Speaker 1: Their exhibition games tonight taken on Cal State, LA. Okay,
Speaker 1: what time started? You're going to six o'clock? Okay, right
Speaker 1: after the show at the Big Cal Center.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, if I could real quick. There's no pressure
Speaker 2: on her to succeed, right, She's done really well. Uh
Speaker 2: do you think she has pressure on herself to succeed?
Speaker 3: I think she has constant pressure on herself in terms
Speaker 3: of expectation from herself, from herself alone, because you know,
Speaker 3: when they went to the national title game, her thought was,
Speaker 3: this is how it's going to be every year. This
Speaker 3: is our expectations, this is our goals. And they haven't
Speaker 3: come close to that.
Speaker 2: No, it's been tough. In fact, it's been the opposite.
Speaker 3: You've had players transfer in and out like a revolving
Speaker 3: door system issues, and I think you're seeing her trying
Speaker 3: to start to get back to that path.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 1: Arizona Softball released its first Big Twelve Conference schedule. They
Speaker 1: will take on Central Florida on March sixth, and then
Speaker 1: they will finish off the season on the weekend of
Speaker 1: May first.
Speaker 3: Do you know much about you follow the softball Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, big home games for arizonatall this year they're
Speaker 3: gonna host Oklahoma. No, Oklahoma, They're they're in the SEC.
Speaker 3: Oh god, I think Oklahoma State will be coming to
Speaker 3: Tucson for a three game series, and also Texas Tech
Speaker 3: U with Niger from Stanford coming over. Honestly, Texas Tech
Speaker 3: probably a little bit ahead of Oklahoma, I mean ahead
Speaker 3: of Arizona given that they had that our picture in
Speaker 3: the circle. But you get Tech, Oklahoma State and Texas
Speaker 3: Teck at home. That's great. Now you gotta win games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, it's it's a good move because
Speaker 2: they don't have They used to be the Jriggernut, right.
Speaker 2: It used to be all we got Arizona. Great. Now
Speaker 2: you're talking about other schools. The Texas Tech thing is
Speaker 2: a great deal because she's fantastic. Uh so it should
Speaker 2: be fun. I've been thinking about getting tickets to go.
Speaker 2: I might not go all the time, but just to
Speaker 2: have them and maybe to go occasionally.
Speaker 3: There is no reason this year for Arizona softball not
Speaker 3: to finish in the top third of the conference or
Speaker 3: the top three yours on a softball you have the
Speaker 3: tradition this is a weaker conference than the Packwall no
Speaker 3: question about it. If you're not in the top three,
Speaker 3: people are going to start to question what's going on
Speaker 3: with the program.
Speaker 1: Okay, Takio Davis has been named a semi finalist for
Speaker 1: the Pecon Jim Thorpe Forward.
Speaker 2: Is he playing enough?
Speaker 3: I think it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean he's been banned up throughout the year, but
Speaker 3: when he's in there and he finishes the game, he's
Speaker 3: one of the best corners in the country, probably the
Speaker 3: best corner in Arizona's had since the Mike Stoops era.
Speaker 3: I mean he went through a lawn stretch between rich
Speaker 3: Rod and Kevin Summin where there were no great TVs
Speaker 3: at Arizona. So you know, Takario Davis last year he
Speaker 3: saw efesions probably sock getting that dB cornerback mentality back
Speaker 3: in Tucson.
Speaker 1: Arizona Women's soucker. Right, it's just soccer. They finish up
Speaker 1: the regular season and they have three players that have
Speaker 1: been named to Big Twelve Soccer All Conference Second Team.
Speaker 1: We have Nicole dallan Or Dland, Gianna Christensen and Aranda Herd.
Speaker 2: So do you know what? They finished seventh, right, and
Speaker 2: that was respectable I think because they they hadn't been
Speaker 2: as good in the past.
Speaker 3: No, they really haven't been the same Arizona soccer since
Speaker 3: Tony Amada left for Florida. So good finish prayers on
Speaker 3: a little bit easier of a conference and they're able
Speaker 3: to take advantage of it. You know, we all kind
Speaker 3: of talked about that for the non rev sports. The
Speaker 3: Big twelve is going to be a lot easier than
Speaker 3: the Back twelve and this is a golden opportunity four
Speaker 3: arison a non rev sports to take advantage. And so
Speaker 3: far do they have?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Speaking of soccer, they will start the Big Twelve
Speaker 1: Championship tomorrow in Kansas City. They're taken on Baylor. Oh,
Speaker 1: that goes through November ninth for that tournament.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Texans wide receiver Stefan Diggs is out for the season
Speaker 1: with a torn acl So.
Speaker 2: When they had news this morning about Diggs, I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: I guess something happened in Dallas because did you see
Speaker 2: the confrontation? Was it Digs his brother?
Speaker 3: It was all yeah, the other Digs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the defensive who was getting into the face of
Speaker 2: the reporter. Yeah, because of a tweet. That's the world
Speaker 2: we live in now, right, You write something bad about me,
Speaker 2: I'm going to confront you with it.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I guess back in the day they did that too,
Speaker 2: just there was no Twitter, there was no Facebook.
Speaker 5: Uh. But uh.
Speaker 2: And then the team apologized for him, and I guess
Speaker 2: later he apologized for it. You know, he did the
Speaker 2: moment stuff. But you're also getting paid millions of dollars.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm sorry. Let's be honest. It's the soft
Speaker 3: athlete era that we live in, and you see it
Speaker 3: all the time, and situations like that arise more and
Speaker 3: more each day. And at least he apologized. That's my
Speaker 3: only takeaway from that.
Speaker 2: Right. There was also the well we'll get to the USA.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you have the USC, but we'll
Speaker 2: talk about the USC team.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: Okay, see you switch over to the NBA seventy six
Speaker 1: yers find one hundred thousand for statements about Joel Embiid's health.
Speaker 2: Would they not being truthful with it? I think so
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Speaker 1: Load management investigation showed that the Sixers did not violate
Speaker 1: player participation policy with Embiid's miss games, but did so
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, yeah, one hundred thousand. That's like give
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Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Losenders, Lakers center and former Arizona Wildcat Christian Coloco has
Speaker 1: been medically cleared to play are pretty much resume basketball activities.
Speaker 2: He is he did he make the rush?
Speaker 3: He's on the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Oh great, great, great for him. He's a good kid,
Speaker 2: great kid.
Speaker 3: Very good kid, very nice guy. And the guy when
Speaker 3: you look at what he was at the beginning of
Speaker 3: his Arizona to then amazing development.
