WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.080 --> 00:00:05.759 This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. 2 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:07.360 Want to take part in the show? 3 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:08.000 Call up? 4 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:11.599 Steve now went five to two oh four, one seventy four. 5 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:14.880 Hey, welcome back to I the Ball here on Fox 6 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:17.920 Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and with me today 7 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.879 is Edgar Soto from Pima. I also said WBC, what's 8 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:23.160 your capacity with WBC? 9 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:26.440 So, I'm the chair of the Southern Arizona Sports Tourism 10 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:28.480 Film Authority. I was the one that kind of helped 11 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:32.399 get it, started to create the bill that created the authority, 12 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:36.039 which allows us, we're a political subbody, to stay but 13 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:38.520 allows us to go out and try to bring economic 14 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:42.719 impact here through youth, amateur sports, film tourism, work force development, 15 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:43.479 that kind of stuff. 16 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:46.679 Okay, and then that's how you got my guy Blake. 17 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:49.439 Yeah, Blake Eagor. We hired him as our executive director. 18 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:52.560 He's doing great. He's just doing great. He's a good dude. 19 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:55.159 And now we have Kobe with breaking news. 20 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:01.439 This is I on the Ball Breaking news on Fox 21 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:02.840 Sports fourteen fifty. 22 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:06.680 Airs on a baseball team used a five run seventh 23 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.439 inning to rally for an eleven to eight win at 24 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:11.680 Royce on Wednesday night to start. 25 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:12.799 Tech the Texas road trip. 26 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:21.480 Nice cool, big win Arizona softball battles and comebacks versus 27 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:21.959 l m U. 28 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:25.959 Yeah, that was a good game. That was a good game. 29 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:28.560 Both of them, both of them are big wins. Yeah. 30 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:31.840 I was just on the phone. You remember Francisco Romero. Yeah, yeah, 31 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:33.640 he's uh, he's on the show for the Moon though 32 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:35.359 or whatever. Yeah, so he would say, Hey, I was 33 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:37.040 just talking to Chip Hale because I guess it's there 34 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:37.640 in Houston. 35 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:41.040 Yeah, yeah, cool, Yeah, he's gonna he's working with him. 36 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:43.280 He went he's with the Astros, right so he was 37 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:45.840 in Florida. So he left Florida to go watch the 38 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:48.840 teams or help cover them. I guess in Houston where 39 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:49.719 he's living right now. 40 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:49.959 Yeah. 41 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:51.959 Yeah, No, I've been out there to hang out. 42 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.840 My buddy, Craig Bjornson was a bullpen coach, and Brett 43 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.120 s Froum was a pitching coach. We've gone out there, 44 00:01:57.159 --> 00:01:58.480 had some good times out in Houston. 45 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.040 Do you know how to find Britt Scrum, Yeah, you might. 46 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:02.599 You might have to give you you might have to. 47 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:04.400 You might get him on because he's no longer with 48 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.360 the he retired. He's with the Pirates. He's with the 49 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:10.400 Pirates now, Okay, okay, never mind. 50 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:13.560 Yeah, he's like the best pitching coach ever. Right, he's amazing. 51 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:16.680 Why remember him from the Toros, Poros and Sidewinders. Forever 52 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:18.719 he was? Yeah, he was there forever. 53 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:24.960 Yeah, got a few World Series wings. I'm sorry, this is. 54 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:27.360 What we do. He talks, he tells us, then we talk. 55 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:31.439 Okay, Arizona Baseball ready for another set of challenges at 56 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:32.400 Houston Tournament. 57 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:34.719 Who are they playing? Who they playing today or tomorrow? 58 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:36.719 They face off? 59 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.120 They played? They played the Astros on Sunday, I think, 60 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:42.520 but I'm not sure who they play here the next 61 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:49.039 couple of days. No on the wildcut Arizona. Yeah, Texas 62 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:49.599 A and M. 63 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:54.240 We play Texas A and M on Friday and then 64 00:02:54.319 --> 00:03:00.439 Saturday versus Mississippi State Sun Divers Tennessee. Okay, okay, cool. 65 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:05.080 Travis Kelsey plans to play in twenty twenty five. He says, quote, 66 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:06.400 can't go out like that. 67 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:09.120 Yeah. I guess he was sick that day with the 68 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:10.800 Super Bowl. I don't know what he had, but I 69 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:12.520 guess they announce that he had been sick that day. 70 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:16.000 Not that that would have prevented Philadelphia from kicking their ass. 71 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:17.439 Yeah, that was bad. 72 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:21.080 NFL set's twenty twenty five salary cap at record two 73 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:24.919 hundred and seventy nine to two million dollars total. Okay, 74 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.560 we got Greg Pavovich visits the Spurs, but he won't 75 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:35.560 return this season as he's. 76 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:37.800 Yeah, he's suffering from he suffering. He'd a stroke, Yeah, 77 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:39.439 he git a stroke, and then he went to visit 78 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:42.360 