Speaker 1: Kind of knew that. It's funny. I talked about this
Speaker 1: yesterday with coach Gonzales, talking about trying to keep players
Speaker 1: and hoping not to lose players. Isaiah Johnson was one
Speaker 1: of the guys. They mentioned that he had really had
Speaker 1: a good spring. Well now goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can these guys find places like so quickly
Speaker 2: now too well?
Speaker 1: I think to your point, if you can remember what
Speaker 1: Goldman Goodman said real quick, if you remember some of
Speaker 1: the numbers basketball, but still this is that, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you the significance of the transfer. Three thousand, four thousand
Speaker 1: people in the portal, then there's two thousand left. What
Speaker 1: happens when they're not picked up, right.
Speaker 2: That's what happens is exactly their careers might be over.
Speaker 2: They got nowhere to go, or they got to to
Speaker 2: try to walk on someplace. It's it's really everything's kind
Speaker 2: of in disarray, sure not organized.
Speaker 1: You might think you're a pretty good player, but it's
Speaker 1: not about you thinking that. It's about the team trying
Speaker 1: to get you to go play with them or for them.
Speaker 3: Duke's Cooper flag confirms he's entering the NBA Draft.
Speaker 1: That was yesterday. I think they're trying to get somebody
Speaker 1: from cal or. Some people were talking about maybe the
Speaker 1: cow Cow guy would be a good fit at Duke.
Speaker 2: At Duke, yeah, guard, all the three of those great
Speaker 2: freshmen are gone, gone, right, So and there's one more right,
Speaker 2: the one from Africa. I'm not sure what he's gonna do,
Speaker 2: the big guy. Yeah, so I don't know. That's you know,
Speaker 2: that's called basketball. In twenty twenty five, Santo, where's where
Speaker 2: do you think Cooper Flag is gonna wind up?
Speaker 1: Yeah? He's gonna be the number one lottery thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, top three odds are New Orleans, Washington and Charlotte,
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it goes back to Duke. He pulls Johnny Alway,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go play there.
Speaker 2: Telling me he's not you know what's he gonna get?
Speaker 2: They said, who was was I listening to yesterday? Something
Speaker 2: like you know his nil number could be around eleven million?
Speaker 1: Oh if you went back and yeah, Well the funny
Speaker 1: thing that's funny because you get it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The funny thing about it is there's somebody either putbore
Speaker 1: or basketball. Maybe there's football. There's going to pay about
Speaker 1: three million dollars and I'm thinking, what's the point You've
Speaker 1: been going to the NFL at all three million? Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you especially just because you know, do you want
Speaker 1: to go to class? You know, but you've been in
Speaker 1: this basin alone time? Are you? I don't know? Are
Speaker 1: you okay with it? Are you comfortable with all this
Speaker 1: stuff going on? I mean, it's not that I'm indifferent.
Speaker 1: I'm like, holy crap, this is what our world has
Speaker 1: come to, and I'm not sure I feel good about it.
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad about it, but I don't feel
Speaker 1: good about it. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know either. I guess we just have to kind
Speaker 1: of experience it for a couple of years and see
Speaker 1: how we can evaluate it.
Speaker 2: Because it's also new with this, especially with the huge
Speaker 2: money and the money they're going to be getting right
Speaker 2: off this, you know, this house agreement, and on top
Speaker 2: of that with Nil, you know, his rookie contract is
Speaker 2: going to probably I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: I forget what it's slotted.
Speaker 2: It's going to be huge, but seriously, he could probably
Speaker 2: get something similar if he wants to stay in college
Speaker 2: for another year.
Speaker 5: Who knows.
Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards find fifty k for language gesture towards fan.
Speaker 1: I saw that, Did you see that? It was kind
Speaker 1: of it was it was guys being stupid with the fans.
Speaker 1: I get the fans who are paying in the ass. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what he did was probably uncalled for fifty five
Speaker 1: bucks to you and me.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So they played tonight, right, so they're playing the Lakers. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: the Lakers. That was kind of a rough performance.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know. They need to win that obviously
Speaker 1: to stay in the series.
Speaker 3: After fielding trade offers, Titans say they'll pick at number one.
Speaker 2: Okay, cam Ward h most likely the quarterback from Miami
Speaker 2: used to be at Wazoo, Right.
Speaker 5: That's the guy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The Cleveland Browns and New York Giants are fielding trade
Speaker 3: in choirs for their early picks in the NFL Draft.
Speaker 3: They're lurking at offers.
Speaker 1: Where do they pick? I know the Giants are pretty
Speaker 1: high up.
Speaker 3: There, right, two and three?
Speaker 1: I believe, Yeah, good luck with that. The Giants have
Speaker 1: been a disaster and they're coaching GM or this is
Speaker 1: there talking about being on the hotspot. So funny think
Speaker 1: about it is these teams that don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of success, there's a reason. They're just consistently bad, made
Speaker 1: bad decisions. The Giants, there's a there's you can just
Speaker 1: name a few of them.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys had a chance here,
Speaker 2: if you even watch these things, Like Hard Knocks. Off
Speaker 2: season was last year, so they did like a week,
Speaker 2: they did maybe a month of shows, and they did
Speaker 2: the Giants and they were you know, it was kind
Speaker 2: of fun to watch it because it was all leading
Speaker 2: up to the draft.
Speaker 1: It was the Barkley stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the trade and literally being traded on
Speaker 2: this show. It was pretty cool to watch that. And
Speaker 2: you know, well, okay, you know the owner, uh, one
Speaker 2: of the Mara guys, uh, you know that family has
Speaker 2: owned the team for one hundred years, and he was,
Speaker 2: you know, just contemplating, like, guys, just can't believe we're
Speaker 2: doing this and we're getting rid of you know, our
Speaker 2: most popular player and d D and they all make
Speaker 2: all these okay, let's just do it. Yeah, he goes
Speaker 2: and wins MVP and Super Bowl. But it was it
Speaker 2: was strange. I mean, they seemed like they knew what
Speaker 2: they were doing all they It was kind of cool
Speaker 2: that you could watch their because I'm sure this is
Speaker 2: all going on now. They're you know, all the scouts
Speaker 2: are talking to each other and they're trying to figure
Speaker 2: out we make a trade do we.
Speaker 1: Are we going to get what I've learned in this
Speaker 1: whole business after thirty forty years of doing this. Just
Speaker 1: because you have a lot of money doesn't mean you're smarter.
