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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera in with me.
Speaker 2: Today's Troy Hutches sin from gys you can't start coming
Speaker 2: and our guy Ray at the controls. Let me tell
Speaker 2: you something. To Troy, you suck at predictions. She never
Speaker 2: told me that, But let me tell you something. Go
Speaker 2: ahead respond to that.
Speaker 4: No, I was gonna say, you're You're one of several
Speaker 4: people I even got to you should retire, you know
Speaker 4: at thirty. You know I'm good. That's it right. No,
Speaker 4: but ub Arizona Baseball and you know what, congratulations. But
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody thought after that eighteenth two game no,
Speaker 4: that this is going to be the case. But they
Speaker 4: battle back and phenomenal bullpen work from the Wildcats.
Speaker 2: Doesn't You've been here all You've been all here all
Speaker 2: your life. I've been here more than your life, your years. Tucson, Tucson,
Speaker 2: the sun is bluer. Even when it's hot. It's not
Speaker 2: that hot. When stuff like this happens to the version
Speaker 2: the birds are chirping.
Speaker 3: You know, you might get a date, you might not.
Speaker 2: You know what these are? Excuse me. You wouldn't want
Speaker 2: to date me, would you. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's it's just different. Football wins, basketball wins, baseball wins,
Speaker 2: softball wins.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And it was just kind of to my appointment you're
Speaker 2: asking you that question. It's out of the blue, but
Speaker 2: it's a great blue that they do this right and
Speaker 2: and nobody, nobody had them.
Speaker 4: Winning no, And you just think about this time last year,
Speaker 4: you're talking about them going oh and to hosting a
Speaker 4: regional and then at the end of this season it's
Speaker 4: they lose to Houston, they lose to Utah, and it's like,
Speaker 4: uh oh, this is like classic chip Hill baseball this
Speaker 4: last couple of years.
Speaker 2: And you want he said to that classic chip Hill baseball.
Speaker 4: If you yeah pretty much, If you yeah, I don't
Speaker 4: care what you think, We're going to go to the
Speaker 4: College World Series.
Speaker 2: And that's what baseball is. Jay was in the show
Speaker 2: on Friday and we talked about that. He talked about
Speaker 2: it a lot, where it's baseball right and who knows,
Speaker 2: and I played it for a long time. Who knows
Speaker 2: on that given day it happens. And let me see,
Speaker 2: they were dead. They were dead in the seventh the
Speaker 2: dude didn't have an error.
Speaker 5: See that guy was crushing I forget his name, but yeah,
Speaker 5: that picture was going crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they don't have an air. They don't win
Speaker 3: that game.
Speaker 4: And and to Arizona's credit, they had that error in
Speaker 4: the previous sting and then Mason White wait makes up
Speaker 4: for it. And I know they were blaming Mason White
Speaker 4: on the broadcast for not catching the ball. But that
Speaker 4: was a bad throw. That was not a good throat.
Speaker 4: Should he have got it, Yes, but I don't know
Speaker 4: if you're going to get a double playoff.
Speaker 2: It's a tough angle. He's a shorter guy. The guy
Speaker 2: was running directly in line with him.
Speaker 3: It was what it was.
Speaker 2: They got out of it, but then they didn't have
Speaker 2: got out of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he didn't slumping I think of that game
Speaker 4: at least, Yeah, he didn't. He didn't really have a
Speaker 4: good series.
Speaker 2: A lot of fly deep flay balls or whatever, and
Speaker 2: then he came through.
Speaker 3: With a hit.
Speaker 4: You know, it's funny. He was crushing it at Oregon
Speaker 4: hitting all the homers, and then all these North Carolina
Speaker 4: batters are hitting bombs out of the yard. They're like, Okay,
Speaker 4: Mason White's gonna hit one. It's like, man, are they
Speaker 4: liking Seattle because this ball is just not traveling.
Speaker 2: It was, you know, eighteen to two when you're thinking, okay, nice,
Speaker 2: nice season, and then they you said, yesterday's game was good,
Speaker 2: which it was. It was Saturday's game was Wonker's crazy
Speaker 2: back and forth, back and forth. Who was going to
Speaker 2: be the last guy to succeed?
Speaker 3: And they did?
Speaker 2: They pulled it off.
Speaker 6: No, And it was crazy that Pluto was I mean
Speaker 6: he was Oh they used.
Speaker 3: And then they came back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're fighting, no choice right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Well he has fifty two pitches and it's unbelievable, you know,
Speaker 4: and everybody's like, are they really going to pitch him
Speaker 4: in the ninth? Well yeah, because if you don't and
Speaker 4: you lose, you're gonna regret that your your wrest of
Speaker 4: your proaching career, His career he's always going to think of.
Speaker 3: And he's and I'm sure he's good to go. Hell yeah,
Speaker 3: let's go.
Speaker 2: We're talking about now because we already know the results.
Speaker 2: But to my point with you, you, whatever the hell
Speaker 2: your name is, Troy, is that people can give you crap,
Speaker 2: but the people giving you crap had no idea that
Speaker 2: to get this one. I mean, you're an easy target
Speaker 2: because you lost. Yeah, because you were wrong. But if
Speaker 2: you're right, guess what no one's telling you in no, no, no,
Speaker 2: Well we'll do it next year. You'll see. That's why
Speaker 2: I call people seismologists. Everybody has answers after the earthquake,
Speaker 2: Well tell me before the earthquake happens. Then I'll be
Speaker 2: prepared well.
Speaker 1: And you know what.
Speaker 4: It kind of reminds me of the Women's College World
Speaker 4: Series Caitlin Lowe's first year. I didn't think that they
Speaker 4: deserve to get in. I was very vocal about that.
Speaker 4: And Naggie, her husband, who was the former soccer coach
Speaker 4: at the UFA assistant coach, Paul Naggie, was like, you'll
Speaker 4: see that. Yeah, yeah, there he was the assistant coach
Speaker 4: underneath Tony. But he was like, you'll see, Troy, you're
Speaker 4: ron that we didn't deserve to get in. THEYD made
Speaker 4: it to the Women's College World Series. A lot of
Speaker 4: things fall into place. It's like, see I told you.
Speaker 4: It's like okay, yeah, okay, good for you.
Speaker 2: And she's going to defend his wife and he has
Speaker 2: every right to put deep in your heart you believe that, right.
