Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty Oh Steve Rivera, you're Jenkins Awest.
Speaker 2: Now we have Ray with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is Eye on the Ball, Breaking News on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 3: Lovely Friday, Lovely Friday for some breaking news. Obviously. The
Speaker 3: big one of today is the Wildcats baseball team lost
Speaker 3: men's baseball Well yes, gently, yeah, sorry, but yeah, there's
Speaker 3: a Wildcats baseball team. They lost their opener to in
Speaker 3: the Men's College World Series to Coastal Carolina.
Speaker 4: You know, it was a good game.
Speaker 3: I'm sure we're going to talk about it more after,
Speaker 3: but it was a great game. Too bad they didn't win, obviously,
Speaker 3: but I mean they showed a diversity the battle back
Speaker 3: a couple of times, or they battled back once and
Speaker 3: then even at the end they had a they had
Speaker 3: a chance, but Summerhill couldn't couldn't get it.
Speaker 4: It's fair broke his hand, like what a month? And Alfrigo, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's been a while. Look there, you know you are
Speaker 4: where you are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you just got to play the next game, like
Speaker 5: you said, just go play the next game and see
Speaker 5: what happens.
Speaker 4: Right, No, and that's that stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean Coastal Carolina who now has twenty four wins,
Speaker 3: and then you got Oregon State right in the in
Speaker 3: the same bracket.
Speaker 4: I means, yeah, it's not easy, but I mean.
Speaker 2: What if you're going to be the best, gotta you
Speaker 2: better play? Yeah, yeah, you're right. Oh man, just lost it.
Speaker 3: Uh we are going to I was gonna talk about
Speaker 3: the hockey games.
Speaker 2: We still talk about it.
Speaker 4: Five to four, dude, it was a ripper.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, you know what I mean, I'm on
Speaker 3: Twitter or I think I think I might have taken
Speaker 3: a nap or something.
Speaker 4: I was doing something and I just like, I.
Speaker 5: Okay, you're like twenty one years old and you're like
Speaker 5: taking naps and I'm sleepy and I'm tired, and they
Speaker 5: were you out late.
Speaker 4: No, it's just nice to take that.
Speaker 2: I'm jealous.
Speaker 4: I love taking naps.
Speaker 2: Too, me too. I just don't get to ok.
Speaker 4: Sorryet nighttime, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Okay, I got it all right.
Speaker 3: I had at a time yesterday I was off. But yeah,
Speaker 3: so Panthers come out score three. Uh, Oilers come back
Speaker 3: in the second period, tie it up and then yeah,
Speaker 3: get one more than the third because.
Speaker 2: We've talked about it. That'll remind people, because we've talked
Speaker 2: about a lot with that little party.
Speaker 4: All right, So that that thirteen dollars ticket.
Speaker 3: Yesterday it was at sixty k because Florida was up
Speaker 3: and the Pacers were up. But since Edmonton tied it
Speaker 3: up yesterday, it's back up to one oh seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're catching that ticket. I am one you guys
Speaker 2: are catching that ticket sixty yesterday. Yeah, I'm one hundred
Speaker 2: percent cashing that ticket.
Speaker 3: I would have casted like because it was at one
Speaker 3: twenty three, I think, yeah, when it was like Edmonton
Speaker 3: had just won in the finals, had and started yeh, I'm.
Speaker 5: Pretty certain I would feel like throwing up watching these games.
Speaker 4: So what's the total to something to seventy? And all
Speaker 4: you need is win to win and okay, see to win.
Speaker 2: And okay, see to win one six man, I'm taking it.
Speaker 2: Yeah that I mean, I'm taking it too. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: want to, but I.
Speaker 5: Well, then again, if you think about it, you're you're
Speaker 5: gonna get half that yeah, because attack.
Speaker 2: Yeah seventy maybe right. Well, look I don't know what
Speaker 2: the Edmonton situation. I'm still okay. See, I think that
Speaker 2: they're gonna pull this off. So that's my my How
Speaker 2: can my risk my risk without knowing about Edmonton? Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know one O seven pay thirteen bucks for this.
Speaker 4: Let's just do just just take it and be happy
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 2: Come on, you know, and I know you're great for
Speaker 2: a ten dollars winter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, lose my mind, you know. I mean I I
Speaker 5: was happy that I cashed a ticket in the Belmont, even.
Speaker 4: Though I lost money on it.
Speaker 2: You got some back, right, he had got some back. Well,
Speaker 2: you have to try, except that if half pay for it, right,
Speaker 2: and that's what it was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so no you Yeah, I'm I'm pretty sure
Speaker 5: I would be cashing the ticket.
Speaker 2: There's no as much as I would say, I'm catching
Speaker 2: it too.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, as soon as that. I mean, man probably
Speaker 4: would have won like the.
Speaker 2: First if I catch it at sixty, I'm thinking, damn,
Speaker 2: they should have waited another day. Yeah, but now you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm not gonna worry about it either way.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna second guess my money pick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I mean, then you can actually enjoy it too.
Speaker 3: That that was one thing that I kind of made
Speaker 3: me like disillusion myself with betting because I used to
Speaker 3: like doing it as well. It's just like, man, you
Speaker 3: just like you can't even just you can't even just
Speaker 3: watch a game anymore.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, yeah.
Speaker 5: So that's what I'm saying. I feel like throwing up
Speaker 5: watching these games. I'm like, I got a barf. I
Speaker 5: can't do this. My stomach is just can't take this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean, I don't know, that's just.
Speaker 2: How it goes. We got a conference Switzerland.
Speaker 4: I hope it's still free, all right, keeping it going though.
Speaker 3: The Pacers on the other side of that ticket as well,
Speaker 3: actually played tonight at five thirty. That's going to be
Speaker 3: Game four. Looking to OKAC wins by ten or more.
Speaker 3: What's this spread? Like six five and a half, five
Speaker 3: and a.
Speaker 2: Half, I would take it plus plus what I would
Speaker 2: take it because if they don't win this game, they're toasted.
Speaker 5: I had I had the over in the game the
Speaker 5: other night to twenty six?
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 4: It was to twenty six? I just missed.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, what what? What? What did it finish? Two
Speaker 2: twenty three? And the thing is it was a it
Speaker 2: was a.
