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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Iron the Ball. Here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in today with me
Speaker 2: is Dave Silver. We have Kobe with breaking news.
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Speaker 3: Isis Bay has another career night, but number twenty Oklahoma
Speaker 3: State dominates Arizona women's basketball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody got hurt Jada Williams. Yeah, someone got hurt
Speaker 2: an ankle or what happened, you know, let me see. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll just come back to that. But I think someone
Speaker 2: got hurt. I mean Adiaz, Jada Williams. Jada Williams got hurt, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but we don't but you okay, early on, too early
Speaker 2: on in the game. I think it's hard to win
Speaker 2: with one of your best players out. And it's already
Speaker 2: one of those up and down seasons for not already
Speaker 2: we're almost near the end for a DIA.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Arizona baseball looks to impress in season opener against Texas.
Speaker 4: That would be a pretty good gauge of who they are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're playing uh what in Arlington, Texas.
Speaker 6: So it's interesting because they have a few trips into
Speaker 6: Texas issue unlike where they would you used to go
Speaker 6: west to California, and now they're all going to head
Speaker 6: east to you know, kind of more big twelve country
Speaker 6: and this is this was something I'm sure that was
Speaker 6: set up even before the conference.
Speaker 2: Well, they've played in this a few times. I think
Speaker 2: they played last year for sure. Yeah, Arlington and maybe
Speaker 2: and they're going back again. And I you know, because
Speaker 2: Brian Peterson said he's gonna go cover a game out
Speaker 2: in Houston or something later this or later.
Speaker 6: This is a month I would imagine Chip is gonna
Speaker 6: you know, lean heavily into Texas with the recruiting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's got to be tons of players were.
Speaker 4: Was on the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: And he's you know, the focus has always been Southern
Speaker 6: cal northern cal where he was from. You know, they
Speaker 6: would go that direction. But now that you know, they've
Speaker 6: kind of open things up to that part of the country.
Speaker 5: Why not.
Speaker 3: Arizona men's tennis Colton Smith sets program wins record.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those guys are pretty good.
Speaker 2: He might have had that last yesterday, We're gonna try
Speaker 2: to get ahold of their coach, Clancy Shields.
Speaker 4: I joked with him last year. I think he's the
Speaker 4: best coach on campus right now.
Speaker 5: Having the most successes.
Speaker 4: We've covered.
Speaker 2: We've been here a long time, Dave. We know how
Speaker 2: it is here and it's hard to beat USC, Stanford
Speaker 2: and all those teams. And he came through last year
Speaker 2: and he was on the rise, and now he's got
Speaker 2: him pretty high up.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean there's a long list of coaches who've had
Speaker 6: trouble in Pac ten I guess those schools, especially in
Speaker 6: those kinds of sports, the golfs and the tennis's and
Speaker 6: some of those types of sports, and they just it's
Speaker 6: nice to see someone finally break through and have a
Speaker 6: chance and getting players. I'm sure I haven't looked at
Speaker 6: the roster, but generally they'll get players national Yeah time
Speaker 6: here of them.
Speaker 5: Women's team kind of did that for a while too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Ohio State to hire ex NFL coach Matt Patricia as
Speaker 3: defensive coordinator.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: All these guys interesting because most of them are going
Speaker 5: the other direction from college to the pros.
Speaker 2: He's Kelly Shipp going to to the Raid Raiders.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6: He didn't have much much success as the Lions coach,
Speaker 6: and the Clions turned things around pretty quickly after he left.
Speaker 2: Well that tells you one thing, David. I know, you're
Speaker 2: coaching matters, and who the coach is because of his
Speaker 2: style or his temperament or whatever, it matters. You know,
Speaker 2: you can play the same group, can play bad for
Speaker 2: one guy and then another guy comes in and they
Speaker 2: play well. I mean, lud had that, he commanded that respect.
Speaker 2: You walk in the room, you play hard fromhim because
Speaker 2: one you don't want to disappoint him, and two you
Speaker 2: don't want to disappoint it, right, you know?
Speaker 5: So what New Orleans hired Kellen Moore today?
Speaker 4: The head cut.
Speaker 6: He was coordinator officially with the Eagles. So you know
Speaker 6: these guys are he's.
Speaker 2: The former Dallas Caboll guy, right, yeah, yeah, he was.
Speaker 2: Was he with the he was clipped with the San
Speaker 2: Diego Chargers.
Speaker 4: Chargers? Yeah, good luck, good luck with that. I'm not
Speaker 4: too sure about that.
Speaker 2: It's like the Cowboys moving up his uh, the guy
Speaker 2: whatever his name is, Yeah, that's what what it's. And
Speaker 2: I think we've talked about this, Davis like having the
Speaker 2: substitute teacher become the teacher. The guys, the player, the students,
Speaker 2: don't give a crap. You were a substitute teacher. Do
Speaker 2: you remember how you used to get taught by a
Speaker 2: substant teacher. You didn't give a crap. Didn't Now you're
Speaker 2: the boss, we can still don't give a crap.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Pennsylvania sports books lose six point five million on Eagle's
Speaker 3: Super Bowl victory.
Speaker 5: Lose.
Speaker 3: Yes, the sports books went down because the people won
Speaker 3: because everyone been on the.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, yahyeah, no, of course,
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking, uh they have yeah, of course their
Speaker 2: hometown team's gonna well, I'm sure they'll survived. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know you the Beers will cost a little bit more.
Speaker 5: I'm still mad about that two point conversion that.
Speaker 6: Caught me some square at the end of the game,
Speaker 6: for I had I had double zeros and I was
Speaker 6: ready to win and then they had to throw.
Speaker 2: So you watched it, I'm sure and said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I had some good Well I have the double zero,
Speaker 6: so it could have been you know, ten nothing, no
Speaker 6: score had chances.
Speaker 5: But sure at the end it was like, oh, it's
Speaker 5: like forty to twenty.
Speaker 2: Don't go for two forty twenty for what you would
Speaker 2: have been screwed no matter what, because if they go
Speaker 2: for two or the one, right, Yeah.
Speaker 6: But they did go for two. I'm like that somebody
Speaker 6: knocked up down. What was it, like a hundred bucks two?
