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Speaker 3: I'm jagings out. I'm here, I'm here. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't hear you in my thing, but I could.
Speaker 3: Gay.
Speaker 2: That's fine, that's fine, Edgar, Edgar, we want to congratulate you.
Speaker 2: What a fantastic guy. I think you guys have pulled off. Uh,
Speaker 2: you're at the Southern Arizona.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's exciting, it's exciting.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, Jan Lesher was asking me, and
Speaker 5: she's our county administrator, asking me, Hey, are you ready
Speaker 5: for this? I said, I've been ready for this since
Speaker 5: two thousand and nine, when you know baseball left, because
Speaker 5: you know we all felt the loss when spring training left, right.
Speaker 2: Well, everybody. The funny thing about it, Edgar, is some
Speaker 2: and I don't know if it's you. I'm sure you've
Speaker 2: heard this too, and Jay has two that every place
Speaker 2: I go every now and again, when's baseball coming back?
Speaker 2: When's baseball coming back? Are we ever going to get
Speaker 2: baseball back?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Whether it's on the south side, the northwest side, or
Speaker 2: wherever in Boila.
Speaker 3: You guys were able to pull it off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, go ahead, here, go ahead, hold on.
Speaker 5: Well, I know you know, and I don't know how
Speaker 5: much time we have on this show, but can I
Speaker 5: give you a little bit of history?
Speaker 3: Why is that happen? Edgar?
Speaker 2: You can spend an hour here, you can spend two
Speaker 2: hours here. You're buying dinner, doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: So back in two thousand and eight, I don't know
Speaker 5: if you remember, we had a group called the Pima
Speaker 5: County Sports and Authority, and you know, we're tasked with
Speaker 5: youth and amateur sports, but also trying to keep Major
Speaker 5: League Baseball here. And in two thousand and eight, Stevement,
Speaker 5: we had the Diamondbacks and the Rockies had agreed to
Speaker 5: state and we were negotiating with the Washington Nationals, Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 4: There you go, now it's where Oh no, then it went.
Speaker 5: Away, the watching Nationals, Baltimore's Milwaukee Brewers right there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And so we had plans for a three team stadium
Speaker 5: Marana mayor ed Honey, I mean, I think he probably
Speaker 5: still has the plans and and and so we had
Speaker 5: a bill that was at the legislative level that was
Speaker 5: going to give us sustainable fund.
Speaker 4: He was going to allow us to go out for
Speaker 4: a vote right to.
Speaker 5: Ask Pema County if they're willing to receive a one
Speaker 5: tenth of one percent sales tax. But it was on hotels, restaurants,
Speaker 5: rental cars, you know things that so so in one
Speaker 5: tenth of one percent is like a nickel on one
Speaker 5: hundred dollars, you know, food bill.
Speaker 4: So we had that.
Speaker 5: Bill he was going through the legislator. Uh, there was
Speaker 5: a senator had about two weeks before held on to
Speaker 5: the last day, last day of session. There was some
Speaker 5: controversial bill going on and a group of legislators walked
Speaker 5: out so never got to vote.
Speaker 4: So had that not happened, think of this Gonza.
Speaker 5: So we would have had five teams here in southern
Speaker 5: Arizona and that I quardor going from Tucson to Fee
Speaker 5: would have been filled a business and industry. So that's
Speaker 5: how important these things happen, and why this legislation stuff
Speaker 5: is so important because one little vote here there could
Speaker 5: make the difference in communities in county.
Speaker 4: So so that that's what happened.
Speaker 6: And that and that's what does happen, right, It can
Speaker 6: be you know, something as simple as that, because and
Speaker 6: then not getting those two teams, not getting those additional
Speaker 6: teams meant we lost the ones that we had because
Speaker 6: they got tired of coming down here and just playing
Speaker 6: these two teams.
Speaker 3: You know, if you get a large group, you know,
Speaker 3: some group of.
Speaker 6: Teams down here, yeah, you know, more people because you know,
Speaker 6: for from my standpoint as a fan, you know, it
Speaker 6: was getting tough that. You know, you'd go see a
Speaker 6: Diamondbacks Giants game right at at at at Tusson Electric Park,
Speaker 6: and it was it was like the Giants second team
Speaker 6: because because the guys didn't want to come down. But
Speaker 6: now if you've got five teams down here, you're having
Speaker 6: to come down here, You're going to come down. You know,
Speaker 6: those teams are going to want to come and play
Speaker 6: the other guys. And so that's disappointing. That's it is
Speaker 6: unfortunate how something like that can and just derail anything.
Speaker 5: And it impacted our community with her jobs, with livable wages.
Speaker 5: You know, the same thing that happened in film a
Speaker 5: long time ago. We lost our tax credits. We had
Speaker 5: a robust film industry at one time as well.
Speaker 2: So Edgar, sixteen years later, right, you said two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight, this happened right.
Speaker 5: Well, two thousand and nine I think was the last
Speaker 5: time we had a spring training game here.
Speaker 2: So fourteen fifteen years ago. So how come it took
Speaker 2: so long? Or did did you guys wait or whoever
Speaker 2: waited this long?
Speaker 5: So the reason this even started to be discussed again.
Speaker 5: So back in twenty eighteen, I became the dean of
Speaker 5: Arts and Humanities at Pemic Community College, and one of
Speaker 5: my roles was to create a summon to invite business
Speaker 5: and industry to come in and to see what we're
Speaker 5: teaching our students is applicable to real world stuff. Right,
Speaker 5: So I invited a gentleman from the director of film
Speaker 5: from Arizona, Matthew Earl Jones. He's our director of film,
Speaker 5: appointed by the governor to come down and let me
Speaker 5: know that if what we're teaching our students of film,
Speaker 5: if they can go out there and get jobs. So
Speaker 5: he came down to Tucson, fell in love with Tucson.
Speaker 5: First of all, Matthew or Jones is a brother James
Speaker 5: Earl Jones, who so he ended up loving Tucson, and
Speaker 5: he's like, you know, Edgar, there's really a niche here
Speaker 5: for ten million dollar films or less. You're not going
Speaker 5: to get the big one hundred dollars films because those
Speaker 5: are all going to go to New Mexico, Georgia, California,
Speaker 5: because they got the tax credits right, they're going to get,
Speaker 5: you know, a certain percentage back of whatever they spend there.
