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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
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Speaker 3: No breaking news unless you kind of really want to
Speaker 3: talk about some stuff.
Speaker 4: We're kind of in that.
Speaker 5: You know that the middle week before the Super Bowl
Speaker 5: hype begins next week, so things are kind of quiet
Speaker 5: around the NFL until they all get to New Orleans.
Speaker 5: I guess maybe over the weekend, so right, that'll be
Speaker 5: all all we'll be talking about for a week or so.
Speaker 3: Even there's slim pickings on TV right because there's really
Speaker 3: not much going on.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of them.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: It's funny the Big twelve because it's so big and
Speaker 5: it's more than twelve.
Speaker 4: There's games all the times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, last night, an't that I'm sitting there, there's another
Speaker 5: game on it.
Speaker 3: It's b YU and somebody in Baylor. So if you're
Speaker 3: a shoe, there was the other one. It was an
Speaker 3: Issue issue and Cold.
Speaker 4: Colorado was on.
Speaker 5: So it seems like every night there's especially early in
Speaker 5: the week, and with the Wildcats being on the big
Speaker 5: ESPN Monday, that was great exposure on I had a
Speaker 5: lot of my friends.
Speaker 4: I mean seriously, I had.
Speaker 5: As I was sitting there, I probably had five or
Speaker 5: six texts within thirty seconds, and no one was from Tucson.
Speaker 5: They were just friends of mine from around the country
Speaker 5: or were watching how far east east? Well, I got
Speaker 5: a couple from the east yesterday. They were up late,
Speaker 5: you know, on Monday night, but yesterday on Tuesday. Got
Speaker 5: a few comments from people in the apectually on the
Speaker 5: West coast.
Speaker 2: I can see the West coast for sure because the East.
Speaker 2: By the time they started, it was eleven o'clock. Yeah,
Speaker 2: by the time they finished, it was one o'clock, right,
Speaker 2: because it was when an overtime.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, so it's a seven thirty start, you
Speaker 5: know in California and Oregon and Washington. Yeah, I was
Speaker 5: getting text from from that group. And so, you know,
Speaker 5: people pay attention.
Speaker 4: They always have. There's no doubt about it doesn't matter they.
Speaker 5: Can find the game if it's on ESPN or ESPN
Speaker 5: Plus or you know, wherever they're going to be.
Speaker 4: People will will search, work and get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it was a it was a good night
Speaker 2: Monday night. We'll see what happens on Saturday. I'm not
Speaker 2: too happy about the eight, the the early start on Saturday.
Speaker 2: It's eleven.
Speaker 5: What's that all about? I have no ideas some programming
Speaker 5: such a is it a CBS game?
Speaker 2: I don't even know. I don't want to have to chow.
Speaker 2: We have to check. But eleven there must be in
Speaker 2: a slate of games all day.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, ESPN's been touting that in their promos this week
Speaker 5: about we've got twelve hours of college basketball. Yeah, okay, hello,
Speaker 5: you're on the air.
Speaker 7: He what's up this?
Speaker 1: Vic?
Speaker 3: Vic?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Do they know?
Speaker 7: You don't know?
Speaker 2: Does your does your employer know that you don't work
Speaker 2: at three o'clock? Four o clock?
Speaker 7: Heck, yeah you do. I just caught it to talk
Speaker 7: to you. Guys were talking with Pete and the away games.
Speaker 7: But a couple of games that get lost in the
Speaker 7: shuffle where the eighty nine shot out he had shot
Speaker 7: at Pauli when he hit it from the bait line
Speaker 7: to tie it and went overtime and we beat UCLA
Speaker 7: that year, and then the other one was I think
Speaker 7: ninety one when Sean Rooks deflected the ball, it went
Speaker 7: to Chris Mills almost the same place, and he hit
Speaker 7: a baseline jumper.
Speaker 1: To tie it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, remember that one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we also went into overtime there, and those in
Speaker 7: those days, it was me and a couple cousins from
Speaker 7: Tucson and then all my baseball buddies were all Ula
Speaker 7: guys and we go twenty deep and be drawing at
Speaker 7: each other the whole game. It was amazing back in
Speaker 7: those days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question. And those those were big games obviously,
Speaker 2: don't you when when you saw Mondays, it had that
Speaker 2: big game, old school field.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'll tell you, I've been to a lot of games, man,
Speaker 7: and I mean, and that was I've never heard anything
Speaker 7: so loud in my life. My cousin that I went
Speaker 7: with whereas hearing aids and he had to kind of
Speaker 7: put his ear hands over his ears. It was crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah for me, it wasn't crazy. For me. It wasn't.
Speaker 2: And I'll say this because and you know you're you're
Speaker 2: kind of recency bias right with other things. But that
Speaker 2: Florida game when Mike Mark Lions hit the last second
Speaker 2: shot against Florida, Holy crap. I remember just people going
Speaker 2: crazy that day.
Speaker 7: But I wanted to tell you back in those days too,
Speaker 7: in the in the eighties and nineties, and I don't
Speaker 7: know if you ever joined in, but we'd go to
Speaker 7: a place called Baxter's in Westwood and the whole team
Speaker 7: would show up, Kenny Lofton, Anthony Cook, all those guys,
Speaker 7: and one day they said, hey, can we say. There
Speaker 7: was no tables, so they sat at our table and
Speaker 7: we just had a black man.
Speaker 2: Imagine that they were just regular guys.
Speaker 4: This was like after the games when they would play
Speaker 4: you yeah.
Speaker 7: After the game.
Speaker 2: Imagine if they had photos back then, you would have
Speaker 2: had plenty ofselfes.
Speaker 8: Oh.
Speaker 7: I was thinking about that. Man, if they would have
Speaker 7: had iPhone back then, I'd be going crazy. And then
Speaker 7: at day after the Ft games, we'd go across the
Speaker 7: street to Margarita Jones and all the assistants would go.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: I got to meet Chris Mills and UH and Brian
Speaker 7: Williams and actually had a kind of a cool relationship.
Speaker 7: I had a thirty five milimeter camera and took pictures
Speaker 7: with them and their dads and UH or Brian's family
Speaker 7: would come out and it was cool.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 7: It was just good times back then.
Speaker 2: You need you need your own Papa Rozzi.
