Speaker 1: Streaming live on the Ihearts Radio WIB. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I in the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me
Speaker 2: today is Tim Bentley from TMC. It's been a low Hello,
Speaker 2: it's been well since you've been in. You were the
Speaker 2: Friday guy and then Jay decided you wanted to come back.
Speaker 3: Jay wanted to come back, and I'm thanks for reviting me.
Speaker 3: I wanted to sneak in here and then talk about
Speaker 3: running and we did that for last ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was by accident.
Speaker 4: What a great day. And I on the Ball history, Yeah,
Speaker 4: and we had JV was great.
Speaker 2: Right. We would have Marcus Medelson here for the Maccabie
Speaker 2: games here in Tucson, so that's coming up pretty soon.
Speaker 2: We decided to talk to him. What's going to happen,
Speaker 2: what's going on in about two or three weeks. I
Speaker 2: think it's like June, do you have that up? Twenty second?
Speaker 5: Twenty first, it's tours in July when us I'll tell
Speaker 5: you that's coming up soon though, and they've had them
Speaker 5: before Downtown.
Speaker 3: July July, well July, and it's a couple it's over
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, So we'll talk more about doc uh when
Speaker 2: he comes on about four seventeen. Good to talk to
Speaker 2: JB too. Two back to back. Some of the big
Speaker 2: centers here in the U of A history history, Loring
Speaker 2: Woods and today JB.
Speaker 4: And you are on a roll man, it's your Rolodex.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, summer's gonna suck.
Speaker 4: Your rolodex is on fire.
Speaker 2: Summer's gonna suck because that rolodex is going to die
Speaker 2: a slow death of trying to use people to try
Speaker 2: to get used, use it to get people to come in.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you this.
Speaker 3: We've we've been talking about you know, uh, JB talked
Speaker 3: about his mom and being a kid, and you know
Speaker 3: we've been talking about coaching and making an impact on
Speaker 3: on kids' lives. What does what does that mean? Or
Speaker 3: you know this audience, I just lost my train of thought.
Speaker 2: Was I saying you did you? I'm contagious. That happens
Speaker 2: to all the time.
Speaker 4: I did you had surgery? Now I have surgery, and
Speaker 4: now I've totally forgot. I was gonna ask you.
Speaker 2: About it, but that happens to be Jay and I
Speaker 2: on a Friday, maybe it's a Friday we go to
Speaker 2: that guy you know, that guy you know. But it
Speaker 2: comes to me too. All the time I'm thinking about
Speaker 2: that subject we were talking about. Here you go, are
Speaker 2: you're gonna go with? You're talking about kids and be
Speaker 2: talking about the uh the impact on something. No, you forgot.
Speaker 2: I totally welcome to my world.
Speaker 3: It's funny because for the six months I haven't been here,
Speaker 3: and I mean you, I'm here for a one time.
Speaker 2: I joke about this, but I know it's serious. I
Speaker 2: forget names. Damn You're lucky. I remember yours because I
Speaker 2: you know what, Tam, I gotta call Who's Who's.
Speaker 5: I know?
Speaker 4: So I'll probably think of it in a minute and
Speaker 4: right in the middle of the games.
Speaker 2: Anybody I want to call, please do five two, o, four, one, six, seven,
Speaker 2: seventy four forty will take your call now as we
Speaker 2: have time before we get on with mister Medlson. So again,
Speaker 2: any coaches, I want to talk about philosophy. I love
Speaker 2: talking about philosophy, coaching philosophy, whether it's running or baseball
Speaker 2: or football. Because today's kids are tough I'm sure every
Speaker 2: generations has these issues, right and it's always better or
Speaker 2: worse before. But you know, coaching today's kids, to me,
Speaker 2: would be very difficult given the nil given the Hey, coach,
Speaker 2: I make more than you or just as much. Are
Speaker 2: you gonna tell me to do this? And if you
Speaker 2: tell me and I don't like it, guess what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do.
Speaker 4: What I worry about sometimes I'm gonna leave.
Speaker 3: They're gonna leave, and you know, so there's you know,
Speaker 3: there's the sense that they didn't have to work as
Speaker 3: hard to get to that fund and they've been giving
Speaker 3: it right away, and so it's I worry about. We
Speaker 3: talk about this age group all the time. This you know,
Speaker 3: like sixteen to twenty two year olds that are knuckle heads.
Speaker 2: Hold that thought. Oh you're on there and on the ball.
Speaker 2: Who says.
Speaker 6: There's a jim?
Speaker 2: Jim? What's the word?
Speaker 6: Man? I forgot?
Speaker 3: Hey, you should come into and help us out here
Speaker 3: because we are just one big Well, come forget with us.
Speaker 2: Come forget with us. Fifty Jim. I didn't know you
Speaker 2: had a sense of humor.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I do. I actually robust.
Speaker 2: What do you what do you got for us?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 6: A couple of weeks ago, I tried to delve into
Speaker 6: the question about what's his name?
Speaker 2: Oh no, the guy with the deal, that football player.
Speaker 6: For God's sake, it just won't come up.
Speaker 4: Lebron James, Ron.
Speaker 6: James, Thank you God. I just could not get that out.
Speaker 2: We're all going through it. Go ahead.
Speaker 6: I was asking the question and I wanted to get
Speaker 6: the temperature on the room as to what impact Lebron
Speaker 6: James has had on three levels one basketball, two sports,
Speaker 6: and three the culture. Wow, Like I'd like to hear
Speaker 6: people address that question in those areas. Is positive or negative?
Speaker 2: Stick around?
Speaker 6: Because and that would do it if you just want
Speaker 6: to say positive or negative?
Speaker 2: Okay, sticker, stick around? Give me the three kept Can
Speaker 2: we answer this? We'll do it, not not at length,
Speaker 2: but we'll try to because I think we'll have different opinions.
