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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball
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Speaker 2: Welcome everybody. It's a Wednesday show. We should be good.
Speaker 2: Blake is one of my better guests here, my co
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Speaker 2: good guests coming here in the next two hours. Again,
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Speaker 3: I'm ready for you.
Speaker 2: I'm handling the board today, so who knows what will happen.
Speaker 2: But in the first hour we're gonna have Victor Quevas,
Speaker 2: he's the owner of the new team coming in from Mexico.
Speaker 3: Tucson's baseball team.
Speaker 2: And then at four seventeen, we're gonna have Oli Farhang,
Speaker 2: one of the another's radio guy in the mornings, and
Speaker 2: the co owner of the Sugars calls and an attorney
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, look at you, dapper up?
Speaker 3: Where'd you go a wedding?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I at the press conference court deposition, Anthony Jimino told
Speaker 3: me to tell you hi. Oh did he Yeah? I
Speaker 3: don't think he really meant it. I think he meant
Speaker 3: it in his own way.
Speaker 2: Like my colleague got my one of my books. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: well you're way over just for a baseball press conference.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's baseball. Yeah, I know, what are
Speaker 2: you trying to impress?
Speaker 3: Listen? I I wore uniform long and if I can
Speaker 3: wear a suit col and wear ties in this town,
Speaker 3: I'd like to get right. We're Vince subs to go
Speaker 3: to Kings.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You how many people wore suits today?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: Probably eight to ten. I mean there's a lot of
Speaker 3: county officials there. You know, it's one hundred and ten.
Speaker 3: I did not know is it really outside? How much
Speaker 3: is in that suit? About one hundred? Yeah, there was
Speaker 3: pretty sweaty in there for a little while there. How
Speaker 3: did that go? It went great? It went great? Yeah,
Speaker 3: really well done. Well attended, really well attended. Yeah really?
Speaker 3: Was it bilingual?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: A portion of it was, but it was mostly in English. Okay, no, cool,
Speaker 3: We are two sons. We are two son Yeah, looking
Speaker 3: forward to talking to Vitoria. Yes, he is the main guy, right,
Speaker 3: he's the owner of the tu Song baseball team.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool? Cool, And I'll just dive into it. How
Speaker 2: long did it last? And then how long did it last?
Speaker 2: And we're the questions about you know, Hawaii Tucson.
Speaker 3: Oh was that not a lot? Yeah? It was a
Speaker 3: was pretty much discussed of why Tucson right the market here.
Speaker 3: I mean one of the things that I hit on.
Speaker 3: I don't think people realize. You know, you and I've
Speaker 3: had this conversation you and you know the history, but
Speaker 3: as a two soon and I think it gets lost.
Speaker 3: You know, people laugh at me when I say Tucson
Speaker 3: was one of the greatest baseball cities in the world
Speaker 3: and at one point, and the reason the argument that
Speaker 3: I make is that we had Big League streme, you know,
Speaker 3: Major League spring training, had Triple A baseball, We had
Speaker 3: an Arizona Fall League team and the have a Lina's
Speaker 3: and we were the home for USA Baseball. There's not
Speaker 3: a lot of cities, you know, in the world that
Speaker 3: can say they have all for those things.
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. The thing about it, I don't
Speaker 2: want to poo poo.
Speaker 3: No, go ahead, they all came and left. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: you can you obviously I've been.
Speaker 2: Dating for supermodels. Guess what I'm not anymore.
Speaker 3: Because they left me. Well maybe they can't cook, right, No,
Speaker 3: that's on my end. That's fun. But you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, not meaning that all women have to cook
Speaker 3: by I mean you mentioned learn how to cook with me, yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: but with you I was being specific. Yeah, so, but
Speaker 3: but getting to the point is that, yes they did leave,
Speaker 3: if you're absolutely right, But we have an opportunity. You've
Speaker 3: got to find that you got to find that magic.
Speaker 3: We got to find that magic. Yeah, what is that? Right? Exactly? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: So now we have a team in the Tucson Baseball
Speaker 3: team that plays in the Winner League, which is the
Speaker 3: third largest league in the world behind Major League Baseball,
Speaker 3: Knee Pon League, and then it's them, right, and we
Speaker 3: have the opportunity to support it during a time of
Speaker 3: year where it's not one hundred and ten degrees outside.
Speaker 3: It's a great time of year, it's exciting. It goes
Speaker 3: along with all our other amazing professional sports during that time.
Speaker 2: So you'll you'll help me with the questions, obviously, but
Speaker 2: let me ask you real quick.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: I'm going to read of your story again, but what
Speaker 2: level is this? What level is this in the in
Speaker 2: the level that I would understand and anybody would understand.
Speaker 3: I would say four A, right, So it's a step
Speaker 3: above Triple A maybe a step right? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: you've got big leaguers all over the place in Winner League.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So okay, so it's for a between Major
Speaker 2: League and Triple A.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Oh really? Yeah. So it's good baseball. Oh, it's
Speaker 3: great baseball. Yeah okay. And you get the chance to
Speaker 3: play in the career in World Series, you know, okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, and your hope having put on the World Baseball
Speaker 2: Council Classic, so the Classic, Yeah that's okay. You're hoping
Speaker 2: that survives, obviously, but.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping it thrives. We don't want to talk about survival, okay, No,
Speaker 3: that's a better word. That's a better word.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say how or whatever, because you're
Speaker 2: you're you're on this capacity, you're not the owner. Give
Speaker 2: me two reasons why it can't or how it can.
Speaker 3: That's a really good question. I think the easy answer
Speaker 3: is time of year. I think our history as a
Speaker 3: professional sports city is going to always be connected to baseball.
Speaker 3: Our history as athletes playing at the next level, at
Speaker 3: the highest level is always going to be baseball. Baseball
Speaker 3: is in our blood, it's in our DNA. We understand
Speaker 3: as a community what we lost, and as a community,
Speaker 3: I think we need to understand that we don't want
Speaker 3: to lose it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so we understand that. Now you have to
Speaker 2: sell that to the people who buy the tickets. Mm hm, Which,
Speaker 2: of course is that's the cell right, Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: at University of Roosevela's athletics has the same issue.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I just we talked to Desire yesterday. I talked
Speaker 3: to yesterday really and what was that secret conversation?
