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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Vera, You're Blake Deiger. You got
Speaker 2: O guy Henry, Ye're working in the controls, and you
Speaker 2: got breaking news.
Speaker 1: Well, this is I on the Ball breaking news on
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Speaker 3: The NBA Playing Tournament happened yesterday. The Heat defeated the
Speaker 3: Bulls and will now take on the Hawks. And the
Speaker 3: Mavericks defeated the Kings and will now take on the
Speaker 3: Grizzlies tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you watched any of it? I watched the
Speaker 2: first half a little, the first half of last night's
Speaker 2: MAVs game with Sacramental they got rid of the GM.
Speaker 4: GM.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that that the organization's tough.
Speaker 5: That's a dumpster fire. You can't make that trade and
Speaker 5: then fire the GAM like you can't. You can't fire
Speaker 5: the coach. We week in or two, you fire the coach,
Speaker 5: make the trade, the fire the GM from an ownership standpoint, like,
Speaker 5: you know what, that's a dog chasing its tail at
Speaker 5: this point. Can't allow the GM to make a trade yourself, That's.
Speaker 2: What I mean.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers went on the Pat mcafview show earlier today
Speaker 3: and he ripped the Jets for his exit from the team.
Speaker 2: That was today. I think he said that was I
Speaker 2: listened to. He's a tough watch. He just is. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's a tough watch only because he's just kind of
Speaker 2: back and forth. And I don't know, I'm not a
Speaker 2: big fan like ever or you're not a big fan
Speaker 2: of him now ever, he's the guy. He's the guy,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure people think of me the same way.
Speaker 2: But he's he watched in the room. He's the smartest
Speaker 2: student room. Yeah, and and not that he is or isn't,
Speaker 2: but he acts like he is the smartest student room.
Speaker 2: And I'm okay with that. Okay, but there's gonna be
Speaker 2: different opinions that you are you aren't. What does he
Speaker 2: get out of that by saying that the public? By
Speaker 2: saying that public, I don't that's a good question. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 5: That's more my question, like, I don't care who you
Speaker 5: think you are. I mean, he from accolades and from
Speaker 5: what he's done on the field. Absolutely, Like if you
Speaker 5: keep that, But what do you get by going out
Speaker 5: in the media When I think as a fan base
Speaker 5: the Jets, I mean, my best friend's a Jets fan,
Speaker 5: and God bless his soul, I think, Yeah, sorry, Henry,
Speaker 5: I apologize. I don't know how you guys do it.
Speaker 5: It doesn't make any sense to me. And you every
Speaker 5: year you buy into it like we got a chance
Speaker 5: this here, and I'm like, come on, man, like the
Speaker 5: last Juts fan, I'm just as bad, but at least
Speaker 5: we want a World Series.
Speaker 2: I don't know what he gets from it. He gets
Speaker 2: paid a million dollars to go on that show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but to say those things as a little SoundBite
Speaker 5: that he's just trying to get traction now and stay relevant,
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. But he's just one of those guys.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want him on my team. As good as
Speaker 2: he is, I wouldn't want him on my team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, you know those guys. Hell,
Speaker 5: you play with him, you may be one of those guys.
Speaker 5: I've never ever I'll be the never thought I was
Speaker 5: the smartest person in the room, but been I don't
Speaker 5: care what real momim and I've never you gotta have
Speaker 5: you got to have.
Speaker 2: His chip on your shoulder. You gotta have that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, you do when you're in your twenties and
Speaker 5: you're fighting for something, or maybe in your thirties and
Speaker 5: you're trying to recreate your career. But at this point,
Speaker 5: he's what forty one? Yeah, he's my age. Just I mean, like,
Speaker 5: what do you get out of that? Yeah, you're already
Speaker 5: going down as a Hall of Famer, Right, You've already
Speaker 5: won a Super Bowl, you have MVP. Like, what is
Speaker 5: the point of going in the I mean the organization
Speaker 5: that literally took a shot on you after they just
Speaker 5: drift drafted a first round quarterback the year before? Like,
Speaker 5: what do you get out of that?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Okay, Lee Corso will be retiring from college game day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's great. He's one hundred and forty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say he's like seventy eighty nine.
Speaker 5: He's near ninety.
Speaker 2: You're nice, So I think it's I saw this morning.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking that's nice. But he's only gonna do one game.
Speaker 2: The first game. Yeah, and it's a good sidof you've
Speaker 2: watched it a few times. I'm sure. I'm sure, of course,
Speaker 2: and you're thinking, God, they gotta get him off, they
Speaker 2: got to get him off.
Speaker 5: That I think we were saying that in the nineties.
Speaker 2: Maybe no, no, no, but you know, even like if
Speaker 2: my mom went doing it or somebody, I'm thinking, you
Speaker 2: got it, you.
Speaker 5: Know, but it's all yeah, I know, but it's all
Speaker 5: I mean, what are you gonna call in? You don't,
Speaker 5: I mean, when is you I mean, yeah, when is
Speaker 5: the end game?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you know, especially if you're related to
Speaker 2: the person that's up there and you say, Dad, I
Speaker 2: think I think you know you better just stop.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, you love it. My dad's listening right now.
Speaker 5: I tell him that all the time we shopped, we
Speaker 5: go shop and look at homes all the time. I'm
Speaker 5: trying to find a warm bit for him at.
Speaker 2: One day, one time, my son, my sons are gonna
Speaker 2: tak death enough yeah, I mean yeah, maybe on the
Speaker 2: regular after that happens, right yeah.
Speaker 5: No, but I mean leek orse. So yeah, you're you're
Speaker 5: you're you're in the same boat as like I tell right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: you knew. But for those guys that's all they know.
Speaker 2: Like, but you know, and okay, he set eighty nine whatever,
Speaker 2: Dick Bartells whatever. At some point, how much money do
Speaker 2: you need to do this? What is I don't think
Speaker 2: it's the money thing. I think it's just that's even
Speaker 2: that's all he knows. Even more so, a lot of
Speaker 2: people just go off into the sunset.
Speaker 5: So what do you want him to do? You want
Speaker 5: him go fishing at eighty nine years old? It's gonna
Speaker 5: fall and drown. Well, you put him in bubble. I mean,
Speaker 5: like what you're past. The retiring n eighty nine.
Speaker 2: Year olds all over the world get through this will too, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 5: But I mean if you had the chance to still
Speaker 5: do this at eighty nine, you're telling me you wouldn't.
