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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball here
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with
Speaker 2: me today is Dave Silver on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Waiting for my guy Juan to take control of this
Speaker 2: so we mess up. It's on me. Good after day,
Speaker 2: and just keep the mics on. We'll just keep talking. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: we want to go commercial until he gets here. He's
Speaker 2: on his way. Good to see you, Dave, Thanks for
Speaker 2: joining me. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 2: This is the low last show of the week. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna head out on the road getting ready for the
Speaker 2: Derby on Saturday. And so with that we're gonna have
Speaker 2: d Stan Shiver from Vanduel. She's my former intern. She
Speaker 2: knows a lot about the horse racing. She's at the
Speaker 2: Santa Nita de Santa Anita Racetrack most days working for
Speaker 2: Vanduel Racing. Yeah, it's good that she has that background.
Speaker 4: It's, you know, good to have somebody who can report
Speaker 4: on that because it's a subject that I don't know
Speaker 4: too much. I know you do, but I'm not a
Speaker 4: big reporter of the sport. I enjoy watching the Triple
Speaker 4: Crown races, yes, and some of the other big ones.
Speaker 5: But it's good that she's got some ext the horses. Yes,
Speaker 5: she's a horse girl.
Speaker 2: She has a horse. She does all that stuff, and
Speaker 2: she's interviewed Bafford and all them. I tried to get
Speaker 2: Bafford last week. He told me that he couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: He was on the road to Louisville last week, so
Speaker 2: he has a couple of horses. We'll talk about that
Speaker 2: as well on the second hour of the show. In
Speaker 2: the first hour, we're gonna get the coach from FC Tucson.
Speaker 2: Do you have him up? I have him mop on
Speaker 2: me my socials. Yeah. His name is uh he's the
Speaker 2: head coach.
Speaker 5: He's the head coach. His name, Come on, David? I
Speaker 5: should I had it up? I'm sorry, that's.
Speaker 2: Fine, it's gonna be well, we know who is I
Speaker 2: give it to my guy on social So he's on
Speaker 2: social media with with the with the Facebook and Twitter.
Speaker 2: So if you haven't liked us, like us there because
Speaker 2: that's Sebastian Peda. That's what you'll find us. He's been
Speaker 2: with the team for a couple of years now. They
Speaker 2: open the season this weekend. They're getting ready for a
Speaker 2: big weekend. Syncree Demayo will be their party on Saturday,
Speaker 2: drink specials and all that. We'll get into that when
Speaker 2: he comes on the show and about he's gonna come
Speaker 2: not at three seventeen, but at three forty. I guess
Speaker 2: he's busy until about three thirty, So we're gonna get
Speaker 2: him on three forty o the last segment of the
Speaker 2: show of the first hour. That's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you said, he's been also involved with you
Speaker 4: of a soccer clubs that wink through the years and team,
Speaker 4: so yeah, it has to have some experience in that
Speaker 4: position as well.
Speaker 2: Right, we'll see what they do with FC two Son.
Speaker 2: It's a heck of a season. It's long season. It's
Speaker 2: a hot season when they play here. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: they literally start just as the right did you will
Speaker 2: you still looking at the TV station when they started?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: I remember covering a news conference, I believe when they
Speaker 4: were announcing, like the team, what you're talking about? This
Speaker 4: two thousand room was there, and yeah, some of those guys.
Speaker 2: Probably twenty eleven.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, as I was leaving, they were sort
Speaker 4: of starting, so I can't say I really had a
Speaker 4: chance to cover many.
Speaker 2: And they've had a lot of versions of FC two
Speaker 2: son right right, levels of two soon pro non pro,
Speaker 2: and they're non pro right now. Yeah, so I was
Speaker 2: excited about that season. Maybe we'll go see a game
Speaker 2: or two. Where did you need to go see? Uh,
Speaker 2: you hadn't seen something yet? Oh the Sugar Skulls. Oh
Speaker 2: Sugar Schools?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, did they win over the weekend? I don't know.
Speaker 2: We had We had Drew Dixon, yeah, on last week,
Speaker 2: so he was under the weather. But he's on the team.
Speaker 2: So we'll get to all that. A lot of breaking news.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have one talk about that at four o'clock.
Speaker 2: Uh so even even now you were talking to me
Speaker 2: that Jayden Bradley has declared right now they have two
Speaker 2: in the portal or not portal, No in the transfer
Speaker 2: in the NBA, NBA.
Speaker 4: Draft lottery, not draft lottery, and the draft situation, Yeah,
Speaker 4: Jayden and Carter Bryant. So there's only there's not nearly
Speaker 4: as many players as they're used to having, So it's
Speaker 4: kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: There's only one hundred and six. The last the few
Speaker 2: was sins like twenty.
Speaker 4: Fifteen, fifteen, So this has got to be l nil
Speaker 4: related where players are going to probably maybe stick around
Speaker 4: and not not go if they think it's just a
Speaker 4: total long shot.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, now if you can get paid at the school, yeah,
Speaker 2: not't stay in school until you couldn't stay in school, right,
Speaker 2: and who knows anymore because I think there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a lawsuit to say you can't just give me four
Speaker 2: years or five years. You gotta give me war years.
Speaker 4: There were three hundred and sixty three in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 4: the year before, the year before four years ago. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that was the last year before n I. So the
Speaker 4: players have until May twenty eighth to withdraw. So they
Speaker 4: still have you know, another month almost basically to try
Speaker 4: to you see where they might land. And you know,
Speaker 4: Carter I would assume is gonna, you know, take it
Speaker 4: probably to the end. And Jayden Bradley has already signed
Speaker 4: his deal whatever revenue sharing agreement they call it, and
Speaker 4: so he's already soil is Bradley just in case Carter
Speaker 4: Bryant is not.
Speaker 2: No, he has everyone has. Yeah, so just in case
Speaker 2: that doesn't work out, they're set for here. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: so they're not going to be broke dudes. So if
Speaker 2: you're gonna want to buy them a Hamburger, actually have
Speaker 2: them buy it for you. They could probably afford it, yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: now probably they can. They can afford a nice house
Speaker 2: where we're at in our new office here in the foothills.
Speaker 4: But I mean, you know, he was considered to be
Speaker 4: a lottery pick earlier in the year, Carter, but I
Speaker 4: don't know if that's still where he's gonna land or
Speaker 4: would land.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm thinking in the top twenty and mostly on
Speaker 2: potential because his numbers weren't there. But we all see
Speaker 2: the potential.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the potential is obvious, right, But yeah, so those
Speaker 4: guys made those decisions, and then we'll see, you know,
Speaker 4: I would think Tommy's gonna have to have some guys
Speaker 4: you kind of in the wings. If those two, well,
Speaker 4: I can't see Bradon leaving. But oh yeah, no, Bryan.
