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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball
Speaker 2: hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave
Speaker 2: Silver Day. Are you getting tired of me?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: No, I love this. I know It's the highlight of
Speaker 4: my week. You have a sad said.
Speaker 2: In addition, I spent for two hours with you today
Speaker 2: at another project.
Speaker 5: Well, good to see you Dave again. More You're gonna
Speaker 5: get tired of me.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, an next wife, the next girlfriend, Steve,
Speaker 2: I just can't take you. Juan, you know, I'm like
Speaker 2: his dad.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's basically basically bestie's at this point.
Speaker 4: We all are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're all united together. Hey, and welcome everybody to
Speaker 2: the show. I hope you're enjoying your Monday, Big Day,
Speaker 2: Big night tonight, right, Big.
Speaker 6: Game twelve Monday, Big Monday, Big Monday. So Arizona on
Speaker 6: Big Monday. This is Brandon because it's Duke playing first.
Speaker 6: I think, so there's a good game before. Who's gonna
Speaker 6: stepup to watch this? One on the East coast. All
Speaker 6: the U of A alums and you know them, right,
Speaker 6: We've got a big alumni group in New York and DC, Boston.
Speaker 4: This is a night for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Start, Hey, Jimmy, let's go to the bar down the road. Yeah,
Speaker 6: there's U of A bars in some of these big
Speaker 6: cities too. You have a fans get together. So that'll
Speaker 6: they'll be out tonight, Monday night.
Speaker 3: Late one.
Speaker 2: It'll be late night. It should be a fun night. Dave,
Speaker 2: you're gonna stay up. Of course, step I'm Tommy. You'll say, oh,
Speaker 2: good to see you guys late, you'd be here.
Speaker 4: That's his humor. It is not nine.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, no, no, In fact I thought it wasn't nine,
Speaker 2: but I say thirty.
Speaker 4: This is great. Great friend.
Speaker 2: Freshella, one of our guests, is gonna be on the call.
Speaker 2: We'll see him tonight.
Speaker 4: So that's tonight.
Speaker 2: And then okay, so we're gonna have in the first hour,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have.
Speaker 4: Chip Hale talk a little baseball.
Speaker 2: They're ranked pretty highly figuratively, you know whatever, it's great,
Speaker 2: top twenty. Maybe talk to him. We have spoken to
Speaker 2: him in a while. It'd be great. And then at
Speaker 2: four seventeen. We're gonna talk to Jim Rosborough. What he's
Speaker 2: up to at obviously PEMA, they're doing pretty well. Is
Speaker 2: he helping with the men's team, women's women He's been
Speaker 2: with the women's team for a long time. But I
Speaker 2: wanted to talk to him about a few things. You know, him,
Speaker 2: him and Luke were together for forever. It ended, it
Speaker 2: ended how it ended. But I'm wondering because lou he
Speaker 2: would know how lut would think about this, and I
Speaker 2: l stuff wow, and would he have liked it? And
Speaker 2: I haven't heard from Chimbot. You know it's different at
Speaker 2: the at the junial college level, but you know how
Speaker 2: he would deal with it. Or you know, if you're
Speaker 2: making four or five million dollars a day, you're gonna
Speaker 2: deal with it because you have no choice.
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Did you see?
Speaker 3: Was it?
Speaker 6: USC's football team hired a general manager?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 6: These are the new positions in sports. Arizona has one
Speaker 6: right as well. But you know they're going big time too.
Speaker 6: I mean paying them the millions of dollars to be
Speaker 6: a GM for these college games.
Speaker 2: Now, well that's what the guy from another guy, the
Speaker 2: ESPN guy, I mean WOJ who went to the same
Speaker 2: bottle venture I think, right is Alma mater. He went
Speaker 2: back to them to help them do what they what
Speaker 2: he does, and they're going.
Speaker 4: Up to you know, big time people, which is an
Speaker 4: interesting move. I mean, I guess you know.
Speaker 2: Well, Bonnie, Well, let me tell you this day and again,
Speaker 2: you were in the business for move Through.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: I'm still in the business thirty seven years. I enjoy
Speaker 2: what I do. But and I'm sure he made some
Speaker 2: bank at ESPN. After a while, it's a grind. You
Speaker 2: got to, you know, call the people he calls. And
Speaker 2: he's very good at what he does. But you figure,
Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna make something similar at same Bonnie, and
Speaker 2: because they want me, and maybe not to whatever he
Speaker 2: was making, or maybe maybe more. But it's a different
Speaker 2: deal and it's a different different pressure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, doesn't have to sit there with the cell phone
Speaker 6: twenty or seven calling scouts and calling teams and gms and.
Speaker 4: You and you know that.
Speaker 2: It's the best thing about this business, the journalists the
Speaker 2: hours the worst thing about this business or the hour hours, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because you could get calls at any time. I know
Speaker 2: I was during loots and the end time I was
Speaker 2: like getting calls all the time.
Speaker 6: All the time, all the time, and you have to
Speaker 6: be on especially you know in TV it's a little
Speaker 6: bit different too, with deadlines, and you know the newscast
Speaker 6: is not going away.
Speaker 4: You got to be ready.
Speaker 6: You may not have exactly the amount of information to
Speaker 6: put on a story or put out the whole story,
Speaker 6: but you know in five o'clock or six o'clock here
Speaker 6: or ten, you had.
Speaker 4: To be set to go with something. But yeah, what
Speaker 4: do you got?
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's what it is, and you're that's your
Speaker 2: future hopefully.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: I have a professor. He works with Kick on nine.
Speaker 5: He's telling the story, not Kick on nine give you away.
Speaker 5: He tells us all the stories, what his day looks.
Speaker 5: He goes to sleep at three, he wakes up at eleven. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and he starts his day. Right.
Speaker 4: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it is what it is.
Speaker 6: Deadline pressure too, is. I mean, you get kind of
Speaker 6: used to it. But in television I used to have
Speaker 6: I used to call them newsmyres. They're like nightmares that
Speaker 6: I would owe, you know, like I'd be laying in
Speaker 6: bed thinking, oh man, I'm never going to get back
Speaker 6: to the station in time.
Speaker 4: I used to.
Speaker 6: That happen to me all the time, and it was
Speaker 6: you know, you're you're stuck on speedway and you're trying
Speaker 6: to get down the road and it's five ten and
Speaker 6: you're on the air in ten minutes. I mean, those
Speaker 6: things were like part of my life.
Speaker 2: Well, Lute had a just to your point, I lude
Speaker 2: had a by two thousand and fifty whatever you was
Speaker 2: one of those last year's two thousand and seven eight
Speaker 2: or whatever was He had a press conference. I was
Speaker 2: trying to get to it on time. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: On the freeway and nine ten, you know where we
Speaker 2: live on the northwest side, and I was moving. I
Speaker 2: was moving and the cop the cop was in front
Speaker 2: of me, and uh, I.
