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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Eye on the Ball here on
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Speaker 2: and now we have Ryan with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball, breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Let me interrupt you real quick so people won't think
Speaker 2: I'm in David aren't crazy. Ernie Kent was the name
Speaker 2: we were looking for.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Dave. That's right.
Speaker 3: I just needed to give you a break. Yes, just
Speaker 3: think about it. Thank you, all right. Start with University
Speaker 3: Arizona Volleyball. Arizona center Avery Scoggins was named the Big
Speaker 3: twelve Volleyball Rookie of the Week. That's her second one
Speaker 3: of the season.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 2: Okay, Then they're doing well, right, what do you have
Speaker 2: the record up there? They're doing better than we thought
Speaker 2: they would at least.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're doing pretty good. Pull it up. I'll look
Speaker 4: keep talking about THEE will be your information guy.
Speaker 3: Former I got the NBA starting tonight. He's got some
Speaker 3: former Arizona Wildcats that made the NBA rosters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did you see that? You got the list? Do great?
Speaker 3: At least there's nine players. At least three more have
Speaker 3: accepted or expected to be in the season on two
Speaker 3: way contracts. Brandon Williams, he's a two way guy, two
Speaker 3: a guy. He's with Dallas, Dallas, Christian Coloco the Lakers,
Speaker 3: okay cool? And Keisha Johnson the two ways you got.
Speaker 3: Josh Green with the Hornets, which I Josh Green with
Speaker 3: the whole because he got traded and get traded traded,
Speaker 3: thank you?
Speaker 5: Poor him? Yeah, I gotta go to poor him. He's
Speaker 5: making millions, but he was on a pretty good team before.
Speaker 5: I wish, I wish Dallas.
Speaker 4: What do you get traded for? Did you do you remember?
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, but because it had to be somebody good,
Speaker 2: because if you're going to Dallas, you're gonna get some
Speaker 2: gonna get some players. But I don't remember who it was.
Speaker 2: Dave Will Dave Will be the handy guy. Dale and
Speaker 2: Terry for the Bulls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Aaron Gordon with the Nuggets, a new contract to
Speaker 3: contract contract, four year contract. Zeke Naji, Yeah with the Nuggets, right,
Speaker 3: Benedict Mathern with the Pacers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going to be a huge star this year.
Speaker 4: Is he going to be healthy? Twenty fourish? He came
Speaker 4: out because yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, the Pacers did so good, but he wasn't
Speaker 5: even playing at the end of the season, right right.
Speaker 2: T J McConnell with the Pacers. Another dude who you
Speaker 2: never thought and he's killing it. He'll be making the
Speaker 2: Ring of Honor here Arizona.
Speaker 4: Telly Larson with the Heat. Yeah, he made the roster,
Speaker 4: made the number one roster.
Speaker 3: DeAndre Ayton with the Trail Blazers. Yeah, and Lori Marketing
Speaker 3: with the Jazz. He just signed a right right. I
Speaker 3: love the way Lori plays. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Did you see the trade?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Josh went to Charlotte. It was a it was
Speaker 5: a big trade. It was a sixteen trade. Yeah, how Charlotte.
Speaker 5: I mean, I can't go through all this. Jackson Reggie
Speaker 5: Jackson was in there.
Speaker 4: Mister October. Yeah, Josh is still only twenty three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these kids are Yeah, well, Sean has been gone
Speaker 2: four years now and he was playing from then.
Speaker 5: Jackson, Reggie Jackson's been in the league for thirteen years.
Speaker 5: Oklahoma City, Detroit, Clippers, Nuggets. It's one of those guys
Speaker 5: that just he seems to be in the playoffs every
Speaker 5: year with somebody yeah hideohole runs. Yeah and that too, Yeah, Josh.
Speaker 5: Fifty seven games last year for Dallas averaged eight points.
Speaker 5: So good luck and Charlotte, well, maybe we'll see you.
Speaker 3: Ever so often. Let's switch over to the NFL. Some
Speaker 3: injury news from last night's game between the Ravens and Buccaneers.
Speaker 3: Godwin is likely out for the year and Mike Evans
Speaker 3: is going to be out until after their bye week,
Speaker 3: which is week eleven. It's kind of a it's a
Speaker 3: big blow for for Tampa Bay.
Speaker 4: And they lost to Baltimore. Baltimore is pretty tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've said this, Well, put some money on it.
Speaker 2: Baltimore's gonna win the Super Yeah.
Speaker 5: Last night was the Harbaugh doubleheader, right because yeah, you
Speaker 5: get the San Diego John and Jim.
Speaker 4: San Diego gain l A l A. One of these
Speaker 4: days they'll get it.
Speaker 5: They're playing Phoenix way their Arizona who won the game
Speaker 5: lest night? Cardinals Cardinals one. I didn't even I didn't
Speaker 5: watch it. The football basketball. I had one of those
Speaker 5: double screen nights going with the basketball football.
Speaker 4: What it happened to the picture in picture, I don't
Speaker 4: I don't know. Well, you know it's called YouTube TV.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, let me right right, you can do that
Speaker 5: yeah sometimes, okay, well not U A BA ESPN plus
Speaker 5: is not part of that. I've learned that. So you
Speaker 5: could watch. Oh you have to get that on a
Speaker 5: real teav or separately in a way, because with YouTube
Speaker 5: you can get For example, I was watching, you know,
Speaker 5: baseball and football at the same time.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you a private You don't have
Speaker 2: to answer me. You can just say steep ship up.
Speaker 2: So you have two k you have YouTube TV. You
Speaker 2: have YouTube yeah that cost something, right, yeah?
Speaker 5: And cheap no, okay, and then you have a regular
Speaker 5: cable I do okay.
Speaker 2: I think you just lost one hundred dollars bill on
Speaker 2: the floor. Yeah, So it's just through how much total?
Speaker 6: How much?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not going Yeah, it's like you say, yeah, because
Speaker 2: I paid like a two hundred sem I just had
Speaker 2: h and I you know, I wish I could just
Speaker 2: get rid of it, but I'm not smart enough took
Speaker 2: up all the Hulu stuff.
Speaker 4: I have to call my son. Could you come over
Speaker 4: and do this for me? I'm pretty good at that.
Speaker 2: So we we have you and you can go to
Speaker 2: the house, Yeah, get your pizza.
Speaker 5: But it is, I mean, it's kind of a cool
Speaker 5: feature that, you know, being a TV person, I used
Speaker 5: to have to that much, you know, with two or
Speaker 5: three different monitors and record.
Speaker 4: Two games at the same time or three and then
Speaker 4: and then.
Speaker 2: Then why we don't have a HD a d h
Speaker 2: D because we were watching too many damn things at
Speaker 2: the same time with a ticker going on.
Speaker 5: The bottom and people will yell at me like, how
Speaker 5: can you do that? Well, pleasure right in your you know,
Speaker 5: your new story watching the game. So it was it
Speaker 5: was a good way to balance things out.
