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Speaker 1: While this is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera, your break Eager,
Speaker 2: your ray, and your one. Now we got some breaking
Speaker 2: news from both you guys.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball, breaking news on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 3: All right, keeping it local with the breaking news.
Speaker 4: Starting off, baseball team lost in Phoenix yesterday, five to
Speaker 4: eleven to Grund Canyon.
Speaker 3: Yeah against damn.
Speaker 5: They have a hard time against Grand Cannon, Yeah, greenk that.
Speaker 5: I think the style of play is really difficult. What
Speaker 5: way I mean this is not I don't know.
Speaker 2: They haven't.
Speaker 5: I mean they get their butts handled, the last couple
Speaker 5: of them, Yeah, which makes no sense to me. Could
Speaker 5: have been an inner city rivalry right there. Sorry, I
Speaker 5: don't want a drummu be's halry. Keep going it?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 4: Follow and that a little ad right there. Jada Williams
Speaker 4: committed to Iowa State.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw that. I saw that. After there's gonna
Speaker 2: be a there's a there's a lot there's so many
Speaker 2: questions on that team, so many the one gives me
Speaker 2: a smile, agreeing with me, and there's few answers, And
Speaker 2: there's few public answers, if that makes any sense, once
Speaker 2: nodding his head, and none that I could give you,
Speaker 2: because if I throw a dart in the room, I
Speaker 2: might not hit it.
Speaker 6: One's hitting this dark No, absolutely, no one's hitting this
Speaker 6: dark something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: How involved you are with women's basketball, but it's it's
Speaker 6: a trending thing on TikTok right now on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Thanks God, I don't have TikTok, but tell me not.
Speaker 6: Not that it's anything specific or really attacking the program,
Speaker 6: it's just kind of they're kind of amazed the downfall,
Speaker 6: want to call it that, from four years ago, you're
Speaker 6: in the national championship, but you're you're a basket away
Speaker 6: from winning that. Yeah, to almost every year you losing
Speaker 6: half of your all of your roster.
Speaker 2: What the hell is happening? I think that's the that's
Speaker 2: the overriding question, what the hell is happening? And no
Speaker 2: one has answered. I know they have answers to that,
Speaker 2: you're not going to get them. Yeah, right, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't have any answers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know there's probably a couple of players that
Speaker 6: I've spoken up. I haven't seen anything. That's why I'm
Speaker 6: like hesitant. So yeah, it's all very interesting, right. So
Speaker 6: that's to say the least interesting is the right word.
Speaker 5: And you've you and I've had this conversation about idea.
Speaker 5: She's one of the most personal, reproachable people that I've
Speaker 5: been around from that level, and especially if she likes you. Yeah,
Speaker 5: she's made great conversations. So it just sitting there and
Speaker 5: listened to her talk, so.
Speaker 2: It makes no sense, but it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I feel like everything around that, like whole situation program
Speaker 4: is kind of just a lot of rumors right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what you stud about with TikTok, and
Speaker 2: it's also internet, you know, Twitter and all that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Following up with some more transfer Portal news, Conrad Martinez answered.
Speaker 2: Oh did what what did happen today? A couple hours? Wow?
Speaker 2: I didn't see that. Uh, not that I'm surprised, but
Speaker 2: I'm surprised. What do you want? Why don't you give
Speaker 2: me a face? Does it matter? No?
Speaker 6: Probably no, I think they're looking for that backup point
Speaker 6: guard role. Uh and Arizona. Yeah, Arizona's looking for that
Speaker 6: backup point guard. Who's going to fill that? And I
Speaker 6: think we're at a point where it'd be taking a
Speaker 6: chance on Martinez. I don't think they want to take
Speaker 6: that chance. And he still has enough time to go
Speaker 6: somewhere else and make a name for himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably some more smaller. But let me ask you this.
Speaker 2: So we saw the game last week, great six days
Speaker 2: ago against the Duke. Martinez didn't get crunch time play
Speaker 2: all year, all year, and then he got some. He
Speaker 2: got some.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Bradley was in foul trouble. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 5: But I thought he did a great job with it,
Speaker 5: without question, which which lens. Why didn't he before when
Speaker 5: we talked about the physicality in the Big twelve. I
Speaker 5: don't know if he can. I don't know if that
Speaker 5: league is a great for his talent or a skill level.
Speaker 6: He did exactly what he needed to and nothing more.
Speaker 2: He had, That's who he is.
Speaker 6: He had a turnover, he made up hit three to
Speaker 6: try the game. I think I think that was the tying,
Speaker 6: tying basket and then goes on a six nothing running
Speaker 6: ten seconds.
Speaker 2: But I did not see this. I'm a bit surprised because,
Speaker 2: well I'm a bit surprised because I thought he found
Speaker 2: his place. But what do I know.
Speaker 6: It's the world of nil.
Speaker 2: No, I know, but I don't. Is he really going
Speaker 2: to get money to play somewhere? No, but I think
Speaker 2: he'll go and earn it. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he'll get money, but like once said,
Speaker 5: he's going to go somewhere and play more level enough
Speaker 5: right now where he doesn't want to settle for that
Speaker 5: maybe five minutes a game role.
Speaker 2: He's not a he's not an Arizona guy. He's just
Speaker 2: not right. He might be a uh.
Speaker 5: New Mexico guy one hundred percent was going to say
Speaker 5: New Mexico. Yeah, he strikes me as a New Mexico guy. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: Caloro State, maybe in New Mexico.
Speaker 2: Yeah, boys of state, right, Medica, no harm, no foulow,
Speaker 2: I mean good for you and good life. That one
Speaker 2: I understand. Yeah, I mean we had this conversation. I
Speaker 2: still don't. I don't understand the Henry one, like, but
Speaker 2: I get it. Whatever, Well, if he ends up North
Speaker 2: Carolina for more money, you'll say I get it.
Speaker 3: Maybe all right? Following that out.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the point with that North Carolina one. Did
Speaker 2: you say North Carolinrolina is much better than us? Well,
Speaker 2: it's North Carolina and they have money. Of course you're
Speaker 2: gonna go. I I did an argument in the debate
Speaker 2: that I've I've been making. I get in, I'm understanding
Speaker 2: and getting the nil. I get it right. I mean,
Speaker 2: we're all frustrated with it from a fan base.
