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Speaker 3: Look at you man with the with the fade on
Speaker 3: the on the intro and all that stuff. Man, you're
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Speaker 4: Good Friday afternoon to everyone out there, yours truly mister
Speaker 4: grey two shoes here on Jday. You gotta start breaking
Speaker 4: news with something I like it. So show hey Twani's
Speaker 4: historic fiftieth home run this season auction auctioneers are estebaniot
Speaker 4: to be around five hundred k.
Speaker 3: Wow, you know I Yet this morning I started looking
Speaker 3: to see what happened with the ball, right and I
Speaker 3: first of all, there's a great video of the wrestle
Speaker 3: wrestled for it. But then there was a like an
Speaker 3: eighteen year old kid that was there, and the guy
Speaker 3: that got the ball was like a fifty year old
Speaker 3: guy and the kid got interviewed because the kid had
Speaker 3: it in his hands and the guy took it from him. Well,
Speaker 3: who's the one that raised the fifty year old guy
Speaker 3: in the T shirt five oh five over? So they
Speaker 3: were both underneath the table grabbing the ball, and the
Speaker 3: seventeen year old seven I think seventeen or eighteen said
Speaker 3: that he had it in his hand, but that the
Speaker 3: guy had his arm between his legs, so the ball
Speaker 3: was kind of sticking up between his legs, and he
Speaker 3: pulled the ball from him, and he knew that he
Speaker 3: you know what it meant, He knew that he had
Speaker 3: possibly a million dollar baseball, and the other guy took
Speaker 3: it from him and then went up and they got it.
Speaker 3: Then they they took him away and they validated the
Speaker 3: ball and he kept the ball. So he's going to
Speaker 3: do something with it. But but he, uh, the kid
Speaker 3: talked about the fact that he had it and it
Speaker 3: was in his hand and the guy took it from him.
Speaker 3: What would you do with it?
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. It depends on how much it's worth.
Speaker 2: Honestly, you said, what what was the prices?
Speaker 3: Would you do that? I keep it? I do? I
Speaker 3: keep it to auction. It's like that's life changing, right, Sure,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: It's also greedy, but but but but that's what I'll
Speaker 2: be greedy.
Speaker 3: All the way to my five hundred k and cast
Speaker 3: that check at the bank. Right. Who yeah, well you
Speaker 3: you kind of agreed on you. So I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: Hold on, I'd offer to show Hey for four fifty.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, no, no, that's I wouldn't go I wouldn't go.
Speaker 3: Crazy with it.
Speaker 2: But okay, yeah, no, I Hey, you're talking about the
Speaker 2: same guy five hundred four hundred.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you were looking at me like, as a former athlete,
Speaker 4: I would definitely want that ball. So, like, you know,
Speaker 4: I'll definitely offer it to show Hey for sure, but an.
Speaker 3: Amount, right, Look, he's got seven million dollars. Definitely coughing
Speaker 3: some money.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well you know, you know you saw to fight for
Speaker 2: five hundre it's worth one point five. It's gonna go
Speaker 2: to some dude with a lot of money who's gonna
Speaker 2: pay three times four times.
Speaker 3: Well that's yeah. That's the other thing that I heard
Speaker 3: was that if this guy keeps us for like five years, yeah,
Speaker 3: it'll be it'll be worth a lot more than it is.
Speaker 3: Sure today. So if they're saying today he can get
Speaker 3: five hundred thousand dollars for it, in five years he
Speaker 3: can get a million, and in ten years he can
Speaker 3: get that's how long do you want to wait? I'm
Speaker 3: selling it today today for somebody who wants it for
Speaker 3: five hundred thousand dollars. And if show he wants it,
Speaker 3: he's my he's first on my list. Yeah, and I
Speaker 3: broke I'm I'm not gonna broke him back. I'm not
Speaker 3: giving it back to him for a jury assigned jersey
Speaker 3: and a baseball bat and stuff like that. You can
Speaker 3: include that in the five hundred thousand. Well if you
Speaker 3: what you know, okay, five hundred k and a picture
Speaker 3: in an autograph, you know, a picture of me with
Speaker 3: him and he autographs it. That's legit. That's what I
Speaker 3: That's what I'm going for. But I am gonna try.
Speaker 3: I think that's trying to make some money. I think
Speaker 3: that's fair. I think that's fair.
Speaker 2: If you go crazy with it, that's kind of sad,
Speaker 2: But it's it's life.
Speaker 3: It's what it is. The market. It's the market.
Speaker 2: I'm being kind of silly, but that's how I feel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, it's it's very cool. You know, they're
Speaker 3: talking about all the Basically, they basically stripped him down
Speaker 3: in the dugout. They took his you know, all the
Speaker 3: pads and things that he wears. They took his batting gloves,
Speaker 3: they took his shoes, they took the bat They took
Speaker 3: all of that stuff to put it in that I guess,
Speaker 3: to put in the Hall of Fame. They even took
Speaker 3: you know, it was it was in it was in Miami.
Speaker 3: But they even took third base because he stole third
Speaker 3: to break the record, you know, to get to fifty.
Speaker 3: And so you know, they it's it's become a thing
Speaker 3: now where that's on everybody's mind when something like this happens.
Speaker 3: But you know, but yeah, the baseball was it was
Speaker 3: an interesting story. I'd go hunt the guy down and
Speaker 3: probably do something. Well that's I mean, yeah, his pissed
Speaker 3: or if I'm his dad, right, if I'm his dad,
Speaker 3: it's like, you know, but what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: I mean, and the kid is actually was actually it
Speaker 3: was a really good sport. But he said, hey, look
Speaker 3: the guy got it for me. It's you know, he
Speaker 3: got the ball. I had it. He got it that's
Speaker 3: the way it goes. And so he was Actually the
Speaker 3: kid was way more mature about it than I think
Speaker 3: I would have been.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely more than I would have been. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: would have been all over the news. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: To the NBA, Joel Embiid in the Philadelphia seventy six
Speaker 4: ers agreed to a three year, one hundred and ninety
Speaker 4: two point nine million dollar maximum contract accession that guarantees
Speaker 4: him two hundred and ninety nine point five million through
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty eight twenty twenty nine seasons.
Speaker 3: It's that sixty million dollars a year or so, a
Speaker 3: lot of money. I don't have that math. I don't
Speaker 3: have it. I don't have cras, I don't have a
Speaker 3: missing Okay, it's that money. Is he worthy of that?
Speaker 3: And just because he.
Speaker 4: Got the MVP, he brought it to Philly. Yeah, brought something, finally,
Speaker 4: finally brought something to Philly.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, well, I'm old school and nobody's worth that.
Speaker 3: But I mean I'm talking about in the current context
Speaker 3: of what salaries are, is Joel Embiid that guy Matt
Speaker 3: saying not.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing in what's the biggest contract now?
