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Speaker 2: Got a guy Henry in Georgia. Just put your breaking
Speaker 2: metals breaking metal. H Well, you can't say break dancing
Speaker 2: because it's not right. Got Did you see that the
Speaker 2: Australia woman. Yeah, that was like breakdancing nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 3: That was very sad.
Speaker 2: That's very I think I like kid kid having a
Speaker 2: tantrum on the floor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot like that, right, you just wanta grabbing
Speaker 3: my harm and stand him up.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was cool. It was good Olympics though.
Speaker 3: But other Olympics were fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Two basketball games were fantastic, great games. The soccer match was, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, testing it was great. I had a chance
Speaker 3: to see a lot of that. I watched almost well
Speaker 3: almost all of both both of the basketball games. In
Speaker 3: between apartment hunting down in the San Diego for my daughter.
Speaker 3: But good stuff. You know, they ended strong. I thought
Speaker 3: it was a good Olympics, a lot to you know,
Speaker 3: a lot to a lot to remember. It was very cool. Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 2: I was a lot to watch, a lot of fun,
Speaker 2: a lot of golds, a lot of metals. Some controversy
Speaker 2: with the gymnastics continue. I guess what the hell, man, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're gonna probably get it right, they're gonna give it back.
Speaker 2: I guess they're gonna give it back to her. I
Speaker 2: don't know what they're saying now. Yeah, because it was
Speaker 2: a deadline thing right right under a minute. And so
Speaker 2: we'll see, you'll see you never know who knows.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, stuff like that kind of screws things up.
Speaker 3: But it was, you know, it was a fun Olympics. Okay,
Speaker 3: onto l A and let's see what that looks like.
Speaker 2: Snoop Dog already.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's already out there in concerts and the airs
Speaker 3: of ball making the most of all that visibility. You know,
Speaker 3: they're they're throwing it out there every time, every chance
Speaker 3: they get.
Speaker 2: That's part of my story. You know, you got to
Speaker 2: you gotta strike with the irons hot right right right,
Speaker 2: And here they are yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: So it's been very cool. Would you want to go
Speaker 3: as a spectator too in the Olympics?
Speaker 2: Uh in l A. Yeah, that's a good question. That's
Speaker 2: a good question as a spectator. Yeah, just you know,
Speaker 2: I pick a few events you can get so, I
Speaker 2: think so because I've covered it for two times and
Speaker 2: two times and it was a lot of work, a
Speaker 2: lot of craziness. The only down down thing would be
Speaker 2: I don't like LA even now, the traffic is going
Speaker 2: to be even worse.
Speaker 3: I remember when they went there or the last time
Speaker 3: they went po just losing their minds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is going to be awful forty years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and now it's I wonder what the venues are going
Speaker 2: to be, like how spread out? Yeah, and if I
Speaker 2: could just go to maybe spend three days there and
Speaker 2: kind of go and pick and choose, yes, yes, uh
Speaker 2: but but no, I don't I hate the traffic there.
Speaker 2: It takes, yeah, you know, especially if it rains. It takes.
Speaker 3: It took.
Speaker 2: I told you the story, took me like five hours
Speaker 2: to go ten miles one day. Yeah, because the traffic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, back in the I did, I didn't.
Speaker 3: A friend of mine was living there and probably could
Speaker 3: have gotten tickets and gone. I know he went to
Speaker 3: a few events, but I don't know. It's I think
Speaker 3: I think it would be cool, but you're right, I
Speaker 3: don't know if l A Is the place I would
Speaker 3: want to go to a US Olympics. You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought about it because I used to live
Speaker 2: in Dallas, and maybe Dallas can hold something something like
Speaker 2: that right in Miami or but it's still going to
Speaker 2: be crazy. Yeah, it's still gonna be no matter where
Speaker 2: you go, it's going to be unbelievable. The one thing
Speaker 2: that they did for the media obviously they put put
Speaker 2: you in vans and you went to the venue. They
Speaker 2: put you on another vance I'm sorry, buses, Yeah, shuttles,
Speaker 2: big buses, and they took you so you don't have
Speaker 2: to worry about driving, You don't have to worry about anything.
Speaker 2: It was not there. You just got to get through
Speaker 2: on time. But but even then it was like, are
Speaker 2: we ever going to get there? And then you have
Speaker 2: to come back and then I don't know ya, Okay,
Speaker 2: where did you cover Olympics Australia? Which was nice, it
Speaker 2: wasn't the trap Sydney Sydney, And then Greece, which was
Speaker 2: a little more hectic. But but both of the both
Speaker 2: of them are pretty good. Australia was fantastic. The people
Speaker 2: were unbelievable, but the track, you know, the traffic, the
Speaker 2: traffic wasn't that bad considering. The thing that was surreal
Speaker 2: about Greece was it was after nine to eleven and
Speaker 2: there was military people at every corner. That's what made
Speaker 2: it kind of like, oh crap, here's a guy with
Speaker 2: a gun, machine gun, but he's protecting you, he's on
Speaker 2: our side.
Speaker 3: Well, what would you want to go see if you went?
Speaker 2: Good question, Good question. Well, let me say my first
Speaker 2: My first great place in Australia both of them was
Speaker 2: the beach volleyball. Of course, beach because it's the atmosphere,
Speaker 2: the fun and the music was great. Uh I curt
Speaker 2: softball with Kendre so that was okay, But beach volleyball
Speaker 2: the most intense place I was. That was the volleyball
Speaker 2: men's volleyball. It was because it was in Greece and
Speaker 2: then they were playing Greece. I think it was crazy.
Speaker 2: So you kind of go for the atmosphere and sports, but
Speaker 2: beach basketball would go to the bat. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: never went to I covered a couple of press coverages,
Speaker 2: but I never went to a game because Richard Jefferson
Speaker 2: was in four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, where do you want to go see Henry?
Speaker 4: I feel like the gymnastics looks really cool. Yeah, obviously basketball,
Speaker 4: but I feel like I've been doing a lot of
Speaker 4: basketball games. It would be as cool as somebody going
Speaker 4: to some of the other.
Speaker 2: Games, right, And I'd like to go see ping pong
Speaker 2: in person, because it was halfway decent I was. I
Speaker 2: was watching them play. I don't know how you'd see
Speaker 2: the ball, said, from wherever you would see Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: because I used to play it. I was not that
Speaker 2: good level. But it was like if they are like
Speaker 2: twenty five hundred players, twenty five hundred quality, I'm about
Speaker 2: half that thirteen hundred. Yeah, and those to some amazing yeah,
Speaker 2: just just what they can do tricks with the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Like I'd want to go to the track,
Speaker 3: but i'd want to go see finals.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 3: Of course there's only a couple of finals every day.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know that I want to sit
Speaker 3: around for three hours to watch a ten second race, right.
