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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to iron the Ball. Here on Fox
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Speaker 1: He his eye on the ball, breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: Breaking news from the sports world. Arizona basketball alum Quinn
Speaker 3: Crawford named G League Coach of the Month for the
Speaker 3: Stockton Kings.
Speaker 2: Oh coach of the Month, Okay, Stockton Kings. He s
Speaker 2: wanted to be about maybe, Yeah, I don't remember him
Speaker 2: much of him because you walk on Yeah, one of
Speaker 2: the end of the bench players.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know what good for it?
Speaker 5: I mean you look throughout Loot's coaching career, Sean has
Speaker 5: a couple of guys getting into coaching and finding a
Speaker 5: way to impact the game.
Speaker 3: Right thousands shooting woes costs Arizona women's basketball at Colorado.
Speaker 3: Brea Cunningham Fells cost the Wildcats in a fifty six
Speaker 3: forty seven loss at Colorado on Wednesday night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they if they're struggled and then kind of pulling
Speaker 2: out and then then they struggle.
Speaker 4: Same old story.
Speaker 5: Yeah, offense landing forty seven points, it's not going to
Speaker 5: get it done.
Speaker 4: You got to score the ball.
Speaker 3: In Brett Brennan's press conference on Wednesday, he mentioned that
Speaker 3: Arizona football has signed fifty three players since the end
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, you you were there, right, you were there. What
Speaker 2: was the mood with a lot of people.
Speaker 5: A lot of people, a lot of assistant coaches there.
Speaker 5: You know, I think it was a very vibrant and
Speaker 5: exciting mood to get these guys in and on campus
Speaker 5: and get them ready for spring football. The more and
Speaker 5: more the years go by, the more and more players
Speaker 5: are participating in spring football and becoming early in rolies,
Speaker 5: and that's become one of the biggest things for football
Speaker 5: programs moving forward.
Speaker 3: On signs former Washington offensive lineman Peter Langee as he
Speaker 3: was committed to Washington with flip to Arizona, and also
Speaker 3: Arizona signed three star Chuco d lineman Leroy Paulo and
Speaker 3: the three star Calo Limon and Peter Laney's we.
Speaker 5: Stated, yeah, you know, Peter Laney, very good player from Washington.
Speaker 5: His brother Michael Laney will be part of the twenty
Speaker 5: twenty six recruiting class and a lot of people say
Speaker 5: that Michael might be the better of the two. So
Speaker 5: have some young offensive lineman that can build, help build
Speaker 5: the football player.
Speaker 2: Anto's the guy. Yeah, the unto's guys like the not
Speaker 2: ground jewels, but the places that you need to work
Speaker 2: every year with those games. You know, you have a
Speaker 2: good quarterback, that's great, and that's great obviously very great
Speaker 2: running backs and wide receivers, but if you have a
Speaker 2: good offensive lind.
Speaker 5: You want a great offensive line and great defense line. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's where you win game.
Speaker 4: There we go.
Speaker 2: That's about seven players on each side. Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: with with the with depth, yeah, with depth.
Speaker 3: Henry Vassar honored by Big twelve as he was awarded
Speaker 3: the co Bench Performance of the Week.
Speaker 2: Never knew they had that award, but deserving the best player.
Speaker 5: Over seven foot this week is yeah, everybody gets the trophy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but that's cool because he was good. He you you
Speaker 5: could go to every.
Speaker 2: Player on that roster they played and say, you know,
Speaker 2: this was he was pivotal. Because he was pivotal, because
Speaker 2: important because and that's why they won. We'll see this weekend.
Speaker 2: I think they'll win, but they could have won up
Speaker 2: in Texas. Stack the Right.
Speaker 3: Bear's owner, Virginia Hallis McCaskey, dies at one hundred and
Speaker 3: two years old. She has owned the team for forty
Speaker 3: two years.
Speaker 4: It's the Bears.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Chicago Bears. She passed away. Yes this week
Speaker 6: just y history or whatever. Wow, I didn't know that
Speaker 6: one hundred and two. I don't want to do that, though.
Speaker 6: I have a lot of family members that live in
Speaker 6: their late nineties. Really yeah, my dad's side, my grandmother
Speaker 6: was ninety three, my grandfather ninety three, my grand aunt
Speaker 6: ninety eight.
Speaker 4: I have my reasons I don't want to. Mike Woodson
Speaker 4: said to leave Indiana over the season. Did that make
Speaker 4: that announcement there? He's contemplating stepping down.
Speaker 2: Contem Well, you could contemplate all you want. They're gonna
Speaker 2: stepped out or pushed out.
Speaker 5: What's from good Man? He said that, complaining, thanks for
Speaker 5: the thanks for the breaking news, good Man.
Speaker 2: Come on, Yeah, you know I'm fixing to leave this
Speaker 2: building after the show.
Speaker 5: Hey, you know what, the building's on fire. I think
Speaker 5: I'm gonna step down, Yes, yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at five o'clock. Five, Well, five, I'll be out
Speaker 2: of this building. Were they forced me out or pushed
Speaker 2: me out or I walk out? The dude can't coach. No,
Speaker 2: he can't coach, not a college. But he wasn't a
Speaker 2: good coaching the NBA.
Speaker 3: No, the ex o Tawny interpreter sentenced to fifty seven
Speaker 3: months first stealing from show Aotana.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fifty seven months. What's that ya, sir Carlos, fifty
Speaker 4: seven months?
Speaker 5: You know all I'm gonna say is one of my
Speaker 5: favorite favorite Pete Rose's quotes. I wish I had an interpreter,
Speaker 5: Pete Rose? Did he say that recently? He said that
Speaker 5: before he passed away? Well, I hope he didn't say
Speaker 5: that after he passed away exactly. No, he's like, just
Speaker 5: just in, Pete says, I wish I had an interpreter.
Speaker 4: And I don't laugh for you of this show, but
Speaker 4: that was funny. You're welcome, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: The Brooklyn Nets are working on a biout agreement with
Speaker 3: Ben Simmons.
Speaker 4: He's still played. You still paying him? Is he playing?
Speaker 5: Or no?
Speaker 4: He's not playing?
Speaker 5: What the hell about he's getting paid? He's like, who's
Speaker 5: the dude? For the Pittsburgh Pirates. Uh getting paid one
Speaker 5: million a year for that, dude? Yeah, well he was
Speaker 5: a met too, yea one million by this dude. He's
Speaker 5: been stealing money for years and he doesn't care. Of course,
Speaker 5: he's worried with Conradition.