Speaker 2: Someone told me in about five years, the contracts are
Speaker 2: going to go to about ten one hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: a year of football, baseball, whatever, basketball. Maybe it's just crazy.
Speaker 2: It's just crazy. I know, you guys are getting into
Speaker 2: the sports world right after college, and.
Speaker 3: We're glad we're getting out because it's crazy. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just crazy.
Speaker 4: Every other day there's someone getting another I'm extension.
Speaker 3: I'm just a little I'm a little pissed of myself
Speaker 3: for not committing more to my golf game when I.
Speaker 2: Was when you're a teenager. The one thing I don't
Speaker 2: know why about this. I was thinking about this driving
Speaker 2: to work this morning, and back in the day when
Speaker 2: when Luke I covered in the nineties and you covered
Speaker 2: him in the eighties. How after a game? Where do
Speaker 2: we go after a game? Where did we go after
Speaker 2: the buzzer? Where did we go?
Speaker 3: Locker room? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, ten minutes, went to the locker room. Who'd you
Speaker 2: get to talk to anybody?
Speaker 6: Want?
Speaker 2: Anybody who wanted to Then we race to talk to
Speaker 2: lude right right, That's how it was for the whole
Speaker 2: time that I was there with him. Now we got guys,
Speaker 2: and you have to deal with this we talked to
Speaker 2: people who they send to us, they pick and it's
Speaker 2: just criticism.
Speaker 3: But I don't know why I was thinking this.
Speaker 2: And the first game, the first game, who had oh,
Speaker 2: Team ACTA had this record thing and did you see it?
Speaker 3: You knew what?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: Where we're going with this? Yeah, he was not available.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense anymore to me. It doesn't in
Speaker 2: the in the world of news.
Speaker 3: He was available to ESPN, well yeah, yeah, people quoted
Speaker 3: him from you know, the postgame, but on the field
Speaker 3: right there and then after that, nobody else hadn't shot
Speaker 3: at him until they brought him to the press conference
Speaker 3: the next week.
Speaker 2: And that's where I was going with it's changed so
Speaker 2: much in the last ten years, five years to what
Speaker 2: we used to do with thirty years.
Speaker 3: Right. Well, and again we've talked about this that that
Speaker 3: who the people that are the ones that suffer from them.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the right word they they. You know,
Speaker 3: the fans out there don't have the benefit of the
Speaker 3: stories that you aren't being told anymore.
Speaker 2: And I still believe that the players suffer it too,
Speaker 2: and that's not they want to tell the stories because
Speaker 2: they want to tell their story and guess what most
Speaker 2: of them turned into be they're going to be taking
Speaker 2: your jobs because they don't get a journalism degree.
Speaker 3: But they played.
Speaker 2: They're the Tom Brady's who played all these years, and
Speaker 2: guess what, they just show up and do the job.
Speaker 3: Because they played. They know. And the thing is that
Speaker 3: those guys, it's being a member of the media is
Speaker 3: not something that anybody can do. Not have to have
Speaker 3: a certain approach, certain mentality. You have to have a
Speaker 3: there are some rules too, right, And there are rules.
Speaker 3: Although a lot of people think there are no rules,
Speaker 3: there are rules and there's ways of doing things. And
Speaker 3: you know, there's some people who just can't be very
Speaker 3: good at it because they're just not that kind of
Speaker 3: person for sure. I don't know why I went it,
Speaker 3: but I know you did. Yeah, it was a good
Speaker 3: place to go though.
Speaker 5: It's fun.
Speaker 3: I liked it, Okay, all right, cool to the NFL.
Speaker 4: Last night, Thursday night football, the Jets and the Patriots played,
Speaker 4: and the Jets came out victorious twenty four to three.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you studied an interaction with Rodgers and the
Speaker 3: coach when he pushed the coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you do. You did you read too much
Speaker 2: into it like everybody else. He gave him the sidey well,
Speaker 2: he gave them because he's Rogers. Right, you found this
Speaker 2: perception of Rodgers, you think that he's a bunk.
Speaker 3: Well, at the first when I saw it, I thought, oh,
Speaker 3: what a jerk, And then what he tried to say
Speaker 3: today about it, where he says, no, we just have
Speaker 3: a thing where, you know, when we do something good,
Speaker 3: you know, you the two hands to the chest thing.
Speaker 3: He said, it was that, but there was kind of
Speaker 3: confused that that that the coach was going to hug
Speaker 3: him and he was doing the you know how guys
Speaker 3: when they get excited and they push each other, that
Speaker 3: he was doing that. The coach was trying to give
Speaker 3: a hug, so it looked awkward. He said, there was
Speaker 3: nothing to it, That's what he said. But Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: and being the guy that we see that he's become,
Speaker 3: you just kind of never know. But yeah, I did
Speaker 3: see that. I thought it was kind of funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's the people that kind of look, well,
Speaker 2: what happened?
Speaker 3: Sometimes nothing is there? Times it's nothing. Sometimes it's not
Speaker 3: like the time that Caleb Tarziski yelled at you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know yelled at at Sean Miller, and there was
Speaker 3: not you know, it was like, okay, yelled at him
Speaker 3: in the heat of the moment, in front of people,
Speaker 3: in front of people, but they were all they were fine, yeah,
Speaker 3: right right. And then the time that that Zula said,
Speaker 3: they kicked our asses, right, And then Sean Miller said,
Speaker 3: oh he said that.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, it was something else that
Speaker 2: he says, Oh they were they were not they were
Speaker 2: not prepared. They were not prepared.
Speaker 3: Oh really, And we said all the next practice, yeah,
Speaker 3: let's go watch the next practice. We just weren't prepared.
Speaker 3: What time. Okay, we'll be prepared next time, all right.
Speaker 4: Staying in the NFL, a laundry list of injuries, people
Speaker 4: going going out. Forty nine ers, the forty nine ers
Speaker 4: playing the Rams this week are more than likely gonna
Speaker 4: be without Kittle, and then Deeble Samuel and McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: So and and then and then the Rams are without
Speaker 3: a Poka Nakua, without uh Cooper cup. I think there
Speaker 3: was somebody else there. There was a list of guys
Speaker 3: who are out of that game. That's like, this is
Speaker 3: a minor league game. It's just like there's nobody left
Speaker 3: who else?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: So Justin Herbert is listened as questionable today with the
Speaker 4: high ankle sprain. So really they play.
Speaker 3: I gotta do my picks because I was looking at
Speaker 3: that game.