Speaker 5: I think that's across the country, no matter what, no
Speaker 5: matter what school you're at, maybe if you're doing right,
Speaker 5: I mean, just you're looking they're bringing in four or
Speaker 5: five stars next year. It's just a retention of talent
Speaker 5: that not a lot of people have capabilities. The problem
Speaker 5: I have is you have somebody and Tommy Lloyd and
Speaker 5: his staff that are able to develop the players at
Speaker 5: the level they're able to develop them. If I'm a
Speaker 5: player and they've developed me to that point, what is
Speaker 5: my next Like, that's not my ceiling, that's not Henry's ceiling.
Speaker 5: What's my next step to prepare me for what's going
Speaker 5: to be an NBA career? Am i am I thinking
Speaker 5: about short term success in a year?
Speaker 2: Or am shit?
Speaker 5: Am I thinking about long term success for the next
Speaker 5: ten years and the possibility of playing NBA.
Speaker 2: Well, remember, you're an eighteen nineteen year old kid, twenty years.
Speaker 5: Old, and he's not making I'm sure he's got I'm
Speaker 5: sure he's got people around him that are helping him
Speaker 5: make that decision. I just mean, from my own personal life,
Speaker 5: what's my happiness? Right, what's my happening? You're gonna go
Speaker 5: to North Carolina. You don't know what's gonna happen North.
Speaker 2: Yea, No, you're right, you're right. What's my why? Yeah?
Speaker 4: So I think to add to that too, it's like
Speaker 4: after after a certain point, you know, because he came
Speaker 4: from Estonia, I mean, how like how much is the
Speaker 4: difference really in Estonian currency?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: I mean right, don't get me wrong. Difference in like
Speaker 4: a million is a lot. But it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: you're still making a million bucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we don't know how that works out too,
Speaker 2: because you know, Balla left, Balla needed to go. He
Speaker 2: was not going to do it. Yeah, but it was
Speaker 2: good for Paula. I think that conversation.
Speaker 5: I think there was a conversation behind closed doors with
Speaker 5: him and Tommy Lloyd, and I think they both were agreed,
Speaker 5: like it go get paid for people to come out
Speaker 5: and say, oh, I don't view Ballo as a U
Speaker 5: of a guy anymore. What are you talking about? Like,
Speaker 5: he's one of our best front court bigs in the
Speaker 5: last maybe ever.
Speaker 2: And his personality lends you a great kid us perfect
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying as a fan, not me. Oh
Speaker 2: you said it, we heard it. Yeah, it's breaking news.
Speaker 2: You said us you know.
Speaker 5: Oh buddy, oh buddy, that was my astress.
Speaker 2: I put it there to know that I say it
Speaker 2: that way. I love you, Mom, I really do. I
Speaker 2: tell you well.
Speaker 4: Keeping it moving. Going into the MLB. Now, the Diamondbacks
Speaker 4: handed the Yankees.
Speaker 2: There first loss, yeah yesterday? Right yeah, yeah Yankees. Am
Speaker 2: I a Yankee fan? Yeah? No, I'm a Cups fan.
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: And then I mean, but like the dimon Backs lineup
Speaker 5: is the pretty stout. Uh Suarez is having what's hit
Speaker 5: a Grand Slam last night?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Once he got six home runs already, Like the guys,
Speaker 5: I'm like, don't pitch to them, Like, just I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: just don't pitch to them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Following that up, uh Kettle Marte from the Diamondbacks agreed
Speaker 4: to a one hundred and sixteen and a half million
Speaker 4: dollar contract extension.
Speaker 5: Yeah, good for him. Arguably the best second basement in
Speaker 5: the big leagues. Switch hitter, Yeah, great defensive player, good
Speaker 5: clubhouse guy. That's a good pickup for the Diamondbacks. That
Speaker 5: and then getting burns in the offseason. Okay, Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: good to see that team up. Norris like not throwing
Speaker 5: in the towel with the Diamondbacks and out West. Uh,
Speaker 5: it's they're going to be competitive for a long time.
Speaker 4: No, And then that division is just tough. I mean,
Speaker 4: you got two undefeated teams in it right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got Padres, Your Giants are always going to
Speaker 5: stick around the Rockies or the Rockies. But I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean what Derek Hall has been able to do
Speaker 5: with that team and continues to do. Lots of respect
Speaker 5: for that man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's really it's really nice to see
Speaker 4: teams that don't give up after they don't win a
Speaker 4: championship after a couple of years, like they have that
Speaker 4: kind of bounce back, you where you know things are
Speaker 4: a little down and then you know, fix themselves and
Speaker 4: get right back up.
Speaker 2: I mean, Ray you know this. I mean, but Steve
Speaker 2: can talk to it. One can talk to it, probably
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 5: But if I'm watching my neighbor build a house that's
Speaker 5: one hundred and forty million dollars and I'm going, am
Speaker 5: I gonna try to match that house? Like I don't
Speaker 5: have the money to match the house. I'm just gonna
Speaker 5: move to a different neighborhood or that's going to increase
Speaker 5: my property value. And I think that's what they have
Speaker 5: some terrible analogy. By the way, it's it's it's what
Speaker 5: the Diamondbacks are doing. They're increasing their property value right now.
Speaker 5: Right They're gonna go compete their butts off with good players.
Speaker 4: So yeah, for sure, all right, following that up, but
Speaker 4: keeping it in Phoenix Cardinals signed Klays Campbelly yesterday.
Speaker 3: It's a one year deal. Eighteenth year in the league.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that dude's gonna have some injury prone problems as
Speaker 5: he gets older. Ten years and yeah, yeah, true. Listen,
Speaker 5: that's a league. And I'm I don't know how you
Speaker 5: guys feel about the NFL Players Union or association, but
Speaker 5: that's the only league I think in professional sports that
Speaker 5: should be guaranteed money. Maybe hockey, but the NFL. Every
Speaker 5: player should be guaranteed money. What they have to put
Speaker 5: their bodies through.
Speaker 3: Sure, Sons lost yesterday.
Speaker 2: Oh is that the same Sons that you talked about
Speaker 2: last week?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, they lost yesterday.
