Friday, April 25, Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hey, welcome back to my in the Ball here Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Roberta, Dave. Now we have
Henry with breaking news.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
This is I on the Ball Breaking news on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
NFL Draft Day two is starting in one minute. Arizona
tackle Jonah Savnea is expected to go today.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Is it just round two or the good? It's round
two and three? Okay? Okay?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Other five minute of the five minute rounds?

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yeah, five minutes? Okay, Where are you seeing him? I
have not seen much of him the second round, late
second round. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
He's a big guy, right, big defensive tackle ten three twenty.
He was hurt too, so wasn't he in during his
uh you of a time?

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Yeah? But he's huge. Teams need those big tackles.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
NBA Playoffs last night, the Knicks defeated the Pistons to
go up two to one in the series. The Thunder
defeated the Grizzlies to go up three on the series,
and the Clippers defeated the Nuggets to go up two
to one in the series.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Watching, I was watching a little a little. It was
tough with the drafts too.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, right, I saw some of that tonight. Tonight I
had what the Milwaukee and who's the other team?

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Minnesota?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Minnesota, Minnesota, te Wolves, Lakers, Pacers, Books, and Celtics match.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Yeah, Boston's just about to start. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Arizona baseball will begin a three game series this weekend
at Texas Tech.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
So we're what a week or so from ending any
of the regular season. Is this the end of the
they this is their last series, I think, right?

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Or is there? I think there's one more week of series? Okay,
I was thinking softball.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah, so yeah, the tournament in Texas, right, Dallas, That's
where the Big twelve Championship is, So that'll be a
different look for for that event. Been in Scottstill, at
least the uavas playing in Scottsdale on the PAC twelve tournament.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
The softball team has a three game roads series against
San Diego State this weekend.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
Yeah, go aztex Can I say that here? I'm gonna
love them? Sure, of course, I didn't even know we
had a softball team.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
No, I did.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
After the selection of tedt Roic McMillan yesterday, and Arizona
players now have been drafted to every NFL team.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
That's a good trivia question. Yeah really, yep.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Wow, we should have a contest and see if we
can fill out fill up had sheet.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, we'll do that one
of these days.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
You're in we'll have just oh yeah, thanks and then
have no have people you know this guy, this guy
can fill in the blanks because you know there's I'm
sure some who with the Jets.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Who's with the Jets. There's a quarterback a long time ago,
Bill Demery.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Oh so you even knew that? I think I knew
that one. Give me another one, Teddy, I can do
the Patriots there.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Arizona picked up a commitment today from former Illinois state
kicker Ian Wagner, who's originally from Sierra Vista.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Okay, cool kicker place caicker. Yeah, they need to find
that guy to replace Loop.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Isn't the transfer portal like closing.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Like any minutes today?

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah? Right, okay, now what see what see what? Who comes?
Who signs, and.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Who's who's already left? Take three or four guys.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Right, that's all I got.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
So you got Okay, we'll take some calls if anybody
want to call. I know, Richard's texting me like crazy,
uh telling me. I'll let him tell us because it's
a little bit mean, and I could take me and
Richard come on, give me a call.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
I think he's being facetious.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Actually, he's saying that we're a bunch of old dudes
and we're getting will be a little up on the younger.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Younger generation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that we're just jealous.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I mean, no, I think he's being facetious because I'm
sure he believes the same thing.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Yeah, I don't know. Well, because the way they act,
they acting.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
We're giving them a grief about that. Yeah, no, come on,
it just be like a human being, a regular one.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
Well, you know, I mean there's a lot on the
line for these guys, and there's gonna be a lot
of financial things that are going to happen. I know,
you know, he's making his nil money now, but you
know he's gonna go to the NFL and or whoever anybody. Yeah,
you know, they're going to be doing commercials. I mean,
it's all part of the image. Here's the issue that's
got to be a good thing. Here's the issue I have.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Uh, And I guess it happens to everybody in every
line of work. But here's the guys who are wishing
four years ago, wishing to be part of the NFL
and get drafted and have a life in this because
it's a lot of money.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Right Uh.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
And then they they're grateful to humble blah blah blah.
Three years into their contract, I got to get paid more.
I'm a pain in the ass, you know what I'm saying.
They've already established themselves, and then there they turned into
something that they're I guess originally that's who they were.
They were just being humble.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Well, I mean, if you look back maybe ten years ago,
ESPN did like a thirty for thirty on how these
athletes are going through their money so fast, and you know,
they get these big giant bonuses and sign big contracts
right off the bat, and then in three or four
years they're they're going broken. So that's a problem. And
a lot of that I think has to do with
growing up and you know, even maybe it didn't come

(05:34):
from the best environment, but just maturing as you're getting
older and understanding what's important and if you want to
be successful, they have to act a certain way, especially
when you're performing in front of millions of.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
People in some cases.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Yeah, okay, dad, that's my old man comment for the day.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Oh yeah, your last one. Anything else, No, that's it,
right man. You want to call, please do five two
zero four one, six four forty you have anything else
on that list?