Speaker 2: Give me your give me your.
Speaker 6: Pro Basketball is number.
Speaker 2: One, depends number two is no, no, no, no no. We'll
Speaker 2: go one at a time. Basketball. Uh, everyone in the
Speaker 2: the younger generation has him as the best player of
Speaker 2: all time, right of course, maybe under thirty under is.
Speaker 3: They fight between Lebron James and.
Speaker 2: And fight Okay, yeah, at that era, but our guy
Speaker 2: was Michael Jordan. Right, So basketball, I'll give him a
Speaker 2: nine because I'm not that eraro. I covered Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: I saw him play a number of times. So to me,
Speaker 2: he's fantastic.
Speaker 3: And the impact he's had, I think is that commitment
Speaker 3: to greatness. He wants to be great every day and
Speaker 3: I like that, and kids like that they look to
Speaker 3: that commitment.
Speaker 2: Okay, And that's our opinion. Whether it's debatable, Okay, I
Speaker 2: give that.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I think there's a lot of opinions out there.
Speaker 2: Sure. Okay, So next question sport in general, sport by sport.
Speaker 6: What do you mean, well, just the idea of competitive spirit.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean that he's fantastic, Right, He's fantastic. He
Speaker 2: plays well, plays hard. Obviously, he flops and all other stuff,
Speaker 2: but that's who he is, uh, sport, I give him.
Speaker 2: I give him like an eight to nine. I don't know,
Speaker 2: he's fantastic.
Speaker 3: So, and I think, you know, we were hung up
Speaker 3: on Jordan being six and oh and and and you
Speaker 3: know Joe Montana four and O and Terry Bradshaw four
Speaker 3: and O. You know Lebron James was in the finals
Speaker 3: nine or ten years in a Row and so this
Speaker 3: this this this level of greatness for so long. You
Speaker 3: know Tom Brady, you know now we talk about him
Speaker 3: being great and he's had some losses. So it's it's
Speaker 3: opened that door to have some losses and still be great.
Speaker 4: Good good answer.
Speaker 6: So the third level is cultural, Well he keeps what
Speaker 6: impact on the culture.
Speaker 2: So Jim, you and I are you're a little older
Speaker 2: than me. We also grew up with Muhamad Ali. We
Speaker 2: had Jim Brown, guys who spoke out in certain things
Speaker 2: exactly people and people who spoke out. And then we
Speaker 2: have a generation that Michael Jordan did not speak about
Speaker 2: stuff because you know, Republicans buy shoes too, Democrats buy
Speaker 2: shoes too. Uh So there's that and Lebron speaks out
Speaker 2: right and and a lot of people don't like that
Speaker 2: he speaks out. Well, hey, speak out, Maybe what do
Speaker 2: you have to say? So that I don't know, he's
Speaker 2: very good at it, obviously.
Speaker 3: I think he uses a platform for good. You know,
Speaker 3: he's you know where on which side you're on? True,
Speaker 3: But I mean, I don't think that he's malicious. And
Speaker 3: I think that he's shown if you asked about the
Speaker 3: impact he's had on sport. You know, he's showing them
Speaker 3: what a what a high level athlete and how they
Speaker 3: can harness multimedia opportunities, you know, brand opportunities to become
Speaker 3: you know, one of the top athletes of all time.
Speaker 2: What do you think.
Speaker 6: You're asking me?
Speaker 2: Well, unless, yeah, I was gonna ask you what do
Speaker 2: you think? And one why the question?
Speaker 6: He forgot The question I have to follow this up
Speaker 6: with is I'm looking for an answer to this question,
Speaker 6: and that is why are NBA ratings viewership at all?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Okay, I don't know. If he's the king
Speaker 2: of all time.
Speaker 6: And he's a you know, the best athlete, the hardest worker,
Speaker 6: and the most competitive and has had a positive influence
Speaker 6: on the culture, what's what's going on with basketball?
Speaker 2: I think there's a burnout one and they don't play basketball.
Speaker 2: You and I and Tim and whoever saw it maybe
Speaker 2: twenty years ago, thirty years ago, forty it's different now
Speaker 2: it's it's it's perimeter basketball, and it's kind of boring to.
Speaker 4: Watch, but yeah, it is somebody's making money to because I.
Speaker 6: Like the more strategic approach where you pass the ball
Speaker 6: up for a better shot Bobby nin style.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's now outside ball, it's still I know.
Speaker 2: Here's I'm guilty of not watching the NBA specifically until
Speaker 2: the playoffs and the now that the Goolden State Warriors are.
Speaker 2: I really don't have a team or I don't care,
Speaker 2: but I still watch it. Just watching basketball.
Speaker 6: You know, the idea that a guy can run down
Speaker 6: the court and jam the ball in the basket. It's great,
Speaker 6: it's entertaining for about twenty minutes. You probably it's the
Speaker 6: same thing over and over.
Speaker 4: They carried the ball to you. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: Well, you probably saw your own question or ask you
Speaker 2: to answered your own question.
Speaker 6: Well, look, I grew up in Indiana. My best friend
Speaker 6: growing up was mister Basketball of Indiana, and he was
Speaker 6: well they billed him as the next coming of Jerry West,
Speaker 6: who was. He went to Purdue Jerry Nichols, and he
Speaker 6: didn't get very far with this program. He dislocated and
Speaker 6: hyper extended his petular ligament and his knee and the
Speaker 6: NIT playoff his sophomore year. He was back when you
Speaker 6: could not play until you were a sophomore, and he
Speaker 6: had about this was his first real coming down and
Speaker 6: he had about fifteen sixteen points and was just lighting
Speaker 6: it up and the third or second half at that
Speaker 6: point and did a reverse layup and just tore his
Speaker 6: leg all up. You could see his petula halfway up
Speaker 6: his thigh on TV.