Speaker 4: Was not too I guess I was too close whatever.
Speaker 2: They moved to the side and I said, that's a lot,
Speaker 2: and I just kept going, you know whatever.
Speaker 4: She pulled behind me and she stopped me. I'm thinking,
Speaker 4: what did I do?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: Were you off to? What are you off to?
Speaker 2: And I had headphones on because I was trying to
Speaker 2: I'm going to a press conference. Oh oh, she was
Speaker 2: nice to me and all that. She's what are you doing?
Speaker 2: You're too close? To me, and you're going pretty fast,
Speaker 2: I think to a press conference. I got like ten minutes,
Speaker 2: like a granted the freeway. Yeah, it's part of part
Speaker 2: of that job. You have to know how to manage
Speaker 2: your time. Guess what And that's exactly what you're said. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well you know better than exactly. We used to have
Speaker 2: that problem.
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 6: Again, you were talking about, you know, some professors telling
Speaker 6: you how to deal with your day. That's that was
Speaker 6: part of the gig was you know what time in
Speaker 6: these games? You know, where do I need to be
Speaker 6: to record it or be at it or have somebody there.
Speaker 6: I mean there's a lot of organization behind the scenes
Speaker 6: people never never saw.
Speaker 4: And that's funny because that's part of that classroom were talking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right right, yeah, I'm trying to find out my
Speaker 5: Saturday trip for the issue game.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah yeahh what time exact game?
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, that's you and you have finish at one.
Speaker 2: It's a timeframe.
Speaker 3: I got a park.
Speaker 6: You know, things like I mean, what if there's an
Speaker 6: accident on I ten, Well, that's.
Speaker 4: Really count for that's the key. That's the key. That's
Speaker 4: like going to the airport there.
Speaker 6: I always give myself an extra time just in case
Speaker 6: I got it.
Speaker 2: I got it about stuff that you shouldn't have to
Speaker 2: deal with. That's my first one. First, Uh, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's it is what it is. If that's the worst
Speaker 2: thing that happens, that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 6: The meantime, are you excited about tonight's game? You don't
Speaker 6: get too thrilled, but this is should be one of
Speaker 6: our marquee games of this season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go to Juan first, because he's the kid
Speaker 2: in the room going, I'm going, I'm going, I'll be
Speaker 2: covering it.
Speaker 5: And what's asking the question? Are you excited about tonight's game?
Speaker 4: Yes and no.
Speaker 5: There's for the most part yes, because this is this
Speaker 5: is something new for the community. You know, these big
Speaker 5: time games you get into conference play, maybe had one
Speaker 5: or two with Oregon and u C l A.
Speaker 4: There's this is one of like five.
Speaker 5: So it'll be interesting to see if the community comes
Speaker 5: out tonight for a white out.
Speaker 4: It's supposedly sold out.
Speaker 5: We've had many sellouts and I don't see a sellout eventually, right,
Speaker 5: But as far as the game goes, I don't know
Speaker 5: if Arizona will be up.
Speaker 4: To the task.
Speaker 2: Okay, So is that part of the exciting or not
Speaker 2: exciting part? Which which is which not exciting? The what
Speaker 2: the fact that I don't think Arizona will be up
Speaker 2: for the task? Oh okay, So you you didn't care
Speaker 2: about that, right, Yeah?
Speaker 4: Probably not.
Speaker 2: But it's it's the fan part. Yeah, I mean, of course.
Speaker 2: So so let me let me go back. So I'm
Speaker 2: glad that you caught that they talk about sellouts and
Speaker 2: they have it has it last game?
Speaker 4: They said it was a sellout.
Speaker 2: It was not.
Speaker 4: I wasn't. I was gonna ask I was it was?
Speaker 4: It was the top part was empty.
Speaker 2: In fact, I was communicating with somebody on on the
Speaker 2: online and I'm good of talking about it now's and
Speaker 2: she says, it sounds dead. It sounds like the one's there,
Speaker 2: And I said, well, there's not much to cheer about.
Speaker 2: It was Colorado. They were kind of going in the
Speaker 2: first half, kind of struggling. It was like a boring,
Speaker 2: mundane game, and then the second half it kind of
Speaker 2: picked up and the crowd got it.
Speaker 4: A little into it.
Speaker 2: But but it was when it was, it wasn't. It
Speaker 2: wasn't a great game to kind of attend. And I
Speaker 2: mean I'm assuming that what people are doing, Dave, is
Speaker 2: if you're a regular season ticket holder and you don't
Speaker 2: want to go late or early, it was a h
Speaker 2: you just give your tickets or your sell your tickets
Speaker 2: to people who aren't used to going to the games, right,
Speaker 2: And we've seen.
Speaker 4: That maybe with Colorado.
Speaker 6: I think tonight, maybe tonight might break through with that
Speaker 6: no more, a little more of the normal, normal, normal crowd,
Speaker 6: normal enthusiasm. Like you said, every year we have, you know,
Speaker 6: three or four of these types of games with a
Speaker 6: highly ranked team coming in and.
Speaker 4: They've had great success obviously through the years.
Speaker 6: So I hope, and you know, the national coverage will
Speaker 6: pick up two in the games on ESPAnet helps, so
Speaker 6: there'll be some enthusiast.
Speaker 2: So your other point is Arizona's not used to this
Speaker 2: is I think you said, you said, you know, bigger
Speaker 2: games whatever, so so years past and you know this,
Speaker 2: I'm not telling anybody, You're not New York. These games
Speaker 2: were normal in Lut's time. We saw them all the time,
Speaker 2: and it was the reason why they went to the games,
Speaker 2: and the fans were into it. They had those big games,
Speaker 2: not name UCLA or it was the big time because
Speaker 2: now they're coming back to it. Yeah, and it's not
Speaker 2: that they're coming back. It's self made. It's all made
Speaker 2: in house.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: With the Big Twelve, well there were there were probably
Speaker 6: in those years, you know, kind of UCLA count on
Speaker 6: and every once in a while like the Oregons and
Speaker 6: Stanford's or somebody like that would break through, but there
Speaker 6: weren't that many of those, and usually the non conference
Speaker 6: games were through some big crowds. But again they maybe
Speaker 6: quote unquote didn't mean that much when you're playing in
Speaker 6: December or November. But now with the Big Twelve, I mean,
Speaker 6: there's gonna be I don't know how many more ranked
Speaker 6: teams probably got eight or.
Speaker 4: More ranked games, you know among the finish here.
Speaker 2: If people who if you're listening and you have a
Speaker 2: season ticket, if you want to give us a call,
Speaker 2: how much are those tickets? Because I've been in ballyhooing
Speaker 2: the schedule most of the years since I wish I
Speaker 2: could well in not wish. If I had a chance
Speaker 2: to buy a seeing ticket, I would do it because
Speaker 2: you're going to get some quality games. Well you have
Speaker 2: it to this point. Tonight is one of them you'll get.
