Speaker 1: I'm hoping they can hear us. I'm not too sure.
Speaker 1: Let's go. I hope we're back on. This is Steve Rivera,
Speaker 1: You're Dave Silver.
Speaker 2: Then the computer didn't go on with the commercials properly.
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping that you can just can hear us.
Speaker 2: If you have, just text me real quick and you
Speaker 2: can hear us. Let us know. We're gonna go through
Speaker 2: some news of the day kind of right. You had
Speaker 2: some stuff from involving U of A Baseball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, seven players earned All conference recognition in the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: First year in the Big twelve, so good news. There
Speaker 3: seven Wildcats named of the All Conference team. None were
Speaker 3: on the first team, though there were others. Tony Pluta
Speaker 3: and Mason Whiteboat juniors earned second team honors, and Pluta,
Speaker 3: by the way, was named the Big twelve Scholar Athlete
Speaker 3: of the Year May during and aerospace engineering and pitching
Speaker 3: for the Wildcats.
Speaker 1: So he reds to him.
Speaker 3: He's got the twelve saves leaves the Big twelve in saves.
Speaker 3: So you know, good honors for the U of A
Speaker 3: team as they get ready to begin the Big Twelve
Speaker 3: tournament later this week.
Speaker 2: So I got a surprising text earlier today before it
Speaker 2: came on the show that they team up baseball team
Speaker 2: did not get picked to go to the tournament. They
Speaker 2: had a fantastic year forty seven and thirteen, they were
Speaker 2: not picked as at large. We had coach Ken Hakamie
Speaker 2: on last week. They were hopeful that did get a
Speaker 2: large bid, but instead they did not get picked for
Speaker 2: the World Series. At the Junior College Series, they.
Speaker 1: Didn't qualify through the tournament or anything like that.
Speaker 2: No, they just didn't know. They didn't win. The lead
Speaker 2: the tournament in the league. So forty seven and thirteen,
Speaker 2: most wins since nineteen eighty five when they won forty eight,
Speaker 2: they were twenty nine and eleven in ACCAC play, most
Speaker 2: wins since eighty seven, and they had thirty. They set
Speaker 2: a new record with forty five regular season victories. They
Speaker 2: earned a number one seed number two seed in the
Speaker 2: Regional one Division two tournament and came away with a
Speaker 2: runner up tournament trophy. They went thirty one seven at
Speaker 2: the West Campus aztec Field and ken Hockami is two
Speaker 2: sixty five and one eight seven seasons. So all that
Speaker 2: and they didn't get in. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hey, we got some breaking news though from baseball, other
Speaker 3: baseball news. We can give credit to Javier Morales and
Speaker 3: the guys over at All Sports tuson telling us about
Speaker 3: some Mexican Pacific League games are gonna be played at
Speaker 3: Quino Stadium. I guess there was a news conference earlier today,
Speaker 3: okay about the Mayos de Navajoa from Sonora. The Mexican
Speaker 3: Pacific League made it official with this press conference today.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be the first team.
Speaker 3: Based in the US that will play in the Mexican
Speaker 3: Winter circuits, So.
Speaker 1: Starting, I think starting starting in the winter. Yeah, in
Speaker 1: the winter.
Speaker 2: Well I'm gonna have I think I'm gonna have Blake tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Blake Eager from he handles all this stuff. He couldn't
Speaker 2: tell me anything officially, but they've been working on this
Speaker 2: for a while obvious.
Speaker 3: Yah, we've we've kind of kind of knew something was up.
Speaker 3: So yeah, there's always a number of either major leaguers
Speaker 3: or maybe high minor leaguers you know, from the US
Speaker 3: playing in these games, so there could be some names
Speaker 3: will recognize it.
Speaker 1: What else is that a tweet? Was that a tweet?
Speaker 1: By story? Okay? In all sports?
Speaker 3: All sports, So congrats are I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: I think it's yeah, you'll be there. You know baseball,
Speaker 3: so you'll be there, you putty, don't drink? Do you
Speaker 3: drink like a baseball Yeah?
Speaker 1: Just the beer.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So you got back from Bush Stadium? Well
Speaker 2: yeah you did there. Wait, you were probably driving. You're
Speaker 2: probably taking ubers everywhere. No, no, you're walking even better.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, okay, No, that'll be fun. That'll be fun.
Speaker 1: Just more than one team or just one team?
Speaker 3: Well, I think this is the one team that's going
Speaker 3: to be here, so that I assume they'll just be
Speaker 3: bringing in other teams to come.
Speaker 2: You know, well they have the I bet you they're
Speaker 2: going to have some of the the the what do.
Speaker 1: You call the Fall League the Mexican Baseball Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but the Fall League too. There.
Speaker 2: I think you were trying to get some teams to
Speaker 2: get into that. Yeah, maybe maybe that had been mentioned too.
Speaker 2: I'll have Blake and maybe he can fill us in
Speaker 2: with some of the stuff too meorrow.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I feel bad because I don't recognize some of
Speaker 3: these names. But the team did have four players in
Speaker 3: major league organizations last winter.
Speaker 1: Then they may have been you.
Speaker 3: Know, low minor leaguers, but there are some players that
Speaker 3: are getting a chance to play.
Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be good baseball.
Speaker 2: It yeah, good good baseball for people who want to
Speaker 2: go out and see the baseball programs.
Speaker 3: They that team has been around since nineteen fifty nine,
Speaker 3: so they have a following.
Speaker 2: Maybe there'll be some people coming up here. If you're listening,
Speaker 2: I know you are, because you have nothing else to do.
Speaker 2: You know, you can call us with this story more
Speaker 2: information if you have it real quick before we get
Speaker 2: to coach Pivle on anything else. I know, the Big
Speaker 2: Pima this and you said academics with baseball, the men's
Speaker 2: with you bank baseball. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: You know some guys that were made honorable mention well
Speaker 3: for second team, Brendan summer Hill of course, who's going
Speaker 3: to probably be a first round pick, starting pitcher, Owen Cramkowski,
Speaker 3: Donnis Guzman, all these guys made the you know, the
Speaker 3: all Big twelve team basically, so they're all getting set
Speaker 3: for the tournament to start.
Speaker 1: I think tomorrow the.
Speaker 3: Games begin, and I think the UA waits to play
Speaker 3: the winner of I think ASU and somebody forgetting exactly
Speaker 3: we mentioned that help play Thursday.
