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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my on the ball here, Fox
Speaker 2: Sports torteen fifty. I'm Steve. You're Tim.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 2: No, we have Henry and Matt in the building. You
Speaker 2: can call us. You can call us anytime. I will
Speaker 2: a real quick in this creek news.
Speaker 1: Well, this is I on the Ball. Breaking news on
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Speaker 4: The Raiders have hired Pete Carroll as head coach this morning.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know. I think it's a
Speaker 2: good deal good I don't know. But you think he's
Speaker 2: obviously a winner.
Speaker 5: He's a winner. You know.
Speaker 6: Tom Brady's in there, you know, making a you know,
Speaker 6: probably making his voice heard for a small percentage that
Speaker 6: he owns.
Speaker 5: He's probably driving the bus more than we think.
Speaker 6: Sure, And you know Pete Carroll's you know, excited, you know,
Speaker 6: he's ready to go.
Speaker 2: He's he's seventy does he say seventy four?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 2: Bel Chick's about that age too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe seventy one seventy. Carol's older than Belchi. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just a little bit.
Speaker 6: But but you know, if you look at them, probably
Speaker 6: nice Bridge coach, you know, true Antonio Pierce was there before.
Speaker 5: And you know kind of was same old.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think he got the raw, you know, the wrong
Speaker 6: end of the deal on that. But but Pete Carroll,
Speaker 6: you know, it's it puts him in the news. It's
Speaker 6: high profile. Tom Brady, Pete Carroll. You know, can they
Speaker 6: get can they get some folks excited about coming there?
Speaker 6: I think that's what this is about.
Speaker 4: So Vegas, we'll see. Arizona has scheduled a home and
Speaker 4: home series with Washington State starting in twenty twenty six
Speaker 4: and Pullman in twenty twenty seven. Football, right, yeah, football.
Speaker 2: So I saw this news today and I'm thinking this
Speaker 2: is big news today. I mean, they played Washington State
Speaker 2: forever and now they're making it. Okay.
Speaker 5: I got an email today but announcing this, so it.
Speaker 4: Was like alert. It was like high alert.
Speaker 6: Do you think you know it's we're at TMC, you
Speaker 6: know TMC Healthworks, We we sponsored, we get in there
Speaker 6: and so I get those emails. You know it's okay.
Speaker 6: I mean I think it's it. Uh locally, probably satisfies
Speaker 6: from some folks.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 4: Okay, I know I won't be back. I won't pooo.
Speaker 4: We've got some big college basketball games this weekend. Number
Speaker 4: seven Houston takes on number twelve Kansas.
Speaker 6: And is it at Allen Fieldhouse at Kansas?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Should we go? Oh? Number six Tennessee at number one
Speaker 4: Auburn and number thirteen Texas A and M at Texas.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love the big games.
Speaker 6: My buddy Dave Otam is a big Houston fan, ran
Speaker 6: track across country. Dave oteh them he used to coach.
Speaker 2: That week for Ust.
Speaker 6: He probably did, but he's he's my Houston insider, he says.
Speaker 5: He says they're good. They know how to dribble and shoot.
Speaker 2: That's what should you should do when you play basketball.
Speaker 2: It's like, would you guys run? They're not a run?
Speaker 5: They're not. Yeah, they're they're good runners. What makes them good?
Speaker 5: They're fast?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts anticipates wearing a knee brace for
Speaker 4: Sunday's game versus the Commanders after he injured his knee
Speaker 4: last week versus Thoriums.
Speaker 2: Knee brace meee, based, I don't care. I think they're
Speaker 2: going to be the Washington General.
Speaker 6: You know, how many years ago is it that they
Speaker 6: started putting knee braces on everybody preemptively? Remember nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 6: eighty six. But I mean he had hurt, he was hurt.
Speaker 6: But you know, they they started putting those knee braces
Speaker 6: on every lineman, every player, you know, I mean, how
Speaker 6: how long has it been since you know there's been
Speaker 6: you know, a horrible knee injury career ending you know,
Speaker 6: So those knee braces are so good.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's going to hinder him at all.
Speaker 5: I make him a little bit more confident.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. I still like Philly. I
Speaker 2: don't know why because your guy Barkley.
Speaker 5: Yeah, on Barkley three hundred yards. He's got to go
Speaker 5: to the His initials are SB. He's got to go
Speaker 5: to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Right, Draft Kings, you get the Draft Kings Special. Yeah,
Speaker 2: SB to the SB.
Speaker 4: Let's go. Arizona softball players Dakota Kennedy and Reagan Shockey
Speaker 4: were named to the All Big Twelve preseason team.
Speaker 2: They're going to They picked the finish third I think
Speaker 2: in the league in their league, in the conference, which
Speaker 2: is pretty good. We'll see what what happened?
Speaker 5: Who's Oklahoma?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, no, they're not in the Big twelve all right?
Speaker 2: Texas Texas, Uh no, I don't know. Do do you
Speaker 2: have anything there?
Speaker 4: I can find it? Yeah, I just would be curious.
Speaker 5: You know, all those teams I think owe a debt
Speaker 5: of gratitude.
Speaker 4: To Oklahoma State one, Texas Tech two, Arizona three.
Speaker 2: You know Texas Tech is that they have the girl
Speaker 2: from Stanford who's getting paid million dollars so to pitch.
Speaker 6: Well, listen, those teams, Oh, a debt of gratitude to
Speaker 6: the U of A Wildcats those early night sure, you
Speaker 6: know every one of those schools.
Speaker 2: Grandfather, Yeah, the grandfather, Mike.
Speaker 6: Andre you know they you know, which is great. And
Speaker 6: I've talked about this.
Speaker 8: I love those those secondary sports, those track and softball,
Speaker 8: those those kids. Theres are all the accolades and all
Speaker 8: the nil they get, but they do Arizona.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they just surpassed them totally.
Speaker 4: And for baseball players, Mason White and Brendan summer Hill
Speaker 4: were named to the All Big twelve preseason too.
Speaker 2: All right, so we'll see how good they're going to be.
Speaker 2: Their rank to the top twenty top, there's so many
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's second in the Big twelve. You saw that.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, you're not with me on Monday. We're gonna
Speaker 2: have chip Hail on Monday. So we'll see what he says.
