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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera and today is my Friday guy, Tim Bentley. Hello,
Speaker 3: you get the crew in at Henry got that. Everybody's
Speaker 3: in town today, you guys, thanks for coming.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: They were early today. They were outside early for class.
Speaker 5: They had their homework done, they checked out, get a
Speaker 5: fact checked out. I'm gonna, I'm gonna. They got up early,
Speaker 5: they had breakfast. These college kids. It's I don't I
Speaker 5: didn't recognize them early.
Speaker 3: Nothing else to do but show up to the Really,
Speaker 3: I'm always run a little late. Gotta get gas up
Speaker 3: in the foothills up or Hey, everybody, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2: Should be a pretty good show. I'll screw it up.
Speaker 3: We have at the three seventeen hour have mister Aaron Crowley,
Speaker 3: the tournament director of the Color Guard Classic. That should
Speaker 3: be fun. We had a little golf talk yesterday. Uh
Speaker 3: did you hear Judy McDermott.
Speaker 5: You probably know I know Judy sure, that's that's she's
Speaker 5: a she's an icon. Yeah, she is golf icon right
Speaker 5: here in Tucson.
Speaker 2: She ran a lot of the stuff at the Conquista
Speaker 2: doors totally kept them under wraps, kept them straight straight.
Speaker 5: Which is a great way to hit a golf shop
Speaker 5: by the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very true. Hey, uh, let the clever people be clever.
Speaker 4: That was.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 3: And then in the second hour We're going to have
Speaker 3: a show, Gardner talked more about Saturday's game up in Tempe.
Speaker 3: She covers the the the Devils for the Arizona Republic.
Speaker 3: So we'll talk to her more about what's going on.
Speaker 3: We have Tommy Lloyd on today with the press conference. Henry,
Speaker 3: you were there, what'd you notice?
Speaker 2: What you see? What you hear?
Speaker 6: He kind of made the sonon thing. He kind of
Speaker 6: put it to the side, saying, yeah, well the think
Speaker 6: about it. The media asked, Yeah, he doesn't tried to
Speaker 6: specialize that, but he kind of brushed it aside, acting
Speaker 6: like nothing.
Speaker 2: But it it's.
Speaker 3: Like when people talk about stuff they see on the internet. Says, well,
Speaker 3: he talked about he he would have talked about nothing
Speaker 3: had the media that asked him, right, And that was
Speaker 3: kind of the central theme. Yeah, yeah, because obviously he
Speaker 3: the kid was recruited here, committed here, and decided to
Speaker 3: leave here because Caleb Caleb. Caleb came back, right and
Speaker 3: he was a star up there for a while and
Speaker 3: then he got hurt. Yeah he's back now though his ankle.
Speaker 3: He I guess he hurt his ankle. Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 3: he's their stud. He's been pretty good up until the ankle,
Speaker 3: and then he's coming back now.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: You know, there's not the media is always looking for
Speaker 3: that storyline every day.
Speaker 5: It's this relentless machine. So they got to have a story.
Speaker 5: They got what are we talking about today?
Speaker 4: Boom boom boom.
Speaker 2: Right right, So that was the key.
Speaker 3: I will see if he he he needs to be
Speaker 3: more for them than anything, because they don't have much
Speaker 3: because a lot of other guys are hurt. Right, He didn't.
Speaker 3: He's sweaty, he said right away. Because you can see
Speaker 3: how Tommy answers questions right like kind of sarcasm, but
Speaker 3: not really.
Speaker 6: He was basically just saying his camp kind of gave him.
Speaker 6: They told Tommy that if Caleb came back that he
Speaker 6: wasn't was most likely to.
Speaker 3: Lead right right, and how is he preparing for that team?
Speaker 3: Like everybody's healthy exact. Yeah, I don't care if anybody
Speaker 3: says hurt. I'm gonna I'm gonna practice like their healthy.
Speaker 3: I think they left this after the press conference.
Speaker 7: Right left, like an hour ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they drove up and ready for tomorrow's morning.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow mornings game.
Speaker 5: You have to prepare like that's the full full board team.
Speaker 5: I mean, because that's when you catch they'll catch anawares
Speaker 5: and boom.
Speaker 3: What are the first questions? I think was a concern
Speaker 3: I had had this game. Guy's been on Wednesday, Wednesday
Speaker 3: after the big game on Monday, right, would their attitude
Speaker 3: be different? Because you know, you're still that high and
Speaker 3: you get up in the morning and go to class
Speaker 3: on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: If that's what they do, you know who.
Speaker 5: These are college kids. They go to college. Look at
Speaker 5: the kids. They showed up early to the radio station.
Speaker 5: That's what the basketball team does. They got to the
Speaker 5: class early the next day, or if.
Speaker 3: They're in the apartment, you know, counting, that's five, that's
Speaker 3: a ten, that's a twenty, that's a Benjamin uh that
Speaker 3: that that that two day turnaroud would have been tough
Speaker 3: because of the emotional high from Monday night. You know,
Speaker 3: the worst thing that happened is Tim, you're the greatest guy.
Speaker 2: What a shot?
Speaker 3: You know, you played well, you know Aguaca, you pulled
Speaker 3: it down game and then two days later I have
Speaker 3: to play again and says.
Speaker 2: I don't need to show up because everyone's telling me
Speaker 2: I'm great.
Speaker 4: Well, let me ask you this. I would coach with
Speaker 4: Tommy Lloyd.
Speaker 5: I think he would have cherished or wanted that Wednesday
Speaker 5: game because when you get to the tournament, you're gonna
Speaker 5: have all You're gonna have these roller coasters of highs
Speaker 5: and lows, so you kind of want to have it
Speaker 5: up and then come back and right away and then refocus.
Speaker 5: So maybe he wants that, or maybe he would have
Speaker 5: cherished it.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 2: He answered that question right, Henry.
Speaker 3: I mean they asked him right away about how would
Speaker 3: you handle the two day thing?
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, and what do you say? We'll never know?
Speaker 3: We never know, and it doesn't really matter now. I agree, though,
Speaker 3: I've seen it a number of times where you're you're
Speaker 3: up on this high and your poop doesn't stink, and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden you get hammered the next game.