Speaker 1: And then I don't know if you want to get into.
Speaker 3: The Fred Harvey story, Oh ahead, please, yoh yes, that
Speaker 3: maybe later in the show if you want. But Fred Harvey,
Speaker 3: the longtime track coach at the u of A, announcing
Speaker 3: his retirement after thirty eight years at the end of
Speaker 3: this twenty twenty five outdoor season. He has been the coach,
Speaker 3: the longest running coach at the u of A. Were
Speaker 3: the last of the coaches hired by said Dempsey, who's
Speaker 3: still there, and off he goes. He's gonna you know,
Speaker 3: he's had an incredible career. So many All Americans, eleven
Speaker 3: national champions, you know, one hundred and sixty athletes who've
Speaker 3: either won indoor outdoor All American honors. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: a year after year, whether it's you know, track or field.
Speaker 3: The cross country distance runners have been a made.
Speaker 2: Did you give his new title? And he's gonna have
Speaker 2: a new title.
Speaker 3: He's going to be coach emeritus, So I assume he'll
Speaker 3: be involved.
Speaker 1: In some some way.
Speaker 3: I don't know if my Candrea sort of has the
Speaker 3: same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, but he's still around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be there. It's one of the he's one
Speaker 1: of he's never going to leave the track, right. I'm
Speaker 1: sure we.
Speaker 2: Had him on I don't know a week or so
Speaker 2: ago and gave no hint to this. Obviously they gave
Speaker 2: no hint to this, but he did sound different to me.
Speaker 2: But yeah, what do I know?
Speaker 1: Well, he's good.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's like I said, you know, I've known
Speaker 3: him for a long time too, and he's been part
Speaker 3: of the u of athletic department for a long time
Speaker 3: through all kinds of athletic directors. Some said delive and
Speaker 3: good Rocky Lrose he was talking about today.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a statement or if
Speaker 1: they if they had to sit.
Speaker 3: Down with him, but he's you know, Greg Byrne, Dave Pike,
Speaker 3: Erica Barnes and now Desiree.
Speaker 1: So he's he's worked for a lot of people.
Speaker 2: You saw his statement, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, he mentioned
Speaker 2: all of them.
Speaker 1: So, okay, do you see that they're going to have
Speaker 1: flag football?
Speaker 2: You need, They're gonna have flag football at the Olympics
Speaker 2: right right now they have NFL.
Speaker 3: People, can you imagine what that's going to be? Like crazy,
Speaker 3: that's going to be. That's going to be at the
Speaker 3: LA Olympics, right yeah, like they need more, right, more crazy.
Speaker 3: It just takes away the the chance for non NFL
Speaker 3: players to Yeah, that was more. I thought they were
Speaker 3: looking more like college players in college. I'm sure they
Speaker 3: were until now amateurs so called amateurs. But mhm, where
Speaker 3: I wonder where they're gonna play. It's been out there,
Speaker 3: but because I mean, they have so many stadiums in California,
Speaker 3: I know they're using it for soccer.
Speaker 1: And did you go in eighty four? I'd like to go.
Speaker 1: Would you like to cover it?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: What this next? One of the Olympics?
Speaker 2: I covered the Greek the Greece one and the the
Speaker 2: Sydney one. For USA today, I don't know, it's this
Speaker 2: is I'm old. I'm well, dude, by the time I'll
Speaker 2: be sixty fourish. It's it's it's a lot of work,
Speaker 2: eighteen hour days. Probably not and traffic is crazy. Back
Speaker 2: in the day, they I'm sure same thing you lived
Speaker 2: in all in a media in the media area media hut,
Speaker 2: and then they the buses took you wherever you needed
Speaker 2: to go. Those were the good things. The bad things
Speaker 2: that you still have to do with the traffic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm now at the stage too, well,
Speaker 3: I would go as a spectator.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you can just pick and choose. Let's see
Speaker 1: what I can get tickets from.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm sure it's going to be impossible for
Speaker 3: some things, you know, if you want to go watch
Speaker 3: you know, archery or something like that.
Speaker 2: Do you remember much of the eighty four you were
Speaker 2: just still kind of starting here.
Speaker 3: Here, Yeah, you know, I mean obviously it was at
Speaker 3: the coliseum.
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 3: Carl Lewis was huge. The Olympic team was was you know,
Speaker 3: Jordan what didn't that year? Jordan didn't make the team?
Speaker 1: Maybe No, I don't think so. I'm eighty eight was
Speaker 1: eighty eight.
Speaker 2: It was kind of a wheelhouse that was like Sean
Speaker 2: too and Shawn didn't make it, right.
Speaker 3: No, I mean it was it was a big deal
Speaker 3: to have the Olympics back in the United States because
Speaker 3: it hadn't been here for a long time. What have
Speaker 3: we not had the Olympics since Atlanta ninety six? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was the Inpas bombing. That one night. I remember
Speaker 3: we were on the air. I think I don't know
Speaker 3: if ABC was covering. It might have been an NBC
Speaker 3: game NBC broadcast, but I remember being on the set
Speaker 3: and things were going crazy, and sure, there's this explosion.
Speaker 2: The God I was thinking about the bomber that they
Speaker 2: said bomb, but it wasn't. God. I just just a
Speaker 2: couple of days ago because it kind of changed journalism.
Speaker 2: How they really messed with him. And then you have
Speaker 2: to get sources because they screwed that story up.
Speaker 1: What was his name? God?
Speaker 2: They did a movie about it. I saw the movie too,
Speaker 2: and I was thinking about this yesterday. I don't know why,
Speaker 2: but it was it was I want to say Jeffrey,
Speaker 2: but it's not Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: Are you googling now? Was it Eric Rudolph? No?
Speaker 2: He was the Yeah, he was the dude that they yeah,
Speaker 2: that they didn't know he was hiding in the woods. God,
Speaker 2: Richard Jewel. That's it, the Richard Jewel situation. They blamed
Speaker 2: very sad. They ruined his life, him and his mom's life,
Speaker 2: chasing him down and doing all these things, and.
Speaker 1: He just wanted to be a security guard. Yeah, it was. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It talks about some of the innocence of our time
Speaker 3: on television in those years too, because I remember I
Speaker 3: can't remember exact time of night it happened, but I
Speaker 3: was at this I might have been the only anchor
Speaker 3: at the station.