Speaker 5: Hell No, I'm just now smarter than Okay, So now
Speaker 5: you think about Vin Scully, And I thought Vin Scully
Speaker 5: was still like sure, it's still worth listening. He didn't
Speaker 5: travel with the team. He did it smart, right, there's
Speaker 5: an end game, Yeah, there's an own game, and he
Speaker 5: I think he knew and he was able to kind
Speaker 5: of write. Sure, that's where I would get worried in
Speaker 5: my career if I ever get to that point. Is
Speaker 5: I want to still be able to control that narrative.
Speaker 5: But the end, I don't want to have to like
Speaker 5: we're the kinving this conversation right now. It's it's long
Speaker 5: past due for for these guys. But I would still
Speaker 5: want to be able to control that narrative.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Sources say Carter Brian will test the waters in the
Speaker 3: NBA draft, but if he returns to college it will
Speaker 3: be at Arizona.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think that's the smartest move. Well, I mean
Speaker 2: we had this conversation off air. Why wouldn't you. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't to get used to going through that process. It's,
Speaker 2: you know, sure to understand the meat market is what
Speaker 2: we call it, and what people are looking for, and
Speaker 2: then to get a realization of where I'm at. Sure, No, no,
Speaker 2: of course. Yeah. There's nothing to lose, everything to gain,
Speaker 2: nothing to lose. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sun's owner Matt Ishbia called the Sun's season a failure
Speaker 3: in his end of season press conference today.
Speaker 2: Again, like, duh, stop the presses for those who do
Speaker 2: that used to be a newspaper term. Yeah, what are newspapers?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Okay, box Scar Damian Lillard has been
Speaker 3: cleared of deep vein thrombosses and will ramp up basketball
Speaker 3: activity with the gold of return in this year's playoffs.
Speaker 2: It gives them hope. I've never deep.
Speaker 5: That's deep. Vein thumb process is the son of a
Speaker 5: What is that? What can somebody explain that to me?
Speaker 5: I know, No, don't just take it too much. Sorry,
Speaker 5: Henry is like, I got this, That's all I got.
Speaker 2: You got What else was going on the women women's golf?
Speaker 2: Did we talk about that? The beginning of Yeah, we
Speaker 2: try to get her, right, you should and anything else
Speaker 2: I think with you of a baseball softball tonight or tonight.
Speaker 3: I think tonight verse text here.
Speaker 5: That should be a fantastic it should be And if
Speaker 5: you haven't been out, that's a phenomenal environment.
Speaker 2: I need to go. I need to go out together.
Speaker 2: Yeah we should.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you'll bring your glove, Yeah, I'll get your helb
Speaker 5: all buddy. Yeah, maybe an ice cream cone. Who's the
Speaker 5: geek out there? That Steve?
Speaker 2: I will make us that old dude, he should call
Speaker 2: it quits on his show. He's too old.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you so. I So this is my I'm
Speaker 5: so grumpy. So I walk in the neighborhood in the morning. Right,
Speaker 5: So there's two shirts like I'm in active. I get
Speaker 5: my ankle weights on, I go out there and I
Speaker 5: kick butt man. So uh so I'm walking the neighborhood
Speaker 5: and in our neighborhood. Like I get upset when people.
Speaker 5: There's three things I get upset. It one when they
Speaker 5: drive by and they don't wave back infuriates me. I
Speaker 5: get so angry. Yeah, they get a thumbs down immediately.
Speaker 5: The second thing is when people walk on the wrong
Speaker 5: side of the street with dogs. So like I walk
Speaker 5: my dog in the morning, they're coming towards. You have
Speaker 5: to walk against traffic, against a width against Why that's
Speaker 5: a law?
Speaker 2: Now do you not know cycling? Cycling?
Speaker 5: Cycling is opposite, right, you want you have wheels, legs,
Speaker 5: You walk against traffic so you can visually seek, so
Speaker 5: you walk with traffic.
Speaker 2: I don't watch in the streets like you. For God's sake.
Speaker 5: Oh, I lived in the streets for a while, so
Speaker 5: I know these streets help me.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry if I spilled you. That was kind of funny.
Speaker 2: But really, that's what I don't know. Is that a lot.
Speaker 5: It's absolutely a lot.
Speaker 2: So I want to here's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I want to get a shirt that says, and the
Speaker 5: front says pedestrians walk against traffic. And I want to
Speaker 5: get the law on the back of the shirt so
Speaker 5: I don't have to say anything to these people.
Speaker 2: I just go like this. If anybody knows that to
Speaker 2: look at your breasts, yeah, sure so no, no, no,
Speaker 2: you're glorious e even he knows this to be long,
Speaker 2: I didn't know this. Give me a call. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: have to plead.
Speaker 5: And the third thing is I've been known to take
Speaker 5: because I still have a pocket radar from the times
Speaker 5: I've coached to watch how fast kids throw and spin
Speaker 5: right and everything. So I'll take it out and all
Speaker 5: you are, I just listen. It's a neighbor. There's kids
Speaker 5: all over the place. I don't think you need to
Speaker 5: drive forty five miles hour through. So I am sixty two. Man, listen.
Speaker 5: If I don't have a chance to just complain in life,
Speaker 5: then I don't have a purpose.
Speaker 2: I have a friend who I went to school with,
Speaker 2: obviously in high school. All the side, he's he's a
Speaker 2: good friend. He might be listening. Now he's turned into
Speaker 2: an old white guy. He's sixty sixty years old. I think,
Speaker 2: when did this happen? You've turned into that guy to
Speaker 2: you wear those pets, go, I'm gonna get your son.
Speaker 2: I would I just go straight move. But when I
Speaker 2: walk in the morning, two dudes on the Sesame street,
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, we got to get you and I on
Speaker 2: that thing.
Speaker 5: That'd be perfect. They should make puppets oft. I've turned
Speaker 5: into a character show of myself anyway, So walking against
Speaker 5: I did not know this. Oh my god, how do
Speaker 5: you not know this?
Speaker 2: Just from a safety standpoint, I'm talking bicycly because you're trusting.
Speaker 5: We just talked about how terrible Arizona drivers are. You're
Speaker 5: trusting drivers to get get out of the way of you.
Speaker 5: You don't want to sidewalk, I want to I guess
Speaker 5: if you Yeah, you're on a sidewalk.
Speaker 2: We don't have sidewalk, so you don't obviously because you're
Speaker 2: afraid someone's gonna.
Speaker 5: Hit you from No, I don't cycle because I'm a
Speaker 5: terrible bicyclist. I crashed you all the time. That's your
Speaker 5: swimming and bicycling. You never knew this about walking on this.
Speaker 5: This is crazy to me. This is wild to me
Speaker 5: that you don't know that.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 5: The good thing is I don't walk or I'll go
Speaker 5: to a track and walk. You don't walk around the
Speaker 5: track I.
