Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 1: Want to take part in the show? Call up? Steve
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Speaker 2: Ford, Hey, welcome back to my in the ball here
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, You're Blake, and
Speaker 2: now we have Ray with breaking news.
Speaker 1: Well, this is I on the ball breaking news on
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Speaker 2: You're still shocked by what t wants Hi about his Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean unbelievable rights. Right, It's the least the least
Speaker 2: people you expect sometimes.
Speaker 3: Right, Amy, all right?
Speaker 4: Starting off with what we've been talking about already, Nico
Speaker 4: with the tough last name, Uh talking to Earth you still, yeah?
Speaker 3: Talking to U. C. L A.
Speaker 4: After the whole Tennessee thing that went down over the
Speaker 4: past weekend, I thought there was going to be a
Speaker 4: chance to us. He was gonna be in there too,
Speaker 4: because I don't think they have like a definitive starter
Speaker 4: and you know, Lincoln Riley probably needs to get things
Speaker 4: going after.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine yourself, even Blake, I'm not gonna ask
Speaker 2: you what you signed for if you signed for anything,
Speaker 2: but you're eighteen nineteen twenty years old at a school
Speaker 2: like Arizona or whatever, and you're making one point five,
Speaker 2: one point whatever whatever you're making.
Speaker 5: Could I imagine that? Yeah? Could you as an eighteen
Speaker 5: year old in college? Yeah? No, I mean I would
Speaker 5: have been dead and I would have been dead in
Speaker 5: a ditch somewhere like there's I would have I would
Speaker 5: have had the greatest six months of my life. Maybe
Speaker 5: arguably I had a pretty good run in college. Anyway,
Speaker 5: it's part but that's part of it. Maybe it's kind
Speaker 5: of crazy. Yeah, but I to raise point just to
Speaker 5: get back to the topic. Can handle a little bit. USC.
Speaker 5: Lincoln Riley's got to do something right, I mean like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean you talk about some of the the I
Speaker 5: thought that was a great hire for USC, go out
Speaker 5: and get them. And it's like Lincoln stepped on campus,
Speaker 5: is like I'm good, like whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like he I don't know, it doesn't feel like
Speaker 3: he's taking it as seriously. Yeah he did, Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: I mean at the same time, I think even when
Speaker 4: USC was good with Caleb Williams, it was the same
Speaker 4: faults where it was like great offense, not a really
Speaker 4: good defense. Yeah, And I think I remember a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago when they played Washington, like it was
Speaker 4: just a shootout that I think Washington literally made like
Speaker 4: two stops and then just ended up taking the game.
Speaker 5: That was that was still Pack twelve though. Yeah, that
Speaker 5: was still against uh Arizona, No, no, Washington US.
Speaker 3: He was playing Washington, yeah, because that was the.
Speaker 2: Same thing with Arizona. I mean, whoever had the ball
Speaker 2: last was gonna win.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but Arizona didn't have Caleb Williams. No, no oh
Speaker 5: when they played each other, you know, yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 5: you're to your point, like with Caleb Williams when you
Speaker 5: have a number one overall draft quarterback right in the
Speaker 5: Pac twelve and this is a knock and that was
Speaker 5: a I think that was That was a great year
Speaker 5: for That was a great year for Yeah. So a
Speaker 5: little bit better team, I mean a lot better teams,
Speaker 5: but still, like you, you should not be losing games.
Speaker 4: They didn't even make it to the to the conference. No,
Speaker 4: the championship wasn't it was never in contention for the
Speaker 4: the playoffs.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we'll keep it moving.
Speaker 4: Arizona women's basketball team landed a Memphis transfer, ten Tenyual Welch.
Speaker 3: Tenny Tenuel Welch.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I'm so glad that Ray's trying
Speaker 5: to say names, because I I butchered. I'm the worst.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised you even had me on your show. I
Speaker 5: can't even get a regular word out of my mouth. Congratulations, Right,
Speaker 5: you're doing a great job.
Speaker 2: Al Right, So that's two now I think that she
Speaker 2: has Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's got three.
Speaker 5: Buffalo the transfer from Buffalo, the mid Atlantic transfer and then.
Speaker 3: Yeah Caleb, yeah from Cleveland in Cleveland State. Okay, keeping
Speaker 3: it going.
Speaker 4: Uh co Pete officially signed, so he obviously had. Uh
Speaker 4: he's been he announced that he was going to be
Speaker 4: coming here for a while.
Speaker 3: But I guess it's official now for whatever. That's what
Speaker 3: you know what.
Speaker 5: That means mister Blake, Well he's the trick question fished. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the truth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because over the last week or so, they've they've
Speaker 2: signed jayde Bradley, h Delorso, Awaka and cres Right, So
Speaker 2: weren't they already here?
Speaker 5: Now they have to sign them. I told you it's
Speaker 5: it's your re recruiting every single year.
Speaker 2: So I asked them, I said, this is just kind
Speaker 2: of odd because Blake's coming back for a second year. Well,
Speaker 2: we don't have to say that because we knew that
Speaker 2: he was coming back. You nowhere to go. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So they're signing these things. So
Speaker 2: I asked the people at u of A, what does
Speaker 2: this all mean? Because it's new they're signing and Bryant's no,
Speaker 2: Brian co Copete signed signed. Okay, So they are signing
Speaker 2: agreements related to revenue sharing the twenty million dollars in
Speaker 2: a portion with ther continguency that the House Settlement is
Speaker 2: approved and implemented, or they're signing a financial aid agreement
Speaker 2: for the upcoming year related to their scholarships.
Speaker 5: I also think it's just a way for them to
Speaker 5: create some media buzz for their local markets to allow
Speaker 5: people know they're coming back. I mean, I think there's
Speaker 5: always a question mark on our side. Maybe yea. I
Speaker 5: think that's that's you can think that way. Yeah, I guess. Oh,
Speaker 5: I appreciate you allowing me to No.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I guess I guess that's a that's
Speaker 2: get of the studio. I'm gonna find somebody to help.
Speaker 2: Can't tomorrow, No no, no, no, you can take that way,
Speaker 2: because I guess if you're gonna want some publicity in
Speaker 2: the signing. Yeah, the thing about a sponsor by Kentucky
Speaker 2: Fried Chicken, yeah.
