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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Roverra on Fox sportsporteen fifty.
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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Roberta.
Speaker 4: You're Blake Eager from Southern Areas on the Sports Tourism
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Speaker 3: Okay, that's easy. Hey, yeah, do you have any breaking news?
Speaker 3: I did to ask you you do?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got some stuff here, So do it? Cheat up, baby,
Speaker 5: I can get the or no breaking news sound today?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: Cool, there you go, Cody, go ahead kick it on Sunday.
Speaker 5: The Chiefs defeat of the Bills thirty two twenty.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not breaking news for that. Did you guys
Speaker 3: talk about it yesterday? Did I miss it? No? But
Speaker 3: you want to go ahead? No? No, No, It's just
Speaker 3: it's a.
Speaker 4: Were you pulling for anybody? I I'm yeah, I pulled
Speaker 4: for the Bills. I love that one, just from the
Speaker 4: fans standpoint. I think those fans deserve it. But uh,
Speaker 4: that was that was a good well played game. I
Speaker 4: just I bet him not a whole lot. I think
Speaker 4: that Casey has been on the tight rope, yeah, all
Speaker 4: all year, but they find a way to win. And
Speaker 4: it's unbelievable how they stay on that damn typro. It's
Speaker 4: gonna be the You're gonna I'm gonna get crucified for
Speaker 4: saying this. It's the least talented Chiefs team, but arguably
Speaker 4: maybe the best Chiefs team because because they were able
Speaker 4: to get out of they know how to win, like,
Speaker 4: no matter what, they have such a small margin for
Speaker 4: defeat that you had to find a way to beat them.
Speaker 3: And nobody has the secret code. Yeah, the secret code.
Speaker 3: Find a way? Is it because of one dude? I
Speaker 3: mean mahomes is Mahomes right, he's Moodini. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then Kelsey finds a way, even at his age
Speaker 4: at this point to do what he does.
Speaker 3: He's the rabbit.
Speaker 4: And then you've got Worthy. That's like, if you can
Speaker 4: get him the ball and you give him any space,
Speaker 4: he's gone. But I mean their best receivers hurt. He's
Speaker 4: out for the season. Right, You're you're running backs out
Speaker 4: for the season. You've got ream Hunt in there. You
Speaker 4: don't have to check o anymore. It's just it's wild
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you, guys, because they've been so
Speaker 2: successful over the years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not just last two, over the years. Uh.
Speaker 2: And I'm asking you because you're a coach and formal player, Uh,
Speaker 2: because you want so much? Is it just because that's
Speaker 2: just you know, you know, it's programmed to you knowing
Speaker 2: how to win.
Speaker 3: It's second nature. You know.
Speaker 4: There's no anxiety factor. I mean you still get butterflies
Speaker 4: before the game. There's no anxiety factor, right, There's no
Speaker 4: an oh poop moment, there's no sped up of the game.
Speaker 4: They're just like, Okay, this happened, Now we're gonna do this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Motor, it's like just what do you call it? Motor
Speaker 2: with the repetitive emotions. Muscle memory, muscle memory.
Speaker 3: That's it. That's it. That's team Mark.
Speaker 5: Dallas Cowboys have named former Bears head coach Matt Eberflus
Speaker 5: as their new defensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: I mean, what do you want me to say here?
Speaker 3: It's a it's a it's it's a Cowboys. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not a Cowboys fan, but it's just it's I
Speaker 4: don't understand that franchise it's like we talk about I
Speaker 4: know you don't watch soccer, but it's like, man, you
Speaker 4: these these groups that have more money than God and
Speaker 4: the way they spend it and the way they go
Speaker 4: about their business and how they can't put a productive
Speaker 4: product on the field.
Speaker 3: I'll give you the answer. It's the boss. It's the boss. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I used to be a cowboy fan that came from
Speaker 2: Dallas here a long time ago. I stopped being a
Speaker 2: cowboy fan a long time ago. Got tired of being miserable.
Speaker 2: And he's the reason why. I mean, he hired a
Speaker 2: coach from in house. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I said this, I don't know. If you've been on
Speaker 3: the show, it's this a thousand times. You don't hire this.
Speaker 2: You do not hire the substitute teacher, because you just
Speaker 2: move them up. They still treat them the same, and
Speaker 2: the substitute teacher, they're not going to treat them any different.
Speaker 4: Okay, But what's what's better, retread and higher or in
Speaker 4: house higher?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 4: Question depends who that retread hire is. Well, McCarthy wasn't
Speaker 4: the right guy. No, I would have even taken Dion. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think just for something different. He knows I mean
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, anyway, arguably the greatest two sport athletes
Speaker 4: of all time.
Speaker 3: I mean, you Bo Jackson, but the Cowboys get what
Speaker 3: they get for a reason. Good luck that. Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right.
Speaker 5: Gilbert Arena's son, five star guard Elijah Renas, includes Arizona
Speaker 5: in his top five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone's there was one five star last night. I
Speaker 2: don't think he was the guy. Did they say who
Speaker 2: the guy was? Not a co Opete?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Brandon Burrows and co O Pete were named All Americans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the game last night. The game.
Speaker 2: You know, we're trying to figure out who was up
Speaker 2: the game last night. There was one of them.
Speaker 4: I mean, if Tommy pulls out a miracle and gets
Speaker 4: Copete and Arenas next year, I think you've got a
Speaker 4: lot returning from.
Speaker 3: This this club. Don't don't jinx it.
Speaker 4: No no, no, I mean I no, no, I don't mean
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about transferportal, Take transferporter out of it.
Speaker 4: I just mean NBA wise, you're gonna lose Love obviously, right,
Speaker 4: and I think there's still a chance depending on the tournament.
Speaker 4: How Brian does that you lose Brian? Right, But other
Speaker 4: than that, in Townsend.
Speaker 2: KJR, Brian Cage kJ He hasn't had the year.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, to be deserved.
Speaker 4: He's a great listen, he's a great tool to have
Speaker 4: in your two tool belt. But he doesn't have a
Speaker 4: perimeter shot yet that I think pushes in this really strange.
Speaker 4: How that's kind of lost? Yeah, got lost.