Speaker 2: No matter who it is.
Speaker 5: You got to play two games over four days, two
Speaker 5: weekends in a row. So yeah, you gotta be you
Speaker 5: gotta be ready to man up.
Speaker 2: Each day and each day.
Speaker 3: No, no, it doesn't matter if it's two days, one
Speaker 3: day or whatever day. You know, those those games in
Speaker 3: the Bahamas were back to back to back. The tournament
Speaker 3: games are one game, rest and come back.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: And you know what, Matt, you used to play ball.
Speaker 3: Don't you think that were you handled by media much?
Speaker 3: Probably not right that much. Yeah, no, but there's there's
Speaker 3: there people that cover that. They make stories into nothing
Speaker 3: pretty much, you know, because the overthink things, and we
Speaker 3: do it for reasons. We have to ask the questions, right,
Speaker 3: whether we know the answers or not.
Speaker 5: Right, they're putting, they're pulling that thread. I want to
Speaker 5: see if they can get a story out of it, right, right,
Speaker 5: you know? Yeah, you know you probably have. You probably
Speaker 5: have so many unwritten stories in your head. Oh sure
Speaker 5: you know that you went down the road. Well, this
Speaker 5: is going to be a story and then it doesn't.
Speaker 3: Well here's the question. Here's here's another question. So my
Speaker 3: question to Tommy after that game and I hate to
Speaker 3: revisit that question that game so much, but I asked him, so,
Speaker 3: how did you what were you thinking when the ball
Speaker 3: went in? And he came up with the no woop
Speaker 3: the answer you know, it's you know, with the with
Speaker 3: they asked word, and today that same question was asked
Speaker 3: Henry right. He just kind of casually said, well, you know,
Speaker 3: you just kind of think and you're excited. He didn't
Speaker 3: say that, but well, that's not the real answer, but
Speaker 3: it's four days later.
Speaker 4: What are you going to say right now?
Speaker 5: It's like he's looking at he's got his he's got
Speaker 5: his guys looking to tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Well, if they don't win this, well guess what money
Speaker 3: means not a damn thing.
Speaker 5: Well, it means you're you're you're you're third in the
Speaker 5: Big twelve and you you you've blown your win streak, right.
Speaker 3: And you see one step up, one step back. You
Speaker 3: know that game doesn't mean much if you don't win tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Right now, it's cliche.
Speaker 5: I know, I know that it's cliche one game at
Speaker 5: a time, but I think that's at this point they're
Speaker 5: trying to win February March. You know who cares about November, December,
Speaker 5: January's bind you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, so we'll see what happens. And then Henry
Speaker 3: kind of just just nondescript, kind of just talked.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean the questions they were pretty quick too, because
Speaker 3: the questions, you know, what are you gonna ask Henry?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 6: I mean that was like the first pre conference I
Speaker 6: went too. So I don't know if he's done a
Speaker 6: lot of the press conference.
Speaker 2: And he's good.
Speaker 3: He's good, except that there are a lot of general
Speaker 3: questions right right right, because you know what you can
Speaker 3: ask him. You know, he had been playing not so
Speaker 3: well that he really well, and then now he's kind
Speaker 3: of found a little funk. I guess he's got to
Speaker 3: got to get out of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we'll see what happens. But it should be
Speaker 3: a pretty good game tomorrow. You know, in years past
Speaker 3: him and you know this, the crowd has been more
Speaker 3: sixty to forty Arizona in favor.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow, I don't know, because you know, this team is
Speaker 3: still trying to feel the embrace of the crowd, of
Speaker 3: the fan.
Speaker 5: Phoenix has a big, huge, you have a population. I
Speaker 5: mean you can follow him on Facebook and Twitter and
Speaker 5: see all that. They may show up.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't know what the ticket sales are at THEE.
Speaker 2: And it's an early game, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 8: Matt.
Speaker 3: Matt went to his first game, uh last week Colorado.
Speaker 3: So what was your What was your EVA?
Speaker 9: Yeah, like I said, seven out of ten and it
Speaker 9: was only a seven because I got the tickets free.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean, Matt, you've been in college for
Speaker 5: four or five years and your first.
Speaker 2: I was I was expecting more.
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: I was expecting Okay, okay, on what level? At least?
Speaker 7: I got like eight?
Speaker 9: You know, like no, no, no, but more more. I
Speaker 9: don't excitement, I guess I don't know. I just and
Speaker 9: then level of play, it was just I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's just imagine, no, no, no, your your evaluation. I
Speaker 3: think it's spot on with people who who go and
Speaker 3: just watch the game. It wasn't exciting from the crowd, right.
Speaker 3: Imagine going to about fifteen of those games because the
Speaker 3: Arizona fans and Henry, you've gone to most of them,
Speaker 3: right except for that one because you got your ticket?
Speaker 3: What Henry sees and you see are probably the same things,
Speaker 3: except for you didn't go to Monday's game, right, right,
Speaker 3: and Henry did.
Speaker 2: So it's what would you rate that out.
Speaker 7: Of the ten Monday's game? Like a nine and a half?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was no question, no question, and whatever that half
Speaker 3: is for ten, I don't know, but close.
Speaker 2: Because it still wasn't full.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought it was sold out.
Speaker 2: It was sold out, but it wasn't full.
Speaker 3: Colorado game was sold out, yeah, but it wasn't full.
Speaker 3: It was even a lot, a lot less than than
Speaker 3: the Iowa State game. Welcome to Tuside. So so your
Speaker 3: four years, so your four years, that's what you would
Speaker 3: have gotten the last four years, right, Uh? Probably you
Speaker 3: got this expectation and it never really lives up.
Speaker 9: To it because I went with my roommate and that
Speaker 9: was his first game too, been here longer than but
Speaker 9: he was.
Speaker 10: I was.
Speaker 9: We're talking and we're saying like, because we've been to
Speaker 9: a lot of football, we're saying, yeah, exciting.
Speaker 2: And you still hold that yeah, yeah, even though is
Speaker 2: more of a basket sure, sure, but.
