WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.519 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on 2 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:10.880 Fox Sports fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services Insure 3 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:12.679 your most Prized possessions. 4 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:16.039 Hey, good afternoon, everybody. 5 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:18.000 Welcome to Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports 6 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:20.120 fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. 7 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:25.120 You're Blake Eager from Southern Arizona Sports Tourism and film authority. 8 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:28.239 Yes, you're busy, You're busy, and we got one for 9 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:33.479 his last show with Ie on the Ball. Tears, napkins, cupcakes, 10 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.840 everything are out there. Everything, well, thing's out there, finally 11 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:40.320 one your Top Secret Agent ninety nine. Job is what 12 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:44.200 I will be a producer of residence in Louisville, Kentucky 13 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:46.960 for a company called Techna that oversees a bunch of 14 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.600 news stations across the country, basically learning how to be 15 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:52.920 a news producer. Anything they asked me to do, I'll do. 16 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:56.320 And there's gonna be a good experience. I'm gonna be 17 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:59.600 out of my element. Coffee please, donuts? 18 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:01.159 Yeah, I mean that's what you have to do, right, 19 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.359 just you're you're essentially a runner for hire for you, 20 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:07.799 but fos work, work works fourteen hours. 21 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:09.879 If you have to meet as many people in that 22 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:13.120 industry as you can. I'll be there in May. First 23 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:16.719 week of May. Stay up the couch. Are you going 24 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:18.200 out the derby? 25 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:19.239 Baby? Oh? Yeah? 26 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:22.040 Forgot free room? Are you going to ride a horse 27 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:25.200 while you're there? Bet a horse? I don't know what 28 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:27.040 it is. Right now, two year olds are talking up. 29 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:30.879 Yeah that's true either Bob, Bob have a horse? So yeah, 30 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:33.400 my ticket to Louisville is my boy right here. So 31 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:35.959 you're talking about next May obviously, because this may pass 32 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:38.239 good good one. I know, I see when I put things. 33 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:42.599 I'm also not firing and all sin. Yeah, a long 34 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:44.920 time ago, and I would say more athlete than student. 35 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:49.000 Uh so you think you think one in a year 36 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:50.519 is gonna want you sleeping on his couch? 37 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:51.799 Uncle Steve Hell, Yes. 38 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:55.959 I I said I would bet against that. Well, you 39 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:57.920 get bet on the horse. I'm gonna bet against that. 40 00:01:58.040 --> 00:01:59.439 One is going to answer those calls? 41 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:00.000 How old are you? 42 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:02.439 Twenty two two? You'll be twenty two still or you'll 43 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:08.159 be twenty three by next when's your birthday? Twenty twenty three? Okay, 44 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:10.360 with twenty three. So let me see. I was twenty three. 45 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:12.560 I had little money. People came to. 46 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:16.599 Visit guests who bought dinner those people. So yeah, he'll 47 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:17.039 take me in. 48 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:20.159 Listen, I think one you've got to have. You've got 49 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:23.199 to have some requirements, right, First, Steve should take you 50 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:25.520 grocery shopping because you're gonna need it no matter what. 51 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:27.439 Of course, twenty three year olds need that. 52 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:32.639 Food for sure, dinner, right, maybe some adult beverages that's 53 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:35.919 in the cards, right, Yeah, and then in return you 54 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:37.360 can show him around. 55 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:40.039 It's a fair share enough. I'm fine with that. I've 56 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:41.800 never really spent a lot of time in Louisile. I 57 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:43.599 have a little bit, not a lot of time, but 58 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:45.560 this is the bucketest thing I need to get to 59 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:47.199 because you know, I've been to the breeders, I've been 60 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:49.120 to other things. This is one of the last things 61 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:49.759 I haven't done. 62 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:51.039 Have you been to the track? 63 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:53.840 Yeah, just drove, you know, kind of didn't go in 64 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:54.639 because it was closed. 