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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to IM on the ball here Fox
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Speaker 1: Eye on the ball, breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 4: Team Mac has been named to the preseason All American
Speaker 4: AP first Team.
Speaker 3: No shock, and actually I am shot and appropriate. I
Speaker 3: am shot because he's playing for Arizona.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because that's the national media would put an Arizona
Speaker 5: guy on the first team. But I think I sent
Speaker 5: a note to the to the sports information guys. You say,
Speaker 5: when was the last team Arizona had a preseason All America?
Speaker 5: Was it all the way back to Ricky honley Man?
Speaker 3: No, you know, it couldn't have been. But maybe who
Speaker 3: maybe what was?
Speaker 5: What was?
Speaker 3: What was Kadeem? He couldn't be first team?
Speaker 5: Right? Yeah, you might be wrong because he had his
Speaker 5: great season Teddy his senior year Teddy maybe Teddy, I
Speaker 5: don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's a good question. I think that there
Speaker 3: had to be something in the last forty years. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't know it. Does you the wrong guy? No, I
Speaker 3: don't think soon. It was not first team, That's what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. Does it say who sent that release out?
Speaker 4: It was on the Arizona football twitter?
Speaker 3: Oh okay, because maybe they'll put something together when they
Speaker 3: sent a press release on if they haven't already the
Speaker 3: last time this has happened.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't think one that I know for sure
Speaker 5: was a first team first game preseason All American. They've
Speaker 5: had first team All Americans. Well, but I'm talking about
Speaker 5: preseason going into the year. Somebody thought Lil Tate was
Speaker 5: a preseason All American.
Speaker 3: No, the funny thing about it, and maybe not funny
Speaker 3: is not the right word. But we talked to last week.
Speaker 3: They have four in the top one hundred, right, he's
Speaker 3: not number ten, twelve, thirteen. And if anybody was worth
Speaker 3: their chops on the voting thing, the AP voting thing,
Speaker 3: they've been doing a little homework and they know that
Speaker 3: Arizona has a player or two and had he not
Speaker 3: been a quarterback or a wide receiver, they never would
Speaker 3: have been on that list.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, put a high profile position.
Speaker 5: Right, and that and that's it. So I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, seriously, I do not know. I can't, off
Speaker 5: the top of my head think of.
Speaker 3: No you would know, you would know, And this stuff
Speaker 3: you don't forget. Yeah, because you don't forget this stuff
Speaker 3: you forget named. But yeah, this tuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I don't And I mean I can't think
Speaker 5: of when I like again, Ricky Hunting was a two
Speaker 5: time All American, so I imagine he was the first
Speaker 5: team All American, you know, going into a preseason All American,
Speaker 5: going into a senior year after that. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I just don't know.
Speaker 4: So anyways, Noah Fafita and t Mac have anue nil
Speaker 4: sponsorship with Allarian Aviation, a private jet and charter flight service.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I saw a video on Twitter for them walking out. Now, Okay,
Speaker 5: here's the here's a weird thing. And it's been spotted
Speaker 5: right other people asking they both got these backpacks on
Speaker 5: and the back of Noah fa Fita is bad backpack.
Speaker 5: It looks and I don't think it is, but it
Speaker 5: looks like the Iowa the Ohio state logo. I can't
Speaker 5: imagine that that it is that I don't know what
Speaker 5: it is. But it's a little too fuzzy to to
Speaker 5: see what it is. But somebody actually asked, is that
Speaker 5: the Ohio state logo? I know, I know his backpacks.
Speaker 5: I don't know what it is. Somebody out there knows
Speaker 5: what that logo is. Would love to hear that or
Speaker 5: send us a text or something, because it it doesn't
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4: The Cole Dollan scored four goals yesterday to lead Arizona
Speaker 4: to a five nothing went over Pacific to improve to
Speaker 4: two and l on the season.
Speaker 3: I think she has like five or six goals.
Speaker 5: Now already she's leading the country.
Speaker 3: But five, when you get four in a game, that's
Speaker 3: pretty pretty tough. Pretty good? Was that? So the Pacific?
Speaker 3: That was a regular Okay, just starting to think they
Speaker 3: play NAU. She's a she's a graduate senior. I think
Speaker 3: she's Yeah, home game is I think this week? Sometimes
Speaker 3: I'm trying to go to the way okay.
Speaker 5: Oh. I was confused as we talked about the Grand
Speaker 5: Canon game. I thought Grand Canyon was an exhibition. The
Speaker 5: exhibition was against UNLV, So yeah, so they beat Crank
Speaker 5: Canyon one zip and then Pacific three zip and as
Speaker 5: you said Northern Arizona on Thursday here in Tucson.
Speaker 4: So all right, Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy has told
Speaker 4: his players to quit asking for more money, and that's
Speaker 4: the negotiation period is over and now we are playing football.
Speaker 3: Did you see this?
Speaker 5: Did you see this?
Speaker 3: It was fantastic because only he could pull the action.
Speaker 3: Only but he pulls this off in a dramatic type
Speaker 3: of way. He's saying that now some of the guys
Speaker 3: are coming up and can I need more money? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: you have to play football. Your agents had their chance.
Speaker 3: Now it's your my guys, after the season, we'll talk.
Speaker 3: But now it's football time. And and I thought that
Speaker 3: was ron. I don't know how I would ask the
Speaker 3: coaches if I were to sit there, but I'm sure
Speaker 3: they'd run into the same issue because if it's happened there,
Speaker 3: it's happening everywhere. And you say, no, this is football time,
Speaker 3: and you have your chance to get as much mony
Speaker 3: as you could before you season started.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like it's like you're trying to negotiate your
Speaker 5: contract in the middle of the season.
Speaker 3: Correct, This has turned into a pro situation with and
Speaker 3: there and again showing up and there's no rules, Steve,
Speaker 3: no rules right.
Speaker 5: Like like you know, uh, and and again in the NFL,
Speaker 5: you know they you know again they you know, they
Speaker 5: do their contracts and stuff like that. But usually what
Speaker 5: you hear is that the season starts and both sometimes
Speaker 5: the player, often the the management will say, Okay, we're
Speaker 5: done negotiating contracts. We're playing football, and now we'll do
Speaker 5: this when the season.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this has happened yet, but I'm
Speaker 3: sure this will happen sometime soon. I'm gonna sit out.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna sit out. I'm not gonna play until I
Speaker 3: get this fixed.
Speaker 5: Well, then you know what, give me your scholarship and
Speaker 5: get the hell out of school and you're and you're
Speaker 5: academically eligible.
Speaker 3: If someone good at the level of a team ac
Speaker 3: or Noah, you're gonna be held hostage. You're gonna be
Speaker 3: held hostage because I know you said that just now.
Speaker 3: There's no way you're gonna say that to them because
Speaker 3: you can't. You can't afford to not to have them.