Speaker 5: He said, but you know, reality shows, documentaries, commercials, all
Speaker 5: these food shows. You know, we can we have what's
Speaker 5: called here in southern Arizona a three hundred mile zone,
Speaker 5: and what that means is that you could get all
Speaker 5: these different types of terrain from mountains to desert to forest.
Speaker 5: We could even work with Mexico and go into Rocky
Speaker 5: Point and get beaches. So we started to talk about this.
Speaker 5: I said, you know what, I went to a film
Speaker 5: festival over on.
Speaker 4: What's it called. It's not the Loft? Is that the
Speaker 4: one on Speedway?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, the Loft?
Speaker 5: And he asked me to go to the panel discussion.
Speaker 5: Huge film community here in Tucson. There is there, always
Speaker 5: has been. I ran into a friend of mine that
Speaker 5: was on the Pima County Sports and Tourism Authority, and
Speaker 5: I said, hey, you know what if we got the
Speaker 5: Pima County Sports and Tourism and instead of Major League Baseball,
Speaker 5: why don't we think about film, you know, doing some
Speaker 5: things to bring incentives so films can come back. And
Speaker 5: so Tom Moult and I we started talking about that.
Speaker 5: I started to try to get a group together, the
Speaker 5: old group back, and really nobody was listening to me.
Speaker 5: And luckily I got in charge in contact with a
Speaker 5: guy named Tom Tracy, who was our chair of the
Speaker 5: Pema County and we started to talk. So we started
Speaker 5: to get this bill that was going to be passed
Speaker 5: before it's sunset going again. And so we did this.
Speaker 5: And during this time, this is how crazy baseball is.
Speaker 5: I was giving lessons to a kid and Nick, from
Speaker 5: Patagona High School, and we were giving baseball lessons and
Speaker 5: I'm there hitting with him, start talking to his mom.
Speaker 4: His mom tell him she's.
Speaker 5: Involved at the K twelve at Bayle School District and
Speaker 5: how we you know, how she does some lobbying and
Speaker 5: all this, and so I started to share with her
Speaker 5: stuff and at the college, you know, doing rollm and
Speaker 5: then I started to share with her this this Pema
Speaker 5: County Sports and Tourism Hall of Fame. She said, hey,
Speaker 5: let me introduce you to Somebody introduced me to David
Speaker 5: gow David Gallen's our state Senator, Sierra Vista, co Chiese County, right,
Speaker 5: And he said, at the time he was the chair
Speaker 5: of the Appropriations Community. He said, let me introduce you
Speaker 5: to him. Now, you know, he's a Republican. I'm a Democrat.
Speaker 5: But we connected on baseball. He's a from La Dodgers.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 6: Good guy already, good guy already already.
Speaker 4: And he uh he.
Speaker 5: I showed him pictures because I had pictures with Fernando
Speaker 5: von Sela at Pima because he's a team's practiced there.
Speaker 5: In twenty twelve, a USA Baseball coach got to hang
Speaker 5: out with Tom and Lasorda said, tell of these stories.
Speaker 5: So we connected on baseball, and he said, you know Edgar,
Speaker 5: he says, I'll sponsor your bill, but it can't just
Speaker 5: be Pema County. He wasn't a fan of Pema County.
Speaker 5: He said, let's include six counties. So we included the
Speaker 5: six counties Pema, banw Graham, Greenley, co Chie, Santa Cruz
Speaker 5: and three tribal nations, Apache, ton Otum and impossible, yucky.
Speaker 4: Right, And we tried to get this bill passed for
Speaker 4: like three years.
Speaker 5: So the lobbyist, Darcy Mintone, she she she was working
Speaker 5: on this three years. We had an ad hoc committee,
Speaker 5: we were meeting with legislators, COVID happened, and so finally
Speaker 5: about a couple of years ago it got passed and
Speaker 5: now it's a statue. So now we're a political sub
Speaker 5: body of the state, which means we can go out there,
Speaker 5: you know, representing these six counties and try to attract
Speaker 5: events from film, tu dynamic, sports tourism, baseball.
Speaker 3: And now we have baseball.
Speaker 6: So we're talking at Garsoto from the UH Southern Arizona
Speaker 6: Sports Tourism and Film Authority.
Speaker 3: Right, did I get it off? I got it off?
Speaker 3: Done that before.
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Speaker 3: We'll go over some of those in a minute.
Speaker 6: So now I've got the World Baseball Classic, which you
Speaker 6: know I'm going to say as a fan, you know
Speaker 6: the way it ended last year with Shohe up against
Speaker 6: up against Mike Trout and all. You know, that brought
Speaker 6: so much attention to it, right, So now we get
Speaker 6: a piece of that here. Tell us a little bit
Speaker 6: about what we're going to get here.
Speaker 5: So you know, Pema County had negotiated back in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty we were going to get the World Baseball Classic here,
Speaker 5: and then you know, fast forward twenty twenty four, we
Speaker 5: start working on this stuff and we're out there and
Speaker 5: it's a different time. We have eight cities bidding against us,
Speaker 5: right We're trying to show them that Tucson is a
Speaker 5: place to do this. But we ended up getting the
Speaker 5: contract signed last week finally, And I know Steve and
Speaker 5: we were I had to keep things hush hushed.
Speaker 4: We didn't want to apologize.
Speaker 3: You know, I was pressed through you and I know I.
Speaker 5: Felt bad about it too, because you're my guy, man.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to let you down. But now we
Speaker 5: got some good news So what this means is that China, Germany, Columbia,
Speaker 5: which has like eight big leaders, eight big leaders right now,
Speaker 5: and Brazil and there eight.
Speaker 4: Brazil has some big leaders too, I think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, so they're all going to be coming
Speaker 5: to play for the qualifiers. So the top two teams
Speaker 5: get to play in the World Baseball Classic, right, So
Speaker 5: these these games are a big deal for the country.
Speaker 5: But here's what it brings. It brings people staying at
Speaker 5: these hotels. It brings people renting cars, shopping in our
Speaker 5: you know, in our stores, eating in our restaurants.
Speaker 4: It brings economics.
Speaker 3: Do you know what that economic impact is?
