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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Iron the Ball here on Fox
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Speaker 2: the Southern Arizona Sports Tourism and Film Authority. I'm glad
Speaker 2: you know without you where you're at because I can't
Speaker 2: say all that stuff. I'd remember my last name, and
Speaker 2: we have one true last name, Serrano. I think so
Speaker 2: something like that sounded like this. I'm the Mexican. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: definitely not definitely not. Hey, boys, how are you guys?
Speaker 2: You're lucky your student one am? I yeah, because we'll
Speaker 2: get to that in a second. Because Blake here is
Speaker 2: not a student, but he's a fan. And I want
Speaker 2: to know. Blake. You don't have to tell me the truth. Well,
Speaker 2: I want you to tell me truth. You don't have
Speaker 2: to tell me how ever you want to tell me
Speaker 2: you have deep pockets there, No, you're going to have
Speaker 2: to dig deep deeper if you want to go see basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah it looks that way. I mean, you just shared
Speaker 3: that with me. This is surprising it's it's news. I
Speaker 3: wasn't expecting to do. Sorry, it's okay. I'm already hanging
Speaker 3: on by a thread in my life, so you can
Speaker 3: just throw it in there. Less lot of burger. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're right. Oh yeah, maybe go from the double to
Speaker 3: the single. Yeah, there you go. That's how we uh yeah.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to in all this conversation, I'm trying
Speaker 2: to say that the U of A is asking their
Speaker 2: their loyal ticket holders, and a lot of these different
Speaker 2: sports they're going to be attached to surcharge kind of
Speaker 2: I don't know what they called it, searcharge to the
Speaker 2: tickets that are buying fifty to twenty five dollars per
Speaker 2: ticket to help with the nil effort. You like it?
Speaker 2: Are you okay with it?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's so brand new to me right
Speaker 3: now that I have to I can't wrap my head
Speaker 3: around it, you know, I don't. I'm a little confused
Speaker 3: that this is just it's not a understanding of what
Speaker 3: the future holds.
Speaker 2: It's just this is how it's going to be in
Speaker 2: this time. We're going to move forward.
Speaker 3: Right where you're not asking the fan base that supports
Speaker 3: you on a regular basis, you're just telling the fan base.
Speaker 3: And I think there's a difficult there's a difficult or
Speaker 3: a sensitive area that you should probably be aware of
Speaker 3: when you're doing that, because it's the people you're going back.
Speaker 3: Sure that well only runs so deep. You start bleeding
Speaker 3: it and bleeding it, you're gonna have some problems moving forward. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: no question. And I've said this before.
Speaker 2: I think with you, I can't remember all the hosts
Speaker 2: that I have, but they're already asking the Jim Clicks
Speaker 2: of the world, and and he's in quotes because he's
Speaker 2: not the only one. Right, There's a bunch of people
Speaker 2: out there who give and give and give until probably
Speaker 2: they can't give anymore because you know, they get what
Speaker 2: they get in the ROI or whatever. But now they're
Speaker 2: getting after you and me and whomever. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, the Joe Blows of the world who loved
Speaker 2: the university and still love to see them, But now, hey,
Speaker 2: can you spare time and not just this year?
Speaker 3: Moving forward? Yeah, every year? It looks like, right, I
Speaker 3: think that the better question. We've had this conversation behind
Speaker 3: closed doors a little bit, and I guess we're having
Speaker 3: it on the microphone now, So it's not who I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna I'm not going to tell you just us,
Speaker 3: not just us, other people that are very close to
Speaker 3: the UVE. Right, that's what it's ingrained into our DNA
Speaker 3: in southern Arizona and Tucson especially that Uh, it has
Speaker 3: to be a complete partnership that this is going to work. Right,
Speaker 3: If they're going to help us, you know, rise up
Speaker 3: to different levels and be more successful as a community,
Speaker 3: then I can understand this play.
Speaker 2: You've a.
Speaker 3: No, no, you're right, it's it's UVE. So youve as
Speaker 3: a whole, right, So I mean it's it's a very
Speaker 3: large entity at the heart of Tucson. It should have
Speaker 3: Uh maybe we'll want to keep this separate for the
Speaker 3: time being, but it should have a bigger reach into
Speaker 3: our community on a whole or as a whole. Right
Speaker 3: where we're we're allowing for more success in our privateates here,
Speaker 3: our public industry that's being driven by the U of
Speaker 3: A that's not a singular entity that's just keeping to itself.
Speaker 3: So this might be going a little deeper than we
Speaker 3: probably want to on sports radio, but it's if you're
Speaker 3: asking us to step up to the plate and give
Speaker 3: you more money. From an nil standpoint, the plan coming
Speaker 3: back to us now is how is that going to
Speaker 3: be reciprocated into our community?
Speaker 2: Fantastic, fantastic point. And that's probably a point that's probably
Speaker 2: not even thought of right now because their concern is
Speaker 2: survival and being competitive, and I'm sure they may have
Speaker 2: thought of that, but you know what I'm saying, that's there,
Speaker 2: here's another issue, and you wouldn't kind of be on
Speaker 2: where I wouldn't have gone. However, ex player, good player,
Speaker 2: naval player making now two hundred fifty three hundred thousand,
Speaker 2: I've ventured to guess you're not making that. No, you're
Speaker 2: not making that. How many people in two enter are
Speaker 2: actually a great point, but they're giving to the dude
Speaker 2: who's making that much weng. Yeah, it's there's an don't
Speaker 2: you have don't you think? Absolutely?
Speaker 3: I mean, you're robbing Peter to play Paul at this point,
Speaker 3: and Peter only has so much money and time and
Speaker 3: effort and love for the game and sport and university,
Speaker 3: especially when a large fan base in Tucson didn't go
Speaker 3: to the University Arizona. We're just twoson ins or Southern
Speaker 3: Arizona's so Sarah, Southern Arizonans that support the university from
Speaker 3: a sports standpoint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a tough it's a tough ask. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think, and this is not a wealthy town. It's
Speaker 2: not you know.
Speaker 3: And that's when I'm saying that, I mean kids from
Speaker 3: my neighborhood that grew up where I grew up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm fine with you going in there and trying to
Speaker 3: educate and then not meaning that they have to go
Speaker 3: to the university. But like, here's a path of the direction,
Speaker 3: here's a direction that you go to for success. But
Speaker 3: we need to change the culture here that we and
Speaker 3: it has to start I think at the university level.
