Speaker 1: Streaming live on the iHeartRadio Whip. This is I on
Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Ravera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball hero,
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve, He's Jay. Now we
Speaker 2: have Ryan with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is On the Ball Breaking News on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna start with a little bit of
Speaker 3: news from University of Arizona football ja Corey cross Merritt
Speaker 3: was named to the dok Walker Award watch list today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the running back on in New Mexico. So,
Speaker 4: you know, Steve, I mean, look at this team, right,
Speaker 4: they've met guys on all the awards lists. When has
Speaker 4: that ever been?
Speaker 2: No, No, you're right right, and people who have NFL potential.
Speaker 4: Right, even though the really good teams that they had,
Speaker 4: you know, the ten win teams that they've had in
Speaker 4: the past, they had defensive players on those lists, but
Speaker 4: never a bunch of offensive guys like like Arizona's got. Now.
Speaker 4: I know we had, know we went through the Club
Speaker 4: Tate thing, but think back, you know, they just haven't
Speaker 4: haven't haven't never had this kind of attention and recognition,
Speaker 4: right know, they haven't. They have to be good, don't they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Jay, this is goes back to your picking teams.
Speaker 5: They have to be.
Speaker 2: Good, but other teams are good too, I know that.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of like they're going into a league
Speaker 2: that's gonna be a lot like that. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: Pac twelve they had better teams. We know this, We
Speaker 2: talk about this all time. They were sixth, seventh, eighth,
Speaker 2: right seventh day. Arizona's now three four five maybe two
Speaker 2: three four five. That's what makes it so special because
Speaker 2: they have a chance. They have a chance. I mean,
Speaker 2: what was the lessaid they had a chance?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's the thing. And I you know, I
Speaker 4: was at my breakfast club this morning and then I
Speaker 4: manch I some you know, this doctor who had never
Speaker 4: met before, and everybody's asking me that how good is
Speaker 4: Arizona going to be? And I'm like, I think they're
Speaker 4: going to be good. But as you say, there's probably
Speaker 4: you know, in the Big twelve, there's probably eight teams
Speaker 4: that are sort of in the same you know range
Speaker 4: that Arizona is.
Speaker 2: We're we're here in Tuson. This show is here in Tucson, Arizona.
Speaker 2: You get a show like this every place in their
Speaker 2: in their spot, and they're talking about the same stuff.
Speaker 2: How good are how good are they right?
Speaker 4: State of saying it? Kansas? Kansas state? And how many
Speaker 4: Texas Tech Arizona that's a way. Yeah, they got beat
Speaker 4: seventy to seven a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: They saw right, right, and that's kind of maybe what
Speaker 2: the reputations do. Yeah, how good can they be?
Speaker 4: Somebody asks me if I can do something about the
Speaker 4: seventy to seven billboard? Is it still up?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: I don't think sits down. No, I think it's got
Speaker 2: to be down.
Speaker 5: Who do they lose to?
Speaker 4: You don't know that. No, you ain't see you dude.
Speaker 5: Oh god, where you been?
Speaker 4: Where you been?
Speaker 5: Worn rock? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yes, so you didn't do the work too hard?
Speaker 5: A big rock? Okay, all right?
Speaker 3: Speaking of former Arizona running backs, former Arizona running back
Speaker 3: Gery Brightwell signs with the Jaguars today.
Speaker 4: Oh he did sign he did. Oh, good for him,
Speaker 4: because I saw that there that there was discussion he
Speaker 4: might be signing with the with the Jags. But good,
Speaker 4: glad he glad he's still hanging around. He was one
Speaker 4: of the good guys. He actually came into a studio
Speaker 4: for his show if you remember.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's not not too bad. I guess going on
Speaker 5: to the numbers, this is what.
Speaker 4: This would be his third year maybe I think so
Speaker 4: year in the league. If he stays, that's hanging around
Speaker 4: a little bit, especially if you're running back, and what
Speaker 4: are running backs app five to seven years he launch
Speaker 4: speaking of because somebody I was listening. I was listening
Speaker 4: to this conversation on the on the radio today that
Speaker 4: Harrison Butler the the kicker, the loser kicker for Kansas City.
Speaker 4: He got a seventy million dollar contract. He's no, no,
Speaker 4: it's no. I take back some but it is talking
Speaker 4: about the Butler signing. But Jason Tucker, the Ravens kicker.
Speaker 4: He's gonna make as much money as Derrick Henry. I mean,
Speaker 4: think about who Dereck Henry is the running back.
Speaker 5: You say Jason, huh, you say Jason Justin? Oh, Jeff
Speaker 5: said Jason Justin Tucker.
Speaker 4: I might have said Jason, but it is Justin Tucker
Speaker 4: that he's a kicker. It's gonna make as much money
Speaker 4: as a guy who was at one point the best
Speaker 4: running back in the league. Is that crazy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that kind of tasured the value of the
Speaker 2: running back exactly if your name is not McCaffrey. And
Speaker 2: is that a transition for you? No, No, didn't you say?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Go ahead say that's your transition.
Speaker 3: So McCaffrey, he's gonna probably miss the preseason with a
Speaker 3: cap string.
Speaker 2: And I would venture to guess he's got to be
Speaker 2: one of the top five players in the league.
Speaker 4: He depends on whether or not. Where where you rank
Speaker 4: all the quarterbacks? Right right?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: I mean, but he's I mean San Francisco is really
Speaker 4: good because they have him, because they have a running
Speaker 4: back who can catch up on do all those things
Speaker 4: that there's only a couple of those around the league,
Speaker 4: right as as well as he does it. But he
Speaker 4: you know, he's had some injury issues over the years.
Speaker 4: I mean, I you know, I had him on my
Speaker 4: on my fantasy team one year that he missed like
Speaker 4: half the season.
Speaker 2: I'm shocked.
Speaker 4: I'm shocked.
Speaker 2: They should put it in a stipulation, Jay rule.
Speaker 5: Do not draft. They're they're watching it like, Okay, which
Speaker 5: players are he getting?
Speaker 4: Okay that I know. My sister gets pissed when I
Speaker 4: take any forty nine er.
Speaker 2: I don't blame you.
Speaker 4: I don't blame you.
Speaker 2: That's tell me who that's so.
Speaker 4: I forgot.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Elaine, Elaine, I don't know what to
Speaker 2: do with him. You've had him longer than I have,
Speaker 2: So I'm sorry for you.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, speaking of the Niners, I guess the stove
Speaker 3: would be I guess a good way to put this
Speaker 3: heating up, uh for Brandon Ayuk right today, I was
Speaker 3: listening to show earlier that Patriots Browns their teams that
Speaker 3: are now invol I guess they've been involved with. They
Speaker 3: are names that are going to top the list now
Speaker 3: for Brandon Nyuk. But they're saying that maybe he'll stay
Speaker 3: with with the forty nine ers after all and then
Speaker 3: maybe test free agency next year.
Speaker 4: It presents an interesting question because what it is that
Speaker 4: the forty nine ers don't have the money because to
Speaker 4: pay him what he wants to get paid, because they're
Speaker 4: about to have to give a brock Pride a fifty
Speaker 4: million dollar contract, right, so they don't have the money.
Speaker 4: You know, they don't have the money that he wants.
Speaker 4: And it's that simple. So he says he wants to
Speaker 4: be traded. But the question is do you want to
Speaker 4: go make the money he's gonna if he were signs
Speaker 4: with the Niners, He's gonna make millions of dollars right
Speaker 4: whatever they give him, but he wants to make many
Speaker 4: more millions of dollars. Do you force them to trade
Speaker 4: you so you can go make that many more millions
Speaker 4: of dollars to play for a team that sucks the
Speaker 4: Browns or the Patriots who aren't very good right now?
Speaker 4: Or do you stay with the forty nine ers maybe
Speaker 4: when they have a chance to win a championship, play
Speaker 4: on a really good team. Maybe you're what the third
Speaker 4: receiver you know on their team and then get your
Speaker 4: money later. What's what do you do?