Speaker 2: Used to are used to when I wanted to wait, wait,
Speaker 2: wait wait ten ten twelve years ago.
Speaker 5: That doesn't I mean, that doesn't count.
Speaker 2: What do you mean? Why do you mean you you?
Speaker 2: I wished it all that time, ten twelve years ago? What?
Speaker 2: How's it? How's it paid off for you? I don't
Speaker 2: want to go back. I don't want to go back.
Speaker 2: It was so good to be like quick for twelve years.
Speaker 2: That's so funny. Henry's like, guys, I'm done. I've checked.
Speaker 2: Henry's checked out. Wow, I didn't know you are a
Speaker 2: grumpy old man. Maybe I like it.
Speaker 5: I like maybe, I don't know. It's a it's a
Speaker 5: tough personality deal with I. This is why I have
Speaker 5: a small circle Swi ferens. That does explain it. But
Speaker 5: it what else on your wish lish wish list? God
Speaker 5: wish to shore some uh that you want in this town?
Speaker 5: From a sports.
Speaker 2: Standpoint, but I think it's a great, great starting point
Speaker 2: where you ask the people what are we missing and
Speaker 2: how can we get there? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think listen, we have some we have some facilities
Speaker 5: that I think we could bring in to tie into
Speaker 5: our like FC two sounds a perfect example, right if
Speaker 5: we could take and they do this already they have
Speaker 5: a youth academy, but a full tie in model of
Speaker 5: a European and Kendey.
Speaker 2: Then with the German thing South Southut.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you're looking at FC Barcelona and cost Grande
Speaker 5: and Francisco Grande. They do that phenomenal. It is unbelievable.
Speaker 5: I thought RSL was there, No, it was. Now it's
Speaker 5: FC Barcelona, which people don't know. So literally every almost
Speaker 5: every United US a player that plays on the Big Five.
Speaker 5: For people that don't know what Big five is, it's Italy, Germany,
Speaker 5: uh In, Spain, England and France doing phenomenal like hop
Speaker 5: went there like yeah, it's great, it's a great academy.
Speaker 5: So if we could progress that a little bit and
Speaker 5: have a big model and you do it's dortmun who
Speaker 5: you're talking about, BBB.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think understanding the international connection, I think that's what
Speaker 5: we have to look at, Like the dreams of us
Speaker 5: getting a G League or Triple A team and it
Speaker 5: was it Maybe it does, but we have to answer
Speaker 5: the questions first of why people aren't going to gain
Speaker 5: and then understand that maybe we take something, we take
Speaker 5: a step back, and we go, why aren't we an
Speaker 5: international hub, right? I mean, look at our culinary piece
Speaker 5: of it. You know the City of Astronomy, that's an
Speaker 5: international piece. Why don't we do that throughout everything? And
Speaker 5: that way we're not competing against l Paso and Albuquerque.
Speaker 5: We're changing the whole model and being the first of
Speaker 5: its kind.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, there's a lot of potential. There's no question about.
Speaker 2: You're a million and a half people. There's tons of
Speaker 2: and the funny thing is not putting the good thing
Speaker 2: is there from all over the world, country, world, blah
Speaker 2: blah blah, and bring different ideas, different thoughts too.
Speaker 5: You've got a great university, you got a great community college.
Speaker 5: When we're talking here, it's just there could be tons
Speaker 5: of time. I'm gonna necessary question. They just talked to
Speaker 5: my head. Do you think that we take care of
Speaker 5: the or Tucson takes care of the natives enough? And
Speaker 5: I asked that question because I'm from Santa Fe obviously,
Speaker 5: and people know that, and it's the it's an expensive
Speaker 5: town to live in now and a lot of the
Speaker 5: people who live in there now aren't natives, they've been
Speaker 5: forced out. They go to Albuquerque for cheaper rent. No, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean so now it's the Texans and the Californians
Speaker 5: and blah blah blah. It's not Santa Fe like I
Speaker 5: used to know it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Do you think that we do enough for the locals
Speaker 2: here to use you? And you are you?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean I am A. I don't know, that's a.
Speaker 5: I think I need more context to that question.
Speaker 2: Well, to answer this question, to answer what would you
Speaker 2: do if you were whatever? What would you do? What's
Speaker 2: the reason why you're not going? I think they use
Speaker 2: I don't think they take care of the locals enough.
Speaker 5: I could be wrong, and I to throw that out there.
Speaker 5: I don't know if that's true or no, I hear.
Speaker 5: I'll answer this really quick, and it's it's just it's
Speaker 5: probably not a specific enough answer. But I would say
Speaker 5: that it needs to start at the elementary school level,
Speaker 5: where you're you're buying into this with those kids, because
Speaker 5: now it's future generations. Rim So, like when we work
Speaker 5: with the superintendent's office for like the kids in the
Speaker 5: park day, that's something that doesn't get done a lot
Speaker 5: the road runners do it. We just need a better
Speaker 5: buy in from that standpoint. But you I mean when
Speaker 5: we're saying natives, you can also talk about the tribal nations, right.
Speaker 5: You have to lot of them. You have Pasquayaki, They
Speaker 5: all should be tied in. It should be inclusive, right
Speaker 5: because we are here, this is our land. And not
Speaker 5: to get on the soapbox, but like let's do it together, right,
Speaker 5: If we're gonna change collectively, let's change collectively.
Speaker 2: Right. No, No, I think you know who has the
Speaker 2: best access to that or chance for that is universitys.
Speaker 5: They have to leave the charge.
Speaker 2: Yeh.
Speaker 5: They're the fabric of the society and they want the
Speaker 5: economic impact and everything else.
Speaker 2: They're the driving force if they want people in that stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they have the price differently than to attract differently.
Speaker 5: That's why you have to have people like Ray Florest. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: let's go. That's good that. We'll talk more about that later.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball hero Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Blake Eager. We
Speaker 2: got Henry working the phone. Now in the foe we
Speaker 2: have Dallas Howell from the Southern Arizona Baseball Academy. Dallas,
Speaker 2: how you doing.
Speaker 12: I'm doing well. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: I'm a little handicapped here. I have Blake with me.
Speaker 2: Sorry to say, but yo, he know bomber that is
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Speaker 2: I didn't know that you were the son of Jack
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Speaker 5: True definition of a baby baby right Dallas, You're nowhere
Speaker 5: near anywhere in your career without your dad and your
Speaker 5: your father in.
Speaker 12: Law, nothing, nothing at all. Yes, that is that is
Speaker 12: very true, Dallas.