Speaker 2: What would you Okay, I assume that you're you're not
Speaker 2: a grad. Right, you're not a graduate. You went to Denver. Uh,
Speaker 2: and so, but you have a love for you a right,
Speaker 2: you have an affinity. You grew up watching them, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you love you. Whether it's it's im playing for
Speaker 2: them or me playing, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: You're you're helping that. You want to you want to
Speaker 2: you to succeed.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: What if you don't get any R or R O
Speaker 2: I from the money you're giving.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a really good question, Steve. And this
Speaker 3: is a conversation you and I've had on the show
Speaker 3: quite a few times. I mean you're talking about what
Speaker 3: is oro O? I right, what is the expectations now? So,
Speaker 3: as a fan, I have a vested interest to you?
Speaker 3: Do I have a vested interest now, especially now on
Speaker 3: the product you're playing you're putting on the field, right,
Speaker 3: And that's if that product doesn't meet my expectations. This
Speaker 3: can this can shatter your relationship between you.
Speaker 2: And a university. It shatters a good word. And rightfully so,
Speaker 2: I had a friend. I had a friend a few
Speaker 2: years back. Uh kind of a you know, outspoken voice,
Speaker 2: just a dude. He just had a regular job, and
Speaker 2: he would he would complain, Oh, this team sucks and
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. The football team sucks and the basketball
Speaker 2: teams underwell, meaning I'm thinking, what you can why you
Speaker 2: talk about this? Well, I give you know, I support them,
Speaker 2: and I give them money. How do you do that? Well,
Speaker 2: my daughter goes there and I says, well, that's not
Speaker 2: accurate because your money that you pay for tuition doesn't
Speaker 2: is separate than the University of athletic department. So I
Speaker 2: was thinking I was told right, kind of not anymore
Speaker 2: because there's such a big deficit. I could be wrong.
Speaker 2: Anybody wants to call me, please let me know. And
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's not true. Your daughter goes and you're
Speaker 2: happy to center their pay the tuition. It's not connected
Speaker 2: to the athletic department. Guess what now everything is And
Speaker 2: now he has every right to say that I think,
Speaker 2: am I? Am I right?
Speaker 4: One?
Speaker 2: Am I not right? If your money goes to the school,
Speaker 2: it's part of the u A now with all the
Speaker 2: delinquency accounts and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sure money gets thrown around a little bit here,
Speaker 5: a little bit there, but a large portion of it
Speaker 5: does get thrown to athletics. So at this point, if
Speaker 5: you are attending the university, you might as well think
Speaker 5: you're paying Caleb Love as well.
Speaker 3: But here's the difference of the ROI as a degree, right,
Speaker 3: they're getting education. So now you're talking about the players,
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the students are a student, right, So
Speaker 3: you can say, yeah, I'm paying this money, it's going
Speaker 3: to these players. I mean, but the ROI for the
Speaker 3: people that are paying the people that are paying, are
Speaker 3: getting you're getting a degree from that university US as
Speaker 3: fans that are paying for either season tickets or just
Speaker 3: single game tickets.
Speaker 2: Whatever it's going to be.
Speaker 3: Uh, the our ROI better be outcomes on the field,
Speaker 3: out comes.
Speaker 2: What if? Okay, well sorry, Blake, but you are entertained,
Speaker 2: aren't you? Are you going to support and you're getting
Speaker 2: entertainment for some value? Uh? Isn't that enough?
Speaker 3: I mean that I don't want to be considered a
Speaker 3: fair weather fan when I say this. You can say no,
Speaker 3: it is to a degree. Let's say that, right, it's
Speaker 3: a it's an experience, an event. It is to a degree,
Speaker 3: but it's you're establishing a different route that we've ever
Speaker 3: been used to.
Speaker 2: But there's so many tentacles for this, right Yeah? And
Speaker 2: how many other universities are doing this? A lot of them?
Speaker 2: A lot of them. We've got a call real quick.
Speaker 2: Who's this here on the air, Yes, Mike Quinn and
Speaker 2: Mike Quinn. Hey, Mike, Mike full disclosures, my Monday co host.
Speaker 2: I sent you the thing that I just said, Blake,
Speaker 2: how do you feel about it? Because you have a
Speaker 2: few tickets in the hoity toity area of the football stadium.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, well, first I want to congratulate blank because
Speaker 6: Steve never asked.
Speaker 2: For my opinion.
Speaker 6: Uh one want I'm on there and and he and
Speaker 6: he and he lets you finish sentences, so that one.
Speaker 2: Up on me.
Speaker 6: The Uh it's I'll tell you know. I think the
Speaker 6: thing that I thought was interesting about this whole thing
Speaker 6: was and they send this out there like, hey, hey,
Speaker 6: we're not raising ticket prices, Well aren't you. I mean
Speaker 6: you got this extra fee now, well, I just you know,
Speaker 6: it's like going, Okay, I understand that we've got stuff
Speaker 6: that's going to all all our nil contracts and all
Speaker 6: our obligations there, But I don't know, man. You know,
Speaker 6: at some point you've got to put a better product
Speaker 6: on the field, you know, to keep having to pay
Speaker 6: for something that is they were betting on the com
Speaker 6: I don't know if that's that's gonna pan out in
Speaker 6: the long run. You put a good product out there,
Speaker 6: You're going to have people contribute. That's got to start well.
Speaker 2: So it's not a well to me, it's not a
Speaker 2: lot of money, but it's still a lot of money.
Speaker 2: You know. Fifty dollars here, fifty dollars here, not just
Speaker 2: for four tickets for each ticket. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, well it's it's a little bit of this
Speaker 6: and a little little bit of that. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 6: eventually it turns into real money for for people who
Speaker 6: are buying this stuff. I mean, you know it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: I do sit in the Sands Club. I mean, we
Speaker 6: have nice seats. But boy, I'll tell you what it's
Speaker 6: at the you know, I'm at the top end of
Speaker 6: what I'm going to do, so I don't know. I
Speaker 6: don't know if I'm gonna buy tickets is here.