Speaker 2: I'm curious and maybe somebody would tell me, and maybe
Speaker 2: it happened a long time ago, and just a question
Speaker 2: when did it become vogue for players like that to
Speaker 2: get into the league, get drafted and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Whatever you need me to do, mister Gonzalz, I'm going
Speaker 2: to do for you. Work my ass out. Do you
Speaker 2: won't disappoint me. I won't disappoint you. And there comes
Speaker 2: a point where now give you owe me, yeah, give
Speaker 2: me mind? Yeah, what point did that happen because it's
Speaker 2: the players controlling the league. I want to make this, Well,
Speaker 2: we don't have the money.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we can't.
Speaker 2: We can't do it. Well, I want to go somewhere else.
Speaker 2: What I was good to you for five ten years?
Speaker 2: Now you want to leave because you want to make
Speaker 2: a few more dollars. When did that happen?
Speaker 4: I think A long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a long time ago. What was the free agent
Speaker 2: the guy what's a free agent?
Speaker 5: Gume?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, he was the original guy. Who's the
Speaker 2: baseball yeah? Or football or baseball?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, no, not Lou Brock.
Speaker 2: That guy.
Speaker 4: That guy, the guy he was like, he was a
Speaker 4: base stealing kind of guy.
Speaker 2: The Kurt Flood, Kurt Flood with all this stuff. And
Speaker 2: I get it. I get it. If you're going to
Speaker 2: give me more money somewhere else, I'll go. But I, well,
Speaker 2: I should be able to appreciate where I'm at too.
Speaker 4: Well, that's you, and I think, right, I mean, if
Speaker 4: I can make five million dollars on the winner or
Speaker 4: ten million dollars and just suck just to the points
Speaker 4: where you might get killed on the field, I'm taking
Speaker 4: the fine.
Speaker 2: Well, look at Antonio Brown is Antonio Brown. How good
Speaker 2: did he have it? And then all of a sudden
Speaker 2: he pooped himself because he wanted more. Yeah, honestly, and
Speaker 2: how many guys have done And another reason, Jade, that's
Speaker 2: why I'm not a big sports fan. And I know
Speaker 2: there's very few there's there's there's more not like that
Speaker 2: than like that. But that's when you leave the last
Speaker 2: n impression.
Speaker 4: No, and there are a lot of people who get
Speaker 4: tired of seeing that. They still watch the game right, right,
Speaker 4: but they're tired of that because we grew up at
Speaker 4: a time where you played being a Major League Baseball
Speaker 4: player or being an NFL player or being an NBA
Speaker 4: player was the end all and it meant something. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and whatever came with that was good enough.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I hear you, that's not it anymore, Steve where
Speaker 4: the dinosaurs.
Speaker 2: And it's well, and it's it's three or four years
Speaker 2: because I'm happy to be here, Jay, I'm want to
Speaker 2: work my butt off for you, blah blah blah, and
Speaker 2: when it comes comes time three four years, I don't
Speaker 2: really care anymore.
Speaker 4: But which gets back to the point. See, why are
Speaker 4: quarterbacks making fifty million dollars getting fifty million dollar contracts.
Speaker 4: I don't get that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 4: I don't mean too.
Speaker 2: Let's majority of one later, kids don't listen to us.
Speaker 5: I listened. I'm not a kid, but that a kid.
Speaker 4: You're a wiser kid, exactly.
Speaker 5: I'm an old kid. You are, all right.
Speaker 3: Let's majority of the Olympics news. Out of the US
Speaker 3: men's Kevin Durant, He's now passed Lisa Leslie total points.
Speaker 3: He's now has four hundred and eighty nine, coming the
Speaker 3: all time leading Olympic point score. He's only eleven way
Speaker 3: for five hundred. Can you reach that? Well, he get
Speaker 3: even more than five hundred. They got a couple more.
Speaker 4: Shit, They've got probably two more games to play, and
Speaker 4: this is probably his last Olympics. He has been he
Speaker 4: has been unbelievable. He's been unbelievable in the in the Olympics.
Speaker 4: I mean from that first game where he just couldn't miss,
Speaker 4: to you know, to now, so okay, you know, give
Speaker 4: it up for him for doing what he's what he's
Speaker 4: done in the Olympics.
Speaker 3: A little bit of sad news out of MLB. Billy
Speaker 3: Bean died today.
Speaker 5: Sixty.
Speaker 4: Not that Billy Bean, though, sixty. Who's Billy Bean, not
Speaker 4: not the moneyball Billy being another Billy Bean.
Speaker 5: He was that only a year long flight ofmia.
Speaker 4: So what Billy Bean is a different Billy being. I
Speaker 4: don't know, but somebody's been around. I saw that. I thought, oh, no, moneyball.
Speaker 4: And then the first response to the Twitter post that
Speaker 4: I saw it said not moneyball Billy Be. So this
Speaker 4: is a different but still not okay. It's not okay,
Speaker 4: and it's still sad, but it's not the moneyball Billy
Speaker 4: being that we saw. It's a different one. And I
Speaker 4: do recall it. I recall their being yea and there
Speaker 4: it was confusing, okay around at the same time, I think.
Speaker 3: He was drafted like in eighty six by the Giants,
Speaker 3: played for the Dodgers for a year.
Speaker 5: But yeah, yeah, news.
Speaker 3: I guess there's some other sad news. If you're a
Speaker 3: White Sox fan and they continue to coue to lose
Speaker 3: and they're not if the twenty one losses in a row, how.
Speaker 2: Bad do you have to be?
Speaker 4: That the historically bad? I think, you know, it's like whatever, Yeah, well,
Speaker 4: well they you know, they they you know, they let
Speaker 4: all out of their players go. You know, they traded
Speaker 4: amount and stuff like that. But they're historically bad. This
Speaker 4: is the they're tied for the second worst losing streak
Speaker 4: ever in Major League Baseball. I think the worst. They're
Speaker 4: only three two games away from that to twenty three
Speaker 4: is the record.
Speaker 5: Twenty three by the sixty one Philadelphia.
Speaker 4: Field was a fulfilling. Even the sixty sixty two Mets
Speaker 4: were considered widely considered the worst team in the history
Speaker 4: of baseball, didn't have a losing streak like that, So
Speaker 4: that's crazy. They're so bad.
Speaker 5: I think I think they'll beat that record on wouldn't you.
Speaker 4: How many people are out there putting money on them
Speaker 4: every day? Oh, just think they're going to break their record.
Speaker 2: There's your thing because we talk about tom Oh they're due.
Speaker 2: There's no such thing as they're due. They're just bad.
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 4: Or what if you started betting on their opponent twenty
Speaker 4: one games ago? How much money have you won, especially
Speaker 4: if you let it roll over each time.
Speaker 2: Who's crazy enough to do that? Not me.
Speaker 3: Let's stick with baseball. Let's go back to University of Arizona.
Speaker 3: A couple of former Wildcats, Jackson Can't left handed pitcher
Speaker 3: and right hander Clark Candiatti. They were assigned to their
Speaker 3: respective rookie league teams yesterday.
Speaker 4: Okay, I can't.
Speaker 3: Will start his pro career at National's Florida Complex League,
Speaker 3: see Candyaty will begin here at San Diego Padres Arizona
Speaker 3: Complex League.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's just start. And who's the other kid?
Speaker 4: Who's the other kid?
Speaker 2: There's two kids, ken Yatti And there was a guy
Speaker 2: from who he was here and then he went to
Speaker 2: Oregon State or kill.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and then now he is up
Speaker 4: his name yeah okay, yeah, community college right started there?
Speaker 6: That?
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you talk to your doctor about our problem?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: I forgot.
Speaker 2: Jayden talked to you about her memories. You forgot that
Speaker 2: he's perfect. I forgot. I can't here to ask you
Speaker 2: Christian Africa, I forgot.
Speaker 5: That's all I got for today.
Speaker 4: Okay, that one. Got one more. Cal Stevenson late in
Speaker 4: Arizona twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, was named the International League
Speaker 4: July Player of the Month. So there's that sort of
Speaker 4: you know, one of those things that comes across it
Speaker 4: probably more confusing to us than anything, but the Division,
Speaker 4: the Division one board of Directors put out a proposal
Speaker 4: to distribute women's basketball Championship money similar to what they
Speaker 4: do for the men's basketball Championship, where the longer your
Speaker 4: team stays in the tournament, the more money you get.
