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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to on the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me Today's
Speaker 2: Jacins Alice and we got ray with breaking news.
Speaker 3: All right, So obviously big news of this morning. Arizona
Speaker 3: lost their first game of the Super Regional against North
Speaker 3: Carolina eighteen to two. Personally, I just don't feel like
Speaker 3: the scoreboard reflected how the game really went. You know,
Speaker 3: Arizona had a couple of chances. They loaded the bases
Speaker 3: in the second inning and I think the third or
Speaker 3: the fourth again, and then I'm not gonna lie stopped
Speaker 3: lot once it was twelve to two. I was like,
Speaker 3: all right, you can, we can take it a little
Speaker 3: bap right now, you know.
Speaker 4: But I watched the whole thing.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: I turned it off the minute the ball hit the
Speaker 6: glove in the third out. But I would have felt
Speaker 6: guilty if I'd changed the channel, so I didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I stayed with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean they was hard to watch them.
Speaker 3: It was a tough one. I mean there was and
Speaker 3: like I said, there was some bright spots. I was,
Speaker 3: you know, scrolling down like my Instagram later before the show,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know you saw those Walton plays and
Speaker 3: they were two regular Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's let's remember with all the runs that that
Speaker 6: North Carolina has scored, they robbed him.
Speaker 4: Of a home run. It could have been twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was a it was a great play
Speaker 3: by that guy.
Speaker 6: That's that's good news that we got a couple of
Speaker 6: good guts, you know what I mean. Look, and we
Speaker 6: always say this, when you see a team get whacked
Speaker 6: like that, you see how they continue to compete and
Speaker 6: if they continue to compete, And I really thought they
Speaker 6: kept competing.
Speaker 4: They were uptor taking hacks and trying to.
Speaker 6: Have good at bats, diving for balls, they kept playing hard,
Speaker 6: and I thought, I think that's a that's a real
Speaker 6: important thing to consider.
Speaker 4: There was never a point where you thought they had
Speaker 4: given in.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I definitely got to show some resilient in
Speaker 3: situations like that, especially against the picture like that. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's fourteen to no, you know what I mean, it's
Speaker 3: not something.
Speaker 6: To and he you know what, he didn't look like
Speaker 6: he didn't know well, he didn't look like a physical
Speaker 6: specimen let me say that.
Speaker 2: Oh no, but you get mister mister Cruise, what's his name,
Speaker 2: quarterback Cruse CRUs from you a Cruise.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, oh uh yeah, I know who you're talking.
Speaker 6: The guy who looked like who looked like a quarterback?
Speaker 2: Yeah, looking at it, he can't throw. What's the point
Speaker 2: he looks like a quarterback? You can't throw?
Speaker 3: Okay, good for you, keeping it on the diamond going
Speaker 3: to the MLB right now. Got some bad news for
Speaker 3: Diamondbacks fans. Corbyn Burns is set to have Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 3: So that's gonna take him out for the rest of.
Speaker 4: The year and probably well into next year.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just because it takes a while. I mean, show
Speaker 6: Hay still hasn't thrown you know, pitch. It's been a
Speaker 6: year and a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Also, the Diamondbacks are starting a weekend series against
Speaker 3: the Reds following that we really thriller against the Braves.
Speaker 6: That was the thing that, you know, watching the uf
Speaker 6: A game, one of your favorite Twitter trolls in the
Speaker 6: in the in the second inning said Arizona should just
Speaker 6: give up and not use its bullpen and stuff like that,
Speaker 6: basically saying quit the game when it was five to one,
Speaker 6: and I'm like.
Speaker 4: What are you saying?
Speaker 6: I swear I was watching the diamondback Sam yesterday when
Speaker 6: they scored seven in the ninth to win the game.
Speaker 4: I mean I had that game on and I don't
Speaker 4: even know why I had it on.
Speaker 3: It started with one out, Yeah, like the whole star.
Speaker 6: You know, and you know, for somebody to come out
Speaker 6: and say, ah, give up in the second inning, you
Speaker 6: just want to smack the hell out of somebody.
Speaker 2: So I don't watch Twitter that much or any of
Speaker 2: It's just this whole few weeks have just kind of
Speaker 2: like just frustrated me because people post up that they
Speaker 2: have no idea what they should be, what they're saying.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that was that was the whole classic
Speaker 6: You've never competed in anything statement, You've never been on
Speaker 6: a team, You've never you know, had guys that want
Speaker 6: to win.
Speaker 2: Were there other comments on it? Oh, they got red
Speaker 2: as he should have.
Speaker 6: As he should have because to say in the second inning,
Speaker 6: this is over, don't even try.
Speaker 4: What the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 3: I think it's one of those things to where it's
Speaker 3: like not even just as an athlete, but like as
Speaker 3: a person, it's like whether you're getting beat or like
Speaker 3: you know, you're in a slump or something like that.
Speaker 3: It's like you don't want to get pumped.
Speaker 6: You got to me and you have to finish the
Speaker 6: game no matter what. Yeah, so you compete. And that's
Speaker 6: why the point I made it was a second ago.
Speaker 6: This team didn't look like that didn't look you know,
Speaker 6: if you're walked in and not been able to see
Speaker 6: the score, you would you wouldn't have thought they were
Speaker 6: down by ten runs and and and that's you gotta get.
Speaker 4: You got to give Chip Chip Hale a lot of
Speaker 4: credit for that.
Speaker 3: Just like that during wrestling sometimes, man's you know, there's
Speaker 3: a big, you know, a big, old, strapped up looking
Speaker 3: guy and it's like, man, it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: A rough one.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but that's that's what you do, big exactly.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what you do. You savvy them.
Speaker 3: A way to win at least compete keeping it going.
Speaker 3: NBA Finals kicked off yesterday. A thriller of a game.
Speaker 3: I think the Pacers led for a whole of point three.
Speaker 2: God so, uh, Jay I have money with the Chris.
Speaker 2: You know who doesn't have money with Chris? He only
Speaker 2: needs some money if he finally paid me. And then
Speaker 2: he said, I'll take Uh, you know, I don't really
Speaker 2: care who wins, and Indiana Indianapolis has two guys, right,
Speaker 2: and then I'm going for Okay because I think they're
Speaker 2: better team, so I'll take Indiana. And I said, okay,
Speaker 2: so whatever he owes me, we're gonna go over nothing.
Speaker 2: And I'm kind of pulling for Indiana, but I figured
Speaker 2: they're not gonna win it. And then they win it.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna go six total was okay. See
Speaker 2: winning it all in six, But it was a fantastic game.