65 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:56.360 We went a couple of years ago and we showed up. 66 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:58.599 Obviously wasn't Derby, but they were running and we got 67 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:00.960 to bet on horses and have been. It was awesome 68 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:04.439 to the breeders I think the following day and they 69 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.400 had a horse auction, so it was really cool. 70 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:10.680 To see that kind of environment. Yeah, so we'll go 71 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:11.639 there and see. Good. 72 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:14.680 Good for you, Senor. One of the very few people 73 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:16.439 I'm sure they got a job in the business. 74 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:18.759 Very few. But it's really impressive. 75 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:18.960 One. 76 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:19.280 Thank you. 77 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:23.360 I don't think to our listeners out there is I mean, Steve, 78 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:25.280 you and I have had this conversation. The industry is 79 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:27.520 very difficult in the first place to break in, but 80 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:31.719 because the downsizing that's going on and things that are 81 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:35.000 leaving and simplifying and cost cutting, it is it's very 82 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:36.560 impressive right now. 83 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:38.319 You just got to kill it, knocking out of the 84 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:40.960 park and you don't keep Steve, I don't have time, 85 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:43.520 you know. It's like cats in the cradle. Yeah, silver Spood, 86 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:44.360 I don't have time for you. 87 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:44.599 Dad. 88 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:46.840 I gotta good. I gotta go do a story. That's why. 89 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:49.840 Just give me the keys of the car. Yeah. 90 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.919 I don't want to. I want to read a car. 91 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:56.159 This is a sweet deal for you. Yeah, that's why 92 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:56.560 I do it. 93 00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:57.599 Yeah. D's in San. 94 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:03.039 Diego in LA. My boy want a little. 95 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:04.199 That's how it works out for him. Do you think 96 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:04.960 I do this for free? 97 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:07.639 I'm telling you, though, Man, there's a place I think 98 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:11.240 it's in Lexington called the Blue Door, which is a 99 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:12.080 barbecue place. 100 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.120 Absolutely legit. You get a chance to go. Okay, so 101 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:18.519 you head out pretty soon. You're starting it later this month, right, yep? Okay. 102 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:20.319 In the meantime, we have a pretty good show today. 103 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:21.399 Thanks for coming in there. 104 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:22.920 So, yeah, I wasn't supposed to be here, but you 105 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:25.920 convinced you. Yeah, that's let's call it convincing. 106 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:30.319 Andy Lopez here by the professor the philosopher, I should say, yeah, 107 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.519 three seventeen. I love having Andy on, like one of 108 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:36.560 my best guests all the time. He's on, gives wax's 109 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:38.079 poetic on life and in baseball. 110 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.720 Yeah, and also maybe arguably the best public speaker I've 111 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:42.160 ever heard. 112 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:44.759 Yes, I wouldn't argue that in a second. 113 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.000 I spoke to his son this morning, did you, Yeah, 114 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:48.839 because I'm trying to get him in Dallas. 115 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:50.439 How who's on? Is that the one that was on 116 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:51.040 with us? 117 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:53.759 That's Dallas. I spoke to Dallas too. I spoke to David, 118 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:59.720 who's Andy's blood son. And the Maccabi games are coming, 119 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:02.199 have you the mccopy games? We had them on last week? Yeah, 120 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:03.920 so they're coming, and so they're looking for some extra 121 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:05.560 coaching help, and I think it's a it's a great 122 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:07.600 time from our community in international play. 123 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:09.879 So yeah, no, fantastic, fantastic. 124 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.639 So we'll have Andy on the three seventeen talk about 125 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.160 you of a baseball and his time obviously going for 126 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:16.000 the title or two. 127 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:18.120 And then at three Sports seventeen. 128 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:20.079 We're gonna have mister Michael lev Is kind of almost 129 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:22.759 a regular now, given that he's been covering the baseball 130 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.160 team for a while, just to see what his thoughts 131 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:27.360 are on the chances of getting to the World Series. 132 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:29.519 You should just create a Lev's Corner and have him 133 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:30.560 on a weekly basis. 134 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:32.439 He'd expect me to pay for him, and I'm not 135 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:38.800 staying at his cot this couch, so. 136 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:37.680 I don't know if I would. 