Speaker 4: They're going to start out with in the twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five twenty six fiscal year, which is next season, start
Speaker 4: out with fifteen million dollars, increasing to twenty then twenty five.
Speaker 4: Then after that they'll increase it by a certain percentage,
Speaker 4: say two point nine percent each year, so that schools
Speaker 4: look the tournament started. Maybe, I guess is a sign
Speaker 4: that the women's basketball tournament starting to make some money
Speaker 4: that we do contract you can again one more thing
Speaker 4: that you can probably thank Caitlin Clark for. And so
Speaker 4: they're going to be distributing money similar to the way
Speaker 4: they do for the men's basketball tournament. Yeah, that's been
Speaker 4: rolled out today.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go with that. We'll take a break and
Speaker 2: get ahold of Brett Right.
Speaker 4: Yep, Brett Fair will be joining us a sports center
Speaker 4: at theaters a daily start. We'll ask them how the
Speaker 4: Star is going to be covering the Big twelve and
Speaker 4: the challenges and differences that they face. The stick around
Speaker 4: for that, the window.
Speaker 7: Depot is more than a Windows store. The Window Depot
Speaker 7: is a one softwarehouse with everything you need for your
Speaker 7: complete Homer model. Shop the aisles of pre built cabinets
Speaker 7: in a variety of colors, granite and courts, countertops, sinks,
Speaker 7: skylights and hardware. To complete your project. Need a custom order,
Speaker 7: we can help. Our designers offer free design services and
Speaker 7: can special order everything you need for your kitchen or
Speaker 7: bathroom remodel Today. Shop the Window Deepot dot com or
Speaker 7: find a location near you. The Window Depot more than
Speaker 7: a Windows store.
Speaker 2: Steve Rivera here to talk about Doroto Rocking Materials. I
Speaker 2: needed a lot of gravel from a driveway, so I
Speaker 2: called Eric Doroto Rock. He found out the amount and
Speaker 2: color I needed and boom, it was taken care of
Speaker 2: and at a great price. How do I know radio
Speaker 2: commercials work. I heard one of his on the radio.
Speaker 2: Dorato Rock and Materials provides a wide range of landscaping materials,
Speaker 2: including decative rock, boulders, gravel, soil, and sand for residential
Speaker 2: and commercial use in the Tucson area. They are locally
Speaker 2: owned and have been around for more than fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Give them a call at five to two zero four
Speaker 2: zero zero four, two three three.
Speaker 4: Where do you buy exercise equipment?
Speaker 8: Arizona Health Arizona Health Arizona Health.
Speaker 9: Of course, to feel better and look better, it makes
Speaker 9: sense to buy your fitness equipment from the people who
Speaker 9: know it better than anyone else. At Arizona Health, our
Speaker 9: goal is to help you choose the equipment you need
Speaker 9: to reach your goals. Your health and fitness deserve the
Speaker 9: best you deserve. Arizona Health The.
Speaker 5: Leaded and exercise equipment.
Speaker 9: On twenty seconds, just west of Wilmot.
Speaker 8: Did you know sports cards at Memorabilia are setting record
Speaker 8: sales last month of nineteen fifty two, Tops SO for
Speaker 8: twelve point six million, Lebron James Rookie So for five
Speaker 8: point six Also, collecting cards is a family fun hobby
Speaker 8: that can be very profitable. If you want to start
Speaker 8: a collection or expand your collection, check out Showtime Cards.
Speaker 8: They are one of the leading card shops in the
Speaker 8: country and have served for our local community for twenty five years.
Speaker 8: They are located on e Speedway. That's show Time Cards
Speaker 8: at Nova Home Loans. We believe everyone deserves the opportunity
Speaker 8: to enjoy the independence that comes with home ownership. Paul
Speaker 8: Volpi is ready to help you find an option that
Speaker 8: best fits your needs. Whether you're a first time or
Speaker 8: veteran home buyer or want to get cash out with
Speaker 8: the refinance. Nova has a variety of home loan programs
Speaker 8: to meet your unique situation. Visit voltpeteam dot com, that's
Speaker 8: volpe team dot com or called five two oh six
Speaker 8: eight five six two six today in MLS three oh
Speaker 8: eight seven Arizona BKO nine two nine four two Equal
Speaker 8: Housing Opportunity, How to commitment to Lyndrix syn Credit rates
Speaker 8: and available loan programs are subject to change with no notice.
Speaker 10: It's award season for summer sports leagues and time to
Speaker 10: look at trophies for baseball, softball, volleyball, and swimming seasons
Speaker 10: for youth and adult leagues. Summer has arrived and it's
Speaker 10: time to replenish your promotional products for your company's giveaways.
Speaker 10: Keep your employees looking great in fresh new apparel, polos
Speaker 10: and caps with your sharp looking logo. Creative Awards is
Speaker 10: here to serve your professional and promotional products needs. Visit
Speaker 10: the Creative Awards Idea Center at two twenty eight West
Speaker 10: Rackman Street or visit them online at Creative awardsaz dot com.
Speaker 11: Got bugs, termites, bees, or rodents, Arizona Pest Control will
Speaker 11: hunt them down. Arizona Pest Control is your complete desert
Speaker 11: pest management specialist. Tests. Can't run or hide from Arizona
Speaker 11: Pest Control. Then use only the latest and most technologically
Speaker 11: advanced methods of pest elimination available, which minimizes the effects
Speaker 11: on the environment. Let Arizona Pest Control get rid of
Speaker 11: your bad bugs, termites, bees, or rodents serving Tucson and
Speaker 11: Southern Arizona since nineteen forty seven. Go to azpest dot
Speaker 11: com to schedule your free evaluation today.
Speaker 1: This is High on the Ball with Steve Rivera and
Speaker 1: Jay Gonzalez soun Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Subscribe now to
Speaker 1: the podcast on the iHeartRadio while just surgery I on
Speaker 1: the book.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Riverta. He's jaging sauce now on
Speaker 2: the phone him but Fay, sports editor at the Arizona
Speaker 2: doing the Star Brett.
Speaker 6: Howay, I'm good, guys. How are you doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing? Thanks for taking some time for us. We're
Speaker 2: your busy schedule. We joke kind of and not joke
Speaker 2: about the schedule. How busy are you?
Speaker 6: It's pretty nuts, but it's in a good way, you know,
Speaker 6: the I don't want to jump on a question before
Speaker 6: you get to ask it, but you know, this, this
Speaker 6: Big Twelve evolution for Arizona has been did a lot
Speaker 6: this summer, but in a fun way, getting to learn
Speaker 6: a lot about the other fifteen. I know three of
Speaker 6: them are pretty well known to Arizona, but the other
Speaker 6: fifteen Big twelve cities outside of Tucson learning fun things
Speaker 6: like Other than Tempe, the closest geographical rival to Tucson
Speaker 6: is Lubbock, Texas. That's a far cry from Los Angele
Speaker 6: in the past years. I mean, I was been thinking
Speaker 6: it was going to be Salt Lake City or Provo
Speaker 6: and nope, loub it. And so that just shows the
Speaker 6: expanse of how this goes. And then you know, diving
Speaker 6: into things like Arizona's playing in the space game at UCF.
Speaker 6: They're just they're right off the coast, being in Orlando,
Speaker 6: right off the coast of what they call the Space
Speaker 6: Coast by Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, and they
Speaker 6: take it very seriously there and Tucson being one of
Speaker 6: the astronomy capitals of the world. That's going to be
Speaker 6: kind of a fun event out in Orlando. So there's
Speaker 6: just a lot of cool stuff going on that we've
Speaker 6: been able to sort of dive into this summer and
Speaker 6: learn a little bit about and some fun quirky things too.
Speaker 6: That has been great, But it's kept me busy, that's
Speaker 6: for sure, in our whole staff.
Speaker 2: So as I hear you talk, and I was just
Speaker 2: gonna ask both of you guys, because it just came
Speaker 2: to me, do you feel that they're going to the
Speaker 2: Big twelve Now? It's more of a more of a
Speaker 2: football league. You know, they're going to LA to play
Speaker 2: UCLA or or Washington State. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: It's more football.