Speaker 2: What you do, right, especially at that though, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: there's these are the richest people in the country, some
Speaker 2: of these guys that own the you know, the Woody
Speaker 2: Johnson's of the world that own the Jets and teams
Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, I mean, they got to have some
Speaker 2: smarts and they got to have good people making decisions.
Speaker 2: And sure, you know, you start trading away your top players,
Speaker 2: like like a Saquan who's kind of in his prime. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and the running back position has kind of come back.
Speaker 2: They talk about this guy Genty from Boise State who's
Speaker 2: going to probably be in the top ten. You know
Speaker 2: that didn't happen like five years ago.
Speaker 1: Sure. Sure, In fact, are you aren't you a jet Yeah?
Speaker 1: You're a jetman. So and you're like your family's a
Speaker 1: diehard jet fan. Jet fans, Eh, my uncle is Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: what do you think just up the top of your
Speaker 1: head about that organization.
Speaker 3: It's very awful. It's an awful organization, feels like it's cursed.
Speaker 3: But hopefully with the new new GM and new coach
Speaker 3: it'll go.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they went after the quarterback. They wanted it right,
Speaker 1: and there's your curse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know. I like the Justin Fields pick up dun.
Speaker 3: I actually do, because I guess it fits the timeline more.
Speaker 3: But the Rogers experiment was awful.
Speaker 2: I've seen a Tamax name associated with the Jets pick too.
Speaker 1: God, who's you got? The receiver? They have, big tall guy,
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson. Yeah, he's really good. Yeah, you know, so
Speaker 1: that would be an interesting compliment. Yeah, booking. You know,
Speaker 1: of course, Woody Johnson is an Arizona grad. You of
Speaker 1: your Jets, and no one has been able to tap
Speaker 1: that source here. It's not my problem anymore.
Speaker 3: Mike Patrick ESPN play by play voice for thirty six years.
Speaker 3: It passes away at eighty.
Speaker 1: Oh tell me, tell me, oh, Mike Patch, tell me
Speaker 1: what's which one was? Give me a photo here? He
Speaker 1: was like a dick by town. Yeah, it just let
Speaker 1: me I should know this. Yes, he's one of the
Speaker 1: original guys. Yeah, eighty years old, thirty six years he
Speaker 1: was one of they started seventy nine, I think because
Speaker 1: when they started, right he.
Speaker 2: When they started doing Sunday night football back in the day,
Speaker 2: he was the play by play games. Okay, so if
Speaker 2: you've watched ESPN over the years, you definitely know of him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's really sad. He was eighty. I say,
Speaker 2: I wanted to see a picture just to see.
Speaker 1: His last event on ESPN was twenty seventeen, so he's
Speaker 1: been gone for a little bit. But still, well, the originals.
Speaker 1: You look at Corso and I remember Boy Tell in
Speaker 1: seventy nine doing it with his big glasses. Remember, yeah,
Speaker 1: those huge glasses that he hadn't.
Speaker 2: He worked him with him at the ACC Championships thirty
Speaker 2: years so, I mean he was on all the time
Speaker 2: college basketball and college football.
Speaker 1: So that's that's a big loss. He was a good one.
Speaker 3: Milwaukee Bucks star Damian Lillard will make his return tonight
Speaker 3: for Game two against Indiana Pacers after dealing with a
Speaker 3: blood clot. That's I lined him for over a month.
Speaker 3: League sources tell.
Speaker 1: What what the games in Indie or is it Milwaukee?
Speaker 3: It's in Indie, and then the next two are in Milwaukee, okay,
Speaker 3: and the piecers are up one nothing correctly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so that's gonna be the game starting out.
Speaker 2: That's five zip.
Speaker 1: But are you obey? Oh no, already that game? Okay?
Speaker 1: Do you have an update with the basement softball game? No,
Speaker 1: but I'll get it for you. You're in your trusty
Speaker 1: handy daddy. What else you got?
Speaker 3: Computer stars win, absolute ot thriller.
Speaker 1: They moved. I moved. I don't want hockey. I like
Speaker 1: two percent of my life, one percent of my life,
Speaker 1: and I switched it over to it Dallas. I think
Speaker 1: it was Dallas. The late game. Yeah, the late game.
Speaker 2: I went to sleep Overranded. That's the Dave Silver Curse.
Speaker 2: It was still in overtime. I was getting but I
Speaker 2: didn't watch another game. The first game was within scoring
Speaker 2: the game winner. It's the first time he's ever scored
Speaker 2: an overtime game winner after all all these seasons.
Speaker 1: So that was kind of fun, okay.
Speaker 3: Simon Bias. Simone Biles says she's unsure about competing in
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty eight Olympics in Los Angeles. She says,
Speaker 3: for me to come back, it would really have to
Speaker 3: excite me. So she'll be in the Olympics. Yeah, who knows.
Speaker 3: You know, her endorsements. I'm sure she's making zillions off
Speaker 3: of that. So is that approaches she's married to a
Speaker 3: football player. Place for the Bears? I think still Yeah.
Speaker 3: Jerry Jones says Cowboys are working on pretty substantive trades.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys they need a lot of help. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: need a lot of help. Sorry to see. Well, they
Speaker 1: picked up Trey Lance. Oh much.
Speaker 2: That's gonna shock the world. I know who else. It's
Speaker 2: made a few deals. They more than thirty seven million
Speaker 2: dollars in salary cap space. It says they've got room
Speaker 2: to room to grow.
Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety six, Has there been any almost thirty
Speaker 1: years ago? You're you were thirty five years the last
Speaker 1: time they won the Super Bowl. Gosh, was I at
Speaker 1: that game? And one was it was in Peas So
Speaker 1: I was there? Were you there?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: I was not. I was covering. I was on the road.
Speaker 2: It was in basketball, I was there, it was it
Speaker 2: was Yeah, it sun Devil Stadium. I set literally and
Speaker 2: outside the zone, no upper deck, end zone, maybe two
Speaker 2: roads from the top of the stadium. I could barely
Speaker 2: see it was it a special area for media. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was the overflowing section. But it was great.
Speaker 1: I remember.
Speaker 2: So that was Barry Switzer, right, because Jimmy it was
Speaker 2: Barry Switzer's team said, Troy, was it Berry Switzer Smith?
Speaker 1: Yep, okay, pretty sure. And then Jimmy took over later.