Speaker 1: It was everybody. It was a dinner. It was about
Speaker 1: seven eight o'clock.
Speaker 2: So I remember, well.
Speaker 1: Going on going on to the set. We need you
Speaker 1: out there talking about this. We had nothing.
Speaker 3: I mean we had you know, I had our producer
Speaker 3: talking to my ear the entire time saying, okay, you
Speaker 3: know there's this, and I think ABC may have cut
Speaker 3: in to whatever their programming because NBC was covering it,
Speaker 3: covering the games then.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is another one of those moments, like
Speaker 1: almost thirty years ago. Yeah, I was able to pull
Speaker 1: it off. And you talk about innocence and journalism, Well, no, really,
Speaker 1: we had nothing.
Speaker 3: You know, we didn't have laptops, we didn't have instant
Speaker 3: news coming to use.
Speaker 1: I didn't have we didn't.
Speaker 3: Have phones, your cell phone, Twitter or anything like that
Speaker 3: getting information.
Speaker 1: So somebody was really feeding or were you you were?
Speaker 2: I was at dinner and get back to the the set.
Speaker 1: Somebody needs to go out there and cut in. We're
Speaker 1: gonna cut it in and do something. Oh I see,
Speaker 1: I see the programming break.
Speaker 3: Into whatever, you know, full house or whatever we were showing,
Speaker 3: you know, right, So it was it was a It
Speaker 3: was a great moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a very sad broadcasting.
Speaker 2: That was very sad when that eventually news came out
Speaker 2: that he was not the guy, but it was the
Speaker 2: Richard rich the other guy, yeah, who had bombed a
Speaker 2: few things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Richard Jewel was the was the hapless former cop, Yeah,
Speaker 3: turned security guard and they thought that, you know, he
Speaker 3: had some some bag. But how did we get off
Speaker 3: to the subject.
Speaker 2: Just just just Olympics with the play football situation, having
Speaker 2: covered having covered a couple Yeah, yeah, no I didn't go.
Speaker 3: I did not go to eighty four, but we did
Speaker 3: have our legendary Ed Sorenson, our sportscaster who was there
Speaker 3: I worked with, was there and tried to cover it.
Speaker 1: It was hard. It was even in those years. It
Speaker 1: was difficult.
Speaker 3: It was a local station because you didn't really have
Speaker 3: any access to anything. Even then, well, he was ware,
Speaker 3: he was he was in l Al.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's just it's just not what people think. It's
Speaker 1: it's a lot of it.
Speaker 2: And back in two thousand, two thousand and four, it
Speaker 2: was after the two thousand wasn't like this two thousand
Speaker 2: and four. Uh, security was crazy because the bombing us.
Speaker 2: It was it was military people with machine guns everywhere.
Speaker 2: I mean, just felt surreal. It's just kind of wow,
Speaker 2: this is the world we live in and probably will
Speaker 2: live in the rest of our lives.
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was just just at the time just so heavy.
Speaker 2: Now not so much at least, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be interesting how LA handles this. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: of course, of course, especially with the World.
Speaker 3: Cup coming next year, it'll be kind of a try
Speaker 3: run to see how these international events are going to
Speaker 3: be going on in the United States.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, what time is said?
Speaker 2: We got about fourteen, LESCo He's gonna call us Coach
Speaker 2: Peple's gonna call us in about three four minutes and
Speaker 2: we'll talk championship again.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my the ball Here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today
Speaker 2: is Dave silver. Now on the phone, we have coach
Speaker 2: Danny Prebble from South Point Championship Baseball team. Coach, how
Speaker 2: you doing doing very well? Thank you great, great another
Speaker 2: championship for south Point. How was it not that it
Speaker 2: was easy last night? But uh, tell us about last night.
Speaker 4: Never easy.
Speaker 12: You know the boys, they've been fired up for a
Speaker 12: long time for this and uh, they showed up and
Speaker 12: showed out really well last night. They were they were
Speaker 12: excited to be there and and they put it on the.
Speaker 4: Field for sure.
Speaker 3: Nice to get up eight to nothing quickly too, and
Speaker 3: that's kind of how things settled as far as the
Speaker 3: final score goes, too.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, you know.
Speaker 12: We we we learned our lesson in the first game
Speaker 12: of the playoffs against Saint Mary's.
Speaker 4: You know, we command confident.
Speaker 12: Playing well and you look up in the bottom of
Speaker 12: the fourth inning and we're chasing seven runs.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, this is this is real? You know.
Speaker 12: So from there on out, we we really got out
Speaker 12: of the gates fast against the remaining teams.
Speaker 4: That we played. You know, we we got out.
Speaker 12: Fast in the in the semi against Ironood Ridge and
Speaker 12: had had an opportunity to really blow things out of
Speaker 12: the water, and then we kind of sculped for a
Speaker 12: few ins.
Speaker 4: And made it interesting in the end.
Speaker 12: But you know, coming out and fast really helped us
Speaker 12: in the in the last four games of the tournament.
Speaker 2: Was it This is a dumb question, but you get
Speaker 2: that scare, Uh it wakes you up? Or you know,
Speaker 2: was that what woke you up? And it okay, you
Speaker 2: know we can't do this again.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think it was a big wake up call.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 12: We we we spent a week in Vegas, and I
Speaker 12: thought that that was gonna be kind of a wake
Speaker 12: up call for us. We went up there and and
Speaker 12: we went one and three on the week, and you
Speaker 12: step back and you realize we lose three one run
Speaker 12: ball games in Vegas to some really really high level
Speaker 12: competition over there. So it was, you know, we're we're
Speaker 12: in close ball games with really competitive team.
Speaker 4: So there wasn't really a like a smack in the mouth,
Speaker 4: if you will. You know. Then we come back and
Speaker 4: we get back into region play and we go to
Speaker 4: Mica and and and handle them pretty pretty easily that day.
Speaker 4: And then the end of the week we go down.
Speaker 12: To No Gallas and No Gallas was ready for us,
Speaker 12: and they really put it on us. You know, they
Speaker 12: beat us eleven to one down at their place, and
Speaker 12: we we didn't have an answer for anything.
Speaker 4: You know, our guy on the mound that night.
Speaker 12: And Estabjorkez threw really well. And then you look up
Speaker 12: and we're getting beat eleven to one. You know, they're
Speaker 12: putting balls and play. We did a few things that
Speaker 12: weren't real normal for us, and I think that was
Speaker 12: the start of the wake.