Speaker 3: It's like what I made predictions.
Speaker 2: Do it rarely here unless Jay's here, because you know,
Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3: And I was wrong.
Speaker 2: Guess what, I think the Sun's gonna be fine whether
Speaker 2: I am or not.
Speaker 4: And not only that, you know, you could talk about
Speaker 4: who's the more talent team and all that, but I
Speaker 4: feel like in college baseball specifically, if a pitching staff
Speaker 4: gets hot, or it offense gets hot, it can be
Speaker 4: anybody in the country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we've seen it in basketball.
Speaker 2: How many times have we not seen in the basketball whoever,
Speaker 2: the best team doesn't always win. Yeah, yeah, it happens
Speaker 2: very often. And here we are, so congrats to them.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have more on this later in the show.
Speaker 2: And Brian Peterson right and early in the show at
Speaker 2: Rosburg is gonna talk about his excitement for the team.
Speaker 2: He texted me during the games all the time, and
Speaker 2: you know, he's just he was a dude who won
Speaker 2: the title in college. He compared the team to the
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty team. He's just kind of gritty, kind of whatever.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you more about that. I don't want
Speaker 2: to get into what he says because of let him
Speaker 2: say so, you know, just again, everybody all the lumbs,
Speaker 2: you know, happy, and yet he had and.
Speaker 4: What is showing by the Arizona fans out in North Carolina.
Speaker 4: There was a lot of u of a fans.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, it's it's it's kind of inner house, right,
Speaker 2: wasn't it mostly the friends and family of the program.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But they had a lot of alumni there too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because I'm sure there's a lot of alums
Speaker 2: out there already. You know, it's like basketball, they travel well,
Speaker 2: they don't travel well. They have a lot of alums
Speaker 2: in the areas that they play, you know, like you know,
Speaker 2: when they were in the Norst California, so in California,
Speaker 2: northern you know, Seattle, San Francisco. But yeah, how could
Speaker 2: you not notice them? Right? Every time they panned to them,
Speaker 2: they had that block of area.
Speaker 4: Every time they panned to some North Carolina phone holding
Speaker 4: up their phone like it's Simba. For some reason, there's
Speaker 4: a u of A fan right there right by them.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry I got annoyed by that. It's like, okay,
Speaker 4: it was funny the first time. You don't have to
Speaker 4: show the fans every single time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there's good. And I saw Brian Ryan
Speaker 2: had a story today about all the connections with Arizona
Speaker 2: everybody six degrees of everything, right, and how the connections
Speaker 2: are just Coast Carolina and.
Speaker 3: Then Lo and behold l s U.
Speaker 2: So the guys who are going them Levs and the
Speaker 2: Brians and then years have some stuff to write about
Speaker 2: that are connected to u A but not specific to
Speaker 2: you of A with j Johnson.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know what, like he brought up before
Speaker 4: we got on here, nobody's talked to Jay Johnson since
Speaker 4: leaving Tucson, no one on the record. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 4: gonna be interesting. Yeah, I think Arizona will again. You don't,
Speaker 4: you don't know what's gonna happen, but get past the
Speaker 4: first round at least then if you have that matchup
Speaker 4: Arizona LSU, it's gonna be must C TV.
Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, at least in Tucson. And could you
Speaker 2: imagine Twitter now and and and all that stuff I
Speaker 2: hate the guy. Why do you do that?
Speaker 3: But you know, we'll see.
Speaker 2: I'm sure someone's gonna if there's a press company that's
Speaker 2: random for everybody that you'll get some he'll get some questions.
Speaker 2: And I really don't want to talk about it. But
Speaker 2: that doesn't prevent you from writing a story. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: no comment, that's all I need, that's all you need. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I already know how I would start my story, you
Speaker 2: know with that, you know, but it is what it is. No,
Speaker 2: so good, nice time, good congrats. Uh, there's more victories
Speaker 2: to be earned. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: And you never know.
Speaker 4: As Kobe once said, the job's not finished. You got there.
Speaker 4: It's time to do something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it'll be remembered as a nice, nice nice
Speaker 2: not a little run, but a nice run.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay, what do you want to say anything with
Speaker 3: your your hockey and your.
Speaker 6: I'm just excited for I'm excited for the final rockets.
Speaker 3: Did you play you wrestled?
Speaker 2: You say?
Speaker 3: Did you play ball?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: I never played.
Speaker 2: I watched it.
Speaker 6: I had a lot of friends that played. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean parents didn't have tim you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you wrestled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're tougher than most because wrestling is the toughest
Speaker 2: sport out there. You run a lot, you know angles.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to fight with any wrestler. That's what
Speaker 2: they're sure. Okay, anything else. We'll talk a little about
Speaker 2: the NBA before we start. Yeah, you have breaking news enough?
Speaker 2: Yeah stuff? Yeah, finals recruiting hairs on a football picking
Speaker 2: up two recruit I saw you you tweeted some stuff.
Speaker 2: Did you just retweeted some stuff? I saw it on
Speaker 2: my way here.
Speaker 4: So they got a I believe, a defensive defensive end
Speaker 4: out of Utah, so three star guy there, and then
Speaker 4: an offensive tackle late last night. I saw Justin had
Speaker 4: it this morning or sixteen hours ago. I just saw
Speaker 4: you know, twitters all nice up now because he's doing
Speaker 4: something else with treesla huh. Yeah, I'm not going down
Speaker 4: that route, but nice offensive tackle anytime you can get
Speaker 4: you a big body offense. Yeah, high schools too, high
Speaker 4: school recruits, so that brings them to seven. I believe
Speaker 4: for the six.
Speaker 2: So in your because I don't fall. I hate more
Speaker 2: than I hate recruiting. Arizona is Arizona with recruiting three stars,
Speaker 2: two stars three stars, four stars every now and then,
Speaker 2: so are they they're still in that same wheelhouse. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but there's promise for that that slew maybe, Like I
Speaker 2: don't know five six four star recruits in this class.
Speaker 3: Tell me four or five, four or five? You never
Speaker 3: know what are your.
Speaker 4: Quarterback that's committed to Oklahoma took the official visit to
Speaker 4: use on his quarterback. Coach and trainer is Ortiz Jenkins,
Speaker 4: who we've had on the radio here before. So there's
Speaker 4: a uf A connection there. If you can get one
Speaker 4: of those quarterbacks to flip who's the highly talented, get
Speaker 4: more possibly will follow. And then you have a few
Speaker 4: four start guys out of Texas, And they already got
Speaker 4: one last year.