Speaker 2: Right, No, No, that's that would be pouty prime right.
Speaker 3: Kind of thing. I uh, probably gymnastics, like you you know,
Speaker 3: I really like that. Yeah, maybe maybe the maybe beat
Speaker 3: something like beach volleyball. Probably not soccer, although ye be fun.
Speaker 3: I've had fun watching it on TV.
Speaker 2: If you it's different. It's different when you're a person
Speaker 2: you're thinking, You're like thinking of everybody else. They're ever
Speaker 2: going to score?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, I mean I guess I would, but
Speaker 3: I guess if I had not, if I have an opportunity,
Speaker 3: maybe i'd go. But I'm not gonna break my back
Speaker 3: to try and go right way.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I think it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: I I just the congestion. What are they gonna do
Speaker 2: with the homeless? I mean it's now they try to
Speaker 2: put the city trains to put it on the best face,
Speaker 2: on best face, We're you gonna put all You remember
Speaker 2: what Brazil did? So what they do?
Speaker 3: They just swept them out, wouldn't they built? They built
Speaker 3: stuff all over.
Speaker 2: There over there well complex yeah see, oh well that's
Speaker 2: could happen here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And when you were there and were you in the
Speaker 2: l PAC twelve pack twelp in La you were there
Speaker 2: Peck twelve what was in l A something. Oh though,
Speaker 2: do I so regional?
Speaker 3: You didn't go and I worked one and I worked
Speaker 3: one a few years ago.
Speaker 2: Okay, but you know, okay, and it's downtown. It's like,
Speaker 2: holy crap, it's everywhere. Yeah, so you know where do
Speaker 2: they Where do they go? Where they go? Well, they're everywhere.
Speaker 3: North, all right, there you go, all right, just scarious, No,
Speaker 3: it's scarious.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be interesting four years. Yeah, let's see what happens. Okay, cool? Uh,
Speaker 2: the more football we're getting closer, right, nineteen days I
Speaker 2: think it is.
Speaker 3: Yep, the AP football pole came out today.
Speaker 2: You're gonna you're gonna get you're gonna mess with Henry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not gonna let him have it. This is
Speaker 3: this is more important than than than Henry. Sorry, Henry. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I love you man. Okay, cool, but I found it.
Speaker 3: I found it. I mentioned after I found it interesting.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna ask you why, but go ahead.
Speaker 3: The same twenty five teams that are in the A
Speaker 3: people were in the USA to day pole. Now, so
Speaker 3: some in some different orders, but a lot a lot
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 2: Don't you find that kind of coincidental? Or why do
Speaker 2: you think that happens or happened, I have my three.
Speaker 3: Well, on one hand, I'm sure guys who voted in
Speaker 3: the people looked at you the coaches pole exactly, but
Speaker 3: it's sort of a consensus that these are the teams
Speaker 3: that may maybe there's like a cutoff. Who's twenty six
Speaker 3: in the in the in the AP pole, it's Louisville.
Speaker 3: In the coaches poll, it's Washington, then Louisville, So it's Louisville,
Speaker 3: the next five twenty six to thirty Louisville and AP Louville,
Speaker 3: Virginia Tech, Boise State, SMU, Iowa State, And the coaches
Speaker 3: vote's Washington, Louisville, Virginia Tech, SMU, Memphis.
Speaker 2: Washington might not even get four wins. That, yeah, how
Speaker 2: is that possible?
Speaker 3: Well, coaches, the coaches got them right there because they're
Speaker 3: saying they were national, you know, national championship game. We
Speaker 3: gotta give them a.
Speaker 2: Bunch of I used to be skinny a long time ago.
Speaker 2: I'm not the same team or guy.
Speaker 3: That I was. Washington got twenty three votes, which, let me,
Speaker 3: let me put it this way for you, Washington is
Speaker 3: behind Boise State, SMEU in Liberty.
Speaker 2: In the AP and the Yeah, that's what in the thirties,
Speaker 2: twenty seventh, Yeah, thirty two, thirty makes more sense. But
Speaker 2: even then, Jay, if there are a prediction to win
Speaker 2: protection win four games, how do they even end up
Speaker 2: that high?
Speaker 3: Yeah? But the first seven in both poles are the
Speaker 3: same going down Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, Alabama will
Speaker 3: miss Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: And there's those both twenty one, and there those.
Speaker 3: Twenty one in both poles. Seven and eight in the
Speaker 3: AP are Notre Dame. In Ohio State they're flipped, I
Speaker 3: mean are eight and nine. Excuse me, are Penn State
Speaker 3: in Michigan they're flipped in In the coaches poll, it's Michigan.
Speaker 3: Penn State are eight and nine. Forest State is in Missouri.
Speaker 3: Forest State Missouri are ten and eleven in both polls.
Speaker 3: LSU is twelve and thirteen in the Coaches and Utah
Speaker 3: is twelve and LSU was thirteen in the In the AP,
Speaker 3: you got Clemson in Tennessee. It gets a little you
Speaker 3: get to Arizona twenty one. After Arizona, it's the same
Speaker 3: four teams in the top twenty five in the AP.
Speaker 3: But in as in the in this in the coaches
Speaker 3: pub put in different order. Us c'son there at number
Speaker 3: twenty three in both. Kansas is twenty two, twenty four
Speaker 3: in the coaches I was twenty five in both poles.
Speaker 3: So a lot a lot the same. Tex A and
Speaker 3: m is twenty in both poles. Miami is nineteen in
Speaker 3: both poles. It's just it's the same twenty five teams. Okay,
Speaker 3: so interesting, Yes, Arizona's twenty one starting out the season ranked,
Speaker 3: which is which is good because I know that there
Speaker 3: were I saw a couple of poles that they didn't
Speaker 3: have Arizona ranked at all.
Speaker 2: So okay, that's our next guest, our guest, that's his number,
Speaker 2: so ahead and grabbed that so you can write it now.
Speaker 2: So let's let's talk about our guests for.
Speaker 3: Okay, We're going to Patrick McCumber. He's the He was
Speaker 3: the manager of the Wilcox Little League softball team that
Speaker 3: went to the World Series, won a first round game,
Speaker 3: and then got eliminated after that, so we'll talk to him.
Speaker 3: His daughter, Hattie was there was the stud pitcher on
Speaker 3: that on that team, you always got to have one
Speaker 3: to get to the World Series in either either baseball
Speaker 3: or softball, and they had one in her She had
Speaker 3: a fifteen strikeout performance. If I recall in the opener
Speaker 3: of the Littleague World Series, what do you think was
Speaker 3: a record? So? Uh, you know, look, they had the experience.
