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Speaker 2: The Good Afternoon. Everybody.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Riverta, He's Jagan Zolaz. We got
Speaker 3: our guy Henry or no Juan in today one.
Speaker 2: That what'd that take?
Speaker 4: One?
Speaker 2: Like eight seconds? Three seconds for him to screw it up? Hardly?
Speaker 2: Come here once a week. The problem you forgotten? Who
Speaker 2: are you? Who? Two shoes?
Speaker 3: Don't don't they come to the final day of the
Speaker 3: j hour two hours.
Speaker 2: Two hours? This is it, man, this is it. A
Speaker 2: lot of people were saying, don't go Jay. Nobody. I
Speaker 2: haven't heard anybody say that.
Speaker 4: They said it's been nice here and you and you know,
Speaker 4: they say we really like you being on the show.
Speaker 2: Nobody has said don't go to me.
Speaker 3: I just did, Okay, well, well you know to me,
Speaker 3: it's tax day. You know why you wait? You wait
Speaker 3: and you wait. I can file, I can file. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna file. It's you know, March and then we get here.
Speaker 3: I have so much to learn, You're gonna be gone.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: We got Matt learning some stuff, the guys learning the
Speaker 3: stuff in the background. I'm here, Like, what if they
Speaker 3: get all get sick at the same time, go to
Speaker 3: the cafeteria, have bad food. I got to come up
Speaker 3: with something. You know what I got to come up
Speaker 3: with not doing a show.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I promised everybody. You're still doing this, Steve.
Speaker 4: You know, you got to keep these people busy for
Speaker 4: a couple hours, keep them entertained for a couple of hours.
Speaker 3: But what people don't realize. I had the show before
Speaker 3: you did.
Speaker 2: You did. I was doing okay. I just said I
Speaker 2: need a partner.
Speaker 4: I was going to say before something, but then I
Speaker 4: you know where I'm you know, like you.
Speaker 3: Know how you go b c oh, Yeah, you can't
Speaker 3: say be me before COVID during COVID.
Speaker 2: That's what I got you during COVID because you.
Speaker 4: Let's say we're talking okay before COVID before were during COVID,
Speaker 4: because I canna say B and the first letter of
Speaker 4: my last name. You can't really say that my first
Speaker 4: letter of my friend actual thing? You know where I'm going, yeah,
Speaker 4: we might as well say it right now. We're not
Speaker 4: gonna say it.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, no, we won't go there, but you know we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna have a good time for the final show, try
Speaker 3: to get to try to make it a holiday, half
Speaker 3: Mass and all that stuff, but the government would allow it.
Speaker 3: You know, jas J's day.
Speaker 2: I did doesn't does it didn't.
Speaker 4: It wasn't lost on me that for my last day
Speaker 4: here you went and got somebody from the Houston Astros
Speaker 4: to be on the show.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: I was gonna wear something else, but because because you
Speaker 4: decided to bring Francisco.
Speaker 2: Or Marijuan, I had to wear my Dodger shirt.
Speaker 3: That's fine. Equalizer the Aquaiser. They're in the playoffs too, right,
Speaker 3: so we see what happens. Yeah, so he's gonna come
Speaker 3: on pretty soon, right through seventy or seventeen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's in Houston.
Speaker 3: They're going to the play I think, right, they're in
Speaker 3: just about I can't remember. I'm looking out, I'm looking
Speaker 3: up right now. No, they're not clinched yet. They're leading
Speaker 3: their leader there leading, they're.
Speaker 4: They're leading the West, but they're they're not yet clinched. Uh,
Speaker 4: they've got a.
Speaker 2: They've got a five game lead on the Mariners, so
Speaker 2: they're likely and there's only a week and a couple
Speaker 2: of days left.
Speaker 3: But they're they're not in yet, Okay, So yes, Francisco Robero.
Speaker 2: He's a good friend. He's a he's a good guy.
Speaker 2: We have fun with him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's offered to let me check out his Houston
Speaker 4: Astro's World Series rings and I've politely declined so far.
Speaker 3: So and then at the second hour we had Jake.
Speaker 3: Jake decided he was sick last week, so him and
Speaker 3: his wife were going to go take a quick trip
Speaker 3: to to Laftun or.
Speaker 2: Someone get away.
Speaker 3: So he said, I'm not sure I'm gonna be able
Speaker 3: to handle the the being away and being you know,
Speaker 3: on on surface on cell service.
Speaker 2: So we said I better not do it. Yeah. Now
Speaker 2: we got to mister Barrett.
Speaker 4: Barrett Baker, who's a part of that nineteen ninety eight
Speaker 4: the football teams, been a long time Tucson firefighter. Uh
Speaker 4: here and just a continuing vocal, a booster of the football.
Speaker 2: Probably right right.
Speaker 3: If you're mister goody two shoes one, he is very
Speaker 3: mister goody two shoes. So we'll ask you what his
Speaker 3: thoughts are after last week? Hard to be goody two
Speaker 3: shoots game. But you know, I'm just I'm just a messenger.
Speaker 3: I'm not the mean guy. Were you pissed about the game?
Speaker 3: What were you what was going through your fudd No? No, no,
Speaker 3: I oh damn last week? You know were you were
Speaker 3: you mad? Or were you were you just disappointed in him? Disappointed?
Speaker 3: Kansas State is a good team. There's no denying that.
Speaker 3: They're an established program over the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: So it it just.
Speaker 6: Didn't come together for us for some reason, and you
Speaker 6: got to move move on. Look at Utah?
Speaker 2: How about how about those Gators that you called that
Speaker 2: you called out. I want to clarify something with that
Speaker 2: that's already been made.
Speaker 6: Clarified that thinking that that backup would start and the
Speaker 6: original starter started and played most of the game.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, so that's you know, you go to the window,
Speaker 4: the Vegas window with that and.
Speaker 2: They say, sorry, you still lost.
Speaker 3: I just want to clarify with YouTube, so bad information,
Speaker 3: check your sources.
Speaker 6: I went I got home Friday night and that was
Speaker 6: the first thing I popped up on X said Graham
Speaker 6: merch to start, and I said, great, there we go
Speaker 6: do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well the coach will be with you on that side.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll be as employed as the coach
Speaker 4: pretty much.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, welcome to the show today. Jay's final one.
Speaker 3: We've talked still people, a lot of people still don't know.
Speaker 3: I was some people today telling them Jay's last day.
Speaker 3: Oh really, oh really? Why why because he hates me?
Speaker 3: But but you're not gone, right, not totally gone.