Speaker 2: Right right, and over the weekend Friday night, In fact,
Speaker 2: it was the final decision on the the million dollar
Speaker 2: twenty twenty million dollars in IL in IL which you
Speaker 2: were trying to get the desiree on here. That should
Speaker 2: be perfect to have one to talk about stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I still believe, Well, I have a lot of questions
Speaker 2: about it because that doesn't include the nil that they're
Speaker 2: already getting.
Speaker 4: Right, I don't think so. And there was also a
Speaker 4: settlement I thought in I think it was the House
Speaker 4: of Representatives that athletes from twenty twenty six, yeah, or
Speaker 4: twenty sixty to twenty twenty four get what was it,
Speaker 4: three point eight billion dollars?
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, so they're gonna get paid to the issue
Speaker 2: that I had and I don't have a fighting a
Speaker 2: dog in the fight or whatever is the females, I
Speaker 2: mean the females and the Olympic sports athletes where they're
Speaker 2: gonna get what eighty ninety percent of the football people
Speaker 2: and the basketball perore getting nety percent of eighty whatever
Speaker 2: and the rest is for the other people where sports
Speaker 2: could be cut, rosters could be blah blah blah, and
Speaker 2: and the women and men in those sports are not
Speaker 2: going to get paid a lot of money.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean football, football's that end all beyond terms
Speaker 4: like get it revenue. I totally get it, and you
Speaker 4: got it. They had to fix what was going on
Speaker 4: in terms of an ails. So they're trying to do that.
Speaker 4: But hopefully you get that eighteen million, you're successful and
Speaker 4: everything trickles down. But Nigie Kennedy getting a million dollars, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was fun.
Speaker 3: Well that's yeah, that was fun. That was fun.
Speaker 2: And that kind of opens the door for not opens
Speaker 2: the door, but it shows what the potential can be
Speaker 2: in Tucson. You'd have to have that that gem right
Speaker 2: to bring someone like here, someone like her to at
Speaker 2: some point, you know, like the Jenny Finch's of the
Speaker 2: world would be Okay, well we got to have right
Speaker 2: here do this stuff and we'll pay her whatever.
Speaker 4: Not only Jenny Finch. Look at other alumni like Richard Jefferson.
Speaker 4: Was that the Women's College World Series and talking about
Speaker 4: promoting you female sports and helping grow the game. Well,
Speaker 4: Richard put together that indoor practice or facility. I know,
Speaker 4: probably not just by himself, but well.
Speaker 2: That's the look, that's the that's the problem problem or
Speaker 2: a good solution. A lot of the athletes, and I
Speaker 2: can't remember something maybe two or three years ago where
Speaker 2: former athletes who are not specific Arizona but overall don't
Speaker 2: look back and say, Okay, this is where it all
Speaker 2: started for me and I want to help you. It's
Speaker 2: very very rare that they do that they give back
Speaker 2: in that way. There's some obviously Steve Courage and Purich.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying here, damon, but right, you don't see
Speaker 2: that happen very often because they got theirs.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well they get that. I think you brought it
Speaker 4: up on the show where you had uh somebody on
Speaker 4: the show on Thursday, I believe co hosting who is
Speaker 4: co hosting with you?
Speaker 2: Andy?
Speaker 4: Andy talking about getting that alumni call, ignoring the call
Speaker 4: and then you know you got to answer.
Speaker 2: Help. Well, here's the issue, I mean, because everybody's everybody's calling. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not just the Florence department. It's the university department where
Speaker 2: you got your degree from right right right. And I
Speaker 2: don't blame them. I mean they're they're there to do
Speaker 2: their job and try to collect. But you know, a
Speaker 2: heck I get I get calls all the time about
Speaker 2: the I'll say this public feed the cops. You know,
Speaker 2: the cops say you've helped in the past. It's like
Speaker 2: you ever fed a dead cat? Let me tell you
Speaker 2: you don't do it because he won't eat. But you
Speaker 2: ever you ever fed a hugry cat? Oh yeah, guess
Speaker 2: what happens?
Speaker 4: They come back.
Speaker 6: They come back, dude. One I went into my apartment
Speaker 6: one time, the dead.
Speaker 3: Cat, not not the dead.
Speaker 4: That's like they say, don't feed the the bears out
Speaker 4: in the widow.
Speaker 2: Yeah they'll come back and yeah yeah, So like you know,
Speaker 2: I did that with the cops for a few times
Speaker 2: and they keep calling me back. I I can't trying
Speaker 2: to find something I will. But and even when I
Speaker 2: say that, they call back again a week later. Can
Speaker 2: you do it?
Speaker 3: I'm guilted, me guilted.
Speaker 2: That never happens. Guilt guilty. Steve at stage help, we
Speaker 2: gotta go, we gotta go, We got ed Boshburn.
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Speaker 2: On the Ball. Hey Welcome back to my on the
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Speaker 2: and with me today is Troy Hutchison from Goasycats dot Com.
Speaker 2: Now on the phone, we have former you of a
Speaker 2: national title holder picture Major leaguer at Blasberg.
Speaker 15: How were you ed, Hey, Jim Gray, how are you guys?
Speaker 2: We're doing well, I said to Troy before you came
Speaker 2: on to the people out there. Two sons always sunnier
Speaker 2: and nicer when stuff like this happens.
Speaker 3: I know you feel that way probably, oh, no.
Speaker 15: Doubt about it.
Speaker 9: I mean I was.
Speaker 15: I just find incredibly exciting how Trucson is really buzzing
Speaker 15: because of this team, and I think everybody's excited, and
Speaker 15: I think it's crazy. The uncanny resemblance for me of
Speaker 15: the nineteen eighty team. You know, the nineteen seventy nineteen
Speaker 15: goes to the World Series, they lose a lot of
Speaker 15: remaining guys come back for nineteen eighty. It kind of
Speaker 15: reminds me, look at what happened last year the team,
Speaker 15: This team hosted the regionals, they didn't do as well
Speaker 15: as they had hoped, and look what happens the next year.