Speaker 2: Does leave, He's going to have some And this is
Speaker 2: second time doing this because last year I think Bradley
Speaker 2: did not I think I know he went to the
Speaker 2: process and decided to come back. I think it's more
Speaker 2: of a you know here I am, I'll be back,
Speaker 2: but you know what do I need to improve on?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, we've we've seen the history of Tommy
Speaker 4: Lloyd and where he gets players from.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'll.
Speaker 4: Probably imagine he could probably make a couple of phone
Speaker 4: calls and well, I've already I've kind of been told
Speaker 4: that he's he's if Brianon does go, he's ready for
Speaker 4: somebody else to come in.
Speaker 2: He already knows the guy, maybe targeted the guy. We'll
Speaker 2: see how good he is and who he is if
Speaker 2: that does happen. If not, let me tell you Carter
Speaker 2: Brant coming back with this team top ten, maybe even higher,
Speaker 2: maybe a good chance to win the league with Houston again,
Speaker 2: you know, along side by side, So that would mean
Speaker 2: top eight, which is cool. But you've been here longer
Speaker 2: than I have. You here forty two years, probably forty
Speaker 2: five years. And when was the last time you said
Speaker 2: the Arizona was not going to be in a good
Speaker 2: basketball like never, never, like never? Now you're right nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty four, man, Yeah, because you didn't know, right, that
Speaker 2: was his first year, that was loose first year.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean seriously, with some of the guys
Speaker 4: coming in, and I think the potential is there freshman,
Speaker 4: you never quite sure. I mean we all thought Carter Bryant,
Speaker 4: you know, McDonald's all American, and he barely played. Yea,
Speaker 4: it was different circumstances. I mean there's not much a
Speaker 4: veteran depth. I mean there's a few players coming back,
Speaker 4: but I think the freshmen are going to have to
Speaker 4: contribute more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but with Pete and Burry's and this, this, and
Speaker 2: with Briant coming back and a couple of other people. Man, man, man, man.
Speaker 2: The problem with that, Dave, you can have the nice,
Speaker 2: nicest house on your block. Guess what, there are a
Speaker 2: few blocks in this city, and there was a lot
Speaker 2: of blocks in the county. There's there's other people or
Speaker 2: other schools with just as good teams. Sure, so you
Speaker 2: know you could be the top eight, but it still
Speaker 2: means you're in the top eight. You ate the top
Speaker 2: five exactly.
Speaker 4: But then you think about, okay, do because they lost
Speaker 4: all these guys, I mean, they're going to just be
Speaker 4: able to reload again and probably you know, he got
Speaker 4: three or four more McDonald's guys.
Speaker 2: Coming rich, right, yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: And then North Carolina snatches you know, Henryvesar from Arizona
Speaker 4: and people, you know, people are on.
Speaker 2: The move all the time. This is the new world
Speaker 2: I have. I'll ask you this. You're a big sports fan,
Speaker 2: you follow teams. Are you just the same sports fan
Speaker 2: you were fifteen years ago?
Speaker 5: If not more? Probably even more? I think there's just
Speaker 5: so much out there, so in what way?
Speaker 4: I mean, I have more time to be a sports
Speaker 4: fan before I'm worried about you know, I got to
Speaker 4: cover the story. You got to see Steve's writing in
Speaker 4: the Citizen or Bruce is writing in the Star whatever.
Speaker 4: So we're kind of chasing those kinds of things. But
Speaker 4: now it's like wide open. I can just right and
Speaker 4: you can enjoy yourself and enjoy myself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. My whole thing is I've been and
Speaker 2: I've said this a thousand times. I'm sorry. I'm sorry
Speaker 2: now if you've heard a thousand times. But it's the
Speaker 2: it's the transitional way that we live in that Carter's here,
Speaker 2: He's somewhere else next year. But I thought I loved
Speaker 2: you here. You know, I love these teams like the Rents.
Speaker 2: I grew up a Reds fan. Uh, they had the
Speaker 2: same dudes all the time when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: right Rose bench, all these dudes, and then the free
Speaker 2: agency happened, Well those dudes were gone or somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Were my loyalties just wherever, And I said, I don't
Speaker 2: need to do this. It's one of the reasons why
Speaker 2: I don't do fantasy football, because I draft my team
Speaker 2: and I stick with my team even if they suck,
Speaker 2: because I don't want to get rid of my guys.
Speaker 4: I have a hard time with fantasy because I just
Speaker 4: don't even know the guys.
Speaker 2: That's my problem.
Speaker 4: Another thing, right, thankfully, you know they give you suggestions
Speaker 4: on who the top running backs are going to buy
Speaker 4: one of those magazines.
Speaker 2: No, I never do that.
Speaker 5: I mean I went back to fantasy baseball way way back.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you were part of that group
Speaker 2: like Cody and Cody.
Speaker 4: It was all handwritten and you bring the magazines out
Speaker 4: to the draft and it was it was really you're
Speaker 4: on the clock. Yeah, it was a great, great time
Speaker 4: to learn about who was playing.
Speaker 2: But nowadays it's all futerized and yeah, no, no, but
Speaker 2: that's the loyalty has just changed. So my little loyalty change.
Speaker 2: I don't really care who's your baseball team, the Giants,
Speaker 2: and I'm asking for reason, say, I would probably say
Speaker 2: the Giants. Okay, so of the roster, how many dudes?
Speaker 2: I don't even know. That's exactly That's what I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's so funny, I say. I mean, now I'm to
Speaker 2: the point where I'm kind of just rooting for the team. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well that's and honestly that's the fans and Tucson. Okay,
Speaker 2: Carter's here and gone. Jan Dreiden's here and gone. The
Speaker 2: loyalty remains with Arizona. It could be Jave Silverbs starting guard.
Speaker 2: Once you're gone, guess what, it's still Arizona basketball.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's what do they say the front of
Speaker 4: the jersey kind of thing. That's kind of how I am.
Speaker 4: I think in a lot of sports nowadays, especially especially
Speaker 4: with college. But I mean even in baseball, you sort
Speaker 4: of get to know during the season and you follow
Speaker 4: them a little bit. But I'll turn on games and
Speaker 4: I have no idea who's even sure, who's even on
Speaker 4: the field. I'm going to some games next week and
Speaker 4: I have no idea who we're gonna see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going for the the to watch the game,
Speaker 2: enjoy your buddies, right, and call it a day.