Speaker 7: I need a chapter in one of your books one day. Man, Yes,
Speaker 7: you guys take care A great show today, man. I
Speaker 7: love I love Pete. I've also met Pete at a
Speaker 7: chick forty good or yeah, chick forty goods and uh
Speaker 7: West Gowina one year and he had on his Arizona
Speaker 7: stuff and I went up like a little kid. You
Speaker 7: Pete Williams. He goes, yeah, and uh that was a
Speaker 7: cool moment too.
Speaker 2: Right right, Okay, well thanks man, appreciated victory.
Speaker 7: Okay, you guys take cares great.
Speaker 2: H yeah, thanks so much. That's interesting.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine the players didn't walking into a place
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of strange that they did that, but
Speaker 3: get paid Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah right right, appearance appearance fee.
Speaker 2: Right, anybody want to call? We have some time, we
Speaker 2: have like ten minutes. We'd appreciate the call. Five two
Speaker 2: zero four one six seventy four for forty what's your
Speaker 2: top games? How was it Monday night? If you were there,
Speaker 2: how did it feel? It wasn't completely full? Dave, Again,
Speaker 2: it wasn't completely full. Maybe I would say that maybe
Speaker 2: five hundred to one thousand seats is scattered. Yeah, scattered.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure they put some tickets on sale if
Speaker 5: I read correctly, in the last maybe four hours or something.
Speaker 2: It was maybe maybe, but the amounts that it was
Speaker 2: sold out for Sunday.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And did you go to the you of a Grand
Speaker 3: Canyon game a few years back?
Speaker 2: I don't remember.
Speaker 3: Okay, So they had a pretty good crowd because the
Speaker 3: students were out blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: They came in. Then they were loud.
Speaker 3: Uh, I would state had a fantastic crowd.
Speaker 5: I heard they heard, they did, they were then they
Speaker 5: were seated. They had didn't They have some almost directly
Speaker 5: across from the airs on a bench.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there, and then behind the other benches. It was
Speaker 2: just and they were loud. I'm taking where do these
Speaker 2: guys come from?
Speaker 9: I know?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, you're on the air and iine on the ball.
Speaker 3: Hey Steve hy David, this is done.
Speaker 2: Don How are you haven't heard from you?
Speaker 10: Hey?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been a little busy.
Speaker 2: I had to check the hospital.
Speaker 11: Oh no, no, just being.
Speaker 2: A little bit busy. Okay.
Speaker 3: You know, before the before the season started, I I
Speaker 3: had just made it like an observation. A question was
Speaker 3: how how was how was Tucson going to react with
Speaker 3: the hurky jerky scheduling of the Big twelve. Yeah, Monday afternoon.
Speaker 3: I had no idea. We had a game Monday night.
Speaker 2: And hold on, real quick, let me make some vision.
Speaker 2: We got a call coming in t money, give us
Speaker 2: a call. Once Don's done, we'll get you go ahead.
Speaker 11: Hey, but I didn't know.
Speaker 3: I didn't even realize we had a game. And then
Speaker 3: I heard on I heard no my somebody asked me,
Speaker 3: is there is there? Zone is still favored by one
Speaker 3: and a half, And I was like, what, don't shoot?
Speaker 3: They got a game tonight and and oh my goodness,
Speaker 3: that was That was a great game. I wish I
Speaker 3: would have been there. One game nobody's brought up it's been.
Speaker 2: It was a loss.
Speaker 3: It was the last year that a school could host
Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament when UTEP came here. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and we that was a Tim Hardaway and uh, the
Speaker 3: big guy that played for the Indiana Pacers and we
Speaker 3: played I think it was a double overtime.
Speaker 2: Was a day file first round? Do you because you
Speaker 2: played at UTEP? He's from he.
Speaker 3: Was from it was no, no, no, it was like
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis I think was the big guy, the other
Speaker 3: NBA guy that it was on that team. But h
Speaker 3: U TEP had one little sliver of c one section
Speaker 3: from the floor all the way up was orange. And
Speaker 3: they made that that little that little sliver of of
Speaker 3: minor fans they made they made McHale sound like a
Speaker 3: high school gym at a rivalry game. It was loud
Speaker 3: that day. And that was that one was a That
Speaker 3: one was a good one. And there was the year
Speaker 3: before that McHale was a sellout. Washington came here with
Speaker 3: de la Shramp and the other German the center and
Speaker 3: and and we smoked them that that night. And it
Speaker 3: was a Saturday afternoon game. Remember that Christian w e
Speaker 3: l p Right, Well, ye, well yeah, that was that
Speaker 3: was another good one. I'm sorry, I I got the
Speaker 3: radio turned on right at the end of Pete your
Speaker 3: Guys's talk with Pete Pete Williams.
Speaker 11: Did you guys talk about the A s U.
Speaker 3: Game when they were up there and they were like
Speaker 3: down six or seven two minutes? Yes, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: that was a game so done.
Speaker 2: Did you watch Wenday's completely.
Speaker 3: I was, yeah, the first half I was I was
Speaker 3: in and out, but most of the second half I
Speaker 3: watched and everything, you know, So I asked everybody here
Speaker 3: and then Dave ask you, what did you think that
Speaker 3: the percentage of victory was? With five seconds left, Arizona
Speaker 3: was at the line, down by four, right, with Henry
Speaker 3: at the line.
Speaker 2: He hits the first one. Now they're down by well,
Speaker 2: they're down by two. Now right, they're down by two,
Speaker 2: and then he purposely misses it, and you're thinking, how
Speaker 2: they There's so many things that had to happen for
Speaker 2: them to win this, and you're thinking, okay, you know
Speaker 2: now you're talking about the spread, Well did you get
Speaker 2: three and a half blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what did you think percentage? We didn't think it
Speaker 4: was looking.
Speaker 3: Good percentage wise that they were going to get out
Speaker 3: of that. Yeah, zero, exactly exactly zero. I mean, they
Speaker 3: had like no business.
Speaker 11: And then when.
Speaker 3: Caleb let that shot go, I was like, that's.
Speaker 11: Got a shot, that's got a chance.
Speaker 3: Then he drained it. I mean it wasn't he because
Speaker 3: usually from that far away, it's a bank shot that
Speaker 3: goes in a lot of times, it's a bank shot,
Speaker 3: and you know, not in it, and but but he
Speaker 3: swished that.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh moment, yeah, definitely definitely remind I
Speaker 5: know we're going to talk about it with Hoavier, but
Speaker 5: definitely reminded me of the Cincinnati game in Phoenix was
Speaker 5: shot when Miles Simon made that shot from Yeah, that
Speaker 5: was even farther away I think sixty Yeah, it was
Speaker 5: the same field.