Speaker 5: Good bet, as my son said, it was a good
Speaker 5: bet until it wasn't because they were going to cover
Speaker 5: that all night long. And then last five minutes of
Speaker 5: the game, Oklahoma City made one basket, one field goal
Speaker 5: in the last five like.
Speaker 2: Five fifty three sis. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And and because I I really wasn't dug in watch
Speaker 5: I had it on.
Speaker 4: I was doing some other stuff.
Speaker 5: I was messing around on my phone, and I'm because
Speaker 5: I thought I had it won all along, all right,
Speaker 5: and then I look up and there's a minute six
Speaker 5: left and they need ten points to cover that.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm done. Yeah, and they did and they
Speaker 4: didn't cover it.
Speaker 2: Well, we came in here. You may not have done
Speaker 2: that show that day because I bet okay Se to
Speaker 2: win straight up, you know, with or whatever, and they didn't.
Speaker 2: And yes, who screws me? The Arizona guys. I'm happy
Speaker 2: for them, of course, because they played so well, unbelievably well.
Speaker 4: Mathin was just incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I mean, it's been a fun series to
Speaker 4: keep up with it. It has been, and like it's
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's great.
Speaker 3: It's that getting it's almost to that dead zone for
Speaker 3: like sports just for the summer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, we need this.
Speaker 5: I at first, I was a little bummed that it
Speaker 5: was that there was two days between every game.
Speaker 4: But it's extending some stuff.
Speaker 5: And as soon as as soon as the NHL and
Speaker 5: these playoffs are over, it's all baseball all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, And I'm going to take a long
Speaker 2: vacation because they can't get guests.
Speaker 4: Moving to baseball now. Man Diamondbacks pictures.
Speaker 3: Huh the closer Justin Martinez had a u c L
Speaker 3: spring and is out for the season.
Speaker 2: Trying back to curse. How long before the manager gets canned?
Speaker 4: How about?
Speaker 5: How about the how about the the Brewers picture? They
Speaker 5: were going to send him to a bullpen and he
Speaker 5: demanded a trade, so they traded him to the to
Speaker 5: the White Sox to uh, people, couldn't couldn't post be
Speaker 5: careful what you asked for? Fast enough to you know,
Speaker 5: for that to somebody in the army. I want to
Speaker 5: get out and they send you to where where they.
Speaker 2: Send you to?
Speaker 4: Something cool?
Speaker 2: Ye?
Speaker 5: But yeah, he said, I want to trade. Okay, here
Speaker 5: you go. You're going to the White Sox.
Speaker 2: You'll never win again.
Speaker 4: Well, at least they didn't send him to the Rockies.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah second second worst thing though, for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but keeping it going. Uh, Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3: They do start a series against the Padres this week third,
Speaker 3: this weekend.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, it's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 3: They're five hundred, trying to keep up with the NL West, who.
Speaker 2: Is five hundred. Uh, the fourth place, the Padre third,
Speaker 2: and your Giants or two two and one.
Speaker 4: They lost. They lost.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers just beat the Padres two out of three.
Speaker 5: They thought they were all that. And Rods kind of
Speaker 5: always do. I lost that bet to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just where we had lunch yesterday.
Speaker 5: We went to Oh, we gotta go see that's what
Speaker 5: I bring it up to call me and Friday.
Speaker 2: Let's go see his name. We'll do it because you do.
Speaker 2: It was good, right, Yeah, it was. They got good
Speaker 2: food there.
Speaker 4: It was there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll probably go check it out or something eventually. Anyways,
Speaker 3: this is what I'm ready to talk about. Giants and
Speaker 3: Dodgers are playing today. It's it's not gonna decide, but
Speaker 3: you know, it'll put whoever wins it in the lead.
Speaker 5: These series are fun, Yeah, they're fun.
Speaker 2: L A l A what you guys, I'm being flipped
Speaker 2: on this and trying to be funny but serious. What's
Speaker 2: the over under on on somebody getting killed in that
Speaker 2: parking lot? Because it always happens with you guys playing.
Speaker 3: I know, the Giants fans are always doing stuff like
Speaker 3: one city is not burning and it's not San Francisco.
Speaker 4: That was you know what that was uncalled for? That
Speaker 4: was but uncalled for.
Speaker 2: It's completely uncalled Yeah, I mean it's this week.
Speaker 5: Well, young motor thrown tonight, so it should be uh,
Speaker 5: you know, to two good pictures both under three e
Speaker 5: rs and so we'll, you know, we'll see what they do.
Speaker 5: But it should be a fun game. Logan Web for
Speaker 5: the Giants seven to ten. I'm looking forward to this too.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I'll probably have you know, I'll
Speaker 5: probably have the basketball game on my iPads and there
Speaker 5: on the coach, but the baseball game is it's going
Speaker 5: to be on on the big screen.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 3: Caitlyn Clark is set to return for YE from a
Speaker 3: quad strain against the Liberty.
Speaker 2: Eran McDonald's still in the roster, right, she's still gonna.
Speaker 4: Or did they keep her on?
Speaker 2: Think so?
Speaker 5: Because then she come in because you know she's played well, right,
Speaker 5: you've seen some highlights and stuff.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty to choose at that game.
Speaker 2: Do you have anything softball wise? Something came up that
Speaker 2: I was surprised Texas so, uh the Tennessee coach. The
Speaker 2: Tennessee coach came out today and I guess maybe late
Speaker 2: tod uh talked about, Uh, she's losing a lot of players.
Speaker 2: So she lost one to to Texas Tech. Of course
Speaker 2: Texas Tech is coming up with some fantastic go ahead,
Speaker 2: they're going to be finished.
Speaker 4: What did he say?
Speaker 2: She said? She said, I don't mind it, but it's
Speaker 2: she it's tampering. They've been talking to my players for
Speaker 2: a while. Oh like you never had, and that's that's
Speaker 2: kind of that mean the retort, I'm sure, so you know,
Speaker 2: I don't mind the woman making money, but don't tamper
Speaker 2: with She shut the hell up.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, what's the difference between that and like
Speaker 3: if the Tennessee the tennis the Tennessee quarterback when Dan
Speaker 3: Lanny was like, hey, trying to talk to us early,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, it's a different.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the whole thing, these nil deals and there's
Speaker 2: nothing's going to change, Nothing's going to change. It's just
Speaker 2: kind of different different ways.