Speaker 4: Right, And we have no idea there's a couple of
Speaker 4: guys I'll recognize, but basically, you know, I'll be looking
Speaker 4: on my phone trying to figure out who's.
Speaker 2: You're now you're saying, is that's the son of that
Speaker 2: guy I covered him back in the day exactly. We
Speaker 2: were just talking about that.
Speaker 4: Actually today I was talking with some guys about about
Speaker 4: the Duncan brothers and how they were the superstars in
Speaker 4: college and well one was and the other one didn't go,
Speaker 4: but they were great players at CEO. But then I
Speaker 4: turned to my friend and said, you know what, I
Speaker 4: used to cover their dad. Yeah, you are not covering,
Speaker 4: but watch his dad on the Oakland A's when.
Speaker 2: I was a kid back in the seventies. Yeah, those guys.
Speaker 4: It's a great lineage in sports, which is always kind
Speaker 4: of fun.
Speaker 2: Right, especially in Tucsun. There's a lot of history here
Speaker 2: in Tucson with big time baseball players. Yes, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so we'll get to that and with the with the
Speaker 2: NBA stuff that's and then we have a long time
Speaker 2: to wait. I think it's about a month before they
Speaker 2: have a final decisions to to say, guys, yeah, until
Speaker 2: the twenty eighth of May May, right before Memorial Memorial weekend.
Speaker 2: So there's that. So more pins and needles for Arizona
Speaker 2: fans when it comes to basketball. You know, I always
Speaker 2: think about this as a parent too.
Speaker 4: I'm like trying to think, like, so they transfer, you know,
Speaker 4: how do you get into school? I mean, how is
Speaker 4: that all? I guess when you're an athlete, they probably they.
Speaker 2: Take care they take care of you. Uh. And the
Speaker 2: funny part is we talked about this. I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe last week. I don't think you were in the
Speaker 2: thought of education today in athletics. I read a report
Speaker 2: somewhere that and it's been going this way. No one
Speaker 2: gives a crap about academics because that's not what they're
Speaker 2: there for anymore. It's actually a sport and payment of
Speaker 2: athlete athletes, right, Uh.
Speaker 4: School, I mean what the athletes are getting more money
Speaker 4: than their professors.
Speaker 2: Yeah in a lot of cases. Yeah, can you spare time? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: no ques, no question and some of the administrators. Sure.
Speaker 2: The president makes about a million, right, the ad makes
Speaker 2: a million. Guess what the players make it more than that.
Speaker 2: Well the AD is not. Yeah, it's true. AD is
Speaker 2: making one million a year. Yeah, I guess the basketball
Speaker 2: players are making more than that. Right. Then you can't
Speaker 2: tell me what to do, I know.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's hard to believe, but that's really
Speaker 5: where we are. It's it's you know, you have to
Speaker 5: think about Wait a second, Okay, this kid is a
Speaker 5: sophomore and he's making more than maybe the possibly athletic department.
Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, that's the way it is. Yeah, and if
Speaker 2: you don't like it, well guess what, I'll go somewhere else. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But again, the whole transfer in school, I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't know. I guess they still have to go to classes,
Speaker 4: stay eligible.
Speaker 2: You don't even hear those stories much. We talk about
Speaker 2: that all the time, right you don't. They have tutors.
Speaker 2: They have tutors one and if you really screw up,
Speaker 2: well then you start hearing about it. But even then
Speaker 2: you kind of don't. Almost lost time. But it ten
Speaker 2: twelve years, I can't think.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was always like during you know, the
Speaker 4: end of the semester and someone knows not coming back
Speaker 4: to the football team, right or so and so, didn't.
Speaker 2: We had yesterday. We had yesterday on the show Jacorey
Speaker 2: uh Krusky merit and he was not academics. It was
Speaker 2: more uh transcriptional I think, or transcript or whatever whatever
Speaker 2: because you couldn't transfer and transfer back and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: We didn't really discuss it, but it was not about
Speaker 2: grades or anything. And that's the last time I can
Speaker 2: remember anything like that. At some point, it used to
Speaker 2: be you had to be kind of working towards a
Speaker 2: degree in some type, even if in the second semester.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, have some kind of declare wait wait,
Speaker 5: wait tell me that again.
Speaker 2: What just a major? Yeah no, no, no route to
Speaker 2: getting it. At some point you want to be a
Speaker 2: degree yeah wink yeah weenkquink because you know who knows.
Speaker 2: And by the time March comes to April first, when
Speaker 2: the tournament's over, where they well they're in Los Angeles
Speaker 2: working out right. That's just comical, it really was.
Speaker 4: I mean, just stay eligible for a semester and a
Speaker 4: half basically is all you had to do.
Speaker 2: It seems like if you're if you're going to be
Speaker 2: a one to do well. You remember this thing went
Speaker 2: in North Carolina, win the tournament in Phoenix twenty seventeen,
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, that's when Arizona should have been there in
Speaker 2: the final four. Uh and coach Brown was was getting
Speaker 2: the heat for the academics when the kids were not
Speaker 2: doing their own stuff. I think it was, Oh, North Carolina,
Speaker 2: North Carolina. Yeah, uh yeah, miss coach Williams. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: Coach Brown. And you know, I'm sure that when queen
Speaker 2: still happens. Yes, gosh, that was quite a scandal too,
Speaker 2: Carolina wins. Right, Hey, let's go take a break here,
Speaker 2: come back and then we'll have the segment to ourselves
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to the bag here on Fox Sports
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Speaker 2: two cents in for Lebron. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: context was, so likes Lebron. Oh that's I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what's going on with Is there anything
Speaker 2: going on with him? They played tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Right, play tomorrow. There's a lot of games tonight. Busy
Speaker 4: night Bucks pacers have already started.
Speaker 2: That's in Indiana. It's in Indiana. That's three to one Indiana.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's pretty much over thirteen three bucks early on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but you know, nothing happened to the fourth quarter. No,
Speaker 2: did you watch the last night's game? Oh it was great.
Speaker 2: It was a fantastic game. It was entertaining. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: sure was. I don't know what Steph finished with, but
Speaker 2: he didn't need to have that any And he missed
Speaker 2: a lot of shots. Yes, I was gonna say the
Speaker 2: same thing.
Speaker 4: I mean, and Jimmy made a couple of shots, but
Speaker 4: they both missed key shots. Kind of if they would
Speaker 4: have just made him kind of would have put him
Speaker 4: over the top.