Speaker 3: So everybody in their car wherever they're listening to just
Speaker 3: grab their knee right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, audience, our audience, get the big game. Get the
Speaker 2: big game.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, but every year for years, six or seven years,
Speaker 6: the Indiana Pacers would have him out for another tryout
Speaker 6: because Jerry was a good guy. He could play the
Speaker 6: hell out of the game, but he just was so fragile.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Jim, thanks for the tough questions.
Speaker 6: I hope you can be interested to find out what.
Speaker 6: Maybe you hit the nail on the head. Maybe it's
Speaker 6: just boring.
Speaker 3: I think it's just somebody is making money because they're
Speaker 3: there met somebody some you know, TV network or streaming
Speaker 3: that they're making money somewhere, and so because they're giving
Speaker 3: and be more and more money.
Speaker 2: I'll give you this though, it's not about ratio. Well,
Speaker 2: in two weeks you're gonna find and this my guess,
Speaker 2: I could be totally off the wall, which of course
Speaker 2: that happens.
Speaker 6: Okay, I got.
Speaker 2: You we're going to figure out Wait, hold on, let
Speaker 2: me finish this. Let me finish in two weeks, we're
Speaker 2: gonna find out that these two teams Indy and likely
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State, likely Indie. No one's gonna watch it. You
Speaker 2: think people are gonna watch Oklahoma City and Indiana sgay baby,
Speaker 2: let's go Yeah? No, I mean because there's no peel.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, the markets are horrible.
Speaker 6: Okay, very well said that. You're headed right to the
Speaker 6: point I was wanting to make. I'm most concerned in
Speaker 6: all of this is what's going to cause the likes
Speaker 6: to go off in college football. And I think you
Speaker 6: just hit the nail on the head and don't know it.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be a championship game between Oklahoma State and.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I get it, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2: But that that is that's out in the boies Jim, and.
Speaker 6: People are gonna go, I don't even give a damn.
Speaker 2: And win, Jim, that's not gonna happen in your lifetime.
Speaker 4: And mind not the way they're they're setting that up.
Speaker 6: No, Well, the way they've set up these conferences, they
Speaker 6: are so geographically spread out. Yeah, I think it is
Speaker 6: going to happen.
Speaker 4: Well, well, twenty.
Speaker 6: The college playoff game this year was down. The ratings
Speaker 6: are down twenty five percent over last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if it happens, Jim, you'll take me out
Speaker 2: for a coffee and all. Yeah, thank you very much for.
Speaker 4: All All right, Well, who was that? I forgot that.
Speaker 2: That was Jim.
Speaker 5: Thanks Jim, Yeah, James, thanks, all right, thank you guys.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that's cool. Hey, he'd been sending me this
Speaker 2: question for a while. I forgot, of course, I forgot.
Speaker 2: That's I think that's the Friday team. Yeah, forgot. Forgetful Friday.
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Ravera on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Subscribe now to the podcast on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio just search I on the Ball.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and with me
Speaker 2: today is mister Tim Bentley.
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 2: Hello, Now on the phone, we have Marcus Mendelssohn from
Speaker 2: the JCC Maccabi Gaines. How are you, Marcus?
Speaker 7: Good?
Speaker 14: Thanks, good, thank you, Thanks.
Speaker 4: For having me.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, an exciting time for you guys downtown right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's gonna happen in a few weeks.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we are Lett London two months away. Plans in
Speaker 14: place that all the different teams are working hard and
Speaker 14: we are super excited to be hosting this again for
Speaker 14: the first time here in too.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, god, twenty five years to me,
Speaker 2: it seems like you was like ten years ago just
Speaker 2: feels like I can't I can remember going and yeah
Speaker 2: I remember twenty five years. That makes me only forty two. Cool,
Speaker 2: I'm good going there. So how did it come back?
Speaker 2: How do you guys get it to come back?
Speaker 14: So it's been the plan for a little while of
Speaker 14: the JCC. You know, it's these games have been going
Speaker 14: since nineteen eighty two. The first ones were hosted in Memphis, Tennessee,
Speaker 14: with only a few hundred athletes, and they've grown and
Speaker 14: grown and grown, and it's been in the plan for
Speaker 14: a little while here at the JCC for them to
Speaker 14: come back, and this was the right time.
Speaker 2: Did you have to bid for them?
Speaker 14: So whilst I wasn't the one involved in that process,
Speaker 14: it's an ongoing conversation with the JCC mccaby team nationally
Speaker 14: and every single summer two currently two, previously three, and
Speaker 14: hopefully once again in the years to come, it will
Speaker 14: be back to three or more hosting these games every summer.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, when you put these games on, you know
Speaker 3: it sounds the athletes coming from all over the United States?
Speaker 12: Is that?
Speaker 4: Is that what's happening here?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 14: So they are predominantly North American delegations representing their communities jcc's,
Speaker 14: which are Jewish community centers across North America, so including Canada,
Speaker 14: and historically many international delegations have been involved. The Israeli
Speaker 14: delegation come every year. We have multiple delegations from Canada,
Speaker 14: historically places like Mexico, Argentina, the United Kingdom, South Africa,
Speaker 14: Australia and more.
Speaker 3: So it is an international contingent. What what's the scope
Speaker 3: of the Games? What what what events? And what what
Speaker 3: games will athletes be competing in in a couple of
Speaker 3: months here?