Speaker 3: The only time, or I shouldn't say the only time.
Speaker 3: And I'm not going to be an advocate for U
Speaker 3: of A or otherwise. It's really rocking is when they
Speaker 3: have the dukes. When I always state Houston, Houston in
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks, right, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: it's great to go, but don't have those expectations.
Speaker 2: Next time you go.
Speaker 3: Guess what, You're gonna have the seven out of ten
Speaker 3: expectations because that's what you that's what you saw.
Speaker 2: And let me too.
Speaker 3: Do they see that more than the tens out of ten?
Speaker 3: Why do you think that is spoiled? Yeah, we're on
Speaker 3: a forty year run, dude. I mean it's like people
Speaker 3: have expectations. They are living in the past. Yeah, they're
Speaker 3: living in the past. I mean they want the blind
Speaker 3: refs to come out and on the right.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they want their old stuff.
Speaker 5: And so now you're jaded, you know, if you're not
Speaker 5: you know, crushing national powers, they're just like okay.
Speaker 2: And it's human nature.
Speaker 3: I think I get it all the time in text
Speaker 3: for people when I'm at the game, this is house
Speaker 3: the crowd. Are you are you up for the game?
Speaker 3: They're playing East Tennessee. How are you gonna get up
Speaker 3: for that?
Speaker 2: And why would you?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 5: And everybody with season tickets, probably has given their ticket
Speaker 5: away to the East Tennessee State.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, that was that was your game.
Speaker 4: That was Colorado. Thanks a lot, Henry.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, dude, that's what it is because
Speaker 3: their new fans of aren't used to the atmosphere. Yeah,
Speaker 3: did you kind of go to your buddy and say
Speaker 3: this is I shaved my legs for this?
Speaker 5: Did you leave early? Did you stay for the whole thing?
Speaker 5: You got to stay for the whole thing, but come on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you you caught what everybody else catches for ten,
Speaker 3: twelve games, fifteen games of the year.
Speaker 2: It is what it is.
Speaker 3: And then then Monday's game shows up and oh man,
Speaker 3: where is this? Un Well, you're playing a number three
Speaker 3: team in the country and you're on the ropes.
Speaker 2: You should have lost? Should they have lost that? Henry?
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: Like I asked, both you guys or three you guys?
Speaker 3: Were the chances of them winning with five seconds left?
Speaker 4: Well, I think ESPN said, like, I think I think
Speaker 4: it was one. I mean they were down by.
Speaker 7: Two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because everything had to happen the way it happened,
Speaker 3: miss free throw, miss free throw.
Speaker 6: And if he missed the second free throw, then they
Speaker 6: probably would have lost because they wouldn't have had time
Speaker 6: to inbound it.
Speaker 3: Right if he missed, right, And that was an option
Speaker 3: they could have done, you know, throwing it off.
Speaker 7: They would have had to take him like a full court.
Speaker 3: They'd have to rebound it. Yeah, but they waste time
Speaker 3: that and you're exactly right. Yeah, yeah, So no one
Speaker 3: asked him about that because you could either foul the
Speaker 3: dude or miss the free throw, exactly yeah, and they
Speaker 3: chose neither.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, they were talking about kind of with Henry a
Speaker 6: little bit how the play was meant for him at
Speaker 6: the end, right, and then he didn't want to go
Speaker 6: into too much detail about the actual play.
Speaker 3: Right yeah, right, Okay again in the first hour, let's
Speaker 3: go to break now. I think we have a four
Speaker 3: minute break here and we're going to talk to Aaron
Speaker 3: Crowley for the upcoming golf tournament at the Lepolo.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to my I in the Ball here
Speaker 3: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Riverta, and today
Speaker 3: with me is Tim Bentley. Now on the phone is
Speaker 3: Aaron Crowley, the tournament director of the Color glor Classic.
Speaker 3: Are you doing there?
Speaker 11: Aaron, I'm doing phenomenal. How you guys are doing today?
Speaker 2: Hey? You a good fine? Thank you.
Speaker 3: Hey you did a fantastic job yesterday. It's like you've
Speaker 3: been doing this all your life.
Speaker 11: I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I don't shy away from having to speak in public setting.
Speaker 11: So I actually I think I enjoyed it more than
Speaker 11: people are expecting.
Speaker 3: You're not like me, Hammama.
Speaker 5: I think the big guys a Fox called, right, they're
Speaker 5: going to bring up to the big leagues.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly right, that's what I need.
Speaker 3: And we're talking about yesterday's media day with the Color
Speaker 3: Guard Classic, which had some inspiring stories obviously, and then
Speaker 3: talking about the event itself, can you talk about some
Speaker 3: of the things why you why you do the event
Speaker 3: initially and it's because of the Call of Guard Classic.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So you know the partnership that we've had with
Speaker 11: color Guard and Exact Sciences since twenty eighteen, I think,
Speaker 11: and I had mentioned a little bit of my remarks
Speaker 11: yesterday that continuity within our community and then two organizations
Speaker 11: toy Stores and an Exact Science is color Guard aspect
Speaker 11: of it and bringing awareness to color cancer, corectal cancer
Speaker 11: awareness and opportunities in that space. I mean, I think
Speaker 11: it's kind of the perfect fit for what Color Guard
Speaker 11: is trying to accomplish globally, and really the impact on
Speaker 11: a community basis and kind of finding those two for
Speaker 11: to come together and allows for us to to showcase
Speaker 11: a phenomenal golf course some of the world's best players
Speaker 11: in a game that, in my opinion, is easy to
Speaker 11: watch in person just because you're on an outside setting
Speaker 11: a beautiful golf course, whether you're a golf fan or not.
Speaker 11: So I think it brings all sorts of walks away together.
Speaker 4: Hey, quick question, this is Tim Bentley.
Speaker 5: I was wondering if if I came out to watch
Speaker 5: the tournament, if I could find my lost golf.
Speaker 4: Balls that I've had out there for the past fourteen
Speaker 4: years out right?