Speaker 4: Two? Okay, Yeah, that's a that's enough. That's stress that
Speaker 4: you out. Yeah.
Speaker 3: New Orleans Saints head coach Kellen Moore remains noncommittal on
Speaker 3: QB Derek Carr's future.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, we're what two weeks into the drink, Yeah,
Speaker 2: season being over. Yeah, you will know. It's like Keny,
Speaker 2: Like it was just said Kitty Rogers. Is that Kenny
Speaker 2: Rogers with the Jets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Aaron there finally tweeted that, like it's official that
Speaker 3: they're not going to get him back.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: There's going to be a lot of quarterback movement of
Speaker 6: veteran quarterbacks, I think here in the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 6: because then don't they have to start making some calls,
Speaker 6: like in the middle of March on some of these
Speaker 6: roster moves. I think for the drafts, yeah, and for
Speaker 6: the salary cap numbers and stuff.
Speaker 2: Do you think McMillan is gonna go top three. They're
Speaker 2: really raving about him.
Speaker 3: Who Cam wore, No, No, McMillan, Oh, McMillan. I think
Speaker 3: I think he'll go three or four.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: The Patriots, I think they're either at Travis Hunter or
Speaker 3: McMillan because they can need a receiver.
Speaker 2: So I think he'll definitely go in the top five. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think a lot of that.
Speaker 5: It's funny because I was looking at some stuff.
Speaker 6: I was looking at those, you know, a couple of
Speaker 6: weeks ago, but then all of a sudden he was
Speaker 6: much lower, much more like eighteen.
Speaker 5: Things like that.
Speaker 7: I don't know what you know.
Speaker 2: Again, I was listening to suth today and they were like,
Speaker 2: we are you talking about him? Top five players in
Speaker 2: the draft? Oh yeah, yeah, behind Hunter and behind uh
Speaker 2: uh Sanders and cam Ward and then the Ede rusher
Speaker 2: at Penn State.
Speaker 6: I think a lot of times, you know, they make
Speaker 6: these projections, then they start looking at the teams do
Speaker 6: they really need do they need a team.
Speaker 2: Ac or they need a you know, and he's I
Speaker 2: don't know, would you call him an impact guy who
Speaker 2: shows up right? It's hard to do that for a receiver,
Speaker 2: although any receiver thinks that they're impact right of diva.
Speaker 6: I mean, what if he winds up going to New
Speaker 6: Orleans and they don't know who their quarterback is going
Speaker 6: to be? You know, how much of an impact is
Speaker 6: he gonna make? Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 3: That's it for today's breaking news.
Speaker 2: Okay, there was some stuff that I tweeted out via
Speaker 2: Go Easy Cats with McMillan the kicker.
Speaker 6: Loop and going to the combine.
Speaker 2: To the combine and and tell me the other kid,
Speaker 2: it's the big guy, Jonah Jonah.
Speaker 6: Good to see Tyler Loop because gosh, you know, just
Speaker 6: watching him in person, he's got a monstrous letter.
Speaker 2: He'll be, he'll be and she get picked. Yeah, he'll
Speaker 2: be a good chance agent. Well what Dick Foles is
Speaker 2: older than you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Not Nick Foles. I'm sorry. Uh, the kicker, Nick Folk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been in the day, George bled Oh, it's amazing.
Speaker 6: He's had a really long career. I mean he was kicking.
Speaker 6: It's almost twenty years I think, and Mike Stoops years.
Speaker 3: When is Loops supposed to go in the draft?
Speaker 4: I'm not too sure.
Speaker 2: Kickers are kind of pickers are rarely, but he's going
Speaker 2: to go to the combine. Yeah, and uh and once
Speaker 2: the draft in mid April late Yeah.
Speaker 6: You know, usually teams will bring in even if they
Speaker 6: have a veteran kicker, they'll bring in somebody to kind
Speaker 6: of put some pressure on him. And he's got such
Speaker 6: a leg even if just being a kickoff got well,
Speaker 6: kickoffs now.
Speaker 5: They even mean in the NFL, but for long field goals.
Speaker 6: I mean, every team has to have somebody who can
Speaker 6: kicker something over fifty and he's got he's got strong
Speaker 6: enough leg to do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe I'll try to get to Kendre on tomorrow.
Speaker 2: He's always busy with that damn team. Is I'm trying
Speaker 2: to pull him away from that softball team?
Speaker 5: What does he do?
Speaker 4: Is it kind of like a consultant.
Speaker 2: Last week he was because it was a Candrea the
Speaker 2: Canrea Classic, so you had to be out there. He
Speaker 2: couldn't go to he couldn't go to the casino to
Speaker 2: be with us for our last time there. And Jay
Speaker 2: will be with me tomorrow, so that'll be fun at
Speaker 2: the casino. No, we're doing We're doing it here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're done with the casino until the next football season, hopefully.
Speaker 5: So there's uh. Speaking of Casino.
Speaker 6: There's some construction I've noticed on the freeway making a
Speaker 6: parking garage might be the first.
Speaker 4: Thing they build. I think it's started.
Speaker 2: I think that's the start, because they had the groundbreaking recently.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I was driving by there just I
Speaker 6: think yesterday it was like, oh, there's something there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's gonna be a funder. How how long
Speaker 5: is that going to?
Speaker 4: Twenty seven? I think it was the time two years?
Speaker 4: Two years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of changes so you won't have to
Speaker 2: go all the way down down there.
Speaker 5: Down there, it's a long drive.
Speaker 6: Well, it depends on where you live, but for us
Speaker 6: it's you know, it's at least a half hour, yeah,
Speaker 6: from the northwest side. And just to get off the freeway,
Speaker 6: it's a good you know, fifteen much maybe.
Speaker 4: Don't you uh hear your side? Do you get off
Speaker 4: orange Orange Grove?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Can you get whenever that opens again?
Speaker 2: It opened, it opened off the freeway, I heard, yeah,
Speaker 2: but not to get onto the freeway.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't think so. I haven't been home all day,
Speaker 4: so uh they.