Speaker 4: Up call, you know.
Speaker 12: And then we have a game against Fotill's to wrap
Speaker 12: up this season on that Monday in a week to
Speaker 12: prepare for Saint Mary's, and not that we were overlooking them,
Speaker 12: but gosh, they came in and they were they were
Speaker 12: hitting pitches that you know, you would you would see
Speaker 12: getting balls over their heads and down in the dirt,
Speaker 12: and you know, it was just like a blatty Guerrero
Speaker 12: show because they were putting everything in play and putting
Speaker 12: it in play hard. And then, you know, like I said,
Speaker 12: you look up and it's down. We're down seven zero
Speaker 12: going into the fourth. It's like, oh boy.
Speaker 4: So that you know, we had a few hurdles towards
Speaker 4: the end of the.
Speaker 12: Season, but the Saint Mary's when I think really kick
Speaker 12: things into gear for us.
Speaker 3: How much did you lean on your seniors? He got
Speaker 3: a huge senior class with thirteen guys out.
Speaker 4: There, thirteen guys, huge senior class. Leaned on them every day.
Speaker 12: You know, they were our leaders, Lucy saying, and it's
Speaker 12: been our catcher for most of the year.
Speaker 4: Isaiah Moraga, who was our number one guy in the
Speaker 4: Moundboy year, I see.
Speaker 12: Again, Uh had had a really great year for us,
Speaker 12: and you know, he had every opportunity to kind of
Speaker 12: tuck his tail and run and hide, but he didn't.
Speaker 4: You know, he scuffled pretty bad in the middle of
Speaker 4: the season.
Speaker 12: And we sat him down and Uh, we put a
Speaker 12: freshman out there in his place, and the freshman had.
Speaker 4: A good two weeks. You know, talk about getting smacked.
Speaker 12: In the mouth and saying, oh, you know, I just
Speaker 12: lost my job, and you know, all the way through it,
Speaker 12: he was a great teammate. He was a team first
Speaker 12: guy and continued to grind and continue it.
Speaker 4: And it wasn't anything that he was doing wrong. He
Speaker 4: was just scuffling.
Speaker 12: And you know, we put him back in the lineup,
Speaker 12: and I think he ended up being our lead and
Speaker 12: hitter for the for the remainder of the season and
Speaker 12: really carried the the middle of that lineup for us.
Speaker 2: It's funny baseball kind of teaches those lessons, right you
Speaker 2: sent somebody down or whatever, it could go either right,
Speaker 2: and it went right for you guys, and for him.
Speaker 4: It absolutely did.
Speaker 2: It absolutely did because he's a You talked about him
Speaker 2: being a pretty good kid, level head, stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, in our program, our our guys.
Speaker 12: May not always like it, m M, but they're always
Speaker 12: gonna get the absolute truth.
Speaker 4: You know, why aren't you playing?
Speaker 8: Why?
Speaker 4: Why why am I not playing? Coach, Well, this is why.
Speaker 12: And they have a very good understanding, and we have
Speaker 12: really good relationships.
Speaker 4: With our kids, so we have the ability to just
Speaker 4: be black and white with them. You're not doing X,
Speaker 4: Y and Z, but this guy is right now. Okay,
Speaker 4: I don't like it.
Speaker 12: I'm gonna work on it, and I'm gonna try and
Speaker 12: I'm gonna try and get my spot back. And sometimes
Speaker 12: it works in the ostile situation and other situations it didn't,
Speaker 12: but you just keep grinding, and.
Speaker 4: All of our kids really did a good job of
Speaker 4: that all all season this year.
Speaker 3: Lucas Shannon obviously, great record, perfect record, big big game yesterday,
Speaker 3: and he's going to what you Niversity of San Diego.
Speaker 3: So he's going to continue on after this.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's he He was kind of our our basing
Speaker 12: the hole, if you will.
Speaker 4: You know, obviously he's.
Speaker 12: Going to USD and going into this season, I would
Speaker 12: guess that he was going.
Speaker 4: There primarily to be an arm.
Speaker 12: For them, but he's also a very good catcher and
Speaker 12: he really really had a great year at.
Speaker 4: To play for US this year.
Speaker 12: So you know, I think usd's got a potential two
Speaker 12: way guy on their hands, and at least they should
Speaker 12: look really hard at it.
Speaker 4: But with that in mind, we told.
Speaker 12: Luke's at the beginning, you're gonna catch for us, and
Speaker 12: you know we're gonna we're gonna.
Speaker 4: Spot start you and get you.
Speaker 12: A couple of innings on the mound, you know, in
Speaker 12: a relief situation, and just try to keep you fresh
Speaker 12: for the end of the season, similar to what we
Speaker 12: did with.
Speaker 4: Cad McGee back in twenty one.
Speaker 12: Uh, you know, he came out and through at the
Speaker 12: end of the season for US and actually he was
Speaker 12: he closed.
Speaker 4: The game out in nineteen when we won it.
Speaker 12: And then we use Kate in twenty one very sparingly,
Speaker 12: you know, in a big game situation, if you will.
Speaker 12: And he beat Ceo that year in the in the
Speaker 12: semi to get us to the championship. So, you know,
Speaker 12: kind of the same idea we did with Lucas this
Speaker 12: year was it was fun to watch.
Speaker 2: Along with this kid. If you have thirteen seniors, how
Speaker 2: many of them are moving on to play?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 12: We have five I believe that have committed, but there
Speaker 12: are another three or four of them that are on
Speaker 12: the books somewhere just trying to make a final decision
Speaker 12: what they're going to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so talent talented, So now you lose thirteen, right,
Speaker 2: You're always thinking ahead?
Speaker 1: So what are you thinking for next year?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think the future is bright for us.
Speaker 12: You know, we've got a great program top to bottom
Speaker 12: and a lot of guys that really want to be
Speaker 12: there and playing that program and play for that school.
Speaker 12: You know, And I think a lot of people would
Speaker 12: look at as it as a rebuild, but you know,
Speaker 12: we're just gonna keep going and doing what we're doing.
Speaker 4: I think I think will be good.
Speaker 1: Does the rebuild begin this summer?
Speaker 4: For you?
Speaker 3: Are these kids are gonna kind of stay together as
Speaker 3: a team as they go off and play summer baseball.