Speaker 4: I'll be here, uh for the monthly Casino del Soul
Speaker 4: show that we're going to be doing down at the
Speaker 4: sports Book. Would love for you guys to come down,
Speaker 4: come down there and just check us out. It's it's
Speaker 4: gonna be Thursday on Thursdays before the NFL game, kind
Speaker 4: of leading in the NFL game, and you know, we'll
Speaker 4: do our normal Friday picks that those weeks on Thursdays.
Speaker 4: We'll probably have guests from the casino there come and
Speaker 4: check out the sports book and uh, you know, maybe
Speaker 4: we can you know, work some things out to maybe
Speaker 4: get some prizes or something like that. So I'll still
Speaker 4: be doing that show once a month, and we're set
Speaker 4: up to do that through the rest of the walk
Speaker 4: through the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: So yeah, So listen, watch us on Facebook or through
Speaker 3: me telling you when that will happen. We try to
Speaker 3: get there next week for the first one in September,
Speaker 3: right first, so and then we'll schedule it.
Speaker 2: We'll let you win. That's going to be right. So
Speaker 2: I'll still be doing that.
Speaker 4: I'll still I'm gonna go through call in on Fridays
Speaker 4: with my picks because Steve and I have some money
Speaker 4: on that with each other. So I'll keep doing that,
Speaker 4: and who knows what else, you know, maybe I'll show
Speaker 4: up once in a while. Yeah, we'll call in. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'll definitely call in. I'll definitely call in. You know
Speaker 4: when when things are going bad, Steve, which you and
Speaker 4: I know, we know when that is. It's easy to
Speaker 4: it's easy to tell when it's going bad. And I'll
Speaker 4: try and give you a hand.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, what are we doing? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: I get it?
Speaker 3: I get it, okay, like like now, okay, So what
Speaker 3: are we gonna do this weekend with no actual game happening.
Speaker 2: Well, there's lots of football to watch and there's some
Speaker 2: good games this weekend. You got what's our pick? What's
Speaker 2: our big game?
Speaker 4: We've got Oklahoma Tennessee that's the that's the special that
Speaker 4: we've got.
Speaker 2: We've both got to pick. Tennessee is giving seven seven.
Speaker 4: Is at home at Oklahoma at Oklahoma at Oklahoma. WHOA, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's the game, okay, And so that's the one that
Speaker 4: we both have to have to have to pick.
Speaker 2: It was a close call.
Speaker 4: I want I thought about USC Michigan, but you know,
Speaker 4: Michigan is just not great. And the Oklahoma Tennessee. You know,
Speaker 4: it's the first SEC game for Oklahoma at home and
Speaker 4: it's against the team that's picked to beat them, so
Speaker 4: I thought that would be a more interesting game. He
Speaker 4: got Josh Hipel as the head coach at Tennessee, going
Speaker 4: home to where he played at Oklahoma. He was I
Speaker 4: think he was the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma. He got
Speaker 4: fired at the off as the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot a lot of blood going on
Speaker 4: over there.
Speaker 2: But it's it's probably arguably the biggest or the best
Speaker 2: college game this weekend, okay.
Speaker 3: And there was a little off of course, we were
Speaker 3: going to talk about that Saturday. So then next week
Speaker 3: that you get ready for the big game at Utah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely want to ask Barrett Baker, because you know,
Speaker 4: people talking about how bad Arizon got beat.
Speaker 2: They gotta beat by twenty four, right, and it was
Speaker 2: a beat down.
Speaker 4: Well, the one game that Arizona lost in nineteen ninety eight,
Speaker 4: guess how many points they got beat by twenty four
Speaker 4: and they got beat fifty two to twenty eight.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a very close game UCLA.
Speaker 4: I think they had a twenty one point third quarter
Speaker 4: and that was that. And that that didn't just cost
Speaker 4: Arizona the Rose Bowl, that cost them a chance to
Speaker 4: play in the National Championship game.
Speaker 2: I'd like to pick.
Speaker 4: Bart Baker's brain about one, what the hell happened in
Speaker 4: that game that it fell apart like that? And then second,
Speaker 4: the aftermath of that, well, you know what was that
Speaker 4: like now in Arizona. In that team's case, they bounced
Speaker 4: back and they won the rest of their games. So clearly,
Speaker 4: you know, it either fired them up or they were
Speaker 4: just so good that they weren't going to lose any
Speaker 4: more games. But you know what's going through the minds
Speaker 4: of this team that maybe they have some doubts about
Speaker 4: themselves or whatever.
Speaker 3: So I think ninety eight, I think is it safe
Speaker 3: to see that that was historically one of the best teams,
Speaker 3: if not the best team.
Speaker 2: The best team.
Speaker 3: Okay, so does it feel look ninety seven aeras in
Speaker 3: the basketball ninety eight Arizona football? Does it seem long
Speaker 3: ago in your mind because you're the football guy.
Speaker 2: Yes, it does.
Speaker 4: And the reason it does is because because my son
Speaker 4: asked them, was five years old and he's not been
Speaker 4: working at in the athletic department at Arizona for many years.
Speaker 4: He's an old guy. He's got his own kid. When
Speaker 4: I put it in that context, yeah, it was a
Speaker 4: long time ago.
Speaker 3: So you know how the basketball fans are George basketball, right,
Speaker 3: Sometimes they don't think the poop stinks right?
Speaker 2: Right? Am I wrong?
Speaker 3: Norre you do? How do they feel? In football? The
Speaker 3: poop is always stunk and then occasionally it does, occasionally
Speaker 3: it doesn't. So it's kind of the occasionally it.
Speaker 2: Throws some perfume on it and it's not so bad.
Speaker 2: So it's the opposite. Well, the yeah, it's well, but
Speaker 2: this year, but.
Speaker 3: The thing is, uh, the year after success, it becomes like, right,
Speaker 3: our stuff doesn't think right right, and then it does
Speaker 3: and then it does as and it does right now.
Speaker 3: And that's that's where I was going to kind of
Speaker 3: go with it. Why do you think that's the case?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 3: They can't handle prosperity? And Bill I'm apologizing now because
Speaker 3: I'm generalizing, but.
Speaker 4: Because Arizona is Arizona football in terms of its cachet
Speaker 4: status okay, as a as a as a program, it's
Speaker 4: not even close to it. Arizona basketball is, you know,
Speaker 4: as a as a national program. So year in and
Speaker 4: year out, they don't have some of the best players
Speaker 4: in the country, right, right, so they go through these
Speaker 4: periods where they're just not very good the football. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 4: But why do you think that I'm asking about the fans, now,
Speaker 4: why do you think they have this or our.
Speaker 2: Stuff doesn't put stink in basketball? And football?
Speaker 3: And football a year after success, it's like they get
Speaker 3: this point bottle.
Speaker 2: It's I think I don't think it's that.
