Speaker 1: Breaking down all the apses and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen
Speaker 1: fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to winning the ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera. You're blake, eager, You're one.
Speaker 2: Is this your last one? You can do it? Okay?
Speaker 2: Breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball, Breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: Happy Wednesday to everyone out there, Yours truly Mihitolindo, Goodie
Speaker 3: two shoes, one last time breaking news. Let's get into it,
Speaker 3: starting with some Arizona athletics. We've talked about it almost
Speaker 3: all week. We talked about it with coach Lopez. Arizona
Speaker 3: plays in the Super Regional and Chapel Hill against number
Speaker 3: one North Carolina, no number one, number one in the region.
Speaker 3: But they're gonna play Friday at nine am.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this. Having played the game
Speaker 2: for a long time, I played my level, I can't
Speaker 2: remember home field advantage being that big of a deal
Speaker 2: in baseball. You play, you play right. And he talked
Speaker 2: about that, and he talked about that at least a
Speaker 2: well you pitch, you pee, blah blah blah is it.
Speaker 4: I don't think so, I don't.
Speaker 5: Listen, it's kind of you know, you have a routine
Speaker 5: at home, so it's a little easier, sleep in your
Speaker 5: own bed, it's a little bit easier.
Speaker 2: But I tended to pitch better on the road. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think so too. It's not really that big of
Speaker 2: a deal to me. But again, I'm not a player.
Speaker 5: So it's not the same as basketball, right, it's not.
Speaker 5: It's not gonna be the same as football. It's I
Speaker 5: don't think that the crowd.
Speaker 2: I don't think the crowd place a factor as well.
Speaker 5: Maybe, but I don't think maybe. Maybe we'll see if
Speaker 5: Arizona travels a little bit, right, you just need a
Speaker 5: couple of fans behind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you're good, we don't worry about that crap.
Speaker 2: Like he said, I thought that explanation. Listen, that's what
Speaker 2: he's really good at. You know, Hey, if you're gonna
Speaker 2: beg for pitches, be better with those pitches.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've got to get out of jams there. I mean,
Speaker 5: they're they're I think they're ready to roll. I think
Speaker 5: Chipper's got them ready to go.
Speaker 3: It seems like that type of team where they don't
Speaker 3: really care about any type of noise or really about
Speaker 3: the other team. They're just going to go and try
Speaker 3: out and do their own thing. So do they have momentum,
Speaker 3: But then I'm asking for a reason.
Speaker 2: Yes, it does. North Carolina.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're well, they're one of the best teams in
Speaker 4: the country.
Speaker 5: That's I think the momentum wise, I think they're expected
Speaker 5: to win and that can bite them in the butt.
Speaker 2: And that's what what do you say fatal? Yeah success? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I love that too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He comes up with, do you I'm going to use it?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, me too. There was another one that
Speaker 2: he said when he was here. He said, I must
Speaker 2: get a hat for it. Be good yeah or be gone? Yeah,
Speaker 2: because you ain't good. Yeah, you're out there. Yeah I
Speaker 2: love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yesterday, the Arizona soccer schedule came out. Uh, the entire
Speaker 3: month of September, they'll be at home the women's soccer team,
Speaker 3: women's soccer team. That's kind of a nice thing. The
Speaker 3: whole how many games almost theme almost a game to
Speaker 3: one to have six games in the month of September
Speaker 3: only one road game.
Speaker 2: Oh so they do have a broad game. Well, you
Speaker 2: just lied, So he did a correction after.
Speaker 3: It's because I saw a tweet earlier as said they
Speaker 3: don't they won't leave in the month of September, but.
Speaker 4: I need a formal im that's like a prior statement.
Speaker 2: You're good. It's a it's a correction on the front page. Correction,
Speaker 2: always corrections On a Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Arizona Gymnastics has also signed Sadie Smith transfer from Arkansas.
Speaker 3: She didn't get to compete a lot in her first
Speaker 3: in her one season at Arkansas, but she will more
Speaker 3: than likely make an impact quickly in Tucson. They're coming in,
Speaker 3: they're going. How is the gymnastics program really good? I mean,
Speaker 3: I know I read a little bit about it. They've
Speaker 3: come a long way and they're they're pretty good this
Speaker 3: year for the first well they're good.
Speaker 2: This got better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's one of those programs where you just
Speaker 3: be patient and the winds will come.
Speaker 5: It also helps not having U C, l A and
Speaker 5: USC and no Sanford Division anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you asked about this ripe of before
Speaker 3: we came back on. The College Softball World Series is
Speaker 3: happening tonight, Game one, Texas Tech and Texas all Big
Speaker 3: twelve showdown.
Speaker 4: Yeah, final, well yeah final, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Who you're taking I'm taking. I'm taking Texas the Juggernaut.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And you got the transfer, the transfer from Stanford. Here's
Speaker 5: something silly.
Speaker 2: But I saw more softball in the last two weeks.
Speaker 2: Don't have all year, but I saw more softball than
Speaker 2: baseball the last two weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Because the one.
Speaker 2: The games go fast and the girls are fantastic. I
Speaker 2: love watching its fantastic. I listen, We've had this conversation.
Speaker 2: I don't watch college baseball college. Yeah, and then just
Speaker 2: how they play, and she's a fantastic pitcher. You gotta
Speaker 2: go through. And I even posted on Facebook is who
Speaker 2: doesn't if you hadn't watched it, and you watched it,
Speaker 2: how could you not fall in love with his game?
Speaker 4: Yeah? It gives you all the feels.
Speaker 2: Just Steve's favorite sport, hockey. The hockey rings.
Speaker 3: The Panthers and the Oilers start game one at five
Speaker 3: o'clock as well Stanley Cup Final.
Speaker 2: So I was prepared for this with you, and I
Speaker 2: said to myself, for your joys, I won't even if
Speaker 2: you asked me the guests, who's it, I wouldn't tell you.
Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you I wouldn't go.
Speaker 5: Edmonton be the first time that Canada's won to Stanley
Speaker 5: Cap since nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3: Wow, bring it home. This is a match as well
Speaker 3: from from last year. So this is the second edition
Speaker 3: of oiler.