Speaker 2: You'll get Houston.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna get Kansas because they got kind of
Speaker 5: screwed in that one.
Speaker 4: But it's worth it.
Speaker 5: They got a revenge game against Texas. Texas, Yes, should
Speaker 5: be good. Some of the better games.
Speaker 6: West Virginia at one of those guys coming. It's Dandy
Speaker 6: b Yu in late February.
Speaker 2: So you get at least a better bite at the
Speaker 2: apple rather than the Pac twelve when you didn't get
Speaker 2: a lot of apples to bite.
Speaker 4: That makes sense. So so here we are. But tonight
Speaker 4: to your point.
Speaker 2: Yes, in recent times yes, but in long term times
Speaker 2: not so much. Because this was normal, these big games Stanford,
Speaker 2: U C, l A, Oregon, you know some of those
Speaker 2: maybe maybe UCLA teams every now and again.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you're right, there were there was usually five
Speaker 6: crazy games with the fans win nuts and it was loud,
Speaker 6: and you know they never they never would sit down
Speaker 6: until who knows when there were a few of us.
Speaker 4: I agree with you. Tonight might be that night. It
Speaker 4: might be that night.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, Iowa State comes in what third in the country,
Speaker 6: playing well, just not a issue.
Speaker 4: That's the other thing.
Speaker 5: A lot of my friends and some of some some
Speaker 5: of the people I know. They said, who we played tonight?
Speaker 5: Said Iowa State? Oh, it should be easy win. I said, no,
Speaker 5: they're number three. That's part of the problem.
Speaker 4: And they hear that and they're like, oh, I should
Speaker 4: not sick to us. Well sorry, yeah, well that's part
Speaker 4: of the problem.
Speaker 2: We talked about the spread because Arizona's a three point
Speaker 2: favorite right going in, you know, at least as of
Speaker 2: right now. People who who don't know don't know, they
Speaker 2: would think like, you're your people, But people like East Coast,
Speaker 2: what are they thinking, uh, Arizona, Iowa State?
Speaker 4: If they know the rankings, what are you how are
Speaker 4: you going to bet it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I always say it's gonna win that easy, right.
Speaker 6: It's it's interesting just because we're all learning the Big
Speaker 6: twelve a little bit. But I mean, obviously they're good.
Speaker 6: They're ranked third in the nation, so people should kind
Speaker 6: of acknowledge that and hey, this could be a tough one.
Speaker 6: But you're right, as I'm watching, like said the bottom line,
Speaker 6: sometimes on these games on over the weekend, I have
Speaker 6: to think about what league are these guys in it?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: Oh? Col played? Who?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 6: Or they're in the ACC that's right, Cal's playing Duke.
Speaker 2: You know things like that. It's been a weird just year.
Speaker 2: Yeah overall for fans. Have you been paying attention to Oregon? No,
Speaker 2: so they're supposed to be very good. I didn't know
Speaker 2: that until they've got to the top twenty five.
Speaker 5: But it's another thing because you pay attention to them
Speaker 5: because they're in the league.
Speaker 4: Now they're not. I don't care, u CLA.
Speaker 2: You kind of pay attention because they was going to
Speaker 2: play them right and they struggle for a while. Now
Speaker 2: I guess there's going back to winning. But you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, because they were in the league, they
Speaker 2: were your cousin. Right now, you don't care what your
Speaker 2: cousin is because.
Speaker 6: I mean I'm flipping around Big ten Network TV and
Speaker 6: it's like, oh, Oregon's playing Rutgers.
Speaker 3: You know me?
Speaker 6: Games make no sense sometimes. Yeah, And I'm sure you
Speaker 6: know normal Big twelve long time Big twelve or Big
Speaker 6: eight fans from back in the day are going, what's
Speaker 6: Arizona doing here?
Speaker 2: Okay? Cool, it's already a three thirteen. We got to
Speaker 2: get ahold of the coach, uh Chappale. We'll talk more
Speaker 2: because we I mean, you talked about yesterday's game with
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera. He's got his eye on the ball on
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 4: I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today is Dave Silver.
Speaker 2: Now on the foal we have at baseball coach at
Speaker 2: you a chip, Hail Chip?
Speaker 4: How are you.
Speaker 3: Great? Good to be on with you guys.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we have a quick story from Dave. Go
Speaker 2: start it. Oh the story.
Speaker 6: I just wanted to personally thank you again for the
Speaker 6: hospitality you did for me and my buddies a number
Speaker 6: of years ago. Remember in Oakland when we were at
Speaker 6: the game, I got down on the field and I'd
Speaker 6: been on the field of course many times, but those
Speaker 6: guys were so thrilled and still talk about you to
Speaker 6: this day about what that meant to them as longtime
Speaker 6: baseball fans, and just I wanted to say thank you.
Speaker 6: I've known you forever and you're all. He has been
Speaker 6: a great guy. There's no surprise. But we just had
Speaker 6: a wonderful time and really appreciated that.
Speaker 15: Well I do remember, and it was it was a
Speaker 15: good day, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and whatever happened to the Oakland A's and you
Speaker 6: believe it shipped there.
Speaker 3: Now the Sacramento as in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're looking forward to this year. I'm sure you are.
Speaker 15: Oh, yeah, we're we're excited. I think you know, this
Speaker 15: is kind of the four years we've been here. Now
Speaker 15: we finally got all all of our recruits in and
Speaker 15: uh we got some really good veterans and some young
Speaker 15: kids and uh, some portal players.
Speaker 3: We've kind of done it the new way.
Speaker 15: Of NCAA Baseball and the NCAA sports, you know, you
Speaker 15: have to kind of mix them all together and uh.
Speaker 3: Junior college kids included. So I think we got a
Speaker 3: good group.
Speaker 2: Has that process or or you know, the new way,
Speaker 2: as you said, changed the way you coach.
Speaker 3: No, No, I think you know you just keep you teach,
Speaker 3: you teach, you know your system, and you to play
Speaker 3: to what you have. You know, you can't say, well.
Speaker 15: I'm gonna we're gonna run a lot, or we're gonna
Speaker 15: hit for power if you don't have those type of players.
Speaker 15: You have to play with what you have. I think
Speaker 15: we have a lot better athletes we've had in the past.
Speaker 15: We'll be able to do be a little you know,
Speaker 15: do a few more things on the offensive side. Pitching
Speaker 15: is a little unknown this year, but we have a
Speaker 15: lot of good arms with good stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, we have to just.
Speaker 15: Figure out how that's gonna work out. You know, to
Speaker 15: get nine innings and twenty seven outs. Is it gonna
Speaker 15: be with two guys or four guys? You know, it's
Speaker 15: gonna be like the World Series where you're you know,
Speaker 15: you're just seeing a new guy every couple of innings.