Speaker 6: Kay, what do you think?
Speaker 4: Yes? Yeah, Look, I mean again, no half empty stadiums,
Speaker 4: right is what we're going to see.
Speaker 6: Well, there's a couple things, you know. The Rose Bowl.
Speaker 6: I've said this for a long time. The Rose Bowl
Speaker 6: is the greatest setting in college football and it's the
Speaker 6: worst regular season stadium in college football because of seventy
Speaker 6: eighty thousand seats. I don't even if I remember it was
Speaker 6: ninety five thousand but it's less than that the difference
Speaker 6: in the Big Twelve. I think BYU is the largest
Speaker 6: Big twelve stadium at like sixty seven thousand right of
Speaker 6: the sixteen Big twelve schools. So it's kind of an
Speaker 6: interesting dynamic where you're going to see. We have this
Speaker 6: thing going on right now in print and it's sort
Speaker 6: of kicking off this week digitally on Tucson dot Com
Speaker 6: called Big twelve Blitz, where we're doing multiple pages of
Speaker 6: content on every Big twelve school city, fan based mascots, colors,
Speaker 6: all the different things that go into it, and diving
Speaker 6: into our photo archives for the last time Arizona sports,
Speaker 6: not just football and basketball, but all sports have played
Speaker 6: these schools, and Baylor's won. We spent a lot of
Speaker 6: time on this week, and you know, talk about a
Speaker 6: cool situation. A brand new football facility. I know Arizona's
Speaker 6: not going to be the year, but a brand new
Speaker 6: football was a stadium that's well ten years old, a
Speaker 6: brand new basketball arena that opened, you know, five months ago,
Speaker 6: eight months ago. I bring that up because their new
Speaker 6: football stadium is forty five thousand, the basketball arena is
Speaker 6: seventy five hundred. You know, so the idea of a
Speaker 6: packed house is meant to be intimate in the Big Twelve,
Speaker 6: I think, compared to what we've seen in the past.
Speaker 6: And to answer your original question, Eve about football versus basketball,
Speaker 6: Baylor's a good example. I mean, Arizona fans like to think,
Speaker 6: you know, high and mighty, and rightfully so about men's
Speaker 6: and women's basketball. Baylor's got a national championship in both
Speaker 6: in the last five years, so there is more than
Speaker 6: just football in this conference. I think that Arizona fans
Speaker 6: can aspire for their teams to live up to and
Speaker 6: I think that's going to be kind of a neat
Speaker 6: part of it, despite what I will always feel like
Speaker 6: we're losing with losing the pack ball.
Speaker 2: But I'm not sure how often you listen to the show.
Speaker 2: But good perspective is not allowed on the show.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm not gonna lie. I'm very sad about the
Speaker 6: demise of the pass. Well, so I think the travel
Speaker 6: is easy, but I think it's I think it's a
Speaker 6: few years of interesting, you know, fun ways of seeing
Speaker 6: new parts, even us on TV. The odds of me
Speaker 6: traveling to a lot of these places my staff guests,
Speaker 6: but me traveling is pretty slim, but but getting to
Speaker 6: see see new stadiums, new new locales, and you know,
Speaker 6: it's funny. We've been doing a lot of interviews with
Speaker 6: local media, some former players of Big twelve schools for
Speaker 6: this series and and this is this is football in
Speaker 6: the South. My friend like, it's it's interesting hearing them
Speaker 6: talk because as soon as we bring up you know, hey,
Speaker 6: let's talk about softball, let's talk about baseball, they're like, well,
Speaker 6: let's talk about football more. Yeah, you know, so it's
Speaker 6: it's definitely to to Jay's point, it's it's it's football
Speaker 6: at football football and then everything.
Speaker 4: Else, Well, it's gonna be and and I think that,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, fans here are going to have
Speaker 4: to understand and get used to the fact that, you know,
Speaker 4: they take it serious over there. You know, there aren't
Speaker 4: going to be any you know, lazy games, either in
Speaker 4: basketball or football or any other sports where they're just
Speaker 4: kind of like people show up and you know, and
Speaker 4: you play and it's not loud or whatever. Every game
Speaker 4: is going to is a big deal in every one
Speaker 4: of those cities because you know, we've made the point
Speaker 4: the number of times that these are all college towns, right, uh,
Speaker 4: you know what. Uh, you know, the PAC twelve was
Speaker 4: all big cities, with the exception of you know, Washington State,
Speaker 4: Oregon State. Uh, you know, they're there. Even Tucson was like,
Speaker 4: you know, not it's not Phoenix. Two. Son's not Phoenix.
Speaker 4: Two Son's not La two sounds not you know, San Francis.
Speaker 6: On the thirty fifth largest city in the country. People
Speaker 6: forget that. Yeah, Tucson's not tiny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know right, So this stuff is a big
Speaker 4: deal to those fans and get you know, Arizona fans
Speaker 4: who go to those places better get ready for all that.
Speaker 6: What I'm excited about, again, not trying to have too
Speaker 6: positive a perspective, but is there is some existing history
Speaker 6: with some of these schools that I think is kind
Speaker 6: of neat. There's obviously an opportunity for a budding rivalry
Speaker 6: with BYU for a ton of reasons for both a
Speaker 6: SU and you of a the religious component in terms
Speaker 6: of Arizona and the LDS faction in the state of Arizona. Notwithstanding,
Speaker 6: there's a lot of opportunity there. I think Utah has
Speaker 6: always kind of been a good growth opportunity from a
Speaker 6: rivalry standpoint, and so coming with Arizona obviously ASU. I mean,
Speaker 6: I'm not even saying that, but you know another one
Speaker 6: we just did in the series recently, TCU. Kind of
Speaker 6: fascinating it. It didn't dawn on me until I looked
Speaker 6: at it that, you know, TCU. The last time Arizona
Speaker 6: played PCU in football was September of two thousand and three.
Speaker 6: Do you guys remember that game?
Speaker 4: Yeah, John macavit got fired right after.
Speaker 6: John sixth last game they won, third they were ranked.
Speaker 6: Came into Tucson after Arizona had lost like three hundred
Speaker 6: to ten to LSU, Oregon and Purdue the three weeks prior.
Speaker 6: Came into Tucson and barely squeaked out a thirteen to
Speaker 6: ten overtime win that Arizona was winning with two minutes
Speaker 6: to go in the fourth and he would have been
Speaker 6: gone anyway, but it might have prolonged him for a
Speaker 6: few more weeks. Yeah, and then even before that. The
Speaker 6: time before that was in ninety nine, the week after
Speaker 6: Arizona got by Penn State, when as the number four
Speaker 6: team in the country, they go into to Fort Worth
Speaker 6: and need a touchdown, a thirty yard touchdown from Keith
Speaker 6: Smith to Dennis Thurths Cutt with two minutes to go
Speaker 6: to win that one, to stave off being oh and two.
Speaker 6: So there's there's a lot of weird history that exist
Speaker 6: amongst some of these schools. It's just it's just not
Speaker 6: in the last five years necessarily. Do you remember, I
Speaker 6: think that part is kind of fun.
Speaker 4: Do you remember who was on that TCU team.
Speaker 6: Which won the ninety nineteen Yeah, Ladanian Thomlinson.
Speaker 4: Danian Tomlinson was on that team. And it's like he
Speaker 4: was really he was really good. He was really good.
Speaker 4: And I haven't seen have you guys done Texas Tech yet?
Speaker 4: I haven't noticed.
Speaker 6: We just did the interview for that yesterday and that
Speaker 6: was the trip too, because even talking about, you know,
Speaker 6: Texas Tech putting up seven figures to take to get
Speaker 6: the best softball player in the country, when we know
Speaker 6: Arizona softball has been pretty good the last few years,
Speaker 6: even in the year they missed the tournament. The one
Speaker 6: thing they've been missing is a dominant starting pitcher, obviously,
Speaker 6: And and to see the best pitcher in the country
Speaker 6: end up at Texas Tech, a team they'll play quite
Speaker 6: a few times in the next couple of years, it
Speaker 6: just shows how how interesting. It's going to be across
Speaker 6: all sports.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I brought that up because Arizona, when Arizona
Speaker 4: was in the whack, Texas Tech was the big non
Speaker 4: conference game that they would play. It's like, oh man,
Speaker 4: we're playing Texas Tech. Was kind of like Texas Tech was,
Speaker 4: you know, Alabama to to to Jay.