Speaker 4: I think it's more like me that they say, I
Speaker 4: hope it's not going to stink after that, after the
Speaker 4: right and you're waiting for it to stink.
Speaker 2: This is a bad conversation that we're having.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, because of the verbiage. But but you
Speaker 3: don't know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: No, I think I think Arizona fans a lot of
Speaker 4: them are like me in that regards that you have
Speaker 4: a great year, you hope there's going to be another
Speaker 4: one right behind it, But pretty much every time there
Speaker 4: hasn't been.
Speaker 2: So that's what you're kind of expecting.
Speaker 4: Right, There's a lot of fans out there thinking this
Speaker 4: year's over because it's the same old thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, no question. They've been through it before, right,
Speaker 3: even the young young guys. How do you feel? I
Speaker 3: feel fine. I feel fine about the seasons right now.
Speaker 3: But I have a lot of family members, a lot
Speaker 3: of friends that have come up to me saying we're over.
Speaker 2: Huh, We're back to where we were.
Speaker 6: Yeah, a she's probably better than us, I said, Well,
Speaker 6: I mean they can probably compete looking at the first
Speaker 6: three games, but it's not.
Speaker 2: Scene is not over. No, it's not. It's not.
Speaker 4: And that's what that's the point I'm trying to make
Speaker 4: about about that one loss in nineteen ninety eight that
Speaker 4: didn't end the season, right, and this one shouldn't either.
Speaker 4: Who's going undefeated? Anybody? Anybody though? Predict a team, any
Speaker 4: team anywhere? Is Georgia going undefeated?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Is certainly Alabama's not going undefeated maybe Texas, No, because
Speaker 4: in the SEC they're gonna lose to somebody. Okay, Arizona loss.
Speaker 4: And the good thing to about Arizona's losses was a
Speaker 4: non conference game exactly.
Speaker 2: Everything is still in front of it. So the thing
Speaker 2: is the reason people are worried is because of what
Speaker 2: it looked like.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what disappointed me last week.
Speaker 3: The way it looked. Well it's going seven points. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was the whole thing for me. Maybe not how
Speaker 3: it looked, but there was no oof in anything after
Speaker 3: that first drive. Just like they gave up right away,
Speaker 3: they got down. That interception kind of killed the kind
Speaker 3: of killed the drive, and there was no desire after that.
Speaker 3: It was uninspiring the whole game.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was no desire, but it
Speaker 2: was uninspiring. They didn't they didn't look like they wanted
Speaker 2: to be there. Well, they just did. They just didn't look.
Speaker 3: They determined, just interested to me, right, yeah, same, you
Speaker 3: had to write it.
Speaker 2: Did you write about it or it was right? I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure I can't remember.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure it was that bad of a rebrocate
Speaker 3: that you actually did.
Speaker 2: I actually I remember it now.
Speaker 6: What was your store grading the offense defense and it
Speaker 6: wasn't good. No, the headline was said, this is not
Speaker 6: something you want to put on the fridge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and that's what it was, right, That's what
Speaker 2: it was. Right.
Speaker 3: We'll see if they play well and lose on Saturday.
Speaker 2: I think that's the sign of good things. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what that's what you're hoping for.
Speaker 4: At at you know that they play you know at Utah,
Speaker 4: they play well, maybe they'll lose, but just that they
Speaker 4: play well, that they put up a fight.
Speaker 3: And then if they really play well and win, people
Speaker 3: are saying I told you that.
Speaker 4: Okay, guys, you guys, all the you guys who doubted
Speaker 4: from last week or Budge.
Speaker 3: Right, No, and that's that's going to be the storyline. Yeah,
Speaker 3: no question. You've been here before exactly yea many years. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so we'll see what happens. Hey, it's already for thirteen
Speaker 3: or fourteen after let's go yeah, yep. And then get
Speaker 3: our first guest, Francisco Ramaro.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah. They played play tonight, so he's kind
Speaker 2: of busy. Okay, we'll get him.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Why on the Ball Hero Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jacob Zaus. Now
Speaker 3: on the phone, we have Francisco Romero, the Astro Spanish
Speaker 3: play by play guy almost as Francisco.
Speaker 14: From Beaudiful Man in Nate Park here on the phone
Speaker 14: with you guys. This is the capital of the Baseball world.
Speaker 2: Enough for the BS, No for the BS.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, when when was the last time the
Speaker 4: Astros had a fifty to fifty guy? Tell me, Francisco.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to remember who was that, but.
Speaker 14: I can I can't tell you what was the last
Speaker 14: time we went our world after we beat the Dodgers
Speaker 14: in the.
Speaker 2: World the last time you beat the Dodgers in the
Speaker 2: World Series.
Speaker 4: Fairly, you don't want to go there, Francisco, you don't
Speaker 4: want to go there.
Speaker 2: How are you man?
Speaker 5: Doing well?
Speaker 2: Doing well?
Speaker 14: Actually, another great season for the Astros. You know, baseball,
Speaker 14: it's funny we think we know everything and then again
Speaker 14: we find out that we don't know anything about the game. Yeah,
Speaker 14: kind of that way. So it's it's been a great season.
Speaker 14: We actually traveled to Mexico City to play the Rockies
Speaker 14: down there. Uh and and believe me, I know, you
Speaker 14: know the teams that Mexico follows are Dodgers, Red Sox
Speaker 14: and Yankees. But I was very surprised that the Mexico
Speaker 14: City was ressed in the Orange.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 14: It was a very neat feeling, to tell you the truth. Yeah,
Speaker 14: And so we had a great time down there. The
Speaker 14: Astros where you know, ten games up behind about below
Speaker 14: five hundred, and now we're in first place on our
Speaker 14: way to another postseason, which has been a blessing for
Speaker 14: me and my family.
Speaker 3: So let's get the elephant out of the room a
Speaker 3: real quick. How many times did you see play and
Speaker 3: what were your thoughts on him when you saw him
Speaker 3: in person?
Speaker 14: You know, I've seen him since he was with he
Speaker 14: started because he actually the Angels are playing here tonight.
Speaker 5: I'm here at theme park, and he's a he's a unicorn.
Speaker 14: He's a unique person and uh I know the person
Speaker 14: the book pen coach for the Angels man he was
Speaker 14: actually drafted by the d Bags from San Risa Noda,
Speaker 14: and he tells us great stories I got. I mean,
Speaker 14: I see Shanna doing bad in practice and do what
Speaker 14: the things that he does. He's an amazing athletic and
Speaker 14: amazing human being, and he is a unicorn. He's doing
Speaker 14: things that whenever I thought that could be done. Of course,
Speaker 14: I don't want to sound negative, but of course that
Speaker 14: the bigger bases help with the solen basis. Also they
Speaker 14: only get to the first base several times.