Speaker 2: See what he says. That's all I got for You
Speaker 2: got okay? And he goes in the ESPN or anything
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 6: Is there any Is there any news on Patrick Holmes,
Speaker 6: Patrick mahomes the news or homes homes?
Speaker 4: Anybody home?
Speaker 6: I told you last out. My mom is a big fan.
Speaker 6: She and her husband watch every Chiefs game. They make
Speaker 6: sure they watch it. It's it's it's kind of fun
Speaker 6: to watch it.
Speaker 2: Goes I.
Speaker 5: We make what time is the Chiefs game on? And
Speaker 5: so I have to look it up for her and
Speaker 5: she knows and and they love it.
Speaker 2: So like a Facebook post what time did the Cats play?
Speaker 2: And what channel? And come on, I know, just google
Speaker 2: a damn thing. As long as the time it took
Speaker 2: for you to ask the push on Facebook, you can
Speaker 2: just google it.
Speaker 6: Get out of my yard, Vera, you up the computer.
Speaker 2: That's that question? Just google?
Speaker 6: And it was a basketball Go what time? Get off
Speaker 6: my Facebook? Steve Rivera, It's Friday. Come on you don't
Speaker 6: have to be cranky on this. You kind of go
Speaker 6: to a cool basketball game tomorrow, come on.
Speaker 2: And you know, going on Texas Fighters at O C.
Speaker 4: Texans.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, the Texans they were pretty good. They were
Speaker 2: all right. It was a weird summing it was.
Speaker 4: They were injured by them.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah they beat didn't they beat somebody? They beat?
Speaker 2: They beat Buffalo early. Ye no, no, no beat in
Speaker 2: the playoffs, yeah, they beat the Chargers. Chargers, right, the
Speaker 2: Chargers were kind of mediocre. Yeah, yeah, they were kind.
Speaker 4: Of It came out earlier. Las Vegas will host the
Speaker 4: college football playoff in seven.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what do you think about those games? And I
Speaker 6: mean it's I know, and now it's it's regular, But Vegas,
Speaker 6: are you fantastic? I think so, too fantastic.
Speaker 2: I haven't been there for a big game like that,
Speaker 2: but you know Arizona games. I've covered some big fights,
Speaker 2: but not for this. I guess the Final Four is
Speaker 2: going to be there too sometimes.
Speaker 6: I so we used to go every year to Vegas
Speaker 6: to watch the first couple of days of the final
Speaker 6: the first weekend of the Final four.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, just Vegas is set up for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I did that COVID year. I think it
Speaker 2: was whatever use and or the year after COVID. It wasn't.
Speaker 2: It wasn't what I thought.
Speaker 5: It was a little friend.
Speaker 2: It was just, you know, I thought it'd be more fun.
Speaker 2: And you're watching games, and you're sitting there and watching games,
Speaker 2: and you could do that in your living room.
Speaker 5: But you're not in Vegas. They're not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's what you know. If I'm gonna be Vegas,
Speaker 2: IM gonna pay poker. I'm not gonnak am I gonna pay. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 2: have you been to Circa?
Speaker 9: I have?
Speaker 6: Not fantastic really, No. I love I'm a blackjack person.
Speaker 6: I love to play blackjack.
Speaker 2: Watch games at the black jack table, watching games.
Speaker 5: On my phone app, my blackjack phone app.
Speaker 2: I could do that. You're in Vegas? Okay? Anything else?
Speaker 5: Have you either one? Have you been to Vegas?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: One time.
Speaker 4: When you're really young.
Speaker 2: Did since you've been here?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: Not something? I've been here.
Speaker 5: How about the Grand Canyon?
Speaker 4: I I went to those two on the same troops.
Speaker 5: Okay, but have you been to the grand Kids?
Speaker 6: So what's the big you guys are seniors, what's what's
Speaker 6: the one big Arizona thing that you've done in your time,
Speaker 6: and you're both from out of town.
Speaker 2: I have a I have a story about this.
Speaker 6: So what's the one big thing you've been? Have you
Speaker 6: gone to Mexico? I've been to the Grand Canyon? Did
Speaker 6: you go to Mexico?
Speaker 5: I went to Rocky Point years ago, Cabo Rocky Point.
Speaker 2: Who was it? Maybe Kobe? Kobe's family went to Rocky
Speaker 2: Board too, Yeah, I think he went to Colo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, all right, Well what's what do you got, Steve?
Speaker 2: No, that's no nothing is no no basketball, no basketball.
Speaker 6: He's just sitting in his corner, grumpy over there. I
Speaker 6: don't want to go to the Grand Canyon. Last two months? Due,
Speaker 6: come on, let's go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll take your drive, take a drive. No, mine was.
Speaker 2: I lived in DC right covering. I was at the
Speaker 2: USA Today in nineteen eighty nine, so they had the
Speaker 2: president inauguration. I think it was Bush Senior, and I
Speaker 2: stayed in it was freezing. I didn't go, and I
Speaker 2: was there for half a year, so I didn't do much.
Speaker 2: I'm like Matt, I didn't do much. I just went
Speaker 2: to Georgetown, hung out with my colleagues and went to
Speaker 2: a few you know, bullets, games. There were bullets at
Speaker 2: the time. And uh and so my last weekend I
Speaker 2: was there, I went to the Smithsonian because all of them.
Speaker 4: I went to all of them.
Speaker 2: Because I didn't want to say I lived there and
Speaker 2: didn't go to them. So I got passes to all
Speaker 2: of them and ran through some because I just I
Speaker 2: wasn't interested one. But I ran because I had to
Speaker 2: get through the whole day, get there, got up early
Speaker 2: in the morning, see.
Speaker 5: The Constitution, the original Muppets, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: All over that one day. I don't remember what I saw,
Speaker 2: but I went that one day. Uh yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was at a time where it was a lot
Speaker 2: of crime. Yeah, Mayor, Mayor Berry.
Speaker 4: You go to d C.
Speaker 5: Now, it's you should.
Speaker 6: You should, if you know, if you if you can
Speaker 6: get out there, it's it's a cool place.