Speaker 5: Arizona softball ranked a unanimous top twenty five team by
Speaker 5: NFCA preseason polls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're going to have a pretty good year, no
Speaker 3: question they should. I mean yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: University of Arizona's alumni Andre Guodala will have his number
Speaker 5: nine jersey retired by the Warriors February twenty third, twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five.
Speaker 3: He's the first of the group of the recent guys. Yeah.
Speaker 3: How many?
Speaker 4: How many uf A guys have their numbers retired? NBA
Speaker 4: numbers retired?
Speaker 3: Good quit? Do you know the Elliott in San Antoni? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 3: does he I don't know if he does, I'm asking
Speaker 3: this question. I don't know. I think he was pretty
Speaker 3: confident about that. I think he might. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I should know this, and I don't know this.
Speaker 4: And then Iguadaladal, Yeah, I think that might be two
Speaker 4: anybody who knows different, let us know.
Speaker 3: We can always google it. Yeah. But yeah, yeah, after
Speaker 3: he had his uh, after he had his operation. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he wasn't the same. He wasn't the same, but he
Speaker 3: but they could have honored it later, just sort of
Speaker 3: respect for him. I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's a good question. That's a good question, Damon. Probably
Speaker 2: not because he was Toronto.
Speaker 3: No baby in Sacramento. No, no, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 5: Brian Belichick, Bill Belichick's youngest son, is leaving the Patriots
Speaker 5: after serving as a safety's coach. Reports that he'll likely
Speaker 5: join Bill at You wouldn't see.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's I mean, that's not crazy, right,
Speaker 4: there's probably expectation his.
Speaker 3: Other son who's with Fish left there to go.
Speaker 4: With him to Do you think what's your expectations of
Speaker 4: belichick first year at n C.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think it's going to be great.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know what to expect. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I think he's gonna find himself in a
Speaker 3: situation where it's gonna be tougher than he thought. It's
Speaker 3: North Carolina, it's like Arizona football. Honestly, Yeah, I'm the same. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's a good How do you kind of cage it? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's it for today's breaking news.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm glad you got Andre because I was gonna
Speaker 2: put that in there as well.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what else is going on, Oh for him.
Speaker 3: We have time for any calls and if anybody wants
Speaker 3: to call, we got about ten minutes. Yeah, what's eight
Speaker 3: minutes at the fifteen seventeen mark. We're going to have
Speaker 3: Michael lev get his impression. He sat next to me
Speaker 3: last night and see what he wrote today, his five observations.
Speaker 3: He was asking some good questions, so probably towards his
Speaker 3: column toward today. One of the things that you talked
Speaker 3: about and we talked about with Kelvin.
Speaker 2: This team was I thought it was very admirable in
Speaker 2: that they didn't wilt. They didn't wilt, and you talked
Speaker 2: about how defense.
Speaker 3: It was funny.
Speaker 2: Did you see it was like a football game between
Speaker 2: the twenties. Yeah, in the first fifteen minutes they didn't
Speaker 2: go to the basket, didn't It was at the free
Speaker 2: throw line. It stopped back and forth, handled the ball.
Speaker 2: It was a basketball game on skates.
Speaker 4: We to Love's credit, and I know we talked about
Speaker 4: it earlier, about the game that he had prior to
Speaker 4: hitting that half court shot. I mean needed somebody to
Speaker 4: have basket early on just to kind of break the
Speaker 4: eyes for us, and he did that. So I mean,
Speaker 4: because you're playing that defensive, I mean, everybody's confidence, everybody's
Speaker 4: playing so tight that you just need somebody to say, listen,
Speaker 4: like we can hit some hard shots.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, he talked about the guy who kind of did
Speaker 2: not make an impact. Two guys maybe Henry, you know nothing,
Speaker 2: but dil also to.
Speaker 4: Him, he's he got pushed around and I don't think
Speaker 4: he's used to. He also looks like he's I know,
Speaker 4: the one sequence where he had to bring the ball up,
Speaker 4: you could see the fear in his eyes trying to
Speaker 4: handle the ball there. Just because of the defensive pressure
Speaker 4: and the way they play. It's surprising with Henry, and
Speaker 4: it was a little surprising to me the way a
Speaker 4: Waka played that Waka wasn't in the game more in
Speaker 4: the second half, especially down the stretch. I know he's
Speaker 4: playing in three fouls, but I mean Waka again, it
Speaker 4: was unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Last Yeah, it's funny because you saw how well Bryant played, right,
Speaker 3: And I'm thinking, I don't know if everybody else is
Speaker 3: thinking this, put him back here, put him in, don't
Speaker 3: take him out. Yeah, you got to keep him on
Speaker 3: the floor.
Speaker 6: But he did.
Speaker 2: He played twenty seven. I don't remember the box scoring
Speaker 2: on the top of my head, but you're thinking, what
Speaker 2: the hell is he not playing him for more? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he's not. You don't have to start him. You
Speaker 2: don't have to do all these things because he's got
Speaker 2: that cemetery going.
Speaker 3: But okay, the clock, start, first possession, get out, put
Speaker 3: Brian in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, and that I mean, that's a big thing
Speaker 4: with his team is you know, it's maybe more frustrating
Speaker 4: from a fan experience because it's not all times you
Speaker 4: ride that hot hand. It's just confusing because you're like,
Speaker 4: this guy's hot, like right, write him right? I mean
Speaker 4: Bryant last night, fine, fine.
Speaker 3: Looks for him. He's good. What side of the basket
Speaker 3: were you on? I was on. I am on visitor side.
Speaker 2: The visitors side, Okay, so I'm on that same side.
Speaker 2: The goaltending was on that side.
Speaker 3: I can. Yeah.
Speaker 4: That was a pushtable. Yeah I thought so. And then
Speaker 4: you saw the review of it. It's still to my
Speaker 4: mind question. Well, yeah, I mean that is another piece
Speaker 4: of Brian AD's that was up there too. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: rim protection too that was up there. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 4: saw it. It could have gone either way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was exciting in the mess.