Speaker 4: For it said, he said, to be a game time decision. Uh,
Speaker 4: the pain in his ankle is not great and he
Speaker 4: walked with a limp. Interesting but uh And with all
Speaker 4: these people being out questionable, the Bengals wide receiver T Higgins,
Speaker 4: who's dealing with the hamstring injury, does plan to return
Speaker 4: Monday night against.
Speaker 3: The Okay, he's my boy. I've got I've got I've
Speaker 3: got two bottom of the barrel receivers on my fantasy
Speaker 3: team because I've got T Higgins and I've got Pooka Nkul.
Speaker 3: Higgins hasn't played at all and Nicole has missed the
Speaker 3: last miss last week. So all right, and then some
Speaker 3: good games. This is a week for the NFL.
Speaker 4: You got the Texans and the Vikings, both two and
Speaker 4: OH teams, the Eagles Saints game. See if the Saints
Speaker 4: are legit, the Eagles are good team. You have the
Speaker 4: Lions and the Cardinals. Cardinals should be too, and both
Speaker 4: teams should more than likely be to and OH heading
Speaker 4: one to one could change the direction of their season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not. I'm not a believer in the Vikings,
Speaker 3: even though they beat the forty nine ers last week.
Speaker 3: I just I just don't think Sam Donald gets you
Speaker 3: to the Promised Land. No to college football. Unfortunate news
Speaker 3: for East Carolina. Their cornerbacks Chavon Revel Junior, one of
Speaker 3: the top prospects in the upcoming NFL draft, toward his
Speaker 3: ACL in practice this week, and we'll miss the will
Speaker 3: likely miss the remainder of the season, too bad. Hate
Speaker 3: to see that for sure. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: saw it this week.
Speaker 4: Early this week, Wake Forest canceled there the second half
Speaker 4: of their home and home series with Old Miss. They
Speaker 4: were going to go back to Oxford because they played
Speaker 4: last week at wake Forest. They canceled that and they
Speaker 4: replaced it with Oregon State today just.
Speaker 3: Because they don't want to go play Mississippi. Ye big Wienis,
Speaker 3: big Wienies. Come on, man, go play the game. Week
Speaker 3: three in college football. I got some good games.
Speaker 4: Yeah here there good stuff USC going to ann Arbor
Speaker 4: Fishing in Michigan. You got Utah Oklahoma State, pretty big,
Speaker 4: big twelve game right there. Tennessee, Oklahoma, which you guys
Speaker 4: will talk about the last segment, and I think one
Speaker 4: that's going to be real good in Kansas.
Speaker 3: State and BYU at b YU you think, huh? I
Speaker 3: think so, Okay, that's on my list right now. Those
Speaker 3: to pick. Yeah, that's on my list is Kansas State.
Speaker 3: I haven't finalized it yet, but I'm thinking hard about that.
Speaker 3: And what I'm trying to avoid is not to be
Speaker 3: clouded by what they did to Arizona. It's a road
Speaker 3: game BYU is undefeated, so I don't know. Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 3: We'll find out the next hour or at the end
Speaker 3: of this hour.
Speaker 4: And then shout out to some Arizona athletics. On the
Speaker 4: women's side. Uh, the volleyball team remained undefeated. Defeated North
Speaker 4: Dakota State three nothing last night.
Speaker 3: That was a big twelve game. Is that right? Was
Speaker 3: that a big Dakota State? Yeah, which makes no sense
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 2: Steve Quiss talked about that the North Dakota States.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't stand.
Speaker 2: Maybe he was just being facetious, but he was here
Speaker 2: again last night doing that game. Probably not, maybe he
Speaker 2: just needed to say that. But then women's soccer also
Speaker 2: defeated Baylor one. Right, that's the first one ever, the
Speaker 2: first Big twelve win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe that's what it was. Steve that
Speaker 3: a little confusion.
Speaker 2: No no, no, he talked about it because he was already didn't people.
Speaker 3: I'm looking up the Big twelve volleyball standings. Uh No,
Speaker 3: North Dakota stadents not in the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe he maybe he misspoke or nonely spoke.
Speaker 3: He wrote it down. Roll on Facebook, Okay, it is
Speaker 3: what it is. Well, got on Arizona because again they
Speaker 3: were bad last year, you know, intritis to the first year.
Speaker 3: So they're ten and zero and that's a that's pretty good,
Speaker 3: very good for them. Okay, you ready to go. We're good.
Speaker 3: Fourteen after Oh we are. Oh we got to get
Speaker 3: out of here. All right, Hey, good stuff, thank you.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll be back. We're going to have a
Speaker 3: Barrett Baker, remember that nineteen ninety eight Arizona football team
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I'm the Ball Hero Fox Sports
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Speaker 2: would probably have Barrett Baker team member from the nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety seven ninety eight at you of a Barrett.
Speaker 5: How are you great to hear from you guys. That's
Speaker 5: weird to have a Saturday with no Wildcat football, but
Speaker 5: we will get through it.
Speaker 2: Well, you know along those lines, how have you gotten
Speaker 2: through the last three weeks?
Speaker 5: It's you know, you have such high expectations, obviously coming
Speaker 5: off a magical year like we had last year, and
Speaker 5: when you look at football, you know there's there's pretty
Speaker 5: wins and ugly losses, and pretty losses and ugly wins,
Speaker 5: and so at the end of the day, I think
Speaker 5: when you really looked at the schedule, most folks probably
Speaker 5: thought we were going to be two in one after
Speaker 5: the first three weeks, and we are two and one,
Speaker 5: and so I can break down obviously where I would
Speaker 5: like us to be better and things that we need
Speaker 5: to clean up. But that was a tough place to play,
Speaker 5: and we came out on the short end of the stick.
Speaker 5: But there's no time to dwell on that. Quite frankly,
Speaker 5: it was some things that we obviously need to really
Speaker 5: work on moving forward, but this was a good time
Speaker 5: to have a bye week, and I expected, you know,
Speaker 5: we're going to fix some of those things and hopefully
Speaker 5: come out against Utah next week and really kind of
Speaker 5: see what this team has made us.
Speaker 3: Well, Bert, let me take you back down memory lane, because,
Speaker 3: as I recall, in that ninety eight season, the one game,
Speaker 3: the one loss, the UCLA game was a twenty four
Speaker 3: point loss. You know, they blew up on you guys
Speaker 3: in the second half. That was the only game you
Speaker 3: lost the aftermath of that game. You know, as you said,
Speaker 3: you just got to move on to the next one.
Speaker 3: But what was that week like coming out of that game?
Speaker 3: And how did you guys sort of just keep your
Speaker 3: wits about you, keep your momentum going or whatever so
Speaker 3: that you got back on a role and won the
Speaker 3: rest of your games. What happened that week? How did
Speaker 3: you deal with that loss? I guess is what I'm asking.
