Speaker 1: Breaking down all the exes at all. It's Steve Lavera
Speaker 1: and Jagen Salvez. This is I on the Ball on
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my in the ball here Fox
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: Let's start with a little bit of news from the
Speaker 3: MLB Angels. Centerfielder Mike Trout is going to be out
Speaker 3: for the rest of the season after suffering another meniscus
Speaker 3: tear on his left knee just so, oh so.
Speaker 4: He tore it again. Yeah, oh god, I mean you
Speaker 4: want to talk about a guy that doesn't deserve that.
Speaker 5: Yeah. One of the best players in a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean one of the best. I mean, arguably
Speaker 4: the best ever. But he's not going to go down
Speaker 4: as the best ever because he didn't play it. You know,
Speaker 4: he had many injuries, didn't plan on the championship team,
Speaker 4: all those things. I mean, God, you only get one
Speaker 4: shot at this man. It's just too bad that it's
Speaker 4: turned out like that for him. I feel bad for
Speaker 4: the guy. Yeah, I mean, he's got gazillions of dollars.
Speaker 4: But you know it's still you know, you're an athlete,
Speaker 4: you're still all about that stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think he just he just had a rehab not
Speaker 3: too long ago and he exited the game after like
Speaker 3: two innings and then now it's I mean, now this
Speaker 3: season is done.
Speaker 5: Wow, feel bad for him.
Speaker 3: A little bit of news from the Olympics. Katie, like
Speaker 3: I said the right, yes comes, the most decorated American
Speaker 3: woman in Olympic history, won her thirteenth medal, breaking a
Speaker 3: tie with swimmers Natalie Coughlin, Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll talk to Amanda Beard about Katie Ledecian. Right,
Speaker 4: somebody's trying to ask what makes you different?
Speaker 5: Right? Right now? That's exactly what I wanted to ask.
Speaker 4: What's about her than you've been able to do all
Speaker 4: these things right? Right?
Speaker 2: And she's a coach, right, So she's trying to find
Speaker 2: that brief person that's right because every coaches, well, go,
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you a question.
Speaker 5: I want to ask you that now.
Speaker 2: So so we know that talent wins games, but it
Speaker 2: also loses games too. More important a very good coach
Speaker 2: or very good talent, Oh, there's one thing I've mad,
Speaker 2: there's one thing I've heard in this business that's.
Speaker 4: That's tough, because there have been some I hope Tuck
Speaker 4: Seeson is not hearing. But that guy wasn't incredibly talented.
Speaker 4: Look at the player he turned out to be, right,
Speaker 4: he was the player that turned out to be both
Speaker 4: through coaching and just his own determination.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: But then we've seen some really talented people come through here,
Speaker 4: so and not this squat.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna kind of go the way I thought
Speaker 2: you might go with Alisa that I went with.
Speaker 5: But you have to have some talent.
Speaker 2: Sure, But but if you're a good coach. The one thing,
Speaker 2: the one thing I've learned, one of the many things
Speaker 2: I learned, coaching matters. Yes, and Frank Bush, Frank Bush,
Speaker 2: I think he's a fantastic. If he's not on the
Speaker 2: on the on the mountain Rushmore way, you're missing something
Speaker 2: because he's that good. Right, They play They play hard
Speaker 2: for people like that, They played hard for Loot, They
Speaker 2: played hard probably for Dictomy.
Speaker 5: A dude who just coached overachievers.
Speaker 4: Right. But but I but I go back to, you know,
Speaker 4: a conversation, just a brief conversation, I had I had
Speaker 4: with Dick is when I was doing this recruiting and
Speaker 4: I said, I said, do you like recruiting? He goes, no,
Speaker 4: he goes. What I know, he goes. What I don't
Speaker 4: like is looking at the other side of the field
Speaker 4: and they've got better players than we do. Sure so,
Speaker 4: so talent does matter a lot, no question, right, no
Speaker 4: question you but you know, But Dick is a perfect
Speaker 4: example a guy who proved that coaching matters too. You
Speaker 4: don't have to have the most talent did guys? Sure
Speaker 4: always to win? But it sures how does helps us?
Speaker 4: It's almost like fifty to fifty to me.
Speaker 2: I think it's sixty forty because the coach. The coach
Speaker 2: has a lot to do with it. The thing about it,
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr, Steve Kerr, he's the coach of the USA team.
Speaker 2: I have to preface this. Best players on the planet
Speaker 2: at least that we think, right, what is he doing
Speaker 2: to coach these guys? Yeah, he's managing them, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: not coaching them, he's managing.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yes, he's managing.
Speaker 5: What are you going to teach?
Speaker 4: Well, the coaching piece and comes in, Okay, this is
Speaker 4: how we're gonna play you know when when you know,
Speaker 4: when Scott Thompson was on last week and talked about
Speaker 4: his practices, now he's running practices like loots practices, And
Speaker 4: I'm like, these guys are you know older guys, the
Speaker 4: older guys multi millionaires, been playing NBA NBA for years.
Speaker 4: What can you teach them? Well, he's not trying to
Speaker 4: teach them anything. He's just trying to put them together
Speaker 4: to play a certain way stuff.
Speaker 5: And you know that's why coaching matters.
Speaker 4: That that respect, coaching does matter, but also it helps
Speaker 4: to have that kind of talent.
Speaker 5: Sure, you know, sure to coaching.
Speaker 2: Coach, how many times have you seen there was a
Speaker 2: here what a pick a sport that they didn't do
Speaker 2: anything with that talent?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, there were some times, you know, after
Speaker 4: all the ten win seasons, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Or in basketball, yeahs kinds of basketball.
Speaker 4: So there's that, you know, yeah, you know, you know what,
Speaker 4: it's like, there's no wrong answer to that. Yeah, It's like,
Speaker 4: there's really no wrong answer to that, because you know,
Speaker 4: if you have if you have great talent, you can
Speaker 4: still suck, right, and we've seen that, or you or
Speaker 4: you can have crappy talent and you can still be
Speaker 4: really good. So you know, it's it's yeah, it's a
Speaker 4: it's a chicken and a kind of thing. Which you
Speaker 4: know which which comes first? Which do you have to have?
Speaker 5: First?
Speaker 4: You have to have some talent. But if you again,
Speaker 4: if you don't have the coaching to go with it,
Speaker 4: well it's its way.
Speaker 5: It can get waste.