Speaker 4: I mean, did you say that?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: Somebody reported that Texas Tech is saying that on top
Speaker 5: of it that they're going to be paying twenty five
Speaker 5: million dollars revenue sharing in additions of it, twenty million
Speaker 5: dollars in the revenue sharing, and in addition to that,
Speaker 5: they said they've got thirty five million dollars to spend
Speaker 5: on nil for everyone. For the fifty five million dollars.
Speaker 5: How where where is that coming from? Steve Oil oil
Speaker 5: or something.
Speaker 2: My thing with you guys, who are you know, diehard
Speaker 2: Arizona fans or whatever?
Speaker 6: How can you compete you? How can you compete with that?
Speaker 6: Build some houses in love so solve issues right right?
Speaker 6: So I get it, I get it, But that's not
Speaker 6: what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: No to me. We talked about this one of earlier segments.
Speaker 2: Arizona is here and I can't be described on the
Speaker 2: but it's in the middle of the past, and it's
Speaker 2: gonna be that way because it's not what there's no
Speaker 2: money here.
Speaker 5: What's what's what's going on in Texas Tech is an outlier.
Speaker 5: Here's the funny story. Where's a funny story. So this
Speaker 5: breakfast club that I work with, right, a bunch old guys,
Speaker 5: people with money, right, and I've told you that there,
Speaker 5: I think I've told you in the past. There's a
Speaker 5: guy in there, uh played football at Oklahoma, so he's
Speaker 5: a big Oklahoma booster.
Speaker 4: He's always talking about Oklahoma and this Oklahoma that.
Speaker 5: And he comes to me complaining about the fact that
Speaker 5: Texas Tech paid a million dollars to the to that
Speaker 5: they that shouldn't be allowed to be happening.
Speaker 2: Whoa whoa whoah did you whoa?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I'm like stop.
Speaker 5: I said, Oklahoma is buying championships, they don't win one,
Speaker 5: and now you're upset that Texas Tech he said, I
Speaker 5: bid you. And he said, well, that's different because we're
Speaker 5: giving money to more people. We're not giving money a
Speaker 5: million dollars to one player.
Speaker 2: You mean to tell me that if they didn't have
Speaker 2: a chance to pay him one point one million, if they.
Speaker 5: Would have brought her, if they could have outbid Texas
Speaker 5: Tech for where they would have said. No, you guys
Speaker 5: are giving half a million dollars to twenty players, and
Speaker 5: you know, stop, I don't even want to hear you
Speaker 5: complaining about the fact that Oklahoma softball is getting out
Speaker 5: spent by somebody else.
Speaker 2: You know what you're telling me, that's a rich people problem.
Speaker 2: That would they say, the first world problem. Break caviar. Hell,
Speaker 2: give me some water.
Speaker 8: Give me I don't I don't want my caviar tastes
Speaker 8: like crap. Caviar is good stuff I never had. Dude,
Speaker 8: it's crazy anyway, I had to have that. That's because
Speaker 8: it's true.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, so good. I mean, we're running up
Speaker 4: on time, so take that.
Speaker 2: Cool. Cool. We'll get a hold of Greg Hanson on
Speaker 2: the other side and talk about baseball and other things.
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Speaker 1: This is i on the ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 1: Want to take part in the show Call up Steve
Speaker 1: now went five to two oh four seventy four forty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to One of the Ball, you know,
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and today Jay
Speaker 2: Goozalez in entering folds Ray. Now we have former not former,
Speaker 2: a long time uh sports columns for the Arizona Daily Star,
Speaker 2: Greg Hanson, Greg, how were.
Speaker 7: You pretty good? Former was the best word to use.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So, well you want to explain, Well, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: say what one of the one of the only people
Speaker 5: in around Tucson that's older than us, Steve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we'll take that.
Speaker 7: We'll take no, kiddn't I stopped counting.
Speaker 2: So you've been around and we'll ask I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: there later in terms of what you've seen in terms
Speaker 2: of other teams, But what did you think of today?
Speaker 7: You know, it's actually like so many Arizona openers in
Speaker 7: the College World Series where they either lose or almost
Speaker 7: lose to not the best team, and yet good things
Speaker 7: can still happen and did happen so many times through
Speaker 7: history that I still think they got a shot to
Speaker 7: win a few, don't you.
Speaker 2: To win a few?
Speaker 5: I don't know if they got you know, with the
Speaker 5: way the format is. You know, when you you you
Speaker 5: got to come through double elimination and then win a
Speaker 5: three games set, that might be hard. But you know,
Speaker 5: let's say they're playing another team that had to do
Speaker 5: that too, then it's kind of evens it out.
Speaker 4: But it's gonna it's gonna be tough. But you're you're right.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's baseball, and any and anything can happen.
Speaker 2: Well that said, let me ask both of you guys,
Speaker 2: and they use this phrase all the time, whether it's
Speaker 2: the right or not. Are they built for this? What
Speaker 2: I've seen is kind of it's scary to be built
Speaker 2: the way they are because they don't score a lot
Speaker 2: of runs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, they're not a dominant team and never were.
Speaker 7: But you know, if you look at the history of
Speaker 7: Arizona the College World Series, that hasn't mattered that much.
Speaker 7: I mean on their four national championships, they lost the
Speaker 7: opener in seventy sixth day issue, came back through the
Speaker 7: losers bracket, won it nineteen eighty. They lost the opener
Speaker 7: to Saint John's of all people came back and the
Speaker 7: losers bracket won it. Nineteen eighty six, they fell behind Maine.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you remember that.
Speaker 2: I don't know nothing.
Speaker 7: And they came back and won and won the whole thing,
Speaker 7: and and then in twenty twelve they had to go
Speaker 7: twelve innings to win the opener against Florida State. So,
Speaker 7: you know, rocky starts haven't meant much as to their
Speaker 7: best seasons.
Speaker 2: Hell, give them the title.
Speaker 7: Now, yeah, let's have Gil Heredi out there pitching.