137 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:39.040 I don't even know if I want to know what 138 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:40.600 the trade offs are for this, So. 139 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:46.120 Yeah, advertising for a month, it's called it's called what 140 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.040 he got trade. By the way, sports, the sports people, 141 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:51.959 you got to give you the thirty second spot on 142 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:53.920 my show, although you're here a lot. 143 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:56.199 I have to get a thirty second I'm you. 144 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:59.240 How do people know that true exist? I mean, I 145 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:02.720 hope people know I exist. I mean, but the but 146 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:06.439 the authority. I don't know Major League Baseball, World Baseball 147 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:10.199 Classic Garment. Oh, you like to do the Winter League team. 148 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:12.959 I mean we're in quite a bit of stuff, you like. 149 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:16.079 At the nightclub in l A. And he says, who 150 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:18.920 are you? You're not on the list World Baseball League. 151 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:21.560 We got this, we got that, You're still not on 152 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:21.959 the list. 153 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:24.480 I throw out, don't you know who I am? Exact? 154 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:26.399 Do you know who I am? All the time? And 155 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:29.439 that worked? It doesn't it's awful. In fact, in fact, 156 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:30.000 I did that. 157 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:31.680 I did that for Did you go to the Baseball 158 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:33.120 You went to the Baseball World Baseball? 159 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:35.000 No, so I did. I didn't you know? 160 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:36.639 He got his tickets and it was kind of a 161 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:39.680 long line, and I said, where are my tickets? What 162 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:41.680 do you mean is there at the front? Where are 163 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:45.720 my tickets? I'll go down and me go down. I'm 164 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:49.079 running a huge event. You're like, where are my tickets? 165 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:50.600 I was like, I guess I'll go down to the 166 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:52.600 ticket office. I able to pick up a hand them 167 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:54.000 to you like a child. 168 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:55.639 Don't you know who I am? 169 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:00.839 That's how it works, he pressured me coming in today, 170 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:02.680 after I told you last week that I couldn't make it. 171 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:05.639 And then I and he's here, I'll be right there. 172 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:07.920 I'm here for any let's say, hey, I know you're 173 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:08.439 not here for me. 174 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:11.240 So we'll talk about a lot of a lot of 175 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:13.600 baseball stuff. I love having them on a lot of 176 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:16.839 things going on, baseball travels. They play Friday, right Friday, 177 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:17.879 North Carolina Softball. 178 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:19.040 We waxed poet that. 179 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:21.879 Was a little heated like them today about white all 180 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:24.600 these women, all these women leaving the team and we 181 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:27.519 and we don't know the real story, why the money, 182 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:31.240 blah blah blah. But everybody on the on the internet 183 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:35.199 has their theories, and of course they're just throwing stuff up. 184 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:37.160 I don't think they realize you're not on right, you're 185 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:39.720 not on No. I don't think they realized it's a 186 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.279 public forum kind of like this, so they can say 187 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.199 anybody can read which which public foreigner and they say 188 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:47.240 some stupid crap and they throw out these theories. And 189 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:50.040 if you don't know what you're talking about or just 190 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:50.839 throwing stuff out. 191 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:53.160 There, don't do it. It creates more problems. 192 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:55.279 Yeah, because you're going to see players read that, You're 193 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:56.839 going to see coaches, assistant coaches. 194 00:07:57.160 --> 00:07:58.920 Then it's just not a good look. And then he 195 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:00.120 as a community. 196 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:01.920 Exactly, and then you have to I don't know if 197 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:03.360 you have to, but I know if my name was 198 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:04.800 you have to refute it. 199 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.720 Not really, but you know, where did you come up 200 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:10.279 with this? Yeah? Yeah, I mean it's the same thing 201 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:11.439 like if you're questioning. 