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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball
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Speaker 2: with me today, Dave Silver, I'm here, former K Gun guy,
Speaker 2: you Bay guy, one of the guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, long time two son, And now that's how I.
Speaker 2: Refer nineteen eighty three. Two three came in with Lout
Speaker 2: accidentally came in.
Speaker 3: I came in right after I knew Lout was going
Speaker 3: to be here, and so I decided to come.
Speaker 2: Afterwards, right, worked out pretty with buy your tickets.
Speaker 4: Now we're gonna win. What's going on?
Speaker 3: Not too much kind of in the middle of this,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of fun week getting set for you know,
Speaker 3: big baseball with you know, kind of the unexpected.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as we saw over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you said, you said you've been there.
Speaker 4: I've been. Oh.
Speaker 3: I was there back for the nineteen eighty six championship
Speaker 3: that they they want. It's the only time I went.
Speaker 3: It was the old Rosenblatt Stadium in Arizona.
Speaker 4: It was there.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think Florida State was the championship game.
Speaker 3: But it was a really long week of rain and delays,
Speaker 3: and I think we were there twelve days.
Speaker 2: You were supposed to be there.
Speaker 3: We were supposed to be there, you know, eight maybe
Speaker 3: eight of it. I think there were a couple of
Speaker 3: days just washed out by rain. So we just sat
Speaker 3: there and waited. We joked around. I remember we called
Speaker 3: it like Camp Omaha because we just we didn't know
Speaker 3: what to do. We weren't from there.
Speaker 2: And did you have stories every day even though that
Speaker 2: there was rain. I think we did because you had
Speaker 2: to we were supposed to do. You had to use work.
Speaker 4: That's kind of why we were there, right, So we did.
Speaker 3: We did what we could, and then you know, it
Speaker 3: turned out to be you know, the Chip Hail team
Speaker 3: and some other really good players on that team. They
Speaker 3: made the Majors and played professionally. So it was and
Speaker 3: it was an emotional time. It was Jerry Kendall's wife, Georgia,
Speaker 3: who you know was suffering from Loke Garrigg's disease.
Speaker 4: Oh I don't remember that moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was, she was there, she was able to
Speaker 3: move and you know, her life ended. I don't know
Speaker 3: she was long after.
Speaker 2: That, Yeah, because I got here in eighty seven. I
Speaker 2: think she was she passed away. I don't remember, but
Speaker 2: I remember the story breached vaguely.
Speaker 3: It was really emotional. It was I think I mentioned
Speaker 3: somewhere on social this this week that I just remember
Speaker 3: standing in the rain. The rains were coming down after
Speaker 3: that game finished, and you know, we're trying to interview
Speaker 3: the coach and the players, and you know she's, you know,
Speaker 3: standing right next to him with his arm around her shoulder.
Speaker 3: It was just it was really a touching time. She
Speaker 3: she had what she had.
Speaker 2: Luke Garritts, Yeah, okay, because I was at the m
Speaker 2: d A actually, uh and I found out about all
Speaker 2: those things that just have als unbelievable illnesses that incurable.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my memory. And I know there's been other
Speaker 3: times where the team has gone and they did win,
Speaker 3: and they've been there, you know a few times over
Speaker 3: the years.
Speaker 4: It's kind of you know, impressible title for Arizona. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the three or four titles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll see what happened for because aren't they
Speaker 3: wearing these t shirts that say go for the fot.
Speaker 2: Go Go for five minutes. That's right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: They see and then we talk about this all the time, Dave.
Speaker 2: I think with you as well about blue bloods, and
Speaker 2: I think baseball's blue blood. Yeah, so it's softball. Yep,
Speaker 2: I'll end it there. It was partly maybe even swimming
Speaker 2: from back in the day.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, it's such a great run, but it's been
Speaker 3: kind of.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but they have this great run. But the
Speaker 2: thing that kind of gets you in the door and
Speaker 2: keeps you in the door, you can't never not be
Speaker 2: one in Arizona. Doesn't have enough basketball, doesn't have enough
Speaker 2: cachet there. They not believe they're they're like North Carolina blue.
Speaker 2: Well they're they're blue blood North Carolina. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 2: I'm talking it's the shade of blue. That's what you're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 4: Shade. Yeah, baseball.
Speaker 3: You know, they've been pretty consistently there for most of
Speaker 3: the you know, last forty years. Really think about it,
Speaker 3: if you go back to eighty or the seventy six,
Speaker 3: you know, every few years it pops. So it's been
Speaker 3: pretty good.
Speaker 4: Twenty twelve, twenty.
Speaker 2: Sixteen, and they they won, they've and they've yeah, they've
Speaker 2: knocked on the door. Yeah, kind of knocked on the door.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. You're not a favorite tom Tomorrow
Speaker 2: or Friday. Not a favorite of Coast Coast at Carolina favorite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've won like what twenty something games in a.
Speaker 2: Row, twenty three, yeah, twenty three. In fact, all the
Speaker 2: eight teams, Arizona's the seventh favorite in the list of favorites, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean you look at them and they've done a
Speaker 2: great job, but they're kind of scary to watch if
Speaker 2: you're a fan because you.
Speaker 3: Don't know Arizona.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't know. I mean, come on, a month ago,
Speaker 2: you're thinking, oh man, they gonna make this too.
Speaker 4: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: Hex?
Speaker 3: What was it a Sunday morning? I was thinking, what
Speaker 3: am I doing? When you're watching this game and you
Speaker 3: know they're well nothing.
Speaker 2: The sixth ye're thinking, In the seventh you're thinking, and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, here they come.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 3: It was an interesting week. And this is the first
Speaker 3: time and I don't know how many years that we
Speaker 3: don't have repeat teams from last Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of strange.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 3: It is a different mix of people of teams. You know,
Speaker 3: all these Pac ten teams Pack twelve with Oregon State
Speaker 3: and U C.
Speaker 1: L A.
Speaker 2: And to hell with the people who have the money,
Speaker 2: you know, l shoes are Yeah. But uh, but now
Speaker 2: you have people that are teams that are kind of
Speaker 2: just the teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the Murray State story. Well, I'm sure
Speaker 3: they'll be telling that over and over again throughout the
Speaker 3: throughout their time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'd be duke to get there. Uh, it's just
Speaker 2: it's a fun time. I've never been there, so you know,
Speaker 2: I've never been there to cover this. This is the
Speaker 2: loan thing I haven't covered in my career at in
Speaker 2: my job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if if things go as as scheduled,
Speaker 3: it'll be you know a little over a week. Basically,
Speaker 3: it'll land next next Monday. That's you know, whether whether
Speaker 3: whether it cooperates.
Speaker 4: Monday.
Speaker 3: But you know it could go short long and short,
Speaker 3: could go two games that would be Sunday.