Speaker 2: It was it was it was, oh, you know what
Speaker 2: I didn't write in the story that I why you know,
Speaker 2: I'm like a D D H whatever. Just there's so
Speaker 2: many story about you know what. Uh Love's second bit
Speaker 2: shot was in my mind that dog Oh yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 2: What that And he doesn't have a huge vertical either,
Speaker 2: but he just comes, he comes in and he goes
Speaker 2: for it. That was, I mean, the one area of
Speaker 2: contention that we haven't talked about all today, which is
Speaker 2: kind of crazy about Bradley having seven steals. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, when's the last time we had a guard
Speaker 2: with seven steels?
Speaker 3: And I can't even tell you what because there was
Speaker 3: like just how he just happened?
Speaker 4: It was Yeah, I thought a couple of them were Kj's,
Speaker 4: but they went down as Bradley's. But I mean having
Speaker 4: kJ and him in that backcourt in the second half
Speaker 4: was was special.
Speaker 3: Know what a what a there's so many things that
Speaker 3: the sixteen to zero run, the runs in the second half,
Speaker 3: the fourteen to five, did they outscore in fourteen to six,
Speaker 3: fourteen six in the second, in the overtime?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the threes that he hit back to back, and yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why I asked him. I says, you haven't listen
Speaker 2: to press conferences. So I said, uh, Caleb, how does
Speaker 2: a guy go from miss miss miss or you know,
Speaker 2: miss missmiss to not miss or you know whatever?
Speaker 3: I just should I just shoot. I'm just I believe
Speaker 3: in myself. It was a silly question.
Speaker 2: That's just It's like, once I hit her, you know,
Speaker 2: how do you not hit three hundred? You hit three
Speaker 2: hundred and three seventy five, and all of a suden
Speaker 2: don't hit three seventy five.
Speaker 3: I get it. I just had to ask the question.
Speaker 4: Now, players love those questions. I'm shaking my head right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, we don't love those questions. I know, think
Speaker 3: about us. We as writers, you've got to ask. We
Speaker 3: got to ask him because we need to write what happens.
Speaker 3: You know. We had to get into your mind.
Speaker 4: Do you go into those press conferences with like yes?
Speaker 4: Someone of an optional subscript Oh.
Speaker 3: I already in my head. I already know what I'm
Speaker 3: gonna write. Anything written down, you just go do it.
Speaker 2: Just because you got to see the flow last night. Well,
Speaker 2: I asked this because it's gonna be part of my story.
Speaker 2: I didn't ask the question, but I'm gonna get the
Speaker 2: story and get the answer. My next story is going
Speaker 2: to be on the waka. The dude's a big dude, right,
Speaker 2: so to me, he's carrying this team in a physical
Speaker 2: mental kind of way.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: I wonder how big he is, like his broad shoulders
Speaker 2: and so I want to describe because he's doing a lot.
Speaker 2: I didn't ask that question in terms of how broad
Speaker 2: are your shoulders and how much weight can you bench?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he reminds me a little bit of Eugene on
Speaker 3: the floor. Oh we were talking about Yeah, we compared that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's got a little bit more of a
Speaker 4: f you mentality than most a waka right now. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like get out of my way on rebounding.
Speaker 2: The funny thing about it, you look at him, like
Speaker 2: sitting next he's.
Speaker 3: Just a dude. Yeah, but he's just a he's at
Speaker 3: a little bit right geral giant.
Speaker 4: So Steve, I've got to ask you, So, how long
Speaker 4: did it take you to get to the point where
Speaker 4: you felt comfortable in these scenarios? Like you go into
Speaker 4: it because we've talked about this. You don't want to
Speaker 4: talk about stuff off air. You want to talk about
Speaker 4: it on here, which I think is genius, right because
Speaker 4: it's fresh. But when you go into a press conference
Speaker 4: having those questions, how long did it take you? You get
Speaker 4: to point where you're like, Okay, I don't need to
Speaker 4: write any of this stuff down. I've got it down,
Speaker 4: Like because we had a rule, you know, minor leagues,
Speaker 4: it's a thousand at bats, you know, a thousand hours
Speaker 4: all those things for journalists like yourself, Like was it
Speaker 4: over a course of like two to three years or
Speaker 4: did it take you like.
Speaker 2: Ten to fifteen, ten to fifteen, Probably yeah, because I
Speaker 2: have notes and I did to transcribe, but I kind
Speaker 2: of already know how my story is going to construct
Speaker 2: it and what quotes are going to be put where,
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah, and I try to come up
Speaker 2: with funny lines hopefully to clever, you know, move the
Speaker 2: story along, and that's how we put it together.
Speaker 3: But it's it's doesn't come easy. You know.
Speaker 2: I mean Today's was a little struggle for me because
Speaker 2: I wanted to put I said, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: make this. I can't compete with that game. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I can't. I'm not I'm not going to do it justice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I kind of came up with a different type
Speaker 2: of thing. Did you read my story, Teapa? You did?
Speaker 2: He scored two four hundred and thirty seven points and
Speaker 2: those three are the most important in his.
Speaker 3: Career or I mean he was enjoyable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's how I That's how I set it
Speaker 2: up because he's played a lot of.
Speaker 3: Games and a lot of points and those three are
Speaker 3: that big to him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think we should feel special as a
Speaker 4: fan base that not only somebody with that caliber of
Speaker 4: a career has done what he did, but to say
Speaker 4: it at that time and to be there in that moment,
Speaker 4: if you were there, like you go back home and
Speaker 4: you check that off, like as a sporting event alone
Speaker 4: right there. I was telling my wife this. I've been
Speaker 4: to obviously, played in a lot of games, coach a
Speaker 4: lot of games. I've gone to a lot of games.
Speaker 4: That's in my top five. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 3: Games I'm with you. I'm with you.
Speaker 2: We gotta go, Yeah, we gotta go. Get a hold
Speaker 2: of Michael lev and come back.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the utsson os. This is I on
Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody, do I'm Steve Riverta, your Blake Eager.
Speaker 2: Now on the phone, we have Michael led from the
Speaker 2: Arizona Daily Star. Michael, did you get some sleep?
Speaker 15: I did?
Speaker 16: I got enough?
Speaker 15: I was.
Speaker 6: It was definitely hard to wind down. Yeah, after last night.
Speaker 6: I mean that was really uh something else. I'm not
Speaker 6: sure I've been in the building for something quite like
Speaker 6: that before.
