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Speaker 1: I on the Ball, Breaking News on Fox Sports fourteen
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Speaker 3: Class of twenty twenty six linebacker dash fa Fida commits
Speaker 3: to Arizona. Older brother Noah changes his jersey number from
Speaker 3: eleven to number one.
Speaker 2: Huge get I guess just could keep it in the family, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: And you build that you build that line right, well
Speaker 2: you think that you do, hope, so right, Yeah, nowadays
Speaker 2: it's it's probably not the same thing, but that recruitment
Speaker 2: line and where it goes from is a big deal, right,
Speaker 2: Building that trust in that community, right and the family
Speaker 2: is bought into this place. Noah obviously has for a
Speaker 2: while now. I mean there were rumors that he would leave.
Speaker 2: I kind of bought into those rumors, which was a
Speaker 2: shame on me. But now he's here to stay and
Speaker 2: he's got a little brother coming in, so, which is good.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow's signing day. I don't know if you have any
Speaker 2: new potential signings, but tomorrow's a big day with the signings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not much from the signings. But Arizona football announces
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five schedule. Arizona will play ten Big twelve teams,
Speaker 3: just like they did last year.
Speaker 2: Right right, One of them is not going to be
Speaker 2: on this. One of them's on the schedule, Kansas State,
Speaker 2: but they're not part of the Big twelve schedule.
Speaker 4: Correct, they're the third game. I think you did the
Speaker 4: season right, so similar to what happened this year, right right,
Speaker 4: third game here, they're good bye here. So they open
Speaker 4: it with Hawaii, uh, and then they play Weaver State
Speaker 4: and then Kansas State get a bye, and then they'll
Speaker 4: get into the Big Twelve. Where would you rank Big
Speaker 4: twelve in terms of football conference? Third or fourth? Okay,
Speaker 4: third and fourth SEC? Big ten, Big twelve, Yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean a SEC would be the other one. Whether there
Speaker 4: are any Big twelve good Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I think that'll work.
Speaker 4: I think that's fair. Yeah, I could be wrong. I
Speaker 4: mean I think it's just a it's a question.
Speaker 3: Right, Arizona Jim Katz, Alison Fears, and Elena Dietz pick
Speaker 3: up Big Twelve honors after dominant win over Denver.
Speaker 4: Okay, what I mean is that? Or are they ranked
Speaker 4: right now? Jim Kats? Yeah, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 4: know how to think. So it's fine. Just go ahead
Speaker 4: and continue because it might take some time to figure Ouah. Sorry,
Speaker 4: don't don't get yeah, don't don't. Don't worry about the
Speaker 4: fan over here. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Tonight's college basketball slate features several strong matchups, including a
Speaker 3: ranked Big East battle between eleven Marquette and twelve Saint
Speaker 3: John's potential upset as number seven Purdue as is Iowa,
Speaker 3: a crucial SEC showdown between number fourteen Kentucky and twenty
Speaker 3: five Ole Miss, and a Big Twelve clash as number
Speaker 3: twenty Arizona takes on by U.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, what else you got? I don't have much
Speaker 4: to help you. So Miles Garrett has requested a trade
Speaker 4: from the bread We had that? Yeah, I saw that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Did you guys talk about it yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I joked that I didn't know Cleveland had a team.
Speaker 2: Worst trade of all time, Deshaun Watson, Oh, the worst
Speaker 2: payment for all the time. Yeah, yeah, sorry, that's not
Speaker 2: you're talking in the NFL. I thought you're gonna talk
Speaker 2: to the NBA with that, Dallas.
Speaker 4: Oh my god. I don't know if I would say
Speaker 4: that's the worst trade of all time. I mean, it
Speaker 4: was surprising trade. But the more you see about it,
Speaker 4: more you read about it the clubhouse with Luca, I
Speaker 4: don't know if that front office liked him very much.
Speaker 4: I don't know if the players liked him very much.
Speaker 4: So he weighs two seventy now, yeah, and his antics
Speaker 4: in the finals last year, you didn't see a lot
Speaker 4: of a lot of backing come out of that front
Speaker 4: office to back him in his his his antics during
Speaker 4: the finals.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, it's just if he was shocked about the trade,
Speaker 2: but he's excited to do it.
Speaker 4: So go ahead, you have something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just in NFL Networks in a rappaport repeat
Speaker 3: reports the Rams are at least willing to eat some
Speaker 3: of the money in a Cooper Cup trade.
Speaker 2: So does that mean he went I thought he was
Speaker 2: going to be traded or he's gonna get out?
Speaker 4: What does that mean? There's Chris.
Speaker 5: It says here they want to pay down, potentially paying
Speaker 5: down the seven point five million dollars signing bonus, which
Speaker 5: is fully guaranteed for Cup, so it will ease the
Speaker 5: burden on an acquiring team.
Speaker 4: So a lot of people have n't Maybe in Dallas,
Speaker 4: wouldn't you want him?
Speaker 5: I love that Dallas they said might be a contender
Speaker 5: for him, which makes the Raiders, Which the Raiders.
Speaker 4: He's only I mean, the problem is he's at that
Speaker 4: age where you're not gonna get a full season out
Speaker 4: of him. I mean, his body can't take that. But
Speaker 4: I mean he's still elite talent. You just getting a
Speaker 4: Kua now, that's obviously the alpha go to.
Speaker 5: He's elite in the playoffs though, Cooper Cup right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: makes some catches.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Have you ever seen videos of him playing high
Speaker 4: school basketball? No? Oh, it's wild. You should definitely go
Speaker 4: back and watch him. You not tall? He is? He
Speaker 4: plays small, but you have six two? Oh really?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: Really? I don't push it was I was shocked. I
Speaker 4: don't push the My geek friend Chris here, I was shocked.
Speaker 4: He plays like a slot.
Speaker 5: He plays like what like man Wes Welker, Yeah, Wes
Speaker 5: Welker six two, he might be six three even.
Speaker 4: I'm getting I'm getting confirmation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I need confirmation. And you saw that t
Speaker 2: mac obviously in the top ten. They love the guy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's just tremendous. He'd go go in the.
Speaker 4: Top ten yearly in a couple of months he has
Speaker 4: six two. Yeah. Wow, that's wild. I had no clue.
Speaker 4: It's confirmed. He looks small but plays big because everything
Speaker 4: on the internet, you know, is true. Okay, that's it
Speaker 4: for today's breaking Oh well, okay, that was a that
Speaker 4: was quick.
Speaker 2: I have some stuff with just ESPN that I was
Speaker 2: kind of perusing. I guess coach Reid's going to stay
Speaker 2: at least one more year from Kansas City, maybe win
Speaker 2: this year and maybe and again next.