Speaker 3: That was, yeah, sixty five to seventy feet. But that
Speaker 3: was for the win, whereas this one, this one, okay,
Speaker 3: we get five more minutes to prove ourselves and.
Speaker 2: The overtime.
Speaker 3: What to me was quite surprising to come out of
Speaker 3: that with an eleven point win and having won the
Speaker 3: last three games of fifteen point win, a fourteen point
Speaker 3: win and then eleven point win in supposedly the toughest
Speaker 3: conference in the country. And they keep losing votes in
Speaker 3: the polls.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter that, you know.
Speaker 11: What, I just assume they keep losing votes, right.
Speaker 3: They keep playing like this because if if that's a
Speaker 3: little bit has them proving themselves that I'm for it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm for that.
Speaker 3: You know, whatever whatever it takes for this to keep
Speaker 3: keep going, because it seems like, you know, it's it's
Speaker 3: unsettling that we don't have a constant. We don't have
Speaker 3: a Shawn Elliott. That's you know, because when when Shawn
Speaker 3: was here for us, I mean we went same high school.
Speaker 3: I known him since he was in high school and stuff.
Speaker 3: I didn't know him, he was in my brother's class.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, when you looked
Speaker 3: at the score at the statue, you're going he got
Speaker 3: twenty seven, I thought he had seventeen eighteen. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: he would he would get twenty five points, thirty points
Speaker 3: or whatever, and it didn't seem.
Speaker 2: Like that much.
Speaker 3: But he was at constant and this team just don't.
Speaker 3: We don't have that that one guy. The insurance policy
Speaker 3: that Okay, he's going to get hit is somebody gets something,
Speaker 3: you know. And so we got so many guys that
Speaker 3: have shown what they can do. If they put it
Speaker 3: together and start playing a lot more consistently, like like
Speaker 3: what he was saying, it could be this could be
Speaker 3: a good team. I mean, this could end up being
Speaker 3: a good team and play play several games in the tournament. Yeah,
Speaker 3: don thanks a bunch, man, appreciate you, thank you, man.
Speaker 11: All right, I have a good lot.
Speaker 4: Too, I mean they do have some depth. They really do.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's not a lot of players, but it
Speaker 5: seems like almost every game somebody has stepped up.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's not Kleble, although.
Speaker 2: Hold that thought real quick, Tea Money, if you want
Speaker 2: to call back, please do. We've got a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2: If not, tell us call us after. How your calls in,
Speaker 2: appreciate your time. You couldn't put put you on hold
Speaker 2: or you were there for just a moment. Yeah, no, day,
Speaker 2: you're right, You're right.
Speaker 5: I mean they're going what eight players basically, and it
Speaker 5: seems like, you know, if five or six are scoring
Speaker 5: and you know, close to double figures, you got a
Speaker 5: pretty good chance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Team Money, you're on the air. What's up?
Speaker 9: Hey, Hey, gentlemen, thanks for the introduction.
Speaker 3: Hey, I hate to.
Speaker 7: Go old guy man.
Speaker 2: I really what we are?
Speaker 3: I really do.
Speaker 9: I mean, but that game the other night with like
Speaker 9: an eight thirty start on a Tuesday.
Speaker 11: I don't know.
Speaker 9: I may be the lone voice in the wilderness, but
Speaker 9: this Big twelve stuff is kind of bothering me.
Speaker 2: No, I'm with you, man, I'm with you.
Speaker 9: And also, I mean I lived in Big twelfth Country.
Speaker 9: I kind of get their mentality. They're protecting their own.
Speaker 9: We played Kansas the last game of the year. There
Speaker 9: is no home and home. It is one of those
Speaker 9: things where it's like, hey, welcome to our house. We're
Speaker 9: going to take care of our own. But this Saturday
Speaker 9: Tuesday thing that that makes zero sense. They've been doing
Speaker 9: it forever. They're used to it.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 9: I mean when it's like twelve degrees outside and all
Speaker 9: you got.
Speaker 4: In Ames, Iowa, is this I get it? Uh, I don't.
Speaker 9: I don't see McHale being sold out for an eight
Speaker 9: thirty Tuesday night game. It's hard for you know, working
Speaker 9: schmucks like myself to to justify taking my kids out
Speaker 9: there for that. It's it's probably hard enough for college
Speaker 9: students to, you know, eight thirty on a Tuesday night.
Speaker 9: I'm just kind of looking ahead here and from what
Speaker 9: the coach at UCLA his rent recently, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm holding out hope that there.
Speaker 9: Is a Pacific twelve, Pacific something coming back together in
Speaker 9: the next coming years and we can kind of get
Speaker 9: the band back together again, because I don't I don't
Speaker 9: really feel like this is conducive to Arizona Sports.
Speaker 4: No, you know, and it's it's two letters. It's it's TV.
Speaker 5: You know, we are the Big twelve's Western team now,
Speaker 5: you know us in Utah and b Yu. We're gonna
Speaker 5: get these late games because of television. They've got all
Speaker 5: these time slots earlier in the evening, playing the games
Speaker 5: in the Midwest, in the East. With this conference, it's
Speaker 5: spread out across the entire country, so someone has to
Speaker 5: pay the price.
Speaker 2: To your point, CBS is eleven o'clock.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know they've got they've got golf come.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's gonna be a big day of sports.
Speaker 5: So we're just kind of stuck in the middle of
Speaker 5: CBS's scheduling on Saturday or early in their day.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, t money, Thanks for the call, man, you're
Speaker 2: not old lending. It's weird. Welcome to the old putting
Speaker 2: putting area, putting time, thanks man. Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know we got a nine o'clock game against BUYU
Speaker 5: next too. Yeah yeah, on the road, so you know,
Speaker 5: another one of those late nights.
Speaker 2: Let's go, Dave, we got to go. Come back with
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the xs and os. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome out, Hello, Welcome back to on the Wall.
Speaker 3: This is Steve, This is Dave and this is Avia
Speaker 3: Morales from osports to soun. Can you hear me just?
Speaker 6: I can can hear me?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, hell little how are you?
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us? Another thing, more proof that you
Speaker 2: don't sleep is from today's story.