Speaker 2: Opened up to get off the freeway to get into
Speaker 2: Orange Grove. I'm not sure you can get out going
Speaker 2: west I'm excited about that. Yeah, it's been when that
Speaker 2: whole thing we had, when that started.
Speaker 6: When that whole River Sunset thing gets finished, it's going
Speaker 6: to make travel around too Son so much easier for
Speaker 6: people who live over there are you and the above.
Speaker 5: Now I'm in the south of Isla, but i'm north,
Speaker 5: so use.
Speaker 2: Orange Grove, okay, because they're going to do another one
Speaker 2: like Corterol, Right, that's next. This is a never ending process.
Speaker 2: But they're finally trying that.
Speaker 6: They've been trying to get over the railroad tracks, right,
Speaker 6: so I think that's the last of them. Yeah, but
Speaker 6: then there's been so many years that they had to
Speaker 6: redo Orange Grove because that was done probably twenty five
Speaker 6: years of.
Speaker 2: Kids are having kids since they started this. Den daily
Speaker 2: the joys of living with that freeway. Yeah, we gotta cool.
Speaker 2: We gotta call Hello, you're on the aaron I on
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 4: Who's this?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 4: Huge fan of the show, guys, Thank you? What do
Speaker 4: you have?
Speaker 8: I just got a question about Arizona Basketball's.
Speaker 4: Got a quick one for you, guys.
Speaker 8: Yeah, please, So you know I've been watching Arizona all
Speaker 8: my life, bare down and my dad watches it and
Speaker 8: for the love of my I mean, I just he
Speaker 8: just can't figure out why why Della Loreso plays as
Speaker 8: much as he does it.
Speaker 9: I'm wondering if you guys have a different opinion, or
Speaker 9: do you guys agree with us on that?
Speaker 2: Why give me the question again why he doesn't play
Speaker 2: or why he does?
Speaker 4: Why he does?
Speaker 9: Why I feel like he plays?
Speaker 4: He's starting.
Speaker 5: I don't think he's like a starter by any.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, good question. I think that I think that
Speaker 2: they need him. They need him in a shooting type
Speaker 2: of way, right, They need him to score some points.
Speaker 2: He hasn't done that, you know, maybe two or three games.
Speaker 2: But that's a good question. I think that timing, though,
Speaker 2: keeps him in the starting lineup because he loves what
Speaker 2: he has come off the bench. He has that spark
Speaker 2: or whatever with Vsar and kJ and and who's the
Speaker 2: other one coming? So he doesn't want to change anything
Speaker 2: that's not broken, if you will, So he's gonna get
Speaker 2: his what on's he having.
Speaker 4: Ten twelve minutes?
Speaker 2: And the only really reason they have is because he's shooting,
Speaker 2: and if he doesn't give that So I'm with you
Speaker 2: Ethan in a little way. But because because he's capable,
Speaker 2: they got to play him, and that's my only answer, Dave.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think like Penn fifteen minutes, is you know
Speaker 9: the max we can give him. I don't know if
Speaker 9: you like defensively and when he when we play like teams,
Speaker 9: squad one teams, it seems like he's struggling on Oh.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course he's not athletically capable of hanging with
Speaker 2: those guys. But let me tell you, do be a
Speaker 2: favor if he has one of those games where he
Speaker 2: because last game he liked, had the first six points
Speaker 2: or first whatever it was, and.
Speaker 4: Then then he disappears.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so next time, if if this happens Ethan and
Speaker 2: he has like more than twelve fifteen points, I want
Speaker 2: you to call him in and say, now I'm know
Speaker 2: why he plays. You may you may never call in,
Speaker 2: but when he does, you call in against.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And and that's not one of his tests, not one
Speaker 2: of his Division one big games, right, Colorado's easy.
Speaker 4: Right in March.
Speaker 8: I mean, like if we're playing on making a big run,
Speaker 8: I mean I don't want the mistake to be he's
Speaker 8: out there playing the games and we're defensive liability.
Speaker 2: That's no, No, you're right, let me tell you this though,
Speaker 2: give me give me the lineup, not a lineup, give
Speaker 2: me the sequence of the better shooters on this team
Speaker 2: one to four.
Speaker 4: That's a big question.
Speaker 8: Uh, that's I mean we're what are we ranking like
Speaker 8: two hundred and forty in the country.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not much there. Caleb is supposed to be. But
Speaker 4: I would argue against exactly. So you're gonna trust Caleb.
Speaker 4: If you don't trust Caleb, who are gonna trust out
Speaker 4: for Caleb? No, I'm not. That's about it.
Speaker 5: We got Caleb.
Speaker 4: I mean I don't have you.
Speaker 8: No one else really shoots very well on the team.
Speaker 2: And Delorso is the next guy, and and good luck
Speaker 2: with that. Not to poo poo the question or but
Speaker 2: you understand, I mean, they got to go with somebody
Speaker 2: and he's he's capable, it's just that he's not a
Speaker 2: sniper enough. And then he's then he's a liability. It's
Speaker 2: like the Martinez when he came in right to give
Speaker 2: another guy some rest, and right away he got beat
Speaker 2: to the basket.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Right, Conrad with the he had a nice three that
Speaker 8: I remember against Arizona State, and right yea cry for
Speaker 8: a good hour, which is awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, thank you for calling in. I appreciate you listening,
Speaker 4: all right, thank you very much. Appreciate.
Speaker 6: I mean, like, he had the twenty points against Colorado
Speaker 6: and the next game did nothing, zero for three shooting.
Speaker 2: Well, if there's a guy, if there's a guy worse consistency,
Speaker 2: then if that makes any sense than Caleb, it's.
Speaker 5: Well, but he's not even playing that much. That's lay.
Speaker 6: He played twenty nine minutes in that Colorado game. Was
Speaker 6: good obviously, and then since then, you know, no zero
Speaker 6: for two, two and six.
Speaker 2: And I'll say this, and I don't want to be
Speaker 2: negative because everyone says I'm.
Speaker 4: Negative, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: So all the guys on this team, and we'll go starters,
Speaker 2: non starters.
Speaker 4: How many of these guys would have played for Luke?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Caleb, Caleb, Carter, Carter, kJ Jen and maybe Vsar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but in different roles, in different in coming off
Speaker 2: the bench roles. Maybe Caleb, but he would have to
Speaker 2: be very very good with the more consistent kJ yes too,
Speaker 2: because he's more of a Reggie.