Speaker 4: That would be three four. Yeah h So we'll see
Speaker 4: how old is he. I don't know, sixty something anyway. Sorry,
Speaker 4: I'm asking detailed questions. No, no, no, this is this is
Speaker 4: on the kids. These are the breaking news. Good question, though,
Speaker 4: he's got to be in the mid sixties, it doesn't say.
Speaker 4: In the story, Travis Kelsey says he's not gonna give
Speaker 4: it up either. He's coming back from one more year
Speaker 4: no matter what, interesting, what else, anything else.
Speaker 2: Maybe it will take some calls if you guys want
Speaker 2: to call, please do five two four will take your calls.
Speaker 2: I guess the Lakers still need a big so they're
Speaker 2: gonna go after a big to replace Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3: There are reports that they might treat for Mitchell Robinson
Speaker 3: from the next Yeah, they definitely need a big man.
Speaker 4: Does this mean that Coloco gets more minutes? Probably Jobby
Speaker 4: for now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jackson Hayes the starter. Coloco is the backup right now. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'd love to say.
Speaker 2: That you saw that Jordan Michael, Jordan's son got pop
Speaker 2: for cocaine.
Speaker 4: And d y and stuff. No, I didn't say that
Speaker 4: at all. Yeah, I just saw in Miami. In Miami,
Speaker 4: he's been chasing those supermodels. He was dating what Pippin's
Speaker 4: ex wife, and now he was dating I guess Murphy
Speaker 4: Murphy's ex wife. That's a that's a weird. Is that
Speaker 4: that's weird? Right? I mean? Am I not like good
Speaker 4: for them? However, I don't have nothing son, It's just
Speaker 4: that like how that transaction happens. It's not like you're
Speaker 4: just dating some random person, like you're dating your ex
Speaker 4: teammate's wife and then Eddie Murphy's. Yeah, that's that's weird,
Speaker 4: like what crowd? Are you good for him? Power to you?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 4: But I mean, like where, let's ask this question first.
Speaker 4: Where are you meeting these people at family Gaalleries? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 4: when your Michael Jordan's son, you're kind of annointed, you're
Speaker 4: kind of I guess he's got the baby crown. Huh
Speaker 4: yeah yeah, well now he's gonna have to wear it
Speaker 4: in jail, probably for a couple of days at least. Well, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know what the bail was? Take a guess. One
Speaker 4: point four thousand. Okay, Well, you asked me this last week,
Speaker 4: and I was way off too. I don't know why
Speaker 4: you asked me these ques. I'm supposed to be asking
Speaker 4: you the clerical questions. Four thousand dollars for bail? That
Speaker 4: was it? How much did he get caught with? I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't see that. I saw that smort this morning,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, no, that's interesting. I didn't know he
Speaker 2: stop dating miss Pippin, but he did. I forget her
Speaker 2: first name. She still go by a Pippin. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think so. Yeah, you know, I don't run in those
Speaker 2: for them, so I don't know. Hey, it's a Jordan
Speaker 2: Pippen matchup. Right, what's the greatest of all time? The
Speaker 2: Real Housewives of Tucson. Yeah, I don't. I don't follow
Speaker 2: a big Bravo guy. I don't need the drama. I
Speaker 2: don't need I already have no trouble. Yeah, let's see
Speaker 2: what's going on here. I gotta forguret what I want
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, listeners can't see it, but we're all over the
Speaker 4: place with the computer here. Yeah, okay, what else? What else?
Speaker 4: Tiger Woods mom passed? Yea, she was member, you know,
Speaker 4: and you you remember where you remember her from Tiger's
Speaker 4: Tiger Woods mom mom?
Speaker 2: Right, you said you know his dad because his dad
Speaker 2: was obvious, but his mom when he was making his
Speaker 2: confession and his mom was in the front row.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, so she was eighty.
Speaker 4: She was eighty.
Speaker 3: Nfl r I says theories that officials favorite chiefs are insulting.
Speaker 4: Oh of course, it's one of only one and a half.
Speaker 4: I think, when do you get the game script for that?
Speaker 4: Because then, all right they passed that out with the
Speaker 4: day before, right, I still laugh at that stuff. Everybody
Speaker 4: has their thoughts on stupid stuff. I mean, I know,
Speaker 4: this is kind of a just a boilerplate question. But
Speaker 4: I mean, if Mahomes wins, oh, I mean is he
Speaker 4: is he number two?
Speaker 2: Well, that's the funny thing about They were trying to
Speaker 2: compare him to Brady earlier today and they were saying, Brady,
Speaker 2: no matter what he does, no one who Mahomes does,
Speaker 2: there's no way he's even this.
Speaker 4: Brady's number one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that Brady's had, you know, these three different
Speaker 2: seasons or careers, and all of them have been great.
Speaker 2: He didn't win much when he was younger, but he
Speaker 2: won a lot later and it takes a lot for
Speaker 2: Mahomes to too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I mean, it's a te I mean he's
Speaker 4: in that Burdachalon already. So yeah, okay, yeah, Kelsey, greatest
Speaker 4: tight end of all time. I mean, as it's gotta
Speaker 4: be gronk, But yeah, I don't know about that. I
Speaker 4: don't know if I think still holds the It's hard
Speaker 4: to say in today's world of this. We also just
Speaker 4: want to put everything in the list, right, yeah, don't
Speaker 4: you do? What's your favorite show, what's your favorite move?
Speaker 4: What's the greatest album?
Speaker 6: Which?
Speaker 4: Right? Right? Right? No, no, no, hard to say, but
Speaker 4: maybe hard to say, but maybe. Ye.
Speaker 2: And I don't know numbers, you know, I just know
Speaker 2: these good and throwing the ball, and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of good tight ends there are.
Speaker 4: It's a different it's a different position now than it was,
Speaker 4: say in the eighties and nineties. You ain't never used
Speaker 4: it till recently. Yeah, that's true. I mean they're essentially
Speaker 4: another wide receiver. Yeah, of course, why wouldn't you right,
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know you have six or five donkey
Speaker 4: that would run over people. So not using your leadoff hitter,
Speaker 4: what the what? Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it doesn't. Although the leadoff era has kind of gone
Speaker 4: to the wayside coming back power. Yeah, but I mean
Speaker 4: now that you've you've you've added the running game back
Speaker 4: into baseball, there's a little bit more excitement. I think,
Speaker 4: why did they do that? They want the game to
Speaker 4: move right, Yeah, I mean listen, it was great. It
Speaker 4: was great to watch, you know, guys hit fifty sixty
Speaker 4: home runs. But and that's what there's still trying to do. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but you're striking out too much. There's not runners in position. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you want to see the We know baseball's boring, right,
Speaker 4: I mean that's pretty much I love it. It's my
Speaker 4: favorite thing in the world. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: like you want to see guys move, I want to
Speaker 4: see guys steal bases.