Speaker 5: Sure, that's a great question, Jay, If you don't have
Speaker 5: national championship aspirations at the beginning every season, then you
Speaker 5: shouldn't be playing the game. So that is first and
Speaker 5: foremost what you're always looking for. We went into that
Speaker 5: game and we were four to zero, and we thought
Speaker 5: we had something special. For sure, we played three minutes
Speaker 5: of bad football. It was thirty one to twenty eight.
Speaker 5: We missed the field goal, and for about three and
Speaker 5: a half or four minutes, it just spiraled. And it
Speaker 5: happened that fast. But I don't think that we fractured.
Speaker 5: And it's really important at that point in time to
Speaker 5: see what type of team leadership do you have? And
Speaker 5: then from there, Okay, you got six more games to go,
Speaker 5: and for this squad, we are two and one, and
Speaker 5: we've got a boatload of football left on the schedule.
Speaker 5: And so as long as we've got internal leadership on
Speaker 5: this team, because I know the coaches believe in it,
Speaker 5: and I know the players believe in the coaches, then
Speaker 5: you just reset and there's no review mirror, and so
Speaker 5: you can't change what happened to Kansas State. You just
Speaker 5: have to fix it. And I think obviously I go
Speaker 5: online after the games and it's very frustrating, right because candidly,
Speaker 5: I mean, there are people jumping off the boat and calling,
Speaker 5: let's be real, fire coach Brennan. You know, obviously this
Speaker 5: team doesn't have what it takes. You know, this is
Speaker 5: a failed attempt. It's like, can we hit the pause
Speaker 5: button here and like give the team a chance to
Speaker 5: become what they are going to be. Because if you
Speaker 5: rewind three hundred and sixty five days or where were
Speaker 5: we last year? We got whipped against Mississippi shouldn't say
Speaker 5: we got whipped, but we had a very very difficult
Speaker 5: loss against Mississippi State on the road, and we stunk
Speaker 5: it up against Stanford and barely came out with the win.
Speaker 5: And you know, did we look much different comparatively than
Speaker 5: we do right now. And yet somehow the team came together,
Speaker 5: the buttons started coming, you know, being pushed correctly, and
Speaker 5: we got some momentum going, and you know it came
Speaker 5: out to be obviously a fantastic season. Don't give up
Speaker 5: on this team. You know, we've got some some real
Speaker 5: players that can really excel. I would say my biggest concern,
Speaker 5: if I may, just when you've got Tanner McLachlan and
Speaker 5: you've got Jay Cowing and Jacob Morgan. Those are three
Speaker 5: guys that are in the NFL that made a fifty
Speaker 5: three man roster at the highest level that you can
Speaker 5: play at. Now who has replaced them? And the fact is,
Speaker 5: productivity wise, we haven't come close to what they provided
Speaker 5: last year. So when people are upset about the offense,
Speaker 5: and I get it, you don't have to look very
Speaker 5: far to see that it's difficult to replace NFL talent
Speaker 5: and right now we are still struggling to find that.
Speaker 5: And I think Key Burnett has all of the potential
Speaker 5: in the world. And if I were to break down
Speaker 5: the game film on Sunday after a game and find
Speaker 5: out why he has not been as effective after three
Speaker 5: games that's something that they need to solve. You know,
Speaker 5: you've got some weapons at the tight end position that
Speaker 5: we have not utilized yet. So I don't know if
Speaker 5: they're not getting open or if Noah is not seeing
Speaker 5: it and they're not throwing on time, but you got
Speaker 5: to get some productivity and it can't just be tea
Speaker 5: mac and I guarantee you that they're working on that
Speaker 5: right now. So but circling back Jay, to finish your
Speaker 5: your initial question, it's team belief. It's internal belief from
Speaker 5: from the players. It is believing in the coaches and
Speaker 5: coming out that next game. We played Oregon State, our
Speaker 5: next game on the road in corballis we took care
Speaker 5: of business, got right back on track and it's going
Speaker 5: to be a big test. But you know we we
Speaker 5: we have our way with Utah last week or excuse me,
Speaker 5: last year, and listen, why not do it again?
Speaker 2: So when you go to the game, and I know
Speaker 2: you you watched the games a lot, how do you
Speaker 2: look at it? Because we always talk about the formal players.
Speaker 2: Do you watch you with a key? Do you watch
Speaker 2: it with a fans eye? A former player's eye, and
Speaker 2: you you could probably see where they're deficient, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe offensive line, defensive line, stuff like that. Is it
Speaker 2: an enjoyment for you or are you just going to
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying because past players watch it differently, well,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 5: That you're always interested because of the fact that those
Speaker 5: film breakdowns the day after the game, when you watch
Speaker 5: it as a team and you have to be accountable
Speaker 5: to your teammates as to why you did something on
Speaker 5: a particular play, and then you go from the team
Speaker 5: breakdown and then you watch it with your position coach,
Speaker 5: and every play is watched four times and every player
Speaker 5: is graded in the defensive secondary and there's accountability with that.
Speaker 5: So when I watch games now and if we lose
Speaker 5: the corner, if we lose the edge on run contain,
Speaker 5: you know, you're interested in why that happened. And so
Speaker 5: I think that you're always looking, especially on the negative plays,
Speaker 5: why it didn't happen or did happen. The same thing
Speaker 5: with the positive plays. You can I think kind of
Speaker 5: pinpoint it was successful or a failure, and you could
Speaker 5: have the greatest play called in the world. But if
Speaker 5: your left guard wiffs on his block or holds, or
Speaker 5: your right tackle gets beat on a speed rush, then
Speaker 5: it's not a great play call. It only is a
Speaker 5: great play call if the execution works, and that's based
Speaker 5: off eleven guys doing what they're supposed to do every play.
Speaker 3: Maybe it was you that posted that because I saw
Speaker 3: something to that effect where somebody said a great play
Speaker 3: is a play that works, and you may call the
Speaker 3: the best play that you can run and it fails, well,
Speaker 3: then it wasn't a good play.
Speaker 5: It just right. We're only judged based off of the results,
Speaker 5: and you could literally have the best you know, if
Speaker 5: they're blitzing and you get a perfect play call and
Speaker 5: call a screen of some sorts and one guy slips
Speaker 5: and falls and doesn't make the key block, then it's
Speaker 5: a four yard loss and everyone's wondering why the heck
Speaker 5: you call? Well, so, I mean it's chess, right, It's
Speaker 5: not checkers. It's chess, and it boils down to some luck,
Speaker 5: and you look at tendencies as to what they do
Speaker 5: on certain down and distances, and you're always trying to
Speaker 5: match personnel, but ultimately it still boils down to eleven
Speaker 5: guys on either side of the ball taking care of
Speaker 5: their assignment and trusting that the other ten are going
Speaker 5: to do what they're supposed to do as well.