Speaker 2: What have they gone since the last time we spoke, like,
Speaker 2: I'd like giving you crap? Right, yeah I did, just
Speaker 2: you like give it back. There were like two and seven.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they could. No, it's they're on
Speaker 2: a four game skid right now. Yeah, yeah, Howard, that's
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 5: You Ray, Ray, What do you think is wrong with
Speaker 5: the Suns? I mean, if you look at them them
Speaker 5: on paper, right, I mean, I know they're not deep
Speaker 5: and they lost their depth in those trades, but what
Speaker 5: is it a chemistry issue?
Speaker 3: I feel like it is.
Speaker 4: And then after after losing in the finals and then
Speaker 4: you know, giving up that that lead, and then and
Speaker 4: eventually getting blown out by the by the Mavericks a
Speaker 4: couple of years ago. Yeah, you know, it just looks
Speaker 4: like like they've thrown in the towel. Like also chemistry
Speaker 4: stuff too, but and that, and I mean they made
Speaker 4: it to the finals and then they fired Monty Williams,
Speaker 4: who's their coach.
Speaker 5: Listen, I I we talked. I think we talked about
Speaker 5: this last week the court of the coaching carousel and
Speaker 5: the in the NBA is mind theming to me. But
Speaker 5: just to take it back, I mean, it's a similar
Speaker 5: when you're talking about similar aspects with you of a
Speaker 5: women's basketball team, right, they made it to the final.
Speaker 5: They made it to the finals. The Suns made to
Speaker 5: the finals. And then just yeah, steep.
Speaker 2: Well you know this personalities you're you're a coach and
Speaker 2: a player. Yeah, if you don't have the right personalities,
Speaker 2: they don't fit. I don't care how much talent you have,
Speaker 2: it won't mean anything. I've seen that. I've seen that
Speaker 2: a lot. Yeah, if you had one cancer too, cancers
Speaker 2: your horse. You've you heard the philosophy from coach Lopez,
Speaker 2: right one yea, yeah, of course, yeah, which is perfect. Okay,
Speaker 2: Well you made a face, No, no, I was.
Speaker 5: It was kind of a smirking face that you like
Speaker 5: I have, of course, of course. Yeah, keeping it going.
Speaker 4: Corey Close won the twenty twenty five nas Night Smith
Speaker 4: Nice Nate Smith Women's College Coach of the Year Award.
Speaker 3: Makes sense, I mean, U c l a.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, she's number their number one. Should be a
Speaker 2: good nice final four for them too. Yeah, for everybody. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's gonna be an interesting one.
Speaker 4: I mean, take a team, take it with a lot
Speaker 4: of basketball history, maybe not on the women's side, but
Speaker 4: take a team to the Final four for the next
Speaker 4: time the first time. Following that up, Juju Watkins won
Speaker 4: the women's college Player Nate Naismith for the Years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's fantastic back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true that man, Like, I know, you can't
Speaker 4: like control injuries and stuff, but man, it feels like
Speaker 4: it was like sports world was robbed from seeing I
Speaker 4: know they weren't gonna go gains directly each other too,
Speaker 4: but like them.
Speaker 2: It was Monday, right, it was Monday night. It was
Speaker 2: a good game until it wasn't.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh, Carmelo got elected to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: Carmela Anthony happy for him.
Speaker 2: Well what, uh how many years in the NBA? Was
Speaker 2: he twenty two? No? God, no, maybe sixteen maybe sixteen
Speaker 2: something like that. That sounds is it? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean I didn't get to see him on the Nuggets.
Speaker 4: A little too young for that.
Speaker 6: But speak speaking of the Nuggets, did you see the
Speaker 6: sixty one point performance from Joke the Joker last night?
Speaker 2: Was he the one throwing the balls from all over
Speaker 2: the court and hitting shots.
Speaker 6: I mean maybe, yeah, he has that ability. Yeah, but
Speaker 6: it's in a losing effort. You go to double overtime
Speaker 6: and you still lose. Yeah before sixty one? Yeah, sixty one?
Speaker 2: Oh good? Are they are?
Speaker 3: They?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: Third or fourth in the in the West?
Speaker 6: Forty seven and forty seven, twenty nine, they're third in
Speaker 6: the third in the West.
Speaker 2: Who's going to win the West?
Speaker 5: I love it the look between the two of you, Like,
Speaker 5: who's going to win the West? I don't why you
Speaker 5: ask me, Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, Like
Speaker 5: over all of it, like, yeah, the West, Yeah, the
Speaker 5: number one. Who's going to get the one seed in
Speaker 5: the West.
Speaker 4: Colahoma City, Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're pretty Yeah, they're they're
Speaker 4: stating far ahead.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't rule out Denver though, coming back to take
Speaker 2: the one seed. I think. No, I'm saying, yeah, win
Speaker 2: the West. You mean I thought you could get the
Speaker 2: one seed? No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I did.
Speaker 2: I've had my eye on Houston.
Speaker 6: Oh really for a good while. He must be a
Speaker 6: heck of the coach. They're a young cores but have
Speaker 6: enough experience. In my opinion, I think.
Speaker 2: Their battle tested enough to win the West.
Speaker 6: I think they're scrappy enough.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I I would agree with Steve from
Speaker 5: a Denver standpoint, just because they've been there, done it,
Speaker 5: and they've got the best player in the NBA. I mean,
Speaker 5: arguably the best player in the NBA. And I mean
Speaker 5: maybe Oklahoma City's got the second best player in the NBA.
Speaker 5: Right now, are you gonna leave us at the forty?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, so real quick, because give me, give me
Speaker 2: some Uh, we're gonna go after this. Who you gonna
Speaker 2: pick for the Final four and the championship because I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna see you guys until I mean, my Brad
Speaker 2: could say Houston, but if I could change them, I
Speaker 2: would change them to Duke because they played so well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just think.
Speaker 5: I mean I've watched both teams, and I think Houston
Speaker 5: still is able to find a way to win, and
Speaker 5: they'll be able to punch Duke in the face a
Speaker 5: little bit more. Right, But Duke's talent, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 5: people talk about one player, but they've got three players.