Speaker 2: People need to have some kind of thing their eyes
Speaker 2: need to do something. Yeah, right, No, I get that.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I think they're talking now with college
Speaker 2: basketball and you cause you watch it, games are no
Speaker 2: longer two hours, they're two fifteen, they're two twenty. That's
Speaker 2: an issue for TV slots. Oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4: I mean the media timeout timed with the actual timeout
Speaker 4: going back to back, where you get maybe thirty seconds
Speaker 4: of gameplay. Even for me, it's like, okay, let's get
Speaker 4: this call, let's go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wants you over runner on tonight's replay four four.
Speaker 2: That takes some time, and then the media ten Like
Speaker 2: you say, it's going to be about two twenty tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know it's I think that's a that's a problem.
Speaker 2: So when you have that discussion, you're looking at the average.
Speaker 2: I mean could be you're gonna have to look this up,
Speaker 2: but average Major League Baseball game time now is somewhere
Speaker 2: close to two and a half to forty five. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, you're when you start getting basketball in the
Speaker 2: same breath as as a major league baseball game. That's
Speaker 2: great for baseball, bad for basketball. Yeah, yeah, what are
Speaker 2: you looking up.
Speaker 7: For?
Speaker 4: What for an average major league baseball game?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought it was like two and a half
Speaker 4: two it's short and quite a bit to Yeah, the
Speaker 4: Yankees still have to play the Red Sox and those
Speaker 4: games take six days. The fights and stuff, yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: did you ever get in a fight? We just talked? No, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: I didn't meant to see that, did you How I
Speaker 2: wanted to say this, not personally. Did I ever hit
Speaker 2: anybody on purpose?
Speaker 4: Asked me. I didn't know how to say that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: well you can just say okay, yeah, nobody's gonna come
Speaker 4: after me anymore. I think I might have dotted a
Speaker 4: couple of guys on purpose, but never had hunted. I
Speaker 4: never had a hunted none purpose. I would black guys
Speaker 4: off the play, but I had I had more hit
Speaker 4: by pitches than I did walk for the fight. No,
Speaker 4: these baseball fights are kind of like, you know, what
Speaker 4: are you say, a bunch of pans? I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know some of them are pretty serious
Speaker 4: in the air and slugs and you know.
Speaker 3: The MLB average game time drops a two hours and
Speaker 3: thirty six minutes, lowest since ninety.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that makes But it's funny because I've gone
Speaker 2: to a couple since this time, and I'm thinking, you're
Speaker 2: spending X amount.
Speaker 4: Of money whatever it is. It's almost like you don't
Speaker 4: get your money's worth. So that was my argument. Like,
Speaker 4: as a fan, I think you're as a true flat fan,
Speaker 4: I think you're losing some of that and the experience
Speaker 4: of the baseball game. Everybody knows you're not watching every
Speaker 4: single pitch unless you're a social event. It's a social event.
Speaker 4: So like it, I think you're losing a little bit
Speaker 4: of that too. But it's still a cheaper ticket to
Speaker 4: go into a baseball game than his NBA or nfls.
Speaker 2: Why do you think that the NBA is diminishing the
Speaker 2: audience or whatever?
Speaker 6: The view?
Speaker 4: We talked about this a little bit. It's I think
Speaker 4: it's it's a confusing schedule for an average fan. Now
Speaker 4: you have a middle season tournament, their playoffs last for
Speaker 4: a month and a half more and more two months,
Speaker 4: and now you're you're watching teams like the Celtics that
Speaker 4: are averaging forty three pointers a game again, like you
Speaker 4: miss that and everybody's everybody's friends, right, and then you
Speaker 4: get to pick and choose when you want to be traded.
Speaker 4: Most likely you have a top three. It's just it's
Speaker 4: not the same kind of dynasties when.
Speaker 2: The money play apart the Miami guy Butler wanting to
Speaker 2: get out and get into the number making fifty million,
Speaker 2: I want more, YadA YadA.
Speaker 4: But people are just say no, I'm tired. I'm just tired.
Speaker 4: I've had enough. I think it's a great argument that
Speaker 4: you're making. And I've said this before that I'm all
Speaker 4: for players. As a player, I'm all four players get
Speaker 4: paid as much as you possibly can. Your career is short, uh, people,
Speaker 4: people are going to treat you like property, like trading,
Speaker 4: so you I get but when you sign a contract
Speaker 4: that you're getting paid close to fifteen million dollars a year.
Speaker 4: The average Frian. We like people are waking up at
Speaker 4: four o'clock in the morning and go and working jobs.
Speaker 4: I hate right to put food on the table. People
Speaker 4: don't want to hear you bitch and complain about I
Speaker 4: think that's an issue. I think that's one hundred. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it should be a to what level I don't, And
Speaker 4: you get to choose the games you're not going to
Speaker 4: play in. You want to take a you want to
Speaker 4: take a rest day. When I spend one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty dollars for a ticket that I might never see
Speaker 4: an NBA game again, and I came to see you
Speaker 4: and you're not playing because you're tired, right, Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: that's a problem. Yeah, yeah, sorry, I got fired up. Well, okay,
Speaker 4: I gotta go.
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Speaker 1: four forty.
Speaker 2: Wells trying the ball. You're on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera and with me today is Blake Eager
Speaker 2: from Southerner is on a sports tournament.
Speaker 4: SILMASO, who do we y'all? Let you introduce the gentleman
Speaker 4: we have. We are very fortunate to have this guest,
Speaker 4: and I am beyondhappy that he agreed to come on
Speaker 4: today because he already came on once with he was fantastic,
Speaker 4: and he said it was the worst experience he's ever
Speaker 4: had on a radio show, so I had to pull listen.
Speaker 4: I own big time for coming, but it's it's God.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't shock me.
Speaker 12: No.
Speaker 4: I say the same thing to people when they're joking around.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, that could be honest. This is Jim Small.
Speaker 4: He is a president of the World Baseball Classic and
Speaker 4: we are we were grateful that he took time out
Speaker 4: of his schedule because he's two hours ahead right now
Speaker 4: in New York.
Speaker 2: So Jim, Jim, let me ask you the question I asked,
Speaker 2: my guy, here, are you guys nervous?
Speaker 4: Are you guys excited? What's the smood right now?
Speaker 12: Oh, we're so pumped.
Speaker 16: And first of all, thank you Steve and Blake and Steve,
Speaker 16: thank you for having me back. You know, it may
Speaker 16: surprise you. A lot of people don't really care much
Speaker 16: about what I have to say, particularly around my own home.
Speaker 4: So I am happy to talk.