Speaker 3: They didn't win it, but they went and they had fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk all about that. I mean, how does
Speaker 2: this team from Little Wilcox, Arizona get to this?
Speaker 3: Rightey? How do you get that many good players in
Speaker 3: one place like that?
Speaker 2: Right? And she his daughter must be a stud, Yeah,
Speaker 2: like a stud stud studs. We'll ask him if it's
Speaker 2: true that college coaches are already saying, hey, you what
Speaker 2: are you doing in six years?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly do you think that's too young to be chasing?
Speaker 2: I'll give you an example. Surprisingly went after Nick.
Speaker 3: I remember Nick wife, and how that guy right, Well,
Speaker 3: he ended up coming here, but he wasn't great.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was great and it was serviceable. But you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's cool for it's cool for the kids. I
Speaker 2: think it's cool for the kids.
Speaker 3: And the parents said, hey, you know, the college coach
Speaker 3: talk to my kid already and she's twelve. But is
Speaker 3: it too much? I don't know it. I guess it's
Speaker 3: part of it, Steve Partnery, I think would depend on
Speaker 3: how your kid and how the family handles it handles that, right,
Speaker 3: are you going to be butt heads about it and
Speaker 3: running around say my kids getting recruited, or you're gonna say,
Speaker 3: oh this is really cool.
Speaker 2: Cool, Well, they'll be the moms behind you in the volleyball.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: My girl is going to be going to issue. Excuse me,
Speaker 2: she's not that good.
Speaker 3: She's not that good.
Speaker 2: She's going somewhere, if at all.
Speaker 3: She's not even going to Pima. You're not going to
Speaker 3: u of A. She's not going back twelve. She might
Speaker 3: get into D three school.
Speaker 2: She's going to chuck che if.
Speaker 3: You guys come up with the tuition. Yeah. So, but anyways,
Speaker 3: it'll be interesting to see, you know, kind of Oh
Speaker 3: you've had this experience, now what right for a lot.
Speaker 4: Of that right?
Speaker 2: Right? And on how do you you then that's captured?
Speaker 3: And then that small town, right, I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 3: everybody in that town knows all the players, sure, right
Speaker 3: in the families.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: And then at four fifteen, I told I told him
Speaker 3: that as much as this pains me to have to
Speaker 3: talk about these guys. Jack McGruder who writes for Forbes Sports.
Speaker 3: He's gonna come in and talk about the Arizona Diamondbacks,
Speaker 3: pretty much the hottest team in baseball. They've gotten to
Speaker 3: within three and a half games of the Dodgers. They're
Speaker 3: tied with the Padres right now. I think they've won
Speaker 3: fourteen out of sixteen or something like that. Going into today,
Speaker 3: they're on the Dodgers heels. They're the defending National League champions.
Speaker 3: Dodgers have to be looking at him. But the Dodgers
Speaker 3: do get movie bets back today, so maybe they can
Speaker 3: start to score to themselves. But it's going to be
Speaker 3: a race. And Jack's doing a story on in Forbes
Speaker 3: on the overall race in the West Division, which is
Speaker 3: turning up to be a really interesting one except in
Speaker 3: the end, the Phillies are kicking all their asses.
Speaker 2: Well, then the Phillies got the last three, we.
Speaker 3: Got rolled by. They got rolled two out of three by.
Speaker 3: The Diamondbacks were swept. They get swept. I think that
Speaker 3: swept anyway. So so Jack will be in here. We'll
Speaker 3: talk a bit about the Diamondbacks and how they're turning
Speaker 3: things around, and we'll talk a little bit about that race.
Speaker 3: So be sure to stick around. We've got Patrick McCumber,
Speaker 3: manager of that Wilcox Little League of World Series team
Speaker 3: that got it got to play in North Carolina. Actually
Speaker 3: was there a few extra days because of the hurricane
Speaker 3: that was going over there, but I'm sure they had
Speaker 3: an incredible experience. So we'll talk to him when we'll
Speaker 3: get back. Stick around.
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Speaker 1: Streaming live, I mean iHeartRadio WAPP. This is I on
Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jacin Zalez on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to you Whire the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jaginsauce on
Speaker 2: the phone. We have Patrick McCumber from the Willcox Little
Speaker 2: League Softball team coach. How you doing?
Speaker 5: Oh great, great, finally back in town, getting back into
Speaker 5: my normal life again, well normal life.
Speaker 2: Indeed, you guys lived the dreams of many young kids,
Speaker 2: girls and boys over the last few days. How was
Speaker 2: the experience?
Speaker 5: It was an unreal experience, the whole thing from start
Speaker 5: to finish. And if you're if you're referring to the
Speaker 5: Little League World Series, little League does a really good
Speaker 5: job at taking care of these girls. The experience was
Speaker 5: pretty fantastic. They go out of their way to make
Speaker 5: it special for the ladies.
Speaker 3: Well, and you guys, you guys had some extra time
Speaker 3: there with this hurricane, and so you probably had a
Speaker 3: lot of downtime. So how was How was that hard?
Speaker 3: Was it? Or were you guys just having fun sticking around?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: You know going through all of that while waiting to
Speaker 3: play some more games.
Speaker 5: We just wanted to play softball. But like you said,
Speaker 5: this is a once in a lifetime experience for these girls,
Speaker 5: so we try to do what we could to take
Speaker 5: their minds off all of all of the delays. We
Speaker 5: took the girls out for ice cream. We took them
Speaker 5: one day and got them off. They all got pedicures.
Speaker 5: Even one of the coaches got a pedicure. So just
Speaker 5: just stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So how long how big is the roster? And I
Speaker 2: have a question for that about twelve thirteen?
Speaker 5: Twelve twelve?
Speaker 2: So how many of those girls had ever been on
Speaker 2: a plane before?
Speaker 5: I believe there was four that had not been on
Speaker 5: a plane before.
Speaker 2: So how was that for them?
Speaker 5: Well, because the travel was so last minute and they
Speaker 5: had to scramble to get us seats, we weren't even
Speaker 5: sitting all together. So I was a little bit worried
Speaker 5: about the girls that hadn't slowt on a plane before
Speaker 5: and because they were sitting by strangers, But they all
Speaker 5: handled it well and they were they were pros at
Speaker 5: it by the time we got back home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, of course. So let's go back to when
Speaker 3: when you put this team together, because you know, we
Speaker 3: know how All Stars work. You get the best players
Speaker 3: from your league and you form a team. We have
Speaker 3: a bunch of practices. There is there a point where
Speaker 3: you think, Okay, we're really good or did any of
Speaker 3: this surprise you in terms of how far you got?