Speaker 5: They're gone a draft in the top seven, right, and
Speaker 5: they're they're so deep. I don't know, I think it's
Speaker 5: gonna be tough real quick. Yeah, I'd say Duke too.
Speaker 5: I got Florida overall, but I think Duke, I.
Speaker 6: Got Florida and Houston in the championship, and I think
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go Florida.
Speaker 5: That's what exactly what I have. You still keep it?
Speaker 5: You still think Florida wins? Yes, I bet I'm dead
Speaker 5: three months ago and we don't think Texas texture to
Speaker 5: won that game. Probably, but they didn't, I know, But
Speaker 5: I'm just they had their chances.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember you kept saying, Oh, Duke's gonna lose
Speaker 2: to Alabama. I didn't say that they're gonna lose to
Speaker 2: They're gonna lose to Duke. I mean Houston, Duke. It's
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to WY on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in today with
Speaker 2: me Blake Eager. Now on the phone, we have ken
Speaker 2: how can we I'm gonna call him slash at baseball
Speaker 2: coach at Pima and the ad at Pima. How you doing, Ken,
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. Yeah, you guys
Speaker 2: are rocking and rolling over there. What's going on?
Speaker 7: Well, we're just trying to win games, you know. I mean,
Speaker 7: that's it's a tough, tough season, and you know, we're
Speaker 7: just trying to win.
Speaker 3: That's that's what.
Speaker 7: We're trying to do.
Speaker 2: Let me tell them, thirty five and nine, nineteen to
Speaker 2: nine in the ac AC and rank sixteenth in the country.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure coaches are always thinking about being better
Speaker 2: than what they are. So, how do you like where
Speaker 2: you're at?
Speaker 13: You know, I like where we're at.
Speaker 7: I mean we're obviously you know, I'd like to win
Speaker 7: every game and so with all of our players, but
Speaker 7: we understand it's a long season, but we put ourselves
Speaker 7: in a pretty good position. We have a really important
Speaker 7: series on Saturday. We play the number one team South
Speaker 7: Outa who has been, you know, our rival over the
Speaker 7: past few years, and they they beat us twice earlier
Speaker 7: in the year, so you know, we're looking forward to
Speaker 7: getting out there and playing them again.
Speaker 2: Hey, Hawke, it's Blake. How are you, man? What's up, Blake?
Speaker 2: How are you man?
Speaker 7: I'm doing good?
Speaker 11: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good?
Speaker 13: Hey?
Speaker 5: Hawks kicking butt on two different I mean, he's the
Speaker 5: head coach of the team and he's an ad right
Speaker 5: now of one of the best jcs in the country.
Speaker 2: So big props to Hawk out there. Thanks for being
Speaker 2: in Tucson. You know.
Speaker 5: One of the things from a fan base, we were
Speaker 5: just talking about that going out and watching and we
Speaker 5: continually talk about a sports town. I mean, you get
Speaker 5: a chance to go watch Pima, especially play in South Mountain.
Speaker 5: There's gonna be there's gonna be professional players on that field,
Speaker 5: and you're gonna see great baseball.
Speaker 7: So yeah, yeah, it's uh, it's fun week to week.
Speaker 7: There's as you know, Blake, there's some you know, baseball
Speaker 7: in this conference is full of great players. And it
Speaker 7: doesn't matter what team, what school, there's a lot of people.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of really good players. And uh, this conference,
Speaker 7: from top to bottom in baseball is really hard. Uh,
Speaker 7: you know, it's tough. It's tough to win games. You know,
Speaker 7: you got to be playing well to beat a team
Speaker 7: even that has a bad record, because there's good players
Speaker 7: on that team. So it's a it's a really good
Speaker 7: conference and in my opinion, it's the best conference in
Speaker 7: the country from top to bottom.
Speaker 2: I would agree with you completely.
Speaker 5: I mean you look at you know, the storied programs
Speaker 5: uh in the conference, the constant competition that you have
Speaker 5: in the conference where guys go after the JUCO level
Speaker 5: from that conference. Uh, I mean, it's it's incredible. So
Speaker 5: you just go ahead, definitely. Ay, he's got seven going
Speaker 5: to four year school.
Speaker 2: No, that's what I mean. I mean it's high level.
Speaker 2: It's high high level baseball. And two to U of A.
Speaker 2: Can you talk about those guys?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we've got we've got to uh two of our
Speaker 7: two of our players that have signed with the u
Speaker 7: of A. One is a left handed pitcher by the
Speaker 7: name of McClain Roberts. Uh. He's from New Zealand actually,
Speaker 7: which you know, New Zealand is not a big baseball country,
Speaker 7: but he ended up here and he's done a great job.
Speaker 7: He's a great student, just a great kid, and so
Speaker 7: he's good. He's signed at the u of A. He'll
Speaker 7: be there next year. And then we have a we
Speaker 7: have another player who we recruited as a pitcher out
Speaker 7: of Colorado and he came here as high school coach,
Speaker 7: as a friend of mine, and you know, he called
Speaker 7: me and said, hey, you might want to let this
Speaker 7: guy swing the bat a little bit. He's pretty good offensively,
Speaker 7: and so so we did. And he's no longer a pitcher.
Speaker 7: He's a hitter. And he is signed with the u
Speaker 7: of A, UH and he's a freshman, so he he'll
Speaker 7: go over there to the u of A. He's playing
Speaker 7: his first year at Pima and he'll be a he'll
Speaker 7: be a red shirt sophomore at at the u of
Speaker 7: A next year. But this guy is super, super athletic.
Speaker 7: His name is Sean Barda. He can really really run.
Speaker 7: He's got unbelievable power. He can obviously throw. He came
Speaker 7: here as a pitcher, so he's really he's got some tools.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's going to be If we have a
Speaker 7: guy on our team that I think can make it
Speaker 7: to the big leagues, it's certainly Sean Barda.
Speaker 5: That reminds me of a former Pima Community College player
Speaker 5: named DJ Carrosco, who helped shape the New Zealand team.
Speaker 5: So I'm sure he played a role in the development
Speaker 5: of the lefty Shane and he went he went to
Speaker 5: Pima as a hitter, and then I think Edgar pretty
Speaker 5: much forced him to pitch, and he hated him for it.