Speaker 5: That also helps.
Speaker 14: And my broadcast partner Alex Ravinho, who was a catcher.
Speaker 14: He says, Oh, had those rule beens in places when
Speaker 14: Ricky Henderson was playing in the eighties, he would have
Speaker 14: son two hundred bases.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think people underestimate that, you know, the whole
Speaker 4: size of the base thing, even because it's just like
Speaker 4: an inch or something like that. But it helps, It helps,
Speaker 4: sure it does. And then as you said, you know,
Speaker 4: if a pitcher throws over the first space twice, now
Speaker 4: you know he can't throw over there, so that changes
Speaker 4: things as well.
Speaker 2: But the guys what six ' five and just runs
Speaker 2: like the wind.
Speaker 14: No, you can't take anything away from him because he's
Speaker 14: putting up those numbers. Why doesn't anybody else put those numbers?
Speaker 14: So you cannot take anything away from him. And we
Speaker 14: all knew that the Dodgers were the you know, contenders
Speaker 14: to sign him, as they did. I was surprised by
Speaker 14: the amount of money, but anyways, we knew that that
Speaker 14: he was probably gonna be a Dodger and they have
Speaker 14: a very little fan base, you know what I mean.
Speaker 14: You want to you're a Dodger fan, and so you know,
Speaker 14: we work in baseball, of course I worked another team,
Speaker 14: but you've got to be happy for those fans. You
Speaker 14: have to be happy for for their following. They have
Speaker 14: a great following, and to see a player like that
Speaker 14: like that, they in and day out, it's just amazing.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 14: You know, we're living history with Johatani, right, we work
Speaker 14: under the same umbrella of MLB, which for me is
Speaker 14: good to have players such as him that just elevates
Speaker 14: the game to another level. So I'm, you know, very
Speaker 14: happy for what he has done and hopefully he'll keep
Speaker 14: making history.
Speaker 3: Okay, so how how good are your astros?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it tells you you know, this big turnaround, right,
Speaker 4: you said since Mexico, what's been going on?
Speaker 2: What's been the turnaround?
Speaker 14: Well, one thing that I tell people is that it
Speaker 14: shows that the players are human beings. That's what it shows.
Speaker 14: It shows that that that nobody's a robot. That it
Speaker 14: shows that you have to play one hundred and sixty
Speaker 14: two games and the turnaround was, uh, you know, everybody
Speaker 14: gets hurt, so there's it's not excuse to having her players,
Speaker 14: but they show that resilency. They showed that it's a
Speaker 14: team that's been there, that has done that, and that
Speaker 14: it's lined up. I mean uh, you're not, but it's
Speaker 14: just a monster. Breakman came up to being Breakman again.
Speaker 14: Hotel Doube will is doing for sheel tube things and
Speaker 14: the pitching surprisingly like for instance, Ronetta Blanco wasn't supposed to.
Speaker 5: Being the majors.
Speaker 14: He throw no hater his first outing, uh in replacing
Speaker 14: Justin Berlander, and then Spencer Righetti is doing amazing things
Speaker 14: streking out less and right. And so I think for
Speaker 14: a lot of people that say the Answers don't have
Speaker 14: a deep minor league system, the Antwers do have a
Speaker 14: deep Mililis. It may have been ranked as other people
Speaker 14: see it, but but everything is there has been a
Speaker 14: plan in twenty eleven and it's still going on. It's
Speaker 14: still taking place. Players are still developed in the same way.
Speaker 14: And our pitching plan, not that I know details about it,
Speaker 14: but it has worked so well that you know we
Speaker 14: signed you say, Kukuchi these pitched nine games. The Answers
Speaker 14: have won all nine games that he has pitched. And
Speaker 14: so that's what happened with the Astros, just to answer
Speaker 14: your question, and they just follow the plan. And even
Speaker 14: though it had a lot of people worried, but we
Speaker 14: kind of knew the kind of players we had, and
Speaker 14: they have adjusted.
Speaker 4: So I was watching. I can't remember who I was
Speaker 4: watching this morning. I think it might have been somebody
Speaker 4: on the Dan Patrick Show talking about the fact they
Speaker 4: asked They asked the whoever the guest was said, Okay,
Speaker 4: there's twelve teams that are going to make the playoffs?
Speaker 4: Who can win it? You know which twelve teams can
Speaker 4: actually win it? And the guy said all of them,
Speaker 4: any of the twelve. And we don't even know who
Speaker 4: all the twelve is. Technically, okay, the Astros haven't clinched
Speaker 4: a spot yet, but you're close. But then neither have
Speaker 4: the Phillies, who seemingly to me have been the best
Speaker 4: team at least in the National League. But you know,
Speaker 4: they're saying anybody to win. I certainly don't feel right
Speaker 4: about the Dodgers going in because their bullpen has been awful,
Speaker 4: But they've got as good as shot as anybody, don't
Speaker 4: you think as.
Speaker 2: Do the Yeah?
Speaker 14: No, no, no, you're actually right. Once a time comes, it's
Speaker 14: anybody's game. Now, there's a lot of things involved in it.
Speaker 14: And like I said, sometimes we think we know everything,
Speaker 14: and sometimes we think that we don't know nothing because
Speaker 14: of what baseball is. It's a little bit of everything,
Speaker 14: and sometimes a little bit of luck is involved. But
Speaker 14: I can make an argument for all twelve teams.
Speaker 5: You are absolutely right.
Speaker 14: I can argument. I can make an argument why the
Speaker 14: Dodgers will win it. I can make an argument why
Speaker 14: the dodgerest will lose it. Same thing for the Astros.
Speaker 14: But I think the Dires and the Astros have been
Speaker 14: the two most consistent teams of all them. But now
Speaker 14: the team that really scares me are the Phillies. Yes,
Speaker 14: the Phillies scares me a lot. The Doers have had
Speaker 14: a lot of injuries, but now what excites me about
Speaker 14: the Astros is they're pitching.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 14: A sneaky team is the Guardians well as the Brewers. Yes,
Speaker 14: so it's exciting, I mean for people who love baseballs exciting.
Speaker 14: Of course, I want the Answers to win it a game.
Speaker 14: I want another ring and I want a fifth ring.
Speaker 14: But reality is reality, and it's a good time to
Speaker 14: be a baseball.
Speaker 5: Fan, no matter who you root for, because.
Speaker 14: You're gonna see exciting games now from what I've seen,
Speaker 14: from my point of view, pitching and defense will take
Speaker 14: you very very of course you need that offense to
Speaker 14: push you over the line. But when you have the
Speaker 14: pitch and you have great defense, it's amazing what those
Speaker 14: two elements can do to your game during a playoff series.
