. 222 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:27.200 Yeah, so for similar Kindle, right, I think Kindle and 223 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:29.399 lut had I think at that time frame were very 224 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:32.159 similar from a player, So it's a generational and then 225 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:35.759 you move on to uh coach Stitt, same thing, same 226 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:38.960 that same realm. And then you go to and Lopez 227 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:41.519 had a different, different gear. Not a lot of people 228 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:43.879 are gonna see it because I mean, it's it's Andy's. 229 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:47.360 We talked about it because he's got that bite, and 230 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:50.159 it's it's it's a he knows what to push. 231 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:52.840 Yeah, And I think I think Jay was a little 232 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:54.840 bit similar. I also think that Jay was just able 233 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:56.879 to out recruit a lot of people and get more 234 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:00.639 talent and a smart baseball dude, smart smart am I 235 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.639 going up the track. I think that he tried to 236 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:06.919 play systems too I don't He's gone, so I don't 237 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:09.240 even care what that's fine. I think he tried to 238 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:11.559 play into systems too much and didn't give guys free will. 239 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:13.879 You had some of the best athletes similar wea you 240 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:15.240 talked about with Miller. Right, you've get some of the 241 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:17.799 best athletes in the country. Let him meet Right, you 242 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:21.399 get Bobby Dolback bunting with a man on second and 243 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:22.240 the third inning. 244 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.919 Of the World Series. What are we doing? 245 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:25.399 Right? 246 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:25.960 Right? Uh? 247 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:29.639 Where Chippers at? He's exactly the opposite, right, Like the 248 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:31.840 best piece of advice I've ever got coaching came from 249 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.360 Chipper when when we were this is a long time ago. 250 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:37.320 We were on the field and I was trying to 251 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:41.559 correct somebody's like just a basic stand. I was throwing BP. 252 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.399 So it was my academy. He came out to help coach. 253 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:46.720 So I would have him and like Tito and Jack 254 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:48.080 Hall and George Arrius and Chilly. 255 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:48.720 And A those guys would come out. 256 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:51.759 I was just really fortunate and he would come out 257 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:53.960 and he's like, he pulled me afterwards after b people 258 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:56.440 to me, he goes, is that kid athletics, He's super athletic. 259 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:59.279 He's like, stop trying to mechanically change him. Let him 260 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.240 be athletic. Like he's going to figure out. And that's 261 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:05.320 what I think he's doing now, right. But I think 262 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:07.960 that you have to get in a circumstantance sometimes where 263 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:08.480 you have to. 264 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:10.559 Let them go. You got to let them go, but 265 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:12.519 you also have to light a fire under their ass. Yeah, 266 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:14.799 I think that's the that's the part of it. That's 267 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.159 part of it. Doing that in today's world is tough. 268 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:20.320 My god, we had this quote. I had this conversation 269 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:23.039 with Arizona Bowl yesterday. Right, I'm talking to bing Chulluk 270 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:25.840 in his office and we're talking about because he's a 271 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:27.960 big Michigan State guy, right, he went to Michigan State. 272 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:31.279 He worked under Tom Izzo as a as a GA 273 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.159 or as when he was going there, so he knows them. 274 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:35.519 So we were talking about tom Izzo and we boasted 275 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:37.879 the same thing. In this day and age, can you 276 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.039 still have that kind of bite? Yes? I can. I'm 277 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:41.600 listening to you. 278 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:44.320 So I don't know if you can to be honest 279 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:46.600 with you, if you can m f a guy that 280 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:49.120 he understands that you care about his at the end 281 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:51.080 of the day, you care about his success in life 282 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:52.960 and winning and they have to do it to do 283 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:53.480 win that game. 284 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:55.480 Let's go to the young guy in this room. Yeah, 285 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:58.000 and not that you're the example for the litmus test there, 286 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:00.320 but does that help? 287 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:04.200 It always helped me. I feel like I feel like 288 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:07.480 when you ask me stuff like talking about nil, I'm 289 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:08.679 like that last bit. 290 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.639 Yeah, I got through the old school, traditional way, and 291 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:14.240 you gotta you're an older, an older hart, I'm an 292 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:15.639 older soul, older soul. 293 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:19.480 You can't do it anymore. Yeah, just just looking at 294 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:23.720 some of the way, like my younger family members are 295 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:26.600 brought up in coast or even parents, you can't. You 296 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:30.720 can't have a bite anymore because the world is too fragile. Now, 297 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:33.279 so then what do you You have to outprepare? Then 298 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:35.240 that's what you have to do. You have to outprepare, 299 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:38.879 and you prepare them in instinctively for those situations without 300 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:41.240 them even knowing it, so they're just reacting at those points. 