Speaker 4: He's a Reggie type. Yeah. But and Jayden too.
Speaker 2: Jayden's a tough dude. And then Vsar to me, they
Speaker 2: talked about it earlier. And he's got a little Lauren
Speaker 2: Woods in him. Skinny tall can block shots, can do
Speaker 2: some things, but those four and guess what, I don't
Speaker 2: know if you believe this, but with Doors and Townsend
Speaker 2: not doing a whole heck a lot, is there someone
Speaker 2: to playing with a headlock point behind their back.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, it'd be nice if they had five
Speaker 6: guys play consistently every game. Basically it's three seems like
Speaker 6: three or four and they've they've done and they you know,
Speaker 6: they're winning.
Speaker 5: But when your starters, that's what they're you know, that's
Speaker 5: what Tommy wants.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: Again, he's not playing very many minutes, but that seems
Speaker 6: to be kind of the way things have gone really,
Speaker 6: you know most of the season. You know, they had
Speaker 6: that one breakout game. He had a you know, a
Speaker 6: big game early like against in the Bahamas. I think
Speaker 6: it was well, He's and Tummy's. Tummy's one of those guys.
Speaker 6: He's not going to change this, Yeah, because it's it's working.
Speaker 6: It's working at least to at least until the couple.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's again, if if they things are tight
Speaker 6: and and the game is close in those first eight
Speaker 6: minutes or so, or even closer. Sometimes you know he's
Speaker 6: bringing the bench guys in in the first five minutes.
Speaker 2: I do believe that del Orso will come through a
Speaker 2: game or two before it all ends. Maybe not in
Speaker 2: a crucial game, but maybe the b why u Utah,
Speaker 2: one of those games where he'll have one of those
Speaker 2: he has to.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean if they need to break a zone.
Speaker 6: I mean that isn't what happened against Colorado. All of
Speaker 6: a sudden they came out and played this crazy zone
Speaker 6: and he needed to make seven three pointers that day.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to ty La the Ball here on Fox
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Speaker 4: Where are you headed to tonight?
Speaker 17: O her, I'm actually not going to go to a
Speaker 17: game tonight tomorrow. I'm gonna go to the Sunnyside Cellpoint
Speaker 17: Boys soccer game.
Speaker 2: Oh that's huge, that's huge. Yes, yeah, well is there
Speaker 2: let me ask you, so it's Valentine's Day tomorrow. Is
Speaker 2: there have they played before? Is there a little love
Speaker 2: loss or what is there a rivalry? Because you know
Speaker 2: Cell Point and Wolfgang have been this juggernaut forever on
Speaker 2: Sunnyside has come on the scene recently.
Speaker 17: Yeah, if I had the time to go through all
Speaker 17: the stats like opposing coaches against Wolfgang, whoever, like who
Speaker 17: has a who has a winning record against them?
Speaker 4: Probably nobody?
Speaker 17: Yeah, probably a short, short research but k C. O'Brien
Speaker 17: has has on the nine six and one against them
Speaker 17: since he became the Sunnyside coach in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 4: Oh really, so he's the one that does it well?
Speaker 17: Yeah, he's nine six before when before he came to
Speaker 17: sunning Side, Sunny Side was one nine and one in
Speaker 17: the previous nine years againt Cell Point, but since then
Speaker 17: sunning Side test tables. Although although of late Cell Points
Speaker 17: won three the last four games. So it's it is
Speaker 17: the rivalry because competitive, you know that is not what's
Speaker 17: that one sided?
Speaker 4: So let me let me ask you.
Speaker 2: We all know that Sunny Sign is one of the
Speaker 2: great state things in Wolfgang Gets will use the Grandfather
Speaker 2: of soccer. Uh So if they lose here, is it
Speaker 2: over or do they get to go down one?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 17: The way the open division works, uh if if you
Speaker 17: win in the first two rounds, you continue on in
Speaker 17: the Open Division.
Speaker 4: But that's it.
Speaker 17: You're you're either winning the championship in the Open Division
Speaker 17: or you're eliminated. If you lose in the first two rounds,
Speaker 17: you go to your conference state tournament. So for instance,
Speaker 17: like if Cell Point were to lose tomorrow, they would
Speaker 17: go to the four A state tournament that hasn't started yet.
Speaker 17: They wait for these open division assaults and then it
Speaker 17: starts and then Sunnyside if they lose, they go to
Speaker 17: six D a tournament. They're in two different conferences, Sunnyside,
Speaker 17: six day, cel points four A.
Speaker 6: What was the logic in all of this, these open
Speaker 6: division tournaments? This was this is relatively new. But why
Speaker 6: did you know the A, I, A or whoever decide
Speaker 6: on this.
Speaker 17: It's because of the the you know teams like dominating
Speaker 17: one conference over and over again. I think that's why
Speaker 17: they did it. So now they go to the open division,
Speaker 17: they're out of the way of the conference and that
Speaker 17: opens up the possibly other other schools winning the championship
Speaker 17: in the conference in that conference you know one A
Speaker 17: or sorry four eight to six A. So that's that's
Speaker 17: that's partly why they did it. I think they did
Speaker 17: it also for like money, for like they get they
Speaker 17: have they have A had sponsors that sponsor these open divisions,
Speaker 17: so there's money involved with that too. And I think
Speaker 17: it's just the lure of we're going to be playing
Speaker 17: the best of the best in a tournament and see
Speaker 17: if we rate that high or for you or if
Speaker 17: we are that good to play, you know, the top
Speaker 17: team in four A, are they better than the top
Speaker 17: team in six A in football?
Speaker 7: No, in football, there's.
Speaker 17: A clear difference. In basketball or some other sports that
Speaker 17: have let way less amount of athletes, it's more level.
Speaker 17: So that's why the football Open is really going away.
Speaker 17: It's really six eight teams next year that are comprised
Speaker 17: the Open Division playoffs.
Speaker 2: So so last year I can't remember what happened. I
Speaker 2: think Sunny Side was very, very good. They played in
Speaker 2: the opening is at right and they got beats at
Speaker 2: some point.