Speaker 3: I think the biggest question is is this a sustainable model?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: I mean you're talking about a business plan. If you're
Speaker 3: putting that pressure and back onto the under the sand experience,
Speaker 3: this isn't a sustainable model for the long term. And
Speaker 3: as of right now, we don't see we don't see
Speaker 3: a change in the anisle where it's moved or how
Speaker 3: it's gonna move, so it's going to remain the same.
Speaker 3: There has to be a business thought process when you're
Speaker 3: going into it where they're creating their own revenue source
Speaker 3: or additional revenue sourts that's going to go into the nil.
Speaker 3: They can't be piggybacked on our backs and fans.
Speaker 6: Yeah, eventually it's not gonna it's not gonna it's not
Speaker 6: gonna work.
Speaker 2: It's gonna collapse.
Speaker 6: I mean, you don't have a fan base like Alabama
Speaker 6: or Texas A and M or or Texas or something
Speaker 6: like that that it has its winning tradition. We pretty
Speaker 6: much have an up and down tradition. So if you
Speaker 6: start trying to keep Nickel and Diamond people, you're eventually
Speaker 6: gonna get to the point.
Speaker 2: Where you're at revenue. Your revenue is going to go down. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you need them to continue. We maybe at that point. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know what this feels like to me is when
Speaker 3: you go when you go to a stadium and there's
Speaker 3: a self concession stand and you go up there and
Speaker 3: you grab your own drink and you grab your own food,
Speaker 3: and then you go to pay and it goes okay,
Speaker 3: how about a twenty percent tip? And you're like, I
Speaker 3: did what I literally I did it all myself. This
Speaker 3: is what this feels.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's absolutely the same way. Same way.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 6: I mean you can sit there and bill it and
Speaker 6: sit and say it's like listen in order for us,
Speaker 6: you want a competitive you want a competitive team out there.
Speaker 6: In order for us to compete, we need to have
Speaker 6: everybody kick in on this stuff. That's something that you know,
Speaker 6: that's really realistic right now. But the question is, like,
Speaker 6: you know, how much of these are we going to
Speaker 6: be kicking in? We're not a wealthy town. I mean,
Speaker 6: there's wealthy people here, but to do it, to do
Speaker 6: it to everybody.
Speaker 7: I think it's going to be a little.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's going to be a little difficult for people
Speaker 2: to swallow. Yeah, well, I agree with you when I'd.
Speaker 6: Be interested to see if this is a this is
Speaker 6: a net revenue gain or whether they're going to lose
Speaker 6: a significant number of season ticket holders.
Speaker 2: I guess we'll see, and if they continue to be mediocre,
Speaker 2: how many will stick around? That's right?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you have you put a bad product
Speaker 6: out on the field, people are gonna sit there and go,
Speaker 6: I mean, what are we three and or four and whatever?
Speaker 6: And it's like going, I'm paying extra for that? No exactly,
Speaker 6: you know, yeah, show me something good. So I don't know, uh, well, uh,
Speaker 6: we'll see how this all plays out. Yeah, I think,
Speaker 6: you know, I do think that what they should do,
Speaker 6: they should have made it based on. You know where
Speaker 6: you're sitting, you know, the people that are sitting in
Speaker 6: the seats the Sands Club where I'm at, I would
Speaker 6: have had a bigger surcharge the people that are sitting
Speaker 6: you know, and you know, you sit there and you
Speaker 6: look at the scam you got that, You got those
Speaker 6: three guys that are way at the top, all the
Speaker 6: way in the back.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if.
Speaker 6: I'd search charge them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, true, So yeah, to be fair and equal.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well then then then you kind of spread the pain.
Speaker 2: Yeah anyway, Okay, thanks Mike theif shairing that, good luck.
Speaker 2: I promise I promise to let you talk more later.
Speaker 2: The hell you come on in Mondays he talks about
Speaker 2: this is the like who on Monday Monday. Oh can't
Speaker 2: even get to my show here. Okay, let's take a
Speaker 2: break here. We're gonna get ahold of Doug Hollard from
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Speaker 2: He's been here recently. He was here for the Houston game.
Speaker 2: He had a very good story on the TJ McConnell's
Speaker 2: situation with his jersey. So we'll talk a lot about
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Why in the Ball Hero Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and with me today
Speaker 2: is break Eager. Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna say the rest you take it. No,
Speaker 3: that's fine, and we know who you are.
Speaker 2: Okay. Now on the phone, we have mister Doug Holler
Speaker 2: from the athletic How are you, Doug?
Speaker 7: I see I'm doing really well.
Speaker 2: How you doing fine? Thank you. Hadn't seen you in
Speaker 2: a while. I wondered if you had not paid your
Speaker 2: parking tickets at UA and that's why you couldn't come down.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have not been I haven't done a lot
Speaker 7: of college basketball this year. I have been kind of
Speaker 7: tied up with all the Phoenix Suns drama up here,
Speaker 7: which was pretty intensive to trade deadline. But given where
Speaker 7: they are, I think that's probably going to go away
Speaker 7: here over the next couple of months because I just
Speaker 7: don't see them making much of a charge.
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping to.
Speaker 7: Do a little bit more college basketball here for these
Speaker 7: next two months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well let's go back and circle back to
Speaker 2: the Suns at the end of the college basketball situation.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to commend you about the story. I
Speaker 2: read maybe a month or so, probably longer than that
Speaker 2: on the TJ McConnell's story for his sign or his
Speaker 2: Jersey's retirement. A good, very good story. In fact, you
Speaker 2: went the extra extra mile and you spoke to Sean
Speaker 2: for a little bit. How was that.
Speaker 17: Good?
Speaker 7: You know, I got to know obviously Sean a little
Speaker 7: bit during his time here, and and you know, he's
Speaker 7: been really good about you know, whenever i've you know,
Speaker 7: I kind of once he left, you know, when DeAndre
Speaker 7: Aiden was with the Sons, I talked to Sean a
Speaker 7: few times, so that kind of helped. So you know,
Speaker 7: I just kind of text him. And it was terrible timing.