Speaker 5: I don't know, man. Here's here's because here's the here's
Speaker 5: the thing for me, when you think about it, A
Speaker 5: player like no he's all in, right, will accounts he's
Speaker 5: all in. So if you've got a guy who's not
Speaker 5: all in, that's a sign of that that it says
Speaker 5: that the money is more important to him than anything else,
Speaker 5: and you don't want that guy on your team.
Speaker 3: I know you mean to tell me there's not guys
Speaker 3: like that. I'm not saying here, but everywhere.
Speaker 5: Sounds like my Gundy has something right, No question that.
Speaker 5: Who're saying I want I want my money and he's
Speaker 5: saying it's time to play football. And if they say
Speaker 5: then I'm not playing, then he's going to say or
Speaker 5: if you're what he should say is all right, you're
Speaker 5: off the team, you're off the scholarship, you're out of here.
Speaker 5: Go find yourself another place to play. I think to me,
Speaker 5: that's the right thing to do. Well, it's it is.
Speaker 5: But we're two dudes in Tucson talking about it. Right,
Speaker 5: If it happens to you and me, then you're thinking,
Speaker 5: oh crap, now I need to make a decision. Well, okay,
Speaker 5: let me say that. Let me say it this way.
Speaker 5: Then if I heard that, no off of did that? Okay?
Speaker 5: If he if I heard that, he went to Brent
Speaker 5: Brandon and said I'm not getting enough money. I need
Speaker 5: more money or I'm not playing. I would want Brent
Speaker 5: Brandon to cut him. I really would steve.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 5: Go get the next guy that that's that's a cancer.
Speaker 5: That's a cancer that you can't let Do you have
Speaker 5: into your team?
Speaker 3: Do you have a lot of stuff? Do you have
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff? Henry? Okay? So good? So we
Speaker 3: have tough Okay, so we had we had the quarterback
Speaker 3: from last year.
Speaker 5: Give me who I'm Jay Jade Law.
Speaker 3: So Jadane Delare you hear that he's in trouble like
Speaker 3: what he was in trouble for. That's kind of big deal.
Speaker 3: That's a big deal. People in Texas didn't want him here.
Speaker 3: He's here. What are you saying?
Speaker 5: But that's different from him saying I don't want to
Speaker 5: play more money.
Speaker 3: But it's different in a different way, in a more
Speaker 3: serious way.
Speaker 5: Almost. I don't those two things aren't anything.
Speaker 3: But I don't know. If you have that guy, a
Speaker 3: guy who's been accused of this and that, and you're saying, oh,
Speaker 3: it's okay, he's he's our quarterback. You can let it play.
Speaker 3: And I said that before he wasn't the quarterback, right?
Speaker 5: He would have been gone, he would have been going
Speaker 5: one hundred percent agree with you, Steve. But but but
Speaker 5: but again.
Speaker 3: I hear you. No, let me say, I hear you.
Speaker 3: I'm not too far from what you're saying. But if
Speaker 3: he was crucial to the thing, You're not gonna get
Speaker 3: your money, guy, But you have to perform. You have to.
Speaker 5: And if he says I'm choosing not to play, I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: you gotta go. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. I'm saying if he if he says then
Speaker 5: then I don't want to play or I'm not gonna,
Speaker 5: you know, give everything I have, then I'm gonna say, well,
Speaker 5: then you're you're gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not. If if it's come to that, right, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what I'm saying. Okay, I don't disagree with that. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 5: That's gonna be hard. No, it's gonna be really hard.
Speaker 5: You know what. One of the responses to you, I
Speaker 5: went on the thread, you know, Justin Spears was one
Speaker 5: who posted that about about theft and McMillan and I deal.
Speaker 5: And one of the one of the responses on there
Speaker 5: was that's gonna you know, that's gonna be a problem
Speaker 5: for the locker room or something like basically saying no,
Speaker 5: not not not in this new world. No guys are
Speaker 5: In fact, I think other players are going to say,
Speaker 5: good for you, that you get that you're going out
Speaker 5: there and get money.
Speaker 3: And again they played hard for them, right right. But
Speaker 3: you know, in fact, I think maybe it was a
Speaker 3: justin question today with the with the with the the
Speaker 3: new offensive coordinator baby baby denal bapers denal Bapers who
Speaker 3: said he hasn't been part of a team with this
Speaker 3: much togetherness ever. I mean, that's easy to say because
Speaker 3: you know, how do you check that? But we kind
Speaker 3: of believe that.
Speaker 5: I like, I hope that's true. I'd like to believe it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: If it's not true, I wish you wouldn't say it.
Speaker 5: But if it is true, I'm glad he's saying correct.
Speaker 4: Right, Okay, The Commanders have officially named Jade and Daniels
Speaker 4: there starting quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: I'm not shocked with that. When he was the third
Speaker 5: rum pick, second run, always the first he was the
Speaker 5: second or second it was a second pick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, another surprise, they Joe, you're actually for a reason right.
Speaker 3: The funny thing is I saw the Raiders versus the
Speaker 3: Cowboys over the weekend, just kind of just kind of
Speaker 3: a couple of things.
Speaker 5: So they have a Minshew Gardner Mitschew. Why they announced
Speaker 5: him as the starter.
Speaker 3: He's a starter now for the Raider, for the Raiders,
Speaker 3: what the world comes to. He's been a backup all
Speaker 3: his life.
Speaker 5: He started for what Jacksonville for a while.
Speaker 3: How good were they? Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 5: I do know what saying. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Are there other quarters?
Speaker 5: Okay? Okay? Is is he? Is he better than brock Party?
Speaker 5: I mean he and Brock Purty kind of like to
Speaker 5: me the same guy. I mean, brock Perty has been
Speaker 5: really good guy. To seehim in the super Bowl and
Speaker 5: the whole bit. But in terms of when you're looking
Speaker 5: at just the general talent level, they seem like the
Speaker 5: same guy. Brock Perty's just got better guys with him.
Speaker 3: Well, that name is not going to knock you over
Speaker 3: with a feather.
Speaker 5: I'm not taking him in my fantasy league. I'll tell
Speaker 5: you that for that reason.
Speaker 4: For that reason, all right, ASU has name there starting
Speaker 4: quarterback for Week one. Sam leave It a freshman transfer
Speaker 4: from Michigan suit.