Speaker 15: They have a couple of rocky roads, bumps in the road,
Speaker 15: and I don't know, I just had a feeling all
Speaker 15: along that this team was going to be resilient, resilient
Speaker 15: and somehow come out and you know, they got a
Speaker 15: chance to bring home the trophy real soon.
Speaker 4: You know, looking back during that nineteen eighty season, refresh
Speaker 4: for you know, viewers that are my age a little bit,
Speaker 4: you know, to refresh us in terms of how ariz
Speaker 4: Gonna won the national championship that year in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 15: Well, it's interesting because we had a lot of guys
Speaker 15: returning and we got off to kind of a shaky
Speaker 15: start in conference play. I think we lost, you know,
Speaker 15: four out of our first six conference games. This year's
Speaker 15: team lost I think what three or four games early
Speaker 15: in the season, and it just resembles a lot, you know,
Speaker 15: we had. I remember we played in a tournament in
Speaker 15: San Diego. We got run ruled by the University of
Speaker 15: San Diego. I remember we were we were scuffling. We
Speaker 15: had a players only team meeting. We just realized, gosh,
Speaker 15: we're way too good to be playing the way we're playing.
Speaker 15: And somehow guys got it together. Craig Lefferts having not
Speaker 15: a great year. He was really good the year before,
Speaker 15: and then look what happens. He goes into the World
Speaker 15: Series and throws a shutout against University of Michigan, and
Speaker 15: then he comes back wins the final game against the
Speaker 15: University of Hawaii. So just a lot of resemblances of
Speaker 15: nineteen eighty. We had great players, obviously, like Terry Francona,
Speaker 15: who was Player of the Year. Wes Clements was the
Speaker 15: first base And it reminds me really because there's a
Speaker 15: lot of local guys on the team. Look at the
Speaker 15: Mason Whites and there's a few local guys here that
Speaker 15: are really doing well. We had a great local flavor
Speaker 15: that year with Clark christ and Jeff Morris, and you know,
Speaker 15: Scott Stanley had a big home run in the World
Speaker 15: Series when we were down two enough into Hawaii and
Speaker 15: the eighth innings. So a lot of resemblances from me
Speaker 15: of the two years, which is really kind of kind
Speaker 15: of strange, kind of uncanny.
Speaker 2: You were texting me at points of the game and
Speaker 2: you were very proud, obviously, how proud maybe because you're
Speaker 2: a local guy. Because for the Whites and the sub
Speaker 2: one kids.
Speaker 11: I am, and I.
Speaker 15: Always I always thought we had some great local talent
Speaker 15: here throughout the years, and you know, that year we
Speaker 15: were able to take advantage of it. I always tell
Speaker 15: people the story of when I was a twelve year
Speaker 15: old playing Little League All Stars with Mark Wing and
Speaker 15: I got a chance to meet Jim Wing that year
Speaker 15: and I and then he got the job at the
Speaker 15: University of Arizona. That was his first year in nineteen
Speaker 15: seventy four. And I always told myself, if I ever
Speaker 15: got the opportunity to play for Jim Wing and the
Speaker 15: University of Arizona, it was going to be a dream
Speaker 15: for me. And then hearing the interview with Mason White
Speaker 15: and hearing him basically tell the same story how he
Speaker 15: grew up as a Wildcat fan and always, I think
Speaker 15: wanted to follow his dad's footsteps and his grandfather's footsteps.
Speaker 15: So it's really really cool to see the local guys
Speaker 15: who were be able to come and play in their hometown.
Speaker 4: You know, you mentioned it from last season, the way
Speaker 4: that they ended their year with two regional, getting out
Speaker 4: of a regional, getting to the super regionals, but then
Speaker 4: going down eighteen to two with your backup against the wall.
Speaker 4: Just your thoughts on the resilience of that and how
Speaker 4: it seems that this team's kind of taken on the
Speaker 4: mentality of their head coach, Chipale, being the gritty player
Speaker 4: that he was at Arizona, you know.
Speaker 15: And I heard an interesting statistics from this year is
Speaker 15: I think Brian Jeffries was saying that seven times this
Speaker 15: year the universe of Arizona has lost the first game
Speaker 15: of the series and they've come back and won. And
Speaker 15: so I knew that when they lost that game. Yes,
Speaker 15: eighteen to two was disappointing, but I realized that these
Speaker 15: guys are used to coming back, They're used to not
Speaker 15: getting two down. I think the great thing about baseball
Speaker 15: is every day it's a different day. You're only as
Speaker 15: good as your starting pitcher. And I always remind people
Speaker 15: of a story I was fortunate to meet Chip Hale
Speaker 15: when he was at seventeen year old kid. I took
Speaker 15: him on his recruiting trip and I realized I met
Speaker 15: this kid, and I thought, man, this kid is really mature,
Speaker 15: sharp beyond his years. And I thought I didn't know
Speaker 15: he was going to be such a great player. He
Speaker 15: was a great player at VE played in the big leagues.
Speaker 15: Managed in the big Leagues with the Diamondbacks, but I
Speaker 15: always thought he would be a great coach and a
Speaker 15: great manager because he just seemed very mature, very smart.
Speaker 15: And I think the fact that he was able to
Speaker 15: play for Jerry Kendall and Jim Jim Wing and Jerry
Speaker 15: Stitt the same way that I was. We learned so
Speaker 15: much from those guys. And you look at the Terry
Speaker 15: Francones and the Kevin Longs. There's so many guys in
Speaker 15: the game today that are, you know, products of Coach Kendall.
Speaker 15: Look at the scouts, Clark christ and Jeff Morris and
Speaker 15: Alan Ragee and Pat Rossler. There's so many guys that
Speaker 15: are continuing with their baseball careers because of great people
Speaker 15: like coach Wing, Coach Kendall, and coach Sit. So it's
Speaker 15: really you know, and I'm not surprised that that coach
Speaker 15: that Chip Hale has done successful. He's just he's always
Speaker 15: had He's always been successful whatever he's done.
Speaker 2: Somebody ask you, how would you in a scale of
Speaker 2: one to ten, how would you say you are? Well,
Speaker 2: you know him, Oh Chi.