Speaker 2: Right, But you know, right, no, fantastic game. Uh, and
Speaker 2: the little Curtie had done pace Manyon's who looks like Manion, right,
Speaker 2: Nico Miko, He's the guy that man Manion wished he
Speaker 2: would would have been. Yeah, he had he paid out
Speaker 2: of his mind.
Speaker 5: He was really good last night. Didn't you have like
Speaker 5: twenty six point twenty something like that? Yeah, and they
Speaker 5: needed every point. I mean yeah, because he was Steph.
Speaker 5: You know, he was better than Stephan and Jimmy had
Speaker 5: twenty seven points and six assists coming off his injuries.
Speaker 2: Dude, I love him getting into it with U with
Speaker 2: the organ guy Dylan Brooks. Dylan Brooks, he's a pain
Speaker 2: in the ass, but he's a good pain in the ass.
Speaker 2: I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, Pemps was nine for eighteen, six for eleven
Speaker 4: from three three points, right, I mean he was better
Speaker 4: than Steph.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I'm sure you follow it, and uh,
Speaker 2: great Draymond. He hit his first threes and I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: don't shoot it when he had don't shoot and he
Speaker 2: hits it, and then the rest of the night he.
Speaker 4: Can't hit anything. He couldn't have those only baskets. He
Speaker 4: made a lot of game. You know, they play so
Speaker 4: many minutes. I mean, Butler played forty, Curry played thirty nine,
Speaker 4: but he he'll played thirty and Podzemski played.
Speaker 2: And he'll played better than normal because he hit some
Speaker 2: key shots. Yeah. Yeah, he made a couple of big
Speaker 2: ones too. I mean he had fifteen yeah, and sort
Speaker 2: of the big white guy, Quinton Post I guess, I
Speaker 2: guess thirteen points. He had a few three pointers, maybe
Speaker 2: two or three. Yes, So so they got to get
Speaker 2: through the next round or two, next game or two.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens. I'll be wearing my Warrior
Speaker 2: stuff for the next couple of days. They play the
Speaker 2: Rockets tomorrow. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some good games, but the playoffs, the playoffs are
Speaker 4: the best, really. I mean it's kind of obviously when
Speaker 4: everything's on the line and it's a different game, the
Speaker 4: different game, and.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm I.
Speaker 4: I know you're not not a huge hockey fan, but
Speaker 4: I'll turn it on just if there's nothing else.
Speaker 5: And the playoff games there are great too. I couldn't
Speaker 5: tell you a lick of what's going.
Speaker 2: On, the same thing. I mean, you just to watch
Speaker 2: it and just admire what they're doing.
Speaker 5: They're extending on their skates, especially moving on their skates
Speaker 5: and chasing after you know, this big hard piece of rubber.
Speaker 2: It is fun to watch.
Speaker 16: Well.
Speaker 2: The one thing about the NBA playoffs, if you watch
Speaker 2: any in the regular season and I watched very little.
Speaker 2: It's a complete game. In the playoffs, it's physical, more physical.
Speaker 2: They let you do more on the court in terms
Speaker 2: of you know, be physical and and I think the
Speaker 2: the the watching of it popularity is going to get
Speaker 2: the games would be good.
Speaker 4: That helps the The TV numbers were not good for
Speaker 4: the NBA or hockey. And again the season right then,
Speaker 4: everyone's saying, well, you know, it's when does the season start,
Speaker 4: right in the middle of football, you know, so it
Speaker 4: really they need their time now where they're kind of
Speaker 4: I mean really their only competition is baseball at this
Speaker 4: point on every.
Speaker 2: Day, and then baseball the same way until October September October, right,
Speaker 2: it's all cyclical, and then it disappears when football returns,
Speaker 2: except for NFL when it's game one to game twenty. Yes,
Speaker 2: they watch every every weekend, and it's not it's because
Speaker 2: it's one game a week, yes, not four in a week. Right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, with that with basketball, there were a lot of
Speaker 5: people who were complaining like, wow, you know, people just
Speaker 5: start watching, but you know they were you got the
Speaker 5: they had a big election.
Speaker 2: People were kind of paying attention to that. This year.
Speaker 4: You know the holidays. I don't know college. You know,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of it. There's a lot going on
Speaker 4: right just you know, it's there's there's not enough hours
Speaker 4: in the day.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I do think the style of play maybe effectship too,
Speaker 2: because it's more of a perimeter game. It is. You know,
Speaker 2: some dudes last night, even the Who's the kid, the
Speaker 2: Curdi hair kid, So they gave up shots that were
Speaker 2: two feet away from the basket to pass it out
Speaker 2: to get the three. I mean they could have literally
Speaker 2: just put the ball right there.
Speaker 4: The game is tough to watch for me sometimes when
Speaker 4: it comes to that, I just don't understand exactly what
Speaker 4: they're doing.
Speaker 2: What are you doing? Yeah, oh he's wide open for three.
Speaker 2: But they there's like no centers anymore. No, that's why
Speaker 2: the Ballows of the world and the Henry's are gonna
Speaker 2: make it and not the balls because Henry's he's more
Speaker 2: of a perimeter big man.
Speaker 16: Uh us.
Speaker 2: Good luck Ballow, good luck. Because there's even Edney. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: Eadie is a big dude, and now he's kind of
Speaker 2: playing a lot more of the.
Speaker 4: Yeah he's got he was better than I thought he
Speaker 4: was going to be. Me too when he started here,
Speaker 4: me too. I mean chat on the Okay, so another guy,
Speaker 4: another big guy who's got you know, range, you can
Speaker 4: go out there and shoot from from distance. But yeah,
Speaker 4: that position, you'll wash it go. There's like nobody in
Speaker 4: the middle. They're just passing the ball around the perimeter
Speaker 4: right looking for a cutter maybe.
Speaker 2: And that's all motion. There's no motion. Yeah, there's no
Speaker 2: big guy to guess who to thank for that? Steve right, No,
Speaker 2: he kind of changed the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean even last night you look on their
Speaker 4: bench and there's there's cominga sitting there, there's Kevon Looney.
Speaker 2: They're not even the core anymore. No, they're there to
Speaker 2: foul as one of those.
Speaker 4: Right, that's what they did with Loony came in and
Speaker 4: fouled the guy in the on the right as a
Speaker 4: Sam Adams, Steve Adam, some Sad Adams from Boston.