Speaker 16: So yeah, enough to get the job done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you write after or did you write and
Speaker 2: you sleep and then write in the morning.
Speaker 16: A little bit of both.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I definitely had some thoughts that I had to get
Speaker 6: out there, but then I started to get pretty tired
Speaker 6: around one forty five, So yeah, you know, got up
Speaker 6: right on time this morning and got right back at
Speaker 6: it and was able to punch something out.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No one talks about the job of those hours, right,
Speaker 3: But but for those those of us who don't have
Speaker 3: subscriptions and all that, where were your your your five
Speaker 3: key points or give us a few of them.
Speaker 6: Well, I wrote a singular narrative this time for a change.
Speaker 6: I even name dropped Steve Rivera in there, hoping that
Speaker 6: maybe that would inspire Steve.
Speaker 16: Gone for a sub.
Speaker 6: Anyway, I mean, a couple of things stood out to me,
Speaker 6: and I mentioned them in the piece.
Speaker 16: One was that, like we kept hearing about how awesome.
Speaker 6: The Big twelve was going to be, and I feel
Speaker 6: like last night was really the first time that we
Speaker 6: experienced that awesomeness. I mean, it was incredibly intense, incredibly physical,
Speaker 6: dramatic back and forth, like classic like heavyweight fight with
Speaker 6: the two sides just trading haymakers throughout. So that was
Speaker 6: you know, that was that was one thing that that
Speaker 6: stood out. It was kind of my main theme. But
Speaker 6: secondarily that it kind of brought out the best in
Speaker 6: the Wildcats, you know, I mean, they were up to
Speaker 6: the challenge. They matched Iowa's states intensity, they matched Iowa
Speaker 6: States physicality, and they were able to pull out a win.
Speaker 6: And I highlighted, you know, some of the main players
Speaker 6: in that after Tobya Waka being one of them, kJ
Speaker 6: Lewis being another, and then of course the.
Speaker 16: Role that Caleb Love ultimately played in that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question, In fact, when Tommy was, you know,
Speaker 2: five minutes into his into his post game, and you know,
Speaker 2: you know how he talks. He talks fast, he talks funny,
Speaker 2: talks so serious. He talks in curse words, which is fantastic.
Speaker 2: I texted Nate, please don't send him to a media coach.
Speaker 2: We need him like this because he's so brilliant, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure he gives you enough stuff to kind of
Speaker 2: be clever with what you're doing.
Speaker 6: It's really not There aren't that many coaches that like
Speaker 6: genuinely can elicit laughter, you know, from the media.
Speaker 3: Before this, there's.
Speaker 6: Always that kind of like that fake laugh, you know,
Speaker 6: just because we're trying to be.
Speaker 3: Nice, right right.
Speaker 16: Can he can really nail some lines after a game.
Speaker 6: I think he's he's smart, He's got good perspective on things.
Speaker 6: He you know, tries not to get too carried away
Speaker 6: in any given moment that can bother people sometimes, you know,
Speaker 6: when he's like he appears to be somewhat nonchalant about things,
Speaker 6: but I also get the feeling that he genuinely cares.
Speaker 16: For his players, And I think that.
Speaker 6: The most important thing you can be as a coach,
Speaker 6: especially in college. It's probably true in the pros as well.
Speaker 6: Is just to be your authentic self, because if you're not,
Speaker 6: people will see through that. And I feel like he's
Speaker 6: always how he is, you know, it was it was
Speaker 6: surprising after that one game, I think it was, I
Speaker 6: can't remember which game it was, when he was kind
Speaker 6: of mad.
Speaker 16: Yeah, but but he was, you know, he was, he
Speaker 16: was being honest.
Speaker 6: He's had a little bit of a purpose there, putting
Speaker 6: push some motivational buttons, which is right, which is totally
Speaker 6: fine and a smart thing to do for a coach.
Speaker 16: But yeah, I really like Tommy.
Speaker 6: I like the vibe that he has, the energy that
Speaker 6: he has, and it seems like a lot of really
Speaker 6: good players like that too.
Speaker 3: Hey Michael, it's Blake here. Hi, how are you.
Speaker 16: I'm good, Blake good, Hey going on.
Speaker 3: I'm just you know, just try and take it all in.
Speaker 3: This is amazing that we're all here.
Speaker 4: And after the game last night was I mean, listen,
Speaker 4: going to that game, I think I was hung over
Speaker 4: just from the excitement factor.
Speaker 3: My voice was pretty sore this morning.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised you guys were really able to get your
Speaker 4: job done and and stay up that late. I was
Speaker 4: asking Cody if he went out after the game. But
Speaker 4: he's like, no, I actually went to bed. I was like,
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, for you age kid that's at
Speaker 4: that game to go to bed afterwards, good for you
Speaker 4: that that definitely was not me, you know.
Speaker 2: Michael, I don't know if you you observe these two
Speaker 2: guys and you you've seen the f bombs from the
Speaker 2: They've been pretty cordial. They've been pretty behaved. And last
Speaker 2: night they were there, they were in droves. They looked
Speaker 2: good and didn't didn't act obnoxious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with you.
Speaker 16: Try about the Zona Zoo.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it was interesting, Like I would, you know,
Speaker 6: we sit right next to them where where we.
Speaker 16: Are in the building. They're in the corner, and they
Speaker 16: were you know, pretty just kind of calm and chilling
Speaker 16: and hanging out like before the game.
Speaker 6: Now, when I was a canvas earlier this season, they
Speaker 6: were doing they had stuff going on pre game, you know,
Speaker 6: like I don't know if they were just like working
Speaker 6: out their routine.
Speaker 16: They did.
Speaker 6: Certain songs would play over the you know, over the
Speaker 6: PA system, Like so I was like, are they really.
Speaker 16: Into this big twelve thing? Maybe they're not.
Speaker 6: But as soon as we got to the pregame introductions.
Speaker 6: I mean, they came to life, and I thought they
Speaker 6: were really into it, enthusiastic, loud, all of the things
Speaker 6: that you want and need.
Speaker 16: I thought the whole crowd was really good.
Speaker 6: There was a smattering of Iowa State fans where a
Speaker 6: lot of them were near us and we could hear them,
Speaker 6: which is fine that it just adds to the atmosphere
Speaker 6: that much more.