Speaker 2: Yes, free throws everything, shot blocks, no, no, And you're
Speaker 2: always pulling for those guys. You know, whether they're good
Speaker 2: or not, but you're always pulling for those guys. It's
Speaker 2: like the TJ. McConnell's. I mean, come on, I don't
Speaker 2: know if there was anybody who believed that he would
Speaker 2: make the NBA except for Sean Miller saying that he
Speaker 2: would to make it. And you're thinking, what now, it's
Speaker 2: ten years in making a ton of money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean I think it shows volumes of
Speaker 3: Tommy Lloyd and his coaching staff. What they could do
Speaker 3: developing Coloco for previous staff wasn't very good. Didn't play
Speaker 3: that many minutes and then just takes off. True.
Speaker 2: True, but also he's a year or two older than
Speaker 2: what he was before. Sure you know there's a strength conditioning,
Speaker 2: you know, because he was not that guy anymore.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rudy Gay has announced his retirement from the NBA
Speaker 1: after seventeen seasons.
Speaker 2: Rudy Gay was still in the NBA before. Have I been.
Speaker 3: You know, just at the end of a bench?
Speaker 2: H he's catching checks? Yeah? Yeah? Or was I at
Speaker 2: the end of the bench either or yeah, I was
Speaker 2: not at the end of the bench. I was getting water?
Speaker 1: So was he for a lot more money than I.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize he'd been in the league that long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for you they play Yukon something like that, Yeah, pret
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I can't remember Damian al me to be the
Speaker 2: another show, but I can remember Yukon. My world suck.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, Arkansas got me?
Speaker 2: What do you your kids know?
Speaker 1: Rising star Duke Freshman Cooper flag inks the deal with
Speaker 1: Gatorade today.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure that's worth a ton of money. He's
Speaker 2: gonna be the number one guy, maybe.
Speaker 3: Two guys, number one pick.
Speaker 2: He'll be here in twenty so twenty three days.
Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, a second, third or fourth game three, second
Speaker 3: of November twenty second job.
Speaker 2: There's also the other kid who can shoot it. They
Speaker 2: killed the issue. The guy could miss three pointers. I
Speaker 2: don't remember the name, but he was very good. You
Speaker 2: watch that game, no, but I saw highlights. Okay. And
Speaker 2: by the way, Troy, I don't know if you know this,
Speaker 2: but in highlights, nobody ever misses.
Speaker 3: That's why they're highlights it exactly.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Duke, I don't know if you guys talked
Speaker 1: about this yesterday, but Duke in Arizona will be in
Speaker 1: a twin bill seven.
Speaker 2: Right right here. They came out a couple days ago.
Speaker 2: By the way, Uh, Gabe, Gabe, Gabe, you've been trying
Speaker 2: to call in. Give us a call in about a
Speaker 2: minute or so if you want. MLB got Game four
Speaker 2: of the World Series tonight could be over. Yankees made
Speaker 2: a little tweak to their lineup tonight. Oh if it's
Speaker 2: standing down in fifth? What happened when I played that?
Speaker 2: He got caught in between?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they decided to send him home and
Speaker 3: it looked like, you know, god, it looked like you
Speaker 3: and me trying to run the home plate. It did
Speaker 3: not look good it. I mean, he was out by
Speaker 3: a country mile. That makes a good picture for me,
Speaker 3: so I understand it. Yeah, whoever is the third base
Speaker 3: coach made a horrible decision.
Speaker 2: Did it kill something, a rally or something.
Speaker 3: It could have scored a run, you know, cut it
Speaker 3: four to one? Oh, never mind, then they got two
Speaker 3: runs in the night. Yeah, so yeah, cold spinch. Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 3: I'm tired because he was tired on Sunday. I'm tired
Speaker 3: right now and I can't nap. You know what you
Speaker 3: should never admit to you as a quarterback, you're tired.
Speaker 3: You're tired. Just hey, I wasn't feeling good. I had
Speaker 3: to go check something out real quick, and I come
Speaker 3: back in and nobody's gonna.
Speaker 2: Question you right now. He's And it's hard to live
Speaker 2: that up. I mean, yea four years from now, Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 2: who one and one game said he was tired, Come up.
Speaker 2: You know it's always gonna be part.
Speaker 3: Of your story. Well, not not only that, but think
Speaker 3: about the defensive players out on the field when he's
Speaker 3: not doing well. Hey, maybe you should go to get
Speaker 3: some rest. You don't look right or sit down. You
Speaker 3: might be tired.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's all I have for today. Okay, Gabe,
Speaker 2: if you have time and give us a quick call,
Speaker 2: we'll answer the phone for sure. For sure, we'll see
Speaker 2: you guys calling in anybody we have some time. No oh,
Speaker 2: So was I gonna talk about what was going to
Speaker 2: bring all the us USC thing with with Riley and
Speaker 2: k and Riley. So I didn't realize this is how
Speaker 2: out of touchdown with locals because I thought the practices
Speaker 2: were closed for you guys. But there was a brujaha
Speaker 2: that they closed them.
Speaker 3: Early for training camp. They custom early because of reports
Speaker 3: of injuries. They didn't like it, said, they closed up
Speaker 3: training camp, but it was open for reporters on Tuesdays
Speaker 3: and Wednesdays, I believe for thirty minutes at like nine am.
Speaker 3: It still is still is to my knowledge, and then
Speaker 3: you know, you leave and you go and work on
Speaker 3: your stuff and then they have the press conference at noon.
Speaker 3: But it was open Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the season.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's probably still happening. Lincoln Riley has closed
Speaker 2: practices at us. See, I guess it's the media's fault
Speaker 2: for them not doing well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's never Lincoln's faults.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then you talked about his situation Oklahoma when
Speaker 2: he was there last year. Was the reporter from actually
Speaker 2: you were saying that usc Yeah, us see a couple
Speaker 2: of years of last year with the reporter in puting
Speaker 2: somebody who was not on the podium. Apparently a bad
Speaker 2: thing they took some flat when they took the creditials away,
Speaker 2: and him now just being kind of surly.
Speaker 3: You know what solves that when you win? Yeah, you win.
Speaker 3: And you know, I find it funny because you see
Speaker 3: it a lot with more modern day head coaches like
Speaker 3: Lincoln Riley that do this type of thing. Are you
Speaker 3: you younger?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But the guys that they were under Bob Stoop's you know,
Speaker 3: Nick Saban, Jim all these guys that you can name,
Speaker 3: they never had this stuff. They never dealt with this.