Speaker 2: He's he's kind of old school. Yeah, guy too, dude,
Speaker 2: they need guys like that to rerun the ball. They
Speaker 2: were getting killed on the boards too. Yeah. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: by my guys here, I'll have him sit on my
Speaker 2: side on my seats for Yeah. No, it's good.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be fun to kind of see how these
Speaker 4: play out, because once you get into the second round
Speaker 4: of the playoffs, it gets a little more serious, like,
Speaker 4: oh wow, these Oh yeah, these guys could advance, right,
Speaker 4: you know, to the Eastern Conference finals, right or Western?
Speaker 2: Do me a favorite day. Once you step your closer
Speaker 2: and you can go grab him and I'll just gibber
Speaker 2: jabber here and tell you guys come back. Uh yeah, no,
Speaker 2: So we still have time to get a call. What
Speaker 2: time is it here? Three twenty eight? We got about
Speaker 2: seven minutes before we go to break five, two, four, one, six,
Speaker 2: seventy four forty talk about whatever, maybe the Bradley thing
Speaker 2: leaving for the NBA. At least for now, I'm likely
Speaker 2: to come back. My guess is that go ahead and
Speaker 2: just sit in my place and anything else, games, baseball, softball,
Speaker 2: all that going on. I'm assuming why you're gonna have
Speaker 2: some You're gonna have some breaking news down the road. Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: did I get you out of bed today? Uh? No,
Speaker 2: you got me out of work.
Speaker 5: You're welcome baseball play tonight. I'm gonna be out there
Speaker 5: high Corbett Field.
Speaker 2: Are you in Mexico State? Yeah? I like these mid
Speaker 2: week six o'clock games. They're nice.
Speaker 4: You can you know, stick around for six seven inns
Speaker 4: and be home by nine?
Speaker 2: Are they still going two and a half hours or
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 4: That's kind of as long as I want to as
Speaker 4: long as I want to stay.
Speaker 2: Gertrude, gotta get home, gotta get going. It's getting late
Speaker 2: for me. You got porge at the porge, you got
Speaker 2: to clam chowder ready for me?
Speaker 5: No, but I've always enjoyed those middle middle of the weekend.
Speaker 5: It's been a while since I've been there. So, but
Speaker 5: they're good, right, they're good. Uh, they got sweat. They
Speaker 5: lost the series games. Yeah, Texas Tech. Well, I'm good
Speaker 5: to see you, man, good to see you. How you
Speaker 5: feel in that seat over there? It feels a little
Speaker 5: bit weird. I don't have the monitors in front of me,
Speaker 5: but I'm getting out here, so what I do here.
Speaker 5: It's been a while since I've done this, but I'll
Speaker 5: have to do this summer with you guys. Got well
Speaker 5: you might be around. Well, did you get a job?
Speaker 5: Not yet, We're in the process, in the process. Hopefully
Speaker 5: you want to tell me. Yeah, you know, let me
Speaker 5: say it on area YEA.
Speaker 2: If you are.
Speaker 5: You're in the running interview process right now. Got my
Speaker 5: interview on Thursday for a producer in residence position either
Speaker 5: in Midland, Texas, Okay, Columbia, South Carolina, or Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Is it all the same group.
Speaker 5: It's under one one big company that funnels in small,
Speaker 5: small news or not small new radio news stations in
Speaker 5: around the country. Okay, So they need spots at each
Speaker 5: place they're trying to They give me certain certain lists.
Speaker 5: I choose top three. Okay, those are the ones I chose. Okay, Yeah, Texas,
Speaker 5: I think Arizona right now. We're in South Carolina. Lumbia
Speaker 5: would be in the other place, Memphis, Memphis. Oh okay,
Speaker 5: Memphis would be good. Yeah, NBA town. You would go
Speaker 5: there or you work, I'd go there, Yeah, okay, I'd
Speaker 5: be moving there, and I don't know, I'm not sure
Speaker 5: how long.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing a year or two possibly. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Just get that experience. Oh what's what's it's a it's
Speaker 5: a producer in residence learning under something.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that's fantastic. No, no, no, that's fantastic. I'm sure
Speaker 2: Day would agree that's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Any experience is good, Honestly, any experience is get out
Speaker 4: there and do it right. Always my recommend get them up, Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: I mean even experience like this is going to help
Speaker 4: you get to that point.
Speaker 5: I'm telling people, I'll go get you coffee. I don't
Speaker 5: don't Yeah, I don't know where every Starbucks is.
Speaker 2: Just give me, give me the cash. I'll be back
Speaker 2: to change.
Speaker 5: No, good for you. We'll hope that things work out. Obviously,
Speaker 5: have an update next next Monday, manic Monday. Okay, cool,
Speaker 5: hopefully cool. So people, are two things for you we're
Speaker 5: talking about about that? Yeah, that was a great game.
Speaker 5: Yeah uh and then too, just kind of going off
Speaker 5: of that and something I noticed that I've been saying
Speaker 5: this for a couple of years now. I don't think
Speaker 5: Steph Curry is that good under the final minute two minutes.
Speaker 5: Maybe he does not make clutch shots in my opinion.
Speaker 5: Well last night he wasn't hold on here. We got
Speaker 5: a call, so I just click it right yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hello, your are Hello, you're on the air and
Speaker 2: line on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 3: It's Brian. How's it going?
Speaker 2: Hey, Brian's work?
Speaker 6: Well just about you.
Speaker 3: Know, Bradley going entering now whatever he's going to try
Speaker 3: to do because I don't think he has much of
Speaker 3: a shot at making the NBA. So he's gonna he
Speaker 3: didn't end to the portals, right, so he's probably he'll
Speaker 3: probably wind up coming back here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So let me ask you though, let me
Speaker 2: ask you this. So he's done this before, he did
Speaker 2: this last year, he's going to do it again. He's
Speaker 2: a junior, right, so let's assume next year when he's
Speaker 2: out of eligibility, is he uh NBA good in a year?
Speaker 3: Well? You know, I think he has to look at
Speaker 3: what does the NBA telling him he needs to work on,
Speaker 3: and if he decides, you know, put the effort in,
Speaker 3: you know, what they want, and also be able to
Speaker 3: work under Tommy Lloyd's system, and I think he'll do
Speaker 3: all Righty, he could find a spot maybe. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's not going to be a first round pick because
Speaker 3: he's not that kind of score. Is I don't even
Speaker 3: know if he's that great of a point guard per se.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you you watched some right, give me a
Speaker 2: comp Is he a comp uh Bradley Bradley a comp
Speaker 2: to anybody in the NBA? Now? No, I can't. I
Speaker 2: don't know enough about to compare him to anybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's he's not. I mean, he's a
Speaker 3: hard working guys. You know, I enjoy watching him play.