Speaker 3: You just kept winning games. Mean, how did that come together?
Speaker 3: What did you think of your team as you started
Speaker 3: the little league tournament?
Speaker 5: Well, as we got into All Stars this year. Our city,
Speaker 5: Wilcox is really small. It's about three three thousand people,
Speaker 5: three two hundred people. So honestly, there wasn't a huge
Speaker 5: selection process like some of these other clubs have.
Speaker 2: We had.
Speaker 5: We had to bring girls up from the miners just
Speaker 5: to have two teams here to play against each other
Speaker 5: in Wilcox. So out of all the girls, we probably
Speaker 5: had like fifteen sixteen girls to choose twelve from. So
Speaker 5: it wasn't that it wasn't that it wasn't that grueling
Speaker 5: of a process about forming the team. Once we had it,
Speaker 5: we have several girls that they do We have a
Speaker 5: four or five that you club the softball stuff in Tucson,
Speaker 5: so they get knew that, we knew some of our
Speaker 5: girls are pretty talented. Then we have some brand new girls,
Speaker 5: but they kind of all just meshed well together. And
Speaker 5: we didn't win by a lot, but we won a
Speaker 5: lot of games.
Speaker 2: How many games did you win? Because I have another
Speaker 2: question for that, where'd you go?
Speaker 5: I think we won FOURIGN districts to get the state,
Speaker 5: and we won another four at state, and then we
Speaker 5: won five four I think another four or five in
Speaker 5: in the Western Regional.
Speaker 2: Twelve and thirty, so you didn't lose it all in
Speaker 2: those times. You went four and oh four to oh.
Speaker 5: Four to oh yeah, we were we were undefeated all.
Speaker 2: Those So you went you went thirteen in about two, right,
Speaker 2: thirteen and two something like that. So it was and
Speaker 2: it's always tenuous right bottom of the bottom of the
Speaker 2: sixth or bottom of the However, did you did you
Speaker 2: come close to not.
Speaker 3: Get in there?
Speaker 5: We had one of one of our toughest teams that
Speaker 5: we went against was actually at the state tournament, the
Speaker 5: CF team out of where they're they're at North to Glendale,
Speaker 5: they're up in that area, but they were they're pretty
Speaker 5: close with us two different times.
Speaker 3: And then in.
Speaker 5: California we had a couple of two to zero wins,
Speaker 5: so we didn't win by a lot. We just really
Speaker 5: needed we needed more with the bats is what we
Speaker 5: needed to make everybody a little bit more comfortable.
Speaker 3: Well, well, you mentioned how how small you know, will
Speaker 3: Cox is, and and then you know, to get twelve
Speaker 3: girls in one place that size to be this good,
Speaker 3: I mean that that the odds are stacked against you
Speaker 3: and something like that. But yet somehow you you know,
Speaker 3: you pulled this team together and had this team that
Speaker 3: gets all the way to the World Series. I mean again,
Speaker 3: I have a hard time understanding how how did that
Speaker 3: pool of talent came together all in one place in
Speaker 3: such a small place.
Speaker 5: The core of our team, we've had about five or
Speaker 5: six and we've won. We've won the ten U state championship.
Speaker 5: Then last year we won the twelve U state championship,
Speaker 5: and this year we again won the twelve You but
Speaker 5: so we have a core of our girls that have
Speaker 5: just been practicing with us NonStop for the past several years.
Speaker 5: And we told them, we said, if you guys want
Speaker 5: to get good, you guys want to get better, we're
Speaker 5: willing to be out here and practice with you. And
Speaker 5: we've put a lot, We've logged a lot of hours
Speaker 5: out there on the field. So it's just a lot
Speaker 5: of dedication by these girls.
Speaker 2: Well, it's probably a lot of dedication by you and
Speaker 2: your daughter, who appears to be a standout right she
Speaker 2: has the record what fifteen strikeouts, so she must have
Speaker 2: been playing since really young. And how much time do
Speaker 2: you put in with her?
Speaker 5: Put we've put in a lot of time. It was
Speaker 5: more me and her at the beginning, but now it's
Speaker 5: a lot more of just her because I lost my
Speaker 5: eyesight completely about a year and a half ago, and
Speaker 5: they did some surgery to make it come back, but
Speaker 5: it's not like it was, so I can't she throws
Speaker 5: too fast, too hard, and moves too much for her.
Speaker 5: I can't catch for her anymore. So we we have
Speaker 5: heard her catcher, jay Leen's really good at catching for her,
Speaker 5: and uh and my my son, her brother, will catch
Speaker 5: for her, or we just have a target net where
Speaker 5: she uses that, but she she puts work in almost
Speaker 5: every day trying to improve her craft.
Speaker 3: Is she a hard thrower? Through a lot of stuff
Speaker 3: that tell us a little bit about about her.
Speaker 5: Skills, She's pretty good. She's she's pretty good. There's there's
Speaker 5: a lot a lot of people have shown interest in her,
Speaker 5: and she's she throws, she throws pretty fast for her age,
Speaker 5: and she's she's been working with she's had a few
Speaker 5: different pitching coaches, but she's been working with Kelly Fowler
Speaker 5: for the past a year or so and she's added
Speaker 5: a few few more pretty tough pitches to her arsenal.
Speaker 5: So she she's when she's on, she's really hard to hit.
Speaker 3: Take us to that first World Series game when she
Speaker 3: struck out all those all those hits. I mean, did
Speaker 3: did it What did it look like from where you
Speaker 3: were sitting in terms of did she just look like
Speaker 3: she was in some sort of a zone or something.
Speaker 3: We talk about that all the time. What was happening
Speaker 3: that day.
Speaker 5: Was she You could you could see it on her,
Speaker 5: and she was confident, she was ready. She she wants
Speaker 5: that stage. She craves that stage of being in front
Speaker 5: of people and and the big games, and so for
Speaker 5: her to finally get to her goal of playing the
Speaker 5: World Series, she was just she was on target. Also,
Speaker 5: she's she's gotten to the point where she's really her
Speaker 5: defense has backed her up so well throughout this whole
Speaker 5: process where she feels comfortable throwing whatever she wants and
Speaker 5: then if she she hangs one up and it gets hit,
Speaker 5: then she trusts her defense to back her up on that.
Speaker 5: So that really gives her a little more confident in
Speaker 5: throwing different pitches.
Speaker 2: So I should know this, But did she she pissed
Speaker 2: the first game? Did she piss the third game?
Speaker 3: She?
