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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball here
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Speaker 2: me today is by Friday Guy, Chicken Sauce. I'm here,
Speaker 2: Chicken sauce. Nice haircut, thank you.
Speaker 3: I get whenevery five weeks. Oh really? Oh that's right,
Speaker 3: because you get a bullet and then you get it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it grows fast. Yeah, not a bullet.
Speaker 4: If they didn't, if they didn't cost so much, I'd
Speaker 4: do it even shorter, short than four weeks. But it
Speaker 4: used to be six. But it's I don't know what
Speaker 4: it is. Maybe as I'm getting older, it's growing faster.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: And my boy, Ray, you call me Ray, just don't
Speaker 3: call me late for dinner. Yeah, what's up? Ray? That's up?
Speaker 2: Ject I do good Friday Friday take it is a
Speaker 2: quick week, I thought, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Maybe Well I told you, man, I forgot I was
Speaker 4: supposed to be here. I'll found out because I saw
Speaker 4: it on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Your your hair isn't growing fast because you're older. You're
Speaker 2: just older and forgetting crap.
Speaker 4: I'm sitting on my desk and I said, I'm going
Speaker 4: through Twitter and I'm like, there's the there's the show graphic.
Speaker 4: I'm like, holy crap, I'm supposed to be at the
Speaker 4: show in half an hour.
Speaker 3: You're like yourself, I need to be somewhere.
Speaker 4: I need to be Yeah, the car. But I will
Speaker 4: say sometimes you asked me to help with guests on Friday,
Speaker 4: and you didn't decay. You went and got some guests,
Speaker 4: and I had no idea what the hell was going on?
Speaker 4: And then I sudden I realized I had to get
Speaker 4: get ready to get over here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're here, you're here, we're here, We're here.
Speaker 2: A different show today, kind of a sports show. Obviously,
Speaker 2: did you watch baseball? Did you watch baseball?
Speaker 3: The other night we talked about Discovery Baseball College World Series. Yes,
Speaker 3: what a crazy Bunker's college Baseball is great.
Speaker 4: That's what makes it was fair and he's gotten so
Speaker 4: much better because they've also brought on the the the
Speaker 4: time limit rules, you know, the pictures time limit rules,
Speaker 4: so those games aren't four hours anymore and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: unless they're you know, long you know, like an extrating
Speaker 4: game or whatever. But college baseball is crazy great and
Speaker 4: and it's fun to watch, you know. I like the
Speaker 4: pace of it. Now you don't feel like you've got
Speaker 4: to commit a whole day to a game. And then
Speaker 4: these games in the College Woral Series has been incredible, Yeah,
Speaker 4: all of them.
Speaker 2: We had RAG on yesterday and with Dave Silver and
Speaker 2: he talked about teams aren't actually winning games, that they're losing.
Speaker 3: They're losing games, and then it happened it that's what. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we talked about that, Arizona did that. A few of them.
Speaker 4: They have three errors in the in that eighth inning
Speaker 4: or something like that, at least two, yeah, two or three,
Speaker 4: but or maybe two, a couple of airs and then
Speaker 4: a bonehead play or something, and.
Speaker 3: Just how they got there in the first place.
Speaker 4: Right, same thing, same thing, you know, and again, you know,
Speaker 4: just the littlest things, you know, the bad breaks, the
Speaker 4: little loopy bass hits and those kinds of things, and
Speaker 4: you know, it's but it's it's it's I I still
Speaker 4: like the college baseball game. I mean, I'm a bigger
Speaker 4: fan obviously of because I'm a big fan of the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: but I've always loved College base.
Speaker 2: So I think Michael, did you tell me yesterday he
Speaker 2: hit a poll? Yeah, maybe go back to the poll.
Speaker 2: So the poll was, did you know this, who are
Speaker 2: you pulling for? Tucson Coastal Carolina or j I know?
Speaker 2: You know, so who you pulling for? You're bitter, but
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not. Here's it and here's the deal.
Speaker 4: I I okay, do I am. I still kind of
Speaker 4: unhappy with how Ja Johnson left because I know he
Speaker 4: was interviewing for this job during the course. Yes, one
Speaker 4: of the things, and again goes it goes to when
Speaker 4: you think you know but you don't know. One of
Speaker 4: the things is I always thought that he didn't even
Speaker 4: come home with the team. Okay, okay, he did. He did,
Speaker 4: he did. And you know this. I know this because
Speaker 4: my son was on the plane and he's and and
Speaker 4: and he went, you know, he was part of the
Speaker 4: staff that went on the trip.
Speaker 3: He said, they came home.
Speaker 4: Jay got off the plane first, and he shook the
Speaker 4: hand of everybody who got off the plane and said
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 3: All right, but then he left. So, yeah, it was right, It.
Speaker 4: Wasn't as it wasn't as gross as it has been
Speaker 4: made out to be. And and you know, and I
Speaker 4: don't blame him for going to l C any more
Speaker 4: than I blame Jedfish for going to for going to
Speaker 4: to Washington, you know, but it's still a little distasteful
Speaker 4: knowing that while he was trying to get his team
Speaker 4: to focus on the World Series, he was out.
Speaker 3: Of interviewing for the job.
Speaker 4: That part of it, you know, if you Jay Johnson,
Speaker 4: you got to say, guys, let let me finish. And
Speaker 4: if they say, well, we're gonna go get somebody else,
Speaker 4: and you say, well.
Speaker 3: Then go get somebody. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But you know, because if that's the kind of program
Speaker 4: you are, that's going to make me take my full
Speaker 4: attention away from the college war say.
Speaker 3: I don't want to work for it.
Speaker 2: You know what, And I bet you, I'll bet you
Speaker 2: my windowar two year five that they wanted him and
Speaker 2: they would wait.
Speaker 3: And they would wait. That's it. And that's the point.
Speaker 4: But the other stuff that we made assumptions about, you know,
Speaker 4: he cared about the program. He came home and but
Speaker 4: and then but then he meets It's kind of like.
Speaker 3: It's like the borderline story, right, Yeah, everybody was pissed
Speaker 3: until they until they realized the real story, Yeah, the
Speaker 3: real story behind it.
Speaker 4: So I'm I think it's an incredible storyline that he's
Speaker 4: playing the team that beat him in the College World series,
Speaker 4: you know, back when he was it air.
Speaker 3: I think it's an unbelievable storyline.
Speaker 4: If he wins it, great, I'll kind of root against
Speaker 4: him just because they're LSU, not because of Jay Johnson.
Speaker 3: I never root for LSU for anything. All Right, What's
Speaker 3: what's the story there?