Speaker 3: There was not a Cardinals linebacker Dennis Gardick. He tore
Speaker 3: his a c L last night. He's going to miss
Speaker 3: the remainder of the twenty twenty four seasons. Just maybe
Speaker 3: a dumb statement, as usually do.
Speaker 2: But there seems to be a lot of injuries this year,
Speaker 2: and maybe there were in the past and you just
Speaker 2: pay attention or it's just you know, a recency bias.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of people getting hurt, a lot a
Speaker 4: lot of ACYL tears this year.
Speaker 5: It seems like, yeah, and maybe it's this time of
Speaker 5: year or two where they've now we're into like six
Speaker 5: or seven games, and yeah, the body isn't maybe as
Speaker 5: strong as it was in September.
Speaker 2: And well, who knows. You you've seen football a long time, Dave.
Speaker 2: The athletes running fifteen twenty miles an hour and crashing
Speaker 2: into people, right, that that doesn't I'm sure it doesn't
Speaker 2: feel well getting crushed like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Deshaun Watson didn't even no one even
Speaker 5: touched him, and he tore his achilles the other day.
Speaker 5: So that's that's rough when that happens. I mean, that
Speaker 5: seems to be like I remember when Durant did his. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's kind of like, how did that happen?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: Well Rogers last year, Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, they barely they
Speaker 5: don't even get touched. Make some kind of weird mind.
Speaker 4: Don't touch me now, I just hear it. Cramp. I
Speaker 4: just not cramped way mine now and myself and I'm
Speaker 4: not playing out of the chair.
Speaker 3: So you were to MLB, the commissioner has said they
Speaker 3: want to keep the Rays near the Tampa area. With
Speaker 3: the damage to the to the chop this season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you guys were talking about I didn't even
Speaker 2: put one in one together or one in two and
Speaker 2: two together. I think that was the Tampa Bay Place.
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, two three weeks ago it got destroyed.
Speaker 4: Bad hurricane damage. You know, what are they gonna do either?
Speaker 5: I guess they could play some of the games early
Speaker 5: in the season before it gets brutally humid and hurricane
Speaker 5: ish and summer. But I don't know is there any
Speaker 5: where they can play in in Florida where I mean,
Speaker 5: obviously the A's are going to Sacramento.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be a small field, right that.
Speaker 2: That Arena stotl Or Stadium's not till twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 2: and someone in Vegas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at least something. Oh gosh, that's gonna be a
Speaker 4: long time.
Speaker 5: I guess they announced yesterday they're gonna play on grass,
Speaker 5: which is good because it's gonna be brutally hot in
Speaker 5: Sacramento in the summer time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Sacramento is undeceivedly very hot.
Speaker 5: Ye summer, I mean by July or June July, it's
Speaker 5: gonna be warm. And I don't know how many Peo
Speaker 5: we're gonna want to watch Oakland against, you know, Tampa
Speaker 5: when they come in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 3: It's possible they could they could play in some of
Speaker 3: our spring training facility down there in Florida.
Speaker 5: That's where they have true, right, but the tenants would
Speaker 5: be not very good. But I don't think it's very
Speaker 5: good anyway. Well for Oakland, for Tampa, oh really, but
Speaker 5: no for Tampa too.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know if they draw that much.
Speaker 3: They haven't. It's gone down in the recent years. You
Speaker 3: can just see it on the TV's like they're all
Speaker 3: spread out and.
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, yeah, that probably makes sense. They have a
Speaker 5: million stadiums in that area, which.
Speaker 3: Over to the NBA got opening nights tonight, got the Knicks,
Speaker 3: Celtics and the Key, Wolves and Lakers. Do we see
Speaker 3: Brownie James make his debut and play with his dad?
Speaker 5: I think so under ten minutes of course National TV
Speaker 5: Opening Night. Of course he's going to play, unless he's
Speaker 5: sick or something, but he'll play and we'll see and
Speaker 5: it'll make a big deal. And like I said earlier,
Speaker 5: the Griffis are going to be there, the other father
Speaker 5: son combo that had great careers themselves.
Speaker 4: I don't know if Briannie, you know, so second round pick.
Speaker 2: So baseball it starts Friday, right, isn't in l.
Speaker 4: A first two, I.
Speaker 2: Think, So it's okay, what do you you know the odds,
Speaker 2: I'll check the odds.
Speaker 4: Yankees are favored? What is it?
Speaker 5: Do you know?
Speaker 4: I don't know if they're I don't know about the odds.
Speaker 5: I'm just looking at some stories all some reporters staff predictions.
Speaker 5: Yankees sixty three percent, Dodgers thirty seven. The problem with
Speaker 5: the Dodgers is they're pitching depth. I mean the other
Speaker 5: day they're just throwing out all these reliefs.
Speaker 2: But they've survived to this point with it. I mean,
Speaker 2: they didn't think they'd get this far. But they have
Speaker 2: such good hitting.
Speaker 5: Their lineup is so tough, and I think they have
Speaker 5: fewer holes than the Yankees.
Speaker 3: A couple couple of good lineups. Think it's going to
Speaker 3: be a yeah. Some people were saying and Dodgers and
Speaker 3: like five.
Speaker 4: So it's just minus one thirty plus one ten? Is
Speaker 4: that right?
Speaker 2: So no, the Dodgers are favored by So it looks
Speaker 2: like the Yankees winning the two series to one of
Speaker 2: the there's still underdogs at one ten. I would bet,
Speaker 2: though I would better, I think. And that's just the spite.
Speaker 4: J too. He must he must be excited.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's going I don't know they're going there.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to get how much he's gonna spend?
Speaker 4: Oh I heard what he's gonna Let him talk about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ticket Look at just quick glance here. Tickets is
Speaker 5: low as one.
Speaker 4: Right, that's it. Hey, can you see the field?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Right? Well you said you paid. I can't remember. We
Speaker 4: paid a lot of money to sit, but you had
Speaker 4: nice seats.
Speaker 5: We did, But tickets were you know, they were over
Speaker 5: a thundred You would.
Speaker 4: You kill you get those? I did? Ticket mister ticketmaster.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I had to take out a second mortgage, you know.
Speaker 4: Stop. You said it was worth it, You said it was.
Speaker 5: It was a blast again, I was. I was with
Speaker 5: one of my kids, and you know, can you beat that?
Speaker 5: It was just fun to experience that. And he's a
Speaker 5: lifelong Diamondbacks fan. He was pretty young when they first
Speaker 5: got here, and he was, you know, just kind of
Speaker 5: grew up with them, and even as he's gotten older
Speaker 5: and moved away, he still supports them at least watches
Speaker 5: them and we text all the time about it.