Speaker 3: They just went about their business. They wont to answer
Speaker 3: the questions and who cares. But so many young coaches
Speaker 3: are so worried about, well, why is he asking me this?
Speaker 3: Why is he he can't ask me? Shut up and win?
Speaker 2: Well that was one of the questions for him on
Speaker 2: the podium. I guess a week or so ago, two
Speaker 2: weeks ago or recently at least, one of the reports
Speaker 2: from LA asked one of the players, can you give
Speaker 2: me your opinion on whatever it was? And he told them,
Speaker 2: don't answer that. Don't answer that one and two h
Speaker 2: that was not a professional question. Yea, who you to
Speaker 2: determine our questions?
Speaker 3: Coaches love to control the narrative nowadays, and it doesn't
Speaker 3: do them any service. And then the long run and
Speaker 3: bite them in the butt. And so yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: like I say, win, win the games and worry about yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that reminds me of a little meme from the
Speaker 2: little girl who's trying to buckle up her safety built
Speaker 2: and the parents said, can help you? No, you sure
Speaker 2: worry about yourself? Are you sure I need to help you?
Speaker 2: Where about yourself? You drive?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You know, yeah, no, it's yeah, it's amazing. And
Speaker 3: you know what's funny, Yeah, that situation with Anthony Richardson
Speaker 3: where I'm too tired. Obviously not a lot of media
Speaker 3: training there, because I'm sure at Florida he wasn't allowed
Speaker 3: to talk to the media right where Floridas at Florida.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, so.
Speaker 3: They probably cut them off from the media. But if
Speaker 3: you have the training, he probably doesn't answer it that way.
Speaker 2: You're you're you're talking about something that's right in my
Speaker 2: wheels because it's exactly it. And I said this a
Speaker 2: number of times since Greg Burn got here, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say it's greg Burn's issue. It was when he
Speaker 2: got here the corporate part of the Arizona showed up
Speaker 2: and they started doing standalones with a coach and a
Speaker 2: player or two. The open lockers were not open during
Speaker 2: Loot's time, and it kind of wigned at the end,
Speaker 2: but we had open locker room, we could talk. He
Speaker 2: treated them like like men, like NBA players and like
Speaker 2: can be and men who answered questions either smartly or not.
Speaker 2: And if they didn't, it was on them. I know
Speaker 2: Gilbert he had trouble with He had a lot of
Speaker 2: trouble with Gilbert. But Gilbert was able to speak freely
Speaker 2: and and blah blah blah and and got him into
Speaker 2: trouble every now and again, and still still does. But
Speaker 2: guess what Arizona has a boat load I should say
Speaker 2: a boat of guys who are commentating and dealing with
Speaker 2: the media because they learned a lesson of being good
Speaker 2: at what they do, how to handle the media, how
Speaker 2: to be part of the media. You know Richard Steve
Speaker 2: when he was a tn T. There's so many people,
Speaker 2: Corey now, Channing Fry, great people I dealt with. And
Speaker 2: it helps to be able to grow up and being
Speaker 2: part of the part of the media and to deal
Speaker 2: with questions.
Speaker 3: And honestly, you can look at this from a football
Speaker 3: perspective too. And again tetro O macmillan was available today
Speaker 3: and I'm not trying to knock team out. He's one
Speaker 3: of the nicest people you'll ever interview, but he's shy,
Speaker 3: so he doesn't like, you know, doing so many interviews. Well,
Speaker 3: guess what when you go into an NFL locker room,
Speaker 3: it's it's open locker room. True. You can't say, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm too shy. I can't do it any You better
Speaker 3: get used to it. Yeah, I got a lot.
Speaker 2: And isn't college about learning?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And isn't it the university's job to you help
Speaker 3: you grow? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Not anymore. It's about protect, protect, protect, baby, have a
Speaker 2: front line to protect, protect, protect, and you kind of
Speaker 2: sent A question or two was mentioned to who was
Speaker 2: asked to tmac and on the sidelines the handlers were like,
Speaker 2: don't answer that.
Speaker 3: Don't don't answer that. And he did and he handled
Speaker 3: it professionally, which how novel. You know that's what you
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I in the Bargain Fox Sports
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Speaker 2: got Ryan at the controls. I just talked to Mike.
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Speaker 2: to forty Gabe, if you're ready to call back, we're
Speaker 2: ready for you. We know you've been trying to get
Speaker 2: in here. Anybody else two five two zero, four, one,
Speaker 2: seventy four, forty. Uh, talk about what we've been talking about.
Speaker 2: You have some kind of cool news or strange news
Speaker 2: or whatever kind of news you got.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, uh, recruiting National Signing Days around the
Speaker 3: corner and Arizona football. They have a decent recruiting class
Speaker 3: coming in. But as you go through a season like
Speaker 3: this where there's high expectations and low output at three
Speaker 3: and five, you're gonna have some issues some of those players.
Speaker 3: And Robert McDaniel, who is a three star recruit on
Speaker 3: rivals dot com, may be going to be a four
Speaker 3: star recruit when everything's said and done out of even
Speaker 3: in California if I can talk correctly. But you know,
Speaker 3: a high profile quarterback that decommitted from cal and committed
Speaker 3: to Arizona is kind of like the crown jewel of
Speaker 3: this recruiting class. Three star, three star, Yeah, crown jewel
Speaker 3: because of what he could be. I'm saying he might
Speaker 3: be a four star kid by the end of this.
Speaker 2: I should be a five star dude. I'm a good guy.
Speaker 2: Well that's what I could be.
Speaker 3: But I mean, if you have a quarterback that you love,
Speaker 3: I always think the quarterback of a yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: classes okay, but anyway, my point is, please get to it.
Speaker 3: He is going to be getting an offer from Florida
Speaker 3: and he will be taking a visit, most likely to Gainesville, Florida.
Speaker 2: Didn't you say that he was done with his visit.
Speaker 3: That's what he said beforehand. And now all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: this Florida offer comes up, and now it's more and
Speaker 3: more likely he will be taking a visit to Florida.
Speaker 3: So when you're losing, yeah, that doesn't go right.
Speaker 2: You don't have money to take the girl on a
Speaker 2: date gets go, the date goes somewhere else.
Speaker 3: But you know, I mean, that's the way the world
Speaker 3: of recruiting, especially.