Speaker 5: All right, okay, now, well you know we'll see what
Speaker 5: they We'll see what they've got. You know, there's I
Speaker 5: don't know, you know, you you won't. That's a team
Speaker 5: where you don't know until you know, right, because they're
Speaker 5: a team that just again a lot of changeover They
Speaker 5: weren't very good last year. Uh you know Kenny Dillingham
Speaker 5: in his second year, what's he done to? You know,
Speaker 5: make that jump from year one to year two over there.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm I don't know. I mean, I nobody thinks
Speaker 5: it's gonna be any good. Right then they get picked
Speaker 5: last by the media in the in the Big twelve
Speaker 5: media poll something like that. So I don't know. That's
Speaker 5: all you go, all right, okay, I you know, Steve,
Speaker 5: I've been so busy today, I'm not I can say
Speaker 5: that the Dodgers took two out of three from the
Speaker 5: Cardinals over the weekend. Something happy by that what's his name,
Speaker 5: shoe Hey Otani. It's on his way to a forty
Speaker 5: forty season. He's got thirty nine homers and he's got
Speaker 5: like thirty six stolen bases. So he hit it. So
Speaker 5: I know that man, these races in the in the
Speaker 5: in the National the race of the Nation League West
Speaker 5: is really heating up.
Speaker 3: So just to kind of get some time off here,
Speaker 3: I watched the Indiana Fever play the Seattle over the weekend.
Speaker 3: I just saw the second half. Kendle Clark continue to
Speaker 3: do what she does and does it well. She still
Speaker 3: continues to be pushed around and treated kind of how
Speaker 3: she's being treated. Uh, it's just an envy, an envy.
Speaker 5: That shouldn't be there, that shouldn't be there.
Speaker 3: Because she's elevated and I'm not depending on what the
Speaker 3: hell she needed me to defend her, right, but but
Speaker 3: you know, she's elevated the game at the next loss.
Speaker 5: That's the part I don't understand. And I'm not saying
Speaker 5: don't play hard against her, don't work her hard and
Speaker 5: stuff like that, don't give her anything, I'm not saying that,
Speaker 5: but to be bitter and pissed about the attention she
Speaker 5: gets because everywhere she goes. You know, there was a
Speaker 5: guy that got on and was naming off all these players.
Speaker 5: This person was just as good, and this person was
Speaker 5: just as good in this and they never got that attention.
Speaker 5: And they say, well, you know what, they weren't that good, right,
Speaker 5: He's turned into a kind of a race thing. But
Speaker 5: you know who's just a caller on the show. I'm like, no,
Speaker 5: this has to do with the fact that she's really
Speaker 5: damn good and none of those players you mentioned were
Speaker 5: as good as she is. And that is as simple
Speaker 5: as that. If Kaylen Clark was black or red, or
Speaker 5: green or blue, she'd be getting the same attention because
Speaker 5: she's that damn good and what she she shoots from
Speaker 5: further than anybody in the NBA except Steph Curry. There's
Speaker 5: nobody that shoots from where she shoots, and that's what's
Speaker 5: got people fascinated that she can make those jobs.
Speaker 3: If anybody saw that game yesterday, and I've seen it
Speaker 3: on Twitter, what the Storm coach was upset about at
Speaker 3: the end of the game. She went to the Fever
Speaker 3: coach and kind of got into her face and they
Speaker 3: were kind of going back and forth, or at least
Speaker 3: the Storm coach was. I don't understand what the reason
Speaker 3: he was for. She had just been beat by double
Speaker 3: digits and they were complaining about something. I didn't get it.
Speaker 3: I try to look for it, and I didn't find it.
Speaker 3: If anybody knows, give me a call, give us a
Speaker 3: call out the outside after the after the second guest
Speaker 3: after hockey, because it was just strange. I mean, they
Speaker 3: were getting their butt beat and they were complaining about something.
Speaker 3: I mean, just let's shake hands and go away.
Speaker 5: Yeah, seriously, what the hell? Okay the hell?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm trying to find in the media guy, anything,
Speaker 3: but I can't find.
Speaker 5: Anything preseason All America. All right, Okay, Our next guest
Speaker 5: coming up, Ken Hackemy the new athletic director at Pima.
Speaker 5: They've got their new academic school year sports year starting.
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jacobzalez on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to my in the ball here at
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jacob Sauce.
Speaker 3: Now on the phone. We have Ken hockey from Pima
Speaker 3: for you, ad and baseball coach. Coach, I'm gonna call
Speaker 3: you slash with all your Cuba titles. You probably have
Speaker 3: other titles we don't even know about.
Speaker 12: No, it's it's been the time. I appreciate you guys
Speaker 12: having me on.
Speaker 3: So you replace Themonaco and I'm sure you've got a
Speaker 3: lot of tutorial stuff in the semester before. But how
Speaker 3: how is it now? I mean, this is you.
Speaker 12: So far, so good? I mean we're we're rolling right along.
Speaker 12: You know, summer or summer went quick and we jumped
Speaker 12: right into fall practice with volleyball and men's and women's soccers.
Speaker 12: So we're about to get the seasons going for them
Speaker 12: this next week. So it's it's it's exciting.
Speaker 5: Well, and you're still the baseball coach. You're just saying
Speaker 5: that your fall your fall season has already started. You're
Speaker 5: about to play games. How are you how are you
Speaker 5: managing to mix both of you know, get both of
Speaker 5: these jobs done? And uh are you overwhelmed yet or
Speaker 5: you feel like you're in a pretty good spot?
Speaker 12: No? I feel good. I mean, you know, we have, uh,
Speaker 12: fortunately for me on the baseball side, I have great
Speaker 12: coaches for great assistant coaches, and you know, they understand
Speaker 12: our system. And uh, when I'm not there or when
Speaker 12: I have to leave early, I don't think we miss
Speaker 12: a beat. You know, they they do a great job
Speaker 12: and and so we're excited about that. And then you know,
Speaker 12: as far as the rest of the department, Uh, you know,
Speaker 12: walked in a great situation with Todd being the assistant
Speaker 12: A d and Dan and Jerry Stitt. You know, there's
Speaker 12: great people here in the in the department that have
Speaker 12: have helped a ton. So it's it's working out great.
Speaker 3: So it's a pet much kind of all for one
Speaker 3: and one for all. Do you see yourself going to
Speaker 3: other other other sports? Uh? Did you go to other
Speaker 3: sports before to watch.
Speaker 12: I'll be at everything that I can get to. When
Speaker 12: I was the baseball coach, only, I've spent a lot
Speaker 12: of time watching volleyball because my daughter played on the
Speaker 12: volleyball team. So I went to watch volleyball quite a bit,
Speaker 12: and you know, I did some when you know, as
Speaker 12: I was kind of looking at Monaco's situation when he
Speaker 12: had decided to retire, I helped out a lot in
Speaker 12: the spring, just going and being the you know, the
Speaker 12: supervisor on site for basketball and stuff like that. So yeah,
Speaker 12: I've gone out to see as many games as possible,
Speaker 12: and I encourage our team to go out and watch
Speaker 12: as many other sports as possible.
Speaker 3: Well, can I ask you a personal question? Are you married?
Speaker 12: I am.
Speaker 3: Your wife's gonna have to love you a lot. Man,
Speaker 3: You're not gonna be around.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's uh, it's it's fine though, I mean it
Speaker 12: really is. I enjoy my job and I want to
Speaker 12: support our guys and uh and and girls and all
Speaker 12: of our sports and do the best I can and
Speaker 12: to give them what they need. So it's important for
Speaker 12: me to be out there and and meet them all,
Speaker 12: and and visit with them, and and and know that
Speaker 12: I'm here for them.