Speaker 5: Was that A?
Speaker 3: Is that she presented A Yeah? She presented Uh no,
Speaker 3: I mean she was very open and honest about that.
Speaker 3: You know, we need to figure out a way to
Speaker 3: support the football team, right, whether they win or lose.
Speaker 3: And that's that. That from an international national standpoint, that
Speaker 3: means a lot, and I think it means the same
Speaker 3: thing for us. So you don't have to be a
Speaker 3: sports fan like this is. The Mexican winner League is
Speaker 3: a party. It's an environment. You want to go there.
Speaker 3: It doesn't really matter what's going on the field. It's
Speaker 3: an experience that you want to go back to, and
Speaker 3: I think we lack that in traditional baseball at times. True. Uh,
Speaker 3: so we have something completely different.
Speaker 2: Is it going to be like the Mexican Baseball League
Speaker 2: the Fiesta.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's going to be very much dance, Yeah, fun,
Speaker 3: not not to the extremes as a fiesta, but it's
Speaker 3: going to incorporate all those Oh okay, so yeah, no,
Speaker 3: come on. When I first saw this, I'm thinking they
Speaker 3: do this at baseball games. Yeah, you're gonna have a time.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have cheerleaders, you're gonna have concerts going on,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have mascots all over the place. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean they're engaging in the community. The community is
Speaker 3: gonna pick their name the following season. What it's gonna
Speaker 3: be for the long term. I saw that. I think
Speaker 3: it's a great way to start.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So now you're in conversations with Deesree. You
Speaker 2: don't have to tell me yes or no. But I'm
Speaker 2: assuming that you're fighting for the same dollar kind of
Speaker 2: at the same time of year.
Speaker 3: I know two different audiences. I know that. I know that.
Speaker 2: But if I only have ten dollars in my pocket
Speaker 2: twenty dollars in my pocket.
Speaker 3: You're gonna ask me which one I would choose.
Speaker 2: As you're asking individuals like me, you say, well, you
Speaker 2: don't come to the game, the football game, you'll have
Speaker 2: a good time. And someone else is saying, come to
Speaker 2: the baseball games, you're gonna have a good time. I
Speaker 2: only have twenty bucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You know what's great about that, Steve, is that
Speaker 3: we have a million and a half people in our county.
Speaker 3: We're fighting for a very low percentage of those people
Speaker 3: come to a game on a regular basis. And in
Speaker 3: our surrounding two counties and co chief Santa Cruz and
Speaker 3: even Panal, you're looking at another million people right or
Speaker 3: close to with Northern Mexico and Sonora involved. Uh So,
Speaker 3: let's say two million in an hour drive to to
Speaker 3: Keino Stadium. I'm fairly confident that we should be able
Speaker 3: to average four to six thousand fans a game. What's
Speaker 3: for the Winter League. What's the schedule? Thirty four games?
Speaker 3: I believe home games. Okay, that's that's feasible. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not. It's a short season. It's great, you know,
Speaker 3: great time of year. It's essentially you know, October to December,
Speaker 3: knock it out. We get a chance. Yeah, you go
Speaker 3: January for playoffs. So it's not a hugely No, you're
Speaker 3: not hugely competing with our other like the road Runners.
Speaker 3: You have a football You're you're not trying to compete
Speaker 3: against those You're trying to uplift them. And you're you're
Speaker 3: joining two communities, right. I think one community feels like
Speaker 3: they're not being seen by by another sports program, and
Speaker 3: maybe that community is not being seen by that sports care.
Speaker 3: We need to merge those two. It's it's a it's
Speaker 3: a Southern Arizona, it's a Tucson community. We want to
Speaker 3: have the efforts to be successful.
Speaker 2: Well, today Arizona released a uh study, but there their plans.
Speaker 3: On their plan. Yeah, they went over that yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is a very cool, extensive way to repaint
Speaker 2: the house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2: I mean you're reinventing the wheel, which, of course the
Speaker 2: wheel always works. You just got to make sure that
Speaker 2: wheel works. Yeah, And I mean you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: you know this better than anybody. Juve was in a
Speaker 2: position where they had to figure out how to pivot
Speaker 2: and pivot quickly and and not try to bleed out right,
Speaker 2: And I think what they've been able to accomplish in
Speaker 2: a short time frame is pretty impressive. You're talking about
Speaker 2: the I am big, the big Nope, no question. I
Speaker 2: don't even know what to say, because it's yeah, no question.
Speaker 2: They're down to six billionpeeah done, yes, five or something
Speaker 2: like that, and hope to be even next year.
Speaker 3: Yes. I don't know how many people can run in
Speaker 3: a two million, two two hundred and fifty million dollars
Speaker 3: death sent in three years break even.
Speaker 2: Very impressive, and they've they found a way and they've
Speaker 2: done the congratulations. Uh, the new ad desreally has done
Speaker 2: a fantastic job. Now they have to move forward, and
Speaker 2: which is kind of that thing there. They've stopped this
Speaker 2: this bleeding. Now they're going to move forward with great
Speaker 2: expectations and this great plan. Everybody has one, right, everybody's
Speaker 2: every school. If you don't have one, shame on you
Speaker 2: because you're going to get left line. Yeah, we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens.
Speaker 3: Part of the problem or solution is wins the game.
Speaker 3: It absolutely and I think she understands I think everybody
Speaker 3: understands it. Right. How are you going to go about that?
Speaker 3: How We've talked about that, you know, and Naseum on
Speaker 3: this on the show about how do you do that
Speaker 3: in the market. You're in competing against schools in the
Speaker 3: SEC or the Big ten. You're going to have to
Speaker 3: get creative to some appoint Yeah, but it was great
Speaker 3: to hear her say yesterday that they're not looking at
Speaker 3: cutting corners from a cost standpoint. Right now that you
Speaker 3: have you know, the House bill passed. It's what twenty
Speaker 3: and a half million or twenty one million cap for
Speaker 3: all schools. There's no real true competitive badge to a degree,
Speaker 3: But they're going to spend it all. I mean that's
Speaker 3: what she said. She said, we're in it, we know
Speaker 3: this is what we're here for. That's funny. You're going
Speaker 3: to spend it all, But first you have to get it, Yeah,
Speaker 3: to get it first.