Speaker 2: Who's gonna say something stupid about it? Well, I mean
Speaker 2: we'll publicly. You've been doing it all day? Why stop?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 2: Why stop?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 2: That's nice. We welcome to I on the Ball with
Speaker 2: Joe Schmoe starting tomorrow on you just got You're not
Speaker 2: leaving your show.
Speaker 3: Careful that goes very real quick for you, Steve. Yesterday,
Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks played the Braves. I think I believe it
Speaker 3: was the game one of that series. They won eight
Speaker 3: to three, kind of trying to get out of a slump,
Speaker 3: trying to get momentum.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that West is tough, right, I mean, you've got
Speaker 4: the Rockies. I'm just.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had this conversation, would you rather go to?
Speaker 5: I mean, Miami played Colorado the other day. I don't
Speaker 5: know if you guys saw that. There was a I
Speaker 5: think they. I think the official sold tickets was twelve
Speaker 5: for that game.
Speaker 4: I here's my opinion.
Speaker 5: My opinion is that Florida does not deserve to have
Speaker 5: a baseball team Miami or Tampa Bay. Like you won
Speaker 5: World Series in Miami, the fans never you never drew fans.
Speaker 5: Tampa Bay has consistently had a playoff team and a
Speaker 5: good team and a great product, and they can't draw.
Speaker 5: They need to leave. I'm sorry, they don't deserve a team.
Speaker 5: What do you think the problem is? It's all transplants.
Speaker 5: I mean, and when I lived in South Florida, everybody
Speaker 5: was a Yankees fan. Well on the east coast Zona, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, you're right, you're right. Well, I can't make
Speaker 5: that argument against us, but we don't have that many teams.
Speaker 2: So no, no, no, Welcome to the University of Arizona. Yeah,
Speaker 2: where the natives are the natives, but the people are
Speaker 2: mostly from Iowa, Minnesota, YadA, YadA. They have no have
Speaker 2: no attachment to Ituville.
Speaker 4: Yeah Louisville.
Speaker 2: Oh you still wear your red over there. Hope you
Speaker 2: don't do it too much because you might be in trouble.
Speaker 5: When I had this conversation, now you're gonna have to
Speaker 5: help me this. So I was having this conversation with
Speaker 5: Sarah Horvath last week. We were she's a director of
Speaker 5: Kenos Complex and we were on a we were on
Speaker 5: a virtual meeting and I said Louisville and she was
Speaker 5: looked at me like I was creaty.
Speaker 4: She goes, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5: I was like, Louisville and she's like and I was like,
Speaker 5: Louisville in Kentucky. She's like, well I She was trying
Speaker 5: to spell it and I was like, it's Louisville. I
Speaker 5: was like, do you not and she's like, it's louis
Speaker 5: I say Louisville and I was like, that is the
Speaker 5: most improper way to say the city's name. I also
Speaker 5: corrected my mom the other day for Prescott. She called
Speaker 5: it Prescott and she lost her mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's your mom. Whatever you say, Mom. We got
Speaker 2: a call.
Speaker 4: Breaking the hold that hello you know the.
Speaker 2: Air and night of the ball.
Speaker 4: How did this happen?
Speaker 6: Hello?
Speaker 2: Hello? Who's this?
Speaker 8: This is.
Speaker 6: Dad?
Speaker 4: Okay, oh my god? Love it?
Speaker 2: Bring up? I get the tissue. Go ahead, Uh now
Speaker 2: for long.
Speaker 9: I want to say very proud of him and thank
Speaker 9: you guys for the guidance and experience he's had with you.
Speaker 9: The one question I have is to you, guys, what
Speaker 9: is your mount Rushmore of interns. Oh god, his mama,
Speaker 9: and his mama says thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, of course. By the way, did you have
Speaker 2: a graduation party? I was not invited. That that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good, rister Serrano. He does make he does
Speaker 2: crack the list. He does crack the well, let's clear
Speaker 2: the error. We have it on record. I am number one,
Speaker 2: hell number one. However, there be corrections on those last Yes, No,
Speaker 2: he was good. We loved having him, very bright.
Speaker 9: Depending on the vacancy in Kentucky.
Speaker 2: When you're right right, you know that's true, here's the
Speaker 2: number one. Then tomorrow, glad to have him. You raised
Speaker 2: a good kid, and I don't say that very often.
Speaker 2: You is a good kid. Thank you, thanks for listening
Speaker 2: to that's my listener. Good night, we got to go.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you again. To continue with breaking news, No.
Speaker 5: Not really quick. That was super sweet. You're you're probably
Speaker 5: a little embarrassed right now, but when you get older.
Speaker 2: You definitely got hot in here right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I told you, Yeah, no, but that was really sweet.
Speaker 2: We other intens have done that.
Speaker 3: Okay, uh so, can to continue with the MLB and
Speaker 3: the Blazing Rockies.
Speaker 2: They won three straight.
Speaker 4: I know they're hot.
Speaker 6: First.
Speaker 2: I think that's the first uh three games sweep since.
Speaker 4: May of last year.
Speaker 5: The opponents team, Hey, don't call them win straight, right,
Speaker 5: it's a hot straight right now.
Speaker 2: They're on they've never gone you know what, they have momentum,
Speaker 2: they have a little run.
Speaker 5: They get some of the players on that team too.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I mean they can't get any pitching.
Speaker 5: Their pitching is awful.
Speaker 3: A little sidetracked into the w n B A some
Speaker 3: Arizona connection here with Aery McDonald and having some play
Speaker 3: good significant amount of playing time, uh and their win
Speaker 3: against the Washington Mystic eighty five seventy six. She had
Speaker 3: seven points, but her it was more of an energy
Speaker 3: presence with her performance.
Speaker 2: Right, they rapped about her, not too many, but yeah,
Speaker 2: she was great because of Caitlin's gone. Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a couple I think at least three
Speaker 3: that are in.
Speaker 2: And they've made an exception for her. Just send her
Speaker 2: on an exception clause or whatever it was.
Speaker 4: She Yeah, what pick did she go? She went third?
Speaker 5: I was gonna say number two in twenty one. Would
Speaker 5: you say her w NBA career lived up to that?