Speaker 6: Don't act like you're dad old you don't remember when
Speaker 6: they were.
Speaker 4: In the whack one hundred percent, dude, Dude, I one hundred.
Speaker 2: He doesn't remember yesterday, but he does remember that.
Speaker 4: I look up, look up the game. I think it
Speaker 4: was seventy five, maybe seventy four to seventy five, seventy
Speaker 4: Jim in the Jim Young years. Arizona was down twenty
Speaker 4: eight to three at halftime and came back and won
Speaker 4: the game. Look that one up big rally in the
Speaker 4: second half. But that that was like to me, that
Speaker 4: still stands as one of the greatest games ever at
Speaker 4: Arizona Stadium because it was Texas Tech. Arizona was getting
Speaker 4: its butt beat and they came back and and won.
Speaker 4: I think they won thirty twenty eight or something like that.
Speaker 4: Is that the score?
Speaker 2: That's it?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 4: You go at home at home yeah, it was here.
Speaker 4: It was here and Texas Tech. It's funny at that time,
Speaker 4: Brett Texas Tech and San Diego State where Arizona's huge
Speaker 4: non conference rivals that they never be.
Speaker 2: So who's the first guy you think? Okay, Texas Tech,
Speaker 2: who's the first guy you think of?
Speaker 4: I have mine?
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 6: I mean, I know it's recency biased. I'm gonna say Mahomes.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, I wouldn't. I think of Mike Leech
Speaker 2: and I think Billy Joe Tulliver. Okay, well, I think I.
Speaker 6: Would think Mike Leach's number two. Yeah, I mean that
Speaker 6: whole string of quarterbacks from Kingsbury to all the way through.
Speaker 6: You know, obviously to Mahomes that that that whole air
Speaker 6: raid offense that they just were turning out dunk dink
Speaker 6: and dug passers was was something.
Speaker 4: But but that the history behind that Texas Tech game again,
Speaker 4: back to those days, it was a big deal.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, basketball because back in the day when I
Speaker 2: was doing some of the books, they had to take
Speaker 2: the train to get to level. It was very difficult,
Speaker 2: very cold.
Speaker 6: So if the last time Texas Tech has been to
Speaker 6: Tucson for basketball was that Bobby Night No. Five would
Speaker 6: go into sixteen and Michale in the tournament. I don't
Speaker 6: know if you played.
Speaker 4: The Arizona Arizona.
Speaker 6: I think in Zaga and Utah they played I'm not mistaken, but.
Speaker 4: They played Texas Tech in the Festival Classic Festible Classic
Speaker 4: tournament in the eighty six eighty seven season because I
Speaker 4: covered that, and uh and you know, you know Arizona,
Speaker 4: I think they only ever lost one game in that tournament.
Speaker 2: They did, only lost one and they also played them
Speaker 2: in the utip U tip in some tournaments out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that was but yeah, it's been it's been
Speaker 4: a while.
Speaker 6: So the other the other thing, if if we got
Speaker 6: a second I hope. I'm not much the other thing
Speaker 6: that's kind of about the big twelve schools, and I
Speaker 6: don't know if it's neither if it's just interesting to me,
Speaker 6: but seeing the disparity between and this has been talked about,
Speaker 6: and I'm not suggesting Arizona ASU should cut sports, but
Speaker 6: ASU with twenty seven in Arizona with twenty two. For
Speaker 6: the most part, ASU buy and large, but Arizona slightly
Speaker 6: above a couple of others, but both have more sports
Speaker 6: than any other schools. In the Big twelve. The closest
Speaker 6: I think are TCU and BYU have twenty one and
Speaker 6: then the rest are all in the teams. And I
Speaker 6: think that's gonna be an interesting thing too over the
Speaker 6: first couple of years to see how this shapes out.
Speaker 6: But seeing some of these sports at other schools. TCU
Speaker 6: is the defending rifle champion in SCA sports, the only
Speaker 6: school to have an all women's team. It's a co
Speaker 6: ed sport, but they filed an all women's team and
Speaker 6: they've won it four times in the last fourteen years
Speaker 6: and they're still the only school with an all women's
Speaker 6: team to win it. And so there's some fun stuff
Speaker 6: like that that I think it's kind of neat seeing
Speaker 6: what sports exist in these that aren't in Tucson for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it look it's going to be fun, and
Speaker 4: it starts with football, so much other other stuff too.
Speaker 2: For a lot of fun, a lot of work for
Speaker 2: you guys, a lot of fun for you guys. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you've met and talked to uh Desiree. Do you
Speaker 2: do you honestly think that uh? Oh no, your opinion
Speaker 2: on on her not cutting any sports.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think it's I think it's her opinion
Speaker 6: and her truth right now. But I think they're gonna
Speaker 6: have to continue to monitor it over time, you know.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's you know, I have ideas. I'm not
Speaker 6: gonna throw them out here on the radio because I
Speaker 6: think it would cause uproar if the if, if if
Speaker 6: anyone is listening to me ramble on about these things.
Speaker 6: But there's there's some ways they could make that work.
Speaker 6: But it's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt anyone who's participated
Speaker 6: in the past, currently participating, or has an affinity for
Speaker 6: some of these. But they have to continue to look
Speaker 6: at it. I like I said, I don't I don't
Speaker 6: think she's lying. I mean, I think that's the plan
Speaker 6: for the time being. But unless they can figure out
Speaker 6: years on a sports property situation and stuff like that,
Speaker 6: they're gonna have to keep addressing it. And if but
Speaker 6: if they can figure that out and figure out to
Speaker 6: bring in more revenue than they were making through lear
Speaker 6: Field and other avenues, than then maybe it allows them
Speaker 6: to keep that and it makes Arizona more of a
Speaker 6: destination than it already has them. But I don't, I don't,
Speaker 6: you know, I believe her but I believe, I believe
Speaker 6: it's also fluid. If that makes sense.
Speaker 4: It does make sense because you think about you, you know,
Speaker 4: you brought up the you brought up a million dollar
Speaker 4: you know, softball pitcher Texas Tech. Where's that money coming from? Right?
Speaker 4: And and how sustainable is it to you know, to
Speaker 4: get that kind of money coming in to give to
Speaker 4: give to the athletes who are going to be getting paid,
Speaker 4: you know, through revenue sharing anyways. But there's gotta be more,
Speaker 4: you know, there's got to be places that they're gonna
Speaker 4: they're gonna get some money, and then how do they
Speaker 4: dole it out? I I don't understand how that's all
Speaker 4: gonna work.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't either. I mean Texas Tech. The interesting
Speaker 6: case that we had heard through this was that it's
Speaker 6: one of the people that's sort of the large, hefty
Speaker 6: donor for a lot of their stuff and in their
Speaker 6: anil system. His his wife actually was a softball player
Speaker 6: at Texas Tech. So when this became a thing, they
Speaker 6: both jumped on the possibility, knowing that one one million
Speaker 6: dollar investment could actually be get a great season, which
Speaker 6: then creates a bigger day to day recruiting pipeline. Outside
Speaker 6: of nil, and so I think they're they're trying to,
Speaker 6: you know, not hit a hole in one, but they're
Speaker 6: trying to go for the green in two, if that
Speaker 6: makes sense. You know, much more logical opportunity to to
Speaker 6: burdye to to mix sports metaphors. But so, I you know,
Speaker 6: they're in a similar boat to Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 6: There's a top five women's basketball player, PJ Brown and
Speaker 6: I were on the call with them yesterday and PJ
Speaker 6: was talking about it, and there's a top five women's
Speaker 6: basketball recruit who's from Lobbock. So they're trying to figure
Speaker 6: out how to keep her there rather than have her
Speaker 6: go off to one of the bigger programs in the
Speaker 6: country to try and build that up too. And when
Speaker 6: you only have sixteen seventeen sports compared to twenty two
Speaker 6: or twenty seven, your investment of resources, time, personnel, everything
Speaker 6: becomes significantly easier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were talking Brett earlier about the how people
Speaker 2: get their in their news right and newspapers. We've both
Speaker 2: been in the business, you know, jail it's tough. So
Speaker 2: by these things that you're doing, just being different, I'm
Speaker 2: sure helps it does.