Speaker 2: Right, to me, that's an unbelievable task because you don't
Speaker 2: just get it in a one time deal.
Speaker 3: And so every year, every year, you're knocking phone calls.
Speaker 2: Cold world. I don't know if you're you're a little
Speaker 2: in that world. I'm not in that world. But how
Speaker 2: would you come up with twenty one million every year?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Every year from the people that you go to
Speaker 3: all the time. People much smarter than me are figuring
Speaker 3: that out, hopefully, because if it was me, i'd go
Speaker 3: little knocking selling candy bars. Yeah, yeah, we got we
Speaker 3: got somebody uh in the next band coming up? Though,
Speaker 3: Hey listen, I said this before, and I reached out
Speaker 3: to my buddy. Yeah, I think something fell on the
Speaker 3: floor because I'm gonna drop Gabe Sullivan, who's in Chicha
Speaker 3: and he's a lead guitarist right now for Modern English.
Speaker 3: I talked to him about utilizing airson a football stadium
Speaker 3: for concerts, right. I mean that's yeah, you put that
Speaker 3: in the conversation. Used to be Yea. You had Rolling
Speaker 3: Stones I think played there, you had Fleetwood Mac played there.
Speaker 3: I mean jay Z, Kanye mind, I shouldn't say Kanye
Speaker 3: on there. But yeah, they all played in that stadium. Why,
Speaker 3: I mean, if we're looking for activation of funds as
Speaker 3: a community, I want to go. I don't want to.
Speaker 3: We just drove to Phoenix on Monday night to see
Speaker 3: the Pixies, right, I don't want to make that drive
Speaker 3: if I don't have to. But why if it's in
Speaker 3: our backyard, I'm going to it. No, the coast perspective
Speaker 3: makes sense. Yeah, I know you're You're exactly right, which,
Speaker 3: of course I'm sure they thought of.
Speaker 2: But oh, we don't want to know. Guess what you
Speaker 2: got to come up with money? You gotta figure it out. Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm selling blood after this.
Speaker 3: And I you know, I had this conversation yesterday with
Speaker 3: Ali and I'll maybe I'll ask me to give mee
Speaker 3: on what do you think? How can I have word
Speaker 3: this in a you want me to ask you the question?
Speaker 3: I want you to answer this question. Okay, So we
Speaker 3: we have problems that arise all over the place. Right,
Speaker 3: who's the week our community? Okay, Right, let's let's talk
Speaker 3: about ours. Let's just talk about Southern Arizona. I don't
Speaker 3: think we do the best job in the world of
Speaker 3: looking at other communities with similar problems that have better solutions.
Speaker 3: Why do you think that is good question? That's a
Speaker 3: great question. I mean if we step back and we say, okay,
Speaker 3: we have a problem. We have Google now, which is
Speaker 3: a great thing. You can look at who has a
Speaker 3: similar problem. What are they doing? And maybe it's not
Speaker 3: we're not copying them exactly because it's a different environment,
Speaker 3: but it's going to be in though. That's a great,
Speaker 3: great question.
Speaker 2: First, the first thing I'd say is ego, because you're
Speaker 2: not going to let that other places have smarter people
Speaker 2: than you. One two, Look at El Paso, just look
Speaker 2: at Albuquerque, Albuque. Let me tell you you're spot on.
Speaker 2: I'm from that area, right and every time I go home,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, why can't Arizon, Tuston do this?
Speaker 3: Why can't do that?
Speaker 2: And people here are so provincial that they don't they
Speaker 2: we're better than Albuquerque, We're I got to know, like
Speaker 2: a like a full blown argument with a guy from
Speaker 2: l Pass one time, because he was telling me l
Speaker 2: Passes better than do something.
Speaker 3: I was like, you're out of your mind. But then
Speaker 3: when you step back, like you're saying right now not
Speaker 3: doing I didn't mean to cut you ask to you,
Speaker 3: but you're right, what the hell? Yeah, you know, how
Speaker 3: did this work? How did this happen? Right right? Right?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I with you.
Speaker 2: They have a very good, well attended soccer program. Ye
Speaker 2: a triple A baseball That's that's constantly unbelievable, And I'm.
Speaker 3: Thinking, why not touson and they've had it forever here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure the heat has a lot to play
Speaker 2: with it, but l pass on two center in the
Speaker 2: same conversations Heat, You are right, so we'll ask him
Speaker 2: to get some sit Yes, yeah, we got to go
Speaker 2: because we're going to talk to Victor Quevas. Yes, Victor
Speaker 2: where he is the owner of Tucson baseball team who
Speaker 2: sell baseball team which will have a name at some
Speaker 2: point in the.
Speaker 3: Few following season. Yeah, okay, we'll come back.
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Speaker 1: N notice Steve Rivera, he's got his eye on the
Speaker 1: ball on Tucson sports station, Fox Sports fourteen fIF day.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to you in the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Blake Dieger.
Speaker 2: Now on the phone, we have Victor Aquamas with the
Speaker 2: new Tucson baseball team.
Speaker 3: How are you, Victor?
Speaker 5: Hi? How are you hose? Everybody?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Welcome, welcome, Hey. I think you're doing a great favorite
Speaker 2: to Tucson. I hope they do a great favor back
Speaker 2: and enjoy your baseball team here in the fall.
Speaker 5: We're looking forward to it and like you say, aspecting
Speaker 5: to get the favorite back. We're excited. We're excited. We're
Speaker 5: excited not to be back fable to Tucson and not
Speaker 5: just say it both, but just up caliber baseball. So
Speaker 5: I think I think the city is hungry for it,
Speaker 5: and I think will go real good.
Speaker 3: So I was telling Victor, I was telling Steve earlier
Speaker 3: about the event last night that you guys put on
Speaker 3: at the carriage House. How unbelievable was the turnout that
Speaker 3: you guys had and then the unbelievable press conference this
Speaker 3: morning that you put on and all the people that
Speaker 3: came out, and I think you hit the nail on
Speaker 3: the head. Tucson is excited, Southern Arizona's excited for this,
Speaker 3: We are hungry for this. What are your you know,
Speaker 3: you answered this question this morning, but I want everybody
Speaker 3: to hear at what are your expectations the first year,
Speaker 3: well my first year.