Speaker 16: I thought the whole thing was great, and people also.
Speaker 6: Participated in a whiteout, which made the visuals really cool.
Speaker 6: And then of course, you know, Caleb Love hits a
Speaker 6: half court shot at the buzzer and it was just
Speaker 6: complete pandemonium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, I mean it was amazing.
Speaker 4: I was telling Steve earlier he hit that shot and
Speaker 4: I grabbed some random guy in front of me to
Speaker 4: start shaking him around, and it's probably not the best
Speaker 4: thing you can do in that scenario when I apologize
Speaker 4: him afterwards, But honestly, I don't remember that kind of
Speaker 4: excitement in one specific moment at Uvane so long that
Speaker 4: it was just nice to kind of like emote the
Speaker 4: season so far.
Speaker 2: Michael did the same thing to me, grab me, Mike
Speaker 2: Live did that.
Speaker 6: I mean look, that was one of those moments where
Speaker 6: you're probably hugging strangers around you.
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, I would.
Speaker 6: You know, it's similar I cover you of a baseball
Speaker 6: as you guys know, and I mean they had I
Speaker 6: think eight walkoffs last year or so, you know, similar
Speaker 6: to a degree the feeling.
Speaker 16: But you know, none of those games.
Speaker 6: Has would have fourteen thousand people independence, you know, and
Speaker 6: not often does that happen, and really less often does
Speaker 6: it happen in a situation like this where you're trying
Speaker 6: to knock off the number three team in the country
Speaker 6: coaching tom Me and the game wasn't over either, which
Speaker 6: is you know, it was sort of hard to forget
Speaker 6: in the moment the way everybody was reacting and how
Speaker 6: excited everyone.
Speaker 16: Was and people were coming out of the court and
Speaker 16: all that stuff.
Speaker 6: But I'm glad they were able to regroup afterward and
Speaker 6: you realize that, hey, we still have five more minutes
Speaker 6: to play.
Speaker 4: I did think for a second they were going to
Speaker 4: try to storm the court, because they all the students
Speaker 4: started going down, and I was like, oh, they're for
Speaker 4: sure going to storm the court and hopeing nobody gets hurt,
Speaker 4: which is a good thing. Yeah, you want that kind
Speaker 4: of excitement, right, You just want to make sure that
Speaker 4: this is a long season.
Speaker 3: Don't hurting plays. There's a fine. I don't know what
Speaker 3: the find is now, the fine for students.
Speaker 6: Oh there are fines. Yeah, I think I saw that
Speaker 6: there was a five hundred thousand dollars fine issued in
Speaker 6: the SEC.
Speaker 4: It was Nashville court storming or one specific student of
Speaker 4: NILT for the school for the Kentucky this week. So, Michael,
Speaker 4: did you see the Houston Kansas game on over the weekend.
Speaker 6: I was at the wim the uf A women's game,
Speaker 6: so I didn't see it, but I certainly heard about it.
Speaker 3: It was fantastic. Familiar with what happened, so it was fantastic.
Speaker 2: And Houston didn't have a chance to winning in the regulation,
Speaker 2: they got got into overtip, they didn't have a chance
Speaker 2: of winning overtime, and they got it into the second
Speaker 2: overtime and then they ended up winning. I'm thinking, what
Speaker 2: a fantastic game, there's no way. And then I got
Speaker 2: to see one in front of me two days later
Speaker 2: or whatever it was. And that's just the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just the Big twelve with the upper
Speaker 2: upper you know, upper tier of teams. Uh, it's going
Speaker 2: to be fantastic. When Houston comes here, it's going to
Speaker 2: be very difficult. I don't know if you agree with me,
Speaker 2: Michael on this when when U goes to Baylor and
Speaker 2: they go back to go to Ames, because it's gonna
Speaker 2: be crazy tough.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, and yes, I mean it absolutely is. They
Speaker 6: also have to go to Lawrence at the end of
Speaker 6: the season, so I mean it's good to kind of
Speaker 6: build up equity at this point in the season. I think,
Speaker 6: you know, we keep saying this, it hasn't happened yet,
Speaker 6: but I do think you of a fans need to
Speaker 6: brace themselves for a few losses yes, down the stretch,
Speaker 6: which is okay. I mean you're not gonna win every game.
Speaker 6: I honestly don't think this is even Tommy Wood's best
Speaker 6: team that he's had.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 6: Maybe at some point we could do like a ranking
Speaker 6: of those teams. But they're very scrappy. They play really hard.
Speaker 6: That was another thing that stood out to me last
Speaker 6: night was just how hard they were playing. I mean,
Speaker 6: like the way that kJ Lewis and some of those
Speaker 6: guys were like just attacking their guards. Yeah, it was like, Wow,
Speaker 6: I don't think these guys really want this.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've seen I mean, obviously, I haven't
Speaker 4: seen a Tommy Lloyd's team give that much effort for
Speaker 4: that long.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't.
Speaker 4: There wasn't a there wasn't a huge reprieve on the
Speaker 4: floor at any point where you're like, ah, they need
Speaker 4: a break. Like it was constant, like punch us, we
Speaker 4: punched you back and forth, back and forth. And the
Speaker 4: defensive grind and effort that they gave the whole game
Speaker 4: was to me the most impressive thing about the whole
Speaker 4: game last night.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the only I think the only slight lull might
Speaker 6: have been maybe like early in the second half, after
Speaker 6: they had maybe kind of starting late in the very
Speaker 6: end of the first half and carrying over into the
Speaker 6: second half, after they had pulled off that sixteen oh
Speaker 6: run to go up. It was thirty thirty six twenty
Speaker 6: eight or something like that, or thirty twenty five, I
Speaker 6: can't remember exactly.
Speaker 16: Thirty four to twenty five is what it was.
Speaker 6: And then they kind of let down a little bit,
Speaker 6: and I think Iowa State was nine for eleven to
Speaker 6: start the second half.
Speaker 16: But those things are going to happen.
Speaker 6: I mean, act a veteran team, a really good team.
Speaker 6: You know, there's there's certainly a human nature aspect to
Speaker 6: all of this. They're not machines and you're not going
Speaker 6: to get you know, perfect forty minutes out of anyone ever.