Speaker 2: No, I think Jimmy had already left left maybe, Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't remember the tiling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we were up there. I think we're
Speaker 1: up there all week. Remember it was so informal in
Speaker 1: those years too, because like Media Day now, like they
Speaker 1: had these like media nights.
Speaker 2: Where you know, all players are brought in. Back in
Speaker 2: those days, players were like sitting up in the stands.
Speaker 2: Hey it's Dion Sanders, it's you know, it's Emma Smith,
Speaker 2: Michael Lurvian.
Speaker 1: Memorable or not memorable. I remember those. Yeah, So you
Speaker 1: remember what was the best part of it.
Speaker 2: Just just that I mean we were so you know,
Speaker 2: it's like you basically just planted yourself in the in
Speaker 2: the stands and the players would come up and I
Speaker 2: think maybe they had a little marker with their.
Speaker 5: Name on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to go to the Troy Aikman spot
Speaker 2: and you just sat there and he come over and.
Speaker 1: So what I did? I remember for the Citizen, they
Speaker 1: sent a couple of people up to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I was on the road with the team they shipped
Speaker 1: me to. I think they played Oregon and Washington. So
Speaker 1: from there I went to Vegas and I spent the
Speaker 1: day in Vegas for Super Bowl Sunday and interviewed people
Speaker 1: from there talking about the game. Yeah, yeah, I liked
Speaker 1: my U signment better than actually going to the game.
Speaker 2: I don't remember even much about, Like I remember Diana
Speaker 2: Ross performing. I mean things like that just kind of
Speaker 2: a stick in your memory. Like what she they flew
Speaker 2: her in a helicopter. No wait, I got that wrong.
Speaker 2: They flew her out in a helicopter. So like she
Speaker 2: sings her last song and this helicopter is hovering over
Speaker 2: the stage and there's some rope comes down and she's
Speaker 2: so good they take her out.
Speaker 1: Spider Man's great. Cool cool.
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins is in attendance on the first day of
Speaker 3: the Atlanta Falcons voluntary off season program, while he was
Speaker 3: not expected to be present. According to the head coach,
Speaker 3: Raheem Morris.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cool cool, because they're gonna go with what's his name?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay it that is it for today's breaking case.
Speaker 1: Anything else you have? You have the so you have
Speaker 1: the soccer score, I don't have me a soccer softball score.
Speaker 1: I'll get it for you before, okay, before we go,
Speaker 1: because we can just take a break here after after
Speaker 1: that's what Pacers twelve, Milwaukee eight early in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: Uh and the softball score d Dad Jeopardy. So that's fine.
Speaker 1: I'll get it for it eventually here okay, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna go and talk to mister Scott I think his
Speaker 1: last name with Garman, who's going to have a going
Speaker 1: to be part of a big event here in November
Speaker 1: with the big marathon. We'll talk about how why they
Speaker 1: decided on Tucson. There's I guess there's two places, Toledo
Speaker 1: and Tucson gonna have a big marathon you to the
Speaker 1: Tucson area. What was what was decided when they decided
Speaker 1: to come here? You ready to go? We'll just go.
Speaker 1: We can come back with that. You got it, I
Speaker 1: don't have it. Okay, let's go. We'll take a break here,
Speaker 1: come back and get a hold of mister Elliott.
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to I'm the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Fortune fifty. I'm Si Bavera. In with me Today's
Speaker 1: Dave Silver. We got Kobe at the controls here and
Speaker 1: we're just gonna wait here for mister Elliot Scott from Garbin.
Speaker 1: We got a little ahead of time, so he'll be
Speaker 1: calling any second now. Is he calling it? Yeah? Elliott?
Speaker 1: Is this you? This is great John fine, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Great to hear from me. Are you in town? Are
Speaker 1: you at your headquarters?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 15: No, I got into Tucson today actually, so okay.
Speaker 1: Fantastic, fantastic. I'm sure you've been here at time or two,
Speaker 1: given that you've chosen Tucson to be one of your
Speaker 1: sites for an upcoming big event.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 15: The Garmin Marathon Series team has been here several times.
Speaker 5: Of course.
Speaker 15: We wanted to, you know, to see the potential routes
Speaker 15: in person, get a feel for the city. We actually
Speaker 15: looked at over two dozen different US cities before selecting
Speaker 15: Tucson as one of our first locations for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: What did you see here? Why? Here? Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I think it's several things.
Speaker 15: You know, Tucson has a really vibrant running community, so
Speaker 15: we knew that it was going to be, you know,
Speaker 15: a place that already has a really strong running culture.
Speaker 5: And then the aesthetics, right, it's just gorgeous here.
Speaker 15: I mean this course for the full marathon, you know,
Speaker 15: it takes you into the desert, it takes you through
Speaker 15: the city, you see so much. And then of course
Speaker 15: the local partners, you know, working with Run Tucson, Southern
Speaker 15: Arizona road Runners, just knowing that we had the local
Speaker 15: support and buy in to make sure that this is
Speaker 15: a really special and successful event.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. The one thing about Tucson, it'll embrace these things.
Speaker 1: If they really turn out really well, it'll tour to Tucson.
Speaker 1: This is a new one, and this is going to
Speaker 1: be right before then.
Speaker 15: I'll tour right in November, that's right, Yeah, Saturday, November fifteenth.
Speaker 5: It has a two day expo right before it.
Speaker 15: That's going to be really cool because it's not going
Speaker 15: to be your typical race expo. We're going to feature
Speaker 15: a lot of garment technology, not just in the running space,
Speaker 15: but in some of our other areas of focus. And
Speaker 15: then you know, race day on Saturday, followed by the
Speaker 15: finish line festival, which is just kind of that epic
Speaker 15: party to celebrate runners and you know all they've.
Speaker 5: Achieved that day.
Speaker 1: Where where will the race begin?
Speaker 15: Yeah, so we're looking it'll it'll start in downtown Okay,
Speaker 15: so you know, kind of congress Alameda area. We haven't
Speaker 15: released the course yet. It's finalized, but until it's certified,
Speaker 15: because the full marathon is going to be a Boston
Speaker 15: qualifying course, we don't want to release it until it's
Speaker 15: one hundred percent certified. So we hope to have that
Speaker 15: done in the next several weeks because I know, I
Speaker 15: see it.
Speaker 5: On the comments on social media.
Speaker 15: You know, people really want to see the course, so
Speaker 15: we're excited to share that.
Speaker 1: And it opened today, right is that the registration started
Speaker 1: today yesterday.