Speaker 5: I don't know, because I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 5: the NBA has it finished. She's still super what I mean,
Speaker 5: she's what twenty eight? Well, here's the problem. Here's about Yeah,
Speaker 5: but I think here's the problem. But I think they
Speaker 5: talked about this last year when they had all these great,
Speaker 5: fabulous rookies, who a lot of rookies didn't make the
Speaker 5: roster because the rosters are so small.
Speaker 2: Right, so there's a very Okay, they're good, they're good enough,
Speaker 2: but we don't have enough places to put down. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you know, what do you do? You know, I
Speaker 2: only have a two bedroom house. I can put two
Speaker 2: people in there. Yeah, that's true. So but I do
Speaker 2: I think she's only four years, five years removed from
Speaker 2: what she does. And she's twenty six. She's pretty good
Speaker 2: twenty six, she's on her prime. Yeah, we'll see what happens. Well,
Speaker 2: she'll all be connected to the legacy here again. And
Speaker 2: you're I mean possible Mount Rushmore. I think you Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean she's got to be in the conversation. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow, Game one of the NBA Final starts, the Pacers
Speaker 3: visit the Thunder. Uh and Thunder are pretty favored almost
Speaker 3: at ten point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at point. But do you know what the odds are.
Speaker 2: I think I saw seven hundred minus seven hundred. It's
Speaker 2: not worth doing it. But the Pacers had a little
Speaker 2: little side trip. I think they're gonna I think they're
Speaker 2: gonna give them a game.
Speaker 4: No, it's gonna be I think it's gonna be really good.
Speaker 2: Serious.
Speaker 4: I don't know. It might be over and five, but
Speaker 4: it will be a fun serious. Is there a prediction?
Speaker 2: Six?
Speaker 5: I said six, you said okay, see in six, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I wan'll do okay see in five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is good. I'll be the J real quick
Speaker 3: Pacers and six. Yeah that is a J pick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope so t J.
Speaker 2: Ben, Yeah, that's how I hope. Well, you were wearing red.
Speaker 2: That's all you're wearing.
Speaker 3: Today's the block A big news, big news in Arizona.
Speaker 3: Well maybe maybe not to you, Steve, but the Sons
Speaker 3: have hired Cabs assistant in Geordia as their next head coach.
Speaker 3: So they did hire him, because that was the rumor
Speaker 3: this morning that that would do you.
Speaker 2: Know who is I don't know me either, you either.
Speaker 2: I've tried assistant assistant from Cleveland, right in Cleveland. What
Speaker 2: is the background besides that you see what.
Speaker 3: They have to me to me, and this is he's
Speaker 3: been an assistant coach since twenty twelve, rooted in principles
Speaker 3: of strong offense and defensive creativity.
Speaker 2: Okay, whatever the hell that means, momentum moments. Yeah, well
Speaker 2: to me, and then forgive me for those who are
Speaker 2: big Suns fans, Howard that they're just rearranging deck chairs
Speaker 2: in the Titanic. It's continued to be a bad.
Speaker 5: The turnover the coaching carousel in the NBA is wild
Speaker 5: to me. Yes, I mean the Knicks just fired their
Speaker 5: coach and they finished what they finished them.
Speaker 2: They went to the final, Yeah, the first time since
Speaker 2: when the Suns well forever to two thousand, two thousand. So,
Speaker 2: but look look at the Suns. I think they've lost
Speaker 2: the fired three head coaches in the last three four years.
Speaker 3: I thought it was four for four since the finals.
Speaker 3: That could be, yeah, because I think it was Williams.
Speaker 3: Williams had one year after that, they had that last
Speaker 3: next the next year where it was like a record
Speaker 3: of med DeAndre record breaking year they had thirtif.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's the same thing we've talked about in
Speaker 5: one you and I and Ray and I had this
Speaker 5: conversation before, is that it's it's a player driven league, right,
Speaker 5: and it should be to the point, but they're making
Speaker 5: decisions now and they're they're saying, I don't want to
Speaker 5: player anymore. You're gonna have to trade me, Like that's
Speaker 5: wild to me. And so now they're saying, why I
Speaker 5: don't like this coach, You're gonna fire them. He just
Speaker 5: took us to the freaking finals, Thesetern finals, the Knicks, right,
Speaker 5: it's crazy whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's I think your reasons for getting out.
Speaker 2: I don't know what your reasons are forgetting out. But
Speaker 2: you talked about the kid, YadA YadA. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of different things with parents, YadA YadA. I wouldn't I
Speaker 2: wouldn't deal with it. I just wouldn't one want to
Speaker 2: deal with it.
Speaker 10: No, And then I think about it, I'm like, man,
Speaker 10: they still have to pay him out of his contract.
Speaker 10: He never has to work a day in his life
Speaker 10: ever again. Literally, I'm like, sign me up. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 10: figure out hobbies. I'm going to the record store every day.
Speaker 10: I'm play golf, I'm stupid pickleball.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, I'm not coming in every day today.
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Speaker 1: Streaming live on the Ihearts Radio AaB This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Raverra on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my the ball here Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty oder Steve Rivera and with me today is
Speaker 2: Blake Eager and now on the phone we have there
Speaker 2: was one a daily start callingist Michael lev Michael, how
Speaker 2: are you good?
Speaker 6: How are you guys?
Speaker 2: We're doing well? Thank you? You'd come in from Oregon,
Speaker 2: take a shower and got to get out on the
Speaker 2: road again.
Speaker 6: Basically, yes, I'm leaving day.
Speaker 16: I'm leaving the house at three forty five am Thursday.
Speaker 6: So it's pretty much like that.
Speaker 2: Yes, what a life are.
Speaker 4: You flying out of? Two enter Phoenix, Phoenix?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, what do you do?
Speaker 6: A long day? But it's all good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what did you see? We had Andy Lopuz on
Speaker 2: earlier and talked about, you know, there was on a
Speaker 2: cut of break right, Oregon loses to and know the
Speaker 2: kind of the road got a little simpler. What do
Speaker 2: you think of that? One of their chance what they
Speaker 2: did over the weekend and their chances moving forward.
Speaker 16: Well, I mean they did get a break in the
Speaker 16: sense that the Post lost in pretty controversial fashion on
Speaker 16: Friday night.