Speaker 2: I don't even know how the guys did. Did he
Speaker 2: do you have their their stuff?
Speaker 3: I know Mathern didn't do great, but he had a
Speaker 3: he had a he had a pretty good block down
Speaker 3: the lane. Let me see.
Speaker 2: But in McConnell that said it should be a very
Speaker 2: good series. Yeah, because there are two kind of similar
Speaker 2: athletic teams.
Speaker 6: Well, the thing is that, you know, my son Adam
Speaker 6: was over the house swatch we had the game on,
Speaker 6: and the way it wasn't just the how much.
Speaker 4: That they were head by double digits and all that
Speaker 4: kind of stuff.
Speaker 6: It was just the way that Oklahoma State, Oklahoma Oklahoma
Speaker 6: City was manhandling them. Yeah, I asked Adam, I said,
Speaker 6: you think Oklahoma's City can sweep them. I don't think
Speaker 6: they'll sweep them. Yeah, but I my mind had already
Speaker 6: gone to a sweep. And then Indiana comes back and
Speaker 6: wins the game.
Speaker 2: Right. We talked about this yesterday. Fifteen points not enough?
Speaker 2: Never at this point, right, not enough. We talked about this.
Speaker 2: I thought they would go to six, so that means
Speaker 2: they have to win two. So we'll see what that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just I just saw a stat that there
Speaker 6: and I don't know the last however many years, there
Speaker 6: have been like a thousand last second shots to win
Speaker 6: the game, and four hundred of them have been made.
Speaker 6: Haliburton has had fifteen last second shots to.
Speaker 4: Win a game, and he's made thirteen.
Speaker 2: Wowow for five. This fantastic.
Speaker 4: Isn't that a number?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I never. I don't know if you remember, you
Speaker 2: probably do. Rate maybe two months ago when the surveys
Speaker 2: were out and one of the guys they said was
Speaker 2: over Yeah, he got picked and he took that to hard. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'll show you I got some overrated for you right here.
Speaker 3: There's so many things that came out like with Haliburton,
Speaker 3: like this whole playoff run just because he's been going
Speaker 3: so crazy. And I mean, I think a part of
Speaker 3: that was the like in the Olympics where it's like
Speaker 3: he didn't get to play a lot, you know, and
Speaker 3: he took it personally. Well, he said he took it personally,
Speaker 3: and but you know, try to be like a good
Speaker 3: sport about it for like team purposes and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And I mean, if he took it personally, man, he's
Speaker 3: showing it now.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of people who are paying a price
Speaker 6: for that because he has been damn good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that well, go ahead. Oh, I was just
Speaker 3: gonna say a cool stat about it. Teams trip. This
Speaker 3: is from Sports Center. Teams trailing by nine plus points
Speaker 3: in the final three minutes of a finals game since
Speaker 3: seventy one are one and that one happened last night.
Speaker 4: Gosh. Well and it was funny because Dan Patrick.
Speaker 6: Yesterday they went around the room and prediction for they
Speaker 6: wanted to know who wins the series, how many games,
Speaker 6: and who's the MVP, and all of them took except
Speaker 6: Dan Patrick took Oklahoma City with Gilges Alexander that sure,
Speaker 6: and Dan Patrick said, Indiana in six Tyre's Halberton is there.
Speaker 2: Well, so far, so good. One game in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 4: That was I I'm I'm hooked.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, well right now, So if you were I was,
Speaker 2: I thought, maybe you can get some smart money, right,
Speaker 2: you know what, he's got money. So it's it's uh,
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City minus two eighty twinning. So it went down
Speaker 2: from six to seventy whatever it was, so it one game.
Speaker 2: They just said, well, okay, you win one game Indiana
Speaker 2: and they can win it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before we go on to the next one. Do
Speaker 3: you remember I was telling you about that parlay, the
Speaker 3: futures parlay the thirteen went down seventeen thousand because okay,
Speaker 3: see lost last night. It was at one twenty three.
Speaker 3: I think he's at one of six, right, so I
Speaker 3: would just keep the ticket, right, I'd probably cash in
Speaker 3: right now. Well, what do it go down to one
Speaker 3: O six two hundred and six thousand.
Speaker 2: But you still have Oklahoma City right to win it? Yeah,
Speaker 2: he jay the ticket, tell ja the ticket it was.
Speaker 3: It was the Liberty winning the w NBA Championship, the
Speaker 3: Dodgers winning the last year's championship.
Speaker 2: This is the last two games. This is a two
Speaker 2: series right the icket.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Edmonton winning the like the Stanley Cup, okay,
Speaker 3: see winning the finals, and then the Eagles winning.
Speaker 4: Okay, the super Bowl. So he's hit three out of five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's hit three out so far for thirteen thirteen dollars. Way,
Speaker 3: and I think the cash outs two one hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy thousand.
Speaker 4: I'm cashing right now.
Speaker 2: So he's said, what was it one seventeen?
Speaker 3: It was at one. I think it was at one
Speaker 3: twenty three yesterday.
Speaker 4: But he can cash out at one twenty three. But
Speaker 4: it will paid right now though.
Speaker 3: It's six one, six, yeah, six.
Speaker 2: But still if you think that, okay, she's gonna win it,
Speaker 2: why would you? Edmonton would be my scare. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know nothing about.
Speaker 6: So he still got to hit two serious so he
Speaker 6: can catch out right now with two serious legs, with
Speaker 6: two legs left, Yeah, I take it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I would wait one more game.
Speaker 3: It's life changing money though, all right, moving move, keeping
Speaker 3: it moving though. The sider rubber match for the Women's
Speaker 3: College World Series tonight between Texas Tech and the Longhorns.
Speaker 2: So I watched one hundred percent of the softball I
Speaker 2: kind of maybe flipped back here again cut the last
Speaker 2: minute of the NBA because it finished. It's been it's
Speaker 2: been crazy Boers. Yeah, these rules. Have you seen some
Speaker 2: of the rules? The obstruction? The hell, I don't know what.
Speaker 6: Why why that's come to the forefront all of a
Speaker 6: sudden exactly because this has been a rule for a
Speaker 6: long time. Why is it suddenly now so much up front?
Speaker 2: I texted the cant after the previous one two days ago.
Speaker 2: He says, where's this rule coming from? He says, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they need to kind of look at that again, because
Speaker 2: she was not in the lane when she tigged the
Speaker 2: girl out and they kept her on second and she
Speaker 2: was a winning run, she'd go ahead run. They eventually
Speaker 2: came out and won the game. But still I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: when is that the case back in the day we
Speaker 2: get in front and put her foot down and kind
Speaker 2: of make sure you got to get through the bag.