Speaker 15: So registration started back back earlier in April. But this
Speaker 15: was just an opportunity for us to be here in person,
Speaker 15: to really meet with different groups and you know, help
Speaker 15: help get the word out because as we know, you know,
Speaker 15: this is something we want Tucson to celebrate.
Speaker 5: We we think it's super exciting.
Speaker 15: We've never produced our own large scale endurance races like
Speaker 15: this before, so it's you know, this is this is
Speaker 15: kind of groundbreaking for garment.
Speaker 2: Is there any ties with the University of Arizona since
Speaker 2: they've had a number of marathonors and pretty good distance
Speaker 2: runners in the year.
Speaker 1: Over the years have you worked with them?
Speaker 15: Yeah, Yeah, So University of Arizona is one of the
Speaker 15: stakeholder groups we're talking to. I mean, we're we're certainly
Speaker 15: very excited about the potentials that could come of, you know,
Speaker 15: working with them in different capacities and internationally.
Speaker 1: Are we talking about people coming from all over the
Speaker 1: world to this is that you're helping.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I think that's what's going to be really special about
Speaker 15: this Tucson race is we see this as a destination race,
Speaker 15: and Garment is a global company. You know some actually,
Speaker 15: you know, in some countries in Europe. I feel like,
Speaker 15: you know, Garman is a household name, even more so
Speaker 15: than in the US. And so what what what we
Speaker 15: think is that we're going to draw people nationally for sure,
Speaker 15: and then as as this race you know, continues to
Speaker 15: build its reputation, yeah, I think there's definitely the potential
Speaker 15: that this becomes an international draw.
Speaker 1: So I've kind of heard the rumblings of this happening
Speaker 1: over the last month or so, because you know, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone in this town kind of starts, you know, talking
Speaker 1: and stuff that this was you know, you know, how
Speaker 1: this is there enough time obviously, you got about seven
Speaker 1: months is it a ramp up? Is it a is
Speaker 1: it a quick turn? What is this? Yeah?
Speaker 15: I mean I think what's what's great about this is
Speaker 15: we have a team in place that has a lot
Speaker 15: of experience producing marathons and endurance events.
Speaker 5: So while while this is our.
Speaker 15: First time as a company building it from scratch, we
Speaker 15: have a crew of veterans who know how to do
Speaker 15: this inside and out. So we're not worried about the timeline.
Speaker 15: We know that we're going to execute something that's really special,
Speaker 15: you know, and we want people to walk away thinking
Speaker 15: two things. One, that was an incredible race. I'm so
Speaker 15: glad I decided to do that. And Two, Tucson is
Speaker 15: such a cool place. I can't wait to come back
Speaker 15: here again.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And that's what the people like the county, the
Speaker 1: city visit to want to hear, right, Because they'll bring
Speaker 1: more people to the to the place.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's good to have a partner like I mean,
Speaker 2: I know some of the people who visit Tucson, I'm
Speaker 2: sure they're thrilled about this. This is this is kind
Speaker 2: of what they do is bring in events like this.
Speaker 15: Yeah, and and visit Tucson. They've been wonderful partners super
Speaker 15: helpful and you know having that again, having that local
Speaker 15: buy in, that's a key component to making this a
Speaker 15: successful event. So, and you know, one of the reasons
Speaker 15: we chose Tucson is one of our first locations.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say what percentage, Like you mentioned where
Speaker 2: people will be coming from, But do you think it's
Speaker 2: going to be saying maybe half will be from Arizona
Speaker 2: and the other half is gonna be literally from anywhere?
Speaker 1: And how big and how big of it? It's going
Speaker 1: to be huge for the economy? No, no, no, how big
Speaker 1: of a participation?
Speaker 5: How many?
Speaker 1: How many runners are we talking about?
Speaker 15: Yeah, we're we're looking at thousands of participants across the
Speaker 15: four distances, because it's not just the marathon, right, it's
Speaker 15: a five k, ten k half in full. So I mean,
Speaker 15: you know, we're hoping to get to close to ten thousand.
Speaker 15: We have a little wiggle room, right, it could be more,
Speaker 15: it could be a little less. But I think especially
Speaker 15: for year one, the focus is on execution, right. It
Speaker 15: has to be a super well run race, expo event,
Speaker 15: and then finish line festival after. So it's not about
Speaker 15: getting the biggest numbers year one. It's about creating the
Speaker 15: best experience so that the race continues to grow year
Speaker 15: after year.
Speaker 1: So when did this thing become the thought? The thought
Speaker 1: of it one and two maybe the reality of it,
Speaker 1: because like I said, there's only about seven months until
Speaker 1: the actual event.
Speaker 15: So this idea, our executive team has been kicking this
Speaker 15: around for a couple of years, and it really started
Speaker 15: with this idea of how do we celebrate runners and
Speaker 15: the sport of running.
Speaker 5: How do we do it.
Speaker 15: In a way that feels authentic and meaningful but also
Speaker 15: allows Garman to tell our story in a way we
Speaker 15: haven't been able to before. So the idea has been been,
Speaker 15: you know, in place for a while, and then I
Speaker 15: think last year was really when we kind of built
Speaker 15: this team and said, okay, let's go, like we're ready.
Speaker 15: We did our market research and started kind of executing
Speaker 15: on our end to make sure that we were ready
Speaker 15: for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Steve here is involved with altwur to TuS song, which
Speaker 1: is going to be the next week. It's going to
Speaker 1: be quite a month, right, going to be something right,
Speaker 1: and there's always something in November because the time of
Speaker 1: the year is fantastic, right, It's perfect and You'll start
Speaker 1: what time, like maybe seven in the morning or six
Speaker 1: in the morning, what time?
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, yeah, around seven am, you know, start with
Speaker 15: the full marathoners and then go you know.
Speaker 5: Half marathon ten k, five k yeah.
Speaker 15: I mean, you know, coming from the Midwest, being able
Speaker 15: to run in you know, low humidity weather.
Speaker 5: Like this is like a dream, honestly.
Speaker 15: So that's I mean, if you're looking for a November
Speaker 15: marathon or half marathon, I don't think you're going to
Speaker 15: be able to beat the race conditions for this.
Speaker 2: Is there because I'm thinking, like what New York is
Speaker 2: in October? Right, I mean, what other marathons are you
Speaker 2: competing with that time of year?