Speaker 17: This is the first year for the Open Division in
Speaker 17: boys and girls soccer, and there's also something for the
Speaker 17: one eight, two three how they call it the Copper Division.
Speaker 17: It's like the Open Division equivalent because open division it's
Speaker 17: fury through six A. Now they have a Copper Division
Speaker 17: for one A through three A. The top rated teams
Speaker 17: play in a tournament. Things set up as the Open Division,
Speaker 17: just with lower rated or lower classified conference teams. So
Speaker 17: this is the first year for soccer to have it.
Speaker 17: And so that's why Something Side is able to play
Speaker 17: cell Poynt in the posseas whereas they haven't had the
Speaker 17: opportunity in the previous years.
Speaker 4: But they were really good last year and then they got.
Speaker 17: Beat Yeah, they were twenty three oho to one. I
Speaker 17: was at that game. They lost the Mason the quarterfinals.
Speaker 17: It's tough when you lose your first game of the
Speaker 17: season in the playoffs, and it's not the championship game,
Speaker 17: so even in the championship would imagine it'd be very tough.
Speaker 17: But yeah, that they still talk about it, that that's
Speaker 17: a motivating factor and they've learned a lot about I
Speaker 17: can't take things for granted, and you know that kind
Speaker 17: of stuff. But last night they barely beat Gilbert one
Speaker 17: and zero and it was wordless until you know, the
Speaker 17: sixty third minute. So we've got pretty nerve wracking there.
Speaker 17: And at Sunnyside last night, Gilbert was really you know,
Speaker 17: their defense was not allowing them to score. So it
Speaker 17: got got interesting.
Speaker 6: It was always fun to watch Sunnyside with Richard Sanchez
Speaker 6: in those years with football and how he would just
Speaker 6: kind of seem like he was just plucking kids out
Speaker 6: of the neighborhood and next thing you know, they're playing
Speaker 6: for state championships.
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 6: Is it the same thing with soccer and this this era.
Speaker 6: Is he getting kids that are just just there and
Speaker 6: that are kind of grown up in the neighborhood and
Speaker 6: you know, contributing to the high school teams.
Speaker 17: It's like wrestling, you're going to get You're going to
Speaker 17: get the best wrestlers around to come here.
Speaker 4: I'm here.
Speaker 17: I'm saying here sunnysidecause I teach at Sunnyside, but to
Speaker 17: come to Sunnyside because that's where they want to have
Speaker 17: their their chance to be on a top team, you know,
Speaker 17: a dynasty for soccer. It's getting the way for boy soccer.
Speaker 17: He's getting players. Kasey O'Brien is getting players from not
Speaker 17: around just around the Sunny Side area, but the outlying
Speaker 17: area to.
Speaker 7: Come to Sunnyside.
Speaker 17: And yeah, it's it's one of those It's like Stell
Speaker 17: playing football. Uh yeah, Well, soccer is the same way
Speaker 17: play with the bat you go to solt Point.
Speaker 4: Soccer is the same way.
Speaker 2: Soccer is the same way with with with with the
Speaker 2: boys and the girls. And because my son, half of
Speaker 2: them went to play for South Point and half of
Speaker 2: them went to the Foothills and they you know, we're
Speaker 2: big rivalries, right.
Speaker 17: Yeah, So it's it's it's that it's like the rich
Speaker 17: get rich for all the time, and you know some
Speaker 17: of the other programs that struggle keeps struggling.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 17: That's what's happening in football a lot.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 17: It's so different than other sports, not to the extremist football,
Speaker 17: but it still happens.
Speaker 4: Right, So and then so that's tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 2: What about the girls side, because I know that Kelly
Speaker 2: Pierce at South Point, you know she wins a title
Speaker 2: every time.
Speaker 17: Yeah, they there was. It's interesting they played wald Grove
Speaker 17: in the first round of the Open Division a couple
Speaker 17: of days ago at Cell Point and those two teams
Speaker 17: have played in the four A Championship game in the
Speaker 17: last two years and they split. So the first year
Speaker 17: of the Open Division they face each other in the
Speaker 17: first round, I guess the other. So there's some good
Speaker 17: and bad to that. It's bad that one Southern Arizona
Speaker 17: team got eliminated, but there's good that one is cann't
Speaker 17: continue on the next round and possibly further although now
Speaker 17: Cell Point has to play number one Castile at Castile,
Speaker 17: but Waldenrove goes into the four A Championship Championship bracket
Speaker 17: and they could still win the four A title like
Speaker 17: they did last year. So even though you lose these
Speaker 17: first two rounds, you still have like an extra life
Speaker 17: And it's not as big of a deal that Cell
Speaker 17: Point and Wall and Grope played in the first game
Speaker 17: because they still have a chance of either two teams
Speaker 17: winning a championship or they might face each other again
Speaker 17: in the four eight state championship. Is losing to Castile
Speaker 17: and goes down to the four A yeah, right, right.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's changing the subject a little bit.
Speaker 6: I know you guys, you and Andy were both around
Speaker 6: the high schools last week with signing day. Can you
Speaker 6: maybe give us a summary of what you saw and uh,
Speaker 6: you know, the quality of athletes that's coming out of
Speaker 6: here that's going on to colleges.
Speaker 17: Well, the biggest one was Jimmy Leon going to UTEP.
Speaker 17: Didn't get a lot of attention from Arizona a h U,
Speaker 17: which is kind of surprising, but you know that, I'm
Speaker 17: sure they had their reasons. And but he's getting a
Speaker 17: shot at UTUB and that's what you can ask for,
Speaker 17: is to get a D one opportunity and if he
Speaker 17: if he does well, there's all you know, the transfer
Speaker 17: portals there. You know that that was probably the biggest
Speaker 17: name that that was signed last week. There was some
Speaker 17: others that signed with with D one. Nolan Tyler Nolan,
Speaker 17: the place kicker at push Ridge, Excise me signed with
Speaker 17: any U, but not too many too many D one
Speaker 17: players this year. It was a lot of talent, but
Speaker 17: more of like the lower levels, but still a lot
Speaker 17: of players going to college and for for that purpose,
Speaker 17: uh you know of them developing their careers at high school,
Speaker 17: at least they still get to play at the next level.