Speaker 2: I hated it. That's why I hated it, because you know,
Speaker 2: yes on a Thursday, on a Friday, well, let me
Speaker 2: think about it, percent committed.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, and we have had Coach Lopez on here
Speaker 2: a few times, and I love the man. He One
Speaker 2: of the reasons he got out of the business was
Speaker 2: the flip flopping or the the what did he call
Speaker 2: it at the time. It was not flip flopping but decommitting,
Speaker 2: but it was a different word, and that happened a
Speaker 2: lot or every now and again, and enough to you know, say,
Speaker 2: I don't need to deal with this. I'm chasing thirteen
Speaker 2: fourteen year old kids asking him to come to play
Speaker 2: for me, and then I then I get to know
Speaker 2: or whatever. Really I won't to spend my time doing that.
Speaker 3: But I mean in this case, you know, you're giving
Speaker 3: a new coaching staff a chance at Arizona, and hey,
Speaker 3: I'm locked in, and then you're seeing how the season
Speaker 3: plays out.
Speaker 2: So so you weren't here when rich Rod went to
Speaker 2: the festival, No, in twenty fourteen, you were like two
Speaker 2: years old.
Speaker 3: Not that young, but yeah, two years old.
Speaker 2: So one of the things and I covered it for
Speaker 2: Fox back then I thought, Okay, they did really well, Right,
Speaker 2: he's got to he's gonna hit this, he's gonna capitalize,
Speaker 2: he gonna hit this one out of the park. And
Speaker 2: he didn't the next year for whatever reasons in Okayge's,
Speaker 2: Okayg's but blah blah. But it didn't happen. And how
Speaker 2: do they How could they have dropped the ball there
Speaker 2: when they had a lot of in the program. And
Speaker 2: now Jed created what he created, Now Brennan did what
Speaker 2: he did with it. There's no there's no oof no.
Speaker 3: And you know what, coming into this season, a lot
Speaker 3: of the top recruits and top guys across the country. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they liked what Arizona has done in the past with
Speaker 3: Jetfish and that coaching staff. But for them it was
Speaker 3: a let's see what Brett Brennan can do. We like
Speaker 3: Brett Brennan as a person, but let's see what he
Speaker 3: could do as a Power five head coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and who doesn't like him as a person because
Speaker 2: he is a good guy. But I've also said that
Speaker 2: good guys don't do good coaching.
Speaker 3: At Alonzo Carter. Everybody knows Coach Carter on the recruiting show.
Speaker 3: They all love Coach Carter. You're at a Power five
Speaker 3: program now, now they could start coming to you, but
Speaker 3: they got to see what you can do in terms
Speaker 3: of development.
Speaker 2: Sure, uh, there's that. So so jed here made his
Speaker 2: mark as a head coach, came in, did a good job?
Speaker 2: Is his And I'm asking I'm curious, not because I
Speaker 2: want to bring his name up. So did he bring
Speaker 2: his recruiting chops or take his recruiting chops to Washington
Speaker 2: at a what's perceived to be a better school.
Speaker 3: I think he did. I think he'll be able to
Speaker 3: recruit there at a high level and develop players, and
Speaker 3: you know, it's a process. I don't think anybody thought
Speaker 3: they were going to be a Bowl team this season.
Speaker 3: I know they're on kind of the cuffs of it.
Speaker 2: So you you and you and what I enlighten me
Speaker 2: maybe two months ago, which chalk the crap out of me.
Speaker 2: I hope I don't have to hit the cusbund about
Speaker 2: you know, players not being paid or getting you know, promises,
Speaker 2: the adults promises. And I'm thinking that, Okay, you know,
Speaker 2: nice story, guys, And then it happens that you know
Speaker 2: me right, and then it happens probably other places that
Speaker 2: if it happens one place, that's happened in other places
Speaker 2: that don't become public. And I'm thinking those two dudes
Speaker 2: got were right. I'm surprised. I'm not surprised you got right,
Speaker 2: but I was surprised that the story even came out.
Speaker 2: But and then then you have a fish and those
Speaker 2: guys saying, well, that's a twenty million dollar program. That's
Speaker 2: a twenty million dollar program, right Ohio state versus Oregon? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: pay give me an estimated what kep program is there.
Speaker 2: So if they're twenty million, man, this is big lots.
Speaker 3: Five million, four million, maybe, yeah, I mean you're looking
Speaker 3: at big lots maybe dollar three in comparison too, arias
Speaker 3: under the Oregon. Holy crap, it's a big difference. It's
Speaker 3: a big difference in terms of money that they're able
Speaker 3: to fight with on their new trail for Arizona football
Speaker 3: compared to what Oregon in Ohio State Alabama.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you know you're giving four million, five billion,
Speaker 2: let's say eight million just just because, just because, Or
Speaker 2: let's go with your five million. Okay, you've paid that
Speaker 2: and now you've bought what you bought and this is
Speaker 2: what you got.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know I do again, I agree with
Speaker 3: a lot of people. I do think the talent is
Speaker 3: there on the roster. You gotta have a coaching staff,
Speaker 3: you can have players.
Speaker 2: No, no, that's not my point. My point is, Okay,
Speaker 2: you and me, we were part of the collective or
Speaker 2: whatever you give, and we've done all this money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, then why am I going to do it again?
Speaker 2: Exactly? Why am I going to reach it?
Speaker 3: Doin?
Speaker 2: I already paid you guys a lot of money. This
Speaker 2: is what I got for it. But you can ask
Speaker 2: me again.
Speaker 3: But see, isn't that the difference between Oregon Boosters and
Speaker 3: Arizona Boosters. Organ boosters, we will throw money out the
Speaker 3: problem to fix the problem. We want this problem fixed.
Speaker 3: We want to be good at football. Arizona Boosters, it
Speaker 3: didn't work out so well.
Speaker 2: I only have so much So do you care? So
Speaker 2: I already have so much money to throw therapy at it?
Speaker 3: Do you care? Though? No? I don't. My point is
Speaker 3: I don't think Arizona Boosters alumni care as much about
Speaker 3: football like other power football programs.
Speaker 2: No, no, because they haven't seen it. They haven't seen
Speaker 2: it maybe after years of success and they said, we
Speaker 2: got to keep this thing going.
Speaker 3: Okay, But for Oregon, I mean before the nineteen nineties,
Speaker 3: they're the laughing so sh of the Pac ten. What
Speaker 3: changed till Night and Night? Yeah right, that changed everything
Speaker 3: for them? Sure, sure, at least at least in football,
Speaker 3: not in basketball, but for football. Yeah yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 3: just had that one dude, that one booster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course in Arizona has it has a booster
Speaker 2: or two, but it's not to that extreme, not not
Speaker 2: to that, but nobody really has that booster.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people stay. Maybe Sexas Alabama.