Speaker 4: And it was great to finally have that chance. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's funny. In two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: I had two tickets to go to Game one, uh,
Speaker 2: and I got them and I was going to go
Speaker 2: with my with my then wife, and uh, I said,
Speaker 2: you know what, this is how stupid, this is the
Speaker 2: this is the Josh Passner reaction. I have my good
Speaker 2: friends who've never been in a stage like this. I
Speaker 2: want to give them to my friends. They paid whatever
Speaker 2: I paid for him written not very much, and they
Speaker 2: went to Game one and we were at the bar
Speaker 2: outside it. We went with him, and they enjoyed it tremendously.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking they'll be back a few times. Right
Speaker 2: You're thinking, oh, yeah, it happens all the time. It
Speaker 2: doesn't happen all the time in two thousand and one
Speaker 2: for basketball, right, Oh, they'll be back heads four years later,
Speaker 2: still waiting.
Speaker 5: The thing I like about those things too, when you
Speaker 5: go to a Super Bowl or World Series, is this
Speaker 5: the other side events that are going on there? You know,
Speaker 5: the party, the pregame stuff is cool.
Speaker 4: They did. I think they announced like.
Speaker 5: The Roberto Clemente Award, you know, and some you know,
Speaker 5: the commissioners there and I don't even remember who won
Speaker 5: it last year, But just that that kind of stuff
Speaker 5: that you'll you know, you only see at the World
Speaker 5: Series and then you know all the sponsor type stuff
Speaker 5: and you know, fly by by, uh, some gigantic Air
Speaker 5: Force plane coming over. So there's all a lot of
Speaker 5: pomp and circumstance. Sure, no, no, it's the fun. It's
Speaker 5: why I don't like this final four of Phoenix because
Speaker 5: it's not all a one place. You have it right
Speaker 5: all over the place, and it's you can't enjoy the atmosphere.
Speaker 5: Not like you probably went to a New Orleans. You
Speaker 5: went to Indianapolinnapolis was great. It was you know them
Speaker 5: in San Antonio. It's where it's all downtown and everybody's
Speaker 5: it's like Vegas. It's like the MGM in Vegas, right,
Speaker 5: you see everybody and it's right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, Where is it this year? I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think it's not in Houston. It's Houston soon. I'm
Speaker 4: not too sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, some of these cities, I mean, Indianapolis are kind
Speaker 5: of on a rotation. Yeah, Like there's basically like six
Speaker 5: places now it seems where they're over and over again.
Speaker 3: W n B, a twenty year veteran and future Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer, Diana's Rossi is still considering her decisions.
Speaker 2: Oh really really Yeah, my friend Mike, Mike, my guy
Speaker 2: who's here on Mondays, but to go to him and
Speaker 2: his wife went to go see her play, probably in
Speaker 2: her final home game up in Phoenix, and for that reason.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think she was there that night of the
Speaker 5: w NBA Final. Everybody seemed to be at that that
Speaker 5: last game. They got huge ratings and all the all
Speaker 5: their superstar players were there and you know super and
Speaker 5: Megan Rappino.
Speaker 4: Gabriel Reese or was not Gabriel that Reese? Yeah, Angel
Speaker 4: Angel Chris was there.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was kind of weird. Did you were you watching it?
Speaker 4: She's like on the court. I was dressed up. It
Speaker 4: was kind of strange. Yeah, everybody who's who, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was that was good. Spike Lee, Spike Lee. Yeah,
Speaker 2: will be at the World another minute we get any
Speaker 2: more stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you talked about this yesterday, but
Speaker 3: the Arizona soccer they won their final home game on Friday,
Speaker 3: I don't think so I won, and Thenday they will
Speaker 3: finish on the road at Arizona State and.
Speaker 5: Then hope they get into the playoffs in the playoffs. Okay,
Speaker 5: super Ball is thirteen and five. Yeah, that's what I'm
Speaker 5: only two and five in the Big twelve. That's not
Speaker 5: They're playing a su this week, and I think maybe
Speaker 5: Steve Quis, who we're talking to soon. Yeah, we'll talk
Speaker 5: be doing Yeah, it's a home game. He should be
Speaker 5: doing that game Thursday night. Oh, I think that's when
Speaker 5: he's staying there leaving. I think we'll talk to him. Okay,
Speaker 5: we'll talk to him. But again, one of those one
Speaker 5: of those ESPN plus situations. A lot of games are
Speaker 5: on there, so if you want to watch, yeah, some
Speaker 5: of the other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's cheap, it's not that much.
Speaker 5: Just an Now you just tack it onto your Hulu,
Speaker 5: ESPN whatever you know, so you get it. But now,
Speaker 5: I again, as a sports fan, if you're you of
Speaker 5: a fan, I think you have to get to get
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Speaker 4: Looking it up. Dave, as you hook my stuff up,
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the ball here at
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Speaker 4: I'm Steve Rivera. He's Dave Silver.
Speaker 2: Now on the phone, we have Steve quiz last night's
Speaker 2: basketball play by play with Matt Mielbach. How are you doing, Steve.
Speaker 13: I'm doing wonderful. I had a great night last night,
Speaker 13: but already back at my full time job in San Diego.
Speaker 4: Just grind in away, grinding away at the beach. What
Speaker 4: Pini Collide wish.
Speaker 13: It's actually I think I think I brought the weather
Speaker 13: back with me because that win that we had in
Speaker 13: Tucson and the hot weather is right here in San Diego.
Speaker 13: I'm standing outside. I'm boiling right now in San Diego
Speaker 13: is not supposed to be like this.
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Speaker 13: Final weeks of October.
Speaker 4: Are you there next weekend? Where?
Speaker 13: Oh that's right, You're coming for Breeders Cup, aren't you
Speaker 13: room believe it or not. The only two days I
Speaker 13: have off between now and the end of the year
Speaker 13: will be November second and third and the first, so
Speaker 13: super py.
Speaker 6: Yeahday, You'll be my uber.
Speaker 4: You take me everywhere I want to go.
Speaker 2: Hey, you bet I was thinking I was thinking as
Speaker 2: you came up, how what years were you here working?
Speaker 13: So I was a student from eighty nine to ninety two.
Speaker 13: I was Dave Silver's intern probably in what ninety two
Speaker 13: I would think.
Speaker 14: Dave yes, during the during the riots in LA and
Speaker 14: then uh, we're have anything to do with And then
Speaker 14: I was uh, ninety three I was with the Toros, and.
Speaker 13: Then ninety four through two thousand kold. Oh wow, so
Speaker 13: you're direct competitor of one day so.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, so six years no friendly competition though? Are
Speaker 2: you here longer than I think in terms of being
Speaker 2: a student?
Speaker 4: You are? You?
Speaker 2: So between us we have like one hundred years of
Speaker 2: journalism in this damn place.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I have.
Speaker 6: I had eleven years.
Speaker 13: And then as I think I said last time I
Speaker 13: was on here, I own property there. So I've been
Speaker 13: a Pimath County taxpayer up until May thirty first of
Speaker 13: this year, for I don't know, thirty years, thirty five
Speaker 13: years or so.
Speaker 4: So crazy. Yeah, and your money went to U of
Speaker 4: A because your kid went to u A. Yeah sort of.