Speaker 4: And that's what happened last time.
Speaker 2: I think they went last too quickly to Jon right,
Speaker 2: so I guess what he's there, that's yeah, that's kind
Speaker 2: of see Jay Johnson, do you have a couple of
Speaker 2: seconds I'd like to do a quick interview.
Speaker 4: No, I know who you're from. I know the questions
Speaker 4: to get.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's still some players on the team
Speaker 3: that he recruited.
Speaker 4: I don't know that. And I didn't ask this of Brian.
Speaker 2: And this week when he was on whether they have
Speaker 2: an open press conference like for all the teams, they
Speaker 2: do so, so you know you know that. Hey, question
Speaker 2: in there was a second row by Peterson as he
Speaker 2: does this for him, Jay, could you explain why you
Speaker 2: decided to leave and how you did it and why
Speaker 2: you did it? Well, why I did it? There was money, yeah,
Speaker 2: and how I did it. Some people have regrets, maybe
Speaker 2: I have one. Thanks for the question, Move on. I
Speaker 2: wish them all the best.
Speaker 3: Yes, then I assume that's going to be tomorrow since
Speaker 3: games are on Friday, Tomorrow the news conference day and
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, the news will be coming out and
Speaker 3: how that is handled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or if it's asked, you know who knows? Of course,
Speaker 2: I mean you have to ask, you have to have reporters.
Speaker 4: Yeah. There, and if he doesn't, you know, there's a
Speaker 4: there's a column anyway. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's good, it's what kind of makes
Speaker 3: sports fun.
Speaker 4: It just kind of worked out that way.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, today if you and if nobody or you
Speaker 2: missed the show yesterday. I thought it was a pretty
Speaker 2: good one and I put the podcast on my social
Speaker 2: Facebook page, or you can find it on iHeart iHeartMedia
Speaker 2: dot com or iHeart dot com and find it. We
Speaker 2: had Rocky Coyle, former U of A player back in
Speaker 2: the eighties early eighties, the captain back then. Very fun,
Speaker 2: very good story. He was at North Carolina watching the
Speaker 2: guys play. After that, we had Kenny Lofton, who was
Speaker 2: fantastic at three forty ish and he was great to
Speaker 2: talk about UA basketball, UA baseball, his time here and
Speaker 2: his time as a major leaguer.
Speaker 4: That was fun.
Speaker 2: And then in the fourth hour we had Brian Jeffries,
Speaker 2: of course, who's the voice of the Wildcats and who's
Speaker 2: with the team and doing a great job as always.
Speaker 3: What do you think would have been like if Kenny
Speaker 3: could have played baseball?
Speaker 4: Would lud have.
Speaker 3: Let him even try out?
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't that's a good question.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Probably, I mean it probably he would have overlapped, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and he wouldn't have played that much because of the time.
Speaker 4: Maybe, I mean it's easy to say maybe.
Speaker 3: Trying to remember if he might have been out there.
Speaker 3: Maybe he was. Was he just out on the field,
Speaker 3: like just taking fly balls?
Speaker 2: No, he played. He suited up for his final year. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how he played or how long he played.
Speaker 2: But the guy who we have today, Clark Christ at
Speaker 2: four seventeen, is the guy who convinced him to play right.
Speaker 2: And he said, I'm indebted to the guy. I mean,
Speaker 2: he believed in me and I had to prove him right.
Speaker 2: And he did because you know, he's the one that
Speaker 2: said you can do this. Yeah, that worked out quite
Speaker 2: well for him. I mean that was you know, talk
Speaker 2: about two sport athletes, you know, the Dion Sanders of
Speaker 2: the world and Kenny Yeah, you know, it turned his
Speaker 2: basketball career and completely around.
Speaker 4: In the baseball right.
Speaker 2: In fact, he said that he said that to people
Speaker 2: who know him now don't know that he paid for
Speaker 2: UA and basketball. But people from who know him from
Speaker 2: basketball really don't know him for baseball. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: kind of kind of got a hidden personality there because
Speaker 2: you know, you know him from where you know him
Speaker 2: baseball or basketball.
Speaker 3: It was pretty cool when he came back as his
Speaker 3: career was getting going, you know, after Clark and the
Speaker 3: Astro signed him, and he winds up on the Toros,
Speaker 3: which was a cute little moment in time where.
Speaker 2: They won the title. That Yeah, ninety three, he's out there,
Speaker 2: you know, in high corbidfield, you know, playing for two
Speaker 2: soons and I think Mike says hell Fader says this
Speaker 2: all the time. Those were the highest attended Toros games
Speaker 2: in the history became they won the title that year
Speaker 2: at the PC time.
Speaker 3: They won a couple and he was there. I think,
Speaker 3: I guess maybe in the ninety one, the first one.
Speaker 3: It was pretty it was pretty interesting time. But yeah,
Speaker 3: and that's game there. It was very fun and not
Speaker 3: too long after his basketball career. That was two years
Speaker 3: after the fact that he'd already gotten to that level exactly.
Speaker 3: It didn't take him long. I don't I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: I'd have to look, but I'm gonna think he did
Speaker 3: not go to double A. I think he went straight
Speaker 3: to single A and was good, and they you know,
Speaker 3: they promoted him up and here he was, you know,
Speaker 3: on the cusp of the Major. Then they traded him eventually,
Speaker 3: you know, so he went you know, he goes to Cleveland.
Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of stuck in some deal. I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't know if people really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you called it up earlier, right Wikipedia, You should
Speaker 2: may even bring that up player when we have time
Speaker 2: to talk. So so again we have at three seventeen.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have Robbie Mowen, a former U of A
Speaker 2: baseball star. Uh, he's a former He coached here for
Speaker 2: a while after after playing major leagues for a while,
Speaker 2: came back where was an assistant under Jeff Skurrin at
Speaker 2: Rio Rico U not too long ago. And then he
Speaker 2: decided to move back to Dallas. Uh where his his
Speaker 2: wife is kind of from. I guess she's a Russian native, uh,
Speaker 2: if that's the right phrase. But they live in Dallas,
Speaker 2: and now he's a teacher, a pe teacher. I think
Speaker 2: Flowing Wells High School was high school. Yeah, you remember him,
Speaker 2: I do. He was fantastic football player and baseball player.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't remember his football as much as baseball,
Speaker 3: and he was quite good and one of the stars
Speaker 3: of the U of a forear year.
Speaker 2: If I can remember this is I first got here
Speaker 2: in eighty seven, so he was like ninety one ninety
Speaker 2: four whatever was. Yeah, I think Glenn Posey played at
Speaker 2: floor and Walls. I think so. So they were like
Speaker 2: a one two punch if I could, I could be wrong.
Speaker 2: You know. The funny thing is I remember these things.