Speaker 3: I think they have boosters that are passionate. Sure maybe
Speaker 3: not Phil Nice. Yeah, that's a rare find. I mean Texas.
Speaker 3: I mean they're giving recruits and newcomers Lamborghini's when they
Speaker 3: signed one.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, that's yeah, that's them, that's them, and
Speaker 2: that's what they are. Arizona want to compete, I say,
Speaker 2: good luck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, find a way to be consistent eight and fourteen.
Speaker 2: And how can I say this is coaching them up,
Speaker 2: coaching them up. And you know that's and that was
Speaker 2: the Dick Tomy way. If there's anything that he did
Speaker 2: really really well. Uh and then Temmy Lloyd too. They
Speaker 2: coach him up. They developed them and they become pretty
Speaker 2: good players.
Speaker 3: And you know what, to Jed's credit, I know he's
Speaker 3: not a popular guy here in Tucson, but he figured
Speaker 3: out what the recruiting plan should be, which was the
Speaker 3: Polynesian pipeline and bringing that back to Tucson, developing them,
Speaker 3: coaching them up, and creating depth within the program. That's
Speaker 3: the key there is on it right right right, and
Speaker 3: don't screw it up. Yeah, and just play football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, write that down. We write a book about it.
Speaker 2: How to make schools success.
Speaker 3: I want a coaching contract, not for developing players.
Speaker 2: Hey, dude, you're a big lots dude, you're a big loss.
Speaker 2: Twenty five bucks an hour, A little more than that,
Speaker 2: a little more a free car. Now we're talking, we're
Speaker 2: getting in the range. You gotta pay the insurance on that. Okay,
Speaker 2: anybody else could get a call. We got about I
Speaker 2: don't know, seven minutes maybe and we can hopefully maybe
Speaker 2: Mike will come on. He's kind of gotta kind of
Speaker 2: maybe put it at a fire or two and he
Speaker 2: might be back on the other side, so we might
Speaker 2: have two segments to where you can go.
Speaker 3: Now, the opposite of that, you know, we talked about
Speaker 3: the football program and where they they're the big lots
Speaker 3: of anil and whatnot. Basketball program. They have the money
Speaker 3: for basketball, they do. That's something different. Do tell Well,
Speaker 3: I'm just saying I think they're in a better financial
Speaker 3: position basketball wise than they are football wise. Well, because
Speaker 3: you saw Caleb Love come back, You're not leaving them
Speaker 3: for no reason.
Speaker 2: So well, because he will, you come back because no
Speaker 2: one wants you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but still you still have other nil opportunities. They
Speaker 3: had to get you something. You know that for a fact,
Speaker 3: not for a fact, not for a fact. The journalism world. Yes,
Speaker 3: just because you say it doesn't mean it's happening, mister
Speaker 3: x about for sure, I'm giving you grief.
Speaker 2: But you know, I know you are because you can
Speaker 2: assume that. And and Tommy might have it made because
Speaker 2: there's a bunch of international players so you can't really
Speaker 2: pay them until after the fact.
Speaker 3: And to me, does Tommy strike you as a coach
Speaker 3: like a Cali party that wants to play, then, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't think he does.
Speaker 2: He is exactly and he said that publicly a few times.
Speaker 2: I did a story on him last year. He doesn't.
Speaker 2: They don't want to become that school where okay, how
Speaker 2: much do you need and how much do you want?
Speaker 2: They don't want to become that. Now he could be
Speaker 2: blowing smoke too, but I think I really believe him.
Speaker 2: If you want to be developed, this is the place
Speaker 2: to do it well. And and you look at the development,
Speaker 2: you look at what they brought in the transfer portal.
Speaker 2: Everybody freaked out when they lost all those recruits during
Speaker 2: the off season, the one guard going to ASU, the
Speaker 2: other one going to ore again. Okay, do I want
Speaker 2: a freshman that I got to teach and develop or
Speaker 2: do I want Caleb Love back?
Speaker 3: Or do I want to get.
Speaker 2: No? No, no, you of course you are exactly right.
Speaker 2: You know I don't want to deal with I don't
Speaker 2: have to deal with that. I can get somebody in
Speaker 2: who wants to be here, isn't worried about the money.
Speaker 2: And and last night I was watching the game, or
Speaker 2: maybe it was last week, and I thinking, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure that they've already done the story. How brilliant he's
Speaker 2: done purposely probably about putting this team together because it
Speaker 2: has all the right pieces. And he's not a lot though.
Speaker 2: I mean, Sean left him some pretty good players, but
Speaker 2: he did that last year. Where kind of pieces fit?
Speaker 2: You have Townsend who does what he does. He's a big,
Speaker 2: kind of white body. Uh, the big guy u aaka
Speaker 2: a waka who's big, perfect for the Big twelve, perfect
Speaker 2: for the Big twelve. We haven't seen Kreebas who will
Speaker 2: fit right in. Henry, who I think is gonna have
Speaker 2: a great year. Uh does what he does Stretch five,
Speaker 2: which we haven't even talked about. I really like him
Speaker 2: if he's not being a dummy for getting technical last
Speaker 2: night because he could shoot it and it's a it's
Speaker 2: a it's a quick release. You know, he doesn't set up,
Speaker 2: he just boom. It's a he he hit one of
Speaker 2: those shots last night. He just got it shot at boom.
Speaker 2: It was good. Uh. And Arizona hasn't had that dude
Speaker 2: in a long time.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And he's gonna come off the bands seventh or eighth
Speaker 2: guy off.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then they have just the pieces fit, the pieces
Speaker 2: fit and and and that's what made Loot good because
Speaker 2: he had guys that fit positions and understood the roles.
Speaker 3: I mean that's the key to basketball right there is
Speaker 3: you know what, you can have all the five s
Speaker 3: hard recruits in the world, the top five kids. I
Speaker 3: want guys that know how to play with each other.
Speaker 2: Well, money, haven't you seen that before? You had five
Speaker 2: stars here?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think Elite eight?
Speaker 2: Right? Was that good enough?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, not at all.
Speaker 2: You can't You can't buy Maybe you can buy your success.
Speaker 2: But last time I checked, Cali Party hasn't done well
Speaker 2: over the last day.
Speaker 3: One title and that's it. And it took a historically
Speaker 3: great player in Anthony Davis win the title.
Speaker 2: Now, he said, Arkansas making a ton of money. We'll
Speaker 2: see how that goes.
