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Speaker 3: Happy Wednesday. Did everyone out there? Here's truly mister g
Speaker 3: D two shoes, Mihitolindo, look at starting breaking news, look
Speaker 3: ahead to some of the Arizona athletic events. When miss
Speaker 3: Tennis takes on BYU tomorrow at twelve o'clock to start
Speaker 3: their conference play, they'll be heading into conference play eight
Speaker 3: and four on the season. The Arizona baseball team is
Speaker 3: four and three on the season after four straight wins.
Speaker 3: They'll take on Rice at five point thirty two day,
Speaker 3: and then they'll go into the Astros Foundation College Classic
Speaker 3: where they take on Texas A and M, Mississippi State
Speaker 3: and Tennessee, all top twenty five teams UH Friday, Saturday
Speaker 3: and Sunday.
Speaker 2: Dave, if you want to find out how good you are,
Speaker 2: what do you do. But good teams go play good teams. Yeah,
Speaker 2: although you know, Rice isn't as good as they've been.
Speaker 2: They've they've been pretty decent in the last decade, but
Speaker 2: apparently they're not up to a great start. But also
Speaker 2: in the first couple of weeks of the season. But
Speaker 2: good and again, you know, Chip is taking those guys
Speaker 2: into Texas, which I think is important because I'm sure
Speaker 2: the focus of their recruiting is going to be heading
Speaker 2: in that direction as the years go on.
Speaker 3: It'll be interesting. Texas A and M's number one ring
Speaker 3: number one right now. But they've lost two games on
Speaker 3: the season already. They lost to Texas State.
Speaker 2: I saw that. I saw some highlights of the pitcher
Speaker 2: that was pitching against Texas. Did you see those? It
Speaker 2: was the dude pitching from Texas State, and he owned them.
Speaker 2: He owned them, and he was like going to mark
Speaker 2: the bird Fidrich. Oh, I think I saw highlights and
Speaker 2: he was going like talking to himself and then you know,
Speaker 2: we got you and here's the lefty. Yeah, and he
Speaker 2: you know, struck out the number one player in the country,
Speaker 2: YadA YadA. On any given day, baby, specially baseball basic baseb.
Speaker 3: Arizona Softball's Devin Nets was named the Big Twelve Pitcher
Speaker 3: of the Week after her performance in the against teams
Speaker 3: like Stamford Texas.
Speaker 2: Yeah they're a good start too, yeah yeah, which is
Speaker 2: refreshing for for coach because she needs this. Yeah. But
Speaker 2: you know, they generally start strong.
Speaker 4: I mean usually they'll bring in, you know, a bunch
Speaker 4: of teams to play here and do well. But they
Speaker 4: did have some highly ranked teams this last.
Speaker 2: Week to the To their credit, Dave, the PAC twelve
Speaker 2: wasn't easy. I sure either. I think this might be
Speaker 2: a little bit better for them. You know, the Texas
Speaker 2: texts of the world who they paid a million dollars
Speaker 2: for the Stafford transfers, right, so you're going to face
Speaker 2: them that still. But part of the problems that they
Speaker 2: do really well and then they don't, it's because the
Speaker 2: PAC twelve was pretty fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, and they were the leaders of the
Speaker 4: pack for such a long time, and you know the
Speaker 4: rest of the Pac twelve, you know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: here's Oregon, you know, playing in the College World Series.
Speaker 4: Things like that, Oregon State, Stafford and all this, all
Speaker 4: the SEC schools with their big football money, we're able
Speaker 4: to put together great little softball complexes. So now they're,
Speaker 4: you know, ventually into the big twelve. I don't know
Speaker 4: what to expect there.
Speaker 2: You really don't know. I mean, Oklahoma State is going
Speaker 2: to be good. You know who to blame for all that, mind,
Speaker 2: but the grandfather of all I don't know if there's
Speaker 2: that much tradition, Like say, at Kansas State, I didn't
Speaker 2: even play soft Some of the schools don't even play
Speaker 2: soft Iowa State doesn't play baseball. I mean, they're a
Speaker 2: big I think there will be a big powerhouse they
Speaker 2: should build eventually. Isn't that where the Iowa he was
Speaker 2: in there? That's right?
Speaker 3: Okay, fifteen and two on the season. They take on
Speaker 3: LM you tonight six o'clock in Los Angeles, California.
Speaker 2: So their football fifteen fifteen to two.
Speaker 3: Thought, yeah, okay, women's basketball got a senior night win
Speaker 3: seven at six o'clock.
Speaker 2: Yesterday Texas Tech came to town. They beat them sixty six
Speaker 2: or fifty seven. Yeah, I think the next couple of
Speaker 2: weeks are going to be very interesting. You look at me,
Speaker 2: and I look at you and smile smiling. Way boys
Speaker 2: eighteen twelve. They can get to twenty wins, that would
Speaker 2: be good. Yeah, how many? Two more? One more?
Speaker 3: They got one more trip to Tempe Saturday at four o'clock.
Speaker 2: That just should be interesting to say the least. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: then maybe get to nineteen and then who knows, maybe
Speaker 2: win a game or two. And the thing and well,
Speaker 2: the thing about it, it's not just here, it's you
Speaker 2: have to look at the rest of the landscape of
Speaker 2: the tournament, the tournament for everybody. It's like Arizona's really good,
Speaker 2: but you're not talking about another guys. The other guys,
Speaker 2: the other guys, everybody else is good too. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: and that sports growing. So you get a star like
Speaker 2: Aery McDonald four years ago. Now there's an area McDonald,
Speaker 2: Loyola Marrimount. They make a run now.
Speaker 3: Right, uh so, So we'll see what happens on Saturday. Tonight,
Speaker 3: seven o'clock, the men's basketball team takes on Utah. We've
Speaker 3: talked about that game. Any any worries tonight, I don't
Speaker 3: think so.
Speaker 2: I think that he's probably got their attention. I think
Speaker 2: fifteen fifteen, it's a lot of points, but they're due
Speaker 2: for a good game, you know. They I thought their
Speaker 2: best game overall was the b y U game over there,
Speaker 2: because you know, the boy is good. We saw it
Speaker 2: in firsthand, and they played really well to beat them
Speaker 2: up there.
Speaker 5: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I don't you think of a better game. I can't
Speaker 2: know that. Well, Texas it was good. One game. The
Speaker 2: Baylor game there was good. Yeah, they played too. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean they've had some great, great highs
Speaker 4: and some weird lows and disappointing game. I mean the
Speaker 4: Houston game here they should have won or could have won.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you sel a game.