Speaker 7: They had Cincinnati that coming up that week and I
Speaker 7: think Yukon right after that. But you know, he said
Speaker 7: he we talked and he said, I got a few
Speaker 7: minutes and we ended up pocket for I think fifteen
Speaker 7: or twenty minutes. Because as you know, TJ is one
Speaker 7: of his that's one of his favorite players all the time.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I mean the stories from I wanted to
Speaker 7: do that story because I remember, I mean I always
Speaker 7: thought that TJ was the pack Fell player of the
Speaker 7: year that year and they gave it to Joe Young,
Speaker 7: the guard from Oregon. But you know, just the the
Speaker 7: presence that he had on the court, and you know,
Speaker 7: the energy that he brought, just one of those players
Speaker 7: that he just it's hard to forget just the impact
Speaker 7: that he made.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question is a good story because you
Speaker 2: went a lot of different ways with it, a lot
Speaker 2: of different sources, and it was it was real good.
Speaker 2: And he talks to you. I mean you might be
Speaker 2: the only local guy or you know, Arizona guy that
Speaker 2: he talks to frequently.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well yeah, and then Stanley Johnson I got a
Speaker 7: hold of I think I can't remember where he's playing overseas,
Speaker 7: you know. And then TJ. I wasn't. I was trying
Speaker 7: to get in touch with him, and I wanted the
Speaker 7: story to run because they were coming to Phoenix, cluviously
Speaker 7: to play the Sun but I was going to go
Speaker 7: out to practice, but the timing didn't because they were
Speaker 7: flying in too late. And then you know, the Pacers
Speaker 7: had him reach out in which I wasn't expecting. The
Speaker 7: story has already written, and then TJ called, so I
Speaker 7: had to rework some things. But yeah, that was a
Speaker 7: fun one. To do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question, and a great guy, one of
Speaker 2: the better players in the last fifteen years here, a lovable, affable,
Speaker 2: very good and you wouldn't think that, but he is.
Speaker 2: And the story, the story that you I think I
Speaker 2: first heard for you was that, you know, hey, don't
Speaker 2: screw this up for us, which is a perfect leader situation.
Speaker 2: I don't care how good you are, don't screw this
Speaker 2: season up for us, which is a leader.
Speaker 7: To the Yeah, yeah, I guess that was in a
Speaker 7: practice situation where Stanley wasn't going as hard. You know,
Speaker 7: Stanley was a freshman that year, and you know, Joe
Speaker 7: Pasenak told me that story, so that he got in
Speaker 7: his face and said, hey, look, you know, don't screw
Speaker 7: this up for us, you know, And then I talked
Speaker 7: to I think I talked to Sean, and Stanley was great.
Speaker 7: I mean a lot of players would kind of shy
Speaker 7: away from that type of thing, but he pretty much said, yeah,
Speaker 7: that's how it went down, and kind of got him
Speaker 7: on track. But you know, I mean, as you, I'm
Speaker 7: sure you got to discuss did you see this with
Speaker 7: with TJ going to the NBA and playing as long
Speaker 7: as he has, he has Yeah, no, because I can't.
Speaker 7: I didn't think back for a second.
Speaker 2: This was twenty fifteen something like that, and in Shaun says,
Speaker 2: I guarantee you he's gonna play in the league, and
Speaker 2: we're all like okay, sure, okay, right, and then he
Speaker 2: then he started playing out of his mind and then
Speaker 2: he got that contract and got thing it was. It's
Speaker 2: been unbelievable. Ten years later, he's still there and he's
Speaker 2: working his ass off.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, he's a difference maker coming off the bench
Speaker 7: for sure.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You just love those type of stories as ones that
Speaker 7: you don't see coming.
Speaker 2: No, no, okay, now let's get to the UFA basketball program.
Speaker 2: What did you see? You saw him against Houston? I
Speaker 2: think I think, like me, maybe maybe not. They played
Speaker 2: well enough to win the game, just didn't And that
Speaker 2: says a lot and as much as they were close
Speaker 2: but couldn't pull it off.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I came away there feeling better about
Speaker 7: Arizona than I have earlier this season because, as you mentioned,
Speaker 7: they had a chance to win that game. I mean, defensively,
Speaker 7: they were tone to toe with Houston for most of
Speaker 7: that game. You know, I think the difference, as you mentioned,
Speaker 7: and probably wrote was just the execution in the last
Speaker 7: five minutes. Houston really did a great job of shutting
Speaker 7: down Caleb Love there late in the second half. Yeah,
Speaker 7: And I thought he brought up, you know, a good
Speaker 7: point there after when he was talking to us and
Speaker 7: just said like, hey, look, you know, and there was
Speaker 7: a little frustration in his what I thought, But he said,
Speaker 7: they've been doing this for ten eleven years. You know,
Speaker 7: we're still we're just building that and you know we're
Speaker 7: going to get to that point. We're close. And I
Speaker 7: think that game kind of proved that they were close,
Speaker 7: you know that it was a it was a gritty
Speaker 7: kind of you know, rock fight type of game, and
Speaker 7: you know, I think it was encouraging to see. I think,
Speaker 7: you know, Arizona be able to you know, fight in
Speaker 7: a game like that and have a chance to win.
Speaker 3: Hey, Douglas is Blake, thanks for joining us today. I
Speaker 3: really appreciate it. I guess I guess the question on
Speaker 3: my part, I mean, you were at the Houston game.
Speaker 3: You saw the way we played, right and and Houston's
Speaker 3: their top let's say, top four program right top five
Speaker 3: in the nation right now, depending on what you look
Speaker 3: at from the SEC standpoint. I mean, that's a true test,
Speaker 3: and I know it's a home game, but the takeaway
Speaker 3: that you had from you of a does that put
Speaker 3: them in a category where you wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 3: you saw them go as far as like say an
Speaker 3: Elite eight standpoint?
Speaker 7: That's always hard to say. You know, it's a different
Speaker 7: u of a team. Obviously, you don't have the star power,
Speaker 7: uh that you have that you that we've seen on
Speaker 7: teams from the past, you know, I mean, is there
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know. Can you name a guy
Speaker 7: that you think will definitely you have a long career
Speaker 7: in the NBA on this team at this point Carter.
Speaker 2: Bryant will find you my best guess and long.