Speaker 5: The friger of the team could be that the city
Speaker 5: embraced it. I mean, we have a good and really
Speaker 5: good h impact in the Latin Latin community because they
Speaker 5: know our baseball and uh they've been to add Kinot
Speaker 5: to see what we have every September. But the real
Speaker 5: goal is to have all tu soon getting get behind it.
Speaker 5: You know, all the whole community get behind it. And
Speaker 5: I think the level of uh the level of show
Speaker 5: that we're gonna present it to help. I'm just asking
Speaker 5: everybody just to show up to the sport by the
Speaker 5: season tickets. We need to get behind this because in
Speaker 5: the past, uh, it's been tried. You know, baseball in
Speaker 5: Tucson has been tried and failed for whatever reason. But
Speaker 5: the difference this time around is that This team is
Speaker 5: for Tucson, people of Tucson. We're not moving, We're probing
Speaker 5: to say, uh, forever here. If the people embrace it,
Speaker 5: will be here. So I think I think, uh, the
Speaker 5: timing EXPERI sect right now that that's that's that's why
Speaker 5: the league got behind this project. And all the owners
Speaker 5: and all the teams are excited and and shoin their support,
Speaker 5: and I think it will be a good thing to do.
Speaker 2: Well, you're talking fifteen years, right, we haven't had a
Speaker 2: baseball at this level since then, and you're hungry for it, right,
Speaker 2: no doubt about that. How did how did the WBC
Speaker 2: that the Bleak was a big part of, and then
Speaker 2: the Mexican Baseball League, how did the Fiesta? I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: how did that play a part?
Speaker 5: Well, we've been coming to the Fiesta for all those
Speaker 5: you know, thirteen fourteen years in the past, and and
Speaker 5: we've seen how that event has grown and the target
Speaker 5: you know, the target market that it caters to. And uh,
Speaker 5: well I was starting to move from our city because
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, the the Legion just got too
Speaker 5: big for us. We needed to make a move, and
Speaker 5: to Song was always on the map.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: We were looking for a million plus uh you know,
Speaker 5: population city and tuision, you know, scratch that box. We
Speaker 5: were we were looking, uh for a city that knows
Speaker 5: baseball and no one knows, uh what's all about. And
Speaker 5: you know, again took some scratch that box. Uh and
Speaker 5: uh we played, I mean we played writing that zone.
Speaker 5: I mean, uh, more than half of the teams didn't.
Speaker 5: I didn't ride the bus to do so, you know,
Speaker 5: they're not that far away, and so I mean it
Speaker 5: was like, uh, you know, it was like almost like
Speaker 5: the perfect mark. The way I see it, it's that
Speaker 5: I had, I had a franchise to move and there
Speaker 5: was a baseball town without a franchise, So that's like
Speaker 5: a match made in heaven. And then uh, I had
Speaker 5: the fortune of medium play and a bunch of people,
Speaker 5: you know, Sala and Edgar and Felipe Asia for visit Tucson,
Speaker 5: and then I pitched the Pride to them. They loved it,
Speaker 5: and then we took it to the next level and
Speaker 5: then they we sat down with the county people, so
Speaker 5: everybody got excited, everybody got behind it, and we've been
Speaker 5: working lass off for the last ten months and finally
Speaker 5: finally we're here.
Speaker 3: Fantastic Yeah, a big difference to Victor. You know this
Speaker 3: obviously because it's you. But Victor and his family are
Speaker 3: in Tucson, right They're not in another community that owns
Speaker 3: a team here or they're commuting. They live here. They're
Speaker 3: here for the long haul. They care not only that
Speaker 3: the team is successful, but what happens to Tucson. And
Speaker 3: I think that's really important because that's a true twoson
Speaker 3: in right. We we care about our communities. You have
Speaker 3: a big stake in it. Victor is a huge stake
Speaker 3: in it of everything that's happening right now. So Victor,
Speaker 3: will you talk to everybody right now listening and uh,
Speaker 3: and line us what if we want to buy season tickets?
Speaker 3: Where do we go?
Speaker 5: Well, we have also we have our social mineral right now,
Speaker 5: you go into into the I mean it's it's to
Speaker 5: some maid who team and if directly, it will directly
Speaker 5: exactly to where you need to buy those online. And
Speaker 5: one thing that I don't I don't want to forget,
Speaker 5: and I need to say this lake is important.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: People need to know that this team it's it's not
Speaker 5: an expansion team, it's a real team. We have history
Speaker 5: that's been really successful so we're in it. Uh, the
Speaker 5: first year we'll be contending for a championship. That is
Speaker 5: important to people to know. It's not apployee for three, three, four,
Speaker 5: five years. You know, we're we're not rebuilding, not anything.
Speaker 5: We are a really contender. So you know, that's that's
Speaker 5: important import for people to know.
Speaker 2: So, So, Victor, we're in mid June right now, you
Speaker 2: have a four or five months before you start the season.
Speaker 2: What's the next step to get to that point?
Speaker 5: Well, me and my team we're we're working on selling sponsorships.
Speaker 5: You know, we're working activity here right now through the
Speaker 5: league because all the games in one hundred percent of
Speaker 5: the games will be seen in Mexico. So we want
Speaker 5: the same the same kind of response that when the
Speaker 5: team travels to Mexico that everybody to so can be
Speaker 5: able to watch it on TV. We're working that deal
Speaker 5: right now. But sports wise, the first week of September,
Speaker 5: I think it was Depleber of fifth, we open our
Speaker 5: training camp. We we usually do that for six weeks
Speaker 5: and we get the team here. Uh, we start you know,
Speaker 5: our working program and then asses starts our first game
Speaker 5: in here in Tuton. It will be October sixteen, So
Speaker 5: we open it in a region game against Ermoso and
Speaker 5: then we have a series hit at Hometool that weekend
Speaker 5: against Cremasia too, So that's the next step.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you got four months now, you know, six
Speaker 2: months here, ten months, yes, so you're going to be
Speaker 2: up against this, So a lot of real busy work
Speaker 2: and I'm sure you've already started the plans up until
Speaker 2: this point to get it done.