Speaker 5: Amberd told me to tell you to keep it clean
Speaker 5: on the radio to day, and I said, we've got
Speaker 5: the curse button right here. Dallas will go off use
Speaker 5: it once yea Ray Floor has let it go. So
Speaker 5: uh yeah, thanks for joining us. Dallas. One of the
Speaker 5: things that we were talking about earlier is I just
Speaker 5: I wanted to get some perspective from your standpoint. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 5: you're a kid that grew up in professional baseball at
Speaker 5: the big league level in Japan, at npon level. What
Speaker 5: was that like, Like, did you have a semblance of
Speaker 5: normalcy as a kid or was it just consistently you
Speaker 5: going to the ballpark and then going to different schools
Speaker 5: because you guys moved. You guys moved around a lot, right.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we did. We did it. Two songs. Always been
Speaker 12: home based, but always in California. We lived in Texas
Speaker 12: when when he was with the Astros, and of course
Speaker 12: Japan from ages like four to seven. So to answer
Speaker 12: your question, it was, I mean it was it was
Speaker 12: very chaotic. You know, ballparks all the time. I think
Speaker 12: I learned how to swim at Angel Stadium, moving summers
Speaker 12: were all over the place. So very chaotic. But you know,
Speaker 12: growing up in that it was it was normal to me,
Speaker 12: very normal. So as I as I was getting older
Speaker 12: and kind of sharing my story and how many times
Speaker 12: we moved and and all that. I mean even in
Speaker 12: high school, I think at three three homes three different
Speaker 12: rooms in high school, which is crazy. So yeah, it's
Speaker 12: not normal, but it's you know, it's it's part of it.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't trade it. Love growing up, you know, in
Speaker 12: the ballpark, being around the field. Baseball's been a lot
Speaker 12: to me and my family. I've learned so much through it,
Speaker 12: so very very blessed to be a part of that.
Speaker 2: Talking to a kid, talking to a kid me who
Speaker 2: grew up a loving baseball, playing it all the time
Speaker 2: as much as I could. What a life I'm thinking
Speaker 2: you had, because you're at the ballpark and you're seeing
Speaker 2: all these people and you're probably fielding balls or in
Speaker 2: the outfield catching flies and all that. Were you that kid?
Speaker 12: Yeah, all the time. I loved it. I was always
Speaker 12: you know, trying to I would shag. I would every
Speaker 12: now and then jump in and take them vp.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 12: It was Yeah, it was such a it was. It
Speaker 12: was insane, It really was. I remember having Randy Johnson
Speaker 12: when when my dad was at the Astros, Randy Johnson
Speaker 12: had a stint there and uh, you know through front
Speaker 12: tops to us in the in the cages down there
Speaker 12: and his locker mat to his right. I think it
Speaker 12: was Billy Wagner on one side, and then Jeff Bagwell
Speaker 12: was on the other and two down was moys A
Speaker 12: Salou Craig Vigio was three down. So it's just yeah,
Speaker 12: the bizarre thinking of it now that you know, growing
Speaker 12: up with with Hall of Famers sitting next to my
Speaker 12: my dad's locker was was fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, this is it's great to get that
Speaker 5: kind of knowledge. And I mean one of the reasons
Speaker 5: why I wanted to bring you on today was, uh,
Speaker 5: your dad's time in the Knee Pon League and what
Speaker 5: he was able and capable of doing in Japan. But
Speaker 5: you're seeing the influx of Japanese stars at the major
Speaker 5: league level. I mean, the best player in the big
Speaker 5: leagues I think without a doubt, and I argue that
Speaker 5: he might be the greatest baseball player of all time
Speaker 5: if he comes back and pitches anywhere near where he
Speaker 5: has in the past. Is show hey, Otana, what what
Speaker 5: was it like while you were over I know you
Speaker 5: were young, but what was it like while you were
Speaker 5: over there? Did you get a chance to play baseball
Speaker 5: or get coached in that in that kind of arena,
Speaker 5: and what was the difference between that and in your
Speaker 5: experience in the United States.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't. I honestly don't remember too much. I was,
Speaker 12: I was fairly young. I went to ASIJ, which is
Speaker 12: American school in Japan. I don't even think I don't
Speaker 12: even think we were in you know what, five six,
Speaker 12: seven years old. I don't know if there's there's club
Speaker 12: teams and stuff. I know we did a lot of
Speaker 12: I do remember the camps and the baseball you know,
Speaker 12: just clinics that they put on. And it could be wrong,
Speaker 12: but I just feel like there was literally a thousand
Speaker 12: kids out there playing and just so organized, so much
Speaker 12: better than I was. I just feel like, what where
Speaker 12: am I?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 12: What is this? So it's it's it was definitely different
Speaker 12: in that aspect of it where you know, in the States,
Speaker 12: I feel like growing up, I was always one of
Speaker 12: the you know, I was. I was decent at baseball,
Speaker 12: was one of the better athletes on the field. But
Speaker 12: I do feel when I was in Japan it was
Speaker 12: it just felt like a different level. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, not knowing your past and you played at Pima, right,
Speaker 2: Uh did you play beyond Peva? No?
Speaker 12: I did not, Pima, was it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 12: You know, growing up with my dad and I love him,
Speaker 12: but he didn't tell me that there's a real world
Speaker 12: out there. So I grew up thinking that my dad
Speaker 12: did it, so that's what I'm I'm gonna do. And
Speaker 12: after seeing the talent at at Pima, I realized, Okay,
Speaker 12: I got I got to figure out what I need
Speaker 12: to do. And I didn't grow like he did. I'm
Speaker 12: I'm you know, I'm gonna say five to eleven on
Speaker 12: the on the radio if that's okay, but it's probably
Speaker 12: more like five to nine.
Speaker 2: Well you just crushed me because I'm about five to ten.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. No, no, but you found your niche.
Speaker 2: I mean, did you figure out after the real world
Speaker 2: stuff that you were going to be doing what you're
Speaker 2: doing now?
Speaker 12: You know, I knew I wanted to be in sports.
Speaker 12: I'm a real estate agent and you I think you
Speaker 12: know Danny Roth, I'm on.
Speaker 2: Damis, Yes, yes, because we've talked about that, right.
Speaker 12: Yeah. So I'm a real estate agent. But I always
Speaker 12: knew I was going to be connected to sports and
Speaker 12: baseball specifically. It's just I love it too much and
Speaker 12: it's hard to get away from it. And worked with
Speaker 12: Blake a lot with with Hills and coach a lot
Speaker 12: of baseball with him. And I got to say, so
Speaker 12: much knowledge from from my dad, so much knowledge from
Speaker 12: from Andy, my father in law. But I think I
Speaker 12: think Blake has them both beat. I mean that you're
Speaker 12: sitting next to a true baseball a true baseball guy.