Speaker 6: You c l a.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, must forget about you almost forget about November
Speaker 4: December and where you know, when we're living through it, like,
Speaker 4: oh god, the seasons it's terrible. And then you know
Speaker 4: they're going a pretty good run for a long you know,
Speaker 4: for a couple of weeks until the Gauntlet happens and
Speaker 4: you see, you know this and this and this. So
Speaker 4: do you think they'll go there? You got four games? Now,
Speaker 4: what are they going to go?
Speaker 2: Two and two, three and one zero four? I believe
Speaker 2: they go three and one? Wow? Who do they beat?
Speaker 2: I believe they beat Kansas?
Speaker 7: M hm.
Speaker 2: Kansas needs that game at home, it's gonna be that's
Speaker 2: gonna be their senior day and all. It'll be a
Speaker 2: big deal there. And then if they're still skidding, they
Speaker 2: have to get ready for their tournament here in four
Speaker 2: days later. Let's be a tough game. Well it was all.
Speaker 3: These but doable. I mean, even even though just those
Speaker 3: last three games. In general, you know, you go obviously
Speaker 3: you go to Iowa State, go to Kansas, but Arizona
Speaker 3: State here is going to be really interesting.
Speaker 2: You never know.
Speaker 3: We talk about kind of speculations with women's basketball, there's
Speaker 3: speculations with Arizona State men's basketball.
Speaker 2: You know. So we'll see what happened, most.
Speaker 4: Likely his last game, I would say, so Michale I
Speaker 4: would say, I mean, there's been so much talk about
Speaker 4: that and rumbling, and you know, there's easy they just
Speaker 4: need to catch up.
Speaker 2: I mean, Arizona States, they should not be you know
Speaker 2: what at the bottom of the conference. You've been in
Speaker 2: town since eighty three. How many years have you said that?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I you know, and they had
Speaker 2: a glimpse under a guess who, Bill Frader, It's true
Speaker 2: for fun years, yeah, ninety five, ninety six when they
Speaker 2: had Bennett Mario Bennett.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, it's just been been hard, really tough,
Speaker 4: you know, and they want to do something that Arena there.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of stuff around the.
Speaker 4: Issue, and they're gonna do something with Arena. I mean,
Speaker 4: they may even just knock the thing down and build
Speaker 4: something brand new. And it's I wish they probably should do.
Speaker 4: I guess somebody can call me and tell me. But
Speaker 4: I think isn't that model they're modeled the same that.
Speaker 2: And Michale and they're not the same era. Yeah, same time,
Speaker 2: same time, and one is just not up to speed.
Speaker 2: Have you been inside? You've been inside, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: was there for the It's just it's just a building, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, with a few paint jobs and yeah, but
Speaker 2: there're also there's not a lot of history of success. No,
Speaker 2: there was one of you know, there's like nothing.
Speaker 3: And maybe that's the reason to break it down start fresh. Yeah, true,
Speaker 3: didn't even I shouldn't asking you. I should know the
Speaker 3: answer to these questions.
Speaker 4: But like Packard Stadium, they don't even play baseball on
Speaker 4: campus anymore. I think they're playing their home games even
Speaker 4: away from campus, kind of like the U of A
Speaker 4: does their facilities have not been really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, into into some shockers in the college basketball world.
Speaker 3: Number three Florida lost to Georgia. Yeah, yeah, eighty eight
Speaker 3: to eighty three. Georgia needed that one. They're they're a
Speaker 3: bowl team, and I think they're a decent team five
Speaker 3: and ten conference, but you're in the SEC.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, and it's tough. We kind of talked about
Speaker 2: it already.
Speaker 3: But Oklahoma State be Iowa State and not a fully
Speaker 3: healthy Iowa State team. I personally wasn't shocked by that
Speaker 3: for that result, you know, I was They'll They'll get
Speaker 3: Arizona on Saturday. I'm sure they'll be fully healthy then.
Speaker 3: And no, again that trapped trapped. Well, we don't have
Speaker 3: to play well against him, but come Saturday, we're gonna
Speaker 3: be ready.
Speaker 2: Right, they will.
Speaker 3: And then kind of a shocker, it's the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: Cincinnati beat Baylor yesterday and they're kind of on a
Speaker 3: lower low trajectory. Now we'll see, we'll see what happens
Speaker 3: with the Baylor Bears. Duke guard Tyree Proctor injured his
Speaker 3: left knee late in the first half or against in
Speaker 3: the game against Miami. He has imaging, has had imaging
Speaker 3: done uh, and there's nothing on it yet, but we'll
Speaker 3: see what happens with the Duke's uh star guard. Diannata
Speaker 3: Rossi the n B a W n B as all
Speaker 3: time leading scorer and now said she's retiring. I never
Speaker 3: got to follow her career, so we have. She's been,
Speaker 3: she's been a legend. I mean, you know, she's gonna
Speaker 3: be a Hall of Famer? Is she She might even
Speaker 3: be in the Hall of Famer already.
Speaker 2: I don't think she is. I think is she possibly
Speaker 2: because she's won. I didn't realize she's on three NBA titles,
Speaker 2: Phoenix W three, The Mercury. Yeah, yeah, I guess I
Speaker 2: thought they had won one. And she's been around so
Speaker 2: long it's hard to remember something.
Speaker 4: All those all those Olympic appearances, appearances, Yes, some of
Speaker 4: those women have really done a good job too of
Speaker 4: just keeping a game alive. Sueer Bird, you know again,
Speaker 4: we kind of talked about podcasts. She's you know, she's
Speaker 4: out there talking all the time, and I don't know
Speaker 4: she's I'm sure Tarassi's knew the same thing. They do
Speaker 4: stuff during the NCAA tournament. I think off to the side,
Speaker 4: she and Sue Byrd Yeah, a lot of those Yukon
Speaker 4: players have really jumped into the media world, so I'm
Speaker 4: sure she'll be visible doing stuff for her sport.
Speaker 3: The Los Angeles Lakers stick on the Dallas Mavericks last
Speaker 3: night and Luka Dunch's first game against his former team.
Speaker 2: They prevailed, and all he wanted to do was sleep afterwards. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of probably a lot of pressure emotionally,
Speaker 2: emotionally and mentally. Yeah, it's glad it's over. That's what
Speaker 2: he said afterwards, is pretty emotional.
Speaker 3: Last thing I got is the Sun's lost to the
Speaker 3: Grizzlies last night, but kind of a interesting game, you know,
Speaker 3: final score one fifty five to ninety nine combined points.
Speaker 3: It's it's one of those new modern NBA games, right,
Speaker 3: two hundred and ninety nine points. Sons are tough to watch.
Speaker 3: I don't know about you, and I don't really watch
Speaker 3: them that often.
Speaker 2: No, I know that was a good game. I didn't
Speaker 2: watch it. What I saw.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't get it, you know. I mean, they
Speaker 4: got three superstars, but they're ever healthy.