Speaker 6: Well, we spent the whole day in Rocky Point arguing
Speaker 6: about that Oregon call in the in the baseball Oregon
Speaker 6: Baseball the Oregon uh was the c L A.
Speaker 4: Baseball game Oregon and no organ and no organ. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: and and and.
Speaker 2: That was weird too. Again.
Speaker 6: I mean you slow mowed and stuff like that, and
Speaker 6: it's like, yeah, he was trying to slide, but he
Speaker 6: didn't slide soon enough.
Speaker 4: And you know, if he'd just.
Speaker 2: Slid right away playing the game, I mean you to
Speaker 2: get to But on the.
Speaker 6: Other hand, the letter of the law, the rule said
Speaker 6: if you're not if you're not sliding me and by
Speaker 6: it to find side as being on your butt.
Speaker 4: If you're so, if you're not on the ground on
Speaker 4: your butt and.
Speaker 6: You make contact above the waist, that's that's a malicious
Speaker 6: contact and you're out.
Speaker 4: And so they fought. You know, they followed the rule.
Speaker 6: But when you look at he was trying to slide,
Speaker 6: he just took too long to slide. He didn't start
Speaker 6: his slide soon enough and ended up contacting the guy
Speaker 6: and then they called him out.
Speaker 2: I didn't understand that one.
Speaker 6: Now, we were all okay with it because it was
Speaker 6: Oregon who paid the price, and it helped Arizona because
Speaker 6: they didn't have to play Oregon in the in the
Speaker 6: in the tournament.
Speaker 2: Well how about the one with the home plate. Yeah,
Speaker 2: stuff on the plate and it's Okay, well she went
Speaker 2: back and touched it but still did it was.
Speaker 3: Because called the game right, Like the game was over
Speaker 3: at that point and like that was the decide and
Speaker 3: run to call the game and then like.
Speaker 2: You couldn't review it. It was not reviewable.
Speaker 3: But was it because like was it not reviewable because
Speaker 3: the game's over kind of thing?
Speaker 2: No? No, because it was a tie. These rules, I think,
Speaker 2: where are these rules coming from?
Speaker 3: Stuff?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyways, back to that call Women's College World Series
Speaker 3: Nazari Kennedy, Like you mentioned it right at the right
Speaker 3: before we went to break. But yeah, she got another
Speaker 3: seven figure deal from Texas Tech. Doesn't come back next year, Yeah,
Speaker 3: doesn't say, doesn't say number.
Speaker 2: You're twenty one years old and you got two million
Speaker 2: dollars now and the year you're done, you're saying, and
Speaker 2: she's gonna play pro obviously, Yeah, because she's that person
Speaker 2: who can.
Speaker 6: But she'll she'll go play and she'll make whatever bits
Speaker 6: of money that she makes from that.
Speaker 4: She's said for life.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if she's smart, right, she was a Stanford so she.
Speaker 2: Goes back to Smartford.
Speaker 4: Yeah, go finish the.
Speaker 6: Degree at Stanford and and then and you know, and
Speaker 6: use your two million dollars to change your.
Speaker 3: Life, keeping it going. Game two of the Stanley Cup
Speaker 3: Finals is today. Uh, Florida Panthers trying to avenge that
Speaker 3: overtime loss against Edmonton. Edmonton trying to avenge that series
Speaker 3: from last year. Good storyline. I don't know that that
Speaker 3: guy's ticket.
Speaker 2: Edmonton wins again, that'd be two and all right, yeah,
Speaker 2: obviously one and one. Yeah, I'd wait for one more.
Speaker 3: Dudes call that guy's like twenty four man, and I
Speaker 3: know I'm putting myself.
Speaker 2: Like, oh.
Speaker 6: It was a great a great video on social media,
Speaker 6: sort of an end zone shot of the play that
Speaker 6: Edmonton scored with just showing up in slow of showing
Speaker 6: all the passes where I know there's order to what
Speaker 6: they do there, you know, because it looks chaotic, but
Speaker 6: they do things that they mean to do right. They
Speaker 6: run plays right. And to watch the passing in this
Speaker 6: thing that ultimately led to the goal being scored, you go, poet,
Speaker 6: that's how you play hockey soccer the same way.
Speaker 2: Space.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the space, but you know there were like five
Speaker 6: maybe five or six passes that had to take place
Speaker 6: that ended up with you know, the the Edmonton guy
Speaker 6: in front of the goal, nobody on him and he
Speaker 6: just like shift shot it into the corner of the
Speaker 6: neat great.
Speaker 4: It's a great video.
Speaker 2: You anymore?
Speaker 4: Uh, It's okay?
Speaker 2: Can we go? Okay? School? Get ahold of Bruce.
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: They welcome back to One of the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me
Speaker 2: today is Jaginsaus got Ray Hendling Machine here and now
Speaker 2: we got Bruce Pascal from the Data Star. Bruce, how
Speaker 2: are you doing good?
Speaker 14: How are you good.
Speaker 2: We're doing fine. Hey it's the summer, but you're still
Speaker 2: going at it giving us information on the basketball team.
Speaker 2: A nice story today, just kind of like what's led
Speaker 2: up to what's going on now with the roster and
Speaker 2: all that fighting. No big surprises, right.
Speaker 15: No, actually, you know it's funny. I mean, like usually
Speaker 15: April and May are just completely hellish and it wasn't
Speaker 15: actually to cover anyway. This and April was kind of nuts,
Speaker 15: but nothing hugely surprised.
Speaker 14: You know, a mild surprise that Carter Bryant left.
Speaker 15: Because he was kind of thought of his maybe fifty
Speaker 15: to fifty, but I think everybody thought that it was
Speaker 15: possible that he would blow up with his kind of
Speaker 15: uh skill set and size and they would fall in
Speaker 15: love with him during the pre draft process, and that
Speaker 15: seems to have happened. But and then you know, I mean,
Speaker 15: I guess I was another mild surprise. You thought maybe
Speaker 15: they'd pull another guy out of the portal, but instead
Speaker 15: that he went. They went hard on international, and you know,
Speaker 15: they got it obviously. They got a couple of good,
Speaker 15: really good five star US freshman as well as some
Speaker 15: other you know, key guys. So they kind of kind of,
Speaker 15: you know, kind of almost old fashioned in that sense
Speaker 15: of relying a lot on the recruiting class more so
Speaker 15: than transfers.