Speaker 3: He'll be good there. Yeah, yeah, good. What does good means? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What's the makes that mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Duke was pretty good last year. There was whe
Speaker 2: went in there and beat them, and then they didn't
Speaker 2: do well either on the in the turn Coach k
Speaker 2: hadn't done really well in the final ten.
Speaker 3: National Championship runner up a couple of years ago with Cale.
Speaker 2: Ab love right and didn't do that horrible year of
Speaker 2: the years.
Speaker 3: And now the fan base is wondering, is see the
Speaker 3: right coach for the job.
Speaker 2: There's no real trick to this except that you have
Speaker 2: to have guys that play well together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just right. It's it's a big finding that combination
Speaker 3: of chemistry. And you know what, when you look at
Speaker 3: the roster and you look at a guy like Cardi Bryant,
Speaker 3: who is highly thought of it is going to be
Speaker 3: an NBA guy. Every time he talk to him, he
Speaker 3: talks about, well, I'm learning from this, dude, I'm taking
Speaker 3: notes from this year. I'm in the weight room, I'm
Speaker 3: doing this. I wanted to come to Arizona for this.
Speaker 12: This and this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the type of ive star. You want right well,
Speaker 3: and you talk about chemistry and all and all that
Speaker 3: the pieces fit. There's a reason why good marriages last
Speaker 3: a long time. There's got to be that chemistry and
Speaker 3: that that sacrifice if you will the give, the give
Speaker 3: right right right now.
Speaker 2: Uh, that's what I'm divorced.
Speaker 3: Are you the five star?
Speaker 2: I'm like Dallas, I have a one star? So maybe
Speaker 2: have two of you? Count the ones on the helmet,
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Speaker 2: Troy Hutchinson, Goysycats Ryan at the board. Now we have
Speaker 2: Mike Fader. I wasn't sure what to put as your
Speaker 2: title because this isn't the Mexican Baseball Baseball Fiesta.
Speaker 3: What is this?
Speaker 5: Well, at the Mexican Baseball Fiesta is putting on this event?
Speaker 2: Okay, So so I'm still the.
Speaker 5: President of the Mexican Baseball Festa, and this is one
Speaker 5: of the same as the Fiesta, except much better baseball
Speaker 5: because this is now the regular season as opposed to
Speaker 5: training camp or as spring training, whatever it's We're excited.
Speaker 5: I mean, we've heard the level of play is much
Speaker 5: better than our fans have seen here in the thirteen
Speaker 5: years of the Fiesta.
Speaker 2: So are you going to have better baseball with everything
Speaker 2: still there?
Speaker 5: Yes? Uh, you know, we're still gonna have the crazy
Speaker 5: music all the time. We're gonna have authentic Mexican food.
Speaker 5: We're gonna you know, a lot of vendors.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 5: And you know, the music is really what makes us right.
Speaker 5: The only difference is for the Fiesta, we we actually
Speaker 5: start some bands late in games. This is a regular
Speaker 5: season game. Any music we have will have to wait
Speaker 5: till the end of the game, and it is a
Speaker 5: nine any game, and we've got two really good performers,
Speaker 5: uh Cheueye Vega Junior. The Vega family is well known
Speaker 5: in the music industry. That's Friday Night. And then we've
Speaker 5: got uh La Kanya, which is a big act from
Speaker 5: over Going UH that are gonna be performing following the
Speaker 5: game Sunday. Uh. And we're actually gonna do something a
Speaker 5: little crazier. We're gonna have those bands playing before the
Speaker 5: games as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, So so you said they played before and they
Speaker 2: played after, So the craziness during game is not there.
Speaker 5: No, it is there. The music. The only time the
Speaker 5: music will stop is when the picture goes into the stretch.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's kind of in house music. That's kind
Speaker 2: of like the yeah yeah, okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: You I think the last time we spoke, or maybe
Speaker 2: before that, you said that this was still a possibility.
Speaker 2: You were hoping to pull this off, right, Is that right?
Speaker 3: Right? So?
Speaker 2: What madeed?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 2: How did it work? How did this happen?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 5: Money, uh that that usually gets something done. But we
Speaker 5: we paid the Overgoing team, the Yankeys, so much money
Speaker 5: per day to get this series moved. So it was
Speaker 5: it was an important venue on our venture, on our part.
Speaker 5: Uh and and they they agreed to do it. This
Speaker 5: was supposed to occur if you remember two years ago,
Speaker 5: and then things get all screwed up TV wise, uh
Speaker 5: and and they had to cancel it. But h I
Speaker 5: think all the games are on TV and on YouTube
Speaker 5: on YouTube. Uh, they're gonna have They're gonna carry all
Speaker 5: the games in the Mexican Winter League all season.
Speaker 3: Mike, for you, you know, you mentioned that this was
Speaker 3: supposed to happen two years ago, and you guys are
Speaker 3: getting to this moment and getting everything you know, collaborative
Speaker 3: and getting everything together. So how does it feel for
Speaker 3: you to have this moment come in and get everything
Speaker 3: organized and have have this moment coming out.
Speaker 5: I think it's very meaningful. Uh, only because we're now
Speaker 5: under the byglass. I mean we Uh. The league is
Speaker 5: looking at Tucson as a potential full time regular season site,
Speaker 5: possibly as early as next year. Uh, but it's gonna
Speaker 5: really be contingent upon us having a really good turnout
Speaker 5: and full disclosure. I mean, I think Steve knows me well.
Speaker 5: I don't usually sugarcoat things. Uh. Ticket sales are not
Speaker 5: good right now, and if we could really get a
Speaker 5: crowd out there, and we know that our fans are
Speaker 5: last minute fans, and I think with the entertainment, the
Speaker 5: quality of baseball, we think it's going to definitely pick up.
Speaker 5: But for the league to move a team here, they
Speaker 5: have to know that we could support it, because the
Speaker 5: Mexican Winter League, a lot of the cities are drawing
Speaker 5: five to six eight ten thousand people per game.
Speaker 2: So a couple quick questions, so what level of baseball
Speaker 2: would this be the United States? One and two? The
Speaker 2: ticket sales, it seems like it would be if they
Speaker 2: go to the Mexican Baseball Fiesta and it's similar, if
Speaker 2: not better. What's the catch? I mean, why not go?
Speaker 5: I wish I knew the answer to that. I think
Speaker 5: what's happened is they're used to the Fiesta being the
Speaker 5: first week in October. They know to expect it.
Speaker 6: You know, this was.