Speaker 2: The other teamers are good too. Memphis is like the
Speaker 2: second best team in the West. Yeah, that's true. Run
Speaker 2: and whoever else they have.
Speaker 4: I mean I looked that box score. I mean, like
Speaker 4: you said, two hundred and whatever, two ninety nine. That's
Speaker 4: pretty crazy. And there are a lot of guys scored a
Speaker 4: lot of points. I mean they're like four or five
Speaker 4: guys over twenty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all for breaking news. Okay, maybe we got
Speaker 2: about two or three minutes. If you guys want to
Speaker 2: call anybody wants to call them, fill in the time
Speaker 2: real quick. Glad to hear from you. We heard from
Speaker 2: Gabe the other day. Was it yesterday you, Gabe?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Maybe yesterday. I don't think it was just two days ago, Gabe.
Speaker 2: You were here with Gabe? Right? No, maybe today's Wednesday.
Speaker 2: I think Monday, wasn't it, Gabe? You remember Gabe?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: The guy's kind of upset about everything. Gabe, Well, who
Speaker 2: isn't It's welcome to two right, or to every to
Speaker 2: the world, you know. Yeah, a couple of stories here
Speaker 2: about Gronkowski. Have you seen this? He's done?
Speaker 4: There's all the rumors of him he may do another comeback.
Speaker 4: Apparently he was on some show this.
Speaker 2: Week, was the Raiders. I don't know what the Chargers.
Speaker 2: Wherever he's living these days, he's like thirty two is
Speaker 2: thirty eighth, four time Super Bowl champs. How old he's
Speaker 2: got to be? In his mid thirties? We got a call,
Speaker 2: We got a call. Okay, Hello, you're on the air.
Speaker 2: Nine on the ball. Who's this? Hey, Steve, this is done?
Speaker 2: Don go ahead. You got about two minutes, I dave. Okay,
Speaker 2: two quick things.
Speaker 8: You know what I'm gonna do tomorrow morning after the
Speaker 8: game tonight, No, I'm gonna wake up to a sunny
Speaker 8: tuc Sunday.
Speaker 2: Oh man, you and hopefully Ben the others.
Speaker 8: Well, everybody's gonna wake up to it. How they deal
Speaker 8: with it is something else.
Speaker 2: We'll see what.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 8: The other thing I wanted to say is I keep
Speaker 8: hearing about, you know, the remarks that were made after
Speaker 8: postgame and everything at the U A and and what
Speaker 8: I got to say about that is the closest people.
Speaker 9: To the situation that should have.
Speaker 8: Apologized have done so, and that that should basically end
Speaker 8: the conversation. The BYU Students section is not above reproach.
Speaker 8: It wasn't but a couple of years ago that they
Speaker 8: did they hurt some I read I read or heard
Speaker 8: someplace that they had done some set some racial things
Speaker 8: to a predominantly black women's basketball team up there. These
Speaker 8: things happen, like we've been saying about our players and everything.
Speaker 8: These are young people that do stupid things sometimes and
Speaker 8: hopefully they learn from it.
Speaker 2: You're right, right, good call, done, appreciate it, good call.
Speaker 2: They're right. I mean there's no right answer. I mean,
Speaker 2: there is the right answer, but they did.
Speaker 8: There is the right answer, and it's still next stupid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's exactly what I was going to try
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the EYUS fans went after a duke. Yeah,
Speaker 4: volleyball player. Yeah, I remember that three or four years ago.
Speaker 4: That was pretty nasty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a world where yeah, it's just kind of strange. Well, thanks,
Speaker 2: don I appreciate your call. We got to go to
Speaker 2: take a break. Take care, guys. Thank you. We have
Speaker 2: Jason Barr on the other side, and we'll get ahold
Speaker 2: of him and then talk about what's going on in
Speaker 2: the world. We walked after the game to their cars
Speaker 2: after the game, and I can't remember he brought up
Speaker 2: a point. I'll see if you can remember what it was.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the xs a os. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to light abou dare to Fox Sports
Speaker 2: Sport teen fifty. I'm Si Rivera. In with me. Today's
Speaker 2: Dave Silver. Now on the phone. We have Jason bar
Speaker 2: from KIGUN nine. Jason, how are you good?
Speaker 9: Steven Dave? How are you?
Speaker 2: We're doing well? Thank great. I was telling Dave Dave
Speaker 2: here that you and I are leaving to our cars
Speaker 2: on Saturday night, I think it was, and you brought
Speaker 2: up a point and we got to the car and
Speaker 2: I can't remember what the heck the point was. Do
Speaker 2: you remember what we were talking about?
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, you know, I was just talking about some
Speaker 9: of the flaws that this Arizona basketball team has. You know,
Speaker 9: it doesn't mean that they can't go far.
Speaker 5: But obviously it's it's not a great shooting team, right.
Speaker 9: You know, we see that certainly with Caleb Love, who.
Speaker 5: Runs hot and cold. Jayden Bradley is not a great
Speaker 5: shooting point guard, maybe not a great dribbler, right, And
Speaker 5: then you.
Speaker 9: Know Tommy Lloyd has criticized Anthony del Orso a little bit,
Speaker 9: and he does want to shoot more. And you know
Speaker 9: that's you're kind of your starting one, two and three.
Speaker 9: You know, we seems some really good improvement with the
Speaker 9: big men, but you know, area's on the basketball team
Speaker 9: that's probably just not at the upper echelon of the
Speaker 9: Auburns and the Dukes and the Saint John's and frankly
Speaker 9: the Houstons of the college basketball world right now.
Speaker 2: And then in your observations, I think that Tommy's admitted
Speaker 2: that it's just not a good shooting team, so they
Speaker 2: have to be better at a Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no great news bullets in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And he was saying how they were kind of casual
Speaker 4: coming into the game, which isn't really a good sign
Speaker 4: for any team. Did you notice that just watching that,
Speaker 4: they just didn't seem like they were like the caret
Speaker 4: is maybe at the beginning.
Speaker 9: No, I really think it was BYU's offense was was
Speaker 9: really good. I mean, yeah, you could make a case
Speaker 9: they were running maybe some of the same sets and
Speaker 9: Arizona should have had an answer later, but that's a
Speaker 9: really good offensive.
Speaker 5: Team, and so on that case, I don't really.
Speaker 9: Think they were casual. I didn't really see that. I
Speaker 9: think maybe you could say, well, Okay, they went at BYU,
Speaker 9: so you know, they go to McHale where they almost
Speaker 9: always win, and so they were probably going to have
Speaker 9: their way there, but I don't think so. I mean,
Speaker 9: they had a twenty two to seventeen lead if I'm
Speaker 9: not mistaken in the first half.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, how are things that channel line on you?
Speaker 2: You're busy one man bean pretty much, and you get into.