Speaker 6: I mean, part of it is like, I appreciate you
Speaker 6: saying that. I mean, part of it is that, like
Speaker 6: with this series we're doing again, it's called Big twelve,
Speaker 6: but it's been primarily in print so far. But that's
Speaker 6: by design. You know, our print readers, I'm not going
Speaker 6: to sugarcoat it. They spend a good chunk of money
Speaker 6: to get that print newspaper. We sometimes need to give
Speaker 6: them a little bit of an advance on certain things,
Speaker 6: and it'll all run before football starts, so it's not
Speaker 6: going to be late by any stretch. But but yeah,
Speaker 6: having different mediums to put this stuff out there is
Speaker 6: definitely part of it. You know, we're rebuilding our mobile
Speaker 6: app right now and one of the interesting things in
Speaker 6: YouTube are at the forefront of this. You know, you
Speaker 6: guys and some of the other you know specifically radio
Speaker 6: shows in town are at the forefront of this, justin
Speaker 6: obviously from our staff who's on one of the other
Speaker 6: stations in the same boat. People like to connect with
Speaker 6: people like they know them, and we've surveyed our audience
Speaker 6: and they've told us this too, that they want to
Speaker 6: feel like they know Michael lev and Bruce Pasco of PJ.
Speaker 6: Brown and Justin Spears and so part of our development
Speaker 6: of our mobile app that we hope people download and
Speaker 6: participate in is you're going to be able to create
Speaker 6: a feed by author, not just by sport. You know,
Speaker 6: if you like everything that Bruce has to say or
Speaker 6: that PJ has to say, you can just read what
Speaker 6: PJ has to say. And I think that's a big
Speaker 6: deal that we start acknowledging the that the individual connection
Speaker 6: is a big deal. It's not just a publication or
Speaker 6: a name on the top of the paper. The bylines matter,
Speaker 6: and who the resources are and the intelligent cakes and
Speaker 6: positions that they're able to put into it. From a
Speaker 6: reporting standpoint, I don't just mean opinionated takes, but I
Speaker 6: think all matters to what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: Totally agree.
Speaker 4: Very cool, Yeah, No, that's what I mean. That's what
Speaker 4: we're talking about Earlier. It's like we're starting to follow
Speaker 4: writers and media people and getting our news that way,
Speaker 4: as opposed to I read everything in the New York Times,
Speaker 4: I read everything in the Washington Post or in the
Speaker 4: areson the Daily Star. It's like, Okay, we follow Justin,
Speaker 4: we follow Michael, we follow you know, Bruce, we follow PJ,
Speaker 4: we follow you know, national writers and we write what
Speaker 4: they we read what they write.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I totally agree. I mean, obviously I still want
Speaker 6: people to see the Star and twoson dot com as
Speaker 6: a primary resource. But I'm also the first person to
Speaker 6: say too. And I mean, this was no ego that
Speaker 6: we're not going to be able to cover the city alone.
Speaker 6: And we've talked about this before, and we've talked about
Speaker 6: other outlets. I give all Sports two so on a
Speaker 6: lot of credit. I give pH and X a lot
Speaker 6: of credit. I mean there's I give what you guys
Speaker 6: do from a this particular medium a ton of credit
Speaker 6: that I think. It's a collective ecosystem where we were
Speaker 6: all more alike than we are different in terms of
Speaker 6: trying to serve an audience that just wants to eat
Speaker 6: more and more and more and wants us to refill
Speaker 6: their plate. It's the sweet tomatoes version of sports where
Speaker 6: they just want to go back to the buffet twenty
Speaker 6: seven more times, and we got to make sure there's enough,
Speaker 6: you know, mac and cheese and blueberry muffins out there, right.
Speaker 2: Well, Jennie sol some weight, so no seconds.
Speaker 4: I got to stay away from bad I do I do.
Speaker 2: By the way, thanks a bunch as always read.
Speaker 6: Thank you guys, appreciate you having me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, take care of I will do it again, Thank
Speaker 4: you very much.
Speaker 2: All right. I like the analogy though, the you know,
Speaker 2: you go back and you meet people. You know what
Speaker 2: I've taken. We can need to get an app. We
Speaker 2: need to get an app. Yeah, buying the ball, that'd
Speaker 2: be kind of cool. We can, you know, people can
Speaker 2: find us easier. I missed first cafeteria, so we talked
Speaker 2: about that too. I used to get the halibit just
Speaker 2: for the hellib it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, bag, yeah, yeh. I love the hell every time. Okay,
Speaker 4: all right, let's take a break, our last break. We're
Speaker 4: gonna come back. We're going to take your cost five
Speaker 4: two zero four, one sixty.
Speaker 2: If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you know it's
Speaker 2: been successful for nearly forty years. Now take a look
Speaker 2: back at the Ludolsen era in my new book, Lessons
Speaker 2: from Loot. It was a labor of love through the
Speaker 2: eyes of twenty five former players, coaches, and friends to
Speaker 2: give insight to the coach and the man who led them,
Speaker 2: competed against them, and inspired them. Twenty five chapters for
Speaker 2: his twenty five years as Arizona's beloved coach. Lessons from
Speaker 2: Luton is an insight to how he built the program
Speaker 2: into a national powerhouse. Want one email me Steve dot
Speaker 2: Rivera ninety five at gmail dot com.
Speaker 12: Hi.
Speaker 13: This is formal while get leman huntly with Arizona Health.
Speaker 13: Imagine how home GM can change your health, your comfort,
Speaker 13: and your time. Arizona Health is everything you need to
Speaker 13: transform your personal space.
Speaker 2: And your life.
Speaker 13: We off a complete line of cardio machines, multi gms
Speaker 13: and free rate equipment. I'll certify fitness experts and technicians
Speaker 13: will set you out with the right equipment and training
Speaker 13: to get you started to keep you going. Visit our
Speaker 13: share room today at twenty second in Wilmot. Arizona Health
Speaker 13: the lead edge and exercise equipment.
Speaker 10: What's your goal a new career or career advancement? How
Speaker 10: about transferring to a four year college. PEMA Community College
Speaker 10: can help you make some day today and reach your
Speaker 10: goals affordably on your schedule. With over one hundred programs
Speaker 10: to choose from in financial lad available, It's time to
Speaker 10: earn the degree or certificate you need to prepare for
Speaker 10: the career you want. PEMA offers free career exploration classes
Speaker 10: so you can choose the field that's right for you
Speaker 10: and how at Pima dot edu slash someday.
Speaker 14: Ready to save but not sure where to begin? Take
Speaker 14: the Pyramid Federal Credit Union ten thousand dollars Saving Challenge
Speaker 14: and we'll guide you along the way. Save five hundred
Speaker 14: dollars over six months as a member.
Speaker 2: And you could win big.
Speaker 14: Watch your savings grow to help you reach goals like
Speaker 14: buying a car, owning a home and more. Visit Pyramid
Speaker 14: FCU dot com slash ten k challenge to get started today.
Speaker 14: That really insured n CUA.
Speaker 2: Do you want to be part of a winning team?
Speaker 8: A Team Security is looking for friendly, outgoing event security
Speaker 8: guards and event staff to be a part of our team.
Speaker 8: We've been providing our outstanding services to some of Arizona's
Speaker 8: biggest sporting events and concerts.
Speaker 4: For over twenty years.
Speaker 2: We want you to join the action.
Speaker 8: A Team offers a fun and exciting opportunity to work
Speaker 8: in the sports and entertainment industry, with flexible schedules that
Speaker 8: are perfect for those looking for a part.
Speaker 2: Time job or a second income. Come be a part
Speaker 2: of a win team.
Speaker 8: The A team apply online today at a team security
Speaker 8: dot net.