Speaker 6: Bruce not too bad, just kind of looking back for
Speaker 6: a second. And you know, it's the million dollar question
Speaker 6: about about last season. When you have Carter Bryant, who's ah,
Speaker 6: you know, high first round draft pick.
Speaker 4: What's your take on why he never started?
Speaker 15: You know, I mean, you know, I think I've been
Speaker 15: thinking about that, and it's kind of like, if you're
Speaker 15: Tommy Lloyd, is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Speaker 15: Because you could say, like you said, well, what the
Speaker 15: heck why didn't he play? But on the other hand,
Speaker 15: you could say, well, he was growing as a freshman,
Speaker 15: a young freshman, and then boom he developed into a
Speaker 15: lottery pick or a potential lottery pick. So that looks good.
Speaker 14: So I don't know, you know, I do know that, you.
Speaker 15: Know, I just remember the first month of the year,
Speaker 15: particularly in the Bahamas and the Duke game and and
Speaker 15: you know, the UCLA game into December, and you just
Speaker 15: thought this team is out of whack, there's something wrong,
Speaker 15: the parts aren't sitting.
Speaker 14: And you know, and he and I think.
Speaker 15: Briant was lacking confidence, and you know, there's an argument
Speaker 15: that you've used stuff him and you put him in
Speaker 15: the starting lineup on day one that you know, maybe
Speaker 15: that boos is confidence and something different happens, but that
Speaker 15: wasn't the way it was going. And a lot of
Speaker 15: coaches would do it. Tom, What did You're going to
Speaker 15: start the veteran guy, uh, you know, the veterans ahead
Speaker 15: of him and and and let them, you know, let
Speaker 15: him kind.
Speaker 14: Of prove himself.
Speaker 15: And I think that's what they're trying to do. But
Speaker 15: at the same time, the team was kind of messed up,
Speaker 15: and then you know that I think it was a
Speaker 15: lot of just and he's a I think he's a
Speaker 15: nice guy, and I think he was willing to defer,
Speaker 15: and you know, and then all of a sudden, the
Speaker 15: older players in front of him, they were kind of
Speaker 15: it was just kind of messed up too, And I
Speaker 15: think that that maybe played a little bit of his confidence.
Speaker 15: And I think we saw with with Carter Bryant and
Speaker 15: the whole team that you know, once once uh the
Speaker 15: previous was out for the year and that UCLA game pass,
Speaker 15: they really got it together and more defined roles seemed
Speaker 15: to really benefit him. But at the same time, you
Speaker 15: saw and and he did get you know, he did
Speaker 15: get better at most freshmen do, and he and he
Speaker 15: So that's that's actually the other question is he he
Speaker 15: shot a lot better, got a lot more more effective
Speaker 15: both at the three and the four as the season
Speaker 15: one on, even in the Big twelve play and so
Speaker 15: then you could say, well, maybe he should have played
Speaker 15: even more towards the end of the year, and you
Speaker 15: know that there's there's an argument for that. But but
Speaker 15: again I think, you know, Tommy Lloyd like the way
Speaker 15: Anthony Delors started games being a little bit more of
Speaker 15: a threat as the floor space throw that that you know,
Speaker 15: that may have changed down the road with the way
Speaker 15: Carter Brian was coming on, but that's that's what he
Speaker 15: went with. And you know, like a lot of coaches again,
Speaker 15: you know, once he got kind of set in that
Speaker 15: way with that rotation, right, uh, you know, into early January,
Speaker 15: they didn't change and so so Brian was kind of
Speaker 15: buried there, but it was you're right, it's very weird
Speaker 15: and and you know, you know, I don't think as
Speaker 15: all the years I've been around about you guys, you know,
Speaker 15: I mean, I think we remember we used to talk
Speaker 15: to Richard Jefferson became a lottery pick after averaging eleven points.
Speaker 14: I think last year Arizona Carter Brian average was six
Speaker 14: and a half.
Speaker 15: You know, like, so it's really unprecedent, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I think that's the perfect question answer to
Speaker 2: your question, Jake, And you wouldn't really get a real
Speaker 2: answer from Tommy if you ask that question, He's gonna
Speaker 2: look a question because I mean, they'll give you this
Speaker 2: point though, because back you were in the you were
Speaker 2: in the tournament. I know, I wasn't on the on
Speaker 2: the tournament role. But the girl from the Athletic and
Speaker 2: I can't we've had her on the show, asked Tommy
Speaker 2: that at the podium, some people think that you're hiding
Speaker 2: Henry Henry Henry Basary.
Speaker 15: That was That was Lindsay Schell was actually kind of
Speaker 15: half joking. But but Tommy was very sensitive. But I
Speaker 15: don't think he took it the right way. I think
Speaker 15: he thought it was a serious thing, and he was
Speaker 15: pretty he he it seemed like he steels kind of
Speaker 15: insulted about that, you know, And the fact.
Speaker 14: Is this, you know, it's I mean maybe he was
Speaker 14: hiding him, but I mean, he wasn't hiding him.
Speaker 15: From North Carolina and.
Speaker 14: That got him anyway.
Speaker 5: Ye, to that point, what was the point of.
Speaker 2: That, right, No, to that point is one, you can't
Speaker 2: hide him one. But you can understand the questions why
Speaker 2: didn't you have him in the lineup if he's this good? Well,
Speaker 2: to your point exactly is it was copathetic for the
Speaker 2: situation of the team, right right, exactly right.
Speaker 15: He you know, you're not you know, we're working well
Speaker 15: and he could always adjust things and he did as
Speaker 15: far as the matchups or the you know, the the
Speaker 15: amount of minutes, maybe Basar got a lot more minutes
Speaker 15: than than some of the starters. And he did. And
Speaker 15: we saw the Oregon game how he played in tobay Waka,
Speaker 15: the starter who was what one of the probably the
Speaker 15: best rebounder in the Big twelve, fat on the bench
Speaker 15: for the last four minutes. And that's because Basar was
Speaker 15: a better fit offensively for what their scheme was. With
Speaker 15: that Dana Altman was coaching against, and and so it
Speaker 15: all kind of evened doubt. So I think as a coach,
Speaker 15: you're you're like, hey, this is fine. The players are
Speaker 15: okay with it like they're getting they're getting whatever they deserve.
Speaker 15: But if you look at it on the outside like that,
Speaker 15: it can be a little bewildering.
Speaker 14: And and you're right, but you know, but it is.
Speaker 15: Funny regardless of what you're thinking. Like you said, Steve,
Speaker 15: it's like you can't hide anybody from anybody. They can
Speaker 15: tell as you see with Carter Bryan, you know they don't.