Speaker 16: My ear ears off about baseball in general, the World
Speaker 16: Baseball Classic in particular. Yeah, we're pumped, like you know,
Speaker 16: the thing and I mentioned this to you guys before
Speaker 16: when last week talked.
Speaker 4: You know, the WBC is something really special, right.
Speaker 16: It's it's players playing for their country and that is
Speaker 16: just special, and that's different, and they do things and
Speaker 16: they act differently than they would for the regular team,
Speaker 16: whether that's the major league team or our college team
Speaker 16: or whatnot. So to be able to bring that energy
Speaker 16: to Tucson, an to Taipei, which will be the week
Speaker 16: before Tucson, is really special. So we can't wait for it.
Speaker 16: We know we've got people in Tucson are excited about that.
Speaker 16: You know, Blake had me out there last week and
Speaker 16: I got to Bob Hoffman invited us out to the
Speaker 16: road Runners game, and I just saw the enthusiasm there,
Speaker 16: you know, for sports in general. But I had people
Speaker 16: coming up to me to talk about the WBC because
Speaker 16: they ran a little promo on it, and I think
Speaker 16: two sons ready for it. I think it's going to
Speaker 16: be great.
Speaker 4: You guys have experienced this before.
Speaker 2: My first time experiencing this was I think I said
Speaker 2: to you, Jim, back in Miami two thousand and eight ish.
Speaker 4: I think it was.
Speaker 2: I had didn't know anything about it, went to a
Speaker 2: game and I'm thinking, holy crap, this is fun. I mean,
Speaker 2: you had the nationalities bands and craziness and fun, and
Speaker 2: there happened to be a pretty good baseball game, right,
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that's what you're hoping for it, that's.
Speaker 16: What you're hoping for exactly exactly right. You know, we
Speaker 16: call it the Fiesta or the Festival of baseball, depending
Speaker 16: on which language we're using. And it's true. It is
Speaker 16: the party in the stands and on the field and
Speaker 16: some of the best most iconic moments that I can remember.
Speaker 16: I've worked in baseball for forty years and got to
Speaker 16: see some really cool things and World Series and All
Speaker 16: Star games, and you know, it just ranks right up
Speaker 16: with them, and so and it's not just me saying that.
Speaker 16: The players that say that, you know, the guys coming
Speaker 16: out of the last WUBC, you know, big name guys
Speaker 16: that had played in World Series before talked about this
Speaker 16: being the highlight of their careers, including show Heyodani. So
Speaker 16: that's pretty special and we're really excited to bring that
Speaker 16: to Tucson.
Speaker 4: And each of them bring out their own special of
Speaker 4: spice from their nationality, you know what I'm saying, it's
Speaker 4: it's who they are, I mean, their identity. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: exactly right.
Speaker 16: And what's so cool And I'm in a very unique
Speaker 16: position and that I get to go to all the
Speaker 16: venues and I get to see and I'm very lucky.
Speaker 16: I've been doing this since the first one in two
Speaker 16: thousand and six, so I've seen the way the Japanese
Speaker 16: and the Koreans and the Taiwanese, you know, consume this
Speaker 16: what they do. But I also get to see it,
Speaker 16: you know, in San Juan and in Miami and Houston
Speaker 16: and now in Tucson and see you know different people
Speaker 16: like you said, you know, they bring your own flavor
Speaker 16: their character to the game, and that's it's the same game,
Speaker 16: but it's played in different ways and celebrated differently in
Speaker 16: different places of the world. You know, we like to
Speaker 16: say baseball is America's pastime, but it belongs to the
Speaker 16: world and it has for for several years now.
Speaker 4: How did this marriage happen? How did how did you
Speaker 4: fall into this? If that makes any sense, Blake, Yeah,
Speaker 4: between Jim and I. Yeah, or just because you're now
Speaker 4: the head you're kindly here? Yeah, how did this? I mean,
Speaker 4: Jim knows this and we've talked about it, you know,
Speaker 4: multiple times. But uh, we're really fortunate to have some
Speaker 4: people in our in our corner with Dan Schneider and
Speaker 4: Tom Tracy that had connections with Derek Hall and Ken
Speaker 4: Kendrick with the Diamondbacks and Major League Baseball, and so
Speaker 4: when it was time to go after the qualifiers, it
Speaker 4: kind of fell in our lap. And then we we
Speaker 4: decided to go after it, and we put in a
Speaker 4: bed and we've worked with Jim and we had to
Speaker 4: beat out what is it, eight or ten cities? Yeah,
Speaker 4: and fortunately we we did a really good job on
Speaker 4: a community effort here and we continue to do a
Speaker 4: good job on a community effort. What do you think
Speaker 4: sold what was sold?
Speaker 16: It asked Jim, Jim, you know what it was, this
Speaker 16: this amazing like, yeah, we can get that done. And
Speaker 16: everybody it's not just Blake. I mean, Blake is amazing, right,
Speaker 16: and and he's been the one that spearheaded all of
Speaker 16: this stuff. And and look, we're not easy to deal with, right.
Speaker 16: We have a lot of needs. We have, we travel heavy,
Speaker 16: we have you know, we recreate a major league experience
Speaker 16: with these players, and and Blake and everybody else has
Speaker 16: been just like, yep, we can do that. So you know,
Speaker 16: Sarah Horvat, you know the people at Keino, you know
Speaker 16: Dan and Tom that that Blake mentioned, you know, so
Speaker 16: that like everybody that we that is part of this
Speaker 16: coalition that's come together sold us, you know, basically from
Speaker 16: the beginning, you know, to see But I think I
Speaker 16: mentioned that we were we were hopeful to be able
Speaker 16: to do this a few years ago, and basically five
Speaker 16: years ago, we were we were all in Tucson, We're
Speaker 16: staying out La Paloma. We had a bunch of teams
Speaker 16: in town, and then the world changed and we had
Speaker 16: to pack everyone up and send them out. And I
Speaker 16: think I mentioned then it's like this is not to
Speaker 16: make good for that right. Yes, we would love to
Speaker 16: come back. We want we were we were sad that
Speaker 16: we disappointed the fans and they couldn't see you know,
Speaker 16: the WBC. But you know, part of this is is, look,
Speaker 16: this is a business, right, and we have to make
Speaker 16: sure that we're going to the best place for the players,
Speaker 16: for the fans, for everything, and and and Tucson. You know,
Speaker 16: Blake and everybody commenced us that that Tucson is the
Speaker 16: right place, and everything I've seen since we made that
Speaker 16: decision last year has backed that up.