Speaker 2: I can't remember anything from yesterday. It'll be just kind
Speaker 2: of you know, it's kind of vague.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Now, Robbie was a solid player in high school.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure we'll have to ask him again. I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure he went four straight years at Arizona and
Speaker 3: they never made the World Series, but they made the
Speaker 3: playoffs every year, I think, and he was you know,
Speaker 3: he was he was a guy that he was one
Speaker 3: of their team leaders and he was all you know,
Speaker 3: I'm sure if you look at the career records in baseball,
Speaker 3: he's amongst the top players of all time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll have Robbie at three seventeen and then
Speaker 2: Clark Christip for seventeen today. So another good show at
Speaker 2: least with the guests and not because of me, and
Speaker 2: we hope because yeah, we hope that. I'm sure that'll
Speaker 2: be And we'll take some calls after that about three
Speaker 2: point forty to get us to move along with the show.
Speaker 2: Hire seventeen three. Let's take the breakdown, come back with Robbie. Thanks.
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Speaker 13: Steve Rivera He's got his eye on the ball on
Speaker 13: Tucson Sports station Fox Sports fourteen.
Speaker 2: Fifty Hey, welcome back to why the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave Silver.
Speaker 4: Now on the phone.
Speaker 2: We have former UOA baseball player MLB player Robbie Mowen.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Robbie.
Speaker 7: I'm doing great today, Steve. Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 2: Great time to be a wildcat for you guys, You
Speaker 2: baseball players, how do you feel about it?
Speaker 7: I'll tell you what. The boys are fired up. We
Speaker 7: just had a reunion for our ninety three team in
Speaker 7: Tucson this past weekend. So we had about thirteen or
Speaker 7: fourteen guys there back from that team, and we were
Speaker 7: all playing golf of at Omni and Friday we're watching
Speaker 7: the game and at you know, five to one after two,
Speaker 7: we're like, God, let's go the rains and hit balls.
Speaker 7: And that day was a wash. But then Saturday to win.
Speaker 7: And then Sunday we're listening to it and we're into
Speaker 7: about no where on about nine, ten, hole eleven, and
Speaker 7: it's the ninth inning and you could hear us at
Speaker 7: que and across the golf course. One more, let's go
Speaker 7: and strike one, and the guys were fired up.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 7: So yeah, it was pretty cool to see the boys
Speaker 7: come through like that and get that big w I'm
Speaker 7: really happy for chipping the boys.
Speaker 4: Do you see you said ninety three? So it does
Speaker 4: it feel like thirty two years ago?
Speaker 7: No, it doesn't. My body says yes. Sometimes after a
Speaker 7: couple of rounds of golf, we all said, head gets
Speaker 7: been thirty two years. But now it's hard to believe
Speaker 7: in the great thing Steve and Dave and Dave knows
Speaker 7: he I believe he covered us that team is really
Speaker 7: really close. We have a group text that still goes
Speaker 7: on daily of about nineteen or twenty guys from that team,
Speaker 7: and so there's constant contact. And it's only gonna ramp
Speaker 7: up now with Coast of Carolina and Arizona matching up
Speaker 7: and on Friday. And they're the team that beat us
Speaker 7: in twenty sixteen. So the boys are gonna be talking
Speaker 7: some smack and the banter is gonna beginning real soon.
Speaker 3: Why do you think it worked this year too, because
Speaker 3: it really was a mixture of you know, veterans. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's a couple of players still on the roster that
Speaker 3: were recruited by Jay Johnson.
Speaker 7: You know, I think it was a chemistry thing, and
Speaker 7: I really do. I think Schip is really good in
Speaker 7: relating to the players, and he gives them enough leash
Speaker 7: where they can be free and they can play loose,
Speaker 7: but he still has enough control and the reins over
Speaker 7: him where they've got to play baseball the Wildcat way,
Speaker 7: the way that was established by Frank Sansett and then
Speaker 7: carried on through Jerry Kendall and Jerry Stid And I
Speaker 7: just think it's a it's kind of an older school way,
Speaker 7: they got the old eighty six throwback unis for their
Speaker 7: whites and their grays, but then they got the baby
Speaker 7: blues kind of the newer trend deal that they wear.
Speaker 7: And I think the guys really enjoyed playing with each other.
Speaker 7: I mean, I went to practice. I was in town
Speaker 7: last week before they left for North Carolina, and I
Speaker 7: went to one of the practices and just the mood
Speaker 7: is like, you know, it's like there, the expectations are there,
Speaker 7: but they're not. They're just kind of playing on borrowed
Speaker 7: time and hey, let's see how far we can take this.
Speaker 7: And they're not trying to win their series or trying
Speaker 7: to win the first pace of the first inning in
Speaker 7: Game one, and then they take it from there. And
Speaker 7: so it doesn't hurt you when you've got two freshmen
Speaker 7: arms that are legit, big time guys going for you
Speaker 7: on the weekend, as freshmen plugged those veterans in the
Speaker 7: middle of the lineup, and it just provides a lot
Speaker 7: of ballast, I believe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no question.
Speaker 2: Let me give you this theory, and Daved, you helped
Speaker 2: me because you know both sides of this. I covered
Speaker 2: the basketball team forever, and I say this and I'll
Speaker 2: go to my grave saying this. Every time that you
Speaker 2: told them they couldn't do it, that they were the underdog,
Speaker 2: they always came up big. And you probably know this,
Speaker 2: Robby from just from basketball, if you played duke or whatever,
Speaker 2: like back in my day when I covered lute. Now
Speaker 2: you tell them you can't they do in baseball. In baseball,
Speaker 2: was it the same where you were kind of you
Speaker 2: thrived on being the underdog.
Speaker 7: I think everyone always when they think of Arizona baseball,
Speaker 7: oh you go to Arizona State, Arizona State, and you're
Speaker 7: like no with the Wildcats and and so I think
Speaker 7: that does just poked a little bit under the skin
Speaker 7: to Arizona players and they just like to carry that
Speaker 7: chip on their shoulder. And no pun intended with ships
Speaker 7: the head coast now, but I think it does a
Speaker 7: little bit, and they'd like to be in that role
Speaker 7: because then they kind of can sneak up on people.
Speaker 7: But when you're the when you're the hunting, everyone's looking
Speaker 7: out for, everyone's gunning for. But when you're the hunter,
Speaker 7: well you can sneak up and you can attackt them.
Speaker 7: But and all of a sudden they don't know what
Speaker 7: hit him, and I really think, I really think the guys,
Speaker 7: you know, thrive on that, and it's really good if
Speaker 7: that role is gonna kind of change now in Omahaw
Speaker 7: because you've got the you got the last aid standing,
Speaker 7: and you really can't say they're the best aid right now.