Speaker 16: But it was enough so to pull that off.
Speaker 6: And again, like we're sitting here with them being eight
Speaker 6: and one in the Big Twelve, and you know they
Speaker 6: maybe they haven't faced all the of the hardest best
Speaker 6: teams in the league, but I don't think anybody saw
Speaker 6: that coming.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to a phrase you just used, human
Speaker 2: element and you've you've covered a lot of games in
Speaker 2: your career. I've covered a ton of games in my career,
Speaker 2: and invariably, I would say, you know, forty to fifty
Speaker 2: percent of this time happens. You come off an emotional win,
Speaker 2: crazy things happen. You go to class and you're the
Speaker 2: best thing since slic spread. Everyone's patting you on the back, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 2: And the next game you suffer a defeat or you
Speaker 2: played horribly because you're still believing what people are telling you.
Speaker 2: And here Arizona goes on Saturday to Tempe, the enemy,
Speaker 2: the arrival, and they sometimes have a hard time up there,
Speaker 2: so that's what they got to guard against. They said
Speaker 2: all the right things last night, but of course we're
Speaker 2: going to say all the right things right now.
Speaker 9: What.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I could definitely see them losing one of the
Speaker 6: next two games, those being at s U and at
Speaker 6: b YU. You know, a SU kind of up and
Speaker 6: down this year, but very talented, and you know, it's
Speaker 6: it is the rivalry game. We saw a SU upset
Speaker 6: Arizona here a couple of years ago on a similar
Speaker 6: shot to the one that we just saw, so I
Speaker 6: totally hear what you're saying.
Speaker 16: It's definitely possible.
Speaker 6: There are always those kind of you know, trap games,
Speaker 6: let down games over the course of their long season
Speaker 6: and twenty games in conferences.
Speaker 16: It's a long gauntlet of games.
Speaker 6: So I could definitely see something like that happening here
Speaker 6: in the next two.
Speaker 16: But again, like I don't expect them to win every.
Speaker 6: Game, you know, I mean, they're eight and one in
Speaker 6: the league. We were talking I think before the season
Speaker 6: was on this show or just in casual conversations like oh,
Speaker 6: if they go over five hundred and the Big twelve,
Speaker 6: it'll be a good year. Well, they're well on their
Speaker 6: way to obliterating that. If they suffer a couple of
Speaker 6: stumbles here and there on the road over the latter
Speaker 6: half of the Big twelve slate, it's almost to be expected.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we were talking about it a little
Speaker 4: bit earlier too. Is that I would tend to agree
Speaker 4: with you, especially from a player standpoint coaching standpoint, you
Speaker 4: probably take the next twenty four hours and then you're
Speaker 4: back on the grind if that game was Thursday. That
Speaker 4: I think that hangover last is a true effect to
Speaker 4: lose TOSU. But I honestly think this team has a
Speaker 4: bigger mindset and goal in mine, especially after that win.
Speaker 4: That I think, like Mike saying that they're mature enough
Speaker 4: at this point, you have since senior leadership that we
Speaker 4: probably lacked in the past, at least behind closed doors. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that I think they're well prepared moving forward, and you're
Speaker 4: gonna they're gonna trip and stumble. They might lose two
Speaker 4: or three more games. I mean, oh, they're definitely losing
Speaker 4: the road, but I mean not immediately, but I think
Speaker 4: they're well set up for the long haul. I mean, again,
Speaker 4: the two players that come to mind that are going
Speaker 4: to need to have big games on against a s
Speaker 4: U R. Delriso and Bisarre because they've They're the two
Speaker 4: guys last night that kind of lacked, especially Delriso that
Speaker 4: I think could pick up the team just from an
Speaker 4: effort standpoint if the other guys are somewhat tired.
Speaker 6: Delorsso has a value on this team because he's probably
Speaker 6: their best three point shooter and statistically he is the best,
Speaker 6: but he's also kind of skinny, needs feel like he
Speaker 6: needs another offseason in the weight room and the most
Speaker 6: you know, the most physical games.
Speaker 16: That they've played. Last night's game and the Duke game earlier.
Speaker 16: I mean, he just wasn't a factor, Like he was just.
Speaker 6: Kind of overwhelmed, couldn't get anything going, So you know,
Speaker 6: you kind of have to pick your spots with him.
Speaker 16: I think Henry is going to be fine.
Speaker 6: I'd actually like to see a lineup with Henry and
Speaker 6: Tobya Walka in at the same time.
Speaker 16: I think Henry could play that.
Speaker 6: High post position, yeah, on the low post, and you
Speaker 6: could kind of, you know, reassemble the two bellas ballo
Speaker 6: combo that was so effective for Tommy earlier.
Speaker 16: Earlier in his tenure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know we got to I know we're up
Speaker 4: against it, but that is we were have that same conversation
Speaker 4: last night, and I'm a little surprised that we haven't
Speaker 4: seen that just for you know, five minutes at a stretch,
Speaker 4: because you're right, I think Visar can expand that, uh
Speaker 4: that position before. And you had Waka playing out of
Speaker 4: his mind last night where you probably don't want him
Speaker 4: off the.
Speaker 2: Court real quick, real quick, Michael, Because I mentioned this
Speaker 2: to Kelvin. Whence you once you think that a Waka
Speaker 2: would look good in a in a pro NFL tight
Speaker 2: end Jersey whoever it beat.
Speaker 6: That's a great call he would like.
Speaker 16: He is just a strong, solid dude. I compared him
Speaker 16: to Charles Oakley and I call.
Speaker 6: Him today like like the bodyguard, the enforcer, whatever you
Speaker 6: want to call it, Like you can't move that guy
Speaker 6: off the block.
Speaker 2: And I just spaced his first name, but Gonzales, Gonzales
Speaker 2: put it col.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good that's a good reference. Yeah, Walker,
Speaker 4: he's built like a brick poop house. Yeah, he's just
Speaker 4: just a just a man child. There's the ball, get
Speaker 4: out of there. Like his rebounding last night was like listen,
Speaker 4: this is mine. I don't care if you're even on
Speaker 4: my team. I'm taking the spot.