Speaker 3: Okay, No, it sounds good, Victor.
Speaker 5: We have a lot of work ahead, Victor.
Speaker 3: And one thing that's really important I think for the
Speaker 3: community to know too, is that you guys are going
Speaker 3: to do a lot of the youth to the kids outreach,
Speaker 3: put on clinics, have the players go around so there's
Speaker 3: meet and greets all over southern Arizona, and continually build
Speaker 3: that so you build a fan base kind of like
Speaker 3: what the Roadrunners are doing in the hockey world. You
Speaker 3: guys are going to do the same thing in the
Speaker 3: baseball community. When do you plan on starting to do that?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna plan on doing that this fall or
Speaker 3: are you planning on after the season.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, we're plan doing it this I mean
Speaker 5: right away. We need to embrace our kids. Uh, with
Speaker 5: the players. We need to take advantage of that player's
Speaker 5: been here and we're gonna we're gonna do the outreach,
Speaker 5: you know, to the all of the little leagues that
Speaker 5: are active right now in Tucson. We're gonna talk to everybody.
Speaker 5: We're gonna work out a schedule, and we're gonna work
Speaker 5: out a program, and we want to start right now.
Speaker 5: We value we really value uh, the kids. I mean
Speaker 5: that's the first for us. We needed, we really need
Speaker 5: to get involved with that, and we'll do it for
Speaker 5: this fall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question.
Speaker 2: Let let me ask you from the beginning, So where
Speaker 2: were you sitting? Were you in Tucson since Blake says
Speaker 2: you're here, or were you in Mexico sitting somewhere in
Speaker 2: your in your office and hm hmm, how can I
Speaker 2: make this work?
Speaker 3: Or what did this first idea come up?
Speaker 5: Well, we were we were a team playing in the
Speaker 5: Mexican Pacific League and in so we started we started,
Speaker 5: you know, we started struggling. We're getting fans in in
Speaker 5: the stadium. Uh. It was uh, we have the smallest
Speaker 5: league in the city, I mean with the smallest city
Speaker 5: in the league. Sorry, and then uh, so I had
Speaker 5: to do something. We had to move to Fine Chat
Speaker 5: and it was growing, growing, growing exponentially. We couldn't keep
Speaker 5: up with it in in our town. Uh, so we
Speaker 5: had to move. And me having a lot of connection
Speaker 5: with two sons, and I've been coming here back and
Speaker 5: forths when I was a kid, you know, with my
Speaker 5: dad and my family and and so I had a
Speaker 5: really connection with two sons. I loved to and growing up,
Speaker 5: I saw the toros and I saw the sidewiners, and
Speaker 5: me being a baseball guy, my family is in baseball.
Speaker 5: You know, my dad now me now my son helped
Speaker 5: me a lot. So I mean to me, to me,
Speaker 5: it was natural. I mean it was we was a
Speaker 5: no brainer. Uh, there's there were some challenges of course,
Speaker 5: you know it's another country. There's a border between us.
Speaker 5: So uh, when we when we figure out and then
Speaker 5: we I mean the Mexican babel fists helped because we
Speaker 5: did that every year. So you know, one thing that
Speaker 5: to another one and then here we are.
Speaker 2: So so you're still fresh right today is the press conmers.
Speaker 2: But people have known for a while a month or two,
Speaker 2: because you know, started to leak out and some media
Speaker 2: people have already talked to you, So do you already
Speaker 2: have some people who have bought season tickets? Has the
Speaker 2: progress or the thing already started?
Speaker 5: We started today and the response was being unbelievable. And yes,
Speaker 5: we started, we started, but I mean.
Speaker 3: Me, I'm pointing to Blake because yeah, everything's going on today.
Speaker 3: So today is the first official day, first official day
Speaker 3: for Victor. Okay, yeah, okay, So how did today go?
Speaker 3: You must have been with seeing some people in the
Speaker 3: room having to answer the questions. I'm sure people have
Speaker 3: more questions than answers. How was that?
Speaker 5: Well? I think I told you the truth. I thought
Speaker 5: there were going to be more questions of the Actually
Speaker 5: where I think, I think the Best Conference went really well.
Speaker 5: We explained really well everything, and after that we had
Speaker 5: one on one with media and you know, more than
Speaker 5: more than just questions, you know that, So we had
Speaker 5: one on one that went well too. And after that,
Speaker 5: I mean, the commissioner of our league is here, he
Speaker 5: was a president of the Best Conference. So I mean
Speaker 5: we just left, had a quick lunch and actually we're
Speaker 5: together right now because we have a lot of things
Speaker 5: on on our schedule and you know, we're working the agenda.
Speaker 2: So let me say this because I've been in the
Speaker 2: media for almost forty years now a lot of things,
Speaker 2: and I think Blake could agree with me. You can,
Speaker 2: you don't have to Blake. But Tucson has a very
Speaker 2: friendly media. They want you to succeed. They're dying for
Speaker 2: you to succeed because we get to cover things right.
Speaker 3: Uh. And it's if it's gonna be good baseball, they're
Speaker 3: gonna be there. Okay, So that's good thing.
Speaker 2: It's a positive thing you'll have. You'll have a big
Speaker 2: alley in the media in Tucson because they do the
Speaker 2: same thing for Arizona, do the things for other people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, and and the media it's crucial. I
Speaker 5: mean it's crocial that media gets behind these because well
Speaker 5: will be known through them. So so the media will
Speaker 5: have h I mean, we respected a lot and we
Speaker 5: will always attend to them because I know that Valuo,
Speaker 5: we know that video when they can bring to the
Speaker 5: table exactly. You know you're right.
Speaker 3: Okay, So we got to go. But let me ask you.
Speaker 2: Okay, so now you're today's first official day, You're you're
Speaker 2: gonna be busy.
Speaker 3: For a while.
Speaker 2: Now, what's the first and most important thing you need
Speaker 2: to get done here.
Speaker 5: Dog heading sponsors. That's the first we need to We
Speaker 5: need to hit that casulation and st start ringing. You know,
Speaker 5: money just been going out and I would need money.
Speaker 3: To be coming in.
Speaker 2: And where can they find if Steve Rivera wants to
Speaker 2: buy a ticket season ticket?