Speaker 6: But you know what, you can only control what you
Speaker 6: can control. They can't. They have nothing to do with
Speaker 6: who they play.
Speaker 16: They just play whatever team is in the opposite dugout
Speaker 16: Kyle Poly was pretty tough, but you know, you're in
Speaker 16: such an advantageous position when you win win. They had
Speaker 16: a very fresh pitching staff going into Sunday, and they
Speaker 16: ended up, you know, over the course of the weekend
Speaker 16: not using a single pitcher more than one time, which
Speaker 16: is almost unheard of great for a weekend situation like that.
Speaker 6: So it just feels like it feels like everything is
Speaker 6: clicking at the right time.
Speaker 16: Out you know, that can change at a moment's notice
Speaker 16: when you're facing someone like Jake Knapp, the face for
Speaker 16: North Carolina, who's got ridiculous stats and hasn't lost the
Speaker 16: game all season, right, Like, momentum is the next day
Speaker 16: starting pitcher kind of thing. But I think they're feeling
Speaker 16: really confident right now. They're feeling really loose, and the
Speaker 16: vibes are back that were kind of missing towards the
Speaker 16: end of the regular season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think they have an advantage.
Speaker 5: And it's like we talked about earlier, but you're going
Speaker 5: to North Carolina, They've got a kind of an few
Speaker 5: mentality right now, they've got some momentum, they're playing well,
Speaker 5: the breaks are following their way, and it's the best
Speaker 5: of three series, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 16: I don't think they care where they're playing or whom
Speaker 16: they're playing. You know. I was happened to be on
Speaker 16: the same flight as some of the guys who are
Speaker 16: coming back, and I was just talking to them at
Speaker 16: the airport.
Speaker 17: You know.
Speaker 16: Oh at that time, we didn't know where they were
Speaker 16: going to go because the other game was still going,
Speaker 16: the North Carolina Oklahoma game, And they didn't seem to
Speaker 16: really care if they played at home or not. Sure
Speaker 16: they would have liked it would have been fun to,
Speaker 16: you know, play at High See one more time. But
Speaker 16: they've just kept They've embraced the road. I mean, they've
Speaker 16: been on the road three straight weekends. This will be
Speaker 16: a fourth straight weekend and you know, since the first
Speaker 16: game at Houston, they've done nothing but win.
Speaker 5: Who stuck out to you on this team in the
Speaker 5: regional as somebody to watch is when they play North Carolina.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of candidates for that.
Speaker 16: I would say that the top three guys in the
Speaker 16: lineup right Brandon summer Hill has been kind of disappointed
Speaker 16: with himself a little bit since he's come back. He's
Speaker 16: hitting only two eighty since returning from injury, which a
Speaker 16: lot of us would take that for him, it's, you know,
Speaker 16: not what he was hoping for, expecting. He still has
Speaker 16: had an on base percentage over or fifty. But you know,
Speaker 16: someone who can really cause a lot of damage from
Speaker 16: the lead off spot. He can hit into the gaps,
Speaker 16: he can hit for power, he can run the basis.
Speaker 16: Aaron Walton, who back second, was in a huge slump,
Speaker 16: almost a month long slump, until he absolutely broke out
Speaker 16: of it this past weekend against Nuta.
Speaker 6: Valley cal Polly seven for eleven in the.
Speaker 16: Two games, four home runs. Another guy who can really
Speaker 16: run well. So if those two guys are on the basis,
Speaker 16: it's it's difficult for the opposition, And if one of
Speaker 16: them is on first base, you can't pitch around Mason White,
Speaker 16: who bats third. Cal Poly they pretty much didn't give
Speaker 16: Mason anything to hit on Sunday, and can you blame them?
Speaker 16: I mean, he had three home runs on Saturday. And
Speaker 16: he's been on an absolute terror in the postseason. He's
Speaker 16: he's just turned it up another notch and he's you know,
Speaker 16: looked like what he was expected to be coming into
Speaker 16: the season. One of the best players in America.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to me, he's just amazing. Let me ask you,
Speaker 2: you've covered the team a while now a number of years.
Speaker 2: Give me your top four or five players, and is
Speaker 2: he among them?
Speaker 16: I would say that he has worked his way into
Speaker 16: that conversation.
Speaker 6: I mean, jeezus, he's seeing number two all time in
Speaker 6: home runs. I think he's number one in extra base hits.
Speaker 16: He also has become a pretty good shortstop, not on
Speaker 16: the Nick McClary level defensively, but very reliable over there.
Speaker 6: Has improved his range quite a bit.
Speaker 16: You know, best players I've seen or covered over the years,
Speaker 16: if you go back to twenty sixteen, I would say
Speaker 16: Bobby Dolbeck was probably the.
Speaker 6: Headliner on that team.
Speaker 16: He is a really good pitcher, and if he didn't
Speaker 16: dislike pitch so much, I think he could have been
Speaker 16: really successful as a major league closer. You know, he
Speaker 16: decided to go to hitting route, and it's been up
Speaker 16: and down. He was in the majors for a while
Speaker 16: and then back down. I've had during my time a
Speaker 16: really good run of catchers, starting with Sazar Salazar, who's
Speaker 16: also been up in the big leagues with the Houston Astros.
Speaker 16: One of the strongest character guys you will ever encounter.
Speaker 16: Great defensively, great handler of pitching staffs, and someone who
Speaker 16: has improved a lot offensively.
Speaker 6: And then after him came this fellow named Austin Wells.
Speaker 6: May have heard of him hitting bombs for the New
Speaker 6: York Yankees.
Speaker 16: Great athlete, someone who probably you know, shouldn't have come
Speaker 16: to Arizona, but he had an arm injury in high
Speaker 16: school and it kind of you heard his draft stock
Speaker 16: a little bit, so came to the u of A.
Speaker 16: Played the twenty nineteen season. He was unbelievably good, and
Speaker 16: he would have played the whole twenty season, but of
Speaker 16: course that season got shortcut by the pandemic. And then
Speaker 16: after him, Daniel Sussack comes along, another first round pick
Speaker 16: from the catcher position. One of the smartest young baseball
Speaker 16: players I have ever met.