Speaker 4: Is going to chase him.
Speaker 3: He's on the final year of five year max how much?
Speaker 4: Which is that? Like forty millions?
Speaker 5: So back then that was probably like five years. I
Speaker 5: want to say one to eight when seventy he's not playing, right,
Speaker 5: He's not physically not playing. I don't think he's playing
Speaker 5: very much. I haven't heard his name all year until
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 3: He signed a five year, one seventy seven million with
Speaker 3: the Sixers. Six Ers, so yeah, that was like five
Speaker 3: years ago. Dude, that's like the Mike Woodson says, what, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's it for today's breaking news.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's nothing from the Uba anything. You know that
Speaker 4: well soft all tonight? You know yet in the season
Speaker 4: kicked off big season Fyers on the softball? What way
Speaker 4: I think that.
Speaker 5: I don't want to say it's a make or break yere,
Speaker 5: but you have to not only make the tournament, you
Speaker 5: better be competing for Oklahoma Oklahoma, getting to Oklahoma or
Speaker 5: your last year of year contract coming up.
Speaker 4: That's an issue. I think.
Speaker 2: I think with desireet your new A d new I,
Speaker 2: you have to impress new eyes. You have to impress
Speaker 2: uh not that everybody on that staff needs to worry,
Speaker 2: but they have to worry.
Speaker 5: Well they head the coaches in there, then you're probably
Speaker 5: not going to be there the next season. So right,
Speaker 5: what do you mean, Well, if Kaylin Lowe isn't back
Speaker 5: next year, yeah, then the other coaches on the staff
Speaker 5: are back.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, no, no, but the coaches, like you know,
Speaker 2: Tommy doesn't have to worry about it. The head coaches,
Speaker 2: you know, Brennan probably has to win or else. Uh, Kaitlyn,
Speaker 2: I guess this year maybe, uh, because because Desi chip. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but he's done well. But where are they gone?
Speaker 4: He's done well, That's all I can say. Where have
Speaker 4: they gone? I don't know they went. Didn't they go
Speaker 4: to tournament to the Omaha? No?
Speaker 5: No, no, no, that was for Johnson's last team. Uh
Speaker 5: and that was only like two days ago, three four
Speaker 5: years ago. Okay, maybe I don't I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 5: how do you measure success then?
Speaker 4: Competing for champion. Well, they won a championship last year.
Speaker 4: Baseball pick day, Yeah, I was surprised.
Speaker 2: Everybody did really well until he didn't.
Speaker 4: Let's let's try.
Speaker 2: Let me say this, because you're you're not a U
Speaker 2: agres airs only is what it is, right, It's not
Speaker 2: what they think they are.
Speaker 4: You know that, you know that I got what you're saying.
Speaker 2: So, okay, you know if I'm not Brad Pitt, but
Speaker 2: I think they can pick up women like Brad Pitt can's.
Speaker 4: I'm fully myself.
Speaker 2: I'm fully of myself and I'll use these analogies all
Speaker 2: the time. But come on, I am what I am.
Speaker 5: So I agree with football and that you are what
Speaker 5: you are. And hey, if you if you're averaging eight
Speaker 5: nine wins the season, nine wins would be incredible in football,
Speaker 5: that would be tremendous. That would be tremendously that coach
Speaker 5: should get a statue. But there was a softball again.
Speaker 5: We talked about this with Mike Andrea feeding the Beast.
Speaker 5: Mike Andrea, damn it.
Speaker 4: It was a baseball five Nationals.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is not that teams, this is not
Speaker 2: that program anymore. It's not no matter who shows up,
Speaker 2: not that they can't find that person to show up
Speaker 2: and do it. But that's a long time ago. I
Speaker 2: used to be thin. I used to be I used
Speaker 2: to be a lot of dinner. I don't think I
Speaker 2: can get there again to you. Don't you understand what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Yeah, I used to be okay, back to then,
Speaker 2: but I'm not anymore. It's not likely I'm going to
Speaker 2: go back to that. It's hard to It's hard, and
Speaker 2: that was the glory days of softball. If you're going
Speaker 2: to compete, are you going to compete or compare with
Speaker 2: that situation? I don't know anybody's worthy. I don't think
Speaker 2: Kendrea wasn't worthy. Yeah, I mean he wasn't capable.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I mean he got them back on track, though.
Speaker 2: He got he got them back to being respectable again
Speaker 2: because he got him back to the tournament. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: they were not Arizona of nineteen ninety one or sure.
Speaker 2: I mean you didn't know what I'm saying. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think you have to know who you are, and
Speaker 2: I'm not sure Arizona knows who they are.
Speaker 5: And I'm talking about the powers that be, even the
Speaker 5: people who support them. We we okay, tell me. It's
Speaker 5: like Arizona and we talk about this fight. I don't
Speaker 5: want to fight. They fight with enough. By the way,
Speaker 5: we'll be at the casino Friday tomorrow. I people say
Speaker 5: this is a blue blood. It's not a blue blood
Speaker 5: for basketball. No it's not. I mean, come on, you
Speaker 5: won some games. It's a good program. It's the top
Speaker 5: fifteen top.
Speaker 2: Is softball blue blood? Yes, of course, right it is.
Speaker 2: It hasn't been.
Speaker 5: Now now if you have a fifteen year old now, no, no,
Speaker 5: because they wouldn't know what the hell happened yesterday? What
Speaker 5: about baseball? Is baseball blue blood? I would say, yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: I don't know. It's probably a fringe. It's probably a fringe.
Speaker 5: It's there, and you could only talk to people over
Speaker 5: thirty five forty who can tell you that they are right?
Speaker 2: Anybody your age, We say, no, Arizona really twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, whatever it do. That was thirteen years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: who remembers five years ago.
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to no, no, no, that's I'm being critical,
Speaker 5: but I'm being realistic to But you also have to
Speaker 5: look at what Jay Johnson did here in terms of
Speaker 5: getting to Oklahoma. Yeah, well, sorry, getting to Omaha and
Speaker 5: at least competing to be at that level.
Speaker 2: He wasn't here a long time. He wasn't here a whole.
Speaker 2: He got it in the in that window that he
Speaker 2: was here. But it's and that's kind of have to
Speaker 2: sustain that. The recruiting you got to you gotta get
Speaker 2: better at recruiting. Yeah, but then now you're then there's
Speaker 2: an I I get it. Yeah, there's more than's everything right,
Speaker 2: and and there's well we know this with baseball. There's
Speaker 2: players that are, hey, I'm going to go to the draft.