Speaker 14: Sure, So there's a whole bunch of sports soccer as
Speaker 14: I would call it football, but soccer. We have flag, football, baseball, basketball, volleyball, tennis, dance, golf, swimming,
Speaker 14: the whole range. And we have a program called Star
Speaker 14: Reporter for those who may not necessarily be sports people
Speaker 14: but still want to be involved in around it, and
Speaker 14: we're shaping that so that they can really be a
Speaker 14: part of the experience and they can do sports reporting
Speaker 14: and interviews and nowadays you know, social media based video
Speaker 14: reporting and can still really be involved in meet fellow
Speaker 14: teams from all over the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question. You're a veteran of the Games, right,
Speaker 2: you played in there ideas.
Speaker 14: I represented the MCCABI Great Britain team twice so two
Speaker 14: thousand and six in Phoenix, two thousand and seven in
Speaker 14: Orange County, California, and came away with the Golds the
Speaker 14: first year is still for the second year.
Speaker 4: In football, in football. Nice, well done in football?
Speaker 2: Are you so?
Speaker 4: I know?
Speaker 2: Are you working for these events? Are you in Tucson?
Speaker 2: Are you two soon based or you with the company?
Speaker 14: I am okay, yeah, no, I'm too so based. I
Speaker 14: work here at the Tuson JCC. I've been in town
Speaker 14: for just over a year and thoroughly enjoying myself.
Speaker 2: From from where originally from not originally because.
Speaker 14: I know, yeah so originally originally from Essex in England.
Speaker 14: I spent a year and a half in South Florida
Speaker 14: working at a JCC near Fort Lauda, though Oka And yeah,
Speaker 14: no I'm here.
Speaker 2: So you came from Florida to here? I did, Okay,
Speaker 2: So I was gonna say, I was going to say,
Speaker 2: how you enjoyed the heap of South Florida is a
Speaker 2: different type of heat? Uh?
Speaker 14: So you're kind of a different type of heat enjoying it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, of course, Uh how do you? How
Speaker 2: do you And You've been prepared for this for a
Speaker 2: while obviously, right, for a long time.
Speaker 14: Yes, so I've been working on it for a year,
Speaker 14: but the team have been working on it probably close
Speaker 14: on two and a half to three years by now.
Speaker 2: Did they kind of search you out and say, I know,
Speaker 2: I got a guy, We got a guy who might
Speaker 2: be able to pull this baby off.
Speaker 14: I mean, I am one part of a really experienced,
Speaker 14: an amazing team. It was one of one of those
Speaker 14: conversations that just happens I had experienced in the games,
Speaker 14: you know, But there are people who are part of
Speaker 14: this team, including our games director Josh Shanker, who has
Speaker 14: been involved in these multiple times, our CEO Todd Rockoff,
Speaker 14: who has hosted the games in previous communities and was
Speaker 14: very very keen to bring it back here too soon.
Speaker 3: I'm curious, you know, you've seen it in other communities
Speaker 3: and your director has seen it, participated and help plan
Speaker 3: in other communities. What does Tucson have that makes it,
Speaker 3: you know, a good place to.
Speaker 4: Host these games?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 4: What? What? What does Tucson have the lens of self
Speaker 4: to it a successful games?
Speaker 14: So in the year that I've been here an incredible community.
Speaker 14: The community spirit is amazing, and that's without the community
Speaker 14: behind you, these games cannot happen. Whilst we have a
Speaker 14: professional team working on this day and day out, we
Speaker 14: also have a huge number of volunteers community leaders who
Speaker 14: lead our various committees. You know, without these games, with
Speaker 14: transportation and food and the volunteers and countless other committees,
Speaker 14: these games don't happen. So we have an incredible community
Speaker 14: spirit that everyone right now is coming together, and we
Speaker 14: are still in the lookout for volunteers. So if anyone
Speaker 14: listening is interested, please reach out to JCC and I'd
Speaker 14: be happy.
Speaker 4: To talk to you.
Speaker 2: I was just going to go there because I know
Speaker 2: if I say something, I'm going to screw it up.
Speaker 2: But could you give us give us the site one
Speaker 2: and to the dates when these are going to happen.
Speaker 14: Absolutely, So the games are taking place between July twenty
Speaker 14: seventh and August first, and we're going to be using
Speaker 14: sporting venues across town. The JCC is going to be
Speaker 14: acting as the main hub. Yeah, we we're welcoming almost
Speaker 14: a thousands teenage athletes, hundreds of coaches, delegation heads, and
Speaker 14: potentially up into the thousands of spectators as well, whether
Speaker 14: they're family members or friends who are traveling into town.
Speaker 14: And that's something that I was hoping we would touch on,
Speaker 14: because this really is for the entire community. This isn't
Speaker 14: just for our members here at the JCC. It's tying
Speaker 14: in people from right across Tucson and further afield. And
Speaker 14: one of the really exciting things for Tucson it's that
Speaker 14: we're estimating around a four million dollar economic impact into
Speaker 14: the local economy.
Speaker 2: So it really is I'm sorry giving the number event,
Speaker 2: what's the number again?
Speaker 14: Well, really a four million dollar impact locally for the community.
Speaker 2: I was just going to say, you know, I was
Speaker 2: going to ask you that question, so I'm sure visit
Speaker 2: Tucson or whoever. The people you had to deal with, UH,
Speaker 2: love you for that because you know that's great.
Speaker 14: Yeah. They've worked really really closely with the team to
Speaker 14: help us scout out various locations and we're going to
Speaker 14: be using hotels across town, sporting events across sporting venues
Speaker 14: across town, and with you know, local restaurants and transportation
Speaker 14: and the hotels. It really is tying everyone in.
Speaker 3: I'm curious, how how do people qualify for these games?
Speaker 3: Is their qualification and how far out do people start
Speaker 3: to qualify? And when they get here are they is
Speaker 3: this the championship? Can they go on to the International
Speaker 3: Games from here?
Speaker 14: So every every community has has a has a different system.