Speaker 7: Long career, I don't know that that would be my guess, uh,
Speaker 7: And he's, you know what a year or two away
Speaker 7: from that. I mean, it's not like the one in
Speaker 7: the obvious one and done player. I always, I always
Speaker 7: hesitate to say capable of the long run because it's all,
Speaker 7: you know, dictated on matchups and everything. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I think they're capable of winning a game or two.
Speaker 7: I don't know if I could go beyond that right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were in the press room with us at
Speaker 2: the end of the game, and you you talked about
Speaker 2: Tommy being a little frustrated. What did you kind of
Speaker 2: observe from him, because he he was on Timmy like
Speaker 2: throughout that whole thing, you know, a little defensive, a
Speaker 2: little aggressive, YadA YadA. Even you know, he joked with
Speaker 2: me as he was looking at me, do you think
Speaker 2: you're gonna lose?
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, No, I.
Speaker 7: Missed the beginning of it because I went out.
Speaker 12: I had to.
Speaker 7: I wrote about Kelvin SAMs on that, so I followed
Speaker 7: him out and talked to him for a few minutes
Speaker 7: out of the hallway, and then I went back in.
Speaker 7: And you know, the biggest takeaway I had from that
Speaker 7: press conference, Steve, was just what you mentioned, like you
Speaker 7: think we're going to lose? I mean it was I
Speaker 7: mean he pretty much said everyone in here things were
Speaker 7: going to lose and uh, which which was really weird.
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know if there was something written, uh,
Speaker 7: you know, locally that made him that sparked that, or
Speaker 7: something earlier in the press conference that I had missed,
Speaker 7: but I thought that kind of came out of nowhere,
Speaker 7: or did you know, it wasn't like they were going
Speaker 7: I mean, the short turnarounds, that's not ideal. But you know,
Speaker 7: Baylor hasn't been Baylor this season, so I mean, I
Speaker 7: think probably most people in the room thought, well, you know,
Speaker 7: I have a decent chance to win. You know, they've
Speaker 7: been playing pretty well. But the exception of the previous
Speaker 7: that game and the previous game at Kansas State. But yeah,
Speaker 7: I thought that was a little strange, out of the
Speaker 7: blue and maybe revealed a little bit of his frustration
Speaker 7: just to how that game against Houston ended.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it was out of the blue with a
Speaker 2: little strange for the whole I don't know. We were
Speaker 2: in there for fifteen minutes and maybe a few of
Speaker 2: those questions and he was asked a couple of you know,
Speaker 2: repeat questions. I'm sure he was frustrated after that loss
Speaker 2: and he just wasn't like Tommy. But you know, hey,
Speaker 2: winning solves a lot of problems, and he did that
Speaker 2: on Monday with Baylor. H It's his team. Is hard
Speaker 2: to compare it to others because it is better than others.
Speaker 2: In defense, it's a little scrappy, it gets after it,
Speaker 2: YadA YadA, but it doesn't score like the past one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's obviously the biggest red flag. You know, they
Speaker 7: might be better built for March. You know, I think
Speaker 7: at times, uh that we've seen under Tommy. Uh, you know,
Speaker 7: I don't want to say I'm not I'm not saying
Speaker 7: they have been thought, but I think they've gotten They've
Speaker 7: run into obviously in Houston that year in the Sweet sixteen,
Speaker 7: they run into opponents and and maybe get out toughed
Speaker 7: a little bit. I don't know if that's going to
Speaker 7: be a problem with this team because yeah, just from
Speaker 7: what I saw on Saturday, you know, the shop making,
Speaker 7: that would be the probably the base concern. You just
Speaker 7: don't know what Cale Love's going to give you on
Speaker 7: a night night and night out. Basis Bradley struggled on Saturday.
Speaker 7: You know, I think he will play better, but you
Speaker 7: know he's kind of going through it a little bit
Speaker 7: right now. So when you know, when they need when
Speaker 7: they need points, especially late in the game, you know,
Speaker 7: can they get it from Caleb Love. You know, he's
Speaker 7: he's a guy that I would not want to bet against,
Speaker 7: but he has birds where Uh. You know, his confidence
Speaker 7: is obviously his his strong suit. And I thought Kelvin Sampson,
Speaker 7: I'm sure you guys hurt in his uh leading up
Speaker 7: before he left Houston summed up really well. He said
Speaker 7: he has the freedom to miss shots, and you know
Speaker 7: that is such a huge thing for a player when
Speaker 7: you can take a shot when you're when you think
Speaker 7: you're feeling or trying to get into a groove and
Speaker 7: not have to worry about being taken out. I think
Speaker 7: that sums up Kailed perfectly. But you know, if he
Speaker 7: could be a little bit more consistent, I'd feel a
Speaker 7: little bit better about him.
Speaker 2: You and everybody else in the five to two. Oh,
Speaker 2: are you coach to switch gears real quick? Because I
Speaker 2: don't think you've covered the issue all that much. Maybe
Speaker 2: you have a little what you had in the past.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: What's up with Bobby? I mean it looks like he's saying,
Speaker 2: you know, scorching the earth with his last season and saying, hell,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say whatever I want because it doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's and you're right, I haven't been around as
Speaker 7: much I pay attention to them. It's going to be
Speaker 7: I think it will be an interesting decision, uh for
Speaker 7: Graham Rossini, their new Athletic Directorcity in the year what
Speaker 7: they're going to do with the basketball program, because you know,
Speaker 7: they've they feel like they got the football program in
Speaker 7: the right place, and I know there's a lot of
Speaker 7: resources and energy going to that. You know, is it
Speaker 7: time to make a change with the basketball program. I
Speaker 7: don't know. It sounds like they're going to announce soon
Speaker 7: a renovation plan for Wells or for Desert Financial Arena,
Speaker 7: which is long overdue. So sometimes when something like that,
Speaker 7: when schools start thinking about that, they start thinking about
Speaker 7: the program and the growth of it, and you know,
Speaker 7: if they're seeing the progress they didn't need to make.
Speaker 7: You know, Bobby's been there a while. I know he
Speaker 7: has some strong supporters inside and outside the program. But
Speaker 7: you know, they they have some talent this year, some
Speaker 7: of it's young talent, and they've had some injuries, but
Speaker 7: the results haven't been there. And then you know they've
Speaker 7: had some some discipline issues. You know, when you team captain,
Speaker 7: you know, gets ejected in tight games and you lose
Speaker 7: those games, that's that's not a very good look at all.