Speaker 9: A v I get a videographer. When a videographer is available,
Speaker 9: I get one. And that's not always the case for
Speaker 9: sports people right now in the country. So the station's
Speaker 9: been good to me. But yeah, you know, that's more
Speaker 9: of the business than k Gun is probably.
Speaker 5: The one man band, no situation.
Speaker 2: But you're doing the same things. You know, like I
Speaker 2: tell you the last time you were here, you're more
Speaker 2: of a storyteller. At least that's what the station's doing.
Speaker 5: Now, how's that going, No, that's going really well, thanks
Speaker 5: for asking.
Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, so basically, you know the sports news
Speaker 9: of the day. You know when Dave was doing it.
Speaker 9: I mean, you needed Dave Silver to get your sports news,
Speaker 9: and you wanted to get your sports news from Dave Silver,
Speaker 9: right if I had to have really good self awareness.
Speaker 9: Right now, I'm not sure you need Jason Barr to
Speaker 9: get your sports dues. Okay, you can get it from
Speaker 9: the internet, Twitter, you have a website, right So to
Speaker 9: try to stay relevant, what we're doing is just telling
Speaker 9: more human interest stories. So you know, the story today
Speaker 9: we'll focus on you of a basketball but tomorrow, right now,
Speaker 9: my plan is to run a story on Jaden Agassi,
Speaker 9: the son of Andre Agacy and Steffie Roth, who's going
Speaker 9: to be here for the World Baseball Classic qualifier. We'll
Speaker 9: have a middle school running team.
Speaker 5: Story maybe on Friday, so.
Speaker 9: We'll see how it goes. And just kind of doing
Speaker 9: stories like that and just kind of getting really deep
Speaker 9: in the community because you just don't need to tell
Speaker 9: you that Lebron James is forty years old and.
Speaker 5: Is having big games. I mean it's just, you know,
Speaker 5: I just can't do that better than anybody else.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 4: The cool thing too, I remember about this time of year,
Speaker 4: and you're right. I mean it's always fun to do
Speaker 4: the you know, these stories away from the main games.
Speaker 4: But February and March used to just be like, oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, when am I going to sleep? I mean,
Speaker 4: there was so much going on. Of course, we've lost
Speaker 4: Spring training, but we've got the WBC coming for a week.
Speaker 2: That's going to be fun for everybody.
Speaker 4: We just had Rodeo, but we have you know, we
Speaker 4: used to have the golf tournament right around that time,
Speaker 4: So the February and March and then you know they
Speaker 4: start weaving in, you know, the NCAA stuff alongside softball
Speaker 4: and baseball going So these months are kind of the
Speaker 4: heyday for local sports from at least from what I remember.
Speaker 5: Yeah, coul of.
Speaker 9: Guard will be here with the World Baseball Classic, Yeah,
Speaker 9: next week, so we had that, and of course you
Speaker 9: don't gear it up to March badness. So so yeah,
Speaker 9: you know, we certainly of that. A lot a lot
Speaker 9: of that going on, and sports and Tucson is is
Speaker 9: I'm sure you know, David, I don't think we ever.
Speaker 5: Talked about this, but boy, you know, it's very very seasonal, right.
Speaker 9: We don't have a lot here going on in June,
Speaker 9: and you got so much going on in November with
Speaker 9: the overlap. So you know, Steve, I'm sure you've kind
Speaker 9: of felt that way too, but so we you know,
Speaker 9: really what month you're in makes a big difference here
Speaker 9: in Tucson especially.
Speaker 2: That's why June and July and August.
Speaker 9: I leave for a couple of weeks in June.
Speaker 2: I do every year, yes, yes, no question. So so
Speaker 2: what do you you talked about the men's basketball team.
Speaker 2: What do you make of the women's basketball team.
Speaker 5: You know, they're a scrappy bunch and I think they
Speaker 5: play hard, but I don't think we're seeing the five
Speaker 5: star players that we were seeing a few years.
Speaker 9: Ago when after that she recruited from the championship game appearance,
Speaker 9: and you know, I think that this team and these
Speaker 9: players really reflect a Da Barnes and that they're they're
Speaker 9: play hard defense, and they're scrappy, and maybe they were
Speaker 9: some of a couple of them were overlooked. But there's
Speaker 9: a part of.
Speaker 5: Me that's like, ah, you know, we are those.
Speaker 9: Five stars that we thought we were gonna get that
Speaker 9: he was recruiting off the championship team.
Speaker 5: So, you know, I'm a little bit mixed, and I
Speaker 5: don't really know if that's the situation or if it's
Speaker 5: an nil situation that they just don't have the budgets
Speaker 5: of some of the other women's teams.
Speaker 9: We don't really know what's under the hood, you know,
Speaker 9: because I think that maybe we were got a little
Speaker 9: bit greedy and thought, Okay, they were gonna go to
Speaker 9: the championship game, They're going to be a top ten
Speaker 9: team every year, and I don't know that that looks
Speaker 9: like that's going to be the case. So I'm interested
Speaker 9: to hear your opinion on the on the women's situation.
Speaker 9: But I'll tell you what it's. It's it's a good product.
Speaker 9: It's an enjoyable situation to watch. And boy, they had
Speaker 9: almost seven thousand fans last night on Senior Night. This
Speaker 9: community is behind this team in a way they weren't
Speaker 9: when Day was doing sports here, or at least in
Speaker 9: the transition.
Speaker 5: Maybe not when yeah, no, it was when Naya Buds
Speaker 5: was here. Yeah no, there was not a lot of
Speaker 5: people here.
Speaker 4: No, I mean that was just I would sometimes go
Speaker 4: to the games and we sometimes didn't didn't even really
Speaker 4: cover them, so maybe show the score, right Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: No, David, I didn't.
Speaker 9: I didn't cover my first few years here, and uh,
Speaker 9: you know I I was a.
Speaker 5: Little surprised, and somebody called me up and They're like, no,
Speaker 5: Idea building something really strong, and I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 5: believe I want to see it right And then sure
Speaker 5: enough that was the case, and.
Speaker 9: And so so, you know, the good.
Speaker 5: Stories and good to cover. I think I just got
Speaker 5: a little greedy and was hoping that they were going
Speaker 5: to be top ten every year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it makes for a good story. In fact,
Speaker 2: when they had the the n I T W N
Speaker 2: I T whatever it was, and I went to a
Speaker 2: couple of games just to be as a fan of
Speaker 2: never Ever and I said this a lot during that time.
Speaker 2: Never ever would have ever thought that that place would
Speaker 2: have been fool like it was for that. And then
Speaker 2: they just continued, It just continued because they love Idea.