Speaker 2: Because I was I went to one of those in Miami,
Speaker 2: and there was when I played out there, and it
Speaker 2: was it was Bonker's fun. Yeah, you know, Mike Vader
Speaker 2: has his Mexican Baseball League and that's crazy, crazy fun too.
Speaker 2: But this was different because you had all the nationalities.
Speaker 2: You brought out their flags, you brought up their drums,
Speaker 2: we brought out a bunch of stuff. Do you anticipate
Speaker 2: that happening here?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, We're going all out with this, you know.
Speaker 5: And Mike Vader, I just got to give Mike Vader
Speaker 5: and Francisco Gammez some some kudos because they've done some
Speaker 5: amazing things with the Mexican baseball and there's a lot
Speaker 5: to come with that as well.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're working on some stuff. We're working together
Speaker 4: with them.
Speaker 5: You know, Mike Fader has been the baseball guy here forever,
Speaker 5: so leaned on him for for you know, for wisdom
Speaker 5: and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: So no, I anticipate all of the above.
Speaker 5: The key is is we're going to have to make
Speaker 5: sure that we come out, we show up, and we
Speaker 5: and we're there at the games because we got to
Speaker 5: show major League Baseball that that we're going to do this.
Speaker 5: I got to play golf with Jim Small's and one
Speaker 5: of his employees, Nelson. Jim Small he's the the president
Speaker 5: of the World Baseball Classic. Okay, so he's all over
Speaker 5: the world doing this stuff and he loves Tucson.
Speaker 2: So real quick, because we're gonna be here for two hours.
Speaker 2: I don't know how long you could be here, hope
Speaker 2: maybe for at least an hour, and we will talk
Speaker 2: more than just this with you. We're going to talk
Speaker 2: you a football and you could be as critical as
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 3: To because we are careful.
Speaker 5: Before you guys start talking about that.
Speaker 2: And basketball, we talk about it all edwards. So you're
Speaker 2: you've been involved in sports here for.
Speaker 5: You know, because you guys are gonna ask me he
Speaker 5: used to young, right, Yeah, I used to be young.
Speaker 5: You know what's really interesting is November tenth, I just
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Speaker 3: About how to do that. Man, I need to do that.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, me and my fiance that we're like going
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Speaker 6: Yeah, kid prices at the movies, all right, I got
Speaker 6: kid prices at the movies Wednesdays. It's safe way all right.
Speaker 6: I got all this stuff going on. A funny a
Speaker 6: little funny story. So the first when I was just
Speaker 6: getting to that, and I think at the U of
Speaker 6: A it's fifty five fifty five for U of A
Speaker 6: sports like softball and stuff like that, I think it's
Speaker 6: a fifty five. So my daughter and I are walking
Speaker 6: up and I'm like, oh wow, I get a discount
Speaker 6: and she's like, no, Dad, don't get the discount. She
Speaker 6: didn't want me. She don't want people to know that
Speaker 6: I was old enough to get that. Anyway, are you
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Speaker 3: Exactly? Exactly?
Speaker 6: So anyway, we're here at the Soul Sports that consumer
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Speaker 6: I'm going to say it again, Southern Arizona Sports Tourism
Speaker 6: and Film Authority is amazing.
Speaker 4: You got it two times in a row.
Speaker 3: Nay, yeah, we do this real quick. We're going to
Speaker 3: break here in about a minute.
Speaker 2: So, okay, I don't didn't recall that the PEAMA Authority
Speaker 2: had just just disbanded with.
Speaker 3: Sunsets sunset, So what was the time for you?
Speaker 6: I mean, the the statute is in place for X
Speaker 6: amount of time, then when that day passes, it just
Speaker 6: goes away.
Speaker 3: Right then, you guys came onboard.
Speaker 4: We came on board.
Speaker 3: Nobody years after that.
Speaker 5: I think it's like, no, I mean, how long does
Speaker 5: this statue go for? I think it's some crazy like
Speaker 5: thirty years these things forever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so you mean job security.
Speaker 5: Well, the thing is this is we got about three
Speaker 5: quarters a million dollars from the state seed money. But
Speaker 5: the goal is to go out to the voters and
Speaker 5: try to get that one tenth of one percent so
Speaker 5: we could bond and build stadiums and do bigger and
Speaker 5: better things.
Speaker 6: I mean again, and you know, for people to understand
Speaker 6: how this works, you know, it's the Arizona Sports and
Speaker 6: Tourism Authority that's you know, got the stadium h you know,
Speaker 6: the state the Cardinal Stadium and those things like that.
Speaker 3: Up in Phoenix. They're doing those things.
Speaker 6: You know, they're doing the Final Fours and all that
Speaker 6: kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: They're involved in all of that.
Speaker 6: You get, you got to have an authority like that
Speaker 6: to be able to do those things.
Speaker 5: Guys, got it exactly. We know now we're like the
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Speaker 3: I feel like a couple of that commercial when we
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Speaker 11: Absolutely, And we have all the UFC pay per views
Speaker 11: and most of the boxing pay per views, including tomorrow
Speaker 11: with the UH Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight. We're very
Speaker 11: excited about that. It's going to be a blowout and
Speaker 11: the first fight's at three thirty PM and it's free
Speaker 11: of charge.
Speaker 3: Just come on in first, come first. So can you
Speaker 3: talk about the action on that? Yeah? Absolutely? What is
Speaker 3: the action on the big fight?
Speaker 11: Well, Tyson started out as as a three to one underdog,
Speaker 11: the Paul was a three to one favorite. With Tyson,
Speaker 11: you you would get about plus two twenty to twenty
Speaker 11: five when the first fight first came out. And money
Speaker 11: has come steadily on on Mike Tyson, so that number
Speaker 11: is down to UH Jake Paul minus about two to
Speaker 11: ten and the comeback you get plus one sixty with Tyson,
Speaker 11: which means for every ten you bet on Tyson, you
Speaker 11: would win sixteen.
Speaker 3: Let's get your ten back. Of course, I was.
Speaker 2: Talking to somebody earlier. I was I should have gotten
Speaker 2: Tyson a while back, because that's when the number was.
Speaker 2: But I would still go with him just a whin.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you just never know what to expect from the guy, right,
Speaker 6: and that that's kind of been his career. But you
Speaker 6: know it's been so long and you wonder, well, you
Speaker 6: know what's he got. I know, I still wouldn't want
Speaker 6: to get hit by Mike Tyson, that's for sure.