Speaker 7: But I mean, you look at A and m I'm Texas,
Speaker 7: they're out. In Tennessee they're out, and all these other
Speaker 7: top playing teams from the year not left standing. She
Speaker 7: got the hottest date the eight that are playing the
Speaker 7: best right now. And if I'm a betting man, I
Speaker 7: might go in there and say, hey, here's always got
Speaker 7: as good a chance as Arkansas does. Who's got a
Speaker 7: good a chance as Murray State does. I mean, UCLA's
Speaker 7: probably going, yeah, we got Murray State. But I wouldn't
Speaker 7: want to play those guys right now, as hot as
Speaker 7: they are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was telling Dave. I was telling Dave that
Speaker 2: they're not favorite to win this game on Friday. Overall,
Speaker 2: they're the seventh favorite team of the eighth and then
Speaker 2: if you're if you're betting men, they're eighteen to one.
Speaker 7: Wow. Yeah, you know Keith it right there, yeah, right there, right.
Speaker 3: I felt super confident. When I saw Mason White come
Speaker 3: up was it the eighth inning, I mean, I just
Speaker 3: felt he was gonna get been slumping too, he had
Speaker 3: been slumping a little bit, but there was just something.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's been magical here in the postseason, and
Speaker 3: at that moment, it was like you could just tell
Speaker 3: it was like his time, and it was you know,
Speaker 3: it was just poetic wall he hit that. So there's
Speaker 3: something about confidence too. I think that carries you at
Speaker 3: this time of year too as well.
Speaker 7: You're one year one, right about the confidence. And then
Speaker 7: the thing about Mason is he was hitting a lot
Speaker 7: of balls hard in the in the first couple of
Speaker 7: games of that redo. He just wasn't getting any results.
Speaker 7: And so as a hitter, you gotta take some solace
Speaker 7: and that going Heck, I can't do anything else. I
Speaker 7: got a good piss to hit, I've put a good
Speaker 7: swing on the ball. I just need to ride out somebody.
Speaker 7: And you keep doing that, it's gonna fall. And that's
Speaker 7: what happened. And I really think, you know, the baseball
Speaker 7: guys and I believe in on the Carla stuff. I
Speaker 7: just think the hometown guy was meant to be up
Speaker 7: in that situation to put Arizona over the top, you know,
Speaker 7: and I remember back in ninety three, you know, we
Speaker 7: had a hometown guy up at the end and it
Speaker 7: just it didn't work out for him, and that time
Speaker 7: it went against us. This time he came up big.
Speaker 7: And you know, if you're gonna have Arizona's gonna you're
Speaker 7: gonna give him a choice of one guy who they
Speaker 7: can pick to be out to play in that situation.
Speaker 7: I bet I bet not every guy in that team,
Speaker 7: excluding themselves, probably would have said Mason White.
Speaker 2: Yeah, over the weekend, when you see the freshman pitch,
Speaker 2: like the pitcher they had on Sunday, right and like
Speaker 2: I said, I covered basketball. You see these freshmen females
Speaker 2: that come in and then leave. Uh, I'm surprised. Man,
Speaker 2: these guys are dudes. They're studs. Back in the day,
Speaker 2: were they studs like that?
Speaker 7: Not right away? I can remember back in ninety one
Speaker 7: when we had the S and S, the duo of
Speaker 7: Tim Switzer and Mike steifelbein both second round picks out
Speaker 7: of high school, said no to come to Arizona. And
Speaker 7: then we had a third guy, rob at Balito, out
Speaker 7: of San Diego that was our rotation, and they struggled
Speaker 7: as freshman. You know, they took their lumps, and molocity
Speaker 7: is very different now, training is very different now, So
Speaker 7: they weren't throwing that hard. But I guarantee you Mike
Speaker 7: Switzer and Kim Schipebin they were topping the guns over
Speaker 7: ninety at that time, which is you know in that's
Speaker 7: ninety four, ninety five, ninety six now. But all that
Speaker 7: experience led to their software year where they were the
Speaker 7: reason that they were of the reason why we won
Speaker 7: the six pat championship that year because we had three
Speaker 7: starters that started every Friday, every Saturday, every Sunday for
Speaker 7: so you could count on that. And then in ninety
Speaker 7: three those guys were penciled in to be the guys,
Speaker 7: and then Scheiffelbeyen got hurt first start, strained as Hammy
Speaker 7: Schweizer was rehabbing from his shoulder surgery, and those two
Speaker 7: guys never quite came back, and Rob threw so much
Speaker 7: he was out of gas at the end of the year.
Speaker 7: So we didn't have any pitching left and any starting
Speaker 7: pitching left. So these guys have that starting pitching and
Speaker 7: they're young, and they're big, and they're strong. And you
Speaker 7: know with the book pens now the way the way
Speaker 7: it works, there's not they've thrown their share, but they're
Speaker 7: not sitting at one hundred and ten hundred and twenty innings,
Speaker 7: so they've still got some left in the bank.
Speaker 10: I believe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the closer has fourteen saves, which doesn't
Speaker 3: doesn't happen to.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's yeah, he has. And and let's just talk
Speaker 7: about Anthony Flute for a second. You when you draw
Speaker 7: up a right handed pitcher, there's really not one thing
Speaker 7: you'd put on Anthony Pluto in that in that picture,
Speaker 7: he's sub six foot, he's got shorter arms, so nothing
Speaker 7: draws up. But the guy just flat knows how to pitch.
Speaker 7: He changes speed, and he's got really big guts, so
Speaker 7: he's not afraid of that situation. And that's a that's
Speaker 7: a great thing to have to put a guy in
Speaker 7: there at the back into the game because you're real
Speaker 7: confident that guy's gonna come in in those strikes and
Speaker 7: if he does get beat, which we all hope he doesn't.
Speaker 7: And this year says he's been really well done, really
Speaker 7: well knock on wood, it's because he's stiles strikes and
Speaker 7: they're gonna have to hit him to beat him. He's
Speaker 7: not gonna walk anybody. He's not gonna, you know, do
Speaker 7: anything to hurt himself. And so that's just a luxury
Speaker 7: that that schiff and coach Van table over there to
Speaker 7: have that guy in the back hand.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Plus he's an aerospace engineer major.
Speaker 7: Right, yeah, he's an academic offer.
Speaker 4: No, no, let me ask you.
Speaker 2: Uh, you're back in Dallas, right, you can be wearing
Speaker 2: your UA hat somewhere watching the game on Friday.
Speaker 7: I'm going to be actually being in Phoenix working a
Speaker 7: baseball then for the new Balanced Future Star series, and
Speaker 7: I will have that Arizona gear on. I don't know
Speaker 7: when i'll have it a shirt or I don't know
Speaker 7: if I have any any Arizona hats. I gotta look around.