Speaker 2: So to both of you, this is hopefully maybe not
Speaker 2: locally for one off. I mean, if they do really
Speaker 2: well and pardon the pun but knock it out of
Speaker 2: the park, it could happen again here.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's a plan, right. We want to build
Speaker 4: this relationship and we want to continue to grow it
Speaker 4: for the long term. Whatever we costantly can have from
Speaker 4: a cross market to standpoint from Tucson and the World
Speaker 4: Baseball Classic and major League Baseball is what we're here for.
Speaker 4: We've and I've shared this with you, Steve and Jim.
Speaker 4: You know this. We we haven't had major League Baseball
Speaker 4: since two thousand and nine. That's been our backbone in
Speaker 4: southern Arizona. We are so happy and lucky to have
Speaker 4: Jim and Mickey and Nelson, you know, doing what they're
Speaker 4: doing on their side and choosing Tucson to give us
Speaker 4: opportunity to open that door back up for whatever may
Speaker 4: come and build a strong relationship for the sustainable future. Yeah. No,
Speaker 4: w Yeah.
Speaker 16: And just to add to that absolutely, I mean, you know,
Speaker 16: you got to get the first one done, and you
Speaker 16: know we still have some work to do, all of
Speaker 16: us working together. But you know, we love the idea
Speaker 16: of you know, coming back to two on it. That's
Speaker 16: that's what presents itself and we certainly are are you know,
Speaker 16: keeping an open mind to that and we just you know,
Speaker 16: we can't wait to see where we are in a
Speaker 16: month or so.
Speaker 2: It's funny you brought this up, Jim and you talked
Speaker 2: about five years ago, and I remember that because we
Speaker 2: had some of the local dignitaries on the on the
Speaker 2: on the show and we didn't know what was going
Speaker 2: to happen, guys who did right and they were excited
Speaker 2: the county and then all of a sudden everything was gone,
Speaker 2: everything was gone. So that must have been disheartening for
Speaker 2: everybody involved, because you're on the verge, on the verge,
Speaker 2: and then it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it was, and it was you know, we had
Speaker 16: teams we ran a different event then and that we
Speaker 16: were bringing twelve teams and you know, two back to
Speaker 16: back consecutive tandem events with six teams each. And so
Speaker 16: we had teams from Europe already in town, and we
Speaker 16: had a bunch of teams that were sitting in Europe
Speaker 16: waiting to come in for that second round. And you know,
Speaker 16: we basically we had to get everyone out before the
Speaker 16: you know, the travel stop between the US and Europe,
Speaker 16: and you know, it was a scary time all of us.
Speaker 16: You know, you know, nobody knew kind of what the
Speaker 16: world was. And so sometimes, you know, baseball and sports
Speaker 16: can can play a really important part of the healing
Speaker 16: after a big event and after after you know, a trauma.
Speaker 4: To the nation. But it wasn't going to be that.
Speaker 16: It was going to be you know, we had to
Speaker 16: put baseball in the back seat and focus on other
Speaker 16: things and make sure everybody was healthy and and and
Speaker 16: and one of the things I'm really happy about was
Speaker 16: we came back in twenty two with the qualifiers. We
Speaker 16: ended up in the twenty three tournament playing these overseas.
Speaker 16: You know, we played one in Regnsburg, Germany, and one
Speaker 16: in Panama City, Panama. But you know, that was part
Speaker 16: of the recovery process. I think too, And I think
Speaker 16: you saw this cathartic feeling of everybody getting together in
Speaker 16: twenty you know, twenty twenty two, you know, two years after,
Speaker 16: you know, COVID hit everywhere everywhere we played, you know,
Speaker 16: in Taiwan and in Japan and the United States, and
Speaker 16: everybody was able to get back in and enjoy baseball.
Speaker 16: So it was really cool to be part of that.
Speaker 4: To both of you. Then, how will measure will success
Speaker 4: be measured? I mean, it's fundamentally it's going to be
Speaker 4: ticket sales, But I think from my standpoint, if I
Speaker 4: take a step back, end up being completely honest, it's
Speaker 4: due to Jim's patience and Nelson and Mickey's patients on
Speaker 4: the World Baseball Classic side. But we've got nine entities
Speaker 4: working on this one singular thing together. I don't think
Speaker 4: that's ever happened in southern Arizona, where you have visit Tucson,
Speaker 4: PMA County Kino Sports Complex, Mexican Baseball FSSKO DOG Arizona
Speaker 4: ball US raul Gary Lanston, Like, there's so many people
Speaker 4: at the table and we're all pulling in the same direction.
Speaker 4: Ray Flaores. I mean, you have this great camaraderie all
Speaker 4: for the singular goal of this is an event that
Speaker 4: we haven't had in so long that we need to
Speaker 4: pull forward, and you're doing that and that's a huge
Speaker 4: success in.
Speaker 2: My mind to that point, Jim, and I'm kind of
Speaker 2: interrupting my question to you, but to that point, is
Speaker 2: that unlike other places that you've dealt with or is
Speaker 2: it common?
Speaker 16: Oh, it's very unusual and it's very special and it's
Speaker 16: you you you know, the way we.
Speaker 4: Have set this up.
Speaker 16: I'll give you a time one as an example. We
Speaker 16: do have a promoter there. It's a business sports marketing firm,
Speaker 16: and then they have some you know involvement from uh
Speaker 16: from the government there, but but not much. You know,
Speaker 16: what we have in Tucson is really, as Blake said this,
Speaker 16: this you know, coalition of a really smart, like minded
Speaker 16: people that want to that that that are very proud
Speaker 16: of where they live and and really proud to show
Speaker 16: that off. I mean, I think That's the thing I
Speaker 16: get most excited about every time I go to Tucson.
Speaker 16: It's just like how proud people are of being from
Speaker 16: southern Arizona and being from Tucson, and and they want
Speaker 16: to show it off. And you know, we get the
Speaker 16: chance to team with them to show Tucson to the
Speaker 16: world by bringing the world to Tucson. So I think
Speaker 16: that's a really cool opportunity for us.
Speaker 2: Right, so you're in Manhattan, and you know you're not
Speaker 2: in Manhattan anymore in Tucson when you're visiting obviously, Right,
Speaker 2: I'm curious Blake and Jim the price points. You know
Speaker 2: how important that is. The facilities who are to go
Speaker 2: to play. There's some some issue, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Did you guys figure that out or how did you.
Speaker 4: Figure that out? Yeah? I mean it took a group
Speaker 4: to figure that out. But you're right, it's a different
Speaker 4: demographic here in southern Arizona and we had to be
Speaker 4: aware of that, and we want to be aware. And
Speaker 4: the one thing I looked at is like me when
Speaker 4: I was a kid, where I grew up, you know,
Speaker 4: across the street from Flowing Wells Junior High. I want
Speaker 4: to make sure that everybody has a chance to go
Speaker 4: to those games, right and can afford it. It's not
Speaker 4: something we want to put you know, the people and
Speaker 4: you know I was the person right right, So I
Speaker 4: was that person and I'm thankful for my parents to
Speaker 4: do what they had to do to make sure I
Speaker 4: had opportunities. And we want the same thing for Tucson.