Speaker 2: Oh never mind, I'm not going to the universe. You
Speaker 2: still have to recruit those players.
Speaker 4: I hear you.
Speaker 2: I understand that. And everybody goes through that. Uh, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't I know as much as they
Speaker 2: are who they are, and they'll I've been here thirty
Speaker 2: seven years and nothing's really changed except that the attitude
Speaker 2: of the U of A is we're good and don't
Speaker 2: mess with us.
Speaker 5: You know you grew up watching it. Yeah, especially for basketball,
Speaker 5: the fan base a blue blood mentality. But you have
Speaker 5: the Final Fours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly you have a blue bit of me talenty.
Speaker 2: You have a doorman at the front. Uh, sorry, you're
Speaker 2: not on the list. Sorry, I don't care if became dressed, well,
Speaker 2: you're still not on the list. You're not going to
Speaker 2: get in that to make a final four since twenty twelve.
Speaker 4: Final four.
Speaker 5: I'm saying, at least make a final four twenty twelve
Speaker 5: and maybe you'll get into My point is you haven't
Speaker 5: done anything since.
Speaker 4: Two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: Hold are you thirty thirty thirty thirty five? I was six?
Speaker 2: You were six since that last time. A lot of
Speaker 2: things have changed since you were six. Your shoe size,
Speaker 2: your pants size, and your shirt size. Are you gonna
Speaker 2: go back to that weight when I was six?
Speaker 4: No? No, I hope not. My point, we have a
Speaker 4: lot of issues.
Speaker 7: Fight.
Speaker 4: I'll be calling in from the hospital if I go
Speaker 4: back to the size that.
Speaker 2: I was when I was saying, and I'm ranking, but
Speaker 2: I'm not because because everyzone is a fantastic place.
Speaker 4: I love this place.
Speaker 2: They've done a lot for they haven't done purposely a
Speaker 2: lot for me, But their success means my success. But
Speaker 2: you know the best. On a good day, I was seven.
Speaker 2: On a bad day, I'm a five.
Speaker 5: And that was my point when arizon A Football, you
Speaker 5: know if we do well, we're going to fill the stadium. Well,
Speaker 5: what is doing well in Arizona? Yeah, my fans correct,
Speaker 5: we start off five and oh I'll go I'll go
Speaker 5: watch them and they go five. Now sure, sure, sure,
Speaker 5: but you know the fan base. It's not a great
Speaker 5: fan base. No, and it's kind of worse throughout the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they have to get improvements at that place
Speaker 2: or thirteen.
Speaker 4: Uh uh.
Speaker 2: They gotta get improvements at that place to make things better.
Speaker 2: Because have you been as a fan. Have you come
Speaker 2: to football as a fan a.
Speaker 4: Long time ago?
Speaker 5: Yeah, just not recently, but you've heard the complaints. The sound,
Speaker 5: the seating, the seating, the toilets, okay, that and those
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Speaker 4: And then the food. That's so much.
Speaker 2: The food they've tried to improve with the sound, the seating,
Speaker 2: the accommodations, it's not it's not worthy if that's it's
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Speaker 4: Like again, going to the seatings.
Speaker 5: Most places, if you're gonna have the bleacher seats, have
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Speaker 4: You just have the bleacher seat. And for people that
Speaker 4: are sixty.
Speaker 5: Five and above going to these football games, they do
Speaker 5: the basketball games to have nothing supporting your back, you're
Speaker 5: not gonna last three four hours at a football game.
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Speaker 1: Steve now went five to two oh four seventy.
Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back to Ye in the Ball.
Speaker 2: Here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty, I'm Steve, your Troy,
Speaker 2: your Kobe, and just just in the Suns will continue
Speaker 2: to be five hundred Team Katie does not get traded.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're not gonna be worse that We're to
Speaker 4: do better.
Speaker 2: In the world of you What does that mean? They're
Speaker 2: not gonna make the I guess they'll make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: They'll make the playoffs and then and then what then bye?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: But what they did, what they did today, they traded
Speaker 5: out Nurkic nineteen million dollars on the cap, got rid
Speaker 5: of that contract, and now they'll be below the second apron.
Speaker 5: Gives them a little wiggle room. They got to trade
Speaker 5: Bradley Beal, get under the first apron, and then you'll
Speaker 5: be able to make some moves by.
Speaker 4: Right now, their handcut. You see the hat emory. The kitchen,
Speaker 4: the kitchen, you know what it is, right, it's a
Speaker 4: big term kitchen.
Speaker 2: I've never been in the kitchen and I've never worn
Speaker 2: an apron, so I don't know what the hell you're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 5: The second apron is like their their luxury tack. Honestly,
Speaker 5: I don't know what it is, but that's the term
Speaker 5: they use for them in terms of luxury attacks and whatnot.
Speaker 2: That's superfluous, and I have no idea how to spell that,
Speaker 2: So I just said the big words. We're using Apron, kitchen,
Speaker 2: superflo who gives it crap? Yeah, so they're not any good.
Speaker 2: It's were really weird because they've never really been that rever.
Speaker 2: It's rarely that they've been really good.
Speaker 5: I think it's they've been they've been very good, but
Speaker 5: it's rare that they're in that Emmy finals comment. They
Speaker 5: get to the Western Commons Finals and then something weird happens. Yeah,
Speaker 5: now the team beats them, a better team beats them.
Speaker 5: Steve Dashkin been thrown into the stands. I covered the three.
Speaker 2: I covered him ninety three with Bill Barkley, and then
Speaker 2: I spent the summer up there with with that team
Speaker 2: and the Chicago Bulls. It was a fantastic time. But
Speaker 2: and then that was the closest. And then they were
Speaker 2: in the finals.
Speaker 5: Two years ago, years ago and they were up four
Speaker 5: are up to gave us to nothing? How is DeAndre doing?
Speaker 5: Because Parlan has been on a streak here, they've been
Speaker 5: on a streak. He's been playing better. But it's the
Speaker 5: same old aid. And if you if you have him
Speaker 5: ramped up, he's gonna be great. But if he doesn't care.
Speaker 5: If he doesn't, it's gonna be awful. It's it's it's
Speaker 5: the biggest waste of talent I've seen. Maybe Theraver come
Speaker 5: out of Arizona. Really m I'll say that is a
Speaker 5: better Suns fan. I don't care, no, no, no, I
Speaker 5: get it.
Speaker 4: But he was that.
Speaker 2: I mean he was a good player, which what you mean.