Speaker 6: I've forgotten about how to sleep for like forty years
Speaker 6: or more.
Speaker 3: Yes, well you know you can sleep. Put your pass away.
Speaker 3: Uh no, good job.
Speaker 2: I didn't read it in its entirety, but Dave is
Speaker 2: going through it pretty.
Speaker 4: Well bringing back memories, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: So so, uh, what did you find out with your
Speaker 2: little story or little story long story on on these games?
Speaker 6: Well, it was Anthony. Anthony Jimino is the when he
Speaker 6: messaged me about some of the top long range shots
Speaker 6: or you know plays that stead out and you have
Speaker 6: a history and that you know, he's he's seen a
Speaker 6: lot of them, and I've I've seen some from you know,
Speaker 6: from the even the seventies, and uh, just it's just
Speaker 6: a you know, a nice walk down memory lane to
Speaker 6: see some of the top performances. Know, long range is
Speaker 6: you know long odds, right, so the play that with
Speaker 6: long odds have happened, and it happened and definitely. CALEB'SUV
Speaker 6: shot is right up there. I think given the circumstances,
Speaker 6: his shot in McMillan's you know shot after the full
Speaker 6: court pass. I mean that was a from the other
Speaker 6: side of the court from Steve Kerr that hit like
Speaker 6: near the basket. There was a big Anthony Cook and
Speaker 6: Ortiz the guy from from Oregon State. They rushed for
Speaker 6: the walls, fell loose and McMillan grabs it and lays
Speaker 6: it in. The Odds of that happening are very remote.
Speaker 6: And that was when Arizona was starting out in the
Speaker 6: Pac twelve Pac ten. At that time, Orgon Stay was
Speaker 6: a power and that kind of like you know, opened
Speaker 6: the door for Arizona right there in the Pac ten.
Speaker 6: And I think the game of the shot that Caleb
Speaker 6: loves that made the other day kind of opened the
Speaker 6: door for the for the Big twelve because I always
Speaker 6: states ran number three. Arizona's still trying to establish themselves
Speaker 6: and you know, they they're not sure yet how good
Speaker 6: they are. And I think both shots had that kind
Speaker 6: of ramifications. There have been great shots, you know, meaningful shots,
Speaker 6: but I think given the circumstances, those two are the
Speaker 6: biggest that Arizona's ever had in basketball.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's saying a lot.
Speaker 3: And we'll see if that encourages them down the road,
Speaker 3: because everyone's looking for that, that reason to kind of
Speaker 3: say when did it start? When did it start? When
Speaker 3: did it start? And maybe that's the start or the
Speaker 3: you know, the spark, right.
Speaker 6: I mean, of course they can go on and lay
Speaker 6: in an egg at HU on Saturday, But I mean
Speaker 6: that those are memories you'll hold forever. You know, we're
Speaker 6: still talking about Craik and Millan shot, We're still talking
Speaker 6: about Max and Das's field goal. Will never stop talking
Speaker 6: about it. To me, that to me, Max and Dazza's
Speaker 6: field goal is the most pressure filled, the best pressure
Speaker 6: filled moment in the U have a sports. You got
Speaker 6: a freshman kicking a forty seven yard field goal at
Speaker 6: South Bend, Indiana to win a game. I mean, doesn't
Speaker 6: get much more pressure than that. I think that that's
Speaker 6: like at the top of the list for me for
Speaker 6: most the highest pressure play made in U of a history.
Speaker 5: He came back the next year was the ASU win, right,
Speaker 5: the first of as many successes against ASU as well.
Speaker 6: Right, he made that it was a kind of a
Speaker 6: shorter quick kick, but it was still in the forties
Speaker 6: and he made that to beat a su He actually
Speaker 6: really beat Issue a couple of times with his goals.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it's just things like that they bring back memories.
Speaker 6: I mean, of course, you you Anthony, and you know
Speaker 6: Stave and that we've been around for a while and
Speaker 6: we automatically think of those things when big plays happened.
Speaker 6: So you know, that's that's why I was a surprised
Speaker 6: that Anthony sent me a message. And it just gets
Speaker 6: you to thinking about some of the plays all been
Speaker 6: a part of or or watched.
Speaker 3: So your story was more was it last second shots,
Speaker 3: last second victories or long long ones?
Speaker 6: For both long plays, yeah, long and both along odds.
Speaker 6: I mean some game winning field roles that were in
Speaker 6: the high forties that I mean that's still high.
Speaker 2: You knows, did this one make it? And I'm just
Speaker 2: thinking about it now? Are you at Stanford five seconds?
Speaker 2: That four point whatever it was? Five? Khalid takes the
Speaker 2: ball court from court and wins the game on the
Speaker 2: last second shot.
Speaker 6: Well for late yeah, I mean, I mean we included
Speaker 6: Chuck Cecil's one hundred and six yard return. He had
Speaker 6: to run it all the way back. So Khalid Reeves
Speaker 6: ran the whole court at Stanford and you know how
Speaker 6: what it's like there, yeah, or what it was like there,
Speaker 6: and for him to make that shot was unbelievable. So yeah,
Speaker 6: that should be on there with with length of play
Speaker 6: anyway for him to make it. That always went into
Speaker 6: the other.
Speaker 5: You know one that's snuck in there. And I saw
Speaker 5: this one too in person. Was the Dave shr Matt
Speaker 5: home run in Omaha in nineteen eighty six. Kats wound
Speaker 5: up winning the College World Series that year, but this
Speaker 5: was the first game. They were in trouble the entire
Speaker 5: game and I'm not kidding. This ball went over the
Speaker 5: It went over the scoreboard. If I remember he blasted
Speaker 5: it was raining. I think you know, it was really late.
Speaker 5: It was, you know, past eleven o'clock at night. But
Speaker 5: that was kind of one of those little remembered plays
Speaker 5: that was super important and really got them started because
Speaker 5: they had a tough road after. Had they lost that
Speaker 5: first game, they never would have got to the championship
Speaker 5: because they had some good teams in that in that
Speaker 5: tournament that year.
Speaker 4: But that's sher Mett Homer was a biggie.
Speaker 6: Were you were you there for that game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was Yeah, we went.