Speaker 14: A lot will hold tryouts within their local communities. We're
Speaker 14: going to be welcoming about forty one different delegations coming
Speaker 14: in and I know many of them go through weeks
Speaker 14: and months of trials and yeah there you know, to
Speaker 14: trimutete and participate in the games. The athletes are Jewish
Speaker 14: and something you know special to add these are the
Speaker 14: largest youth sporting events for Jewish teams annually around the world.
Speaker 14: And but that's the beauty of bringing in the entire
Speaker 14: community where our athletes a Jewish, but everyone else involved
Speaker 14: is from every corner of the community. And there are
Speaker 14: opportunities to go on to participate nationally and internationally with
Speaker 14: various Jewish delegations at different sets of games.
Speaker 2: You wanted to mention the history some of the history
Speaker 2: of of Tucson regarding you know, seventy years institution.
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, this is a really important years for us
Speaker 14: here at the Tucun Jay It's seventy years since the
Speaker 14: Two Sun Jewish Community Center was founded. It's thirty six
Speaker 14: years at our current site. And you might think why
Speaker 14: is thirty six important? In Judaism, numerical values links to
Speaker 14: words are very important, and the number eighteen links to
Speaker 14: the Hebrew word of thigh, meaning of life. So thirty
Speaker 14: six is double life, which is quite significant. And as
Speaker 14: I mentioned earlier, twenty five years since we hosted last
Speaker 14: in Tucson.
Speaker 2: God, I mean twenty five years to be again, I
Speaker 2: can't remember. I can't imagine twenty five years ago. But
Speaker 2: when I went, you had opening ceremonies. I think, so
Speaker 2: you do have a bout that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 14: So one of the really special parts of the Games
Speaker 14: is kind of an Olympic style of ceremony where all
Speaker 14: the teams walk out to big crowds, big music, waving
Speaker 14: their banners representing their local communities. And you know, I
Speaker 14: still remember it walking out waving our Union Jack fly
Speaker 14: representing Great Britain, and just the cheers as you walk
Speaker 14: into an arena as a teenager, when everyone is there
Speaker 14: to support you and you're there to make friends from
Speaker 14: all over the world, it really is special.
Speaker 3: You know, you talk about community involvement in community fans,
Speaker 3: you know, what kind of competition level, what kind of
Speaker 3: performances should we or could we expect to see from
Speaker 3: these athletes.
Speaker 14: So you know, some of some of the players that
Speaker 14: come to these games are serious athletes, and whilst sport
Speaker 14: is kind of the driver to bring our participants here,
Speaker 14: it really is the community spirit that makes the games
Speaker 14: what they are. But you know, from what I understand
Speaker 14: and from the people I've spoken to across the country,
Speaker 14: we have some state and national level athletes coming into town.
Speaker 14: So anyone coming to watch will be in for a treat.
Speaker 2: Could you I know you didn't mention the website. You
Speaker 2: talked about going to the to the JCCSA. Let's go
Speaker 2: to that. Give us a website school just the dot
Speaker 2: com because they can find everything they want you there.
Speaker 14: Right, absolutely, So it's jac C mccabi twuson dot com.
Speaker 2: Right, you can find the volunteers if you want to
Speaker 2: go there. You can talk about you have a lot
Speaker 2: of different areas to go for that because how many
Speaker 2: I'm sure it takes a few hundred to help pull
Speaker 2: this off.
Speaker 14: Well, yeah, we our volunteering platform actually went live today
Speaker 14: and there's been a great uptake in the various volunteering opportunities,
Speaker 14: and we estimate around a thousand volunteering time slots time
Speaker 14: slots available.
Speaker 4: So the more the more, the merrier. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The site is easier to navigate. I was just checking
Speaker 3: it out, so yeah, you know Tucson.
Speaker 14: Yeah, every everything, everything you need is on there, breaks
Speaker 14: everything down volunteering. Q and A takes you into the
Speaker 14: registration sift and.
Speaker 4: There's a way to give. So there's there's lots of
Speaker 4: good information here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let me ask you how Let me ask
Speaker 2: you your age if you don't mind about forty something?
Speaker 14: Uh well maybe by my voice, I'm fecty too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're sixteen years ago, you say when he
Speaker 3: was a teenager.
Speaker 2: I thought I was talking to some guy.
Speaker 4: Wait about age.
Speaker 2: Congratulations or sorry, I'm apologized now, But what I wanted
Speaker 2: you was talk about you as a kid playing because
Speaker 2: I thought this was a while ago. What it meant
Speaker 2: to you to be a gold medal winner, civil win
Speaker 2: or winner?
Speaker 14: Sorry can you repeat that?
Speaker 2: Just what it meant to you because you're you're a
Speaker 2: You're next champion is what did it mean to you
Speaker 2: to do this and accomplish what you accomplished.
Speaker 14: You know, I think for me, I flew halfway around
Speaker 14: the world to do this and to represent you know,
Speaker 14: the all essentially representing my country. For you know, it
Speaker 14: was special.
Speaker 4: It was special.
Speaker 14: I you know, I played week in week out growing
Speaker 14: up and to win was amazing. But the following year
Speaker 14: to lose in the final was very humbling. But what
Speaker 14: made it so special was even though we lost in
Speaker 14: that final, that same evening we went out and hang
Speaker 14: out with the team who were the local team in
Speaker 14: Orange County who beat us, and we went go karting
Speaker 14: and to go go karting with the team that just
Speaker 14: beat you in a final, going from tears to laughter
Speaker 14: within the space of a couple of hours, that's what
Speaker 14: makes it so special. And I'm still in contact with
Speaker 14: some people that I played with and that I met
Speaker 14: from back.
Speaker 4: In the day.
Speaker 2: Well, I was going to say, the friendships you build
Speaker 2: and stuff like this.