Speaker 5: We were in a weird situation with that third game.
Speaker 5: Is that, because of all the delays, Little League typically
Speaker 5: goes one game a day, So having one really tough
Speaker 5: pitcher is it's it's just fine because she can pitch
Speaker 5: once a day. But it pushed us to the point
Speaker 5: where we were going to have to pitch or we
Speaker 5: were gonna have to have two games that day. So
Speaker 5: I thought, you know, it's better. They only get tougher
Speaker 5: as you go along. So I thought we had, you know,
Speaker 5: our other pitcher. We have a couple other pitchers that
Speaker 5: are pretty solid, so we tried to run with one
Speaker 5: of those. We thought we could probably get by with
Speaker 5: one with one of our other pitchers, and we had
Speaker 5: Lily Williams pitch and she did a good job. But
Speaker 5: it's just different. It changes the whole defense up when
Speaker 5: we move people around. So so we we didn't have
Speaker 5: we didn't have her, and I moved her in towards
Speaker 5: the end, just because the rule is after twelve innings,
Speaker 5: they can't pitch anymore that day, and after seven innings
Speaker 5: they can't pitch the following day. So we were gonna
Speaker 5: b are going to burn her one way or the other.
Speaker 5: So we just went for it just a little too late.
Speaker 5: It really wasn't that, It was more of the adding
Speaker 5: that we didn't get going right right.
Speaker 3: So talk to us a little bit about how the
Speaker 3: girls took this experience, because you know, I covered a
Speaker 3: boys Little League World Series team from Tucson that went
Speaker 3: and they got beat in the championship game, and I
Speaker 3: remember going to see them after the game and I
Speaker 3: thought they were all going to be heartbroken and upset
Speaker 3: and you know, maybe crying. They were having a great time,
Speaker 3: you know, even after even after the loss, they were
Speaker 3: just you know, they were at their at their at
Speaker 3: their dorm. They're having a great time. They were jumping around,
Speaker 3: and it just they just didn't look like a team
Speaker 3: that had just lost a world championship, right they How
Speaker 3: was it for your girls? You know, once you know
Speaker 3: you're out of the tournament. But yet, I mean, were
Speaker 3: they already reflecting on the experience? How did they take
Speaker 3: all that?
Speaker 5: Initially there was some heartbreak, especially some of them that
Speaker 5: have that have done a lot, a lot of off season,
Speaker 5: a lot of year after year. Of the people who
Speaker 5: have had a lot more experience, it hurt them a
Speaker 5: little bit more. I think the other girls, we needed
Speaker 5: people to step up, and they did a good job.
Speaker 5: So after about I don't know, twenty thirty minutes, I
Speaker 5: think there was kind of a that you could see
Speaker 5: a pressure was lifted off of them. They wanted to
Speaker 5: represent their city and the state of Arizona positively, and
Speaker 5: I think that they felt, you know, hey, we put
Speaker 5: up a fight, we did a good job. They and
Speaker 5: they kind of, you know, they were proud of themselves
Speaker 5: for what they had accomplished, because they know how odd
Speaker 5: it is even for a really good team to be
Speaker 5: able to do this, right, So in a town.
Speaker 2: Of three than two hundred. Like you said, I'm sure
Speaker 2: everybody knows everybody, and now when's the parade? When's the parade?
Speaker 2: And can they get free candy? Now?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: So, And the parade was we had we had a
Speaker 5: whole bunch of people. Like you said, small town equals
Speaker 5: more support in the way I look at it, because everybody,
Speaker 5: somebody on the team, everybody's friends or they they kind
Speaker 5: of everyone that I've talked to, they look at the
Speaker 5: girls as those are our girls. Our girls did this,
Speaker 5: Our girls did that, And I love that about this town.
Speaker 5: And we had a we had one hundred, one hundred
Speaker 5: or so people along the side of the road is
Speaker 5: when we came back into town. So it was it
Speaker 5: was pretty neat The county is doing some kind of
Speaker 5: proclamation tomorrow. They asked me to come to So everybody
Speaker 5: here is just so supportive and so proud of these girls.
Speaker 5: So it's good that you know, they were supported for
Speaker 5: the girls. But the girls have also done a lot
Speaker 5: for this town by by giving them this kind of excitement.
Speaker 3: Sure, right right, We're talking to Patrick macomber, the manager
Speaker 3: of the well Cox Star League World Series team got
Speaker 3: there and won a game, so it's stuck around for
Speaker 3: a little bit. So so Patrick, the coaches, right, you're
Speaker 3: the you know, you're the father of you know, the
Speaker 3: the best picture on the team.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Mostly, I'm guessing your two assistants were their daughters on
Speaker 3: the team as well. And you know, I mean, what
Speaker 3: how kind of what kind of family stuff was going
Speaker 3: on around all of this.
Speaker 5: It's great and when we stepped back, we're gonna be
Speaker 5: able to look at it and said, we did this,
Speaker 5: We did this, and we spent this kind of time
Speaker 5: with our daughters. We went on this experience with them.
Speaker 5: During that thing, it was me just trying to logistically
Speaker 5: make sure everybody got here and there safely. We have
Speaker 5: a bunch of girls that have never been away from
Speaker 5: their parents at all, and I'm taking them halfway across
Speaker 5: the country on the airplanes and charter buses and staying
Speaker 5: in dorms and so it was a lot for the
Speaker 5: families to handle, but it was it was great for
Speaker 5: us being able to do this with our daughters, and
Speaker 5: it's something that we can look back on every year
Speaker 5: at this time when it starts popping up on ESPN. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: we were there together.
Speaker 3: Well, not halfway across the country, all the way across
Speaker 3: the country and you guys were out out in North Carolina.
Speaker 3: What was that like?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: The weather stuff and the hurricane and I mean, this
Speaker 3: was all of that was something new to these girls.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're gonna have stories to tell and they're gonna
Speaker 5: have a They're gonna be able to brag a lot
Speaker 5: to their kids someday. But yeah, the biggest problem with
Speaker 5: the weather, I think was we were we weren't ready
Speaker 5: for the humidity. We're used to hot here. It was hot,
Speaker 5: and even the locals around there were talking about the
Speaker 5: humidity as that this is the this is the worst
Speaker 5: it's been in a long time. And you could see
Speaker 5: it in in our second game. There was definitely a
Speaker 5: we We had been trying to keep these girls hydrated,
Speaker 5: but you could tell that there was a dip in there.
Speaker 5: There just ability. All of them were struggling a little
Speaker 5: bit because it was so humid there. Everybody was just
Speaker 5: pouring buckets to sweat and there wasn't enough. Even though
Speaker 5: they had all the gatorade you can drink, the girls
Speaker 5: weren't drinking as much as they needed, right.