Speaker 15: But we have a ton you know, you usually use
Speaker 15: twelve or thirteen guys on a weekend at the most.
Speaker 15: You know, we could use up to sixteen or seventeen.
Speaker 15: We feel like those guys are good enough to throw
Speaker 15: on the weekends.
Speaker 6: You had to replace a number of pitchers right, basically
Speaker 6: almost your entire staff, So what's that.
Speaker 3: Well, No, we're you know, we're playing the three starter
Speaker 3: starting out.
Speaker 15: Jackson, Kent, Clark, Candyotti and Walt all were drafted and
Speaker 15: they left and so that that's gonna be the big thing.
Speaker 15: And they were the great thing about those three were
Speaker 15: they they were five six innings every time out. So
Speaker 15: it makes a game a lot shorter for your bullpen.
Speaker 15: But we think we have some guys, I mean, you know,
Speaker 15: stuff wise, like I said, with really you know, superb,
Speaker 15: high end, high draft guys.
Speaker 3: But again you know they have to do it on
Speaker 3: the on the mound and competition.
Speaker 2: So we'll see you talk about being four years. Has
Speaker 2: it gone quickly or not? But because you've had some
Speaker 2: pretty good success.
Speaker 3: No, I think it has. I think it goes. It
Speaker 3: goes fas as you guys know, as we get older,
Speaker 3: things go back for sure. So it's gone quickly.
Speaker 15: I think my recruiting Coordinaiy crip Couch has done an
Speaker 15: unbelievable job of of sort of you know with the classes,
Speaker 15: you know, filling our needs and getting guys.
Speaker 3: If it was a we have a couple of.
Speaker 15: Development guys on each group, and you know that'll become
Speaker 15: a shorter group too, because you know we're going from.
Speaker 3: Forty to thirty or next year.
Speaker 15: So again it's the game is gonna change again on
Speaker 15: us and who knows where it goes from there. But
Speaker 15: he's done a good job of making sure if we
Speaker 15: don't have.
Speaker 3: What we need for the next year. The junior college
Speaker 3: ranks have been huge for US.
Speaker 15: Team has been really good and you know South Mountain
Speaker 15: Central or really good high power junior colleges across the
Speaker 15: country that they're probably through the best and we've been
Speaker 15: able to, you know, really have good relationships with them.
Speaker 15: And then the portal has been been been decent to us.
Speaker 15: You know, we've been able to get the guys that
Speaker 15: we've needed.
Speaker 5: Hey, coach, this is a juant serround with asy desert swarm.
Speaker 5: You know, just looking at the schedule, you got a
Speaker 5: trip to Arlington coming up, and a couple of weeks
Speaker 5: later you got some SEC competition in Houston. Just looking
Speaker 5: at the schedule, what do you see from it? What
Speaker 5: do you expect from your team on these road trips?
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, I somebody asked me that question today
Speaker 15: and it's so interesting because I I think of like
Speaker 15: USC football, right and people are so they play Notre
Speaker 15: Dame and they play all these you know, they'll go
Speaker 15: play LSU, and I think that's what the kids want
Speaker 15: to go to college and play. And so whenever we
Speaker 15: have the opportunity to go to those tournaments and play
Speaker 15: SEC teams or play teams from the ACC like Clemson
Speaker 15: in Louisville and like we're doing in the first tournament,
Speaker 15: I think that that's that's part of it.
Speaker 3: It's part of the college experience.
Speaker 15: And last year we did the same thing and we
Speaker 15: started the league the PAC twelve, you know, under five hundred,
Speaker 15: but it was okay, we're you know, we were playing
Speaker 15: teams that we weren't ready for.
Speaker 3: This year, we're hoping.
Speaker 15: That this older group of position players is ready for
Speaker 15: that and then we can get on the get in,
Speaker 15: get some wins against really good teams and help our
Speaker 15: RPI to start. But if we don't and things don't
Speaker 15: work out, we know it'll.
Speaker 3: Help us down the road in the league. We won't
Speaker 3: panic about it.
Speaker 15: But I think it's important you go to different places
Speaker 15: like the two big league stadiums and get these guys
Speaker 15: that experience.
Speaker 3: So we'll always play the toughest schedule we can.
Speaker 6: Is it a conscious effort to go into Texas now
Speaker 6: that you're in the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is.
Speaker 15: I think we need to you know, we need to
Speaker 15: get you know, a better recruiting hold there.
Speaker 3: It's hard.
Speaker 15: I mean, you know you're talking about Texas, Texas Tech,
Speaker 15: Texas A and M. You know, even the smaller schools there,
Speaker 15: you know, I mean TC used outstanding, but even like
Speaker 15: the Texas States and school like that, they get really
Speaker 15: good players.
Speaker 3: So when you start recruiting there, you know it's left
Speaker 3: the LA area.
Speaker 15: You know that that's been a tough one too, because
Speaker 15: those kids all want to go to the SEC now.
Speaker 3: So we are trying.
Speaker 15: We have a few coming in twenty six already committed,
Speaker 15: and again we go j C wide. There's some really
Speaker 15: good j season in Texas too, so we look that way.
Speaker 4: I know, the roster terms over a lot.
Speaker 2: How did last year help you maybe set you up
Speaker 2: for maybe success this year? You'll get tastes and yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 15: Position players, you know, getting all that experience at a
Speaker 15: young age. And that's why it was so important with
Speaker 15: Candiotti and Can't and Walty to win those games for
Speaker 15: us because you know, our offense was challenged at times,
Speaker 15: and that group really grew as the year went on,
Speaker 15: and I think that they're really you know, become leaders.
Speaker 15: And we have you know, with Summer Hill leading off
Speaker 15: and the speed and the power, we we have a
Speaker 15: really good chance to do some really exciting things on
Speaker 15: that side of the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's gonna be on the non pitcher side of it.
Speaker 2: Who are going to be some of the those leaders
Speaker 2: that you'll need.
Speaker 15: Yeah, we got you know, Britain Summerhill play right. Mason
Speaker 15: White obviously from South Point is going to be a
Speaker 15: huge huge part at shortstop, you know, his junior year.
Speaker 15: Both those guys are juniors, and you know that's that's
Speaker 15: another whole issue you deal with in college baseball is
Speaker 15: now they're juniors, they're draft eligible.
Speaker 3: How's that going to affect each guy?
Speaker 15: You know, it's going to be different, and how are
Speaker 15: they going to handle that? So that's another thing that
Speaker 15: we have to coach him up on. And then you
Speaker 15: don't have Garret Caulfield has been here for four years
Speaker 15: and he was not drafted last year, disappointed, but he
Speaker 15: came back to play senior year and and he's been
Speaker 15: nothing but Uneagles hitter and playing second base for us.
Speaker 4: So you know, old wins and cops.
Speaker 15: Andrew Kine will be a big part of this thing.