Speaker 3: That's the beauty of sports really of just participation at
Speaker 3: that age, you know, sixteen seventeen, those are lifetime friendships.
Speaker 2: Right right, And you know, go ahead, I'm sorry, no, no,
Speaker 2: that's fine.
Speaker 14: I think you're about to ask anything else, And absolutely
Speaker 14: there is there's something really really special amongst everything else,
Speaker 14: well two.
Speaker 6: Special things, if I have a couple of yes.
Speaker 14: So every single team who comes along with their coaches
Speaker 14: participates in something called JCCS and that's something that really
Speaker 14: helps out participating teams realize that they're part of something
Speaker 14: much bigger and it's a really big Jewish value that
Speaker 14: we have called tiku Alam repairing the World, and it's
Speaker 14: JCCKES is a service project that they do to give
Speaker 14: back to the local community that you're visiting. And we're
Speaker 14: really really excited and we're planning some really special opportunities
Speaker 14: here for the teams for them for them to do
Speaker 14: this not just with their own delegation, but with each other,
Speaker 14: their new friends and their competitors that they've met during
Speaker 14: the week. And they'll be spending an afternoon morning, some
Speaker 14: of their time whilst they're here and too soon giving
Speaker 14: back to our local community. And the other part I
Speaker 14: wanted to mention is something called j c C mccarby Access.
Speaker 14: That's something that's been through a three year pilot and
Speaker 14: we are truly honored to be the first, the first
Speaker 14: community to be hosting the Access Games where they are
Speaker 14: a part of the games every year moving forward, and
Speaker 14: these are for teenagers and young adults age twelve through
Speaker 14: twenty two with intellectual and developmental disabilities where they have
Speaker 14: their own program with catered activities and sports for them,
Speaker 14: and then they also participate in unified sports with the
Speaker 14: rest of the game's athletes to show that this really
Speaker 14: is about community and coming together.
Speaker 2: Very nice, very nice. Well, Marcus Mendelssohn. Good luck to you.
Speaker 2: We'll probably touch you again maybe sometime early July. Just
Speaker 2: to blind people, how can people go? Is it cost
Speaker 2: to paid watch? How does that work.
Speaker 14: That for local community members that there is no cost.
Speaker 14: We would love all of your listeners and their friends,
Speaker 14: their families, their colleagues to volunteer. You have to be
Speaker 14: eighteen and above to volunteer, and if volunteering isn't your thing,
Speaker 14: just come along and cheer on our athletes. To the
Speaker 14: website everyone and click the registration button. It's that simple.
Speaker 14: My contact details are on the website as well, so
Speaker 14: if you're not sure, give me a call and I'd
Speaker 14: be happy to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Thanks a bunch of Marcus. We'll talk to you against sir.
Speaker 4: Luck Marcus, Thanks for sharing that very amazing.
Speaker 14: Thank you so much and have a great week you.
Speaker 2: Too, Thank you very much. Yes, great, great stuff. Got
Speaker 2: twenty five years and I'm old and.
Speaker 4: Fleur years ago. You're about our age, right, Marcus. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm thirty two, exactly.
Speaker 5: To be Marcus thirty two down older.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm thirty.
Speaker 2: Two, thirty two because he did to me, didn't you
Speaker 2: sound older?
Speaker 3: Well, but you know he did say that he as
Speaker 3: a teenager. He competed in two thousand and six. I
Speaker 3: can't do math. Come on, I get two bucks in
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my the ball. If here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Them Steve Rivera, you're blake.
Speaker 3: You're not blake, Tim, That was a cool, cool guest. Yeah, Mark,
Speaker 3: you know he's talking about he's thirty two.
Speaker 4: Everybody.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: When I was in high school, I competed at a
Speaker 3: at a national cross country race, UH Sacramento, and it
Speaker 3: was called Kenny it was. It was a shoe store
Speaker 3: regional meet, national meet. And you know, he talks about
Speaker 3: the camaraderie that he still feels. I still have friends
Speaker 3: from that meet, from other schools and other states that came,
Speaker 3: and there's there's an impact that these games, these types
Speaker 3: of games bring for other athletes. You know, the benefit
Speaker 3: of the community is great, but you know what resonates
Speaker 3: with me is the impact that makes on the athletes.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, your community or your country.
Speaker 2: My son, my son, my oldest son was twelve at
Speaker 2: the time, I think it was he was part of
Speaker 2: it was on the state best Soccer Kids and they
Speaker 2: went to Minnesota up and you you know, you do
Speaker 2: anything for your kids, right, You're selling shirt, you're selling
Speaker 2: whatever you do. You went in Minnesota to play and
Speaker 2: there's a bunch of it was a Beverly It was
Speaker 2: the bad news bearers in my mind, it was like, okay, whatever,
Speaker 2: and then we're pretty good. But you know, you're thinking
Speaker 2: of this team. They go to Minnesota and they win games,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, how are they doing that? And then
Speaker 2: win games and what they win games and then they
Speaker 2: find themselves in the championship game against the Cuba or
Speaker 2: I can't remember, it was the Brazil Brazil. I'm thinking
Speaker 2: my son's team, who plays goalie, And I'm thinking, this
Speaker 2: experience itself is like it was fantastic for me. Imagine
Speaker 2: what it was for the kids. You know, I can't
Speaker 2: get too excited, but now I'm getting excited, but I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: if that weren't me, it was like the Little League
Speaker 2: World Series. Sure, when you're going when you're doing that
Speaker 2: and you're thinking, God, I can't believe that we're here
Speaker 2: playing in front of this, these people in front of TV.
Speaker 2: Because guess what you dream of exactly that moment. So
Speaker 2: for then them, I'm not sure if that's that big
Speaker 2: of a moment, but so's pretty good, pretty big.