Speaker 15: They can see in this stuff. They can see potential,
Speaker 15: and they can see what guys can do and how
Speaker 15: they rejected that league and the same and again the
Speaker 15: other teams that are probably looking for some help and
Speaker 15: see that as well.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, sus I don't you marry or
Speaker 2: maybe I have already written about this. I said this
Speaker 2: to Jay when he was here this when you first
Speaker 2: started the show up. Do you think any of the
Speaker 2: kids from overseas will have a hard time getting in
Speaker 2: because of the situation politically?
Speaker 15: Oh, that's you know, that's that's actually something to watch
Speaker 15: out for. But we've seen no indication yet that you
Speaker 15: know that that any that's been an issue, you know,
Speaker 15: you know, if anything, you think you know, because those
Speaker 15: guys have another layer of agents and this and that,
Speaker 15: and I think, you know, there's at least a thought,
Speaker 15: you know, I don't know. It just seems like in general,
Speaker 15: the sports world doesn't seem to be affected by this,
Speaker 15: and things seem to not not be an issue there
Speaker 15: as far as the administration or what the results is
Speaker 15: going on, and so, you know, I don't see that
Speaker 15: if anything, you know, I was actually kind of wondering
Speaker 15: about particularly.
Speaker 14: I think it was.
Speaker 15: I think Mabel Mawut and his situation being a Sudanese citizen.
Speaker 15: And I asked him and he said, you know, he's
Speaker 15: already been in the US.
Speaker 14: He didn't seem worried.
Speaker 15: About it, because I don't know the exact latest, but
Speaker 15: the last I looked and what he was talking about
Speaker 15: that Sudan there was a negotiation with him and the
Speaker 15: US administration and that they had decided to you know,
Speaker 15: take some people back and the negotiay. He felt confident
Speaker 15: negotiations were going okay and that he would be okay,
Speaker 15: but certainly that that could be a concern. And then
Speaker 15: you never know this the way things are going which
Speaker 15: which way, but it does seem like things are okay.
Speaker 15: I mean, we were, you know, Malods from Duke. We
Speaker 15: were also, you know, I remember in the Sweet sixteen
Speaker 15: there was some talk about him, and he's from Sudan
Speaker 15: as well, you know what, what's gonna happen to him?
Speaker 15: And there's nobody's even been talking about that, you know,
Speaker 15: just seems like just as usual.
Speaker 6: So you were looking to ahead to next season and
Speaker 6: the roster that Arizona's looking at, you know, and Steve
Speaker 6: and I were talking about, Look, this is just again
Speaker 6: we said this million times.
Speaker 4: This is just the way it is.
Speaker 6: You're going to lose good players, you got to go
Speaker 6: replace them with good players. You know, Tommy loses Carter, Brian,
Speaker 6: he goes and gets his kid from from Germany. I mean,
Speaker 6: that's just the way it's going to be. And you
Speaker 6: don't know how good your team is going to be
Speaker 6: until you get him on the court. But you know,
Speaker 6: what do you think about what they've done so far?
Speaker 15: You know, I think considering in the context of the travel,
Speaker 15: the Chansfer portal, and the amount of money that's been
Speaker 15: flying around, and that maybe Arizona might not have eight
Speaker 15: million dollars like Michigan had to go get some players
Speaker 15: in the spring. You know, that's I think they probably
Speaker 15: fill those holes as well as you could imagine, you know,
Speaker 15: getting you know, the obviously they pulled in you know
Speaker 15: three four, certainly two really good freshmen that are gonna
Speaker 15: help probably start right away. And then they've got CD
Speaker 15: Guey and uh Dwayne Aristote who could put on playing
Speaker 15: significant roles. You know, these are four so you're talking
Speaker 15: about four freshmen, and then uh and then and then
Speaker 15: and then then uh carchenkof the the the German wing
Speaker 15: sounds like he's physically uh, you know, able to really
Speaker 15: help him. And the kind of kind of way they play,
Speaker 15: so you know that that's you know, they're going to
Speaker 15: have a lot of maybe some issues near with you know,
Speaker 15: youth and you know, certainly maybe some learning curve there
Speaker 15: to take to get going on that. But but Brayton
Speaker 15: Burry's and co Peter both you know, older mature freshmen.
Speaker 15: I don't see them needing much time to adjust to
Speaker 15: this level. And then they've got three returning starters who
Speaker 15: are all veterans, and then Creavas, who's you know, kind
Speaker 15: of a four starter.
Speaker 14: So you know, I think I think.
Speaker 15: They filled the holes as well as you can expect,
Speaker 15: and I think that's reflected in the the kind of
Speaker 15: top twenty five votings you're seen out there. Most people
Speaker 15: have them in that ten to twenty range, ten fifteen,
Speaker 15: ten twenty. And that's that's where they were.
Speaker 5: A year ago.
Speaker 14: I mean, they didn't you could argue.
Speaker 15: They didn't really get noticeably any better. Maybe, but but
Speaker 15: it doesn't look like they're going to slip back, and
Speaker 15: they might even be a tabbit better.
Speaker 14: Who knows.
Speaker 2: So do you know I read a story either last
Speaker 2: night or this morning that there was a number, maybe
Speaker 2: ten or so of the programs that I've spent fourteen
Speaker 2: million dollars around that figure you threw out an eight,
Speaker 2: But do you know what Arizona's playing with?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 14: No, I just know, and they you know, I want
Speaker 14: I've asked around a lot.
Speaker 15: They're trying to keep it, you know, pretty much under wraps.
Speaker 15: Lloyd doesn't like to go there at all, right, and
Speaker 15: you know a lot of people have been kind of quiet,
Speaker 15: I mean, and then it's also kind of it's a
Speaker 15: mix now because it's like, well, are you talking about
Speaker 15: nil collective budget? Are you talking about revenue sharing budget?
Speaker 15: You know, we do know that they're probably going to
Speaker 15: get around four million, I think from a new sharing
Speaker 15: and that's what they're expecting to give out, and those
Speaker 15: are that the amounts that they're basing. You know, they
Speaker 15: said they signed their returning guys and that actually helped
Speaker 15: them get some stability to spring. And then those returning
Speaker 15: guys that are coming back, they announced their they had
Speaker 15: resigned h pretty early on, so they you know, we
Speaker 15: weren't hearing about them getting into the portal to kind
Speaker 15: of test the market out they was going to lock
Speaker 15: them out. So so guessing that.
Speaker 14: They have around four I believe they had.