Speaker 3: So little Birdie told me that you're a Houstonian, Houston
Speaker 3: guy now, So is Tucson in your rear view mirror?
Speaker 5: Not at all. I have a home and two son.
Speaker 14: Of course, we're here full time in Houston, and I
Speaker 14: still do have a contract with an Athletics where I
Speaker 14: help them out with their social media. During Hispanic Heritage
Speaker 14: football game, my voice was on the public address announcement sister,
Speaker 14: where I you know, send my voice over to announced
Speaker 14: some of the stuff.
Speaker 5: So it's not in the review mirror. My family still
Speaker 5: lives there.
Speaker 14: But everybody lives there still, so it's part of what
Speaker 14: we are now. Uh, you know, we're the Sonas by
Speaker 14: heart and and we're there. But but Houston has opened
Speaker 14: their arms to us and they treated us very well.
Speaker 14: This is my seventeenth season with the Astro, so I
Speaker 14: couldn't ask for anything better.
Speaker 4: So, uh, you know, getting back to the playoffs a
Speaker 4: little bit, you know, you know, we looked at what
Speaker 4: happened last year, right, I mean, who thought?
Speaker 2: Who would have thought Texas.
Speaker 4: You know, the Rangers and and the U and the
Speaker 4: Diamondbacks would you know be playing for the World Series.
Speaker 2: You know, the Dodgers got swept by the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 4: I mean, uh, just you know, there's been a lot
Speaker 4: of talk about the buy that the top two seeds
Speaker 4: get and that it really it doesn't help them to
Speaker 4: get that. It's been any any discussion of that among
Speaker 4: you know, anybody that you talk to, and you know
Speaker 4: in the organization or players or anything like that, who
Speaker 4: say anything about taking time off when you're playing baseball,
Speaker 4: because baseball is kind of a thing that you want
Speaker 4: to keep playing. You want to keep being consistent, whereas
Speaker 4: in football, yeah, you want to heal up from the
Speaker 4: game before and the bye week can help any thoughts
Speaker 4: on that at all.
Speaker 14: Look, the players like consistency, as you said, the players
Speaker 14: like to play maybe one day off and then go
Speaker 14: back and play, and so they liked it. But for
Speaker 14: the fans standpoint, you get twelve teams. You can almost
Speaker 14: have the league in the playoffs, which is not that bad,
Speaker 14: which I like. Now I've seen it both ways. I've
Speaker 14: seen the Assers win what they buy, and I think
Speaker 14: the Asss lose with a buye as what as they
Speaker 14: did with the Rangers last year. So I don't think
Speaker 14: there's a right answer, But I do think the players
Speaker 14: overall like consistency and they would like to just keep
Speaker 14: playing because sometimes and the Assers have had For instance,
Speaker 14: even in twenty seventeen, I think we beat the Indians
Speaker 14: right away and then we beat the the the Red
Speaker 14: Sox and the Yanks trailer, so we have a lot
Speaker 14: of time off because we I think we will beat
Speaker 14: them right away.
Speaker 5: So but they do they like they do like consistency.
Speaker 14: I think that's where the Ashes have an edge and
Speaker 14: the Dodgers have an edge because they they've gone both
Speaker 14: ways in that regard, and plus they've had that experience,
Speaker 14: that pedigree, the playoff predigree that they've had. So I
Speaker 14: think the edge is with those two teams, even though
Speaker 14: both of them were have a lot of players were injured.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, who has a better Who has it easier?
Speaker 3: The National and the American League both both roads, seems so.
Speaker 4: I think I'm for sure the National League road is
Speaker 4: tough just because the Phillies are in the middle of it.
Speaker 2: So I you know.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm sorry I interrupted, but we have to go
Speaker 14: through the Phillies. We saw those philious teams. Look, I
Speaker 14: never get nervous because I'm not playing. I'm the broadcaster,
Speaker 14: but doing I mean, they do the ut. But during
Speaker 14: the Phillies World Series, I mean, I'll be totally honest.
Speaker 14: You know, you see Scharber come up to bad, right,
Speaker 14: you get him out and the real mood of that.
Speaker 14: Then Harper is like, well, you know, it's like, come on,
Speaker 14: get this guy.
Speaker 5: Out right, because they're so good. They're just swarb. He's
Speaker 5: that really good player.
Speaker 14: He gives it all, he strits a lot, but but
Speaker 14: once he hits it, that guy can carry a team
Speaker 14: into They're a very very dangerous team. And then they're pitching.
Speaker 14: Come on, they got great pitching. So if you have
Speaker 14: to go through the Phillies, it's it's a tough one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well put it this way. I'm looking at the records.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers and the Phillies have the exact same record,
Speaker 4: ninety one and sixty two. I think the Phillies are
Speaker 4: a way better team than the Dodgers. Not just a
Speaker 4: little bit better team than the Dodgers, but a way
Speaker 4: better team than the Dodgers, even though they have identical records.
Speaker 2: They're just really good.
Speaker 14: I would say. Other than better, I would say more
Speaker 14: very complete team. Yeah, a very complet league team where
Speaker 14: there's very little hole and it's almost the same team
Speaker 14: that played the ass except a couple of players, and
Speaker 14: they've improved the short stuff that they got from the Dodgers,
Speaker 14: and so, uh, it's a very good team. It's an
Speaker 14: exciting team. I mean, I've been a fan of Bryce Harperson,
Speaker 14: who was in high school right he left us right
Speaker 14: after his sophomore year, and so it's exciting to be
Speaker 14: a baseball fan. I mean, I'm glad to have been
Speaker 14: with the answers for so long. But if you're just
Speaker 14: a baseball fan, it's you've got great teams out there,
Speaker 14: and then the Otani factor just as a cherry on
Speaker 14: the top.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you kind of an off the wall question.
Speaker 4: If you're the general manager of the Astros or the
Speaker 4: owner or whatever, and you had a chance to get
Speaker 4: Aaron Judge or who would you take.
Speaker 5: I take Otani anytime.
Speaker 14: I mean, he's gonna make me a lot of money.
Speaker 2: But when you think about what you got to pay him, right, you.
Speaker 5: Know what I mean? I don't know. I don't get
Speaker 5: into the books as dodges, but I think that contents
Speaker 5: already been paid. Think about it seriously.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean it's it's blood. Ellie is a market.
Speaker 14: It's a huge market. Yeah, I mean it's a huge,
Speaker 14: huge market. And so they had the means to do it,
Speaker 14: and why not. I mean they went ahead and did it.
Speaker 14: And not to take anything away from Jude, because Judge,
Speaker 14: Judge gets better every years, he's a better player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's incredible.