the team for the first time, got emotional and said 79 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:44.120 that he's just not coming back this year. Who knows 80 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:47.439 what's gonna happen beyond this year. I think that was 81 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:51.400 the case, right, Yeah, And what else? 82 00:03:55.639 --> 00:04:01.919 The Travis Hunter is super important to get Travis Hunter 83 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:04.520 is super important to play two ways, so he wants 84 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:06.199 to be a two player in the NFL. 85 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:10.039 Yeah. I think he's projected go third to the Giants, 86 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:12.240 at least that's what I had seen. And there's still 87 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:14.360 t mac was not in the top ten. 88 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:17.240 Yeah, he fell in some mock drafts. Saw he was 89 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:23.040 like twenty two or something. Right, Trace mcsorly returning to 90 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:24.879 Penn stand as assistant QB coach. 91 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:28.959 I think there wasn't There was a lot, but there 92 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.240 wasn't a lot. You got the Kelsey thing in there? 93 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:36.480 Any games last night? I can't remember the issue. 94 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:41.879 Lost Miles Garrett not open to Brown's extension. 95 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:43.399 Oh yeah, he just wants to get the heck out 96 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:43.720 of there. 97 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:48.519 Yeah, okay, I'm at the Pope's with the Pope. 98 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:52.439 I'm yeah, he's been ill. He's day to day like 99 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:55.000 all of us. Yeah, yeah, yeah? Is that good? Are 100 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:55.399 you done? 101 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:59.120 Are there called some good college basketball matchups to it? 102 00:04:59.199 --> 00:04:59.279 Not? 103 00:04:59.319 --> 00:04:59.600 Really? 104 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:02.480 There's some women it's women's duke places in North Carolina 105 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:05.160 and I can't remember who the other top twenty five is? 106 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:09.639 Uh in that in that situation, I know the Idea 107 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:12.639 had a press converce today to talk about what's up 108 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:15.079 up this coming week? Is that it? 109 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:15.839 Yeah, that's it. 110 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.560 You can go back to Soto SOO time. Anybody who 111 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.519 wants to call, anybody who wants to call, please do 112 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:23.800 want to talk to Edgar. That's fine, five to zero 113 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:26.879 for one, six seventy four forty Edgar. We might also 114 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:30.759 get a call from my scheduled guests from last hour. 115 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:33.800 She's here from the Athletic. She's here to a story 116 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:35.680 on Tommy in the u of A SO and they 117 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:37.079 finished practice in an hour early. 118 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:42.040 So yeah, no, no, no, I'm always a good you know, 119 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.120 because yeah, I'm a good pitchitter. 120 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:47.199 Yeah, good dae. 121 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:48.680 You pitched? You were starter? 122 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:51.079 No, no, I was. I was an outfielder. 123 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:51.600 Oh I think. 124 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:54.439 Yeah, No, I wasn't big, but I was slow. So 125 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:55.199 you know you were. 126 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:59.040 Yeah, when you when you're in the outfield, you're not slow. 127 00:05:59.120 --> 00:05:59.839 You can't be slow. 128 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:02.920 No, I uh, yeah, I was an outfielder. But you 129 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:05.879 know what's interesting is because I've thrown so much batting 130 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:08.480 practice over the years when I played this men senior 131 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:10.839 baseball love and I did a lot of pitching because 132 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:12.879 I was able to, you know, playoo ball whatever. 133 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:17.480 But you were the the nudge John Smoltzon, just what 134 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:19.199 you could, just make sure you hit the corner, hit 135 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:23.120 the spot. What do you make of the new computer? Uh? 136 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:25.839 Oh, I mean, so I know they had that in 137 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:28.279 the uh Atlantic League of the Independent. 138 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:30.240 Are they implemented in minor league baseball? 139 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:34.040 And they they're doing it in spring training in spring training, right, 140 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:37.399 you know, I've seen so many bad calls over the years, 141 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:41.959 and so when we were playing Team Germany last week, 142 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:45.160 the umpires had such a small zone it was like 143 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:45.800 a shoe box. 144 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:47.240 Are they from Are they from? 145 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:47.399 No? 146 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:48.079 They were from here. 147 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:50.120 There were some local umpires and I and I actually 148 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:52.160 pulled them aside. I said, guys, why is this zone? 149 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:56.160 What's a professional baseball player? You know, professional pro zone? 150 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:58.360 I was like, what's the like a zone should be 151 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:00.680 a zone, like you know, you know, we we know 152 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:01.279 the zone. 153 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.800 So I think, I mean, I kind of like that. 154 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:07.319 I hate because I'm a traditionalist, like I don't like 155 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:10.439 to start in a second base and I like not 156 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:12.439 having a d age because it just made you think 157 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:17.279 more when everything. But but for some reason, there are 158 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:21.240 it's a tough job to you know, think about it 159 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:24.079 as an umpire if if you're you're watching two hundreds 160 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:27.879 some pitches behind the plate and to be perfect on everyone, 161 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:30.839 it's difficult to get a little help. I think, I 162 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:32.399 don't think it's totally a bad thing. 