Speaker 15: Around three from that I could tell in anile collective
Speaker 15: last year. So I'm guessing that's the least you know,
Speaker 15: maybe you know, maybe another four of that, so collectively
Speaker 15: maybe around eight nine. That's kind of what I've been,
Speaker 15: you know, my educator hopefully guests whereas, but you are
Speaker 15: seeing that. I think it was what I think twenty
Speaker 15: four to seven had a list of about about uh.
Speaker 14: Fourteen I think that were over ten or something like that.
Speaker 15: And then and then uh and then Evan Maya Kyle
Speaker 15: who's really respected analytics guy, and I don't know where
Speaker 15: he was based in the central offer, but he said
Speaker 15: there was I think he had eight that were spending
Speaker 15: at least six or more just for players this spring,
Speaker 15: not not not the whole budget, so, you know, and
Speaker 15: it does seem like and I asked somebody, I asked
Speaker 15: you a couple of people that should know, you know,
Speaker 15: in the last couple of weeks about you know, are
Speaker 15: these are these budgets we're hearing ten to twenty million
Speaker 15: for some like Texas, Tag Buyu, et cetera. Are they
Speaker 15: legit or is this this agents trying to pump up
Speaker 15: How much money is really out there? And everybody's telling
Speaker 15: me it's pretty legity, you know how I think right,
Speaker 15: I think those top tier teams are north of ten million,
Speaker 15: and Arizona maybe just a hair below that. I said
Speaker 15: to your point earlier, Jay, that the Arizona spring recruiting,
Speaker 15: if you consider all that, you know, Arizona did did
Speaker 15: as well as you could have.
Speaker 2: But we were born a little too early and a
Speaker 2: little too short. Steve, Yeah, talented, this going? Keep on
Speaker 2: this going? Is it?
Speaker 3: Tom?
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you, Bruce, because you and I
Speaker 2: did this together for a number of years. I don't
Speaker 2: know it's fun or not, But now it seems like
Speaker 2: the rich just get richer, and you're gonna see the
Speaker 2: better teams because they have better I don't know if that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I agree with that. I don't
Speaker 2: because Houston and Arizona, you know what I'm saying, they
Speaker 2: still got to go win the game. I still got
Speaker 2: to win the game, exactly, and they're still good players
Speaker 2: right to point.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 15: In fact, I was talking to Corey Williams about that
Speaker 15: the other day, you know, the former UK guy who's
Speaker 15: you know, he's running the summer Pro league with the
Speaker 15: kids and obvious and all the time, and we were
Speaker 15: talking about how that, you know, those big teams have
Speaker 15: always whatever the rules are, however it is, you know,
Speaker 15: the big dogs are going to get They're going to
Speaker 15: get players. I think the only thing I've noticed it
Speaker 15: around the edges a little bit is is that you're seeing,
Speaker 15: you know, teams like Arizona and the top tier teams
Speaker 15: are picking off the best mid major players more and
Speaker 15: more now at the NIL And that's and and I
Speaker 15: think I think we saw for the first time this
Speaker 15: year really how they kind of you know, diluted the
Speaker 15: Cinderella effect that really was drella in the tournament this year,
Speaker 15: and you know, in Arizona, you could argue they're kind
Speaker 15: of part of that deal because they took Anthony del
Speaker 15: orso who might have who knows, maybe he would have
Speaker 15: shot Campbell into some right And Trey Townsend's already had
Speaker 15: an upset, so who knows what you might have done
Speaker 15: if they came back at Oakland again this year. But
Speaker 15: but both of those guys made individual decisions that you know,
Speaker 15: helped them professionally and certainly you know, financially, I would imagine,
Speaker 15: so you know, you can't blame them. But but that's
Speaker 15: if you look at the aggregate of teams, all of
Speaker 15: the big teams all over the country doing that sort
Speaker 15: of thing, and I think I think that's the biggest
Speaker 15: difference I'm seeing anyway. I think it's significant, and frankly,
Speaker 15: if it keeps going like this, it's not going to
Speaker 15: be good for them today.
Speaker 2: Tournament, Well, Bruce will probably get a hold of you
Speaker 2: in another month or so. Enjoy what the next week,
Speaker 2: months and weeks whatever before? Yeah? Thanks?
Speaker 15: Yeah, well, yeah, I mean it should be some the
Speaker 15: NBA Draft coming up, and I think I ansure to
Speaker 15: see how Tommy does with this U nineteen.
Speaker 14: You a team, and you know, the Fever World Cup,
Speaker 14: that's a big.
Speaker 15: Deal internationally, and you know, and there's no there's no
Speaker 15: more USA is the lockedo and the global kind of
Speaker 15: thing anymore. They don't even meddle two years ago last
Speaker 15: time had a tournament. So that'll be interesting to see
Speaker 15: how that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, thank you, Bruce, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thanks Bruce.
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Speaker 1: I on the ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to whying the ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, you're Jay Gonzalez and
Speaker 2: your Ray. You got about twelve minutes, maybe minutes.
Speaker 4: I've got a little more.
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Speaker 6: About Oh, I'm sending your handicapping my bellman for tomorrow stave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, you just what you need to do, because
Speaker 2: I already know what I'm gonna do. You need to
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Speaker 6: Move it around or maybe maybe you know that. That's
Speaker 6: why I was asking d you know who do you
Speaker 6: key right? Because you know you gotta bet like you too.
Speaker 6: You got to bet like a trifecta and and and
Speaker 6: maybe throw a long shot in there and hope if
Speaker 6: you want, if you want to win someone and hope
Speaker 6: it comes in. Because you know, we hit that race
Speaker 6: in the in the Preakness, we had the long shot
Speaker 6: on the you know in the Exactly what.
Speaker 2: Did that pay thirty four bucks for?
Speaker 4: I wonder it was a twenty four dollars on a
Speaker 4: two dollars we had It was a twenty four dollar bet.
Speaker 6: It was a two dollars exact, it's it's it's twelve bets, yes,
Speaker 6: and it was twenty four dollars and we won another
Speaker 6: ten dollars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I thought we I thought we had it
Speaker 4: if a long shot.
Speaker 6: Comes in, you know, now we're talking about something probably
Speaker 6: eight yeah, probably seventy five eighty dollars.
Speaker 4: Now, now it's fun. I mean we're happy we hit it.
Speaker 6: Uh and and the fact that it was a long shot,
Speaker 6: but you know, we got to figure it out, so
Speaker 6: I gotta check it out.
Speaker 2: Hello, you're on the air. Nine on the ball. Who's this? Yes, Nico?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 18: Hey?
Speaker 19: Man?
Speaker 20: First, Steve, I'm finally happy you got the softball.