Speaker 11: Well, he punches in bunches, and I'll tell you what.
Speaker 11: I saw some of his recent workouts and it looked
Speaker 11: like he means business. Yes, he means business. And we
Speaker 11: have several ways to bet.
Speaker 3: That fight too.
Speaker 6: Well, that's what's going to ask. They tell us about
Speaker 6: the different things that fans can do on the fight.
Speaker 11: Well, it's eight rounds, and you can bet whether or
Speaker 11: not it'll go the distance. The fight to not go
Speaker 11: the distance is a twenty two to ten favorite. If
Speaker 11: you bet that it will go the distance, ten will
Speaker 11: get you back fifteen. And so you're looking at a
Speaker 11: plus one fifty on the distance and fight. These are
Speaker 11: two minute rounds and okay, the thing seems to be
Speaker 11: just designed to stretch it out right.
Speaker 3: And which makes me think, and then I kind of
Speaker 3: like the draw.
Speaker 11: The draw started at ten to one, and now that's
Speaker 11: down the plus seven to fifty and let's say knockout
Speaker 11: Paul by knockout was even money to begin with, and
Speaker 11: you get plus one thirty there because all this money
Speaker 11: coming on on Tyson.
Speaker 3: I'm curious.
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see how something like this, this event
Speaker 2: helps you, guys with the book, because you have other things, right,
Speaker 2: you have NFL like we'll have tonight. We'll talk about
Speaker 2: that later, with other things. Now you have this kind
Speaker 2: of oddity. Where does it help you? Tremendously?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Absolutely, Some people just want action, Jackson.
Speaker 3: I'm sitting next to one, you know, right here, Yeah,
Speaker 3: right here, good.
Speaker 11: Time, and uh, you know everybody likes to watch guys
Speaker 11: beat the heck out of each other.
Speaker 3: And you know what will you will you have?
Speaker 6: I mean there will there be a good number of
Speaker 6: people here cheering, you know, atmosphere, that whole kind of
Speaker 6: thing with you know, for that fight.
Speaker 11: Get her early because I expect there to be the
Speaker 11: room to be a capacity. Wow, that's great. And if
Speaker 11: that happens, we can't let anybody in after a certain point.
Speaker 11: So get here early.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, So he said that the card starts at three fifteen.
Speaker 6: When do you expect or when does anybody expect the
Speaker 6: Tyson fight to take place seven seven. No, man, there
Speaker 6: be a lot of time to get juiced juice. Let
Speaker 6: me say you by juice, I mean you'll get fired
Speaker 6: up for the fight. Okay, sure, I'm not advocating large
Speaker 6: consumption of alcohol.
Speaker 2: How's this, Jeff, Because you have the fight tomorrow about
Speaker 2: that time, you have Arizona basketball about that time? Do
Speaker 2: you have Arizona football an hour later? Days like that,
Speaker 2: especially local when there's a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 2: How do you guys benefit?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 11: Oh, we get a huge crowds for the Arizona games
Speaker 11: they have. They have a very strong following, and uh,
Speaker 11: we just go here and root for the Wildcats. It's
Speaker 11: it's a good time, all right.
Speaker 6: So so then on Saturday, you guys are going to
Speaker 6: do this all over again with a UFC fight. Uh
Speaker 6: toss about that one.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 11: We got a nice card on Saturday coming up with
Speaker 11: Jones and Meosica as the main event there. Jones is
Speaker 11: a heavy favorite over sixty one.
Speaker 3: If you bet.
Speaker 11: Steep a you get plus four sixty at the moment,
Speaker 11: and the rounds is low one and a half rounds.
Speaker 11: You can bet over one and a half rounds which
Speaker 11: is eight of five favorite, or you can bet onundur
Speaker 11: and there's several other nice fights on the card.
Speaker 2: Jones is the guy from Albuquerque. He always gets in trouble,
Speaker 2: so who knows what does that mean? He's always in trouble?
Speaker 3: All right? So, uh, here's a here's a question I
Speaker 3: have for just you know, who are the gamblers here?
Speaker 3: And tu soon?
Speaker 6: Who are the guys that are betting on games? You
Speaker 6: got an NFL game tonight. You got the Commanders and
Speaker 6: the Eagles. I think it's Eagles minus four right now,
Speaker 6: I know, but I didn't see what it is in here.
Speaker 6: But that is that where we're at with it? Yes, okay,
Speaker 6: so you got it was a three and a half earlier, right,
Speaker 6: you got you got NFL games. You've got called we're
Speaker 6: a college town, right, Uh, it's Saturday busier than Sunday,
Speaker 6: Sunday busier than Saturday. You know, you get the the
Speaker 6: NFL fans in here, and you know what are the
Speaker 6: gambling on here when it comes.
Speaker 11: To the to to football on Saturdays all day long.
Speaker 11: You got a whole bunch of games, a lot more
Speaker 11: games than there are Sunday. But that that's Sunday. You
Speaker 11: both days have uh have nice handles? Are handle tends
Speaker 11: to be more on Saturday, just more available games r Yes, sir.
Speaker 11: But if they do, if the if the betters have
Speaker 11: a big day Sunday, they show up a big very Saturday.
Speaker 3: They show up, they bring it back on Sunday. There
Speaker 3: you go. That's what you guys want, right. You gotta
Speaker 3: press to you how we're gonna get our money back? Exactly.
Speaker 2: You look like this mild mannered guy in a suit,
Speaker 2: but you're not this mild mannered guy in a suit.
Speaker 2: You you obviously know your stuff, but you're like pressing
Speaker 2: big you do you know your stuff?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 11: No, I appreciate it now. Eighty percent of it's looking
Speaker 11: the part.
Speaker 3: Well, you pulled it off.
Speaker 6: Let me ask you, what's the best part about working
Speaker 6: in sports But I don't know how long you've been
Speaker 6: doing it.
Speaker 11: The best part about working in sportsbook is it's not work. Yeah,
Speaker 11: this is just something that it's always come natural for me.
Speaker 11: And I have thirty years in the business. I've been
Speaker 11: all over I work. I worked on in Nevada, Vegas,
Speaker 11: a Reno, I've been in Costa Rica for ten years.