Speaker 1: How does that work.
Speaker 12: We're actually gonna make a little bit of a change
Speaker 12: this year. We're gonna we're gonna not do anything this
Speaker 12: summer because it just is.
Speaker 4: All very quick, you know, when you play, When you
Speaker 4: play into May and.
Speaker 12: Graduation and in the school and finals and all the
Speaker 12: things that these kids have.
Speaker 4: To be challenged by.
Speaker 12: It makes it difficult to get the summer season doing
Speaker 12: because the summer season in a in a normal calendar,
Speaker 12: If we were doing our normal thing, our summer season
Speaker 12: would start this coming weekend at a tournament in Prescott.
Speaker 4: You know, so there's no no break there.
Speaker 12: So we're just gonna take the summer off as a
Speaker 12: as a program. You know, all of our guys are
Speaker 12: gonna go do something somewhere and then we'll pick back
Speaker 12: up in the fall and go with our normal.
Speaker 4: Fall program and get ready for January starting in August.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no one really talks about that, especially in high school.
Speaker 1: It's almost three sixty five pretty much.
Speaker 4: It is. It is. You know, if they're not playing
Speaker 4: with us, they're playing somewhere else. You know. We try
Speaker 4: to have conversations with guys about you know, where are
Speaker 4: you gonna play, who you're gonna play with? What are
Speaker 4: you looking to get out of it?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: Is this an organization?
Speaker 13: And there are organizations out there that are that are
Speaker 13: using kids in general, not just our kids, but they're
Speaker 13: using kids to you know, make their name in the
Speaker 13: club world if you will, you know.
Speaker 12: So, you know, we've gotten reports back, you know, so
Speaker 12: and so through one hundred and forty pitches this weekend.
Speaker 4: Why right, Well, they told us that there were going
Speaker 4: to be college coaches there. Well, did you look at
Speaker 4: a calendar?
Speaker 12: You know, is it a is it a dead period
Speaker 12: for college coaches that they can't be there?
Speaker 4: Is it a you know, what kind of a what
Speaker 4: kind of eyes were on you?
Speaker 12: So those are the kinds of questions that we try
Speaker 12: to help our kids navigate and make sure that they're
Speaker 12: doing what's best for.
Speaker 4: Them, not only for their future, but for their health.
Speaker 1: Currently, did you coach Mason White? Was he there with you?
Speaker 5: He was?
Speaker 1: Yeah? How his career is going with the U of A.
Speaker 4: Not not not real surprising, not real surprising? You know, Uh,
Speaker 4: he can really swing it.
Speaker 12: Oh boy, Yeah, I haven't gotten the opportunity this year
Speaker 12: with everything else that's going on to get out there
Speaker 12: and see him. But you know, you see the highlights
Speaker 12: on social and you try and watch it, pick up
Speaker 12: a ball game here and there on TV.
Speaker 4: And it's been a lot better now in the Big
Speaker 4: twelve because they're basically on every every game.
Speaker 12: And it's easy to see unlike the old Pac twelve network, right,
Speaker 12: you know, so it's easy to watch him.
Speaker 4: But uh, he's he's had a great career.
Speaker 12: Would not surprise me in the least if if he
Speaker 12: goes somewhere pretty high in the draft this summer, is it?
Speaker 2: This might be another dumb question because I played a
Speaker 2: little a little ball. Uh, his grit, determination, his hard work,
Speaker 2: How did he become the player he became.
Speaker 12: I'd like to think that a lot of it came
Speaker 12: from and during our program for four years. And I
Speaker 12: know that at some point, you know, he'll sit down
Speaker 12: and realize that that we had a part in that.
Speaker 12: But his bloodlines are deep, you know. His his grandfather
Speaker 12: played at DUV played in the Reds organization. His grandfather
Speaker 12: was one of our teachers atself point for a long time,
Speaker 12: and to hear some stories of his from back in
Speaker 12: the day in spring training with the Big Red Machine
Speaker 12: and Johnny Bench and Pete.
Speaker 4: Rows and all those guys. It was just I was
Speaker 4: in awe.
Speaker 1: Who's what's the name Tim White? Tim White? Ok?
Speaker 2: Because I was with David and I Taker, but the
Speaker 2: Big Red Machine all the time, and it's like we
Speaker 2: you know, the Pete Rose situation now and Johnny Bench
Speaker 2: and all these guys. Okay, I'll have to look that up.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that name, but okay.
Speaker 12: And then his dad was a great player at south Point,
Speaker 12: a GATORAD Player of the Year at south Point. And
Speaker 12: then make Sound of the UFA had a great play
Speaker 12: at the UFA. And you know, now Mason's just falling
Speaker 12: down the line and it's been fun to watch.
Speaker 2: Totally totally makes sense. Yeah, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Give any other any other guys going to the u
Speaker 3: of A from this crop of players.
Speaker 4: Or not from this class. We do not have anybody
Speaker 4: going to the.
Speaker 2: Uv So this is your second one. Twenty nineteen was
Speaker 2: your other. Can you compare contrast or just totally different?
Speaker 4: The one in twenty nineteen was a blur.
Speaker 12: You know, we had the great opportunity of getting to
Speaker 12: the championship game. In twenty seventeen, we played against No
Speaker 12: Gallas at Hi.
Speaker 4: Corvette, and.
Speaker 12: I don't think we were quite ready to be in
Speaker 12: that ball game yet and No Gallas No Gallas beat
Speaker 12: us up pretty good.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 12: It's that first time being in a not for the school,
Speaker 12: but in our era of the program.
Speaker 4: First time being there, you know, in the big stage
Speaker 4: and all.
Speaker 12: The people at High Corporate and No Gallas always travels
Speaker 12: really well, and so you know, it was wow.
Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden the volumes over and
Speaker 4: we're we're picking up the runner up trophy.
Speaker 12: So in twenty nineteen we were a little bit more
Speaker 12: prepared for the big stage. But you know, winning the
Speaker 12: winning the first state championship in baseball in school history,
Speaker 12: and and doing so against a team that probably man
Speaker 12: for man, we shouldn't have been on the field with
Speaker 12: that with Mesquite and you talked about great determination with
Speaker 12: Mason and that would be that team.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 12: We were undersized basically every position, you know, and and
Speaker 12: to come away toious in that one, it was an
Speaker 12: absolute blur.