Speaker 7: So it seems to me when you watch them that
Speaker 7: they're a team that's kind of like saying Okay, let's
Speaker 7: let's let's get this, let's get this season over with.
Speaker 7: I really get interested to see if they can find
Speaker 7: just another gear just to try to you know, finish
Speaker 7: this this season out with the you know, just a
Speaker 7: little bit better effort.
Speaker 2: Right, let's go back. You have question.
Speaker 3: No, I was just going to say, I think that's
Speaker 3: something you can say about a SU the last four
Speaker 3: or five years. It's it's kind of the same rhetoric
Speaker 3: right where they're young, they're talented, but they don't find
Speaker 3: a way to win, and then you lose composure on
Speaker 3: a constant basis that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, let's go back.
Speaker 7: So I'm sorry, go ahead, No, I'll just say losing
Speaker 7: their composure, you know that you know, at the end
Speaker 7: of the u of a game. You know, Bobby's a
Speaker 7: part of that. And you know, he was asked us
Speaker 7: about on the radio local radio up here the other
Speaker 7: day about whether the fact his sideline demeanor kind of
Speaker 7: bleeds into his players at times and leads of that,
Speaker 7: and you know, he said he thinks it's more the
Speaker 7: frustration of just how the season has gone, you know,
Speaker 7: entering the season with high hopes in CAA tournament, hopes
Speaker 7: entering a new conference and then have a kind of
Speaker 7: spiral like this. But I don't think it's unreasonable to
Speaker 7: kind of make that, you know, to kind of link
Speaker 7: those two that you know, one might have something to.
Speaker 2: Do with the other. Yeah. No, And that's a good
Speaker 2: question and a good point. So maybe lastly, let's talk
Speaker 2: about what you first brought up with the Suns. We
Speaker 2: all want to have a good job and go to
Speaker 2: a job. I'm sure you love your job, but sometimes
Speaker 2: you have to go to a job that it sometimes
Speaker 2: is difficult. Has it been difficult covering the Suns team,
Speaker 2: given they kind of are mediocre with some very good
Speaker 2: players and it just doesn't seem like anything's getting fixed.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the job part of it. I mean, I enjoy
Speaker 7: covering the NBA, and you know, when you have like
Speaker 7: newsmakers like Kevin Durant and Devin Booker and to a
Speaker 7: lesser extent, even Bradley Beal, there's always something to write about.
Speaker 7: I mean, for example, you Devin book which, Devin Booker
Speaker 7: just became the franchise's career scoring leader. Kevin Durand just
Speaker 7: passed thirty thousand points. That trade deadlight was you know,
Speaker 7: pretty intense, So there's always been reasons to strong reasons
Speaker 7: to go out there, strong storylines to follow. Now I
Speaker 7: am concerned about the second half of the season, with
Speaker 7: them being two games under five hundred and really just
Speaker 7: I think for the first time, I think the last
Speaker 7: just right before the All Star break. And I've talked
Speaker 7: to some other reporters who cover the team about this.
Speaker 7: You can kind of tell that they under that they
Speaker 7: finally realized like, Okay, you know, this isn't us just
Speaker 7: trying to all get healthy. Uh, this isn't working. So
Speaker 7: I think it's gonna be really interesting to see, you know,
Speaker 7: what their motivation is like for the next couple of months,
Speaker 7: just given the fact that they know that or seem
Speaker 7: to know that this is not going to work. And
Speaker 7: there's a really really good chance that some major major
Speaker 7: changes will have made over or over the off season.
Speaker 2: And then you have a dude who owns the team,
Speaker 2: who has more money than God and can make something.
Speaker 2: But but will they happen? Well, he's he's yeah.
Speaker 7: And you know when people ask me about Matespia, I
Speaker 7: tell them, like, you know, if I had to to guess,
Speaker 7: I would say that he will bring a title to
Speaker 7: Scenic Phoenix will win the cent will win the title
Speaker 7: under his watch because of his you know, mindset, his resources.
Speaker 7: You know, if something's not working. I don't think there
Speaker 7: was any anything wrong with trying, you know, to give
Speaker 7: Kevin Durant. You could argue about Bradley Beal, but it
Speaker 7: was worth the risk. It didn't work, and you know,
Speaker 7: Matt's not real patient. If something's not working, he's going
Speaker 7: to make changes. It'll be interesting to see of what
Speaker 7: kind of rebuild you know, the censor looking at. But
Speaker 7: you know he's going to keep making changes, some that
Speaker 7: you know, big, some small. But that's just the type
Speaker 7: of owner he is. So I think it's always going
Speaker 7: to be interesting. But yeah, it'll be I would I
Speaker 7: really want to know if we'll ever look back and say, like, Okay,
Speaker 7: we made a mistake. We shouldn't have broken up that
Speaker 7: that team that went to the final than twenty twenty
Speaker 7: one and traded for Durant. That'll be interesting see if
Speaker 7: you ever admit that, because it just.
Speaker 2: Hasn't worked out right, right, and the coach that they
Speaker 2: had is now doing fairly well in Detroit, I think, right, yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, no, Minny Williams was Uh, yeah, he was fired there.
Speaker 7: But that's another look. I mean three coaches in three
Speaker 7: years that haven't been able to figure it out. I
Speaker 7: mean you go to Monty Williams, to Frank Logel and
Speaker 7: now Mike Budholder and nothing's changed. They've gotten worse each year.
Speaker 7: So what more can you change it You look at
Speaker 7: the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, before Williams, there was a slew of coaches before
Speaker 2: that too, Right, Yeah.
Speaker 7: It's been a revolving door. But yeah, they've changed everything.
Speaker 7: I mean just the Booker Durant tandem for whatever reason,
Speaker 7: just has not produced the results that everyone expected.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I appreciate your time. Man, good to hear from.
Speaker 7: You, you too, Steve. Good soon you guys, and hopefully
Speaker 7: we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see you again. Thanks, man, appreciate it. That
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Speaker 2: interview with Doug. You got to insightful stuff from Doug.
Speaker 2: Your World Baseball Classic starts soon? Does March second? Are
Speaker 2: you busy? Am I busy? Are you relaxed? Uh?