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, yes, absolutely so, you know, because you know
Speaker 11: that week from the professional standpoint, you know you may
Speaker 11: end up having a few balls in addition to yours
Speaker 11: during the pro am component. You know, with the amateurs
Speaker 11: that come out, but you know most of the professionals,
Speaker 11: you know they're not going to go much more than
Speaker 11: a flitt or two off the path. So exactly, you know,
Speaker 11: you're more of the welcome to explore a little deeper,
Speaker 11: you know, being that being winter springtime, there's not going
Speaker 11: to be too many criators out there.
Speaker 5: So how do you move people around there? It's a
Speaker 5: beautiful course, is set in the foothills. How do you
Speaker 5: move people around to come out and watch? What's how
Speaker 5: do you move people around out there?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 11: So you know what we've done a little different than
Speaker 11: it being over at Tucson National, which was a little
Speaker 11: more older Midwest style golf course, flatter, spread out a
Speaker 11: little bit more than the current layout at La Paloma.
Speaker 11: We have found having multiple entrances, so we've got you know,
Speaker 11: current parking set up for our general admissions and more
Speaker 11: so on the clubhouse side parking in a lot that
Speaker 11: comes in the main entrance, and we've got our preferred
Speaker 11: parking that enters the golf course towards the sixteenth green
Speaker 11: and all of our hospitality is around fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen,
Speaker 11: so in a more condensed atmosphere, and that's generally we
Speaker 11: see most of our population for tournament week itself. But
Speaker 11: we're enhancing this year a little bit different than previous
Speaker 11: years just because of feedback from fan engagement a little
Speaker 11: bit of the difficulty of being able to maneuver because
Speaker 11: specifically sixteen and eighteen there's some elevation changes, so we
Speaker 11: are implementing kind of a accessibility from a cart standpoint,
Speaker 11: So we will have some shuttling carts that will work
Speaker 11: around sixteen seventeen, eighteen and over into the driving range
Speaker 11: area which is underneath the street of Sunrise, and then
Speaker 11: you know, for I think most fans, especially to coming
Speaker 11: out for a second year. You know, if you're a
Speaker 11: fan of golf and you like walking, I think you
Speaker 11: know you're in for a journey no matter what golf
Speaker 11: course you're on. And so the accessibility of the first holes,
Speaker 11: which is a tournament ridge tournament one through nine, which
Speaker 11: is ridge one through nine if you're familiar with Flappaloma,
Speaker 11: is actually somewhat accessible from a walking standpoint. There's not
Speaker 11: a ton of elevation change, there's a few parts, but
Speaker 11: I think that if weather pending, it's beautiful out, I
Speaker 11: think we're going to have the same attendance over on
Speaker 11: the north side of our golf course this year, which
Speaker 11: we're adding some concession stands just to give people some
Speaker 11: refreshments as they're out there moving around watching the world's
Speaker 11: best play.
Speaker 5: I believe you're using all three sides, right, So that's
Speaker 5: going to help with week.
Speaker 14: Yes week yep.
Speaker 11: So currently set up, we do Ridge one through nine
Speaker 11: and they if you may notice, there's three nine hole
Speaker 11: golf courses out there, so twenty seven holes total of
Speaker 11: championship play. And we do Ridge one through nine, Canyon
Speaker 11: one through uh, I think it's one through four, and
Speaker 11: then Hill three, four and nine. So we end up
Speaker 11: doing that. I think that's eighteen holes. I hope I
Speaker 11: got my math right.
Speaker 2: Nice? How do you guys come up with that?
Speaker 11: So really what we did, and we did us in
Speaker 11: conjunction with the PGA Tour La Polhoma Country Club and
Speaker 11: then our executive committee and and quite frankly people that
Speaker 11: play golf and and and have played out there before,
Speaker 11: trying to find one the right route that that gets
Speaker 11: you going in a in a good circle direction from
Speaker 11: start to finish. Uh, and then quite frankly, being a
Speaker 11: little bit picky on on finding some of the golf
Speaker 11: holes from a competition standpoint, because there are a few
Speaker 11: ones that are fun to play as amateurs, but you know,
Speaker 11: really are a little wonky from a professional standpoint, So
Speaker 11: really trying to find the best of the best of
Speaker 11: those twenty seven holes is how we came up with that.
Speaker 4: Does the PGA do they have requirements set for these guys?
Speaker 11: Yeah, so you got to look at there's, yeah, the
Speaker 11: requirements of yardage. So T box capabilities, competition and rules
Speaker 11: are a part of that conversation to make sure that
Speaker 11: from where the pros are playing te box setup, that
Speaker 11: there's enough yardage from a from a difficulty standpoint, that
Speaker 11: also there's not too much yardage of carry. You know,
Speaker 11: there are a few holes that if you go back
Speaker 11: to the furthest T box that's available, you've got, you know,
Speaker 11: to sixty two seventy one hundred yards of carry. You
Speaker 11: throw a little wind into that, it becomes quite difficult
Speaker 11: for you know, anyone to clear that space. So that's
Speaker 11: kind of all that conversation goes in. And I don't
Speaker 11: know if you guys or this, but over at Tucson Nashville,
Speaker 11: we actually re routed that golf course as well, even
Speaker 11: though we only played one of the eight teams that
Speaker 11: are out there the Catalina course, we actually re routed
Speaker 11: how it finished to increase the excitement around how the
Speaker 11: golf course finished out, all kind of in the same
Speaker 11: area that everyone.
Speaker 2: Could see the OMNI.
Speaker 3: I remember going and watching from the military hole. I
Speaker 3: think it was the hole in one hole. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: then last year I was lucky enough to be with
Speaker 3: you guys at RBC for their place your place. That
Speaker 3: hole was fantastic too. Was just kind of a gallery
Speaker 3: type of.
Speaker 14: Feel it is.
Speaker 11: And and we're we're bringing that back again from a
Speaker 11: structure standpoint, so the military outpost and our military appreciation
Speaker 11: structure will be right next to Survival of Central and
Speaker 11: then some paid hospitality suites as well. And you know,
Speaker 11: we're fortunate to have you out last year's seed for
Speaker 11: that and that area. And Jerry Kelly mentioned it yesterday
Speaker 11: during you know, our media day about the impact of
Speaker 11: that whole and and the the the charitable function of
Speaker 11: the birdie. So coll of Guard and Exact Sciences is
Speaker 11: donating every birdy that a professional makes on that whole
Speaker 11: during tournament Friday, Saturday Sunday. They're covering the cost of
Speaker 11: a survivor to attend the golf tournament for a week.
