WEBVTT

1
00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.559
<v Speaker 1>This is I on the Ball with Steve Rovera on

2
00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:10.519
<v Speaker 1>Fox Sports fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services. In

3
00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:12.720
<v Speaker 1>sure your most prized possessionets.

4
00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:18.160
<v Speaker 2>Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball

5
00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:21.640
<v Speaker 2>here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and

6
00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:25.199
<v Speaker 2>with me today is Blake Eager. Although he's not in yet.

7
00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:28.760
<v Speaker 2>I have to make him run on some laps because

8
00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:33.200
<v Speaker 2>he's a little late. If you're five minutes late, you're

9
00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:36.640
<v Speaker 2>ten minutes late because you're late, no matter what. So

10
00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:39.280
<v Speaker 2>actually I just got text he's on this way right now.

11
00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:42.399
<v Speaker 2>Welcome everybody. It's a Wednesday show. We should be good.

12
00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:45.560
<v Speaker 2>Blake is one of my better guests here, my co

13
00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:49.479
<v Speaker 2>hosts here on a Wednesday. Uh, we have some pretty

14
00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.079
<v Speaker 2>good guests coming here in the next two hours. Again,

15
00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:55.560
<v Speaker 2>if you'd like to call us, the open line is

16
00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:59.719
<v Speaker 2>five two O four one six seven four four zero.

17
00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.079
<v Speaker 2>I will take your call. Got to call us.

18
00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:03.119
<v Speaker 3>I'm ready for you.

19
00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:06.400
<v Speaker 2>I'm handling the board today, so who knows what will happen.

20
00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:11.319
<v Speaker 2>But in the first hour we're gonna have Victor Quevas,

21
00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.439
<v Speaker 2>he's the owner of the new team coming in from Mexico.

22
00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:17.319
<v Speaker 3>Tucson's baseball team.

23
00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:22.359
<v Speaker 2>And then at four seventeen, we're gonna have Oli Farhang,

24
00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:27.599
<v Speaker 2>one of the another's radio guy in the mornings, and

25
00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:32.200
<v Speaker 2>the co owner of the Sugars calls and an attorney

26
00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:36.040
<v Speaker 2>blah blah blah, look at you, dapper up?

27
00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:36.920
<v Speaker 3>Where'd you go a wedding?

28
00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:37.560
<v Speaker 4>No?

29
00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:41.480
<v Speaker 3>I at the press conference court deposition, Anthony Jimino told

30
00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:43.519
<v Speaker 3>me to tell you hi. Oh did he Yeah? I

31
00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:48.640
<v Speaker 3>don't think he really meant it. I think he meant

32
00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:49.959
<v Speaker 3>it in his own way.

33
00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.760
<v Speaker 2>Like my colleague got my one of my books. Yeah, well,

34
00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:55.120
<v Speaker 2>well you're way over just for a baseball press conference.

35
00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:57.439
<v Speaker 2>I don't think it's baseball. Yeah, I know, what are

36
00:01:57.439 --> 00:01:58.280
<v Speaker 2>you trying to impress?

37
00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:00.359
<v Speaker 3>Listen? I I wore uniform long and if I can

38
00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:03.840
<v Speaker 3>wear a suit col and wear ties in this town,

39
00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.719
<v Speaker 3>I'd like to get right. We're Vince subs to go

40
00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:10.000
<v Speaker 3>to Kings.

41
00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:10.879
<v Speaker 5>Uh.

42
00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:14.800
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. You how many people wore suits today?

43
00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:15.719
<v Speaker 6>Uh?

44
00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.759
<v Speaker 3>Probably eight to ten. I mean there's a lot of

45
00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:20.639
<v Speaker 3>county officials there. You know, it's one hundred and ten.

46
00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:23.560
<v Speaker 3>I did not know is it really outside? How much

47
00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:25.719
<v Speaker 3>is in that suit? About one hundred? Yeah, there was

48
00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:27.560
<v Speaker 3>pretty sweaty in there for a little while there. How

49
00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:29.800
<v Speaker 3>did that go? It went great? It went great? Yeah,

50
00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:33.000
<v Speaker 3>really well done. Well attended, really well attended. Yeah really?

51
00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:34.560
<v Speaker 3>Was it bilingual?

52
00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:35.520
<v Speaker 5>Uh?

53
00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:38.719
<v Speaker 3>A portion of it was, but it was mostly in English. Okay, no, cool,

54
00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:41.719
<v Speaker 3>We are two sons. We are two son Yeah, looking

55
00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:46.520
<v Speaker 3>forward to talking to Vitoria. Yes, he is the main guy, right,

56
00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:48.479
<v Speaker 3>he's the owner of the tu Song baseball team.

57
00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:51.639
<v Speaker 2>Okay, cool? Cool, And I'll just dive into it. How

58
00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:54.120
<v Speaker 2>long did it last? And then how long did it last?

59
00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:56.280
<v Speaker 2>And we're the questions about you know, Hawaii Tucson.

60
00:02:58.000 --> 00:02:59.840
<v Speaker 3>Oh was that not a lot? Yeah? It was a

61
00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:02.759
<v Speaker 3>was pretty much discussed of why Tucson right the market here.

62
00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:04.360
<v Speaker 3>I mean one of the things that I hit on.

63
00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:06.479
<v Speaker 3>I don't think people realize. You know, you and I've

64
00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:08.240
<v Speaker 3>had this conversation you and you know the history, but

65
00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.560
<v Speaker 3>as a two soon and I think it gets lost.

66
00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:12.599
<v Speaker 3>You know, people laugh at me when I say Tucson

67
00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:14.240
<v Speaker 3>was one of the greatest baseball cities in the world

68
00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:17.280
<v Speaker 3>and at one point, and the reason the argument that

69
00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:18.800
<v Speaker 3>I make is that we had Big League streme, you know,

70
00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:21.520
<v Speaker 3>Major League spring training, had Triple A baseball, We had

71
00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:24.000
<v Speaker 3>an Arizona Fall League team and the have a Lina's

72
00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:26.960
<v Speaker 3>and we were the home for USA Baseball. There's not

73
00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:29.199
<v Speaker 3>a lot of cities, you know, in the world that

74
00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:31.319
<v Speaker 3>can say they have all for those things.

75
00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:35.520
<v Speaker 2>That's true, that's true. The thing about it, I don't

76
00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:36.159
<v Speaker 2>want to poo poo.

77
00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:39.120
<v Speaker 3>No, go ahead, they all came and left. I mean, yeah,

78
00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:41.080
<v Speaker 3>you can you obviously I've been.

79
00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:43.879
<v Speaker 2>Dating for supermodels. Guess what I'm not anymore.

80
00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:45.759
<v Speaker 3>Because they left me. Well maybe they can't cook, right, No,

81
00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:49.000
<v Speaker 3>that's on my end. That's fun. But you know what

82
00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:50.599
<v Speaker 3>I'm saying, not meaning that all women have to cook

83
00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:53.080
<v Speaker 3>by I mean you mentioned learn how to cook with me, yes, yeah,

84
00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:57.680
<v Speaker 3>but with you I was being specific. Yeah, so, but

85
00:03:57.680 --> 00:03:59.840
<v Speaker 3>but getting to the point is that, yes they did leave,

86
00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:02.280
<v Speaker 3>if you're absolutely right, But we have an opportunity. You've

87
00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:04.639
<v Speaker 3>got to find that you got to find that magic.

88
00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:07.919
<v Speaker 3>We got to find that magic. Yeah, what is that? Right? Exactly? Yeah, exactly.

89
00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:10.199
<v Speaker 3>So now we have a team in the Tucson Baseball

90
00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:12.680
<v Speaker 3>team that plays in the Winner League, which is the

91
00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:15.759
<v Speaker 3>third largest league in the world behind Major League Baseball,

92
00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:18.600
<v Speaker 3>Knee Pon League, and then it's them, right, and we

93
00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:21.600
<v Speaker 3>have the opportunity to support it during a time of

94
00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:23.680
<v Speaker 3>year where it's not one hundred and ten degrees outside.

95
00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:26.920
<v Speaker 3>It's a great time of year, it's exciting. It goes

96
00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:29.879
<v Speaker 3>along with all our other amazing professional sports during that time.

97
00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.319
<v Speaker 2>So you'll you'll help me with the questions, obviously, but

98
00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:34.680
<v Speaker 2>let me ask you real quick.

99
00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:35.319
<v Speaker 3>I did.

100
00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:38.079
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to read of your story again, but what

101
00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:40.480
<v Speaker 2>level is this? What level is this in the in

102
00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:43.839
<v Speaker 2>the level that I would understand and anybody would understand.

103
00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:45.680
<v Speaker 3>I would say four A, right, So it's a step

104
00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:47.839
<v Speaker 3>above Triple A maybe a step right? Yeah, I mean

105
00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:49.639
<v Speaker 3>you've got big leaguers all over the place in Winner League.

106
00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:53.800
<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, So okay, so it's for a between Major

107
00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:54.879
<v Speaker 2>League and Triple A.

108
00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:57.360
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Oh really? Yeah. So it's good baseball. Oh, it's

109
00:04:57.399 --> 00:04:59.439
<v Speaker 3>great baseball. Yeah okay. And you get the chance to

110
00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.240
<v Speaker 3>play in the career in World Series, you know, okay.

111
00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:06.040
<v Speaker 2>Okay, and your hope having put on the World Baseball

112
00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:12.360
<v Speaker 2>Council Classic, so the Classic, Yeah that's okay. You're hoping

113
00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:13.560
<v Speaker 2>that survives, obviously, but.

114
00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:17.560
<v Speaker 3>I'm hoping it thrives. We don't want to talk about survival, okay, No,

115
00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:20.199
<v Speaker 3>that's a better word. That's a better word.

116
00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:23.120
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to say how or whatever, because you're

117
00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:27.480
<v Speaker 2>you're you're on this capacity, you're not the owner. Give

118
00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:29.800
<v Speaker 2>me two reasons why it can't or how it can.

119
00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:35.920
<v Speaker 3>That's a really good question. I think the easy answer

120
00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:39.000
<v Speaker 3>is time of year. I think our history as a

121
00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.800
<v Speaker 3>professional sports city is going to always be connected to baseball.

122
00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:45.920
<v Speaker 3>Our history as athletes playing at the next level, at

123
00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.079
<v Speaker 3>the highest level is always going to be baseball. Baseball

124
00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:51.600
<v Speaker 3>is in our blood, it's in our DNA. We understand

125
00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.480
<v Speaker 3>as a community what we lost, and as a community,

126
00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:57.279
<v Speaker 3>I think we need to understand that we don't want

127
00:05:57.279 --> 00:05:57.879
<v Speaker 3>to lose it again.

128
00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:00.639
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, so we understand that. Now you have to

129
00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:04.879
<v Speaker 2>sell that to the people who buy the tickets. Mm hm, Which,

130
00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:06.879
<v Speaker 2>of course is that's the cell right, Yeah, it was

131
00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.560
<v Speaker 2>at University of Roosevela's athletics has the same issue.

132
00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:12.720
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I just we talked to Desire yesterday. I talked

133
00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:16.319
<v Speaker 3>to yesterday really and what was that secret conversation?

134
00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:17.240
<v Speaker 5>Was that A?

135
00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:20.199
<v Speaker 3>Is that she presented A Yeah? She presented Uh no,

136
00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:22.839
<v Speaker 3>I mean she was very open and honest about that.

137
00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:24.399
<v Speaker 3>You know, we need to figure out a way to

138
00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:26.639
<v Speaker 3>support the football team, right, whether they win or lose.