Speaker 3: No, not relaxed? Yeah, yeah, this is great. It meit's wild.
Speaker 3: So in the purview, like kind of the general idea
Speaker 3: of everything we were talking about it off here, but
Speaker 3: uh it's it's nerve wracking. I'm excited, right, I'm excited.
Speaker 3: This is unbelievable.
Speaker 19: Man.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: If you get a chance to look at the Columbian roster, like,
Speaker 3: you've got some big time players playing in March and Tucson, Like,
Speaker 3: it's really exciting.
Speaker 2: Would they they they're not in the major League, Yeah,
Speaker 2: of course they are. You've killed Grio Orchella. You've got
Speaker 2: currently in the Yeah, so they haven't started. They're not
Speaker 2: gonna go to.
Speaker 3: They're still going to spring training, so they go. They'll
Speaker 3: leave early and come down here and play and go afterwards.
Speaker 3: So you always as a player from an international standpoint,
Speaker 3: it's the same thing. I know, you don't watch football
Speaker 3: or soccer depending on you want to call it, but
Speaker 3: you you for that year. You change your training in
Speaker 3: the off season, so you probably move it up two
Speaker 3: to three weeks, maybe a month depending on. Uh So,
Speaker 3: like a guy like Kintana probably goes for four four
Speaker 3: four innings, four to five innings. He's probably on a
Speaker 3: pitch count of eighty eighty five or you can be
Speaker 3: a little bit more that, depending on where you're at.
Speaker 3: But yeah, those guys are headed right back to spring
Speaker 3: training afterwards.
Speaker 2: Okay. So yeah, you're gonna have some people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got Andre Agassi and Steffi Grafs kid playing
Speaker 3: for Germany.
Speaker 2: They're right up the road in Las Vegas. Hopefully they
Speaker 2: come down.
Speaker 3: You can, you can announce that, Yeah, the rosters are out.
Speaker 3: You couldn't do that before. Yeah, I know that now
Speaker 3: I can. They're officially Outlay he's a pitcher.
Speaker 2: He went to USC he played the back. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, and then you've got Manny Roomiers and Dante Bachet's
Speaker 3: kids playing for.
Speaker 2: I'm old for Brazil. I'm old, you're old, looks Listen.
Speaker 3: We don't need to say I'm old on I just
Speaker 3: told you that I'm so stressed. I don't need you
Speaker 3: saying now that I'm old as well.
Speaker 2: When I first mentioned you had some nice red hair, no,
Speaker 2: it's all white. It's going to be gone by the
Speaker 2: red whatever line's white. Yeah, you get a great hitd
Speaker 2: of Hairstill. Oh yeah, yeah, what are you ninety two?
Speaker 2: That's your dude looking great? Yes? Could you move me
Speaker 2: to it course so cool. So tickets, let's get some
Speaker 2: of that out of the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so let's let's let's talk about tickets. So you
Speaker 3: can go on www dot world Baseball Classic dot com,
Speaker 3: or you can go on s A s t f
Speaker 3: A dot com. That's Southern Arizona Sports Tourism and Film
Speaker 3: Authority dot com. UH fifteen dollars tickets for general emission
Speaker 3: to twenty five dollars tickets for preferred seating h five
Speaker 3: dollars parking. We're gonna have tons of specials. You've got
Speaker 3: Thursday night, you five dollar twenty four ounce modelos for
Speaker 3: you know, five bucks and dollars hot dogs on our
Speaker 3: college night Sunday night, you got to beat can't beat that. No,
Speaker 3: you can't go anywhere and grab that. I was talking
Speaker 3: to you about this like in August. August really maybe we.
Speaker 2: Were gonna we were probably texting back and for Steve
Speaker 2: can't talk about you got any think from Steve. Can't
Speaker 2: talk about September because Steve can't talk about maybe soon,
Speaker 2: maybe soon. So this is like a seventh month. How
Speaker 2: long would did this start? Like the talks?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we were we were working on the spring,
Speaker 3: we were working on the spring training piece, we were
Speaker 3: working on the A ball team piece, and this all
Speaker 3: the same time. But this was kind of the ladder
Speaker 3: of all of those, I'd say probably really started working
Speaker 3: through negotiations and.
Speaker 2: February last year, February sold this. This is the world
Speaker 2: of the nine month birth. Yeah, and we're really turning
Speaker 2: it around. I mean, you think we signed the I
Speaker 2: think I shared this with you the they were planning
Speaker 2: on WBC World Baseball Classic and j League Baseball. We're
Speaker 2: coming out here for a tour of the facility, a
Speaker 2: site visit, and a press conference. But we had not
Speaker 2: signed the official contract yet because we we got it
Speaker 2: back late from their side, and they got it back
Speaker 2: from late from Martin and it was just going back
Speaker 2: and forth and going back and forth, and then so
Speaker 2: we signed the contract on the friday.
Speaker 3: Before they came out on a Monday. We signed the
Speaker 3: contract on a Friday like they were coming out. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we would have had to cancel the press four It's
Speaker 3: November twelfth, oh, you know. So we signed the contract
Speaker 3: I think on on November ninth, right, So it was
Speaker 3: like late in the day. We all had to jump
Speaker 3: on a call. We had to bring legal in sign
Speaker 3: the contract. They fly in Monday, we do a press
Speaker 3: conference on Tuesday, and then obviously you know Snoop Dog,
Speaker 3: Arizona Bole there are you know, they're they're running our operations,
Speaker 3: they're helping out. There are partners in this whole thing.
Speaker 3: They had they had the Arizona Bole to prepare for.
Speaker 3: So we were planning on having this and signed and
Speaker 3: having some months. So we really have turned this around
Speaker 3: in like eight to ten weeks.
Speaker 2: So there were two things you said that kind of
Speaker 2: struck me that I don't know what you mentioned it
Speaker 2: spring training, spring training, single, Yeah, what's up? What? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So we went down the road.
Speaker 3: I thought we had this conversation if we went down
Speaker 3: the road really far, and these are the things that
Speaker 3: I was telling you that I probably couldn't have talked about.