Speaker 11: So really cool stuff happening on that whole. Just from
Speaker 11: an atmosphere, but also you know, the heartstrings being pulled
Speaker 11: on on what Color Guard does for their advocacy groups.
Speaker 11: And it's just it's such a cool event.
Speaker 2: So so let me transition from there.
Speaker 3: I had Judy mcdermidd on yesterday, uh because you guys
Speaker 3: were busy, but we talked about that. I mean I
Speaker 3: cover uh, you know OL Tour with an OL Tour
Speaker 3: and a lot of the team, a lot of the
Speaker 3: events here who are sponsored, you know, nationally or or locally.
Speaker 3: You guys get a lot of bang for your buck,
Speaker 3: at least col of Guard does, because I mean, who
Speaker 3: doesn't know it's the Call of Guard Classic, right, I
Speaker 3: mean they get a lot of name recognition from from
Speaker 3: this event, which of course every sponsor wants when they
Speaker 3: have when they have this, do you feel the same way,
Speaker 3: because you guys have done a great job with the
Speaker 3: name recognition.
Speaker 11: We we do and and and getting to you know,
Speaker 11: as as Cold of Guard has continued to find their footing,
Speaker 11: you know, as we've you know done since twenty eighteen
Speaker 11: with them, and it's been a learning experience for them
Speaker 11: along the way because it's the first golf tournament that
Speaker 11: they've ever sponsored, and if you you know the amount
Speaker 11: of money that they're spending to be affiliated with the
Speaker 11: PGA Tour Champions and having the name recognition, they put
Speaker 11: a lot of work into make sure that that you know,
Speaker 11: their message is being delivered and received and and that
Speaker 11: kind of branding is a twelve month a year focused
Speaker 11: for them, It's not just a seven day stretch. And
Speaker 11: so they've taken that to heart to make sure that
Speaker 11: you know they are getting, as you mentioned, a kind
Speaker 11: of bang for your buck on on what they're doing.
Speaker 11: And really, interestingly enough, and this has talked about a
Speaker 11: lot internally with the PGA Tour Champions and different events
Speaker 11: across the country for for the tour itself, and there's
Speaker 11: not any other one like this to where you're getting
Speaker 11: the player buy in and engagement for the cause, you know,
Speaker 11: the paired with the pro for survivors and advocates, And
Speaker 11: that happened yesterday at media they were doing a drawing
Speaker 11: for last year's champion, Joe Durant and who's going to
Speaker 11: be following him inside the ropes which is really cool.
Speaker 11: But literally every single player that is in our field
Speaker 11: is engaged in what Color Guard does and the impact
Speaker 11: it has for the survivors and caregivers and family members.
Speaker 11: So there's not another tournament like that on tour, So
Speaker 11: I think that buys even more, uh name recognition within
Speaker 11: within the PGA Tour Champions.
Speaker 5: It's probably nice that March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness month
Speaker 5: for you all leveraging.
Speaker 2: And the audience. I mean it's an older group, right.
Speaker 11: Older yep, so a wheel have the tour itself.
Speaker 7: So this is a little funny, this whole funn tidbit.
Speaker 11: But so you know now with medical research, it's it's
Speaker 11: you know, encouraged that forty five and up to early
Speaker 11: screening and the PGA Tour Champions is fifty it up.
Speaker 11: So you know that was before it was fifty and
Speaker 11: overs when you should be doing early screening. But because
Speaker 11: of the work that Color Guard's doing and the research
Speaker 11: that they put in, it's been showing that if you
Speaker 11: do it a little bit earlier again, catching this horrible
Speaker 11: disease early it is most important, you know, trying to
Speaker 11: pull on the PGA Tour Champions to say, hey, what
Speaker 11: do you say we lowered that to forty five, which
Speaker 11: would bring in heck right exactly. So that's exactly it,
Speaker 11: which would bring in a different field. But you know,
Speaker 11: no budge on that yet, so you know it's a
Speaker 11: few years back. The whole idea was, you know, when
Speaker 11: Tiger was not of age, if we dropped the age
Speaker 11: of forty five, could we entice him?
Speaker 4: So we get him on the senior tour, we make
Speaker 4: a thirty two and above.
Speaker 11: Right, that's exactly right. So how it goes now? Athletes
Speaker 11: are are deemed to be outdated by thirty.
Speaker 3: So so so let me tell you. Did you guys
Speaker 3: a favorite yesterday? So you can thank me once I
Speaker 3: tell you what I didn't play. I didn't play in
Speaker 3: the media event yesterday because I'd still be on the
Speaker 3: first hole trying to figure out what the hell to
Speaker 3: do and where to find balls, because it was just,
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 4: They need people to drive the cars.
Speaker 3: Yeah I could have done that, you know, thankfully have
Speaker 3: beer with me? Yeah I should. I should have done that.
Speaker 3: When it come back on the show, is there how
Speaker 3: you doing one of the.
Speaker 11: Most interesting shows?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, maybe I should do that more often.
Speaker 4: We're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 11: Yeah wait a second, Oh sorry.
Speaker 3: So we got about a month right, How how close
Speaker 3: were up against it?
Speaker 2: Are you.
Speaker 11: We are up against it, So the time is ticking.
Speaker 11: We're a little over four weeks out from from tournament
Speaker 11: week itself and next week we are at our structure
Speaker 11: builds and so we've kind of got an idea of
Speaker 11: what our footprint is going to look like and which
Speaker 11: is exciting. This is kind of when when the juices
Speaker 11: get flown. So the last like seven or eight months
Speaker 11: have been a lot of the behind the scenes work
Speaker 11: getting to the point where we know what assets and
Speaker 11: products we want to have available and offer, and you know,
Speaker 11: kind of the feel for the tournament, the concert itself
Speaker 11: that we have that two night concert. But I mean,
Speaker 11: we are right up to it, and so now it's
Speaker 11: just working out the details because we want to make
Speaker 11: sure that from a fan standpoint, from a player standpoint,
Speaker 11: from a partnership and sponsorship standpoint, that we delivered the
Speaker 11: A plus product that we know we can and this
Speaker 11: is now just that time for us to put in
Speaker 11: put in that extra bit of work to make sure
Speaker 11: we don't leave any stone unturned.