139
00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:29.759
<v Speaker 3>And that's that. That from an international national standpoint, that

140
00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:31.959
<v Speaker 3>means a lot, and I think it means the same

141
00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:33.279
<v Speaker 3>thing for us. So you don't have to be a

142
00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:36.519
<v Speaker 3>sports fan like this is. The Mexican winner League is

143
00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:38.639
<v Speaker 3>a party. It's an environment. You want to go there.

144
00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:41.160
<v Speaker 3>It doesn't really matter what's going on the field. It's

145
00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:43.439
<v Speaker 3>an experience that you want to go back to, and

146
00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:46.600
<v Speaker 3>I think we lack that in traditional baseball at times. True. Uh,

147
00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:48.680
<v Speaker 3>so we have something completely different.

148
00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:50.720
<v Speaker 2>Is it going to be like the Mexican Baseball League

149
00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:52.879
<v Speaker 2>the Fiesta.

150
00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:55.639
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's it's going to be very much dance, Yeah, fun,

151
00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:58.959
<v Speaker 3>not not to the extremes as a fiesta, but it's

152
00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:01.560
<v Speaker 3>going to incorporate all those Oh okay, so yeah, no,

153
00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:03.399
<v Speaker 3>come on. When I first saw this, I'm thinking they

154
00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:05.920
<v Speaker 3>do this at baseball games. Yeah, you're gonna have a time.

155
00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.120
<v Speaker 3>You're gonna have cheerleaders, you're gonna have concerts going on,

156
00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:10.759
<v Speaker 3>you're gonna have mascots all over the place. Okay, yeah,

157
00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:13.000
<v Speaker 3>I mean they're engaging in the community. The community is

158
00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:15.360
<v Speaker 3>gonna pick their name the following season. What it's gonna

159
00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:17.120
<v Speaker 3>be for the long term. I saw that. I think

160
00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:18.199
<v Speaker 3>it's a great way to start.

161
00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:21.319
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay, So now you're in conversations with Deesree. You

162
00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:23.079
<v Speaker 2>don't have to tell me yes or no. But I'm

163
00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:26.319
<v Speaker 2>assuming that you're fighting for the same dollar kind of

164
00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:27.920
<v Speaker 2>at the same time of year.

165
00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.480
<v Speaker 3>I know two different audiences. I know that. I know that.

166
00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:32.800
<v Speaker 2>But if I only have ten dollars in my pocket

167
00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:34.399
<v Speaker 2>twenty dollars in my pocket.

168
00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:35.680
<v Speaker 3>You're gonna ask me which one I would choose.

169
00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:39.000
<v Speaker 2>As you're asking individuals like me, you say, well, you

170
00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:40.759
<v Speaker 2>don't come to the game, the football game, you'll have

171
00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:42.519
<v Speaker 2>a good time. And someone else is saying, come to

172
00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:44.199
<v Speaker 2>the baseball games, you're gonna have a good time. I

173
00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:45.399
<v Speaker 2>only have twenty bucks.

174
00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:47.439
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. You know what's great about that, Steve, is that

175
00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:49.480
<v Speaker 3>we have a million and a half people in our county.

176
00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:53.279
<v Speaker 3>We're fighting for a very low percentage of those people

177
00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:55.399
<v Speaker 3>come to a game on a regular basis. And in

178
00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:58.279
<v Speaker 3>our surrounding two counties and co chief Santa Cruz and

179
00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:02.279
<v Speaker 3>even Panal, you're looking at another million people right or

180
00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:05.680
<v Speaker 3>close to with Northern Mexico and Sonora involved. Uh So,

181
00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.680
<v Speaker 3>let's say two million in an hour drive to to

182
00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:13.000
<v Speaker 3>Keino Stadium. I'm fairly confident that we should be able

183
00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.680
<v Speaker 3>to average four to six thousand fans a game. What's

184
00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.560
<v Speaker 3>for the Winter League. What's the schedule? Thirty four games?

185
00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:23.480
<v Speaker 3>I believe home games. Okay, that's that's feasible. Oh yeah,

186
00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:25.240
<v Speaker 3>it's not. It's a short season. It's great, you know,

187
00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:28.800
<v Speaker 3>great time of year. It's essentially you know, October to December,

188
00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:30.959
<v Speaker 3>knock it out. We get a chance. Yeah, you go

189
00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:34.000
<v Speaker 3>January for playoffs. So it's not a hugely No, you're

190
00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:36.840
<v Speaker 3>not hugely competing with our other like the road Runners.

191
00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:40.240
<v Speaker 3>You have a football You're you're not trying to compete

192
00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:42.120
<v Speaker 3>against those You're trying to uplift them. And you're you're

193
00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:45.600
<v Speaker 3>joining two communities, right. I think one community feels like

194
00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:48.919
<v Speaker 3>they're not being seen by by another sports program, and

195
00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.200
<v Speaker 3>maybe that community is not being seen by that sports care.

196
00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:53.480
<v Speaker 3>We need to merge those two. It's it's a it's

197
00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:56.240
<v Speaker 3>a Southern Arizona, it's a Tucson community. We want to

198
00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:57.480
<v Speaker 3>have the efforts to be successful.

199
00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:02.120
<v Speaker 2>Well, today Arizona released a uh study, but there their plans.

200
00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:03.519
<v Speaker 3>On their plan. Yeah, they went over that yesterday.

201
00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:07.759
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, which is a very cool, extensive way to repaint

202
00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:08.200
<v Speaker 2>the house.

203
00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:09.720
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, pretty much.

204
00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:13.279
<v Speaker 2>I mean you're reinventing the wheel, which, of course the

205
00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:14.960
<v Speaker 2>wheel always works. You just got to make sure that

206
00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.240
<v Speaker 2>wheel works. Yeah, And I mean you're gonna have to

207
00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:20.840
<v Speaker 2>you know this better than anybody. Juve was in a

208
00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:23.279
<v Speaker 2>position where they had to figure out how to pivot

209
00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:27.960
<v Speaker 2>and pivot quickly and and not try to bleed out right,

210
00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:30.120
<v Speaker 2>And I think what they've been able to accomplish in

211
00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:32.879
<v Speaker 2>a short time frame is pretty impressive. You're talking about

212
00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:37.080
<v Speaker 2>the I am big, the big Nope, no question. I

213
00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.039
<v Speaker 2>don't even know what to say, because it's yeah, no question.

214
00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:43.159
<v Speaker 2>They're down to six billionpeeah done, yes, five or something

215
00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.360
<v Speaker 2>like that, and hope to be even next year.

216
00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:47.240
<v Speaker 3>Yes. I don't know how many people can run in

217
00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:49.200
<v Speaker 3>a two million, two two hundred and fifty million dollars

218
00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:50.720
<v Speaker 3>death sent in three years break even.

219
00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:53.080
<v Speaker 2>Very impressive, and they've they found a way and they've

220
00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:58.000
<v Speaker 2>done the congratulations. Uh, the new ad desreally has done

221
00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.480
<v Speaker 2>a fantastic job. Now they have to move forward, and

222
00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.559
<v Speaker 2>which is kind of that thing there. They've stopped this

223
00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:05.960
<v Speaker 2>this bleeding. Now they're going to move forward with great

224
00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:10.519
<v Speaker 2>expectations and this great plan. Everybody has one, right, everybody's

225
00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:12.200
<v Speaker 2>every school. If you don't have one, shame on you

226
00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:15.000
<v Speaker 2>because you're going to get left line. Yeah, we'll see

227
00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:15.519
<v Speaker 2>what happens.

228
00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:18.480
<v Speaker 3>Part of the problem or solution is wins the game.

229
00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:21.639
<v Speaker 3>It absolutely and I think she understands I think everybody

230
00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:24.399
<v Speaker 3>understands it. Right. How are you going to go about that?

231
00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.759
<v Speaker 3>How We've talked about that, you know, and Naseum on

232
00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:28.919
<v Speaker 3>this on the show about how do you do that

233
00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.320
<v Speaker 3>in the market. You're in competing against schools in the

234
00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:33.720
<v Speaker 3>SEC or the Big ten. You're going to have to

235
00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:36.000
<v Speaker 3>get creative to some appoint Yeah, but it was great

236
00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:39.200
<v Speaker 3>to hear her say yesterday that they're not looking at

237
00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.840
<v Speaker 3>cutting corners from a cost standpoint. Right now that you

238
00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:44.480
<v Speaker 3>have you know, the House bill passed. It's what twenty

239
00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:46.559
<v Speaker 3>and a half million or twenty one million cap for

240
00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:51.679
<v Speaker 3>all schools. There's no real true competitive badge to a degree,

241
00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:53.679
<v Speaker 3>But they're going to spend it all. I mean that's

242
00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:55.279
<v Speaker 3>what she said. She said, we're in it, we know

243
00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:56.919
<v Speaker 3>this is what we're here for. That's funny. You're going

244
00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:58.919
<v Speaker 3>to spend it all, But first you have to get it, Yeah,

245
00:10:58.960 --> 00:10:59.519
<v Speaker 3>to get it first.

246
00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:03.200
<v Speaker 2>Right, to me, that's an unbelievable task because you don't

247
00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:04.519
<v Speaker 2>just get it in a one time deal.

248
00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:08.159
<v Speaker 3>And so every year, every year, you're knocking phone calls.

249
00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:11.399
<v Speaker 2>Cold world. I don't know if you're you're a little

250
00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:14.240
<v Speaker 2>in that world. I'm not in that world. But how

251
00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:16.879
<v Speaker 2>would you come up with twenty one million every year?

252
00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:21.720
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Every year from the people that you go to

253
00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:25.519
<v Speaker 3>all the time. People much smarter than me are figuring

254
00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:27.200
<v Speaker 3>that out, hopefully, because if it was me, i'd go

255
00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:34.039
<v Speaker 3>little knocking selling candy bars. Yeah, yeah, we got we

256
00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:37.840
<v Speaker 3>got somebody uh in the next band coming up? Though,

257
00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.440
<v Speaker 3>Hey listen, I said this before, and I reached out

258
00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:45.440
<v Speaker 3>to my buddy. Yeah, I think something fell on the

259
00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:48.600
<v Speaker 3>floor because I'm gonna drop Gabe Sullivan, who's in Chicha

260
00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:51.720
<v Speaker 3>and he's a lead guitarist right now for Modern English.

261
00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:55.759
<v Speaker 3>I talked to him about utilizing airson a football stadium

262
00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.440
<v Speaker 3>for concerts, right. I mean that's yeah, you put that

263
00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.279
<v Speaker 3>in the conversation. Used to be Yea. You had Rolling

264
00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:03.519
<v Speaker 3>Stones I think played there, you had Fleetwood Mac played there.

265
00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.399
<v Speaker 3>I mean jay Z, Kanye mind, I shouldn't say Kanye

266
00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:08.679
<v Speaker 3>on there. But yeah, they all played in that stadium. Why,

267
00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:11.559
<v Speaker 3>I mean, if we're looking for activation of funds as

268
00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:13.159
<v Speaker 3>a community, I want to go. I don't want to.

269
00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:15.120
<v Speaker 3>We just drove to Phoenix on Monday night to see

270
00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:16.759
<v Speaker 3>the Pixies, right, I don't want to make that drive

271
00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:18.960
<v Speaker 3>if I don't have to. But why if it's in

272
00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:21.279
<v Speaker 3>our backyard, I'm going to it. No, the coast perspective

273
00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:24.000
<v Speaker 3>makes sense. Yeah, I know you're You're exactly right, which,

274
00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:25.080
<v Speaker 3>of course I'm sure they thought of.

275
00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:27.080
<v Speaker 2>But oh, we don't want to know. Guess what you

276
00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.120
<v Speaker 2>got to come up with money? You gotta figure it out. Hey,

277
00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:30.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm selling blood after this.