Speaker 2: I'll give you this, Calipari, Caliparti the best talent in
Speaker 2: the last ten.
Speaker 5: To twelve years. You're in year out. What's he done?
Speaker 2: What is he showing for it? These kids are already
Speaker 2: NBA players. They're just staying there for a year because
Speaker 2: they have.
Speaker 4: To, right, and it's your job to pull them together
Speaker 4: for a year, make them better, right, I hear you?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: US women's basketball they took down Belgium today eighty seven
Speaker 3: to seventy four, and they earn a spot and next
Speaker 3: week's quarterfinals.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: What the line was on that? Give me idea?
Speaker 2: What next step is the line? Those women's basketball leave
Speaker 2: it alone?
Speaker 5: Leave it alone?
Speaker 4: You know what I did? Bet on a women's basketball game, uh,
Speaker 4: an Iowa game with what well it was? I bet
Speaker 4: on an CCAA tournament game that Iowa is in, but
Speaker 4: only because only because we were actually we went to
Speaker 4: it was when we were up at the final four
Speaker 4: is a women's final four game. We were up at the
Speaker 4: final four and we went to a bar to watch
Speaker 4: the game, so we were gonna watch the games. I thought,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna watch the game. I'm gonna have some juice
Speaker 4: on it.
Speaker 5: And I did, and I hit it. He's trying to
Speaker 5: make it sound sensible.
Speaker 4: I think I think I had something on the number
Speaker 4: of points on Kaitlin Clark's points and then the over
Speaker 4: under on the game practices.
Speaker 5: Hello the problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, God, if you really want to bet, there's other
Speaker 3: things like handball and.
Speaker 4: But hey, you know, I mean I thought about I
Speaker 4: want I thought about putting some money on the US
Speaker 4: against Sudan. I thought that, okay, that they'd come out
Speaker 4: and kicked their asses because of how close they made
Speaker 4: their last game, and to make a point, they did,
Speaker 4: the line was twenty nine and a half when they did.
Speaker 4: They never even got to that. I think the most
Speaker 4: they led by was twenty twenty one, so they never
Speaker 4: even got there. So I'm glad I didn't do that either.
Speaker 4: I've saved myself some money by by a sensible dude
Speaker 4: silence on that one.
Speaker 3: Okay, well let's move on, please, let's good at news
Speaker 3: out of the Olympics. Simone Biles is downing two new
Speaker 3: jewels at the Olympics. She won the all around gold
Speaker 3: Thursday evening, come in the first gymnast to win two
Speaker 3: nonconsecutive titles and the first woman to own two Olympic
Speaker 3: All around gold medals since sixty eight.
Speaker 2: Whoa, So she's she's overcome a lot, right in the
Speaker 2: last four years she had I don't know what is
Speaker 2: it probably equivalent to the yips, but beyond that because
Speaker 2: we've seen I'm just saying that because that's the phrase.
Speaker 2: I know, we've seen those people not recover from yips,
Speaker 2: which you know, it's it's a lot of it's up
Speaker 2: here between the ears, between the years, and you find
Speaker 2: something that just kind of gets to you and then
Speaker 2: you have to overcome it.
Speaker 5: So very cool for her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so no, I I yeah, I mean it's congratulations
Speaker 4: to her. And I guess the the other US girl,
Speaker 4: what's her name, Sony Lee? I guess she won the bronze. Yes, won, Yeah,
Speaker 4: so good, good on them. Very cool putting on a show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're taking a lot of attention on like social
Speaker 3: media and stuff. Just yeah, yeah, it's it's great to see.
Speaker 3: Let's move to the NBA. Some news. Gordon Hayward into
Speaker 3: his NBA career after fourteen seasons.
Speaker 5: He's retiring. He's retiring.
Speaker 4: He just was playing like three years ago at Duke.
Speaker 4: Remember he was the he's the guy who had you know,
Speaker 4: I mean a Butler.
Speaker 3: They're playing like.
Speaker 4: He was at Butler playing against Duke in the National Championship.
Speaker 4: Didn't that seem like, yeah, about five.
Speaker 2: Years ago, fourteen years ago, at least ten years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they did it twice. In fact, they've been to
Speaker 2: the plant four more than Arizona has less. Why do
Speaker 2: you need to say that, it's just a quick fact.
Speaker 2: Why do you need to say that a quick fact? Perspective?
Speaker 2: Baby perspective?
Speaker 4: Ryan, Come on, man, you know what, I'm not talking
Speaker 4: to you the rest of the day.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, wait till that happens at the new stadium.
Speaker 3: Would be in the middle, man, Now tell him. I
Speaker 3: think he was the one that actually almost hit the
Speaker 3: shot almost.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he almost a half part shot that would have
Speaker 5: won the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a boo, good player for for about
Speaker 3: fourteen years. Well, the last thing I have is just
Speaker 3: some news out of training camp today for Arizona. Let's
Speaker 3: see all All Star Arizona star receiver t mac He
Speaker 3: continues his rehab on the sidelines. I still no time
Speaker 3: to able get his return.
Speaker 4: Somebody posted a video of him doing you know, sprints
Speaker 4: up and down the up and down the sideline.
Speaker 5: You know, they're just gonna be careful. You have to be.
Speaker 5: They have to be.
Speaker 2: They have to be for a lot of different reasons.
Speaker 2: Did you see yesterday yesterday this morning the Olympic boxing
Speaker 2: with the with the man.
Speaker 3: Or the they called the or the woman called the
Speaker 3: match because.
Speaker 2: She didn't want to face the guy or the girl
Speaker 2: or you know what I'm saying, Yeah, because it's transgender.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's transgender against women or I
Speaker 2: don't know what the phrases because I didn't read destroy.
Speaker 2: But she just she got hit and she said no,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do it. Yes, that's just not right.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't want to go political or whatever
Speaker 5: on you, but that's just not right. I didn't seen that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all kind of all over you see that
Speaker 2: she just in after forty six seconds she got hit
Speaker 2: pretty hard.
Speaker 5: This is not worth it. Yeah, it's not worth it.
Speaker 3: And it's not.
Speaker 5: It's not, it's not.
Speaker 3: It was like five seconds into the end of the match.
Speaker 5: And she just forget it.
Speaker 3: She's like, no, Wow, that was that was kind of
Speaker 3: a headline. I think that was just like this morning
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 5: I didn't see any of that.