Speaker 5: Interesting. Is there is there anything on the job so
Speaker 5: far that maybe you didn't know was part of the
Speaker 5: job or do you think you had a pretty good
Speaker 5: uh sense of it all? I mean, are you doing
Speaker 5: some stuff that you thought, Wait a minute, I don't
Speaker 5: you know, I didn't know how to do this?
Speaker 12: No, not really. I mean, you know what what I
Speaker 12: what I have found out is there's a lot of meetings, uh,
Speaker 12: and there's a lot of different departments and you know,
Speaker 12: athletics is just a small part of PEMA College, but uh,
Speaker 12: you know, we've got to got to be and uh
Speaker 12: we've got to represent our area. And so there's a
Speaker 12: lot of meetings I'm involved with and things like that.
Speaker 12: But you know, nothing that uh that that I didn't expect.
Speaker 12: It's just, uh, there's a lot of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, litt And youbody we talked to before you
Speaker 3: came on. Uh, baseball has already started for the fall,
Speaker 3: uh and probably started a while back. How how is
Speaker 3: that taking time now? And then you go to the
Speaker 3: office probably and become who you were becoming.
Speaker 12: Yeah, right now. It's uh, we're practicing in the mornings
Speaker 12: just because we're not in school yet. School doesn't start
Speaker 12: until next Monday, so right now we're practicing early and
Speaker 12: gives me a chance to get here, get myself situated,
Speaker 12: get ready for practice, finish up, and then get back
Speaker 12: in the office and work on some things.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 12: I'm just I try to stay busy. You know. I
Speaker 12: was out on the soccer field all afternoon trying to
Speaker 12: resawd some areas that need to be rested. And so
Speaker 12: I'm just one of those guys that wants to help
Speaker 12: and wants to you know, make sure everything is right
Speaker 12: and we all of our coaches have what they need, all.
Speaker 5: Right, So tell us a little bit about you know,
Speaker 5: you're starting the season with baseball. Uh what does it
Speaker 5: look like for you? Uh, you know.
Speaker 3: After a pretty good year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 12: I like our team. You know, we're young, We're going
Speaker 12: to be young this year. We lost quite a few guys,
Speaker 12: but I'm excited about uh, our our team and what
Speaker 12: we've been able to do over the past week. You know,
Speaker 12: we've only been on the field for a week, so
Speaker 12: just uh, you know, the first week, just a lot
Speaker 12: of just watching and evaluating. And you know, this week
Speaker 12: we really started today we kind of got into some
Speaker 12: things that you know, that we're going to do as
Speaker 12: a team and how we're going to do it. So
Speaker 12: but it's fun, it's been it's been fun to watch
Speaker 12: these guys. I'm excited about our chances this year.
Speaker 3: Well I'm curious because I don't think I've ever asked
Speaker 3: a coach, a baseball coach specifically. So here we are
Speaker 3: in mid August. Your season really doesn't start till like
Speaker 3: February or maybe late January. What do you what do
Speaker 3: you try to get across to them now? Because I
Speaker 3: played I played a little baseball. In baseball, it's repetitive,
Speaker 3: you know. Take your swings, Take your swings, take your
Speaker 3: ground balls, take your ground loss, take your playballs. Is
Speaker 3: it more repetitive now for for later? Or what do
Speaker 3: you do?
Speaker 12: No? I think right now. I mean again, going back
Speaker 12: to to what I said a little bit earlier, I'm
Speaker 12: a systems thinker, and and and we we have a
Speaker 12: system put in place with team of Baseball that was
Speaker 12: put in when you know, when I first got here,
Speaker 12: and so we try to do everything by that system.
Speaker 12: So right now, a lot of a lot of what
Speaker 12: is going on out on the field is guys understanding
Speaker 12: how the system works. And so we're spending a lot
Speaker 12: of time just explaining, talking about different drills, why things work,
Speaker 12: why things don't. So the fall is spent trying to
Speaker 12: develop these kids and make them understand what they need
Speaker 12: to do to be successful for the spring. So right
Speaker 12: now we spend a lot of time slowing the game down.
Speaker 12: And fortunately for me and for us, we have great
Speaker 12: coaches and it's nice to be able to go out
Speaker 12: there and watch our infield coaches working with the infielders,
Speaker 12: our pitching coaches working with the pitchers, our catching coach
Speaker 12: working with the catchers, our outfield coach working with the outfielders,
Speaker 12: and spending a good amount of time helping them understand,
Speaker 12: you know, what it takes to be successful.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So has it been just working with your brother?
Speaker 5: I mean he's still on the staff right Jason, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's how's that for you? Guys?
Speaker 12: It's been great. I mean we spend a lot of time, know,
Speaker 12: apart from each other, as we started our careers, he started,
Speaker 12: you know, playing professional baseball and I started coaching, and uh,
Speaker 12: we took different paths in different cities. And you know,
Speaker 12: his kids grew up one in in one town and
Speaker 12: my kids grew up in a different town. And and
Speaker 12: so being back together now has been great, you know,
Speaker 12: being able to see him every day and spend some
Speaker 12: time with him, and you know, we we we missed
Speaker 12: a lot of time and it's nice to be back together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay Oka, And you know, I don't want to
Speaker 3: I don't want to overstate this because we've been covering
Speaker 3: Pema for a while now. We've been in town forever, right,
Speaker 3: Jason Native Uh, and we've said Pina has been the
Speaker 3: sleeping giant. That's kind of it's it's here. Uh. Soccer
Speaker 3: basketball has done well. You guys have been very successful.
Speaker 3: Did you Do you think that you've taken over the
Speaker 3: program at a great time because in our in my
Speaker 3: mind at least, it looks like a great time.
Speaker 12: I believe that just like you said, we have successful
Speaker 12: programs throughout the department, We have great coaches, and so me,
Speaker 12: me walking into this position and taking over for Monaco
Speaker 12: during this time has been Uh. I don't think there
Speaker 12: could be a better time, to be honest with you,
Speaker 12: I mean, it's it's exciting to come to work every
Speaker 12: day and know that we're going to be good in
Speaker 12: soccer men and women. We're gonna be good in basketball
Speaker 12: men and women. We're gonna be good in baseball and
Speaker 12: volleyball and track, you know, so softball, I mean they
Speaker 12: went to the World Series. I mean we we have
Speaker 12: a lot of successful programs. So that's always that's always
Speaker 12: nice when when you're you know, in charge of them all,
Speaker 12: it's it's nice that they're all pretty good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, you just ran through all these all
Speaker 5: these programs that are are doing great. But what's what
Speaker 5: are the what are the tough things about being a
Speaker 5: junior college program in terms of I don't know whether
Speaker 5: it's resources, whether it's getting players now when the end
Speaker 5: I l environment, What's what are the what's the hard
Speaker 5: part of being a junior college athletic director and running programs?