278
00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.879
<v Speaker 3>And I you know, I had this conversation yesterday with

279
00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:36.799
<v Speaker 3>Ali and I'll maybe I'll ask me to give mee

280
00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:41.039
<v Speaker 3>on what do you think? How can I have word

281
00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:43.679
<v Speaker 3>this in a you want me to ask you the question?

282
00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:46.279
<v Speaker 3>I want you to answer this question. Okay, So we

283
00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:48.519
<v Speaker 3>we have problems that arise all over the place. Right,

284
00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:51.360
<v Speaker 3>who's the week our community? Okay, Right, let's let's talk

285
00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:54.360
<v Speaker 3>about ours. Let's just talk about Southern Arizona. I don't

286
00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.720
<v Speaker 3>think we do the best job in the world of

287
00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:00.600
<v Speaker 3>looking at other communities with similar problems that have better solutions.

288
00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.480
<v Speaker 3>Why do you think that is good question? That's a

289
00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:05.480
<v Speaker 3>great question. I mean if we step back and we say, okay,

290
00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:07.679
<v Speaker 3>we have a problem. We have Google now, which is

291
00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:09.519
<v Speaker 3>a great thing. You can look at who has a

292
00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:11.840
<v Speaker 3>similar problem. What are they doing? And maybe it's not

293
00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:14.279
<v Speaker 3>we're not copying them exactly because it's a different environment,

294
00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:16.600
<v Speaker 3>but it's going to be in though. That's a great,

295
00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:17.360
<v Speaker 3>great question.

296
00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:22.279
<v Speaker 2>First, the first thing I'd say is ego, because you're

297
00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:24.440
<v Speaker 2>not going to let that other places have smarter people

298
00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:28.720
<v Speaker 2>than you. One two, Look at El Paso, just look

299
00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:32.240
<v Speaker 2>at Albuquerque, Albuque. Let me tell you you're spot on.

300
00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:34.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm from that area, right and every time I go home,

301
00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:37.039
<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking, why can't Arizon, Tuston do this?

302
00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:37.759
<v Speaker 3>Why can't do that?

303
00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:40.919
<v Speaker 2>And people here are so provincial that they don't they

304
00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:44.759
<v Speaker 2>we're better than Albuquerque, We're I got to know, like

305
00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:46.639
<v Speaker 2>a like a full blown argument with a guy from

306
00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:48.519
<v Speaker 2>l Pass one time, because he was telling me l

307
00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:49.480
<v Speaker 2>Passes better than do something.

308
00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:51.279
<v Speaker 3>I was like, you're out of your mind. But then

309
00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:52.879
<v Speaker 3>when you step back, like you're saying right now not

310
00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:54.159
<v Speaker 3>doing I didn't mean to cut you ask to you,

311
00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:57.039
<v Speaker 3>but you're right, what the hell? Yeah, you know, how

312
00:13:57.039 --> 00:13:59.600
<v Speaker 3>did this work? How did this happen? Right right? Right?

313
00:13:59.600 --> 00:13:59.720
<v Speaker 1>Oh?

314
00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:00.320
<v Speaker 3>I with you.

315
00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.919
<v Speaker 2>They have a very good, well attended soccer program. Ye

316
00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:08.960
<v Speaker 2>a triple A baseball That's that's constantly unbelievable, And I'm.

317
00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:12.360
<v Speaker 3>Thinking, why not touson and they've had it forever here.

318
00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:14.759
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm sure the heat has a lot to play

319
00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:16.559
<v Speaker 2>with it, but l pass on two center in the

320
00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:20.080
<v Speaker 2>same conversations Heat, You are right, so we'll ask him

321
00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:22.200
<v Speaker 2>to get some sit Yes, yeah, we got to go

322
00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:24.519
<v Speaker 2>because we're going to talk to Victor Quevas. Yes, Victor

323
00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:27.480
<v Speaker 2>where he is the owner of Tucson baseball team who

324
00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:29.200
<v Speaker 2>sell baseball team which will have a name at some

325
00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:29.919
<v Speaker 2>point in the.

326
00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:33.039
<v Speaker 3>Few following season. Yeah, okay, we'll come back.

327
00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.960
<v Speaker 7>The window Depot has everything you need to create the

328
00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:39.240
<v Speaker 7>kitchen or bathroom of your dreams. Frowsy aisles of instock

329
00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:42.759
<v Speaker 7>cabinets available in a variety of sizes and configurations, and

330
00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:46.320
<v Speaker 7>instantly elevate your space. Today, visit a showroom and let

331
00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:48.879
<v Speaker 7>our experts guide you. Whether you're choosing for money to

332
00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:52.080
<v Speaker 7>go designs or creating a custom masterpiece. We can help

333
00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:55.279
<v Speaker 7>you select the perfect wood type, color, and style, and

334
00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:57.480
<v Speaker 7>top it off with unique hardware to complete your look.

335
00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:00.720
<v Speaker 7>Find a location near you at the Window Depot. The

336
00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:03.159
<v Speaker 7>window Depot more than a windows store.

337
00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:08.759
<v Speaker 8>Are you ready ready to discover your soul, your wild side,

338
00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:14.559
<v Speaker 8>your passion, your joy and excitement. From the latest slots

339
00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:18.200
<v Speaker 8>and table games, to award winning dining, to world class

340
00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:20.879
<v Speaker 8>entertainment to a luxurious resort.

341
00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:23.240
<v Speaker 3>Discover all this and more.

342
00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:28.879
<v Speaker 8>Discover with Soul Casino del Soul, the soul of Tucson.

343
00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:32.799
<v Speaker 3>Are you ready? Enterprise of Fasco Yaki Tribe.

344
00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:35.360
<v Speaker 2>Steve Rivera here to talk about Dorato Rock and Materials.

345
00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:37.679
<v Speaker 2>I needed a lot of gravel for my driveway, so

346
00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:39.840
<v Speaker 2>I called Eric at Dorato Rock. He found out the

347
00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:42.440
<v Speaker 2>amount and color I needed and boom, it was taken

348
00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:44.480
<v Speaker 2>care of and at a great price. How do I

349
00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:46.639
<v Speaker 2>know radio commercials work? I heard one of his on

350
00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:49.480
<v Speaker 2>the radio. Dorato Rock and Materials provides a wide range

351
00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:53.320
<v Speaker 2>of landscaping materials, including decorative rock, boulders, gravel, soil, and

352
00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:56.480
<v Speaker 2>sand for residential and commercial use in the Tucson area.

353
00:15:56.519 --> 00:15:58.320
<v Speaker 2>They are locally owned and have been around for more

354
00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.919
<v Speaker 2>than fifteen years. Call five to zero four zero zero

355
00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:03.960
<v Speaker 2>for two three to three. Spring is in the air

356
00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:06.039
<v Speaker 2>and the school year is coming to a close. Time

357
00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:08.639
<v Speaker 2>to order your academic and spring sports awards for your

358
00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:09.480
<v Speaker 2>student athlete.

359
00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:10.559
<v Speaker 3>Creative Awards with.

360
00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.080
<v Speaker 6>Fifty two years as your top awards and promotional product supplier.

361
00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:16.320
<v Speaker 6>Give them an award they can be proud of. They

362
00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:22.320
<v Speaker 6>have trophies, plaques, acrylics, art class fine crystal, metal, name badges,

363
00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:25.919
<v Speaker 6>stock and custom awards. Come visit the Creative Awards Idea

364
00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:28.639
<v Speaker 6>Center at two twenty eight West TrackMan Street, across the

365
00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:31.879
<v Speaker 6>street from PEMA College Downtown campus, or visit them online

366
00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:34.120
<v Speaker 6>at Creative Awards az dot com.

367
00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:36.320
<v Speaker 4>Did you know collecting sports cards is one of the

368
00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:39.000
<v Speaker 4>fastest growing hobbies around. Whether you're looking to start or

369
00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.919
<v Speaker 4>expand your collection, Showtime Cards is your ultimate destination. As

370
00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:44.679
<v Speaker 4>one of the leading card shops in the country, we've

371
00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:46.919
<v Speaker 4>been serving our community for over twenty five years with

372
00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:48.360
<v Speaker 4>the best in sports cards and.

373
00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:49.360
<v Speaker 3>Trading card games.

374
00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.960
<v Speaker 4>From rare fines to the latest releases, Showtime Cards has

375
00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:55.919
<v Speaker 4>it all. Check them out at Showtimecards dot com or

376
00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:59.080
<v Speaker 4>visit them on East Speedway and discover why collectors everywhere

377
00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:01.240
<v Speaker 4>trust Showtime cars for their passion.

378
00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:07.720
<v Speaker 6>Richard Bacall Law Office, defending Arizonas for over thirty years

379
00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.640
<v Speaker 6>and a Wildcat fan for over sixty. If you need

380
00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:14.359
<v Speaker 6>an experienced criminal defense attorney, call Richard Bacall five two

381
00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:17.640
<v Speaker 6>oh seven to four to Zho twelve thirteen, browd sponsor

382
00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:18.640
<v Speaker 6>of Eye on the Ball.

383
00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:23.799
<v Speaker 9>Go cats, got bugs, termites, bees, or rodents, Arizona Pest

384
00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:25.039
<v Speaker 9>Control will hunt them down.

385
00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:27.279
<v Speaker 3>Arizona Pest Control is your complete.

386
00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:29.880
<v Speaker 9>Desert pest management specialist that's can't run or hide from

387
00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:32.559
<v Speaker 9>Arizona Pest Control. They use only the latest and most

388
00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:36.319
<v Speaker 9>technologically advanced methods of pest elimination available, which minimizes the

389
00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:39.119
<v Speaker 9>effects on the environment. Let Arizona Pest Control get rid

390
00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:42.559
<v Speaker 9>of your bad bugs, termites, bees, or rodents. Serving Tucson

391
00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:46.000
<v Speaker 9>and Southern Arizona since nineteen forty seven. Go to azypest

392
00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:48.559
<v Speaker 9>dot com to schedule your free evaluation today.

393
00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:51.720
<v Speaker 7>Looking for quality windows without the weight, come to the

394
00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:54.559
<v Speaker 7>Window Depot. We carry a huge selection of mill guard

395
00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:57.640
<v Speaker 7>windows in stock now and ready for pickup. Need something

396
00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:01.519
<v Speaker 7>custom no problem from new construction into full home replacement.

397
00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:04.359
<v Speaker 7>Will help you order the perfect mill guard windows built

398
00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:07.519
<v Speaker 7>to fit your space, style, and budget. Whether you're a

399
00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:10.640
<v Speaker 7>homeowner or contractor, the Window Depot makes it easy to

400
00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:13.440
<v Speaker 7>get the windows you need fast. Visit the Window Deepot

401
00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:15.680
<v Speaker 7>dot com to find a location near you and see

402
00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:18.079
<v Speaker 7>why we're your mill guard window experts.

403
00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:23.759
<v Speaker 10>Why mining so important. It's the foundation of everything that

404
00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:28.200
<v Speaker 10>defines a society. Everything you see is a product of mine,

405
00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:33.200
<v Speaker 10>no matter when, no matter how, no matter why. Every

406
00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:38.079
<v Speaker 10>society on this planet has developed, grown and modernized based

407
00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:43.680
<v Speaker 10>solely on the minimals a process. That's why mining is

408
00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:48.359
<v Speaker 10>so important.

409
00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:51.839
<v Speaker 11>At Nova Home Loans, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity

410
00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:54.759
<v Speaker 11>to enjoy the independence that comes with home ownership. Paul

411
00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:56.920
<v Speaker 11>Volpi is ready to help you find an option that

412
00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:59.440
<v Speaker 11>best fits your needs. Whether you're a first time or

413
00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:02.559
<v Speaker 11>veteran buyer, or want to get cash out with the refinance.