Speaker 2: Right, No, exactly to that point. Just those teams, not
Speaker 2: to say that this team doesn't have talent, but you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Those none of those none of those were dominant teams, right,
Speaker 5: none of them were. You know, we were talking about
Speaker 5: Greg the twenty twelve team. There wasn't a superstar on
Speaker 5: that team. Now, they've got had some guys who've got
Speaker 5: into the big leagues and stuff like that, but in
Speaker 5: terms of at that time, there wasn't a single guy
Speaker 5: on the field on the in the twenty twelve season
Speaker 5: that you thought that's a superstar.
Speaker 4: He's somewhere, you know, I was, I was.
Speaker 5: I brought up the eighty nine team that had you know, five,
Speaker 5: five or six major leaguers and didn't get out of
Speaker 5: the region.
Speaker 7: That was their best team ever, I thought.
Speaker 5: Talent wise, yes, talent wise, yes, there are two.
Speaker 7: Most sounded teams in history didn't even get to the
Speaker 7: World Series. The eighty nine team with JT. Snow and
Speaker 7: Trevor Hoffin and those guys. And the seventy four team
Speaker 7: that went fifty eight and four right and then lost
Speaker 7: in Northern Colorado and didn't get to the World Series.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I cried that time.
Speaker 2: That's Arizona, man, that's Arizona sports writers, I did.
Speaker 4: I cried.
Speaker 2: I literally cried.
Speaker 5: I couldn't believe that those guys because I went for
Speaker 5: some reason, I went to a ton of their games
Speaker 5: that year, and I was like, you said, the best
Speaker 5: team you've ever seen, Dave Stegman and all those guys,
Speaker 5: And I remember, I'm not going to say I bobbed
Speaker 5: like a baby, but I know that I had tears
Speaker 5: when they got beaked by Northern Colorado that year.
Speaker 7: Jerry Timball told me on more than one occasion that
Speaker 7: that was the best team he ever coached. That would
Speaker 7: make sense, and they and they lost in Northern Colorado.
Speaker 5: Northern colorad only lost four times. Yeah, fifteen and four
Speaker 5: or fifty six and four, something like that.
Speaker 2: Wow, you know, so outside my question was was going
Speaker 2: to be to you, Greg, And I think you answered
Speaker 2: the question with that, what's the team that was really good?
Speaker 2: In surprise he didn't go very far or didn't make
Speaker 2: it that one. That's probably that one in eighty nine.
Speaker 5: I remember how said I was in eighty nine because
Speaker 5: I was covering the team, you know, and and the
Speaker 5: best team that came here and that was in that
Speaker 5: region was Long Beach State, and then they won the region,
Speaker 5: and you know, and Ericson and those guys were just
Speaker 5: sitting sending it home.
Speaker 2: And conversely to that, Greg, what's the team without saying
Speaker 2: ninety seven, because that's that you thought had no chance
Speaker 2: and they do what they do.
Speaker 7: In ninety seven. You can't come up with one better
Speaker 7: than that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Out of the nineteen eighty Arizona baseball team, they went
Speaker 7: twelve and twelve in the pack in the pack off South,
Speaker 7: and they won the national title. Of course, they had
Speaker 7: like eight major leaguers on the team, Brad Mills and
Speaker 7: all those guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's weird, and you were and
Speaker 5: we were talking about how baseball is just kind of
Speaker 5: you know, it's baseball because you know, if last last
Speaker 5: week when Arizona gets beat eighteen to two and then
Speaker 5: they come back to win the and win the next two,
Speaker 5: and you know, and it's just it's such a different
Speaker 5: game when it comes when it comes to that. And
Speaker 5: like I said, you you do give Arizona a chance
Speaker 5: in the College World Series just because they're still in it.
Speaker 5: But you know, again, backs against the wall sort of
Speaker 5: the sort of thing. But you just feel like Chip
Speaker 5: Hale is that guy. Yeah, the Chip Hail is that
Speaker 5: guy that in these situations is when he seems to
Speaker 5: do his best coaching jobs.
Speaker 7: The only thing that stops me is when I look
Speaker 7: at the starting pitching, they don't seem to have a guy. Yeah,
Speaker 7: maybe Cramkowski in two years, because you look like he
Speaker 7: has all the potential we'll get to the big leagues.
Speaker 7: But there are other starters don't look like World Series
Speaker 7: type starters.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, you're you're right. I mean they're gonna
Speaker 5: agree with they're gonna throw a freshman on Sunday, right,
Speaker 5: the true freshman on Sunday. Yeah, you know Smith Bailey,
Speaker 5: but again, you know, look, Kramkowski doesn't even look like
Speaker 5: a big leader to me. I mean he's like, you know,
Speaker 5: what's six two and one hundred and forty pounds or
Speaker 5: something like that.
Speaker 2: There you go with that looks yeah, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: this guy doesn't look good and did an he throws
Speaker 2: hundred and two right by you.
Speaker 7: Compare that to nineteen eighty nine team, maybe the best
Speaker 7: team they ever had Scott Erickson won eighteen games in
Speaker 7: the regular season or no of that, right, well, they
Speaker 7: had guys like they're number one and two.
Speaker 4: There were the majors.
Speaker 7: I know it. I remember walking into the dugout after
Speaker 7: that game and was just devastating. And I went up
Speaker 7: to Willie Morales, who was probably the best catcher in
Speaker 7: the league, and he looked at me and said, don't
Speaker 7: even think about it. So there was no questions with
Speaker 7: Willie Morrales.
Speaker 5: That yeah, I mean, you know, look, it's it's it's weird.
Speaker 5: It's just it's baseball is just just so weird. But look,
Speaker 5: it's fun. You're here, it is, and I'm just glad
Speaker 5: they're back Omaha, because I think I think Chip deserved it.
Speaker 5: I think he's you know, he's been doing a really
Speaker 5: good job. And I'm not saying I'm not giving it
Speaker 5: up and saying, you know, just win another game or whatever.
Speaker 5: But I'm just glad that they got there because one,
Speaker 5: it was kind of unexpected, they got hot at the
Speaker 5: end of the year when you know, won the Big
Speaker 5: Twelve tournament. Uh And and you know, you just love
Speaker 5: to see a guy like Chip, you know, have that
Speaker 5: kind of success.