Speaker 5 (06:01):
We got a former Wildcat picture turns pro sign yea, yeah, yeah,
Dawson Nett signs with the Cubs.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
He was a coach with you by right now. He
was coaching his sisters. The okay makes sense, Yeah, it
makes sense.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
And she's going to be playing professionally finally, after all
this is done.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Right, that happened to go?

Speaker 2 (06:18):
She got a golden something holden spikes something right, Yeah yeah,
not golden spikes, that's defense baseball whatever.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah yeah, litlepol league that she's going to go to.
So that's cool.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Okay again, anybody want to call, please do anything else
you see out there? Anything on ESPN that you missed,
Uh no, no anything.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Were we were joking. I think I sent it to you.
The joke.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
Michah Parsons last night during the draft, he was he
was upset that the Cowboys did not get t MA
mac right, and he was basically like crying on this
sort of podcast that all he was doing. It was
pretty pretty funny, yeah, because a lot of people kind
of had penciled him in for Dallas too, like it's
a twelfth pick.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
And then yeah, first, yeah, they showed you sent me that.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Another guy sent me the uh uh the call that
that team at got from the team did you see
you know, I didn't see that or the owners and
all them said, you know, we're gonna take you the number,
blah blah, how do you feel it? And he was
kind of really nonchalant, kind of like, okay, that's cool
as soon, let's go, let's go. It wasn't like thank
you very much, sir. It was more of a you know,
being a twenty year old kid. And that's part of
it too, because we're kind of criticizing. But again, they're eighteen, nineteen,

(07:26):
twenty years old. What do we expect from them? Probably
too much? Probably, right, you know, I'm going the other
way with that now, right, right, but you're right, you're right.
You know, what do we expect?

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Yeah, I mean, these guys have all gone through this
process too, so they're used to, you know, being interviewed
and talking to adults, you know, and trying to be
respectful things like that.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
That's the one thing that we talk about this all
the time.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Even if I ever run in to Desiray and have
some time with her, is I think that the and
I said this somebody yesterday day before, that U of
A would have more of a connection with the fans.
More of a connection depends. And you you know this
because you deal with it. How we were in the
good old days when we talked to athletes one on
ones or even two on ones whatever not on a

(08:09):
podium where we got their message, they told their story.
Now you don't get that, and now you have the
you of A trying to help with nil blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
How do you think give money to someone you don't know? Right?
Totally agree? I mean I totally agree.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
I you know, we do miss those good old days
of that and that was what made our jobs even
more special.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
It was like, Wow, I can't believe you just said
that to me.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
You know, want to go back to the station and
you're the only one that has it yeah, I got.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
This great quote, like I bet Steve didn't get this,
or I bet the other stations didn't get this, And
that was kind.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Of the fun. That was the fun part of it,
no question about.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
That, because you guys would turn out stories like, Wow,
I didn't get that angle at all. I didn't hear
that I was because I wasn't in that scrum with
you know, Chase Butdinger or whoever at that time. Yeah,
you're right, and you know, I think the guys were
able to show off their personalities a lot easier in
those years than they do now.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, I'll give you a perfect example. DeAndre DeAndre. We
didn't talk to him at all, one on one until
the PAC twelve because they opened the locker rooms and
you're thinking, this kid's pretty cool. He's a kid eighteen
years old, acting like a crazy little kid and personality
a nice one. And then we'd get to the tournament,
a good tournament, a good funny guy, and then he's gone, yeah,

(09:18):
and we don't.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
I haven't.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
I've never seen him or talk to him since I
never had changel he coming for a game or two
here at you But yeah, we don't get to know
these people on a more intimate way to tell their story.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Right.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
One of my all time favorite coaches here was Jerry
Kendall when he was a baseball coach at Arizona, and
he we would I don't even know if we even
warned him that we were coming over. We would just
show up on a you know, Wednesday afternoon and want
to do a couple interviews years years, like eighties and
nineties before he was finished. And we'd walk into Sansett
Field and he just look over and go, you just go, Dave,
who do you want to talk to today? He would just