Speaker 5: Or something like that. You remember that kid from was
Speaker 5: it uh? Was it u U c l A. I
Speaker 5: don't know the kid that put on the fake press
Speaker 5: conference and then said he was it was col Or
Speaker 5: something and then he said he was going to cal
Speaker 5: uh and they had this whole press conference and the
Speaker 5: cow coach was like, I've never even heard of this kid.
Speaker 5: You don't remember that, No, you can google. It wasn't
Speaker 5: that long ago.
Speaker 2: But this is isn't it that court case where the
Speaker 2: actress actress and actresses put their kids to school and
Speaker 2: they didn't play it on the rowing team.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that was uh, that was what five six
Speaker 5: years ago? Anyway, back to ray, keep butchering those names, right,
Speaker 5: I'll keep doing it. Not all of them could be
Speaker 5: hymeniz Yeah. I couldn't find it. But we'll get back
Speaker 5: to that fake press conference.
Speaker 4: Yes, Arizona baseball snapped a four game losing streak again.
Speaker 2: Oh they had been losing four games before last yeah okay,
Speaker 2: oh okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. So they are now.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to BYU over the weekend in Provo, and
Speaker 4: they are twenty six and ten on the season so far.
Speaker 5: Okay, and what third in the big twelfth?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, a good squad though. Chip's done. Good job
Speaker 5: with that team. Oh yeah, yeah of course. Yeah. What
Speaker 5: about softball? You have softball? Because they've played tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've played tomorrow against Tech Texas Texas. So that's
Speaker 4: going to be a top fifteen, top fifteen.
Speaker 2: Well Texas Tech has that said, the million dollar baby
Speaker 2: from Stanford.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be an interesting one.
Speaker 5: Did you imagine having eighteen million dollars this eighteen? I
Speaker 5: can't you keep telling these numbers out there, like I, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I can imagine it. Will I ever have it?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 5: Probably not. I don't have the mindset. Could you imagine
Speaker 5: have it at forty two? Yeah? I just you know,
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think the only thing well we'll talk
Speaker 3: about that later.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Off there, yep, there you go.
Speaker 4: Arizona Golf in the Western Allegic Tournament.
Speaker 3: There as a team. They're in third. But oh, here's
Speaker 3: another one.
Speaker 5: Philip jacob uh Jacobig Jacobite. He was a Highland warrior
Speaker 5: from Scotland. I think, oh man, that's a Jacobite. So
Speaker 5: he's in the he's in the lead.
Speaker 4: And we also have Zach uh polo double almost got
Speaker 4: me in Spanish.
Speaker 5: Zach, this is great radio. Let's keep it going right.
Speaker 3: In the third place, what is that?
Speaker 5: That's the Western Regional?
Speaker 3: What is that?
Speaker 5: Western was just a tournament?
Speaker 3: I think? Yeah, it's the Western Regional, I believe.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2: I was watching some of it last night, and they're
Speaker 2: they're doing really well as a team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great. As a team, they're third. And then
Speaker 3: you got first.
Speaker 5: Individual players that are we don't need to go over
Speaker 5: those names. Just start with the first names en roll
Speaker 5: from there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, happened yesterday.
Speaker 4: Warriors beat the Rockets and I guess kind of an
Speaker 4: el Bider in the end, you know, Grizzy or beat
Speaker 4: the Grizzly.
Speaker 5: Sorry to it took a five second call to get
Speaker 5: him to win that game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean jocking and get open. I guess.
Speaker 5: So every time you see Steph, did you watch the
Speaker 5: game the NBA game?
Speaker 2: Yeah no, no I didn't. I was listening to on
Speaker 2: the radio and I got home and cut the tail
Speaker 2: out of it. The dude, the dude is better every
Speaker 2: time you see him. He saved that game. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: his shots were unbelievable.
Speaker 4: No, And it was just crazy because he has like
Speaker 4: the he had like his thumb wrapped on his shooting hand,
Speaker 4: and you're like, man, he's just he's still just switching
Speaker 4: him every time. You're like, yeah, yeah, but yeah, him
Speaker 4: and Jimmy Butler combined for seventy five points in that game.
Speaker 3: So that's they.
Speaker 5: Needed every one of them. Oh yeah, that's Butler time
Speaker 5: right now. That's another dude. That's another team that we
Speaker 5: were talking about before that. You know, we were talking about
Speaker 5: who can make it to the conference finals or even
Speaker 5: to the championship. But with Butler and the playoff, Butler
Speaker 5: is a different beast for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think they to me, they were one
Speaker 4: of the few teams that can match up well against
Speaker 4: the Lakers, just because they have two like medium sized
Speaker 4: guys that can match up with Draymond and Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 4: that can match up with Luca and Lebron.
Speaker 3: You don't have to end up having to FaceTime.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the Hawks lost to the Magic and Trey
Speaker 4: Young got ejected last night as well.
Speaker 3: In that first selling game.
Speaker 2: He was he was throwing the ball at the refs,
Speaker 2: and yeah, just handling the ball with the refs.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Refs seem like he just got his
Speaker 3: feelings hurt to me, But we'll leave that for another time.
Speaker 4: The Heat and the Bulls start their game, uh, to
Speaker 4: see who's going to be playing the Hawks in twenty
Speaker 4: eighth minutes, and the Mavericks and the Kings start their
Speaker 4: game following that, to see who's gonna be end up
Speaker 4: playing the.
Speaker 5: You're right though, no, he says the Kings. I said
Speaker 5: the Kings make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: You're right though, you could have a Lucian record in
Speaker 2: still be part of the top ten.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's wild to me. Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 5: but maybe I'm in my own little corner here on
Speaker 5: this back in nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 3: No, I mean it's fair. I don't.
Speaker 4: I'm not a fan of the play in just because,
Speaker 4: I mean, you have more than half the teams having
Speaker 4: a chance for a play for a playoff spot of
Speaker 4: the whole league, Like you're only leaving ten out of
Speaker 4: thirty out.
Speaker 5: So it literally feels from my standpoint that the playoffs
Speaker 5: are longer than the actual season. Yeah, like it's just
Speaker 5: so long. I mean hockey's the same way. To degree,
Speaker 5: it's just such a long process for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Well, it's actually two months. It'll be two months before
Speaker 2: the grounded champion, which isn't That's that's wild to me,
Speaker 2: isn't that?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 5: I don't know? And now you have a mid season
Speaker 5: tournament to go along with that. It's like, what am
Speaker 5: I watching? Am I following regular season waiting to the
Speaker 5: playoff and my following Like if my team doesn't have
Speaker 5: a chance to win a championship in the playoffs, should
Speaker 5: I watch the mid season tournament?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 5: Where am I at this? I'm sure you have a
Speaker 5: lot of friends who are fans of sports. Why do
Speaker 5: you assume that it's an assumption to make what do
Speaker 5: you think I hang with? I was afraid you even
Speaker 5: say that you had friends. Yeah, well that's probably the biggest.