Speaker 7: I don't think I have any, but I got some
Speaker 7: shirts and they'll be on the Cat's what we represented
Speaker 7: for sure.
Speaker 2: What are you doing though, Well, I'm teaching full.
Speaker 7: Time middle school pe teacher in the Plain old and
Speaker 7: in Plano, Texas. At the middle school, I coached football.
Speaker 7: I was a head seven FID football coach, and I
Speaker 7: was the boys sprint coach for track also doing some
Speaker 7: work for the new Balanced Feature Star Series, which is
Speaker 7: a developmental and program for baseball players ages fourteen and up.
Speaker 7: And we've been around ten years and in last year's
Speaker 7: draft MLB Draft twenty eight, I believe it's twenty eight
Speaker 7: to thirty closer to twenty. I believe percent of the
Speaker 7: players draft have been through our program in some way,
Speaker 7: shape or form. And so we're not a showcase place.
Speaker 7: We don't give you rankings. We're just we're about the
Speaker 7: development of the player and developing relationships and watching them
Speaker 7: come in at one stage of their lives and watching
Speaker 7: them grow and become do whatever they can be from
Speaker 7: their talent level we have. We're going to be doing
Speaker 7: a regional combine. I've been at Paradise Honors High School
Speaker 7: on Friday, and the goal from this event for those
Speaker 7: players is to get selected to go to our national combine,
Speaker 7: which will be in Houston during the month of July
Speaker 7: based on their A troops. So we have in six
Speaker 7: is the twenty seventh, and then the twenty eighth and
Speaker 7: twenty nine ants together.
Speaker 2: We're talking to Robins. Yeah, so we're talking to Robbie
Speaker 2: Mowing for you a baseball player former MLB guy, you know,
Speaker 2: proud guy now watching the Cats.
Speaker 4: Dave, go ahead and ask your question.
Speaker 3: No, I was just gonna say, do you do you
Speaker 3: have any more goals of coaching, you know, at the
Speaker 3: Division one level or maybe even at the higher professional
Speaker 3: levels until I know you were at Kansas State and
Speaker 3: Loyola so far. Do you want to get back into
Speaker 3: that game as well? You're happy with the high school
Speaker 3: sports now.
Speaker 7: I'm happy where I'm at, Dave, I would considered if
Speaker 7: the rights as coach came calling. For example, let's say
Speaker 7: Top Rown at University of New Mexico. He and I
Speaker 7: are very close friends. I was the first person that
Speaker 7: he ran into when he moved to Tucson at eight
Speaker 7: twelve from Ohio. So lifelong friends. It's just the D
Speaker 7: one game is so different now. I mean, coaching is
Speaker 7: the same, right, the skills are the same, but you
Speaker 7: have to do so much more recruiting and I don't
Speaker 7: want to say conneling, but you really have to make
Speaker 7: sure your own players, who you spend so much time
Speaker 7: recruiting and they come there, stay there. And it's just
Speaker 7: such a wild wild West out there. You're afraid to
Speaker 7: send guys off the summer ball because you don't know
Speaker 7: if they're going to get posts or trying to get
Speaker 7: recruited to go somewhere else to play for more money
Speaker 7: with his nil and now you got to settlement deal.
Speaker 7: So I kind of like when I'm not because it's
Speaker 7: pretty consistent. And but I still follow the college game
Speaker 7: a lot, and you know it talks to talk to
Speaker 7: Brownie a lot. And I still got a few guys
Speaker 7: that I'm friends are who I coached against, and but
Speaker 7: going above that to the pro level, I don't think.
Speaker 7: So that's just a that's a different game. That's a
Speaker 7: little bit out of what I'm trying to do right now. Dad,
Speaker 7: just stage in my life.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Let me tell you about five years ago
Speaker 2: I helped the friend out at the junior high level
Speaker 2: of thirteen fourteen, twelve thirteen, whatevers, and it was probably
Speaker 2: some of the toughest times I've went through. So you're
Speaker 2: good for it. Good for you.
Speaker 4: That ain't easy, man.
Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you what football is great because we've
Speaker 7: got coaches that are yellers and screamers. Yeah, and I
Speaker 7: take them more than a cerebral kind of the mental
Speaker 7: approach from baseball and softball, and these kids I blow
Speaker 7: their minds with some breaking down a play and what
Speaker 7: they did on the block and what they should have done,
Speaker 7: and they look at me like, oh my, I just
Speaker 7: taught them how to solve an algorithm or something. And
Speaker 7: it's great for me because it's a different style of
Speaker 7: hoe right. I've been that intense guy when I was younger,
Speaker 7: up in your face and we're gonna run for this,
Speaker 7: and getting on you. And then I became more of
Speaker 7: a I don't want to say control, but more of
Speaker 7: a one pitch at a time, more of a mental guy.
Speaker 7: And my coaching style really changed when I became a
Speaker 7: professional baseball scout because now you sit on the other
Speaker 7: side of the fence and you watch, and I was watching,
Speaker 7: I was scouting some of the players at Loyola that
Speaker 7: I coached two months before, and I'm like, wow, I
Speaker 7: let these guys do this. How did I not see that?
Speaker 7: And it just broadens your horizon. You see things differently,
Speaker 7: and I've become a lot more of the mental approach
Speaker 7: now with the kids that I coached baseball, softball, hitting
Speaker 7: lessons that I do and try to talk about that
Speaker 7: because that's over half the battle. Half the battle is
Speaker 7: just being mentally in the moment and focus for what
Speaker 7: you're trying to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 2: We were talking about you before you came on, and
Speaker 2: I didn't cover all the high school stuff back in
Speaker 2: the day, but I do remember you at Flooring Well's.
Speaker 2: I even thought Posey was at Floying Wells coach playing,
Speaker 2: but he was a coach there.
Speaker 4: Just just I mean, what were you like a buck fifty.
Speaker 7: A yeah, on a good day, on a good day,
Speaker 7: with maybe some after one of our two son monsoons.
Speaker 7: I was five and nine and a half back then.
Speaker 7: I'm five to nine now, but five nine and a
Speaker 7: half about one hundred and fifty, and you know I could.
Speaker 7: I wore black shoes, so I looked we're on the
Speaker 7: football field. But I was just I loved high school
Speaker 7: football and the competition in in baseball, and back then,
Speaker 7: Flowing Wells was one of the better teams in the
Speaker 7: four A Division. You know, we were we were battling
Speaker 7: with Douglas and the Gallas every year in Pueblo, and
Speaker 7: and it was it was some wars and I was,
Speaker 7: you know, posing with the Sunnyside. I believe and he
Speaker 7: had Wilbur Washington at Pueblo, and you had Marcus Robinson
Speaker 7: at Ringcon and all these guys, Billy Powell at Troy,
Speaker 7: I mean, all these guys that we I mean, he
Speaker 7: was at Pueblo. I'm sorry, but all these guys you
Speaker 7: competed against in multiple sports. And you know, then you
Speaker 7: get into summer ball and the back then, American Legion
Speaker 7: was bigger than Connie Mack and there was no travel ball.