Speaker 3: Where do I go? How do I find it?
Speaker 5: There's some Bathe team dot net. Okay, there's some Bathel
Speaker 5: team dot net. And you'll be elected right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, no, fantastic, Victor, appreciate you, good luck.
Speaker 2: We'll see you soon, probably have you on again sometime soon.
Speaker 3: Thanks Victor, Tell Tell Salvador, Tell, Victer Junior and Frank
Speaker 3: I said.
Speaker 5: Hi, okay, of course, thank you by Victor.
Speaker 2: Victor quiver the new the owner of the to some
Speaker 2: baseball team. Good a lot of optimism, right, How does it?
Speaker 3: How does it.
Speaker 2: Help you and your capacity at your job? And it's
Speaker 2: an I questioned, but no, no, yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 2: a good question. So I mean, our our goal for SASA,
Speaker 2: when you're talking about Southerners on the Sports, Tourism and
Speaker 2: Film Authority is to support or bring things that are
Speaker 2: going to create economic impact. This creates economic impact, Okay,
Speaker 2: it furthers along our perspective and our our mission of
Speaker 2: bringing back professional baseball in a manner and then creating
Speaker 2: international appeal, but also strengthening our bond in our partnership
Speaker 2: with Major League Baseball and hopefully furthering along future elements. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when you've known about this for a while, right, obviously, Uh.
Speaker 3: None about what this This today was the first I've
Speaker 3: been trying to pull some stuff out. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But but besides that, you've known about this, and when
Speaker 2: you first found out about it before we go to break,
Speaker 2: are you thinking fantastic?
Speaker 3: Are you thinking? What are you thinking? I'm thinking that
Speaker 3: this is the start of something great? Right, And I
Speaker 3: know you don't blow smoking the way. I don't know,
Speaker 3: I'm sure, I'm pretty I'm pretty open book about stuff.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: In the press conference today before I spoke, such a
Speaker 3: little blurb that I promised some people in the room
Speaker 3: that we're in curse. And that was kind of the
Speaker 3: honest truth because I just say things, right. I don't
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Speaker 3: it would have been used in context for enthusiasm, I hope, So, yeah,
Speaker 3: and I hope it comes to recross that way, it's Steve.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I'm the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera. You're Blake Eager from
Speaker 2: Southern Arizona Sports Tourism and Film Authority.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's how long has that been existing? A little
Speaker 3: over two years? Okay, so I want was going to
Speaker 3: go there, good to talk to Victor. We'll have them
Speaker 3: on again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Tucson, I've been here a long time, needs
Speaker 2: that needs that, not just sports wise, but it needs that.
Speaker 2: Back twenty years ago, maybe twenty five thirty, I don't know,
Speaker 2: the numbers now had the Sports Authority, County Sports and Tours,
Speaker 2: which of course tried to do some great things with
Speaker 2: the baseball. They almost said, we almost had five teams
Speaker 2: here or spring training.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you didn't. Yeah, you gotta have Edgar tell
Speaker 3: you that story. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So okay, So so now you have this and now
Speaker 2: you're talking about a summit, which I think I kind
Speaker 2: of picked up right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, perked up. So tell me that sounds interesting and
Speaker 3: very doable, I think so. Yeah. It was kind of
Speaker 3: a brain child of Ali Farhang and Ray Flores. They
Speaker 3: had brought it up and talked about you know, and
Speaker 3: the thing is, you we talked about this calend Let's
Speaker 3: talk about this calendar year, right, You've got the World
Speaker 3: Baseball Classic reintroduction of Major League Baseball back to Tucson
Speaker 3: a success very much, Okay, yeah, not financially for us,
Speaker 3: but overall absolutely Okay. So I mean, now we're having
Speaker 3: conversations with Arizon a Fall League about potentially having games.
Speaker 3: We just we just sent in our presentation for spring
Speaker 3: training next year and having exhibition games. And I didn't
Speaker 3: want to destruct you, but so go ahead, No, you're fine.
Speaker 3: And and then so you're moving on from that, and
Speaker 3: you're now we're you know, Garments their first time they've
Speaker 3: ever put on their own marathons and identified they're going
Speaker 3: to be here in November. So these huge, these huge
Speaker 3: monumental events. Now you still have Mexican Baseball three that's
Speaker 3: continually expand. Now when you look at just currently, you've
Speaker 3: got the University of Arizona, you've got Pemic Community College,
Speaker 3: and then set aside that you get into the pro teams,
Speaker 3: You've got FC Tucson, you've got the Sugar Skulls, you've
Speaker 3: got the road Runners, now you have the Tucson Baseball team.
Speaker 3: I just think we're at the point that we all
Speaker 3: need to sit down and have some conversations about how
Speaker 3: are we doing this, How are we doing it together.
Speaker 3: How can we do it better? Maybe there's some shared communication,
Speaker 3: Maybe we create co op programs between PEMA Community College
Speaker 3: and University of Arizona. And then the biggest one out
Speaker 3: of all of them, I mean, there's two biggest ones
Speaker 3: on all of them. Are you know you're not even
Speaker 3: talking about the color Guard, You're not talking about tour,
Speaker 3: You're not talking about the Arizona Roll or the rodeo.
Speaker 3: I mean, we have so many things going on, you know,
Speaker 3: and that's well, here's you just need to communicate.
Speaker 2: No, you're executive, right, And in fact, I say this
Speaker 2: all the time, and I'm not blowing smoke either, because
Speaker 2: I do. This is a new time. Had I said
Speaker 2: this twenty years ago, I know I'd be lying through one.
Speaker 2: But there's there's guys like you forties, fifties, young thirties,
Speaker 2: whatever through the fifties out there. Well no, no, no, So
Speaker 2: people like that have this vision because they've lived it.
Speaker 2: You can throw these ideas at you and there's some
Speaker 2: bite to it. You can get some bite to it.
Speaker 2: Before it was like I don't like that ideot, We're
Speaker 2: not gonna do it. You know what I'm saying. Well,
Speaker 2: I think I respect to those who I'm talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 2: think about this right now. And I've and Nazim said
Speaker 2: this to Ray Flores and all Lee Farnhang and Edmond Marquez.