Speaker 4: Comparing it to to to last night. You know, you
Speaker 4: know a little bit more what to expect if it
Speaker 4: goes your way.
Speaker 12: Yeah, but it's still you know, it's still very numby.
Speaker 12: You know, you sit it, you shit it in and
Speaker 12: out after the ballgame at eleven o'clock and you're just
Speaker 12: sitting there in your thoughts and it's like, wow, what
Speaker 12: what did we just do?
Speaker 4: You know? It goes so fast, you know.
Speaker 12: And and the biggest takeaway of all of it is
Speaker 12: is the kids. You know, the dog piles and throwing
Speaker 12: water on everybody, and the smiles.
Speaker 4: And the hugs and the and the I love yous,
Speaker 4: and it was just it was incredible.
Speaker 1: Sure, what a great story it is for these kids too.
Speaker 1: You know, we're a bunch.
Speaker 3: Of old guys talking about we think about our high
Speaker 3: school years and some of the memories. But what a
Speaker 3: great memory this is going to be for them to
Speaker 3: look back on and they're they're going to always have
Speaker 3: this story as part of their life.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 12: You talk about you know, the stories and the memories.
Speaker 12: You know, that's one of the reasons that I got
Speaker 12: into this. You know, I didn't have the opportunity to
Speaker 12: play in the state championship game in high school.
Speaker 4: We got close, but the.
Speaker 12: Memories and the teammates and the bonds that that I
Speaker 12: have with the guys that I played with, and my
Speaker 12: biggest baseball mentor next to my dad, my biggest baseball
Speaker 12: mentor on the planet, Kent Winslow, and and everything that
Speaker 12: we learned under him unbelievable. And then for him to
Speaker 12: show up last night and and be there and give
Speaker 12: him a big old hug, it was.
Speaker 4: It was awesome.
Speaker 2: Do you guys come back together or you guys come
Speaker 2: back separately? And on a bus or whatever.
Speaker 4: We were We were on a bus.
Speaker 12: A couple of our kids came home with our parents,
Speaker 12: but we brought We took thirty two and we came
Speaker 12: home with thirty so, you know, to try and get
Speaker 12: a few winks.
Speaker 4: On the on the bus trip home, yeah, possible. It was.
Speaker 12: It was rocking and there were strobe lights and and
Speaker 12: you know, the disco ball was out and it was
Speaker 12: it was a fun ride home.
Speaker 1: That's I wanted to say.
Speaker 2: And do you have time to I don't know, reflect
Speaker 2: on that ride home, you know, two two and a
Speaker 2: half hours, whatever it is, because you know the kids,
Speaker 2: the story is about the kids, right, But sometimes sometimes
Speaker 2: the coach needs to indulge with some fun too, and
Speaker 2: that not indulges, but you do enjoy it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, it was.
Speaker 12: You know, you sit there and and and you and
Speaker 12: you talk with the coaches and and and I would
Speaker 12: be remiss if I didn't mention our coaching staff.
Speaker 4: You know, all eleven and more guys on the on
Speaker 4: the three levels. And then you know it's it's.
Speaker 12: Been an incredible ride because of their leadership. You know,
Speaker 12: when when we started this in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 12: I got a phone call from coach Winslow and and
Speaker 12: he asked me because I was fortunate enough to take
Speaker 12: over the program after he left, and uh, he called
Speaker 12: me and he said, you're ready to be the next
Speaker 12: baseball coach of the Lanches. And and I didn't really
Speaker 12: know what was going on at that point. I hadn't
Speaker 12: heard anything. And and I said absolutely. He goes, well,
Speaker 12: I think it's coming your way. And the next phone
Speaker 12: call I made was to to Vicacunya. And you know,
Speaker 12: he's been he's been our my.
Speaker 4: Right hand man, and our brotherhood has has.
Speaker 12: Been so strong and none of this, absolutely none of
Speaker 12: this happens without him around.
Speaker 4: So but Vic has been an integral, integral.
Speaker 12: Part of all of it, and and all of our
Speaker 12: coaches that that show up every day and and grind
Speaker 12: these guys out and make them better baseball players, but
Speaker 12: more importantly better kids and young men.
Speaker 4: Uh, it's been it's been a great year.
Speaker 3: It's really been a good yeest how many how many
Speaker 3: championships does the school have this year?
Speaker 1: Soccer won one? Right games this year?
Speaker 12: This year we had four, so we have boys and
Speaker 12: girls soccer, gholst tennis was what was that last week
Speaker 12: two weeks ago? And then we won ours last night
Speaker 12: and over the weekend our our softball team and boys
Speaker 12: volleyball team came up just a little bit short, but
Speaker 12: take home a couple of runner ups.
Speaker 4: So it's it's been a great year for South Point Catholic.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well do you guys do that pretty often? You guys
Speaker 2: are pretty consistent with what you guys do. Coach, appreciate
Speaker 2: your time. It was great, great stuff. Enjoy it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, congrats, thank you very much, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, coach Danny Pripple from the South Point, Well,
Speaker 2: appreciate your time.
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Speaker 2: is Dave Silver. Good to talk to coach Pribble.
Speaker 1: Yeah, boy, what a year for sell Point too.
Speaker 3: He's talking about four for state championships, a couple of
Speaker 3: runner ups, suple runner ups. I mean they're always competitive
Speaker 3: in the big sports too, so you know it's good
Speaker 3: and they again these athletes, student athletes get a chance
Speaker 3: to go on and play elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Sure thirteen seniors. Yeah, you know numbers already have scholarships.
Speaker 1: And he says the program was in good shape.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a pipeline you know that continue to do
Speaker 2: what they do, maybe not win a title, but be
Speaker 2: competitive tough.
Speaker 3: I know they just every time you look up, you know,
Speaker 3: who are the top teams right, basically, and that's always
Speaker 3: been the case.
Speaker 1: Here, no question.
Speaker 2: And I want to ask you, so you say today
Speaker 2: did a just a quick mock draft, the latest one
Speaker 2: came out, just a little bit of go. If you're
Speaker 2: a guessing, what do you think, mister Carter Bright, I
Speaker 2: haven't so I don't know, right, That's why I wanted
Speaker 2: to be surprised to you.
Speaker 1: I'm hearing. How about ninth? Good question?
Speaker 2: And if you were Carl Bryant and you decided to
Speaker 2: stay in the draft, wouldn't you think that you'd go?