Speaker 13: But uh yeah, but he got a lot.
Speaker 6: Of scholarships and that kind of stuff and got for scholarships.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so what's it like to be back now as
Speaker 5: a you know, professional broadcaster. You grew up here, you
Speaker 5: learned the trade here, and now you are right in
Speaker 5: the middle of it all.
Speaker 4: What's what's it been like to yeah, step this role.
Speaker 13: No, it's a good question. It's kind of surreal. I mean, you'll,
Speaker 13: I mean, Scott, we've known each other now thirty years
Speaker 13: as I was, you know, one of your interns, and
Speaker 13: you know how excited I was to try and get
Speaker 13: on the air and do you know a bunch of
Speaker 13: different things. But I've always wanted to do play by
Speaker 13: playing my foot in the door was you know, was
Speaker 13: being an anchor at Channel thirteen. But that was kind
Speaker 13: of surreal because I had done a game in every
Speaker 13: single if you go back to the Pac twelve, I'd
Speaker 13: done a game for ESPN in every.
Speaker 6: Single venue except for McHale.
Speaker 13: Center, and then last night was the first time going
Speaker 13: back and doing it. So after like thirty five years,
Speaker 13: I mean, I felt like Rudy leading the Notre Dame
Speaker 13: fighting Irish out of the tunnel you know where where
Speaker 13: they air PARSIGI and finally gave me an opportunity, or
Speaker 13: Dan de Vine to go out there on the field
Speaker 13: and do something, so it.
Speaker 6: Was really it was really cool, and it was an
Speaker 6: exhibition game.
Speaker 13: I mean, for me, it just meant the world because
Speaker 13: I had never done it before. I'd called a couple
Speaker 13: of Aztec games when I was the voice of San
Speaker 13: Diego State basketball, and a couple of Arizona games when
Speaker 13: one of the voice of the Aztecs and they had
Speaker 13: come out to San Diego State. And then I did
Speaker 13: one for ESPNU at the Wooden Legacy, you know. But
Speaker 13: it was like a ten am Sunday morning game on
Speaker 13: ESPN eight.
Speaker 6: So this is kind of cool to yeah, to settle in.
Speaker 13: And Matt and Neilbaik. It's funny. Matt Muilwak and I
Speaker 13: have seen each other probably once or twice a year
Speaker 13: in passing for the last thirteen years. We've always said,
Speaker 13: one day we're going to work together. And we were
Speaker 13: at the bar at dirt Bags at homecoming last year
Speaker 13: when we beat New Mexico or UCLA rather in November,
Speaker 13: and we were like, I don't think this is ever
Speaker 13: going to happen, and then here it is. One year later,
Speaker 13: we got.
Speaker 6: A chance to work with each other. So it was
Speaker 6: a it was a pretty fun real night.
Speaker 13: It meant met a lot to me, you'd be able
Speaker 13: to do that.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw.
Speaker 2: I think you did because you retweeted our social media
Speaker 2: post about today's show. And I'm looking at your photo
Speaker 2: and said, you look like you're twelve and I don't
Speaker 2: know how old show.
Speaker 6: But Dave silt I mean, Dave looks like he's on
Speaker 6: TMZ or something like that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, he got that one picture.
Speaker 5: I do have the same picture with the hair that's
Speaker 5: not nearly that color anymore.
Speaker 4: Well, how could they don't do that for me? Then?
Speaker 2: You know, what the hell? Hey, so what did you
Speaker 2: think last night? What were your impressions?
Speaker 13: I mean, that's pretty good. I mean, you know, look
Speaker 13: at look at who they played. Obviously, you know, I
Speaker 13: don't want to pay anything away from Eastern New Mexico
Speaker 13: but a Division two team, but I you know, I
Speaker 13: was pretty because of being in this position to watch
Speaker 13: them scrimmage on Thursday over at the Richard Jefferson Gymnasium,
Speaker 13: and they were really going after it. And those same
Speaker 13: ten that you saw Tommy play until about the what
Speaker 13: under four time out at the end when he emptied
Speaker 13: the bench, you know, to get the other eight guys,
Speaker 13: and they played eighteen last night that that first ten
Speaker 13: were battling each other for forty minutes in that gym,
Speaker 13: and they were they were really good. So I put
Speaker 13: a lot more stock in the at the scrimmage that
Speaker 13: I know a lot of the you know, only a
Speaker 13: handful of us got an opportunity to see. But then
Speaker 13: I think you saw it on display. And you know,
Speaker 13: I mean obviously when they get into the big twelve,
Speaker 13: it's you know, they're not gonna be able to throw
Speaker 13: those home runs. You know, Russell Wilson passes down the
Speaker 13: length of the court. But boy, they they've got some
Speaker 13: death too, and they've got a lot of guys that
Speaker 13: put a lot of effort in. And I'm pretty impressed
Speaker 13: with what I saw there last night.
Speaker 2: How about Townsend, He's the biggest surprise to me. I
Speaker 2: didn't really realized he could shoot the ball like he did.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I didn't either. I mean, he had those big games, right,
Speaker 13: I mean a huge game against Kentucky and the NCAA tournament,
Speaker 13: and he had that thirty point game against nc Statement.
Speaker 13: At the time, I didn't really pay and probably like
Speaker 13: most two zones, I didn't pay particular attention to how
Speaker 13: he was doing it or even who he was, because
Speaker 13: I didn't know he would be on Arizona's roster or
Speaker 13: would have paid more attention. But yeah, he was good
Speaker 13: and coming out and making those threes. It's you know,
Speaker 13: I made four threes before he finally had that heat
Speaker 13: check and missed the last one. And actually in that scrimmage,
Speaker 13: like Carter Bryant did the same exact thing. He was
Speaker 13: making four to threes. So he got a lot of
Speaker 13: different guys that can stretch the floor. And Vasar made
Speaker 13: a three, and you saw they had what fourteen threes
Speaker 13: and maybe five or six different guys made made one,
Speaker 13: So I think that'll be big and certainly had a
Speaker 13: lot of effort, and I think Conrad Martinez looked really
Speaker 13: good as the backup point guard, did Jayden Bradley, And
Speaker 13: what was really impressive them sharing the ball and also
Speaker 13: with the fact that you know, I mean love gets
Speaker 13: comes an ap All American early in the day, we
Speaker 13: lead the broadcast talking about that, and then he doesn't
Speaker 13: really do much and Bradley didn't do much, and they got,
Speaker 13: you know, a lot of good out of the supporting cast.
Speaker 13: So if you can go through the whole year like that,
Speaker 13: where you're supporting cast guys or scoring buckets for you.
Speaker 13: I think it votes pretty well for how this team
Speaker 13: could finish in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 4: I was thinking too last year.