Speaker 5: But I mean, I don't think he hates him anymore
Speaker 5: for being the big leagues as long as he was. So, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 7: DJ was a great player and he spent a lot
Speaker 7: of time in the big leagues. And I'm sure he's
Speaker 7: thankful for ed Or making him a pitcher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree. At least his bank account's thankful, right, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: so a lot of talent. He talks about the seven
Speaker 2: going to a four years school and then people the
Speaker 2: younger group coming up to good good mix.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I like our recruiting class. I mean we got to
Speaker 7: you know, one of it might be the best, uh
Speaker 7: group of players that I've seen come out of Tucson
Speaker 7: and UH and we've signed you know, almost all of them.
Speaker 7: You know, a couple of them got away obviously, that happens.
Speaker 7: But we got guys, you know, coming from Tucson High
Speaker 7: and CDO and Walden Grove and South Point and Desert View.
Speaker 7: I mean, we got a whole bunch of uh, you know,
Speaker 7: twenty twenty five graduates who will be here as freshman
Speaker 7: next year. So we're excited about that group.
Speaker 5: You get a couple of my babies. I think Cooper
Speaker 5: Cruks coming there, right, Yeah, yeah, that's a Cooper. He's
Speaker 5: a dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So we got some cat foot guys. It's it's I'm
Speaker 7: telling you, Blake and you you probably already know this,
Speaker 7: but this group, this twenty twenty five class is good
Speaker 7: of classes I've ever seen in Tucson. It's special.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen that kind of class and Tucson in
Speaker 5: probably ten years.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I mean, like like Hawks saying, it's across
Speaker 5: the board, and it reminds me of those you know,
Speaker 5: I call them the Golden Days where every team had
Speaker 5: one to two bro guys on it.
Speaker 2: But I mean that's that that could be it.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, no, they and you know, like I said,
Speaker 7: fortunately we got the majority of them. So it's it's
Speaker 7: gonna be fun to watch them grow and you know,
Speaker 7: watch them all. You know, they're they're obviously competing against
Speaker 7: each other, you know, every week, playing on different high
Speaker 7: school teams. But it'll be fun for them to all
Speaker 7: play together and and see if we can win a
Speaker 7: Championship as you know, a lot of two sons, uh,
Speaker 7: you know, working together and and and trying to win.
Speaker 2: You also have a World Series within are already.
Speaker 7: A World Series winner already?
Speaker 3: Who's that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we do.
Speaker 7: Little Little League World Series.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You know, if if you look back, it's funny.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: I pulled up a video I think on YouTube, and
Speaker 7: he was pitching in the championship game.
Speaker 6: And you got to see this guy.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's five foot six, he's from Japan, I
Speaker 7: mean he but he spends the baseball like no pitcher
Speaker 7: I've ever seen. And so I pull up his, uh
Speaker 7: the video of him in the Little League World Series
Speaker 7: and they're playing the championship game and he gives up
Speaker 7: a home run to the first guy and uh, and
Speaker 7: then he shuts him down. The rest of the game,
Speaker 7: they don't score another run and they win the Little
Speaker 7: League World Series.
Speaker 2: Yeah. How do you find these guys? Do they find you?
Speaker 7: Guys like that found us? I mean, he you know,
Speaker 7: it's kind of a funny story. He uh. You know,
Speaker 7: all these guys have people that help him get to
Speaker 7: the United States. And there was a guy guy that
Speaker 7: played at at the University of Oregon A couple of
Speaker 7: years ago. He was a player, Japanese player named Riku Nushida,
Speaker 7: and uh, he ended up getting drafted by the White
Speaker 7: Sox and one of our players that year here at
Speaker 7: Pima got drafted by the White Sox and they became friends.
Speaker 7: They were in the same draft and so uh he
Speaker 7: you know, they just talked and kind of like, hey,
Speaker 7: where'd you come from? Blah blah blah. And so this
Speaker 7: guy reached out to me and uh, you know, he
Speaker 7: had some relationships with some kids in Japan. And this
Speaker 7: kid was at a at another junior college up in
Speaker 7: New York but didn't like it and wanted to get
Speaker 7: to Arizona, wanted to be in better weather, and so
Speaker 7: Riku reached out to me, and.
Speaker 2: You know, we ended up with this kid.
Speaker 7: So he's been great for us. He's our closer, and
Speaker 7: he's got you know, he's got like a point four
Speaker 7: e r A and he's he's pretty special. He's signed
Speaker 7: to go to University of Hawaii next year.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's it's been good to go see
Speaker 2: this kid.
Speaker 5: The Rainbows. We need to get down and watch them play.
Speaker 5: They're really really good. I want to see this guy
Speaker 5: pitch is he is.
Speaker 2: He a reliever. He's a closer, so.
Speaker 5: He'll come in to finish the reliever.
Speaker 2: He's our closer. So okay, he comes in.
Speaker 7: You know when we have the lead at the end
Speaker 7: of the game and we we watch him go to work,
Speaker 7: that's go ahead.
Speaker 5: No, I was just gonna say, hok It's interesting because
Speaker 5: I've I've been talking to Steve a lot about the
Speaker 5: Japanese pipeline and Korean pipeline, and the Japanese pipeline for sure.
Speaker 5: Now trickling down to the collegiate level with Sasaki at Stanford.
Speaker 5: Do you think that that starts to starts to change
Speaker 5: the perception of high school players from Japan getting to
Speaker 5: the United States to play college baseball.
Speaker 7: I absolutely do. I think there's more and more kids
Speaker 7: that want that opportunity to come to the United States
Speaker 7: and go to college and see what they can do,
Speaker 7: whether whether it means going you know, getting drafted and
Speaker 7: playing professionally or are just getting to college education here
Speaker 7: in the United States and playing good baseball. So you know,
Speaker 7: some of them are taking the Juco route. There's a
Speaker 7: lot of them, you know, need to be just because
Speaker 7: of the language barrier and things like that. But some
Speaker 7: of them, you know, are going straight to to uh,
Speaker 7: you know, big time Division one teams.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you real quick. In a couple of
Speaker 2: minutes we have left. Uh you you've done really well
Speaker 2: at least the school has. You're the a D there.
Speaker 2: What a fantastic season so far with the soccer about
Speaker 2: men's and women's basketball, right, you know.