Speaker 4: We want everybody. This isn't We're not trying to say
Speaker 4: we want to go after this singular demographic or that
Speaker 4: it's it's everybody in our region to have the opportunity.
Speaker 4: That's why we're doing the Kids in the Park days.
Speaker 4: You know, we talked about that a little bit earlier.
Speaker 4: Is that you know, we've got over three thousand kids
Speaker 4: coming from all different school districts to experience that, to
Speaker 4: have that play because you might never ever get it again,
Speaker 4: and it's a core memory that we want to build on,
Speaker 4: right yeah.
Speaker 16: Yeah, And that's consistent like what we want the WBC
Speaker 16: to be for everybody. So you know, we work closely
Speaker 16: with with Blake and every one to make sure that
Speaker 16: we have price points for everybody. It's if you you know,
Speaker 16: if you can't afford and you're like a little bit,
Speaker 16: you know, a higher end seat. You know we have
Speaker 16: something for you. And then you know, if it's if
Speaker 16: it's like you just want to be in the park
Speaker 16: and be able to enjoy the experience, you know we're
Speaker 16: ready for you as well. So yeah, I think these
Speaker 16: guys did a really good job. And to your point,
Speaker 16: we deferred to them because they knew no.
Speaker 2: Two soon right before we asked my last question or
Speaker 2: I asked to you a gym to be And I
Speaker 2: hope you guys knock at anut of the park again.
Speaker 2: I've given given the fact that I don't want to
Speaker 2: be wally pipped here because my guy blike here is
Speaker 2: pretty good on the radio. I don't want to get
Speaker 2: Wally piped in. You know, I'm looking for a job tomorrow.
Speaker 16: He's really good. I'm surprised radio is the better radio
Speaker 16: guy than he.
Speaker 4: Is a golfer.
Speaker 2: I can oh wow, okay, well that's inside. So Jim,
Speaker 2: you've been in this game for forty years. Where did
Speaker 2: you grow up at one and two? What did you
Speaker 2: want to do when you grew up? Because come on,
Speaker 2: you're living my dream many people, because if you're not
Speaker 2: a ball player, you're doing exactly what you're doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm so lucky.
Speaker 16: I grew up in north of Boston and was Red
Speaker 16: Sox fand but loved all sports. And then I got
Speaker 16: into this really by by chance. I was a journalist
Speaker 16: a major at the University of Kansas, and I got
Speaker 16: a job in the cheer department with the Royals, and
Speaker 16: then that led to a full time job with the Cubs,
Speaker 16: and then the Rangers and the Christ's office and then
Speaker 16: the Internet national business after that. So you know, when
Speaker 16: I say to people that want to work in sports,
Speaker 16: if anyone's out there, and you know, go for it, right.
Speaker 16: It is a great, great way to make a living.
Speaker 16: It's not every day that I get to sit at
Speaker 16: work and watch TV, but in some days I get
Speaker 16: to sit at work and watch TV. So it's a
Speaker 16: pretty good way to wait make a living. And you know,
Speaker 16: we have at MLB alone, we have, you know, fourteen
Speaker 16: hundred employees. When I started, you know, the Commercia's office
Speaker 16: in nineteen eighty seven, there was about fifty employees, so
Speaker 16: it's expanded. There's a lot of opportunities. University Arizona is
Speaker 16: a is a great program, and you know, and have
Speaker 16: people working in sports. You know all over the world,
Speaker 16: and you know, it's a great way to make a living.
Speaker 4: So I'm lucky.
Speaker 16: I appreciate that what I get every day, and it's
Speaker 16: it's it's accessible for the people.
Speaker 4: So go for it. Yeah, no, I don't.
Speaker 2: Just you took a different path in journalism, and that's
Speaker 2: kind of the new path because journalism is different now
Speaker 2: it was forty years ago. Because I was part of that,
Speaker 2: I'm now going to be a PR person for a team.
Speaker 2: And then moving up. I have two of my interns
Speaker 2: are from Manhattan. They're actually here at Ubay from Manhattan,
Speaker 2: and they've done a great job and they have that experience,
Speaker 2: and I tell him, get your stuff out, be as
Speaker 2: out there as you can and try a lot of
Speaker 2: different things.
Speaker 16: Yep, that's exactly knocking every door and see what opens.
Speaker 16: And they have the courage to walk through.
Speaker 4: It when it opened, right right. Well, Jim, I guess
Speaker 4: we'll see you in a few weeks already, Well, we
Speaker 4: got to bring jam We got to bring Jim back
Speaker 4: on because he's got so many stories that I want
Speaker 4: to hear about Harry Carey from the cupsdays. They'll not
Speaker 4: need to have him there and his Japanese. I mean
Speaker 4: you lived in Japan for twelve years, correct, Jim.
Speaker 16: Six sixteen years? Yeah, yeah, we've got to bring him back.
Speaker 16: Done that, Jim, Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 4: I'm assuming you have kids, because yeah, yeah I do.
Speaker 4: Because and I'll go with this observation because you talked
Speaker 4: about people not listening to you at home. I had
Speaker 4: that same thing.
Speaker 2: My guy here, Blake will never know that because he
Speaker 2: has no kids.
Speaker 16: Gonna have about you know, fifteen thousand kids coming to uh,
Speaker 16: you know, Keto Sports Complex here in a few weeks.
Speaker 4: Right, well, he'll need you as a translator and some
Speaker 4: of them teams.
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't think, yeah, yeah, I get think yeah
Speaker 2: maybe hopefully right. Well, Joy, well we'll have you on again.
Speaker 2: I hope you you know, we'll talk more baseball because
Speaker 2: I used to be a baseball guy growing up, and
Speaker 2: you're kind of living what every little kid wants to do.
Speaker 16: I'm really really lucky and I and I count my.
Speaker 4: Blood things every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great, thank you, Jim, guys, Thank you, all right,
Speaker 2: thank you, Jim, talk talk to you Jim Small from
Speaker 2: the WBC. Fantastic you guys. Well, I'm gonna where are
Speaker 2: I seen my resume? No, I'm want to hitd of
Speaker 2: my rope.
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Speaker 4: Playing the ball. We're here for the last segment. That's
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Speaker 4: opened a bag of farts before you left and walked
Speaker 4: out here right what was a flavor? What flavor of
Speaker 4: chips were those? Purple? Doido is my favorite purple. You know,
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Speaker 2: Hey, if you guys want to call five two oh
Speaker 2: four one six seventy four forty great to talk to Jim.