Speaker 15: From Ironwood Ridge. It's we have a plethora hitters. We
Speaker 15: have some good guys. One of our big transfers, portal transfers,
Speaker 15: is Aaron Walton who comes to us from Samford University,
Speaker 15: not Stanford, but Samford down in Alabama.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 15: And he's a super exciting you know, it looks like
Speaker 15: Mike Trout out there in center field.
Speaker 3: So we'll see how that goes with some.
Speaker 6: Of the portal players. Are these did you go see
Speaker 6: him in Alabama or are they coming to you?
Speaker 4: How is that working?
Speaker 3: Yeah? They get, well what happens this?
Speaker 15: And it's more so with the pictures, but they get,
Speaker 15: you know, they we once that portal opens, all of
Speaker 15: our you know undergrad you know, analytics kids, my pitching
Speaker 15: strategist John de Royan, they just pour over this video
Speaker 15: and look at that and you can really do a
Speaker 15: lot with analytics on the pitching side, the hitting side.
Speaker 3: You know, we we see what we need.
Speaker 15: You know, we knew we needed one more outfielder and
Speaker 15: he was playing on a team with three of our
Speaker 15: players up at the n ECB l up in Rhode Island.
Speaker 15: So we had a lot of connections with that team,
Speaker 15: and obviously our players were there and they said, hey,
Speaker 15: this kid is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: You got to come. And so we looked at video and.
Speaker 15: Talked to many coaches and scouts as we could, and
Speaker 15: then you know, we offered him a deal and and
Speaker 15: luckily we got them.
Speaker 2: When you come into this situation as a coach, right,
Speaker 2: I think it's before nil and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: It was before you came in, before you think.
Speaker 3: It literally started the day I took the job.
Speaker 2: That's to my point. He said, no one promised you this, right,
Speaker 2: No one said no you. Oh, by the way, how
Speaker 2: do you how do you deal with it?
Speaker 15: You just deal with it. I mean it's like life.
Speaker 15: I mean our whole life. Things have been changing, right.
Speaker 15: We didn't have cell phones, we you know, we didn't
Speaker 15: have all these things. And we just move on. And
Speaker 15: if you don't, you know, you're not going to be
Speaker 15: doing it much longer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 6: What would n L A N I L have been like, uh,
Speaker 6: you know forty years ago when you were doing this here,
Speaker 6: would you right there?
Speaker 3: It was a little different, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 2: Oh well, would you have you guys were stars back then,
Speaker 2: you guys were you.
Speaker 6: Guys would have been you guys would have been making bank.
Speaker 3: It would have been very interesting. We you know.
Speaker 15: Listen, that's like the old thing when I was in
Speaker 15: the Big League and Bob Feller were to come around,
Speaker 15: and he would complain of how much money he would
Speaker 15: have should have made, you know, compared to what guys
Speaker 15: were making then. And I had the best time, and
Speaker 15: this set me up for a great life. Met my
Speaker 15: wife at the U of A and played for the
Speaker 15: greatest coach in college baseball, so I couldn't ask for
Speaker 15: anything more. I got to meet Dave Silver right there.
Speaker 6: You know, that was a big time he speaking of coach.
Speaker 6: And maybe not to go on a downer, but what
Speaker 6: about the loss of Jim Wing here in the last
Speaker 6: few What did he mean to you? Yeah, those Tucson
Speaker 6: fans know who he was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a tough one.
Speaker 15: Obviously an icon here in Tucson, even you're even more
Speaker 15: than you know.
Speaker 3: Coach Kendle did so many things at the U of A.
Speaker 15: But to see what Jim did, you know, in just
Speaker 15: the Tucson High and all these Palaverdi and all these
Speaker 15: schools and then to go onto the u of A.
Speaker 3: But you know, we were really really lucky with Coach
Speaker 3: Wing because we spent a lot of time with him.
Speaker 15: At the end, he got to see the new pitching
Speaker 15: wing which we named after him.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 15: And in the back of our the Terry Francona Center,
Speaker 15: we redid it and it's it's a it's a pitching lab.
Speaker 15: And so he got to go in there and see
Speaker 15: it working and Kevin Advance and John Durrow and kind.
Speaker 3: Of talking through it.
Speaker 15: And that was a great thing about Coach Wing is
Speaker 15: he was very progressive and he was always you know,
Speaker 15: a lot of the old school people don't like the
Speaker 15: fact that, you know, the lab deal or the way
Speaker 15: we're we're looking all these numbers too much. He was
Speaker 15: into everything. He wanted to know about it. He wanted
Speaker 15: to be educated on it.
Speaker 2: Where did you, uh, you been around the game a
Speaker 2: long time? Uh, where did you get your philosophy from?
Speaker 2: You're you're coaching philosophy? And then maybe there's a difference
Speaker 2: between philosophy baseball wise and maybe just speaking wise. You
Speaker 2: know your your philosophy thinking.
Speaker 15: Wise, well, I think that just comes with with with
Speaker 15: age and and growth, and obviously it's your your mentors.
Speaker 3: And coach Kendall was one of them.
Speaker 15: Tom Kelly was one of them. You know, my high
Speaker 15: school coach was was like a football coach, so he
Speaker 15: was it was a different way of coaching.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And as.
Speaker 15: I get older, you know, you get you probably get
Speaker 15: a little more mellow and you're you know you we've
Speaker 15: all had kids that are now grown and gone, So
Speaker 15: these guys are just kids to me.
Speaker 3: You know, they're my.
Speaker 15: Kids now, they're the kids. And are they gonna make mistakes? Yes,
Speaker 15: are they gonna make physical they gonna make dumb.
Speaker 3: Decisions off the field, Yeah, but we have to teach
Speaker 3: them and make them better.
Speaker 2: Are you still kind of how far away from the
Speaker 2: season starting a couple three weeks?
Speaker 3: Two weeks? Yes, three weeks?
Speaker 4: You already know?
Speaker 3: More weeks of intersquad?
Speaker 4: Do you already know what you have planned for game one?
Speaker 3: We're getting there.
Speaker 15: We're getting there, and we have some really tough decisions
Speaker 15: to make. We got probably four guys, five guys to
Speaker 15: play four positions in the field, and then we got
Speaker 15: to figure out who's our Friday night starter to start
Speaker 15: the season, and.
Speaker 6: You have a meet the team coming up here in
Speaker 6: a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: I think in a couple of weeks. Yeah, yeah, it'll
Speaker 3: be fun.
Speaker 15: You know, that's kind of a it's a good test
Speaker 15: for them to you know, have a regular like a
Speaker 15: game DP with two teams and fans in the stands,
Speaker 15: and you.
Speaker 3: Know, all that stuff is good for them. But yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll figure it out.
Speaker 15: We play Old Myths on that first Friday fourteenth at
Speaker 15: that Globe Life and who knows, we'll see how those
Speaker 15: guys react.