Speaker 6: Photographic memory, tons of power as well. So those are
Speaker 6: just a handful of the guys who come to mind,
Speaker 6: and there's been a lot of them.
Speaker 5: That's a wild run for catchers, though, like h you called,
Speaker 5: you know a BA basketball's point guard you. That's catcher
Speaker 5: you status, Like you don't find that anywhere else in
Speaker 5: the country to have back to back to back.
Speaker 4: I mean we're in big league guys behind the dish.
Speaker 6: Yeah, a Donnas Guzman has no stocks either.
Speaker 16: He was a very very highly rated prospect coming out
Speaker 16: of high school and someone who's definitely draftable. Has improved
Speaker 16: a lot as a hitter as after coming over from
Speaker 16: Boston College with the reputation as kind of a glove
Speaker 16: first guy.
Speaker 6: Did have a little bit of arm fatigue arm pain
Speaker 6: during the season.
Speaker 16: It kind of threw his throwing off, but like he's
Speaker 16: got one of the best pop times in the college game,
Speaker 16: and as someone who's definitely on the radar of MLB
Speaker 16: teams in this upcoming draft.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you a dumb question. So, who
Speaker 2: was the the center fielder a few years back that
Speaker 2: was fantastic covered a lot of ground.
Speaker 6: You're talking about Dante Williams.
Speaker 2: Dante Williams, Yeah to me, Like, to me, the dude
Speaker 2: was fantastic.
Speaker 6: He was. Yeah, Dante was a great fielder.
Speaker 16: Number one, I think probably probably the best defensive center.
Speaker 6: Fielder that I've covered in my time here.
Speaker 16: And also really good at getting on base like he could,
Speaker 16: like greatly off hitter like a draw walk, get hit
Speaker 16: by pitches a lot. I'm surprised he hasn't done better
Speaker 16: in professional baseball.
Speaker 6: There actually have.
Speaker 16: Been several hitters from Arizona who struggled in pro ball.
Speaker 16: I don't know if it's you know, maybe there's some
Speaker 16: sort of a elevation slash ballpark bump that you get
Speaker 16: some playing down here with with the conditions at High Corbett.
Speaker 16: Maybe you know, some of the guys, you know, were
Speaker 16: coached by Jay Johnson, who's a tremendous you know, offensive coordinator,
Speaker 16: and you know, sometimes when you when you leave your
Speaker 16: your league coach, you know, you struggle to find your form.
Speaker 16: But Dante was was absolutely outstanding, and he was one
Speaker 16: of the members of that twenty twenty one team, which
Speaker 16: was the last one to go to the College World Series.
Speaker 16: That lineup was absolutely loaded.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so does what do you think there are chances
Speaker 2: are wait? Wait, so they started with February or January whatever,
Speaker 2: Did you think that this team had what what you
Speaker 2: see now? And was there a time in the season,
Speaker 2: maybe late maybe a month ago where you said, I
Speaker 2: don't know if this team's going to make it to
Speaker 2: this point.
Speaker 16: Yes and yes, I mean I thought before the season
Speaker 16: started that this was an Omaha caliber team, and.
Speaker 6: It was looking that way for a while.
Speaker 16: I mean, they were in great position, and they had
Speaker 16: that skid.
Speaker 6: It late in the regular season.
Speaker 16: I mean, they lost two out of three at home
Speaker 16: to Utah, which was the last place team in the league.
Speaker 6: Then they lose the first game at Houston.
Speaker 16: Therefore, they lost five out of six in that stretch,
Speaker 16: and it was looking pretty rough. And I have to admit,
Speaker 16: like I kind of jumped off the vandwagon at that point,
Speaker 16: like I just wasn't the vibes weren't right. I have
Speaker 16: a story coming out today about how the Vibes turned
Speaker 16: around and what was behind it. I highly encourage people
Speaker 16: to check out that story. It's something that one of
Speaker 16: their bench players, TJ. Adams, did that really changed the
Speaker 16: vibe and loosen the guys up and kind of kind
Speaker 16: of got them back in they my right mind frame.
Speaker 16: And ever since he did what he did in that
Speaker 16: second game at Houston, they haven't lost.
Speaker 4: And the tagline for that is going to be viben right.
Speaker 6: It's actually okay, I'll give a little bit. It's actually
Speaker 6: toy story.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 6: Tagline I love it. Yeah, well you see where that goes.
Speaker 4: But you know you're doing here, You're just teasing the audience.
Speaker 4: We're all ready to go. This is amazing.
Speaker 5: You know, we were talking about it a little bit
Speaker 5: earlier and I didn't bring it up, But what do
Speaker 5: you do you think you know, just reading about it,
Speaker 5: the two preseason tournaments or pre conference tournaments that they played,
Speaker 5: and they played SEC teams, They've played some high caliber
Speaker 5: teams and you're seeing that obviously Tommy Lloyd's and now
Speaker 5: you're seeing it with Chipper. I think it gets these
Speaker 5: players in a mindset like we've seen it, we've been there,
Speaker 5: like we control our own destiny and that that's when
Speaker 5: you get into this point in the season, right And
Speaker 5: I think it spoke to the U A Wildcats for
Speaker 5: the basketball team when they got to the sweet sixteen
Speaker 5: Canstuke where they were like, well, whatever, we're going to
Speaker 5: lay it out there. Anything can happen in a three
Speaker 5: game series.
Speaker 4: And I like the odds. I like where they're at
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 16: I agree with you one thousand percent. This has been
Speaker 16: Chip Hale's scheduling philosophy since he got here. He wants
Speaker 16: to load up the preseason with elite opponents. He likes
Speaker 16: playing in these neutral site tournaments, you know, best of
Speaker 16: the best, and he feels like it, you know, it
Speaker 16: prepares them for what's to come.
Speaker 6: It toughs them up.
Speaker 16: They got their asses handed to them that first weekend
Speaker 16: of the season, like, they got absolutely pummeled, and a lot.
Speaker 6: Of guys have said, you know, it's like a kind
Speaker 6: of a slap in the face. It was a wake
Speaker 6: up call and they've been a lot better team since then.