Speaker 2: A downhill guy college level, at the.
Speaker 3: College level, the next level, I don't think, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean you can look at TJ. McConnell. I mean
Speaker 3: he's made it. But TJ McConnell was a true point guard.
Speaker 3: I don't think Bradley is right.
Speaker 2: No, I agree with you because he's more of a
Speaker 2: scoring important guard. He's not a distributor. He's a distributor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and I and I don't know if
Speaker 3: he wants to come back next year and be able
Speaker 3: to facilitate the ball to other players.
Speaker 2: Right, well not if not if the NBA is telling
Speaker 2: you you got to score more, be you a better shooter?
Speaker 3: Right and maybe Tommy boy doesn't want to have that
Speaker 3: because he's got those two kids coming in.
Speaker 2: No, you can't, you can't not go.
Speaker 6: You can't.
Speaker 3: But you can't have enough scores right right?
Speaker 2: Well, Dave, you don't want they're losing.
Speaker 4: You know, a guy that's averaging what almost twenty points
Speaker 4: of game too?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you don't want him to Yeah, you don't
Speaker 2: want him not to come back right right.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I I think the one thing you do,
Speaker 3: if he could work on a three pointer and be
Speaker 3: consistent with it, I think that would help us, help
Speaker 3: us out and help his game out a great deal too,
Speaker 3: ycause he's I mean, but he really didn't take that
Speaker 3: many three point shots per se. No, just kind of
Speaker 3: shoot periodically and rely on Caleb blub to shoot the
Speaker 3: three pointers.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: He was the mid range guy. Get to the basket,
Speaker 2: head down, get to the basket, get filed, get to
Speaker 2: the line.
Speaker 3: Right, you know, and maybe maybe without Caleb Glove, he
Speaker 3: is a better he's a better point guard.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I agree with you. I agree with you totally.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, okay, cool.
Speaker 3: You know Bryant, with Bryant, I just don't know if.
Speaker 6: He's going to get drafted.
Speaker 3: Will he get drafted in the first round. You know,
Speaker 3: someone's going to pick him up just because on potential,
Speaker 3: not so much of what he did last year, but
Speaker 3: they look at him say, well, this guy can.
Speaker 6: Do this, this and this.
Speaker 3: We know he can. He's got to get him, you know,
Speaker 3: to buy into it or develop as a player. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's what nineteen years old. I mean, he's Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: he's the next one ball player. You know. I think
Speaker 3: he has a much better shot at going in the
Speaker 3: first round, you know, later in the first round, and.
Speaker 4: Which is sometimes better too, because you're going to maybe
Speaker 4: go to a better team and you're not going to
Speaker 4: be needed to come in.
Speaker 2: And score a better team. That's bad a better no
Speaker 2: if you're going second.
Speaker 3: You know, if he gets drafted the same from from
Speaker 3: twenty to thirty, he's going to go to a decent team.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, my bad. I was thinking the other way.
Speaker 3: If he gets drafted in the first ten spots, he's
Speaker 3: going to go to a real crappy team. Maybe people
Speaker 3: won't be as patient to work with him as a
Speaker 3: as a as a really good team would.
Speaker 2: Be, right. I also think that he may have been
Speaker 2: stifled here althoughle because.
Speaker 3: He had I think he did too, because what was
Speaker 3: around him, you know, and he kind.
Speaker 2: Of deferred a lot until until he didn't in the
Speaker 2: second half the season. You got to go bright. Well yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: thanks for the call. The ok thanks for the call.
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Speaker 2: is Dave Silver. We got one at the controls now.
Speaker 2: Now on the phone, we have Sebastian Paniela, the FC
Speaker 2: Tucson head coach. How are you, Sebastian, Steve, I'm good,
Speaker 2: How are you? We're don't find I guess another season
Speaker 2: as you sure, second third year. This will be second
Speaker 2: year the head coach, second year, so another exciting year.
Speaker 2: What are you hoping for? Early? You start is Saturday?
Speaker 2: Your official opening. I know it's a home game first.
Speaker 6: Time, right, yes?
Speaker 16: Yeah, so you know after a successful season last year,
Speaker 16: they plan for the club. You know, we all aligned
Speaker 16: that we want to compete again at that level. We
Speaker 16: want to compete for the conference and we believe that
Speaker 16: we have put together a very strong roster for it.
Speaker 16: And looking forward to get things rolling on Saturday with
Speaker 16: a nice sinkle, a magic game and fireworks. See the
Speaker 16: fans again, get to see them celebrate with them the
Speaker 16: Western Conference title from last year.
Speaker 4: Where are you're getting your players from this year? Where
Speaker 4: most of the guys from, Well.
Speaker 16: It's a mix a just like last year, we got
Speaker 16: players from different ten different nationalities. Again, they come from
Speaker 16: all over the US. So it's a mix of people
Speaker 16: that I trust, people are in our connections that we
Speaker 16: have for years as an organization. So just looking forward
Speaker 16: to see what we got this year.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess do you have a hand in this?
Speaker 2: Does Jonathan have a handle on this? Where you guys
Speaker 2: maybe collaborate and say this is the guys we want,
Speaker 2: this is guys we don't want? And how many I
Speaker 2: remember last year's team, You guys surged in the second half.
Speaker 2: Do you have a lot of the same players back?
Speaker 16: So yeah, John and I put it together. We work
Speaker 16: together in order to make it happen. He does give
Speaker 16: me the freedom to make that final decision, and we
Speaker 16: do have some returning players, of course, I think it's
Speaker 16: important to have those a lot of two some players
Speaker 16: coming back and a few international players. So I think
Speaker 16: overall we got a balanced roster and we were returning players,
Speaker 16: new players, and there's a collective work that we have
Speaker 16: done throughout this last months.
Speaker 2: If I could, is it kind of like a piece
Speaker 2: of a puzzle where Okay, this guy's very good, but
Speaker 2: he wouldn't fit the system.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 16: We're just looking for a certain type of player, and
Speaker 16: of course always we try to get the best players
Speaker 16: that we can, so whoever is available. Sometimes things don't
Speaker 16: go our way, they go to different things, or they
Speaker 16: don't fit the system that we're looking to. But for
Speaker 16: the most part, we also try to trust the people
Speaker 16: that we know that work with these players day in
Speaker 16: and day out, that they're saying that the right right
Speaker 16: players and right humans.