Speaker 6: I watched it on TV. I was like, I think
Speaker 6: I was a freshman college that year, and and I
Speaker 6: could still remember watching the game in my liver room
Speaker 6: my apartment. I mean, that's how big of a play
Speaker 6: it does when you remember where you're at. You know,
Speaker 6: it was late, they were down seven zero in the
Speaker 6: late endings, and they rallied to come back and win
Speaker 6: that game. I mean, that's that's an Ald timer. And
Speaker 6: it did clear the scoreboard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where were you when, uh what do you guys
Speaker 2: when Miles hit the sixty Phoenix?
Speaker 6: I was there. I was at the game. I was,
Speaker 6: I was, I was doing a sidebar. Yeah, I was
Speaker 6: there with uh well, I think Wilmer was a the
Speaker 6: writer for the Star then, right, Yeah, I was. I
Speaker 6: was right there, and it was just the euphoria. I remember.
Speaker 6: I remember the players just going like to the side
Speaker 6: of the bed area, just mobbing each other, and then
Speaker 6: Loot and Loot and Ros were trying to act as
Speaker 6: cool as possible. You know. Ros wanted to jump.
Speaker 2: Up and down.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well he was trying to say the next salute,
Speaker 6: so he kept his he kept his composure. But yeah,
Speaker 6: that was crazy.
Speaker 2: And then would probably do is he does his little shrug,
Speaker 2: little rays of a night rot says, and then you
Speaker 2: remember part of that story, part of the big story
Speaker 2: was how Huggins went into the locker room and just
Speaker 2: broke everything, uh, because he was so pissed.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't you know. One thing I remember about
Speaker 6: that is I was at the Cincinnati practice the day
Speaker 6: before and there was I mean, he was shown a
Speaker 6: f bombs left and right. It was kind of uncomfortable
Speaker 6: to sit there and watch watch that, But yeah, went off.
Speaker 2: You've had conversations with me plenty of times. You should
Speaker 2: be used to this stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but your voice isn't that loud?
Speaker 4: I was there too.
Speaker 5: The game was on ke gun if I remember an
Speaker 5: ABC game and we were It was called the seven
Speaker 5: up Shootout, just kind of what they called these games.
Speaker 4: There was a few years of this.
Speaker 5: They had one in Florida, I want to say, at
Speaker 5: the Temple, right, Yeah, we got to go to that.
Speaker 5: For some reason, they allowed no noise. Did I remember
Speaker 5: you being there? Yeah? This game, I remember, seriously. I
Speaker 5: was like, the ball was coming my direction. I was
Speaker 5: at the free throw line at our you know, the
Speaker 5: press table. So I'm watching this ball come and my
Speaker 5: first thought was that's got a chance, which is much
Speaker 5: like the.
Speaker 4: Shot the other night.
Speaker 5: But from my angle i'm looking at, I can still
Speaker 5: see that ball flying. I don't know if it was straight,
Speaker 5: but it definitely was the right length.
Speaker 2: And it went right.
Speaker 5: In and we got a good shot for underneath. Our
Speaker 5: photographer got a great shot. But was that Joe?
Speaker 4: That was Joe, Joe Pirates, my good buddy.
Speaker 2: And that was just fifth hundred.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they had a big party. They had a big
Speaker 4: cake in the locker room.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if I remember, Yeah, yeah, that was that was cool,
Speaker 5: very fun.
Speaker 6: What did that basketball? Has to be somewhere, right, that
Speaker 6: basketball that he made, it has to be somewhere somebody
Speaker 6: has to have that.
Speaker 2: I was probably grabbed myles, probably because it was five
Speaker 2: hundred true true. So right, yeah, what else it stands
Speaker 2: out anything to you that stood.
Speaker 6: Out about about overall? The place?
Speaker 2: Yeah? The place? So did you rank them or you
Speaker 2: just list them?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: No, I just listed them, And again it was Anthony's idea.
Speaker 6: I just I just went further on it. But yeah,
Speaker 6: there were you know, there's there's all kinds of uh
Speaker 6: pressure field long range or long long range long odd
Speaker 6: type of performance, the kind of performances that you that
Speaker 6: make you come out of your seat when they happened,
Speaker 6: if you could think of it that those are what
Speaker 6: those plays were that are listed there. I didn't realize
Speaker 6: that risk, but I hope I'm pronounced your name right.
Speaker 6: Bena made that one hundred and forty some foot shot
Speaker 6: to lift there. You know, the Arizona women's golf team
Speaker 6: to a championship. They won by one stroke. I mean,
Speaker 6: how pressure filled is that? And now what are the
Speaker 6: odds of that? Uh? You know, Anthony, Anthony brought that up,
Speaker 6: and that's that's something that maybe because you know people
Speaker 6: and I not think about golf, but I mean, think
Speaker 6: I got a shot like that, That's that's crazy, you know.
Speaker 6: The you know, I was there for that Craig McMillan
Speaker 6: shot twenty rows up. That was one of the few
Speaker 6: times that fans actually ran out of the court that
Speaker 6: I can remember. Mckel center that one.
Speaker 3: And they brought one up as well. And that was
Speaker 3: the night that Jason in ninety nine. Because you you'd
Speaker 3: already left, right, you left the town. Uh, And I
Speaker 3: was there.
Speaker 2: I was there because it's shocking that the U of
Speaker 2: A fans are storming the court on their old court
Speaker 2: because Stafford was number two at the time. Do you
Speaker 2: remember it was Jayson Terry right right, Jason.
Speaker 6: Terry, Yeah, yeah, that was That was a I know
Speaker 6: Richard Jefferson made it. It kind of a late shot
Speaker 6: too against Stanford.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then in two thousand I don't remember this one,
Speaker 2: and that was there. I don't remember the court being
Speaker 2: stormed against UCLA in two thousand and two. It was
Speaker 2: a good game, I remember, but they came back from eighteen.
Speaker 2: Remember they rallied Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: In that same year, just maybe two three weeks before that,
Speaker 3: Oregon State had them by eighteen and they rallied with
Speaker 3: a huge run. But I don't remember them storming the
Speaker 3: court against UCLA. And then who could forget of course
Speaker 3: the Salem shot over Aaron Afflalo.
Speaker 6: Here, Yeah, that was that was. I listed that also
Speaker 6: just because of the degree of difficulty with that. Although
Speaker 6: a thirty five foot three pointer for Selim Sodomar is
Speaker 6: not pay like a twenty footer for most people.
Speaker 2: That's like you finished stories, Yeah, that's as easy as
Speaker 2: you could just.