Speaker 3: Let's see uh trade on Stukes. He missed practice yesterday,
Speaker 3: but he was back in the lineup and intercepted Fafita
Speaker 3: during the seven and seventh period today. Celestein he's competing
Speaker 3: for a starting spot in the secondary. He had a
Speaker 3: pass break up during the final team period.
Speaker 4: Well, I saw and I saw that they put in
Speaker 4: they they they they They're not gonna move Savigne over
Speaker 4: to left tackle. They put in They've got another guy
Speaker 4: starting and right in in left tackle, in h.
Speaker 6: In a.
Speaker 5: Spot.
Speaker 4: Yeah something Rhino something or other. That's a nice name
Speaker 4: for a offensive lineman, the Rhino. But you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, and I think Brent Brandon made the point
Speaker 4: yesterday said we've got time, you know, we're trying to
Speaker 4: get somebody in there and see if see if that works,
Speaker 4: then if it doesn't work, we'll try something else. But
Speaker 4: you know, you want you want guys to be kind
Speaker 4: of in their comfort zone. You don't already be doing
Speaker 4: patchwork stuff. Yeah, you know right out of the box
Speaker 4: that guys play where they've been working on and find
Speaker 4: somebody else who can get in there and do that job.
Speaker 5: And that's what you need to do. So I like
Speaker 5: that he's doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty thirty days to kickoff?
Speaker 4: Yes it is, man, Yes it is. We're in the month, Steve,
Speaker 4: We're in the month when football starts. We are in
Speaker 4: the month.
Speaker 3: I guess, especially what three three weeks for? I guess
Speaker 3: for week zero? Actually, officially, what what if we ever?
Speaker 4: We haven't settled any of our bets over the last
Speaker 4: like year half, So are we just gonna wipe the slate?
Speaker 4: You owe me some lunches.
Speaker 2: You oll me a bunch of lunch, one lunch, and
Speaker 2: you owe me a lot of cash catch weekly bets.
Speaker 5: Oh that's right. I gotta go back and track that.
Speaker 4: I owe you a lunch, probably probably cover your your
Speaker 4: entry fee, right, knowing that too, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That that's already because I beat your beat. Youre as
Speaker 2: pretty bad?
Speaker 5: Did all right? I'm right, pre rolling do that math okay,
Speaker 5: a free roll. Yeah, you gotta do the weekly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like I've got it. I've got it. I've
Speaker 4: got it in the computer. I get I'll figure it out.
Speaker 5: Don't don't.
Speaker 4: Well, I know, but I want but I want some
Speaker 4: other lunch like for you. No, I won I won
Speaker 4: something on the taking the over under for Arizona Wind
Speaker 4: last year.
Speaker 2: Paid the paid the end. We paid. We paid that.
Speaker 2: I took you tost with you and Jason. We went
Speaker 2: to over here Rosticos.
Speaker 4: Was that was that for that?
Speaker 5: I ain't buying you pre luved, not what I owe you.
Speaker 5: I just you. Because we're gonna go.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go south on the south side because yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so you're gonna do with the catch that you don't
Speaker 2: want me this year though.
Speaker 4: All right, hey, let's take a break looking forward to
Speaker 4: this Amanda Beard of Olympian, former olymp not a former,
Speaker 4: she's being an Olympian.
Speaker 5: She's in she's in Arizona.
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Speaker 4: very prominent guests. We'll love it and love to have
Speaker 4: it her on. So we'll be back with a man
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to watching the ball here Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jaginsauce held the pune.
Speaker 2: We have a man the weird seven time Olympic medal winner, Amanda.
Speaker 2: How the heck are you?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 6: I'm doing awesome. How are you guys?
Speaker 5: We're fine.
Speaker 2: We had Frank Bush, we have Frank Bush on the
Speaker 2: show last week. We got the dude is the smart dude?
Speaker 5: You know? Come on?
Speaker 6: Oh right? Isn't he great?
Speaker 15: Love?
Speaker 6: Love that I got to be with him for the
Speaker 6: amount of time that I did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we'll get back to that in a little bit.
Speaker 2: Are you watching? And if you are, what's got you intrigued?
Speaker 6: I am. I'm watching as much as I possibly can.
Speaker 6: I'm not waking up at two am, yeah, because I'm
Speaker 6: waking up for morning practices too.
Speaker 14: Still, so.
Speaker 6: Catching up on the prelims of the swimming stuff when
Speaker 6: I wake up for morning practice and trying to balance
Speaker 6: watching the finals and semifinals right around my lunchtime while
Speaker 6: I'm I'm still jumping the pool swimmer a little bit
Speaker 6: and I'm loving it. I was super pumped to watch
Speaker 6: the two hundred breaststroke today. That's my favorite an event.
Speaker 6: It's my personal favorite. So I'm glad that we're bringing
Speaker 6: home and gold in that event.
Speaker 5: So when you.
Speaker 4: When you watch, are you watching as somebody who competed?
Speaker 4: Are you watching as a coach? Are you watching as
Speaker 4: a spectator? You know what, how do you how do
Speaker 4: you watch these these events?
Speaker 6: I think that that's a that's a great question. It
Speaker 6: probably goes in and out of all of those things.
Speaker 6: I have moments where I'm just a spectator, cheering everybody on.
Speaker 6: I have moments where I'm kind of critiquing some people's
Speaker 6: strokes and and how they're how they're swimming. Yeah, and
Speaker 6: then as an athlete, you know, it's it's it's weird
Speaker 6: watching it still versus being there and around that environment.
Speaker 6: So still kind of weird to just be a spectator
Speaker 6: as well.
Speaker 2: Are you Does it bring back great memories or what
Speaker 2: kind of memories?
Speaker 6: Yeah, great memories, And I love my swimming career. I
Speaker 6: had a blast. I thought it was fun. I got
Speaker 6: the opportunity to have a really long swimming career. So
Speaker 6: so yes, great, great, great memories. It starts to like
Speaker 6: bring up like oh the yeah, the food in the
Speaker 6: Olympic village and like the how the housing, all that
Speaker 6: kind of stuff, just like all the little details that
Speaker 6: you might not necessarily think of. It starts to stir
Speaker 6: like all these little stories and things that you know
Speaker 6: you've forgot for the most part.
Speaker 2: So talked to her about the window of opportunity. That's
Speaker 2: something that well, she had a lot of windows.