Speaker 5: And just talking about think Simon, you to meet the
Speaker 5: team seasons coming up, but it's a new conference, new opponents.
Speaker 5: What are you kind of looking for or looking like
Speaker 5: looking ahead to and kind of focusing on with.
Speaker 4: The Big twelve comp incoming.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm really excited about it. I think I think
Speaker 15: I was thinking about those same things. And you know,
Speaker 15: there's just we played in places in the in the
Speaker 15: Pac twelve. You know, Oregon State was crazy, you know,
Speaker 15: always packed Oregon, you know, not so much, you know,
Speaker 15: cal there might be four or five hundred people, you know.
Speaker 15: I think in the Big Twelve, you're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 15: run into a lot different fans.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be pretty rowdy.
Speaker 15: It's gonna be more like an Oregon state everywhere you go,
Speaker 15: and we go to some pretty good ones. Go to
Speaker 15: West Virginia, I know it is a tough place to play.
Speaker 15: We go to Texas Tech and Lubbock, so I think
Speaker 15: those are gonna be super fun for the guys and
Speaker 15: just good, good experiences.
Speaker 2: I don't want to use the word pressure because I
Speaker 2: don't think you care about much of it, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure the players don't. You ranked in the twenties or
Speaker 2: in the upper teens, What does that mean?
Speaker 4: Do you even give a crap?
Speaker 15: Well, I just think it's it's it's when you do
Speaker 15: all those because I had to vote on this all
Speaker 15: the time.
Speaker 3: Of course you don't.
Speaker 15: Vote on your own team, but so who am I
Speaker 15: going to put at the top of these?
Speaker 3: You know, when you go who's the best team in
Speaker 3: our conference?
Speaker 15: Well, I had I voted for Oklahoma stake because they
Speaker 15: probably had the most starters back or their their portal
Speaker 15: guys were better than the rest of that.
Speaker 3: We got everybody got or so.
Speaker 15: Really it's just on you know, who has the veterans,
Speaker 15: And in the end, it really doesn't matter. But yeah,
Speaker 15: I mean last year that was the beauty. We're ranked,
Speaker 15: not you know, pick the go ninth in the Pac twelve,
Speaker 15: we end up winning it. So we have to realize
Speaker 15: that too, that whoever's in.
Speaker 3: The nice box up when our conference to be ready
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 6: I mean, have you had a chance to even kind
Speaker 6: of scout some of these schools like the Texas Texts
Speaker 6: of the World or you know, some of the schools.
Speaker 3: We know how good they are.
Speaker 15: They got a lot of good players, and we know
Speaker 15: some of the players are at these places. But no,
Speaker 15: I mean the problem with playing these tournaments early is
Speaker 15: when we go go to scout and we had you know,
Speaker 15: we have the ability.
Speaker 3: Now in colleg it was just totally different.
Speaker 15: When I play, we have so much video and stuff
Speaker 15: that we can look at out of these teams. So
Speaker 15: now we have three you know, we get to do
Speaker 15: Old Miss for Fridays and Clemson Saturday and Louisville on Sunday,
Speaker 15: so basically where you have to scout three different teams.
Speaker 3: So we got we got to get into the start that.
Speaker 15: This next week and you know, kind of assign some
Speaker 15: of the younger coaches some some jobs to do on
Speaker 15: the scouting part.
Speaker 4: Well, Chip, we appreciate your time. Good luck.
Speaker 2: We'll ball hope to talk to you at some point
Speaker 2: in the season.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, thanks for having me. I can't wait
Speaker 3: to video. Can be there tonight, a big game for
Speaker 3: the cat heading there. I'll be there.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you solely, all right, bear down to take
Speaker 2: care panel Eve and he Chip knows the big magnitude
Speaker 2: of miss second Terry Francona. Why yeah, I don't think
Speaker 2: they sit there. Well, well, I think that he's already
Speaker 2: kind of coming Cincinnati, getting ready for opening Day or not,
Speaker 2: you know, for spring training, spring training, because it's a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks. Pitchers and catchers and all this could
Speaker 2: beat I think we'll see. Yeah, thanks, thanks, check. Well,
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Speaker 4: Where you been?
Speaker 6: He had a couple like seven or six or seven game.
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Speaker 2: if this is who you are, where you been, isn't
Speaker 2: he still out playing? I think, yeah, he was little
Speaker 2: drink or he had a chance, But I mean, I've
Speaker 2: selim when you start thinking about those guys of pure shooters.
Speaker 2: He was just money, so good to watch, so fun
Speaker 2: to watch, and very effective. Had an interesting professional career himself,
Speaker 2: but great at the U of A for sure.
Speaker 5: You talk about best year he talking from behind the
Speaker 5: arc or yeah, yeah, yeah, I would probably say gave
Speaker 5: you or gave.
Speaker 2: You York okay, And before him, what else you got?
Speaker 2: Selim Sell and that's that's stupid. Going another ten years,
Speaker 2: it always.
Speaker 6: Seemed like Arizona the other seems like UCLA always seemed
Speaker 6: to have like that designated shooter on their teams, or
Speaker 6: Stanford and Arizona every once in a while, oh yeah,
Speaker 6: we finally got one of those guys. So and then
Speaker 6: sometimes they would, but Arizona built there. You know, they
Speaker 6: also had a lot of things that other teams didn't have,
Speaker 6: like amazing back courts, and people could do a lot
Speaker 6: of good stuff that wasn't necessarily a three point shot,
Speaker 6: like the the Jason Gardner Gilbert Reinas era and of
Speaker 6: course before that. So you know, the U of A
Speaker 6: doesn't have anything to be ashamed about with that when
Speaker 6: it comes to that.
Speaker 2: No, no, but there have been very few great shooters.
Speaker 4: And I'm in every school party has the same situation.
Speaker 6: You know, when Colorado throws out, you know, his own
Speaker 6: defense the entire game. You had to have that the
Speaker 6: other day, right if somebody's knocking him down, so they're
Speaker 6: going to be in trouble, so they get a spark
Speaker 6: from him, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know where the second half well, and not
Speaker 2: with this season paying a part cale you think Caleb
Speaker 2: Love would have been in that group. No, I mean
Speaker 2: he's not because you're not consistent. And now he's been
Speaker 2: so erratic. It's interesting.
Speaker 6: You know, he had some up and downs the beginning
Speaker 6: and then he had a little bit of stretch there
Speaker 6: where it was pretty solid, and you know, you kind
Speaker 6: of don't know what you're gonna get. It seems like
Speaker 6: if he can start quickly, he just kind of has
Speaker 6: the momentum going. But again the other day, you know,
Speaker 6: he missed about three or four shots in the first
Speaker 6: five six minutes and he's on the bench and he
Speaker 6: has to kind of come back and think about himself.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask you something because we said all season long,
Speaker 5: so it was there.