Speaker 2: I remember talking to him last time. Baseball baseball Tu
Speaker 2: song to song is a great market for it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I hope you succeed because not for the reason you
Speaker 2: talked about. This is a baseball town, have a bit
Speaker 2: pro baseball? Uh tu song is deserving just what now
Speaker 2: they have to show up?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we I mean we talk about that. You know,
Speaker 4: from a marketplace standpoint, it's not There's not a lot
Speaker 4: of cities that lose something for you know, multipitude of
Speaker 4: reasons and different aspects. And then you know later in
Speaker 4: life get a chance to bring and so your your
Speaker 4: your ex is coming back. Yeah, you get that second,
Speaker 4: you get it. You get a second chance to make
Speaker 4: a first impression. Right if we can do if we
Speaker 4: can do a really good job. I'm and I'm being
Speaker 4: completely honest the door opens for us on so many
Speaker 4: different things, and some things that I can't share on air,
Speaker 4: but we've talked about it off air. Becomes becomes a
Speaker 4: lot easier, and it's it's a magnitude of sports things,
Speaker 4: but it has to happen. Well, here's nothing. I got
Speaker 4: here in eighty seven. And I don't want to say
Speaker 4: it was a sleepy town, but it was a lot sleepier. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and now you're making what one and a half million?
Speaker 2: Yeah, one point one four night? Okay, so what a half?
Speaker 2: It's not that town it was forty years ago, thirty
Speaker 2: seven years ago. Now you have people not just from Tucson,
Speaker 2: from over other places who have interests and who have
Speaker 2: loves for sports and a variety of things to do.
Speaker 2: And this is right in the wheel loss for many.
Speaker 4: And you think about it, and I mean within an
Speaker 4: hour of Tucson, you've got another four hundred thousand people
Speaker 4: down down to South. You're talking about no Gallas, Noora,
Speaker 4: You're talking about Sierra Vista, casser Grande. The way that's growing,
Speaker 4: I mean, Panal County is blowing up right. So I mean,
Speaker 4: if we could create that hub, is Tucson's metro hub
Speaker 4: then it becomes a lot easier. Now you're talking close
Speaker 4: to two million people, yea, opposed to the one and
Speaker 4: a half. Sure, okay, this guy, you're gonna call me
Speaker 4: on Hello. You're on the air and I on the wall. Yes, Nico,
Speaker 4: what's up?
Speaker 17: Hey? Man? I got a question for you. Man, yoh,
Speaker 17: I got tickets for the Texas Tech game.
Speaker 4: Man, Okay, where the hell do you park?
Speaker 12: Man?
Speaker 2: If you're going to that's that's that's at You can
Speaker 2: find spots in and around McHale uh Southel the Fifth
Speaker 2: I think it is. There's a park parking lot South Park.
Speaker 2: There's a parking lot there. That's where we park. And
Speaker 2: then there's there's residences that will charge you fifteen to
Speaker 2: twenty dollars for the game. So it'll take you five
Speaker 2: ten minutes to walk.
Speaker 4: To the arena.
Speaker 17: No worries, man, Hey, thank you?
Speaker 4: All right? Cool? If Nico can get there like thirty
Speaker 4: mins or forty five minutes before they game, plenty of time,
Speaker 4: plenty of time. Yeah, I just gotta pay twenty dollars.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, Well I gotta smoke a joint before the game,
Speaker 17: so I'm definitely yeah.
Speaker 4: Gets her an hour then I don't know how long
Speaker 4: it takes you, but you know, yeah, maybe grab one
Speaker 4: of those bags of farts that Kobe just opened up, Nico,
Speaker 4: real quick. Are they winning tonight?
Speaker 17: I don't think so.
Speaker 13: Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2: I know it matters, but you know, okay, they've got
Speaker 2: enough equity to this point.
Speaker 4: Do you think what I.
Speaker 17: Seen, man, b Y is a big, big ass scene. Man, yeah,
Speaker 17: they're big. I don't know how good bass I will
Speaker 17: do against them.
Speaker 4: But right, let's see what happens. Okay, Yeah, thanks Nicole,
Speaker 4: thanks all.
Speaker 17: Call Hey, thank you for the info.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Sure, yeah, there's plenty.
Speaker 2: It's hard, it's kind of intimidating to you kind of
Speaker 2: drive around it, but it's plenty of plenty of spots.
Speaker 4: Yeah, used to be a spot that I parked at
Speaker 4: before there's a circle k like no, No, it was
Speaker 4: right off Campbell and Sixth. It was east. Yeah, there's
Speaker 4: a little lot back there that It was like fifteen
Speaker 4: or twenty bucks and yeah it was great. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: would go south where the circle k is. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: where I think the best parking is if you can
Speaker 4: get down there early now.
Speaker 2: Because there's a spot there to the left looking South
Speaker 2: the garage.
Speaker 4: Yeah. You know what's really exciting radio is when you
Speaker 4: talk about parking spots. Yea, thanks just sky and though
Speaker 4: you want to know where to go. The most important
Speaker 4: thing you said. Interesting thing you said, I gotta go
Speaker 4: smoke the spot. You relaxed before the big game.
Speaker 2: I thought he was doing five right now. He's always
Speaker 2: There's no one has a better life than Neko. I
Speaker 2: love it, not even your boy who called you blocking. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Michael fa like, yeah, that's so funny. You're going to
Speaker 2: the game on Saturday. Probably, Yeah, I think it's a game.
Speaker 2: I think it's all league games one pm.
Speaker 4: Okay, I didn't sign up in time for the tickets.
Speaker 4: You only got to a couple, have you. I saw
Speaker 4: you like they came down him and Henry came to
Speaker 4: You can't get him a presstest. No, No, it's a
Speaker 4: standing room only. What do you think I am? There
Speaker 4: was something I wanted to bring up. Oh uh. When
Speaker 4: we're talking about Jim Small, we do definitely we never
Speaker 4: we need to have him back on because I do
Speaker 4: want to ask him questions about Harry Carey. He's got
Speaker 4: a he's got a pretty good uh, he's got a
Speaker 4: couple of pretty good stories about that, and then I
Speaker 4: want you to talk to him about living in Japan
Speaker 4: and how he played and playing golf in Japan, where
Speaker 4: it would you have to set aside a full day
Speaker 4: to play eighteen holes in Japan, so you had to
Speaker 4: show up, and it was like you'd show up, you'd
Speaker 4: go sana then to do a massage, and then you'd
Speaker 4: have breakfast, and then you go play nine and then
Speaker 4: you have a three hour break between that nine to
Speaker 4: have lunch and hang out and do another sound standard
Speaker 4: that was like standard this. So he would have to
Speaker 4: take a full day out to go play eighteen holes
Speaker 4: of golf, Like it's wild, some of the stories from
Speaker 4: over there. Yeah, yeah, okay, that's true.