Speaker 6: If they play Alabama?
Speaker 4: When that happens, I just kind of wish the field
Speaker 4: would just suck itself into the ground and take everybody
Speaker 4: with them. That part of the have you ever seen
Speaker 4: have you ever seen the end of Poultergeist? The original
Speaker 4: poultry Guys, when the house gets sucked into the ground.
Speaker 3: Tell what the choices? What are the choices?
Speaker 7: So the choices for that poll that Michael lev had
Speaker 7: put up a couple days ago was Coastal Carolina and
Speaker 7: that one's I guess a lot of people are rooting
Speaker 7: for him sixty two percent, and then LSU was eight percent,
Speaker 7: and then an asteroid hitting was twenty nine.
Speaker 3: That's me.
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just not you know, I just don't
Speaker 4: like anything that else.
Speaker 3: You just stand. I'll watch it. I'll watch it.
Speaker 4: I'll watch the game because it's it's fascinating stuff. But
Speaker 4: I you know, whoever wins is fine with me. I
Speaker 4: don't have a problem with either one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, but you know what, we'll Closer Carolina is
Speaker 3: really good. Yeah they are. I mean who would have
Speaker 3: thought that when Arizona played them.
Speaker 4: I mean people are making the assumption that because they're
Speaker 4: not a power for power five school, that they're really good.
Speaker 2: I think baseball is one of those equalizers. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: you can say who what? And they turned out to
Speaker 2: be just good baseball.
Speaker 4: I think what we'll find out, what we'll know at
Speaker 4: the end is that because it's best two out of three,
Speaker 4: the better team is going to win, sure, right. And
Speaker 4: you can't even even if Closer Carolina beats them two
Speaker 4: out of three, you can't say, well, LSU was better.
Speaker 4: You can't. Whoever wins this game, whoever wins this series
Speaker 4: is the better team and deserves to be the national champion.
Speaker 2: I think the same could be said for softball. We
Speaker 2: thought we had Ryan Rodkey on yesterday and he's he
Speaker 2: does this right, all right? Game, and I told him,
Speaker 2: I said, I thought Texas Tech was one pitch away
Speaker 2: from winning the whole thing. And it was the it
Speaker 2: was the pitch outside that they didn't pitch outside, and
Speaker 2: they hit the ball and they won the game and
Speaker 2: they couldn't sustained blah blah blah. But you know, sometimes
Speaker 2: the better team, at least in your eyes, doesn't win.
Speaker 3: In one game. Yeah, right, but that's why you play
Speaker 3: a series.
Speaker 4: And I've always liked this this format two you know,
Speaker 4: the best two out at the end, get get through
Speaker 4: your bracket, and then go in the best two out
Speaker 4: of three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So that's this weekend. There was one that's
Speaker 2: pretty much done with right everything. Everything's done academically and athletically.
Speaker 3: Everything's done.
Speaker 6: Signings and recruits right now what I can see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: And uh and your guy is off to Switzerland here
Speaker 2: pretty soon, Tommy Lloyd.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to see what he does up there. Recrreans do. Okay.
Speaker 2: Uh, So this today, we're gonna have the first hour,
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a sugar, but we're gonna.
Speaker 3: Have two San Suarrow guy. Uh, you pushed the name,
Speaker 3: Tell me real.
Speaker 2: Quick, Mike, Mike whaling and he's now filled the first
Speaker 2: basement with the team.
Speaker 3: There are three time champs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had him, we had him on a couple
Speaker 4: of couple weeks.
Speaker 3: I don't know we had Mike on, but we've had Mike,
Speaker 3: We've had somebody from I think we had the manager
Speaker 3: of the team on.
Speaker 2: We want to have him on next week. So yeah,
Speaker 2: they're pretty good. I have a chance to play at
Speaker 2: one hundred and five.
Speaker 3: Degree with Steve, even even though I'm not going golfing
Speaker 3: this weekend. Would you go?
Speaker 4: You didn't last weekend? It wasn't bad. You know that
Speaker 4: it was one it was one o five, but it
Speaker 4: didn't seem.
Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what. It was a three of
Speaker 3: the morning.
Speaker 4: No, No, we played it. We played at ten o'clock
Speaker 4: and and it was a tuc Sound country club, so
Speaker 4: there was nice chests of water every other hole. We
Speaker 4: got to the end. We looked at the back of
Speaker 4: our golf cart. There must have been twenty five water
Speaker 4: bogging empty water bottles between my son and I but
Speaker 4: not But you know, it was fine. But I went
Speaker 4: and played nine holes, just walk nine holes at El
Speaker 4: Dorado on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: I think on Tuesday, I nearly died.
Speaker 4: I got home and I had the shakes, and it
Speaker 4: was nine holes at five o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: But you know, there was.
Speaker 4: More shade and stuff like that, and I got home
Speaker 4: and I had the shakes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like the ending of the hot time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but then it starts to Yeah, so but we're not
Speaker 3: we're not. We're not playing this week.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna have Mike Whaling here did about ten
Speaker 2: five minutes whatever it is, and then we're gonna have
Speaker 2: Q Baker yep at four seventeen. He's the offensive linemen
Speaker 2: for an offensive linemen for the Sugar Skulls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're doing pretty well.
Speaker 4: How about the Sugar Skulls. Two of their four wins
Speaker 4: are against the Rattlers. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised they haven't disbanded from them.
Speaker 4: They or that Kevin hasn't taken their best players and
Speaker 4: said you come over.
Speaker 3: Here and play for me in season trade. We'll joke
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fine, big but yeah, but you know, whether
Speaker 4: they're four and six, I think they're still in the playoff.
Speaker 4: They got a bunch of games laught, but you know,
Speaker 4: they got to turn it on a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, uh should be should be good, just you know,
Speaker 2: off the off the radar type of show today with
Speaker 2: you here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, first of all, you're wearing Giants colors, so that's
Speaker 4: great colors.
Speaker 3: I'm upset. What is the orange orange?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 4: Secondly to out of three Dodgers beating two out of three,
Speaker 4: you thought you guys were all that when you won
Speaker 4: the first one in the couldn't do it again?
Speaker 6: You know, we got raffe Now how that goes later?
Speaker 5: Later?
Speaker 3: Well, what's that?
Speaker 4: Well that was last night. That was I loved it.
Speaker 4: You know, there's always video and stuff like that. So
Speaker 4: somebody posted a video and because this was between the managers,
Speaker 4: it started between the managers. There were a bunch of
Speaker 4: guys got hit and so uh, Bernando Tatis got hit.