Speaker 15: No, Chip, I mean I was able to you know,
Speaker 15: Chip brought me over to the Diamondbacks, and I helped
Speaker 15: out in spring training when he was managing the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 15: and I got to see firsthand how he handled you know, professionals,
Speaker 15: and obviously professionals are different than college kids. But I
Speaker 15: think Chip has always had the ability to communicate incredibly well,
Speaker 15: just like coach Kendall could, and and Chip has just
Speaker 15: has an ability. He's not he's not a hard ass.
Speaker 15: He really he knows how, he knows how to coach
Speaker 15: these kids up. I think he's a very positive guy.
Speaker 15: I think the key of me to being successful as
Speaker 15: a coach. And that's why I look at Terry Francona.
Speaker 15: I played for Terry and I played with him. Terry
Speaker 15: so so positive and just like coach Kendall and and
Speaker 15: Chip is the same way. If you're positive and you
Speaker 15: try to you know, to let these guys coach them
Speaker 15: up and let them do their things, try not to
Speaker 15: micro manage them like some guys do. There's there's just
Speaker 15: that's that's the key to success is just kind of
Speaker 15: letting them let their ability come come.
Speaker 3: Through well before.
Speaker 2: The reason I asked that question is because, uh, and
Speaker 2: I Chip, I covered him a little when he was
Speaker 2: coaching Triple A or whatever it was here. I mean,
Speaker 2: knew of each other. But what struck me over the
Speaker 2: weekend when he does does the in between game, struck
Speaker 2: me as very casual, very engaging, very self effacing, kind
Speaker 2: of almost just a dude who's coaching this team and
Speaker 2: having a good time. And I'm thinking, you know, that's
Speaker 2: he's not anal. He's not anal about this. You know,
Speaker 2: he's just kind of just here coaching.
Speaker 15: Well, I think, and I think the key to success
Speaker 15: for me is and the baseball season is a long season. Obviously,
Speaker 15: professional baseball seasons a lot longer, but you just can't
Speaker 15: get too higher, get too low. You know you're going
Speaker 15: to go through bumps in the road, and you've got
Speaker 15: to just take it with a grain of salt and realize,
Speaker 15: you know, when you're going good, try not to celebrate
Speaker 15: too much, and then when you're struggling, you realize you're
Speaker 15: going to get out of it. So I think Chip
Speaker 15: has that ability to not let the guys freak out
Speaker 15: when they're struggling and not get too crazy when you're
Speaker 15: on a hot, winning streak. You just got to try
Speaker 15: to stay even keeled, and that's what coach Kendall was
Speaker 15: able to do.
Speaker 4: You know, as a former pitcher of yourself, looking at
Speaker 4: the job Tony did this weekend. Fifty two pitches in
Speaker 4: that second game, and then to come back out there
Speaker 4: and close down the ninth, it's got to be refreshing
Speaker 4: to see a reliever go multiple innings and really not
Speaker 4: care about the pitch count and get the job done,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 15: And I was talking to Steve about that, because I
Speaker 15: asked him I got you know, I knew he threw
Speaker 15: a lot of pitches and again a lot of times
Speaker 15: in baseball. You know, adrenaline is such an incredible thing.
Speaker 15: I know that Tony probably was feeling it that yes,
Speaker 15: that last game, but you know, you realize as a reliever,
Speaker 15: you know, he had one job to do that last
Speaker 15: game was to come out and get the three outs.
Speaker 15: And he knew that he had such a great year,
Speaker 15: and that was kind of an anomaly that game where
Speaker 15: when he struggled a little bit. I was watching the
Speaker 15: game and I saw the slider that he gave up
Speaker 15: for the home run, and then I saw him walk
Speaker 15: the batter walk in the run, and I thought, man,
Speaker 15: for a second, there I had my doubts, But then
Speaker 15: I realized these guys have come back so many different times,
Speaker 15: and I was just hoping that he was going to
Speaker 15: get another chance the next day to redeem himself. And
Speaker 15: look what he did. He came back and got those
Speaker 15: last three outs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, what was your discussion? How would how
Speaker 3: do you not go to him right?
Speaker 2: Ye?
Speaker 3: Yesterday?
Speaker 2: Because he is who he is, he's your closure, And
Speaker 2: if he didn't go with him, how do you explain
Speaker 2: it if it doesn't work out?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you're always you know.
Speaker 15: And I had the pleasure of playing with Trevor Hoffman
Speaker 15: maybe the greatest year that maybe any reliever ever had
Speaker 15: in nineteen ninety eight. He saved fifty fifty three out
Speaker 15: of fifty four games, and I got a chance to
Speaker 15: see him how professional he was and how when he
Speaker 15: didn't have a good day he was able to turn
Speaker 15: the page. And you know, as a closer, you got
Speaker 15: to have a short memory. You know, you're not always
Speaker 15: going to be perfect. He that year he pretty much
Speaker 15: was perfect. But you know, he was such a professional
Speaker 15: and he worked his butt off, and again, look at him,
Speaker 15: he's the u of a product, the short stop. I
Speaker 15: think they realized he wasn't going to make it as
Speaker 15: a short stop, and somebody was smart enough to give
Speaker 15: him an opportunity to get on the mound and look
Speaker 15: what happened. He saved six hundred games in the Big League. So,
Speaker 15: you know, Arizona has a history of having some great players,
Speaker 15: you know, the throughout the years, and it's just crazy.
Speaker 15: Every time I look up, I see another Arizona ballplayer.
Speaker 15: It's just really cool to see how many guys have
Speaker 15: come through this program and have done well professionally.
Speaker 4: You know, one of the storylines going into this College
Speaker 4: World Series obviously is Arizona versus Coastal Carolina in a
Speaker 4: rematch of the twenty sixteen World Series. But you also
Speaker 4: have LSU withd coach Ja Johnson there and that history
Speaker 4: just your excitement level not only to see Arizona in
Speaker 4: the College World Series, but just to see those matchups,
Speaker 4: to see the matchups that U of a fans alum
Speaker 4: and everybody wants to see happen.
Speaker 15: You know, it's a great storyline. I know Coastal Carolina,
Speaker 15: I remember when we were playing them, and you know
Speaker 15: what a great story that their program is. But you
Speaker 15: know that's the beauty and then you look at the
Speaker 15: Oregon stage and you look at the UCLA's that are
Speaker 15: going to be there as well, So you know, it's
Speaker 15: really it seems like most of the great program a
Speaker 15: year in and year out, they seem like they find
Speaker 15: a way to get there and to represent and you know,
Speaker 15: it's a heck of a lot more difficult nowadays with
Speaker 15: you know, every the transfer portal and everything. And that's
Speaker 15: just more of a tribute for me to guys like
Speaker 15: Chip hal who can keep finding talent, bringing these guys
Speaker 15: in and just always being really competitive. And it's just
Speaker 15: it's harder and harder and harder. But that's just a
Speaker 15: tribute to Chip and his coaching staff.