414
00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:05.039
<v Speaker 11>Nova has a variety of home loan programs to meet

415
00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:08.440
<v Speaker 11>your unique situation. Visit voltepeteam dot com, that's v O

416
00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:11.359
<v Speaker 11>l PE team dot com or call five two O

417
00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:14.079
<v Speaker 11>six one eight five six two six Today n MLS

418
00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:15.599
<v Speaker 11>three oh eight seven, ariazon a b K O nine

419
00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:17.799
<v Speaker 11>two nine four two Equal Housing Opportunity, Got commitment to

420
00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:19.720
<v Speaker 11>lendrickson credit rates and available loan programs or something to

421
00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:20.079
<v Speaker 11>change the.

422
00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:23.319
<v Speaker 1>N notice Steve Rivera, he's got his eye on the

423
00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:27.880
<v Speaker 1>ball on Tucson sports station, Fox Sports fourteen fIF day.

424
00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:34.440
<v Speaker 2>Hey, welcome back to you in the ball here on

425
00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:38.799
<v Speaker 2>Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Blake Dieger.

426
00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:42.319
<v Speaker 2>Now on the phone, we have Victor Aquamas with the

427
00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:44.079
<v Speaker 2>new Tucson baseball team.

428
00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:45.000
<v Speaker 3>How are you, Victor?

429
00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:48.279
<v Speaker 5>Hi? How are you hose? Everybody?

430
00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:48.599
<v Speaker 3>Well?

431
00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:51.680
<v Speaker 2>Welcome, welcome, Hey. I think you're doing a great favorite

432
00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:54.799
<v Speaker 2>to Tucson. I hope they do a great favor back

433
00:19:55.119 --> 00:20:00.000
<v Speaker 2>and enjoy your baseball team here in the fall.

434
00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:04.519
<v Speaker 5>We're looking forward to it and like you say, aspecting

435
00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:09.119
<v Speaker 5>to get the favorite back. We're excited. We're excited. We're

436
00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:11.400
<v Speaker 5>excited not to be back fable to Tucson and not

437
00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:15.799
<v Speaker 5>just say it both, but just up caliber baseball. So

438
00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:19.039
<v Speaker 5>I think I think the city is hungry for it,

439
00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:20.839
<v Speaker 5>and I think will go real good.

440
00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:24.599
<v Speaker 3>So I was telling Victor, I was telling Steve earlier

441
00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:27.200
<v Speaker 3>about the event last night that you guys put on

442
00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:30.079
<v Speaker 3>at the carriage House. How unbelievable was the turnout that

443
00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:33.359
<v Speaker 3>you guys had and then the unbelievable press conference this

444
00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:35.640
<v Speaker 3>morning that you put on and all the people that

445
00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:37.960
<v Speaker 3>came out, and I think you hit the nail on

446
00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:42.039
<v Speaker 3>the head. Tucson is excited, Southern Arizona's excited for this,

447
00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:45.279
<v Speaker 3>We are hungry for this. What are your you know,

448
00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:47.480
<v Speaker 3>you answered this question this morning, but I want everybody

449
00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:50.799
<v Speaker 3>to hear at what are your expectations the first year,

450
00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:53.680
<v Speaker 3>well my first year.

451
00:20:54.039 --> 00:20:55.960
<v Speaker 5>The friger of the team could be that the city

452
00:20:56.160 --> 00:21:00.000
<v Speaker 5>embraced it. I mean, we have a good and really

453
00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:04.119
<v Speaker 5>good h impact in the Latin Latin community because they

454
00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:08.920
<v Speaker 5>know our baseball and uh they've been to add Kinot

455
00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:13.359
<v Speaker 5>to see what we have every September. But the real

456
00:21:13.400 --> 00:21:16.000
<v Speaker 5>goal is to have all tu soon getting get behind it.

457
00:21:16.039 --> 00:21:18.920
<v Speaker 5>You know, all the whole community get behind it. And

458
00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:22.839
<v Speaker 5>I think the level of uh the level of show

459
00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.680
<v Speaker 5>that we're gonna present it to help. I'm just asking

460
00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:29.480
<v Speaker 5>everybody just to show up to the sport by the

461
00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:33.480
<v Speaker 5>season tickets. We need to get behind this because in

462
00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:36.440
<v Speaker 5>the past, uh, it's been tried. You know, baseball in

463
00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:40.359
<v Speaker 5>Tucson has been tried and failed for whatever reason. But

464
00:21:40.599 --> 00:21:43.920
<v Speaker 5>the difference this time around is that This team is

465
00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:51.240
<v Speaker 5>for Tucson, people of Tucson. We're not moving, We're probing

466
00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:54.920
<v Speaker 5>to say, uh, forever here. If the people embrace it,

467
00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:59.160
<v Speaker 5>will be here. So I think I think, uh, the

468
00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:03.160
<v Speaker 5>timing EXPERI sect right now that that's that's that's why

469
00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:06.000
<v Speaker 5>the league got behind this project. And all the owners

470
00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:09.480
<v Speaker 5>and all the teams are excited and and shoin their support,

471
00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:11.519
<v Speaker 5>and I think it will be a good thing to do.

472
00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:14.759
<v Speaker 2>Well, you're talking fifteen years, right, we haven't had a

473
00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:18.319
<v Speaker 2>baseball at this level since then, and you're hungry for it, right,

474
00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:21.759
<v Speaker 2>no doubt about that. How did how did the WBC

475
00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:25.839
<v Speaker 2>that the Bleak was a big part of, and then

476
00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:28.920
<v Speaker 2>the Mexican Baseball League, how did the Fiesta? I'm sorry,

477
00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:29.920
<v Speaker 2>how did that play a part?

478
00:22:31.559 --> 00:22:34.519
<v Speaker 5>Well, we've been coming to the Fiesta for all those

479
00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:37.680
<v Speaker 5>you know, thirteen fourteen years in the past, and and

480
00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:43.599
<v Speaker 5>we've seen how that event has grown and the target

481
00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:49.039
<v Speaker 5>you know, the target market that it caters to. And uh,

482
00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:52.759
<v Speaker 5>well I was starting to move from our city because

483
00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:56.279
<v Speaker 5>you know, I mean, the the Legion just got too

484
00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:59.440
<v Speaker 5>big for us. We needed to make a move, and

485
00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:01.759
<v Speaker 5>to Song was always on the map.

486
00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:02.839
<v Speaker 3>Uh.

487
00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:05.759
<v Speaker 5>We were looking for a million plus uh you know,

488
00:23:05.880 --> 00:23:11.160
<v Speaker 5>population city and tuision, you know, scratch that box. We

489
00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:14.480
<v Speaker 5>were we were looking, uh for a city that knows

490
00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:18.079
<v Speaker 5>baseball and no one knows, uh what's all about. And

491
00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:21.319
<v Speaker 5>you know, again took some scratch that box. Uh and

492
00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:27.000
<v Speaker 5>uh we played, I mean we played writing that zone.

493
00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:30.480
<v Speaker 5>I mean, uh, more than half of the teams didn't.

494
00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:33.279
<v Speaker 5>I didn't ride the bus to do so, you know,

495
00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:37.079
<v Speaker 5>they're not that far away, and so I mean it

496
00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:40.079
<v Speaker 5>was like, uh, you know, it was like almost like

497
00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:43.240
<v Speaker 5>the perfect mark. The way I see it, it's that

498
00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:47.599
<v Speaker 5>I had, I had a franchise to move and there

499
00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:51.400
<v Speaker 5>was a baseball town without a franchise, So that's like

500
00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:55.559
<v Speaker 5>a match made in heaven. And then uh, I had

501
00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:59.720
<v Speaker 5>the fortune of medium play and a bunch of people,

502
00:23:59.799 --> 00:24:05.200
<v Speaker 5>you know, Sala and Edgar and Felipe Asia for visit Tucson,

503
00:24:05.319 --> 00:24:08.880
<v Speaker 5>and then I pitched the Pride to them. They loved it,

504
00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:10.920
<v Speaker 5>and then we took it to the next level and

505
00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:16.519
<v Speaker 5>then they we sat down with the county people, so

506
00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:21.480
<v Speaker 5>everybody got excited, everybody got behind it, and we've been

507
00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:25.640
<v Speaker 5>working lass off for the last ten months and finally

508
00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:27.400
<v Speaker 5>finally we're here.

509
00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:32.240
<v Speaker 3>Fantastic Yeah, a big difference to Victor. You know this

510
00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:35.440
<v Speaker 3>obviously because it's you. But Victor and his family are

511
00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:37.960
<v Speaker 3>in Tucson, right They're not in another community that owns

512
00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:41.240
<v Speaker 3>a team here or they're commuting. They live here. They're

513
00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:44.160
<v Speaker 3>here for the long haul. They care not only that

514
00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:46.680
<v Speaker 3>the team is successful, but what happens to Tucson. And

515
00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:49.480
<v Speaker 3>I think that's really important because that's a true twoson

516
00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:52.359
<v Speaker 3>in right. We we care about our communities. You have

517
00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:54.720
<v Speaker 3>a big stake in it. Victor is a huge stake

518
00:24:54.759 --> 00:24:57.759
<v Speaker 3>in it of everything that's happening right now. So Victor,

519
00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:00.720
<v Speaker 3>will you talk to everybody right now listening and uh,

520
00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:04.200
<v Speaker 3>and line us what if we want to buy season tickets?

521
00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:04.920
<v Speaker 3>Where do we go?

522
00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:09.720
<v Speaker 5>Well, we have also we have our social mineral right now,

523
00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:14.799
<v Speaker 5>you go into into the I mean it's it's to

524
00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:18.400
<v Speaker 5>some maid who team and if directly, it will directly

525
00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:23.759
<v Speaker 5>exactly to where you need to buy those online. And

526
00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:25.960
<v Speaker 5>one thing that I don't I don't want to forget,

527
00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:28.559
<v Speaker 5>and I need to say this lake is important.

528
00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:29.720
<v Speaker 2>Uh.

529
00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:34.000
<v Speaker 5>People need to know that this team it's it's not

530
00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:37.960
<v Speaker 5>an expansion team, it's a real team. We have history

531
00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:42.839
<v Speaker 5>that's been really successful so we're in it. Uh, the

532
00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:45.880
<v Speaker 5>first year we'll be contending for a championship. That is

533
00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:50.039
<v Speaker 5>important to people to know. It's not apployee for three, three, four,

534
00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:53.880
<v Speaker 5>five years. You know, we're we're not rebuilding, not anything.

535
00:25:54.039 --> 00:25:58.920
<v Speaker 5>We are a really contender. So you know, that's that's

536
00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:00.920
<v Speaker 5>important import for people to know.

537
00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:05.519
<v Speaker 2>So, So, Victor, we're in mid June right now, you

538
00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:08.279
<v Speaker 2>have a four or five months before you start the season.

539
00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:10.880
<v Speaker 2>What's the next step to get to that point?

540
00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:16.880
<v Speaker 5>Well, me and my team we're we're working on selling sponsorships.

541
00:26:16.920 --> 00:26:20.160
<v Speaker 5>You know, we're working activity here right now through the

542
00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:24.480
<v Speaker 5>league because all the games in one hundred percent of

543
00:26:24.519 --> 00:26:29.519
<v Speaker 5>the games will be seen in Mexico. So we want

544
00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:32.680
<v Speaker 5>the same the same kind of response that when the

545
00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:36.759
<v Speaker 5>team travels to Mexico that everybody to so can be

546
00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:39.119
<v Speaker 5>able to watch it on TV. We're working that deal

547
00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:44.480
<v Speaker 5>right now. But sports wise, the first week of September,

548
00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:48.200
<v Speaker 5>I think it was Depleber of fifth, we open our

549
00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:52.119
<v Speaker 5>training camp. We we usually do that for six weeks

550
00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:56.359
<v Speaker 5>and we get the team here. Uh, we start you know,

551
00:26:56.400 --> 00:27:03.400
<v Speaker 5>our working program and then asses starts our first game

552
00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:07.559
<v Speaker 5>in here in Tuton. It will be October sixteen, So

553
00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.240
<v Speaker 5>we open it in a region game against Ermoso and

554
00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:14.119
<v Speaker 5>then we have a series hit at Hometool that weekend

555
00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:18.920
<v Speaker 5>against Cremasia too, So that's the next step.