Speaker 5: I mean it's dh Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh that's why you were. Did you do any Yeah, like, oh,
Speaker 2: would you stay at a hotel there?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: No, okay, just like yeah, it was cold. I'm sure
Speaker 2: my son you still live there. He lies in Baltimore. Now, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it's it's nice. A lot of historia history, of course. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's where you take the subway.
Speaker 5: Right, take the trick the Metro Metro.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 4: I lived.
Speaker 6: I went to school at any U and I I
Speaker 6: did not go to the Grand Canyon until I have
Speaker 6: been many times, but that my first time to the
Speaker 6: Grand Canyon was like my sixth year living in Flag stuff.
Speaker 6: I just we didn't go and I was an hour
Speaker 6: and a half away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never been. I've never been.
Speaker 6: No, it's it's it's it's cool, cool and beautiful, but
Speaker 6: it's you know, you really need a kind of a
Speaker 6: destination or a reason to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's.
Speaker 6: Probably like living next to Disneyland or living in southern California, Like.
Speaker 4: Hey, do you go to the beach every day?
Speaker 5: Now? Well, I don't know, Matthew, do you go to
Speaker 5: the beach every day?
Speaker 2: But you do? Like, yeah, that's why a month Henry
Speaker 2: goes to the Eiffel Tower, I wish goes to Central Park,
Speaker 2: Central Park, go to Trump Trump Hotel or whatever.
Speaker 6: That Columbia Circle, right, isn't it Columbus Circle, Columbus Circle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't think you lived too far from there.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, twenty minutes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I was just in New York City November
Speaker 6: I went to watch the New York City Marathon. We
Speaker 6: were talking about Nico Montonie's and I went to watch
Speaker 6: the New York City Marathon where he was one of
Speaker 6: the elite athletes, and and.
Speaker 4: It was beautiful, but it was so cold.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, and it's you know, it was just
Speaker 6: really yeah, and it's you know, they talk about Chicago
Speaker 6: being in the windy City, but any of those streets
Speaker 6: that have those big buildings, it just hits you right ways.
Speaker 2: This is a dumb question because do you like your
Speaker 2: hometown lived?
Speaker 4: Do you like it there? Yeah, because I don't know
Speaker 4: anywhere else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But the people, the people, because you're not I'm
Speaker 2: not a New York dude, You're not. I I enjoyed
Speaker 2: the people, Yeah, because you're not in New Yor dude.
Speaker 2: And you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: come on, you know you kind of know what a
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. You know, I'm not telling you anything.
Speaker 2: You don't know that you know.
Speaker 6: You know, because of Henry's trying to he's got to
Speaker 6: go back there and live. Don't get him in troubles, Steve,
Speaker 6: He's got to go back. Sam is going to be
Speaker 6: listening to this podcast, and they're gonna like Henry Henry.
Speaker 5: They're gonna get a cell phone. He's gonna get his
Speaker 5: cell phone's gonna blow up.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's take a break. Let's take a break. Come
Speaker 2: back with Damien. He'll call us and then we'll talk
Speaker 2: more about sports.
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Ravera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my in the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera. In today with
Speaker 2: me is Tim Bentley, Yo yo yo, Henry, and now
Speaker 2: we have Damian Lamino comes k Old TV. Damien, how
Speaker 2: are you?
Speaker 9: I'm doing great? Guys?
Speaker 2: How are you great? Great? And should today day of
Speaker 2: did I get lucky?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 9: Come on, man, I'm sitting in the station parking lot
Speaker 9: trying to stay warm.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 9: Best, I gotta say, I have not been too fond
Speaker 9: of these temperatures of late here in Tucson, trying to
Speaker 9: keep warm, which just tells me that I am now
Speaker 9: a true Tuson. And because like anything really realistically below
Speaker 9: like seventy two, I'm free them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We talked to the Colorado Beat right right, and
Speaker 2: he says it was fourteen below and cold level.
Speaker 6: We didn't we didn't know what below meant. Yeah, when
Speaker 6: he said it was fourteen below, we're like below what?
Speaker 7: Yeah, and Colorado's coming here.
Speaker 2: But Colorado's coming here, they probably don't want to go back.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I wouldn't blame them. I mean, they got a
Speaker 9: little bit of different perspective. But you know what, it's
Speaker 9: all relative. As far as I'm concerned, I'm still flipping cold.
Speaker 2: So I'll ask you, because I've lost the people that
Speaker 2: it's been cold relatively, not that cold compared to other places, obviously, right,
Speaker 2: But would you take one hundred and fifteen or would
Speaker 2: you take maybe thirty for an extended period of time?
Speaker 9: Oh, one hundred and fifteen for sure. See, because here's
Speaker 9: the thing. I've been out here long enough where once
Speaker 9: you break triple digits, until you get to about one twenty,
Speaker 9: it all feels the same to me.
Speaker 6: Plus, you know, there's so many people, you know, pools,
Speaker 6: you know, like you can you can find a pool
Speaker 6: to sit next to, you know, I.
Speaker 9: Mean, it's easier to cool off and get warm.
Speaker 6: So I'm yeah, I'm with you. Although I did live
Speaker 6: in Phoenix the year that I was one hundred and
Speaker 6: twenty six.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: See, that's too much. Team, that was too much.
Speaker 9: It sounds like litboro.
Speaker 2: Hell, where are you from originally?
Speaker 9: Originally I'm a so cow kid. I'm from the suburbs
Speaker 9: of Los Angeles, so out there.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 9: And actually, as we're watching the wildfire coverage, I was
Speaker 9: looking at it recently, and I guess, like a week ago,
Speaker 9: one of the uh, one of the hard warnings, like
Speaker 9: the northeast tip of it was literally like two blocks
Speaker 9: away from my aunt house. So there was some there
Speaker 9: was some nervous, uh, nervous confusion going on with the
Speaker 9: family back there, but it all worked out and they
Speaker 9: were they were lucky enough to to be able to
Speaker 9: stay and not have to evacuate. But obviously, uh, everything
Speaker 9: else that's going on in the Pacific Palace Areas area
Speaker 9: and the new fighters that have sprung up have been
Speaker 9: just absolutely traumatic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question, no question. Now let's go back to
Speaker 2: your world here. So I'm sure you're busy, are you
Speaker 2: You're kind of still the one man band or are you?