Speaker 5: How do people get involved? How do I get to go?
Speaker 5: Or are you looking for volunteers?
Speaker 4: What do you need?
Speaker 11: We absolutely looking for volunteers. So color Guard Classic dot
Speaker 11: com is actually where you can go to purchase tickets,
Speaker 11: check out sponsorship opportunities, and also sign up for a volunteer.
Speaker 11: We are about thirty or forty short of volunteers that
Speaker 11: we're looking for, so would love to get more to
Speaker 11: come out and show up. And there's all sorts of
Speaker 11: different opportunities with the volunteer space. You know that if
Speaker 11: you want to be there for the whole week, you
Speaker 11: want to be there for a few hours on a day.
Speaker 11: We need every bit of it because without the volunteers,
Speaker 11: this tournament is nowhere near its best. So we are
Speaker 11: looking for that final push for volunteers.
Speaker 3: So thanks for asking, and another last second thing in
Speaker 3: the wheelhouse, and again thank me for not dancing. But
Speaker 3: the concert on Friday, you know, kind of a throwback.
Speaker 11: Yest little I love the nineties to where it's a
Speaker 11: little throwback to, you know, a more simpler time in
Speaker 11: our lives. Vanilla Ice, Rob Bass and Tone Loak are
Speaker 11: headlighting that Friday night show, so it should be an
Speaker 11: absolute blast. And I have I have not personally seen
Speaker 11: them in concert twelve twelve. Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 5: Rock Bass and Ton are playing with everybody needs. It's
Speaker 5: like nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 11: I'm that's exactly You're going to.
Speaker 4: Be there early.
Speaker 5: What time do they start playing on the Planet four
Speaker 5: for all this, Yeah.
Speaker 11: Four o'clock will open. They'll probably gonna go on closer
Speaker 11: to to to six or seven. But it's, uh, I've
Speaker 11: heard it's an absolute blast of the show, and I
Speaker 11: you know, we know probably what one or two from each.
Speaker 8: Of those guys.
Speaker 11: Uh, totally songs that we can Someone asked me, so
Speaker 11: is it going to be a nine minute They got
Speaker 11: to know that they play a bunch of covers and
Speaker 11: this absolute party. So the last few go rounds that
Speaker 11: then Elisa has had and actually here in in Tucson
Speaker 11: over at the casino, I think they had about seven
Speaker 11: thousand fans show up. Yeah, No, we're opening a track
Speaker 11: towards that.
Speaker 4: Who's a Saturday Knights gonna be?
Speaker 11: Yeah Friday night, March.
Speaker 4: Seventh, No, who's the guy who's the next night?
Speaker 11: Oh, Saturday Night's co Wessel is the headliner. So co
Speaker 11: Westle is an up and coming and country rock ish musician.
Speaker 11: So it is you will walk out of co Wesle
Speaker 11: Saturday night exhausted, because he just plays hard for the
Speaker 11: two hour show that he'll be going for and it's
Speaker 11: some music that even if you don't know him, you'll
Speaker 11: enjoy it. But he is up and coming.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 11: You know, they look at the streaming now, you know
Speaker 11: what are their downloads and their streams? You know, billboards
Speaker 11: are still important, but you know what is the popularity.
Speaker 11: And he continues to to sit towards the top of
Speaker 11: the charts from that standpoint, and and he's he's hitting
Speaker 11: some really big numbers on his.
Speaker 14: Show right now.
Speaker 11: So we were lucky to get him as we did
Speaker 11: before he uh became too popular for us.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Eron. We'll have you in studio here sometime soon.
Speaker 3: I look forward to the break of Hip Night on
Speaker 3: that Friday.
Speaker 11: Heck yeah baby, thank yeah. Well we'll have Vanilla Ice
Speaker 11: out there for your him.
Speaker 8: So if you worried, that's I appreciate you guys, Thank.
Speaker 2: You, Ben, I appreciate you. Thank doctor said, yeah, he's
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Speaker 2: Get a call.
Speaker 7: No, I was just gonna say, I didn't rose the
Speaker 7: game was at eleven.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: What time do you guys get up in the morning?
Speaker 4: Not later than that? You want us to call you
Speaker 4: or something like that.
Speaker 2: What happened in the first half? I don't know the
Speaker 2: first half.
Speaker 3: Hey, The funny thing about it is Arizona has taken
Speaker 3: better teams into into Tempe and lost.
Speaker 2: They just gotta be ready, gotta be ready.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's you know those those rivalry games. You know,
Speaker 5: those those kids know, I mean they know so, I
Speaker 5: mean they want to they want to punch Arizona right
Speaker 5: in the mouth and say, hey, you get the big gun,
Speaker 5: we're going to beat you.
Speaker 3: Well, the funny thing about it and not the funny
Speaker 3: thing about it. The thing about it, you know, the
Speaker 3: media media up there is kind of homersh here too
Speaker 3: to a degree. But when Iowas State came down here,
Speaker 3: they were saying, there's no way that Arizona's gonna be that.
Speaker 3: There's no way, and realistically they probably should not have.
Speaker 3: What you checked the percentage, right.
Speaker 5: We did, Henry and I did, and it was I
Speaker 5: think that right towards the end about here or three
Speaker 5: seconds left, it was ninety six almost ninety seven.
Speaker 4: Percent chance that I alway say he was gonna win.
Speaker 4: And yeah, and then of course we saw what happened.
Speaker 5: But every like you said earlier, everything that had to
Speaker 5: happen happened in the way I was supposed to.
Speaker 4: For the Arizona.
Speaker 3: Yeah, free throw here, fre thro there, and then the shot. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so it was it was again if you want to
Speaker 3: call five two zero, four, one, six, seventy four forty.