556
00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:22.279
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so you got four months now, you know, six

557
00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:24.920
<v Speaker 2>months here, ten months, yes, so you're going to be

558
00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:27.160
<v Speaker 2>up against this, So a lot of real busy work

559
00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:29.720
<v Speaker 2>and I'm sure you've already started the plans up until

560
00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:31.160
<v Speaker 2>this point to get it done.

561
00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:36.079
<v Speaker 3>Okay, No, it sounds good, Victor.

562
00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:38.240
<v Speaker 5>We have a lot of work ahead, Victor.

563
00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:40.640
<v Speaker 3>And one thing that's really important I think for the

564
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:42.960
<v Speaker 3>community to know too, is that you guys are going

565
00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:45.680
<v Speaker 3>to do a lot of the youth to the kids outreach,

566
00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.480
<v Speaker 3>put on clinics, have the players go around so there's

567
00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:52.319
<v Speaker 3>meet and greets all over southern Arizona, and continually build

568
00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:54.519
<v Speaker 3>that so you build a fan base kind of like

569
00:27:54.559 --> 00:27:56.720
<v Speaker 3>what the Roadrunners are doing in the hockey world. You

570
00:27:56.759 --> 00:27:58.119
<v Speaker 3>guys are going to do the same thing in the

571
00:27:58.160 --> 00:28:01.319
<v Speaker 3>baseball community. When do you plan on starting to do that?

572
00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:03.599
<v Speaker 3>Are you gonna plan on doing that this fall or

573
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:05.079
<v Speaker 3>are you planning on after the season.

574
00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:09.440
<v Speaker 5>No, no, no, we're plan doing it this I mean

575
00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:14.000
<v Speaker 5>right away. We need to embrace our kids. Uh, with

576
00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:16.480
<v Speaker 5>the players. We need to take advantage of that player's

577
00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:19.519
<v Speaker 5>been here and we're gonna we're gonna do the outreach,

578
00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:22.200
<v Speaker 5>you know, to the all of the little leagues that

579
00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:25.880
<v Speaker 5>are active right now in Tucson. We're gonna talk to everybody.

580
00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:28.960
<v Speaker 5>We're gonna work out a schedule, and we're gonna work

581
00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:31.519
<v Speaker 5>out a program, and we want to start right now.

582
00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:37.400
<v Speaker 5>We value we really value uh, the kids. I mean

583
00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:40.440
<v Speaker 5>that's the first for us. We needed, we really need

584
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:42.920
<v Speaker 5>to get involved with that, and we'll do it for

585
00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:43.319
<v Speaker 5>this fall.

586
00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:44.640
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, no question.

587
00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:47.119
<v Speaker 2>Let let me ask you from the beginning, So where

588
00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:50.359
<v Speaker 2>were you sitting? Were you in Tucson since Blake says

589
00:28:50.359 --> 00:28:52.720
<v Speaker 2>you're here, or were you in Mexico sitting somewhere in

590
00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:56.039
<v Speaker 2>your in your office and hm hmm, how can I

591
00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:56.839
<v Speaker 2>make this work?

592
00:28:56.920 --> 00:28:58.920
<v Speaker 3>Or what did this first idea come up?

593
00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:03.359
<v Speaker 5>Well, we were we were a team playing in the

594
00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:09.759
<v Speaker 5>Mexican Pacific League and in so we started we started,

595
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:14.200
<v Speaker 5>you know, we started struggling. We're getting fans in in

596
00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:19.279
<v Speaker 5>the stadium. Uh. It was uh, we have the smallest

597
00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:22.319
<v Speaker 5>league in the city, I mean with the smallest city

598
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.039
<v Speaker 5>in the league. Sorry, and then uh, so I had

599
00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:27.920
<v Speaker 5>to do something. We had to move to Fine Chat

600
00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:31.240
<v Speaker 5>and it was growing, growing, growing exponentially. We couldn't keep

601
00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:34.799
<v Speaker 5>up with it in in our town. Uh, so we

602
00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:37.960
<v Speaker 5>had to move. And me having a lot of connection

603
00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:40.119
<v Speaker 5>with two sons, and I've been coming here back and

604
00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:42.400
<v Speaker 5>forths when I was a kid, you know, with my

605
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:46.119
<v Speaker 5>dad and my family and and so I had a

606
00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:51.200
<v Speaker 5>really connection with two sons. I loved to and growing up,

607
00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:54.160
<v Speaker 5>I saw the toros and I saw the sidewiners, and

608
00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:57.359
<v Speaker 5>me being a baseball guy, my family is in baseball.

609
00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:59.720
<v Speaker 5>You know, my dad now me now my son helped

610
00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:02.960
<v Speaker 5>me a lot. So I mean to me, to me,

611
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:05.680
<v Speaker 5>it was natural. I mean it was we was a

612
00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:08.920
<v Speaker 5>no brainer. Uh, there's there were some challenges of course,

613
00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:11.799
<v Speaker 5>you know it's another country. There's a border between us.

614
00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:15.920
<v Speaker 5>So uh, when we when we figure out and then

615
00:30:16.039 --> 00:30:19.359
<v Speaker 5>we I mean the Mexican babel fists helped because we

616
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:23.599
<v Speaker 5>did that every year. So you know, one thing that

617
00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:26.400
<v Speaker 5>to another one and then here we are.

618
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:29.480
<v Speaker 2>So so you're still fresh right today is the press conmers.

619
00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:32.640
<v Speaker 2>But people have known for a while a month or two,

620
00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:35.440
<v Speaker 2>because you know, started to leak out and some media

621
00:30:35.480 --> 00:30:37.920
<v Speaker 2>people have already talked to you, So do you already

622
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:40.640
<v Speaker 2>have some people who have bought season tickets? Has the

623
00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:42.599
<v Speaker 2>progress or the thing already started?

624
00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:51.359
<v Speaker 5>We started today and the response was being unbelievable. And yes,

625
00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:54.680
<v Speaker 5>we started, we started, but I mean.

626
00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:59.119
<v Speaker 3>Me, I'm pointing to Blake because yeah, everything's going on today.

627
00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:01.680
<v Speaker 3>So today is the first official day, first official day

628
00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:04.519
<v Speaker 3>for Victor. Okay, yeah, okay, So how did today go?

629
00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:06.759
<v Speaker 3>You must have been with seeing some people in the

630
00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:09.759
<v Speaker 3>room having to answer the questions. I'm sure people have

631
00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:11.519
<v Speaker 3>more questions than answers. How was that?

632
00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:16.839
<v Speaker 5>Well? I think I told you the truth. I thought

633
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:19.359
<v Speaker 5>there were going to be more questions of the Actually

634
00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:23.720
<v Speaker 5>where I think, I think the Best Conference went really well.

635
00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:27.400
<v Speaker 5>We explained really well everything, and after that we had

636
00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:31.920
<v Speaker 5>one on one with media and you know, more than

637
00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:34.960
<v Speaker 5>more than just questions, you know that, So we had

638
00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:37.599
<v Speaker 5>one on one that went well too. And after that,

639
00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:39.920
<v Speaker 5>I mean, the commissioner of our league is here, he

640
00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:45.119
<v Speaker 5>was a president of the Best Conference. So I mean

641
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:49.920
<v Speaker 5>we just left, had a quick lunch and actually we're

642
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:52.559
<v Speaker 5>together right now because we have a lot of things

643
00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:56.079
<v Speaker 5>on on our schedule and you know, we're working the agenda.

644
00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:57.920
<v Speaker 2>So let me say this because I've been in the

645
00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:00.839
<v Speaker 2>media for almost forty years now a lot of things,

646
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:03.160
<v Speaker 2>and I think Blake could agree with me. You can,

647
00:32:03.319 --> 00:32:06.079
<v Speaker 2>you don't have to Blake. But Tucson has a very

648
00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:09.720
<v Speaker 2>friendly media. They want you to succeed. They're dying for

649
00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:11.880
<v Speaker 2>you to succeed because we get to cover things right.

650
00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:14.200
<v Speaker 3>Uh. And it's if it's gonna be good baseball, they're

651
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:17.960
<v Speaker 3>gonna be there. Okay, So that's good thing.

652
00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.119
<v Speaker 2>It's a positive thing you'll have. You'll have a big

653
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:22.839
<v Speaker 2>alley in the media in Tucson because they do the

654
00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:25.599
<v Speaker 2>same thing for Arizona, do the things for other people.

655
00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:30.039
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I mean, and and the media it's crucial. I

656
00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:34.680
<v Speaker 5>mean it's crocial that media gets behind these because well

657
00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:40.200
<v Speaker 5>will be known through them. So so the media will

658
00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:44.000
<v Speaker 5>have h I mean, we respected a lot and we

659
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:47.000
<v Speaker 5>will always attend to them because I know that Valuo,

660
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:49.839
<v Speaker 5>we know that video when they can bring to the

661
00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:51.319
<v Speaker 5>table exactly. You know you're right.

662
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:54.160
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So we got to go. But let me ask you.

663
00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:56.960
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so now you're today's first official day, You're you're

664
00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:58.000
<v Speaker 2>gonna be busy.

665
00:32:57.799 --> 00:32:58.240
<v Speaker 3>For a while.

666
00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:00.839
<v Speaker 2>Now, what's the first and most important thing you need

667
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:02.119
<v Speaker 2>to get done here.

668
00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:09.279
<v Speaker 5>Dog heading sponsors. That's the first we need to We

669
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:12.319
<v Speaker 5>need to hit that casulation and st start ringing. You know,

670
00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.079
<v Speaker 5>money just been going out and I would need money.

671
00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:16.039
<v Speaker 3>To be coming in.

672
00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:19.359
<v Speaker 2>And where can they find if Steve Rivera wants to

673
00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:20.880
<v Speaker 2>buy a ticket season ticket?

674
00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:22.720
<v Speaker 3>Where do I go? How do I find it?

675
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:28.000
<v Speaker 5>There's some Bathe team dot net. Okay, there's some Bathel

676
00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:32.079
<v Speaker 5>team dot net. And you'll be elected right there.

677
00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:36.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, okay, no, fantastic, Victor, appreciate you, good luck.

678
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:38.799
<v Speaker 2>We'll see you soon, probably have you on again sometime soon.

679
00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:42.160
<v Speaker 3>Thanks Victor, Tell Tell Salvador, Tell, Victer Junior and Frank

680
00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:42.720
<v Speaker 3>I said.

681
00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:46.160
<v Speaker 5>Hi, okay, of course, thank you by Victor.

682
00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:49.319
<v Speaker 2>Victor quiver the new the owner of the to some

683
00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:54.359
<v Speaker 2>baseball team. Good a lot of optimism, right, How does it?

684
00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:54.920
<v Speaker 3>How does it.