Speaker 11: That was in uh, Florida working in some cruise ships.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 11: But it's just it's just it's just fun. It never
Speaker 11: felt like work. And I'm blessed for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, no. And and how does this feel? You've
Speaker 2: been here for a while, so how does this feel
Speaker 2: with the better, better loyal guys?
Speaker 11: Yes, oh yeah, yeah absolutely. We have a strictly walking
Speaker 11: business here and in Arizona. People can get bets anywhere.
Speaker 11: They have a mature mobile market here, so we give
Speaker 11: them every reason the world to come in here and
Speaker 11: bet with us and and enjoy the games. And uh,
Speaker 11: and it's a it's a great atmosphere. And working with
Speaker 11: Casino a deel soul in the basketball yockey tribe. I
Speaker 11: I I can't say enough good things about them.
Speaker 6: Well, it's been to where it's where it's sold sports
Speaker 6: the sports book at casino that'll sold again. We we
Speaker 6: we said this the top a great facility. I mean,
Speaker 6: it's just it's it's space, it's comfy, it's spacious, it's clean.
Speaker 6: You've got you've got a nice bar here with some
Speaker 6: great drink specials and those kinds of things. You got
Speaker 6: kiosks so you don't have to wait a line. But
Speaker 6: there's also some live windows. You know, the purists like me,
Speaker 6: you like to go to the window, hand your guy
Speaker 6: the money and you know, and get your ticket and
Speaker 6: those kinds of things. So a you know, very modern
Speaker 6: facility and just a great looking facility.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we spared no expense.
Speaker 11: And and that being said, you can always bet twenty
Speaker 11: four to seven, and you can always catch twenty four
Speaker 11: to seven. As you mentioned the cain the uh there's
Speaker 11: kiosks that are within the sports book, but there's also
Speaker 11: kiosks that are spread out throughout the casino and those
Speaker 11: stay on twenty four to seven. And if we are
Speaker 11: closed in the sports book, you can always cash your
Speaker 11: winning tickets too, which is the main cage.
Speaker 3: And uh so you can always get your cash.
Speaker 2: You can always bet so daylight tomorrow, you have the
Speaker 2: big fight, you have the Arizona basketball orson football, does
Speaker 2: it kind of even come close to the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: the World Series because you're you have you're limited in
Speaker 2: this for a few hundred people, I'm sure.
Speaker 11: But it's a different type of thing. Super Bowl is great,
Speaker 11: but in super Bowl, it's kind of where you think,
Speaker 11: you know, we we'd be packed to the rafters, but
Speaker 11: it's not like that. A lot of people like like
Speaker 11: them to make their bets and then go to parties
Speaker 11: and stuff or watch it at home.
Speaker 3: Uh, the real mania is March Madness.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I bet that's you know, people people they arrange
Speaker 11: their vacations around it and just sitting just that all day.
Speaker 11: And uh, it's it's just fantastic. And yeah, i'd say
Speaker 11: March Madness is the biggest betting spectacle.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I've only done I've only done a sportsbook for March
Speaker 6: Madness a couple of times, you know, both times in Vegas,
Speaker 6: and it's just unbelievable the way that is. But you know,
Speaker 6: getting back to you, I was talking about the difference
Speaker 6: in the crowds between a college crowd and in an
Speaker 6: NFL crowd. You know, you go to books, say in Vegas,
Speaker 6: and you know college, the college crowd is more of it.
Speaker 6: There's so many games going on, right, you don't have everybody.
Speaker 6: You see an NFL game, everybody's there with their jerseys
Speaker 6: and there and the whole deal. And it's just it's
Speaker 6: a it's a different vibe, is what I've what I've
Speaker 6: sensed with that. Is it like that here as well? I?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say that it is absolutely.
Speaker 11: There's a lot of a lot of people that like
Speaker 11: to go to the a lot of our guests like
Speaker 11: to go to the Arizona games, and uh football and
Speaker 11: basketball especially, and but we have a loyal Arizona cardinal
Speaker 11: backing in him. Okay, all right, makes and they're doing
Speaker 11: quite well. I last week they beat the heck out
Speaker 11: of the Jets and Aaron Rodgers, Yeah, I couldn't understand
Speaker 11: that line they Jet Jets. It opened up a favorite,
Speaker 11: and then Arizona became the favorite. Then when the Jet
Speaker 11: Jets became favored again and they just look they're coming
Speaker 11: off of what five six game losing straight.
Speaker 3: They had won one, the one the previous week. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they went one week, So everything's all right.
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers factor, you know, they think that he's this
Speaker 2: god and he's sometimes not that god.
Speaker 11: Well, I don't know what they expect the how old
Speaker 11: is he now? I don't I don't know what they
Speaker 11: expected to get out of on my plate. He played
Speaker 11: one series last year and then he it's just.
Speaker 2: So outside of outside of the march, madgis for you personally,
Speaker 2: what's what's the best time, what's the best time I.
Speaker 3: Like baseball, yeah personally maybe yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I grew up in Pittsburgh, Okay when they were winning
Speaker 11: all those uh divisions and World Series back in the
Speaker 11: seven Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and uh yeah, I'm a
Speaker 11: big baseball fan. My daughter actually plays baseball in uh
Speaker 11: little leagues and she plays in girls national and regional tournaments.
Speaker 2: And you were and you were saying, in the future,
Speaker 2: there's a possibility that women's pro baseball would be uh,
Speaker 2: it would be a possibility.
Speaker 3: It is going to be a possibility.
Speaker 11: Women's professional baseball is going to be launched in the
Speaker 11: summer of twenty twenty six. They're going to start with
Speaker 11: six teams and it's gonna mostly in the Northeast, so
Speaker 11: for travel, and then they're going to expand out.
Speaker 3: Who knows, maybe Tucson will get one over that way.
Speaker 3: And then if you think to bet those things, absolutely
Speaker 3: we'll be able to bet.
Speaker 11: And I and I've spoken with organizers and told them
Speaker 11: that those amazing apps police if they're going to get
Speaker 11: the money they deserve and the league is going to
Speaker 11: maximize its revenue potential, they have to make a friend
Speaker 11: of sports. Gambling in women's sports, especially, it's crucial that
Speaker 11: they take advantage of everything in frontier and and with
Speaker 11: what happened in the explosion in WNBA this year, that's
Speaker 11: a tide that's going to lift all boats in women's sports.