Speaker 2: All Right, So we were talking before you came on
Speaker 2: the air. Your daughter is young? Is this twelve thirteen, right,
Speaker 2: and something like that. I'm assuming that or I've heard
Speaker 2: that the college college coaches have already kind of seen hmm,
Speaker 2: who is this girl?
Speaker 5: Well, we've heard we've heard people talking about someone's you know,
Speaker 5: they kind of someone's watching them, so and someone knows
Speaker 5: who they're who she is, and they're not they're not
Speaker 5: allowed to really contact or anything. So we haven't heard anything.
Speaker 5: But she's had more people following her here and there
Speaker 5: and asking questions. So but yeah, overall, it's a good experience,
Speaker 5: but we're not going to know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: So later on, I'm guessing how much how.
Speaker 3: Much of that, how much of the town was able
Speaker 3: to go, how many how many people went with you?
Speaker 5: We had we had pretty much every kid had a
Speaker 5: couple of people there with them. Plus we had some
Speaker 5: people from town that just they they had the ability
Speaker 5: to just go, and so we had oh, I don't know,
Speaker 5: I'd say we had we had forty some tickets to
Speaker 5: give out for our section, like when we had Hope,
Speaker 5: when we were able to uh when we were playing.
Speaker 5: So when you see them behind home plate. We were
Speaker 5: able to have forty two tickets for that and we
Speaker 5: used all of them.
Speaker 2: So yeah, wow, great, So so coach. Not many people
Speaker 2: know where Willcox is. Not many people know how to
Speaker 2: spell Willcox, but it's two l's. Now people know because
Speaker 2: of you, guys.
Speaker 5: Two story. The first year we went to the state tournament,
Speaker 5: everyone said we started, we started doing well and winning
Speaker 5: a lot of tournaments, and everyone just said where's Wilcox?
Speaker 5: Where's Willcox? Like every day, five or six people. And
Speaker 5: the third year, by the time we'd won it for
Speaker 5: the third time, not one person asked where Willcox was.
Speaker 5: They all kind of figured it out by now. So
Speaker 5: it's it's pretty good, very nice.
Speaker 3: Very nice. Apple's baby Apple and he's out there.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 2: Well, coach, thanks for joining us. This is a lot
Speaker 2: of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very fun. Congratulations.
Speaker 5: I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: Guys, thank you.
Speaker 2: That's not, like I said, everybody dream when you play
Speaker 2: that ball at that level. Only thing you really dream
Speaker 2: you want to be good.
Speaker 3: But you know, he mentioned that they you know, you
Speaker 3: get a group of you get a group of players
Speaker 3: like that, you're all around the same age, and they
Speaker 3: kind of just you know, this high school softball team.
Speaker 3: If they all stick around, it's going to be really
Speaker 3: good in the next few years. Right, we're gonna hear
Speaker 3: about the Wilcox softball team that went to the Little
Speaker 3: League World Series.
Speaker 2: No, no, you're right. You see this with Sunnyside or
Speaker 2: to No Gallaxy, right, because they all grew up together,
Speaker 2: and they grow together and they stay together. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: they do well in high school and all that stuff
Speaker 2: if they stay together and don't get burned out.
Speaker 3: Right whatever, right, you know, and or if they don't
Speaker 3: move away or whatever.
Speaker 2: But it happens once once in a generation if that.
Speaker 3: But some of those great Little League teams that you
Speaker 3: know have been around in Tucson, you know, they were
Speaker 3: good in high school. Then you know, then they all
Speaker 3: split up and go to colleges, the ones that do.
Speaker 3: But you know, they they kind of migrate up, you know,
Speaker 3: up the chain and and they're good for a while.
Speaker 3: And that's how these things happen. So right, right, all right,
Speaker 3: let's take a break, take our second break. We're gonna
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to One in the Ball here, Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve, You're Jay got Henry the
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. If you want to call five two zero
Speaker 2: four one six seventy four forty that was a lot
Speaker 2: of fun.
Speaker 3: That was fun.
Speaker 2: That was a lot of fun. You can tell he's
Speaker 2: kind of just the stoic dude because he you know
Speaker 2: he was. But that's probably what you have to you're
Speaker 2: coaching twelve year old kids and girls, and girls have
Speaker 2: to be stern. You know, girls, girls coach them, I've
Speaker 2: coached them. I don't want to be saying anything out
Speaker 2: of place, but they're.
Speaker 3: Different, something out of place. They're definitely something out of place.
Speaker 2: So difficult in a different way that boys are difficult.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean each you know, boy coaching boys
Speaker 3: and coaching girls have their challenges. They're different challenges, you know.
Speaker 3: You know, just say, you know a lot of drama
Speaker 3: when you're coaching girls. Boys it's just about they're boys
Speaker 3: and they they just sometimes you just go you you
Speaker 3: need you need to shake yourself.
Speaker 2: And so letters to Jay nothing to me. I didn't
Speaker 2: say what he just said.
Speaker 3: Just said, you know, boys are just goofy.
Speaker 4: They're there.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like you're in a dugout and they're
Speaker 3: just shenanigans always going on in there. So anyways, that's
Speaker 3: all I'll say. So, uh, some thing that got pointed
Speaker 3: out to me quite pretty much. Right when the people
Speaker 3: came up. There's no Washington in it. Yeah and uh
Speaker 3: and uh, just people saying that we're rank. You're not
Speaker 3: any voter who's worth it snuff wouldn't put them in
Speaker 3: You wouldn't think, I mean, they got nothing that one
Speaker 3: last year.
Speaker 2: Last year was last year. It was last with a
Speaker 2: different coach and a lot of different players. You know,
Speaker 2: Miss America is no longer Miss America years ago.
Speaker 3: I haven't gone on and seen anything. But how how
Speaker 3: do you think Jed's playing.
Speaker 2: That uh underdog stuff. We've done it before against the world. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we've done it. We've done things like this before. We'll
Speaker 2: be fine down the road. It's not about today. It's
Speaker 2: about do you think they're going to be four wins
Speaker 2: five wins at the Lace, not even a winning season. No, No,
Speaker 2: they'll lose their minds that. Yeah, there's you know, I
Speaker 2: think there's still style points. And then not to think
Speaker 2: that he's not a good coach, because come on, look
Speaker 2: what he did here, right, And I'm not one of
Speaker 2: those poo poo guys. He did a fantastic job. He
Speaker 2: has some good people around him. But it's you have
Speaker 2: to start over again, probably with better talent than he
Speaker 2: had here, but still has to start a new league
Speaker 2: with a lot of people he lost.