Speaker 3: Real quick, we don't have done luck that much time
Speaker 3: with you here. So are you still doing Arizona's athletics stuff?
Speaker 3: I know you're doing the Spanish avenue of it.
Speaker 14: Are you still Yes, I'm still doing the social media,
Speaker 14: so please follow off any the athletic esp We have Facebook, Twitter,
Speaker 14: and Instagram.
Speaker 5: So exciting times.
Speaker 14: For the walk ats too, and so I'll be wearing
Speaker 14: my walk at year during October World Series games.
Speaker 4: All right, sounds good. Better than the orange for sure.
Speaker 4: I had to get that in there, you know you
Speaker 4: like it. I don't look good in orange. Francesco. I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 2: He kind of looks like something exactly something bigging around.
Speaker 3: Well, good to talk to you, Francisco. I can't wait
Speaker 3: to get my hats. I've been waiting since nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 5: I got two for.
Speaker 14: You, so I gotta turn one. I'll tell you three,
Speaker 14: and that you can get one to next to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jay's not gonna wear it, burn it. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a waste. We definitely said it on fire. Don't don't
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: And I don't think they have sizes in his size
Speaker 3: heads anyways.
Speaker 2: Yes, twelve, it's big. I'm not gonna say, but it's big.
Speaker 3: Thank you, See you soon, man, see you soon when
Speaker 3: you get back in twent.
Speaker 5: Talking to both of you guys. Love you guys, Thank
Speaker 5: your friends.
Speaker 3: You know, he's got a great job. He had a
Speaker 3: he's a podcast to beyond the Mikey had, Joseph buer On.
Speaker 2: I think recently, most recently good guys. So yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: one of the good one, the good ones. He's always
Speaker 2: been fun to have on.
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Speaker 1: Three Steve Ravera and Jacin Salas. They have their Eye
Speaker 1: on the Ball on Tucson Sports Station yet Fox Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Men, welcome back to Eye on the Ball here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, he's Jacin Zawas.
Speaker 3: Got our guy one in with us. Matt here too,
Speaker 3: Welcome to the Friday. We only have a little more
Speaker 3: than an hour with Jay left, although he'll be back
Speaker 3: and down the road here and here and there with
Speaker 3: his picks, and then we're going to the casino.
Speaker 4: Obviously not running away. We're not running out of town
Speaker 4: or anything like that, just staying here. It got some
Speaker 4: other work.
Speaker 2: And I haven't run anywhere alone. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go on. I'm gonna. I'm gonna go do that oult
Speaker 2: Tory thing tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you didn't get on the bike. Yeah, we
Speaker 3: got on the back a few miles. Yeah, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna My goal tomorrow is to see if if
Speaker 4: I can do ten miles like right now with not
Speaker 4: having work.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, what if you can't.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna call my daughter to come and get me,
Speaker 4: or my son. Actually, my daughter's gonna be out of down.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna probably go do that thing tomorrow. As of
Speaker 4: now I'm doing you can casually get there, right Yeah. Look,
Speaker 4: I mean look, ten miles is on a bike is
Speaker 4: not that hard.
Speaker 2: I can do that. I got that.
Speaker 4: I got that in me today it's going to it's like,
Speaker 4: do I have thirty two in me?
Speaker 2: Not today?
Speaker 4: But you know maybe eventually if I can do ten
Speaker 4: and not be death warmed over when it's over, then
Speaker 4: I'll feel pretty good about where I am. I just
Speaker 4: got to, you know, do some work, get get ready
Speaker 4: and do the thirty two. But in November I'll be
Speaker 4: ready to go. So it's two months a way. I mean,
Speaker 4: how they How the hell hard can it be?
Speaker 2: Right? Sure? So hard? We'll see see, we will see.
Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, anybody want to call please do five two zero,
Speaker 3: four one, six, seventy four forty. We can get through
Speaker 3: this segment here for about thirteen minutes and we have
Speaker 3: about thirteen yeah, just under Yeah, okay, I'm glad that
Speaker 3: we have the guys in. They're gonna be moving me forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well look, and you know, I don't know, I hope
Speaker 4: that not lost in all of this is that you
Speaker 4: know you've you've been doing this for a really long time, Steve.
Speaker 4: So you're going to be This show is going to
Speaker 4: be great. It's going to continue to be great. I
Speaker 4: think it's I think together we established sort of a
Speaker 4: persona for this show. People know what to expect in
Speaker 4: terms of the background that you and I have had,
Speaker 4: and that you have you know, you more than me.
Speaker 4: As it relates to being in the local media, local
Speaker 4: sports media, well, I've been in Tucson and a big
Speaker 4: fan and the whole bit. You know, I've been out
Speaker 4: of newspapers for thirty plus years, so you know, I
Speaker 4: just you know, my my role here has been to
Speaker 4: be the fan and have that perspective.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've been looking. I've been I made a
Speaker 3: couple of calls. I can't say. I don't want to
Speaker 3: say who I'm looking at, but I might have a
Speaker 3: bridy guest, you know, maybe they maybe I have five guys.
Speaker 2: Who fill your shoes in a different way. Right.
Speaker 3: But the thing that made us, I thought, what's the
Speaker 3: back and forth? You know, me getting on you, you
Speaker 3: get it on me, and it's kind of moving the
Speaker 3: ball forward. Uh, Whether I was Dean Martin and you
Speaker 3: were Jerry Lewis or your two people. Who's your your people?
Speaker 3: I'm going to queen you know, Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Yeah,
Speaker 3: does Steve a Queen ever have a sidekick? He didn't
Speaker 3: really have a sidekick, Okay, yeah, okay, it was the
Speaker 3: back and forth. I guess it could be like, you know,
Speaker 3: in fact, I can't think of anybody, but you know
Speaker 3: who we are. We're the two dudes on the balcony
Speaker 3: of the Muppets.
Speaker 2: You know, people have actually said that to me.
Speaker 3: You he knows what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: I know exactly.
Speaker 3: There's names for those dudes. I can't remember the names
Speaker 3: I have been.
Speaker 4: I've been sent memes of those guys that that's you,
Speaker 4: that that's you and me.
Speaker 2: So that's not that far off.
Speaker 3: So we'll see if I can get somebody goes back
Speaker 3: and forth with me and kind of cracks wise back
Speaker 3: and forth, so we'll see.
Speaker 4: No, that's that's not that's not I was trying to
Speaker 4: avoid that, but that's that's not far off.
Speaker 2: People said that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've used that meme a couple of times, and
Speaker 3: I can't remember their names. Old look, dude, I think
Speaker 3: it's something like Stadler and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of those Yeah, Yeahler and Waldorf. Yeahing like that.
Speaker 2: That's something like that. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: We look at this teenager guy tell us Stadler and
Speaker 3: Waldorf exactly.