Speaker 6: No, I just must have, right, I mean, I mean, Steve,
Speaker 6: there's another book for you, like the Most Pressure Filled
Speaker 6: Moments and u A sports things like that. I think
Speaker 6: I think a Maxidas as a freshman, I think of
Speaker 6: Mike Bibby. Nobody talks about this, their their championship run.
Speaker 6: Those fresh those free throws he made against College to
Speaker 6: Charleston at the end of the game. If he doesn't
Speaker 6: make those free throws called Charleston was right there, they
Speaker 6: could they can go down and take the lead. He
Speaker 6: made some two he made two like pressure filled free
Speaker 6: throws there at the end. That was huge. Well, he
Speaker 6: as a freshman.
Speaker 2: He did the same thing against Kansas.
Speaker 6: Right in fact, exactly.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you guys feel this. I know
Speaker 2: Miles played really well as the Planet of four and
Speaker 2: exactly got what he got for the final four MLP.
Speaker 2: But if I'm giving an m v P of the
Speaker 2: whole thing, I'm giving it to Bibby.
Speaker 4: I agree with you.
Speaker 6: I mean, Miles, Miles kind of he turned it on
Speaker 6: at the right time. But Mike Baby was was consistent
Speaker 6: and throughout you know, yeah, yeah, no it didn't.
Speaker 5: You mentioned you mentioned, you know, Max's field goals, but
Speaker 5: he had that run too. What was the game member
Speaker 5: he It was a game in tenpee where he kicked
Speaker 5: was it a fifty seven yard er? He kicked a
Speaker 5: couple of bombs that game and knocked a Asue out
Speaker 5: of the Rose Bowl. And then the next year, of
Speaker 5: course they went. But Max was so clutch for what
Speaker 5: his entire u of a career, including the one yeah
Speaker 5: you mentioned here. I think the first game I ever
Speaker 5: when I first got here in eighty three. This is
Speaker 5: the game you're talking about where he kicked a forty
Speaker 5: five yard er to beat him, and I just arrived
Speaker 5: in Tucson, like you know, a month before that. So
Speaker 5: he was always, you know, a special player to me
Speaker 5: into a lot of people, I'm sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah. The eighty five game you're talking about up there,
Speaker 6: he made two still goals in the fourth quarter. He
Speaker 6: made it one for fifty two. Yeah, and then Arizona
Speaker 6: was flagged for off sides or legal legal procedure or
Speaker 6: something like that, and they moved him five five yards
Speaker 6: back and Larry Smith still had him kick it, and
Speaker 6: it was like it was like a minute thirty minute
Speaker 6: to forty left, and the fifty seven yarder put them
Speaker 6: ahead or increase the lead. So I mean he made
Speaker 6: some big, some big field goals against ASU. They don't
Speaker 6: he was one of those Sun Devil killers. You big
Speaker 6: time with that to some of the field goals he
Speaker 6: made against them.
Speaker 2: Let's move real quickly for the next couple of minutes.
Speaker 2: You had a big story about the kids signing for
Speaker 2: their schools. I think you have maybe twenty the in
Speaker 2: camera here. Who are the Crown Jewels moving on?
Speaker 6: He's about cell Point actually, and he went there and
Speaker 6: you got like Talia Henderson going to North Carolina. There's
Speaker 6: a few other other top athletes moving on in baseball
Speaker 6: and so forth. You know, to twenty twenty athletes in
Speaker 6: one class signing, that's a lot. And that's the testament
Speaker 6: at sell Point. One of the big things is the
Speaker 6: football realignment. That's that happened this last week with with
Speaker 6: high schools. Uh sell Point is still in six A.
Speaker 6: They tried to move down to five A. But their
Speaker 6: success is really what what factors into that? Cdo went
Speaker 6: from four A to five A. Uh So they they
Speaker 6: chanced two years ago. Now they're in five A in
Speaker 6: a tough region in five A. So this communic to
Speaker 6: see how that plays out. But yeah, that that's that's
Speaker 6: some of the bigger things that have happened here the
Speaker 6: last week.
Speaker 2: Wasn't there an appeal to all that? And they they
Speaker 2: lost it? Or what happened?
Speaker 6: Well, they they there was an appeal to they went
Speaker 6: from four to five A. That was that was a
Speaker 6: couple of weeks ago. Then you could you could appeal that.
Speaker 6: CDIO did not appeal it because they felt like it
Speaker 6: would been a waste of time, so they didn't. They
Speaker 6: didn't peel it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: Then then they were put in a tough five A region.
Speaker 6: Uh two days ago, they can have they can appeal
Speaker 6: their their placement in the region now, uh, you know,
Speaker 6: but the chance of them be moved out of that
Speaker 6: region to another five A region, it's pretty remote. So yeah,
Speaker 6: they decided not to appeel to move from four to
Speaker 6: five A because of their enrollment and because of the
Speaker 6: success they've had recently. They thought it would be an
Speaker 6: uphill battle, which it probably would have been. But yeah,
Speaker 6: cell point, they they have to stay at six A
Speaker 6: and they have Basha and Perry in their in their region,
Speaker 6: it is not easy.
Speaker 3: So right, well, tougher for Southern Arizona schools, I assume then, right, overall.
Speaker 6: Right, Morana loses quite a bit, but they have quite
Speaker 6: a bit back. I think they could challenge for the
Speaker 6: five A stay title because they have their their a
Speaker 6: lot of their offensive key players are back except the
Speaker 6: Desmond Roebuck. Pretty much everybody else is back. So it's
Speaker 6: it's it's gonna be. It's gonna be another good year.
Speaker 6: It's not gonna be a big drop off year. I think.
Speaker 6: I think it'll be another another good year for Southern Arizona.
Speaker 6: Michael Mount will be good again even though they lost
Speaker 6: Pat new Genet because they have Jay compos there now
Speaker 6: and a lot of players. You know, know what ja
Speaker 6: Accompass has done. I think they're gonna They're not gonna
Speaker 6: skip the beat. So I think they're gonna be the
Speaker 6: competitive right off the bat. So it should be another
Speaker 6: fun year next year.
Speaker 2: Javier, get some sleep. Now's your time. I'm giving you
Speaker 2: that time before six o'clock.
Speaker 6: I'm actually gonna go to Pima right now to watch
Speaker 6: the I'm going ahead of them to watch the women
Speaker 6: in men game, the big game to night, of.
Speaker 2: Course, sure are these big?