Speaker 15: So, uh, New York is typically in early November, so
Speaker 15: this I think this will be after New York. But
Speaker 15: you know, I think New York is New York, right.
Speaker 15: The World Majors are kind of their own thing. Those
Speaker 15: are list challenges for people. I think that you know,
Speaker 15: when you look at regionally and even nationally, this fits
Speaker 15: really well into the race calendar.
Speaker 5: Ood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you had a Tucson listed and Toledo listed.
Speaker 1: Is Toledo going to be somewhere in the summer ish?
Speaker 15: So Toledo's in September in mid September, so it'll be
Speaker 15: the first one of the series, and then Tucson will
Speaker 15: be the second one for twenty twenty five, and then
Speaker 15: we're looking at several more locations to kind of add
Speaker 15: to the portfolio for twenty six.
Speaker 1: What was the reaction from the county and from the
Speaker 1: visit Tucson when you initially brought this to the table.
Speaker 5: I think they were excited.
Speaker 15: I mean, I think, you know, they had a lot
Speaker 15: of questions, as they should, but I think that they
Speaker 15: see the vision, they see what this can become, what
Speaker 15: it could mean for Tucson, for the region, And what
Speaker 15: we've heard from a lot of people is that, you know,
Speaker 15: we're going to be doing things and kind of activating
Speaker 15: in a way that is really special and unique. And
Speaker 15: so I think there's a lot of excitement from from
Speaker 15: multiple organizations about you know, what this race will become.
Speaker 2: Tell us about some of the things you're thinking about
Speaker 2: outside of the race, But but that weekend, I mean
Speaker 2: concerts or what kind of other entertainment might be in Tucson.
Speaker 15: Then yeah, I mean we're we're looking at a lot
Speaker 15: of different options, you know, creating you know, cool experiences
Speaker 15: before the race, so that you know, that could be
Speaker 15: maybe a fun spin on you know, car bloating is
Speaker 15: kind of you know, standard thing for marathon.
Speaker 5: So you know, how can we how can we create.
Speaker 15: Kind of a local you know dinner before the race
Speaker 15: that incorporates local restaurants and and you know allows people
Speaker 15: to get a feel for Tucson. Yeah, I mean activating
Speaker 15: along the course, right, bringing in local bands, musicians, and
Speaker 15: then doing some unexpected stuff that that really gets people,
Speaker 15: you know, hyped up and excited at different points through
Speaker 15: the course.
Speaker 5: You know, we're we're looking at a lot of.
Speaker 15: Different things, and I think that's what's so exciting is that,
Speaker 15: you know, garman Is has a lot of runners in
Speaker 15: the company, which I'm sure is no surprise. But so
Speaker 15: what we've done is we've sat like kind of this
Speaker 15: core group down and said, okay, let's just like imagine
Speaker 15: her talk about what you think the coolest marathon would have.
Speaker 15: And so we've got all those ideas on paper and
Speaker 15: now it's just a matter of you know, seeing.
Speaker 5: Which ones we choose to execute this year.
Speaker 15: So you know, really thinking about how do we go
Speaker 15: beyond the standard race offerings? And create something that's memorable, special,
Speaker 15: that kind of brings that magic and makes people want
Speaker 15: to do it next year.
Speaker 1: In fact, Dave, you asked me whether you're going to
Speaker 1: run it. I look like you send me a picture
Speaker 1: that you are a runner. I know you're in the house.
Speaker 1: Are you going to be running or are you going
Speaker 1: to be working?
Speaker 15: I'll be working. Yeah, that's that's the hardest part.
Speaker 5: Especially.
Speaker 15: I was driving the the course earlier today and I
Speaker 15: was like, oh my gosh, if only I could run this.
Speaker 5: So so maybe year two.
Speaker 15: They'll you know, they'll give me the day off and
Speaker 15: I'll get a run it. But you know, working a
Speaker 15: marathon is such a fun, fun experience, and that's you know,
Speaker 15: another opportunity we have for community engagement. We're going to
Speaker 15: need hundreds of volunteers in different capacities, some at the expo,
Speaker 15: some at the finish line, and then you know, people
Speaker 15: at aid stations along the course. So it's it's going
Speaker 15: to be a really cool opportunity I think for Tucson
Speaker 15: to be a.
Speaker 5: Part of it.
Speaker 15: And you know, we want to make sure that we're
Speaker 15: giving back to the community, and so one of the
Speaker 15: ways we're doing that is we're exploring what's a charitable
Speaker 15: partnership that makes sense, you know, how can we get
Speaker 15: back to the community in a meaning full way. So,
Speaker 15: you know, and I think we're very open to suggestions.
Speaker 15: You know, we've asked a lot of our local stakeholders
Speaker 15: what they think. But you know, more more on kind
Speaker 15: of those community engagement opportunities in the weeks and months to.
Speaker 1: Come, because my attention spent is not very good using
Speaker 1: that as my excuse. So how many of these have
Speaker 1: you guys put on? Or is this you're just trying
Speaker 1: to this now?
Speaker 15: Yeah, no, this is this is the first first year
Speaker 15: we've done this. We've sponsored events large and small all
Speaker 15: over the world, so we've seen, you know, a ton
Speaker 15: of of really cool race events, a lot of best practices.
Speaker 15: But we think by creating the event from scratch, it
Speaker 15: gives us the freedom to do things we could just
Speaker 15: never do within a conventional sponsorship.
Speaker 1: So Toledo will be the number one. Toled will be
Speaker 1: the first one.
Speaker 15: Yep, Toledo will be one, Toson will be the second,
Speaker 15: and then we'll be adding more cities in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: As far as media coverage, Steve and I again both
Speaker 2: come out of the media world. Are we going to
Speaker 2: see like international reporters here. Is this that type of
Speaker 2: event you think?
Speaker 15: I mean, I think we're certainly pitching it in that way.
Speaker 15: You know, it'll probably be running focused publications for the
Speaker 15: most part.
Speaker 5: But that I mean, that's I think that's one of
Speaker 5: the cool.
Speaker 15: Things about working for a global technology company is that's
Speaker 15: the lens we bring to something.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure it's not go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 15: You know, it's not just about engaging one certain demographic,
Speaker 15: but it's about really amplifying that message and you know,
Speaker 15: getting kind of getting that coverage as far and as
Speaker 15: wide as we can.