Speaker 12: So I learned a lot from Blake. And yeah, I
Speaker 12: always knew I was gonna stay in baseball. I love it. It's
Speaker 12: a passion of mine. So yeah, being in real estate
Speaker 12: and baseball, it's really it's a dream come true.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, like your dad always said, yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm the son he always wanted, but he had to
Speaker 5: have you. So yeah, no, that's you.
Speaker 12: I loved Blake more than me.
Speaker 5: That's not true. We were very fortunate we had. I mean,
Speaker 5: when Dallas and I were very young, we were coaching
Speaker 5: like eight teams all around the city of Tucson, run
Speaker 5: around with their heads cut off, and we just I
Speaker 5: think we bonded that way. But watching Dallas on the field,
Speaker 5: it's pretty incredible. If you get the chance, if your
Speaker 5: kid plays baseball and is looking for maybe a longer
Speaker 5: career path, Dallas, why don't you give us some information
Speaker 5: on your academy that you have with Andy Lopez and
Speaker 5: David Lopez.
Speaker 12: Yeah, thank you, it's it's it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 12: First of all, it's so cool to be able to
Speaker 12: work with family and my brother in law, David, who
Speaker 12: played on the twenty twelve national championship team at u
Speaker 12: of A. He's unbelievable on the field works you know,
Speaker 12: work to Boys and Girls Club is now at Children's Museum,
Speaker 12: so it just has a passion for youth development. And
Speaker 12: then Andy, you know, I think he was retired six
Speaker 12: days and then he's like, hey, can you guys start
Speaker 12: something so I could be back on the field. So
Speaker 12: I think he retired six days, but he, you know,
Speaker 12: coach Lopez, Andy, my father in law, is it's so
Speaker 12: bizarre to know that, like he is literally out there
Speaker 12: on the fields. He does our practice plans, he does
Speaker 12: bullpens with our pitchers, and these kids are nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
Speaker 12: thirteen years old. It's it's he has no idea. I'm sorry,
Speaker 12: they really don't know that. They don't know him. So
Speaker 12: it's pretty funny because you know, it could be it
Speaker 12: could be my wife out there teaching him how to
Speaker 12: pitch and they wouldn't know the difference, but he is
Speaker 12: super involved. And we started with one team. We're now
Speaker 12: at we have two fourteen years to twelve views, and
Speaker 12: then come August we're going to start probably an eleven
Speaker 12: U and a twelve you and really just being able
Speaker 12: to give back and teach these kids the right way
Speaker 12: how to play baseball and then done it. From my
Speaker 12: perspective of life is not all baseball. Most of you
Speaker 12: will not play college, most of you will not play pro.
Speaker 12: So teaching them how to be a good person, how
Speaker 12: to do things the right way, because you know life, life,
Speaker 12: life is going to get you at some point. So
Speaker 12: just teaching these these young men how to grow up
Speaker 12: in the world and be good people.
Speaker 2: So so you're the guy who I have to blame
Speaker 2: because your your father in law blames you for that.
Speaker 2: Him not being allowed to come to the radio show,
Speaker 2: he says, coming to be my host again because he's
Speaker 2: done it a few times. No, Mike Snila has me
Speaker 2: practicing in baseball blah blah blah. Because let me tell
Speaker 2: you something, I honestly think the world of him. Coach
Speaker 2: Lopus to me is just fantastic. I've covered the loot
Speaker 2: for twenty five years. I covered some other coaches, you know,
Speaker 2: to tell me for a few and but to me,
Speaker 2: Andy Lopez, he's the soothsayer. You know. He comes up
Speaker 2: with these you know, somewhere in America someone's making that play.
Speaker 2: He's got all these sayings, just kind of crazy, and
Speaker 2: I love them because my reminding me of my dad.
Speaker 2: He always comes up with funny stuff and they're just
Speaker 2: sticking your head because they're so clever and so good.
Speaker 2: The the ones and the twos and the threes. When
Speaker 2: you're recruiting, right, so do you have do you have something?
Speaker 2: Because the sun in law, you might take a brunt
Speaker 2: of some of the things. Any sayings that he has
Speaker 2: that he's Dallas, let me tell you.
Speaker 12: Yeah, well it's it's it's pretty bizarre to know, like
Speaker 12: every day it's something new, yes, And I'm I just
Speaker 12: I can't understand how you can have that much knowledge
Speaker 12: and it, you know, pertain to what we're doing that day.
Speaker 12: But it's what our kids are running around saying. Now
Speaker 12: is hot coffee. So he'll stand behind the cage, watch
Speaker 12: these guys hit VP. And if someone squares up a
Speaker 12: baseball and and hits it sharp, it's you know, he
Speaker 12: yells hot coffee. So you got a bunch of the
Speaker 12: ten year olds eleven year olds run around the field
Speaker 12: saying hot coffee, not even knowing why. But he coach
Speaker 12: Bopez do it, so that's kind of what they do.
Speaker 12: They go up and give them high five or or
Speaker 12: shake his hand, and it's just kids run around saying
Speaker 12: hot coffee. So if you start hearing hot coffee around
Speaker 12: the town the city of Tucson, you know why, right.
Speaker 2: So he does that, and he not that he name drops,
Speaker 2: but he's a fantastic storyteller and he always brings up
Speaker 2: names that fit the story. Back in Santa dubingis you
Speaker 2: know we played and then we didn't I rake my
Speaker 2: own yard. Blah blah blah. I'm taking this guy. Who
Speaker 2: is this dude? He's like snatch a pebble from my hand.
Speaker 12: Yeah, well it's it's true. And maybe I shouldn't say
Speaker 12: this on air, but I'm going to he he would
Speaker 12: he would steal little patches of grass from the soccer
Speaker 12: field because they had nicer grass over there, and they
Speaker 12: didn't have a lot of a lot of funding to
Speaker 12: the baseball. So at night he'd go with a flash
Speaker 12: flight and cut out grass, and he would go and
Speaker 12: and spread it, you know, about five or ten feet apart,
Speaker 12: because if you water it, the roots will start to
Speaker 12: gravitate towards each other and grow. So that's that's one
Speaker 12: thing that that he's known for. He yeah, he grew
Speaker 12: his own grass on his baseball field and and you
Speaker 12: know said it, said someone's got to do it. So
Speaker 12: that's a pretty funny story.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dallas and I used to run a camp here,
Speaker 5: a youth camp, pretty large youth camp, and we've had
Speaker 5: we were very fortunate to have all. I mean, we
Speaker 5: had a lot of people come through that, you know,
Speaker 5: Chip Hail, Andy Lopez, Tito Francona, George Shelley, Duncan. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna miss Jack Howl with Tom Wilhelmson. Who else do
Speaker 5: we have? Who am I missing? Coach Stitt, Jerry Stitt. Yeah, So,
Speaker 5: I mean to listen to all those guys talk, and
Speaker 5: I don't think I'm speaking ill of anybody, but I
Speaker 5: think the whole place stopped once Coach Lopez started talking
Speaker 5: because everybody was so in tune. I mean, the guy
Speaker 5: is a motivational speed right, every you wouldn't have replace
Speaker 5: by I would be, and I would be. I would
Speaker 5: understand that. I wouldn't even argue that.