Speaker 17: Doesn't have it doesn't have to always be Division one.
Speaker 2: So for football two for Mike Mountain, is that right?
Speaker 2: Any of those kids going somewhere, Well, Jimmy the on.
Speaker 17: This one, he's with Mike Mountain. A lot of the
Speaker 17: other ones, like I said, they they're they're they're going
Speaker 17: to like the D D two or the n A
Speaker 17: I A schools. So there's a lot of them are going.
Speaker 17: So that that's that gives you a reason why Pat
Speaker 17: News's team was as good as it was. There's so
Speaker 17: many players going on and playing the next the next level.
Speaker 4: When do when does a basketball start? The playoffs? Uh?
Speaker 17: The basketball, well, it's already started. For like Paula Verty.
Speaker 17: That's that's a big story with Paul Averty there. When
Speaker 17: you think of Paul Verty, you think it all all
Speaker 17: athletic teams struggling. But their basketball team, their boys basketball
Speaker 17: team won in the first round of the what I
Speaker 17: mentioned before, the Copper Division as the fourteen seed may
Speaker 17: beat the number three seed Phoenix Country Day School on
Speaker 17: the last second shot by Daniel Ortiz.
Speaker 5: So paula Verty, it's good.
Speaker 17: I mean, we're all we're all happy for that, right
Speaker 17: because Paul Everty generally is in an inner city school
Speaker 17: that it's got the dimension of being struggling athletic program.
Speaker 17: And there they could if they win the next game,
Speaker 17: the their quarterfinal game against Santane Charter, I think it's
Speaker 17: tomorrow they can be in the semi finals. Or though
Speaker 17: what what what is the one of these one thro
Speaker 17: three a open division. They have one of the top
Speaker 17: Paulverty is one of the top aestist players in the
Speaker 17: whole nation. He's averaging seven point five assists per game,
Speaker 17: which is unheard of Cameron Pippin, he's in or He's
Speaker 17: ranked in the top sixty in the nation in the
Speaker 17: fifth So they have some good talent there at Paul Berty.
Speaker 17: It's great to see wedd Anthony Smith, the head coach.
Speaker 17: There is developing there at Paul Abertys.
Speaker 5: It's fun. I have.
Speaker 6: Some family members that have been playing youth volleyball at Choia.
Speaker 6: This is just just an anecdotal type story. They practice
Speaker 6: at Choya High School and we're there, you know, usually
Speaker 6: around six seven o'clock at night, and all these young
Speaker 6: kids are playing and I think they're being coached. It
Speaker 6: might be the freshman team, but it's just kind of
Speaker 6: fun to see, you know, a school that you don't
Speaker 6: you know, you obviously you know Sean Elliott, but there's
Speaker 6: been nothing even close to that.
Speaker 5: For forty years.
Speaker 6: But it's kind of fun to see this happening, like
Speaker 6: in a place like Palaverti where maybe they've been kind
Speaker 6: of down for a while, to see, you know, it's
Speaker 6: just kind of coming back and there's still interest and
Speaker 6: they're still getting kids to just come out and you know,
Speaker 6: play some pick up basketball, maybe with a little bit
Speaker 6: of coaching on the side.
Speaker 5: So it's personally it's it's great.
Speaker 10: I enjoy you.
Speaker 17: They have a club team that practices there, so they
Speaker 17: you might have sall some club Yeah, team players.
Speaker 6: It was somewhat organized and it was like, whoa, these kids.
Speaker 6: They look like they're twelve years old, but they can
Speaker 6: they can hook, right, So it's good.
Speaker 2: So before you leave, let's talk real quick about what's
Speaker 2: going on at PEMA, because Peabody and whold House are
Speaker 2: doing pretty well.
Speaker 17: Yeah, Pima won again last night. So the twenty six
Speaker 17: and oh, and they're still leading the nation and scoring.
Speaker 17: They're leading the nation and wins, and they're in the
Speaker 17: n j c A Division two, the rank number two.
Speaker 17: So this could be a year that we see PEMA.
Speaker 17: If if everything goes the way it's been going, they
Speaker 17: can be in the championship game of the of the
Speaker 17: and the National Junior College Athletic.
Speaker 16: UH.
Speaker 17: It changes locations. I'm not sure. It's not like baseball
Speaker 17: where it's always in like Grand Junction. I think it's
Speaker 17: in the Midwest. It's traditionally in the Midwest. I'm not
Speaker 17: sure exactly sure where that is. But packed up the
Speaker 17: car in the game, well, I mean, I can imagine
Speaker 17: if they're going to feed it. Up to that point,
Speaker 17: it's already a big story because they're twenty six and
Speaker 17: oh and that's that's the unheard of that they've brought.
Speaker 17: They've broke the record for the best start, and.
Speaker 4: They just have a.
Speaker 17: Lot of guys who are aggressive and they can shoot
Speaker 17: the ball. They have Max, they have Dan marley Son
Speaker 17: on the team, which has another element.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: Uh, it's it's.
Speaker 17: If you ever get a chance, go out and watch
Speaker 17: one of their one of their games, because you'll be
Speaker 17: amazed how up and down they play. You think Arizona
Speaker 17: plays in transition. Uh, Tema averages one hundred and ten
Speaker 17: points a game. So yeah, it's just up and down.
Speaker 17: They play good defense, others others scoring is Boston steels
Speaker 17: and and turnovers.
Speaker 4: When when's your next game?
Speaker 17: They play Saturday? I believe they play it. They play
Speaker 17: at home. I'm not sure against too good night, but
Speaker 17: yeah they well know on Saturdays they play at two
Speaker 17: and four.
Speaker 7: Will the women play.
Speaker 17: At two and the men play at poor? Okay, that'd
Speaker 17: be a good time. You know, you're Saturday Saturday night
Speaker 17: to go to play poker or whatever.
Speaker 2: You Yeah, well, let me let me tell you my Saturday.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you my Saturday. Houston's town, Houston's in town.
Speaker 17: So you know, oh well that's that noon though, So
Speaker 17: you still have.