163 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:34.439 You know, it's so. 164 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:37.959 What do you think about the changes, the going faster now, 165 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:39.680 the speed count blah blah blah. 166 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:43.120 You know, I know they're trying to get just more 167 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:45.959 fans involved, and baseball games are long. You know, I'm 168 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.879 a baseball guy, but man, I would sometimes i'd be 169 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:51.519 at a if I'm coaching or playing, no problem. But 170 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:54.319 when I'm going to a game sometimes I'm a baseball 171 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:56.600 guy and I'm like, man, this is taking forever. So 172 00:07:57.160 --> 00:07:59.480 you know, it got pretty bad in Major League Baseball. 173 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:01.720 Guys weren't in and now the dugout. It was just 174 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.120 taking forever. So I'm kind of wait and see. But 175 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:07.639 for now I'm okay with it because I think we 176 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:09.199 always got to be evolving trying to. 177 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.879 So my crazy friend here next door for the Chris 178 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:16.079 o'garman who comes in and he's harasses me and it's 179 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.120 just really loud. He was talking about, you know, no 180 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.680 one likes baseball. It's going to be extinct in twenty years. 181 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.399 I'm thinking enough already. But because he doesn't think anybody's 182 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.199 interested because it's too slow. But I said, the changes 183 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:29.680 are being made to make it faster. Right, it's two 184 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:32.320 and a half hours now, it's not three hours. But 185 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:35.720 you know now basketball, college basketball, if you've listened, if 186 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:38.279 you listened, it used to be two hours and five. 187 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:41.399 Now they're going two and a half because of the dam. 188 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:43.639 Gotta go to the monitor, Gotta go to the monitor. 189 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.600 Got the media timeouts the Big twelve games are like 190 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.799 two twenty. So everything's getting longer with baseball getting shorter. 191 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:55.440 In the grand scheme of watching sports, it's NFL pretty 192 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:57.159 much by people. You think, what's two? 193 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:58.799 I don't know, NBA. 194 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:00.879 I mean, but no one, no one used a crap 195 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:05.879 about basketball anymore because spoiled athletes sports athletes let them 196 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:06.120 do it. 197 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:09.080 You know, here's and I'm gonna share the Baseball is 198 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:11.799 a romantic game, right, you know if you watch a 199 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:14.440 bull Durham, I mean, there's so many things in there 200 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:17.759 where you know I've seen and been part of. So 201 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.039 I think it's also a thinking man's game. Yeah, it's 202 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.399 a thinking man's game. But let me so check this out. 203 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:24.600 So we're playing Team Germany. We're trying to put this 204 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.399 team together. We got some really good pitchers, Chris Barraza, 205 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:32.080 George Idias Junior, Austin Bryant pitched like some really guys 206 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.159 that played the pitch d one. Chris Barraza just got 207 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:37.919 released by the Angels. But his velocity was like ninety 208 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:40.360 four ninety five. And so I get a call from 209 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:43.759 somebody from Phoenix. All this guy's goes ninety eight. I'm 210 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.120 all bull crap. We throw ninety he've been in the 211 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:52.000 big leagues. So his name is U Dylan Hect and 212 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:53.919 I'm thirty one years old. I was like, this guy, 213 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:57.320 don't throw. He shows up and he throws. He's sitting 214 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:02.440 at ninety seven, probably six to one and touching ninety eight, 215 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:04.840 and I'm like, wait, wait a minute. So I'm like, like, 216 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:06.879 what's going on, Like, you're thirty one years what do 217 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:07.120 you do? 218 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:07.320 Well? 219 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:11.000 I run this program for you know, student athletes who've 220 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:14.720 graduated looking for some guidance on life after being a 221 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:17.120 student athlete, and said, tell me your story. Well, he 222 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:21.279 played at Santa Barbara apparently his freshman year was All 223 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:24.039 American and then had some arm issues so had nerve 224 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:27.559 damage surgery, like they had to remove his rib, just 225 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:30.240 crazy stuff, and he had to like teach himself to 226 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:33.679 throw again. So here he is, thirty one years old, 227 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.399 pitches once a week and does CrossFit and is touching 228 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:41.960 ninety eight, like there's more in his arms. So somebody 229 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:45.559 told me about him. So it was so the Tucson 230 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:47.879 Men's Senior Baseball League. Here is a guy named is 231 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.679 Ben Granger who's been great and he's he says, well, 232 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:54.679 we need some pitching. Let's call the men's senior baseball 233 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:01.039 in Phoenix. So this guy, I'm sorry there you go, okay, yeah, yeah, 234 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:06.320 we h that's BS. And so anyways, we uh we 235 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:10.039 bring him in and he's like just you know, touching ninety's. 236 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:12.320 Like I still have contacts with the scouts. So I 237 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:14.399 call a couple of scouts. They went and watched him 238 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:17.480 throw the other day on Monday over at South Mountain, Phoenix, 239 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:20.720 and he was ninety five. But the guy throws once 240 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:23.480 a week and he never impressive. He's impressive. 