685
00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:59.839
<v Speaker 2>Help you and your capacity at your job? And it's

686
00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:01.759
<v Speaker 2>an I questioned, but no, no, yeah, I mean that's

687
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:04.200
<v Speaker 2>a good question. So I mean, our our goal for SASA,

688
00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:06.119
<v Speaker 2>when you're talking about Southerners on the Sports, Tourism and

689
00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:07.960
<v Speaker 2>Film Authority is to support or bring things that are

690
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:11.239
<v Speaker 2>going to create economic impact. This creates economic impact, Okay,

691
00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:15.719
<v Speaker 2>it furthers along our perspective and our our mission of

692
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:20.039
<v Speaker 2>bringing back professional baseball in a manner and then creating

693
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:24.000
<v Speaker 2>international appeal, but also strengthening our bond in our partnership

694
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:27.719
<v Speaker 2>with Major League Baseball and hopefully furthering along future elements. Yeah,

695
00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:31.480
<v Speaker 2>when you've known about this for a while, right, obviously, Uh.

696
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:35.800
<v Speaker 3>None about what this This today was the first I've

697
00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:37.599
<v Speaker 3>been trying to pull some stuff out. Yeah.

698
00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.239
<v Speaker 2>But but besides that, you've known about this, and when

699
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:42.199
<v Speaker 2>you first found out about it before we go to break,

700
00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:44.320
<v Speaker 2>are you thinking fantastic?

701
00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:48.199
<v Speaker 3>Are you thinking? What are you thinking? I'm thinking that

702
00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:51.760
<v Speaker 3>this is the start of something great? Right, And I

703
00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:53.719
<v Speaker 3>know you don't blow smoking the way. I don't know,

704
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:56.199
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure, I'm pretty I'm pretty open book about stuff.

705
00:34:57.719 --> 00:34:57.920
<v Speaker 5>You know.

706
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:00.320
<v Speaker 3>In the press conference today before I spoke, such a

707
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:02.039
<v Speaker 3>little blurb that I promised some people in the room

708
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:03.920
<v Speaker 3>that we're in curse. And that was kind of the

709
00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:06.519
<v Speaker 3>honest truth because I just say things, right. I don't

710
00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:09.719
<v Speaker 3>want to I want to be honest with everybody. But

711
00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:13.320
<v Speaker 3>it would have been used in context for enthusiasm, I hope, So, yeah,

712
00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:16.400
<v Speaker 3>and I hope it comes to recross that way, it's Steve.

713
00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:18.480
<v Speaker 3>Think about what we have coming, right, I mean you

714
00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:20.639
<v Speaker 3>think about we were talking about to try and do

715
00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:24.320
<v Speaker 3>a sports summit for you know, all our local sporting agencies.

716
00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:29.320
<v Speaker 3>But you look at what we currently have comparative to twelve, fifteen,

717
00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:34.079
<v Speaker 3>ten years ago. It's it's pretty impressive. It's exciting. Yeah,

718
00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:38.000
<v Speaker 3>and the changes, the changes. This is not just a

719
00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:40.880
<v Speaker 3>University of Arizona Town. It is a University of Arizona Town.

720
00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:44.440
<v Speaker 3>It's also professional sports. So let's take a break here.

721
00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:47.760
<v Speaker 3>I'm interested about this summit. Yeah, we'll talk more about it. Yeah,

722
00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:49.519
<v Speaker 3>this is the first first I heard of it. It's

723
00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:49.960
<v Speaker 3>a good idea.

724
00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:54.039
<v Speaker 6>What's your goal a new career or career advancement? How

725
00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:57.440
<v Speaker 6>about transferring to a four year college. PEMA Community College

726
00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:00.559
<v Speaker 6>can help you make some day today and reach your

727
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:03.960
<v Speaker 6>goals affordably on your schedule. With over one hundred programs

728
00:36:03.960 --> 00:36:06.880
<v Speaker 6>to choose from and financial laid available, it's time to

729
00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:09.800
<v Speaker 6>earn the degree or certificate you need to prepare for

730
00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:13.719
<v Speaker 6>the career you want. PEMA offers free career exploration classes

731
00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:16.280
<v Speaker 6>so you can choose the field that's right for you.

732
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:19.840
<v Speaker 6>Learn how at PEMA dot edu slash someday.

733
00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:23.639
<v Speaker 3>Where do you buy exercise equipment Arizona.

734
00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:26.119
<v Speaker 11>Health, Arizona Health, Arizona Health.

735
00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:29.320
<v Speaker 12>Of course, to feel better and look better, it makes

736
00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:32.199
<v Speaker 12>sense to buy your fitness equipment from the people who

737
00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:35.719
<v Speaker 12>know it better than anyone else. At Arizona Health, our

738
00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:38.159
<v Speaker 12>goal is to help you choose the equipment you need

739
00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:41.480
<v Speaker 12>to reach your goals. Your health and fitness deserve the

740
00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:44.440
<v Speaker 12>best you deserve. Arizona Health The.

741
00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:47.159
<v Speaker 3>Leading and Exercise Equipment on.

742
00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:49.039
<v Speaker 12>Twenty second, just west of Wilmot.

743
00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:51.639
<v Speaker 3>Where do you buy exercise equipment?

744
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:55.840
<v Speaker 11>Arizona Health, Arizona Health, Arizona Health.

745
00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:59.039
<v Speaker 12>Of course, to feel better and look better, it makes

746
00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:01.880
<v Speaker 12>sense to buy your fitness equipment from the people who

747
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:05.440
<v Speaker 12>know it better than anyone else. At Arizona Health, our

748
00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:07.880
<v Speaker 12>goal is to help you choose the equipment you need

749
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:11.199
<v Speaker 12>to reach your goals. Your health and fitness deserve the

750
00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:15.639
<v Speaker 12>best you deserve. Arizona Health The Leading Edge and Exercise

751
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:18.760
<v Speaker 12>Equipment on twenty second, just west of Wilmot.

752
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:22.039
<v Speaker 2>If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you know it's

753
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:23.800
<v Speaker 2>been successful for nearly forty years.

754
00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:24.320
<v Speaker 3>Now.

755
00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:26.480
<v Speaker 2>Take a look back at the Ludolsen Era. In my

756
00:37:26.519 --> 00:37:28.559
<v Speaker 2>new book Lessons from Loot It was a labor of

757
00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:31.039
<v Speaker 2>love through the eyes of twenty five former players, coaches

758
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:33.559
<v Speaker 2>and friends to give insight to the coach and the

759
00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:36.480
<v Speaker 2>man who led them, competed against them, and inspired them.

760
00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:39.320
<v Speaker 2>Twenty five chapters for his twenty five years as Arizona's

761
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:42.360
<v Speaker 2>beloved coach. Lessons from lut is an insight to how

762
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:45.800
<v Speaker 2>he built the program into a national powerhouse. Want one

763
00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:49.719
<v Speaker 2>email me at Steve dot Rivera ninety five at gmail

764
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:51.960
<v Speaker 2>dot com. Hey Tucson, Steve Rivera here, and I've got

765
00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:53.679
<v Speaker 2>a tip for you. Want to be in good hands

766
00:37:53.679 --> 00:37:56.000
<v Speaker 2>while cruising the desert or kicking back at home, then

767
00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:58.119
<v Speaker 2>you need to call my friends at the Edmund Marcus

768
00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:00.840
<v Speaker 2>All State Agency. These guys are the m of home

769
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:03.519
<v Speaker 2>and auto coverage. Whether it's a thunder bender or a

770
00:38:03.599 --> 00:38:06.719
<v Speaker 2>leaky roof, They've got you covered. Don't fumble your chance

771
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:09.880
<v Speaker 2>to say call them today and score big on your insurance.

772
00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:12.760
<v Speaker 2>With the Edmond Marcus All State Agency. You're always in

773
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:13.320
<v Speaker 2>good hands.

774
00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:16.440
<v Speaker 3>Visit them at twenty seven nineteen Lord Campbell or column

775
00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:22.079
<v Speaker 3>at five two zero three two three nine three three three.

776
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.880
<v Speaker 13>At Pyramid Federal Credit Union. We believe less is more.

777
00:38:26.079 --> 00:38:29.440
<v Speaker 13>Let's peace mean more money in your pocket, Less hassle

778
00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:33.199
<v Speaker 13>means more time for what matters, and less stress means

779
00:38:33.239 --> 00:38:37.679
<v Speaker 13>more confidence in your financial future. Pyramids Lessons More Philosophy

780
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:41.079
<v Speaker 13>is coming to your neighborhood with a new branch opening

781
00:38:41.239 --> 00:38:44.559
<v Speaker 13>at the two Sun Spectrum Pyramid Federal Credit Union where

782
00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:49.760
<v Speaker 13>Less is More, federally insured by NCUA, an equal opportunity lender.

783
00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:55.760
<v Speaker 14>Craving Tucson's Best Burger, The Fourth Avenue Legend is back.

784
00:38:56.280 --> 00:39:00.000
<v Speaker 14>Lindy's on Fourth is celebrating twenty years, and Lindy himself

785
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:00.840
<v Speaker 14>is back.

786
00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:01.360
<v Speaker 5>Behind the grill.

787
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:05.159
<v Speaker 14>We've got new mouthwatering burgers and great daily drink specials.

788
00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:08.639
<v Speaker 14>Don't miss our upcoming twentieth anniversary Summer Bash and year

789
00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:11.599
<v Speaker 14>end celebration. So come down to Lindy's on Fourth or

790
00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:15.679
<v Speaker 14>order online at l fourth dot com. Lindy and Tucson's

791
00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:16.800
<v Speaker 14>Best Burger are.

792
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:23.760
<v Speaker 1>Waiting Streamy live on the iHeartRadio AB. This is I

793
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:27.760
<v Speaker 1>on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen

794
00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:28.360
<v Speaker 1>fifty eight.

795
00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:32.480
<v Speaker 2>Hey, welcome back to I'm the Ball here on Fox

796
00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:36.039
<v Speaker 2>Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera. You're Blake Eager from

797
00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:38.400
<v Speaker 2>Southern Arizona Sports Tourism and Film Authority.

798
00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:41.639
<v Speaker 3>Yeah that's how long has that been existing? A little

799
00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:43.760
<v Speaker 3>over two years? Okay, so I want was going to

800
00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:45.360
<v Speaker 3>go there, good to talk to Victor. We'll have them

801
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:45.719
<v Speaker 3>on again.

802
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:49.760
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because Tucson, I've been here a long time, needs

803
00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:53.480
<v Speaker 2>that needs that, not just sports wise, but it needs that.

804
00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:57.400
<v Speaker 2>Back twenty years ago, maybe twenty five thirty, I don't know,

805
00:39:57.440 --> 00:40:00.840
<v Speaker 2>the numbers now had the Sports Authority, County Sports and Tours,

806
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:02.960
<v Speaker 2>which of course tried to do some great things with

807
00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:05.000
<v Speaker 2>the baseball. They almost said, we almost had five teams

808
00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:06.360
<v Speaker 2>here or spring training.

809
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:09.400
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but you didn't. Yeah, you gotta have Edgar tell

810
00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:10.199
<v Speaker 3>you that story. Yeah.

811
00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:12.719
<v Speaker 2>So okay, So so now you have this and now

812
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:15.880
<v Speaker 2>you're talking about a summit, which I think I kind

813
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:16.760
<v Speaker 2>of picked up right there.

814
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:20.039
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, perked up. So tell me that sounds interesting and

815
00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:22.519
<v Speaker 3>very doable, I think so. Yeah. It was kind of

816
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:24.800
<v Speaker 3>a brain child of Ali Farhang and Ray Flores. They

817
00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:26.920
<v Speaker 3>had brought it up and talked about you know, and

818
00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:29.679
<v Speaker 3>the thing is, you we talked about this calend Let's

819
00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:31.840
<v Speaker 3>talk about this calendar year, right, You've got the World

820
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:35.440
<v Speaker 3>Baseball Classic reintroduction of Major League Baseball back to Tucson

821
00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:39.239
<v Speaker 3>a success very much, Okay, yeah, not financially for us,

822
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:43.239
<v Speaker 3>but overall absolutely Okay. So I mean, now we're having

823
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:45.880
<v Speaker 3>conversations with Arizon a Fall League about potentially having games.