Speaker 12: Well, I think it's always a challenge, uh with finances.
Speaker 12: I mean, you know, I think that goes on in
Speaker 12: any junior college. You're trying to balance a budget and
Speaker 12: you're trying to make sure everybody has what they need
Speaker 12: and everybody's getting the opportunity to go places and take
Speaker 12: their teams but stay within a certain budget. So that's
Speaker 12: always that's always tough. You know. Fundraising is something that's
Speaker 12: super important for all of our programs to be able
Speaker 12: to have the things that we need. And so those
Speaker 12: are challenges, and those are going to be challenges every year.
Speaker 3: Right, right, So you have to think out of the
Speaker 3: box too, especially probably in the fundraising department because you're
Speaker 3: you know, Arizona's not too far away and then you
Speaker 3: have your own deal. So how difficult is that?
Speaker 12: Well, I mean it's it's always going to be difficult,
Speaker 12: but you know, you just have to put uh, you know,
Speaker 12: that first foot forward and and and start making phone
Speaker 12: calls and having lunches and having meetings and and just
Speaker 12: seeing what we can do. I mean, we have a great,
Speaker 12: uh situation with Chapman Automotive and they've been super supportive
Speaker 12: to PEMA Athletics and have supported us, you know, year
Speaker 12: in and year out, and without them it would be tough.
Speaker 12: So we're we're fortunate and thankful that they're on board
Speaker 12: with us. And you know, we're we're always looking for
Speaker 12: for people that want to help and uh, you know,
Speaker 12: with without the community's help, it'll be tough.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jim. I was going to call you, Jim Monica.
Speaker 3: What.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want to tell you about that. Ken,
Speaker 5: but we're talking to Ken Hackey, now the athletic director
Speaker 5: at at PEMA College. Is Is there a lot of
Speaker 5: learning going on for you in this first year or
Speaker 5: do you feel like you had a real good handle
Speaker 5: on it.
Speaker 12: I think there's always going to be learning. So my
Speaker 12: first year is going to be spent learning as much
Speaker 12: as I possibly can from some of the people that
Speaker 12: are already in place. Todd Holtouse Is is a you know,
Speaker 12: he's a great coach, but he's he's one of our
Speaker 12: assistant a d s who's really helped me. Dan Bethell,
Speaker 12: our volleyball coach, has done a tremendous job helping, you know,
Speaker 12: just you know, with with budget things and how to
Speaker 12: how to do this and how to do that, and
Speaker 12: so those people have been instrumental in the first couple
Speaker 12: of months. And you know, like I said, it's the
Speaker 12: learning will never stop. So we just got to continue
Speaker 12: to learn as much as we can and get better
Speaker 12: and and and you know, hopefully that will pay dividends
Speaker 12: on the field and in the court.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen what the potential of the soccer teams are.
Speaker 3: But Dave always has something very special there, obviously winning
Speaker 3: a couple of national titles here recently. What are you
Speaker 3: seeing them? And uh, and I think I think you
Speaker 3: guys are trying to host the national title again, aren't you.
Speaker 12: We're not hosting this year. We'll see about the following
Speaker 12: couple of years. But we took we hosted the last
Speaker 12: two years, so we're taking a little time off and
Speaker 12: it just kind of rotates around. People put bids in
Speaker 12: and so we're not hosting this year. But so far,
Speaker 12: what I've seen of causes team, they look great. I
Speaker 12: mean there's a lot of kids out there and and
Speaker 12: they working and you know they're they're gonna be good.
Speaker 12: They're gonna be really good. And sitting and talking with
Speaker 12: cause he feels good about his team, He likes him,
Speaker 12: he likes their chances this year to be really successful.
Speaker 12: Same with Kendrick. Kendrew's got a nice team and she
Speaker 12: really is excited about her girls and she's got some
Speaker 12: girls that were with them last year that she feels
Speaker 12: good about. Uh, you know, the success for their season
Speaker 12: as well.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, Well, Ken, we appreciate your time. We know
Speaker 3: you're a busy guy. We'll probably talk to you from
Speaker 3: time to time.
Speaker 12: Sounds good. I appreciate you guys. Always be well.
Speaker 3: Thank you Ken helping me, of course, a new idea,
Speaker 3: very level headed, very yes, you know, not.
Speaker 5: A well you have to be, you know if you're
Speaker 5: gonna you know, there's as you said, there's a lot
Speaker 5: of challenges that they have, right, whether it's financial or
Speaker 5: you know, this whole nil world and transfer portal world
Speaker 5: and where did the good players go and where good
Speaker 5: junior college players wind up and stuff like that, and
Speaker 5: you know what the market is for them. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of things changing for those guys very much.
Speaker 3: So it's almost like a second thought, maybe I'm wrong
Speaker 3: a second. And we talked to Monica about this because
Speaker 3: now the high school level, because now the transfer right,
Speaker 3: you go, after the transfer of Swift's left, right, where
Speaker 3: do the seniors go?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: Because where they go?
Speaker 5: Yeah, where does that senior go that would have gotten
Speaker 5: a spot on a on a on a on at
Speaker 5: a four year school, But because there's so much movement there,
Speaker 5: those spots are now much more limited because guys are
Speaker 5: just moving around.
Speaker 3: Correct in that, and then then the JC guys who
Speaker 3: don't have grades for whatever reason can't be that senior
Speaker 3: that's going to go somewhere. It's kind of like a backlog. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I could be wrong.
Speaker 5: Well, no, Steve, I mean you know that Let's say, uh,
Speaker 5: Brent Brannan has a hole to feel, you know, in
Speaker 5: his roster. He's got to go, he's got to go
Speaker 5: get a player.
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: Where does he go? He's going to the transfer portal.
Speaker 5: Then where's he going after that? You know, he's going
Speaker 5: to check out the high school and then where's he
Speaker 5: going after that? Then he's So it's you know, it's
Speaker 5: it's making it tough over there. But you know a
Speaker 5: lot of these kids go to go to uh, you know,
Speaker 5: junior college route and one they're trying to get their
Speaker 5: academic stuff in order and so they can get into
Speaker 5: four year school. And maybe they go to that four
Speaker 5: year school and they might not play, but at least
Speaker 5: they've gotten to a point where, you know, through a
Speaker 5: scholarship and stuff like that, they've gone a couple of
Speaker 5: years of an education where that they can use that
Speaker 5: to move on to, you know, to go get a
Speaker 5: college degree. So but it's just it's all different for those.
Speaker 3: Guys, right. No, times are changing, man, all the time.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure for the better, but you know, I
Speaker 3: guess you know.
Speaker 5: Well you got to make the best of it.
Speaker 3: Would they go from the horses to the train, to
Speaker 3: the train to the car, to car to the airplane.