Speaker 3: You know, you're wearing a uniform, it has your name
Speaker 3: on it, it has your maybe your city or something.
Speaker 3: It's you know, right when I coached, I would always
Speaker 3: tell kids, they said, coach, I don't feel like running
Speaker 3: around them.
Speaker 4: I'm not a runner.
Speaker 3: I would say, hey, that you need to represent your school.
Speaker 4: You need to represent your community doing.
Speaker 3: Something, whether it's the doing basketball or being in drama
Speaker 3: or volunteering, doing something and represent you know, representing your community.
Speaker 3: Uh is the value I think that comes out of
Speaker 3: these games. You know, not only competing at a high level,
Speaker 3: but you're you're you know, you're you're part of something bigger.
Speaker 2: So how much resistance did you get when you said
Speaker 2: you gotta you gotta do this, you go do that?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: I was I've been in sales for a long time.
Speaker 3: I was very persuasive. We would have fifty or sixty
Speaker 3: kids out for cross country and.
Speaker 2: Track every day, and how many how many stuck it out?
Speaker 4: Most of them? You know, it was it was you know,
Speaker 4: it was a ton of fun.
Speaker 3: You know, we would eat a ton of pizza and
Speaker 3: provide good experiences and and and great you know competition.
Speaker 3: You know, the whole goal is to make good kids.
Speaker 3: You know, provided you know your kid got to go there,
Speaker 3: and and you know you you want everything for your kids,
Speaker 3: so you nurture them, you give them opportunities to rise
Speaker 3: to the occasion and learn to.
Speaker 4: Be great, but also then to learn to be humble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question. And that was just the start
Speaker 2: of of many things that he was able to do,
Speaker 2: you know, just kind of like, Okay, this is what
Speaker 2: you could be capable of. And then as you get older,
Speaker 2: they're going to Spain, they're going to Germany to play
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. You're thinking, okay, but you know
Speaker 2: it starts early, very costly, blah blah. And I'm sure
Speaker 2: people who have kids like like like Sun it ain't easy. Well,
Speaker 2: and it's financially tough.
Speaker 4: Sure, you know.
Speaker 3: And so it's that's why I'm an advocate for kids,
Speaker 3: you know, getting into an activity, multiple activities at school,
Speaker 3: play soccer, do track, shoot hoops, play baseball, do lots
Speaker 3: of different things, and then the thing that they love
Speaker 3: will come to them, you know. But multiple sports, multiple
Speaker 3: activities growing up.
Speaker 2: Sure, thanks for better people too.
Speaker 4: I think, hey, are you going to the Are you
Speaker 4: gonna be at the race tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, I was was there last year?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have our crew going. I'm not because I
Speaker 2: can't really help given my situation with lifting and things.
Speaker 2: Like that. So I'm not gonna go sorry to say that'sture.
Speaker 2: I have fun. It was, it was, it was very impressive.
Speaker 2: And go ahead and tell what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Oh, I just it's they meet me Downtown five k
Speaker 3: and Festival of Miles but by well TMC is one
Speaker 3: of the title sponsors, but it's it's a great community event.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I was very impressed. Uh, you know, Randy
Speaker 2: does a great job. Randy, that's where I met you, right,
Speaker 2: you come up to me and I got some history
Speaker 2: and Regio, that's okay, leave me alone.
Speaker 4: Get out of here, a little guy. I'll be I'll
Speaker 4: be announcing down there, So come and say hi.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you have a good band that Joe.
Speaker 4: And the little closed. One of my friends will text
Speaker 4: me there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, yeah. So she's a lot of fun. Uh,
Speaker 2: and that's awesome. Of the friends I've known for a
Speaker 2: while running. Hey, you're running, okay and part of TMC
Speaker 2: and you have this contingent of runners, right, so what
Speaker 2: do you hear? I worked there? Run there. We have
Speaker 2: a group there, right, it's their TMC run shirts.
Speaker 4: Run TMC Baby un.
Speaker 2: Run DMC is somewhere out there. Yeah. No, that's very cool,
Speaker 2: and he's it's very cool. I mean a lot of
Speaker 2: different levels too, young, old, high school, older.
Speaker 3: Yeah, festival miles, there's a mile race for kids, there's
Speaker 3: a mile race for high school kids.
Speaker 4: There's a mile race that's open.
Speaker 3: There's a five k it's kind of a badge of
Speaker 3: honor to run it when it's one hundred degrees and
Speaker 3: get it done. And there's you know, free entry into
Speaker 3: the children's museum if you've got family and kids, and
Speaker 3: there's a beer garden and you know, all kinds of activities.
Speaker 2: It's it's not all day. I mean, it's a four
Speaker 2: hour deal.
Speaker 4: It starts at five with some stuff and it's over
Speaker 4: by eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the whole thing. It's funny because I've
Speaker 2: known Randy for a while, but we've never seen him
Speaker 2: in action. And I look at him and doing that
Speaker 2: is that's what I must look like.
Speaker 5: Tour.
Speaker 2: You got it all over the place, right, and you're
Speaker 2: just kind of getting on mic.
Speaker 3: Okay, I just get on the mic and I just
Speaker 3: tell people where the bathrooms are and how you know
Speaker 3: how to cool put your.
Speaker 4: BIS on the front of your shirt.
Speaker 3: But it's a lot of fun and I you know,
Speaker 3: we've been talking about through history and time and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, but people will always see community. Whether back
Speaker 3: in the day it was bowling leagues or going to
Speaker 3: the Elks Lodge. People want to have community, and Tucson
Speaker 3: has really done a number of getting people outside to
Speaker 3: get them moving. There's lots of great activities. You know,
Speaker 3: there's the Maccabi games we're talking about. There's you know,
Speaker 3: Joe Blair wants to put basketball courts in a park
Speaker 3: so that kids can play year round. You know, Tucson
Speaker 3: has our unfair share of fit activities that you can
Speaker 3: do here.