202 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:13.279 X's and no's, or the calls or their plays or 203 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:17.480 maybe you know, lack of effort at times. Okay, understood, right, 204 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:20.519 it is a public form, but you start doing that stuff, 205 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:22.839 it gets into the private sector a little bit too much, 206 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:24.920 and that's a really difficult and that's that's a really 207 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:25.399 bad look. 208 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:27.839 That's my problem with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So and 209 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:29.759 because they don't know, why don't we this, why don't 210 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:32.759 they hire this guy? This girl? Well, how many who 211 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:36.600 just left yesterday? Who just put in kaya omar? Yeah 212 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:38.799 so you just put in for the portal? How many 213 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:43.720 is that total? Now? Yeah? So I said dilemma. But 214 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:44.639 every school is going through it. 215 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:47.360 I'm not trying to alibi anybody, but every school's going 216 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:49.519 on through it. If you if you want to be 217 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:52.360 better as a fan, you might have to help out 218 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:54.639 with some cash. You don't put it in a pot. 219 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:57.240 We talked about all this yesterday, you know, because everyone 220 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:59.039 has an answer, a solution will. 221 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.240 Be part of it. Yeah, you're absolutely right. 222 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:03.320 And you know we talk about revenue driving sports, right, 223 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:06.639 you've got basketball in football, But you know, I think 224 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:09.759 they averaged like twenty eight hundred at hell Brand this year, 225 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:12.879 right it pans. Yeah, I mean it was great, and 226 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:16.320 I think baseball was thirty one, thirty one, get the numbers. 227 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:18.600 We just looked it up on Monday, actually because there 228 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:21.000 was a larger discussion about something else that we're working 229 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:23.159 out with Major League Baseball that I was trying to 230 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:26.919 put together kind of a presentation for him. So, I mean, 231 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:30.440 you're talking about three game series right at home. That's 232 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:34.000 a pretty good driver for revenue from a non revenue 233 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:34.960 driving sport. 234 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:35.240 No question. 235 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:38.960 Still a loser in money making, absolutely, but it's a 236 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:40.120 it does really well. 237 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:42.639 I think in the stadium folds three three to two, 238 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:46.039 so you're averaging twenty eight hundred. 239 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:47.919 That's almost to sell out every single game, which is 240 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:50.480 pretty impressive. So I think you're looking at the world 241 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:52.519 of college sports and now the trickle down effects happening 242 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:55.279 in softball where you're seeing the pitcher at Texas Tech 243 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:58.000 at a million dollars leave Stanford to go to Texas Tech. 244 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.279 Right. I think it's awake. It's it's it's an awakening. 245 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.960 Moment for players, and it's probably an awaking moment for 246 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.279 a lot of colleges saying, like we this, We got 247 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:08.200 to come to the tables for money to get these players. 248 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:09.960 Sure, but here's I'll give you the flip side of this, 249 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.200 because I don't know who it was earlier, yesterday morning 250 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.440 or last night. You baseball some of your wheelhouse, the 251 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:22.000 Vanderbilt out, Texas out. Ye, all these studs. Look at 252 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:24.679 these stud players that must be getting some money, a 253 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:28.399 pretty good money get beat by the Yeah, And isn't 254 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:30.399 that isn't that a joy to see? You don't have 255 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:32.320 to pay me a ton of money to kick their ass. 256 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:34.559 I think it's a great thing to see, right, because 257 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:36.879 we didn't have it this year in March madness. So 258 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:39.759 the supplement you're getting right now of it happening in 259 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.399 baseball is awesome. Like mid major you know, mid major 260 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:45.639 schools coming in are kicking butts of the SEC schools, 261 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:49.000 which I don't know how you feel about it. There's 262 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:50.960 something going on that they're able to get that many 263 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:53.600 teams in at that high of a ranking, especially in softball, 264 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:56.320 where Texas Tech was a yeah, I mean it's what 265 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:59.279 they are, twelve seed Texas Tech right in the in 266 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.480 the tournament, they're number twelve, Okay, yeah, which is but 267 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:05.919 sure you win the Big twelve. You literally have the 268 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:08.399 best picture in the country, arguably the best picture in 269 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:10.519 the country, and this phenomenal team and they're proving it 270 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:13.120 right now. I mean, you just beat Oklahoma that one, 271 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:16.440 back to back to back to back World Series. 