Speaker 5: I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Things change if price and now I'm sure in five
Speaker 3: years it'll be different than when we're seeing now flying cars, hoverboards.
Speaker 5: Well, we're seeing cars that drive themselves. So there's that.
Speaker 3: But you know what I'm saying, now here's it's you know,
Speaker 3: I'm doing a story for you, and it's like, who
Speaker 3: would have thought all this stuff would have happened three
Speaker 3: years ago? Four years ago?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy, it's crazy, it's and it's it's survival
Speaker 3: because you have to have to change.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, you know, I was. I was talking to
Speaker 5: my son, you know, Adam, who's started his new job today,
Speaker 5: and there's on afflect back in there's an athletic department
Speaker 5: in their digital marketing area. I'm like, okay, what is
Speaker 5: digital marketing responsible for? And I thought he was gonna
Speaker 5: tell me. I'm you know, I'm gonna be on social
Speaker 5: media and all the stuff. As you know, it's a
Speaker 5: whole separate deal. It's it's you know, working with boosters
Speaker 5: and sponsors and you know, doing doing stuff digitally, whereas
Speaker 5: you know, the team and their s ideas are responsible
Speaker 5: for the social media stuff that I was out about
Speaker 5: the teams, and then there's you know, there's other areas
Speaker 5: that he goes, I won't have anything to do with
Speaker 5: our social media and I thought to me, that's what
Speaker 5: digital marketing. But their digital marketing as a whole, even
Speaker 5: that has become a whole different deal from what we
Speaker 5: think it is.
Speaker 3: And on the job that wasn't around ten years ago.
Speaker 5: Right right, exactly kind stuff. So anyways, all right, stick around.
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Speaker 5: so we'll see what we've got for you. But give
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the exes. And oh it's Steve Rivera
Speaker 1: and jaygin Salvez. This is I on the Ball on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteenth fifty.
Speaker 3: Heay, welcome back to IM the Ball hero Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteenth fifty. I'm Steve, You're Jay. We got Henry with us.
Speaker 3: We got fifteen minutes. Maybe we'll get a caller three
Speaker 3: here in the play our first fifteen minutes for final
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes as we sign off on Monday. Uh, you
Speaker 3: won't be here Thursday Friday. Yep, trying up my guests
Speaker 3: for this weekend.
Speaker 5: I guess we should give the number for we want
Speaker 5: people to call.
Speaker 3: Four on Wednesday, one, five, four, one, six, seventy four
Speaker 3: to forty everybody, Nico, all the guys Jr. So now
Speaker 3: a regular guy, mister Rogers fan.
Speaker 5: Okay, how many minutes of preseason football.
Speaker 3: Have you watched collectively?
Speaker 5: NFL?
Speaker 3: It Like, I don't believe in it.
Speaker 5: I mean I don't pay either.
Speaker 3: I don't pay attention. What I do notice and maybe
Speaker 3: I'm wrong. They're not scoring very many points.
Speaker 5: I know, I've like seven to three, twelve, ten to
Speaker 5: three seven, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that the Cowboys quarter of a kicker
Speaker 3: a kick and hit a sixty.
Speaker 5: Six yard and he made it by like you know,
Speaker 5: remember the sixty six yard that the Justin Tucker the
Speaker 5: Ravens his hit that hit the crossbar and then bounced over.
Speaker 5: This guy made it, he did, he got it there, right.
Speaker 5: It's it's crazy how that's how that has extended. You know,
Speaker 5: these guys are kicking sixty five yarders like nothing. I mean,
Speaker 5: we're gonna see it. You know, we're going to see
Speaker 5: a sixty yarder in college sometimes really soon. I don't
Speaker 5: think we have yet.
Speaker 3: We haven't. I didn't know that. I did not know that.
Speaker 5: Okay, maybe a long time ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how is is he with anybody? He could he
Speaker 3: could he?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was up there. But I mean it, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean we're I They're gonna be more. You know,
Speaker 5: it's not it's not gonna be an automatic thing. Whe
Speaker 5: if they got sixty yards that they're gonna kick that
Speaker 5: they're gonna punt anymore. So I feel, you know, we're
Speaker 5: gonna see a bit more of that.
Speaker 3: We gotta see what rich Rod is doing. I know
Speaker 3: he won't come on now because it's too late in
Speaker 3: the season, but we had him on. He did a
Speaker 3: good job the first year that he was at jackson
Speaker 3: Jacksonville State, right, see how that goes. I don't know,
Speaker 3: if someone's back at Maryland, maybe see what's going on
Speaker 3: there because he got in trouble.
Speaker 5: With the EUI right late in the year. Doug. I
Speaker 5: just seen Doug Haller reporting. I'm really sorry to say
Speaker 5: this Diamondbacks fans, but can tell Marte just went on
Speaker 5: the ten day injured list, so he's out for a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 3: Is that a smirk?
Speaker 5: I hate to see that.
Speaker 3: I hate to interrupt you, but I'm gonna interrupt you.
Speaker 3: Sorry to say this, but I would.
Speaker 5: Have said I should be getting here hearing from listener
Speaker 5: Bill any second now, unless he's in the air somewhere.
Speaker 5: But again, it's a it's a it's gonna be a
Speaker 5: crazy race in the h in the West. The projects
Speaker 5: are just a couple of you.
Speaker 3: Are you what's this weekend? This is the is the weekend? Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is the weekend. You go this weekend? No, this
Speaker 3: coming this weekend. I've got going from here to San Diego,
Speaker 3: then going north.
Speaker 5: Right, so we're going to sand We're driving up to
Speaker 5: San Diego on Thursday, gonna unload my daughter's uh belongings,
Speaker 5: uh and uh, and then getting out of there on Friday,
Speaker 5: heading up to heading up to l A. We've got
Speaker 5: got an airbnb up there, and we're gonna be staying there,
Speaker 5: golfing Saturday at Lakewood Country Club, which I'm very excited.
Speaker 5: The lottery, No, no, the lottery, well not really.
Speaker 3: You did your wife your wife, and then uh then.
Speaker 5: Going to the Dodger game. To you, I bought a
Speaker 5: I bought a type of thing at the at the
Speaker 5: Father's Day Council of Tucson dinner and it was for
Speaker 5: four tickets. While the guy from I should give him
Speaker 5: some prosty because this was really cool. His name is
Speaker 5: Matt uh matt At, Matt matt Man. Where is he?
Speaker 5: Matt Slatus. He's with the he's with the Spring training organization,
Speaker 5: Up and Up in Phoenix that runs Camel Camel Back
Speaker 5: Ranch Baseball for the Dodgers, and I think the White
Speaker 5: Sox play, Well, they're the ones that donated the tickets. Well,
Speaker 5: you end up getting us six tickets, right, So my
Speaker 5: whole family could go. So we got nice and we're
Speaker 5: like in the twelfth row behind the visitors dug out
Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium at the lower level, and I've never
Speaker 5: sat that close to home plate and that low ever
Speaker 5: in all the years I've gone to Dodgers same. He
Speaker 5: used to be the best seats I've ever had. So
Speaker 5: that on Saturday night to see the Dodgers play the Rays.