Speaker 2: We know the history of Arizona baseball, right, we know
Speaker 2: the history of Arizona softball. I've often said, and if
Speaker 2: you listen to the show I'm sure you do every
Speaker 2: now and again, that I don't think Arizona basketball is
Speaker 2: a blue blood. Just you know, you you win one title.
Speaker 2: It's a good program. Don't get me wrong, it's a
Speaker 2: good problem. It's not a blue blood. Would you say
Speaker 2: that baseball is a blue blood?
Speaker 15: Oh, no doubt about it. I mean, look at the
Speaker 15: Frank since that what he did early on. And you know,
Speaker 15: this program is having as a history. I mean, you know,
Speaker 15: you think about all the records and how many times
Speaker 15: they've been in the World Series and and you know,
Speaker 15: and and coach Kendall was able to win three and
Speaker 15: then Andy Lopez comes in and wins one. You know,
Speaker 15: it's they They've been so consistent over the years. And
Speaker 15: I know our basketball program has had so many great teams,
Speaker 15: and it just goes to show you how hard it
Speaker 15: is to win. They've only won one. Look at the
Speaker 15: fact that our our football program, you know, has had
Speaker 15: success but never went to the Rose Bowl. But the
Speaker 15: baseball program, the softball program, they seem like they have
Speaker 15: stood the test of time. They've always been able to
Speaker 15: you know, the softball program with with Mike and Andrea
Speaker 15: winning all those championships. But look at the baseball program
Speaker 15: with four and let's hope that they can bring home
Speaker 15: number five this year.
Speaker 2: Okay, Ed, So we'll see what happens. I'm sure you'll
Speaker 2: be texting me every now and again, you know, to
Speaker 2: chick in, so good luck and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 15: Thank you, go Cat. We'll be keeping our fingers crossed.
Speaker 15: It should be exciting.
Speaker 3: Thanks guys at Orosburg.
Speaker 2: Chapman in one of only three I think I always
Speaker 2: ask him this question. To win the Little League World Series,
Speaker 2: the College World Series, and a World Series World Series?
Speaker 3: Right, so cool? Good to talk to Ed real quick.
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Speaker 3: You're Troy.
Speaker 2: You'r ray.
Speaker 3: Don't call me late for supper, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well we'll talk about it after after this next break.
Speaker 2: You just lost some money in your paycheck, oh man,
Speaker 2: zero minus zero is still.
Speaker 6: Zero is still zero. I'm not going to financially recover.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you're gonna call, if you want to call,
Speaker 2: five to zero four one six seventy four forty. I
Speaker 2: think that's the number a year, all right, because we're
Speaker 2: in moved studios. We're in the the east side now upper.
Speaker 2: We moved to a nicer studio for the day. At least, yeah,
Speaker 2: moving on up, at least spend more spacies again. Five
Speaker 2: to two oh four one four forty. Your thoughts on
Speaker 2: the game yesterday or the weekend? How cool that was?
Speaker 2: You have some breaking news about softball, right that's coming on.
Speaker 2: They've signed up a player or two in addition to
Speaker 2: whatever else they have.
Speaker 3: Going on.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I picked up a couple of pitchers, right,
Speaker 4: I believe one from Iowa. D is it Iowa Iowa Iowa?
Speaker 4: Or d it was Iowaka? And then there's a rumor
Speaker 4: for another one. I don't know what that one came
Speaker 4: through a D two D two yeah, D two picture,
Speaker 4: So I don't know if that one happened yet. But
Speaker 4: I mean, you need somebody to pitch, so yeah, I
Speaker 4: got to get some some arms.
Speaker 2: Plus you have some pretty good arms coming in, right,
Speaker 2: some high school kids that are pretty good.
Speaker 4: Some high school kids that are ranked highly. But you know,
Speaker 4: over the last couple of years, they've had highly ranked
Speaker 4: arms before.
Speaker 3: They didn't come in.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The one thing that and I've played baseball for a
Speaker 2: long time, that struck me positive. And I'm sure this
Speaker 2: is a dumb question because it happens when football happen
Speaker 2: in basketball, the one and done or the freshman that
Speaker 2: came in. Because you saw two starting freshmen yesterday, right
Speaker 2: for Uba and for the other team, who were fantastic
Speaker 2: and they're freshmen, and you think, how could they be
Speaker 2: freshmen and they're just good because they're good. If that
Speaker 2: makes me scent the travel ball blah blah blah, And
Speaker 2: here you're relying your season on two freshmen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean that's how good. I mean,
Speaker 6: that's kind of what the basketball is, right.
Speaker 2: Right, So yeah, you know Cooper Flag, right, you got
Speaker 2: Carter Bryant who didn't play all that much, but you
Speaker 2: know he's a freshman.
Speaker 4: Well, this year coming up, you're gonna have called Pete,
Speaker 4: You're gonna have Brandon Burry's and and rely heavily on
Speaker 4: those dudes.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm sure the.
Speaker 2: Question I would ask Tommy and and I'd give me
Speaker 2: a little funny flip answer. But you know, you go
Speaker 2: to work, you make millions of dollars, and your job
Speaker 2: is contingent on freshmen doing really well.
Speaker 4: You know, he he did stay at a holiday inn.
Speaker 2: But yeah, right, yeah, yeah, beyond me, Troy, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm still gonna ask him one question that I want
Speaker 2: to know. What the hell was up with him saying
Speaker 2: that you you expect us to lose against Houston. Get
Speaker 2: asked by somebody. I can't remember what he was looking
Speaker 2: at me after? What was that all about? Nobody said that.
Speaker 2: Nobody said that I thought were smart. I would have said,
Speaker 2: I don't think we care. We're just here to do
Speaker 2: a story. Was it Houston or was it was it
Speaker 2: was Hugeon they had just been beat and I think
Speaker 2: something like it was I can't remember which it was
Speaker 2: you expect.