Speaker 2: You talked about the team kind of banding together, getting
Speaker 2: stuff straight and all that.
Speaker 3: It sounds easy. How difficult is it?
Speaker 5: There is some difficulty in this regard. You can't start
Speaker 5: finger pointing, and I don't think that we would obviously
Speaker 5: be to that stage yet, but you know, you do
Speaker 5: have to be able to be forgiving, and you have
Speaker 5: to understand that not everyone is going to have their
Speaker 5: best game, and unfortunately we've been a little bit unlucky
Speaker 5: if you look at the secondary, which was supposed to
Speaker 5: be the strength of this team. In the first game
Speaker 5: we lose Gunner, in the second game we lose Dalton,
Speaker 5: and in the last game we lose Stokes and Trey.
Speaker 5: You know, all three of those guys are extremely high produced,
Speaker 5: productive players, and so when you lose one of the
Speaker 5: three components back there, it's going to have an impact
Speaker 5: on the defense on the whole. And this is not
Speaker 5: to obviously make him feel bad, but when Stukes goes
Speaker 5: out last game and Goff comes in, he did not
Speaker 5: play at the level that Stukes does. And so there
Speaker 5: was three times, probably on one particular drive, where the
Speaker 5: tight end got the best of that matchup, and so
Speaker 5: we need to get healthy and then the trust and
Speaker 5: the coaches to make sure that if things are breaking,
Speaker 5: and I mean right now, I don't think that there's
Speaker 5: obviously anyone in Tuson that is happy with the offense.
Speaker 5: And when you look back and say, well, man, last
Speaker 5: year we were blah blah blah blah blah blah, and
Speaker 5: this year we're da da da da da Again, the
Speaker 5: folks that we lost on offense, that was NFL production, productivity,
Speaker 5: excuse me. It's very difficult to replace that. So I'm
Speaker 5: sure that coach Babers, you know, Coach Carter, Coach Wade,
Speaker 5: Coach Oglesby, the whole entire offensive staff is working on
Speaker 5: how do we fix this? And that's what's important for
Speaker 5: the fans to know. It is more important to that team,
Speaker 5: the coaches and the players than any fan that lives
Speaker 5: in Tucson. And so we just have to trust and hope,
Speaker 5: you know that they are coming up with solutions to
Speaker 5: where we get more victories than losses.
Speaker 3: For sure. You know, it's funny that you talk about
Speaker 3: that and those three guys, right. We had an interesting
Speaker 3: conversation with with Dwayne Nakuina before the season started. And
Speaker 3: I've had this whole thing because I've said, I've been
Speaker 3: as a fan, been through all these ten win seasons
Speaker 3: that Arizona's had. For the next year, it's not been
Speaker 3: so great, right, particularly the ninety nine season, after that
Speaker 3: great ninety eight season, And so I just said, I said,
Speaker 3: I said, dwank, what happened? Why did that? How did
Speaker 3: that go south? And he goes, he goes, we got
Speaker 3: in over our heads. He said, we as coaches knew
Speaker 3: that playing Penn State was a really bad idea because
Speaker 3: we didn't have Chris McCallister anymore. And it was that's
Speaker 3: simple to him.
Speaker 5: That's a merit to that. There is merit to that.
Speaker 5: And we can always say, well, you know, we've got
Speaker 5: Noah coming back, we've got Team at coming back, and
Speaker 5: we've got Manu coming back, and we've got the secondary.
Speaker 5: And I understand that, but we can never sell short
Speaker 5: the impact of NFL and on that particular team in
Speaker 5: ninety eight. We had NFL talent on that team, a
Speaker 5: lot of that, we had a great locker room, and
Speaker 5: so there's always that challenge of replacing I mean, Jacob
Speaker 5: Morgan is an NFL offensive tackle first round who's playing
Speaker 5: for him? Rhino? Rhino could get there someday. But Rhino
Speaker 5: got hurt in the first game, and so now he
Speaker 5: comes back in a very challenging environment and he's not
Speaker 5: one hundred percent, and so you have a very young
Speaker 5: left tackle and he didn't have a great game. Okay,
Speaker 5: can it be that simple? If Noah is constantly getting
Speaker 5: flushed out of the pocket and he doesn't have a
Speaker 5: clean pocket and he doesn't have time that's go and
Speaker 5: he's running to his right consistently, he didn't have to
Speaker 5: do that last year. So we have to understand that
Speaker 5: as fans, that it's so simple to say, well, we
Speaker 5: just were not doing it this year. Well, not everybody
Speaker 5: can have an Alabama to where you have that next
Speaker 5: blue blood, five chip or five star recruit that steps
Speaker 5: in and you don't lose a beat. And so we'll
Speaker 5: get there. Rhino will get there. It's just gonna take
Speaker 5: a little bit of time.
Speaker 2: So you know, you know, we're two old dudes. You're
Speaker 2: a fairly young dude. Did you grow You didn't grow
Speaker 2: up here, right Mare, You didn't grow up here.
Speaker 5: I grew up in Pine Top, up in the White
Speaker 5: Mountains for the most part. Yeah, so Blue Ridge a
Speaker 5: heck of a program up there. But I've been in
Speaker 5: too soon since eighth grade, so I would still consider
Speaker 5: myself a hardcore two on them.
Speaker 2: So do you believe in in ghosts and curses? Because
Speaker 2: I've long said this program is cursed? How else could
Speaker 2: you not go back to back with great sensational seasons?
Speaker 2: And I've read some books before that you know, there
Speaker 2: is a hint of you know good, No, you're not
Speaker 2: gonna let.
Speaker 3: You have be good two years in a row.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's just the program on this, you know,
Speaker 5: on the whole. And I say this in all sincerity.
Speaker 5: Kansas State is a tough game to play your third
Speaker 5: game of the season on the road, great environment, and
Speaker 5: they're a great program, and it wasn't a great matchup
Speaker 5: for us in this regard. I mean, they've got another
Speaker 5: quarterback that really stresses the edges and we paid for
Speaker 5: that a little bit. And so if you are an
Speaker 5: set SEC team and you get to schedule Appalachicola State,
Speaker 5: you know, and get a couple of rummies right off
Speaker 5: the bat, well you work out the kings. And so
Speaker 5: we didn't have a real chance to work out the
Speaker 5: kinks and all of the things that we need to
Speaker 5: reload and find out who are going to be the
Speaker 5: kids on this team to really step up. But again,
Speaker 5: if you look at the prognostications pre season, I would
Speaker 5: get I would tell you that there is a good
Speaker 5: majority of the people that looked at that schedule and thought, well,
Speaker 5: this we're probably going to be two and two. And
Speaker 5: then we got to get things going and hit that
Speaker 5: middle part of the schedule and take off. And Okay,
Speaker 5: if that's the worst case scenario and we go up.