Speaker 7: What it's it's been. It's been awesome to watch and
Speaker 7: I'm so fortunate to be able to work with the
Speaker 7: quality of coaches that we have here at Pima. It
Speaker 7: just makes my job so much easier because they all
Speaker 7: just do a great job.
Speaker 5: They know, they know what, they know how.
Speaker 7: To coach their team. They recruit great kids, their kids
Speaker 7: go to class, their kids graduate, they have great GPAs
Speaker 7: and uh, you know, obviously when that happens, it really
Speaker 7: helps me, you know, provide what I can to help
Speaker 7: support them. You know, that's kind of my job is
Speaker 7: just to help support their needs and you know, let them.
Speaker 2: Do their thing. Yeah, and then I didn't even mention softball.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have Rebecca on tomorrow and she's uh, she's
Speaker 2: founder found her groove here because they've done really well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we grew up together.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're they're doing great. The softball team, I mean,
Speaker 7: I honestly believe that they're gonna win. They're gonna win
Speaker 7: the championship. I think they're better than Phoenix College, and
Speaker 7: I think when it comes down to it and comes
Speaker 7: down to the playoffs at the end of the year,
Speaker 7: I think that we'll come out on top. She's got
Speaker 7: a really good team full of kids from Tucson and
Speaker 7: they're fun to watch.
Speaker 2: Well. So in this year, what a fantastic year. First
Speaker 2: year is an a D. And now your baseball team,
Speaker 2: so you know you're doing something right.
Speaker 7: Well, We've got a lot of great coaches. I'm not
Speaker 7: going to take a lot of credit. I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 7: give a lot of credit to the people that hire,
Speaker 7: the people that are in place, and my job, like
Speaker 7: I said, is just to help support them and give
Speaker 7: them what they need to make sure they can do
Speaker 7: their job.
Speaker 2: Well, I got to check out your schedule because I
Speaker 2: want to see that team work and maybe get a
Speaker 2: chance at the seeing the reliever go in there. Thanks coach.
Speaker 7: Okay, hockey was great.
Speaker 2: It was great talking to you.
Speaker 7: Good to good to talk to you. Blake. You're you're
Speaker 7: doing a great job and we appreciate what you do
Speaker 7: for all the Tucson so vice first of my friend, thank.
Speaker 2: You, thank you very much.
Speaker 7: All Right, you guys have a great one.
Speaker 2: You too, good luck.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 2: I got to figure what the hell you're doing. I
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Speaker 5: is always at the pleasure, guys, and I'll see I'll
Speaker 5: see you next week. Yeah, all right, I'll see you guys. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the X is a ohs. This is
Speaker 1: I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox sportsporteen
Speaker 1: fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Why in the Wall here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 13: In with me.
Speaker 2: Now is one and get ready to control. If you
Speaker 2: guys want to call five two zero four one, six
Speaker 2: seventy four forty, we can go back to the is
Speaker 2: tucsona sports town? And what do you what do you
Speaker 2: feel about that? If it's not, if it is whatever
Speaker 2: I think? Did we say it was a sports team talent? Like,
Speaker 2: if you have your following team, you follow that team
Speaker 2: and maybe not all the other teams. Yeah? Yeah, uh.
Speaker 6: You know, if you're a Sugar Skull fan or even
Speaker 6: a road Runners fan, you're not following the other's team. Yeah,
Speaker 6: even though they're all Tucson, right right, You're not. You're
Speaker 6: a road Runner fan, not a Tucson fan, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think I forget who made the point, but I
Speaker 4: think either you one of you guys made the point
Speaker 4: of uf A being like a good team that everyone
Speaker 4: can follow, even if they are transplants.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Is usually if they are a transplant, it means that
Speaker 4: they probably went to to the to the university.
Speaker 2: Well, and they're good. If they weren't any good like
Speaker 2: the football team, right, they wouldn't show up. But they're
Speaker 2: good even when they're not good. And you've seen this, right,
Speaker 2: they don't show up. We saw that for a portion
Speaker 2: of these this year because you and I would scan
Speaker 2: the arena and it wasn't. It wasn't. We weren't used
Speaker 2: to seeing it.
Speaker 6: Clearly, those were the two best teams in the cost
Speaker 6: they showed up.
Speaker 11: Yea.
Speaker 6: And even then there's still there's still a lot of
Speaker 6: empty seats in that upper ring. Yeah, and even even
Speaker 6: then the lower bone, that's that's a different story.
Speaker 2: Right right. No, I've always said this, and I've written
Speaker 2: them a few times when I was at the paper,
Speaker 2: two sons of fickle Fickle Town, USA. Is because if
Speaker 2: you're not winning, and I'm sure that's every place, right,
Speaker 2: it could be every place. If you're not winning, they
Speaker 2: don't follow you or don't care. Look at the fan base.
Speaker 2: The fan base was brutal on the guys until they
Speaker 2: started winning.
Speaker 6: Exactly, and maybe that's some of the reasons they left. Well, well,
Speaker 6: I say this in one specific instance of kJ Lewis,
Speaker 6: he got a lot of it because he was one
Speaker 6: of those, well, if not the top player coming back,
Speaker 6: one of the top two coming back, and a lot
Speaker 6: of fans think he underperformed.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I don't necessarily think he underperformed, but I just think
Speaker 6: he within this specific team, needed to find his role
Speaker 6: and it took him a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that. I'll also say that he
Speaker 2: did underperform to what you think. But is it the
Speaker 2: fans duty, your right or whatever to be that pissy
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 6: To the extent they didn't know. They do have a
Speaker 6: right because they and they're part of the team, point
Speaker 6: blank period. Because Arizona basketball wouldn't be what it is
Speaker 6: without the fans. So there is a certain right to criticize,
Speaker 6: even to the amount they did.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. Yeah, Well, the thing about is the squeaky
Speaker 2: heel wheel gets the grease, and it's the loud one
Speaker 2: percenters or ten percenters whatever that that talks on Twitter
Speaker 2: or Facebook or whatever. That that's what you notice, right,
Speaker 2: because if you have something nice to say, you're probably
Speaker 2: not gonna tweet it or you're not gonna do You're
Speaker 2: just gonna watch him say congrats.