Speaker 16: I Mean, the other thing about it is, you know,
Speaker 16: it's good for the players, right It's exciting for them
Speaker 16: to play against those teams. You're in the spotlight, you
Speaker 16: might be on TV. You know, a ton of scouts
Speaker 16: are going to be at these games. So that is
Speaker 16: a formula that has worked for Chips so far, and
Speaker 16: it's it's one that he's going to continue to pursue.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me say we got only two three minutes,
Speaker 2: but let me say this. You talked about Dante Williams.
Speaker 2: I might have been thinking of Chase Davis.
Speaker 16: Well Chase, Yeah, I mean Chase primarily left field. Okay,
Speaker 16: which which they which they actually considered to be the
Speaker 16: hardest position to play at high Corbett because of the dimensions.
Speaker 16: But yeah, I mean Chase, Chase was ridiculous. Another first
Speaker 16: round draft pick, and I think it was it was
Speaker 16: the third.
Speaker 6: One in a row.
Speaker 16: Tremendous power, big wide stance, big leg kick, and again
Speaker 16: another guy like really high character. Is someone who very
Speaker 16: very easily could have transferred because he was a Jay
Speaker 16: Johnson recruit. He didn't have to stick around for Jack Hale,
Speaker 16: but he did, and you know, the rest was history
Speaker 16: for him and the boys.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ask you to be your unbiased self.
Speaker 2: I know you're good at this. What do you think
Speaker 2: happens this weekend?
Speaker 16: My only prediction for this weekend is I think this
Speaker 16: series is going to go the distance. I think that
Speaker 16: they're gonna split the first two games. I couldn't tell
Speaker 16: you what's gonna happen in.
Speaker 6: That third game.
Speaker 16: But like I said earlier, I think Arizona is feeling
Speaker 16: really confident right now, like they can beat anybody. You know,
Speaker 16: it's like success breed confidence, and they obviously have had
Speaker 16: a lot of success in all aspects of the game.
Speaker 6: They're pitching has been stellar.
Speaker 16: The power really showed up in Oregon in a major,
Speaker 16: major way. Their defense has been nearly flawless and I
Speaker 16: think just had one error in the last five or
Speaker 16: six games. But North Carolina it's a pretty good They're
Speaker 16: an exceptionally good pitching team. So I think these games
Speaker 16: are going to be tight, low scoring, well played baseball games.
Speaker 6: Three to two, four to three could go either way.
Speaker 16: I think they're going to split the first two and
Speaker 16: they're going to play, you know, for all the marbles
Speaker 16: on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Okay, good prediction. We'll be watching obviously, you bet. I can.
Speaker 2: I give you a suggestion, Sure, go to bed now
Speaker 2: you have nine good hours of sleep, and then you can't.
Speaker 2: Then you can't.
Speaker 16: I have work, I have work to do, and my
Speaker 16: son has a baseball game at seven o'clock, so that
Speaker 16: will not be happening, but I appreciate the advice.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, we'll have fun. I know you're going with Brian,
Speaker 2: so'll have here. My condolences for that, but go have fun.
Speaker 2: Good luck, Thank you guys.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to twice about here a Fox Sports
Speaker 2: bruching cookie or Steveveran. You were Blakey here you're one.
Speaker 2: So how's your last name?
Speaker 17: Don't know?
Speaker 2: Sorry, mister so I apologize. I use it twice, You
Speaker 2: use it twice. It has been this week. Hey, we
Speaker 2: don't Socially, we don't people chasing you, will, paparazzi bothering
Speaker 2: you at you know, at your place. I'm only known
Speaker 2: as the Scooby Right guy. Scooby Right. We had a call.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, what is that Scooby Right guy?
Speaker 2: What an idiot it.
Speaker 5: Is because of what you said that that was the
Speaker 5: one thing that you'd buy if you had all the
Speaker 5: money in the world.
Speaker 2: I will stand by that for all right.
Speaker 4: Can we can we remember we talked about that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but how much time.
Speaker 2: Do we have left? Thirteen?
Speaker 4: Okay, what are you too?
Speaker 5: Go ahead, I'm gonna start with because I want to
Speaker 5: start it the first time we had, like I was
Speaker 5: on the show with one. Uh So I want to
Speaker 5: end our last show that I'm on with you by
Speaker 5: talking about we started with and that's U a basketball?
Speaker 16: Right?
Speaker 5: So you've a basketball this season coming up. I know
Speaker 5: you've been following it. New recruit yesterday? Right, how are we?
Speaker 5: What is the what do you think the starting five
Speaker 5: is going to be? And how deep do you think
Speaker 5: this team really is?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 2: We got to call hold that hold that thought. Oh
Speaker 2: you're on the air and nine on the ball.
Speaker 4: Who's this? What's the word?
Speaker 17: I just wanted to call and say by the wan
Speaker 17: and telling me the freaking stud for.
Speaker 3: Putting up with you all this, thank you, thank you
Speaker 3: so But but I did have one real quick Andy
Speaker 3: story and I'll get off the air.
Speaker 17: Last week, one of my buddies from California calls, and
Speaker 17: he's a mutual friend. He played right field for Andy
Speaker 17: at Pepperdine and his kid was a big time recruit
Speaker 17: out of Loyola High School and he got hurt his
Speaker 17: junior year, he had taken trips to Washington, Notre Dame,
Speaker 17: that's how.
Speaker 6: Big a name he was.
Speaker 17: And he got hurt and everybody kind of jumped off
Speaker 17: the bandwagon. So he kind of had no place to go.
Speaker 17: He was going to go to JC Route in Texas
Speaker 17: and gets who steps in Andy Lopez calls Pepperdine and
Speaker 17: he signed his letter of intent and he'll be a
Speaker 17: Pepperdine wave next year. Yeah, last week this happened.
Speaker 5: Yeah, people know how much how many times Andy's done that? Right,
Speaker 5: there's a there's a couple of especially.
Speaker 2: If you have an endorsement by a guy like him, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: he speaks.
Speaker 6: Heck. Yeah.
Speaker 17: So anyway, I just wanted to throw that little Lamby
Speaker 17: kid been in there and yeah, I just love when
Speaker 17: you have him on their Steve.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna ask you had to listen, because
Speaker 2: every time he's on you, he could tell you can
Speaker 2: read me the Bible and I'll be.