Speaker 4: Are some of these players looking to, you know, play
Speaker 4: at a higher level themselves too, or you know, I
Speaker 4: know it's like in some of the minor leagues, say,
Speaker 4: in minor league baseball, the guys that's their biggest goal
Speaker 4: is to move up to a different level.
Speaker 3: Is that.
Speaker 16: On one hundred percent. All of these guys have that
Speaker 16: ambition to continue to play. I would say we have
Speaker 16: a younger team this year that you know, maybe sophomore
Speaker 16: juniors in college that have that ambition to continue to
Speaker 16: move forward, have good connections, that are a good levels.
Speaker 16: So excited to see how they deal with the institution
Speaker 16: batch and hopefully they can continue. We are just a
Speaker 16: step on their pathway to professional.
Speaker 2: M what's the style? What's your style of coaching?
Speaker 6: I believe for these short tournaments.
Speaker 16: It's all about that group chemistry. It's all about just
Speaker 16: connecting as a group because there's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 16: be very fast, and there's gonna be ups and downs,
Speaker 16: and how can we as a group just continue to
Speaker 16: move forward. I think that was something that we do
Speaker 16: very They did very well last year. The group had
Speaker 16: they clicked very fast and had a lot of chemistry,
Speaker 16: and even though the season wasn't as smooth, when the
Speaker 16: time came, they were flying.
Speaker 6: They were ready.
Speaker 16: They believe in what we're doing, and you know, I
Speaker 16: think that's that's part of the success.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: No, In fact, I think, like you said, maybe they
Speaker 2: didn't start well, but they finished well. Uh that chemistry,
Speaker 2: and Dave and I have covered sports teams forever. Uh,
Speaker 2: if you don't you can be talented as all hell,
Speaker 2: But if you don't have that chemistry, you're not going
Speaker 2: to be any good.
Speaker 6: I agree with that.
Speaker 16: It's and it's something that of course it takes a
Speaker 16: little bit more time to make it happen. But I'm
Speaker 16: someone that believes that I can, I would say, manipulate
Speaker 16: certain situations to you know, have the group.
Speaker 6: Over do the do these there's a certain activities a group.
Speaker 16: Every time we go away and away trips is such
Speaker 16: an important time for us as a group. So all
Speaker 16: these little times that we can control as coaches, so
Speaker 16: it happens on the field.
Speaker 6: Strong believer on that.
Speaker 4: Are you getting players from Pima Fema College's team?
Speaker 16: I do have a few players from Pima this year
Speaker 16: we added a few more. Of course, we had DeAndre Bambam,
Speaker 16: Brandon Sanchez and and Ismay Rizda, all Americans at the
Speaker 16: junior college level.
Speaker 6: They're coming back and then.
Speaker 16: Do you know what they did was so I was
Speaker 16: able to pick a few more from that same team.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, what are the age ranges for the.
Speaker 16: Team right now? We got from nineteen to twenty.
Speaker 6: Five years old.
Speaker 16: I think twenty four to twenty five, so you got somewhere,
Speaker 16: and but I would say the average is probably twenty one.
Speaker 2: So the reason I ask is soccer. I think maybe
Speaker 2: other sports and I don't know enough about hockey and
Speaker 2: other guys, but you could have a guy who's seventeen
Speaker 2: and who's very skilled and blah blah competing against the
Speaker 2: twenty five year olds or the nineteenth because they're just
Speaker 2: that tactical or they know what they're doing. Right, So
Speaker 2: you have that angel twenty five to nineteen, right, how
Speaker 2: are the nineteen year olds? How do they handle it?
Speaker 16: You know, it's a great experience for them to play
Speaker 16: against those you know, all their players. But I do
Speaker 16: believe that if you if you have it, it doesn't
Speaker 16: matter your age, you could be I mean, you're seeing
Speaker 16: it with these top players around the world.
Speaker 6: It happens the same at hour level.
Speaker 16: You can be eighteen, but you're competing with these guys
Speaker 16: and you're being effective on the field. You get the chance,
Speaker 16: so show me that you can do it.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. That's gonna be fun to watch.
Speaker 5: So you get rolling on Saturday, big, you know it's
Speaker 5: just said big day with some of the festivities and
Speaker 5: things like that.
Speaker 2: Weather, weather should be good, right cool?
Speaker 16: Oh, yeah, we're we're looking forward to it. You know,
Speaker 16: it's it's a fun game for us to connect with
Speaker 16: the fans of the you know, the season. Fireworks, nice food, Yeah, hope, hope.
Speaker 6: To see a lot of people on Saturday.
Speaker 2: As the season progresses. And I think I've talked to
Speaker 2: Jonathan before with this, Uh do you take advantage or
Speaker 2: how do you take advantage of the weather or isn't
Speaker 2: it an advantage like in June when you're playing teams
Speaker 2: from somewhere else.
Speaker 16: Yeah, definitely just Dune July dates. It's tough for any
Speaker 16: team the first twenty minutes they go, they go, and
Speaker 16: then all of a sudden, they hit kicks in and
Speaker 16: we can find.
Speaker 6: A different gear and it shows. It shows in the games.
Speaker 16: I think the the in the playoff last year when
Speaker 16: the Colorado teams came in and then ventur of course
Speaker 16: they came in, and we just I just feel that
Speaker 16: not only keen on the weather, a little bit of everything.
Speaker 16: You just we can we're used to the hit by
Speaker 16: then right when they come in they struggle big time
Speaker 16: or hearing.
Speaker 6: Mady the a few weeks, we got to be.
Speaker 16: Very careful training because their body.
Speaker 6: Is gonna take some time to adapt to the heat.
Speaker 6: But once once we go, we get a roll in it.
Speaker 2: You see the difference is there is there a reverse factor?
Speaker 2: You say Colorado, So when you go to Colorado wherever?
Speaker 2: Where's that at Colorado Springs or Denver?
Speaker 16: Yeah, well we we Yeah, it will be around that area.
Speaker 16: There's multiple teams around that end, so also that you
Speaker 16: haven't been there, but yeah, we will probably feel it.
Speaker 16: It will be hard for us to go play games there,
Speaker 16: that's for sure.
Speaker 2: A deep breath a few of them. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So this is a big year for the sport too.
Speaker 4: Obviously with the World Cup coming next year. What do
Speaker 4: you see that doing for for soccer? Again, that's going
Speaker 4: to be another big boost, I would imagine, just just
Speaker 4: in general the spotlight that's going to be on on
Speaker 4: the sport.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 16: No, I think it's exciting times for this country in
Speaker 16: terms of soccer. All the World Cup coming in, you
Speaker 16: see all the development that that is happening on the
Speaker 16: youth side with the MLS academies competing or against the
Speaker 16: top teams in the world. So I think it's just
Speaker 16: good news that the sport is going to continue to grow.