Speaker 2: Concern they'll watch the NBA because I don't know anybody
Speaker 2: really that's really loyal to the regular season.
Speaker 5: I know I'm not, but you know I'm different. I
Speaker 5: think Ray's probably the biggest NBA fan out of all
Speaker 5: of us, right that I would assume.
Speaker 3: Or I mean I keep up with it, I won't.
Speaker 4: I won't watch a game really, but I'll keep up
Speaker 4: with it just to just you know, have headlines and stuff.
Speaker 5: And if I'm going to watch a game, I don't
Speaker 5: turn it on till the fourth quarter because teams happens. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but the third quarter, one teams up by sixteen, the
Speaker 5: fourth quarter, they it's like, what happened? That was all
Speaker 5: the time. Yeah, I don't know. I don't want to
Speaker 5: bash the NBA, but it's crust. That's one of the reasons.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's a lot of different reasons why nobody's really
Speaker 2: watching the league. They'll watch for the playoffs, they don't
Speaker 2: watch during the regular season.
Speaker 5: But they had a they had a huge spike like
Speaker 5: three years ago, right in ratings the NBA.
Speaker 2: Who was winning? Who was the winning teams? Because that's
Speaker 2: if you figured, Yeah I figured through Boston won. But
Speaker 2: two years ago, right or last.
Speaker 3: It would have been Milwaukee and the Sun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you had the Sons then and then the
Speaker 5: year before was Golden State. No, Golden State hasn't been
Speaker 5: good as a well, I don't know about that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: so I don't know. I don't know what the right
Speaker 5: sauce is anymore.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just think fresh, fresh, teams. Yeah,
Speaker 3: probably more than anything.
Speaker 5: And you're getting a new I think you're getting you've
Speaker 5: got ant is going to be a superstar. He already is, right,
Speaker 5: So like there's gonna be a new batch of people
Speaker 5: wimby all those guys that you're gonna Lebron's gonna go away,
Speaker 5: Staff's gonna go away, but there's people to take that place.
Speaker 5: So there's always more. Yeah, yeah, you'd hope.
Speaker 3: So keeping a moving though. Freshman Khanka Nipple from Duke
Speaker 3: is going to be entering the draft.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's good. You can shoot it. You have a
Speaker 5: top six pack, right, Yeah, yeah, well he was one
Speaker 5: of those lottery guys. I think that I think he's
Speaker 5: six over, but I think pre draft he's six. It
Speaker 5: doesn't say an article. I need this information. If you're
Speaker 5: going to bring names up, we'll listen to the expert here.
Speaker 5: This is a shot.
Speaker 2: If you have I'm pretty sure if you have friends
Speaker 2: and you had a million dollars, wouldn't that be amazing?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Do you have to pick one or the other?
Speaker 5: I would pick friends. I've grew up poor. I'm fine.
Speaker 5: I don't care about friend. I'm fine.
Speaker 4: Another freshman entering the draft is gonna be Michigan's Danny Wolf.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Expected lottery all that says projected first round. Yeah, gosh,
Speaker 5: plus it, man, we gotta make some moves.
Speaker 3: In this.
Speaker 4: Another I don't know, kind of big news as well,
Speaker 4: not kind of. Arizona Tennis is getting ready for the
Speaker 4: Big twelve tournament on starting tomorrow, So that's gonna be
Speaker 4: another one to look out for. Other local news, the
Speaker 4: soccer team just release their schedule. The women's soccer team. Yes,
Speaker 4: that's it.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's just take a break. Care we'll get ahold
Speaker 2: of that. Matt Mulebach talk to a lot of about
Speaker 2: the things we've just talked about with the nil and
Speaker 2: things like that, being that he's an attorney.
Speaker 5: Thanks now.
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rovera on Box Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Why the Ball Here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty m. S Rivera, your Blake eager, and
Speaker 2: we got one. We got Ray and now we have
Speaker 2: Matt Mulock former. You have a hoop star, turn basketball analyst,
Speaker 2: turn or still lawyer attorney. We're gonna use all your hats.
Speaker 2: They're Matt, I.
Speaker 6: Got, I gotta, I gotta wear all of them just
Speaker 6: to uh just to pay my mortgage.
Speaker 2: Man, well you probably have a nice mortgage in a
Speaker 2: nice house. Let me let me start whether by the
Speaker 2: things I sent you, uh Ja Billis was on I
Speaker 2: guess with coach k about about you know, players getting
Speaker 2: the money in n I L YadA YadA and the
Speaker 2: contract potential.
Speaker 5: Did you did you see it? Did you watch it? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I did, Yeah, I did see that.
Speaker 6: I've actually talked to him about that, you know before,
Speaker 6: and yeah, he's he's a big proponent or advocate I
Speaker 6: should say, of you know, just of players becoming employees.
Speaker 6: And you know, I think he feels like once they
Speaker 6: do that, you know, they can unionize and you know,
Speaker 6: collectively bargained and there will be those will those will
Speaker 6: by by itself, by its nature, create some of the
Speaker 6: boundaries that people are talking about. You know, I think,
Speaker 6: you know, I'm sure that the NC double A the
Speaker 6: schools probably don't want to do it because there could
Speaker 6: be you know, there could be some it could open
Speaker 6: the doors for some things, right, And but I also think,
Speaker 6: you know, one of the other things, they don't have
Speaker 6: to necessarily even become actual employees. I think, like if
Speaker 6: you if you think about some of the Hollywood groups
Speaker 6: out there, I think, like the SAG Actors one one
Speaker 6: of the SAG I think guilds or whatever has like
Speaker 6: you know, collectively bargains for things, and they're not actual employees.
Speaker 5: They have the sort of union to it.