Speaker 5: You know, Caleb was so good pretty much the entire season,
Speaker 5: and he kind of went up and down the last month,
Speaker 5: and that was it seemed to be the fear of
Speaker 5: most Arizona fans was, man, if Caleb has a bad game,
Speaker 5: this thing is going to be over. Yeah, and we
Speaker 5: saw that happen. So maybe there's a little more backup.
Speaker 5: Maybe there's a few more guys who can who can
Speaker 5: take a big shot when it.
Speaker 2: Really that was my story, and Tommy said, there's more
Speaker 2: shooters now that you just have to make them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean like at del Orso, I mean like
Speaker 6: he had.
Speaker 13: One of the best years. I mean really perusing the
Speaker 13: numbers meeting up to that broadcast, I mean that kind
Speaker 13: of year that he had last season when he was
Speaker 13: at Campbell where he you know, he shot forty nine
Speaker 13: percent thirty eight on threes, eighty one at the free
Speaker 13: throw line, almost twenty points a game. Only four other
Speaker 13: guys in the country had more efficient numbers. Than that,
Speaker 13: and one would be Mark Sears at Alabama, who's you know,
Speaker 13: one of the other six players on that AP preseason
Speaker 13: team that was announced yesterday. And aj Mitchell from the
Speaker 13: UC Santa Barbara, who was a you know, a draft
Speaker 13: pick of the Lakers. And there was another I think
Speaker 13: Kentucky or North Carolina guy on there.
Speaker 4: So it's that.
Speaker 6: Guy's pretty good.
Speaker 4: He's pretty good. Fine, he didn't you know.
Speaker 13: He's an Australian guy who when I first saw h
Speaker 13: at the scrimmage, I'm like, Okay, looks more like a
Speaker 13: Saint Mary's guy. But we know those Saint Mary's guys
Speaker 13: can ball out when they have to, so yeah, I think,
Speaker 13: you know he can. He can knock down a big shot.
Speaker 13: A lot of those guys again can stretch the play.
Speaker 13: And that's the other thing too, with those with those
Speaker 13: big guys stretching the floor. You know, when when it
Speaker 13: went to ballow, you knew exactly what's gonna happen. Right,
Speaker 13: he can only score right around the basket or get
Speaker 13: hacked and go to the free throw line and you know,
Speaker 13: miss five or six free throws a game. It seems
Speaker 13: to me like this will be able to spread out,
Speaker 13: maybe more guys can drive in the lane and hit
Speaker 13: some threes, and so I'm kind of excited to see
Speaker 13: where this goes the rest of the year, although I
Speaker 13: mean the league is gonna be tough. I mean, if
Speaker 13: they're sitting there Ken Palm number eight, and then and
Speaker 13: I trust a lot in Ken Palm, and then they're
Speaker 13: what tenth overall and that's the fifth best team supposedly
Speaker 13: in the Big twelve.
Speaker 6: What a year this is going to be.
Speaker 13: You know, get your get your tickets now, folks, right, No,
Speaker 13: it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 4: I mean I don't. I can't.
Speaker 5: We've been talking Steve and I back and forth about
Speaker 5: this season and the anticipation knowing that I mean basically
Speaker 5: every weekend or week whenever these games are. They're all
Speaker 5: spread out all over the place nowadays. But it's gonna
Speaker 5: be fun. It's gonna be fun to watch some of
Speaker 5: these new teams come in that Arizona has never played,
Speaker 5: or maybe we've seen them on TV. So it's gonna
Speaker 5: be a mystery, I think for a lot of U
Speaker 5: of A fans, especially this first year, trying to figure
Speaker 5: out who's who, who's good, and who are the best players.
Speaker 2: So are you going to be back doing any more games?
Speaker 2: Did your schedule?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I have I have a couple of women's games.
Speaker 4: I have them.
Speaker 13: I think I'm doing the old Dominion game, which is
Speaker 13: on a like Saturday, November the nine coming up. So
Speaker 13: we're still trying to work out the schedule and all
Speaker 13: that kind of stuff. So yeah, I'll be around, and
Speaker 13: I'm coming back tomorrow for you know, Arizona State UH
Speaker 13: and Arizona Women's volleyball, and I think we're close to
Speaker 13: five thousand and McHale for that, so that should be
Speaker 13: a lot of fun. So I'm excited coming back over.
Speaker 13: And you know, it's UH too, something hasn't changed much.
Speaker 13: So and the weather was beautiful for homecoming weekend. So
Speaker 13: even though it wasn't a great football game, it was
Speaker 13: a lot of a lot of fun, you know, sitting
Speaker 13: there in section twenty three, fifty rows up it was
Speaker 13: it was.
Speaker 4: It was a nice day.
Speaker 2: So did you so you did you cover the team
Speaker 2: last weeknight?
Speaker 4: The team? Did you do games with volleyball last year?
Speaker 6: No? No, this is the first year because this is
Speaker 6: the first year that ESPN plus.
Speaker 4: Okay, come on.
Speaker 2: The reason I ask is what were your impressions of
Speaker 2: the volleyball team because they were much approved.
Speaker 13: Yeah, they're really good. I mean they you know, Rita
Speaker 13: Stubbs in her second year, signed the nation's top prep
Speaker 13: player from last year, carly Sisnaro's, and she's been fantastic.
Speaker 13: And they brought in the seventh rated recruiting class and
Speaker 13: three of those players are you know, half the starting
Speaker 13: rotation and they are just doing a phenomenal job. As
Speaker 13: a matter of fact, they're setter Avery Skoggin's just was
Speaker 13: named the Big twelve Rookie of the Year I'm sorry,
Speaker 13: Rookie of the Week for the second time. And that
Speaker 13: hasn't happened a lot as far as Arizona's concerned. And
Speaker 13: then if you haven't seen Jalen Hodge or Jordan Wilson
Speaker 13: hit from the outside, you're missing something. So it's it's
Speaker 13: a fun kind of team to watch. I think they're
Speaker 13: probably a year or two away. I know they had
Speaker 13: four recruits over this weekend and they're you know, they
Speaker 13: had an unofficial business visit a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 13: from Carter Bryant's younger sister who goes to Corona Centennial.
Speaker 13: She'd be a two way player. So if she commits
Speaker 13: to play basketball for a D at Arizona, I think
Speaker 13: the money would come from a D and then maybe
Speaker 13: they could get her to play on the volleyball team,
Speaker 13: but I think it would be basketball that would be paying.
Speaker 13: So they I think, you know, if they could lock
Speaker 13: down those recruits, they're going to be a really, really
Speaker 13: tough team to watch, although Arizona State, you know, is
Speaker 13: fantastic the.
Speaker 4: Opponent on Thursday.
Speaker 2: So to both of you guys, I'm gonna ask the
Speaker 2: dumb question of the day. We all talk about nil
Speaker 2: and Fish talked about it maybe a week or so ago,
Speaker 2: with the twenty million, forty million whatever in a game.
Speaker 2: It's come to this, right, you think eventually it's going
Speaker 2: to be like that all the time, all the good
Speaker 2: programs are gonna buy their championships or will they team
Speaker 2: like you know, under the radar team that it doesn't
Speaker 2: pay that much find a way.