Speaker 3: But I think we're still working on the plan right
Speaker 3: now with Major League Baseball and spring training for twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six. So we're looking at a modified spring training
Speaker 3: and Tucson to start from. How So, yes, you've got
Speaker 3: a couple of different areas here, but the international piece
Speaker 3: would be we would go we would house hopefully two
Speaker 3: teams from the Summer League for Mexico. They would be
Speaker 3: housed out of southern Arizona, similar to what the Mexican
Speaker 3: Baseball Fiesta does. And there are partners on this as well.
Speaker 3: And then they you would have teams from the Cactus
Speaker 3: League come down and play games at Keno and then
Speaker 3: those teams would go up to Phoenix play.
Speaker 2: Okay, congratulations, and then we'll talk more. This call. We
Speaker 2: got a call. Okay, perfect, Hello, you're on the air
Speaker 2: and one of the ball who's this?
Speaker 17: Hey?
Speaker 2: Hi? How would turn off that radio?
Speaker 17: I just did?
Speaker 2: Okay? Cool?
Speaker 17: So yeah, okay, I had to bring it back to
Speaker 17: we're mature, We're not old, and I'm older than.
Speaker 7: Both of you.
Speaker 17: Okay. Anyway, I got to weigh in on the Suns.
Speaker 17: Of course with my opinion. We all have opinions. Bull Bowls,
Speaker 17: he's he's We can't we're not putting our everything on
Speaker 17: Bull Bull. But he's playing good day. They did a
Speaker 17: side by side with him and Wemby and Bull Bull Bowls.
Speaker 17: The recent stats have have have equalled his with everything.
Speaker 2: What do they need to do?
Speaker 17: We need big, big things, just like you have a
Speaker 17: I'm sure if the next draft class is gonna have
Speaker 17: a lot more six eight players. Next year, we got
Speaker 17: to get a few more. But you know, remember well
Speaker 17: got green on Golden State. You know, he during the weekend,
Speaker 17: he had to say something, Oh, the Warriors are gonna.
Speaker 2: Win, right. No, he's gonna say whatever he says, right,
Speaker 2: and I'm not.
Speaker 17: Gonna go that far. But I'm gonna say we're gonna
Speaker 17: win a first round because we didn't even win one
Speaker 17: game last year.
Speaker 2: Well, you got to get into the playoffs. I think
Speaker 2: they're twelve right now.
Speaker 17: Well, I know we will have to be up against
Speaker 17: a first or second seat at this point. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 17: I think we're gonna avoid the play in but it
Speaker 17: is what it is. At least we'll win a game.
Speaker 17: We're not gonna get swept.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll see what happens. It is, remember this.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I don't want to say. Yeah, I'm not I'm
Speaker 17: not not going kamikaze yet.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, Well, well i'll write this down Jebruary nineteenth.
Speaker 2: You said they're gonna win a game in the playoffs.
Speaker 17: Okay, we'll tuck you later.
Speaker 2: Okay. Thanks. So we're talking about so and then single
Speaker 2: again Single.
Speaker 3: We went down really really far down that line. So
Speaker 3: we possibility not in the near future. That got that
Speaker 3: got put on a hard pause by MLB. But there's
Speaker 3: a different there's a different play that we're all working
Speaker 3: on right now and that that might be actually be
Speaker 3: able to announce here pretty soon with you. Okay, that
Speaker 3: one is that one's really exciting. I want to come
Speaker 3: back tomorrow. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I could lose my job.
Speaker 3: Let's do that. No, Steve, this is perfect, kid. Let's
Speaker 3: get me on the radio. Let's get me to say
Speaker 3: things I shouldn't be saying. I'll get fired and then
Speaker 3: I'm gonna come to you. Just a great job.
Speaker 2: You just say you have an extra room for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because my wife's like, hey, you're sorry, you're covering
Speaker 3: You're not covering your half of the mine.
Speaker 2: I told you. I told you, Blake, that you needed
Speaker 2: to be quiet. This is your wife talking, Blake. I've
Speaker 2: always said you talk too much. Yeah, you tell people
Speaker 2: too much. I'm an open book man. This is how
Speaker 2: I tell people. I'm gonna come in there, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be honest, I'm gonna be vulnerable. You're gonna take me
Speaker 2: for what I am, right I do take Blue Cross
Speaker 2: Blue shields couches right there. Yeah, I got United Health.
Speaker 2: Do you take that? I take that? I need it
Speaker 2: fifty dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were we were at lunch today with PEMA
Speaker 3: Health and they were like, yeah, you get your five
Speaker 3: first five first visits free. I think I said that
Speaker 3: right for a therapy session. I was like, well, what's
Speaker 3: the age on it? And they started laughing. I was like, no,
Speaker 3: I'm serious, like eighteen to twenty four. Then she goes,
Speaker 3: but it's over the phone, and I got my voice
Speaker 3: can't even be twenty four years old? Or yeah, what
Speaker 3: purpose is that? It's by zoom? Yeah, it's by zoom. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: what the hell?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, anybody else want to call? We have about a
Speaker 2: few minutes. So much way that well, no, we got
Speaker 2: two minutes, never two minutes. Two minutes goes by past
Speaker 2: Howard Triok all that time. Thank you have no but
Speaker 2: your stuff with the WBC. We'll talk more about that
Speaker 2: because we continue to move forward. So many things going
Speaker 2: on this week. It's the rodeo, right, yeah, rodeo, and
Speaker 2: then we have the color.
Speaker 3: Then we have all you guys, we have you with us,
Speaker 3: you guys, and then we were all right, into the
Speaker 3: coltard you got. I mean, like you think about where
Speaker 3: we're at right now. It's a two month span of
Speaker 3: just stuff happening all over.
Speaker 2: The right in between that with the men's basketball, women's basketball,
Speaker 2: all the other UA baseball, you have baseball and softball
Speaker 2: starting right Tusan. This is why. And then the weather's fantastic. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's supposed to be in upper eighties this week next week.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Everybody we talked to that's on the phone in the
Speaker 3: Northeast is like it's negative eighteen, right, Like it got
Speaker 3: down to forty eight, but it'll be one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifteen soon. Yeah, and then we'll because in November. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 3: well we good to go.
Speaker 2: Maybe Yeah, let's say let's go come back some break
Speaker 2: the news that we're gonna have Bruce Pasco off his
Speaker 2: trip that he went to Baylor, and then more sports