Speaker 9: Yeah? No, I'm I'm one man banding and and loving it.
Speaker 9: I guess is you know, as as much as one
Speaker 9: can I got I got help when I need it, though,
Speaker 9: like I am in a fantastic position where you know,
Speaker 9: it's it's a one man banded situation, at least on paper,
Speaker 9: but the station offers me and affords me to help
Speaker 9: when I needed, which, as it turns out, it's kind
Speaker 9: of a lot. So they do well by me, no complaints.
Speaker 6: Go ahead and tell me, well, hey, Damian, this is
Speaker 6: Tim Bentley. I was the coach at Saint Augustin Catholic
Speaker 6: High School. You came out and did the story in
Speaker 6: the Red Beard rally for coach Boule.
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, sir, how are you.
Speaker 5: I'm very good. Good to talk to you.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna tell Nico Montoniez and Marcus Matanio that I.
Speaker 5: Talked to you today.
Speaker 6: Nico is is you interviewed him. He's now a two
Speaker 6: time Olympic Trials athlete and running pro and living in Mammoth.
Speaker 6: So I that shows up on my Facebook page every
Speaker 6: once in a while, so think, yeah, small town huh.
Speaker 9: I love that. I love stories like that because.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think it's just so cool to be
Speaker 7: in the.
Speaker 9: Environment where you can see the foundation, lay the foundation
Speaker 9: and then watch the athlete or student or whomever just
Speaker 9: thrive like that. For you as the coach, I can't
Speaker 9: I can't imagine what that's got to be like for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're really proud.
Speaker 6: It's it's a more rewarding that the fact that they're
Speaker 6: great kids, you know, well actually nice young men now
Speaker 6: and then they'll still check in and they'll they'll ask
Speaker 6: for advice, but now it's about mortgages and refrigerators and stuff.
Speaker 5: Like that, and and and all that stuff.
Speaker 6: But we were talking earlier about you know, your commitment
Speaker 6: and you know, kind of finding and turning over those
Speaker 6: stories here in Tucson.
Speaker 5: You know what fires you up.
Speaker 6: You know, there's the basic stuff, but what fires you
Speaker 6: up on the on and when you're looking for stories, just.
Speaker 9: The cool little nuggets about folks that no one else
Speaker 9: has unearthed. You know. The it kind of gets almost
Speaker 9: cliche with you know, certain athletes having to overcome certain
Speaker 9: trials and tribulations and obstacles because we as just humans
Speaker 9: and the human condition go through that on like a
Speaker 9: daily basis. And yet there's something unifying about that. So
Speaker 9: it never gets old for me telling those stories about
Speaker 9: kids and adults and athletes who who see a challenge
Speaker 9: and conquer the challenge because if nothing else, at the
Speaker 9: end of the day, it's just inspiring. And I love
Speaker 9: those stories.
Speaker 5: And who's inspired you most recently?
Speaker 6: You talk to cool people all the time, but who's
Speaker 6: who's stuck in your mind the last couple of years.
Speaker 9: I'm okay, so this is going to be so last
Speaker 9: week and and Steve, you know, we were both there,
Speaker 9: just I didn't get a chance to interview him, but
Speaker 9: just being in the presence and listening to the stories
Speaker 9: of doctor j at the benefits for the African American
Speaker 9: Museum of Southern Arizona, just because it's timely and it's
Speaker 9: it's so you know, just a week ago that was
Speaker 9: just awesome. That was just awesome. You talk about challenges, inspiration,
Speaker 9: and just this presence of a man who has seen
Speaker 9: it all, done it all, and whose legacy you know
Speaker 9: sits as one of the top.
Speaker 2: On the mountain.
Speaker 9: Just absolutely mind blowing. And I don't use those words
Speaker 9: lightly because I know that can be a cliche too,
Speaker 9: But just being there and being able to absorb his
Speaker 9: knowledge and listen to how he overcame whatever he was
Speaker 9: up against to become the guy he is. Yeah, you
Speaker 9: just gotta love moments like that, So you know those
Speaker 9: things like that, that's most recently, that's what stuck with me,
Speaker 9: and I just really enjoyed that time.
Speaker 2: So when you have a story like that, because you
Speaker 2: know I was there too, do you are you able
Speaker 2: to maybe just use that as the story and forget
Speaker 2: about the other ones because you can maybe expand more
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, absolutely, which is what I pretty much did on
Speaker 9: that night. And I was only there. I was only
Speaker 9: able to be there for the first half of the
Speaker 9: the talk, but it was enough for me to be
Speaker 9: able to grab a lot of just good nuggets and
Speaker 9: tell a pretty cohand story about a guy who grew
Speaker 9: up to become a legend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell the story real quick. I had Bob Elliott
Speaker 2: here maybe two three years days ago, just as he
Speaker 2: how it went, and it was very successful obviously, But
Speaker 2: I couldn't remember the name he got, doctor J because
Speaker 2: they couldn't. He didn't want to be the professor.
Speaker 9: Because you didn't want to be the professor. With his
Speaker 9: high school friends, right, one of his best buddies, a
Speaker 9: teammate of his who they basically what was it? They
Speaker 9: started off they were ribbing one another and the buddy
Speaker 9: of his was basically talking about how his play was
Speaker 9: so clinical that he was just the doctor. And the
Speaker 9: response was doctor J calling his buddy the professor. And
Speaker 9: I don't recall why it was professor exactly. I don't
Speaker 9: know if it was, Uh yeah, I don't remember that,
Speaker 9: but I just remember the friend describing the play as clinical,
Speaker 9: so you might as well be the doctor. And then
Speaker 9: that just that name just stuck.
Speaker 2: Right, and it's probably one of the best, if not
Speaker 2: the best nicknames out there.
Speaker 9: I'll tell I'll tell you, I'll tell you. What's funny,
Speaker 9: was that, like one of our one of the folks
Speaker 9: that worked with me, who is not a sports fan,
Speaker 9: and if I'm not mistaken, probably is a gen z
Speaker 9: uh just kind of put in perspective in terms in
Speaker 9: terms of age when she wrote up the notes, because
Speaker 9: she had been talking to somebody who had mentioned it.