Speaker 4: Right But let me ask you this because let me
Speaker 4: ask you this first, because I always ask this of
Speaker 4: like when you know, we talked to some like a
Speaker 4: major League baseball player the first time you went to
Speaker 4: you know, walked into the major league stadium and you
Speaker 4: went to the mound or went to the batter's But
Speaker 4: what was it like for you the first time you
Speaker 4: went to the swimming venue at your first Olympics, whether
Speaker 4: it was for a practice or the actual event, just
Speaker 4: the feeling that you had described.
Speaker 6: That for us, Yeah, well, you know, especially for something
Speaker 6: like swimming, you don't walk into these big venues with
Speaker 6: all the seating for something, you know, like if we
Speaker 6: don't do that like a regular like baseball, basketball and
Speaker 6: football does so for me, walking into an environment like
Speaker 6: that and just the sheer like mass of like the
Speaker 6: stands and just the media areas things like that, you're
Speaker 6: just like wow, like it's just makes you feel like
Speaker 6: really honored to be able to be there and represent
Speaker 6: your country. And yeah, so I think that's kind of
Speaker 6: that feeling of just kind of like the jaw drops right.
Speaker 2: Well back in the day, I think you're in nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety six, you were like sixteen, probably one of the
Speaker 2: youngest ones to ever do this. Were you intimidated by
Speaker 2: anybody and you were kind of one of the darlings
Speaker 2: with the little stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would. I would classify myself more as like
Speaker 6: naives less so which kind of worked into my uh,
Speaker 6: into my advantage. To be honest, like, I didn't. I
Speaker 6: didn't get as nervous as I probably did my my
Speaker 6: later Olympics after that, But walking out there and being
Speaker 6: so young and just kind of like, okay, cool, tell
Speaker 6: me when I'm suppsed to go, just kind of just
Speaker 6: being like a little big dog bouncing around.
Speaker 2: So, how was it going back to high school after that?
Speaker 6: That was weird? I'll be honest, that was That was
Speaker 6: a weird time. That was hard for me. I it
Speaker 6: was a huge growing couple of years for me, just
Speaker 6: not only as an athlete, but just as like my
Speaker 6: character and who I surrounded myself with. I found out
Speaker 6: real quick like when I came back that I had
Speaker 6: to to really support myself with like the right people
Speaker 6: around me that had my best interest in mind and
Speaker 6: who you know that that that you see a lot
Speaker 6: of people have trouble doing that, you know. So that
Speaker 6: and being so young, it was I went to the
Speaker 6: Olympics between my freshmen and sophomer year of high school.
Speaker 6: So trying to manage that and normal social issues that
Speaker 6: you deal with at that time was fairly overwhelming for me.
Speaker 4: Well, and as Steve was mentioning, second, you know you
Speaker 4: talk about the window, right you got you got in
Speaker 4: at very young age, you got to go to multiple Olympics.
Speaker 4: But for some people it's like, you got one shot.
Speaker 4: How how do you how do you as an athlete,
Speaker 4: you know, handle that in terms of Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: go to this one and then okay, I got I
Speaker 4: got one more in me, Then I got one more
Speaker 4: in me after that. You know, how do you keep
Speaker 4: the window open or how do you keep it from
Speaker 4: shutting on you very quickly?
Speaker 6: That's hard. I was very blessed. I got to participate
Speaker 6: in four Olympics. I did try for a fifth. I
Speaker 6: missed making that team. Uh I. The amount of people
Speaker 6: that I saw at one Olympics and then I never
Speaker 6: saw them again was quite was a lo But I
Speaker 6: think you can't dismiss the how much of an honor
Speaker 6: it is to be a part of a team and
Speaker 6: to participate in something like that. So making one Olympics
Speaker 6: while a lot of us, yes, we kind of get
Speaker 6: a taste of it, and then you want more. Making
Speaker 6: one Olympics is amazing and you shouldn't discount that and
Speaker 6: should definitely make sure that you're giving yourself all the
Speaker 6: love and the props for doing something so amazing. For me,
Speaker 6: for my window being so much longer, it didn't come
Speaker 6: without a whole bunch of ups and downs mixed in
Speaker 6: with throughout that. So I again this goes back to
Speaker 6: like surrounding myself with great people. I had this support
Speaker 6: system of people who really had my best interest in
Speaker 6: mind and wanted to make sure that I wasn't only
Speaker 6: healthy as an athlete, but I was healthy as a human.
Speaker 6: You know. I was enjoying life and having some normalcy
Speaker 6: and living like the teenager that I was supposed to be.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you a question, and don't take
Speaker 2: it wrong. No, So the deck, we're seeing what she's done.
Speaker 2: She's unbelievable. I saw a thing a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2: She's a freaky competitor. She loves you must be a
Speaker 2: pain in the in the neck competitor because of what
Speaker 2: you've done for how long you did it you must
Speaker 2: love the competition. That's kind of where I didn't want
Speaker 2: to offend you.
Speaker 6: I don't think that's a sense of at all. That's
Speaker 6: a compliment for me. I will be the first to
Speaker 6: claim that I am highly, highly uberly competitive. I like
Speaker 6: to win, I like to play. I like to you know,
Speaker 6: it's like one of the like we were joking around
Speaker 6: before we got on air, like getting old is hard,
Speaker 6: Like I keep coming to like reality that I'm getting
Speaker 6: older because I want to jump in the pool with
Speaker 6: some of my athletes and like throw down and race them.
Speaker 6: It's like still my competitive juices, but I can't. But
Speaker 6: my brain goes there, like how how can I get
Speaker 6: myself to the point of just being competitive? So I
Speaker 6: nobody likes playing card games with me or anything with
Speaker 6: me as I just did too, and I got to get.
Speaker 4: We're talking to Amanda Beard, a four time Olympian gold
Speaker 4: medal winner, all kinds of stuff like that, how old
Speaker 4: are you kids?
Speaker 6: I have an almost fifteen year old boy and my
Speaker 6: daughter is eleven.
Speaker 4: Okay, what do they know about your Olympic career and
Speaker 4: what do they think?
Speaker 14: Yeah, good question.
Speaker 6: They are really into sports, but they both play tennis.