Speaker 7: So we're playing American Legion and we got to play
Speaker 7: the Tucson High Boys and see the Willie Morales is
Speaker 7: of Pablo al whereas Steve mar Met gotta play all
Speaker 7: those guys and Slowly Flowing Wells. We wanted to be
Speaker 7: we can compete because let's see how we match up.
Speaker 7: And so I think I think the sports and twoson
Speaker 7: bigger back then. And we had really good coaches. I mean,
Speaker 7: you look around our football league. We had King Gordon
Speaker 7: at Flowing Wells. You had Jeff Skern at CDEO who
Speaker 7: came to Flowing Wells that made me into an all
Speaker 7: state wide receiver. You had Vern Freeley at Amphire. You
Speaker 7: had these guys that Jerry Graybotsch and rink On. These
Speaker 7: guys have been around their teams for fifteen twenty thirty years.
Speaker 7: That's unheard of in today's world. Man.
Speaker 3: I just think the Mayfield family of course.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and what that Who were they at against Tucson, right, yeah?
Speaker 3: And then Todd went to uh, Palaverti and.
Speaker 7: One to Pelagartia. Yeah, yeah, Palaverti. Jim Wayne started that,
Speaker 7: bro got that program going.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: Well Robbie, appreciate your time. Take care of be safe
Speaker 2: out in Dallas.
Speaker 7: Thank you, I appreciate it. Steve did good talking to
Speaker 7: you guys as always, have a good one. Good cast
Speaker 7: there down.
Speaker 4: We'll see you. Fribady.
Speaker 2: Thanks take care. That was great, Robbie Mowen with you.
Speaker 3: A Dallas teacher and I mean really one of the
Speaker 3: greatest athletes probably in Tucson area history when you think
Speaker 3: about what he did as a high school player and
Speaker 3: continued on to the U of A. I mean, he
Speaker 3: was pretty solid for a good ten years. We were
Speaker 3: talking about him. He was in the news and then,
Speaker 3: like you say, he was not a big dude, not
Speaker 3: a big guy, but he just you know, he was
Speaker 3: one of the Jerry Kendall's favorites.
Speaker 4: Gritty dude. Gritty dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, a local guy like he mentioned kind
Speaker 3: of along the same lines as Mason White.
Speaker 4: He's not a big guy at Yes, that's true, you know.
Speaker 3: And he talked about the pressure, you know, playing at
Speaker 3: home and in big games, and you know, it's kind
Speaker 3: of double edged swords. You want to be at home
Speaker 3: and have all that pressure, but same time you're playing
Speaker 3: on some really good teams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, we got to go.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to the ball. Here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty Steve Rivera, you're Dave Silver. You got about
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Speaker 4: Great to talk to.
Speaker 2: Probably Mower.
Speaker 3: He was he was on that that fantastic nineteen ninety
Speaker 3: three eras in a baseball team that had I don't
Speaker 3: know how many players got drafted or went on too
Speaker 3: the play professionally, and they came so close to getting
Speaker 3: to Omaha. They lost in the last game at Oklahoma State.
Speaker 3: I don't know, they were head in the eighth inn
Speaker 3: and it was one of those kind of heartbreaking defeats.
Speaker 3: And again most of those guys left. I thought might
Speaker 3: have been one of Jerry Kendall's last seasons, if not
Speaker 3: his last season. Yeah, so it's kind of like the
Speaker 3: changing of the guard. All these guys left. I'm pretty
Speaker 3: sure George Arius, who still lives in Tucson was on
Speaker 3: that team. But it was such a such a great
Speaker 3: team that really had all these and didn't get there.
Speaker 3: We had a really interesting I mean, if anybody cares,
Speaker 3: but we were covering both softball, who was in Oklahoma City,
Speaker 3: and baseball was in Stillwater in the same weekend or
Speaker 3: whatever it was that week, so we drove a couple
Speaker 3: of times between those two cities to cover those. Yes,
Speaker 3: but yeah, that ninety three team was was really good.
Speaker 2: And I don't remember because I don't need I didn't
Speaker 2: cover it back then, but I covered softball during that
Speaker 2: time because Kendre was headed for another title. Yeah, yeah, no, Wow,
Speaker 2: I didn't realize they had that those guys on that team.
Speaker 2: The audience is in the mooens and the Yeah, Robbie
Speaker 2: was there. I'm pretty I'm pretty sure George was there
Speaker 2: three years round. He mentioned Todd Brown, who's the coach
Speaker 2: at New Mexico. He was a Sabino guy.
Speaker 3: He you know, went off and play you played here
Speaker 3: and then wound up coaching at like North Dakota State.
Speaker 3: I want to say, so, he's been in the business
Speaker 3: for a long time, right.
Speaker 2: Still, God, it seems like just yesterday, and these guys
Speaker 2: are like fifty something, Yeah, fifty two wish maybe, because
Speaker 2: if it's thirty two years ago, right, there had to
Speaker 2: be in their twenties or twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: So I was fifty two years old, not old. You're
Speaker 4: not old, Dave, I'm not old.
Speaker 3: No, that was a good team. I just looked at
Speaker 3: them up real quick. Thirty five and twenty. I mean
Speaker 3: they were not that great in the Pac ten, sixteen
Speaker 3: and fourteen, and then what but thirty five and twenty six?
Speaker 2: But then what happened, and they started getting rolling and
Speaker 2: played who Oklahoma State in the front.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In that regional they had George, they had Tony Bowie
Speaker 3: who want to oh yeah yeah falls well, William Morales
Speaker 3: who played a Tucson High.
Speaker 4: And Tony Mooie played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 3: Right of course, Jason Thompson was a big first baseman,
Speaker 3: big strong hitter, john Tajik Robbie.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it was a good team. I remember Johnson
Speaker 4: because he used to hit the crap out of the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they lost Oklahoma State eleven to ten.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, people don't realize, I know, because they give
Speaker 2: a lot of pressure to the softball team and obviously
Speaker 2: the football team, but the basketball team and baseball team.
Speaker 2: And I still think the baseball team is probably harder
Speaker 2: to maneuver to get to Omaha to it's final eight
Speaker 2: because there's so many landmines. But look, I mean you
Speaker 2: could be very good and still not do anything. Look
Speaker 2: at Tennessee, look at Texas, Look at all these teams that.