Speaker 9: Uh she wrote up the notes and put doctor d
Speaker 9: O C P O R. Julius Irving thinking that it
Speaker 9: was like a medical thing, and I had to pause,
Speaker 9: and that just cracked me up. Okay, so this is
Speaker 9: generation we've reached, the generation doctors.
Speaker 6: He does rounds of TMC. He's down there doing babies
Speaker 6: on Saturday. You never know, you never know, but well
Speaker 6: he's super talent.
Speaker 2: Tell him about your gen Z experience with Star.
Speaker 6: Trek oh So, Damien, I work. I'm the director of
Speaker 6: Marketing and Communications at TMC Health and and I have
Speaker 6: a I have a wide variety of folks who work
Speaker 6: for me, and I do have a gen probably what's
Speaker 6: what's after?
Speaker 5: Yeah, gen Z for sure.
Speaker 6: And she was we were talking about uh being able
Speaker 6: to immediately translate languages and how cool that is, and
Speaker 6: I said, yeah, it's kind of like Star Trek hunt.
Speaker 6: She just gave me this blank stare, like what and
Speaker 6: I'm like, no, they had a communicator on their chest
Speaker 6: and it just it was like the coolest thing, Captain Kirk.
Speaker 5: And She's like she had no idea, all.
Speaker 9: Right, So how does that make you feel when you
Speaker 9: come up something like that?
Speaker 6: It made my knees hurt, dude, just like my I'm
Speaker 6: like old, my back hurt right after that comment, and
Speaker 6: I'm like, my knees hurt, and then all my hair
Speaker 6: fell out, and.
Speaker 9: Then you're like, where's my cane?
Speaker 2: Right right? Beat me up, Scotty, just beat me up
Speaker 2: the hell. So, David, David, we have some time talk
Speaker 2: about basketball. Are you keen on these guys? Are you okay?
Speaker 2: Are you patient?
Speaker 15: Well?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 9: Patient? Patient with the capital P. I think that's that's
Speaker 9: been the testament of this season is how patient, at
Speaker 9: least Tommy Lloyd has been consideration of the non conference
Speaker 9: and then you know, this first quarter of conference play
Speaker 9: because and he he made mention of this, if anybody
Speaker 9: had told him after the U c l A loss
Speaker 9: that they would just start breathing through at the time
Speaker 9: they hadn't lost to Texas text they were six and zero,
Speaker 9: that he wouldn't have believed anybody. And I don't think
Speaker 9: anybody would have believed that they would go on the
Speaker 9: run at there on. Currently, I you know, I still
Speaker 9: feel that this team goes where Caleb Love goes. But
Speaker 9: that's just kind of the nature of the build up,
Speaker 9: of the of the of the work of this team.
Speaker 9: But when it comes down to it, the patient and
Speaker 9: it's hanging off now right like they're starting to figure
Speaker 9: some things out now and it and it might not
Speaker 9: have come as quickly as anybody would have wanted or expected.
Speaker 9: But let's let's take a step back and think about
Speaker 9: seasons past here where they've come hot out the gates
Speaker 9: only to kind of nosedive towards the end. And it's
Speaker 9: like they've flipped the script a little bit in this
Speaker 9: twenty twenty four to twenty five season and that makes
Speaker 9: it not only different, but darn right exciting to see
Speaker 9: how how much further this team can go as we
Speaker 9: as we continue on and press on here.
Speaker 2: So so let me ask you, okay, get Caleb out
Speaker 2: of the mix, because we already talk. I agree with
Speaker 2: you that you know, as this team goes, he goes,
Speaker 2: which is you know, very inconsistent. But who has to
Speaker 2: be the guy uh not named Caleb who has to
Speaker 2: really come through?
Speaker 9: I mean, at this point all eyes turned to JAYD
Speaker 9: and Bradley as far as I'm concerned, you know, I
Speaker 9: think he has asserted himself as but the facto team
Speaker 9: leader while the spotlight kind of circles above Caleb Love. Also,
Speaker 9: that being said, if you would have told me that
Speaker 9: Henry Theysar would be having this kind of a breakout season,
Speaker 9: I wouldn't believed you either, given you know who else
Speaker 9: they had on the roster. H So kudos to him,
Speaker 9: But but I think ultimately Jayden Bradley, Jade and Bradley
Speaker 9: will lay the foundation to direct the team. Caleb blog
Speaker 9: will push the team down that road. If that, If
Speaker 9: that analogy makes sense, Yeah.
Speaker 5: So you emphasize you being patient. What makes you nervous
Speaker 5: about this team?
Speaker 6: Everything is there, like you're like, oh no, if that
Speaker 6: it could go all off, It could go off the
Speaker 6: rails if this happened.
Speaker 5: Is there anything that is there? One thing? Or is
Speaker 5: it just everything?
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, it's like you just mentioned, it's consistency, turnovers,
Speaker 9: just be able to find the rhythm, keep the rhythm
Speaker 9: throughout the entire forty minutes and not letting your foot
Speaker 9: up off the gas. And we talked about this before
Speaker 9: and again going back to cliche. This is almost cliche,
Speaker 9: but there's a lot of peaks and valleys where you
Speaker 9: feel really secure with how strong this team is playing,
Speaker 9: and then they let up and it becomes much closer
Speaker 9: of a game than you would have thought, like ten
Speaker 9: minutes ago. I mean, how many times have we seen
Speaker 9: that within this course of justice, this winning street that
Speaker 9: they've been on. Right, So it's like cardiac cats, but opposite,
Speaker 9: because they're starting off strong and then they're tailing austin
Speaker 9: the end versus starting off week in the beginning and
Speaker 9: having to dig their way out, which is a story
Speaker 9: that we've read many times in the last few seasons.
Speaker 9: Wouldn't you agree?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have no question.
Speaker 4: So is there is there a tell that they have
Speaker 4: for you?
Speaker 6: Like if if something goes off the rails, let's maybe
Speaker 6: a little quiet and you see it and you're like.
Speaker 5: Oh, here we go. Do you have a tell?
Speaker 4: Do they?
Speaker 5: Does a team have a tell to you?