Speaker 6: They're both tennis players, so they kind of took the
Speaker 6: dry land route as far as what they know for
Speaker 6: my career. They just know that mom was a good
Speaker 6: athlete and I was a swimmer. They know that I
Speaker 6: went to the Olympics and have medals, but we don't
Speaker 6: really talk about it, you know. I want them to
Speaker 6: pave their own path. If they asked me questions about it,
Speaker 6: I'll talk about it. I'm more so helped them, like
Speaker 6: with their athletics from a a mom's side and having
Speaker 6: like some insider knowledge I guess of just kind of
Speaker 6: preparing yourself with all their you know, recovery and eating
Speaker 6: and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: So these athletes today are getting bookoob dollars. You have
Speaker 2: a number of number of medals. Were you born twenty
Speaker 2: years too early?
Speaker 6: Yes? And no. I mean I feel like there was
Speaker 6: probably some benefits to not being around some of the
Speaker 6: social pressures that they're dealing with. Yet it comes with
Speaker 6: some dollar signs, but they're also dealing with a whole
Speaker 6: other level of expectations and pressures that I don't necessarily
Speaker 6: I don't know if I would have wanted that. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 6: the money's fun. But at what costs are these athletes
Speaker 6: getting those extra dollars for?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hear you, and and all the attention, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, because now you know, you watch the Olympics,
Speaker 4: you can watch everything. You know, you can watch We're saying,
Speaker 4: you can watch the archery, you can watch the kayaking.
Speaker 4: Where before it's kind of like the Olympics would come
Speaker 4: on and you had the track, the swimming, the gymnastics,
Speaker 4: you know, the basketball, and it seemed like it was
Speaker 4: a little more concentrated. Were Now everybody's on TV, everybody's
Speaker 4: on social media, everybody knows what you're doing. Uh, I
Speaker 4: mean is that what you think? Does that add to
Speaker 4: you know, what these athletes are dealing with?
Speaker 5: Do you think?
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sure it does on some level. But I
Speaker 6: also think it's really cool that that there's more Olympic
Speaker 6: love to be giving out right, because there are such
Speaker 6: amazing athletes that are participating in in this event that
Speaker 6: in the past it'd be really hard to seek out
Speaker 6: trying to figure out how to watch those kinds of sports.
Speaker 6: It's just so now like, yeah, you can watch you know,
Speaker 6: table tennis and rugby. I mean, this is the list
Speaker 6: goes on. So I think the fact that we have
Speaker 6: access to the athletes also helps make more make their
Speaker 6: sport more visible, which is always a good thing.
Speaker 2: So we're talking about this and we've talked about other sports.
Speaker 2: So you have the decky, you have the other swimmers.
Speaker 2: What separates them and like you to become who you've become?
Speaker 2: Is it just the determination? There's got to be some
Speaker 2: athletic athleticism all that. What's the recipe?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think, goodness gracious, I think the recipe comes in
Speaker 6: all different sports. But I think you guys nailed it
Speaker 6: pretty good. Like with the competitiveness that you have to
Speaker 6: be really competitive and you have to be very kind
Speaker 6: of stubborn, strong willed. Athletes have to be somewhat selfish.
Speaker 6: You know, you're taking care of yourself because you're trying
Speaker 6: to perform and do the best that you possibly can.
Speaker 6: So trying to figure out how to be selfish, splash
Speaker 6: and still humble. Yeah, I mean I and I think
Speaker 6: just nerves of steel, Like walking out onto a pool
Speaker 6: deck like that and you know the French crowd is
Speaker 6: going nuts for Leon and it's loud and it's wild.
Speaker 6: How can you kind of center yourself and have all
Speaker 6: that noise fade away. And I was really good at that.
Speaker 6: I know a lot of these athletes that are doing
Speaker 6: this are great at that, as well as just being
Speaker 6: able to kind of get into your own little brain
Speaker 6: and everything just as that chatter just goes away. And
Speaker 6: that's that's super important.
Speaker 2: So let me I asked these questions, and Jay kind
Speaker 2: of shakes my head because I like this question. Though
Speaker 2: you've been doing this a long time. You have been
Speaker 2: doing this long time. Did you still get nervous? Probably
Speaker 2: in the beginning, but at the end, this is what
Speaker 2: you did for a living. Did you get nervous even
Speaker 2: in the big competitions or was it just like this
Speaker 2: is who I am, this is what.
Speaker 5: I got to do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I definitely got nervous. I mean I learned
Speaker 6: how to channel my nervous energy into adrenaline and then
Speaker 6: figured out how to make that last throughout my race
Speaker 6: and not just like be super nervous and then like
Speaker 6: go crazy and then waste all my energy. So I
Speaker 6: learned how to kind of harness that and use it
Speaker 6: to my advantage. But I think rbs are good. It's
Speaker 6: one you still care and two it's good to kind
Speaker 6: of it's like fueling, filling your school tank.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but along those lines, you know, you had your
Speaker 4: first Olympics, which you were probably that was probably the
Speaker 4: one you were most nervous at, right. Then you had
Speaker 4: a second, then you had a third, then you had
Speaker 4: a fourth, and it's like, you know, how was it
Speaker 4: did the approach change as you went along or were
Speaker 4: you just you know, using the experience of the last
Speaker 4: one to help you with the next one. I mean,
Speaker 4: how did you do that and how did your how
Speaker 4: did that progress as you went through these different Olympics.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I think being able to have a lot
Speaker 6: under my belt as I moved throughout my career was
Speaker 6: very helpful. But then also there was a part of
Speaker 6: it that would put kind of expectations on me, which
Speaker 6: then kind of would build up more nerves and in
Speaker 6: a different kind of bucket, I guess, you know. So
Speaker 6: the idea of having to perform and bringing home you know,
Speaker 6: records and medals and trying to not become a failure
Speaker 6: in your brain, right Like, so there's that kind of
Speaker 6: nerves that definitely increased throughout my career, and then the
Speaker 6: confidence of I've been here, I know what I'm capable of.
Speaker 6: I know what I can do that those nerves kind
Speaker 6: of helps me a little bit more so.
Speaker 2: Now you're an assistant coach at Arizona. Congratulations you've been retained.
Speaker 2: Like I said earlier, we talked to Frank not too
Speaker 2: long ago, a few days ago in fact, and he's
Speaker 2: one of the special coaches.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: You guys played hard for him or swam hard for him.