Speaker 1: Steve and Jacin Salaz they have their eye on the
Speaker 1: ball on Tucson Sports Stage Chef Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Ryan the ball Hero Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: We got Ryan with us for thirteen more minutes. If
Speaker 2: you guys want to call, please do five too. Oho
Speaker 2: four one six seventy four forty. You know, I got
Speaker 2: a lot of got some feedback from the Mount Rushmore
Speaker 2: streth that we talked about. They threw out a guy
Speaker 2: that I thought we talked about him that Jason Terry
Speaker 2: had that much of an impacted you know, Bibby Okay, Miles, okay,
Speaker 2: but Jason Terry was crucial in that game in that
Speaker 2: year or two, right, and then he had a fantastic senior.
Speaker 4: Year in your year.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't want to. I couldn't argue with him
Speaker 2: because he's right. But I still think Bibby had that impact,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: Right, he's in he's a second level guy, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: right after then I don't put him on Mount Rushmore,
Speaker 4: but I put him in the players to be named
Speaker 4: later or whatever you want to call it, you know,
Speaker 4: the next tier of guys. That's right, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: he belongs there. He was a National Player of the
Speaker 4: Year and Sports Illustrated. He's up in the Ring of
Speaker 4: honor and deserves to be up there. I know he
Speaker 4: had the little thing with the with the n C
Speaker 4: double A. But you know, when you talk about a
Speaker 4: player and the type of player he was, yeah, you
Speaker 4: know he's in the conversation. I don't think he passes
Speaker 4: Mike Bibbie. I don't think he passes Steve Kerr, and
Speaker 4: then I and I and I and I don't think
Speaker 4: he passes David Start Shawn Elliott. Yeah, so I think
Speaker 4: but again, if somebody wants to put him on there, Okay,
Speaker 4: which of those four guys you're taking off?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm going to debate you on all of
Speaker 4: those those four guys. To me, they're obvious, right, I
Speaker 4: really think they're obvious. I really think that there shouldn't
Speaker 4: be a debate on those four guys.
Speaker 2: In fact, I think that if you wanted to know that,
Speaker 2: you talk more about it. And I have done the
Speaker 2: list of thousand times. Uh, there's Sean, there's Damon, Jason Terry,
Speaker 2: and I said, maybe there's not even a close third.
Speaker 2: Jason Terry might be my third guy. The best players,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, best players.
Speaker 4: Best players when I'm talking about Mount Rushmore. Yeah, in
Speaker 4: terms of talent be yeah players yeah yeah yeah. And
Speaker 4: he might be two. But Damon, Damon has a special thing.
Speaker 4: Jamon was good. He's four from five to ten. You
Speaker 4: could do a whole lot of his leadership ability and
Speaker 4: all that stuff. You know, that team, that team was
Speaker 4: that team, the ninety four team because of him.
Speaker 2: I know you have a question to ask me, but
Speaker 2: who's the best player? And this is no right answer,
Speaker 2: Who's the best player in Sean's time? Who would you take?
Speaker 4: I know that in terms of just talent or just
Speaker 4: who Mount Rushmore type player?
Speaker 2: Who you taking? Who is the best player in that
Speaker 2: in that time? I know what I'm taking.
Speaker 4: You might say, Nick Johnson, really yeah, I think he
Speaker 4: would be in the conversation TJ.
Speaker 2: McConnell, Well, uh, there's only one guy in my mind.
Speaker 4: I mean, from just flat out talent, regardless of anything else,
Speaker 4: just flat out talent, it was DeAndre. I mean he
Speaker 4: was just an unbelievable player, dominating player. If you erase
Speaker 4: the fact that he crapped himself in the you know,
Speaker 4: in the in the n C Double A Tournament and
Speaker 4: all that stuff, but you know, just a flat out
Speaker 4: talent and physical specimen. DeAndre was an incredible talent. And
Speaker 4: it's unfortunate the way that thing ended. I'm missing somebody,
Speaker 4: you know, were you gonna throw out? Yeah, you know
Speaker 4: he's got to be in there.
Speaker 2: He's versatility again.
Speaker 4: The way his thing ended though, kind of tarnishes what
Speaker 4: we think of him. No fault of.
Speaker 2: Him, so him, and then you're forgetting another guy, Aeron Gordon,
Speaker 2: who was very good, but he's again didn't play here
Speaker 2: long enough. And even though marketing it didn't either, right.
Speaker 4: And and and and Aaron Gordon he was frustrating to
Speaker 4: because he couldn't make a free good could make, you know,
Speaker 4: so to me, I mean, to me, he's a guy
Speaker 4: that was so gifted, but you were frustrated because of
Speaker 4: what he what he did lack sure, So it's hard
Speaker 4: for me to put Aaron Gordon way the heck up there,
Speaker 4: even though I know he's we're gonna at to number
Speaker 4: one and all that. Let's take this, Hi, you're on
Speaker 4: the Aaron on the ball.
Speaker 12: Hey, guys, how you doing how what's the word I
Speaker 12: just pulled? Pulled over a couple of things. I loved
Speaker 12: you saying that, Steve, it was funny that guy had
Speaker 12: such good viewpoints that your guest though, Brett. Yeah, and
Speaker 12: you say there's not the viewpoint. Good viewpoints aren't lost
Speaker 12: in the show, he was spot on the statement he
Speaker 12: said about Tech Baylor with the stadiums and they won
Speaker 12: each basketball and football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think that's what Arizona is gonna be
Speaker 2: up against.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like the Indiana think when they played Indiana
Speaker 2: in Vegas and oh we're this, were this and in
Speaker 2: Indiana because of their long list of stuff. The wait, wait,
Speaker 2: we better sit down, you better sit down.
Speaker 12: You guys are just about to say that the best
Speaker 12: player from Texas Tech. But then the uh, the tep
Speaker 12: weather thing came on.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you didn't know that came on, we don't
Speaker 2: hear who is it?
Speaker 12: Pat Mahomes went there right right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, No, My point was who who do you
Speaker 2: think of? Who do you think of when you think
Speaker 2: of Texas Tech?
Speaker 12: Yeah, and I can't.
Speaker 4: I came up with Mike Leach and then Steve came
Speaker 4: up with Bill J. Tolliver, which was a great Texas
Speaker 4: football player name back then.
Speaker 2: And then, but we saw this guy James Gray, right,
Speaker 2: we saw him run over Arizona for like five hundred
Speaker 2: yards and then and then Steve Smith, Steve Smith went there.
Speaker 2: Steve he went, he was with Ruben Berry. He was
Speaker 2: going to come here and didn't come here. He went
Speaker 2: to Texas.
Speaker 4: Know p of the Washington. But it wasn't Steve though.
Speaker 2: Steve Smith.
Speaker 12: Wait a basketball football player, football player.
Speaker 2: He played for the Redskins.
Speaker 4: I know you're talking about. It wasn't Steve.
Speaker 2: It's not Steve. It had to be Steve Smith. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure Steve Smith.
Speaker 4: No, Steve Smith is a wide receiver.
Speaker 2: Oh Timmy Smith, Timmy Smith, Timmy Smith, right, that guy. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: So those guys. That's that's pretty much all I know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what else, Howard? How have you been? Okay?
Speaker 12: Yeah, we're fine, you know, busy. I finally got my
Speaker 12: garage pretty well done and I'm excited. But now we
Speaker 12: got to work on the daughter's house buying it.
Speaker 2: So okay, okay, appreciate you'll be coming to my place.
Speaker 4: That's exactly Steve. Steve wants you to fill in his pool.
Speaker 6: We talk you and take our care guys.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Who's your question you
Speaker 2: wanted to ask me?
Speaker 4: Okay, when you were fourteen years old? Oh god, what
Speaker 4: are the Olympics on your radar?
Speaker 2: Fourteen? What years?
Speaker 6: This?
Speaker 2: Fourteen? When you were seventy eight ish? Seventy eightish? Probably
Speaker 2: not no, probably not.
Speaker 4: A fourteen year old Australia one Olympic gold medal. But
Speaker 4: listen to this. The silver and bronze medal winners were
Speaker 4: fifteen and fourteen. Yeah, yeah, skateboard.