Speaker 9: Yeah, oh yeah, she is, uh you know, she's the
Speaker 9: program and uh and for sure, yeah, she's you know,
Speaker 9: without her, goodness, gracious, we might go back to where
Speaker 9: we were before. And it looks like we got a
Speaker 9: little tired relief last night. I don't know if you saw,
Speaker 9: but Montea Do went down, and you know, she's the
Speaker 9: player who tore ACL a year or so ago. Also
Speaker 9: lost her mom kind of at the same time, and
Speaker 9: she was carried off the court, but she came back
Speaker 9: and apparently in the postgame Idea said that it's not
Speaker 9: a serious situation. So so that's good dues there for
Speaker 9: Montea Do because she was having a good game. I
Speaker 9: think she had eight points to eight rebounds, was playing well,
Speaker 9: kind of a fan favorite, seems like a really nice person,
Speaker 9: and so we got some good dues there from But
Speaker 9: I don't know they're going to make the tournament. I
Speaker 9: think they've got twelve losses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twelve right right right.
Speaker 4: You know, it reminds me to again, I guess maybe
Speaker 4: just harping back to when I was there with softball.
Speaker 4: I mean, we didn't know anything about softball up until
Speaker 4: they kind of won a national championship, and then next
Speaker 4: thing you know, we're covering them every year. So it's
Speaker 4: kind of similar. You have you go back like thirty
Speaker 4: years as to what happened with that program, because nobody
Speaker 4: nobody in their right mind was out there covering them.
Speaker 2: And then next thing, you know, talk.
Speaker 5: About a tenants.
Speaker 9: I think softball I lead in the country in attendance.
Speaker 9: Now I don't know that that was sans per game,
Speaker 9: but I'm talking about this year. I don't know that.
Speaker 5: It's stands per game.
Speaker 9: I think it's total fans, and they've had a bunch
Speaker 9: of home games, but I saw a statistic where they
Speaker 9: would leading the nation in attendant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a different crowd, but it's a fun
Speaker 2: crowd and always enjoyable games that when you're winning and
Speaker 2: you're fifteen and two, guess what they do? They show
Speaker 2: up and the game's last an hour and a half too.
Speaker 5: Yeah SOMETI Well, yeah, that's a really enjoyable I mean,
Speaker 5: now baseball basically baseball is kind of fixed it with
Speaker 5: the pitch clock and everything like that, but it is
Speaker 5: refreshing to watch those softball games.
Speaker 9: They pitched and then they get back in there and
Speaker 9: you know, it's a it's a clean game, it's a
Speaker 9: it's a good product.
Speaker 2: So so I can't remember where you came from, ad Jason,
Speaker 2: did you when you first got here and you're in
Speaker 2: this market did you think that, Okay, I'll be here
Speaker 2: a couple of years and move on to the next road,
Speaker 2: because that's typically what you guys do. But you must
Speaker 2: love Tucson.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I probably thought.
Speaker 5: That was going to happen. You know, it's you know.
Speaker 9: It's very petitive and and and the station's treated me
Speaker 9: well and and so here I am still going until
Speaker 9: be thirteen years in April, so you know, it's uh,
Speaker 9: you know, there's definitely a lot worse places you could be,
Speaker 9: for sure. I mean, you know, Dave stayed it for
Speaker 9: a while, and you know, you got a big twelve
Speaker 9: team here, you know, Packball formerly a big twelve team year,
Speaker 9: and you're you're one hundred miles from Phoenix, and uh,
Speaker 9: you know, there's a lot going on. So it's a
Speaker 9: good place to be. And uh, you know, kay, Gun's
Speaker 9: a good station. So yeah, I stayed.
Speaker 2: That was kind of your situation too, really very much.
Speaker 4: So, I mean I stayed because I was I was
Speaker 4: happy covering what I was covering, too. It was it
Speaker 4: was an easy place to live, and there was a
Speaker 4: lot going on. I think teams good teams to cover,
Speaker 4: you know, Hall of Fame coaches in a lot of
Speaker 4: different sports, and there's a lot two suns of a
Speaker 4: lot going for And again this is you know, a
Speaker 4: while back. So things have changed, and the town's grown
Speaker 4: and there's you know, the university's grown. I wish there
Speaker 4: was a little bit more professional sports. That's a shame
Speaker 4: that we've lost you know, a number of things. But
Speaker 4: you know, in those years, it was it was a
Speaker 4: good a good place to be.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I had an opportunity a few years
Speaker 9: ago and it was like a sports director job, top
Speaker 9: thirty five market or top forty market, and you know.
Speaker 5: What, I looked at the whole situation and I'm like,
Speaker 5: this isn't really better than what I'm doing right now, you.
Speaker 9: Know, And so I kind of took myself out of
Speaker 9: the running of that, and I think I was runner
Speaker 9: up for a couple of big time things. You didn't
Speaker 9: get it, you know, you don't hear about the person
Speaker 9: who doesn't, you know, here about the person.
Speaker 5: Who gets it right. So so yeah, no, I'm still here,
Speaker 5: and frankly, I'm lucky to be here. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 5: look at what happened in Channel four. They laid off
Speaker 5: their sports director. You know, thirteen's down to one guy,
Speaker 5: and you know, it's it's not a you know, it's
Speaker 5: not a great situation at a lot of places because,
Speaker 5: like I was saying before, you don't need the guy
Speaker 5: on the news to get your sports news anymore. So
Speaker 5: that's why we're going to the to the features and
Speaker 5: the storytelling and doing all the creative stuff, you know,
Speaker 5: is to evolve and to stay relevant that way. So
Speaker 5: you know, it's more of a glass half fall situation.
Speaker 2: So in the last two months, I'll give you two
Speaker 2: months time frame here, what have been your top two stories,
Speaker 2: Probably not involving probably anything that we know, because it's
Speaker 2: always something quirky or out of the box.
Speaker 9: We covered Cleo Robinson's final game as a high school referee.
Speaker 5: After forty seven years.
Speaker 2: We had him on. He was fantastic.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so you can get it's on kagun nine dot com.
Speaker 5: And we miked him up for the fourth quarter. We
Speaker 5: miked him up for the fourth quarter and we kind
Speaker 5: of did that story. So that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 9: And the one I'm working on now, which is going
Speaker 9: to air tomorrow, I think we'll be good on Jaden
Speaker 9: Agasy And you know, of course, I think let me
Speaker 9: let me read my script here and what I say it's.
Speaker 5: Something like, oh yeah, it's a question. He's been asked dozens,
Speaker 5: well maybe hundreds of times, but he was nice enough.
Speaker 9: To answer it again today. Why is Jaden Agassy.
Speaker 5: The son of Stebbie Groff and Andre Agacy, a baseball player?
Speaker 9: And I'll tell you what his answer was.
Speaker 5: I won't make you know, uh, I won't.