Speaker 2: What separated him from just being another coach? And because
Speaker 2: now you're trying to be a coach.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think one one thing that I think is
Speaker 6: really important is coaches. Great coaches don't just care about
Speaker 6: like for swimming or any but for swimming the times
Speaker 6: that the athletes were throwing down You want them to
Speaker 6: really have an identity outside of the pool. Our athletic
Speaker 6: director Desiree said something that really stuck with me, and
Speaker 6: she called it the wedding factor, and it was are
Speaker 6: these athletes when they leave your care right they graduate
Speaker 6: from college and they go off, are they going to
Speaker 6: call you when they get married or get a job
Speaker 6: or have a baby. Like to do a lot make
Speaker 6: that lasting impression on these athletes. And for me that's
Speaker 6: really important because then along with that comes like a
Speaker 6: great mutual respect for each other. And I always felt
Speaker 6: like if I respected my coach and my coach respected me,
Speaker 6: we were going to do great things. Right, Like, I'll
Speaker 6: work really really hard, I'll do anything my coach asked
Speaker 6: me to do if there's that mutual respect. Because I
Speaker 6: literally handed my career into the hands of those coaches,
Speaker 6: and to do that, I have to have the utmost
Speaker 6: respect for those people, which I was very lucky that
Speaker 6: I did for all those coaches.
Speaker 5: Makes sense, makes total sense. Well, thanks very much, welcome
Speaker 5: back to you Bay, Thank you, and we'll see you
Speaker 5: on campus soon.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: Yep, thanks so much, Amanda, appreciate it.
Speaker 6: I'm around here all the time. Time come find me.
Speaker 4: Set that two am alarm.
Speaker 15: All right, okay, hi will.
Speaker 5: Thank you, appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Amanda Beard, Olympian, seven time medal winner.
Speaker 5: Yep, that's fun. Yeah, she's got a lot of energy.
Speaker 4: She does a lot of energy and what she'll make.
Speaker 5: She doesn't know what getting old is. She's only forty,
Speaker 5: she's forty two.
Speaker 4: I hit her up. That's crap, all right now, I
Speaker 4: don't mean that, Amanda. Hey, so all right, stick around.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Finding the Ball here Fox Sports
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Speaker 5: I'm Steve. He's Jay Ryan with us. We have fifteen
Speaker 5: minutes left.
Speaker 2: He'll be monitoring the phones, so he'll give us a call.
Speaker 5: Five two.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 4: What's the longest you ever swam in a full You'd
Speaker 4: never like to swim a link of a pool or
Speaker 4: at a city pool or something like that.
Speaker 2: Probably when I was a kid, But I mean that's no.
Speaker 2: This is said, I have a pool. I don't get
Speaker 2: in it.
Speaker 5: It's a money pit. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well wait, we have a pool and I get in
Speaker 4: it two or three times this summer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, now my family uses it. I wish
Speaker 2: I could bury that thing. You can't, I know, but
Speaker 2: it's why do it?
Speaker 5: Let all the water bury it? It's you know, it's trouble.
Speaker 5: It's trouble. I wish I could. That's yeah, but so.
Speaker 4: But no, no, I mean, you know, growing up I lived,
Speaker 4: I lived on the South Side. I would go to
Speaker 4: the Mission Manor Pool. It was a big pool. In fact,
Speaker 4: it was the I think it was the only Olympic size.
Speaker 5: Is still a pool still there.
Speaker 4: I have no idea imagine it is. I know it
Speaker 4: wouldn't be right. It was a city pool because it
Speaker 4: it was a city part and they used stop it.
Speaker 4: And so I remember as a little kid, and we
Speaker 4: moved from over there when I would have been eleven
Speaker 4: years old. So I remember so that trying to swim
Speaker 4: and swim the length of the pool and I couldn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's a good swimmer, you were not,
Speaker 2: because no, did we talk about this earlier this week.
Speaker 4: And I you know, my parents made me take swimming
Speaker 4: lessons and those I took at the Pantana well Puts
Speaker 4: the Jesse Owens Park now just be called Pantana Park.
Speaker 4: But I've never considered myself a good swimmer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it's it's difficult.
Speaker 2: There's those athletes are dedicated their yeah, in shape, their everything.
Speaker 4: And when you when you see what they do, and
Speaker 4: you know, like you said, you know they swim of
Speaker 4: fifteen hundred meters. I mean that's a mile.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a that's a mile as long as I've walked.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't walk a mile, right, No, I do
Speaker 4: what's in a while. I prefer to bike or drive.
Speaker 2: But sure, yeah, no, no, no, those swimmers are crazy
Speaker 2: good athletes in their own way, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I mean they are unbelievable.
Speaker 4: When when you see that, because there's some athletes like that,
Speaker 4: you know, the marathon ors, and you know, some of
Speaker 4: those things are the you know, I don't know, it's
Speaker 4: it's nuts what they do. But swimming to me seems
Speaker 4: like it would be the hardest of all. The breaststroke,
Speaker 4: I mean, holy cow, or the butterfly, you know, those
Speaker 4: two those two strokes you go. How can you do
Speaker 4: that for that long? Yeah, you know, it's it's nuts,
Speaker 4: but that's fun. That's fun with the man to beer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. She's energetic. I'm sure she's a good coach.
Speaker 2: I have to you know, you got to believe in
Speaker 2: their coach. I think we talked about, Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 2: believe in your coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, got a call. Hi, you're on the air and
Speaker 4: eye on the ball.
Speaker 15: Hey guys, Hey, welcome back Steve Howard. How and good
Speaker 15: and I hope all your uh leaving your mom and
Speaker 15: all those things you gotta take care of when Okay.
Speaker 5: It's good, Thank you very much.
Speaker 15: Hard Yeah. So yeah, swimming, that was a pretty good swimmer.
Speaker 15: But at our age now it's a little bit tougher.
Speaker 4: I don't even know if I can float.
Speaker 15: With both of my knee surgeries. I really haven't gotten
Speaker 15: good went after because I went in our pool today
Speaker 15: because I'm working. I'm almost done with my garage. We're
Speaker 15: putting the fancy tile corey tile floor on it right
Speaker 15: now and we were ninety percent done.
Speaker 5: Well, good for you. How you been Howard?
Speaker 15: Okay, good, good good. Everything's fine from that fall. And
Speaker 15: then of course I think about when when when Steve
Speaker 15: had the funny thing, well j sell from three.
Speaker 4: Feet Well, you know, you gotta do what you gotta
Speaker 4: do about I'm not sure.
Speaker 15: No, no, too bad. They couldn't do the triathlon right
Speaker 15: because of the crowd.
Speaker 4: They do that.
Speaker 2: I thought they did that yet they they became okay yesterday,
Speaker 2: but still haven't done it.
Speaker 15: Okay, Oh you're probably right they were.