Speaker 2: I say this all the time. If I had a
Speaker 2: chance to pick between marketing and Aden, I'm picking marketing
Speaker 2: ten out of ten.
Speaker 4: The thing.
Speaker 5: The thing with Aden, I think he is one of
Speaker 5: the most talented players everyone has ever had. When you
Speaker 5: have a seven footer, be able to go coast to coast,
Speaker 5: finish at the round, play excellent defense, do everything skill
Speaker 5: set wise phenomenally in the low post, you have the
Speaker 5: talent to be a.
Speaker 4: I came Elijah Wan talent.
Speaker 5: But if you don't have the motor, if you don't care,
Speaker 5: if you're fin making the money, you're not gonna be.
Speaker 2: Better than know And that that's half the battle of
Speaker 2: being good. I mean you have to have that mindset.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what makes that's what separates it good
Speaker 2: from the bad or the people who make it and
Speaker 2: don't make it and that's in life too. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: you know those people you've seen him. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: at the age now where I'm kind of one not
Speaker 2: on the up swing. I'm on the downswing. And we
Speaker 2: were talking about people off the air, and you know, hey,
Speaker 2: if I have a good show in the house, doesn't burn,
Speaker 2: I'm good baby.
Speaker 4: You're not trying to make it to you.
Speaker 2: You know, that would just give me more crap to
Speaker 2: deal with.
Speaker 4: Either what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I mean, I want to write this out for another
Speaker 2: few years and try to do the best job I can,
Speaker 2: But I ain't worried about putting my name on Twitter.
Speaker 2: You know, this is what I hate today. Who cares?
Speaker 7: Yeh?
Speaker 4: No, I agree. So I asked you about Nolah fa Fida.
Speaker 4: Yeah okay, yeah, give me the question again. So make
Speaker 4: it tough on me because I'm I'm not thinking.
Speaker 5: Okay, So this upcoming season, yeah, my favors in a
Speaker 5: football how important is this season for Noah?
Speaker 2: Like yeah, okay, I don't know, because I don't know
Speaker 2: what he's he's thinking or his legacy. But will he
Speaker 2: end up If he does really well, he could be
Speaker 2: he could be one of the one of the greats
Speaker 2: And I could even tell you who's the greatest quarterback
Speaker 2: here ever?
Speaker 4: Did he? What did he do? What's his resume show.
Speaker 5: Here in terms of stats very well, but in terms
Speaker 5: of when his losses not very well. Okay, So what's
Speaker 5: his legacy?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: Because we're talking you a football, right, so you talk
Speaker 4: legacy here?
Speaker 2: What does it matter? I mean, he's the best quarterback
Speaker 2: you ever? Probably not, but.
Speaker 5: It's hard to say here who's who's whose legacies are important?
Speaker 4: Are important? Here?
Speaker 2: You know Ricky players, Ricky Chuck, Teddy Bruski. Okay, now
Speaker 2: to right right? And I thought he'd be the best
Speaker 2: player ever here and in his season didn't didn't but
Speaker 2: that was no fault of his own.
Speaker 4: But still I still think he probably is the best player.
Speaker 5: Probably all time, probably, but given his stats not so
Speaker 5: much because it wasn't his fault, it was just a circumstance.
Speaker 5: So his legacy for Freedo, I don't know, Troy, because
Speaker 5: what does it matter? Probably doesn't matter to him. He
Speaker 5: just wants to win, yeah, and do really well. He's me,
Speaker 5: He's me just as a twenty one year old in
Speaker 5: a different situation.
Speaker 2: I just want to win. But you know, don't bother me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: What I mean is you have that phenomenal breakout yet Yeah,
Speaker 5: then you had this.
Speaker 10: That's fine.
Speaker 4: Let me say something that was by accident. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: would not have happened had Ben Dolora stayed healthy and Fish.
Speaker 2: Would have finally just said okay, let's go.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, and that's not on t Feeda, that's on
Speaker 5: Fish one hundred. But he had that year. Then he
Speaker 5: has the down year with a lot of offensive issues
Speaker 5: that were out of his control and somewhere in his control.
Speaker 5: But you chose Arizona again. You chose Arizona when Fish left,
Speaker 5: I'm going to come back. You have this horrible year
Speaker 5: with a new coaching staff, forward and very easy to
Speaker 5: leave to another place. I don't know if he's getting
Speaker 5: in the nil at other places that he could have
Speaker 5: gotten when he first originally left. Maybe, but he chose
Speaker 5: Arizona again.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So now if you have a good year, let's say
Speaker 5: they get seven eight wins, but he has a statistically
Speaker 5: good year in terms of one of the more beloved,
Speaker 5: beloved players in Arizon history.
Speaker 2: Well, let me say this, okay, Yeah, and he's recognizable, right,
Speaker 2: if you see him and he's on TV enough. He's
Speaker 2: not a typical looking football player. I do think that
Speaker 2: when he comes back, he comes back to visit or whatever,
Speaker 2: maybe you'll stay here, that he won't have to buy
Speaker 2: a beer if he ever wants wants one. You know,
Speaker 2: there's very few of those people that can do that.
Speaker 2: You know, he Steaker, Sean, Sean Elliott, those types of guys. Oh, hello,
Speaker 2: I stay, tell me, don't worry about it. Probably, but
Speaker 2: we don't know until we know who recently anybody recently
Speaker 2: like that Gronk, there's your one guy Bruski Bruski, and
Speaker 2: that they're visible because they're on TV. If they weren't
Speaker 2: on TV, who are you?
Speaker 4: You look? You look familiar and well McMillan very quiet. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Not Ankerson, No.
Speaker 2: And he had he had a pretty good little run
Speaker 2: until he didn't and then now and now he's gone. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know what I'm saying, Legacy in football is
Speaker 2: totally different than basketball.
Speaker 10: It is.
Speaker 2: And they're not visible, they're not you can't see him
Speaker 2: through the helmet. You kind of know him in the
Speaker 2: media a little.
Speaker 4: I don't know. He could be one of the top
Speaker 4: twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, even though he's the quarterback, which he should
Speaker 2: be higher. You bet, we'll see when we see it,
Speaker 2: and and and and maybe that's a question we asked,
Speaker 2: when we see him in spring or in the fall.
Speaker 2: What do you hope your legacy would be? M h
Speaker 2: I think you know what. I think his actual would
Speaker 2: be putting Arizona football back on the map.
Speaker 4: Building a foundation stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, and that would be a pretty good found
Speaker 2: That would be a pretty good legacy because who's done that.