Speaker 2: I saw that and I was thinking about the same thing.
Speaker 2: You were, What the world? What's the world coming to? Like?
Speaker 2: You know, these young kids doing it, but they're all
Speaker 2: like just like the in Tahiti they have the skateboarding, surfing.
Speaker 2: And the woman was like twenty two or whatever it was,
Speaker 2: and come on, we're where the world is for the
Speaker 2: young man.
Speaker 4: When I was fourteen years old, I was ringing doorbells
Speaker 4: and running, okay, things like that.
Speaker 2: I was a paper boy. This is a paper boy
Speaker 2: at forty. It's a different age. I mean, kids are
Speaker 2: growing up fast and do it all.
Speaker 4: He's too fast, right. Probably the thing is if she
Speaker 4: you know, if she wants to be in the next Olympics.
Speaker 4: She's gonna be an old lady. At eighteen, were like,
Speaker 4: get out of here, you old lady.
Speaker 2: Here, Well, look at gymnastics the same counting how old's bios?
Speaker 2: She's twenty fourish a bios?
Speaker 4: I think she's twenty six? Remember the old Corbett? Well,
Speaker 4: was she thirteen? Wasn't Ogle Corbett thirteen? That year in
Speaker 4: the in the in the I don't remember in the
Speaker 4: what year was it the eighty No? Nothing, seventy the
Speaker 4: seventy two Olympics.
Speaker 2: Twenty seventh, So old she was bus I think, And
Speaker 2: that's that's kind of old because.
Speaker 4: I remember Olga Corbett. You think, wait a minute, this this.
Speaker 2: How old was was the Tucson since.
Speaker 4: A Carrie Strug Yeah, she was not twenty. I don't
Speaker 4: think when she was in there, you know when that
Speaker 4: that year Olympic year that she's she's most famous for it.
Speaker 4: Let me see oga Corbett is she was born in
Speaker 4: fifty five, So in seventy two, wow, seventeen, Yeah, she
Speaker 4: was seventeen. That's summer. I thought she was like thirteen
Speaker 4: or something like that.
Speaker 2: Well, they had a couple of girls. I think that
Speaker 2: age last night on the Gymnastics.
Speaker 4: Show, Oga Corbett retired from gymnastics at twenty two. That's crazy,
Speaker 4: but you know it's but those are different people.
Speaker 2: Fourteen, No, No, I was different. I was just worried
Speaker 2: about playing baseball and having fun and being a fourteen
Speaker 2: year old.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But you know some of these Olympians who were
Speaker 4: the swimmers and stuff like that, right, I mean Amanda Beard,
Speaker 4: we had her, she was sixteen in her.
Speaker 2: First holding the Teddy Bear. Remember that, Remember in her first.
Speaker 4: She was fun, she was old, sixteen years old. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I was just happy to have a driver's license right
Speaker 4: at a car.
Speaker 2: That's the whole thing. And I wanted to ask her this,
Speaker 2: but I didn't, And I think, we're you nervous? And
Speaker 2: she said she was always nervous. But when you're sixteen
Speaker 2: and you're facing these people that you kind of grew
Speaker 2: up watching, right, how much? How how intimidating is that?
Speaker 2: But even then you're probably sixteen, you don't give a crap.
Speaker 4: You don't know better, You don't you don't know better exactly,
Speaker 4: you don't know any better. You don't know any better
Speaker 4: to be nervous or whatever. It's like, I'm sixteen, I'm
Speaker 4: here with you.
Speaker 2: I'm competing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm you know, yeah, I mean I'm a I'm
Speaker 4: a competitor, and I'm here because I deserve to be here.
Speaker 4: So I don't care how old you are.
Speaker 2: I'll give you this. So you're you're your age right now.
Speaker 2: You know you know, not Twilight, but you're getting older
Speaker 2: when you're playing golf. No, No, I'm trying to make
Speaker 2: a point here, trying to make a point, especially when
Speaker 2: I like play poker or whatever, because it's all the
Speaker 2: competitive I am. No, you're playing golf against Do you
Speaker 2: play golf against older people?
Speaker 4: No, I'm the oldest person.
Speaker 2: Okay, So so do you have a do you have
Speaker 2: a special special and something special inside you that makes
Speaker 2: you want to beat the beat the ass of the
Speaker 2: younger kids, or you just.
Speaker 4: Play I compete against myself. I want to be that's
Speaker 4: the score that I normally so no, I have a
Speaker 4: score that I want to shoot so much every time.
Speaker 2: My point is if you're you don't make my point
Speaker 2: because you don't play against If you're playing against older
Speaker 2: people and you're thinking these guys are pretty good or
Speaker 2: not good, I still want to don't want to.
Speaker 4: Lose, well, I want to, Like I want to. I
Speaker 4: want to beat my son at golf, okay, but he
Speaker 4: plays a different game than I play. You know, for
Speaker 4: me to beat him is different. But he's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4: It's not gonna happen much, very very rare. I've beaten
Speaker 4: him like three times since he was a junior in
Speaker 4: high school. Right we GoF Saturday at Fredank, went out
Speaker 4: to Freddank and golf. I shot a thirty nine on
Speaker 4: the front nine, and I'm like, I haven't shot in
Speaker 4: the thirty really good. I haven't broken forty on a
Speaker 4: nine in years. And he shot at thirty eight, all right,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I got a shot at it, okay.
Speaker 4: And then then I shot fifty on the back and
Speaker 4: he and he shot thirty seven. He shot a seventy five.
Speaker 4: I shot. I had to make a twelve foot putt
Speaker 4: on the eighteenth hole to break ninety, which to me,
Speaker 4: that's my goal. I want to go out and break
Speaker 4: ninety every time.
Speaker 2: So my point is, you know, when you play against
Speaker 2: older people or whatever, young people, you have something in
Speaker 2: you that you don't want to you don't want to lose.
Speaker 4: Like like when I golf with my brother who's older
Speaker 4: than him, my brother Jean. He's a different golfer. He's
Speaker 4: always We've always been about to say he's a little
Speaker 4: better than I. I think golf's more than I do.
Speaker 4: But I don't. I don't feel like when we golf
Speaker 4: against each other that I try and compete against him.
Speaker 2: I just go out and shoot my round. Does he
Speaker 2: does he compete against you?
Speaker 4: He might, He probably doesn't want me to beat it.
Speaker 4: I don't care if he beats me because I think
Speaker 4: he's better than me. He probably doesn't want me to
Speaker 4: beat that. But we don't sit there and pay attention
Speaker 4: to each other scores. He doesn't ask me, what are
Speaker 4: you shooting?
Speaker 2: No, but you do at the end of the day.
Speaker 4: At the end, he'll yeah, I'll always tell you, we'll
Speaker 4: do you shoot a eyeshot ninety two, shot in eighty seven,
Speaker 4: shot you know, fifty four or whatever? You shoot?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: No, we you know, we we do. Yeah. We talked
Speaker 4: about our scores at the end. But if I shoot
Speaker 4: a ninety and he shoots shot in eighty five, I
Speaker 4: don't go, oh crap. You know, if I shoot ninety,
Speaker 4: I'm pissed it. I didn't shoot eighty nine. Yeah, which again,
Speaker 4: when I shot the thirty nine on Saturday, I thought,
Speaker 4: I got I'm gonna break ninety by a lot. And
Speaker 4: then I had to make a putt on the last
Speaker 4: hold to break it, and I did the fist pump
Speaker 4: and everything. It wasn't a Tiger Woods fist pump because
Speaker 4: that would have hurt my shoulder, but it was. It
Speaker 4: was a I was very happy that it made that butt.
Speaker 4: It was the best after shooting thirty nine. Ben gave
Speaker 4: a shoulder exactly. Okay, hey, a good shoot today.
Speaker 2: It's fun.
Speaker 4: It was fun. Thank you, Damian Alomita, Thank you, Brett Ferroll.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, Kevin Leman, we'll try to get back into the
Speaker 2: minds of people and see how he helps and let
Speaker 2: somebody no, that's impossible.
Speaker 4: That's a bad place. Yes, it's a dark place. All right. Hey,
Speaker 4: thanks for being here. We'll see tomorrow.