Speaker 7: So that guy's just a bit, isn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, let me ask you because Greg, because Jay
Speaker 2: brought this up about a story I guess you wrote
Speaker 2: maybe last weekend or maybe the weekend before about the
Speaker 2: Big Twelve. Go ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you mentioned that you had that, and I sent
Speaker 5: a note about that. But the Big Twelve is just
Speaker 5: kind of eh, you know, but I pointed out except
Speaker 5: for basketball, but it really is. I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: you don't you don't see anything that makes you jump
Speaker 5: out and jump up and down about what a great
Speaker 5: league it is in all sports, but still basketball is
Speaker 5: really fun.
Speaker 7: It made me really think about the Pac twelve during
Speaker 7: the year. So, right, maybe Arizona could have been better
Speaker 7: through the years and as good as they were if
Speaker 7: the league had been better because they really had to.
Speaker 7: They really had to, you know, to come alive. Last
Speaker 7: year was just to hang in there. The league was
Speaker 7: so good, yeah.
Speaker 2: You're talking about yeah, but then football and the Twelve
Speaker 2: to me, was just boring.
Speaker 7: There was one team or one star or one coach
Speaker 7: that would turn your head. I'm just hoping that'll change
Speaker 7: and maybe we're just not familiar with them yet. But
Speaker 7: last year I thought it was just blaw Well.
Speaker 5: I'd rather I'd rather stay a little blond until Arizona
Speaker 5: gets good again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, you know when you see that ASU went and
Speaker 5: won the dang league, I'm like, Okay, then that means
Speaker 5: anybody can win it. And and so you know, uh,
Speaker 5: you know, we we talked about how there's really no
Speaker 5: dominant you know, football program in the in the Big Twelve,
Speaker 5: which if you're an Arizona fan, then you're kind of
Speaker 5: happy about that because you don't you know, we're not.
Speaker 2: Dealing with you a better chance. Yeah, they have a
Speaker 2: better chance.
Speaker 4: You're right.
Speaker 5: Overall though, when you think of the star power of
Speaker 5: the league and the teams, they're really you know, aren't any.
Speaker 2: So when you wrote this column, did you talk about
Speaker 2: all the or think about all the sports in the conference.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so, so which which which sport is has
Speaker 2: the best chance?
Speaker 7: Well, men's basketball, But as it turns out, the best
Speaker 7: sport in the league except men's basketball is track and field.
Speaker 7: We've got nine ranked teams men's and women combined in
Speaker 7: track and field. Last night I turned on ESPN had
Speaker 7: the first couple of rounds of the track and field on,
Speaker 7: and there were there were big twelve people in almost
Speaker 7: every race, and of course we've never heard of them yet,
Speaker 7: but even more than the PAC twelve. That's what's doun
Speaker 7: me was there were a few PAC twelve people in
Speaker 7: the in the finals and semifinals, but twelve had a
Speaker 7: lot of people.
Speaker 5: You think that had anything to do with Fred Harvey
Speaker 5: saying I'm not sticking around.
Speaker 7: For this and yeah, no kid, And that's where do
Speaker 7: you find track and field athletes? And how do you
Speaker 7: how do you get them to come to U of
Speaker 7: a Now? Right, I spend more than ten remember when
Speaker 7: they were a distance running power. Yeah, I spent more
Speaker 7: than ten years.
Speaker 2: Now how long has Murray been gone? A boy that time?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, he was the guy who got to
Speaker 7: go on and then at James Lee brought in Lowly
Speaker 7: Lalange and those guys who are superstars. But it's really
Speaker 7: sad to watch that dissolve.
Speaker 2: We talk about Arizona kind of at least I do.
Speaker 2: They're not the elite schools like the Alabamas, Ohio States, Michigans,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, and they've always been in this middle
Speaker 2: of the middle of the road kind of thing, and
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit better than the middle of the road.
Speaker 2: Not with nil and revenue share, nothing's going to chan
Speaker 2: would you agree?
Speaker 7: How are you gonna climb now?
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly?
Speaker 5: But I would argue they were never going to right
Speaker 5: if it was just scholarships and stuff. I mean, Arizona
Speaker 5: is who they are and their place in the pecking
Speaker 5: order isn't changing at all.
Speaker 2: Without questions, without question.
Speaker 7: You know, in the final lear Field Cup standings over
Speaker 7: the last twelve years, Arizona's band from like forty to
Speaker 7: fifty five every year. So it's not like it's anything new.
Speaker 2: So what was the magic? What was the magic when
Speaker 2: they were in the top twelve many times all the
Speaker 2: non revenue sports, Well, so what's the what was the
Speaker 2: magic with that.
Speaker 7: Coach in the nineteen nineties when they're in the top
Speaker 7: ten about every year they had. They scored a ton
Speaker 7: of points in softball, swimming, tracking, on the swimming track
Speaker 7: and field. Remember they were really good at gymnastics on
Speaker 7: them when Jim gall was a coach, and of course
Speaker 7: men's basketball. So if you have five good sports, you'd
Speaker 7: be in the top twenty five in the Lydfield Cup.
Speaker 7: Arizona doesn't have five good sports anymore.
Speaker 2: That seems so long ago, so long ago.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, I remember telling one of my friends who worked
Speaker 5: in the athletic department when we Arizona kept not going
Speaker 5: to Rose Bowls. They said, well, we're doing great at
Speaker 5: the Sears Cup, And I said, you know where you
Speaker 5: can put the Series Cup.
Speaker 4: Get me a damn Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2: You can put it in. You can put in Series
Speaker 2: which is no longer here, don't try.
Speaker 7: I notice today is Shoe. I know today is Shoe's
Speaker 7: been finishing the head of Arizona in the Series Cup.
Speaker 7: Because they score all these points in hockey and women's
Speaker 7: golf and sports you never hear of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because they're.
Speaker 7: Not good in basketball and football. Well, I mean one
Speaker 7: good football here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my point, that's my point, and.