Speaker 5: They were waiting and waiting. I thought yesterday was funny.
Speaker 5: Click they did it.
Speaker 15: Yeah, well good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we'll see. We'll good to hear from you, Howard.
Speaker 15: Yeah, because that is the probably the toughest thing of
Speaker 15: the three Viking swimming and running.
Speaker 5: How'd you get to eat? Cool? Well? I went swimming.
Speaker 15: Hey, congratulations too on. You're going to be moving in
Speaker 15: in thirty days or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's when you play. We went there today. It's
Speaker 2: a very nice facility. We'll have to be nicer with
Speaker 2: our stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we have than we are here. Yeah.
Speaker 15: I lived on corner Swan and Sunrise for twenty four years,
Speaker 15: running one place for a year and then my house.
Speaker 15: I would live there for twenty two three years, just
Speaker 15: down south of that.
Speaker 5: That's where we'll be, Okay, Okay, thank you see you man? Yeah? Cool.
Speaker 5: We hadn't heard from Howard in a while.
Speaker 4: He called. He called the day you were gone. Oh
Speaker 4: did he Okay, he said he didn't miss you.
Speaker 5: Well, it's a long line. It's a long line. Was
Speaker 5: it last week? Monday? Monday? Oh Monday?
Speaker 4: When yeah?
Speaker 5: When you're yeah yeah yeah, so no, you know, back
Speaker 5: back to the swimming thing.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 4: I also think it's it's a you almost have to
Speaker 4: have a certain kind of body, certain kind of you know.
Speaker 4: I don't know. A friend of our our kids was
Speaker 4: a swimmer and you just looked at me. He walked by,
Speaker 4: and you go, you can swim, you know, the shoulders
Speaker 4: and that stuff. Let's take this call. Hire on the
Speaker 4: air and eye on the ball.
Speaker 2: Yes, Nico, you're getting older. Your voice is changing. You're
Speaker 2: like Peter Brady.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, Well what's going on? Nico? I can't even
Speaker 5: teach your name?
Speaker 15: Go ahead, get shared in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks, thanks. We had two women that took us
Speaker 5: two women. Yeah, you knew Nico would be on that.
Speaker 14: Hey, man, find her mind?
Speaker 4: Man, what's up?
Speaker 5: Nico?
Speaker 14: What else Collin is?
Speaker 15: Man?
Speaker 14: You guys got to do me a favor.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 14: Oh, you gotta get the guy that won the silver
Speaker 14: medals and skateboarding.
Speaker 13: Arizona.
Speaker 2: We probably okay, okay, all right, did you hook us
Speaker 2: up or talk about some cyclist too, like a mountain biker?
Speaker 5: Or was this the guy that you talked about?
Speaker 14: If first sow that was Kevin Parraza the prior to
Speaker 14: soon and he's ax?
Speaker 5: Okay? Did he was he in Paris?
Speaker 14: They do that, okay, but he might be for Team
Speaker 14: Mexico if he was.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we'll we'll we'll check that. So the
Speaker 2: Mesa guy Mesa is a skateboarder.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't remember his name.
Speaker 14: Man, early in the morning, I watched it.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, we'll look for that.
Speaker 5: Were you a skateboarder as a kid? I'm sure you were.
Speaker 4: You're still You're still a skateboarder now.
Speaker 5: Aren't you?
Speaker 14: And a border once in a while you were.
Speaker 5: You a breakdancer?
Speaker 14: No, okay, I'm a Mexican and half Italian?
Speaker 5: Okay, that you could have been a break down. Hey.
Speaker 2: By the way, what do you think about you looking
Speaker 2: forward to uh football?
Speaker 5: I know you are you and your death.
Speaker 14: Man, I told you, Man, I got low expectations.
Speaker 5: I think they went, Yeah, that's right. You're crazy.
Speaker 4: You're wrong, Nico, You're just wrong.
Speaker 14: I'm telling you this, man, Kansas State, Utah, that's you
Speaker 14: could easily be two and two.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, no, yeah, I think they will be two
Speaker 4: and two after those, after those four games, but then
Speaker 4: they should be favored in the rest of their games.
Speaker 14: Oh no, So but if they go to and too, man,
Speaker 14: you know, walking in that stadium is going to be empty.
Speaker 5: I don't know. It depends on what the two and
Speaker 5: two looks like.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: If they can get blown out at Utah in Kansas State, yeah,
Speaker 4: that our fans are going to say, oh god, it's terrible,
Speaker 4: We're not going. But if you know, if they if
Speaker 4: they look good, you know, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 14: Let me ask you this, were you impressed with the
Speaker 14: Washington crowd last year?
Speaker 4: Was I impressed with the Washington crowd? I? Uh, probably no,
Speaker 4: because I think I think it got declared to sell
Speaker 4: out and there was still a lot of empty seats,
Speaker 4: so you know, probably not, But it had no because
Speaker 4: I remember a zone's getting their asses kicked in the
Speaker 4: second half, and I and a lot of people left,
Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden, they scored a couple
Speaker 4: of touchdowns and then they had a possession to tie
Speaker 4: the game, and I remember sticking around for that and going,
Speaker 4: this was a better game than anybody thought.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: There's so many people had left by that time. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so no, I'm gonna say no, our crowds sucks sometimes
Speaker 4: they do.
Speaker 1: It sucks out.
Speaker 14: Last year, man, they were good, and it was like,
Speaker 14: why can't we fill this up?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's the way it's been nic before.
Speaker 4: You get their skeptical Nico. They they were like me.
Speaker 4: They didn't they Arizona didn't realize. They the fans didn't
Speaker 4: realize they were good until the last home game and
Speaker 4: then that home game. Then that game it rained like hell,
Speaker 4: we froze and yeah and we got wet. That was yeah,
Speaker 4: it was fine, stuck around for all of it. Absolutely.
Speaker 14: Hey, man, if you ever have the new a D
Speaker 14: tell it a lowder the price on beer. Man, I'm
Speaker 14: going broke by.
Speaker 5: Hell, my name is I have a problem.
Speaker 14: Yeah, maybe I'll meet in a meeting or something.
Speaker 5: Right, right, different meetings, all right, man?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Okay, because that was different. He's getting older. Hey, did
Speaker 2: you see that note on Sean Elliott.
Speaker 5: Yes, I just saw it. You just saw it, because
Speaker 5: it's been twenty five years since that.
Speaker 4: What is that? Was that?