Speaker 2: That's so funny when you asked that question last night, Michael,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking I was thinking the same because it was
Speaker 2: like it was a bullet of China shop ducking people over.
Speaker 3: Give me. Yeah, it was a grand out move.
Speaker 2: Thanks Michael. As always, Hey, that's Michael, Michael. We've got
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Speaker 4: I mean that's what the question I ask myself every
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Friday we had a kickoff event. Who was there?
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Speaker 3: All I thought, we'll get back to it. We got
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Speaker 15: You're on the air, Hey, Steve, it's your not so friend.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, how do you really think lowell of yourself?
Speaker 3: The therapy?
Speaker 15: Any Anyway, when I was watching that game at the
Speaker 15: at the Center court, like I told you, I was
Speaker 15: just thinking to myself, what a slug fest? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 15: I mean it was just it was a slug fest.
Speaker 15: That's all you can say.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was. It was a fun stunt.
Speaker 2: I tweet it looked like the Hegler Herns fight.
Speaker 3: Just punch after start in there and I'm not gonna move.
Speaker 15: You hit me? You yeah, I mean even before I
Speaker 15: wanted just to talk about the game, but you guys
Speaker 15: went off on a The assistant coach of Loot's yesterday
Speaker 15: pretty much made the date Roseborough. But one really big
Speaker 15: game that I was at back in the eighties, and
Speaker 15: every the Washington game, I think we were obviously loot
Speaker 15: whenever he was. We were always in first place. And
Speaker 15: there's just your random team in And it happened to
Speaker 15: me to the Huskies with Debt left Shrimp and I
Speaker 15: was sitting up it was like really loud, and this
Speaker 15: it was just so loud last night. It reminded me
Speaker 15: of all the old games. No, it didn't really was long.
Speaker 15: I didn't give you that. I don't know if they
Speaker 15: gave you chills, but I just read. I just thought,
Speaker 15: maybe once or twice about this is how it used
Speaker 15: to be and how.
Speaker 3: Cool it was. Oh yeah, there's no other place.
Speaker 15: Because I'm like Jay, I was in that place. My
Speaker 15: dad took me when I was eight or nine years
Speaker 15: old in the early seventies when it opened.
Speaker 2: How was I How was it with Bob and and
Speaker 2: Uh and those guys.
Speaker 15: Oh it was. I don't really remember back back those
Speaker 15: as far as the crowd, but it was so fun
Speaker 15: watching the ball the club when you had Coneil Norman
Speaker 15: and Alf Fleming and of course Elliott and then later
Speaker 15: Mark money came a little later.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, but but.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it was little electric some of the big games.
Speaker 15: And I remember getting and going to the game for
Speaker 15: free and going to an Illinois game with Kendall Gill that,
Speaker 15: you know. I don't know how, I don't remember how
Speaker 15: big the crowd was, but it was a big game
Speaker 15: because they were just like Iowa, the top five in
Speaker 15: the country.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I could be wrong, as you did
Speaker 2: you end up doing what Blake did here?
Speaker 3: U were you with your wife? First of all?
Speaker 15: No, I know, I brought a guest. Okay, guy, my
Speaker 15: my wife would my wife would be sleeping. She was
Speaker 15: sleeping by the time.
Speaker 4: The game started, So so then I was gonna say,
Speaker 4: did you hug the person next to you?
Speaker 3: Maybe it was a woman.
Speaker 15: No, No, I just I was just it's just it
Speaker 15: just it just floored you. Just you're speechless, you know
Speaker 15: what I mean? Friend, Yeah, yeah, it was just.
Speaker 3: That's the thing.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 15: This couple we built a house for when my my
Speaker 15: wife was pregnant with our son, and they have season
Speaker 15: tickets for twenty five years. And I looked down at
Speaker 15: their spot, I saw they weren't there for overtime.
Speaker 3: So I'm just assuming they left.
Speaker 15: Early because they've been to so many games, and he
Speaker 15: didn't see it.
Speaker 3: Were you go ahead?
Speaker 16: Go ahead?
Speaker 3: So were you surprised?
Speaker 4: Did you heard all these Iowa state fans because they
Speaker 4: had to get their tickets from somewhere? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: I asked him the people sitting around me, and they
Speaker 4: went online and bottom right. But then I started thinking.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, it's ames Iowa in January. I
Speaker 4: would do whatever I possibly can to make it to
Speaker 4: the two sims. Oh sure, sure, But how much you
Speaker 4: think those tickets went for?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I used to scalp a lot in my earlier days.
Speaker 4: That's how I made money in college. I just I
Speaker 4: can't inflation rate. Yeah, no, it was one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty bucks made right, Oh buddy, I was thinking for
Speaker 4: but four bills for one ticket? How much would your
Speaker 4: ticket done? Your neighbor's tickets or oh?
Speaker 1: Mine?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 15: I had good seats, and there was a few Iowa
Speaker 15: people around us, because obviously I had one of the
Speaker 15: big wigs in the the U of A foundation. That's
Speaker 15: how I got my tickets for my wife. She got them,
Speaker 15: and you know, sure I got them in a raffle
Speaker 15: and no, those those seats I was in because I
Speaker 15: was like right at center court, they definitely would have
Speaker 15: sold for you know, three hundred apiece at least, you know,
Speaker 15: for sculpers because because you know everyone, people don't know
Speaker 15: that you you got to whatever the space value is,
Speaker 15: you have to give a donation to the unless you're
Speaker 15: obviously a foundation of your staffer, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 15: because that's part of your your your your your your
Speaker 15: boogie when you're a high staffer at the u of
Speaker 15: A or a foundation or seat.
Speaker 3: All right, Howard, thanks for calling Howard. Yeah, we'll see Yeah,
Speaker 3: Howard's whatever callers. Yeah, your regulars. Yeah. Our demographics are
Speaker 3: like thirty five and over.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's not a bad demographic, arey oil old
Speaker 4: We need to get gale later? Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 4: smells like get in here the old man's cologne.
Speaker 3: Doctor hurts, What I do this?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I grew up with my dad played
Speaker 4: fast pitched softball growing up, and so like that smell
Speaker 4: is so nostalgic to me.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah yeah. So so next time, so did
Speaker 3: you WBC? So anything? WBC? Listen come out. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be great.