824
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:47.800
<v Speaker 3>We just we just sent in our presentation for spring

825
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:50.480
<v Speaker 3>training next year and having exhibition games. And I didn't

826
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:52.400
<v Speaker 3>want to destruct you, but so go ahead, No, you're fine.

827
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:54.440
<v Speaker 3>And and then so you're moving on from that, and

828
00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:57.920
<v Speaker 3>you're now we're you know, Garments their first time they've

829
00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:00.519
<v Speaker 3>ever put on their own marathons and identified they're going

830
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:03.119
<v Speaker 3>to be here in November. So these huge, these huge

831
00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:06.440
<v Speaker 3>monumental events. Now you still have Mexican Baseball three that's

832
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:09.719
<v Speaker 3>continually expand. Now when you look at just currently, you've

833
00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:12.840
<v Speaker 3>got the University of Arizona, you've got Pemic Community College,

834
00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:15.360
<v Speaker 3>and then set aside that you get into the pro teams,

835
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:17.719
<v Speaker 3>You've got FC Tucson, you've got the Sugar Skulls, you've

836
00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:19.920
<v Speaker 3>got the road Runners, now you have the Tucson Baseball team.

837
00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:22.719
<v Speaker 3>I just think we're at the point that we all

838
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:25.440
<v Speaker 3>need to sit down and have some conversations about how

839
00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:27.280
<v Speaker 3>are we doing this, How are we doing it together.

840
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:30.079
<v Speaker 3>How can we do it better? Maybe there's some shared communication,

841
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:33.559
<v Speaker 3>Maybe we create co op programs between PEMA Community College

842
00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:39.400
<v Speaker 3>and University of Arizona. And then the biggest one out

843
00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:41.039
<v Speaker 3>of all of them, I mean, there's two biggest ones

844
00:41:41.039 --> 00:41:42.880
<v Speaker 3>on all of them. Are you know you're not even

845
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.679
<v Speaker 3>talking about the color Guard, You're not talking about tour,

846
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:48.159
<v Speaker 3>You're not talking about the Arizona Roll or the rodeo.

847
00:41:48.360 --> 00:41:50.800
<v Speaker 3>I mean, we have so many things going on, you know,

848
00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:53.679
<v Speaker 3>and that's well, here's you just need to communicate.

849
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:56.440
<v Speaker 2>No, you're executive, right, And in fact, I say this

850
00:41:56.519 --> 00:41:58.760
<v Speaker 2>all the time, and I'm not blowing smoke either, because

851
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:02.079
<v Speaker 2>I do. This is a new time. Had I said

852
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:03.960
<v Speaker 2>this twenty years ago, I know I'd be lying through one.

853
00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:09.280
<v Speaker 2>But there's there's guys like you forties, fifties, young thirties,

854
00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:11.920
<v Speaker 2>whatever through the fifties out there. Well no, no, no, So

855
00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:15.840
<v Speaker 2>people like that have this vision because they've lived it.

856
00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:18.559
<v Speaker 2>You can throw these ideas at you and there's some

857
00:42:18.639 --> 00:42:20.480
<v Speaker 2>bite to it. You can get some bite to it.

858
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:22.760
<v Speaker 2>Before it was like I don't like that ideot, We're

859
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:24.039
<v Speaker 2>not gonna do it. You know what I'm saying. Well,

860
00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:26.800
<v Speaker 2>I think I respect to those who I'm talking about. Yeah,

861
00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.360
<v Speaker 2>think about this right now. And I've and Nazim said

862
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:34.239
<v Speaker 2>this to Ray Flores and all Lee Farnhang and Edmond Marquez.

863
00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:37.119
<v Speaker 2>You have guys that are in an age and their

864
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.639
<v Speaker 2>prime that are trying to change the narrative and create

865
00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:44.800
<v Speaker 2>a different culture here with the surrounding pieces that we

866
00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:48.000
<v Speaker 2>never had together. Right, Like you just said, you ten

867
00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:50.760
<v Speaker 2>years ago, twenty years ago, you didn't have all these pieces, right.

868
00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:54.400
<v Speaker 2>You look at the Arizona Bowl went from Nova Home Loans,

869
00:42:54.440 --> 00:42:57.719
<v Speaker 2>which is phenomenal, Right, that helped, yeah, to Snoop Dogg

870
00:42:57.760 --> 00:43:01.199
<v Speaker 2>Airs Snoop Dogg. Right, you have garment now in our

871
00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:04.239
<v Speaker 2>backyard major League Baseballs. Like, there's so many things that

872
00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:05.360
<v Speaker 2>are working in our favor.

873
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:09.440
<v Speaker 3>We only get so many chances in this life, right,

874
00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:11.679
<v Speaker 3>I think we're in a really good place that if

875
00:43:11.679 --> 00:43:14.400
<v Speaker 3>we could bring everybody together, create the same narrative and

876
00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:18.320
<v Speaker 3>work forward and get everybody involved with So let me.

877
00:43:18.639 --> 00:43:20.280
<v Speaker 2>We're going to have all of you here in a

878
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:23.119
<v Speaker 2>little half hour, so I'll ask them the same thing. Okay,

879
00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:26.280
<v Speaker 2>So you're part of this group either it's ten to

880
00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:29.519
<v Speaker 2>twenty people right with all the organizations, and they all

881
00:43:29.559 --> 00:43:32.639
<v Speaker 2>have the equal share into the because they're all equal.

882
00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:36.400
<v Speaker 3>I don't care if it's the Arizona Ball Tour or WBC.

883
00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:38.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there's no total, there's no there's no right, I'll

884
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:42.079
<v Speaker 2>have a what's the first order of business?

885
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:46.960
<v Speaker 3>I think everybody has to come together. That's a really

886
00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:48.760
<v Speaker 3>good question, Steve, And you're catching me off, got it

887
00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:53.039
<v Speaker 3>a little bit, but I like it. Where are our failures?

888
00:43:53.079 --> 00:43:55.079
<v Speaker 3>Where are our successes? And why aren't we doing all

889
00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:58.519
<v Speaker 3>this together? Why haven't you or aren't you? Why aren't

890
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:01.599
<v Speaker 3>we aren't you? Now correct? Okay, this is a question

891
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:04.760
<v Speaker 3>I asked you. We have no source of a direct

892
00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:07.480
<v Speaker 3>source of marketing in southern Arizona. Right, we talked because

893
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:10.079
<v Speaker 3>we talked about it's really hard, so like you know,

894
00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:13.119
<v Speaker 3>and I was, you know, I am, I am at

895
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:14.840
<v Speaker 3>fault for this as well. Where you go get off

896
00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:16.360
<v Speaker 3>your butt and go attend these games and you're like,

897
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:18.239
<v Speaker 3>I didn't even know we had these games, you know.

898
00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:20.719
<v Speaker 3>I talked to Bob Hoffman about this. They had when

899
00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:24.000
<v Speaker 3>they were having an NHL preseason game. I mean, you're

900
00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:26.159
<v Speaker 3>you're you were able to see the Coyotes play the

901
00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:29.800
<v Speaker 3>Ducks at the TCC a week before the season started

902
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.719
<v Speaker 3>with all their starting line up on the ice and

903
00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:34.920
<v Speaker 3>we said at the glass for forty dollars, like, you

904
00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:37.599
<v Speaker 3>can't do that anywhere. But we don't have a direct

905
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:40.679
<v Speaker 3>line of communication or winning. It's so funny.

906
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:43.159
<v Speaker 2>Because you and I, you know, you know, we do

907
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:45.199
<v Speaker 2>the show together now every now and again, and I

908
00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:47.119
<v Speaker 2>send you some stuff and you send them back to me.

909
00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:50.159
<v Speaker 2>And isn't this a good idea? It doesn't become a

910
00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:52.119
<v Speaker 2>good idea until we do something with it. Yeah, we're

911
00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:53.920
<v Speaker 2>sitting on our hands. I have a cousin and I

912
00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:56.639
<v Speaker 2>have two cousins or brothers. One's a doer and the

913
00:44:56.679 --> 00:45:00.440
<v Speaker 2>other's a teacher. And you know who the successful one is,

914
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:02.360
<v Speaker 2>the doer, the doer because he doesn't give a crap

915
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:04.280
<v Speaker 2>if he fails. But you know he has a lot

916
00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:06.360
<v Speaker 2>of money because he does a great job. So Steve,

917
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:08.760
<v Speaker 2>what's the worst thing that happens if we do this?

918
00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:11.000
<v Speaker 3>We fail? We fail? Guess where we're at now?

919
00:45:11.519 --> 00:45:13.679
<v Speaker 2>Would say, well, that's why we talk about this like

920
00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:18.840
<v Speaker 2>this this uh summit or whatever. But you have a

921
00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:22.559
<v Speaker 2>marketing division that pushes everybody.

922
00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:24.639
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean, I've thrown this out there and I

923
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:26.679
<v Speaker 3>don't know if I'm but I mean, we just talked

924
00:45:26.679 --> 00:45:29.480
<v Speaker 3>about it. It's it's time. That's Tucson Southern Arizona had

925
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:32.559
<v Speaker 3>a sports commission. I mean, Phoenix just got theirs, and

926
00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:35.320
<v Speaker 3>they've got their sports commissions to go after Super Bowls

927
00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:38.599
<v Speaker 3>and Final fours, and we're you know, we're not going

928
00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:41.079
<v Speaker 3>after that. It's a city. Let's treat us like a

929
00:45:41.079 --> 00:45:43.559
<v Speaker 3>minor league city. Let's be the best damn minor league

930
00:45:43.599 --> 00:45:46.320
<v Speaker 3>city in the freaking world, right, and not be ashamed

931
00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:47.800
<v Speaker 3>of it, and not be ashamed of it. Not be

932
00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:50.519
<v Speaker 3>ashamed of Why you ever been to Oklahoma City? Yeah,

933
00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:54.000
<v Speaker 3>that's the Triple A Stadium down like it's that whole

934
00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:57.760
<v Speaker 3>brick town was built because of that stadium. Think about

935
00:45:57.800 --> 00:45:58.960
<v Speaker 3>all the things that we could have.

936
00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:02.119
<v Speaker 2>It's funny because you know, I go out and I play,

937
00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:04.840
<v Speaker 2>and you know my age and I know your age.

938
00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:06.280
<v Speaker 3>No one's called me a boomer.

939
00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:08.440
<v Speaker 2>I don't think a boomer yet, and I'd be very

940
00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:12.960
<v Speaker 2>pissed because you know, because but but there's no shame

941
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:16.639
<v Speaker 2>in being one. I've lived this long, right, But you

942
00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:18.800
<v Speaker 2>can think out of the box. Yeah, And I think

943
00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:21.079
<v Speaker 2>we're gonna have a guy who does that often in Ali,

944
00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:23.480
<v Speaker 2>But I'm sure there's more Ali's out there.

945
00:46:23.719 --> 00:46:25.400
<v Speaker 3>He's just more visible. Does that make any sense?

946
00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:29.559
<v Speaker 2>And you have you listed off maybe ten different organizations

947
00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:32.679
<v Speaker 2>that have some seat at the table, a seat at

948
00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:38.880
<v Speaker 2>the table. So very very doable and very presentable and

949
00:46:39.239 --> 00:46:40.079
<v Speaker 2>very marketable.

950
00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:42.519
<v Speaker 3>And you know, the thing about us is a little

951
00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:45.639
<v Speaker 3>bit different because you people are able us at college town.