Speaker 4: Whether it's what do you mean by that, we have.
Speaker 3: Our unfair share of people that you know are active
Speaker 3: and engaged in our community.
Speaker 4: I really believe that unfair share.
Speaker 3: We have more than our you take out an average,
Speaker 3: we have more. I think we have a higher average
Speaker 3: of people that are active. Of course, so I always
Speaker 3: say we have our unfair share of people.
Speaker 2: Not super saturated, but we have people doing a lot of.
Speaker 4: People doing a lot of things.
Speaker 3: You know, Tucson is a runner friendly city, it's a
Speaker 3: bicycle friendly city.
Speaker 2: It's if you haven't learned by now, Tim, you have
Speaker 2: to talk to me like like a little kid, I
Speaker 2: forgot and this comes after this. Could you explain that please? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you see it, you know, you see it
Speaker 3: out in the community and you know, people playing sports,
Speaker 3: and you know it's it's that's what I love about
Speaker 3: too soon. That's one of the reasons, one of the
Speaker 3: reasons why people say I love they love.
Speaker 2: Touson when you here's the difference. And I grew up
Speaker 2: a small town. Obviously, people know that. When you drive around.
Speaker 2: Do you see enough kids playing as you go home? Now,
Speaker 2: it's kind of time, but it's gonna get hot here.
Speaker 2: You don't see him on the courts just too hot, right, it's.
Speaker 4: A little too hot. But you see kids, and you know, did.
Speaker 2: You grow up that way? You know, at the park, chasing, chasing,
Speaker 2: you know, I group in the park playing ball, I
Speaker 2: playing ball.
Speaker 7: We did.
Speaker 3: I grew up in Wichitak, Kansas, and you know, everything
Speaker 3: was you know, run to your friend's house, it was
Speaker 3: it was at sports, baseball, all those things. It's a
Speaker 3: different time, I get it, you know, but it was
Speaker 3: more structured, a little bit more structured. I you know
Speaker 3: that it's it's a challenge that I faced with being
Speaker 3: a coach. Is you know sometimes kids get committed early
Speaker 3: to a sport. You know they're eight, nine, ten to
Speaker 3: one and to one sport. Yeah, and I've said this
Speaker 3: before when I when I had college coaches called to
Speaker 3: recruit my kids, they always ask does your kid?
Speaker 4: Does this kid play multiple sports?
Speaker 2: And they wanted to see that they do because.
Speaker 3: Just because it makes them a well rounded kid. You know,
Speaker 3: they can disengage from the main sport, be a good team.
Speaker 3: And you know, you hear it all the time on
Speaker 3: you know, NBA and NFL, like, oh this this this
Speaker 3: elite pro athlete was also on his baseball team and
Speaker 3: helped his friends, helped his team win a state championshi
Speaker 3: or he was the state she was the state champion
Speaker 3: long jumper.
Speaker 4: And it's coaches like that. They like.
Speaker 3: That competitiveness across sports. But then there's also science that
Speaker 3: just says that kids that age that more cross directional
Speaker 3: sports they're playing is better for their bones.
Speaker 2: Some coaches wouldn't agree with you because they want to specialize, right,
Speaker 2: they want to specialize. And I'm not that guy. I'm
Speaker 2: not that guy. It's funny. Last night I was watching softball,
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was UCLA or TEX like
Speaker 2: one of those. And they're identifying with this one one girl,
Speaker 2: one woman, I think whatever position. She's got a nursing,
Speaker 2: she's going to nursing, and she's a four point zero.
Speaker 2: She she does all these all those other things, like
Speaker 2: holy crap, she wants to read this. And she she's
Speaker 2: a band. She plays in the band. She's a drummer.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, God, I guess her parents must be retired.
Speaker 2: But she's brilliant, you know what I'm And she's an
Speaker 2: elite softball player. I mean, I'm sure there's more stories
Speaker 2: like that than not, because all these people, all these
Speaker 2: women and men at are overachievers.
Speaker 3: Listen, I work at a hospital with physicians who often
Speaker 3: are also Olympic trial athletes, who world class pilots.
Speaker 2: Because are over achievers.
Speaker 3: Successful people in sports. You know they are achieve greatness
Speaker 3: at a lot of different things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have no question. And the one thing that
Speaker 2: Ictual said this before to a number of coaches. They
Speaker 2: understand teamwork. And if you have a good team, you
Speaker 2: have good teamwork. Right, you don't have jealousies. You don't
Speaker 2: have I'm sure you do in different spots, right. But
Speaker 2: but good teams make good champions.
Speaker 3: They make great champions, and they make good teammates and
Speaker 3: good competitors, and they hold each other accountable.
Speaker 2: I think that's part of the too, you know, the
Speaker 2: big part of it.
Speaker 3: You know, you're recruiting an eighteen nineteen six seventeen, eighteen
Speaker 3: nineteen year old kid.
Speaker 2: You want to make sure they're a good kid. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: part of the toos. And I'm sure you played ball
Speaker 2: and I played ball, and you have a team. You
Speaker 2: don't want to disappoint your your buddy, so you try hard.
Speaker 4: I mean you play hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't. You don't want to disappoint you. You
Speaker 2: don't want to disappoint anybody, especially when yourself and your
Speaker 2: buddy who's playing next to you and says, god, I
Speaker 2: screwed up exactly.
Speaker 4: So I think there's getting that.
Speaker 3: Tucson has our unfair share of talented athletes, and you know,
Speaker 3: just a good, good community and good atmosphere.
Speaker 2: To succeed with that. We got to go. God, it
Speaker 2: goes by fast.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, Thanks for having me back.
Speaker 2: Thank you