Speaker 2: How the hell did you know? You want to dude,
Speaker 2: he was watching Sesame seat five years ago. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure you know what watch it? I watched them going up.
Speaker 2: I bet you still watch it. I'm not gonna lie
Speaker 2: like once in a while, I.
Speaker 3: Do those two dudes because they were funny. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: give each other grief exactly watching it actually right here.
Speaker 3: So by the way, uh, on our Pac twelve Big
Speaker 3: twelve conversation, I think you'll be two dollars.
Speaker 2: No, we broke even.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, it was two to one. No, no,
Speaker 3: we ended up three three. So the toe board, we
Speaker 3: didn't end up three three.
Speaker 4: You raised it to the day because I remember, I said,
Speaker 4: we did, really because it.
Speaker 2: Was three three one for you to for me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's even, it was three three. It was three three.
Speaker 2: I wanted that dollar.
Speaker 4: I still need to, you know, but you're still you're
Speaker 4: still taking me to lunch, and I still got to
Speaker 4: give you forty bucks.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, you're gonna eat for ten dollars exact budget.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm gonna do. And no, we're going to Minidito.
Speaker 3: You said, Okay, that's right. You can't eat the whole
Speaker 3: right set.
Speaker 2: Of I'm not. No, I'm not. You know, I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't do that anymore. I can. I tried the
Speaker 2: President's Play at one time, and I didn't finish it,
Speaker 2: so I won't do that. Okay.
Speaker 4: Actually, I can be a cheap date at Minidita because
Speaker 4: I love their Beanto statas, okay, and those are cheap.
Speaker 3: Okay, right, we'll take well, we'll take the Yeah, we'll
Speaker 3: take the guys with us too, because we want to.
Speaker 4: I was probably the first time I can remember going.
Speaker 4: I was probably six years old. Me too, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: but when when when you were six? I was like
Speaker 4: fifty six. But but you know, I'm My favorite thing
Speaker 4: at Minidito was the Beto statas.
Speaker 2: And so I can be very cheap over there.
Speaker 3: Steve, Well, I'm not worried about today. I'm worried about
Speaker 3: when we go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we'll see, we'll see. Okay, Yeah, but forty
Speaker 2: bucks doesn't go very far. You know what, I bet you?
Speaker 2: I bet you you and I can get in and
Speaker 2: out of there for under.
Speaker 3: Fifty Okay, you know, but no, yeah, I'm drinking tea
Speaker 3: and yeah, yeah, just have you know.
Speaker 2: I liked we went last time.
Speaker 4: It was good, good, except that remember we took well,
Speaker 4: we took because we told Jacob and he ate he
Speaker 4: ate the right side of the menu.
Speaker 3: If you recall, well, you were with us, you were
Speaker 3: with us, you know, you were working for all sports.
Speaker 2: We took.
Speaker 3: We took Henry, and we took Ryan because they're working
Speaker 3: for us now on the and the skinny dude, Ryan
Speaker 3: ordered like fifty dollars worth of people. Where does this
Speaker 3: stuff go? You know, he's like a number two pencil.
Speaker 2: Hey, I had game when I was five foot two
Speaker 2: and one hundred and forty pounds. I had game. You
Speaker 2: could eat, I could go, I could pound. You know.
Speaker 4: We'd go to Pizza Hut to their all you can
Speaker 4: eat on Tuesday nights and we'd have contests and I
Speaker 4: want it's eight seventeen pieces of pizza at a Pizza Hut.
Speaker 2: All you can eat? Sound like Sean Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, Sean Fitzpatrick and the hot dogs at sanset Field.
Speaker 4: I think he ate a dozen one time. Now the
Speaker 4: next day he looked really bad. We used to call
Speaker 4: those because they bring in one of those you know,
Speaker 4: those styrofoam circle k ice chest. Okay, they'd bring in
Speaker 4: one of those full of hot dogs for every game,
Speaker 4: and Sean would just sit there.
Speaker 2: Sean Fitzpatrick, would you sit there.
Speaker 3: When you're in when you're in college like you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's called free food. It's one of the reasons why
Speaker 3: you get into the media world. It's free food. Not
Speaker 3: anymore though, man, No, no, not anymore, not like it
Speaker 3: used to. And the stuff at the football games used
Speaker 3: to be very good. We used to have great meals. No,
Speaker 3: not so much chicken fingers and didn't sell it.
Speaker 2: Is that it is that it football games.
Speaker 3: The last game it was, it's pretty much or hot dogs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's been bad for a long time. Man, I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna poopoo it, but that's what.
Speaker 2: It's been now. Well, you know, at least he get it.
Speaker 2: I mean basketball games.
Speaker 4: I remember they used have a great cold cut spread
Speaker 4: every game and would go in there and would warf
Speaker 4: it down and a bunch of cuts math and man,
Speaker 4: you got to buy your own dang hot dogs.
Speaker 2: A bunch of dollars for a hot dog.
Speaker 3: And then I remember in the Festival Classic we used
Speaker 3: to get at a little uh you know, ten dollars
Speaker 3: fifteen dollars vouchure and go. Yeah, well we no longer
Speaker 3: have the games anymore, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my I know that the best way to
Speaker 4: a journalist's heart is through his stomach, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: But many people got into it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why when you go look at the
Speaker 3: sports guys, sports writers, we all look like a bunch
Speaker 3: of fat, over weight slubs. You right about basketball. You
Speaker 3: don't know anything about bath. No, I can't play it.
Speaker 2: So but I think I know a little bit and
Speaker 2: I can eat it. My job that was always fun,
Speaker 2: It was always fun. But no, I you know this
Speaker 2: again is still gonna be a great show. And I'll
Speaker 2: listen to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and uh, if, like I said, if it's going bad,
Speaker 4: I'll call you maybe if it's maybe, even if it's
Speaker 4: not going bad.
Speaker 2: You know, well, here's here's where.
Speaker 4: If I see you getting out a line about the
Speaker 4: wildcats all right and being mister grump face, I might
Speaker 4: have to call there.
Speaker 3: I'll have some people that will get me straight, you know.
Speaker 3: But Brian was it Brian Street was it Brian called
Speaker 3: me the grumpy guy yesterday or whatever it was. And
Speaker 3: then you have Jim. Of course, Bill will call in
Speaker 3: every now and again when he has a chance to
Speaker 3: listen to us because he has options to listen to
Speaker 3: other places. But you know what David Kelly is not
Speaker 3: is not a raw raw guy too.
Speaker 2: He's not.
Speaker 3: He's not and and but that's how it should be.
Speaker 3: That's not supposed to be. That's how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 3: Good point. And he is for the he's up on
Speaker 3: the positive side because he's told. But deep down he's
Speaker 3: a dru.