Speaker 4: Didn't get there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that was a surprise. The whole weekend
Speaker 3: was just kind of watching, like Murray State slipping through
Speaker 3: and sliding and getting past Duke and they had to
Speaker 3: play that game I think was on Monday, right, there
Speaker 3: was either it was in a weather situation, whatever it was. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then their stadium holds like eight hundred people. Do know,
Speaker 3: Murray State, there's gonna be a bunch of stories if
Speaker 3: you look. There's been some stories written about their coach
Speaker 3: and just you know, turn the Cinderella story obviously of
Speaker 3: the group of eight.
Speaker 2: I don't tell you, man, you could be at in
Speaker 2: Cinderella or underdog whatever and be in Oma.
Speaker 4: It happens all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean maybe not so much in football, but
Speaker 3: basketball there's always gonna be somebody, it seems, at least
Speaker 3: in the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2: Well, this year was the first year long in a
Speaker 2: long time it didn't happen in all the all the
Speaker 2: true to form people kind of made it to the finals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but generally, you know, you're gonna see that, and
Speaker 3: maybe not so much in those other sports sports like that,
Speaker 3: I should say.
Speaker 4: But in what do you what do you make of
Speaker 4: the new ruling? It came out Friday night.
Speaker 2: I hadn't seen you since with the with the with
Speaker 2: the disaster, and I had a Reggie On He kind
Speaker 2: of explained it more to me. Now where you know,
Speaker 2: it's twenty point five million dollars. Uh, they have to
Speaker 2: come up with that every year, right, you obey and
Speaker 2: every school just how to me, that's unimaginable.
Speaker 3: And where do you go to the same people every
Speaker 3: year for twenty and a half. It's gonna be tough,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be interesting. There's gonna be a lot of lawsuits.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lot of uh losses, There's gonna
Speaker 3: be a lot of under the table stuff.
Speaker 4: Because it's gonna go back to what it was though.
Speaker 3: These guys are they're they're there. It's only gonna be
Speaker 3: that amount of money, right, only the twenty million, But
Speaker 3: nowadays guys can get.
Speaker 4: More than that anyway with the nil right, right, So.
Speaker 3: They're gonna try to and that's still available, right. And
Speaker 3: they brought in, you know, a guy from Major League
Speaker 3: Baseball to kind of run the show and be in
Speaker 3: charge of all this. He's a lawyer. He you know,
Speaker 3: he's been kind of following college sports a little bit,
Speaker 3: but he's been working for MLB. That's the guy they
Speaker 3: bring in to be like the commissioner of this whole process.
Speaker 4: It's I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm I'm paying attention, but I don't really
Speaker 3: really up to speed on everything. I'm listening to a
Speaker 3: lot of things and reading as much as everybody else.
Speaker 3: And how's how's going to play out. I don't understand
Speaker 3: how they're going to pull this big off, and not
Speaker 3: just this year. You can't save it. You got to
Speaker 3: do it again next year and the next year. Like
Speaker 3: I said, I'm glad, I'm almost out of the business
Speaker 3: of doing it. But this is the easy part of it. Well,
Speaker 3: you know there's a picture from Texas Tech who got
Speaker 3: the million dollars. She's already got her next million. Yeah,
Speaker 3: before this whole ruling came down.
Speaker 2: It was almost the day before the day of that
Speaker 2: she got beat Monday night and whatever the.
Speaker 4: Name in Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: I mean, I was watching the games the other night
Speaker 3: they had you know, Mahomes was there, Patrick Mahomes, and
Speaker 3: they were saying, oh, you know, he may have helped
Speaker 3: a little bit with her nil with him and Adidas,
Speaker 3: Like that's what's happening now, I guess. But there's also
Speaker 3: a big booster at Texas Tech. The former football player
Speaker 3: who wound up becoming a billionaire in the oil and
Speaker 3: gas business.
Speaker 2: And that's how Texas is. I mean, the whole state.
Speaker 2: Is they have money like that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the big schools like that, or if
Speaker 3: they have big alumni. I'm sure Arizona is scouring the
Speaker 3: universe to try to find somebody who can help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have it in Arizona. Guy, he just
Speaker 2: inherited a bunch of cactus and he's gonna donate at
Speaker 2: all to UBA.
Speaker 4: You know it's not oil. Now, what can you do.
Speaker 4: He's gonna get out of the real estate.
Speaker 2: All the real estate developers, a lot of those that
Speaker 2: stuff that comes out of the cactus.
Speaker 4: Tell me.
Speaker 2: Put on their fingers and hands in their face. I
Speaker 2: don't know, uh, you know the mint that they're gonna
Speaker 2: sell it on the sidebox and then give all the
Speaker 2: money to the Ubay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see. I mean we've got we've got some
Speaker 3: wealthy alums, I'm sure. But and I'm sure they're being
Speaker 3: well chucked out.
Speaker 2: Well, the school is, the program is and now this yeah, man,
Speaker 2: how many wells? How many wells are they going to
Speaker 2: go to? Yeah, so we'll see, we'll see. Good to
Speaker 2: talk to Robbie Mohan again at the four seventeen hour,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk to Clark christ another former U
Speaker 2: of A baseball player, more known, I think more recently
Speaker 2: as a scout. Found a lot of good dudes pooholes
Speaker 2: I think it said yes, and a couple of others,
Speaker 2: and all mentioned that he had a stroke recently. He's
Speaker 2: actually doing rehab now. He said he'd be able to
Speaker 2: talk to us at four seventeen. He's going to give
Speaker 2: out of rehab for us and come on the show.
Speaker 3: So he was, I mean you mentioned Kenny. Kenny's someone
Speaker 3: that signed. Kenny left him out of the U of
Speaker 3: A to go to the Houston Astros I guess organization
Speaker 3: in those years, and he was their scouts and you
Speaker 3: would always see his name in the news. Greg Hanson
Speaker 3: did a good job of following his career and Clark
Speaker 3: Kris signed this guy. Yeah, so he was he had
Speaker 3: to have been, you know, had a great reputation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he helped me. Twelve years ago.
Speaker 2: I was at the Muscular Distribute Association as a PR
Speaker 2: guy and he was a kid, our national spokesperson. He
Speaker 2: was in a wheelchair, had had a debilitating disease, was
Speaker 2: Cincinnati Red fan, and I knew who to get a
Speaker 2: go to to get a signature from one of the fans,
Speaker 2: and Clark got it from me right away and he
Speaker 2: loved it. You know, when you're twelve years old and
Speaker 2: you're getting these balls are signed by some people.
Speaker 4: He was thrilled for it.
Speaker 2: So you know, you know, you know who to go to.
Speaker 3: We've been pretty lucky and Tuson to have people like that,
Speaker 3: you know, who've been connected to major League Baseball by
Speaker 3: Darcy at Darcy and Paul Moscow and some of the
Speaker 3: others through the years. The Duncan brothers, Ron Hassee, you know,
Speaker 3: and they they would come back to town or they
Speaker 3: they maybe they've sometimes they've retired here, they come back.