Speaker 3: I wonder, I you know, don't you think? What do
Speaker 3: you think? I feel like they got to get to
Speaker 3: six wins though, just because they're Washington.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, their league. I have to see their schedule.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm premature in their schedule, but it's not going
Speaker 2: to be easy. And I still don't know. He's a
Speaker 2: good CEO, and maybe he knows more about the game,
Speaker 2: and I think he knows. Hey, he's done more than
Speaker 2: I have in his little pinky. But but you know,
Speaker 2: I know what I saw from time to time. It
Speaker 2: took him a few games to get in uh Fafita,
Speaker 2: Come on, how does that happen?
Speaker 3: Wow? Yeah, there is that. Yeah there, I mean, there
Speaker 3: is that. I mean it. Yeah, it took him quite
Speaker 3: a while. I'm looking at their schedule.
Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead and give it. Let's go all right,
Speaker 2: But not that we know what the schedule is going
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 3: But a Weaver State with Eastern Michigan two, Washington State three.
Speaker 2: Okay, although historically that's been a tough game. That's three.
Speaker 3: That's uh and loomen Field what is that that were
Speaker 3: Washington State place? That's maybe that's somewhere neutral. Maybe what's
Speaker 3: the uh it says looming Field. I've never heard of
Speaker 3: what lumen Field is. Maybe it's just all right, and
Speaker 3: home against Northwestern, Okay, maybe let's go for something down
Speaker 3: then now we're four and o our Rutgers. We were saying,
Speaker 3: Rutgers is good and home against Michigan for four two
Speaker 3: at Iowa who knows, because I was good but bad,
Speaker 3: Well they got rid of their offensive coordinating and let's
Speaker 3: go four and three, four and three at Indiana, five
Speaker 3: and three at home against USC, five and four at
Speaker 3: Penn State, five and five at home against u c
Speaker 3: l A, six and five, six and five, and then
Speaker 3: that organ six.
Speaker 2: And six, six and what's your what's your over under?
Speaker 2: I think it's four four and a half.
Speaker 3: I think it was five and a half.
Speaker 2: Then I would go over And that's just that's just
Speaker 2: that's just by our crack research.
Speaker 3: Just that we did right there in about thirty seconds,
Speaker 3: that that research, you know, let me let me get
Speaker 3: there there they're over under. Okay, hang on here, Washington is.
Speaker 2: You've gotta be four and a half, five, six and
Speaker 2: a half under, I'd go under.
Speaker 3: Yeah, six and a half is that's a lot because
Speaker 3: you have to under six and a half is minus
Speaker 3: one fifteen, I go under.
Speaker 2: I'd go how to sweat it out? Because you still
Speaker 2: those numbers?
Speaker 3: Do you see? Game is the one that yeah, well
Speaker 3: you know, and I mean at Northwestern at home the
Speaker 3: Rutgers game too, you go, I mean, we like to
Speaker 3: think Rutgers is historically not very good, but there's a
Speaker 3: lot of people saying that they might be good this year.
Speaker 3: You know, you go to Indiana, who knows, You go
Speaker 3: to Iowa, who knows if I would doesn't have any
Speaker 3: kind of offense, and in Washington State in Washington put
Speaker 3: some points on the board, maybe they win that game,
Speaker 3: but it's yeah, well you know, we counted six, so
Speaker 3: there you go. But you know, if they're four and
Speaker 3: oh and you're just trying to get to seven, don't
Speaker 3: you have to feel pretty good about that? Sure?
Speaker 2: But then then reality comes in and yeah, because look
Speaker 2: at that. Look how week that first three So first
Speaker 2: three games.
Speaker 3: We were saying Eastern Michigan, Washington State, I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know, you know, they lost your quarterback right that game.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna get there. Washington State, right, what is luman.
Speaker 4: Feel it's where the Seahawks.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, what is it?
Speaker 2: It's sort of Henry, you're doing exactly what we need
Speaker 2: you here for. You're googling what we don't know unless
Speaker 2: you already knew that.
Speaker 4: I think they've recently changed the name.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's part of the sponsor. Yeah, Lulu Lemon,
Speaker 2: that Lulu Lemon Lumen joking, that's what the next Arizona
Speaker 2: stadium called.
Speaker 3: Anyway, So no, I just you know, just because we
Speaker 3: like to go Nan Nana. Everybody, I know, everybody that's
Speaker 3: brought up the poll to me today, I said, and
Speaker 3: guess what, Washington's not ranked.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I know, I mean, come and get over
Speaker 2: already he's gone. Who's gone. You're gonna be happy with Brettin.
Speaker 2: People gonna wish him bad though. Of course it's what
Speaker 2: Tucson does or Arizona does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. But anyways, you know we're getting there, Steve.
Speaker 3: There's actually games week from Saturday, right, there's a there's
Speaker 3: a handful of a handful of college games, and I think, God,
Speaker 3: I think I think Florida State, Georgia Tech plays in
Speaker 3: that first week, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're in England. I think, oh is that?
Speaker 3: What is that?
Speaker 2: Is that friend of mine is going to the.
Speaker 3: Game Orda State at Georgia Tech in Dublin. Yes, the
Speaker 3: org State Tech in Dublin. And then there's SMU Nevada.
Speaker 3: Maybe an interesting game there. There are some people out
Speaker 3: there saying watch out for SMU in the in the
Speaker 3: acc that they might make some noise over there that
Speaker 3: they you know, they've been getting better. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of money going into the program. Yeah, they're twenty six
Speaker 3: and a half point favorites over Nevada. Montana State's Montana
Speaker 3: State is favored by eight over New Mexico. They playing
Speaker 3: that they play in that week in New Mexico. State's
Speaker 3: got a game before.
Speaker 2: In Mexico State, New Mexico, I mean New Mexico really,
Speaker 2: So that's August August twenty fourth. Oh okay, I didn't
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 3: And they're they're they're at home against Montana State. But
Speaker 3: they're getting eight and a half at home. That tells
Speaker 3: you how bad people think they are. And then the
Speaker 3: other game out there is Delaware State is playing Hawaii.
Speaker 3: So there's four games. But Georgia type Florida State in Dublin.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be at nine am. It's tis on time.
Speaker 3: That should be fine.
Speaker 2: That's Saturday, okay, and then I'm pretty close here from Arizona.
Speaker 2: God has already here mid August, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: Have you been hearing it anything new coming out of camp?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: No, I heard it. I heard some stuff this morning,
Speaker 2: just some of the wide receivers. The guy who's replaced
Speaker 2: Cowing at his spot with the same.
Speaker 3: Something like that.