Speaker 4: No, it was the Baylor road game, that they're going
Speaker 4: to go on the road get their butts beat by bailor.
Speaker 2: Had just gotten beat by ho Yeah yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 2: you're thinking, we're not thinking that.
Speaker 3: We just want to quote. Thanks for the quote, though.
Speaker 2: One you should beat Baylor to cool.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 2: One of these days when I run into him, this
Speaker 2: summer and asking what the wolves up with that being cranky?
Speaker 2: But I liked it because you already saw him cranky,
Speaker 2: kind of became that guy this year came a little.
Speaker 4: Edgy, a little a little hard around the edges. And
Speaker 4: still I mean, I think it's good. Yeah, and still
Speaker 4: very respectful. Is still a great interview. It's not like
Speaker 4: the complete opposite we've seen at other times here at
Speaker 4: the university. But I think it was for the good
Speaker 4: of the program, for the good of the players. And
Speaker 4: there's there's not that Oh yeah, it's a West Coast
Speaker 4: and there's soft There wasn't that softness.
Speaker 5: You think it's because he like that greenness of being
Speaker 5: a head coach is like starting to wear off.
Speaker 2: Possibly, possibly that's that's a good play, right, Possibly, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's been here almost four years, right, Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: he's a little terror Bruce in a fun way because
Speaker 2: him and Bruce have you don't want to ask me,
Speaker 2: they just he likes He just gives it a lot
Speaker 2: of grief.
Speaker 4: No, I think it's I think it's part of that.
Speaker 4: You know, you're comfortable and you're not worried about stepping
Speaker 4: on toes and alumni that you know, I don't want to,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm the head coach to deal with it, right. Uh,
Speaker 4: part of it is that, but I also think part
Speaker 4: of it was, well, you've been bouncing in the first round,
Speaker 4: you had an underwoman performance against Houston. You should be Clemson.
Speaker 4: Everybody feels like the pressure is oneah and once the
Speaker 4: pressures on, that kind of changes your attitude.
Speaker 2: Right, right, And then not being able to beat those guys,
Speaker 2: I mean, I know one of my questions was, and
Speaker 2: he got a little offended by it because he heard
Speaker 2: about it later, was the Houston And this was a
Speaker 2: legit question. The Houston team wore them down. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: that's what they do. And I said, did you feel
Speaker 2: that they wore you down? I mean, that's their mo
Speaker 2: And he kind of got, you know, hammed it hot
Speaker 2: a little. But but that was a fair question because
Speaker 2: it happened.
Speaker 4: You know what I feel like looking at Houston and
Speaker 4: what they were able to do defensively and get to
Speaker 4: the championship game and probably should have wont it, you know,
Speaker 4: could have won it. Arizona was like the the discounted
Speaker 4: version of Houston. They did similar things that were very
Speaker 4: good defensively. They locked in when they wanted to, didn't
Speaker 4: turn over the ball. In the beginning of the year,
Speaker 4: they were but Houston, Houston liked, but they weren't at
Speaker 4: that It was like yeah, you're yeah, you're almost there,
Speaker 4: but you're not quite there.
Speaker 2: They could they could beat the teams that they were
Speaker 2: supposed to be, right, but they couldn't out physical the
Speaker 2: teams that they couldn't, like the Houston's.
Speaker 4: And the physically there, but they just didn't have enough
Speaker 4: to get over that, right, well because the other teams
Speaker 4: had better. Yeah, and Houston, hey's no slouch. And losing
Speaker 4: to Houston, it's just what it was. Or Duke, Duke
Speaker 4: is damn good. You know, some people thought it was
Speaker 4: the best team in the country. Well, and they improved
Speaker 4: upon you because here in Tucson that season they got
Speaker 4: they got their butts swamped.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was not even close.
Speaker 4: Oh and then you improve it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a it was a good showing. I mean,
Speaker 6: I don't know how we got went.
Speaker 2: I switched to basketball of a sudden because that's keep
Speaker 2: the listeners happy.
Speaker 12: I guess.
Speaker 2: But but let's talk more about baseball. When Brian comes on,
Speaker 2: because he was there, he's coming back getting ready to
Speaker 2: take head to Omaha and you know, so we'll.
Speaker 4: See Oregon and North Carolina to Omaha. Yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 4: I used to I used to do those things all
Speaker 4: the time for twenty five years covering the teams. Did
Speaker 4: you just back your bag, change your clothes and say
Speaker 4: hello and get the hell out again?
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 4: There was part of me that thought he might drive,
Speaker 4: you know how, Yes, that might drive. And then I
Speaker 4: heard he was fine. I was like, yeah, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: want to Omaha. Yeah, yeah, you have to leave today.
Speaker 2: We him and I drove to all the NCAA tournaments
Speaker 2: the last three years except for this year.
Speaker 3: I just said no two O.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I was checking out, like I don't know why.
Speaker 5: I just woke up super early this morning and I
Speaker 5: was just like checking out, like what it would be,
Speaker 5: what it would cost it like potentially to go, and
Speaker 5: it was like the cheapest I found was like seven
Speaker 5: hundred oh the flight flight.
Speaker 6: The cheapest room was seven hundred. Oh yeah, the flight
Speaker 6: was another seven hundred.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, they have a media rate, but I'm sure
Speaker 4: it's probably.
Speaker 2: Well we do that in Vegas and it's still kind
Speaker 2: of you know, that's why we did. We all shut up.
Speaker 4: You know, hey, you know what, but Vegas for for
Speaker 4: two people for six hundred for the week in Vegas,
Speaker 4: that's a good price compared to where where was it?
Speaker 4: This pass trip that I made was Oh no, no,
Speaker 4: I was looking at the Big twelve tournament and that
Speaker 4: media hotel where it was like twelve hundred dollars is
Speaker 4: like for three days, four days for the for the
Speaker 4: week for yeah, it was like two hundred.
Speaker 2: Well they know how to do that, they know how
Speaker 2: to take like Vegas. How are you more expensive than Vegas? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: well we'll see what happens. Oh and trip to Duke
Speaker 2: was not that bad. No flight just the flight was
Speaker 2: the flight was? The hotel is like one hundred, one
Speaker 2: hundred dollars for the weekend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that included a bad meal and yeah oh I
Speaker 4: got food poison Yeah I got salmonella poisoning. What was
Speaker 4: that from cookouts? Never go to book?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I lost my sponsorship with.