Speaker 9: I mean, see, what do you think? What do you
Speaker 9: think of that?
Speaker 2: Uh? Tell? Well, when when Caleb goes south, I mean
Speaker 2: when he starts chucking them up and then he goes
Speaker 2: you know zero fo four from the three point line,
Speaker 2: not just in a matter of ten minutes, in a
Speaker 2: matter of three minutes.
Speaker 9: I was gonna say, a shot selection and Russian when
Speaker 9: they start rushing like forget it. Uh, you know, the
Speaker 9: time to kind of maybe turn away for a few
Speaker 9: minutes before before Timmy calls the time out and they
Speaker 9: have to.
Speaker 4: Course correct Texas right once they got out their pace.
Speaker 9: Uh and and once they get up against the defensive
Speaker 9: wall that does not allow them to play according to
Speaker 9: plan to the point where they have to improvise a
Speaker 9: little bit. Then it gets relatively scary, and that that
Speaker 9: is something that we have also seen in years past
Speaker 9: that have also proven be I mean, let's be realistic here.
Speaker 9: Their downfall in the tournament at least, right, and it's
Speaker 9: it's an ailment that I'm not sure they've found a
Speaker 9: cure for.
Speaker 2: Right. No, he's talked about that too, is getting that
Speaker 2: big lead, so just in case the collapse does happen,
Speaker 2: that they can survive that. And he's done that a
Speaker 2: couple of times too. Let me ask you outside of
Speaker 2: I think you're in your fifties, lower fifties, if not
Speaker 2: fifty yet. I'm in my sixties now, but I think
Speaker 2: the most unhappy.
Speaker 9: You're gonna be, I'm gonna be forty five, and like,
Speaker 9: I'm really really so I appreciate the opportunity to pretend
Speaker 9: as if I'm wiser than I am.
Speaker 14: You.
Speaker 6: We want everybody to be in their fifties, yes, yes, older,
Speaker 6: you get. We want everybody to the way we.
Speaker 2: Talked about this, how long you've been in two soon
Speaker 2: then twenty or seventeen around?
Speaker 9: Wait, what is it? What do you guys think?
Speaker 2: What I said seventeen.
Speaker 5: Thought twenty one.
Speaker 9: But okay, well we'll almost put the difference there. It'll
Speaker 9: be it's eighteen, it'll be nine. See in July, I think, wow, yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, and you've and TV is not an easy business,
Speaker 2: but let's go there too. So I was talking about
Speaker 2: the sixty year old older guys. The crowd has not
Speaker 2: been as generous as it has been in the past,
Speaker 2: in part because the time starts you too, or the
Speaker 2: TV people must hate that because they're finishing their eleven
Speaker 2: and you're coming gone.
Speaker 9: You know what that was. That was really more of
Speaker 9: an issue the last few Pact seasons. This season, I've
Speaker 9: been I've been, for the exception of like at least
Speaker 9: in conference games, the exception of a few games that
Speaker 9: have tipped off eight or nine, it's been relatively manageable.
Speaker 9: And the reason why is because the ones that have
Speaker 9: been the latest have been on the East Coast, so
Speaker 9: we've been able to have that time difference Act is
Speaker 9: kind of a little bit of a cushion. But for
Speaker 9: the late games, yeah, I mean it's it's like, actually,
Speaker 9: it's nice because then I don't have to rush and
Speaker 9: I can just watch and enjoy or know my pants
Speaker 9: one or two.
Speaker 2: And then what I guess overnight?
Speaker 4: What kind of your story the next day exactly?
Speaker 9: Then come back the next day and uh, and then
Speaker 9: do the friendly recap knock on wood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well one more you go. One.
Speaker 6: No, I was I'm thinking, Damian, outside of the U
Speaker 6: of A sports what what are you tracking on in
Speaker 6: the in the city. What's the state of the state
Speaker 6: sports wise? What are you tracking on here in town?
Speaker 9: Okay, let's talk. Uh, well, we can talk about a
Speaker 9: lot a lot of things, really, the Suns and and
Speaker 9: I find the whole Jimmy Butler Miami debacle super soap
Speaker 9: opery and the fact that the Suns you know, are
Speaker 9: right there in the mix to land Butler potentially, uh,
Speaker 9: is just fascinating to see what that would even look
Speaker 9: like and how much more beneficial that would be to
Speaker 9: the team and whatever kind of run that they're trying
Speaker 9: to make out of a season that, for all intentsive purposes,
Speaker 9: seems like it's kind of like nose diving. You got
Speaker 9: the Diamondbacks trying to do their best to make moves.
Speaker 9: The Corpy Burns signed was awesome, only to be followed
Speaker 9: up by Sasaki signing with the Dodgers, which I think
Speaker 9: is comical. Uh.
Speaker 6: And isn't there payroll like two billion dollars right now
Speaker 6: the Dodgers?
Speaker 9: Oh my god? Yeah, No, Actually, yeah, that's not even
Speaker 9: like an exaggeration. It's it's it feels like it's not
Speaker 9: it is up there.
Speaker 4: It's up there.
Speaker 9: Given all the moves they've made, I mean like they're
Speaker 9: on the hook for like billions of dollars between Otani
Speaker 9: and Yamamoto alone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but not like twenty forty two. So come on,
Speaker 5: that's like, that's.
Speaker 7: True, that's true.
Speaker 9: That's part business planning. But no, man, it's you know,
Speaker 9: what about the state what's that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead, the state of Arizona.
Speaker 9: No, I'm just gonna say the state of the state
Speaker 9: of Arizona sports. It's kind of fascinating right now, you know,
Speaker 9: with the rye as of ASU football and with what
Speaker 9: Brent Brennan is you know, really attempting to do with
Speaker 9: with the Wildcats, combined with the fact that you know,
Speaker 9: there are rumblings up north that you know, maybe potentially
Speaker 9: reportedly some small backroom discussions are talking to potentially bring
Speaker 9: back the NHL to Phoenix or to the Arizona Uh.
Speaker 9: And then whatever the mess the Cardinals are in that
Speaker 9: that's always something to watch for, I guess. But yeah,
Speaker 9: it's an interesting time for sure to be covering sports
Speaker 9: in the state.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure the people at KOLD are looking for you,
Speaker 2: so you better get in the building.