Speaker 5: Something that a lot of them didn't find out till
Speaker 5: three four weeks ago, And we're really trying really hard
Speaker 5: through Hispanic media and trying to get the word out.
Speaker 5: So no, this one has been a mystery to me
Speaker 5: right now. And I'm usually not fooled by a lot
Speaker 5: of things. But this one, I'm scratching my head on.
Speaker 3: Steve.
Speaker 5: If I could say one thing talking about the level
Speaker 5: of play. I know you're a longtime U of A fan.
Speaker 5: Alex Mahea, I mean you know that name. Alex Mahea
Speaker 5: was part of the twenty twelve championship team for the
Speaker 5: U of A Arizona Wildcat. He's going to be playing
Speaker 5: for MEXICALI and he's excited. He's already got interviews lined
Speaker 5: up with Michael lev He's he's going to be doing
Speaker 5: a zoom call with TV Nami Alameda, and it's really
Speaker 5: excited about coming back to Tucson. Another name, which I
Speaker 5: know you know, is Carlos Martinez. Carlos Martinez has pitched
Speaker 5: nine years in the big leagues, two years, two times.
Speaker 5: He's been the Major League All Star Team. Poor guy's
Speaker 5: only made fifty two million dollars in his career, so
Speaker 5: I guess that shows that he's probably a pretty good player, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's coming. Carl Edwards Junior, the real skinny reliever to
Speaker 5: pitch for the Cubs. He's on the overgone team. And
Speaker 5: then Lewis Sessa. I don't know if you remember that name.
Speaker 5: He pitched eight years in the big leagues with the
Speaker 5: Yankees and Cincinnati Reds. So those guys didn't pitch in
Speaker 5: the Mexican Baseball Fiesta or didn't play were they're now
Speaker 5: playing in this and and this game's count. I mean,
Speaker 5: this is the first time ever in the history of
Speaker 5: the Mexican Winner League that a regular season series has
Speaker 5: been played outside the country of Mexico, which and we think,
Speaker 5: we think that's a big deal historically.
Speaker 2: So before I want, let me throw this out to
Speaker 2: you so we'll forget right. So Ryan covered, Ryan covered
Speaker 2: the Mexican Baseball Fiesta right, first time. You didn't have
Speaker 2: a clue you were going to see, right, So here's
Speaker 2: your endorsement. What did you see, Ryan? It was a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. I mean, the constant music was definitely
Speaker 2: a change. Yeah, you know up to the picture throwing it.
Speaker 2: That was a change.
Speaker 1: That was It was interesting just to see just to
Speaker 1: see a different kind of baseball, interesting in a good way,
Speaker 1: in a.
Speaker 2: Good way, you know it.
Speaker 5: It was like me, well, but the funny thing to
Speaker 5: start to interrupt state and you and I have talked
Speaker 5: about this. Chip Pyle loves it for that reason. Chip
Speaker 5: pal is a long time major League manager, coach, player,
Speaker 5: his players. He said, look forward to this so much
Speaker 5: because it just creates another element, uh, and energy in
Speaker 5: the stadium. And and and I think, right, you know
Speaker 5: he's talking about that's where we're after.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no question. When I saw it for the
Speaker 2: first time, what it was it seven eight years ago,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, what a concept to n Why don't they
Speaker 2: do that in the States. Obviously it's kind of distracting,
Speaker 2: but but if you're gonna go and you're gonna watch
Speaker 2: a game, and and and we all know that people
Speaker 2: think baseball is a little boring because it's slow, but
Speaker 2: that makes it not boring.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would have to agree with you. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean it's and it's not for everybody, no, man, I
Speaker 5: gotta tell you that. I mean, if you're a traditional
Speaker 5: baseball fan and like the cerebral part of the game,
Speaker 5: and those things still occur, but it's you're not quiet.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's for sure.
Speaker 2: So they're just tremendous energy. So in terms of bringing
Speaker 2: this to the United States, Uh, that must be a
Speaker 2: lord to our Will people from Mexico be in town
Speaker 2: to watch or do they have the fans that would
Speaker 2: do that?
Speaker 5: Yes, we said, well, you've been the games, so I
Speaker 5: mean a lot of times the Airmalt zero fans. Uh.
Speaker 5: You can see their orange jerseys and orange hats. The
Speaker 5: Yakis are second. The Akis are second in popularity with
Speaker 5: their blue jerseys and hats and merchandise, and we think
Speaker 5: that's gonna be a really big deal because they are
Speaker 5: a popular team. But we do expect some people from
Speaker 5: south of the border on the weekend, especially this weekend
Speaker 5: is the Day of the Dead and there's a lot
Speaker 5: of activities going on that people want to travel. So
Speaker 5: we hope those are the type of fans that aren't
Speaker 5: buying tickets in advance, but we'll buy them when they
Speaker 5: get to the stadium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so tell me the days and the circumstances,
Speaker 2: particular prices and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week, Friday's game
Speaker 5: seven ten, Saturday's game six to Tendunday's game five ten.
Speaker 5: Tickets are on sale at Mexican Baseballfiesta dot com or
Speaker 5: they can go to Keino Stadium. We open at ten
Speaker 5: o'clock and we're opening from ten to five on Wednesday
Speaker 5: and Thursday, and then ten o'clock on Friday, all the
Speaker 5: way through the start of the game.
Speaker 2: So guys like I think it's Felipe Garcia, right, Guys
Speaker 2: like that must really be pulling for you, because if
Speaker 2: the does work, they could return.
Speaker 5: Right. Well, Felipe Garcia, for those people that don't know,
Speaker 5: is the is the president of Vamos Tucson and Visit Tucson.
Speaker 5: Uh And and he's really they've been a big sponsor
Speaker 5: with us since day one, thirteen years ago. So yes,
Speaker 5: he definitely wants this because if you can imagine the
Speaker 5: travel from visiting teams coming to town and all the
Speaker 5: money they'd be spending.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: So he's a big proponent of what we're trying to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question. And and because this town, you know,
Speaker 2: since since you've left the business of baseball, or not left,
Speaker 2: but headly because of the circumstances of the teams leaving,
Speaker 2: this could be maybe the return. If it's all succeeds
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 5: That's our hope. I mean, if we put on a
Speaker 5: good show this weekend, uh this we're going to be
Speaker 5: a full time team. Uh And that's yet to be determined.
Speaker 5: I mean, we have to earn it. It's just not
Speaker 5: going to be given to us. And that's where we
Speaker 5: are right now.