272 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:17.399 No. 273 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:19.960 I questioned the people who picked the teams as well, 274 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:21.600 because it's there's a they have a bias. 275 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:25.000 Of course there's a bias. Yeah. It was the same 276 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:26.360 thing for me in basketball this year. 277 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:27.960 You get in that many s and I know that 278 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.360 was by far ahead and Hills the best conference, but 279 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:34.519 you can't tell me the bottom four outside of maybe 280 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:36.960 Arkansas on the run that they went, were worthy of 281 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:40.000 getting into the tournament, right It's just anyway. 282 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:42.759 It's just the people's perceptions of a good team versus 283 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:44.159 a mediocre. 284 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.120 G is a perception of team or perception of league. 285 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:50.879 League yeah league, Yeah, well, the team would be would 286 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:53.279 be Teller Powry's Arkansas. I mean, they had a pretty 287 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:55.320 good showing and eventually get into it the Sweet six 288 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:59.120 I think, yeah, but they weren't that good overall overall. No, 289 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:00.840 they had some guys and they went on a round. 290 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:04.080 Oh yeah, every dog this day. How are we doing 291 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:04.480 with time? 292 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:06.919 We're doing? We've got three minutes before we talk to him. 293 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:08.799 I mean we're coming into I mean, this is an 294 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:11.600 exciting time to be a sports fan, right, You've got 295 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.679 the College World Series for softball, You've got the Super 296 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:18.039 Regionals for baseball. You've got the NHL NBA Championships. You've 297 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:23.279 got women's baseball tonight, yes, okay, you've got you've got 298 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.759 Major League Baseball going on the Bellmont Saturday. 299 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:26.240 Yeah. 300 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:28.480 I mean it's a it's a solid time to be 301 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:30.279 a sports But guess what it's gonna be. 302 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:31.960 I know you're going to come in every now and again, 303 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:34.320 but for me here on the show for the summer, 304 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.799 oh god, coming up with people and topics. 305 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:37.480 I told you. 306 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:39.080 I know you have to ask your listeners on this, 307 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:41.399 but I think you pull somebody different in on a 308 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:43.240 weekly basis and we have like a corner with him 309 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:45.600 and talk about stuff. Maybe that's connected to sports, but 310 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:47.120 overall maybe more community. 311 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:47.320 True. 312 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:50.600 No, In fact, I mentioned you with that Monday Friday 313 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:55.200 about yeah, just talking about films, whatever, music, whatever, just 314 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:56.480 to get the change. 315 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:59.240 Yeah. Absolutely, curveball. I can hit a curveball. Yeah. 316 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:01.759 We usually have least one one segment where we just 317 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:05.600 go off script talk about best Mexican food and best 318 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:06.720 films and yeah, well. 319 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:10.039 You were yeah, and films too. Yeah, so we'll do 320 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:13.120 that eventually. But you know, Blake's Corner. 321 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:15.360 Don't call it Blake's because everybody will turn the radio 322 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:16.720 station that you. 323 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.240 Know, you'll have five listens. Maybe maybe my dad will listen, 324 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:22.840 maybe my mom, And that's what you'll say, what's your 325 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:25.399 favorite music on this one? Really? 326 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:32.320 Answer? Didn't mean this listen it's gonna there is a 327 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:36.080 wrong answer. Sorry, there's a wrong answer. Great went to 328 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.519 a great country last night. Another Charlie Crockett. Yeah, you 329 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:39.720 guys know who Charlie Crockett is. 330 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:41.279 His brother Dave. 331 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:46.639 No, that was his uncle, really really good country artist. 332 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:49.559 It was a like true country. 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