Speaker 4: I get it. It's like they've played the Dodgers seven
Speaker 4: times and they've hit him five times. Okay, I can
Speaker 4: understand why they feel like, yeah, now, this particular one
Speaker 4: wasn't on purpose. The picture the Dodgers pitcher was a
Speaker 4: guy who just came up from the miners. His first
Speaker 4: game in the majors. He was wild the whole time
Speaker 4: he was in there. Okay, he's he's a minor leader.
Speaker 4: They're not going to have him throw it. Fernando Tatis.
Speaker 4: He just threw an inside pitch and got Tatis in
Speaker 4: the hand. But the powders were pissed because he's been
Speaker 4: hit a bunch I think he got They played four games,
Speaker 4: he got hit in three of them this week, so
Speaker 4: they got pissed. So the manager comes out and he's yelling,
Speaker 4: and he's yelling at Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts comes out
Speaker 4: and pushes him, and it's on.
Speaker 3: You know, it's on.
Speaker 4: But in in in all the heat of it, somebody's
Speaker 4: got there there. I guess maybe their phone on Dave
Speaker 4: Roberts and he's saying, I'll kick your ass.
Speaker 3: I'll kick your ass. Who's the manager?
Speaker 4: Uh, still some old guy who even before I saw
Speaker 4: any that I'm texting with my son. I'm saying, Dave
Speaker 4: Roberts will kill this guy. If they fight, Dave Roberts
Speaker 4: is gonna kill him.
Speaker 3: It was kind of like the Zimmer thing with yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: But but but they mix it up last and then
Speaker 4: so then after that, Now on this one, they didn't
Speaker 4: throw the pitcher.
Speaker 3: Out or anything like that.
Speaker 4: The umpire made a judgment that it was you know,
Speaker 4: he's a young guy out there, and he threw an
Speaker 4: inside pitch and he him on the hand. Well, Otani
Speaker 4: gets hit and it was like right at him, right,
Speaker 4: So they threw that picture out. So then the man well,
Speaker 4: both managers have gotten kicked out right after the fight,
Speaker 4: so now the uh, you know, a new manager is appointed.
Speaker 4: So then they issued a warning to both teams. So
Speaker 4: then they hit Otani in the back. So then the
Speaker 4: new manager got kicked out as well as the picture
Speaker 4: and it was on again and they were all it
Speaker 4: was crazy. I love it, you know. I let's tell
Speaker 4: him my son. The padres are like that that annoying. Well,
Speaker 4: they're stupid, they're not any good. They're idiots, and you
Speaker 4: just want to beat the crap.
Speaker 3: Up that's coming from a dog. Am I right, right,
Speaker 3: come on, Uh you're a giants.
Speaker 2: Wait till he wait till you leave Monday. Those giants.
Speaker 3: Tell me I'm lying. That's what they're like. They think
Speaker 3: they're good and they're not.
Speaker 4: They they got some good players, they can't.
Speaker 3: Beat the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: They're just kind of yipping around and you just want
Speaker 4: to smash the Giants. The Giants are just Giants are
Speaker 4: a legitimate rival of the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: I think that because I remember they did the rivalry
Speaker 9: weekend or whatever, and I didn't really like that because
Speaker 9: it didn't I don't think it was a good representation
Speaker 9: of the actual rivalry and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Who do they play?
Speaker 7: The Giants played the A's, But I remember like even
Speaker 7: the Yankees and the Dodgers played, the Dodgers played the Angels.
Speaker 4: Those aren't rivals opposite exactly, the rival the Dodgers rivalry
Speaker 4: with the Giants. And and then if you want to
Speaker 4: say doing American League rivalry, its obviously the Yankees, Yankees
Speaker 4: and the Red Sox man so so not even the
Speaker 4: Red Sox so much with the Dodgers, but yeah, the
Speaker 4: Red Sox. But if you if you're going to pick
Speaker 4: an American League team that the Dodgers rivals with it,
Speaker 4: it's the Yankees.
Speaker 3: The Angels. You're saying, the Yankees and the Boston.
Speaker 4: Yeah Yankees, but you know the Dodger and and even now,
Speaker 4: uh ray, the Dodgers Giants rival isn't as big as
Speaker 4: you When I was a kid man, you just it
Speaker 4: was blood.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I mean I think what really like makes
Speaker 7: it stand out is like they they moved together. Yeah,
Speaker 7: they were both in New York and they moved together.
Speaker 7: It's like that's that's I mean deep seated, right, And
Speaker 7: they both came out and put their flags out here. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and then they wouldn't add it from then on.
Speaker 4: Yeah. There's a lot of moments in time, you know,
Speaker 4: in that rivalry that make it a rivalry.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers and the Padres are not rivals.
Speaker 4: The Padre again, the Padres are that little kid that
Speaker 4: you just want to kick in the ass and tell
Speaker 4: me that they get the hell away from you.
Speaker 2: With that said, we're gonna get a get the hell
Speaker 2: out of here and get ahold of whiling from the
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
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Speaker 2: you today's Jaginsauce got ready behind the scene. Here now
Speaker 2: on the phone, we have Mike Willing from the Tucson Souorrows.
Speaker 3: Mike, how are you.
Speaker 16: I'm doing great, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2: Guys, Josh, of course you're doing great, and so is
Speaker 2: the team team and four what the heck's going on
Speaker 2: with you guys.
Speaker 16: Yeah, we're off to a great start this year. It's
Speaker 16: really exciting stuff. Right out of spring training. Came out
Speaker 16: of the gates really hot, and you could tell right
Speaker 16: away that this was going to be a great group
Speaker 16: we had. We had a really talented group show up
Speaker 16: and a collective group of guys show up in Pecos,
Speaker 16: Texas for our spring training and we've just we've just
Speaker 16: hit the ground run and we're playing great ball right
Speaker 16: now and excited for uh, keep keep keep going forward
Speaker 16: with it.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, because I know kind of the
Speaker 2: Santa Fe League I throw in front from, but does
Speaker 2: the team Tucson team go to Pecos?
Speaker 3: Does everybody go to Pecos?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 16: Yeah, we were out there to start the season in
Speaker 16: Santa Fe and then we made our way to Pekos eventually,
Speaker 16: so the whole team was out there and that was
Speaker 16: our way series and then we we made our way
Speaker 16: back to back to Tucson for our.
Speaker 5: For our home series.
Speaker 2: Oh so, so what I meant though, was because you
Speaker 2: said at the beginning, I was thinking that, like everybody
Speaker 2: went to peck Us for training and then but you
Speaker 2: already had your team, You started your team.
Speaker 5: More or less.