Speaker 6: And that's what some of us, as in the writers,
Speaker 6: the reporters, that's what we have to do say after
Speaker 6: after a K. I'm using kJ just because we're talking
Speaker 6: about him. kJ Lewis has a three game span of
Speaker 6: not playing as well, and then he goes and has
Speaker 6: a decent game. No one's gonna say anything. They're gonna say, well, yeah,
Speaker 6: he did his job finally, right, No, he played a
Speaker 6: good game. And that that's what we're having to do.
Speaker 2: Even even last week when we had Tommy Lloyd on
Speaker 2: the Zoom call, I mentioned kJ says, you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's kind of nice that he's played very well the
Speaker 2: last stretch of his last three games whatever it was,
Speaker 2: and he says, Tommy being Tommy, he kind of defended him,
Speaker 2: saying that that's overstated that he had not been playing well.
Speaker 2: But yes, he's playing better or you know, doing his
Speaker 2: job because most of the things that he does don't
Speaker 2: end up in box scores exactly. And that's true, all true,
Speaker 2: But he also kind of needed to say, and he
Speaker 2: was on them too. These guys need to step up.
Speaker 2: These guys need to step up. There's a point when
Speaker 2: you're making money in your life, whether it's good money
Speaker 2: or bad money, and I'm sure he's making decent money
Speaker 2: that you have to be held responsible for you.
Speaker 6: And that's where it gets tricky, the new world of
Speaker 6: n I L and all these deals and okay, what
Speaker 6: about there are still kids. You're still getting paid so
Speaker 6: much to this it's the yes, you're getting paid. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you're your year removed, two years removed from high school. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you didn't even think about this. Two years ago. You
Speaker 6: were just worried about passing your classes and getting that diploma.
Speaker 6: And now you're dealing with a whole different world.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Well I think also, if you know, if you have
Speaker 4: aspirations to make the NBA, you're gonna have to You're
Speaker 4: gonna have to do this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, eventually.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well one of the things that I've said and
Speaker 2: I've noticed and I've written about you guys today and
Speaker 2: partly my day too, and I just don't remember. One
Speaker 2: are the big issues in college for students in themselves. Anxiety,
Speaker 2: Anxiety you're probably going through now you're gonna finish your
Speaker 2: senior year, right, Anxiety, trying to make your parents proud
Speaker 2: of you, get your stuff done so you don't have
Speaker 2: to go back and redo classes. A lot of that.
Speaker 2: And you guys are just normal students.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And and there's there's more normal students than student athletes,
Speaker 2: that's for damn sure. And that they have to do
Speaker 2: deal with that, right, Anxiety and sleepless nights and things
Speaker 2: like that. And uh and these kids kind of have
Speaker 2: that too, not kind of they do in addition to
Speaker 2: playing in front of the public.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll always go back to one of the conversations
Speaker 6: we had in the summer last summer when I was
Speaker 6: first here. It was first getting on with the doctor.
Speaker 2: That she had.
Speaker 6: Uh, you don't realize the psychologists, Yeah, the psychologists, they don't.
Speaker 6: Fans don't realize what some of these players go through.
Speaker 6: At three o'clock in the morning when so maybe some
Speaker 6: of the classes are getting to them, but then they
Speaker 6: have this big game coming up and they've been underperforming
Speaker 6: and the fans are criticizing them. No one sees that,
Speaker 6: no one, No one talks about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because yeah, and then the people that do in
Speaker 2: the pick pic pic don't care, no.
Speaker 6: Not at all, and that that's an issue that needs
Speaker 6: to be addressed. And I think there's been a little
Speaker 6: bit more of a a better job of that. You know,
Speaker 6: before the games they say bear down with pride or
Speaker 6: whatever the slogan is for whatever school, because it's it's
Speaker 6: it's needed, it's needed for these athletes to to not
Speaker 6: be so much so criticized. Yes, there's a point of
Speaker 6: criticism that they need, but not to where it's to
Speaker 6: shoe where they're up at three in the morning with
Speaker 6: different thoughts.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't know this. We saw this one two
Speaker 2: three weeks ago when Bollow finished his career at Indiana
Speaker 2: and he's talking about getting death threats and and all that.
Speaker 2: And we don't know if that happened here. I know
Speaker 2: we did ten years ago with Casey Scawn when he
Speaker 2: missed a field goal. Uh, and you're thinking, and he's
Speaker 2: a friend of mine now he lives in Scots Stale.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it happens more than we know because they
Speaker 2: don't make it public, and.
Speaker 6: Especially now with social media, how much access everyone has
Speaker 6: and gambling and gambling that that's an issue that's that's
Speaker 6: being starting to be addressed finally.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they're doing the commercials. Have you seen the
Speaker 2: commercials before the games? They'll do you see it this weekend?
Speaker 6: Winners win, losers lose something like that, right Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it makes it tough, you know, when
Speaker 3: you put when you have money on the line, I mean, when.
Speaker 2: You have money online, but they don't. Don't you know
Speaker 2: the solution to that, don't?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, totally, because I like I remember I think
Speaker 4: when and online betting first became legal here, I just
Speaker 4: turned twenty one, and so like I was able.
Speaker 3: To do it, and I did it for like a
Speaker 3: couple of years.
Speaker 4: After a while, it's just like you can't even enjoy
Speaker 4: the game anymore because it's like when you want your
Speaker 4: part lace to hit one, like you know what I mean, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's give you that's stress and you're twenty one, right,
Speaker 2: and that's money that you could have in your pocket
Speaker 2: or whatever. You don't mind preaching about all this night
Speaker 2: And I dabble a little, not like Jay, but but
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. I mean it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, either I eat pizza tonight or not eat
Speaker 2: pizza tonight. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's like man like, and that's kind of
Speaker 4: why I stopped, and like, you know, like for fantasy leagues,
Speaker 4: like you know, still like you know, a little ten
Speaker 4: dollars buying. It's nothing crazy, but it's like I don't
Speaker 4: want to put any big money anymore because it's like.
Speaker 3: I'm just stressing the whole time.
Speaker 4: And it's like, you know, when you're watching like a
Speaker 4: team that you like, I know you probably won't get
Speaker 4: it because you say you're not like a team guy anymore.