Speaker 1: So I'm curious. Tucson is known for being a bicycling
Speaker 1: town and almost a mecca in this timeframe, you know,
Speaker 1: from winter in the winter to early spring. But I'm
Speaker 1: sure you probably an originymore. In talking to the people
Speaker 1: the authorities here, did you get a sense from them that, oh,
Speaker 1: this has been a long time in coming, that you
Speaker 1: guys are doing this or somebody's doing this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for sure I think that.
Speaker 15: You know, one person said like, this is the race
Speaker 15: he's always dreamed of Tucson having, which you know is
Speaker 15: exciting to hear and and but I think, you know,
Speaker 15: that's that's incredibly cool that Tucson is this kind of
Speaker 15: endurance cycling mecca because what we see is that garment
Speaker 15: athletes are typically not one sport athletes, you know, so
Speaker 15: I think you have a lot of cyclists who are
Speaker 15: runners and vice versa. You know, they probably are triathletes
Speaker 15: as well. Yeah, so it's cool to kind of foster
Speaker 15: that multi sport mindset and and I think we're contributing
Speaker 15: to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean in the universe of Arizona has a triathlon
Speaker 2: team that's like their newest, newest to you know, NC
Speaker 2: DOUAA Sports.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're they're good, and they're good, really good. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: we appreciate your time, thanks for joining us. I guess
Speaker 1: you'll be here every now and again to get ready
Speaker 1: for the race. Maybe. How soon do you think we'll
Speaker 1: hear about the course?
Speaker 5: Hopefully I'd say June or July at the latest.
Speaker 15: We know we're going to be coming back, you know,
Speaker 15: if not monthly, every six weeks, just because we're gonna
Speaker 15: have regular announcements, you know, things like I reference community
Speaker 15: engagement opportunities and then just you know, metal reveals all the.
Speaker 5: Things, right, So you know, I'm excited.
Speaker 15: I love Tucson, so I mean, you know, it's it's
Speaker 15: fun that I'll be able to come back several times
Speaker 15: before the race.
Speaker 1: Sure, enjoy the Maybe not in July, Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: might take that month. Well, appreciate your time. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. Thank you all right, scott Elia from Garbon
Speaker 1: that we'll see them in a few months. We'll probably
Speaker 1: have them on again as we get closer to the event.
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to My on the Ball. You're on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Young Steve Rivera, your Dave Silver.
Speaker 1: We got Kobe there. What you got for score?
Speaker 2: Pop Ball played their first game this afternoon to Mexico State.
Speaker 2: Arizona wins three nothing. That was a quick one good
Speaker 2: quick game. Devin nets winning pitcher, eighteen and five record. Now,
Speaker 2: so they're gearing up for the postseason, which yet another game.
Speaker 2: It's double hitting.
Speaker 1: Another game today, so time go out to.
Speaker 2: Hill and Brand and then I guess baseball plays a
Speaker 2: U T Arlington.
Speaker 1: I want to say it is tomorrow. So the teams
Speaker 1: are kind of, you know, approaching the postseason with some success.
Speaker 1: Two more or three more weeks right of school and
Speaker 1: then Kobe and I won't see you anymore till next semester. Ye,
Speaker 1: you're coming back next to mining. Okay here I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about school. I'm talking about here with the studio.
Speaker 1: You can try to find a different internship somewhere. Okay, No, good,
Speaker 1: real quick to uh forgot to mention for Garman. Just
Speaker 1: go to garment dot com and if you want to
Speaker 1: register already, that's where you go. G A R M,
Speaker 1: I N dot com to join in on that marathon,
Speaker 1: half marathon, ten K, five K, A few different. That's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. That's going to be an interesting month for everybody.
Speaker 1: You You're gonna be so in shape, you could run
Speaker 1: the ten k or the fish Sure, I could maybe
Speaker 1: five and the buddies of yours, yeah, five k he
Speaker 1: want to go, Robert.
Speaker 2: I know some people who, as I was kind of
Speaker 2: implying there, you know, there's been some pretty great distance runners.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember abd Yeah, he's around, he's still around.
Speaker 1: He's still probably trying to get into the Olympics. Yeah him.
Speaker 1: Well the coach at u of A now what's his name,
Speaker 1: Bernard LA Gott BERNARDA.
Speaker 2: Gott, right, And yeah, I mean there's some great distance
Speaker 2: history here, so it'll be kind of cool to see
Speaker 2: the U of A kind of mixed in with all.
Speaker 1: That, especially when we were covering back in the late
Speaker 1: eighties nineties all the skiers, oh, Robert Scars and then
Speaker 1: there's spending a lot of them, a lot of them
Speaker 1: under Dave Murray, right, Robert Chesaret. Yeah, he was kind
Speaker 1: of related to Logatt. So yeah, that's pretty that's gonna
Speaker 1: be an interesting you know, it's quite a spectacle when
Speaker 1: the when the when the cyclists do their thing, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of starts downtown and you know, loops all over
Speaker 1: the place. Now, so this is gonna be cool. What
Speaker 1: I didn't want to talk about because I'll talk about now.
Speaker 1: Stupid stupidly, we have an issue with the route because
Speaker 1: people get affected, right, traffic wise, it's almost unavoidable. It
Speaker 1: is unavoidable because it's just you know, we've gone our
Speaker 1: routes have changed for that. We we upset people here
Speaker 1: and then we move it and people there because they
Speaker 1: have to get to places. But it is what it is, right,
Speaker 1: you have these events that you have to kind of
Speaker 1: make sacrifices. It is for three four hours. It's not
Speaker 1: in a long time. We raised I think maybe ten
Speaker 1: million dollars this year at'll tour. We'll see what these
Speaker 1: guys do. But I'm sure that their route's gonna affect,
Speaker 1: of course, some people, because it's twenty six miles.
Speaker 2: Of course, starting, he said, starts downtown because if I'm
Speaker 2: not mistaken, like the Tucson Marathon, which we've had, you know,
Speaker 2: over the years, usually started in an oral valley, if
Speaker 2: I want to say, and they kind of came down
Speaker 2: Oracle and you know, maybe spent most of the time
Speaker 2: kind of north of the major part of the city.