Speaker 16: Yeah, we we had a spring training right before the
Speaker 16: season started. And the way that works is that our manager, Sean,
Speaker 16: he recruits guys from all over the country, guys from
Speaker 16: all different backgrounds to show up and kind of showcase
Speaker 16: themselves over the course of about a week, give or take.
Speaker 16: And then from there we're able to, yeah, to break
Speaker 16: that roster down and get ourselves a team and then
Speaker 16: start our season up right away. And yet, like I said,
Speaker 16: our first our opening series was out in Santa Fe
Speaker 16: and we did a bit of traveling before making our
Speaker 16: way back to Tucson. And now we're a good like
Speaker 16: three weeks into the season. I think you said like
Speaker 16: fourteen or fifteen and maybe.
Speaker 3: Sixteen four oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so we're it goes.
Speaker 16: By quickly, and yeah, we're about three weeks in now
Speaker 16: and playing some great balls. So it's been exciting.
Speaker 1: Mike.
Speaker 4: Who are the guys that are on the team? You know,
Speaker 4: you know, where are they coming from? You know what
Speaker 4: kind of you guys are all in it for the
Speaker 4: same thing. So how does that, you know, help build
Speaker 4: a team?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: What's that like? And what's what's the approach? I guess
Speaker 4: is what I would ask.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it's it's a makeup of guys of all different backgrounds,
Speaker 16: which is really cool. Like you said, generally the common
Speaker 16: denominators that we all have that common goal of wanting
Speaker 16: to continue our careers in some capacity of professional baseball
Speaker 16: and getting a chance to play out here is a
Speaker 16: lot of fun. But amongst us, there's there's guys that
Speaker 16: have been playing for for a few years now in
Speaker 16: the professional scene, and then there's guys that are fresh
Speaker 16: out of college, you know, like Like I said, our
Speaker 16: manager Sean McNeil, he recruits guys from all different types
Speaker 16: of backgrounds. We have a good dose of returning guys
Speaker 16: too that were on the club last year or even
Speaker 16: have been here for a few years. And just a
Speaker 16: lot of talent. Yeah, a lot of guys that come
Speaker 16: in fresh out of it, fresh out of college, so
Speaker 16: this is their intro to Pro Bowl and they had,
Speaker 16: you know, coming off great, great careers at all different levels,
Speaker 16: so Division one, two, Division III level and then the
Speaker 16: NAI level as well. So it's it's a really cool
Speaker 16: makeup when you get them in a clubhouse with the
Speaker 16: guys that are from tons of different backgrounds. Everybody has
Speaker 16: their own unique stories, and then when you bring them
Speaker 16: all under you know, one one team and we all
Speaker 16: have sort of one common goal. It's it's cool because
Speaker 16: you get a really different and like diverse blend of
Speaker 16: baseball players.
Speaker 2: So what's your what's your background? Is this your first
Speaker 2: year or second year? And how has it been tusuns
Speaker 2: only one hundred and twenty degrees.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, which is actually it's that's pretty Uh, that's
Speaker 16: kind of a shock to me because I'm a Northeast
Speaker 16: guy originally, so being down here in the Southwest, I
Speaker 16: definitely have to get acclimated to the weather.
Speaker 5: But no, this is my this is my second year here.
Speaker 16: Last year twenty twenty four was my first full season
Speaker 16: as a two Sons Suguara and it was my first
Speaker 16: year in Independent Pro Bowl. So I was excited to
Speaker 16: come back out here and play again. But yeah, like
Speaker 16: I said, initially, I'm.
Speaker 5: From upstate New York, so a few hours north of.
Speaker 16: The of the city where I went to, Sunny Albany.
Speaker 16: Sunie is the state University of New York Albany, and
Speaker 16: I played played my college ball out there. Then after
Speaker 16: after playing college, I just kind of wanted to sort
Speaker 16: of immerse myself in the, uh like the professional scene
Speaker 16: and see see if I could push my career a
Speaker 16: bit further. And I was fortunate enough to come across
Speaker 16: with with Sean McNeil, and yeah, here we are.
Speaker 4: You know, we uh we've got to to son Shires
Speaker 4: calls here And it's sort of a similar thing, right,
Speaker 4: Guys trying to you know, continue their careers, get an opportunity, uh,
Speaker 4: those kinds of things. How much do you think about
Speaker 4: that in terms of things that you've got to do
Speaker 4: to get, you know, to get that opportunity to get
Speaker 4: somebody to see you, get somebody to look at you,
Speaker 4: or is it are you able to just go out
Speaker 4: and play and kind of hope for the best.
Speaker 3: How do you approach that?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I would say it's kind of a combination of both.
Speaker 16: When you want to play, when you're you know, maybe
Speaker 16: you played in college and things of that nature, and
Speaker 16: when you want to continue your career beyond that, you
Speaker 16: definitely have to do some digging on your own and
Speaker 16: and get yourself in front of the right eyes, you know,
Speaker 16: whether that's going to whether that's going to workouts and
Speaker 16: tryouts and things like that, or just getting in touch with,
Speaker 16: you know, coaches and and trying to reach out maybe
Speaker 16: through all different types of networking that you can do
Speaker 16: and things like that, or you just have coaches reach
Speaker 16: out to you. There's a lot of different ways that
Speaker 16: can work. I guess the right answer is that there
Speaker 16: is no singular path. There's like I said earlier, there's
Speaker 16: tons of there's tons of guys that come from all
Speaker 16: different sorts of backgrounds. But yeah, you definitely have to
Speaker 16: you definitely have to do a lot of work on
Speaker 16: your own on your own part where you're reaching out
Speaker 16: to people and you're trying to really immersify yourself in
Speaker 16: the whole process because it's so competitive nowadays in the
Speaker 16: professional scene, even at like the independent level and like
Speaker 16: the lower independent level where we're we're not affiliated with
Speaker 16: Major League baseball.
Speaker 5: Of course we're not like minor league players, right, but
Speaker 5: it's still.
Speaker 16: Such competitive baseball because there's so many guys out there
Speaker 16: that are looking to continue their careers, right and you know,
Speaker 16: really want to keep playing baseball and see how much
Speaker 16: they can get out of their careers. So you got
Speaker 16: to you got to really work hard to make sure
Speaker 16: that you can get in front of the right eyes.
Speaker 5: And then hopefully make that happen.
Speaker 4: You know, Steve and I both covered minor league baseball
Speaker 4: here in Tucson, and they were Triple A guys, so
Speaker 4: you know, guys who are on the cusp of are
Speaker 4: on the way up or on the way down from
Speaker 4: the major leagues. But I know about ust, but you know,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to lie that there there were a
Speaker 4: lot of guys that you know, we talked to and
Speaker 4: we met or winning and losing didn't really matter to
Speaker 4: them all. They wanted to do was to play well
Speaker 4: and get somebody's attention. But it seems like, you know,
Speaker 4: you guys as a team. It just sounded what you
Speaker 4: sound like that it does matter to you guys, even
Speaker 4: though guys are trying to get the opportunity.