Speaker 13: Who I think it's going to be the first scenario
Speaker 13: that you talked about. You know, it's looking more and
Speaker 13: more like that. It's already more worried about. Yeah, no,
Speaker 13: it already is, and I'm more worried about like the
Speaker 13: smaller programs and the you know, the programs that might
Speaker 13: be on the chopping block too, you know, especially when
Speaker 13: you're talking about equity and and and making sure that
Speaker 13: there's as much entitled nine, you know, as many opportunities
Speaker 13: for women. I don't really think that we're headed down
Speaker 13: a really good road here. I mean, that's scary. The
Speaker 13: scariest thing is like Tony Bennett in leaving Virginia right
Speaker 13: a few days before the start of the basketball season,
Speaker 13: and all I can think of is, I bet you
Speaker 13: those And I wanted to talk to Tommy about this.
Speaker 13: I forgot to ask him. Maybe I'll ask him next time.
Speaker 13: But does you see a scenario in a few years
Speaker 13: where all these big names just cash out and then
Speaker 13: go coach in the NAIA? You know, coach you know
Speaker 13: Augustana College of North Dakota.
Speaker 4: That's a good question.
Speaker 13: Hall of Fame coaches, Well look at me.
Speaker 4: Like Chip Kelly, you know, he leaves U c l A.
Speaker 5: And I don't know, he just crashed an assistant coach
Speaker 5: in Ohio State and maybe a couple of million or whatever.
Speaker 4: He's sick and tired of it.
Speaker 5: I mean, coach k Yeah, even I think that was
Speaker 5: one of the reasons why, he Saban coach k Saban.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they saw the writing on the war. And you know, coaches,
Speaker 2: I mean, were you close to Fisher at all?
Speaker 4: Jed Fish?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 13: No, yeah, Steve the right time, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially if you're old, and you're you're older, he says,
Speaker 2: I don't need this crap.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, And that's what they're worried about at San Diego State.
Speaker 13: I mean that number that was thrown out there of
Speaker 13: like twenty months. Somebody actually asked me that at mckailson or.
Speaker 4: Order the booster gesture.
Speaker 13: He said, like, how much are we paying all these guys?
Speaker 13: And I'm like, I don't know, but I would assume,
Speaker 13: like a big ten basketball rosters probably got to be
Speaker 13: between eight and ten million dollars, and I'm sure they'll
Speaker 13: be donor fatigue, you.
Speaker 4: Know, coming up. And so I don't know where we're going.
Speaker 5: It's interesting too, because you know these like the U
Speaker 5: of A, they've got a general manager on the staff now,
Speaker 5: and that's that's his job, is to kind of wouldn't
Speaker 5: that check?
Speaker 2: One final minute to both of you? So okay, so
Speaker 2: Steve Christ pays X amount of money for for love
Speaker 2: or somebody like that, just and they don't show up.
Speaker 2: Look at you a football. You paid for these kids
Speaker 2: and they're not playing. Well, buyer's remorse is coming soon.
Speaker 13: Got them, As Buddy Ryan would say, number nine, get
Speaker 13: him out of it.
Speaker 4: We name what's Green state.
Speaker 5: We know who they are, and they are who they are.
Speaker 13: I can't wait until they all do their I can't
Speaker 13: wait until they all log onto Turbo tax and they're like,
Speaker 13: oh god, I got to pay taxes on this stuff.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 13: I hope, I hope a bunch of them don't file
Speaker 13: for bankruptcy, you know, ten years down the road.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Steve as always. Will see you tomorrow
Speaker 2: in town.
Speaker 13: Yes, I'll be there.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: The economy will be better for it, our Tucson economy
Speaker 2: will be better for it.
Speaker 6: Yes it will.
Speaker 13: Although I Taco Bell by the University yesterday, I was
Speaker 13: a little disappointed in myself. But you know, you know
Speaker 13: what it's like, Dave, you in a late night broadcast.
Speaker 5: Of all the gin joins after the game, that's where
Speaker 5: you went, Yeah, in the corner.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean sometimes I'll go to
Speaker 13: It's it's too like gentle Bens has got it like
Speaker 13: a great burder. But man, I can't.
Speaker 6: Man, I'm older now, I can't eat that at.
Speaker 13: Nine thirty at night. Well one one and I'm done. Baby.
Speaker 2: Back in the day, Steve, you could eat too, Jeloupa's
Speaker 2: thank you man be will.
Speaker 13: Yep see you Man, I appreciate it, man Ze.
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Speaker 1: Basis Eye on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 1: Want to take part in the show? Call up Steve
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I Ball jot Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve your Dave. Now we have Ryan, Ryan, you
Speaker 2: have some breaking news just right.
Speaker 4: Now do.
Speaker 3: Caleb Love has been added to the men's basketball preseason
Speaker 3: All American List second Team second Team.
Speaker 2: Sports Illustrated one team Yesterday's first team second team, and
Speaker 2: he's still He's.
Speaker 4: Basically on every All American team, you know, in the
Speaker 4: top ten and.
Speaker 2: Still not the best NBA prospect on the team. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in fact the fourth best.
Speaker 4: Really. Yeah, that we're saying, yeah.
Speaker 2: It's number one is going to be or we saw
Speaker 2: it last week. I think we talked about it last week. Uh, Bryant,
Speaker 2: Bryant good number eighth or something like that. kJ Lewis, Yes,
Speaker 2: Jim Bradley in Crevis, I think was ahead of Bradley
Speaker 2: and then Bradley and then Love. That's probably why he's back,
Speaker 2: why he's making more making money, And they probably told
Speaker 2: him you need to work in a few things and
Speaker 2: maybe even then.
Speaker 4: You're not going to be good enough. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean it's kind of the usual suspects on
Speaker 5: that team. I'm excited to see Cooper Flag come to
Speaker 5: something with Duke and everyone. Remember raving about him being
Speaker 5: the number one pick and he hasn't played a second
Speaker 5: yet in college basketball, right, so they'll be here soon.
Speaker 2: In your world, Dave of TV and all that TV watchings, No,
Speaker 2: in your TV being a sports guy for a long
Speaker 2: time ago. Now you can kind of say what you
Speaker 2: want to feel. Can you tell the difference at the
Speaker 2: ESPN level or the top level of being a news dude,
Speaker 2: that they're good or they belong there or you know,
Speaker 2: are there because whatever, can you mean the quality of
Speaker 2: the broadcast? Yes, are there in your time. I don't
Speaker 2: want you to say who they are? You see, how
Speaker 2: did he get that job?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Well I think that kind of comes with a lot
Speaker 5: of professions.
Speaker 2: That's that's my point, including that one. And that's in
Speaker 2: the NBA. You're thinking, well, Bronnie, look at Bronnie. Yeah
Speaker 2: really really you see it really? Does he belong there?