Speaker 9: And I'm just hiding out in my car in the
Speaker 9: parking lot.
Speaker 6: Turn off the heat to put on your jacket and
Speaker 6: make a run for it.
Speaker 9: I guess got you.
Speaker 7: Huh, I guess it's that time.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Damian. Appreciate it. Always appreciate it, Damian Alma
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll start the week next week to preview, Uh,
Speaker 7: the other game. This is our warm up game where
Speaker 7: they're gonna be our starters will be able to sit
Speaker 7: and then Henry will go crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Henry and maybe Martinez will get some time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and even that that that benchwarmer. And we have
Speaker 7: to start because we don't have we don't have the
Speaker 7: big guy Crevised. I mean I saw that guy in preseason.
Speaker 4: He just is so bad.
Speaker 7: That guy we had to use.
Speaker 2: Oh he's a project, he's a project.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but are you a little worried project?
Speaker 5: With the big game on Monday, are you worried that
Speaker 5: we may be.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna be there sitting in a good seat at
Speaker 7: center court. I'm gonna I can't wait.
Speaker 2: No, go ahead and ask the question. No, no, you're
Speaker 2: talking about you may not show up for Saturday. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: So I'm just thinking, are they are you? Are you
Speaker 6: worried about the game on Saturday?
Speaker 7: No, I'm not worried trap games for this No, they're
Speaker 7: going to be concentrating that this game. They're going to
Speaker 7: be favored in the teams. Right, I don't know what
Speaker 7: the the sprite as they do it close on like
Speaker 7: NBA games, they're gonna be fifteen. You know they can
Speaker 7: they could They literally can roll well, talent can roll
Speaker 7: the ball out for this game. He goes, but you
Speaker 7: better be concentrating when when when when Monday comes around?
Speaker 2: So are you happy this season or what's your what's
Speaker 2: your mood with the.
Speaker 7: Sound they're doing good.
Speaker 2: They're one with your sons, with your sons, all.
Speaker 7: The sons are. We'll just have to see. There's there's
Speaker 7: a little bit less than half the season, you know,
Speaker 7: you never know it's it's so they're pros. Anybody can
Speaker 7: win on any night during the regular season, right, it's
Speaker 7: just how it goes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Damien. In the last segment, Damien Alexander was excited
Speaker 5: for Jimmy Butler. Possible, possible.
Speaker 7: What do you think he's just he's thirty five years old.
Speaker 7: I mean, come on, and he's a little taller. But
Speaker 7: we need like a six to nine power forward or
Speaker 7: they really need to have Kevin Garnett, e shoose Me
Speaker 7: Durant play the three. That's the ideal thing. And you
Speaker 7: can even put bull Bowl out there because we have
Speaker 7: such good guards. Bull Bowl can be the four because
Speaker 7: he's a stretch for and any guy now that we
Speaker 7: got Richard's were in good shape. Yes, yes, he's like
Speaker 7: he's he's like a he's like a boor man's persingus
Speaker 7: what they call a unicorn where he can hit the
Speaker 7: three pointer. And no, he's people love him all around
Speaker 7: the country.
Speaker 9: They cheer for him.
Speaker 7: I mean they really like him.
Speaker 2: He's great.
Speaker 7: He's very likable. He's a nice guy. Like Charles always said,
Speaker 7: his dad was so funny, you know, you know, the
Speaker 7: late manout ball. He was such a nice guy and
Speaker 7: really funny. That's what Barkley always said. So he had
Speaker 7: a ring and but Bob Elliott. I loved watching Bob Elliott,
Speaker 7: you know, in person in the seventies when he was
Speaker 7: playing and and and you know, I didn't go. Was
Speaker 7: it a mops and you were there, right, Steve, No.
Speaker 2: It wasn't. It was It was really control. About five
Speaker 2: to seven hundred people in there.
Speaker 5: Hali Verdi does a good job.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's we said, we do events there and they
Speaker 6: do a good joice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's cool. It's retro cool.
Speaker 7: I'm just used to seeing Julius. It was the golf tournament.
Speaker 7: I think it was the Bob John Denver. I think
Speaker 7: it was like in January or February. The pro am.
Speaker 7: I followed Doctor j around and Merlin Olsen. He was
Speaker 7: playing I think with Merlin Olson, and I could care Oh,
Speaker 7: my wife is pregnant with our son.
Speaker 9: It was nineteen ninety.
Speaker 7: Three beginning really Oh yeah, my wife was seven months
Speaker 7: pregnant with our kid or six months, and we were
Speaker 7: following him around, and you think I could care less.
Speaker 7: I could care less about Merlin Olson and all the
Speaker 7: autograph seekers. I just got Doctor Jay's autograph and it's
Speaker 7: like it was great. And my wife. My wife works
Speaker 7: at the u of A and she goes, Oh, I
Speaker 7: bet Bob Elliott. You know he's really nice.
Speaker 2: Did you remember seeing you still have that signature?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I got it actually graded too, I got it greater.
Speaker 7: Yeah it's great. I got it graded and sent it
Speaker 7: off and yeah, I got a signature, and I'm gonna
Speaker 7: sell it.
Speaker 4: How much?
Speaker 7: Well, you know, any signature, especially when it's been authenticated.
Speaker 7: It's funny because I got this other authenticating Noel Ryan.
Speaker 7: He said, no, but it looks exactly like Nolan Ryan's signature.
Speaker 7: I don't know I got it. I just found it
Speaker 7: on a card somebody else had it. It's you cannot
Speaker 7: copy some of these guys signatures when you can see
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, They just have a way
Speaker 7: of doing it. You could not. You can't copy it.
Speaker 2: You didn't answer my question. How much is it worth?
Speaker 7: Oh, you know, it's just to the right person. I
Speaker 7: see a lot of the ones graded his rookie card.
Speaker 7: But his rookie card. Remember he's fifteen hundred dollars. But
Speaker 7: I most people pure card collectors, they wouldn't want an
Speaker 7: autograph on his rookie right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 7: I wouldn't. Mine is just a random nineteen eighty one
Speaker 7: or eighty two card that's worth about forty or fifty bucks.