Speaker 2: So what would be well, what would be the season.
Speaker 2: Let's assume it it passes Muster and you're able to
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 5: Well, the season would go the second week in October
Speaker 5: all the way through the first of the beginning of January.
Speaker 5: Then then the playoffs start, and then the Caribbean World Series,
Speaker 5: which is going to be in Mexicaliti this year, will
Speaker 5: take place. So it's it's a I believe it's a
Speaker 5: sixty two game season, so it there'd be thirty one
Speaker 5: home games.
Speaker 2: Nice, and so that's some possibility during a time when
Speaker 2: when the weather would be okay, I guess, okay, you
Speaker 2: know outside of the no, okay, and real quick, because
Speaker 2: I don't know if you answered it or I didn't hear.
Speaker 2: The caliber? What level? Double a'smy?
Speaker 5: No, much higher than double A. I mean, I would
Speaker 5: say midway between Triple A and fringe major League. When
Speaker 5: you look at the rosters of these teams, there's a
Speaker 5: tremendous amount of Triple A players along with some of
Speaker 5: the former major league players. I've told you you know
Speaker 5: that I mentioned already. Uh So I I think it's
Speaker 5: it's big leagues. No is a triple A. It's probably comparable,
Speaker 5: maybe a touch better in some cases. You know, a
Speaker 5: lot of the players are just players that never leave
Speaker 5: Mexico that nobody knows about. Still, that doesn't mean it's
Speaker 5: not a good caliber of baseball.
Speaker 2: Right, No, no question. Should be a lot of fun. Okay,
Speaker 2: So go to Mexican Baseball, Yessa, google.
Speaker 5: That and dot dot com our facebook page Mexican Baseball. Yesa,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of stuff about the entertainment and and
Speaker 5: what's going on. So we just encourage people to check
Speaker 5: it out, even if it's just one game. Say what
Speaker 5: it's all about?
Speaker 2: Okay, no, super thanks congrats. I hope it get pulled off.
Speaker 2: So maybe they have baseball here at some form here
Speaker 2: in town.
Speaker 5: Well look at you. You've done such a good job
Speaker 5: of promoting this. I got a text during our interview
Speaker 5: from Javier Morales saying, hey, could could I get with
Speaker 5: him on more information so we could write about it.
Speaker 5: Thank you Steve for having me on.
Speaker 2: Yes, we'll have you never sleep so he'll do that
Speaker 2: right now. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 5: There we go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks Mike, all right, like you guys. Yeah, thanks
Speaker 2: a bunch. Yeah, No, it's it's fun if you if
Speaker 2: you like baseball and you have you know, you have
Speaker 2: some kids or whatever.
Speaker 3: It's good baseball and probably a cheaper option going to
Speaker 3: Mexican Baseball League then trying to get U of A
Speaker 3: tickets for Arizona Duke or something like that, because you
Speaker 3: never alternative option.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a little different, but yes, because the
Speaker 2: duke tickets are like in the thousands for sure. Yeah no,
Speaker 2: but it's Ryan who didn't have a clue about it, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: give me a scale one to ten, honestly ten because
Speaker 2: of just I mean, it's just it's an experience, like
Speaker 2: you need to if you're a baseball fan.
Speaker 3: Did you just do it?
Speaker 1: You did it the once or twice or how did
Speaker 1: you do? I just did the U of a game.
Speaker 1: But I was there for the game before that. I
Speaker 1: got to watch the game. So what did you think
Speaker 1: when you got there? Like, what the hell are you doing?
Speaker 1: It's like, was there a concert going on right right?
Speaker 1: And there was just like the actually had concerts like
Speaker 1: in left field and right field, like during the game,
Speaker 1: so people were out there dancing, sure during the game, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh there's a baseball game too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think you mentioned like they have like authentic
Speaker 1: food but there instead of like you know, hot dogs
Speaker 1: and traditional you know baseball. Yeah no, no, no, good luck.
Speaker 1: I might go get a really experience it from the
Speaker 1: stands the fan. You can sit down and take in
Speaker 1: the site. Yeah, and there's some pretty good sights in
Speaker 1: the stands.
Speaker 2: Just definitely. What do you think it's foul balls?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, a lot of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, just a good line there, good line, Thank
Speaker 2: you much, street we got here, okay, cool, Yeah, good
Speaker 2: show today. It is a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I watch.
Speaker 2: We've got two minute Okay, good show. Thanks Troy.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 2: If we could just get your name spells right on
Speaker 2: the graphic, we would have been okay. Oh I didn't
Speaker 2: even recognize that. I wasn't going to say anything, but wow,
Speaker 2: it's okay. It wasn't It doesn't mean I don't do
Speaker 2: graphic because I got it right Hutcheson Hutchinson. But we'll
Speaker 2: know next time you come in. Thanks Ryan, you know
Speaker 2: this is it. I want to cry. You have a
Speaker 2: napkin or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, thanks for all your help the last six months.
Speaker 2: I hope you learned somebody like dealing with me. Man,
Speaker 2: you got to be a well yes, married you did
Speaker 2: learn something. You did learn something. Thank you, don't try
Speaker 2: to do it. No, no, you did. You did really
Speaker 2: well on this thing. And we moved from one station
Speaker 2: to the other. You got it over there, you got
Speaker 2: over here. If you ever return to the business, at
Speaker 2: least you know this. And you were kind of more
Speaker 2: vocal to you were not. You know, I was very shy. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: because this is not a shy business. This is if
Speaker 2: you want to do whatever you want right, I'm sure
Speaker 2: to speak up. You got to speak up because you
Speaker 2: know what, there's somebody else going to bite your ass
Speaker 2: to get the job.
Speaker 3: Somebody will speak for you, not for you, but right know,
Speaker 3: to do the same same questions you want right.
Speaker 1: I learned that in my first high school football game
Speaker 1: doing the interviews. I had to just like had to
Speaker 1: go for it.
Speaker 2: You had to. If you want the answers, you got
Speaker 2: to ask the questions.
Speaker 3: I'll never forget my first interview postgame was with Coach Andra,
Speaker 3: and I sat there all nervous, you know, growing up
Speaker 3: here in two sons, Coach Andra, and You're like, you're
Speaker 3: not going to get what you want and you're if
Speaker 3: you're just like to yourself, you gotta be out of
Speaker 3: the bubble.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, right, because guess what, there's thousands like you
Speaker 2: kids that wanted the job and they know already that
Speaker 2: that's the case. You have to be aggressive, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we can't. We go go. Good luck to you everybody,
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.