Speaker 2: I call them a lot. Said can you come? And
Speaker 2: I got to go. I said, I need your stories.
Speaker 2: I need your stories. Yeah.
Speaker 5: He came out through first pitch of the World Baseball
Speaker 5: Classic and I was like, hey, I want to take
Speaker 5: you up, and he's like, I can't.
Speaker 2: I got to run back.
Speaker 5: I've got to give the motivational speech to Pepperdine before
Speaker 5: the U of a game. But I was like, what
Speaker 5: He's like, I got to run And I was like,
Speaker 5: so you drove all the way out here throughout the
Speaker 5: first pitch and took out I could even introduce him
Speaker 5: to the president of the World Baseball Classic. So it was.
Speaker 5: It was pretty incredible. So I do have a question
Speaker 5: for you, Dallas before you leave. A lot of You've
Speaker 5: been through a lot in your life. You've been able
Speaker 5: to see all kinds of things. You've told me earlier.
Speaker 5: Your biggest regret in life is not seeing your childhood
Speaker 5: modeling career go through right when you were living in Japan.
Speaker 12: No, I think you mis heard me. You know I
Speaker 12: did that. You know it's it's yeah, it's just it's
Speaker 12: a it's another box checked. I really mastered the modeling
Speaker 12: career in Japan, and I just wanted to move on
Speaker 12: to different things. So no, it's it's not too many
Speaker 12: times you see a you see an American running around
Speaker 12: Japan with the Mohawks, so needy target for some modeling
Speaker 12: agencies out there.
Speaker 5: What were you you were in like a J. C.
Speaker 5: Penny model or a catalog over there?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Better.
Speaker 12: It was one time I was on the inside cover
Speaker 12: of Sports Illustrated for Wolf Photography or something like that,
Speaker 12: and Dan Marino's on the cover, and that was it.
Speaker 12: I think I cried. I think I y I told
Speaker 12: my mom and dad I didn't want to do it,
Speaker 12: and I was wearing leather pants. It was just it
Speaker 12: was a nightmare, business nightmare. So I retired early.
Speaker 2: Still the highlight of your career though, right, see again,
Speaker 2: Yeah that is so so before you go, you gotta
Speaker 2: give me, you got to give me one of Andy's
Speaker 2: favorite sayings that you say, oh God here, yeah, because
Speaker 2: mine's some someplace in America. Someone's making that play.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So we hear that a lot. I think, I think,
Speaker 12: what what is most important? And it's just true in
Speaker 12: everybody's life. Whether you're an athlete, whether you you know,
Speaker 12: have a job, it doesn't matter. It's it's it's if
Speaker 12: you're going to do something, do it right. And and
Speaker 12: it's it's just that if our teams to every part
Speaker 12: of life, and that is big. That's kind of our
Speaker 12: model when we're out there. It's like, if you're going
Speaker 12: to do something right, whether it's whether it's you know, working,
Speaker 12: whether it's eating, whether it's playing baseball, whether it's tying
Speaker 12: your shoe, it's it's if you're going to do something,
Speaker 12: do it the right way. And that that really sticks
Speaker 12: with a lot of our kids and me personally in
Speaker 12: my life. Just such a simple phrase has anything I'm doing,
Speaker 12: uh in life is literally I hear Andy all the time.
Speaker 12: So I thank him, but yeah, I'm hearing him too
Speaker 12: much in my head.
Speaker 2: I can imagine. Are you practicing tonight?
Speaker 12: Uh? We are not. We have tomorrow off because a
Speaker 12: good Friday, and then we were We're back next week
Speaker 12: so and then we have a tournament the following weekend.
Speaker 12: In our summer summer gets pretty crazy. Where got accepted
Speaker 12: to the USA Champs Tournament fourteen U and then we'll
Speaker 12: be at some perfect games and some tbrs.
Speaker 2: We'll enjoy your hot coffee when you get back on
Speaker 2: the field.
Speaker 5: Wait, yeah, Dallas, real quick, what's the name of your
Speaker 5: academy one more time?
Speaker 12: Southern Arizona Baseball Academy. We have a website Southern Arizona
Speaker 12: Baseball Academy dot org. And if you, yes, if you
Speaker 12: have any any athletes out there wanted to join an
Speaker 12: elite program, my information is on there. So yeah, thank
Speaker 12: you guys for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Thanks.
Speaker 5: If you just want to go out there and meet
Speaker 5: a former child model, he's out there all the time.
Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks so much, man, Thanks you much.
Speaker 12: Dallas, thanks deep, Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: Fun. That's fun. I think the world of Indian now, Dallas,
Speaker 2: that's cool. Yeah, let's take a break so we can
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera He's got his eye on the Ball on
Speaker 1: Tucson sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to y' about here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera your break eager, got Henry
Speaker 2: here for the next fifteen minutes. If you guys like
Speaker 2: to call, we'd love to hear from you. Five two
Speaker 2: zero four one six seventy four forty Okay, So maybe
Speaker 2: we'll take some calls after this question to Henry. Henry,
Speaker 2: you're from New York. You've been here now three almost
Speaker 2: four years, right, yep? So what and you you live
Speaker 2: in like the big city? Right, the big city?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Man, you're a Mets? What are you? Yankees? Thanks?
Speaker 5: Yeah, hey so easy? Sorry easy. They paid me, wrote
Speaker 5: a lot of paychecks. So so what do you think.
Speaker 2: Think As a guy who saw a few games, what
Speaker 2: do you think about Tucson sports wise? What would you
Speaker 2: think needs to happen?
Speaker 3: I would first off say, I think it is better
Speaker 3: than what I expected obviously outside of just Arizona sports
Speaker 3: like I didn't even realize how much history, like Keno Stadium,
Speaker 3: all the games that used to take place there. What
Speaker 3: it would need is probably maybe more commitment, just from
Speaker 3: I feel like they're like a certain group that's very
Speaker 3: committed to.
Speaker 2: A bunch of st the people he was talking about to.