Speaker 17: Okay time like you, guys, I doubt my daughters at
Speaker 17: thirty and I tell him the one, two, three, and
Speaker 17: every other thing under the book.
Speaker 2: Man, right, right, Okay, Well, thank you, Vick.
Speaker 6: Take you guys, take care.
Speaker 2: Guys, Okay, back to your question of the best.
Speaker 5: Starting five you a basketball team and how deep are they?
Speaker 4: And man an the roster that.
Speaker 2: I really don't know. I'm not going to be able
Speaker 2: to answer how deep they are starting five?
Speaker 3: Starting five, you're gonna have to start with obviously Bradley
Speaker 3: number two. Uh, burres Co Pete, I'm not sure. I'm
Speaker 3: not saying he's a or whatever. But starting five, Uh,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to start a waka mm hmm and
Speaker 3: mo you want do you think he's gonna be too bigs?
Speaker 2: Yeah, youa be fine, Yeah, it'll be fine.
Speaker 4: Deep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know because he didn't go deep. He
Speaker 2: says he will, but he doesn't.
Speaker 5: I know that you've got twelve You've got I mean,
Speaker 5: he's yeah, twelve deep?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what are you what are you implying? Are
Speaker 2: you trying to? Is this?
Speaker 5: This is like the most excited I've been for a
Speaker 5: team in a long time, I think because of the
Speaker 5: recruiting class. But did you watch the video of the
Speaker 5: kid that's coming in. He's from Germany's good, he's legit.
Speaker 5: Well here's the issue. Well, I knew that they're getting somebody.
Speaker 5: I said this in the show a number of times,
Speaker 5: but when when what's his name? Was the right when
Speaker 5: he when when what's his name is going to declare?
Speaker 5: Which he did this week.
Speaker 2: But he was always going to go that he had
Speaker 2: somebody waiting in the wings, and yeah, yeah, you know
Speaker 2: he didn't. He told people that I knew that he's
Speaker 2: going to be good, fantastic, YadA, YadA. Okay. So now
Speaker 2: in the revised uh twenty five from people, there was
Speaker 2: Almos still number eighteen in the group of top teams,
Speaker 2: right the transfer portals the incoming freshman. Yet yeah it's
Speaker 2: still eighteen. That's surprising me because you don't know, you
Speaker 2: don't know the seventeen above. I mean, really, what do
Speaker 2: you know of them? They benefited too from a lot
Speaker 2: of the transfer port Yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Also just don't know it's going back to the starting five.
Speaker 3: Is he gonna want to start that young the young core,
Speaker 3: or any of them? Really, because you also have Evan Nelson,
Speaker 3: the Harvard transfer who comes with experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see. I think he will. I think he
Speaker 2: has no qualms of about doing that. There was just
Speaker 2: something I was gonna say, you still have Delorso, Yeah, Delorso, Right,
Speaker 2: and he was never really a starter or shouldn't have been,
Speaker 2: but he just was because of the situation. Imagine too,
Speaker 2: kJ had come back and Henry would have come back.
Speaker 2: Then then dude, then.
Speaker 3: If those players came back, this would be a deep topic,
Speaker 3: more than likely deep run for Arizona. Yeah, they won't
Speaker 3: even win, they won't even win the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see. I'll take a take a This is it.
Speaker 5: I'm saying, really competes a different sure? No, no, no,
Speaker 5: that's not sure. Best recruit I think we've had since
Speaker 5: Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, here's no issue, Blake, and you know this,
Speaker 2: you know this should be haven't been an athlete. I've
Speaker 2: been through a lot of these recruiting Yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 2: teams are going to be fantastic. Blah blah blah. My
Speaker 2: only thing is how many final fours have they been to. No,
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I'm not just great things team go
Speaker 2: to the final four. I'm just saying it's the deepest
Speaker 2: team for my money for Tommy Lloyd. But legit, like
Speaker 2: Copete for me is watching the videos and watching the
Speaker 2: games that I've watched with him. It's a he's a
Speaker 2: different player, sure, different player, and you've got to senior
Speaker 2: point guard in Bradley.
Speaker 5: That is for my money? And what are you trying
Speaker 5: to say? What are you trying to say? I just
Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of potential. There's a lot
Speaker 5: of potential. But I think what I was getting too
Speaker 5: steeve to get to the point was you said it
Speaker 5: right now? I want to know how deep this team
Speaker 5: is because I don't think Tommy's going to go It's
Speaker 5: going to be eight players exactly. You're going to have
Speaker 5: to trim that down. So now you put now, you
Speaker 5: put Delreso in that conversation, you put the recruit I'm
Speaker 5: guessing from yesterday in that conversation.
Speaker 4: So who's your eighth guy?
Speaker 5: Then it's got to be the backup point guard that
Speaker 5: we got from Harvard, the Tucson kid, right, you still have.
Speaker 2: You and the rush the Russian front y. Yeah, well
Speaker 2: I'm trying.
Speaker 3: It's most of it, Dwayne Aristote. I mean, and even
Speaker 3: the starting the starting five we just mentioned. You don't
Speaker 3: have Pete in that. It was the two bigs JB
Speaker 3: Cop Pete's number three berries and then it was it
Speaker 3: was the thing, it was someone I don't remember.
Speaker 4: It's Bradley.
Speaker 2: And then not maybe maybe we'll do something this year,
Speaker 2: but Bryce James.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, anyway, So now let's go back to the
Speaker 5: Mount Rushmore. Okay, all right, I just wanted to have
Speaker 5: that conversation with one so I could text him when
Speaker 5: he goes to Kentucky about you play basketball.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna do Mount Rushmore overall Mount Rushmore individually.
Speaker 4: In terms of sports, let's go overall.
Speaker 3: Overall Arizona athletes of all time, all time. Okay, Sean
Speaker 3: Jenny Finch, that's two baseball and so so is this
Speaker 3: Arizona career or overall career Arizona careers on a career.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be Arizona because I mean, then you
Speaker 5: can talk about we talked about the soft air, but
Speaker 5: you start putting kidting loft in on that and he
Speaker 5: didn't play baseball.