Speaker 2: Tom Spencer, Yeah, remember I have had him on the show,
Speaker 2: but he was back in the day with Cleveland I think.
Speaker 4: When they come here for the spring training. Yeah, it
Speaker 4: was fun.
Speaker 3: Like when Ron Hassee was playing for the Indians, it
Speaker 3: was always, you know, the go to story.
Speaker 2: You got to do a feature, Yeah, because he's here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: did you enjoy that? Did you enjoy going to spring training?
Speaker 3: I liked yeah, I mean I did you I did?
Speaker 3: It was it was our chance to be in the
Speaker 3: major leagues for just like I hate the guys. Some
Speaker 3: of the guys were you know, some of them were not. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was a mixed, mixed bag. I mean I had
Speaker 3: some good, good moments, good memories, and other than like God,
Speaker 3: I can't believe he he acted that way. But other times,
Speaker 3: I mean, have you have.
Speaker 4: I asked you this question, who's your hero sports hero?
Speaker 3: I don't know if I have one?
Speaker 4: Okay, so one I was gonna say, if you ever
Speaker 4: met him?
Speaker 2: And the cliche is, or the statement is, you don't
Speaker 2: want to meet your your heroes because they're not what
Speaker 2: you think they are.
Speaker 3: I mean, there was I don't want to put him down,
Speaker 3: but I mean I was a big Reggie Jackson fan
Speaker 3: when I was a kid girl, and I had.
Speaker 2: A chance to meet him at Springs Rains.
Speaker 3: Here I was here, I was working, and I had
Speaker 3: a chance to try to interview him, and it was
Speaker 3: just so disappointing the end result. I can't get too
Speaker 3: much into it, but beyond that is like, that's that's
Speaker 3: going to be the story I tell my kids. You know,
Speaker 3: Reggie Jackson, he's one of the all time greats, and
Speaker 3: he had no time for us if I wasn't like
Speaker 3: the National broadchect.
Speaker 4: He make it very apparent that he, oh, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: That's so obvious, and that those are the problems sometimes
Speaker 3: you run into. Yeah, when you're dealing with the big
Speaker 3: time athletes like that, as opposed to when you're dealing
Speaker 3: with college kids like we've done most of our careers,
Speaker 3: or even schoolers. You know, they're so grateful to have
Speaker 3: the attention, but when they get to that level sometimes yeah,
Speaker 3: Well he told.
Speaker 2: This to Candyatti. Tom Candyetty, I said, anytime I needed
Speaker 2: a story, let you know, go to the cleaving.
Speaker 4: But I go to Tom because he was a good guy.
Speaker 2: You know. Julio Franco not so much. Kevinindi when he
Speaker 2: was here with the Astros, not so much. So you knew, right,
Speaker 2: you knew who go to go to and not to
Speaker 2: go to.
Speaker 3: I remember, you know, I was a big Tony gwyn
Speaker 3: fan too, because I mean I went to San Diego State.
Speaker 3: Of course, he went there, and I had to guilt
Speaker 3: him into doing an interview, like I'm like Tony, I
Speaker 3: don't want to talk Tony. I'm an Aztec, all right.
Speaker 3: He came up out of the dugout and he talked
Speaker 3: and it was you know what it was. It was
Speaker 3: like Jackie Robinson day two or something. It was some big,
Speaker 3: big moment where he should be out there talking and
Speaker 3: being out in public.
Speaker 4: And he did.
Speaker 3: But that's how I remember that story was I had
Speaker 3: to like almost.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, get them to come out just because we
Speaker 2: were I had that with uh, Mark Grace when he
Speaker 2: was with the Cops. Yeah, Mark Grace when the when
Speaker 2: the Cubs finally decided to put lights on their fields
Speaker 2: right back.
Speaker 4: In eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I said, can you give me some time?
Speaker 4: And blah blah blah, and he says, yeah, and you've
Speaker 4: got another good guy.
Speaker 2: But you know you had to kind of you know,
Speaker 2: hunt and pack and say you got a couple of seconds,
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of questions.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I enjoyed that time.
Speaker 3: It was a busy time of year always because you
Speaker 3: had you know, March Madness kind of rolling in through
Speaker 3: through the month, and on top of covering you know,
Speaker 3: the local teams and bringing spring training and it was
Speaker 3: like a game a day, at least.
Speaker 4: One or two sometimes three games a day, right, So
Speaker 4: it was it was.
Speaker 2: It was quite a tough and it's different for TV
Speaker 2: than it is for meeting newspapers too.
Speaker 4: You know, all you need is a real quick silum
Speaker 4: sound bite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we would go and get you know, get a
Speaker 3: couple of highlights, and you know, we'd leave and it
Speaker 3: would be too nothing to the final score would be
Speaker 3: like eleven to ten, right, right, Well they went on
Speaker 3: to win eleven.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 4: It's kind of a running joke. You guys had it easy.
Speaker 2: No, you had to sit through the whole game of
Speaker 2: the whole game, and you didn't even write about the
Speaker 2: game because you're writing about a feature that you you know,
Speaker 2: spent five minutes with the guy.
Speaker 4: Right, but you know, oh yeah, by the way, the
Speaker 4: game was eleven to ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we would We would sometimes do that too,
Speaker 3: where you'd show, you know, three highlights, but then we'd
Speaker 3: also do like a feature that we would get before
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or bank them.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you bank them, oh yes, yeah, yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: so you didn't have to go out the next day
Speaker 2: or whatever. Yeah, what time is it?
Speaker 4: We got time?
Speaker 2: We got about a minute. Okay, so again we got
Speaker 2: about a minute. No breaking news because the kids aren't
Speaker 2: here we can break our own news. Yeah, you have
Speaker 2: a couple of things. I think, right, sure we can that,
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna go to Clark Chris at four seventeen,
Speaker 2: so the phone lines will be open. You can call
Speaker 2: us five two oh four, one, six, seventy four, forty.
Speaker 2: We had a couple of good calls yesterday. Team Money
Speaker 2: called yesterday about the interviews, and he was fan boeing
Speaker 2: Regig Geary fan bullying him, bowing boye boy oh boy.
Speaker 3: But you know one last thing about Robbie Mohen. They
Speaker 3: had eleven players drafted that year from that team, Wow,
Speaker 3: ninety three team.
Speaker 4: He was not one of them.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: He talked about rob Ippolito. Yeah, sixty ninth round draft.
Speaker 4: Pick in those years. Yeah, they only go how far
Speaker 4: now they don't go too far.
Speaker 3: George, he was on that team, Arius seventh round, Tim Schweitzer,
Speaker 3: seventh round, Jason Thompson ninth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Robbie was not drafted.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's take a break, come back on the other side.