Speaker 7: So it's worth about one hundred and fifty or two
Speaker 7: depending on who. You know what I mean, you got it.
Speaker 7: It's only worth what someone's.
Speaker 2: Going to pay for sure, of course. Well, Howard, thanks
Speaker 2: for calling in, Thanks for getting it.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, well see got call you monday.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Right, cool, We got about five We got
Speaker 2: five minutes probably, Yeah, if you want to call. Howard's
Speaker 2: our one of our regular.
Speaker 6: I know, I like how I wonder if his wife, Howard,
Speaker 6: is your wife still man to you that you made
Speaker 6: her walk around the golf for us when she was
Speaker 6: seven months bygg?
Speaker 2: Is she still with you? Howard?
Speaker 15: I know?
Speaker 2: Well, if you want to call it five to four
Speaker 2: one forty uh to it was kind of a slow Friday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I was.
Speaker 5: I was telling you that I played golf with Charlie Daniel.
Speaker 5: We played with him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we were we were fourteen years old and and
Speaker 6: uh we were playing. They paired us, my buddy and I.
Speaker 6: They paired us with two guys for the no, no, no,
Speaker 6: for uh, we were just we just walked on him.
Speaker 5: Oh, he was here for the concert.
Speaker 4: And he gave us. He gave us passes.
Speaker 2: Devill, Georgia. We got a call. Who's this, Hey, David's
Speaker 2: Jim Jim Jim? How you doing good? How are you?
Speaker 2: Thanks for the call.
Speaker 17: I'm fine. I don't want to share my sour puss
Speaker 17: attitude with it.
Speaker 2: I just noticed.
Speaker 17: I just wondered if anybody noticed that the UH championship
Speaker 17: football game with ratings were down almost twenty five percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I saw that.
Speaker 4: I think I saw that too.
Speaker 2: Why what do you think?
Speaker 5: Why do you think, John?
Speaker 7: I think I know exactly what it is.
Speaker 17: I think all of those conferences and all of those
Speaker 17: teams started out in geographic regions.
Speaker 9: Well that's all blown up.
Speaker 17: Now with you know, Washington playing a big ten UCLA
Speaker 17: and a big ten and so forth, and they end
Speaker 17: up with two teams playing that that are domiciled two
Speaker 17: hundred miles apar part in the Midwest. Well, and at
Speaker 17: that point nobody gives a damn.
Speaker 2: Well out that.
Speaker 5: I'm with you a little bit.
Speaker 6: But I also think it was it was the inauguration day,
Speaker 6: it was the day after big football games, and I
Speaker 6: think they need to do a better job of positioning
Speaker 6: it as an event game early.
Speaker 17: I'm one hundred percent on what I said. I think
Speaker 17: that's exactly it, and I think the cure for that
Speaker 17: is to get the seeds.
Speaker 2: They're going to have to change the way they no question,
Speaker 2: I agree with you, no question.
Speaker 17: They see the playoffs and it's going to have to
Speaker 17: be so that it's impossible to end up with that
Speaker 17: matchup two hundred miles apart.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, it's like the March madness, you know. They they
Speaker 6: want regional games to start off, but they want to
Speaker 6: end up with the match what they want.
Speaker 2: I know, this was a very very difficult situation because
Speaker 2: the seedings were totally screwed up.
Speaker 5: They didn't know what they were doing right away. They
Speaker 5: you know, well twenty.
Speaker 7: Five is huge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 17: Down twenty five million a year before to nineteen million
Speaker 17: this year.
Speaker 2: Did you watch it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: You didn't.
Speaker 17: Why I had other things to do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well there's one last person. Okay, Yeah, thanks,
Speaker 2: thanks Jim. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 5: Thanks Jim.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to go here.
Speaker 7: You're welcome.
Speaker 2: You don't YouTube, Jim, Hey we got about two minutes,
Speaker 2: wasn't it. Okay, So I was watching something on Facebook today.
Speaker 2: I guess with the attendance that you it hasn't been
Speaker 2: very good right years past, you know, fifteen thousand, but
Speaker 2: I think it started doing to wayne in in the
Speaker 2: end of Sewn's time and and maybe came back a
Speaker 2: little for Tommy's first year. But there's twelve thousand, eleven
Speaker 2: thousand in the building, a lot of empty seats, and
Speaker 2: people are wondering why why that is, Well, you're gonna
Speaker 2: go to eight o'clock, nine o'clock game. No you're not.
Speaker 2: People don't it's too late for the for the crowd.
Speaker 5: Well, and you used to have a cadence to those games.
Speaker 6: There were Thursday, Saturday, Thursday Saturday, and you could kind
Speaker 6: of map your Thursday game, but you could go to
Speaker 6: a Saturday game. But now it's on a Tuesday night
Speaker 6: and it's nine o'clock, and it's it's it's a little late.
Speaker 5: And we've talked about the older audience in there too,
Speaker 5: so it's.
Speaker 2: Always been an older audience. So so that's the case.
Speaker 2: We'll see. I guess that's sold out, right, they came out, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they came out to I'm sure Monday night's gonna be
Speaker 2: one of those sold out games. Depending even though it's
Speaker 2: late that one hasn't hasn't been said. Yeah, so we'll
Speaker 2: see and that's gonna be the game of the year
Speaker 2: to this point, to this point. Yeah, and then Houston
Speaker 2: comes in in next month, so we'll see what happens. Uh.
Speaker 2: And money's kind of taed.
Speaker 6: I guess, well, money's tight, you know, and there's just
Speaker 6: a lot of options, and the product isn't stellar, you know.
Speaker 2: No, no, And let me tell you something. People care
Speaker 2: about that if you're not going to crush people or
Speaker 2: be really good, they're not gonna go watch right, I
Speaker 2: mean fickle.
Speaker 6: Right, And I think that's you know, no, no that
Speaker 6: you know, not throwing anybody under the bus. But you know,
Speaker 6: Tucson is can be a fair weather team, fresh weather fan.
Speaker 2: You gotta go there, Henry Okay, Thanks Henri, Thanks Henry Heny,
Speaker 2: Thanks Matt.
Speaker 5: Good luck at the game, Matt.
Speaker 2: Thanks to