Speaker 6: So I think there's a chance, you know, it could
Speaker 6: get there. We'll see. I just I just think what's
Speaker 6: amazing to me is how fast things have changed in
Speaker 6: this area. You know, in the last since COVID, right,
Speaker 6: you know, with the transfer portal and you're not having
Speaker 6: to sit out a year, and I mean those you
Speaker 6: just talk about the things that have happened, you know,
Speaker 6: just major, major things have changed the landscape, and you know,
Speaker 6: three or four of them in the last five years,
Speaker 6: and nothing that happened, you know, probably fifty years before that.
Speaker 2: Sure, let me ask you this, I would assume, I
Speaker 2: would assume the players, whether they like it or not
Speaker 2: would probably not do it because they haven't. They haven't
Speaker 2: made right now, at least by my naked eyes, in
Speaker 2: terms of not wanting to be an employee. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, le's less restraints thinking you know, you
Speaker 2: can do whatever you want.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't like it. Here, I'm gone, we lose them.
Speaker 6: I think some of some of the wild West parts
Speaker 6: of it, I'm not sure the players like right because
Speaker 6: things seem to be changing. There's you know, there's there's
Speaker 6: I'll take one area the players would probably do well
Speaker 6: with is making sure that the agents that represent them
Speaker 6: have some sort of certificate or you know, what's the
Speaker 6: word that it just that they that they had that
Speaker 6: there's some sort of regulation around it. And I know
Speaker 6: with with some players, you know, just because I think
Speaker 6: right now any anybody can be an agent for a player,
Speaker 6: and when you have that and there's no regulation around it,
Speaker 6: you know, you do have some areas where you know,
Speaker 6: people can take advantage of players, or things can happen
Speaker 6: that that are that are again it's just you know,
Speaker 6: may charge too much and that you know, if you
Speaker 6: had some regulation around that, you could probably like for example,
Speaker 6: if you're an NBA agent, which I was at one point.
Speaker 6: You know, there's there are limits on what you can charge,
Speaker 6: what you can actually charge the client.
Speaker 2: So I thought it was like three percent, and I
Speaker 2: was shocked to because it was only three percent.
Speaker 6: I think it's four at least when I was it
Speaker 6: was four. They may have reduced it now because the
Speaker 6: money so I it was I believe it was for
Speaker 6: when I did it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, aren't you glad you're out of the business.
Speaker 6: I enjoyed the work, like representing the players. I didn't
Speaker 6: enjoy the It's just just the world of it is
Speaker 6: hard to keep up with, and it became much more
Speaker 6: than the representation. It was more about just like recruiting kids,
Speaker 6: you know, and that just wasn't my my Bailey Wick.
Speaker 5: So, Matt, they don't have to the agents now at
Speaker 5: the college level don't have to be certified with an agency.
Speaker 6: I don't think so. You guys might check on that,
Speaker 6: or you know, Google check me on that, but I'm
Speaker 6: pretty sure there's no regulation around that.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think I kind of agree with Matt here
Speaker 5: on the unionized piece of it. And I think if
Speaker 5: you're in university it gives you a chance to maybe
Speaker 5: put in a salary cap to where you can kind
Speaker 5: of have more control from a financial standpoint, even from
Speaker 5: a competitive standpoint. But if I'm a player, I want
Speaker 5: the union side of it, you know, at least gives
Speaker 5: you the backing that you need at that age. Like
Speaker 5: we were just talking about, you're an eighteen year old,
Speaker 5: a millionaire, maybe a seventeen year old millionaire that you
Speaker 5: don't know how to handle your money.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's well, whatever it is, I'm sure you know.
Speaker 6: I do believe even if even to some degree of
Speaker 6: some options for a player or the university or the
Speaker 6: n CUBA A, I do believe like some certainty would help, right,
Speaker 6: some just just so you kind of understand the landscape
Speaker 6: a little more. And uh so that's now it's changing again.
Speaker 2: I think the legislation, that's what passed, so we all
Speaker 2: know it was a new legislation, so we all knew
Speaker 2: it was a long time in coming that they'd get paid.
Speaker 5: Who would have ever imagined that they be getting paid
Speaker 5: at this level?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: Name is so fast? So yeah, so fast?
Speaker 2: And this amount of money for you being a former player,
Speaker 2: are you happy?
Speaker 5: This is a dumb question, are you happy for it?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: Should it be you know, not so much money. Is
Speaker 2: there a fine line?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, as a former player, I'm I'm yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm very happy that the players, you know, are able
Speaker 6: to two you know, to get paid for what they
Speaker 6: what they do. And I would want to, you know,
Speaker 6: and and I wish I was, you know, that would
Speaker 6: have been great. That would have been awesome. Again, I
Speaker 6: think the question that you're asking is, yeah, what is
Speaker 6: you know, is there is there something that's too much?
Speaker 6: I guess one of the considerations that I've you know, again,
Speaker 6: I've talked to Jay a little bit about this, and
Speaker 6: I have been a little concerned about the model. You know,
Speaker 6: what does does doing something like this hurt the college model?
Speaker 6: And and it certainly will change the model, and and
Speaker 6: you know, I don't know, you know, I've I've heard
Speaker 6: some people say that that it bothers them and so
Speaker 6: they're not as in tune. But then you see some
Speaker 6: of the network ratings and the football and basketball I
Speaker 6: think have been as high as as ever and so
Speaker 6: you know, it's you know, so it's it's it's hard
Speaker 6: for me to kind of see the future on that.
Speaker 6: I Like I said, I do worry because I've always
Speaker 6: loved the college model, the college model of you know people,
Speaker 6: it's it's more of a you know, you're connected to
Speaker 6: your school obviously, and connected to the the idea and
Speaker 6: the romantic side of like what used to be amateurism,
Speaker 6: of course has changed, but you know the idea that
Speaker 6: you know, would that change, would it create like a
Speaker 6: minor league system and people not watch as much? But again,
Speaker 6: the raidings have been have been pretty sky.
Speaker 2: High, right right, So let me let me hold this
Speaker 2: that you I had athick In I had. Uh, it'll
Speaker 2: come to me. Uh, your your teammate Harvey Mason a time,
Speaker 2: a time or two recently. Uh, So you're getting paid,
Speaker 2: let's say, just hypothetically one point five whatever as as
Speaker 2: a player, and your coach is getting paid you know, similar,
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit more or whatever.
Speaker 5: How do you how do you tell a coach?
Speaker 2: How do you tell a player you're the coach to
Speaker 2: play when this kid's making money and he he knows
Speaker 2: all the stuff he needs to know.