Speaker 6: These are big tonight, Yeah, the women especially they play Masa.
Speaker 6: Masa's ranked fifth in the nation and Pima's tenth so
Speaker 6: eight now so yeah, to be pretty fun.
Speaker 2: And the men's team are still undefeated.
Speaker 6: Yes, they're twenty three and now now Peabody two wins
Speaker 6: away from seven hundred overall, Well, what do.
Speaker 2: You don't sleep? You have all these things, get to
Speaker 2: these games, have your drink some coffee, stay awake, all right?
Speaker 6: I am I actually am okay? Thanks having thanks, thanks luck, guys,
Speaker 6: likes talking to you.
Speaker 2: Thanks, thanks so much. Dave. Let's take a break because
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Speaker 1: On the Ihearts Radio WIP. This is Eye on the
Speaker 1: Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to about here. On Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve, you're Dave. We got about I don't know,
Speaker 2: We've got about ten minutes, ten minutes.
Speaker 3: If anybody want to call in, We've got a couple
Speaker 3: of cal already.
Speaker 2: Five two zero, four, one, six, seventy four forty would
Speaker 2: have been your best moments in McHale or Sanset or
Speaker 2: Hi Corbett or Hillbrand. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sure there's lots of people listening who've also
Speaker 5: saw those games that you and I are at. I
Speaker 5: mean there's a big crowd of the veterans colicy in
Speaker 5: that day.
Speaker 3: This is our old bend old Man Radio that they
Speaker 3: were there. We got got a call. Oh, there they are.
Speaker 2: Hello, you're on the air. I the ball. Who's this.
Speaker 10: Or I don't know. Last night was one of the
Speaker 10: top three. I mean on Monday night, it's Howard.
Speaker 2: Okay, the top three? Give me the possible other two.
Speaker 10: I don't know. I mean, like I say that Washington
Speaker 10: game with dead left up, that was pretty That was
Speaker 10: a game, because what I know, I said it on
Speaker 10: Monday on Monday.
Speaker 11: And what else was a good game?
Speaker 4: I think?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 10: Oops, I mean that.
Speaker 2: Is there.
Speaker 11: I'm here yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 10: Anyway, there's a funny thing. On the first half of
Speaker 10: Monday's game. I was watching my phone to look at.
Speaker 11: The sun score.
Speaker 2: Hold you got a call coming into so just hold
Speaker 2: line for the second color.
Speaker 10: But yeah, yeah, hold on, we could tell them.
Speaker 2: I'll be I'll be brief anyway. Go ahead, Yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: just be brief.
Speaker 10: I'm just saying, I guess we have no rules just right,
Speaker 10: thing because I always thought the rules we only put
Speaker 10: at the end of the hour. But people are calling
Speaker 10: right from the skit go like when you're on at
Speaker 10: three o'clock.
Speaker 2: It's a popular come on, it's a popular show. Howards.
Speaker 11: Okay, it's all good.
Speaker 10: Uh, that's all I really wanted.
Speaker 2: To say that. Thanks, we'll see but but hello, you're
Speaker 2: on the air.
Speaker 3: The Hey, Hey it's Doug again.
Speaker 11: How's it going.
Speaker 3: We talked about you a couple of days ago, Right, No,
Speaker 3: I was here, did you Okay?
Speaker 4: I was here?
Speaker 18: Game?
Speaker 6: Was there?
Speaker 2: I called on Monday before the game? Yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: So I haven't had a chance to listen to your
Speaker 3: show this afternoon. I don't know if I'm int rupt
Speaker 3: doing something that you guys had go in there with you, Howard.
Speaker 3: I know, I'm helping my mom with chores.
Speaker 2: What can I say?
Speaker 3: But I stepped away to call you guys.
Speaker 11: So you should be honored.
Speaker 3: But hey, is this a good time to ask Dave
Speaker 3: his opinion about local sports TV?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yes, we have time.
Speaker 6: Yes, what do you want to know?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I just maybe you guys have talked about
Speaker 3: this in years past, but I mean I've never really
Speaker 3: heard anything official about why local news stations has kind
Speaker 3: of gone away from the dedicated sports segment. And it
Speaker 3: seems like sometimes they have it, sometimes they don't. Is
Speaker 3: it seasonal like here in Tucson. Maybe they do have
Speaker 3: it during you a basketball season and then they go
Speaker 3: away from it during the summer. You know, what's the
Speaker 3: pattern there? And like, I don't know what's the future
Speaker 3: of local sports broadcasting.
Speaker 5: That's a good question, you know, not being there and
Speaker 5: not really knowing the exact answers to those things. I
Speaker 5: think a lot of that is research That used to
Speaker 5: drive me crazy when I was in the business. They
Speaker 5: would come back and then tell you, hey, you know,
Speaker 5: people don't really care about this, you know, don't do
Speaker 5: stories about that. You might want to do more stories
Speaker 5: about this. I think that's kind of where we are.
Speaker 5: I think that's what's happened is that the research has
Speaker 5: said maybe there's not a super interest in local sports.
Speaker 5: I know it's hard for us to sit here and
Speaker 5: say that used to drive me crazy.
Speaker 2: At the most at your taps at your tops, Dave,
Speaker 2: how much time did you.
Speaker 4: Have at my tops?
Speaker 5: I mean on a good night, when a busy night,
Speaker 5: I could probably get five minutes.
Speaker 2: Wow, And that's double the time probably now on.
Speaker 5: An average night three three and a half basically, And
Speaker 5: I had used to fight for it if there was,
Speaker 5: you know, a lot going on. I mean there were
Speaker 5: some days, very busy times, especially this time of year
Speaker 5: in the winter, when you're running into you know, multiple
Speaker 5: u of a sports and then spring training is rolling
Speaker 5: in and rodo rodeo golf, all that stuff's happening in
Speaker 5: the same week, you know, and I just turned them
Speaker 5: and go, how can I cover all this?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: But and you want to have a pretty I mean,
Speaker 3: you had a much bigger stat that seems that what
Speaker 3: they have. I mean a lot of times I'm seeing
Speaker 3: now that they just have the news people do a
Speaker 3: little sports segment.
Speaker 6: And call it a day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you guys had.
Speaker 3: Like the main guy like yourself in the studio, and
Speaker 3: then you'd throw it out to somebody in the field
Speaker 3: who's at the event, maybe two different field people, and
Speaker 3: it just seems like it's really dwindled. Is that because
Speaker 3: of you know, just all the other information sources. Where
Speaker 3: people are you know, getting their sports news?