Speaker 11: And you see the Women's Professional Hockey League at its
Speaker 11: launch and they're rocking and rolling, they're playing in front
Speaker 11: of record crowds, and I don't see any reason why
Speaker 11: they won't happen with the Women's Professional Baseball League when
Speaker 11: that launches, and they're going to get the best talent
Speaker 11: in the world. You're going to You're gonna see a
Speaker 11: lot of Japan. There's going to be a major pipeline
Speaker 11: for players into that and Canada. You have some girls
Speaker 11: playing great ball from Mexico and Venezuela and anywhere else
Speaker 11: at Cuba and so it's going to be extremely exciting
Speaker 11: and I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 3: So again, we're here to solve sports.
Speaker 6: The sports buck here because it I'll sold with Jeff Lindheimer,
Speaker 6: the uh uh sports book manager. All right, Jeff, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna ask your personal question, what's the weirdest thing You've
Speaker 6: ever been on.
Speaker 3: Weirdest thing I ever bet on, weirdest thing I ever
Speaker 3: bet on? You have weirdest thing I'd ever bet on.
Speaker 3: I can tell you some some bad beats we all can.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and I had one on Monday.
Speaker 11: Weird things I bet on, I don't know elections, that's yeah, God,
Speaker 11: that's that's a that's a whole new market.
Speaker 3: I joked the buddy of mine once bet on women's
Speaker 3: Olympic hockey. It's so weird.
Speaker 11: He does that all the time, right USA and Canada
Speaker 11: women's hockey. That's one of the greatest rivalries in the
Speaker 11: planet Earth right now, is that they get together.
Speaker 3: They go at it and it's just you know, you
Speaker 3: did what what weird? That wasn't weird? Yeah? Absolutely well, Jeff,
Speaker 3: we we appreciate the time.
Speaker 6: Again, come on out to Soul Sports, the sports book
Speaker 6: here Casino del Soul. It's a it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 6: There's a group of guys here all right right now
Speaker 6: checking things out, waiting for the NFL and uh six
Speaker 6: fifteen game the Commanders and and the.
Speaker 3: U and the Eagles. That's a I mean, that sounds
Speaker 3: like a really good game. Former World champion. A lot
Speaker 3: of action on that game right now. Yes, we do.
Speaker 11: We just took a that large enough to choke a
Speaker 11: horse on no man. Yeah, we did on Philadelphia minus
Speaker 11: two minus wow.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: All right, don't forget to come in early tomorrow, right
Speaker 2: suggested a good time.
Speaker 11: Tomorrow, I'd say about three ish at the beginning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, early.
Speaker 6: Don't get a comfortable sit and just hope people know
Speaker 6: there's food in nearby, right, you can go get your food,
Speaker 6: bring it in here, hang out.
Speaker 11: Yeah, start laying that money down exactly, lay down.
Speaker 6: Thanks all right, Jeff, Well, thanks so much. I appreciate
Speaker 6: you being here and appreciate you having us. It's been
Speaker 6: a lot of fun for us. We hope it's been
Speaker 6: been good for you.
Speaker 11: Got thank you, gentlemen, God bless you and your all right,
Speaker 11: thank you, Buch.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll have him back as we man forward, as
Speaker 2: we get to the super Bowl and all that other stuff.
Speaker 3: So that's Definitelylenheimer, a sportsbook director. Ready to go. Yes,
Speaker 3: let's go.
Speaker 6: All right, thank you, break, We're going to be right
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Speaker 6: some other sports besides a World Baseball Classic with him.
Speaker 6: These guys been around a long time. I've been a
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Speaker 17: Did a cop.
Speaker 3: Well, you guys, anything else under your sleeve?
Speaker 5: So here's what's what's going on. Okay, So I know
Speaker 5: I know where you're going with this. So the reality
Speaker 5: is this. We were a signature away from getting some
Speaker 5: spring training games here, a signature away from getting an
Speaker 5: affiliated team here.
Speaker 4: But we're not giving up on it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of things that take place, and why
Speaker 5: sometimes I can't say everything because some of the stuff
Speaker 5: is so delicate. People just strategizing and doing some things.
Speaker 5: But I was so did that guy right now that
Speaker 5: was here before me. He said that there might be
Speaker 5: some women's program, women's professional women's professional base.
Speaker 4: Yes, we got hosted. Yeah, no, we could have a
Speaker 4: team here. That would be great.
Speaker 3: He thought that would be great. Perfect.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think that well.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 5: I remember at friends playing for the Silver Bullets, Susie
Speaker 5: Duarte and Kim Brots. The one was from University of Mexico,
Speaker 5: one from University of Arizona, and they were playing on
Speaker 5: that Silver Bullets team and they played at High Corbett.
Speaker 4: It was cool. It wasn't Phil Niker, the pitching coach
Speaker 4: for them.
Speaker 3: But you you named two very very talented players.
Speaker 5: Yeah no, no, I Kim Browns was the first one
Speaker 5: that actually hit a home run over there over at
Speaker 5: High Corbett. I think she went out that she was
Speaker 5: a catcher. I think he wasn't she you're thinking of
Speaker 5: you're thinking le Broch. It was her sister that played
Speaker 5: at University of Mexico.
Speaker 3: I played.
Speaker 4: I was playing baseball when she was playing softball.
Speaker 3: You know, I didn't know that you played at Mexico.
Speaker 5: Yeah, back in a long time. I was gonna play
Speaker 5: for coach all day. Yeah, of course, obviously you're from Albuquerque,
Speaker 5: Santa Fe.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you guys, guys, was obrays Man so offair. I
Speaker 6: was asking you know who your who your favorite baseball team?
Speaker 6: He said you you were a Yankee fan, but through
Speaker 6: your coaching, uh, that you kind of became a fan
Speaker 6: of guys. But tell us a little bit about some
Speaker 6: of that background.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And when you say guys, you mean like players. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: because I'm a fan of girl players, layers players. So
Speaker 5: now just joking, yeah, yeah, Craig, Okay, No, So I
Speaker 5: coached the USA team in two thousand and one, two
Speaker 5: thousand and two, I was the head coach of the
Speaker 5: USA baseball team. So all these guys like eight first
Speaker 5: round draft picks, right, Delman Young two thousand and two
Speaker 5: was the first round first pick, and he went to
Speaker 5: Sherbert Quebec with me when we played for World championships.