Speaker 9: The answer is he picked up a tennis racket and
Speaker 9: he tried to hit you know, was a little kid,
Speaker 9: of course, and he tried to hit the ball as
Speaker 9: far as he could instead of keeping it between the lines.
Speaker 5: So he said.
Speaker 9: Baseball is a sport for me. So that that's the answer.
Speaker 9: But then it goes into you know, you know, more
Speaker 9: more in depth than that. But I think that's going
Speaker 9: to run tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I don't want to promise it, just in case things change,
Speaker 5: but but that's kind of a fun one. Yeah.
Speaker 4: His mom has become quite a pickleball player. I understanding
Speaker 4: tickleball now.
Speaker 2: I saw there's a league or something. There's a saw.
Speaker 5: I think both parents are.
Speaker 9: I think I saw Agassy talking about that and I say,
Speaker 9: you know, in tennis, you try to end the point
Speaker 9: as soon as you can. And you know, pickle ball
Speaker 9: is a little different. I I you know, I respect pickleball, and.
Speaker 5: We've done a lot of tickleball stories, but I still
Speaker 5: prefer tennis to get really honest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've said about Augusty, So did you have a
Speaker 2: could you explain why are you doing the story? Because
Speaker 2: I know why you're doing the story, but obviously you
Speaker 2: had a chance to talk to him.
Speaker 9: Because yeah, So he's playing for Germany in the World
Speaker 9: Baseball Classics, in the qualifiers. So the qualifiers coming here
Speaker 9: next week. It's four countries vying for two spots, China, Brazil,
Speaker 9: Columbia and Germany. And restrictions are pretty loose, right, so
Speaker 9: if you just have one parent who's born in a country,
Speaker 9: you can play for that country. So Team Germany called
Speaker 9: him and he said yes. And you know, they've got
Speaker 9: some former Major leaguers on the team and some more
Speaker 9: accomplished players than him, but he's probably their most identifiablele player.
Speaker 9: And so he was here playing against an Irish team
Speaker 9: in kind of like a warm up type of thing
Speaker 9: this past weekend. So we went to Yeah, he did,
Speaker 9: he did. He's not the I don't think he was.
Speaker 9: I don't think he was drafted though, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, Well when you have that name, you can
Speaker 2: get open doors somewhere, So that's good. Good for you, Jason,
Speaker 2: thanks for joining us.
Speaker 9: Yeah, my pleasure, Steven.
Speaker 5: Good to chat with you.
Speaker 9: And we'll see soon.
Speaker 2: We'll see maybe the night. Are you going to the game?
Speaker 5: I'm not. My coworker Erond's covering.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, great, okay, good, We'll see you sometime soon.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Jesso.
Speaker 5: Definitely be at THEASU game.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of course, don't be yelling at Bobby.
Speaker 9: Tell you what imagine if Hurley and Padilla.
Speaker 5: Are there and they get into it to.
Speaker 9: Bage, what that see is going to be like a
Speaker 9: Vicale center.
Speaker 2: You might have to you might have to write about
Speaker 2: do that story.
Speaker 9: Then that's right, right, that's right.
Speaker 2: Thanks Jason, appreciate you guys. All right, take care. Let's
Speaker 2: take a break here, maybe get some time for some calls.
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steam Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to About your Sports sporteen fifty. Steve Rivera,
Speaker 2: your name Silver, You're one. We got about thirteen minutes,
Speaker 2: so we should I just saw that we haven't get baseball.
Speaker 2: Baseball creditis football credentials for the spring practice. When the
Speaker 2: spring practice start of March eighteenth. That's pretty soon. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 2: already three weeks.
Speaker 4: So now they got to find a new defensive coordinator coordinator.
Speaker 2: But we did yesterday briefly that it happened kind of
Speaker 2: in the day. Yeah, yeah, it was kind of like
Speaker 2: overnight or whatever. Yeah, dwinne Keina leaving and he had
Speaker 2: been so all over being back, right, the thrill of
Speaker 2: being back, you know, and all that. But I'm assuming money,
Speaker 2: money talks, money talks, I know what Texas. Mine doesn't
Speaker 2: talk to me, not at all.
Speaker 3: I haven't spoken in twenty two years.
Speaker 2: You'll be the voice for the voiceless.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Money, it's pretty interesting though, I mean, you're right,
Speaker 4: and he because he had such a you know, a
Speaker 4: long history here and then he comes back and they
Speaker 4: made such a big to do when he was here,
Speaker 4: and to go back to Texas again, what did they
Speaker 4: win the national championship when he.
Speaker 2: Was there with May? Was he part of that, Vince
Speaker 2: Young don't.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure exactly, but I know that he was
Speaker 4: on some winning teams with that, with that program.
Speaker 2: And then when Jetfish was he he s out of
Speaker 2: yes to Texas. Yeah, yes, he was part of it.
Speaker 2: He was from and one to twenty thirteen. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was a long run. Yeah. And when Jed left and
Speaker 2: everyone talked about, well, why not just give the job
Speaker 2: to Dwayne. You know he's got that guy. He's more
Speaker 2: of a good assistant. Yeah.
Speaker 4: That has always been his role, right, And in fact,
Speaker 4: there was a point I think when he was here
Speaker 4: years ago, I think he was even an offensive coach
Speaker 4: at one point. Yeah, he flipped from offensive defense and
Speaker 4: back and forth. Yeah, and his kids went to Mountain
Speaker 4: View and played you know, high school football and stuff,
Speaker 4: so they were kind of in the news from that
Speaker 4: generation as well for a few years.
Speaker 2: It was kind of fun for him to come back. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I enjoyed when I covered the team in the
Speaker 2: late eighties, he was part of it, and you could
Speaker 2: see why. Then we talked a lot, obviously, and you
Speaker 2: did two with him, but you can easily see, and
Speaker 2: this is part of my coaching matters that if you
Speaker 2: have a good coach, you play your ass off for them,
Speaker 2: and he was that guy that they played their ass
Speaker 2: off for him. Tough on him, but they played played
Speaker 2: hard for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they had some good teams, had some I mean
Speaker 4: that obviously this last year wasn't great, but a year
Speaker 4: ago that was a pretty good defense. He was you know,
Speaker 4: one of the he was was was a Johnny Nansen
Speaker 4: or I guess that was a couple even further back.
Speaker 4: But you know, they did pretty well, had some good dbs.
Speaker 4: I think to Caario Davis, who unfortunately left to go
Speaker 4: up to Washington, I'm sure he was part of his
Speaker 4: growth and maturity, and there were a few other defensive
Speaker 4: backs Gunner Maldon. I mean the DB's were the stars
Speaker 4: of the Alamobile, right, yep, yep.