Speaker 6: I know, well, I mean I guess, I guess it's
Speaker 6: probably the one the one area of the age old
Speaker 6: area that that the coach has the control over is
Speaker 6: the playing time. And so you know, the benches. The
Speaker 6: bench is the great equalizer in that system. But you're right,
Speaker 6: I mean, think well and think of it. It's even
Speaker 6: further upside down in the NBA, where at least, I mean,
Speaker 6: coaches now are making more. But you know, in the
Speaker 6: last twenty years, there were times where coaches were making
Speaker 6: you know, twenty times less or you know, extremely, you know,
Speaker 6: significantly less than some of the players. And so you wonder,
Speaker 6: but you know, I think over time again, people adapt
Speaker 6: and evolve on it. And like I said, the coach
Speaker 6: can the coach can decide who to play. Now, does
Speaker 6: that still create some issues? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Probably could? I wondered too. Among players.
Speaker 6: That was the thing I always wondered, like, Okay, what
Speaker 6: what if I sign a deal and you know, player
Speaker 6: next to me signs one for for you know, twice
Speaker 6: the amount. But I'm playing more, I'm starting, and he's not.
Speaker 6: I mean, I guess maybe I need to get a
Speaker 6: new agent.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I've said this when this all thing broke
Speaker 2: maybe three four years ago, and and then and Jay
Speaker 2: and I were talking about I says, what if I'm
Speaker 2: the center, I'm the center and I make an X
Speaker 2: amount of my fifty thousand and sixty thousand dollars and
Speaker 2: I'm a right right guard, right tackle whatever, and the
Speaker 2: quarterback is making four or five times that quarterback needs
Speaker 2: being a block for him, you know, And how does
Speaker 2: this work?
Speaker 5: That's right? That's right.
Speaker 6: Well I was going to say, is that that's a
Speaker 6: little bit of the system in the NFL, right, I mean,
Speaker 6: that's that's why they buy those guys dinner and they
Speaker 6: buy him presents and everything at the end of the
Speaker 6: year because they make more back.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think you know, again, the market, the market kind
Speaker 6: of you know, you know, you hold the market kind
Speaker 6: of fixes itself. And if you don't, if you don't
Speaker 6: want to, if you want to make more and become
Speaker 6: the quarterback.
Speaker 5: Right yeah, No, it's holding a gun to your head
Speaker 5: to play right due yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So you know, and I think look, we all
Speaker 6: we all say that a little bit in anything real
Speaker 6: life and you know, work and things like that. We all,
Speaker 6: you know, you're sometimes joking for this or that, or
Speaker 6: you know, you think somebody in the company makes more
Speaker 6: than you or I you know, so that.
Speaker 5: I think those things happen.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 5: It is different though, when.
Speaker 6: It happens to an eighteen year old versus someone I
Speaker 6: mentioned work. You know a lot of times in those
Speaker 6: situations you're thirty or forty or even you know, fifty,
Speaker 6: and then so you've been through life a little bit more.
Speaker 6: And so yeah, it's it's an interesting thing to happen
Speaker 6: when when these kids are you know, when the kids
Speaker 6: are so young.
Speaker 5: Right, Okay, Matt, thanks a bunch.
Speaker 2: I know you've got to get somewhere and do your stuff,
Speaker 2: So thanks a bunch for coming on us.
Speaker 6: It's it's interesting.
Speaker 2: Though, right, we'll see if it quickly gets corrected or
Speaker 2: if it can get corrected.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know to some people, Yeah, to some people,
Speaker 6: they think it's working right, and they think that it's
Speaker 6: just it's working itself out. And again I like I say,
Speaker 6: we're just gonna we're gonna see more changes.
Speaker 5: So right, Okay, thanks so much, man, appreciate you.
Speaker 6: Okay, see, hey, thanks guys.
Speaker 5: Okay, we'll stick around for a little while. We don't
Speaker 5: have to leave it early. What's wild? I mean, if
Speaker 5: you start thinking about it, and a college athlete at
Speaker 5: the football and basketball level, right, it's not going to
Speaker 5: be the other sports leaves after four years, arguably makes
Speaker 5: more money than the majority of Americans will make in
Speaker 5: their lives. Where's the where's the competitive nature inside that
Speaker 5: athlete to go out into the workforce now sure, and
Speaker 5: take a drastic pay cut to go do a job
Speaker 5: that's tedious and not something they probably want to do, right, Right, So,
Speaker 5: like you're talking about future implications at this point where
Speaker 5: you have guys like Ray and Wan that are busting
Speaker 5: their butts every single day trying to cut their teeth,
Speaker 5: and then you have a college athlete that gets done
Speaker 5: and this I mean I was college athlete, right, and
Speaker 5: I want I want athletes to get paid at the
Speaker 5: level because the school is making so much money and
Speaker 5: then CUAA is making so much money of them. But
Speaker 5: what does that do for future generations of guys that
Speaker 5: are no longer having to compete for playing time, right,
Speaker 5: and then getting out of college and we'll use a
Speaker 5: word well off, maybe to the point where they never
Speaker 5: really have if they manage their money well enough, might
Speaker 5: never have to work again to get into a workforce
Speaker 5: and compete with other people.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if this is to your point,
Speaker 2: but okay, so and you know all these people you
Speaker 2: may have been one. You played well in college you
Speaker 2: gotta yetta? When did and you played it in the pros?
Speaker 2: When did reality hit you? And I see this kind
Speaker 2: of ingest maybe earlier this week. I've known a lot
Speaker 2: of the former athletes. Yeah, yeah, some of them are jerks.
Speaker 2: Some of them aren't great guys because they're good athletes.
Speaker 2: You spot because you probably know exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And then and then maybe three four years out of
Speaker 2: the sport, right, they become one, they became ready to
Speaker 2: become Steve Rivera and they try to be normal people
Speaker 2: after being jerked for all rise because they've had good.
Speaker 5: I mean you're talking specifically personally for me or just
Speaker 5: in general.
Speaker 2: What you see because am I not paid an accurate picture?
Speaker 5: No? I mean I think to a degree you are.