Speaker 5: So you're rooting for the players, these guys that you coached,
Speaker 5: right and then then you got friends that are that
Speaker 5: are coaching, like Brett Strong for the Diambacks coach. And
Speaker 5: then you got Craig Bjornson who was a bullpen coach
Speaker 5: for the for the Boston Red Sox, you scenastros, and
Speaker 5: now he's a triple A roving pitching instructor for the
Speaker 5: Atlanta Brave.
Speaker 4: So you know, you reap. You root for guys, you
Speaker 4: root for the someone you know or connection with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: You've had a pretty good sports life, you know, have
Speaker 2: you been a player or did you go to high school?
Speaker 2: Tucson High High High you met, you go and then
Speaker 2: you at Pima are doing your thing at Pima.
Speaker 3: So you had a pretty good life.
Speaker 4: I am so blessed.
Speaker 5: Like nineteen eighty seven we won the state championship and
Speaker 5: uh we got inducted into Tea Club Our our Sports
Speaker 5: Hall of Fame, which is really cool.
Speaker 4: So I've had a great career in athletics.
Speaker 14: But you know.
Speaker 4: I honestly like, right now, I'm not up to speed
Speaker 4: on sports like I.
Speaker 5: Like I used to be because I'm so into my
Speaker 5: You're watching films, I'm watching well, I'm watching yes, Southern
Speaker 5: Arizona sports tourism authority stuff. I'm watching stuff at Pema
Speaker 5: Community College. I mean, yeah, trying to get enrollment. We
Speaker 5: have a new chancellor, all that stuff. Can we go
Speaker 5: there real quick? Because I talked to We talked to
Speaker 5: Monico all the time. Now he's gone, you know, did
Speaker 5: you you know, tired and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Could you talk about how this place has kind of
Speaker 2: expanded and kind of gone bunkers because back in the
Speaker 2: day it was it was just a junior college.
Speaker 3: Right now it's like a sports authority junior college.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, it's definitely nationally known, you know. And and it
Speaker 5: was unfortunate to lose football. I mean that was really unfortunate.
Speaker 5: I and I had to make that call. When Maricopa
Speaker 5: dropped their fourteen and there was on a Western the
Speaker 5: Eastern we just had nobody play against.
Speaker 4: That was unfortunate.
Speaker 5: I actually ran into Jeff Skurrin over at the Rio
Speaker 5: Rico Choy game because United coach Atreo Riga.
Speaker 4: Oh it was, it was a while, but he just
Speaker 4: thinks different.
Speaker 5: I mean like, I'm like, Jeff, we're never going to
Speaker 5: get football again because you know Mara Copa, they're not
Speaker 5: going to do. But then he brought up this like idea,
Speaker 5: what if there was just one team in Arizona and
Speaker 5: they played and traveled and you get all these players
Speaker 5: from all of Arizona and you know, and he has
Speaker 5: a European he just I mean, he triggers like some
Speaker 5: sparks flying. You're like, wait a minute, that actually sounds
Speaker 5: like it could work. I don't know, so I'm like,
Speaker 5: want to follow up with him on that? Yeah, no,
Speaker 5: well again. And you know, you know, Steve and I
Speaker 5: are both you know we we we didn't play as much.
Speaker 6: But you know, you get into sports, it becomes a
Speaker 6: part of who you are, right and even though you
Speaker 6: know you're a you're an academic guy. You're the vice
Speaker 6: president at the Desert Vista CAM because you've been you've
Speaker 6: been in on the academic site for a long time
Speaker 6: after your time as a as a athletic director there.
Speaker 5: But sports never gets onto your out of your blood,
Speaker 5: does it? And you know, here I just turned fifty
Speaker 5: five November ten. So I was telling you guys that earlier.
Speaker 5: And I'm still playing in a fifte and over softball league,
Speaker 5: probably going to play some men senior baseball league this year.
Speaker 2: That's why I was that this question. You're a former,
Speaker 2: well you athlete, you're still how do you? How do
Speaker 2: you feed the beast?
Speaker 3: Right? Yeah, because once an athlete, I was an athlete.
Speaker 4: You cant compete.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's that slow pitch softball, you know, It's it's
Speaker 5: going out there and still competing.
Speaker 8: You know what.
Speaker 5: The funnest thing because we had to end up canceling
Speaker 5: our our season just because we're playing up in golf
Speaker 5: Links and there were double headers and we weren't a
Speaker 5: lot of guys are missing games. But you know what
Speaker 5: I miss most is hanging out with the guys, giving
Speaker 5: them crap, teasing each other and yeah, laughing all that.
Speaker 4: Kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: But those up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's uh, it's it's a good time. But yeah,
Speaker 5: so you said, see that you tried go and play
Speaker 5: some soft.
Speaker 2: Fifty I was with the twenty five thirty year old
Speaker 2: kids who get the hell out of the polls, and
Speaker 2: I was playing shortstop a second and I'm thinking, please
Speaker 2: hit it to me directly because I can't move.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and funny one did and it was it
Speaker 3: was tough. I said, I better get out of this now.
Speaker 5: You know what I want to do Also is I
Speaker 5: got to honor both of you guys for doing this
Speaker 5: because there are so many things going out going on
Speaker 5: in this community that they find out through all of you,
Speaker 5: and that you're able to bring him here and highlight them.
Speaker 5: Tucson is a sports town, it is, you know, And
Speaker 5: I just think that there's so much potential here and
Speaker 5: so I'm excited about.
Speaker 2: You guys are natives, assuming you are natives, and I've
Speaker 2: been here thirty eight years. But there's a lot of
Speaker 2: the athletes that grew up that you guys know that
Speaker 2: you played against are fantastic. And then you see the
Speaker 2: athletes grow up now that get a chance or don't
Speaker 2: get a chance to go beyond high school. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like you you did you want to
Speaker 2: impress somebody, and well all they knew who you were.
Speaker 3: But you know what I'm saying, there's some great talent
Speaker 3: that they can't go. D one they go or whatever you.