Speaker 4: Watching the baseball this weekend North Carolina fans they were
Speaker 4: munching on some boat jangleos. I was like, don't eat it,
Speaker 4: don't do it.
Speaker 5: I always get excited at like when it comes to
Speaker 5: like the College World Series because like I didn't, I'm
Speaker 5: like recently getting into college baseball, probably since like I
Speaker 5: just started going into the UV. And one of my
Speaker 5: favorite things is always like the Rocos count the Rocos
Speaker 5: Jello shot count.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I'm really excited to see how we end
Speaker 6: up this year, you.
Speaker 4: Know what he's talking about. So they have the jello
Speaker 4: They had the jello shots at the College World Series
Speaker 4: and l s U and I think the other team
Speaker 4: was what was it ole, miss Tennessee, Texas, and they
Speaker 4: were breaking records of yellow shots consumed by their fan
Speaker 4: bases per.
Speaker 2: Day after struck out, just buying them like de generate.
Speaker 4: A couple of you know, jello shots.
Speaker 3: And another thing, umpire.
Speaker 4: Tell you what I can pitch better than you.
Speaker 2: I can see better right now after fours.
Speaker 4: And imagine all those SEC fans with.
Speaker 3: You're sneaking you're talking about that.
Speaker 2: I mean, the PAC twelve former PAC twelve has some
Speaker 2: pretty good teams in there very much. You know what,
Speaker 2: Oregon State, UCLA, Arizona.
Speaker 4: Really the outside of a s U, because a SU
Speaker 4: has had success in the past. In Stanford you have
Speaker 4: the n USC, but USC has in USC for a
Speaker 4: very long time. You have the traditional powers in the
Speaker 4: pack ball at the College World Series is year.
Speaker 2: Right, so we'll see what they do. I mean, right now,
Speaker 2: it's kind of kind of wampless because it's anybody's the
Speaker 2: favorites didn't get there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think Arkansas is the highest rated seed.
Speaker 2: Are there are number three? But they number three, yeah,
Speaker 2: and killed Tennessee. So we'll see. Like we're talking about
Speaker 2: if you catch hot in baseball, I think that's more
Speaker 2: of that's more of the momentum that you talk about,
Speaker 2: and I don't agree with, but if you catch hot,
Speaker 2: well Arizona did in twenty twelve.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say twenty twelve is the perfect example
Speaker 4: of that.
Speaker 2: Right, And that's kind of believable. And to me, it's confidence.
Speaker 2: It's not a momentum. And they've played with that, never
Speaker 2: playing behind, always playing confident, you know whatever.
Speaker 4: And then the it's like, okay, cool, I went seven
Speaker 4: innings to shut up all. Here you go, what can
Speaker 4: you do when six and two thirds? Here you go,
Speaker 4: what can you do? Seven inning? It was passing the
Speaker 4: baton right, no.
Speaker 5: And especially I forget the U and the pitcher's name,
Speaker 5: but he gave the game up twice the guy with
Speaker 5: the the guy with the glasses.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was it was.
Speaker 6: It was him twice both those times.
Speaker 2: And it was like, it's funny because man and I
Speaker 2: don't follow this obviously, And they panned to him in
Speaker 2: the second game, game two, and I'm thinking, who's that
Speaker 2: Peabody and he was like, he looks like he's twelve, right,
Speaker 2: he looks like he's twelve. And then he brought him
Speaker 2: into help to finish the game, and I'm thinking, well,
Speaker 2: they beat the crap out of him. Did he come
Speaker 2: into game three? Yeah, that's why I left.
Speaker 3: I didn't watch until the end. Yeah, okay, So.
Speaker 5: Like they were, they were hyping him up a lot,
Speaker 5: like they were saying, like he's been like one of
Speaker 5: the like one of the premier fifteen sixteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then with his last looked like Peabody to me,
Speaker 2: and then he could drop out of which trying to say.
Speaker 3: He used to call me Harry Potter? What the hello?
Speaker 2: I know?
Speaker 4: And you know what, for everybody wondering why Arizona hasn't
Speaker 4: been able to compete in terms of NIL as a university,
Speaker 4: all the views they were showing in North Carolina's the
Speaker 4: Hot the field hockey facility, the facility, football, the baseball,
Speaker 4: the football, just the build it. They got money. They
Speaker 4: got money on tobacco roads.
Speaker 3: What what if they don't have an il?
Speaker 6: What does that have a great place to tan?
Speaker 4: Great, great well good facilities that were upgraded recently.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but let me tell you what's didn't you guys
Speaker 2: tell me this that I.
Speaker 3: Knew this to to confirm what you're saying.
Speaker 2: The number one place to party now Arizona it was
Speaker 2: the party issues down number two I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just came out right about a month ago. Yeah,
Speaker 3: best or best looking women.
Speaker 2: There was one of those like that too.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can whatever you want to say.
Speaker 3: So guess what Arizona has that grunk would probably confirm that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you've heard him talk about his recruitment. Yeah,
Speaker 4: right right the Walker campus. He walked around the pool
Speaker 4: party and was like, yeah, I don't need to go
Speaker 4: anywhere else. Palm trees, every everything going on. Ye, I'm good.
Speaker 5: I mean, like you can have a pool party almost
Speaker 5: here around here, like maybe from like I don't know
Speaker 5: all that, like Halloween till.
Speaker 6: Like March April. It's like it's just the open season.
Speaker 3: So why are you here? Why are you here?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 3: Why are you here?
Speaker 6: Because I like Tucson.
Speaker 2: Okay, did you have an experience with Tucson before?
Speaker 5: Well, when I was in the military, outcome up to
Speaker 5: party in Tucson. Where were you living? Sierra Vista? Oh okay, okay,
Speaker 5: that's a lot better than that makes it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: you can't it's colder there. Oh yeah, well you can't
Speaker 5: do a lot of things serious.
Speaker 2: Watch out for this guy. He's on the poster. How
Speaker 2: which time we got?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 6: You got like a minute?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, we'll talk.
Speaker 2: We'll talk with you with breaking news, right, a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff going on, and then we'll have Brian Peterson
Speaker 2: just getting an update of what happened out there, how
Speaker 2: nice it was or whatever, and then we'll take more
Speaker 2: calls on the other side of O'Brien. Yeah, okay, that's cool.