Speaker 5: It just it also depends on how you're raised. And
Speaker 5: I mean we talked about this, you know, survival method
Speaker 5: of where you're coming from and how to get off
Speaker 5: that island and whatever that looks like, or if you're
Speaker 5: you know, not having to worry about any of that,
Speaker 5: and like what creates a competitive nature? And yeah, I
Speaker 5: can only speak to my own personal experiences. When I
Speaker 5: started working with youth, with young men, young women, like
Speaker 5: I mean they were they were eight to you know, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: you oh, I was twenty seven. Maybe the reality was
Speaker 5: I was seeing them take after things like taking my
Speaker 5: actions in an account and acting similar to me, or
Speaker 5: there was traits there, and I realized at that point
Speaker 5: that I had to be a better human being and
Speaker 5: a better a better mentor. I would put myself in that.
Speaker 5: Like I wanted to be a mentor. I wanted to
Speaker 5: help raise other people's children, which sounds kind of weird,
Speaker 5: but it gave me. That's what you were at tesked
Speaker 5: to do. Yeah, that's what I want to do, right.
Speaker 5: I don't have kids on my own. We won't need
Speaker 5: to get into that's a personal thing, whether that's an
Speaker 5: off air topic, but I do want to try to
Speaker 5: be a part of people's lives, right, Like, so taking that,
Speaker 5: seeing that and then being a part of their lives,
Speaker 5: whether it's going to their acchoir competition or accho acchoir
Speaker 5: concerts or band concerts, or just in general part of
Speaker 5: their lives.
Speaker 2: A twenty two year old, twenty three year old you
Speaker 2: twenty two years I think, listen.
Speaker 5: I it took a lot like BLUs my wife staying
Speaker 5: with me. As you know, it took a long time,
Speaker 5: the maturation process for me. It took a long time.
Speaker 5: And it does for a lot of athletes. And that's
Speaker 5: what I was gonna say. Your story is not dissimilar.
Speaker 2: No, it just for a lot of athletes because you know,
Speaker 2: once the once the applause is over, and I think
Speaker 2: I did the story maybe thirty years ago. Once the
Speaker 2: applause is over, they don't know what to do themselves
Speaker 2: because they've never had to not hear the applause.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think about it from my standpoint. I'm an
Speaker 5: only child too, so I want all the attention, Like
Speaker 5: I want to be one, like show me attention. When
Speaker 5: that went away, I was like, I got to figure
Speaker 5: this out. No, And it's it's.
Speaker 2: Tough for some people and some people can't handle it
Speaker 2: or whatever because they're not used to it. Imagine you
Speaker 2: have a ton of money or whatever, and your parents
Speaker 2: are a big influence you, like the kid from If
Speaker 2: it's true that the dad had some part of it
Speaker 2: in Tennessee, that's assumed, but he was one of those
Speaker 2: helicopter parents.
Speaker 5: Most parents nowadays. I mean, I shouldn't say most, But
Speaker 5: it's a vast it's a vast difference from when I
Speaker 5: was playing where I don't know about you, but my
Speaker 5: parents never got in. My parents would never have a
Speaker 5: conversation with a coach that's starting at like the little
Speaker 5: league level now, like they are so involved, and parents
Speaker 5: don't realize what you're doing, like when you give them
Speaker 5: that safety net. A young woman and a young man
Speaker 5: will never learn how to fail. If you can't learn
Speaker 5: how to fail, life so hard. And that's not me preaching,
Speaker 5: that's not honest truth. I totally agree. You need to
Speaker 5: get out of the way. You can have a conversation
Speaker 5: with the player, and he's a player, how to now
Speaker 5: have a conversation with a coach. That's a life skill
Speaker 5: they need to learn. But if you're constantly critiquing what
Speaker 5: that coach is doing, you're not honestly assessing what that
Speaker 5: player is doing on a regular basis. No, no, no, to
Speaker 5: your point, And I totally agree with that. And to
Speaker 5: your point, those who succeed at being on a team
Speaker 5: and taking criticism and taking constructive criticism will become better employees. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'll tell you there, I'll tell you a story. We
Speaker 5: think it was spring training. One year we had our
Speaker 5: minor league coordinator was a guy named Guy Kanti. Right,
Speaker 5: Chillie Duncan knows him well a lot of I mean,
Speaker 5: who's been alone pro ball since for like eighty years. Right,
Speaker 5: he's maybe five to four, probably seventy eight at this point.
Speaker 5: Would just take a golf card around and we were
Speaker 5: doing this is my first spring training. We were doing
Speaker 5: first and third, so you had a runner on first,
Speaker 5: a runner on third, right, And this is the first
Speaker 5: time I ever had a pitching coach in my life.
Speaker 5: When I got to Pro Bowl. I mean, I had
Speaker 5: done some lessons, but I never in college. I never
Speaker 5: had a pitching coach. And so you have to you know,
Speaker 5: the runner leaves and you have to check the runner
Speaker 5: a third and then give the ball up right, and
Speaker 5: I would I we never worked on it, and I
Speaker 5: would just keep messing up. He pulled me aside in
Speaker 5: front of probably sixty guys and and maf me up
Speaker 5: and down, like yelling, screaming at me, and I just remember,
Speaker 5: like I've got to get this right, like not like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, I can't believe I'm gonna call my parent.
Speaker 5: I can't believe no I was like, this is my job, right.
Speaker 5: If I don't fix this, I don't have a career anymore.
Speaker 5: That thought process is different now, and you know he
Speaker 5: could have probably done in a different manner than that,
Speaker 5: but at the same time, just the direct connection to
Speaker 5: that is completely different. Well, it was a.
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports foteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, You're Blake. We got one,
Speaker 2: we got Ray. We have time for some calls, maybe
Speaker 2: take some calls. What's going on with whatever we're talking about?
Speaker 5: Tucson great place and the wonderful places to go that
Speaker 5: turn into complete crash shows, crazy crazy place. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: we're here and we love it. Yeah yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: I think it makes us who we are as we
Speaker 5: grow older.
Speaker 2: So now I got Richard, who's a caller every now
Speaker 2: and again, he texts me all the time. He wants
Speaker 2: in addition to college athletes getting paid, he wants good calls,
Speaker 2: good callers to get paid for who's paying.
Speaker 5: Who's paying?
Speaker 2: Then my not my sponsor? Is he going to go
Speaker 2: and get sponsors for that?
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Speaker 2: Though, if you could do that by x LAX where
Speaker 2: the stuff flows down hopefully, hopefully you're in a good
Speaker 2: position for that.