Speaker 2: You know, I've traveled a little overseas when I worked
Speaker 2: for U Saurday and and the and the Olympics covering
Speaker 2: the Olympics.
Speaker 4: So in Greece it was kind of like that.
Speaker 2: It's like, not like here, when you go to a restaurant,
Speaker 2: they come and get you the feed of your food day
Speaker 2: once you in and out, boom bom boo boom.
Speaker 4: In Greece it was like what can I do for you?
Speaker 4: Take your time don't worry about it, you know, check, no, no,
Speaker 4: don't worry about it. We get I think we had
Speaker 4: like a four hour dinner one time in Italy. That
Speaker 4: was crazy. Yeah. I got a call. Okay, let's take it. Hello,
Speaker 4: you're on the airline on the ball. Who's this? Heys,
Speaker 4: here's co what's up? Yeah?
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 12: I essentially I was talking about let's show up with
Speaker 12: the Baseball Classic. But what you got to remember is
Speaker 12: you can't rape people. My concessions and parking prices and
Speaker 12: ticket prices of the bad take some posts and mouth
Speaker 12: when they come.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so let's let's talk about that. I love that.
Speaker 8: So.
Speaker 4: Uh, mission is fifteen dollars. Uh. The preferred seating is
Speaker 4: twenty five parkings five dollars. Thursday night, we've got one
Speaker 4: dollar hot dogs and two dollars beers. What's your thoughts
Speaker 4: on that I have? Well, that's great.
Speaker 12: I'm just telling what you can't do is happy ople
Speaker 12: paying like kind have a bunch of park and ten
Speaker 12: bucks for beer and stuff like that too.
Speaker 16: I'm going to come back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we did a market we did a
Speaker 4: little bit of market study and research there, but I
Speaker 4: believe this is going to be the cheapest event that
Speaker 4: you're having in state.
Speaker 2: From a professional standpoint, No, I think this is a
Speaker 2: great call because that's yeah, it's true. You're in a
Speaker 2: different market.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you want to be able to experience the event,
Speaker 4: and you want to be able to afford it, and
Speaker 4: you want to be we want you to be able
Speaker 4: to afford to go to multiple games.
Speaker 12: Right, Oh yeah, No, I just understand. I mean I'm
Speaker 12: going because I'm a baseball guy, so you know, I
Speaker 12: was going as soon as it came out a lot
Speaker 12: to a lot of really you know, quote baseball people
Speaker 12: walk golf if they fill at the internt off with prices.
Speaker 4: Did you guys, did you go to the mixigan here?
Speaker 4: Did you go the Mixican Crystal Baseball? I did. How
Speaker 4: it's kind of similar in it. Yeah, they're working on
Speaker 4: it with us. That was yeah.
Speaker 2: So I mean that's fantastic because it's a party, I
Speaker 2: mean baseball yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, oh yeah, the fans was.
Speaker 4: A big party of course, you know.
Speaker 12: But and also this will be somewhat similar. I know,
Speaker 12: it's a bit more serious, I think, right, but.
Speaker 4: I hope it can be.
Speaker 12: It can be kind of a jovial atmosphere like that
Speaker 12: other events.
Speaker 2: So right, no, thanks, we'll call good call. No, that's
Speaker 2: a great call. Yeah, you appreciate it, Thanks for listening. Yeah,
Speaker 2: thanks for calling.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's kind of what was the what were
Speaker 2: the early discussions like this is what's important? Like what
Speaker 2: do you mean, like, okay, this call is places and stuff.
Speaker 2: What what's going.
Speaker 4: To make it good? Yeah, that that conversation happened. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that conversation happened eight months ago. Because you're you're right.
Speaker 4: I I originally wanted to charge ten dollars for parking,
Speaker 4: and we came back to five. And I think at
Speaker 4: that point I was so used to driving up and
Speaker 4: anywhere you park up North is forty dollars, right, So,
Speaker 4: and so it's just a different change. But yeah, those
Speaker 4: I mean, the pricing model is such a key model
Speaker 4: for us, you know, to the point where and I'm
Speaker 4: saying this openly, like if we can break even, like
Speaker 4: if the authority can break even from the standpoint, this
Speaker 4: is a huge one. And that's this is our give back.
Speaker 4: This is something that we want to continue to bring.
Speaker 4: Were you part of the first one. I wasn't part
Speaker 4: of Pema County Sports authority, Dan Schneider, Tom Tracy, and
Speaker 4: then Edgar Soto.
Speaker 2: Was okay, and they would they say to you or
Speaker 2: advice or did they? Yeah they're my I mean they're
Speaker 2: my menumtors. Yeah yeah, yeah, and there are visors for
Speaker 2: SASPA and then Edgar's our chair.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they were on the verge like I said earlier,
Speaker 2: and then they just didn't happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we almost had five teams from a spring training standpoint, right.
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody knows that, but that was really
Speaker 4: really close. Right, So tell me the teams again where
Speaker 4: they coming home? Germany, Columbia, Brazil and China. A variety
Speaker 4: of ethnicities. Yeah, you could say that cultures, cultures. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's food, drinks. You're gonna have continents, You're gonna have food.
Speaker 4: We are a see. Yeah, they're going to have that
Speaker 4: on on site for for all the games. Yeah. About that,
Speaker 4: I'll definitely go. I'll definitely go after the show. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're not just going to drive by in the knock
Speaker 4: it out like you did on the kickoff. I told
Speaker 4: you too much. You should at least, Hank, that was
Speaker 4: really rude. I looked I kind of jove by said,
Speaker 4: Oh God, listen, I spent misery with Blake a week.
Speaker 4: The two hours kill me, as can you tell me
Speaker 4: who this person is? Yeah, yeah, I'm a little shy.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, I'm sure. How was it? It was good?
Speaker 4: It was great. The kickoff an event was great and
Speaker 4: we took a week about a hundred people. The purpose
Speaker 4: of it, I think getting everybody in the same room
Speaker 4: and talking. I mean it was We had people from
Speaker 4: the movie industry all the way to municipalities, Pema County
Speaker 4: and just getting him in the same room and talking.
Speaker 2: Outside of this how much time you have minute? We
Speaker 2: got to wrap it up. Next time we'll have you
Speaker 2: talk more about film and stuff. Yeah, try, I can
Speaker 2: bring our film chair on people talking about stuff like that,
Speaker 2: he loves sports, he doesn't loser's food.
Speaker 4: That's like he check that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Thanks Kobe for taking control of this. Thanks great
Speaker 2: for this. Thanks we'll see you next week. Thanks everybody,