Speaker 18: Man.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I've had the softball bug. But I kind
Speaker 2: of like my NBA. I wait till the end. But no,
Speaker 2: you're right, I mean, how could you not? How could
Speaker 2: you not watch the playoffs this year? They were walk offs.
Speaker 2: There were crazy things going on. I'm sure you watched
Speaker 2: a lot of it.
Speaker 4: A million dollar picture.
Speaker 20: Yeah, well, you know she's worth every any of them,
Speaker 20: and she.
Speaker 2: May not be the best. The Tennessee picture was pickings.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 21: Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 20: But she just throws. She had the fastest pitch, I'll
Speaker 20: give you that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seventy nine miles per hour.
Speaker 17: Nine.
Speaker 20: Oh my god, it's crazy.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 20: And a second, man, my dad sent me a screenshot
Speaker 20: of that one. Fool you were talking about on Twitter.
Speaker 4: Man, Oh, so you know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 20: I know who you're talking about. I was sitting there
Speaker 20: on my couch. I'm like what, because I don't have Twitter.
Speaker 20: I'm like, man, this dude he just needs to go
Speaker 20: take a shower or something.
Speaker 4: He doesn't shower, he doesn't look like Yeah, if you
Speaker 4: saw him, you'd know.
Speaker 20: I didn't want to. I didn't want to. Man have
Speaker 20: to wear a suit like a has mask suit around
Speaker 20: that exactly.
Speaker 2: All right, Nico, thanks for calling me as always. Thank
Speaker 2: you going on the call. Yes, we're going into the call. Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the air and on the ball. Who says,
Speaker 2: hey Steve, this is done? Hey hey man, yeah you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 21: I don't take that dow showers at all. I've been
Speaker 21: in Twitter.
Speaker 2: Fights with that food.
Speaker 4: Yourself.
Speaker 21: Because he was encouraged to support ship and everything else
Speaker 21: and blah blah blah. And I tweeted back at his partner.
Speaker 21: I was like, dude, don't even make him.
Speaker 19: Do it because he's not going to mean it. This
Speaker 19: guy came, he's come into all these other.
Speaker 21: Non revenue sports acting like he's a he's an insider,
Speaker 21: and you know, and he just knows nothing because at
Speaker 21: the bottom line, today's game has nothing to do with
Speaker 21: tomorrow exactly.
Speaker 4: That's exactly what we've been saying in here.
Speaker 21: It's it's today's game has nothing to do with tomorrow's game.
Speaker 21: And I tweeted out earlier, was why would you leave
Speaker 21: this kid in when he's going to be one of
Speaker 21: the top pitchers next year. He's only a sophomore. Our
Speaker 21: original rotation this year was sophomore, sophomore, freshman. So those
Speaker 21: three guys are going to look a heck of a
Speaker 21: lot like our starting rotation from the end of last
Speaker 21: year than what.
Speaker 2: They look like this year.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 21: You know, if they stick around, if they stick around
Speaker 21: and they progress, they're just going to advance more. Now
Speaker 21: we're going to lose a lot of other guys. But
Speaker 21: today's game has nothing to do with tomorrow's game, and
Speaker 21: the Smalls game could be flipped upside down.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And we were saying, because it's baseball, that's how
Speaker 6: baseball is.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 21: Yeah, the first two innings have nothing to do with
Speaker 21: the last innings. It's just that that's just the way
Speaker 21: it is, you know, And I think that, you know,
Speaker 21: Chip has done a really good job. You know, as
Speaker 21: far as getting himself to this point in these these
Speaker 21: few years, I was concerned with, you know, him learning
Speaker 21: the college game and everything else. And his first season
Speaker 21: looked like he was coaching one hundred and sixty two
Speaker 21: game season. It's like, bro, all these games matter, yeah,
Speaker 21: the two because I we went to at least one
Speaker 21: game of every series this year. And but where we
Speaker 21: what the game we like to go to is on
Speaker 21: Tuesday nights. And the thing is that a lot of
Speaker 21: people that don't watch the team, they go, how can
Speaker 21: Grand Canyon? How can Grank Canyon beat Arizona? Well it's
Speaker 21: not South Mountain Community College over there? You know, their
Speaker 21: former head coach is the head coach of USC who
Speaker 21: was playing deep in their region. How do I forget
Speaker 21: if they got.
Speaker 19: To the Supervil.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, that's right.
Speaker 21: Yeah, but Stankowitz he had them rolling. This other guy
Speaker 21: he's just picked it up and kept going. And and
Speaker 21: that's not that's not a program to be messed with,
Speaker 21: you know. And and they still play with They still
Speaker 21: have the big brother attitude with Grank Canyon, which which
Speaker 21: needs to be fixed. Because anyway, that's that's what I
Speaker 21: have to say about that. I mean about the program stuff,
Speaker 21: but I really think that that has come a long way.
Speaker 21: I sure wish he would coach offensively like a college baseball,
Speaker 21: a little bunting, a little bit more running, or more,
Speaker 21: because in college you got.
Speaker 19: To have a cohesive offense. It has to be an offensive.
Speaker 21: Mentality from one to nine. Because when Jay Johnson was here,
Speaker 21: as soon as they got a runner on base, they
Speaker 21: would put the pressure. They would start showing bunt. They
Speaker 21: might still try to steal the base, and then the
Speaker 21: merry go round would start.
Speaker 2: And it was always it was like and it was.
Speaker 4: The same way it was.
Speaker 21: It was like constant pressure for the other team. They
Speaker 21: had to figure you know, they're looking all.
Speaker 19: Over the place, whereas in the in the first.
Speaker 21: Couple of years Chip had him and it was hey.
Speaker 19: Go do what you can do, and then the next
Speaker 19: guy will do something, and then you run.
Speaker 21: To whatever's according accordingly to whatever the other. You know,
Speaker 21: he hits a gapper, you can score from first, but
Speaker 21: you know otherwise we go station the station, And I
Speaker 21: don't think that works in college.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, thanks so much. Thanks about john Do
Speaker 2: they win tomorrow? Do they win tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Cut them off? I think they do. I think I'll
Speaker 4: go to three games.
Speaker 6: I don't know that they'll win the series, but I
Speaker 6: think they I think they come back show some show
Speaker 6: some nead or whatever you call it, gas and uh
Speaker 6: and they and I think they come back when so
Speaker 6: some pride. I mean, you know what, their pride was
Speaker 6: hurt today. But you know, they're a good team that
Speaker 6: they're not gonna sit there and think, oh, we can't
Speaker 6: beat these guys. They're gonna sit there and think, let's
Speaker 6: go keep the crap out of these guys. For what
Speaker 6: they did was today.