301 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:43.080 Sure, sure, you just have to do that. A lot 302 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:45.559 of times. I mean, that's stuff I sent you yesterday though, 303 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.279 that was fantastic, fantastic, And we'll talk about that at 304 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:50.360 some of the point because it is today's today's and 305 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:53.840 we talked about we wax poetic on little kids. But Chip, okay, 306 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.080 So Chip will let them go, let them play, let 307 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.320 them learn on their own, not on their own, but 308 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:00.759 give them the chance to make mistakes. Yeah. 309 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:03.399 Yeah, And now he's I think, uh, you know, because 310 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:05.399 my dad has season tickets and my uncle goes with 311 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.600 him all the time, and then our close friends. I 312 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:09.279 don't go to a lot of them. Just honestly, I 313 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:11.279 don't go to a lot of college baseball games. It's 314 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:14.039 not my cup of tea. But I won't support anything 315 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:18.039 that Chip does. I think he gives them enough leniency 316 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:21.200 to make mistakes early on, yeah, to figure it out right. 317 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:22.960 And I think he's done a better job with that 318 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:25.639 with the pitching staff where guys have to learn how 319 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:27.440 to work out of trouble, and if you don't have 320 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:29.799 that confidence when you get into it, as you progress 321 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:33.639 during that season, that that the confidence's gone. Right, So 322 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:35.519 you get a guy on second and third early in 323 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:37.679 a game with less than two outs. There's a pretty 324 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:39.600 good chance you're gonna make a mistake, right unless you 325 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:40.240 know how to work. 326 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:43.159 Out of it. So how much leeway do you give them? Okay, 327 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:45.559 so you're you're in early in the season, he doesn't play, 328 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.600 let him play, doesn't make mistakes, make bad decisions or whatever. 329 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:50.960 Maybe they do, maybe they don't. At some point when 330 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:53.960 you say, okay, you've had enough. Now what do you mean, 331 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:54.639 like playoff time? 332 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:54.919 Yeah? 333 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:56.279 Now, oh not late in the season. 334 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:58.639 No, I mean I think you you're in. They're in 335 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.039 a position late in the season where their security get 336 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:02.919 in the Big Twelve tournament as a fourth seed. I 337 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:04.360 think it came down to the wire a little bit 338 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:06.639 bit with them. But I mean, once you get into 339 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:09.120 the tournament play it's it's you got to treat every 340 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:12.519 game like it's do or die, like oh of course, yeah. 341 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:14.879 It's when you talk about this And obviously I covered 342 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:17.200 Loop for a number of times twenty five years, and 343 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:20.039 he was always the flat line, Every game is the 344 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.879 same everything, And I get that. I get that, and 345 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:25.080 he was that guy. I'm sure his and I've never 346 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:28.720 asked this about those those those pre game fiery things 347 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.440 because he didn't have any But then you get to 348 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:34.919 the playoffs, you get to the tournament and every game 349 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:37.240 was the same, right, everything game And that's when the 350 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.480 issues came in because well, he lost the number of 351 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:41.519 first round game. Yeah, he lost the number of first 352 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:43.840 round games, and you're thinking, how can he can't get 353 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.519 these guys to play? Yeah, at this time of the year, 354 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:49.840 And that was the question, and the answer was, I'm 355 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:52.240 always this way. Yeah, it was this way. And of 356 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:54.000 course you don't want to throw curves at the kids 357 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:57.000 because they know, they know the magnitude of Yeah, it's 358 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:59.080 it's a it's a fine line to walk because you're 359 00:14:59.080 --> 00:14:59.919 saying it right now, Steve. 360 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.720 You don't want to do is you don't want you 361 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:05.279 don't want the players to take it as that you 362 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.679 you know, you're nervous, right, there's a nervous feeling to it. 363 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:12.240 For the coach, you want to you want to make 364 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:14.879 sure they understand that there's a sense of urgency. Right, 365 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:18.360 So what's the difference between nervousness or a sense of urgency. 366 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:20.679 And it's the fact if you're instilling confidence, but at 367 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:23.279 the same time, like, hey, it's not who we're playing, 368 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:25.559 it's how to beat them, right, like you're you're going 369 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:27.720 out there. It doesn't matter the name on their jersey 370 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:29.919 or anything. You're just going out there to kick the 371 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:31.120 living crap out of the right right. 372 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.559 Okay, it's relady three fifteen, We got to go. We 373 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:36.720 only have one guest schedule for today, Javo and Morales 374 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:38.799 from All Sports Too Sun dot Com. He'll come on 375 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:41.320 talk about the high school year and other things. 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