Speaker 13: The one?
Speaker 4: Was that what you're talking about?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, what?
Speaker 5: No, do you look?
Speaker 4: I saw a note that said that today is the
Speaker 4: twenty fifth anniversary of his kidney transfer.
Speaker 2: Oh god, twenty five years. I was out there when
Speaker 2: that happened. They should be out there to go do
Speaker 2: spend a week there in San Antonio. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about he was he wears those watches.
Speaker 5: That tells you, Oh, wasn't that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we talked about because it must have been that
Speaker 4: on Monday. Oh yeah, that he he had No, he
Speaker 4: had an Apple Watch and the Detective and a regular
Speaker 4: heartbeat and then and then he had they went he
Speaker 4: had he had to have heart surgery. Right, Yeah, No,
Speaker 4: we that We talked about that. Okay, Oh is that that?
Speaker 4: You're dude, You're like four days behind on that one.
Speaker 5: Man, No, I've seen it, but I was on the road.
Speaker 4: Yeah know you were. Yeah, No, we talked about that
Speaker 4: on Monday. And that was crazy, you know.
Speaker 2: Because he's coming, he's scheduled to come for the Loot
Speaker 2: camp and you guys talking about Mike is Mike is
Speaker 2: the one that's handling him.
Speaker 5: So I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: And then well he posted today that it's been twenty
Speaker 4: five years since yeah this is kidney and he came out.
Speaker 4: It was a post about the kidney stuff that we
Speaker 4: talked about when we had him on the show a while.
Speaker 2: Because he's goin an advocate for that, right yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: twenty five years. I remember it well, Arizona. The citizens
Speaker 2: flew me out there for a week, went through all that.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 2: It was I love San Antonio. Just a weird time
Speaker 2: you went out there for his so the surgery, well
Speaker 2: for the whole week is he just he just found out.
Speaker 2: He flew me out there and I spent the week
Speaker 2: out there talking to doctors and all that stuff when
Speaker 2: newspapers used to do stuff right, right, it was it
Speaker 2: was crazy because you know, he was Arizona's favorite son,
Speaker 2: you know, especially at that time for the Spurs, you
Speaker 2: know and all that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, yeah, I remember that. I probably read
Speaker 4: your stuff.
Speaker 2: Probably you don't remember it. It's okay, okay, well let
Speaker 2: me tell you something.
Speaker 5: We got three minutes.
Speaker 2: A lot of you guys on the other side held
Speaker 2: that thought the way their second little brother didn't kick.
Speaker 4: My god, oh my god.
Speaker 5: Follow my follow up story.
Speaker 2: The funny thing about this Jay, the funny about your
Speaker 2: wife worked for our side, and she contributed a lot
Speaker 2: to your financial situation on your family.
Speaker 5: So you shouldn't poop poo the citizen just.
Speaker 4: Sometimes they didn't read you.
Speaker 2: You should have in fact, in fact the star now
Speaker 2: miss is the citizen?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Too?
Speaker 5: Good paid?
Speaker 2: Or two papers in the city, right, was a good thing.
Speaker 2: Good makes everybody better.
Speaker 4: It is a good thing.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: It's funny because when we when we got married, and
Speaker 4: we got married at this big old church at Saint
Speaker 4: Peter and Paul over there on Campbell, and you know
Speaker 4: how the ushers always saying, you know, you come in
Speaker 4: and they're gonna see you, and they say, they say,
Speaker 4: you know, Brider groom, right, it's which side of the
Speaker 4: church you're gonna sit on? Instead, they were going, are
Speaker 4: you star or citizen? It was pretty funny. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 4: And I also remember there were some people there were
Speaker 4: there were some actual people who thought it was stupid
Speaker 4: that we were dating, because one was because we were
Speaker 4: competing papers.
Speaker 2: Well, but you guys didn't cover the same thing. No,
Speaker 2: I was a sports Sydney Summers and sun and run
Speaker 2: the same thing.
Speaker 4: But there are some people who made comments about that,
Speaker 4: how can you how can you date you know, somebody
Speaker 4: from the citizen or how can you date somebody from
Speaker 4: the start?
Speaker 5: My wife?
Speaker 4: There are people who thought that it was kind of
Speaker 4: like what are we in, like, you know, Selma Alabama?
Speaker 4: You know, you know, we can't have inner interracial marriage
Speaker 4: and interracial dating, inner paper datings or something like that.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I'm surprised you even notice anybody at
Speaker 5: the Citizen. They're below us.
Speaker 4: We can't, no, we can't, no, no, you know what,
Speaker 4: because there was there was a cause that we were
Speaker 4: all committed to, and that was getting more minorities in
Speaker 4: the German. That's how I meant, That's how I man,
Speaker 4: that's how we met.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but let me say something, and this is I'm
Speaker 2: saying this with all truthfuls. There were some people on
Speaker 2: the other side I know who they are, who thought
Speaker 2: that of the citizens people that we were, we were
Speaker 2: not as good as them or or or whatever.
Speaker 5: I was got a name that doesn't shock me.
Speaker 2: Actually, you were second on my list, you're second on
Speaker 2: my list.
Speaker 4: I was, and that's not true because you know why,
Speaker 4: because the citizen reporters that I competed against, who we're
Speaker 4: all good, who were well on new side. There was
Speaker 4: a Mary boost A Monte was the cop reporter Ed
Speaker 4: Humes that you know covering the courthouse.
Speaker 5: Uh did you say, David David.
Speaker 4: Dave Tyble covering cops. And then you know guys like
Speaker 4: you and uh and uh Anthony Anthony came more Petreusca right,
Speaker 4: you know those guys that you know over in sports, Uh,
Speaker 4: Jack Ricord, you know, covering basketball. So no, I you
Speaker 4: know I had respect for you guys. I thought you
Speaker 4: guys were good and then you kept what you did.
Speaker 4: You you guys kept it. You know, we kept each
Speaker 4: other on each other's toe.
Speaker 5: Had to be. Yeah, Okay, good show, today show, thank you.
Speaker 4: And Howard and Amanda Beard, thank you so much. And
Speaker 4: Elie Smith you're talking to. This was a fun show.
Speaker 5: So it takes two good women to make the show work.
Speaker 4: Hey, if you if you're just if you're just getting here,
Speaker 4: check it out on the podcast. It's worth your time.
Speaker 5: Ali wants to see that.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Hey, we'll talk to you tomorrow.