241 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:25.200 Did he pitch? Did he pitch against you guys? 242 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:27.440 He pitched against the Germans and shut him out? He 243 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:28.720 shut him out, he struck out. 244 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:31.679 Could somebody like that find a spot? 245 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:34.039 So most of the time, So this is what's unique 246 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.279 about this story. And this is why I say baseball 247 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:39.960 is like a just just an interesting story. So he's 248 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.200 thirty one years old. You know, he has his own business, 249 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:44.080 Like he's not gonna go play independent ball and go 250 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:47.360 through this thing, you know. So there's some like Mexican 251 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:50.480 professional and maybe some Japanese they're gonna go watch him 252 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:53.320 throw because he's coming back on Saturday throw. We're playing 253 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:55.960 the Asian Breeze on on Saturday. 254 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:57.639 At two o'clock at Reed Park. 255 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:00.120 Field one, if anybody wants to come out, and so 256 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:03.039 you can see him throw and you know, hopefully his 257 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:05.600 arm is feeling better, because when he threw ninety five 258 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:07.639 the other day for the scout, he's like, and my 259 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:11.159 arm was dead. Oh he threw for us. He just 260 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.759 threw one in yeah, but you know he doesn't throw 261 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:15.600 a lot. You know, he goes once a week and 262 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:18.360 so he's got to build up his arm. But you know, 263 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:20.320 he was trying to figure out how to throw again. 264 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:23.000 So he's thirty one now, and it's like that movie 265 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:25.720 The Rookie, remember that left Yeah, so and that guy 266 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:26.440 was ninety six. 267 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:27.879 He was lefty. This guy's a righty. 268 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:32.960 But I'm just like, you know, I love like those stories, 269 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:36.200 like just yeah, and you know, and I and I 270 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:37.679 told the guys after the game, I said, you're going 271 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:39.399 to see this guy playing in the big league some day, 272 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:41.159 because he's got one hundred in there. 273 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:41.720 I know it. 274 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:44.039 Because if he's already touching ninety eight, he's really not 275 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:45.039 even doing much. 276 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:47.960 Right right, And I don't know if he could be 277 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.120 used for an inning or two and you know, he 278 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:51.639 has to learn how to pitch again. 279 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:53.679 Right, Yeah, yeah, he's got he's got a. 280 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:55.960 Well. 281 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.759 No, he played like he was there for four years 282 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.360 or whatever, but and then red shirted one year, so 283 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.279 like five years, but you know, tried to throw, was 284 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:07.480 just having arm issues and so it wasn't really able 285 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:09.960 to do anything. So once they figured out what was 286 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:12.600 really going on and he had the right surgery, you know, 287 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:13.919 he got all fixed up. 288 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:17.399 But you know, so here here's the guy that you know. 289 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:19.120 He came, he came down for you, and now he's 290 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:20.000 back in Phoenix working. 291 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:22.000 He's back in Phoenix working, doing his job. But he's 292 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:23.799 gonna come back and throw for me again on Saturday 293 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:26.840 and hopefully group of people. Oh it's a rag tag 294 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:29.159 and it's they're so fun, you know, I don't know. 295 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:32.480 My college roommate was a guy named Antonio Fernandez. If 296 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:36.200 you remember that name, he actually played yeah yeah, no, no, 297 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:37.679 not that guy that's. 298 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:38.600 Be sent that for Nandez. 299 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:43.120 Yeah, but so Antonio was an amazing player at University 300 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:45.480 of New Mexico. With me, it was all American drafted 301 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:47.639 by I don't know, it's a Podgers and Milwaukee Brewers 302 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:51.200 and his son and condolences to his family because his 303 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:55.559 dad just passed away, an amazing, amazing man. But his son, 304 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:59.879 Antonio Fernandez Junior comes out and plays against the independent 305 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:03.240 team and just big kid just hits a bomb, like 306 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:04.840 and I'm just like, you know, I saw this kid 307 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:08.080 growing up and just crushes the ball. 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