Speaker 4: Are you gonna go watch golf at all?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, usually go h it's cool because those are the
Speaker 3: dudes that I grew up watching.
Speaker 4: Right now, they're all they're all like in our age group, right,
Speaker 4: you know, did.
Speaker 2: You follow those dudes?
Speaker 4: I did, so they're really good.
Speaker 3: I've told this to Aaron last time he was I said,
Speaker 3: you know, to me, there's no and he put the
Speaker 3: access way. But there's no one cooler than pretty couples.
Speaker 3: If I were cool, I walk like gold Man. Now
Speaker 3: I'm sixty, but if I always, if I could walk
Speaker 3: like pretty couples, I'd hold it.
Speaker 2: He's got it. He's got a gate. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: He is, you know what I'm saying, He's.
Speaker 3: Kind of like Kevin Costner kind of you know walk Hey,
Speaker 3: that's because he's you know, a pretty cup.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he's got like how many green jackets
Speaker 4: does he with all those green He's.
Speaker 2: Kind of walks with a light, you know, kind of
Speaker 2: just on the floating my air.
Speaker 5: So I know, I like, I like watching those guys
Speaker 5: play because they'll wear shoes like I do. You know,
Speaker 5: these big cushy shoes. They're all wearing the sketches. There's sketchers,
Speaker 5: the other ones, you know, the the hookahs, the Hokas,
Speaker 5: the sketchers. I'm like, I like those shoes. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: then they're demographic right here, get some hookahs.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we'll see those guys a lot of the cool
Speaker 3: you know guys that we just kind of watched right there. No,
Speaker 3: the Michael Sins are coming up now, and the Tigers
Speaker 3: and the and.
Speaker 4: The Vanilla Ice, all those guys are coming up.
Speaker 2: Man, want to go to the coach of Mildred. Let's
Speaker 2: go tell what they're doing.
Speaker 4: They're starting at four o'clock. I mean that's that's like special.
Speaker 3: Doors open, Come on, doors open, the doors posed at
Speaker 3: four thirty two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I should not back it out there. The weather,
Speaker 5: the weather's who knows what's going to be. Last year
Speaker 5: I did not go last year. Went two years ago
Speaker 5: to the concert, or to both.
Speaker 4: Not to the concert. That was too late for me.
Speaker 2: I went to the concert. Is good. It was the Midland. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was good. I love standing. If you heard yeah.
Speaker 4: Go Now, for years I used to go to it,
Speaker 4: you know, it was that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't have the concert at the thing. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: was fun too. They've done a great job because you know,
Speaker 3: it's more than just golf. It's so fun an event.
Speaker 5: Well, we've talked about this before, is you know, we
Speaker 5: talked about with basketball games. We talked about you know,
Speaker 5: with other events. People have discretionaries, discretionary money to spend
Speaker 5: on events, and so you got to entertain them from
Speaker 5: the time they get there at the time they leave,
Speaker 5: and you want them to have a great time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, so it's you want to be sure
Speaker 4: that they're having a good time. It's not just a
Speaker 4: golf tournament.
Speaker 5: It is a concert, it's it's it's drinks on the course,
Speaker 5: it's lunch, it's getting there, it's all. It's a whole experience.
Speaker 5: And so you got to you got it from soup
Speaker 5: to nuts. Make sure that it's a great time.
Speaker 2: Soup to nuts.
Speaker 17: I like that.
Speaker 2: Hey, we've got to call. You're on the air and
Speaker 2: I on the wall.
Speaker 19: Who's this.
Speaker 8: It's Howard, the more mature guy than you.
Speaker 2: Steve Howard. I don't know true the mature word, how older.
Speaker 8: Yeah, mature. Well year and a half, two years older,
Speaker 8: that's all that.
Speaker 2: What do you got? What you got, Howard?
Speaker 8: No, I definitely, I'm glad it's March seventh. I thought
Speaker 8: it was earlier, like closer to Rodeo, which is always
Speaker 8: in February. I'm glad it's March seventh. That concert.
Speaker 5: Yes, they book at all those dates in advance.
Speaker 4: They knew exactly what.
Speaker 11: I was just.
Speaker 3: I was just looking because the Big twelve Tournament is
Speaker 3: a week later, so it's kind of like.
Speaker 5: Boom boom boom. And I'm sure they knew. They wanted
Speaker 5: to pick before the U A was was in a
Speaker 5: tournament or in the Big twelve tournament. They wanted that
Speaker 5: that's an open weekend for them, so they get lots
Speaker 5: of people up there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm gonna get my wife's co workers. They're a
Speaker 8: few years younger than Steve, so they'll be right up there, Alley,
Speaker 8: because I was, you know, obviously for the for the concert,
Speaker 8: for the or for the help for the concert.
Speaker 3: How much try to go to golf, to a lot
Speaker 3: of cougars to go to golf.
Speaker 8: I played, I played there before Lama, But they spend.
Speaker 2: Years Henry there's gonna be a lot of Cougars at
Speaker 2: that concert.
Speaker 4: I guess I'm telling you that.
Speaker 8: Their husband. Some of them won't be going because you
Speaker 8: know they won't be going to something like this, But
Speaker 8: we have a couple of couples that will probably go
Speaker 8: with us.
Speaker 3: Seven o'clock, Howard, Howard, I know you're fishing out of
Speaker 3: a lot of things.
Speaker 2: Sports. I asked this was my guest yesterday. I can't remember. Uh,
Speaker 2: I just uh is arizone of those basketball team? Good?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I remember listening to it. No, we're good
Speaker 8: compared to how we started. We're real good.
Speaker 2: Okay, what mean? What does God mean?
Speaker 8: We're on there? It's on the up street. Hey, it's
Speaker 8: sound like the pros, the pros, anyone could beating. It's
Speaker 8: the same in college. But I but I do agree
Speaker 8: the home court has got a lot more advantage as
Speaker 8: the road. And you, you know, you got to hold
Speaker 8: keep to be successful in college. I think we can
Speaker 8: all agree. You've got to win your home court and
Speaker 8: you've been saying that for years, Steve, you know, and
Speaker 8: you've got to steal some on the road, right. So
Speaker 8: I'm just gonna love to see their their player Iowa State.