Speaker 2: Also, who do you think fills that spot? Yeah? Any idea? No,
Speaker 2: I don't know. But they won't be that dynamic. I
Speaker 2: mean maybe they will, but it's like when you I'll
Speaker 2: never find the girl, You'll never and then you just
Speaker 2: what you find one. You won't find one that's uh
Speaker 2: yelling at you from across the other side of the field.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the old guy that I pissed him off. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you could be chewing gum wrong. He'll call you out
Speaker 2: for it. Right. Well, here's the thing. Do you think
Speaker 2: they'd bring uh oh gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he's got the hunger, if he
Speaker 4: still wants to coach, I mean we have to ask him.
Speaker 2: I would assume, so timing and circumstances and all that, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean the doors open maybe right there
Speaker 2: for him if he wants to. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: Because Ricky settled, I think in his role of you know,
Speaker 2: kind of like being the shake hands kiss babies blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. You know, hello on Ricky. Any one of
Speaker 2: those jobs do you have? Okay? Everybody? That costs? Oh, Dave?
Speaker 17: You men.
Speaker 2: I was a kid and you were doing this show
Speaker 2: and I saw you at the Brick Center and the bus.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 2: They don't say, Steve, a you remember me? This is
Speaker 2: you know what was me? This is what was me? Time?
Speaker 2: Why do you have you here? Dave? Me right now? Man,
Speaker 2: it's spam, just spam. Likely they're not calling the show.
Speaker 2: They're just calling. Yea, we do have a call, though,
Speaker 2: we do. Hello, You're on the air line of the
Speaker 2: ball Who's this? Who's this? Hey?
Speaker 7: Dave?
Speaker 2: Hey, Steve Howard.
Speaker 5: Okay, hey, here's a question for Dave. Does that forty
Speaker 5: four years include like your internships at college or whatever?
Speaker 4: No, my first my first day on the air was
Speaker 4: February fourth, nineteen eighty in TV.
Speaker 9: And then no, you're like, so you're like Jay's.
Speaker 4: Age, right, So then again, if you think about it,
Speaker 4: the only thing that always reminds me is that the
Speaker 4: Miracle on Ice happened like two weeks later, like right,
Speaker 4: it just happened the anniversary we just had it. So
Speaker 4: that was like, oh my gosh and again people ever,
Speaker 4: I don't know if anybody listening remembers, but you know,
Speaker 4: the game was not on live. It was tape delay
Speaker 4: and it was on ABC with Al Michaels, of course,
Speaker 4: But that was kind of how I look at my career, like,
Speaker 4: oh wow, I was just getting started just as that
Speaker 4: thing happened.
Speaker 2: That's kind of a cool way. When I was eighty
Speaker 2: four and the boycott of the Olympics. Olympics, Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was discordy strange what I.
Speaker 5: Got forty four years in, like Dave, but I didn't
Speaker 5: only grind it for like thirty eight when you're the
Speaker 5: boss is done on the construction site and besides playing
Speaker 5: doing construction like mad and I just I did too
Speaker 5: much just to break my body. I played basketball, Danny Ross,
Speaker 5: you know, like twenty years ago and fifteen and twenty
Speaker 5: three years ago at you'd all. So when you're in
Speaker 5: construction and then you're playing basketball too, that's quite a beating.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you that Dave asked you this
Speaker 2: question because he asked it earlier and you might be
Speaker 2: able to answer it. Don't go too long with it.
Speaker 2: You asked about the sounds. You asked what the Suns.
Speaker 9: Okay, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5: It was great last night.
Speaker 2: Wait wait wait wait, So they have these three guys,
Speaker 2: why and why are they so just?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you think with the nucleus like that,
Speaker 4: there'd be a little bit more success, and they've been.
Speaker 9: There's gonna be.
Speaker 5: You still, it's a five man team, right, and there's
Speaker 5: more to it than that. And then that bull has
Speaker 5: he got rid of nerd chic. But Ball was coming
Speaker 5: to his own. All of us on Facebook or acts ever,
Speaker 5: were saying, why is it he playing Bowl? I mean
Speaker 5: he's young, and you take a young Any.
Speaker 9: Center needs to have more seasoning, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: They're not gonna unless you're around natural like yo kick
Speaker 5: the best player in the world. You need until you
Speaker 5: get really good.
Speaker 9: If you're not just like.
Speaker 5: An Anthony Davis, you know, a prodigy, it takes them
Speaker 5: a good amount of time to think about it. Bo
Speaker 5: Bowl was only in college for what one year?
Speaker 9: And he was injured?
Speaker 5: If that right, Steve, yep, And so he's only like
Speaker 5: twenty four.
Speaker 9: He is really good.
Speaker 5: The Sons had four players at twenty points and then
Speaker 5: they got the fifth, and who do you think the
Speaker 5: fifth was? Durant. Four people had twenty points before Durant. Wow,
Speaker 5: and and and and then Booker fouled out and Bobol
Speaker 5: had twenty and it's like it was a great game,
Speaker 5: even though he came up short. It was we just
Speaker 5: played fantastic.
Speaker 2: You may be you know, you may be the only
Speaker 2: one or two people I know in Tucson pix Suns fan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'm the biggest Suns fan. And not only
Speaker 5: the biggest, because you know, I had a record. I
Speaker 5: don't until Dave's gonna learn this from the time they
Speaker 5: went they left the McDowell matt House to McDowell till
Speaker 5: they're the new Digs. I had a streak and I'm
Speaker 5: not rich. Twenty two to twenty three years in a row,
Speaker 5: I went to at least one Son's game in person.
Speaker 5: So your other person, you know, has no record like that.
Speaker 5: And I broke it when they obviously played crappy in
Speaker 5: Booker's first few years and again now I'm going to
Speaker 5: start another one. But but I'm I'm worried.
Speaker 9: About getting in the hot water. Two years in a row.
Speaker 5: I got going now and I want to go this year.
Speaker 5: But you know, they're they're still good. I think they're
Speaker 5: going to get it together in the year, but you know,
Speaker 5: it's they're too far in a hole.
Speaker 4: I mean a lot of us kind of you forget
Speaker 4: that they were the only game in town in the
Speaker 4: valley for forever really until the cars showed.
Speaker 2: Up, you know.
Speaker 5: And yeah, yeah, the Diamondbacks are good. But I always
Speaker 5: said when they won their twenty twenty, they mortgage their
Speaker 5: future twenty five years. I don't care if they made
Speaker 5: the World Series a year or two ago. They ain't
Speaker 5: kind of getting near there again for another ten or
Speaker 5: fifteen years because you're just not good enough with the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers, you know, they they'd just hire everybody, they
Speaker 5: get everybody good.
Speaker 2: Yankees.
Speaker 5: You know, my Cubs will get there way before them.
Speaker 9: And I don't think the Cubs are getting there for
Speaker 9: ten years.