Speaker 5: We want to see improvement. Obviously against Utah, and I
Speaker 5: still think that we can beat them, especially depending on
Speaker 5: what happens with Rising. But man, if if we can
Speaker 5: beat three and one, then all of a sudden, you
Speaker 5: start working out, uh some of those little things. We
Speaker 5: get some of that, uh, some of our guys healthy
Speaker 5: and back, especially in the secondary and and now if
Speaker 5: we can catch fire again, uh, then you never know
Speaker 5: where the road's going to take us. But I'm certainly
Speaker 5: not giving up on this team. I don't want the
Speaker 5: fans uh to give up on this team. It takes
Speaker 5: a village and it's you know, it's gonna there's gonna
Speaker 5: be highs and lows. But if you're a fan, you
Speaker 5: got to you got to believe that these guys are
Speaker 5: doing everything that they can behind the scenes to make
Speaker 5: sure that will come out with wins on Saturdays.
Speaker 3: The village is losing residents.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a couple couple people just checked out, and I
Speaker 5: think they'll want their hotel room back here. Pretty sure.
Speaker 3: On the bandwagon. Yeah you hear from you. Very good,
Speaker 3: always good to talk to you. Okay, Steve J.
Speaker 5: Bear down. Then let's get back on the winning streak
Speaker 5: in two weeks.
Speaker 3: All right, great, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: Eric bart Baker one of the great guys from back
Speaker 2: in the very levelheaded guy, very levelheaded guy. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: very more more positive than negative obviously.
Speaker 3: Just well again a guy who's been through it, yeah, right,
Speaker 3: and been through exactly what is going on with this
Speaker 3: this season? Right big you know, uh, you know, a
Speaker 3: team that was, you know, looked like it could be great,
Speaker 3: lost a game and got the hell beat out of
Speaker 3: him and had to come out of that.
Speaker 2: But you know, to his's point, to your point, to
Speaker 2: our point, at the beginning of the year, they were
Speaker 2: not going to win this game.
Speaker 3: I didn't think it looked bad. Okay, so let's go
Speaker 3: out so much that they lost. That's how they lost.
Speaker 3: People all worked out.
Speaker 2: You know, first time it's a mistake, we'll say that's
Speaker 2: a mistake. Yeah, if they do it again, they get it,
Speaker 2: then then you've got to say, well, okay, man, if you.
Speaker 3: Top beats the hell out of them next week, you know,
Speaker 3: if it's a thirty eight to ten game or something
Speaker 3: like that, then you then you start going, okay, what
Speaker 3: the hell's going on? What's going on?
Speaker 2: And then then you think, because we thought this, they
Speaker 2: go two to two, well that's what we thought, right.
Speaker 3: I thought they could get to eight wins even going
Speaker 3: to intend.
Speaker 2: And they could possibly do that. But now they have
Speaker 2: to step it up after the next game. So okay,
Speaker 2: we're good to go. Yeah, we're good to go.
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Speaker 2: one with us today and we're near the end of
Speaker 2: the show. This is the point where we go and
Speaker 2: do our picks, and it's when I'm tied with Jay.
Speaker 2: It's a miserable time.
Speaker 3: So I already have already.
Speaker 2: Haven't beat by now in the last two weeks have
Speaker 2: been miserable. And this is your last Hurrah lives not.
Speaker 3: Last live, you know. I mean, I'm doing live last
Speaker 3: time as part of the show, but I'll be I'll
Speaker 3: be here. You've been calling him. We got along. We've
Speaker 3: got a long way to go. It's only week four
Speaker 3: of twenty one weeks, Dave. So there's a guy who's
Speaker 3: perfect still no, no, he got he had one last yeah.
Speaker 3: I had two perfect weeks and then got a one. Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 3: go ahead. You you're the one that's on the all right,
Speaker 3: Well we're tied, uh, Steve. We both had only one
Speaker 3: point last no, I had one, Steve had zero. So
Speaker 3: I'm up two weeks to one on you right now, Steve,
Speaker 3: So just say, you know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: we're tied, but we're tied seven seven points apiece. We're
Speaker 3: trying to be average three a week, so we're trying
Speaker 3: to be at nine uh after the going into this week,
Speaker 3: so we're both to two off the pace of what
Speaker 3: we're trying to do. Okay, so here we go three.
Speaker 3: I'm going three college two pro. As we mentioned, we've
Speaker 3: got to both pick the Tennessee Oklahoma game, so I'll
Speaker 3: have that as my last pick. But Steve, I'm going
Speaker 3: to stay on the Texas bandwagon even though it's an
Speaker 3: unbelievable point spread of forty four and a half. That's
Speaker 3: a hell of a lot of points. They're playing Louisiana Monroe.
Speaker 3: But here's why I took it, because if I don't
Speaker 3: take it and they cover that, I'm gonna be pissed
Speaker 3: at myself. So not because I really think they're gonna
Speaker 3: cover it, just because if they do and I'm not
Speaker 3: on it, I'll be mad at myself. So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go ahead and take it and stay with them. They've
Speaker 3: they've hit for me all three weeks, and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: hit I'm going for him again.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I think that's a pretty good pick because
Speaker 2: they crushed the last week, right, Yeah, Okay, let me
Speaker 2: let me kind of go through.
Speaker 3: I know what's his name, the Manning kid. What's his
Speaker 3: first name? Yeah, arch arch Manny, So we have the
Speaker 3: kids with us. He is he is starting because uh,
Speaker 3: Quinn yours is out. But he looked pretty damn good
Speaker 3: against a bad team last week, so I'm staying with him. Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: My first pick will be I'm doing something different to
Speaker 2: I'm going through college and two wow look at you. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: only because I felt more confident over there. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take Arkansas on the road, play three against Auburn. Arkansas'll
Speaker 2: played a pretty good first game and then they blew it,
Speaker 2: So I think that Inn Auburn's not that good. When
Speaker 2: you can when New Mexico or whoever can stay close
Speaker 2: to them, you're not good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: All right, So Arkansas minus plus three against Auburn.
Speaker 3: On the road. Okay, all right. My second game, this
Speaker 3: is the one that I was deciding. I was thinking
Speaker 3: about taking Kansas State. And as much as I hate
Speaker 3: to take these guys because I still think they're all
Speaker 3: a bunch of criminals over there, but I'm gonna take
Speaker 3: Miami Florida giving sixteen and a half to South Florida.
Speaker 3: It's at South Florida. But that's kind of like you're
Speaker 3: playing at South Point to now you're gonna go play
Speaker 3: at Micah Mountain. It's just down the street. So Miami's
Speaker 3: giving sixteen and a half to South Florida. I think
Speaker 3: they're really good. I think they're a national championship contender.