Speaker 8: Who is he? Is he a fifteen point score that
Speaker 8: they didn't have?
Speaker 3: They have a pretty good, pretty good player. It's just
Speaker 3: it's just gonna be rumble, rough and tumble up there.
Speaker 3: I mean you can do you know, Houston here.
Speaker 2: Is going to be unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Uh until they until Houston, Iowa State and Kansas. Uh,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be you know, if they can steal a few,
Speaker 3: they'll be fine, and it's.
Speaker 8: Gonna be cool at ASU they have I don't think
Speaker 8: anyone else has that. That curtain of the crazy thing
Speaker 8: behind that's as old.
Speaker 2: As my converse. I'm worry right now.
Speaker 8: I know that's pretty old. Is there only spread about?
Speaker 2: It's a good question. Looked that up? He real get
Speaker 2: that going?
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, okay, let's talk you guys next week.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Thanks.
Speaker 3: You know, I haven't even known this. I would my
Speaker 3: guess would be like twelve for tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, we'll
Speaker 3: see at the most twelve. It's probably more than that twelve.
Speaker 7: I don't see a spread yet.
Speaker 4: Really, it's way what are they waiting on? You get
Speaker 4: a hold of Vegas.
Speaker 5: Call my guy Carl Special at the Four Seasons or
Speaker 5: whatever it is though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's jim I don't know at the stretch. That's
Speaker 3: guy's going down soon. Jimmy, What did you get for us?
Speaker 5: Oh? I mean we used to go to Vegas when
Speaker 5: it was Vegas, you know when it was when it
Speaker 5: was ninety nine cents shrimp cocktails, you know, thirty years ago.
Speaker 4: Well more than that, you want.
Speaker 5: To get some steak, all you can eat buffets, man,
Speaker 5: like that's I lived in flag Staff.
Speaker 4: I was going and that's how we fed ourselves. Half
Speaker 4: the time was going to Laughlin and Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, howmost stick cost me four hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: It was free, but it cost me three hundred dollars
Speaker 5: and usings in blackjack.
Speaker 2: So that's how it used to be.
Speaker 4: Remember that, Yeah, it was great free. Oh it's it's
Speaker 4: it's everything's expensive. I heard somewhere the.
Speaker 5: Fast food places said that like food revenue is is
Speaker 5: is a significant portion.
Speaker 4: Of the casinos. Gambling's down, gamblings down.
Speaker 5: So it's the food and as those experiences in the shows,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean Vegas is, I mean it is
Speaker 5: de luxe now it used to be.
Speaker 3: Gambling's down, Parking is now up. You have to park everywhere.
Speaker 3: Now you got to it's it's their nickel and diamond.
Speaker 3: You in the in the truest sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, Vegas used to go to if you wanted
Speaker 5: to get in the mud. If you wanted to get
Speaker 5: in trouble, you go to Vegas. You can still get
Speaker 5: in trouble, but now it's going to cost you about
Speaker 5: two grads.
Speaker 3: So no, nothing, nothing, Wow, that's strange. But they don't
Speaker 3: have that up yet. Twenty what twenty eighteen hours? Yeah,
Speaker 3: probably lesn't that name. It's time to bet there's no Yeah,
Speaker 3: don't bet. Jay's not here.
Speaker 2: Let's stop talking about it. But the one I beat him.
Speaker 2: I told you I heard that.
Speaker 4: I heard that that Jay hasn't called in in two weeks.
Speaker 2: I talked to him Monday.
Speaker 3: I had him call it on Monday because you know,
Speaker 3: I wanted to talk to him about the shot or Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Whatever that was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well he hasn't called here.
Speaker 2: You wanted to bring up you were being sarcastic. What
Speaker 2: are you doing?
Speaker 5: Well, everybody's talking about the shot. I thought they were
Speaker 5: talking about the shot with Miles Simon.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh so I got he It was on
Speaker 3: by six Trustee and Danny Source. Hug you molse it
Speaker 3: was by six. Dude, if it's six, you know what
Speaker 3: you should do.
Speaker 4: Don't listen to that kid, all right, my boy from you, not.
Speaker 3: My boy from l A, knows exactly he's he's on
Speaker 3: drunkings by now.
Speaker 2: Six. I think it's a twelve point game.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: But again, gonna have to show up. And that's the thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they're going to show well, he.
Speaker 5: Knows what they're looking at for after big wins. Like
Speaker 5: you know, there's an algorithm for everything.
Speaker 2: Guarantee you.
Speaker 4: If there's somebody that.
Speaker 3: You're exactly right, I should look into do my evan
Speaker 3: my cows, get up the website, chat GPT, let's ask, Yeah,
Speaker 3: what is it was gonna do after big wing.
Speaker 5: Fans where they make a half court shot. There's one
Speaker 5: example nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2: Right, they had a few too. We should check it in.
Speaker 3: It's all psychological because if you're ready, you're ready for
Speaker 3: you not you know, ye see, we'll see give it.
Speaker 4: Give the points.
Speaker 8: Six.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's coming from me, who's down on the city
Speaker 5: of Vegas in my entire career, right, I remember the good.
Speaker 4: Times, but I'm not telling about the bad times.
Speaker 3: That's who talks about the bad yea thousand dollars cost
Speaker 3: you one hundred twenty.
Speaker 4: Your phone's blowing up?
Speaker 2: Are you just telling me about the biggest But that
Speaker 2: is what it is. Okay.
Speaker 3: We got to go pretty from knowing like six is okay,
Speaker 3: Well we'll go. It's let's see issue Arizona spread. A
Speaker 3: six Monday line is two fifty uh over.
Speaker 2: Under is.
Speaker 7: One forty two. Forty does say forty three, but I'll
Speaker 7: take forty six.
Speaker 2: Forty seven and a half.
Speaker 3: Well one the night they were under tremendously and then
Speaker 3: the OT came and they blew right by it. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: let's go. Let's go and come back on to the
Speaker 3: side breaking news, Okay,