Speaker 7: They haven't been good in baseball in ten years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this may be a dumb question because you're you're
Speaker 2: kind of easing your way out, you're still writing for
Speaker 2: the Star. But aren't you glad? You know I'm kind
Speaker 2: of headed in that direction as well, that you're not
Speaker 2: involved on the day to day given all the circumstances
Speaker 2: with revenue share nil and kind of all the stuff
Speaker 2: that goes wrong with it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree with that. And the other thing was
Speaker 7: you were surrounded by a journalistic.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, and no that's not the case.
Speaker 7: There's one guy out there, Bruce Pasco, yes, and the
Speaker 7: rest are just kind of Twitter guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: Hey, Greg, here's some news for your breaking news. Phil
Speaker 5: Mixon just missed the cut. You hate to see.
Speaker 7: It, man. He used to be one of my favorite golfers.
Speaker 2: Was it really?
Speaker 5: He double Bogi's seventeen and then just barely missed a
Speaker 5: birdie putt on eighteen.
Speaker 4: They would have put him on the cut line.
Speaker 7: Too bad. But remember when he won was free tooths
Speaker 7: on open? Oh yeah, bigger than ever?
Speaker 2: Yeah he was, Yeah, he was, and he was.
Speaker 7: The person you couldn't imagine what he would turn into it.
Speaker 2: Just a jerk, yep, exactly. Oh, successful sports guys, jerks,
Speaker 2: I've never heard of that.
Speaker 4: No, what I have.
Speaker 5: I have three letters for you about piel Milk with
Speaker 5: an L I V. That's it. That's all his whole
Speaker 5: legacy is. I mean, you know, it was funny because
Speaker 5: I'm talking about to Addam my Son about this.
Speaker 4: Is that what all these live guys? Who are they?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: You know they come and they play in the majors,
Speaker 5: but it's kind of like, you know, they're they're just gone.
Speaker 4: You don't hear about them until they come there.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, I hope they're happy with the money,
Speaker 5: right because you know the Dustin Johnson's and and Bubba
Speaker 5: Watson's and all those guys.
Speaker 4: You don't even talk about him anymore.
Speaker 2: The money, well there's that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And none of them are on the leaderboard even
Speaker 7: close in the US Open. Right now?
Speaker 2: Hey, do you like.
Speaker 5: Do you like watching golf on this in this on
Speaker 5: this golf course, this type of golf course where it
Speaker 5: just I mean, you want it to be hard, but
Speaker 5: it seems it's not fun golf to watch me because
Speaker 5: just too much. They made the golf course so hard
Speaker 5: that that. Yeah, that's impossible to play.
Speaker 7: I don't know when you watch it when you see
Speaker 7: Rory matth Roy chopping out of the weeds, Yeah, and
Speaker 7: you know getting getting a quadruple bogie. I mean what
Speaker 7: that's not what it should be.
Speaker 2: That's not fun Well let me ask you, so, what
Speaker 2: would both of you got to shoot?
Speaker 5: Well, that's funny because did you see there was a
Speaker 5: video somebody asked the golfers, the pro the pros, what
Speaker 5: would what would an eighteen handicaper shoot? And they were
Speaker 5: all saying, without being prompted, all of them said between
Speaker 5: one twenty.
Speaker 2: Because they wouldn't be able to get it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they wouldn't be able to get First of all,
Speaker 5: if they hit a ball in the rough, they wouldn't
Speaker 5: find it. But if they found it, they wouldn't be
Speaker 5: able to get it out of there, they said. Jason
Speaker 5: Day said, you know, one twenty, and then somebody but
Speaker 5: somebody said I'm I'm gonna go one to fifty and
Speaker 5: the announce was like come on, he said, no, I'm serious.
Speaker 5: One hundred and fifty for an eighteen handicapper?
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that what you were?
Speaker 7: And if you only had ten balls you would run
Speaker 7: out of ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what would you hit? What would you hit?
Speaker 2: Could you could you shoot?
Speaker 7: I've score at least one twenty to one forty, I'm sure, Wow, I.
Speaker 2: Do that in the nine.
Speaker 5: Oh, Bryson de Shambo said, I don't know, brought a
Speaker 5: hundred on the front nine.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was struggling.
Speaker 4: He didn't make the cut.
Speaker 2: He's eight over, he's ten over.
Speaker 4: He didn't make the cut.
Speaker 7: He's out, and he was struggling. He had balls in
Speaker 7: the weeds all day.
Speaker 5: You know. I mean Scotti Sheffer' is far over. Seven
Speaker 5: strokes off the lead. So what's who's winning? Some guy
Speaker 5: named minus what is it? Sam Burns is the lead?
Speaker 7: Greig sam Burns?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's he yet? Three hundred three hundred. So there's that.
Speaker 2: There's still people treating Hey, Greg, we got to go.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, all right, Yeah, you.
Speaker 7: Have a good time. Guys, have a good summer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, go go get yourself a blanket.
Speaker 2: I got one, we need one, all right? Thanks? Take care, Greg.
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Ian the Ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, you're jagins Awas You've got
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Speaker 2: say something editorially, this is the world we live in
Speaker 2: with Zuckenberg and Elon and all these things that they've
Speaker 2: created shows like this. So that said, this is from Facebook.
Speaker 2: This one is on Hail. Hicks was dealing. The hits
Speaker 2: they got off were with bloopers. He over coached greed.
Speaker 5: No, he brought in the guy who hasn't given and
Speaker 5: up an earned run April. There was absolutely nothing wrong
Speaker 5: with that movie. He was trying to keep the damage
Speaker 5: to one run. Guy put a good swing on a
Speaker 5: pitch and and made a better play.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 2: So to my point is everybody has everybody's got a platform.
Speaker 5: No, absolutely not. You know, I had no problem with
Speaker 5: the with the move Chip. If anything, Chip kept him in.
Speaker 5: Maybe should have start him in the start of the inning.
Speaker 5: But Hicks walked in, come on, comes on, the throws
Speaker 5: six pitches, it strikes two guys out. Was fantastic to
Speaker 5: keep the So then he comes up, he gets the
Speaker 5: first two guys in the next and then the guy
Speaker 5: basically hits the ball. I mean, Guerrero once hit a
Speaker 5: ball that bounced and it looked like that. Yeah, accidental,
Speaker 5: he just stuck the bat out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh, And and he got it and then it hit
Speaker 4: on the line.
Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you, both of you guys
Speaker 2: and anybody you believe in baseball guns?
Speaker 5: No, I just believe that some I believe that anybody
Speaker 5: can make a play in baseball.
Speaker 2: Anybody. Okay, right, you.
Speaker 5: Know you're nine hitter, because because he's good enough to
Speaker 5: be in the lineup, Yeah, he can get a base hit. Sure,
Speaker 5: And that's what that's what I believe in, is that
Speaker 5: baseball is that kind of a game. Whereas not everybody
Speaker 5: can hit a three pointer in basketball, not everybody can
Speaker 5: make the the thirty yard throw threading the needle in football,
Speaker 5: but there are nine guys in the batting order who
Speaker 5: can all hit the ball, and if they get the
Speaker 5: right pitch in the right situation and make the right swing,
Speaker 5: they can get a base hit.
Speaker 3: And that can happen, you believe, Oh yeah, I do too.
Speaker 3: I'm a big sports gods guy. I I am too.
Speaker 3: That not a momentum, but.
Speaker 5: Maybe that maybe that is the sports gods right, that
Speaker 5: that anybody can do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, Arizona for some reason gets in these situations. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it happens too often to be ignored. Right now, they
Speaker 2: have to do what they do right. So they've done
Speaker 2: a bit for Or and maybe that's what gods the
Speaker 2: baseball gud said, Okay, here's your other opportunity to do
Speaker 2: this right.
Speaker 5: And there's but you know, you see the other three
Speaker 5: teams in their bracket. You've got You've got Coastal, You've
Speaker 5: got Oregon State, you got Lovo. None of those teams
Speaker 5: scare you. Arizona can beat those guys, and they can
Speaker 5: go on streak. I think I think you would have
Speaker 5: to win four before they get to you in order
Speaker 5: to win, in order to win the bracket.
Speaker 2: You could see Or was on the winning four straight
Speaker 2: games to win this bracket, and you can see them
Speaker 2: and then you can see them losing.
Speaker 4: On Sunday, right right.
Speaker 3: I mean it's like also at that point where it's like,
Speaker 3: no matter why, you're gonna get a good team, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: That's what's left.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's all that's left, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And so I think it's I don't know, I think
Speaker 3: it's gonna be interesting. I don't I don't know who
Speaker 3: posted that.
Speaker 2: It's it's random, it's on the rackete. But you know,
Speaker 2: everybody has an opinion about whatever, and some people are green,
Speaker 2: some people are saying no. You know, there's so many
Speaker 2: things that could.
Speaker 5: Have There's so many moves you can make in baseball,
Speaker 5: and everyone has a good chance of being right, and
Speaker 5: everyone has a good chance of being wrong, and it
Speaker 5: just some days it swings your way and some days
Speaker 5: it doesn't.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm.
Speaker 5: Surprised that Pluta gave up that that you know, that double,
Speaker 5: and everybody was because he'd he'd been so but at
Speaker 5: some point you had to think that his streak of
Speaker 5: not giving up a run was probably gonna end.
Speaker 2: It just ended at the worst time. Someone else said
Speaker 2: on this threat, and I don't remember this, and I
Speaker 2: watched the game. That Chip could have could have sent
Speaker 2: two or three players instead of that he held them.
Speaker 2: I didn't see that. I didn't see that to possibly score.
Speaker 4: In the in the in the top of the ninth,
Speaker 4: there was.
Speaker 2: No reason to say. There was no reason to say
Speaker 2: when they had bases loaded that here here's well, here's
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 5: You know, in the end, when they had the bases loaded,
Speaker 5: I had already scored a run, and there's nobody and
Speaker 5: they only got one more run. They needed more, right,
Speaker 5: and we talked about that you needed more there. I mean, yes,
Speaker 5: you got the two runs, you took the lead, but
Speaker 5: you could have gotten more and they didn't get more.
Speaker 2: This is a team that always needs more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so there were.
Speaker 5: A lot of places along the way that they could
Speaker 5: have won, and that won. And last the game, the
Speaker 5: home run that Mason White hit. I thought that I
Speaker 5: caught it.
Speaker 2: I yelled, right, I was up the office and I yelled,
Speaker 2: and people said, what are you doing. You're cheering for
Speaker 2: the catcher and said, no, it was a great play
Speaker 2: because I thought he caught it.
Speaker 5: And then and then the double that that the catcher, Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know hit, I'm like, that should have been a triple.
Speaker 5: But then that was one of my issues. But then
Speaker 5: the next guy hits the double.
Speaker 2: Right, he gagged, he lollygagged, did yeah, yeah, that was
Speaker 2: my only PROBABIL game. Yeah, where he didn't, I don't
Speaker 2: know what he was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you to your point, so many places along
Speaker 5: the way you say, if you've done this, if you've
Speaker 5: done that, you can say.
Speaker 4: That about every game you ever you ever see.
Speaker 2: I wondered, I'm going to get home today. Should I
Speaker 2: take it this way? Take it that way?
Speaker 4: Well, be fast, you know, listening to the traffic up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so no, I you know, it's a again, somebody
Speaker 5: had to win, somebody had to lose, and Arizona got
Speaker 5: the short end of the stick. And so you go
Speaker 5: on to the next one, and you play the next
Speaker 5: one and you try and win that, and then if
Speaker 5: you win that.
Speaker 4: You get to play another one. And that's the way.
Speaker 4: That's how you do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think there was one time when I was like,
Speaker 3: and you know, obviously saying this from like like from
Speaker 3: a place where like I didn't play baseball. I just like,
Speaker 3: I like aggressive base running, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: like plays at the plate.
Speaker 4: Who doesn't want to watch that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there was one time a guy got
Speaker 3: stopped at third and I was like, oh, maybe could
Speaker 3: have sentiment on that one.
Speaker 2: But I don't remember.