Speaker 3: But you still want to win.
Speaker 16: Games, right of course, Yeah, I mean inherently as a
Speaker 16: competitor and anything you want to win, you know, that's
Speaker 16: part of your your foundation, or at least it should
Speaker 16: be in my opinion, you should always want to win,
Speaker 16: no matter where.
Speaker 1: You are, no matter what.
Speaker 16: Level you're at, and like, of course, like yeah, there's
Speaker 16: there's like the underlying sense of I want to keep
Speaker 16: playing and maybe if I'm lucky enough, I could get
Speaker 16: promoted to uh, you know, a higher league and somebody
Speaker 16: can get because there's always there's always that next level.
Speaker 15: Right.
Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, no matter.
Speaker 16: Where you are, that's if you're in high school, college, professional,
Speaker 16: even all the way up to the very top, you
Speaker 16: should want to you should want to win baseball games.
Speaker 16: And and I think that that'll there's there's no reason
Speaker 16: that the two can't be correlated.
Speaker 5: Right where you care about.
Speaker 16: Your your how well you play individually and also how
Speaker 16: well your team does. Those two things should there should
Speaker 16: be a lot of parallels there because if you if
Speaker 16: you do want to do well, the best way you
Speaker 16: can do well is think of, you know, how how
Speaker 16: can I help this team win? Because if you're going
Speaker 16: to perform well, that's look, that's all the more likely
Speaker 16: that that's going to help the outcome and and of
Speaker 16: the of the game.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, we all want to win.
Speaker 16: It's it's also helps that we've we've melded really well
Speaker 16: early on this year and and we have a great
Speaker 16: group of competitors that all are sort of on the
Speaker 16: same page in that sense where we're playing good ball
Speaker 16: and we want to we want to stick to that
Speaker 16: going forward.
Speaker 7: So so, Mike, I mean, you've you've been talking about
Speaker 7: you guys kind of all having like this really good
Speaker 7: connection and like, uh gelling together very well. What are
Speaker 7: you guys doing like just off the field, like in
Speaker 7: the locker room, when you're hanging out like on days off.
Speaker 2: Well, even even tell them your situation. That's a great
Speaker 2: question because it's more about because I think three dudes,
Speaker 2: three dudes lived together with my friend. That's kind of
Speaker 2: how it got connected to me. Yeah, you're I mean,
Speaker 2: there's more than just baseball here, right right, Mike.
Speaker 16: Yeah, absolutely, it's the playing in this league in and
Speaker 16: of itself is a great experience for all those reasons.
Speaker 16: And part of what's so cool is we get to
Speaker 16: see parts of the country that you wouldn't otherwise really see.
Speaker 16: I guess at least in my experience. I said, I'm
Speaker 16: from New York originally, so I can't really imagine myself
Speaker 16: out in certain parts of you know, New Mexico or
Speaker 16: West Texas. So we we get to go to all
Speaker 16: sorts of cool places places like that. We spend a
Speaker 16: lot of time together on the road and in road trips,
Speaker 16: so by nature, yeah, you're gonna you're gonna find guys
Speaker 16: that you get along with. And we all get along
Speaker 16: together so well with throughout we're just seeing each other
Speaker 16: so much because it's a you know, it's a two
Speaker 16: two and a half month season depending on how far
Speaker 16: are you going to the playoffs, so it's a lot
Speaker 16: of games and.
Speaker 5: A short amount of time.
Speaker 16: So we're around each other every single day, a lot.
Speaker 5: Of turnaround with some of the travel, and so we
Speaker 5: we all.
Speaker 16: We all get along so well. And you know, whether
Speaker 16: it's just after the games and we go grab a
Speaker 16: bite to eat, sit down or before games. You know,
Speaker 16: we we have time where we can you know, kind
Speaker 16: of do some recreational stuff. Obviously, like you guys said too,
Speaker 16: it's it's super hot out so there's not a there's
Speaker 16: not a whole lot you're doing as far.
Speaker 5: As going out, going out during the.
Speaker 16: Yeah, exactly, hanging out by of the pool. Yeah, no,
Speaker 16: do things like, well, we work out together, try to
Speaker 16: try to you know, push one another in that regard.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's just all the all the.
Speaker 16: Good camaraderie definitely showcases itself just in the because of
Speaker 16: how much we're spending time with one another. So yeah,
Speaker 16: it's it's been great.
Speaker 2: I'm curious what you studied in New York. You sound
Speaker 2: like a very bright guy. I say this because you
Speaker 2: use words like correlated in parallel and I'm googling that.
Speaker 2: I'm googling those words, so what the hell?
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, no, I don't I don't mean to, I
Speaker 16: don't mean whatever.
Speaker 12: But you.
Speaker 3: We're just sports dudes.
Speaker 16: That's probably just because I was one of the I
Speaker 16: was one of those those college student athletes that I
Speaker 16: ended up having.
Speaker 5: Like a six year college career.
Speaker 16: So I was in college forever just because I played
Speaker 16: through the COVID years and everything like that. And I
Speaker 16: had a red shirt ear on top of that. So
Speaker 16: I was in college for a long time. And yeah,
Speaker 16: I got my degree in communication and then I got
Speaker 16: a UH. I did like a graduate program in UH
Speaker 16: in communications as well for my last year of college eligibility.
Speaker 3: So cool. You might have to have you as a
Speaker 3: co host one of these days when you're not doing it.
Speaker 16: Maybe yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you.
Speaker 2: I know you played the outfield, I know you played
Speaker 2: first base. Does that that must help you in terms
Speaker 2: of being noticed because you can play a couple of positions.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, having the versatility is great.
Speaker 16: Being able to do that, And I think a lot
Speaker 16: of guys try to do that thing. Whatever your your
Speaker 16: tool is, you want to showcase it. Whether it's if
Speaker 16: you're a really good base runner or your good power,
Speaker 16: if you're on the mound and you got you can
Speaker 16: throw a good velocity, or you got really good stuff,
Speaker 16: really good pitch, like a mix of pitches. You want
Speaker 16: to showcase whatever that is. So and and part of
Speaker 16: that is just adding things to your.
Speaker 5: Your tool set.