Speaker 2: I think very good. He's done very well. Could be
Speaker 2: the second receiver to t MAC has been out there
Speaker 2: a couple of times, right, so that's good news. That's
Speaker 2: good news. Maybe limited early, uh, and see what happens.
Speaker 2: Just hopefully he doesn't get hurt. Yeah, but things just
Speaker 2: like that. I think the I think the offense on
Speaker 2: the defense are going to be relatively not comparables, that's
Speaker 2: the right word, but just as good as each other. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you know one's not gonna be favorite over yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah again and mentioned last week there was that he
Speaker 3: uh meet and green at uh Benjamin supply there's my grandson.
Speaker 3: You know, my son took my grandson over there.
Speaker 2: And that was yesterday.
Speaker 3: It was Saturday, Okay, Saturday. It was pretty funny. There's
Speaker 3: a picture of him, tam X holding him, but he's
Speaker 3: clearly holding him like a football. I mean not I
Speaker 3: mean he's got his hold, but he's got his his
Speaker 3: his knee, he's holding it like the end of a football.
Speaker 3: It's pretty funny. The other guys, you know, Fafita and
Speaker 3: Brennan and and and uh Joe Savine you know, hold
Speaker 3: him like dad's right. And t X got him kind
Speaker 3: of like a football. It's pretty funny. Like he's got
Speaker 3: him tucked in and he's ready to run with him
Speaker 3: pretty five. And you're not going to tell them anything. No,
Speaker 3: go ahead, go ahead, but cool. I guess it's a
Speaker 3: pretty good event. I so so.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was a special event, right. They had to
Speaker 2: pay to go to get it? Yeah, yeah, don't good.
Speaker 3: Tickets were free. We didn't have to pay for ticket,
Speaker 3: but they had to have to. But they were. But
Speaker 3: you had to have tickets because they limited the number
Speaker 3: of people that could go, because they don't want it
Speaker 3: to be just you know, jammed with people.
Speaker 2: Price you think for this, Benjamin someone, I think it was.
Speaker 2: I think it was man the world We live in
Speaker 2: that four players and and Brent Brandon. Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2: They were all doing story on the Arizona Sports Exchange. Right,
Speaker 2: enterprise enterprise. They have a lot, they have a lot
Speaker 2: of work to do, and uh, I don't want to
Speaker 2: preview it much, but she knows it's not it's not
Speaker 2: gonna be overnight. It's going to be a lot. It's
Speaker 2: a long yeah, and they're prepared for it. Instead of
Speaker 2: getting money from uh from Liarfield, now they're gonta work theirselves.
Speaker 3: Right out of this. Right, So I'm interested to see
Speaker 3: what all that says. You can read it in the
Speaker 3: next issue of Businesss on magazine.
Speaker 2: It's it's a real kind of convoluted the decisions made
Speaker 2: while he was made things like that. Yeah, but it
Speaker 2: is what it is. I mean, if you if you
Speaker 2: have issues, and you know, if you have issues, you've
Speaker 2: got to spend less or go chase more.
Speaker 3: Go chase more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot more, Yeah, a lot more.
Speaker 3: Because now you know twenty two million dollars of your
Speaker 3: of your revenue or something like that has to go
Speaker 3: to athletes. You got to share it with, right, it's
Speaker 3: a lot of money.
Speaker 2: Right, did you see the new president got kind of introduced.
Speaker 2: I guess still needs approval from a few places. But
Speaker 2: he's the guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, yeah, he is the guy.
Speaker 2: And if you're asking, Jay, you're the president. Okay, you're
Speaker 2: the president, says what do you think about getting out
Speaker 2: of the mess, the financial mess that you're in. What
Speaker 2: are you gonna say? Oh, it's like we can't do it.
Speaker 2: And what's your answer? Yeah, we have to, we have to.
Speaker 3: We're gonna make it happen. We're gonna make it happens.
Speaker 3: It's gonna take a while. I had a lot of
Speaker 3: work do, gonna make some hard decisions, right right, right,
Speaker 3: So you got the role what to say? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What do you say? Oh, I'm sorry I took the job.
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, well, you know, but that's the thing going
Speaker 3: in these you know, both both Desiree read Francois and
Speaker 3: uh Garamela doctor Garmela. No, you know the job I
Speaker 3: had through kind of what's left been left behind for them?
Speaker 3: By the way, we need to get ahold of doctor Robins. Yeah,
Speaker 3: doctor Robins, say farewell, or what are you doing now?
Speaker 2: Do you have time for us?
Speaker 3: Now you're gonna go back out and massage some more,
Speaker 3: some more, hearts or what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Me, and see what he does. I mean, he's what
Speaker 3: he's in sixty Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's yeah, and that's relatively young. Yeah right, you know,
Speaker 2: relatively young. He's still active doing a lot of different things. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, probably maybe a consultant. Yeah, you know, they
Speaker 2: always have stuff like what's up? What's some if you're
Speaker 2: seventy five today and you're still doing okay, what's that?
Speaker 11: Is that?
Speaker 3: The new sixty five? Seventy five is the new sixty eight.
Speaker 2: Sixty seven years?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Really, because I think I think, like, what are you?
Speaker 3: I think, like, seventy is seventy seventy two is what
Speaker 3: used to be sixty five? That's where people are starting
Speaker 3: to retire?
Speaker 2: Yeah all right, Well did I just saw something that
Speaker 2: the the life span of a man a male is
Speaker 2: seventy three. That's all seventy three, like seventy eight for
Speaker 2: a woman. Crap, exactly exactly. I got thirteen years. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna make this hell do eight Yeah yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 2: stop taking your manage and you'll see you could. Yeah
Speaker 2: it was seventy three. I don't like thinking about that,
Speaker 2: but that's what I say.
Speaker 7: The new is what the new?
Speaker 13: What like you?
Speaker 2: What are you sixty? You're sixty fifty five? No, if
Speaker 2: you're sixty five, what are you fifty seven?
Speaker 3: Yeah, forty five. Until I go golfing in the heat,
Speaker 3: it is Mike. We gotta go.
Speaker 2: It is Mike because he's making nonsense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I mean, I'm forty five right now.
Speaker 3: But if I go golfing at one o'clock in the afternoon,
Speaker 3: I'm sixty eighty four. It is as hot as hell.
Speaker 3: And it was hot in San Diego over the weekend, Steve,
Speaker 3: really hot. I was really upset by that.
Speaker 2: Global warming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really upset.
Speaker 2: It does exist. Okay, we got to go.
Speaker 3: All right, take a break. Henry is gonna come back
Speaker 3: with breaking news. Stick around.