Speaker 3: They have a cot T at number two and Nick
Speaker 3: Foles at one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and seeing to me he's not a top five quarterback, Well,
Speaker 5: who's that?
Speaker 3: Where'd you get that from? Ranker a website?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I know that one.
Speaker 5: And it's kind of like some dude who I could
Speaker 5: sit here and I could rank Yeah, that's why I
Speaker 5: kind of who's the source? Yeah, so Dick falls.
Speaker 2: I think Nick Foles because of his name and his
Speaker 2: NFL stuff, not because of here, but Nikolil Okay, but
Speaker 2: he too got accidentally put in that situation.
Speaker 5: You know, someone had to get hurt and it didn't
Speaker 5: last No, no, it was to be honest, it was
Speaker 5: a flash in the band.
Speaker 3: Right, right, So the some twelve year olds wrote that, yeah, Tom,
Speaker 3: Yeah doesn't does Yeah.
Speaker 4: And he's probably and he's been on the show a
Speaker 4: number of times.
Speaker 2: He's smith these guys, and these guys are way older
Speaker 2: now and and they had they had good runs, great runs.
Speaker 2: Not not like Khalil, but Khalil's was, like you said,
Speaker 2: it was a candle in the wind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, you know who you know who? Everybody forgets
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 5: Will to Thomas Scott. That's Scott, that's Scott. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean Willy. He held all the records before n
Speaker 5: Foles came around.
Speaker 4: Ye'll tell you talk about Willie? What about? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I know if it wasn't her can cushions and his injuries,
Speaker 5: his I mean his like his what's rich Ron's what's
Speaker 5: rich rods? I think I think the fan base loves them. Okay,
Speaker 5: so hold on, just think this call. This might be
Speaker 5: a good call.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: Hello, you're on the air and eye the ball?
Speaker 8: Hey, what's up? Man's team money?
Speaker 4: Give me some history, Man, give me some history.
Speaker 12: Hey where I come from?
Speaker 8: Rancor means something else?
Speaker 4: Do you want to have to tell me off the air?
Speaker 4: I'm too old to understand.
Speaker 8: He's a head ranker a website, you know what.
Speaker 18: Uh As far as Teddy Bruce though goes back in
Speaker 18: the day, I mean, dude was a d N.
Speaker 8: But he was like the face of football and for.
Speaker 4: A long time, right, for a long time. That's kind
Speaker 4: of still is.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, he and yeah I think he still is.
Speaker 8: To me, he still is.
Speaker 18: Khalil Tate is a flash in the pan. But as
Speaker 18: far as like Teddy was here for four years, yeah,
Speaker 18: four years, and like like we didn't see it and
Speaker 18: I was a kid, but I mean we didn't see it, like, oh,
Speaker 18: this dude's a d N. Like we didn't even think
Speaker 18: about that. We just had Teddy Bruski is you have
Speaker 18: a football. But as far as uh Fafita's legacy, I
Speaker 18: think he is very much poised if Brett Brennan doesn't
Speaker 18: screw it up to fa' that's what kind of hurt
Speaker 18: everybody's heart last year, Fia and Mac were poised to
Speaker 18: do something special and then you know we had the
Speaker 18: most un underwhelming coaching stuff of all time for it.
Speaker 18: But yeah, I don't that's a hard list to make
Speaker 18: because it is you have a football.
Speaker 8: But yeah, bruce Ki to me is number one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, would't you put up well, in today's world, probably
Speaker 2: Grounk number two because of everyone's visible and active and
Speaker 2: not because of what they did here, but what they
Speaker 2: did afterwards.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, it would be because what he did afterward.
Speaker 8: When he was here. People, you know, revision is history
Speaker 8: takes control of you.
Speaker 18: Gotta remember when he was here, he was like the
Speaker 18: you know, squandered. Uh yeah, you know, people are like,
Speaker 18: oh man, like whoo yeah, who this guy's getting?
Speaker 8: You know, Okay, the Patriots picked him up, who cares?
Speaker 18: And then all of a sudden, you know, he becomes
Speaker 18: he becomes Gronk. But yeah, well he was here, even
Speaker 18: Nick Foles, even Nick Foles, I mean, we were like, wow,
Speaker 18: this guy, we finally got a real quarterback, and we
Speaker 18: thought he was gonna take it to the Promised Land.
Speaker 18: And and even then, yeah, you know that that smacked
Speaker 18: down by Nebraska thirty to nothing in the Holiday Bowl,
Speaker 18: the second one, the one that we lost.
Speaker 8: But yeah, and then he goes to the NFL and wins
Speaker 8: the Super Bowl.
Speaker 18: So I think, uh, but yeah, Bruceki gronk Folds. Those
Speaker 18: guys are are right up in there, and uh and.
Speaker 4: That's I think.
Speaker 2: And that's again not that's not you A related, that's
Speaker 2: NFL related.
Speaker 18: Well, I think the thing with Bruski though, it is
Speaker 18: u A related.
Speaker 8: So he has both. He has the u of a
Speaker 8: career to back it up, and he has the NFL career.
Speaker 2: So okay, so let's let's say specific you of a history,
Speaker 2: Ricky Chuck Bruski.
Speaker 4: I'm just throwing names out.
Speaker 2: I'm not putting a list of uh and and who
Speaker 2: else in the top five and where do they arrange?
Speaker 18: Wow, that's a that's a great question, because Chuck Chuck
Speaker 18: is uh, you know, a demi god around here. That
Speaker 18: play they they could show that play on the jumbo
Speaker 18: Tron every game and we lose our minds.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm like four years old than that happened.
Speaker 18: I could still tell you what happened on that play,
Speaker 18: you know, I think Brandon Sanders to me, is in there.
Speaker 17: You know.
Speaker 8: Then we start getting in the weeds, you know, with certain.
Speaker 18: Guys like to me, I would just be like, hey,
Speaker 18: Richard Dice, and no one knows.
Speaker 4: Who Richard, Daryl Lewis, darl Lewis.
Speaker 18: Darryl Lewis, Mikelster, there's another guy.
Speaker 8: But to the NFL career and the college career to
Speaker 8: back it up.
Speaker 18: Trunk candidate Antoine Kayson Trunk candidate, Uh, Antoine Carter.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 4: So that's the list.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the list that you put together and say, okay,
Speaker 2: and then you can argue who goes three, four, four,
Speaker 2: five and all that stuff.
Speaker 18: And Kadeem is on a on a kind of different
Speaker 18: level because he's a locally the tou song kid as well.