Speaker 2: You do it without a question if you're a lottery guy,
Speaker 2: right right? Top fourteen they have him at twenty. Ooh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I was looking in the top ten. Oh he's not there. Fourteen,
Speaker 2: he's not there. And of course all these are not scientific,
Speaker 2: or they're not always accurate or whatever, because everybody has
Speaker 2: a different opinion. He's twenty to Miami. Another guy at Miami,
Speaker 2: which would be funny with the three guys two guys
Speaker 2: already there. Yeah, that would seem kind of a stretch.
Speaker 2: He was definitely staying in right, and the last week
Speaker 2: you saw his press conferences and things like that, he
Speaker 2: was always going to stay in. But it's almost you
Speaker 2: have to have an assurance that you're going to be
Speaker 2: in the top fourteen.
Speaker 3: You know, And that's what you would think that he
Speaker 3: was hearing that from somebody to stick around and not
Speaker 3: come back.
Speaker 1: Well, it can always change, right.
Speaker 2: We heard earlier in one of the breaking news things
Speaker 2: that at number three, Philly might change or might trade
Speaker 2: some picks or a pick that pick to go to Phoenix. Oh,
Speaker 2: to get to get KD. That whole mix in Phoenix is.
Speaker 1: Just a mess. They just need to blow it. Get
Speaker 1: something changed there. Anything.
Speaker 3: Got to find a coach. I wonder if I have
Speaker 3: a coach before the draft.
Speaker 16: Don't?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, good question. They should.
Speaker 16: Right.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, so you covered sports here in
Speaker 2: Tucson thirty some years, right, thirty some years because you
Speaker 2: got here before I did. Out of the thirty some
Speaker 2: team thirty some years. That's assume per second you covered
Speaker 2: three or four teams consistently. Well, right, you a football,
Speaker 2: you a basketball, maybe another team or two softball. Okay,
Speaker 2: so three teams, all those teams, how many of those
Speaker 2: teams do you think didn't have the chemistry they needed
Speaker 2: to win it? I don't want to identify I don't want.
Speaker 1: You to identify it.
Speaker 3: Hard to It's kind of hard to say because I
Speaker 3: don't know how we as reporters could.
Speaker 1: Tell that sometimes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you could sort of tell maybe by
Speaker 3: body language and maybe somebody would give somebody a dirty
Speaker 3: look on the bench in a basketball game and think,
Speaker 3: what am I going? You know, these guys getting along.
Speaker 1: Right, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean I think they were go ahead, No, I
Speaker 2: don't know, a lot of them have been really good.
Speaker 2: I'll say, maybee, I couldn't tell you exactly which ones. Uh,
Speaker 2: maybe I could, but I won't. Uh, three or four
Speaker 2: and that's been that's three teams, four teams of all
Speaker 2: these years. That's a lot of good ones. I think
Speaker 2: the sumone thing you could the last one you could
Speaker 2: definitely say that was just a that was just a
Speaker 2: that was a disaster, disaster good. I was gonna cuss
Speaker 2: and use a bad word, a disaster and maybe the
Speaker 2: year before was just a disaster.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Where it comes to chemistry and talent.
Speaker 3: Thing too is remember we're talking about you know, eighteen
Speaker 3: to twenty two year old kids in most cases, and
Speaker 3: they're you know, they got the little attitude going anyway,
Speaker 3: they all think they're the best. They're in the star
Speaker 3: of their high school teams. In most cases, when they
Speaker 3: come to the college programs and you know, they get
Speaker 3: upset because they're not getting playing time or sure there's
Speaker 3: something going on behind the scenes that we just don't know.
Speaker 3: So it was hard for us to tell, like, why
Speaker 3: didn't it work this year? I guess we could sure
Speaker 3: maybe you know, put it under that heading. It was
Speaker 3: hard sometimes for us even to realize, and we would
Speaker 3: hear stories later, Oh, you know, they just didn't get
Speaker 3: along there anything, Like this guy he thought he should
Speaker 3: be getting more playing time.
Speaker 2: And people don't understand how important that chemistry is, if
Speaker 2: not the most important part of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the beauty of these two high school stories we've
Speaker 3: talked about today is that a lot of these kids
Speaker 3: grew up together, right, played in the neighborhood, maybe even
Speaker 3: more so at Empire. When you're out there in Veil,
Speaker 3: you know, you probably have a collection of players at
Speaker 3: all you know, started playing when they were eight years old, and.
Speaker 2: When their coaches, the summer league coach with the the
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, South Point seems to collect players from all over
Speaker 3: and that's just the way they are and they can
Speaker 3: do that. But you know, to have that chance to
Speaker 3: play in the summertime and for these kids to grow
Speaker 3: up in these neighborhoods. You see it all the time
Speaker 3: in Tuson's Sorrow. You know, body socks was always a
Speaker 3: big thing, and they would always have great softball players,
Speaker 3: soccer teams, you know, all kind of matriculating to sell
Speaker 3: point or some of the other calling Foothills has had
Speaker 3: great success.
Speaker 1: In so sure.
Speaker 2: So you came from California, you stand in the weeks
Speaker 2: of Obispo, right or you were in San Diego.
Speaker 1: I was up and down the coast.
Speaker 2: So when you first got your eighty three whatever it
Speaker 2: was what struck you the most about sports and Tucson.
Speaker 3: The good thing was that there was a lot to do,
Speaker 3: much enough to cover, a lot to cover. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: was kind of the beauty. Like it's kind of with
Speaker 3: why I was interested. It was not Phoenix, but you
Speaker 3: had spring training and you had you had bowling, you
Speaker 3: had two major golf tournaments. You had you know, a
Speaker 3: major university, you had a ton of high schools.
Speaker 2: So there was a lot going on here right in
Speaker 2: a smallish but bigish town. Right, still kind of feels
Speaker 2: that way. But you know, you bring up bowling, that's
Speaker 2: funny because it was. It was big here. It was
Speaker 2: for a long time. Pete Town Tess in that group.
Speaker 2: But they finally changed that building, they finally finished finished
Speaker 2: that building in the county lost.
Speaker 1: We lost Pete Town Tess recently. Yeah, yeah, he was
Speaker 1: if you were a bowler in Tucson, you knew you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you knew him.
Speaker 3: And I know in the media he loved to talk
Speaker 3: about his tournament.