Speaker 16: Right, like you want to if it means trying to
Speaker 16: pick up a new position, just doing anything to sort
Speaker 16: of showcase that you're trying to really indulge yourself as
Speaker 16: a baseball player and continuously grow, continuously get better. I
Speaker 16: think that that's a big part of of maybe earning
Speaker 16: an opportunity at.
Speaker 5: The higher level eventually, is.
Speaker 16: That you showcase the fact that you can still improve
Speaker 16: and as opposed to just sort of plateauing and remain
Speaker 16: remaining stagnant as a player. So anytime you're able to
Speaker 16: do things like that, I think, I think it's helpful.
Speaker 16: So I just want to be well rounded, want to contribute,
Speaker 16: like I said, to winning the best best.
Speaker 5: Way you can. So yeah, it's it's good. It's good.
Speaker 16: I played college or in college, I played primarily just
Speaker 16: the outfield, and then when I got back out when
Speaker 16: I got out here, we had last year, and then
Speaker 16: this year too, we have there's we've come across, especially
Speaker 16: at the professional level, some some really really really good athletes,
Speaker 16: uh in in the outfield. So I not not to
Speaker 16: say that I'm not a good athlete myself, but I
Speaker 16: whenever it's like, you know, if you can find ways
Speaker 16: to stay out on the field and maybe pick up
Speaker 16: a corner infield spot where you don't have to run,
Speaker 16: you know, all over the field, and just make sure
Speaker 16: you can stay in the lineup.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 16: That's that's a good way to.
Speaker 3: Do if you're reading a dictionary in the dugout. So sir,
Speaker 3: go ahead, go.
Speaker 4: Ahead, Okay, So tell us a little bit bit about
Speaker 4: your upcoming schedule. If people on a common and see
Speaker 4: you play, uh, how you know how when?
Speaker 5: Where?
Speaker 16: Yeah, we played. We play at Keno Veteran Memorials Stadium,
Speaker 16: which is a great venue. Like I can't say enough
Speaker 16: good things about it. It's such a it's such a
Speaker 16: fortunate opportunity to be able to play there. In my
Speaker 16: you know, probably slightly biased opinion, it's the best place
Speaker 16: to play in this league by far. It's it's a
Speaker 16: great venue. Our are the staff there does a great job.
Speaker 5: So we we play there.
Speaker 16: Our schedule is pretty consistent and so usually it's Thursday
Speaker 16: through Sunday or any mixture of those three days will
Speaker 16: have three game series at home. So usually Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 16: Saturday or Sunday, any combination of like those three days.
Speaker 5: Will be will be at home and then we hit
Speaker 5: the road for some.
Speaker 16: Series uh in places like like Roswell Roswell, New Mexico,
Speaker 16: Santa Fe, New Mexico, Pecos, Texas, Alpine, Texas. But yeah,
Speaker 16: when we're home, we play over at Keno Veterans Morales
Speaker 16: Stadium seven pm. We've actually had some really good turnouts
Speaker 16: so far. It's been a lot of fun we do.
Speaker 16: You can follow us on all our social media, which
Speaker 16: is like two San Saguaro's handles, and the social media
Speaker 16: team is doing a great job this year of putting
Speaker 16: out a lot of our promotions. Will each each night,
Speaker 16: each game night has like themes to it, so we'll
Speaker 16: do like an eighties night or like you know, things
Speaker 16: like things of that nature. Stuff like promotion for like
Speaker 16: some of the kids and that they can come out
Speaker 16: and have fun, they get to they get to run
Speaker 16: the bases. We'll do we'll do fun seventh inning stretch activities.
Speaker 16: So we we like to keep it, keep it lively,
Speaker 16: keep the games interesting. We've had some great crowds this year,
Speaker 16: so yeah, you can follow along with that on all
Speaker 16: of our social medias.
Speaker 5: We have.
Speaker 16: Facebook, Instagram are the two main places where.
Speaker 4: We're actual Tickets are all general admission tickets are ten bucks,
Speaker 4: right cool, you.
Speaker 16: Know, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got concessions, we got some,
Speaker 16: we got some. We got a team store there, I believe,
Speaker 16: with some some good apparel, and so yeah, it's.
Speaker 5: A lot of fun. Great. We've been pretty pretty good
Speaker 5: at home.
Speaker 16: So far this year too.
Speaker 5: I think only one.
Speaker 3: Loss at home if I'm not nice.
Speaker 16: And so yeah, we had an awesome walk off win
Speaker 16: last night in a really exciting game. Shout out to
Speaker 16: Marquise Woods had a big, big rb I too rb.
Speaker 5: I double to win it for us in the bottom
Speaker 5: of the ninth.
Speaker 16: Which was our first walk off this year. Offense has
Speaker 16: been swinging, swinging.
Speaker 5: A great this year.
Speaker 16: Got a ton of talent out of the out of
Speaker 16: the bullpen, and all of our starters are off to
Speaker 16: great starts too, so it's well, we're firing on all cylinders.
Speaker 2: Well, Mike, we appreciate your time. Tell Quinn to get
Speaker 2: you some nice fish when he comes back, and we
Speaker 2: likes likes to grill.
Speaker 5: He cooked me up a.
Speaker 16: Delicious steak the other night. It was on Father's Day.
Speaker 16: It was it might have been that thirty two ounce steak.
Speaker 1: And it was.
Speaker 16: It was delicious. It is the best best meal I've
Speaker 16: had since coming since coming back out to Tucsons. So
Speaker 16: they really fortunate to be.
Speaker 3: Out here with these guys, right right, Well, we'll see
Speaker 3: you soon. Appreciate your time. Thanks, sounds good, Thanks so much.
Speaker 16: Guys.
Speaker 3: Those tags, yeah, Mike, Mike whaling from the Sorrows. It's
Speaker 3: very cool. Yeah, yeah, well spoken obviously.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, I mean those guys they love
Speaker 4: the game, right yeah. Yeah, it's like like again like
Speaker 4: the Sugars, cause the guys who love the game still
Speaker 4: looking for an opportunity. I feel like they've got a
Speaker 4: little something that that can attract some attention.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I'd love to have been maybe the Savage. I
Speaker 3: guarantee you if you would have given the opportunity, yeah,
Speaker 3: I would have. Yeah, I would have to. Yeah. Okay,
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Speaker 3: That was a lot of fun. That was fun. He
Speaker 3: was fun. Smart guy. Smart guy, yeah, way smarter than
Speaker 3: either one of us. Yes, yes, So what do you
Speaker 3: get rewarded for hitting a guy hitting hitting? He gets
Speaker 3: sent to the miners.
Speaker 15: Man.