Speaker 2: You have guys that are in an age and their
Speaker 2: prime that are trying to change the narrative and create
Speaker 2: a different culture here with the surrounding pieces that we
Speaker 2: never had together. Right, Like you just said, you ten
Speaker 2: years ago, twenty years ago, you didn't have all these pieces, right.
Speaker 2: You look at the Arizona Bowl went from Nova Home Loans,
Speaker 2: which is phenomenal, Right, that helped, yeah, to Snoop Dogg
Speaker 2: Airs Snoop Dogg. Right, you have garment now in our
Speaker 2: backyard major League Baseballs. Like, there's so many things that
Speaker 2: are working in our favor.
Speaker 3: We only get so many chances in this life, right,
Speaker 3: I think we're in a really good place that if
Speaker 3: we could bring everybody together, create the same narrative and
Speaker 3: work forward and get everybody involved with So let me.
Speaker 2: We're going to have all of you here in a
Speaker 2: little half hour, so I'll ask them the same thing. Okay,
Speaker 2: So you're part of this group either it's ten to
Speaker 2: twenty people right with all the organizations, and they all
Speaker 2: have the equal share into the because they're all equal.
Speaker 3: I don't care if it's the Arizona Ball Tour or WBC.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no total, there's no there's no right, I'll
Speaker 2: have a what's the first order of business?
Speaker 3: I think everybody has to come together. That's a really
Speaker 3: good question, Steve, And you're catching me off, got it
Speaker 3: a little bit, but I like it. Where are our failures?
Speaker 3: Where are our successes? And why aren't we doing all
Speaker 3: this together? Why haven't you or aren't you? Why aren't
Speaker 3: we aren't you? Now correct? Okay, this is a question
Speaker 3: I asked you. We have no source of a direct
Speaker 3: source of marketing in southern Arizona. Right, we talked because
Speaker 3: we talked about it's really hard, so like you know,
Speaker 3: and I was, you know, I am, I am at
Speaker 3: fault for this as well. Where you go get off
Speaker 3: your butt and go attend these games and you're like,
Speaker 3: I didn't even know we had these games, you know.
Speaker 3: I talked to Bob Hoffman about this. They had when
Speaker 3: they were having an NHL preseason game. I mean, you're
Speaker 3: you're you were able to see the Coyotes play the
Speaker 3: Ducks at the TCC a week before the season started
Speaker 3: with all their starting line up on the ice and
Speaker 3: we said at the glass for forty dollars, like, you
Speaker 3: can't do that anywhere. But we don't have a direct
Speaker 3: line of communication or winning. It's so funny.
Speaker 2: Because you and I, you know, you know, we do
Speaker 2: the show together now every now and again, and I
Speaker 2: send you some stuff and you send them back to me.
Speaker 2: And isn't this a good idea? It doesn't become a
Speaker 2: good idea until we do something with it. Yeah, we're
Speaker 2: sitting on our hands. I have a cousin and I
Speaker 2: have two cousins or brothers. One's a doer and the
Speaker 2: other's a teacher. And you know who the successful one is,
Speaker 2: the doer, the doer because he doesn't give a crap
Speaker 2: if he fails. But you know he has a lot
Speaker 2: of money because he does a great job. So Steve,
Speaker 2: what's the worst thing that happens if we do this?
Speaker 3: We fail? We fail? Guess where we're at now?
Speaker 2: Would say, well, that's why we talk about this like
Speaker 2: this this uh summit or whatever. But you have a
Speaker 2: marketing division that pushes everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I've thrown this out there and I
Speaker 3: don't know if I'm but I mean, we just talked
Speaker 3: about it. It's it's time. That's Tucson Southern Arizona had
Speaker 3: a sports commission. I mean, Phoenix just got theirs, and
Speaker 3: they've got their sports commissions to go after Super Bowls
Speaker 3: and Final fours, and we're you know, we're not going
Speaker 3: after that. It's a city. Let's treat us like a
Speaker 3: minor league city. Let's be the best damn minor league
Speaker 3: city in the freaking world, right, and not be ashamed
Speaker 3: of it, and not be ashamed of it. Not be
Speaker 3: ashamed of Why you ever been to Oklahoma City? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the Triple A Stadium down like it's that whole
Speaker 3: brick town was built because of that stadium. Think about
Speaker 3: all the things that we could have.
Speaker 2: It's funny because you know, I go out and I play,
Speaker 2: and you know my age and I know your age.
Speaker 3: No one's called me a boomer.
Speaker 2: I don't think a boomer yet, and I'd be very
Speaker 2: pissed because you know, because but but there's no shame
Speaker 2: in being one. I've lived this long, right, But you
Speaker 2: can think out of the box. Yeah, And I think
Speaker 2: we're gonna have a guy who does that often in Ali,
Speaker 2: But I'm sure there's more Ali's out there.
Speaker 3: He's just more visible. Does that make any sense?
Speaker 2: And you have you listed off maybe ten different organizations
Speaker 2: that have some seat at the table, a seat at
Speaker 2: the table. So very very doable and very presentable and
Speaker 2: very marketable.
Speaker 3: And you know, the thing about us is a little
Speaker 3: bit different because you people are able us at college town.
Speaker 3: We've talked about this. Who's yes, Tucson, OK. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: southern Arizona. People label this area or toos On specifically
Speaker 3: a college town because the University of Arizona. So it's
Speaker 3: in our fabric. But the thing that is different is
Speaker 3: that we're a million and a half people county wide,
Speaker 3: right with all these other entities that are in the
Speaker 3: same place. I don't really care who's a lead or
Speaker 3: who's a you know, head seat at the table. Somebody
Speaker 3: has to be there where they're gonna when they get
Speaker 3: an invite from that person, they go, well, we have
Speaker 3: to be there, right, Sure, and it's probably the University
Speaker 3: of Arizona.
Speaker 2: Sure, but guess what they but no one has an
Speaker 2: equal or a bigger seat than anybody. Yeah, it's the
Speaker 2: same because you're you're you're you need to get your
Speaker 2: stuff settled too, Yeah, you know, because they they have issues.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you just said this right now, So you
Speaker 3: create a summit that gives a media access to this
Speaker 3: whole market in one place. You have a marketing you
Speaker 3: have a marketing piece. What what's successful? What's not successful?