Speaker 4: So on the point of pay players getting paid, you know,
Speaker 4: you see it with like the other two major sports,
Speaker 4: with like basketball having the G League and then baseball
Speaker 4: with like the farming systems and stuff like that. Do
Speaker 4: you think like football should have a G league so
Speaker 4: it gives them, like like players a different option instead
Speaker 4: of college.
Speaker 5: I think that's what they're trying to do with XFL
Speaker 5: and USFL. Right, you've got Canada. I always said it
Speaker 5: with the football to me, is the only sport that
Speaker 5: I think the players should absolutely have guaranteed money. I'm
Speaker 5: always gonna say baseball players because the season is so
Speaker 5: long and the wear and tear on your body because
Speaker 5: it's it's baseball is more translatable to actual life, like
Speaker 5: you had to show up every day to work. But football,
Speaker 5: what you're putting your body through on a regular basis,
Speaker 5: like that should be guaranteed money. I do think there
Speaker 5: should be a farm system now, especially from an athlete,
Speaker 5: because they don't have a chance. Once you're done with
Speaker 5: college football. If you're not going to the NFL or Canada,
Speaker 5: what other I mean, you're the NFL Europe has done,
Speaker 5: Like what other league? There's no Europe the indoor leagues
Speaker 5: and you have the Yeah, that's true, Yes they're right,
Speaker 5: But I mean outside of the United States, there's no
Speaker 5: there's no options outside of Canada. Right with baseball, You've
Speaker 5: got baseball over the world. You've got basketball obviously is
Speaker 5: probably the best one. In soccer is the best one.
Speaker 5: So what's your question? Just like, should there be a
Speaker 5: minor league system or g League four? NFL? Remember, you
Speaker 5: have to pay these guys. Who's going to pay these guys?
Speaker 2: And it's the most it's a billion dollar industry. The
Speaker 2: NFL should step up and pay. Well, that's kind of
Speaker 2: what they're doing.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, if they were funding NFL Europe, you know,
Speaker 4: I kind of fell through. I feel like, so why
Speaker 4: not just start it here, like as a as a
Speaker 4: lower level kind of thing.
Speaker 5: Splits for college for callers. Yeah, what a great idea. Yeah,
Speaker 5: this call brought to you by Shamrock. That would be
Speaker 5: you think he has to he has to get his
Speaker 5: own theme song every time they call, right right? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Uh well, I guess that's a good idea, but you
Speaker 2: already kind of have it. And who's coming up with
Speaker 2: this money to start these programs? You know, they had
Speaker 2: the USFL many years ago and it failed.
Speaker 5: They still have it. Uh yeah, I guess right, U
Speaker 5: l USFL. I don't think X is XFL still. I
Speaker 5: think they merged, did they? I look at the crowds.
Speaker 5: Have you seen the crowds? No crowd? No? But I
Speaker 5: don't want to watch football during the summer, right, I'm
Speaker 5: sorry that when I say baseball, that's just what I
Speaker 5: want to watch. Yeah, but I mean, ray, you also
Speaker 5: have to think from a minor league baseball standpoint, they
Speaker 5: didn't get in the Union until three years ago or
Speaker 5: four years ago. Nobody, Well, unless you're the banana bananas
Speaker 5: or what are thevana bana banana banana right right in
Speaker 5: on a banana boat. So it's banana banana banana boat. Well,
Speaker 5: so you're not minor leagues don't get that much. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's better now and you've got you've got a little
Speaker 5: bit more leverage. But they've they're coming out on a
Speaker 5: CBA next year for collective barking agreement that I mean,
Speaker 5: we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you a dumb question. Are you
Speaker 2: glad your path took you the way it took you?
Speaker 2: And would you have got off the old baseball dream
Speaker 2: before earlier?
Speaker 5: What do you What do you mean? So you what
Speaker 5: age did you get out? Was the final year when
Speaker 5: I had my laborm surgery? That was oh nine, was
Speaker 5: the last week? I don't know, what's seventeen years ago?
Speaker 5: You had twenty seven?
Speaker 2: You're twenty seven, okay, So knowing what you know now,
Speaker 2: would you have gotten off the old baseball dream and
Speaker 2: gotten onto your real life earlier? I think I know
Speaker 2: the answer to this, and mine's nope, because come on,
Speaker 2: little boys dream bought stuff like this.
Speaker 5: Listen. I mean, I know people say this. I only
Speaker 5: ever wanted to be with the I mean big leaguer
Speaker 5: people would ask me from time I was two years old. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's all I ever wanted to be. I love baseball.
Speaker 5: I still love baseball more than anything almost. Well, no,
Speaker 5: that's not true. I would get in big trouble. That's
Speaker 5: definitely not true. No, I listen, I didn't try to
Speaker 5: hold on. And that's a that's a scary part for athletes, right,
Speaker 5: you try to hold onto them. So the thing I
Speaker 5: was going to bring this up for all of you
Speaker 5: guys with this conversation is that I do think there
Speaker 5: should be a transitional phase, and some schools have it,
Speaker 5: some professional leagues have it from an athlete going to
Speaker 5: the professional world because it's a it's a it's a
Speaker 5: two to three year phase where if you could speed
Speaker 5: that up that and this is the takeaway, but athletes
Speaker 5: are good workers, right, They're hard workers. You have to be.
Speaker 5: If you could transition quicker, I believe the workforce would
Speaker 5: transpire and you create a little bit more leadership. I'm
Speaker 5: not saying that all athletes are leaders. That's not the case.
Speaker 5: But you see a lot, especially in baseball with independent ball,
Speaker 5: like guys hang on for so long sure that once
Speaker 5: they do have that transition phase into a workforce or
Speaker 5: to career path, they're there's still they're lost. There's still
Speaker 5: a ballplayer. And you don't want a guy that's chasing
Speaker 5: tail drinking every night and then waking up, you know,
Speaker 5: at two pm to do it all over again. Like
Speaker 5: and I'm not saying that was my path, but guys
Speaker 5: like that of corsually lived that lifestyle pretty aggressively, no question.
Speaker 2: Oh And like I said, they don't know the end game,
Speaker 2: and you don't know any better exactly because I don't
Speaker 2: know they've done it.
Speaker 5: I transitioned in coaching at the right time, Like I
Speaker 5: knew I was done. I didn't try to hold onto
Speaker 5: play and I went straight into.
Speaker 2: Car And I think you said, I'm not speaking of Turner.
Speaker 2: You can tell you and tell me if you had
Speaker 2: a good support system and it was a sheet.