Speaker 4: So it was Caleb Bluff, so was Arizona.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think we're at a point now where maybe just
Speaker 5: my my observation, my solo observation, it seems like they're
Speaker 5: going game to the game. Whoever sure, whoever can win
Speaker 5: us the game. We're gonna live with that. Yeah, would
Speaker 5: you would you live with that?
Speaker 6: Or would do you would? Is it still so cos
Speaker 6: killer blow? Well, go ahead, I was gonna say you win.
Speaker 6: They win by fifteen points. The other day, and they
Speaker 6: had pretty good balance. Really, they had three players over
Speaker 6: ten and then they had a couple eights and nine,
Speaker 6: so I mean they are getting really good balance.
Speaker 2: Actually, here's my issue. They're not playing anybody good. They
Speaker 2: hadn't played Colorado.
Speaker 3: Is not that good.
Speaker 2: You're supposed to be them by eight fifteen, eighteen whatever?
Speaker 2: It was, right, we got a call, so I'll finish
Speaker 2: that statement after the call.
Speaker 4: Hello, you're on the air nine on the ball.
Speaker 3: Who's this? Hey? This is Vic.
Speaker 17: What's going on?
Speaker 13: Guy?
Speaker 3: Vic?
Speaker 4: Will you lose my phone number? What's up with that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 17: No, no, but we've been winning. I haven't been able
Speaker 17: to bitch too much.
Speaker 2: Well you do that on online with me enough, so
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, they're down by they're down by
Speaker 2: two to zero, and I'm already getting the calls.
Speaker 3: Or the test.
Speaker 17: But what I want to see tonight is, uh man,
Speaker 17: I want to be Caleb Good get hit.
Speaker 4: Because I want.
Speaker 17: To see Caleb go off at least get twenty. I
Speaker 17: just grew for that guy so hard and then never
Speaker 17: comes due fruition. But I'm hoping that he can come
Speaker 17: through to night.
Speaker 2: Well, here's my part of my thing that we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about hang on, Victor, So how are they
Speaker 2: doing this by committee?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: So I get that they haven't played anybody really good
Speaker 2: yet in conference maybe Baylor maybe, but that's at home
Speaker 2: tonight they play Always State. I've said this, this is
Speaker 2: the test tonight. Okay, So now they know tonight will
Speaker 2: know this is how good they are, at least in
Speaker 2: this situation. But guess what in March, when it matters
Speaker 2: matters and you're going to be playing teams that are
Speaker 2: all good, that's when Caleb has to show up because
Speaker 2: this team needs that dude.
Speaker 4: Whoever that due out, he needs to be that dude.
Speaker 17: See I told you years ago, or at least a
Speaker 17: year ago.
Speaker 3: If you go through history.
Speaker 17: Of all NBA teams and even college champions, they've always
Speaker 17: had a superman and a batman Michael Jordan and Scottie
Speaker 17: and Kobe and Shack and the you know, the Pistons
Speaker 17: with Isaiah and this team don't have that, And.
Speaker 6: The pressure of course ramps up in the postseason. You know,
Speaker 6: if he's having a bad game and everyone's gonna be
Speaker 6: looking around, and you know, it's just the chemistry has
Speaker 6: to be strong. So fortunately, in some of these games,
Speaker 6: you know, some guys have stepped up, so I think
Speaker 6: that's what they're gonna have to hope for.
Speaker 2: Well, you remember last year, okay, he went two for whatever,
Speaker 2: it was eighteen, whatever, it was three for eighteen, and
Speaker 2: they needed him. They needed him these games. Okay, maybe
Speaker 2: they get it, maybe they don't, but in March, they
Speaker 2: definitely need it, honestly, because you're not. It's not me
Speaker 2: and big playing basketball. It's it's big time basketball.
Speaker 6: And you need your big time playing.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeahs don't have sex before the big fight. Okay, right,
Speaker 4: oh sure, yeah.
Speaker 17: Hey, but one shooter you guys are forgetting is marketing.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah they yeah, yeah, in fact, he's in fact,
Speaker 2: he's the best player in the last fifteen years in
Speaker 2: my mind.
Speaker 17: Yeah he's he's probably mine too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 17: And he turned it, you know, he turned it into
Speaker 17: a great career too, So.
Speaker 2: Sure yeah marketing. Yeah, well, who's the best offender in marketing?
Speaker 2: I say this all the time? Who?
Speaker 3: Yes, I do your boy?
Speaker 17: Who career longgo career?
Speaker 4: Did give him the ball?
Speaker 17: God? That was I still wake up nightmares on that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah game, yep, yeah, okays.
Speaker 17: A bunch of man, but I'll see you tonight and
Speaker 17: you guys.
Speaker 2: Okay, don't don't bother me too much with those texts.
Speaker 4: If they're down by.
Speaker 17: Three, No, I'm gonna be there, so I won't be
Speaker 17: I won't be go say hello, okay guy thanks.
Speaker 2: So that was my point this game is Okay, they're
Speaker 2: important to have them, sure, for sure, but when it matters, now,
Speaker 2: when you got to win six straight or three, you know, whatever,
Speaker 2: they need it.
Speaker 6: I can't have somebody going, you know, two for ten,
Speaker 6: that's gonna be the end of your season.
Speaker 2: Not when you have that, dude, you've been here long. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Curve two for thirteen I think it was Salem two
Speaker 2: for thirteen against against Illinois. These big games. They cannot
Speaker 2: go south in those huge games.
Speaker 6: And that's when you watch the teams that win and
Speaker 6: advance there. They just don't have that happening, right. You know,
Speaker 6: their best players play at their at their at their best.
Speaker 6: Usually somebody knows how to playing march and take over again.
Speaker 2: Gaming against Arkansas, you know, in the Final four, Lid
Speaker 2: it was just you know, you just can't those dudes
Speaker 2: who can carry you, they cannot stop carrying.
Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of pressure, you know, these kids, they're kids,
Speaker 6: and sometimes it just gets to them. I think when
Speaker 6: when when at the worst possible time.
Speaker 2: Dave their kids. Now they make it a tug them.
Speaker 3: Mm hm.
Speaker 2: That that matters. That's just the different that's their parachute.
Speaker 2: It's a golden parachute.
Speaker 6: See how much some of these quarterbacks are making. The
Speaker 6: kid that transferred from Georgia to Miami, what's that? Probably
Speaker 6: four million?
Speaker 3: I think it is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean the ni L money is you know,
Speaker 6: they people find out what those numbers are and they're ridiculous.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they having a four million right now for Carson Beck.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The issue guys getting paid to everybody's getting scatabooz.
Speaker 2: What's he gonna do? Is he even? He's going? Is
Speaker 2: he done? He's in the NFL, He's going, He's done.
Speaker 2: You'll probably find a spot too. But he's projected by
Speaker 2: my Broncos right now?