952
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:48.400
<v Speaker 3>We've talked about this. Who's yes, Tucson, OK. Yeah, right,

953
00:46:48.440 --> 00:46:51.360
<v Speaker 3>southern Arizona. People label this area or toos On specifically

954
00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:53.199
<v Speaker 3>a college town because the University of Arizona. So it's

955
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:56.559
<v Speaker 3>in our fabric. But the thing that is different is

956
00:46:56.599 --> 00:46:58.480
<v Speaker 3>that we're a million and a half people county wide,

957
00:46:58.559 --> 00:47:00.920
<v Speaker 3>right with all these other entities that are in the

958
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:04.039
<v Speaker 3>same place. I don't really care who's a lead or

959
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:07.079
<v Speaker 3>who's a you know, head seat at the table. Somebody

960
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:09.199
<v Speaker 3>has to be there where they're gonna when they get

961
00:47:09.199 --> 00:47:11.079
<v Speaker 3>an invite from that person, they go, well, we have

962
00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:13.760
<v Speaker 3>to be there, right, Sure, and it's probably the University

963
00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:14.280
<v Speaker 3>of Arizona.

964
00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:17.159
<v Speaker 2>Sure, but guess what they but no one has an

965
00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:20.079
<v Speaker 2>equal or a bigger seat than anybody. Yeah, it's the

966
00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:22.760
<v Speaker 2>same because you're you're you're you need to get your

967
00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:26.159
<v Speaker 2>stuff settled too, Yeah, you know, because they they have issues.

968
00:47:26.280 --> 00:47:28.039
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but you just said this right now, So you

969
00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:30.480
<v Speaker 3>create a summit that gives a media access to this

970
00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:33.400
<v Speaker 3>whole market in one place. You have a marketing you

971
00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:36.079
<v Speaker 3>have a marketing piece. What what's successful? What's not successful?

972
00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:37.519
<v Speaker 3>Why are we doing this? Why aren't we doing this?

973
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.880
<v Speaker 3>Other areas, other cities, other places are doing these. Let's

974
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:43.000
<v Speaker 3>try to replicate it as a whole right. My thing?

975
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:44.719
<v Speaker 3>I kicked Ali, and Ali brought this up a long

976
00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:47.920
<v Speaker 3>time ago because he's a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan. What

977
00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:51.519
<v Speaker 3>color is every single team in Pittsburgh? Yellow and gold,

978
00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:53.559
<v Speaker 3>black and gold, black and gold, right, black and gold.

979
00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:56.199
<v Speaker 3>He's like, why won't we do something similar to something?

980
00:47:56.400 --> 00:47:57.800
<v Speaker 3>At first, I was like, that would never happen, But

981
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:01.360
<v Speaker 3>it's true, Like maybe that's our identity that we're We're one,

982
00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:04.800
<v Speaker 3>We're one unit moving forward, right, We're not these islands

983
00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:06.239
<v Speaker 3>all over the place because we're not a big enough

984
00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:07.840
<v Speaker 3>city to survive here.

985
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.800
<v Speaker 2>I'll give you one right now, because we've never done it. Yeah,

986
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:13.920
<v Speaker 2>we never done that'll be your pushback. Yeah, well now's

987
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:16.920
<v Speaker 2>the time to do that. Yeah, absolutely, now's the time

988
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:21.480
<v Speaker 2>to do it in part because you have the younger generation,

989
00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:25.320
<v Speaker 2>younger than me. Young I mean, who have this foresight

990
00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:27.920
<v Speaker 2>or you'd assume that they do. And there's not just

991
00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:30.679
<v Speaker 2>one or two or three four. There's a lot at steak,

992
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:33.199
<v Speaker 2>a lot of a lot of figures at steak. Yeah,

993
00:48:33.239 --> 00:48:36.519
<v Speaker 2>you know that one. And I've said this before. And

994
00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:37.960
<v Speaker 2>you you've been in the room and not in the

995
00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:41.880
<v Speaker 2>room where everybody's pulling the rope, the noble holoans, the

996
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.320
<v Speaker 2>the golf. It's everyone's there buying tickets to help each

997
00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:47.360
<v Speaker 2>other out. Yeah, I'm not sure if that was a

998
00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:48.719
<v Speaker 2>case before. I don't know.

999
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:51.360
<v Speaker 3>It's the same. Listen. I The one thing I've seen

1000
00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:54.239
<v Speaker 3>right now is that line is completely blurred. So you

1001
00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:56.840
<v Speaker 3>just said that, I see two sons at the table

1002
00:48:56.840 --> 00:48:59.480
<v Speaker 3>to try to help two son baseball team last week, right, Uh,

1003
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:02.880
<v Speaker 3>Sugar schools are trying to help the road run. Like

1004
00:49:03.159 --> 00:49:06.400
<v Speaker 3>everybody wants people to be successful. We just need to

1005
00:49:06.400 --> 00:49:08.519
<v Speaker 3>come together and do it. I mean, and it should be.

1006
00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:11.679
<v Speaker 3>It should be a cohesive movement, right, it should be.

1007
00:49:11.719 --> 00:49:14.360
<v Speaker 3>It should be for the community because the better those

1008
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:18.119
<v Speaker 3>teams do, the better opportunities come to the city, the

1009
00:49:18.159 --> 00:49:22.840
<v Speaker 3>better opportunities we have as as as as residents.

1010
00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:24.880
<v Speaker 2>We talk about this a lot time. You know, i'ming

1011
00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:27.480
<v Speaker 2>New Mexico. Obviously the first thing I would do well

1012
00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:30.400
<v Speaker 2>bring people from some other place. You want to go

1013
00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:32.320
<v Speaker 2>to Tucson. Yeah, it's gonna be eighty two to eighty

1014
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:34.760
<v Speaker 2>five degrees whatever. We have a chance to watch some

1015
00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:38.239
<v Speaker 2>pro baseball, pro baseball. You can do this, enjoy the

1016
00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:42.239
<v Speaker 2>enjoy the weather. Go to a UA basketball, UA football game.

1017
00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:45.119
<v Speaker 2>If it's in November, we can go to a basketball game.

1018
00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:48.199
<v Speaker 2>There's more to do than just this. Yeah, there's more

1019
00:49:48.320 --> 00:49:48.840
<v Speaker 2>things to do.

1020
00:49:48.920 --> 00:49:51.920
<v Speaker 3>Well, I'm gonna I'm I just got a text from

1021
00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:54.840
<v Speaker 3>my buddy Sam Segual Right, and you fell in love

1022
00:49:54.840 --> 00:49:56.719
<v Speaker 3>with Tucson when he visited out here, right, took him

1023
00:49:56.719 --> 00:50:00.320
<v Speaker 3>to you a basketball game. It's it's just getting involved

1024
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:01.000
<v Speaker 3>in the community.

1025
00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:03.239
<v Speaker 2>Let me tell you another thing that would benefit the

1026
00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:08.320
<v Speaker 2>most realtors. Yeah, because then you're showing up your city.

1027
00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:10.719
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. And a guy who is he in town or

1028
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:12.679
<v Speaker 3>is he out of town? No, they're in California right now.

1029
00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:14.119
<v Speaker 2>Well, I know this for a fact because I've done

1030
00:50:14.119 --> 00:50:16.880
<v Speaker 2>the story for Biz Tussan. People who come to cycle here,

1031
00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:20.000
<v Speaker 2>cycle over the city. Yeah, God, this is a nice

1032
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:22.840
<v Speaker 2>place to maybe own a second home or or condo

1033
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:23.840
<v Speaker 2>or whatever, or.

1034
00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:26.199
<v Speaker 3>Open a second location of my business, or you know,

1035
00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:30.840
<v Speaker 3>create economic impact by doing this or hiring hiring local employees. Like,

1036
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:33.519
<v Speaker 3>it's just there's so many things that could drastically change.

1037
00:50:33.599 --> 00:50:35.480
<v Speaker 3>I had this conversation the other day in one of

1038
00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:38.519
<v Speaker 3>these peer group meetings, right, because we were talking about

1039
00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:40.760
<v Speaker 3>venture capitalists and all these other things that I have

1040
00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:43.320
<v Speaker 3>no idea about. I'm by far the dumbest person at

1041
00:50:43.320 --> 00:50:45.800
<v Speaker 3>the table there, and I brought up the idea of,

1042
00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:47.960
<v Speaker 3>you know, like, we're never going to be Austin, but

1043
00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:51.559
<v Speaker 3>what changed in Austin, right, because now you have all

1044
00:50:51.639 --> 00:50:54.000
<v Speaker 3>these venture capitalists, and now it's it's kind of overblown, right,

1045
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:56.000
<v Speaker 3>it's not the cool city, weird city anymore. It's just

1046
00:50:56.039 --> 00:51:00.679
<v Speaker 3>a city. But what changed was industries and moving there.

1047
00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:04.039
<v Speaker 3>They started creating better jobs, they started creating better likelihoods.

1048
00:51:04.159 --> 00:51:06.320
<v Speaker 3>We have to make sure that we're not gentrifying our

1049
00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:09.159
<v Speaker 3>you know, barrios in our extreme locations that we want

1050
00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:11.880
<v Speaker 3>to continue to keep, but we definitely want to have

1051
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:14.239
<v Speaker 3>better opportunities for our youth.

1052
00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:16.079
<v Speaker 2>No, you talk about that all the time. Since I've

1053
00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:18.920
<v Speaker 2>met you, You've talked about that. It's the ability to

1054
00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:20.800
<v Speaker 2>keep the wands from leaving.

1055
00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:23.519
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, why we don't want to want to leave? I never,

1056
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:25.679
<v Speaker 3>I don't I didn't want to leave. I don't want

1057
00:51:25.679 --> 00:51:27.960
<v Speaker 3>to have to leave an extra a city of talent, right, right?

1058
00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:29.119
<v Speaker 3>And then what do I tell a lot and you

1059
00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:31.280
<v Speaker 3>tell one you got to leave to come back? Yeah,

1060
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:33.920
<v Speaker 3>you got to leave established shelf and then come back

1061
00:51:33.960 --> 00:51:36.360
<v Speaker 3>because we don't have a middle ground, you know, you

1062
00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:39.039
<v Speaker 3>it's just it's it's mild. That's why you graduate Scho

1063
00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:41.239
<v Speaker 3>to Phoenix because they has more opportunity. Absolutely, my I

1064
00:51:41.239 --> 00:51:42.800
<v Speaker 3>mean my wife talks about it. We talk about all

1065
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:45.519
<v Speaker 3>the time. She works for into it. Right, if something changed,

1066
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:47.719
<v Speaker 3>there's not a there's not a lot of those that

1067
00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:49.599
<v Speaker 3>will fall back. Yeah, there's not a lot of comparable

1068
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:52.480
<v Speaker 3>places that she can move to. Right. It's it's wild

1069
00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:55.119
<v Speaker 3>to me. So you know, you're retaining thirty percent of

1070
00:51:55.159 --> 00:51:57.519
<v Speaker 3>your college graduates because we don't have the job market

1071
00:51:57.519 --> 00:51:59.559
<v Speaker 3>to retain them. But you know what we have, and

1072
00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:01.880
<v Speaker 3>this is knock. We have a lot of car washes,

1073
00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:05.400
<v Speaker 3>we have a lot of smoke shops. Right, what how

1074
00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:07.719
<v Speaker 3>do we change that? Narrative for kids like me that

1075
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:09.280
<v Speaker 3>grew up in the neighborhood that I grew up and

1076
00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:11.480
<v Speaker 3>like we should be able to say, you don't have

1077
00:52:11.519 --> 00:52:13.360
<v Speaker 3>to go to college, but there's still quality jobs here there.

1078
00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:15.880
<v Speaker 3>You should still have a quality of life without having

1079
00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:17.639
<v Speaker 3>to leave to go to a different side. With that,

1080
00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:18.840
<v Speaker 3>we'll come back and talk more