Speaker 4: Let's Diamondbacks are now, you know, talking about their stadium issues.
Speaker 4: I mean the place was built obviously when they you know,
Speaker 4: when they cut it downtown.
Speaker 9: Ninety two, it was ninety two, ninety eight, No, the.
Speaker 4: Diamondbacks was ninety oh yeah, yeah, yeah, ninth nine, yeah,
Speaker 4: ninety eight nine.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So they're you know, they're already talking about you know,
Speaker 4: some stadium problems.
Speaker 2: Moving that three years ago. Yeah, resolutions knows how that's
Speaker 2: gonna play it, Frank.
Speaker 9: And they're trying to trade the Cardinals.
Speaker 5: They're trying to trade the jockey.
Speaker 9: That's my good friend.
Speaker 5: We call Kyler Murray the jockey, you know, because you're short.
Speaker 5: We call him the jockey.
Speaker 9: And he had season tickets.
Speaker 5: Until the jockey's gone.
Speaker 9: He's not getting them again.
Speaker 2: Howard, if you have to explain the joke, it's not
Speaker 2: a joke anymore. Thank you, bye bye, We'll see you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, good call. Thanks to hours for calling.
Speaker 2: Always appreciate you. What the Cardinals? What I don't? Cardinals
Speaker 2: have the draft coming up? You know, something looking forward to?
Speaker 2: So yesterday, who's surprised the hecad of me? I guess, uh?
Speaker 2: Kiper has a team a going twenty second. I thought
Speaker 2: he was like a top five. It depends on really
Speaker 2: is that low?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what shocked me, huh, because I saw one
Speaker 4: where he was sixth, like to the Raiders, the.
Speaker 2: Raiders right, something right, right, and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: he's the twenty second.
Speaker 4: I guess a lot of it really, Honestly, when you
Speaker 4: think about it. I mean, they're the ones that are
Speaker 4: looking at really closely. He's been like, what do these
Speaker 4: teams really need? Did you need a receiver to some
Speaker 4: of these teams even need you know, something like that
Speaker 4: that they got to pay a fortune to.
Speaker 2: Or are you verifying me? My sorcers? I can.
Speaker 3: I was looking as we were talking about the Cardinals. Uh,
Speaker 3: that the nfl PA grades came out. The Cardinals were
Speaker 3: dead last in grades. What's Pete Player Association? Oh, in
Speaker 3: terms of what facilities?
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. I'm getting the whole, the whole. They're cheap.
Speaker 2: I think they're cheap, aren't They were known for being cheap,
Speaker 2: and they're notorious. Are being sued too, I think at
Speaker 2: for whatever reason. Yeah, I'm not sure. Let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and see if we can find I could be wrong.
Speaker 2: I apologize. Oh yeah, number sixteen in the first round.
Speaker 2: They're here too. If the Cardinals have that's okay. I
Speaker 2: was thinking about that.
Speaker 4: Pics for a second every round actually number sixteen overall,
Speaker 4: so they.
Speaker 2: Can Yeah, we'll see. You know, I use a Cardinal FA.
Speaker 4: No, I mean only because they're on, but nowadays you
Speaker 4: can I don't know, just everybody's on.
Speaker 2: Sure, Yeah, how do you watch a game? I usually
Speaker 2: do red Zone. That's all I do. Honestly, that's all
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 4: I mean I almost forget that the games are even on,
Speaker 4: and that's why I'll look, oh, that game's on Locally,
Speaker 4: I don't know, it just depends, but usually the red zone.
Speaker 2: That's why one of the reasons why I have a
Speaker 2: d D because you have all these games and move
Speaker 2: them every two seconds. Yeah, you know the ticker, you know,
Speaker 2: that's why everybody does. I mean, you have the flashing
Speaker 2: lights and the please enough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there were times I don't know about
Speaker 4: what the work environment was like at the paper, but
Speaker 4: in TV you really sometimes had to be doing like
Speaker 4: three or four things at the same time, whether it's
Speaker 4: recording a game or writing a story or you know,
Speaker 4: doing a phone call. I mean sometimes that's kind of
Speaker 4: how your day goes. And as I got away from
Speaker 4: the business, that's sort of the same thing.
Speaker 2: Watching games.
Speaker 4: You're also you know, playing with your laptops or whatever
Speaker 4: during the game.
Speaker 2: I'm the same way. Everybody knows groomed that way, except
Speaker 2: not on Twitter. You are still on Twitter because of
Speaker 2: that x X formerly known as Twitter, anybody call, we
Speaker 2: know we've got to you got no more time? Right
Speaker 2: about a minute? About a minute? No, No, have fun
Speaker 2: at the game. Good luck. Hopefully the fans are good.
Speaker 2: They'll be good. You know they'll be good. Do you
Speaker 2: think they'll be bring back story. I don't think it'll
Speaker 2: be full. No, not at all. No, No, I'm talking
Speaker 2: about the I think both could you could be right.
Speaker 2: You could be right because it's a game. Hey, there's
Speaker 2: only a couple of more ago. Were you there for
Speaker 2: b wait that was not so it was not full?
Speaker 2: It was and the Houston game was not full. No,
Speaker 2: some sketch. Were you there for that one?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Upper deck? Right, We talked about that.
Speaker 3: It's disappointing from a student's standpoint that that thing should
Speaker 3: never be not filled.
Speaker 7: Hmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, like if you're like looking for a ticket
Speaker 4: like this afternoon, those tickets are available up in those
Speaker 4: bar reaches in the corner.
Speaker 2: And once you see people outside saying hey ticket really, yeah,
Speaker 2: they still do that. Did you do a story? You
Speaker 2: did a story about that last year. When I see
Speaker 2: you talking to the fans outside.
Speaker 3: It was the beginning of the season, just talking to
Speaker 3: I talked to them about the dynamic of oh women's
Speaker 3: playing that day to start the season.
Speaker 2: Expectation they did it again, not read long. I think
Speaker 2: I think they got a double header. Yeah, the double
Speaker 2: they had. No, they had one, uh noon and then
Speaker 2: six or whatever.
Speaker 5: Time.
Speaker 4: You give a quick shout out to the w b
Speaker 4: C the Baseball Classic. I'll be out there doing public address,
Speaker 4: which I've never really done. So it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 4: Your voice of Dave Silver inside Keno Stadiums. So that's
Speaker 4: got coming out names. I'm practicing, are you? I got
Speaker 4: the names last night? Looked at him just what did
Speaker 4: I do myself? I've got China, we got we got China.
Speaker 4: We got Brazil and Colombia and Germany. So it's going
Speaker 4: to be an interesting collection of of attempts. It's some names,
Speaker 4: so be be patient people, if you're listening.
Speaker 2: Thanks everybody.
Speaker 5: Thanks