Speaker 5: So that's gonna be cool.
Speaker 3: Cool. That's this next this weekend Saturday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so since we're not spending money on ticket, well
Speaker 5: we did spend money on tickets, but I gotta get
Speaker 5: myself some more gear, Steve. I only buy my Dodger
Speaker 5: gear at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: I look forward to seeing the Dodgers stuff here. This
Speaker 3: always makes me smile to say that with a smurk.
Speaker 5: You do say that with a smurk. Looking forward to that.
Speaker 5: So you had the family going up there, it's sort
Speaker 5: of sort of a birthday trip for me that you know,
Speaker 5: we couldn't do it around my birthday so because of
Speaker 5: the Dodger schedule. So we're doing it now and we're
Speaker 5: going up there for the weekend and we expect to
Speaker 5: have a good time. It should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: So I'll wave tea from you know, if you watch
Speaker 5: a Dodger game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, don't don't do that because you know I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna be watch Saturday Saturday. Too busy with the
Speaker 3: But what time is the game?
Speaker 5: O'clock?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, we're too busy with the with the loot stuff.
Speaker 5: Okay, Oh that's right. Well you got your camp, did
Speaker 5: you guys fill it up? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so he's done. Mike does a good job. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll bring those guys in and we'll see. We'll seeither
Speaker 3: Thursday at or dinner and then Saturday Sunday or yeah, Friday, Saturday.
Speaker 5: Okay, So again I've asked I think I've asked this before,
Speaker 5: but I forget. So what's the what's the format you
Speaker 5: guys come in? How many guys do you have?
Speaker 3: Thirty forty some day? And you formed team four teams
Speaker 3: four teams of Saturday eight Yeah, and then then old dudes,
Speaker 3: old dudes thirty forty and older. Uh, and they played
Speaker 3: basketball for Friday Saturday and then should.
Speaker 5: Play games against each other. And is it a bracket
Speaker 5: or what it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a you know fourteen, I get fourteen and
Speaker 3: they play each other around robin and then the best
Speaker 3: two teams at the end on Sunday play for the championship,
Speaker 3: and then the second two play for the third place.
Speaker 5: So get you play five games. It's old dudes played
Speaker 5: for four games.
Speaker 3: Two two and one. Yeah yeah, four games yeah so
Speaker 3: two f uh yeah, and this old dudes playing basketball.
Speaker 3: You see what you see is you expect. We have
Speaker 3: some guys seventy years older, seven or older, you know,
Speaker 3: forty forty, mostly forty and older. So the young guys
Speaker 3: kind of dominate in how they dominate. But it's a
Speaker 3: lot of fun. They get worn out locals. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yea yeah, la New York. A couple of people from
Speaker 3: New York, UA love guys who love seeing the old
Speaker 3: guys again. And they're all friends. They're all Facebook friends
Speaker 3: and aj you know, you know, they they're not they're
Speaker 3: not that guy anymore, right, their buddies. Yeah, because that's
Speaker 3: how it's been. They've been here years.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's take the call. H Are on the air
Speaker 5: and eye on the ball.
Speaker 3: Nico was, Hey, I took your advice. I'm I'm done
Speaker 3: with a goose stuff.
Speaker 14: No, well that's you started smuggling weeds.
Speaker 3: I never have, but uh, but I should.
Speaker 12: Never smoked weed never ever.
Speaker 3: Ever.
Speaker 12: I'm thinking I lose.
Speaker 3: I'd probably say that very probably ought to be proud
Speaker 3: of something I getting. Yes, and that's one of the.
Speaker 12: Hey man, hopefully you guys have an ambulance for this.
Speaker 2: Damn lidds.
Speaker 3: We have traders. Well, there's no questions about that. We
Speaker 3: have traders. That's funny.
Speaker 13: Hey, you're Jay though.
Speaker 5: Last week you were talking about how you go see
Speaker 5: a football game, right, and you'd have like a nervous
Speaker 5: feeling in your get. Well, I did when when it
Speaker 5: was when Tommy was the coach because he was a
Speaker 5: friend of mine. So I did. Then. I don't. I
Speaker 5: don't so much now Like now it's like if they're
Speaker 5: losing them, like, okay, that's not the worst thing that
Speaker 5: can happen, So all right, how much better was all that?
Speaker 12: Lucky?
Speaker 13: Wish?
Speaker 5: Well that too, that too, you know, Yeah, because that's
Speaker 5: you know, that takes a lot of work to be
Speaker 5: able to eat that much lucky wish one and then
Speaker 5: be able to go sit down in a seat for
Speaker 5: three hours. I can only go probably like an hour,
Speaker 5: Joey what I can probably only hold it for about
Speaker 5: an hour?
Speaker 3: Are you? Are you you still go with your death
Speaker 3: to the games?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: Tickets?
Speaker 3: Okay? Cool?
Speaker 5: Where you sitting? This your same seats as always? Or
Speaker 5: what you got you? Where are you sitting?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I sit by the Sands Club, you know, higher class people.
Speaker 5: Oh you're you're in the You're in the in the
Speaker 5: end zone there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look at you.
Speaker 5: Those are cheap bottom of those are cheap seats.
Speaker 3: He's not buying them. It's daddy my ticket.
Speaker 12: Man, I'm gonna have to miss the first because I
Speaker 12: gotta work.
Speaker 3: Oh you got a job. That's good. I'm probably you
Speaker 3: miss Probably I've had a job.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: You make me have to be some loser.
Speaker 3: No, well, never mind.
Speaker 5: Oh, we love we love we do love you. Nico.
Speaker 3: Thanks, thank you, because one of our guys.
Speaker 5: He is one of our guys. He's funny. The one
Speaker 5: wonder I see hi all day because I always run
Speaker 5: into him at the game went right at the top
Speaker 5: of the you know, the end zone when I'm walking
Speaker 5: to my seat, because we come in from the east
Speaker 5: and then we go we go across the concourse there
Speaker 5: above at Lowell Stevens and make our way up to
Speaker 5: our seats on the west side. I always run into him,
Speaker 5: like under the scoreboard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he's right there on the other side.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Have you met his dad?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I see, I'll run into both of them.
Speaker 3: He said again, he's uh, you had a misidentified while
Speaker 3: we were talking about him first. But he's Scooby, not Scooby.
Speaker 3: He's he's shaggy in my mind. He's shaggy. Then his appearance.
Speaker 3: I've never met him.
Speaker 5: His dad know him him?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because you said he was gonna look some
Speaker 3: way and I said, no, he's more like shaggy. Oh yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 3: How he calls is how I picture him looking, some
Speaker 3: thin dude. He likes pizza. It smokes a little doube.