Speaker 18: Who you know, we got a bunch of linebackers in
Speaker 18: the league that uh, I'm drawn John Blanks here, but
Speaker 18: you know, a bunch of guys came out and came
Speaker 18: out of U of A and and uh had solid
Speaker 18: NFL careers at linebacker.
Speaker 4: Man Spriggs. Ye, who's who's the kid? Said?
Speaker 2: Anthony just did Elmore the class with you know recruit Yeah,
Speaker 2: some of those guys.
Speaker 18: Yeah, they didn't poet fo two come through here and
Speaker 18: he played with Cardins like that kind of thing.
Speaker 8: But they're there are just certain.
Speaker 18: Personalities, certain players that really took over the narrative and
Speaker 18: and for good reason.
Speaker 8: And I think Teddy Bruski is at the.
Speaker 7: Top of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think so too well.
Speaker 5: And he really embodied what Arizona football was back in
Speaker 5: the nineties, has football. We're gonna snap you in the mouth,
Speaker 5: best defensive prom probably of that era.
Speaker 4: Yeah, by Pac twelve net.
Speaker 18: We're probably the only good thing that network ever did.
Speaker 18: But it was on h Teddy Bruce Ki and it
Speaker 18: kind of got inside of his head, and it's basically,
Speaker 18: everybody disrespects us, everybody doesn't like us, and we're.
Speaker 8: Gonna we're gonna screw everybody.
Speaker 5: Which was great, I mean to right there is it? Well,
Speaker 5: isn't that Arizona in a nutshell? Any sport that disrestort this,
Speaker 5: We're gonna show you who we are and we'll win
Speaker 5: the title in ninety seven.
Speaker 4: Kind of.
Speaker 2: Team money real quick. I don't ask questions of college.
Speaker 2: Could I ask you what you do for a living?
Speaker 2: And I asked for a reason.
Speaker 10: I do?
Speaker 7: I do.
Speaker 8: I've done many, many things, very eclectic.
Speaker 5: Okay, you for money and some for note Okay, no,
Speaker 5: because you can have some good insight.
Speaker 4: I'm just thinking, you know, what are you doing?
Speaker 18: Yeah? No, I mean I probably have if you want
Speaker 18: to put it this way, humble bragger, I probably have
Speaker 18: spoken to as many people as you half through the media,
Speaker 18: just indifferent I know newer fast.
Speaker 2: Well, I know, could you cheat on me with the
Speaker 2: other guys when you call and I hear your voice?
Speaker 8: No, no, no, I mean not that as far as
Speaker 8: my own content.
Speaker 18: Okay, okay, that kind of thing, but uh, you know
Speaker 18: the internet, okay, but that kind of uh.
Speaker 8: But no, I mean I've been a UFA.
Speaker 18: Fan since since day one, really, and we've moved back
Speaker 18: when I was in middle school, and that was right
Speaker 18: right after the Fiesta Bowl and that was the beginning
Speaker 18: of the you know, national championship run and stuff like. So,
Speaker 18: I mean that was just man, that was a great
Speaker 18: time to be here.
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Speaker 1: This is I on the ball with Steve Rovera on
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Win the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Roberta. You're Troy Htchison and
Speaker 2: now in Fune we have Ben John's the I Guess
Speaker 2: the number two, number two player in Pick the Ball
Speaker 2: and number one player in doubles along. Is your brother
Speaker 2: your partner?
Speaker 20: Hey, guys, Yes, I've played with calling my older brother
Speaker 20: for many years. Got a different partner this term, but
Speaker 20: he's been my my frequent partner for a long time.
Speaker 4: So welcome to Tucson. Is this your first time in
Speaker 4: southern Arizona?
Speaker 21: It sure is.
Speaker 20: I've been to Phoenix in the Scottsdale area good and out,
Speaker 20: but my first time over here in Tucson in the
Speaker 20: surrounding area. But it's been a good experience so far.
Speaker 20: I got a nice club that we're playing our tournament
Speaker 20: as so yeah, it's been great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 2: I saw your your University of Maryland guy, you grew
Speaker 2: up in that area. How in the world you're I
Speaker 2: think you're twenty five, twenty six How did you become
Speaker 2: How did you become who you became?
Speaker 20: Yeah, no, it's a funny story, just like most people
Speaker 20: will play pickball usually have a funny story. But I
Speaker 20: was actually in Florida near Naples, where the US Open
Speaker 20: was held, and my family lived down there for part
Speaker 20: of the year, So I actually did not learn the
Speaker 20: game in Maryland, even though I'm from there. I learned
Speaker 20: it in Florida, and I was lucky enough to be
Speaker 20: close to the first US Open that was ever held
Speaker 20: in twenty sixteen, So yeah, I found some cool people,
Speaker 20: played with them, and then played my first tournament, the
Speaker 20: US Open, and then I was pretty much hooked from
Speaker 20: there and I kept playing tournaments, not really for money
Speaker 20: or anything, just more for fun, and you know, it
Speaker 20: was having a great time playing. I did go to
Speaker 20: the University of Maryland, but kept competing in pickleball as
Speaker 20: I was doing that, and you know, pickleball kind of
Speaker 20: exploded in the time that I was in college, and
Speaker 20: with me continuing to play, the success was just kind
Speaker 20: of a bit lucky and the fortunate that I found it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, you kind of mentioned that there was
Speaker 5: you being in college and the sport exploding and growing
Speaker 5: into what it has become today. Just your thoughts on
Speaker 5: how it has grown since then.
Speaker 21: Yeah, no, for sure, I mean everyone comments on it.
Speaker 7: It's just incredible.
Speaker 20: It feels like, you know, five six years ago, people
Speaker 20: didn't even know what pickaball was. You know, you'd say it,
Speaker 20: you'd get a blank look like what is that? Or
Speaker 20: if they didn't know what it was, like I never
Speaker 20: retired people. Yeah, no, it's changed drastically. Usually you get
Speaker 20: a lot of enthusiasm. Is like either oh my gosh,
Speaker 20: I played, I love it too and it's amazing, or like, oh,
Speaker 20: I have some friends that are really into it.
Speaker 7: I was thinking about starting.
Speaker 20: You know, you get replies like that, and you know,
Speaker 20: it's less uh, the stigma of it's for old people.
Speaker 21: It's more like, oh, well, it's a sport for everybody.