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, you go out. You can do that off
Speaker 2: the off the You of eight schedule, because you know Steve,
Speaker 2: Steve belongs on that. The other one, Yeah, absolutely, Bob
Speaker 2: Afford because he didn't do anything in Arizona.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, football either, it's gonna be Titty Bruski, Ricky Hunley. Hey,
Speaker 2: well even the guy that just left team.
Speaker 7: Mat Yeah, the highest draft pick out of I think,
Speaker 7: highest offensive, highest offensive draft pick.
Speaker 2: Baseball. Francona, Oh, you said Chip and you said yeah,
Speaker 2: I said Chip.
Speaker 4: Because he holds all time hits record. The people back.
Speaker 2: Then who covered them would probably be able to tell me, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. You know, you go back a certain
Speaker 2: area and an era and who else.
Speaker 4: There's been a lot. That's a tough one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, give me the give me the Mount rushmore baseball
Speaker 2: specific to baseball, Uh, Francona, Yeah, what's his name? Michael
Speaker 2: f gave some big names just in the last That's.
Speaker 4: What I mean. You put those guys in that conversation
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 2: But you had the eighty five years, you had the
Speaker 2: earliest years that were.
Speaker 5: Fan seventy seventy six, eighties eighty I'm sorry, seventy six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he would know because he's seen him. He paid
Speaker 3: against it. He's I'm playing golf with.
Speaker 5: Uh, I'm playing golf with a couple more that might
Speaker 5: be up there tomorrow, Robbie Mowen, George Arias and uh
Speaker 5: Willie Morales. Okay, yeah, so I mean those three guys
Speaker 5: aren't you carry duncan carrying their bags?
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 4: No, Robbie is he's the smallest one out there.
Speaker 2: What's he doing? Is he coaching down south?
Speaker 4: He's in Dallas right now? Oh Dallas?
Speaker 5: Yeah, as you moved back to Dallas. So uh, he was,
Speaker 5: he was, he was at he was at the garment
Speaker 5: event last night. I had him come from Dallas. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's in town obviously playing golf with him tomorrow. Do
Speaker 5: you think I'm traveling to Dallas. Well, you can get
Speaker 5: him on the show tomorrow. You may get Robbie on
Speaker 5: the show. Are you coming tomorrow? What's tomorrow? I came
Speaker 5: in today. I wasn't supposed to be in. You guilted
Speaker 5: me into coming to day. Did you have a good time.
Speaker 5: I had a good time for a portion of it.
Speaker 5: I'm very happy to see one before the coach Slopez
Speaker 5: mich level. So you available tomorrow? Do I have somebody
Speaker 5: tomorrow to figure it out? I'm probably not going to
Speaker 5: be killed you you know you mockety much. So do
Speaker 5: it narrow it down to now?
Speaker 2: This is just a roundabout cross yeah, well just so
Speaker 2: too difficult.
Speaker 5: I mean we talked about our Erry McDonald, right, She
Speaker 5: would personally she would be online. But then you start
Speaker 5: talking about Olympians, right, so now it's in the same
Speaker 5: category because those I mean Beard, Yeah, so the ones
Speaker 5: I mean you have arguably two of the best women's
Speaker 5: golfers of all time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how could you not put them?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure? So, isn't it that wealth of pretty good from you?
Speaker 2: A twound la, get some get some salsa, get some
Speaker 2: salsa and watch some college sports.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, it's this Grace is a place, great place. It's
Speaker 2: it's not a huge city, which is great. It's a
Speaker 2: college town. I was gonna ask you what are the faults?
Speaker 2: So I don't want you to go there.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna I'm gonna recuse myself of that conversation.
Speaker 2: I don't even think I've stayed here for thirty seven years.
Speaker 2: I left the US today for a while and came back.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a great town.
Speaker 5: Steve let me and I'm you know, it's it's maybe
Speaker 5: short sighted, but you know the garment event that I
Speaker 5: put together last night, you had you have the arts
Speaker 5: community there, you had the film community, at sports community,
Speaker 5: at private and public sector, and they all came out
Speaker 5: and they all got along. They all taught to each other.
Speaker 5: That's what's great about too son. To me, it's a
Speaker 5: melting pot, without question. I think that's what's phenomenal. We're kind, Yeah,
Speaker 5: we're we care about our community. Whether we greer or not,
Speaker 5: we do care about our community.
Speaker 2: You know what. You're exactly right because if you need
Speaker 2: a charity of anah blah blah blah, they show up,
Speaker 2: yeah to help. Yeah, yeah, there's no question about that.
Speaker 2: Great people too, great people. Yeah, people you would never think.
Speaker 2: Really sure, thank you, good to meet you. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're losing a good one in one though. Yeah, he'll
Speaker 2: be back. I'll be back. He'll miss the burritos, and
Speaker 2: that's the goal called the kessel in the summer, come
Speaker 2: back here to work. Yeah. Best the luck. Well, you'll
Speaker 2: have a job.
Speaker 4: It's like what am I just handing out jobs?
Speaker 2: It's like when I was interviewed somewhere since, So what
Speaker 2: do you see yourself in five years? Since I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have your job, what about what about me? You'll be
Speaker 2: on the beach having a fun time, You'll be you retire.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna make so much money for you that you're
Speaker 5: gonna have to retire. I'm like, yeah, I'm man, what
Speaker 5: we're going through interview processes and somebody says that to.
Speaker 2: Me, I'm like, damn man, yeah, a little wolf your replacement.
Speaker 2: Just you know you. I'll make a lot of money
Speaker 2: for you. Exactly. You got the point. Thank you One.
Speaker 2: Good to see you. Good to have you on my
Speaker 2: show forever. I'm gonna miss you, but you'll call in
Speaker 2: hopefully you have me back. You'll have I'll be with desert.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, se I'm gonna be I'm still covering Arizona
Speaker 3: from AFAR.
Speaker 2: Well, you lucky young kids don't know how to sleep,
Speaker 2: so it doesn't matter what are you doing. I want
Speaker 2: I'm trying to find a story here Arizona. Arizona football
Speaker 2: just lost. I have to write a story. Sorry, yeah,
Speaker 2: thanks one, Thank you think it is always. Thanks appreciate
Speaker 2: letting me be calling. And of course Candy Lopez and
Speaker 2: and Michael.
Speaker 4: And thanks One's dad.
Speaker 2: Thanks right,