Speaker 3: They've looked good at the start. They beat the hell
Speaker 3: out of Florida a few weeks ago. I and I
Speaker 3: just decided I was too clouded in my judgment on
Speaker 3: Kansas State because of what they did Arizona. I like
Speaker 3: Kansas State giving up six at by U, but you know,
Speaker 3: be one, you might be all fired up for this game.
Speaker 3: So I'm taking Miami Florida minus the sixteen and a half. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with USC. They play Michigan, right, they're
Speaker 3: they're at Michigan. Let me take USC.
Speaker 2: That might be my picture a little sketchy to me,
Speaker 2: but USC, what's what's the spread there?
Speaker 3: Five they're giving they're giving five at Michigan. I'll take us.
Speaker 2: Michigan is not your it is not your national title
Speaker 2: team anymore.
Speaker 3: So I thought about that game only then I thought about,
Speaker 3: why am I playing the Michigan USC game just because
Speaker 3: I think it's an interesting game. I thought that's a
Speaker 3: bad reason to take a game, so I decided not
Speaker 3: to take it. I'm I'm but I think, yes, he's
Speaker 3: going to cover that one too though. But you never know.
Speaker 3: USC they can go take a you know what, anytime, right,
Speaker 3: Michigan maybe a little fired up because they you know,
Speaker 3: they got beat last week's I don't know. I'm on
Speaker 3: I dance a good pick though, all right, going to
Speaker 3: the NFL side because we're taking Tennessee and Oklahoma last
Speaker 3: my lock of the week. I just think your boy,
Speaker 3: Josh Buffalo, Yeah, what's his name, Josh all Matt. Matt
Speaker 3: helped me out, man, I appreciate it. Josh Allen. I
Speaker 3: think he's just too damn good for the Jaguars. And
Speaker 3: they're gonna they're giving up five at home, uh to
Speaker 3: the Jags, and I'm gonna lock them uh in that game.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, good luck with that. Bill's messed with me
Speaker 2: in the first game with against against the Cardinals. So
Speaker 2: I'm not too high on the Cardinals yet, even though
Speaker 2: they played really well last week. I think it was
Speaker 2: when they crushed the Rams. I'm gonna go with Detroit,
Speaker 2: and that's gonna be my lock. Detroit on the road.
Speaker 2: I think they played, right, they played in Phoenix.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're in Phoenix.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna take give Detroit. Detroit's we don't want
Speaker 2: the coach to get shot or in Detroit, so we said.
Speaker 3: Easily a little more motivated, right, Detroit minus three minus
Speaker 3: three over Arizona. So that's my lock. All right. I again,
Speaker 3: the Cardinals to me are like ASU, right. If I
Speaker 3: pick them, they're going to screw me either way. If
Speaker 3: I pick them to win, they're going to lose. If
Speaker 3: I pick against them, they're going to win. So I
Speaker 3: just try and stay away from those guys. So all right,
Speaker 3: I don't have a feeling either way on that game.
Speaker 3: They looked pretty good last week, all right, my second
Speaker 3: NFL game. We were just talking about it, and I'm Juan,
Speaker 3: this one's on you, okay. If you hadn't told me
Speaker 3: that Justin Herbert was hurt and was questionable, I probably
Speaker 3: wouldn't play this game. Now, if I had to play
Speaker 3: this game, I'd be taking the Steelers because they're at home.
Speaker 3: You got the Chargers West Coast team going to play
Speaker 3: an early game on the East Coast. I heard a
Speaker 3: big conversation from one of the somebody who was a
Speaker 3: guest on a on a show this week. An NFL
Speaker 3: player said that game West Coast teams that have to
Speaker 3: go play on the East and then don't play the
Speaker 3: afternoon game played the well, the one o'clock game on
Speaker 3: the East Coast ten o'clock their time. He said, it
Speaker 3: is a thing and it is really hard to do.
Speaker 3: So what even if Herbert is playing but on a
Speaker 3: bad ankle. I'm I feel like the Steelers are gonna
Speaker 3: are gonna win this game, and they're only giving a
Speaker 3: point and a half. So I'm taking the Steelers at
Speaker 3: home given a point and a half to the Chargers.
Speaker 3: But if I see if it's screwed up one, I'm
Speaker 3: coming after you. You know where I'm at. You know
Speaker 3: where I'm at. You have a game, right, did you
Speaker 3: get you? Okay? All right, So there's it's a Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's an early game. It's a it's a it's a
Speaker 3: it's a one and well one o'clock East Coast time.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, so Mike go, I see it right now.
Speaker 2: My next game another iffy game. I'm not sure why
Speaker 2: because they haven't really played well, but they win Kansas
Speaker 2: City the Chiefs and then cover last week. They haven't there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they look kind of shaky, but sometimes they're gonna do it.
Speaker 2: At some point, they're gonna do it. I like them,
Speaker 2: I I you know, I took them last week and
Speaker 2: they pooped it. So I'm off of them and a
Speaker 2: minus three and a half. That's the Sunday, the Sunday
Speaker 2: night game against the Falcons. You know, the Falcons feeling
Speaker 2: pretty good about themselves after what they did with the
Speaker 2: phil You haven't said a lock?
Speaker 3: Which is your lock? Detroit? Then okay, all right, all right,
Speaker 3: now we gotta pick, uh, gotta pick the Tennessee Oklahoma game.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say it. I'm taking Tennessee. I just
Speaker 3: think they're really damn good. Oklahoma's looked looked a little shady.
Speaker 3: I know, Oklahoma's at home and they don't lose at
Speaker 3: home and those kinds of things. I just think Tennessee
Speaker 3: is that good.
Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, I'm gonna go with you on that one
Speaker 2: as well, for probably all the same reasons. I'm thinking
Speaker 2: Richard might be able to call us in and let
Speaker 2: me know or let us know what we're thinking on
Speaker 2: that one, because Richard's the Oklahoma guy.
Speaker 3: But I agree with you Tennessee, all right.
Speaker 2: So I'm not too positive or whatever on my picks,
Speaker 2: but those are my picks.
Speaker 3: I felt good about my picks the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: but not you know, again, it's after getting beat up
Speaker 3: last week. You know, I got I think I got
Speaker 3: two games right, but I didn't get either the lock
Speaker 3: or the special, so I got got beat up a
Speaker 3: little bit. Okay, Yeah, so we're both seven wins and
Speaker 3: eight losses, Steve, So just so you know, and you
Speaker 3: don't have to remind me, all right, don't have to
Speaker 3: remind me, all right, quick recap. I've got Texas minus
Speaker 3: forty four and a half against Louisiana Monroe, Miami Florida
Speaker 3: minus sixteen and a half against South Florida, the Bills
Speaker 3: minus five against the Jags, Steelers minus one and a
Speaker 3: half against the Chargers in Tennessee, minus seven against Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: and the special. Steves also got that. He's taking Arkansas
Speaker 3: plus three against Auburn, USC minus the five against Michigan,
Speaker 3: the Lions minus the three against the Cardinals and the
Speaker 3: Chiefs minus three and a half against the Falcons.