Speaker 4: He started a big huha last night. And again, like
Speaker 4: I said, not because he was trying to hit for
Speaker 4: Nando Tattios. He was all over the places. As a joke,
Speaker 4: if you had been trying to hit for Nando Tatis,
Speaker 4: he never would to hit him because he wasn't throwing
Speaker 4: it anywhere he wanted to. Last night, Uh, he was wild,
Speaker 4: and he looked he looked spooped, right wide eyed.
Speaker 3: It was his first time in the majors. He looked.
Speaker 4: Intimidated by the by the whole deal. And then he
Speaker 4: didn't pitch well and so they his name is something little. Uh,
Speaker 4: but they already sent him to the miners today, so
Speaker 4: that's what he calls man. You know, hey, look he's
Speaker 4: got his cup of coffee. He was, you know, he
Speaker 4: was what's his name, Uh, the bull Durham guy, Crash Davis.
Speaker 4: He had his moment up in the majors. If look,
Speaker 4: if he's good enough, he'll be back, be back. Jack
Speaker 4: Little is the guy's name. He'll even They brought up
Speaker 4: a guy named Will Klein. So Dodger's pitching. Man, it's
Speaker 4: just a mess, but they're still the best they've had.
Speaker 4: They've used the most different starting pitchers of anybody in
Speaker 4: the league.
Speaker 3: And I want still the first place. How many games over?
Speaker 4: Uh not a ton not as much as you would expect,
Speaker 4: but you know, but they're still a first place the division.
Speaker 3: He pitched later tomorrow. Who Tony for?
Speaker 4: He threw on Tuesday?
Speaker 6: I think they said Sunday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he only threw an inning, So you know,
Speaker 4: they could bring him back. You know, they're obviously going
Speaker 4: to be very careful with them. I'm not sure when
Speaker 4: he'll when he'll throw again. Let me see, Well he's
Speaker 4: not throwing today, and he's not throwing Saturday, so maybe
Speaker 4: they'll use him on somebody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what you said. So you're gonna have breaking
Speaker 3: news for the Last Nights game and Sunday's game.
Speaker 4: I'll leave it atone, Okay, anything else, Jane, No, you know,
Speaker 4: I mean that's that's the way it goes.
Speaker 3: You probably know how many weeks before football starts.
Speaker 4: It's under seventy five days, because I know somebody posted
Speaker 4: seventy five days to football just a few days ago.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're getting close to seventy days, so that's quick.
Speaker 3: That's what ten weeks? Yeah, that's ten ten weeks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was like thirty until they play Hawaii or
Speaker 6: not thirty. I mean they play on the thirtieth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's probably ten weeks until there.
Speaker 4: In the first game, I was kind of starting to
Speaker 4: gear up for our pool, Steve, you know, starting to
Speaker 4: get things, you know, get things put together, checking out
Speaker 4: the schedule, you know what games look like. Because the
Speaker 4: first weekend of college football actually starts the second to
Speaker 4: the last weekend of August. There's like four games on
Speaker 4: like the twenty fourth, and then the full first week
Speaker 4: of games. I think that's Saturday is August thirtieth. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Labor Day weekend late August thirtieth, is that Saturday. But
Speaker 4: there's some games on the twenty eighth and the twenty ninth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so is there was on a Friday or Saturday. Saturday.
Speaker 4: Their can't their game with Kansas State here the third
Speaker 4: week of the season is a Friday night game, which
Speaker 4: makes me very unhappy because you lose the tailgate day.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't really tailgate on Friday. I mean
Speaker 4: some people will, the super super diehards will. We're kind
Speaker 4: of semi diehards anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we won't. I'm sure we won't tailgate on
Speaker 3: that Friday. We'll just kind of show up at the
Speaker 3: game and do whatever we do. What are you hoping
Speaker 3: you know, we haven't talked it three in a while
Speaker 3: to see because you go, you go and you sit
Speaker 3: in the stands, and what are you hoping to see?
Speaker 3: For improvements? Well? One, I obviously hope the team is better, right.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, but the fan experience, they've got to do
Speaker 4: something first of all.
Speaker 3: First, and I don't know when they'll ever have the
Speaker 3: money to do, they got to fix that sound system,
Speaker 3: without question, without question.
Speaker 4: That really takes away from the experience of the game,
Speaker 4: I would have sound system.
Speaker 3: I would have never known that had I not gone
Speaker 3: with our guy Bill. You invited me and I went,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, God, that's muffled. You can't hear it.
Speaker 4: And and you know when we've experienced it on both
Speaker 4: endscause when when when they put up that sound system,
Speaker 4: we were on the south end of the stadium and
Speaker 4: it was blaring.
Speaker 3: Isn't that what it's from? From the south end?
Speaker 4: The speaker system is attached to the scoreboard right on
Speaker 4: the south end. So we're there and we couldn't hear
Speaker 4: because we could make it because it was too loud, right,
Speaker 4: And then we also didn't feel like we had a
Speaker 4: good view of the big, new, big giant, you know, scoreboards.
Speaker 4: So we moved to the north end. We are now
Speaker 4: the third section in from the north end from on
Speaker 4: the on the west side. Okay, we still can't make
Speaker 4: out what they're what they're saying. I was with him
Speaker 4: and I just want you can't it's it's terrible. And
Speaker 4: I'm told that when that sound system got designed, it
Speaker 4: wasn't designed by somebody who knows how to design that.
Speaker 4: There's just somebody who said I know how to do this,
Speaker 4: and they said, go do it and it was terrible
Speaker 4: and it's still.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, well Greg Byrne was still here when
Speaker 3: they put up.
Speaker 4: That scoreboard ten years so, so that's the first thing,
Speaker 4: because it takes it takes away from the experience if
Speaker 4: you can't I mean, you can make out the play
Speaker 4: by play guy, you know, Jeff Deane, you can hear
Speaker 4: what he says, but anything else like the videos and
Speaker 4: the the the on field.
Speaker 3: Promo, you cannot make out total. So that's that's the thing.
Speaker 3: Number one. I never would have known that had an
Speaker 3: okay number two. Number two is food. Although they made
Speaker 3: some improvement.
Speaker 4: I'm okay with the food, partly because I don't eat
Speaker 4: a lot there now. I mean I do wish i'd
Speaker 4: go back to the old nachos where you get nachos
Speaker 4: in a bowl, and but I don't like the little
Speaker 4: cup that you get on the side.
Speaker 3: But that it's not enough for me.