Speaker 5: I don't remember that any of the another another, okay,
Speaker 5: another point in the game, when it was four to three,
Speaker 5: they had a run around third, one out and they
Speaker 5: played then field back. Okay, right, guy hits a ground
Speaker 5: ball up the middle to the short stop. Run scores
Speaker 5: games tied, and you said, well they should have played
Speaker 5: him up. Well, if they had been playing up the
Speaker 5: ground ball. The guy hit would have gotten through and
Speaker 5: would have been a base hit, and instead they got
Speaker 5: it out. Then they got what they wanted. Then it
Speaker 5: came out of that inning with the game tiede.
Speaker 2: Right, we could take about one more call, if you'd
Speaker 2: like to call five tow oh four one six, four forty.
Speaker 2: You've got about to four minutes again.
Speaker 5: All along the way, you're you're you know, and as Chips,
Speaker 5: I cand guess himself.
Speaker 4: You always do if you're a coach.
Speaker 2: He even said that. He even said that on the
Speaker 2: on the post game UH press release press conference. He says,
Speaker 2: it's too eardy for me to kind of second guess myself. Right,
Speaker 2: he'll think about that.
Speaker 5: And he will, he'll, you know, he'll think, he'll think,
Speaker 5: should I have brought Pluta?
Speaker 2: And sure, you know the dude, who's the guy that
Speaker 2: took the mustache and the he he dealt.
Speaker 5: He was fantastic today. He just got unlucky on that
Speaker 5: got out. You got unlucky on that one pitch. And
Speaker 5: then the guy gets the base hit. And then and
Speaker 5: now you're bringing Pluta in to just try and minimize
Speaker 5: the damage.
Speaker 2: Then the guy gap so they're down what they're down
Speaker 2: three and the start the ninth. What do you what
Speaker 2: do you think and chances wise.
Speaker 5: I thought, if you can get you're at the bottom
Speaker 5: of the order. If you can get two guys on
Speaker 5: base and flip the line up, you have a chance.
Speaker 5: And they did, and then Summer heild into a double play.
Speaker 5: You know, it was the only thing you couldn't have
Speaker 5: happened there. Even if he hits into a force play,
Speaker 5: or if he strikes out or he flies out or whatever,
Speaker 5: then you got another guy coming up, and hopefully another
Speaker 5: guy coming up, hen have a chance.
Speaker 2: Well they had that. It was the best situation that
Speaker 2: they could have asked right to do. The first two
Speaker 2: dudes up the winning tying run out the plane. I
Speaker 2: mean I.
Speaker 5: Changed, Yeah, I'm thinking that, you know, with the nine
Speaker 5: here coming up, and then they pinch hit for him
Speaker 5: and say just when he didn't do a double play
Speaker 5: and he struck out, and I was kind of like
Speaker 5: relieved that he struck out until until until Summer Hill
Speaker 5: hid into a double play. Yeah, you know, you know,
Speaker 5: I don't know, it's again, I'm I'm happy that there
Speaker 5: NLU I'm gonna put my head on the pillow tonight.
Speaker 5: And they say, I'm happy they're there, and then I'm
Speaker 5: not playing in the US Open. I know I've already
Speaker 5: got you know what, I'm just I've got a marry
Speaker 5: you on my mind. I got a menu on my
Speaker 5: mind right now. It's not going to be it's not
Speaker 5: going to be any of those play he says. I
Speaker 5: mentioned because I had Popeye's earlier. Though I had Popeyees
Speaker 5: the first night.
Speaker 2: My wife was gone, call from Switzerland.
Speaker 4: He's funding Popeyes over here.
Speaker 2: Man, we need you really good man.
Speaker 4: They got the greatest mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2: So now they had two games to wait. He talked
Speaker 2: about destructions, family and stuff. That they're having fun.
Speaker 5: They're having fun, you know, you know, they just relax,
Speaker 5: have a good time, enjoy the moment and then get
Speaker 5: then get serious on Sunday and come and play.
Speaker 2: And not that they're playing with house money, but you're there.
Speaker 2: You know, why not why not continue this role? Right?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: No, And that's what I'm saying. I'm like, you know,
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 5: Was it was this a College World Series team all
Speaker 5: throughout the season.
Speaker 2: I don't know that we saw good point?
Speaker 4: Was that right?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 2: Good point? But now it is Yeah. Well, the thing is,
Speaker 2: we had people on last week and I says, did
Speaker 2: you actually think He says, yeah, at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the year, this talent could have done it and they
Speaker 2: didn't midweight and then you think, you know, they're catching
Speaker 2: fire at we have the last call coming in today. Now,
Speaker 2: who is this? It's Jim, Jim, what you got? We
Speaker 2: got about three minutes.
Speaker 20: That's the great thing about baseball.
Speaker 2: You both know, Jay and.
Speaker 20: Steve that the improbable takes center stage. Is baseball more
Speaker 20: so than any other sport, right.
Speaker 5: That we we we've talked about that a bunch. Is
Speaker 5: that it's baseball, and that's how baseball is.
Speaker 2: Did you watch a game, jamb.
Speaker 20: And that's that's the sports gods by name is probability.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy what it is.
Speaker 20: That's the science behind it. And if if you really
Speaker 20: want to look at it in perspective, no one hits
Speaker 20: five hundred and so every batter is improbable.
Speaker 2: You're right, your success.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, Jim, that was That's the smartest thing I
Speaker 5: think I've ever heard you say.
Speaker 20: Well, you may have had stuff in your ears a
Speaker 20: few times too.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying you never saying things smart but that's
Speaker 4: like really good.
Speaker 2: Send your letters to the chain, not to me.
Speaker 20: You can still call me, all right, you guys, have
Speaker 20: a great Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 2: Take care of your Father's Day. Yeah, we gotta go.
Speaker 2: It's sorry time fifty four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be a little early, but yeah, okay, it's
Speaker 3: just a few seconds.
Speaker 4: Man, Okay, come on, go strong I'm playing golf tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Father's Day. Yeah, I'm going to Phoenix watching the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: for the first time this week. Yeah, that's two years.
Speaker 2: This could be one hundred and ten is not hot
Speaker 2: enough here, so it's only gonna be one o five,
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirteen one five, one oh five.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna start hydrating as soon as as soon as
Speaker 4: we leave, I'm gonna sneak on two pools somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yes, smart, smart, Okay, we gotta go. This is strong
Speaker 2: enough day, Father's Day. Thank you. We'll see you guys Monday,