Speaker 4: But it's like when you're watching a team that you're like,
Speaker 4: you're gonna stress regardless.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't see one day you'll have kids and
Speaker 2: a wife and you won't give a crap. Yeah, you'll
Speaker 2: just watch for the entertainment.
Speaker 4: And it's like, man, it's just something to do, you know,
Speaker 4: like it's it's a Sunday, you know, just what this
Speaker 4: red zone like all day or something like that.
Speaker 2: That's stress. That's stress. This way, well, it's a good game,
Speaker 2: good what's for dinner?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly, And it's like you know team loses,
Speaker 4: oh well, yeah, there's next week, there's next season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's and you've seen them, you've met them.
Speaker 2: You see them at the Uba, at the Michaeale, the
Speaker 2: over zealous fans that are you know.
Speaker 6: The fans after the BYU game to the right, to
Speaker 6: the right of you, they're you, they're students.
Speaker 2: Yep, Yeah it was.
Speaker 6: That was a rough look.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not. It's not rough looks a good good word.
Speaker 2: Rough is because I'm sure you were embarrassed.
Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely, any Arizona fans should be embarrassed because, yes,
Speaker 6: those are your students. That's that's probably the biggest attendance
Speaker 6: that usually comes to a game the Zona Zoo and
Speaker 6: then they go and do something like that because of
Speaker 6: a loss.
Speaker 2: To a good team a Sweet sixteen. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for the record, I will always choose the pizza
Speaker 6: over gambling.
Speaker 2: I want to put that on the record.
Speaker 6: That's why I don't gamble. I go into my pizza.
Speaker 18: Sometimes they it's like extra cheese, but you could have
Speaker 18: two pizzas. You want pizza just a can of beans,
Speaker 18: you know what I mean? No, and then I don't know,
Speaker 18: like like you guys talk about like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it was a super super bad look against
Speaker 4: them against b YU, and it's like you don't even
Speaker 4: know how like the further implications, not even like just
Speaker 4: who who's at that game or like you know, like
Speaker 4: we all got you got that email.
Speaker 3: I'm sure after like the next day or something like that.
Speaker 4: Down with Pride, Yeah, and it's like, you know, you
Speaker 4: don't want to you don't want to make just like
Speaker 4: you don't want to make the brand look bad either.
Speaker 2: Well that's the thing. I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's probably coming on right that the new cycles are done,
Speaker 2: but at some point maybe when you go find a
Speaker 2: job or look for a job or would you graduate
Speaker 2: from Arizona? Did you were you have game that this
Speaker 2: came up? Yeah, but I wasn't in the I wasn't
Speaker 2: in the stands. I work with the media. Much disappointed.
Speaker 2: Actually wasn't at that game. You weren't.
Speaker 6: It was Rodeo weekend.
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 6: I was out riding a bull. I'll say that, okay,
Speaker 6: pizza giving a pizza on a bowl exactly.
Speaker 3: No, But I mean, like I remember it was like
Speaker 3: that in the military too.
Speaker 4: It's like, don't you know, don't do anything too crazy
Speaker 4: because it's like when it comes back, but it's going
Speaker 4: to reflect that on the milit like on the military
Speaker 4: as a whole, not just on you worry about.
Speaker 6: And this isn't the first time something like this has
Speaker 6: happened where the students at the u of A look
Speaker 6: look bad.
Speaker 2: Well U c l A.
Speaker 6: Yeah, with the name is normally that there was the
Speaker 6: f you Tiger. After that, they think it was mid Yeah,
Speaker 6: the Lebron Lebron's son that he got booed every time
Speaker 6: he touched the ball. I didn't get that one. I
Speaker 6: was I was actually shocked that they were doing him.
Speaker 2: Yeah he had. All he was was is Lebron's son exactly.
Speaker 2: Guess who's coming here next year. And everyone's gonna love him.
Speaker 2: Everyone's gonna it wasn't gonna love him. If you're not
Speaker 2: with us, you're against us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And then I always think about, like there's that
Speaker 4: infamous like scene of that kid who dressed up in
Speaker 4: the in the ref uniform during a football game. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know it started.
Speaker 6: In two thousand and eleven against you ran the field,
Speaker 6: He ran as a fake ref. That was actually my
Speaker 6: first streaker one too, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that was
Speaker 6: was my first sporting event. Ever, that's what got old
Speaker 6: thirty thirteen, fourteen years ago.
Speaker 2: Eight. Yeah, and some strangers in there too, exactly. It
Speaker 2: got me hooked. Mom.
Speaker 6: No, I was imagine my eight year old mind seeing this.
Speaker 6: I'm like, why they stop in the play, I'm waiting
Speaker 6: for the for the call. He goes running down one end,
Speaker 6: starts taking his clothes off, and then he looked at
Speaker 6: the word at the other end, and the two teams are.
Speaker 2: Fighting the scuffle.
Speaker 6: Yeah, why would why wouldn't I want to come back?
Speaker 2: That was great? Yeah, I went to a football game
Speaker 2: and a rusting match started. Craziness started. Actually, Yeah, and
Speaker 2: that dude, that dude back then, I think you know
Speaker 2: why he did it. If I can remember quickly, he
Speaker 2: wanted to be on a reality He was like trying
Speaker 2: out for a reality TV show.
Speaker 6: I never heard about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I caning of you google it would say that
Speaker 2: he wanted to be noticed for that and.
Speaker 6: That that was a crazy game too, because that was
Speaker 6: that was a year where Arizona was down. They had
Speaker 6: just fired stoops. Yeah, stoops. They go and play Ucla.
Speaker 6: They're up forty forty two to seven at the half
Speaker 6: against Ucla. You know, one of the better programs in
Speaker 6: the country. I don't know how they were that year.
Speaker 6: I don't remember, but you're anytime you're up forty two
Speaker 6: to seven on U c l A, you're pretty happy. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and they'll be pretty frustrated.
Speaker 2: What he wanted. I don't know what happened since, but
Speaker 2: then he wanted ton't be noticed standing, Well, he got noticed.
Speaker 2: We gotta go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I got fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2: Okay, no cool. Thanks guys for being finishing out the
Speaker 2: show with me. I'll see you guys next week, sir. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: thanks guys,