Speaker 2: Got a bunch of road teams. Steve, Yeah, last week
Speaker 2: was a blood bath for a lot of the teams.
Speaker 2: I know they have the at least the friends I
Speaker 2: have in my suicide. I didn't get into it's too
Speaker 2: crazy suicide. The games they started about one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty survival one hundred and sixties.
Speaker 3: I have them down to twenty six because all the
Speaker 3: obvious ones from last week got beat.
Speaker 1: Be.
Speaker 3: They not only didn't cover, they lost. They lost. Those
Speaker 3: teams lost. Yeah, no, that's where it is, all right, Steve.
Speaker 3: This is that man, Yep, yep. Got about five minutes.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be like two dudes running at each other
Speaker 2: in the cornfield, running over.
Speaker 3: The wheat field. Oh don't, oh what you know?
Speaker 2: Slow motionly because we can only run in slow motion.
Speaker 3: We know, he We don't run and be, We don't
Speaker 3: jump in anybody's arms. Nobody wants us jumping in their arms.
Speaker 3: They fall down and we knock them down and all
Speaker 3: those things.
Speaker 2: Well, there's always We're always gonna be together in terms
Speaker 2: of every Friday.
Speaker 3: And then again at the casino. Yeah, so yeah, I'll
Speaker 3: still be around enough to cause trouble, to be a pain,
Speaker 3: to be a pain, you know, as you said, coming
Speaker 3: in on Friday to do the picks. We'll do the
Speaker 3: Thursday things. Would love to have you come down to
Speaker 3: the half people come down to the casino that'll sold
Speaker 3: sports book, uh, to see us on Thursdays. We're gonna
Speaker 3: we're trying to set it up and get things done
Speaker 3: to be there this coming Thursday, which would be a
Speaker 3: lot of fun. Yeah, it would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: We'll make our picks stand, make our pics on Thursdays
Speaker 2: when we're there, yea, involve them hopefully.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it should be fun.
Speaker 2: But Steve, we'll have some drinks, but I don't know
Speaker 2: if they can do drinks specials in the mall.
Speaker 3: Drink special Maybe it's been a fun run, Steve. Four years,
Speaker 3: a little over four years, I was telling Matt the
Speaker 3: story about how how this all happened. You call me,
Speaker 3: what are you doing? What do you mean?
Speaker 5: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: The day that I got laid off by the Sugars Culls,
Speaker 3: the first of two times I've been fired by them.
Speaker 3: What are you doing? Nothing? Nothing? What do you asking me?
Speaker 3: You want to Yeah, because I don't have a job.
Speaker 3: That was it. I didn't have a job and I
Speaker 3: haven't had a job. So you were nervous. You're still
Speaker 3: kind of nervous. I was a little nervous early on,
Speaker 3: you know. But uh, you know, I think I think
Speaker 3: we got into a pretty good groove we've had. I
Speaker 3: think we've put together a good, good show with some
Speaker 3: incredible guests who we have time minutes per form minutes
Speaker 3: about three minutes. So so looking back, what are your
Speaker 3: favorite guests? Well, you know, the the the first of all,
Speaker 3: the local guys who just would always come on anytime
Speaker 3: we needed, you know, justin Michael lev Greg Hansen, Wilner
Speaker 3: not local, but was a local, you know, Troy Hutchison,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna leave out you know, a bunch of those names,
Speaker 3: Brian Peterson. Those guys are always great, reliable, they'd come
Speaker 3: on the show, they gave us a lot of the time.
Speaker 3: But when I think about the show that I thought, Okay,
Speaker 3: we really did something special there, right, Bill Walton, Steve Kerr,
Speaker 3: what about Herman Garry Francona, Herman Harrison, he brought us
Speaker 3: to tears right, I'm Sean Elliott. You know coming on.
Speaker 3: You know those guys, Pete Williams all the time that
Speaker 3: he came on and was just very enthusiastic with us.
Speaker 3: And again, this is like that Academy Award speech. You know,
Speaker 3: you know you're gonna forget somebody. But you know, so
Speaker 3: many people that that did come on the show were
Speaker 3: great with us. We had a lot of from Jake Fisher,
Speaker 3: you know, guy always always, and we were always picking
Speaker 3: his brain. We were trying to get into his head
Speaker 3: in terms of what it was like to be a
Speaker 3: college football player. Right when he when he called in
Speaker 3: this Morning City couldn't be on. I figured, OK, Baker
Speaker 3: kind of fits the bold of you know, the time
Speaker 3: of Dia Barnes announced her pregnancy on our show accidentally,
Speaker 3: and my son who was her pa, her media relations
Speaker 3: person at the time, he was like, what the hell
Speaker 3: just happened? On my dad's use everybody a lot of
Speaker 3: moments like that, and again, just so many people.
Speaker 2: You know what I wanted to when I was thinking
Speaker 2: of this, mort we should have had the president. I'll
Speaker 2: try to get the president done before he leaves, uh,
Speaker 2: and maybe we do it from the casino, maybe have
Speaker 2: a call in, maybe invite him down there.
Speaker 3: Maybe you've hate him down there, but you know another one.
Speaker 3: You know, Dave hekey all the time, the time he
Speaker 3: gave us. All the folks from Pima came on the show.
Speaker 3: You know, just so many people, and I think we
Speaker 3: I really do feel like we put together a great
Speaker 3: show for people to really cover local sports, talk about
Speaker 3: high schools. I was telling Matt that, you know, our
Speaker 3: listenership would go up when would bring somebody from one
Speaker 3: of the high schools because they would get the word
Speaker 3: out to their families and their friends and and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. So I just really, I'm really proud of
Speaker 3: what we did in that regard because we gave a
Speaker 3: lot of visibility to to those people, right no, and
Speaker 3: they loved it.
Speaker 2: The one time we got the call from the Sunnyside somebody.
Speaker 2: So you don't talk enough about the coach last week?
Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: So you know obviously the PEMA people and the national
Speaker 2: titles with all that too. Yeah, it's been fun. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Dave Cosgrove and all those guys.
Speaker 3: All right, Well that's it, man, I'm done for the
Speaker 3: regular show, but I'll be around.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, you took the richer who was gonna
Speaker 2: call with the line you put the lines on old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I told you.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it, and I appreciate everybody who called in over
Speaker 3: all this time. So thanks so much and I will
Speaker 3: be around and Steve good luck. Thank you, thank you,