Speaker 3: Why are we doing this? Why aren't we doing this?
Speaker 3: Other areas, other cities, other places are doing these. Let's
Speaker 3: try to replicate it as a whole right. My thing?
Speaker 3: I kicked Ali, and Ali brought this up a long
Speaker 3: time ago because he's a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan. What
Speaker 3: color is every single team in Pittsburgh? Yellow and gold,
Speaker 3: black and gold, black and gold, right, black and gold.
Speaker 3: He's like, why won't we do something similar to something?
Speaker 3: At first, I was like, that would never happen, But
Speaker 3: it's true, Like maybe that's our identity that we're We're one,
Speaker 3: We're one unit moving forward, right, We're not these islands
Speaker 3: all over the place because we're not a big enough
Speaker 3: city to survive here.
Speaker 2: I'll give you one right now, because we've never done it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we never done that'll be your pushback. Yeah, well now's
Speaker 2: the time to do that. Yeah, absolutely, now's the time
Speaker 2: to do it in part because you have the younger generation,
Speaker 2: younger than me. Young I mean, who have this foresight
Speaker 2: or you'd assume that they do. And there's not just
Speaker 2: one or two or three four. There's a lot at steak,
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of figures at steak. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know that one. And I've said this before. And
Speaker 2: you you've been in the room and not in the
Speaker 2: room where everybody's pulling the rope, the noble holoans, the
Speaker 2: the golf. It's everyone's there buying tickets to help each
Speaker 2: other out. Yeah, I'm not sure if that was a
Speaker 2: case before. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's the same. Listen. I The one thing I've seen
Speaker 3: right now is that line is completely blurred. So you
Speaker 3: just said that, I see two sons at the table
Speaker 3: to try to help two son baseball team last week, right, Uh,
Speaker 3: Sugar schools are trying to help the road run. Like
Speaker 3: everybody wants people to be successful. We just need to
Speaker 3: come together and do it. I mean, and it should be.
Speaker 3: It should be a cohesive movement, right, it should be.
Speaker 3: It should be for the community because the better those
Speaker 3: teams do, the better opportunities come to the city, the
Speaker 3: better opportunities we have as as as as residents.
Speaker 2: We talk about this a lot time. You know, i'ming
Speaker 2: New Mexico. Obviously the first thing I would do well
Speaker 2: bring people from some other place. You want to go
Speaker 2: to Tucson. Yeah, it's gonna be eighty two to eighty
Speaker 2: five degrees whatever. We have a chance to watch some
Speaker 2: pro baseball, pro baseball. You can do this, enjoy the
Speaker 2: enjoy the weather. Go to a UA basketball, UA football game.
Speaker 2: If it's in November, we can go to a basketball game.
Speaker 2: There's more to do than just this. Yeah, there's more
Speaker 2: things to do.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna I'm I just got a text from
Speaker 3: my buddy Sam Segual Right, and you fell in love
Speaker 3: with Tucson when he visited out here, right, took him
Speaker 3: to you a basketball game. It's it's just getting involved
Speaker 3: in the community.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you another thing that would benefit the
Speaker 2: most realtors. Yeah, because then you're showing up your city.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And a guy who is he in town or
Speaker 3: is he out of town? No, they're in California right now.
Speaker 2: Well, I know this for a fact because I've done
Speaker 2: the story for Biz Tussan. People who come to cycle here,
Speaker 2: cycle over the city. Yeah, God, this is a nice
Speaker 2: place to maybe own a second home or or condo
Speaker 2: or whatever, or.
Speaker 3: Open a second location of my business, or you know,
Speaker 3: create economic impact by doing this or hiring hiring local employees. Like,
Speaker 3: it's just there's so many things that could drastically change.
Speaker 3: I had this conversation the other day in one of
Speaker 3: these peer group meetings, right, because we were talking about
Speaker 3: venture capitalists and all these other things that I have
Speaker 3: no idea about. I'm by far the dumbest person at
Speaker 3: the table there, and I brought up the idea of,
Speaker 3: you know, like, we're never going to be Austin, but
Speaker 3: what changed in Austin, right, because now you have all
Speaker 3: these venture capitalists, and now it's it's kind of overblown, right,
Speaker 3: it's not the cool city, weird city anymore. It's just
Speaker 3: a city. But what changed was industries and moving there.
Speaker 3: They started creating better jobs, they started creating better likelihoods.
Speaker 3: We have to make sure that we're not gentrifying our
Speaker 3: you know, barrios in our extreme locations that we want
Speaker 3: to continue to keep, but we definitely want to have
Speaker 3: better opportunities for our youth.
Speaker 2: No, you talk about that all the time. Since I've
Speaker 2: met you, You've talked about that. It's the ability to
Speaker 2: keep the wands from leaving.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why we don't want to want to leave? I never,
Speaker 3: I don't I didn't want to leave. I don't want
Speaker 3: to have to leave an extra a city of talent, right, right?
Speaker 3: And then what do I tell a lot and you
Speaker 3: tell one you got to leave to come back? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you got to leave established shelf and then come back
Speaker 3: because we don't have a middle ground, you know, you
Speaker 3: it's just it's it's mild. That's why you graduate Scho
Speaker 3: to Phoenix because they has more opportunity. Absolutely, my I
Speaker 3: mean my wife talks about it. We talk about all
Speaker 3: the time. She works for into it. Right, if something changed,
Speaker 3: there's not a there's not a lot of those that
Speaker 3: will fall back. Yeah, there's not a lot of comparable
Speaker 3: places that she can move to. Right. It's it's wild
Speaker 3: to me. So you know, you're retaining thirty percent of
Speaker 3: your college graduates because we don't have the job market
Speaker 3: to retain them. But you know what we have, and
Speaker 3: this is knock. We have a lot of car washes,
Speaker 3: we have a lot of smoke shops. Right, what how
Speaker 3: do we change that? Narrative for kids like me that
Speaker 3: grew up in the neighborhood that I grew up and
Speaker 3: like we should be able to say, you don't have
Speaker 3: to go to college, but there's still quality jobs here there.
Speaker 3: You should still have a quality of life without having
Speaker 3: to leave to go to a different side. With that,
Speaker 3: we'll come back and talk more