Speaker 3: Exact, but like a more general and that could be
Speaker 3: mixing up. I don't know how the like the Roadrunners do,
Speaker 3: but I think I went to one of those games
Speaker 3: really fun times.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, it's high end hockey, right, but you're
Speaker 5: I think you're that's a really good question, Steve. By
Speaker 5: the way, for the Outsider, was somebody coming from the
Speaker 5: market that he comes, right, he's from the city, man.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously it's really different, but it's.
Speaker 5: It's pretty much the same. Uh kids, listen, Yeah, why
Speaker 5: why would you ever go to Manhattan? I'm sorry, I
Speaker 5: can't go. Yeah. God, it's went to Golden Tree Remote.
Speaker 5: Uh No, But Henry's right, like there's going to be drawn.
Speaker 5: I think we were talking about this with you a
Speaker 5: basketball especially the men's Uh they created a little bit
Speaker 5: of an atmosphere. They had a DJ, they had a
Speaker 5: live band on you. I think if we can take
Speaker 5: that model into different areas. So where if I'm an
Speaker 5: even if I'm not a fan, if I'm just a
Speaker 5: casual person that wants I don't have to worry so
Speaker 5: much what's going on either on the ice or on
Speaker 5: the field. Like, I'm just there for the atmosphere. If
Speaker 5: I can create an atmosphere, I think that's sustainable. Is
Speaker 5: that what you go for or did you go for
Speaker 5: the sport?
Speaker 3: I went to the Roadrunners game just to check it out,
Speaker 3: and I had a really fun time. But the atmosphere
Speaker 3: was I mean from New York, so the hockey and
Speaker 3: like atmosphere is very good there. But I thought the
Speaker 3: atmosphere at the Roadrunners get level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, satisfied. Yeah, actually was pretty satisfied.
Speaker 5: I mean it's trip a hockey.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean most of those guys are seeing the NHL
Speaker 5: time this year, right NHL time.
Speaker 2: I think that's a secret, like just finding out what
Speaker 2: they need. Yeah, what would be beneficial, you know, get
Speaker 2: people in a room, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Do a little test group, me and you something. Just
Speaker 5: yelling at people all you take this, you're gonna take
Speaker 5: We gotta call rivera. We can't understand you. Sorry, Hey,
Speaker 5: welcome to Eye on the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's this a steveds Rick? How you doing?
Speaker 6: I don't know. I didn't know if I heard this
Speaker 6: gentleman correctly, but he was saying that white people don't
Speaker 6: do this or don't do that. I think you have
Speaker 6: to understand the historical perspective of events here, and you
Speaker 6: also have to understand that the political environment in southern
Speaker 6: Arizona is not conducive to getting people excited about sports
Speaker 6: because you don't hear anything out of the years ago
Speaker 6: when we had spring training here and everything else. All
Speaker 6: the elected officials people were talking about it all the time,
Speaker 6: and all of a sudden, these events to leave Southern
Speaker 6: Arizona and people wonder why, Well, it's because the elected
Speaker 6: bodies don't care to have these opportunities here in southern
Speaker 6: Arizona and they don't think about it and people that's
Speaker 6: how people respond. And I don't want to get political here,
Speaker 6: but there's a reality that we all have to accept.
Speaker 6: If you don't have a political environment that says we
Speaker 6: want this type of opportunities, we appreciate these athletics, and
Speaker 6: you hear them talking about it publicly, people respond and
Speaker 6: just a life.
Speaker 2: So Blake, tell them who you're with and how long
Speaker 2: you've been because you know some people obviously you're in
Speaker 2: where are.
Speaker 5: I mean political? So we're a political subody of the
Speaker 5: state of Arizona. Right, Southern Arizona Sports Tourism and Film authority, Rick,
Speaker 5: I'm Blake. I think we've talked before. You've called in
Speaker 5: the show when I've got one. I only know from
Speaker 5: a small advantaged point. I can only disagree with you
Speaker 5: from my standpoint. Because everybody was on board with the
Speaker 5: World Baseball Classic qualifier. The mayor came out, Adelia Garhova
Speaker 5: was a huge supporter of it. Senator David Gallen was
Speaker 5: a huge supporter of it. Rex Scott was out there.
Speaker 5: He's the chair of the Board of Supervisor.
Speaker 2: So go ahead. So Rick is talking to old school,
Speaker 2: back in the old school, right right now? Do you
Speaker 2: think that could Rick? Just a quick answer, do you
Speaker 2: think that could change? That philosophy can or maybe already
Speaker 2: has gone this way?
Speaker 6: Well, you have to remember it was the ping found
Speaker 6: in government that basically eliminated spring training by moving everything out.
Speaker 6: It's the way the city has evolved over the years.
Speaker 6: And Blake, yeah, we have spoke, But I think when
Speaker 6: you look at the historical perspective, the one thing that
Speaker 6: has really stayed with Southern Arizona is the Elk Tour
Speaker 6: because everybody got on board with it.
Speaker 2: But the other.
Speaker 6: Opportunities have surpassed us because political or agendas aren't focused
Speaker 6: on understanding the full dynamic of what it is. You
Speaker 6: do it team county, sports and tourism. And it doesn't
Speaker 6: make it right. It's just a reality that we all
Speaker 6: have to accept and it's disappointed that we have to
Speaker 6: have this discussion in the first place, or change it.
Speaker 5: I mean, you're trying to change it, right, yeah, And
Speaker 5: I think we're I mean there's I mean, I'm not
Speaker 5: going to argue with Rick on that there's I mean
Speaker 5: the history. The history is there, whether you want to
Speaker 5: look at it as a positive or negative. And I
Speaker 5: think this is great to have a call just to
Speaker 5: have this conversation, right, But I do think a lot
Speaker 5: of people are are trying to come together to change
Speaker 5: that narrative. You're seeing it happen with El Tour. You're
Speaker 5: seeing it happen with the Snoop Dog Arizona Bill. You're
Speaker 5: happening you just saw it happen with a World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 5: It it's maneuvering in a different position. There's a lot
Speaker 5: of things happening behind closed doors, but somebody needs to
Speaker 5: we need to figure out the voice of Southern Arizona
Speaker 5: and have that person at the forefront kind of like
Speaker 5: shouting it from a mountaintop, right And maybe it's guys
Speaker 5: like Olli far hanging. Maybe it's guys like Ray Flores
Speaker 5: who are mnd Marcus that are super connected throughout and
Speaker 5: they already have that kind of weight to go out
Speaker 5: there and get visitors on a belief because they're already working.