Speaker 6: What's happen?
Speaker 4: I think you're probably right. I mean yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: we used.
Speaker 5: To dedicate high school football coverage on those Friday nights.
Speaker 5: I would get, you know, close to ten minutes, and
Speaker 5: sometimes we even extend to the newscast. We just keep
Speaker 5: on going past past ten thirty five, and that would
Speaker 5: be the you know, our football show.
Speaker 4: I don't even know.
Speaker 5: I remember that fad anymore, which was a shame because
Speaker 5: that was really kind of our pride and joy. It
Speaker 5: was hard, really hard work to do that, sure, but
Speaker 5: you know, you'd come back at nine thirty with five
Speaker 5: or six games of highlights and you had to try
Speaker 5: to figure out all the plays and who the names were,
Speaker 5: and you know, looking at rosters and stuff.
Speaker 4: That was hard.
Speaker 11: So Doug, well, yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Where do you get your news locally? Well?
Speaker 11: I mean, I still well.
Speaker 3: I subscribe to the online paper, the tusun dot com,
Speaker 3: so I read every article about you of a sports
Speaker 3: that I can consume. I keep an eye on Twitter,
Speaker 3: which I tried to stay off of it, but yeah,
Speaker 3: it is kind of a place that people go to
Speaker 3: post announcements. You know, I'll watch I'll watch some of
Speaker 3: the cable news networks on my sports package.
Speaker 11: So it's a variety of things like that.
Speaker 3: But I mean, growing up ten twenty, I mean all
Speaker 3: my friends and family knew don't call me from ten
Speaker 3: twenty to ten thirty, because that was appointment TV for me.
Speaker 3: I always wanted to watch the sports highlights, even if
Speaker 3: I had already watched the game. It's just fun to see,
Speaker 3: you know, the postgame locker room interviews and even you know,
Speaker 3: interviewing the posing coaches. And I miss a lot of that.
Speaker 3: I feel like we'll get, you know, you know, twenty
Speaker 3: five second little highlight package.
Speaker 2: On Hey you have they played Duke.
Speaker 3: Today and then and then they just move on to
Speaker 3: the next local news story.
Speaker 2: It's it's a shame.
Speaker 3: But Steve, I was going to ask you, do you
Speaker 3: have a second Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, of course. First, I mean so let me
Speaker 2: wipe my eye because you did not mention reading my column.
Speaker 2: So Dave, so give me the tissue on kind of
Speaker 2: wipe my you.
Speaker 6: This is true. I'm sorry you forgot all right, So
Speaker 6: if we can make an absolute.
Speaker 3: Given that Dave is on the Dave Silvers on the
Speaker 3: Mount Rushmore of Tucson TV.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to make him.
Speaker 3: Say it, but you and I can agree that Dave
Speaker 3: is on the Mount Rushmore of local sports TV newsman.
Speaker 3: I don't know the proper term. Who else do you
Speaker 3: throw on there? Who else can you throw on there?
Speaker 3: And I would open it up to Dave too.
Speaker 2: Of course. That's that's tough. Because I came along a
Speaker 2: little after Dave. I've knew his counterparts in terms of
Speaker 2: his competition, So I'm not going to include the uh.
Speaker 4: Talking about local local sports?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, local local I mean.
Speaker 11: To me like Dan Ryan.
Speaker 3: I mean Dan Ryan was a great local guy too.
Speaker 3: Who are some of your other contemporaries, Dave, I'm actually
Speaker 3: drawing it, Bland.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. I think the guy who
Speaker 2: deserves to be on there because he's been here a
Speaker 2: long time, knows his stuff and is not a TV
Speaker 2: guy ego wise, and that's Damian. We had him on
Speaker 2: Damien Alameda.
Speaker 3: That's true. Yes, absolutely to do dude loves to do
Speaker 3: his job. Uh Channel nine, Uh well you were there forever.
Speaker 3: I don't even Channel thirteen.
Speaker 5: Thirteen went through a number of I mean, Kevin mckab
Speaker 5: obviously was here.
Speaker 2: Then Dave Cooney, Oh yeah, Kevin m Tom Leander.
Speaker 5: You know, Tom Leander has parlayed his career into a
Speaker 5: nice gig with the Sons, right, he's been there for
Speaker 5: a long time, but he was He was like Kevin's,
Speaker 5: you know, second guy for a couple of years here mckab.
Speaker 2: If if we didn't include McCabe, he would he would
Speaker 2: shoot us. But he doesn't deserve it.
Speaker 3: He was a good one. I think was it Soul
Speaker 3: massiahs that was at N thirteen for a while. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he didn't he didn't do sports. Oh okay, I'm sorry, No,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember who it was that did like
Speaker 3: the Friday Fred whatever they would call it.
Speaker 2: And how can you know?
Speaker 5: What about the crazy guys Todd.
Speaker 3: Grisham, although they step back journalism Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I even joked about that because their skits were like
Speaker 3: Goldie crap, How were you allowed to put this on TV?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: They were doing like Saturday Night Live material.
Speaker 3: And don't forget our guy at that NBC now, Dan Hicks,
Speaker 3: Dan Hicks, I mean, hell.
Speaker 2: He wasn't here for a breath.
Speaker 11: Oh that's right, Yeah, he was local guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, Dave, I just want you to know that I
Speaker 3: think the conversation starts with you. So, I mean, we really,
Speaker 3: we really respect all the years you gave this community
Speaker 3: on TV, and I'm glad you're still, you know, making
Speaker 3: your voice heard on the local sports team. We you know,
Speaker 3: you really have a good finger on the pulse, just
Speaker 3: like Steve does.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, with that, Doug, you've been vindicated.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you?
Speaker 3: All right, well anyway, thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 3: just fun to it's just fun to reminisce on that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, hopefully it's not a completely dying art because hopefully,
Speaker 3: I think there's still a place for local, local sports
Speaker 3: to be covered in lots of different media. Well all right, guys,
Speaker 3: thanks guys. With that, we got we've got to go, guys,
Speaker 3: we gotta go. Thanks, that's a whole show you should do.
Speaker 3: But thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, but the past the past. Know what's happened
Speaker 5: to the local sports cast?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah yeah, Well thanks Dave, we got to
Speaker 2: go okay,