Speaker 2: Peterson talked about that they lost a number of the
Speaker 2: first round game and then they come then they come
Speaker 2: back in the next two. Yeah, not that that's gonna happen,
Speaker 2: but yeah, this promising.
Speaker 6: But I you know, look, Arizona is a good team.
Speaker 6: I mean they I mean the way they obliterated you
Speaker 6: know the regional break break yeah break with Organ. Yeah
Speaker 6: they did, they did. But you know what Oregon played,
Speaker 6: played Portland, those other those other two teams to beat Oregon,
Speaker 6: and they beat the teams that beat Organ. So uh,
Speaker 6: you know, I I I just think that they'll come
Speaker 6: back and play with some pride. And I think they'll
Speaker 6: win tomorrow, but I'm not so sure about I'm not
Speaker 6: gonna say say I think they win the series, but.
Speaker 2: They go back, they go back Saturday to double eda.
Speaker 4: No, No, they'll play on Sunday. Okay one one, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it'd be yeah.
Speaker 3: It kind of reminds me of that conversation that we
Speaker 3: were having yesterday where it was like like you don't
Speaker 3: know what you don't know kind of thing when it
Speaker 3: comes to like coaches and stuff, because it's like I think,
Speaker 3: like you know, getting to like the conference finals, it
Speaker 3: has to count for something, or like the conference championship,
Speaker 3: like the game, it has to count for something. Because
Speaker 3: I mean, like you know, getting to the College World Series,
Speaker 3: that's an excellent thing. There's only eight.
Speaker 4: It's a hard thing, you know, And.
Speaker 2: I know we talked about that with a couple of
Speaker 2: things with a couple of coaches, and then I asked
Speaker 2: Coach Lopez, it's probably harder than the Final Four because
Speaker 2: there's a lot of landlines you have.
Speaker 6: To doe, you do and and again baseball. In basketball,
Speaker 6: the better team usually wins, usually wins. In baseball, it's different.
Speaker 6: It's just different. Again we're talking off air, how the hell,
Speaker 6: did the angel sweep the Dodgers, you know, a couple
Speaker 6: of weeks ago, because that's how baseball is on that day.
Speaker 6: You know, things if everything's going right for somebody like
Speaker 6: they were for North Carolina today, that's what can happen. Now,
Speaker 6: all those things can flip tomorrow and Arizona can go
Speaker 6: off and be beat North Carolina eighteen to two. I mean,
Speaker 6: that's just how baseball is. It's different from the other sports.
Speaker 6: You know, the Chiefs are going to beat the Jaguars
Speaker 6: nine out of ten times, right, and maybe eight out
Speaker 6: of ten. And that's not to say that they walk
Speaker 6: on the field and you know the game's over. But
Speaker 6: you know what, you know, baseball is not like that.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I think we had well Blake who used to
Speaker 2: be a pitcher, you know, and talks about you're facing
Speaker 2: the number one, the number one, right, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a tough game, especially against the cal Parlis or whatever,
Speaker 2: and then you have your number one. If you can
Speaker 2: get through the number one or not through, then you
Speaker 2: have some chances.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So their number one was better than Arizona's number one today.
Speaker 6: Now let's see who's got the better number two. Yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 6: and and and see what happens tomorrow.
Speaker 3: And mentality too, because I'm sure there's a big senior team.
Speaker 3: They came back because they you know, everybody talks about
Speaker 3: how they came back because they weren't satisfied about the
Speaker 3: last year ended, you know, losing in the regional and stuff.
Speaker 3: So it's like, you know, they have a I would
Speaker 3: imagine that like they got to have a chip on
Speaker 3: their shoulder, you know what I mean, just because it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you beat us today, We're not done yet. We get
Speaker 3: back for a reason, We're about to try to try
Speaker 3: to give you some of your own medicine tomorrow. You
Speaker 3: like to think they have that that in them, that
Speaker 3: pride in them to do that.
Speaker 2: We'll see, We'll see a lot going on. We have
Speaker 2: the the NBA Final, the next game of Sunday, Sunday,
Speaker 2: the hell it takes forever, it's won't be. It won't
Speaker 2: be untill like Father's Day when they finished this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, tonight is the the softball.
Speaker 3: Champion Ball and Stanley Cup Cup.
Speaker 4: Softball starts in about ten minutes.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, but they take forever to kind of go
Speaker 2: spive fight thirty this really Yeah, it takes while to
Speaker 2: do all the the ceremony stuff, and then it's start
Speaker 2: about five twenty five three.
Speaker 4: Are you are you in for anybody takes attack?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's I've been I don't even know
Speaker 2: why I'm doing it, but this is fascinating to me.
Speaker 2: And I covered Kendra for a long time, and I
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe it's it's Kennedy just because and I
Speaker 2: just think they have a number last night and the
Speaker 2: seventh you watch it, yeah, yeah, they started hitting her.
Speaker 3: Man, everybody in that stadium was sweating. There's no way
Speaker 3: they weren't.
Speaker 2: Have you watched any of it. She's and then you're
Speaker 2: thinking she can't be hit, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: they're hitting here like just I'll have another one one.
Speaker 2: They're not going to pull this off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And they were right there, they were right there.
Speaker 3: They Yeah, they had them in the corners, I think, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and they couldn't get them. They couldn't get that, I
Speaker 3: mean one out. But it's it's a quick game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's an easy watch, right, Well, this is the championship,
Speaker 3: so this is it. And just to think that Arizona
Speaker 3: was at this level for a number of years and.
Speaker 4: Look at it.
Speaker 6: I know Oklahoma won a bunch in a row, and
Speaker 6: you know they took advantag of, you know, being able
Speaker 6: to start paying players and stuff like that. But you know,
Speaker 6: it's it's going to get spread around, and it's been
Speaker 6: spread around. And how many times when we talked about
Speaker 6: Candre that you know, he created this and and it
Speaker 6: and it.
Speaker 2: And too many people think that that can be done again.
Speaker 2: Maybe it can now, but it ain't that easy now
Speaker 2: they're there. The talent is too spread out anymore.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good players can go to different places and they
Speaker 6: go for different reasons, right, and and you don't you
Speaker 6: can't hog all the good players.
Speaker 4: Anymore like U. C.
Speaker 18: L A.
Speaker 4: And Arizona used to.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got to go. Yeah, okay, thanks all.
Speaker 4: Right man, Thanks thanks for having me a little love
Speaker 4: being here on Friday.
Speaker 2: Great, great, Thanks everybody. Talk to you Monday