Speaker 20: It's old, it's young, it's uh, middle aged, it's athletes,
Speaker 20: non athletes. It can be really anyone from anywhere, which
Speaker 20: I think is one of the coolest parts about pickaball
Speaker 20: that just.
Speaker 7: Made it so popular. You truly a sport for everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you talked about you guys were playing as a
Speaker 2: two racket for this club, which is you know, I
Speaker 2: hadn't been there in a while. It's a fantastic venue.
Speaker 2: And you know that I got there and I was
Speaker 2: watching you guys. I sit home my achilles. I started
Speaker 2: hurt just watching you guys, And you know what I
Speaker 2: remember seeing is just, you know, it's the danks and
Speaker 2: the dunks and the slow hits and blah blah blah
Speaker 2: kind of people not wanting to make mistakes. And then
Speaker 2: I see you guys are just hitting the crap out
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 20: Yeah, well pick a Ball is definitely a slow game
Speaker 20: in some scenarios, in a very fast game and others.
Speaker 20: So yeah, it's it's very dynamic. There's a lot of
Speaker 20: strategy to it, and I think one part about it
Speaker 20: that makes people really enjoy the game is that that
Speaker 20: dynamic of going from slow to fast very suddenly.
Speaker 2: Before Troy asked the question, So I went to the
Speaker 2: event and I was hoping to run into you, and
Speaker 2: I did, thanks thanks to Allison and uh so I
Speaker 2: put you on on our website and all that stuff
Speaker 2: for social and then people kind of blew up the
Speaker 2: social saying that's a heck of a get. And let
Speaker 2: me tell you, Ben, I've had some great guests, pros, NFL,
Speaker 2: major League ballplayers, and I think, Ben, you've made me popular.
Speaker 21: Well, I'm glad I could assist.
Speaker 20: It was fortunate to meet you there right right at
Speaker 20: the entrance too. You were like the first person I
Speaker 20: ran into.
Speaker 7: And talked to.
Speaker 4: It was unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, so go ahead say no, I was,
Speaker 5: you know, just going to ask you in terms of
Speaker 5: the speed and all that, but also how important are
Speaker 5: angles when it comes to pick a bat. Yeah, strategy
Speaker 5: and strategy and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, it's it's enormous.
Speaker 20: I think most people are more familiar in uh, in pickball,
Speaker 20: playing doubles and that, I'd say strategy and shot selection.
Speaker 20: I mean, of course you need a foundation of you
Speaker 20: have to be able to complete, you know, strokes and
Speaker 20: actually have shots in order to have strategy. But the
Speaker 20: strategy of shot selection is one of the biggest parts
Speaker 20: about pick of ball that makes it very fun for people.
Speaker 21: I think a lot of people, you know, call it
Speaker 21: kind of like.
Speaker 20: A patience game in a lot of ways, And that's
Speaker 20: really just another word for you know, selecting the appropriate
Speaker 20: shot of the appropriate time, so kind of engaging your
Speaker 20: mind at the same time as being, you know, a
Speaker 20: normal sport and athleticism. It's a nice little accommodation there.
Speaker 20: As for kind of angles, I think angles are definitely
Speaker 20: pretty huge, certainly for putting balls away, for understanding kind
Speaker 20: of the angles of the court, where you can attack,
Speaker 20: to where you shouldn't attack, to where attacks are mostly
Speaker 20: going to come from on the court, and where you
Speaker 20: need to be covering. Those are all huge parts of
Speaker 20: the game, and certainly a part that a lot of
Speaker 20: people struggle with, but it's one of the more rewarding
Speaker 20: parts to get down to.
Speaker 7: The angles play a huge role.
Speaker 20: Just like most racket sports, tennis, table tennis, you know,
Speaker 20: angles are definitely extremely important.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you about that because I
Speaker 2: saw that you played table tennis as a younger player.
Speaker 4: I guess I played. I played.
Speaker 2: I was about at the top of my game, about
Speaker 2: thirteen fifty rated. Now it's kind of change. I haven't
Speaker 2: played in a while. But is there the translation translation
Speaker 2: the same? And I don't hold the paddle that way
Speaker 2: as a as a big a ball player, But is
Speaker 2: it the same?
Speaker 20: You know, it's pickleball's accommodation of a lot of sports.
Speaker 20: I think pretty much all the racket sports have some translation,
Speaker 20: but not an entire translation to pick a ball, and
Speaker 20: even non racket sports has some interesting translation. I've met,
Speaker 20: you know, like some very good baseball pitchers to have
Speaker 20: enormous overheads and very good ball tracking, and you know,
Speaker 20: maybe they struggle in other ways.
Speaker 21: But every sport kind of has.
Speaker 20: Something to offer in terms of a background that transfers
Speaker 20: to pickaball in one way or another. Table tennis is
Speaker 20: certainly a good one. I think there's a ton of
Speaker 20: transfers in stroke development for certain types of shots, and
Speaker 20: pickball certainly a lot of reading of spin, reading of strokes,
Speaker 20: peripheral vision stuff, all of that is very transferable. So
Speaker 20: it's definitely one of the best background sports along with tennis.
Speaker 20: I think table tennis is extremely beneficial for pigball players.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you, so you how quickly
Speaker 2: did you become this guy? If you were like sixteen
Speaker 2: seventeen when you first picked it up, and you must
Speaker 2: have been very good at it early, but let me
Speaker 2: see this that question, and how long it took you
Speaker 2: to get to be who you are? But so now
Speaker 2: you are one or two the best in the country,
Speaker 2: in the country, if not the world. How do you
Speaker 2: stay there? Because you know, in order to get better,
Speaker 2: you've got to play better people. Right, you can compete
Speaker 2: and you will get better. You compete better now that
Speaker 2: you were at the top. How difficult is it staying
Speaker 2: at that top?