Speaker 6: You know, they play South Mountain at four o'clock. So
Speaker 6: so okay, so what to hold on? Let me get
Speaker 6: you my my deadlines. How you writes the story of
Speaker 6: the game story right, because he has nothing better to do,
Speaker 6: so he's he writes the game story.
Speaker 2: I come in with my call him after. I'll be
Speaker 2: done at three fifty nine. And then you want to
Speaker 2: make me go to Beiba. Okay, maybe I do it.
Speaker 17: I haven't feeling you're going to go sometime because they're playing.
Speaker 7: In the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't make me. Don't turn me into a Javier
Speaker 2: and Andy Morales. Guy, could they don't ever sleep?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 17: I don't think you want to do that.
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Speaker 5: That's where the National Championship of Illinois.
Speaker 7: Yeah, wherever that is, okay.
Speaker 4: As long as that's not Rosemud, Illinois.
Speaker 5: No, we're not going back there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, thanks, I have to bring that up, you
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Speaker 2: thank you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Danielle never been there.
Speaker 6: No, but that sounds familiar. I think they've gone back
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Ravera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: And welcome back to about here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve, You're Dave, and we got Kobe with the
Speaker 2: mechanism here let me ask you did, and I should
Speaker 2: know this. The concusulor helmet. Do they keep that or
Speaker 2: do they just have it and win it? I think
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Speaker 2: them some type of replica or something. Yeah, because you know,
Speaker 2: you win it and it's cool, and then what happened.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna check it.
Speaker 6: I'll try to check it out this year because it's
Speaker 6: at La Paloma.
Speaker 7: I know that.
Speaker 6: You know it had been at Tuson National Yeah, pretty
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Speaker 2: and then take the shuttles up and it's, you know,
Speaker 2: very good and it's not that bad of a you know,
Speaker 2: you find your spot and well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's kind of how most people watch golf anyway.
Speaker 5: It's usually right. You know.
Speaker 6: There were some definitely some great holes at National where
Speaker 6: people would just go hang out, like at number twelve,
Speaker 6: which was pretty close to go back to the clubhouse
Speaker 6: just where it was located. We just go sit there
Speaker 6: all day and wait for everybody to kind of come
Speaker 6: through and if you want to follow somebody. It wasn't
Speaker 6: that hard there because it was relatively flat and wide
Speaker 6: open and you know, it's pretty fan friendly.
Speaker 4: Did you like covering golf?
Speaker 5: I liked it. We you know, we did the best
Speaker 5: we could.
Speaker 6: It was hard, it was, you know, physically, it was
Speaker 6: one of the hardest videos. It didn't want to follow,
Speaker 6: you know, sometimes you had to kind of strategically figure
Speaker 6: out on you know, I really want to walk you know,
Speaker 6: nine holes and what am I going to get? Meantime,
Speaker 6: we're back at the TV station recording the broadcast which
Speaker 6: has everything and you know, it's high quality and you're
Speaker 6: just kind of getting you know, some of your shots
Speaker 6: that you can use.
Speaker 4: And then using the sound when you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the sound obviously was was kind of what you're
Speaker 6: there for, right, But no good memories again, one of
Speaker 6: those things when you're around all these years, you get
Speaker 6: stories from all these different courses and just trying to
Speaker 6: dig back into that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, when they used to have the Lopez kid
Speaker 2: coming to Women's the Women's Randolph.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that was.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to think she was here. So my just
Speaker 6: to date myself, I'm trying to think of a cool story.
Speaker 6: When my son was born in nineteen eighty four, I
Speaker 6: was in March. He was born like right in the
Speaker 6: middle of the tournament. Oh, I mean, I think I
Speaker 6: interviewed like Jan Stevenson or someone like that on you know,
Speaker 6: on a Wednesday, and next thing you know, he's coming
Speaker 6: on Thursday. So I always kind of remember the LPGA
Speaker 6: just for that reason. Yea, But yeah, I mean it
Speaker 6: was the women were fantastic in those years, and Nancy
Speaker 6: Lopez was in her prime and.
Speaker 5: She was great with the media. She later I think
Speaker 5: worked in the media.
Speaker 6: But she was she knew how to market herself, and
Speaker 6: they're you know, they were kind of again they were
Speaker 6: always easy to work with.
Speaker 4: Yah. So Jen Stevenson knew how to market herself too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean she was in her prime then too,
Speaker 6: as well as you can imagine. But and I think
Speaker 6: the you know, the Champions Tour is probably the same way.
Speaker 6: A lot of these guys kind of appreciate getting the
Speaker 6: attention that maybe they didn't get. You know, they're out
Speaker 6: there playing with, you know, some of the big stars
Speaker 6: of the game, and yeah, next thing, you know, they're
Speaker 6: the stars of these at this level.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I said this a couple of weeks ago. I just
Speaker 2: want to be put couples for like a weekend kind
Speaker 2: of floats around, you know, we has that that gate
Speaker 2: like you know definitely you know, I'm I'm couples couples.
Speaker 6: I remember one time back when he was on the tour,
Speaker 6: the regular tour. We were trying to get set up
Speaker 6: and sometimes it's just you know, you're with a local
Speaker 6: station and you're kind of on your own, and you
Speaker 6: got the photographer out there running around with the with
Speaker 6: the tripodse and he's trying to get set up and
Speaker 6: you're trying to be quiet, and my guy was like
Speaker 6: right behind couples, who's about to tee off? And he
Speaker 6: and Couples again had a pretty good attitude, but he
Speaker 6: just turns around to my photographer and he goes, you know.
Speaker 4: Let me know when you're ready.
Speaker 6: Let me know when you can stop making noise, because
Speaker 6: I'm about ready to try to tee off here. But
Speaker 6: because you're so close, I mean, you know, it's I
Speaker 6: mean you're literally, you know, a couple of feet away
Speaker 6: in some cases from them when you're especially at the tee.
Speaker 6: You know, around the greens you can't get that close,
Speaker 6: but when you're at the tea or even in the fairway.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 2: And then big names obviously coming in coming through, so
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. I hope to get out there
Speaker 2: like that Saturday, that Friday to go and just spend
Speaker 2: the day people watch. It's a people watching place to.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah yeah, and then you know they don't they
Speaker 6: have that concert yeah, Friday nights and advertising that so
Speaker 6: there's like there's some other things happening.