Speaker 2: And everyone knows probably not, but he's there. He was
Speaker 2: even the seventh best guy in the uc USC team. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but but it happens, right, it happens in.
Speaker 4: Your definitely does. I mean there's reasons.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it's uh, you know, it just depends on who's hiring.
Speaker 5: What they're looking for, especially in television is very subjective.
Speaker 5: We would sometimes, you know, be on the lookout for
Speaker 5: a blonde, or we were want to make sure that
Speaker 5: guy had brown hair.
Speaker 4: It seriously got that specifically times really because the audience.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean maybe your news anchor is an older gentleman,
Speaker 5: we want to get a younger female or I mean
Speaker 5: that got to be that to that point, I was lucky.
Speaker 4: Maybe not lucky the right word.
Speaker 5: But there's a number of times Wheyan was looking for
Speaker 5: someone to work in sports, and in those days, they
Speaker 5: would send a video and you'd have to take a
Speaker 5: look at it. Generally speaking, you're looking at those videos
Speaker 5: at eleven o'clock at night or midnight, and you're.
Speaker 4: Exhausted, and you stick it in the machine and you.
Speaker 5: Look at it and you watch it for like ten seconds,
Speaker 5: and you can tell you can tell, Okay, maybe no,
Speaker 5: I don't think so. I mean, I hate to say that,
Speaker 5: and I'm sure it happened to me many times as
Speaker 5: well when I was looking for work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's it's time and circumstances, right, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: and you know time and place all that stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean Steve, who were just talking to Steve Quis,
Speaker 5: you know, did a great job of learning here, learning
Speaker 5: as an intern, getting you know, his feet wet, did
Speaker 5: some play by play for the Toros. Was really good,
Speaker 5: very young, and he was he was raw, but he learned.
Speaker 5: And then he went off to San Diego and made
Speaker 5: it big there locally, worked for the Padres doing padre games.
Speaker 5: I mean he's it was a good progression, you know,
Speaker 5: he kind of he did he did it the right way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and our guy Ryan here is doing the same thing.
Speaker 2: He's trying to do that. The one thing that one
Speaker 2: of many things Ryan and I think Dave will agree,
Speaker 2: this is not a shy profession. You cannot be shy.
Speaker 4: True.
Speaker 2: You have to be sometimes a pain in the ass,
Speaker 2: sometimes a guy that's obnoxious. Not to bet obnoxious, but
Speaker 2: you have to kind of make yourself known.
Speaker 5: And you want to kind of develop your own style,
Speaker 5: whether it may be low key or in your face.
Speaker 5: And the same as a writer, I'm sure you probably
Speaker 5: the same way, and it's a talent to be able.
Speaker 4: To do that.
Speaker 2: Well. This is I'm sure you know what your reputation
Speaker 2: was in locally in the news department, right. So for me,
Speaker 2: I was generally a very positive raally. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: not a columnist, so you know, I would say what
Speaker 2: the story was. But once I could write ninety nine
Speaker 2: nine hundred stories and that one story that went negative,
Speaker 2: they didn't talk about the ninety nine that you did
Speaker 2: really well, or you know, they always talked about Steve.
Speaker 4: That was different. You know, what was up with that?
Speaker 2: It would just woke up in a bad mood or something,
Speaker 2: because you could do all that work and then have
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, you know.
Speaker 5: The difference between being a columnist and just being the reporter,
Speaker 5: and I think many news consumers don't necessarily understand that
Speaker 5: difference sometimes. But you know, we've had some great ones
Speaker 5: here in Tucson, knowing that they're calmnists, the Quirky's and
Speaker 5: obviously Greg, I mean, they have a reputation and we
Speaker 5: kind of expect them not to just report the stats
Speaker 5: and you know, the quotes.
Speaker 4: That's their perspective, that's their job.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, no question, And nowadays it kind of there's
Speaker 2: a fine line because you it's especially in the news,
Speaker 2: in the in the TV world where you have the
Speaker 2: c and ns, you have the Foxes, you have the NBCs,
Speaker 2: where you it's.
Speaker 4: A hard line to draw.
Speaker 2: Was is he telling the truth or the straightforwardness or
Speaker 2: the or the perspective of the station.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's obvious. I mean, you the viewers know.
Speaker 5: The viewers go to where they want to listen to.
Speaker 5: In most cases they don't they don't want to hear
Speaker 5: the other side of things. But that's kind of the
Speaker 5: way the media is gone and they're looking for eyeballs.
Speaker 4: They don't really care.
Speaker 5: I mean Fox leads the cable and Rupert Martin Murdoch is,
Speaker 5: you know, laughing his way to the bank.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you. You were in the business for hummah,
Speaker 4: a little over thirty two years.
Speaker 2: So what would be the title of your story in
Speaker 2: that world?
Speaker 5: Tell it like it is, not like Howard Cosell, but
Speaker 5: that that was really my goal was just to kind
Speaker 5: of tell the story, not get Yeah, it was pretty straightforward.
Speaker 4: I was that just kind of the way I learned it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I kind of came out of a traditional
Speaker 5: journalism school and worked for some I worked for three
Speaker 5: guys in San Diego that were great role models. They
Speaker 5: were all a little bit similar and also a little
Speaker 5: bit different.
Speaker 4: I mean, as I think about it today.
Speaker 5: The main guy, his name was Mike Smith, and he
Speaker 5: was the main sports anchor, very straightforward, and I kind
Speaker 5: of copied that. And then there was the weekend guy
Speaker 5: named Phil Stone who wound up doing some play by
Speaker 5: play later was very versatile, did some Pac ten games
Speaker 5: as well, good personality. And then this guy named Greg Wyatt,
Speaker 5: who if anyone's listening was in Tucson many years ago,
Speaker 5: and he wound up working in the early years of ESPN.
Speaker 5: Super great personality, and we still he and I still
Speaker 5: stay in touch.
Speaker 4: And what's he doing now.
Speaker 5: He's in Florida and he's actually doing radio for he
Speaker 5: does like a radio show like maybe similar to this.
Speaker 5: I'm not quite sure we got we gotta get him
Speaker 5: on what ears? He knows he was here in the
Speaker 5: mid seventies. Okay, I got to San Diego then and
Speaker 5: then I was there till the late seventies. But Greg
Speaker 5: and his wife both worked at KVOA. So yeah, we
Speaker 5: should try, yeah.
Speaker 4: Try again.
Speaker 2: We talk about the good ole days. We have our
Speaker 2: old people that listen to us, and like when we
Speaker 2: go back and reminisce.
Speaker 5: He's doing uh play by play, and I gosh, I
Speaker 5: could I wish he'll tell you if we get him.
Speaker 4: I think it's a community college and like.
Speaker 5: So he's still in the business. Yeah still, yeah, he's
Speaker 5: still he's still doing it. So I mean, I see
Speaker 5: him again on Facebook, So yeah, maybe we should try
Speaker 5: to get him.