Speaker 1: He was a guy that I don't know. He had
Speaker 1: this twinkle in his eye.
Speaker 3: We started talking about golden and a good dude, great guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a good dude. Uh so bowling, you're you're you're right.
Speaker 2: I just felt when I first got here. I got
Speaker 2: here in eighty seven, but I was an intern here
Speaker 2: in eighty five, and I just remember, God, this baseball,
Speaker 2: this place for little kid softball, little girls playing softball.
Speaker 2: You talk about your your the socks. What did you say, Bobby, Bobby? Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I remember, like a hass Yet you had a
Speaker 2: kid playing just these names. We had kids playing Bobby socks.
Speaker 2: And I would did stories and that it was an
Speaker 2: intern and then boxing was fantastically good back then. You know,
Speaker 2: some of the world championship fights at certain levels came
Speaker 2: through here.
Speaker 3: Well, remember when Kronk came in from Detroit, Detroit, right
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, I don't know, Tommy Hearns didn't fight.
Speaker 3: Emmanuel Stewart, the great trainer comes into tuc Sons training
Speaker 3: fighters here. It was crazy time for that. Sure, I
Speaker 3: don't think we realized how amazing that was.
Speaker 2: It used to be one of the great places to
Speaker 2: have a boxing here. And then you know tugar Ay
Speaker 2: came through, so did Oscar de la Hoya with their
Speaker 2: group a lot in the recent years ten years.
Speaker 1: Want to do a story on that, Yeah, I had
Speaker 1: a book.
Speaker 2: I don't know. People would buy one book and didn't
Speaker 2: share it. But actually the history of the of the
Speaker 2: Tucson love for boxing and it's still there, but I
Speaker 2: don't know where it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know either. I don't either.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's funny. We were driving, we
Speaker 3: were doing something in town recently. We're driving in the
Speaker 3: neighborhood kind of near the freeway in Saint Mary's. There
Speaker 3: was a gym back in the day.
Speaker 2: I remember right on the corner, right on the corner
Speaker 2: it was Grant. I think it was Grant where you
Speaker 2: go over the bridge kind of like in that corner. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Roger Roger, Roger Woods, I think right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's like that was a gym at one point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but no, I want to say Twelfth Avenue maybe
Speaker 3: there was there.
Speaker 2: There's one down there too, there was one down there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was it was a seriously like
Speaker 3: something out of a movie. You go in there and
Speaker 3: it was you know, it was hot. There might have
Speaker 3: been some fans blowing. Did you watch Creed and Rocky
Speaker 3: the recent ones. Yeah, those gyms were famous for that.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think we have that. Maybe
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's a little more corporate now we got all
Speaker 3: these like boxing ink places like that, But as far
Speaker 3: as it's like grassroots, Hey, let's take the kid down
Speaker 3: to the gym and get him trained. Yeah, those those
Speaker 3: stories is kind of amazing.
Speaker 2: I even want to say, because Bruce would know this
Speaker 2: because we covered boxing together night. My memories going, uh,
Speaker 2: there was the kid not kid anymore, but he was
Speaker 2: on the big the box off that had a competition
Speaker 2: and he made it. Yeah, it made it. On made
Speaker 2: it to the finals.
Speaker 1: Or whatever.
Speaker 2: So again I can't remember. Yeah, another fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2: Good stuff, great stuff. Tucson has that history of good
Speaker 2: old time sports.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well Harold, give him a plug.
Speaker 3: But like if you're driving down Grant towards the freeway
Speaker 3: heading uh west, there's that play Taco One's Taco called
Speaker 3: on Grant on Grant, Well, that they had a kid,
Speaker 3: I believe named one who was a boxer and he
Speaker 3: would train there. So I remember, like they go, where
Speaker 3: does he trained at the restaurant? I mean it was
Speaker 3: that type of stuff that was going on, so Taco,
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: It's called Okay, I didn't didn't know that. Yeah, a
Speaker 2: lot of good boxers, dicky parents, we had. I had
Speaker 2: what's his name, remember him, Mike Morreano. I think he's
Speaker 2: a back in the eighty five. I know he fought,
Speaker 2: he fought him. Uh, he's a comic now he's one
Speaker 2: of the guys, got it, Joey Modina, That's what it is,
Speaker 2: is a comic.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: He fought those guys. Remember at the Great Hell Park.
Speaker 2: He still fights at the Great Hell Park.
Speaker 3: Well, again, going back to we were talking Olympics ninety two,
Speaker 3: the US Olympic boxing team trained and Servista and that's
Speaker 3: where De la Hoya emerged. So I remember we went
Speaker 3: down there. I don't know if you had a chance
Speaker 3: to go down there, but they're training a camp at
Speaker 3: Fort wa Chuka.
Speaker 1: Uh and it was De la Hoya and there were
Speaker 1: a few others.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that I don't remember that he was here
Speaker 3: Southern Arizona. He came back a lot. Yeah, he came
Speaker 3: back to be like a promoter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question, and he's still kind of is
Speaker 2: with Golden Boy that kind of he has become a singer.
Speaker 2: Uh No, no entertaining, No, he had, but those were
Speaker 2: those were the good old days too. Michael Carba Hall
Speaker 2: from Phoenix. Yes, yeah, he came box down here. I
Speaker 2: think so maybe once or twice TCC. We had Macho
Speaker 2: Camacho at the TCC. So there's been people that have
Speaker 2: come through here.
Speaker 3: I had a brief The only time I ever did
Speaker 3: boxing play by play was here in town.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember what it was.
Speaker 3: I think it was a CROs event possibly, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I somehow got you know, Dave listen.
Speaker 1: To do that.
Speaker 3: It was pretty good and we was on TV and
Speaker 3: it was one of these things again we're talking ninety
Speaker 3: early nineties maybe early nineties, and I don't even know
Speaker 3: where it aired.
Speaker 1: You know, Oh, it's going to be on in Puerto Rico,
Speaker 1: Like oh really, okay, yeah yeah, I mean this is
Speaker 1: like nowadays.
Speaker 3: It would be it would be streamed someplace, but back
Speaker 3: then then, you know, I think they taped it, yeah,
Speaker 3: and put it on somewhere internationally.
Speaker 1: Dave, I think we got to go run out of time.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being with me today.
Speaker 2: I see you guys tomorrow and talk probably a lot
Speaker 2: about baseball things.