Speaker 6: There's gonna be more opportunities for.
Speaker 16: Young players, young American players, and it's just gonna be
Speaker 16: in the United States. You see things, people from everybody,
Speaker 16: and it's just continued to grow that way.
Speaker 6: So it's excited.
Speaker 2: This is your second year. Like you said, where'd you
Speaker 2: come from and is there a cultural difference where you
Speaker 2: came from in terms of playing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm from Columbia. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 16: I mean we got a very clear philosophy and the
Speaker 16: way that we play, the way that we see the game,
Speaker 16: very South American. So yeah, you can see the difference
Speaker 16: when you come here. You see the the different styles
Speaker 16: that you get because there's so many people from Europe,
Speaker 16: of England, from Holland, Germany, Italy, and so you just
Speaker 16: get to see that mix. And I think that's a
Speaker 16: place that I have grown a lot because I get
Speaker 16: to see many different things. But I also, of course
Speaker 16: have my background dead. I never forget about it where
Speaker 16: I came from.
Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, okay, anything else. So what time is
Speaker 2: the game on Saturday?
Speaker 16: Yep, so kickoff is at seven fifteen PM. I love
Speaker 16: looking forward to seeing the fans out there and ready
Speaker 16: to get the season going.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, and I'm not sure. If they want to
Speaker 2: get tickets, they can go to the website.
Speaker 16: Yes, if we got all the advertising going on the
Speaker 16: social media, the website, we got the phone numbers on
Speaker 16: our website as well. We got multiple platforms to make
Speaker 16: that happen. And so yeah, invite everybody to come and
Speaker 16: support us with the fireworks after the game.
Speaker 2: Those are fun, one big fiesta for the single of
Speaker 2: their min All right, drinks, drinks, a party. Who doesn't
Speaker 2: love a party, especially watching soccer?
Speaker 16: Yes, that's right, Okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, coach, We appreciate your time, coach Sebastian Panela. Good
Speaker 2: luck this season will probably can you keep in touch
Speaker 2: with you guys maybe every other week or something?
Speaker 6: Awesome?
Speaker 16: Thank you for having me and look forward to seeing
Speaker 16: you guys.
Speaker 2: So yes, great, thank you, thanks coach, Oh, Sebastiania. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I haven't been to a And you know what they're
Speaker 2: you know what their mascot's name is.
Speaker 5: What is it? The cactus pricks? No, yes, I can
Speaker 5: see that in the radio because it's the name. Okay,
Speaker 5: at least at least I know. I think that it's
Speaker 5: like called you one, okay, should should interview him or
Speaker 5: her the best gut?
Speaker 2: What's it like? Being a uniform? Must be nice? And
Speaker 2: can you imagine that's gonna be I think they are
Speaker 2: like a cactus kind of logo. I think I think
Speaker 2: pretty sure that's the case. You google it right now.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to find it.
Speaker 4: I expect you to give me her straight answer next
Speaker 4: time I come back here.
Speaker 2: No, I'm serious. I'm serious. Uh, at least that's what
Speaker 2: it was. If you can't find it, I can't find it. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so cool, so uh good to talk to them if
Speaker 2: you have a chance. Called Saturday, it should be cool,
Speaker 2: like like the next couple of the three days is
Speaker 2: going to be nice weather. I mean it was one
Speaker 2: hundred two weeks ago and now it's nice.
Speaker 4: Now it's in the seventies. That's good for soccer, because yeah,
Speaker 4: it can be pretty brutal. I'm sure there's you know
Speaker 4: some of those you know, July games aren't aren't.
Speaker 2: The most No, No, I've got to a few of
Speaker 2: those for the fourth of July with the wireworks. Oh man, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know it is. It's but if you're you've been
Speaker 2: here all your life forty five years a bit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if it's hot, it's hot, right, one hundred and ten,
Speaker 2: one hundred and seven, what's the difference one hundred and two?
Speaker 4: Well, can we build an outdoor and domed stadium out
Speaker 4: at this Mosaic quarter?
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, they're building something nice at Mosaic.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they can do that much money
Speaker 2: you got in the fieldhouse, right, how much money you
Speaker 2: got in your pocket to help me? But I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna say, Dave Silver, it wouldn't be a bad thing
Speaker 2: to have. No, No, you're dome.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: If they're going to see three thousand, yeah, you know
Speaker 2: that could be enough. Yeah, they're gonna have something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I think it's for hockey. Okay, but they're gonna
Speaker 2: have an outside arena. I think, if I can remember correctly,
Speaker 2: I wrote that story five years ago. Whatever. It seems
Speaker 2: like sticking forever. Yeah, you still haven't found to have
Speaker 2: you No, Okay, maybe they changed it? Well did they
Speaker 2: used to be that?
Speaker 5: Everything are fine? Is just f C two song SC
Speaker 5: two sons? Okay, I don't find I haven't found an
Speaker 5: official I'll ask I'll text Jonathan Pearlman after this. How
Speaker 5: much time we ready to go? I got about a minute?
Speaker 5: About a minute?
Speaker 2: Okay, no cool?
Speaker 16: I know.
Speaker 2: So if you headed out there, look at f G
Speaker 2: two Sun dot com. I think that's the website, right
Speaker 2: two yes, And does it say anything there? Can you?
Speaker 2: Can you come up with ticket prices and stuff for
Speaker 2: this weekend promotional or whatever it is. We'll just go
Speaker 2: to the website.
Speaker 5: Yeah, single match tickets are looks like five dollars. Oh
Speaker 5: really that's fantastic. Yeah, so very affordable for families to
Speaker 5: get in there. And I think they're gonna have a
Speaker 5: food food prices. Oh wait, sorry to twelve dollars. Okay,
Speaker 5: well there you go. Yeah, where'd you get.
Speaker 2: Pay five dollars? Twenty four hours? That got this? Oh
Speaker 2: okay five dollar piers? Ten dollars to get in Okay,
Speaker 2: I just saw the money sign. I just saw the
Speaker 2: twelve dollars to get in fights. Yeah, so they haven't
Speaker 2: you know how many games they get? Oh they got
Speaker 2: seven games more than that.
Speaker 10: I'm so.
Speaker 2: I know these are the women's games as well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and those days start going to start in June.
Speaker 4: But yeah, they play seven home games, starting May third
Speaker 4: and continuing into July thirteenth.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's take a break here, come back, get
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