Speaker 2: It's just kind of a good social scene. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: it should be fun. I hope the weather's good for them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: anybody want to call? We got about what do we get?
Speaker 2: We get about five minutes? Yeah, five minutes. You maybe
Speaker 2: get a get a quick call here in five to
Speaker 2: two oh four, one, six, seventy four forty Well with Dave.
Speaker 4: Your last day this week? See you next week maybe? Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 4: Then you're busy retirement schedule? Ye me.
Speaker 2: Well, it's funny because you know all the old people
Speaker 2: who retire. You know, I'm busier now won't retired than
Speaker 2: I was when I was working.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is, Yeah, it's fun I'm doing what I
Speaker 6: want to do and not what I have to do, right, Yeah,
Speaker 6: So it's great to be able to do this and
Speaker 6: a few other things around town, and you know, use
Speaker 6: some of my my history to you know, get into
Speaker 6: involved in some organizations and stuff. So it's been great.
Speaker 6: You'd be bored if you didn't have all this. What
Speaker 6: am I gonna do? How many times can you watch?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What's the price?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: I think I'm off on most of my shows.
Speaker 4: We gotta call Hello, you're on the air and I
Speaker 4: on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're talking about old You shouldn't be talking at all.
Speaker 2: Well, God, I have to carry you. You're like what,
Speaker 2: I'm like, you're a caddy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well you don't obey like a son. Take a
Speaker 7: quick story about golf. We're at the Center with my grandson.
Speaker 7: We're on the number sixteen hole. I think it's a
Speaker 7: long par five, and of course people couldn't breach because
Speaker 7: Tiger was coming up and he pretty much had wanted
Speaker 7: you know, he was coming down. I think was Rose
Speaker 7: seven or eight. My grandson, he's like at that time,
Speaker 7: he's coleradium already. He walks in and the jumping jackice
Speaker 7: it claws him right on his arm. Tiger walks right past.
Speaker 7: He sees it, and you could see the security guard
Speaker 7: trying to tell him. Adrian didn't say a word, hipped
Speaker 7: his mouth shut. A group teet off walked away, and
Speaker 7: then he screamed off. But yeah, I mean, we've had
Speaker 7: some great golf tournaments in great history. I remember in
Speaker 7: back in eighty one when we had the tournament out
Speaker 7: at Randolph Park. It was the Tucson opened then, and
Speaker 7: George brad is in the pro amp, and I asked
Speaker 7: the dumbest question you can ask any professional athlete. I'm
Speaker 7: an old Yankees fan. So I said to him, I said,
Speaker 7: how hard was it to hear the kain's goose? And
Speaker 7: he looked at me. He had like a I don't know,
Speaker 7: nine iron in his hand. He wasn't far from the green.
Speaker 7: I swear I thought he was going to hit me
Speaker 7: with the damn thing. But it's just one of those
Speaker 7: things you just don't ask athletes stupid questions. Of course,
Speaker 7: we'd had a couple of beers by that time, but
Speaker 7: we've got a great history of golf. Cindy Rarik from Tucson. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean, we've got a lot of great stories that
Speaker 7: people could tell over the years, and that's your next book, Steve.
Speaker 4: Yeah, would be good.
Speaker 6: When Chris Johnson Ida, you know she won here she
Speaker 6: of course, you know Anica in the way she played
Speaker 6: allegianly and then came back and won as a pro.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's I do miss the women. I never understood.
Speaker 6: I'm sure there's a sponsorship reason or something, but why
Speaker 6: don't we have an LPGA tournament here? Seems like that
Speaker 6: would be like a natural again to bring that back someplace.
Speaker 6: If we can do the champions I don't know, and you.
Speaker 7: Know, and you know what's said is that we have
Speaker 7: a lot of people now my generation who would love
Speaker 7: to go out and watch the women play golf. I
Speaker 7: mean only dreaming we could hit the ball as far
Speaker 7: as they could, you know. But they were also so
Speaker 7: much they were a lot more personable now. I do
Speaker 7: remember as a kid watching Lee Trevino. My dad took
Speaker 7: me out, and this was in the sixties, early seventies,
Speaker 7: go out with my dad to watch the pros, and
Speaker 7: Travino was very interactive with everybody. But for the most part,
Speaker 7: the men don't. They don't interact with the fans, and
Speaker 7: I understand why. I mean, they're focused on but the
Speaker 7: women were always so much more engaging, and I think
Speaker 7: they appreciated the fans more than the men ever, did
Speaker 7: I agree.
Speaker 5: I had a chance to play.
Speaker 6: I don't know how I got invited, but I had
Speaker 6: a chance to play in a program with the LBGA
Speaker 6: one year out at Randolph with the golfer's name was
Speaker 6: Chris Cheddar and she, like you said, she was so
Speaker 6: nice to us.
Speaker 5: I mean, we were hitting the ball all over the place.
Speaker 6: She was really patient, and she was friendly and didn't
Speaker 6: care what our scores were, and it was really I
Speaker 6: remember that more about anything else about any kind of
Speaker 6: shot I might have hit, was just how nice she was,
Speaker 6: and you know, she was a commedation. She gave us
Speaker 6: a big box of golf balls when it was all over,
Speaker 6: and it was just it was a great day.
Speaker 5: It was really fun, and.
Speaker 7: The fans were always very gracious with the women golfers too.
Speaker 7: They were I mean, they were always very good. The
Speaker 7: media was always the local media was always very good,
Speaker 7: and everybody was respectful everybody's turf and territory. But on
Speaker 7: the flip side, you know, it was getting away a
Speaker 7: little bit. Nobody tried to take your head off and
Speaker 7: had worked you off the course.
Speaker 2: Well, Rick, we gotta go, We gotta get up against
Speaker 2: it all right. Thanks, yeah, apreciate it. Dave, thanks for
Speaker 2: coming in and joining us today. We'll see you guys tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We have Jay's coming in. I'm not sure who the
Speaker 2: guests will be, but it should be fun.