Speaker 2: So this is going to start downtown. I don't know,
Speaker 2: who knows, you know, we'll see that route when they
Speaker 2: when they decide to reveal it, we'll see if the
Speaker 2: loop is part of it, that's true, I could do that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, if they're gonna have ten
Speaker 1: thousand runners, that might be a little bit. Yeah no,
Speaker 1: that's a loop. Yeah yeah, no, No, that's why we
Speaker 1: don't do it. It can It's not wide enough, it's
Speaker 1: not safe. Yeah, but we're for runners. Maybe maybe a
Speaker 1: portion of it by the time they break up, you know,
Speaker 1: and start spreading apart that that could. I look at
Speaker 1: it too, and it's just kind of you know, I
Speaker 1: probably won't like you got to be there. I don't
Speaker 1: have to be there.
Speaker 2: I just I just kind of want to know what
Speaker 2: the experience is going to be like for two zonings,
Speaker 2: and you know, the restaurant business. I know that there's
Speaker 2: a tu song people that's their thing. This is going
Speaker 2: to be like, Okay, we've got this event. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Well, along those lines, they supported us pretty heavily, pretty nicely.
Speaker 1: One and two, they're bringing in this the all Star
Speaker 1: game for the is it All? Is it the the
Speaker 1: indoor football that's gonna be coming here. The Champianship championship
Speaker 1: game or I think it's championship now that's coming here. Okay,
Speaker 1: So not that we talked about this with with Blake
Speaker 1: because he's part of the tourism and group. How Tucson
Speaker 1: is trying to become this think ahead area. You know,
Speaker 1: we've been here forever and it's kind of sometimes stuck
Speaker 1: in the politics. Well, now you have the Ray Flores
Speaker 1: is the younger group of people kind of making things happen,
Speaker 1: you know, the WBC. They're bringing stuff here to trying
Speaker 1: to make Tucson more worldly if you will. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's a good idea.
Speaker 2: Why not you know, if there's if there's an event
Speaker 2: and you know, we've got this Mosaic Quarter going up
Speaker 2: down you know, on the other side of the freeway there,
Speaker 2: so that's gonna you know, be a spot where people
Speaker 2: can come and do their events. But this is this
Speaker 2: is pretty cool. To have a marathon of this magnitude
Speaker 2: coming here is nice.
Speaker 1: You saw that you used to live on the northwest side,
Speaker 1: used to be one of my not anaby in area.
Speaker 1: The sports park has got a new management or new management.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, and that was like the place
Speaker 1: when we used to play it right. Uh there. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what they're gonna do with it, but they
Speaker 1: got it's under new management. They're going to get maybe
Speaker 1: something going there, because you know, every time you see
Speaker 1: you're coming into town, it's it's there.
Speaker 5: It's still there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, building a big park.
Speaker 2: It looks like on Silver Bell near Kamnados AA or
Speaker 2: Ruth Roff I should say, there's a big fields that
Speaker 2: are under construction.
Speaker 1: What side of the it's on the south side of
Speaker 1: of the which side of the freeway on the west
Speaker 1: side side of the haven't seen. Yeah, so there's something
Speaker 1: going on there. You know.
Speaker 2: Marana is all kinds of talks about what we want
Speaker 2: to do there, you know, do they want to put
Speaker 2: a stadium in there. Blake could probably tell you more
Speaker 2: about that, but the stuff you sort of hear and
Speaker 2: trying to get you know, some you know, Winter League
Speaker 2: Baseball from Mexico possibly coming.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a topic that kind of
Speaker 1: been leaked out a little here and there. No one
Speaker 1: can really official he talked about it, because it's not official, No,
Speaker 1: but I mean that's you know, those are things that
Speaker 1: it's nice to see that those things were even being
Speaker 1: talked to right right right in middle Dusty Tucson, which
Speaker 1: is no longer Dusty obviously, no. And in that time
Speaker 1: of year again, that's going to be right during this
Speaker 1: marathon if they're going to play winter baseball here and uh,
Speaker 1: you know once this once their training camps get going,
Speaker 1: which I think is like October November, right after the
Speaker 1: season ends. But it's funny because you were in your
Speaker 1: business and I was in my business for a long
Speaker 1: time from mid August to April. There's not enough time
Speaker 1: or space for a lot of things, right and then
Speaker 1: after April, May, June, July becomes like you know, we
Speaker 1: fiddle our thumbs and what sort of do obviously because
Speaker 1: it's hot as hell. Yeah, and then it picks up again.
Speaker 1: There is always a few things going on.
Speaker 2: I can't I got to try to remember, you know,
Speaker 2: just digging back, but there's always a few things that
Speaker 2: would happen, like around the Tusson Convention Center indoors in
Speaker 2: the summertime. Well, you know, some type of sporting things,
Speaker 2: archery or you know, some some people would come to
Speaker 2: they would do they would do some things, you know,
Speaker 2: to come here in the summer. But you're right, I mean,
Speaker 2: most people don't want to come here in the summer.
Speaker 2: Big groups are not going to come.
Speaker 1: So did you you did you go out? I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe you sent the underlingk to your to the side
Speaker 1: Winders games or the Toros games because it was so
Speaker 1: damn hot. I would go. I mean, it just depends
Speaker 1: on it depend on who we had working those days,
Speaker 1: but I would I would go.
Speaker 5: I missed that.
Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: I mean even it was frustrating when you go and
Speaker 2: it'd be you know, five hundred people there right, and
Speaker 2: you go, does anybody care about this? That's kind of
Speaker 2: how we would look at it sometimes, and maybe even
Speaker 2: newspapers do the same. It's like, you know, is it
Speaker 2: worth covering? Does anybody really care? If there's That's the
Speaker 2: whole thing.
Speaker 1: And we talked about this with Blake and I'm from
Speaker 1: New Mexico and northern New Mexico obviously, and to talk
Speaker 1: about Albuquerque and the ice snoops are very heavily. You
Speaker 1: watched people go. Obviously, the summers there are much milder
Speaker 1: than they are here, so they go and it's it's
Speaker 1: a college town, like, yes, it's not much to do
Speaker 1: when the college town's not going so they do well
Speaker 1: here here. It's not that the team is bad or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's hard to go out when it's one hundred and five, right,
Speaker 1: and that's at ten o'clock, and you know, we're never
Speaker 1: gonna we're never gonna lose that.
Speaker 2: So you know, they've got to fin Uns're gonna start
Speaker 2: building dome stadiums or something like that. But I mean,
Speaker 2: that's kind of what we're what you face when you
Speaker 2: when you're here, you know, at that time year. But yeah,
Speaker 2: there was always a few things happening, kind of these
Speaker 2: fringe events that you probably would never get coverage during
Speaker 2: those busy times because you're too busy covering you know, Arizona,
Speaker 2: U of A stuff or whatever. But sometimes there'll be
Speaker 2: something like wow, that's kind of cool, and they turn
Speaker 2: out to be.