Speaker 5: Your wife not at that time, No, she wasn't. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: it was pretty close, you know, yeah, pretty close to you.
Speaker 5: It's like an it was like a year, Yeah, a
Speaker 5: little bit of a year. Yeah, I had somebody that
Speaker 5: gave me a reality kick, and she could care less
Speaker 5: that I ever. I mean, I think one of my
Speaker 5: pickup lines was like, I I spend my winners in
Speaker 5: Hawaii because I played winter ball the year before in Hawaiian.
Speaker 5: She was like, okay, yeah, big deal. I was like,
Speaker 5: I'm a professional athlete. She's like, I don't I don't
Speaker 5: care at all, And I was like, okay, cool, Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 5: And that's kind of the reality you get because if
Speaker 5: you're a kid on me too. I wanted to be
Speaker 5: a pro bowl player, couldn't hit a curveball too thin
Speaker 5: and blah blah blah. But my other second gift thing
Speaker 5: was be a sportswriter. Yeah. I happened to do this
Speaker 5: my son, my son.
Speaker 2: Who was you know, you know when I was a
Speaker 2: lot younger and he was a lot younger.
Speaker 5: Dad. Don't you wish you would have been a doctor
Speaker 5: of ours? Hell no, I wanted to do this. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I get to meet and travel all over the country,
Speaker 2: and doctors want to be me. I know that's being facetious,
Speaker 2: but yeah, because you know, you get to do things
Speaker 2: and you know there's nothing high pressure you don't make
Speaker 2: as much money. But you know what I'm saying, you're
Speaker 2: getting to live the life you want to live. I mean, one,
Speaker 2: I'm sure the same way, thinking the same thing, right,
Speaker 2: That's why you're doing this and hopingly you catch fire
Speaker 2: somehow and Ray.
Speaker 5: You know, yeah, but don't you think that. I mean,
Speaker 5: this isn't a short time that we've known each other
Speaker 5: at this level. But for me listening to you over
Speaker 5: the years, like you were you were made to do this,
Speaker 5: like this is your this was going to be your
Speaker 5: past at some point or another. You were so good
Speaker 5: at what you do and creating relationships and bringing people
Speaker 5: on and nurturing that and even your writing is phenomenal,
Speaker 5: Like you were made to do.
Speaker 2: That well, because I wanted to do this. Only once
Speaker 2: you have your sight set on something, yeah, and you
Speaker 2: you have nowhere else to go. This is what you
Speaker 2: try to do. I mean, this is what you have
Speaker 2: to do to make it.
Speaker 5: I mean I have this argument all the time, like
Speaker 5: what what would I do in life? Like I think
Speaker 5: about this, I'm like, I don't know how to do
Speaker 5: anything right?
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: It's so pathetic, my wife, But you're a mechanic, but.
Speaker 2: You're not doing because but the thing is to at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, it's a you're a people person, yeah,
Speaker 2: and this world is a people person place.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have to be.
Speaker 2: You could be whatever whatever you're going to as long
Speaker 2: as you know how to deal with people and treat
Speaker 2: them fairly.
Speaker 5: Okay, there's where you hit on right, fairly right, giving
Speaker 5: everybody the fair shake, making sure that you're not doing
Speaker 5: it alone, not trying to take one hundred percent of
Speaker 5: the credit, but you're bringing people along. I think that's
Speaker 5: a huge value.
Speaker 2: I could easily, let me tell you something, I could
Speaker 2: easily do this show by myself and be the Si
Speaker 2: rivera show blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: But that's not what I want. To have a good conversation,
Speaker 5: just like we're having. Now.
Speaker 2: Bring you guys on, make this two hours go faster.
Speaker 2: Take some calls, get their philosophies and things like that,
Speaker 2: because it's it's good to know. Yeah, the more knowledge
Speaker 2: you have from people's ideas, the better off you are.
Speaker 2: And I'm trying to wax, I'm not trying to ex poetic,
Speaker 2: but no, you should feel But I mean, listen, we've
Speaker 2: said this before and our callers are probably like I
Speaker 2: don't want to hear this anymore. And I should say,
Speaker 2: your callers, not mine my texts, tell me how bad
Speaker 2: I am anyway. Uh No, But like a point in
Speaker 2: my life that I absolutely needed this right, like the
Speaker 2: most chaotic nerve wracking, I mean stressful, like you brought
Speaker 2: me on and it was like like if I didn't
Speaker 2: have this, but it was cathartic. It was cathartic exactly. Okay,
Speaker 2: well you're gonna speak because I said, this is what
Speaker 2: you want to do. Now you're just hoping to catch
Speaker 2: fire somewhere exactly.
Speaker 16: And this is a perfect time because if anyone's out
Speaker 16: there listening, I am open for work.
Speaker 5: Yeah well, let's specify what kind of work, because earlier
Speaker 5: we were saying that you were bringing in girls anywhere
Speaker 5: plural whatever, whatever gets me the Fiji trying to hit
Speaker 5: that miracle mile. And but like you.
Speaker 3: Said, this is something I enjoy.
Speaker 16: I look forward truly, and I mean this, I'm not
Speaker 16: trying to kiss up to you. I look forward to
Speaker 16: my Mondays and Wednesdays I get to come on here
Speaker 16: conversation and then of course when I go report for
Speaker 16: easy doesn't swarm. I love sharing my the work that
Speaker 16: I do, and people I hope maybe they're not telling
Speaker 16: the truth, but people like seeing it.
Speaker 5: I do think it's weird that you make us all
Speaker 5: kiss your ring before we go on air. Oh the
Speaker 5: pause is terrible. You could have got anyway.
Speaker 2: What's my goal to You haven't been with a hot chick?
Speaker 2: I think we hear that probably ten We were just
Speaker 2: I were just talking about something serious.
Speaker 5: You're like, hot chicks already.
Speaker 16: Cut it on, right, Steve's hot chick is raised momentum?
Speaker 5: Yeah, one way or the other. You hear about ten
Speaker 5: times the show momentum.
Speaker 2: And I don't believe in either of them. We gotta go.
Speaker 2: Here's that time to go. Okay, Hey, Blake Is, We'll
Speaker 2: see you tomorrow, see me tomorrow night Shore.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have Kim Madaire, Ray Flores, two people that
Speaker 2: I would not be here without, and Justin Spears in
Speaker 2: the afternoon.
Speaker 5: Thanks guys, Thanks everybody,