Speaker 4: We've got China, We've got Germany, Brazil and Columbia are
Speaker 4: all going to be out there March sixth, March second
Speaker 4: to the sixth, uh eleven am and six pm game.
Speaker 3: So March second, third, and fourth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and then a six pm
Speaker 4: game on Thursday, which is gonna be our college night. Cody,
Speaker 4: you should bring all your friends out there, five of them.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, there you go, and that's gonna I'll help
Speaker 4: you on. Get you in, Okay, two dollars, two dollars,
Speaker 4: beers and one dollar.
Speaker 15: Hotey.
Speaker 3: Kobe can't do it. I know he's a twenty year old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he can have a lot of dogs that
Speaker 4: I can throw down your rockets, right yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just saying beers one dollar. Yeah, there's lunch
Speaker 3: for a week. Yeah, you'll be prices at that. Yeah. No,
Speaker 3: no you can't. So these guys come, Henry and Kobe,
Speaker 3: come and see me at the game. Hey, what's going on.
Speaker 3: It's like time my two kids, take my two kids
Speaker 3: to work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you got that's your gift back, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's your gift back. Like I try to pay it
Speaker 4: for it as much as I can. Yeah, these guys
Speaker 4: are great.
Speaker 3: Great, it's a popcorn. It was a good game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's actually how many games have you been to?
Speaker 5: This had to be my fourth third this year.
Speaker 3: Only went to one last year.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you had a major season. Yeah, you going
Speaker 2: back again? Houston game Houston. That's the next game for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's gonna be a crazy got to be on
Speaker 4: what I'm trying. I'm trying to get Kelvin to come
Speaker 4: on Kelvin Stimpson. Yeah, so we'll see what day that is.
Speaker 4: So maybe you be on it. Maybe you drop the lottery.
Speaker 4: Yeah maybe right. I think we're gonna have to rethink
Speaker 4: your thought process here after the show.
Speaker 3: So it's been fun last so so we got about
Speaker 3: four minutes, five minutes, three minutes. Yeah, I wanted you
Speaker 3: do some some some sleuthing or solved solving here with
Speaker 3: music stuff. But I mean, well, no, I've done for
Speaker 3: different We'll save it for a different day. I just listened.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's it's human nature to judge, right,
Speaker 3: and I uh, I used to be your last day here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I listen.
Speaker 4: I don't want to throw it out there and get
Speaker 4: black balled at everything I do. But I tend to
Speaker 4: judge people on their musical taste. That's all I'm saying. Okay,
Speaker 4: I've been called a snob when it comes to music,
Speaker 4: so okay, and I don't why, like I don't want
Speaker 4: to be Yeah, maybe I.
Speaker 3: Can mix both of those, right.
Speaker 2: Okay, you can. You can sell beers and stuff at
Speaker 2: the place, right. I just talked about it Steve w B.
Speaker 2: Steve literally just.
Speaker 4: Yeah beers the top dogs. Yeah, but just beers. I
Speaker 4: guess no, they're gonna so we've got a great concession
Speaker 4: there there. Uh, his names that's his name is Shane.
Speaker 4: So he's gonna do a bunch of different drinks to
Speaker 4: based on the country. So you're gonna have You're gonna
Speaker 4: have German uh, German beers and then probably sparks from
Speaker 4: the other ones or sing so that is what they drink.
Speaker 3: And I've been to one of these things before. I
Speaker 3: was in Miami. Yeah, you was out there for a
Speaker 3: tournament blah blah blah, and we went to the Six
Speaker 3: Crazy Times. It's the fans are just bunk wild fun. Uh.
Speaker 3: Did you go to an event to kind of see
Speaker 3: what they do, or you kind of gonna figure it
Speaker 3: out out. I kind of got to figure it out.
Speaker 4: The event that we based it on was Mexican Baseball Festa,
Speaker 4: to try to combine as much as we could with
Speaker 4: that and this and make it kind of a feisty,
Speaker 4: fun atmosphere. Taiwan Type A has already sold one hundred
Speaker 4: thousand tickets for their qualifier, so I hope to come
Speaker 4: somewhat close to that for us so we can be
Speaker 4: in contention as we move forward.
Speaker 3: So is it the same format where you can play music,
Speaker 3: you can have stuff or.
Speaker 4: No, do you have to you can't play music during
Speaker 4: the game, right, it's going to be majorly you get
Speaker 4: shut it off. Yeah, but then they after after they
Speaker 4: throw back the pitch, sure jam it out. We'll have
Speaker 4: a DJ on site.
Speaker 2: Okay, So it'll be kind of like you a basketball
Speaker 2: where they they can do it, yeah.
Speaker 3: Within reason.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's similar to going in Major League Baseball,
Speaker 4: but on the concourse there'll be more of a feisty game.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well that's that.
Speaker 4: That's the why I kind of wrote I came to
Speaker 4: see came to see a basketball game. A football game
Speaker 4: broke out. I mean it was incredible last year, oh
Speaker 4: last night. I honestly, it gives me chills just to
Speaker 4: think about it, because I've been going to games so long, right,
Speaker 4: and from the times when we could barely afford to
Speaker 4: go to a game. You're sitting on the concrete concourse
Speaker 4: to try to sit next to somebody at the very
Speaker 4: top row to where now that it's just, it's so
Speaker 4: I'm grateful to be in this position and then to
Speaker 4: see that game in person. Last night, I we talked
Speaker 4: about it. I can't believe people left. I just I don't.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 4: You couldn't have stayed in an extra two minutes, whether
Speaker 4: you win or lose. In that situation, it's two minutes
Speaker 4: out of your life. Where do you live on the
Speaker 4: east Side? No, no, no, Tucson. Yeah, on these sides,
Speaker 4: it surprises you. I mean no, no, it doesn't. So
Speaker 4: I'm a west side kid. I'm really I have a
Speaker 4: hard time saying east side because I grew up on
Speaker 4: the west Side.
Speaker 3: But that's where I live. It does not surprise me.
Speaker 3: As you got to go, Kobe, Thank you for today.
Speaker 4: Kobe, see you later, man, Thank you mister Blake, Thank
Speaker 4: you Steve for having me it's always an honor.
Speaker 3: Thanks for every pleasure,