Speaker 5: You know. His dad looks a bit hippie.
Speaker 3: Is okay?
Speaker 5: Yeah is every call. But dad was quite you know
Speaker 5: I think what the ballplayer.
Speaker 3: And he and he he was he's a fan. Yeah,
Speaker 3: dad's one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the huge fans run into them all the time, all.
Speaker 3: Right, and you have a tailgate of first first game
Speaker 3: thirtieth Yeah, so you know, we meet when I've been there,
Speaker 3: at least we meet some people coming by.
Speaker 5: Yeah. We're usually in a spot right there in front
Speaker 5: of the Richard Jefferson Gym, so there's a lot of
Speaker 5: traffic going by there, just north of it, just to
Speaker 5: the north. But we're usually in the first row to
Speaker 5: the north of Jefferson Gym, which means we'd come in later,
Speaker 5: you know, the first the first cars that get seated
Speaker 5: are up by the sidewalk, you know, so we we
Speaker 5: kind of time it. You're trying to be because it's shady,
Speaker 5: it's closer and there's a lot.
Speaker 3: Of time it. But do you if you got it through.
Speaker 3: I don't know how it is. I'm just assuming. So
Speaker 3: you got to the opening, do you do high tail
Speaker 3: it there or do they slaught you as you come in?
Speaker 5: No, you're just they put you in the next spot,
Speaker 5: you know, you get there. Yeah, we we yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: we got a sense of it, like we all we
Speaker 5: kind of figured out at the first game. Okay, we
Speaker 5: usually know that first games and be a lot of
Speaker 5: people take, so we kind of time it to when
Speaker 5: we're going. We get there and like we will go
Speaker 5: park it in our park in Sam Hughes across the
Speaker 5: street to see the progress. Then it's like, okay, they finished.
Speaker 5: They they've got the you know, the finishing the second
Speaker 5: to the last row. Then we go get in line.
Speaker 5: So we get one of the shots in the last row.
Speaker 3: So okay, so the line does it does it continue
Speaker 3: or does it have spurts you can get into them.
Speaker 5: It goes in spurts. And so we missed on a
Speaker 5: couple like last year there was a thing where we
Speaker 5: we thought we had a time and we were the
Speaker 5: first car that got sent to the other side of
Speaker 5: the mall. That's because we missed it by two minutes, right,
Speaker 5: So so we we we kind of time it and
Speaker 5: we you know, we've been trying to cut down on
Speaker 5: the number of hours that were there. But what's important
Speaker 5: to us more than anything is getting a spot that
Speaker 5: we like and uh and it makes it a lot
Speaker 5: more fun. You know, there's some shade. It's kind of
Speaker 5: wide open, you know, because there's more space because of
Speaker 5: the sidewalk next to the gym and stuff.
Speaker 3: So there's an art to it, Steve, there's a well, sure, yeah,
Speaker 3: you got it down pretty much costly.
Speaker 5: Back in the day with that tailgate, massive tailgate that
Speaker 5: we had, the guys who parked the cars would tell
Speaker 5: us when to come in because they'd get we'd get
Speaker 5: the same spot every week, and in return we would
Speaker 5: feed them, so they helped us out. And I don't
Speaker 5: know if that makes sense. I don't know that anybody's
Speaker 5: supposed to know that. But that's why, that's why we
Speaker 5: always end up in that same spot by the arch,
Speaker 5: and that's changed because that's just the way it is.
Speaker 5: And we're only one spot now, so you know, we
Speaker 5: just go in there and try and get a spot
Speaker 5: in that last row too, just to have a good spot.
Speaker 5: That's that's the place that we like it. It feels
Speaker 5: good for us.
Speaker 3: So I got got about two minutes, three minutes out. No,
Speaker 3: don't call because you can't have talk. We're out of okay, No, good, good,
Speaker 3: good Monday. Thank you, h our guy, Henry.
Speaker 5: And yeah, Henry, nice job, Kevin guy. Interesting stuff about
Speaker 5: the Sugar Sculls because as he said, you know, they
Speaker 5: commitated to five years. They've done their five years and
Speaker 5: you know, if you've got it. If you've got an
Speaker 5: asset like that and somebody comes out and says, I
Speaker 5: want to buy that from you, you know you're going
Speaker 5: to take a look at that. But you know, it
Speaker 5: looks like they're doing the things, preparing things to stick around.
Speaker 5: But you never know if somebody comes along and says, hey,
Speaker 5: why don't you come over here, it's be more fruitful
Speaker 5: for you.
Speaker 3: Well, the thing that surprises me the most in that
Speaker 3: conversation was that he said the ticket sales are up, yeah,
Speaker 3: and we don't go anymore. I don't go, you don't go.
Speaker 5: I mean I watch games.
Speaker 3: I watch games to see if how that crowd is,
Speaker 3: because that's the number one thing you got to make
Speaker 3: people happy. You you got to make make them come back.
Speaker 3: And they weren't. They weren't getting good. Yeah, So that's
Speaker 3: that's tough to do.
Speaker 5: And one of the things that you know from from
Speaker 5: a TV standpoint, and that you know from our standpoint.
Speaker 5: When I was doing the games on broadcast, the cameras
Speaker 5: are facing the side that has fewer seats taken up.
Speaker 5: People sit underneath the press and on the camera side
Speaker 5: of the arena, so you don't really know it's hard
Speaker 5: to tell, you know, if the other side looks semi empty,
Speaker 5: it's hard to tell how many people are on the
Speaker 5: side that you're on. So it sounds like they were,
Speaker 5: you know, okay with attendance, and so you know, we'll see.
Speaker 5: But you know, look, it's a it's a it's a franchise.
Speaker 5: It's done okay. People like it, people go to the games,
Speaker 5: and it's a tenant at the at the arena that
Speaker 5: I'm sure the arena appreciates. And now you know, they've
Speaker 5: still got the road Runners there too, so they want
Speaker 5: to keep that thing going. So it all works.
Speaker 3: Okay. Well, in the final minute here, we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We have our guest lined up, right, we'll tell you
Speaker 3: in the morning if you're interested.
Speaker 5: Well, it's Philip Stewart, the head coach in Marana is
Speaker 5: going to be joining us. They've got to sounds like
Speaker 5: a very good program going. He's doing a media day
Speaker 5: on Thursday for all of the sports at Maranna, which
Speaker 5: is very cool to take the time to do that,
Speaker 5: and I think media will show up for that. And
Speaker 5: so we'll talk to Philip Stewart at three point fifteen
Speaker 5: and then sure to stubs the second year head volleyball
Speaker 5: coach at Arizona. She'll be on in the four fifteen hours,
Speaker 5: so be sure to come back for all of that,
Speaker 5: and we'll bring it to you and we'll take your
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Speaker 5: See everybody tomorrow