Speaker 1: Cute little stories. Yeah. Yeah, and that's what you're chasing down,
Speaker 1: or try to chase down anything else. We take a
Speaker 1: couple of calls or two, a couple of calls or
Speaker 1: two five, two, four, one, six, seventy four, forty would
Speaker 1: take them here. We had some good calls yesterday. If
Speaker 1: you want to chime in with us real quick, that'll
Speaker 1: be good Dave, you're gonna be on Friday.
Speaker 2: I'll be in Friday. We'll do a little draft recap.
Speaker 2: See if anybody. Yeah, the team act decision. Yeah, it's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He talked about Tyler Loop. Thankful you came on
Speaker 1: for Saturday.
Speaker 2: He talked about sitting around in Texas on Saturday with
Speaker 2: his family, which will probably you know, if he's gonna
Speaker 2: get picked, Like it sounds like that's probably right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they rarely rarely chase after kickers in the
Speaker 1: draft now, not unless you're like a Ray guy with him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He was one of the first to ever i think,
Speaker 1: pick in the first round by the Raiders. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: and you can find these guys after the draft as
Speaker 1: free agents. Yeah. And usually like when you go to
Speaker 1: like those training camps.
Speaker 2: I remember, like we go to the Cardinals and you know,
Speaker 2: they'd have their kicker from last year he was there,
Speaker 2: but they'd always have like three or four kickers challenging them.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just kind of an easy thing to do.
Speaker 2: It's bring in a couple of kickers and see if
Speaker 2: we got somebody we didn't know about.
Speaker 1: Yeah. One of the things that he I know he's
Speaker 1: faith based. Tyler was because you talked a little about that,
Speaker 1: but and you talked real quick and asked him about
Speaker 1: the stress of it, right, and he kind of didn't
Speaker 1: really feel stressed because he's have much of it really
Speaker 1: right in his career.
Speaker 5: I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean, kickers, they always just talk about the mental
Speaker 1: game of kicking, because they're all really good and they
Speaker 1: can all kick it like you know, sixty yard field goals,
Speaker 1: but it's when you miss one and you kind of
Speaker 1: get in a slump and the best ones it just
Speaker 1: doesn't happen to there's something about it. They're dialed in.
Speaker 1: In fact, I had some time about two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: we had the tour Scott Stale up in Scottsdale, and
Speaker 1: Casey Scourn is now cyclist and he's a pretty good cyclist.
Speaker 1: Remember him losing or missing the shot against USC that's right,
Speaker 1: and got some death threats from that. And he's just
Speaker 1: there to kick right, to try to do his best
Speaker 1: obviously and did really well, but missed that one and
Speaker 1: then got uh got calls. Yeah. I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: spotlight is on. And nowadays with the draft Kings and
Speaker 1: all these van duels and blah blah blah, people really
Speaker 1: caring about this stuff.
Speaker 2: Sometimes at one point or those three points is the
Speaker 2: difference in a lot of a lot of decisions people
Speaker 2: are making.
Speaker 1: Not that I went down anything about that, No, but
Speaker 1: we we know because we see it and we hear it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh you know, And and I'm sure guys like I guess,
Speaker 1: well La gave your guy aunt all the grief, right,
Speaker 1: and I guess they were getting on, Uh what's the
Speaker 1: guy Atlanta Atlanta? The guard Trey Young. They were all
Speaker 1: over him wherever he was playing, and you know, just brutal,
Speaker 1: brutal about it. I don't know how I would handle that.
Speaker 1: You're talking about just just just ripping them, just ripping
Speaker 1: them when they go to the game because they did
Speaker 1: something wrong. Well, mostly the opponents, Yeah, most of the opponents.
Speaker 1: You don't see a year. You do in the student section,
Speaker 1: and that makes it look bad. But when I was
Speaker 1: on the traveling traveling with the team, you know, Bibby
Speaker 1: used to get it. The lut got it all the time.
Speaker 1: You know, certain people sending popular coaches, some players were
Speaker 1: getting ripped for It's It's strange. I just never understood
Speaker 1: that kids being kids being kids. I was raised better,
Speaker 1: and a couple of adults being adults. I remember a
Speaker 1: couple of confrontations with a couple of adults with lout
Speaker 1: you know, just old dudes kind of Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, my dad and a couple of his buddies, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, I was like, I don't know, twelve thirteen.
Speaker 2: He'd lead the way trying to get autographs for me.
Speaker 2: You know, he'd intersept like Jerry West. Hey, let's go
Speaker 2: get him, going up to Jerry West. We would we
Speaker 2: would hang out after the Warriors games and and just
Speaker 2: stand there and the players walking.
Speaker 1: Out to the bus, and did you get them?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 1: Did you have to will? Yeah? I got that whole era.
Speaker 1: Oh nice. And my father was the one that took
Speaker 1: me down. Let's go. You go ask them for the
Speaker 1: autograph Dad, I'm not going to know. They wouldn't give
Speaker 1: them to the dad, they'd give them to the kid.
Speaker 1: They did.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I was going through some stuff today
Speaker 1: looking for something and I ran into a Kareem Abdul
Speaker 1: Jabbar card and Bill Walton card and seeing them forever
Speaker 1: just looking for other things, and I might have to
Speaker 1: bring them in. I'm sure you still have yours, right.
Speaker 2: I do have a lot of pretty good ones. Yeah,
Speaker 2: stashed away someplace, you know. Thank my mom for saving
Speaker 2: my baseball cards and.
Speaker 1: Things like that. I sold night. As I'm senior, I
Speaker 1: don't I still have them. What are they gonna do?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Exactly, that's my point. I tell I turned to my
Speaker 1: children and these things, and then they say, no, I
Speaker 1: do you guys? Are I do the same to my kids.
Speaker 1: I have all this stuff and said you want to no, Yeah, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I know what not to keep, what to keep?
Speaker 2: Well, at some point they're gonna just have to take it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, then deal with it and we won't be
Speaker 2: around sorry about it. Right, that's true, very true.
Speaker 1: What time? What do we have here?
Speaker 3: We're good to go.
Speaker 1: That's sounds quick. Okay, Thank you Kobe, thank you. We
Speaker 1: woke you up than to tell us. Thank you, Dave,
Speaker 1: see you Friday. Thanks everybody,