Speaker 4: There's times when he's like, you guys suck you know, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, and and and then.
Speaker 2: There you know, and I guess you know, we kind
Speaker 2: of kind of gotten used to.
Speaker 4: The radio types like us to be more cheerleader than
Speaker 4: not sure of course.
Speaker 3: Well let me if you remember we had Kyle Fogg on,
Speaker 3: which was I thought was a fantastic interview. Uh not
Speaker 3: because we did it, but it just was because of him.
Speaker 3: He talked about how he'd go other places and he'd
Speaker 3: get it here was most like the safe haven, right
Speaker 3: because they wouldn't get on him, or they wouldn't get
Speaker 3: on a team. Right, and he never had any negative
Speaker 3: feelings or vibes from the local media. Right And and
Speaker 3: Tucson is like that, Yes, Tucson's your your warm Linus blanket.
Speaker 2: Now you're you're You're exactly right. I mean, that's what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 4: It's it's a it's a place where you know there's
Speaker 4: an expectation.
Speaker 2: And even if even if you think football.
Speaker 4: Or basketball is terrible, you get upset if other people
Speaker 4: say it. Right, you can say it, but you're not.
Speaker 4: Nobody else is allowed to say it. It's sort of
Speaker 4: a mentality around here, at least. That's that's how it
Speaker 4: seems to me. I don't know about I know it
Speaker 4: to you.
Speaker 2: So we have we have a lot of time. How
Speaker 2: much we have about We got about three minutes.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm gonna ask you because you're gonna be
Speaker 3: on every down again.
Speaker 2: We can do this at the casino.
Speaker 3: But let me let me ask you, and I want
Speaker 3: you to be whatever you be whatever football good hands
Speaker 3: moving forward is good.
Speaker 2: I think it is. I think it is.
Speaker 4: And anybody who's already saying it's not is in my
Speaker 4: mind full of it. Okay, maybe by the end of
Speaker 4: the year, if it's not in good hands. You can
Speaker 4: say they have a bad year, and you can you say, well, okay,
Speaker 4: I got I got my doubts, but not now, not now,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, anymore than you're going to say,
Speaker 4: as he is going to go undefeated? Right, you know
Speaker 4: the three and oh but you know, is Kenny Dillingham
Speaker 4: the right guy? They all believe he is. You know,
Speaker 4: at at some point last year there were there some
Speaker 4: people who thought he wasn't.
Speaker 2: Probably, but.
Speaker 4: You know, I think, I think really Mark Lansford really
Speaker 4: called my attention to that when we were asking him
Speaker 4: about transitions, right, how you're going from you went from
Speaker 4: Larry Smith to Dick Tony, two guys that in Arizona
Speaker 4: fans minds were probably the two best football coaches ever
Speaker 4: at Arizona right between the two of them. Yet between
Speaker 4: those two staffs there was a mad, a massive transition
Speaker 4: that took a while.
Speaker 2: And it did. It did.
Speaker 3: The first year was four fourth and three other four
Speaker 3: fourth three.
Speaker 2: It took a while.
Speaker 4: No matter how good of a guy and how sort
Speaker 4: of a laid back guy Dick Tomey was, the transition
Speaker 4: took him just because it was different, and no matter
Speaker 4: what you say. Regardless of how many of the great
Speaker 4: players stayed, it's different this year.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So let's move from there to basketball with Tommy Lloyd.
Speaker 3: Good hands and I'll have a quick question after this.
Speaker 4: Very good hands and in my mind, in better hands
Speaker 4: than it ever was with Sean Miller.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't disagree with that. I don't disagree with
Speaker 3: that because I think the potential is there to do
Speaker 3: wonders with that said final four in the next five years,
Speaker 3: it'll be seventy three years. Which one is it? You
Speaker 3: want to give more time this year? He The thing is,
Speaker 3: you could at any moment go say yes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but then you say I'm gonna say, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: say in the next five years, and if he gets
Speaker 4: one in the next two or three years, you wouldn't
Speaker 4: be sup. He'll have two in five years. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 4: here's the deal, Steve. You know I I uh oh,
Speaker 4: we got to hit the road. Yeah, we gotta get
Speaker 4: out of here. I got a point that I want to
Speaker 4: make about that.
Speaker 2: Okay, because a lot of breaking news. Okay, well, if
Speaker 2: we don't.
Speaker 4: I got a point I want to make about about
Speaker 4: Arizona basketball this year. Okay, Okay, we'll talk about that,
Speaker 4: but let's go and take our break. We're to come
Speaker 4: back top of the hour. We got breaking news with
Speaker 4: what's your name?
Speaker 2: Mister? Wait or do we have another minute? What are
Speaker 2: you talking about?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: I think we have another another minute. Yeah, I'm watching
Speaker 4: this thing. I think I actually think we have another minute.
Speaker 4: They were supposed to go out at fifty five and thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we typically don't. Yeah, so what are you
Speaker 2: gonna say?
Speaker 4: Fifty six? Okay, here's what I gonna say. People are
Speaker 4: down on Caleb Bluff right right. He yes, he was
Speaker 4: not good at the end of last year. He's going
Speaker 4: to be a first team preseason All American all over
Speaker 4: the place this year because people outside of Tucson think
Speaker 4: he's really good.
Speaker 2: But people inside of.
Speaker 4: Tucson saw how he played down the stretch this year,
Speaker 4: and they think there were actually people who didn't want
Speaker 4: him coming back. Right, the guy's one of the top
Speaker 4: players in the country. He gives them a chance to
Speaker 4: be a national champion. And I don't think people realize
Speaker 4: what they have in him.
Speaker 2: Now. Does he have to change his game a little bit?
Speaker 2: He does?
Speaker 4: Does he have to do contribute more besides being a
Speaker 4: good shooter, and does he have to be a better shooter?
Speaker 2: He does, but across the.
Speaker 4: Country's I've already seen him on one preseason All American
Speaker 4: and he's going to be on a bunch more. How
Speaker 4: often has Arizona had preseason All American? Not very many,
Speaker 4: Seawan Elliott and guys like that. It's been a long time.
Speaker 4: When you got when you've got one of the five
Speaker 4: best players in the country on your team, you have
Speaker 4: a chance in this community or these fans don't really
Speaker 4: appreciate how good he might be.
Speaker 2: Well, this world, you're as good as your last exactly,
Speaker 2: and he was good as his last game, and it
Speaker 2: was a.
Speaker 3: Good last game, right, And that's stretch. The last few
Speaker 3: games were not that great. You got to go, we'll
Speaker 3: come back and speaking maybe four topics about this stuff,
Speaker 3: about moving forward,