Speaker 4: The food is not enough for me to complain about
Speaker 4: because we stuff our faces at our tailgate and by
Speaker 4: the time we get to to the game. You know,
Speaker 4: if I get a hot dog, it's a surprise. I
Speaker 4: might get some nachos. But that's it. So I'm not
Speaker 4: and you know it's expensive, but I don't spend a
Speaker 4: lot of money on it. Okay, to me, A lot
Speaker 4: of it is we need something something more clever with
Speaker 4: the with the promo and the games and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: They're annoying. A lot of them are annoying.
Speaker 2: Are you saying that because you're older or because they're
Speaker 2: just annoying?
Speaker 3: You're just dumb? Do you go to football games?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm usually the box with Brian though.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, I am just dumb. Yeah, there need
Speaker 3: to be more clever. They need to be a little
Speaker 3: more clever or you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, my brother hates the fact that the band
Speaker 4: doesn't get to play enough, and I'm like, I don't
Speaker 4: of mind with that too because I don't like the band.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, we had the band director, right, and you weren't
Speaker 2: here that day, but you asked me the questions and
Speaker 2: I did one of them, and you said he.
Speaker 4: Didn't answer the question. He didn't he didn't aswer the question. Well,
Speaker 4: what he said was you know that that they can't
Speaker 4: do an entrance because the tunnel is too small. Well,
Speaker 4: that's a bunch of crap. And I'll stand by that
Speaker 4: because if you watch, if you watch the tunnel that
Speaker 4: the Ohouse State Band comes out of, it's two people wide,
Speaker 4: and they have a great entrance.
Speaker 3: They have the best entrance in all of college football.
Speaker 4: And they've got a tunnel that you and I could
Speaker 4: barely walk by it, walk through it side by side.
Speaker 4: It's your pregame food that so, so don't tell me
Speaker 4: that you can't generate some sort of a great band entrance.
Speaker 3: That that would be a up in my up in
Speaker 3: my uh things that they need.
Speaker 2: And you've been you've been to a number and we
Speaker 2: covered the you know, we covered the team many many
Speaker 2: years ago, but you've been to other places where.
Speaker 3: You say, God, that's pretty good. Can't we do that?
Speaker 3: Can't we do that? Right? Right? Give me a give
Speaker 3: me a place, Well, well, I state you were a state. No,
Speaker 3: I've never been know how to Wisconsin?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: That jump around that they think things they do between
Speaker 4: the third and fourth quarter, all right, And now to
Speaker 4: know that's something that has to organically happen. You can't say,
Speaker 4: you know, Jed Fish tried to force some stuff and
Speaker 4: it just did not just his music, Yeah, it just didn't.
Speaker 4: Somebody's got to come up with something, right, and I
Speaker 4: don't know what. It's not the wave or the rock
Speaker 4: whatever they do, you know, it's it's something.
Speaker 3: And I don't know what it is. And they've tried
Speaker 3: a bunch of things.
Speaker 4: And I give him a lot of credit for you know,
Speaker 4: the guy who does the drum at the beginning of
Speaker 4: the game and from where we said, he's in the
Speaker 4: far corner of the stadium, so we can't hear that,
Speaker 4: you know, we don't hear it.
Speaker 3: So I don't know what you do. You wish.
Speaker 4: Arizona had something like that, but those things have to happen.
Speaker 4: As I said, you can't create those things.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: Something.
Speaker 4: You wish Arizona had something like that and not not
Speaker 4: a lot of schools have that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: You you see the you see the.
Speaker 3: Entrance that Virginia Tech does, you know with enter Sandman.
Speaker 3: I watched it on video and I get tingles.
Speaker 7: Yeah, dude, right, yeah, I mean I remember there was
Speaker 7: a video probably a couple like a couple a couple
Speaker 7: of months ago.
Speaker 6: It was Metallica playing in that stadium.
Speaker 3: It was rocky.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised to still because they went you know, they
Speaker 4: went crazy because Metallica came in and played their entrance
Speaker 4: in a concert in the stadium, you know, and it
Speaker 4: would be like if you sent different end it's coming
Speaker 4: played airs on the stadium.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: There's things like that, Stephen, and it's it's hard for
Speaker 4: me as a fan. It's one of those things where
Speaker 4: I'll know it if I see it, right, I can't
Speaker 4: think of it if I but I'll know it if
Speaker 4: I see it.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna throw this at you.
Speaker 2: The fact that Arizona's not a football school and it's
Speaker 2: not known for being I think that has something to do.
Speaker 4: Sure, you know, but I like the DJ. I don't
Speaker 4: like the DJ. Yeah, I don't like any yelled at
Speaker 4: by a DJ at a football game.
Speaker 3: Is it because of your age?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Probably yea.
Speaker 21: And that's why I asked you. But you're there kind
Speaker 21: of different capacity. Well he's not, yeah, And he's not
Speaker 21: there to entertain us. He's and he's there to entertain you,
Speaker 21: right you, and and and and and then and people
Speaker 21: in the you know, in the zone of zoans.
Speaker 2: That's how I get the U A basketball because it's
Speaker 2: the same type of thing. It's the music's not for
Speaker 2: the people that intended.
Speaker 3: We're not the we're not the demographic. It's the people
Speaker 3: that are playing it.
Speaker 4: So I don't know what it is, but but I
Speaker 4: will say, start with that damn sound sah with I'll
Speaker 4: fix the sound system and it'll fix a lot of things.
Speaker 4: It'll make you won't be cringing when somebody starts yelling
Speaker 4: into the into the microphone.
Speaker 3: Well here's the thing, because because Desiri has these uh questionnaires,
Speaker 3: right or whatever.
Speaker 20: Yeah, we'll see, yeah, we'll I respond to those all
Speaker 20: the time. And this is what you putt Yeah, you know,
Speaker 20: it would be sweet. They put in misters, like like
Speaker 20: how they have that like shopping malls and stuff. They
Speaker 20: just like put in misters. That would be That would
Speaker 20: be awesome.
Speaker 2: Like like those lines that they have the camera on
Speaker 2: maybe one of those that kind of revolves and goes back.
Speaker 3: I'm in the shade. I don't care you guys, that's
Speaker 3: too bad for you.
Speaker 7: And the sun hit oh yeah, like I see it
Speaker 7: from the box and the sun on zone and like, man,
Speaker 7: they are cooking right now.
Speaker 3: You know, hey, look, we all we all did our
Speaker 3: time there. Okay, we all did our time.
Speaker 4: We sit where we sit because of like in the
Speaker 4: day in the day game, we're the first ones in
Speaker 4: the shade because the press box shadow comes over us.
Speaker 3: That makes sense. Yeah, like you said, you've paid your dues,
Speaker 3: so I don't care about anybody else.
Speaker 5: You gotta go.
Speaker 3: We Gotta go was a quick segment. We'll come back
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