Speaker 20: Yeah, I would say first, as far as getting there,
Speaker 20: you know, really the Pro Tour has only been around
Speaker 20: since twenty twenty, So for the first couple of years
Speaker 20: I played, it was really just playing kind of solo
Speaker 20: events which were still technically pro tournaments, but they weren't
Speaker 20: part of a tour. They were just kind of individual
Speaker 20: events to get to, you know, the top level where
Speaker 20: I was competing for titles and stuff. My first title,
Speaker 20: major title, came in twenty seventeen, about a year after
Speaker 20: I started, so that's how long it took me to
Speaker 20: get to the top. In singles and doubles took a
Speaker 20: little longer than that. But the start of the Pro
Speaker 20: Tour was really where there was a little more formality
Speaker 20: to it, a little more kind of ranking based stuff,
Speaker 20: to where I kind of took over that position. So
Speaker 20: I guess you could say since the inception of the
Speaker 20: Pro Tour in twenty twenty or a little before that
Speaker 20: is kind of how long it took me. But you know,
Speaker 20: there's there's a lot of good players and you know
Speaker 20: always coming in, so there's always stuff to work on,
Speaker 20: and that's kind of the park your next question, which
Speaker 20: is you know, staying there, it's it's not always about
Speaker 20: playing with better players. That's certainly extremely helpful and helped
Speaker 20: me a lot in the beginning, but it's also about
Speaker 20: learning from what other players, whether they're technically better than
Speaker 20: you or not, you can almost always find stuff that
Speaker 20: they are better than you at within the game, right
Speaker 20: You're not just because you're better than somebody doesn't mean
Speaker 20: you're better at everything in the game than them.
Speaker 21: It just means on average, you're better than them, and
Speaker 21: you know your skills.
Speaker 20: So usually from every single player, there's something that they do,
Speaker 20: maybe one, two three things extraordinarily well that you can
Speaker 20: learn from and try to make better in your own games.
Speaker 20: So I just kind of try to pick out other
Speaker 20: stuff that that other.
Speaker 21: Players do really well, and I try to learn from that.
Speaker 5: So I don't know how familiar you are with Arizona
Speaker 5: basketball and their head coach, Tommy Lloyd, but Tommy is
Speaker 5: a big, big pickleball fan. He had a built one
Speaker 5: court built in his backyard. Have you ever had other athletes,
Speaker 5: coaches or anything like that, you know, let me challenge
Speaker 5: you on the court, and how is that going?
Speaker 21: Yeah, yeah, no, they definitely.
Speaker 20: I think pickaball is very interesting in that when you
Speaker 20: have athletes that play it, they typically like it a
Speaker 20: lot because it's a support they can play someone competitively
Speaker 20: outside the sport that they predominantly.
Speaker 7: Do, and they can also compete with each other in it.
Speaker 20: Right, So rather than you know, two basketball players going
Speaker 20: head on or even like to inter disciplinary sports where
Speaker 20: it's you know, a basketball player versus a baseball player,
Speaker 20: they find something in common that they can compete at, right,
Speaker 20: like pick a ball, to where it's extremely fun for them.
Speaker 20: So yeah, I know that's definitely happened on a number
Speaker 20: of occasions with a lot of different athletes, and you know,
Speaker 20: they definitely enjoy it and they respect pickaball is like, hey,
Speaker 20: it's got its own pros and I don't expect to do, you.
Speaker 21: Know, super well against a guy that played full time.
Speaker 20: For his job, but I think they definitely enjoy it
Speaker 20: a lot, just because pickleball is a very fun game
Speaker 20: to play with better players.
Speaker 4: So maybe last question. I've been here a long time.
Speaker 2: I've been covered a lot of people, a lot of
Speaker 2: famous name Steve Kerr, YadA, YadA, Uh and uh, he
Speaker 2: was on the show maybe six months ago. I said,
Speaker 2: you know, I've always wanted to be Steve Kerr for
Speaker 2: a weekend, but then I have to deal with all
Speaker 2: the crap that he has to deal with, right, all
Speaker 2: the players. And then I saw how you travel, and
Speaker 2: then you're you're a young dude, probably haven't made and
Speaker 2: I think, I think I want to be bench.
Speaker 4: On's for a weekend. What a life?
Speaker 20: Yeah, no, it's it's definitely a very interesting life. You know,
Speaker 20: the travel can get wearing. It's a very full schedule,
Speaker 20: but I try to keep it in perspective of you know,
Speaker 20: I get to go a lot of cool places, meet
Speaker 20: a lot of cool people, and I get to compete
Speaker 20: in a wonderful game for a living, which is pretty awesome.
Speaker 20: So there's there's so many potters. It's positives in it.
Speaker 20: And yeah there's there's you know, still training and you're
Speaker 20: you're trying to get better every day, which can be
Speaker 20: hard work, but it's also very rewarding.
Speaker 21: So yeah, a day in my life is hectic and
Speaker 21: busy and crazy, but it's also really fun.
Speaker 2: No, I know, I'll be prepared for a lot of
Speaker 2: selfies obviously, And good luck. Did you already play your
Speaker 2: first matches today? First one tomorrow, first one tomorrow? Okay,
Speaker 2: good luck. I will probably see the weekend and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, enjoy it.
Speaker 7: You enjoy the weather, all right, Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: Thank you man, thanks for coming on. That's fun. That's fun,
Speaker 2: all right, good stuff, John. I think I even try
Speaker 2: to reach out to Tommy and says, why.
Speaker 4: Aren't you here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's a great venue. They built it up,
Speaker 2: looks nice. A lot of people there, some of the
Speaker 2: best pickleball players in the in the world here.
Speaker 4: No, you know, they do a great job. Yeah.
Speaker 2: This motor home that's like probably twice the size of
Speaker 2: twice my worth of my house is great, credible. And
Speaker 2: then there's an eighteen year old, the best female person
Speaker 2: playing and you've seen her motorhorn. Was like, holy crap,
Speaker 2: I said, I missed out. Should should have been a
Speaker 2: pick a ball player, Like I say, now, my my
Speaker 2: ankles would just be toast. Could you just hit it
Speaker 2: to me directly? Don't make me move here? That's why
Speaker 2: I played people on the way I play. I play
Speaker 2: on top of the table pretty much on top of it,
Speaker 2: and then don't side to side and play defense a lot.
Speaker 4: So you know, those are the good old days. How
Speaker 4: much time we have?
Speaker 2: We got about three We got a minute, about a minute. Okay,
Speaker 2: what a good show. Thanks for Troy for coming on.
Speaker 2: Don't forget tomorrow, Jay and I are gonna be at
Speaker 2: the casino. They'll sold three to five. We're gonna have
Speaker 2: Ricky Huntley in the first hour. We're gonna have Glenn
Speaker 2: Parker in the second hour. They're gonna be via phone.
Speaker 2: I think that I know that Ricky's gonna be at
Speaker 2: the New Orleans the super Bowl, so he's out there already,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if Glenn's gonna be out there,
Speaker 2: but he's gonna be on the phone. So a lot
Speaker 2: of super Bowl talk, one of UA talk for Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: And I'll have Goofy Jay on with me as well,
Speaker 2: so we might get a fight or too. So okay,
Speaker 2: thanks Troy, and thanks Troy, and thanks Kobe.