Speaker 4: What what?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: The second round? That possibly the dude was probably not
Speaker 5: gonna get drafted before this year. No, not at all.
Speaker 5: And sometimes you just have a miracle season gets your career. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll see.
Speaker 2: Let's hold, let's remember that when it happens, that's in April, right, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll see no more calls. We'll take some calls on
Speaker 2: the other side. We have breaking news with you right here.
Speaker 5: Count But you want to talk about the games, right? Oh,
Speaker 5: the last night'scape, Just real quick? Did you think did
Speaker 5: you have a dog in the fight in the Buffalo?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 4: I was kind of rooting for the Bills. I wash too.
Speaker 2: I actually bet bet a little on them, thinking that
Speaker 2: they was eventually going to end, and it didn't end.
Speaker 2: Did you think they get screwed on that fourth down?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, on the call, But I don't think that's
Speaker 5: a difference in the game.
Speaker 4: Well, you wouldn't know because they had still had possession.
Speaker 5: They had many possessions before that where they didn't score. Oh,
Speaker 5: I don't like your philosophy. No good way to look
Speaker 5: at it.
Speaker 2: But that that play, why did they review it from
Speaker 2: the from the back side, I don't know, and the
Speaker 2: other side.
Speaker 6: They shouldn't have showed that both what line judges I
Speaker 6: guess or the side judges whoever comes in and marks it,
Speaker 6: and they were both a different spot.
Speaker 2: I didn't make sense. But the guy on the other
Speaker 2: side who saw the ball marked it good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't make any sense, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna find every ticket I get because.
Speaker 4: What the hell cameras don't work? What angles that said?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: I love?
Speaker 5: What's going around is that it's a what billion dollar
Speaker 5: a league. They can't find the technology to put like
Speaker 5: a little tracker and the ball saw like they do
Speaker 5: in soccer, and there's no nine judges anymore in tennis.
Speaker 4: They said they have the money to do it.
Speaker 6: It's ridiculous. I mean, there's gotta be some laser they
Speaker 6: can just lay out there and get it.
Speaker 4: Wow, it was unbelievable. I was watching it, like you
Speaker 4: guys were watching that thinking.
Speaker 2: Oh, he's got it, and then another reviewing it, Oh,
Speaker 2: he's got it. And then they said he didn't get it.
Speaker 4: What once?
Speaker 5: They they they spotted him shorts once. They definitively, definitively
Speaker 5: did not get it when they was like they could
Speaker 5: have pushed them five guards forward.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I knew it wasn't gonna go their way.
Speaker 5: Because of the history, Yeah, and the city Kansas City
Speaker 5: of the refs and just the way things go for them.
Speaker 4: It's fun, you know.
Speaker 6: That's kind of been the storyline all week. Put the
Speaker 6: rest and the guys on TV didn't even really say
Speaker 6: anything about it. I didn't hear like Jim Nantz or
Speaker 6: anybody saying, you know, well, the referees had kind of
Speaker 6: been for kids. Well it looked like it, but they
Speaker 6: didn't saying what about the last play? And I didn't
Speaker 6: hear this because I was listening to the TV. I
Speaker 6: was watching TV.
Speaker 2: Uh on the last play and he fell short, right,
Speaker 2: you can catch it? And there was supposed to be
Speaker 2: a flag. They said there was a flag, and then
Speaker 2: there was no flag.
Speaker 4: I guess I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn'teah.
Speaker 6: It must have been something that came off the sidelines. Yeah,
Speaker 6: the picure took it off. They did say there's a penalty.
Speaker 6: Oh wait, there's no flag. Yeah right, so yeah, Kincaide
Speaker 6: should have had that too. Although watching it live, it
Speaker 6: didn't look like I had a chance. But then show
Speaker 6: the replay, he was right there. So too bad for him.
Speaker 2: Destiny, I don't know if you believe in it. What.
Speaker 4: No team has won three straight, So here we go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Philly looked really good obviously, and Barkley is fantastic.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. That was kind of sad
Speaker 6: for Washington. That was a great run they had and
Speaker 6: he's Jayden Daniels has got them set up, you know,
Speaker 6: if he stays healthy for the next decade, and you know,
Speaker 6: they've got all kinds of cap money. I was listening
Speaker 6: to some things today about from DC that they're they're
Speaker 6: ready to go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we start the season like to.
Speaker 2: It seems like nineteen seventy seventy five whatever years that
Speaker 2: they were very good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll I lost this now, but might maybe Ansaria
Speaker 5: on the other side of the break if the Chiefs
Speaker 5: pull it off. You know, three P is this one
Speaker 5: of the greatest teams in history? And does where does
Speaker 5: my homes place in history?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 2: Teams for this year or all time? No, no, but
Speaker 2: the previous year is pretty good. Last year's team was
Speaker 2: pretty good. Yeah, this year they they got lucky. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they squeaked out and they got lucky a couple of times.
Speaker 2: Yesterday was one of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's why I That's why I bet Buffalo because at
Speaker 2: some point, Dave, it catches up to you. It catches
Speaker 2: up to you, and it hasn't caught up to you at.
Speaker 6: Some point maybe when we have time, maybe during that
Speaker 6: so we can look up kind of compare them to
Speaker 6: like how the Niners did with their run the Steelers
Speaker 6: when they're they won like four out of six. The
Speaker 6: Niners won, you know, four out of seven. I mean,
Speaker 6: there's they're kind of in that spot right now if
Speaker 6: they win another one.
Speaker 2: Program probably, but not like team this year. Last year's
Speaker 2: teach was pretty good the year before. And then where
Speaker 2: would you put Mahomes? Where does he go? I don't
Speaker 2: know enough about that, but he's only twenty nine. But
Speaker 2: he's fun to watch. I mean, he's just fun to watch.
Speaker 5: And I saw something and said in his seven years
Speaker 5: as a starter, his worst finish to a season was
Speaker 5: losing in the AFC.
Speaker 2: Championship, right, you know, No, if you can have a quarterback,
Speaker 2: who do you want?
Speaker 4: You want a dude that knows how to win exactly.
Speaker 6: You know, and all these other teams, you know, it's
Speaker 6: just like in the NBA. They're like the Utah Jazz
Speaker 6: or like Carl Malone and John Stockton going up against Jordan.
Speaker 6: I mean, all these guys are you know, Josh Josh Allen?
Speaker 4: You know, is he ever gonna win? While Mahomes is
Speaker 4: still so what's that Scooby Doo face?
Speaker 2: I would want a few championships had it not been
Speaker 2: for those damn kids.
Speaker 4: That's how he is.
Speaker 2: That damn chiefs, there was damn chiefs and.
Speaker 4: My homes and all that. I mean, he's kind of
Speaker 4: in that era.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, everybody has that nemesis right here we go,
Speaker 2: let's go