Speaker 2: Next time you're on he will get him on and
Speaker 2: maybe next week just to shoot to shoot the breeze.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's he was a good role mom can be
Speaker 5: seventy something he was. I'm sure he was there at
Speaker 5: the beginning of ESPN, so those stories would be terrific too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Every time they have an anniversary of something, Hey, it's
Speaker 5: fortieth anniversary of Sports Center, he's he pops up doing something.
Speaker 4: They can find him on the show. He Kvoa had
Speaker 4: their sixty Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, he was probably more than that whatever that last yeah,
Speaker 5: big anniversary, he.
Speaker 4: Was on that show. They had him say something.
Speaker 2: And then there's so many people that have come through
Speaker 2: the stations right now, especially we're talking about this with Ryan.
Speaker 2: The kids are younger, uh, and the older ones are few.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean this was a good launching point for
Speaker 5: a lot of people. Obviously, Dan Hicks, you know, can't
Speaker 5: can't beat what he's done. Sure, another Tucson guy.
Speaker 4: Have you had him on?
Speaker 2: No, he is very difficult to find. We've tried, but
Speaker 2: to find and you know everyone, well you don't get
Speaker 2: the phone number for me. You don't have this business, right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So we tried for the Olympics too, right before that,
Speaker 2: and that that couldn't happen or.
Speaker 4: He is doing notre dame. I want to say, I
Speaker 4: think he's on NBC doing.
Speaker 2: For us, but we're going to track down if we
Speaker 2: could get Steve Kerr on this show.
Speaker 4: He can get him, Dan Hicks. Dan's good. In fact,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I wasn't hanging around homecoming this past week, but he
Speaker 5: usually comes back. He's got friends and families still in town.
Speaker 5: He brings he.
Speaker 4: Married to, uh, married to Henna storm Yep.
Speaker 5: A few years back when I was over at the
Speaker 5: U of A, he came in and gave a really
Speaker 5: nice talk to the journalism students. It was it was
Speaker 5: really good, very impressive and just off the cuff and
Speaker 5: told his life story. And he's had quite a run. Yeah,
Speaker 5: this was like late eighties. I was just here when
Speaker 5: he was here, when he was leaving it there it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So there's been a lot of guys coming through you
Speaker 5: and Kevin Cabe and Dan Ryan back in the day. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and Steve Quis was kind of the next generation. He followed,
Speaker 5: followed mckabe. I guess Tom Leandrew who if you watch
Speaker 5: Sons games, Uh, there's a lot of the the pre
Speaker 5: and post game shows.
Speaker 4: And I did some play by play too. He was
Speaker 4: the Channel thirteen guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know his story with back in the
Speaker 2: day with lutonety four ninety five of those stories. So
Speaker 2: it it's been a long long history of you guys
Speaker 2: coming in in them and you and you're like the
Speaker 2: one that stayed, you know, you know, the new the
Speaker 2: recent generation that Dave Kelly's and the and the Damian
Speaker 2: Almidas and uh Skarla left came and left and so
Speaker 2: you know, no, what's his name on Channel nine, Jason Barr,
Speaker 2: Justin Barr has been here, you know, about ten years now.
Speaker 4: You know, it's tough.
Speaker 5: It's a good place to live, it's a good place
Speaker 5: to do sports if you can, if you can afford
Speaker 5: to live here. And I mean I was fortunate. I
Speaker 5: was here really during the heyday when everything was here
Speaker 5: with spring training and everything from bowling to women's golf.
Speaker 5: I mean we had so much going on in this yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean in the spring, it was it was non
Speaker 5: stop that month of like months of February and March.
Speaker 4: We didn't sleep.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm doing a big story for bisdu Sound
Speaker 2: on the Tucson Rodeo and they've been here one hundred
Speaker 2: year anniversary this year, and it's it's crazy I mean,
Speaker 2: they've done a lot of stuff and it's changed so much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know, used to coincide with a PGA
Speaker 5: tournament here, so for local sports, we would have to
Speaker 5: make a call like where are.
Speaker 4: We gonna go? Where do you want to go live tonight? Oh,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to Rodeo. Okay, I'm gonna go to golf.
Speaker 5: I mean, it was a it was crazy and based
Speaker 5: on where those locations were, it was hard to get to.
Speaker 5: Sometimes the weather could be a little bit goofy in
Speaker 5: those at that time of year. But that last month
Speaker 5: in Februar, last week in February was both of those sports, so.
Speaker 2: It was it was nuts. Yeah, okay, yeah, no, it's
Speaker 2: a good perspective. Long you've been here like this since
Speaker 2: about forty years, right, yep, forty forty one. I've been
Speaker 2: here thirty seven, getting old.
Speaker 5: It's fun because it changes every year. I mean, I'm
Speaker 5: not covering the sports as much, but just knowing, you know,
Speaker 5: we just started a new football season, got a new
Speaker 5: basketball season, which is it's kind of the beauty of
Speaker 5: living in a college town that it's gonna.
Speaker 2: There's always turnover, there's always hope. You don't come on,
Speaker 2: You've been here a long time. I've been here a
Speaker 2: long time. One Ben's basketball Championship, one women's Final four
Speaker 2: to get to the championship game.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: Baseball has been a real successful softball very successful, u
Speaker 2: A swimming very successful under mister Bush. So there's a
Speaker 2: lot of a lot of potential here. And I still
Speaker 2: say the nineties were fantastic, but these years have a
Speaker 2: chance if they can get through a few things. You know,
Speaker 2: Football's Stubbs, that's tow here, Men's basketball, Tommy's needs to
Speaker 2: get through to get to the final four. He needs
Speaker 2: to and Idea needs to get back.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean that that was an exciting, somewhat surprising run
Speaker 5: that she was able to put that off. I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't think anybody really expected that, but it was great,
Speaker 5: and so you get that taste. It's like, man, when
Speaker 5: can that happen again? When can we get someone like
Speaker 5: you know, Aery McDonald or Sam Thomas where it all
Speaker 5: just kind of comes together and it's it's kind of
Speaker 5: the beauty of sports. It's just all sometimes just just
Speaker 5: does come together somehow and have a magical run.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 2: Sure, and then at the Butterfly effect. Then she's had
Speaker 2: all these issues after the fact. Right, you think you've
Speaker 2: arrived and you really haven't, because the girls or the
Speaker 2: women start feeling different about themselves because hey, we got there,
Speaker 2: we could do it again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not that easy. It's got to be quite
Speaker 5: a temptation, wondering.
Speaker 4: You know is you know?
Speaker 5: Is that it I've only played two years and I've
Speaker 5: still got a couple more years to go. Oh, we're
Speaker 5: ever going to get back?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Okay, We're good. Thirty seconds, perfect timing. Okay, thanks a
Speaker 2: bunch everybody. Thank you Ryan for being here today. Dave
Speaker 2: will see you next week maybe sure? Okay, great, Thanks
Speaker 2: everybody for listening.