Speaker 5: Should tell you know, a lot of people are late developers, right,
Speaker 5: like they maybe played high school. And I had this guy,
Speaker 5: his susse Hernandez was his name. His nickname was Baby Hernandez, right,
Speaker 5: played at deserbut high school. I think I had cut
Speaker 5: him his first year. He came out, he was about
Speaker 5: five to five, tried out, just wasn't looking at Pima.
Speaker 5: Comes out the next year. All of a sudden, he's
Speaker 5: like five ten and he's throwing the ball eighty nine
Speaker 5: ninety miles an hour. He ended up being a two
Speaker 5: year starter for US. He was touching ninety two ninety three.
Speaker 5: Went and played at the University of Call around Pueblo, graduated.
Speaker 5: But if it wasn't for JC, he would have never
Speaker 5: had that experience. Played professional in Mexico also. But so
Speaker 5: I mean there's a pathway for a lot of players
Speaker 5: going the JC route.
Speaker 6: Speaking of that, Okay, whole new subject, right, I don't
Speaker 6: know if you saw this week, I know you're going there.
Speaker 6: The Vanderbilt quarterback who's final lawsuit this week heard about
Speaker 6: saying junior college your the time you played junior college
Speaker 6: sports should not count against your NC Double A eligibility
Speaker 6: because the NC Double A and NJCAA are not affiliated,
Speaker 6: So why does the nc double A get to count
Speaker 6: your enjies your junior college time as part of their eligibility?
Speaker 3: Other New Mexico guy and how a grooky guy who
Speaker 3: went to New Mexico State. Yeah, yeah, but you know
Speaker 3: what would be your thoughts on that? Well?
Speaker 4: So, I mean when your clock starts.
Speaker 5: I know when I was involved, is when you your
Speaker 5: first ULL twelve credit hours or more. That's when your
Speaker 5: clocks right. So that would just open the door for
Speaker 5: so many new magicians. Yeah, because then, I mean it's
Speaker 5: already the wild wild West with Division one. I can't
Speaker 5: imagine coaching D one with the portal and the What do.
Speaker 3: You think of this right now?
Speaker 2: Because it's gonna I talked to Cosgrove maybe last week
Speaker 2: or maybe Monday, success that he's had and continues to have,
Speaker 2: but he and most of them say this NILS can
Speaker 2: eventually creep into the j c S.
Speaker 3: M your thoughts on that.
Speaker 5: I mean I kind of have mixed feelings on this
Speaker 5: because you know, we live in a capitalist country, right,
Speaker 5: I mean, people should be able to make money if
Speaker 5: it's their own name, So I mean it's I'm not
Speaker 5: sure I just know that it's complex.
Speaker 4: And you know, I've heard of I remember I.
Speaker 5: Would have football players and we had football and I
Speaker 5: had guys from out of state and they hadn't eaten
Speaker 5: a couple of days because we didn't have right and
Speaker 5: to give them a granola bar or something, you know,
Speaker 5: that's an NCAA violation back then.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So, I mean I think some of the stuff that
Speaker 5: was happening and why all this went down is it
Speaker 5: got too extreme. I mean, when a guy can't even
Speaker 5: buy their own jersey or go have dinner with somebody,
Speaker 5: it just became too extreme.
Speaker 4: Now, then you know, maybe we over correct it so long,
Speaker 4: too far.
Speaker 5: But you know, I mean there's a there's windows of
Speaker 5: opportunity and athletics that people can maximize their you know,
Speaker 5: whatever they can get. So, but if you watch the
Speaker 5: there's a show on Netflix that talks about those athletes.
Speaker 5: They focus on LSU. I think it was a directed
Speaker 5: or produced by Shaquille O'Neil. I mean, not all athletes
Speaker 5: are getting it's just the lead at the other ones
Speaker 5: are still struggling like they were before, you know, So
Speaker 5: I don't know, it's not it's not all athletes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, well we had again Steve tells this one.
Speaker 6: You know, it talks about this one all the time.
Speaker 6: When we had Jordan, both Jordan Geist and uh and
Speaker 6: Delane Schnell, you know, the swimmer at Arizona, the shot putter,
Speaker 6: and said, you know, to ask them about it, and
Speaker 6: I always say anything else for other people. You know,
Speaker 6: I get some water bottles, maybe you know, some gear,
Speaker 6: but you know, these are two Olympic app Olympic quality athletes.
Speaker 6: I think Jordan got there, but Delaying Schnell was in
Speaker 6: two Olympics and they got faces of the program, Arizona program,
Speaker 6: and they're nothing, you know, so it's not nothing for them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I don't think it's as glamorous as people think.
Speaker 5: You know, if you have a few people that are
Speaker 5: really just benefiting.
Speaker 3: From it, that's that said. How long were you in
Speaker 3: ad Hello, We say.
Speaker 4: Two thousand and nine to probably about nine ten years maybe.
Speaker 2: Under under no circumstances. Has anybody said I wish I
Speaker 2: were back in it because of this and Andreas and
Speaker 2: Lopez those guys say it's too crazy.
Speaker 3: You now, I don't need it, how about you.
Speaker 5: I never heard anybody say they wish they were back
Speaker 5: in it that I think it's so hard to manage
Speaker 5: because there's so many unknowns and it's challenging, you know.
Speaker 4: So I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think we'll we'll correct ourselves here soon
Speaker 5: and we'll see. But but you know, I mean, hats
Speaker 5: off to those people that are getting paid and getting
Speaker 5: something out of this. You know, there might be some
Speaker 5: of them that this is as much money they're going
Speaker 5: to make in their whole career.
Speaker 6: Right, So yeah, all right, we're here at Sold Sports
Speaker 6: at the Casinodel Sold Sports Book. We're about to go
Speaker 6: to break. Would love to have you back. We're going
Speaker 6: to do our picks this afternoon, right in the four
Speaker 6: o'clock hours.
Speaker 5: I've got to get going, but thank you for having
Speaker 5: me and I'll come whenever you want, and and our
Speaker 5: guy Blake Eager will be here.
Speaker 3: Well, ed Edgar appreciate it. Thank you. Go get us
Speaker 3: some more baseball, man, I will get it. And you
Speaker 3: played your face.
Speaker 6: I don't know people, Yeah, you could press right over there. Okay,
Speaker 6: Hey again, Edgar, thanks for being here. Best of luck
Speaker 6: with everything, and don't be a stranger.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'll come and see you guys.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you. We'll talk to you soon. All right.
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