Speaker 5: They're working in great directions right now, just continually amplifying
Speaker 5: that voice. But yeah, Rick, I understand.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, and I don't want to put a bad
Speaker 6: spin on this, but we'd have to change the discussion
Speaker 6: at the head of the table.
Speaker 5: Yes, and that is.
Speaker 6: Your chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and that's your mayor.
Speaker 6: Until you get both of these entities talking, and then
Speaker 6: you're Chuck Huckleberry basically eliminated baseball. And you guys have
Speaker 6: done a great job of bringing this back. But I'm
Speaker 6: going to tell you something people just don't appreciate or understand.
Speaker 6: And I've been around this town for almost seventy years,
Speaker 6: so I've watched this evolution, and I've been involved in
Speaker 6: politics for over forty and it's sad, but it's a
Speaker 6: reality that we all have to accept until we understand
Speaker 6: and how do we engage the elected officials to really
Speaker 6: step up and publicly get behind these events. Then that
Speaker 6: audiencestead of votes for these people will pay more attention
Speaker 6: and you'll have a bigger.
Speaker 2: Draw thanks to the col ric. I appreciate it. I
Speaker 2: think two things can be right at the same time. Right,
Speaker 2: what he's saying from the past, and you're saying what
Speaker 2: the potential is the future. And we talked about that
Speaker 2: with Ray, that more people step up like these guys,
Speaker 2: you guys, it can change. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean we have huge supporters on the Board of
Speaker 5: Supervisors on every spectrum, the mayor. I think it's changing, right,
Speaker 5: And I can't correct for Rick because I don't know
Speaker 5: the history piece of it.
Speaker 2: It's very obvious from the good old days. It's a
Speaker 2: quarter of a century ago now. Yeah, And I think, listen,
Speaker 2: we're you. You said it best.
Speaker 5: Either we you know, sit on our morals or you
Speaker 5: change things, right. I just I think we're changing in
Speaker 5: a positive direction.
Speaker 2: That we would be a good get, well, would be
Speaker 2: a great get, something new, what would be a great get?
Speaker 2: That's possible, that's possible, not you know, having the Yankees
Speaker 2: come down here. But you do know, is there a
Speaker 2: great what do we need?
Speaker 5: I listen and I'm this is I honestly think there's
Speaker 5: still a chance for spring training, right and I think
Speaker 5: that would be for me Mount Rushmore putting it back
Speaker 5: on saying like, hey, what can capacity can we do
Speaker 5: spring training? Because I no matter what you talk about,
Speaker 5: what is the first thing that comes to your mind
Speaker 5: when you think about Tucson Sports.
Speaker 2: You have a basketball and spring training. Yeah, but I've
Speaker 2: been around a long time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I mean Henry's new here. I mean most
Speaker 5: people don't realize this because it hasn't been around since
Speaker 5: twenty fifteen. But I mean we had we were the
Speaker 5: first spring training site in the state of Arizona, and
Speaker 5: I think there's a possibility of doing that while we
Speaker 5: move forward.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go ahead and talk. I'm going to
Speaker 2: try to find a note that someone sent me a
Speaker 2: few weeks ago, because we talk about this every now
Speaker 2: and again, the spring training, and they try to tell
Speaker 2: me I have to go through the whole thing. Anything. Well,
Speaker 2: so spring training would be your the number one get
Speaker 2: And do you think that people would buy in? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Absolutely, Henry, what's your what would your be You're you're
Speaker 5: coming from a one, you mean, arguably the largest market.
Speaker 5: What would be your outside looking in perspective of something
Speaker 5: that you'd like to see in Tucson outside of what
Speaker 5: currently exists.
Speaker 3: I know, did they used to do march mauntains a.
Speaker 3: McHale was, yeah, they did.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure why they don't do it, so the
Speaker 2: probably not. The structure is not big enough anymore.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: My cousin was asking why, and I told him I'd
Speaker 5: get the answer. So that's good. We don't know. We
Speaker 5: don't have an answer on air. This isn't a hot
Speaker 5: take that I can now spring out to the world
Speaker 5: with all my connections.
Speaker 2: No, no, I don't think it's big enough anything.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they have bigger, bigger venues. Now. It was
Speaker 2: a great place. But the thing about it too is
Speaker 2: there was almost always on the road. Well they have
Speaker 2: it here because yeah, because you know, and it doesn't
Speaker 2: take away from the audience because there was one. They
Speaker 2: love college basketball, especially at that level because seed Michigan, Camadia, whoever.
Speaker 5: The MLS spring training was great too. I mean, I
Speaker 5: know they're working hard on that, but I mean to
Speaker 5: be able to see David. I mean that's that's a
Speaker 5: core memory for my wife and I. I mean, like
Speaker 5: David Beckham when he played here, stayed afterwards and went
Speaker 5: around the whole stadium to take pictures and sign autographs
Speaker 5: with every single person that stayed. Like, that's incredible when
Speaker 5: you see it on that level, right, if you could,
Speaker 5: if you know, I know, no f C two Sons
Speaker 5: still does it, but uh, if you could collectively collectively
Speaker 5: have both those things going on at the same time
Speaker 5: in some capacity, would would be pretty impressive. I mean
Speaker 5: sports wise, I mean, we've got some things working that.
Speaker 5: I mean, we talked about this before, Steve, excuse me.
Speaker 5: You know we had to beat out Orlando and the
Speaker 5: country of Columbia. I mean, the Indoor Football Championship had
Speaker 5: to beat out Las Vegas. So like we're you know,
Speaker 5: and we're working with the international stuff that we're competing
Speaker 5: against other larger cities. We need to take advantage.
Speaker 2: So we've got a one let's call hello, you're on
Speaker 2: the air, and nine and the ball we got about
Speaker 2: a minute.
Speaker 14: Yeah, gentlemen, I think you guys are doing a great
Speaker 14: job long far hang in moving forward and getting the
Speaker 14: ball rolling again.
Speaker 1: But I would say the holy grail for Tucson would
Speaker 1: be at another Triple A ball club.
Speaker 5: I love the sound, I love.
Speaker 1: You of a baseball, but the sound of a what
Speaker 1: and't bad as opposed to an aluminum bat.
Speaker 5: That needs to be heard in Tucson.
Speaker 2: Once again, a.
Speaker 12: Lot of people loved going to High Corpord, watching the
Speaker 12: Toros and just taking it all in. And that was
Speaker 12: that was a touchdown for the community for a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, thanks to money. We appreciate you too, call,
Speaker 2: thanks for listening. Possible, just possible, probably not what triple Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's the possibilities out there. Okay, with that, we got
Speaker 2: to go. Thanks for being there. Thank you, Henry. We'll
Speaker 2: talk you guys tomorrow.