(09:53):
go round up the guys for us and we would have,
you know, a couple of minutes with each of them.
Took ten minutes, we were done. We had worries for
like three days. Sure, now you have easy.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Now you have coaches say you can't talk to the
freshman until this or till that. Really, I think it's
more of a control thing. That's ridiculous. It is ridiculous
because we've already talked to him a few times before
in high school. Yeah, they know who we are and
questions we're going.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
I mean, college is all about growing up too, and
I mean that's such an important thing.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Exactly, Dave. Exactly, Dave. You go to hell with the
history one on one. You learn how to watch your
clothes and not lead them into the whites. You learn
how to eat on your own pace if you have
money to go to the restaurants or cook. You know
what I'm saying. You're exactly right. College just isn't about
learning how to read and write, although it is, but

(10:39):
you know, growing up I.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
Do it, especially if you're an athlete. That's part of
you know, they grow up. They've watched all these guys
on television. I would think, if I'm coming in, I'm,
you know, eighteen or nineteen. You know, I want to
learn how to do that.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well, are you talking to a former player? Probably on
this show or maybe off the show. I won't say
who it was.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
He says.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
The UA prepared him, not in a good way for
the real world. And let me say why. They took
care of them at every level. You know where to go,
where to be, what to do, where to go, especially
on the road.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
You know, tutors da da da never let them fail.
Part of part and as they should. But part of
success and part of growing up is that failure because
you know you don't want to do it again.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Right right. I can understand.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
I suppose on road trips or whatever you know, to
be you know, meetings or whatever they need to do.
But just the weekly banter between the me I don't know.
I would think as an athlete, maybe they're maybe they're afraid.
Maybe some were afraid to come talk to us. Well,
I think most of them wound up being great. Sure,
I mean I remember them all the time. Those are
the things I remember most about.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Some of them.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Well, you remember, just a year or so ago, David
or two maybe two the kids from USC who was
the Orange County registered guy, quoted the kid before he
went up to the podium, and he got in trouble
because it wasn't officially from the podium.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
And he was just how he said, what should I say?
How should I act?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
He heard that quoted him, and he says, you're going
to take your credential way because he wasn't on the
podium when you broke the rules.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
Really, yeah, really, come on, it's silly.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
But no, I think just kind of going back to
what we were talking about with Shador and some of
the others, they know how they should be acting, of course,
and they know it's important, and they've got agents who
are in their ears saying, you know, no, don't act
like that. You know you're gonna get through these couple
of days. It's not a big contract. The endorsements are
going to be coming to you all the time, and
you're gonna have an image to hold. Sure, but these

(12:32):
days are I'm sure it's a little stressful and nerve
wracking and embarrassing maybe in a way too.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
And if you don't like a question, you know what
you say, I don't feel comfortable answering that question or
answering that question.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Yeah, pretty simple, pretty simple? How much?

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Uh three minutes?

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Okay, Well, no calls in this segment, Richard disappointed in you.
You can give us a call here in the next
three minutes. You can give me grief or I'll just
say that you were being uh wait wait wait, wait,
can't right now. But absolutely, this is my boy, Richard saying,
after giving us grief about being old men, you can't

(13:09):
call us right now. But I'm simply for free markets
and democracy.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Why they can do whatever they want.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
That's fine, that's fine, Richard, and I cannot buy their
stuff if I don't want you.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Well, that's the whole thing. So did I ask you
this question? Do the guys influence you do? The guys
that you see play or the chadors or yeah, yeah,
I won't say so you're gonna go by Sprite because
Lebron does eat drink sprite.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Is there somebody that.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
You admire or you follow for whatever reason?

Speaker 4 (13:47):
I mean, there's a lot of athletes I like. But
I'm going but not purposely for commercial I don't I
don't get it either, But what the hell? So Cleveland
did not take thirty three? What number was that? I
took a guy from UCLA linebacker? Okay, let's go. We
got one call before you go. Hellow, you're on the air.
Nine the ball? Who's this?

Speaker 6 (14:07):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (14:08):
Stevens Richard wanted to call in and follow up on
an email.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
My whole thing is this.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
I like the.

Speaker 7 (14:13):
Nil I like the free market. I don't think we
need to be regulating them or KYD to cap their incomes.
Let's just let this thing go for a while and
see what happens. Let the free market go. If the
economy goes south, which it might, you know, the market
dyce will go down. But you know, we're not telling
the coaches they need to be regulated, right, They've had

(14:35):
free reign all these years to do what in the
hell they wanted to do. Okay, well, the players were
trapped on campus pretty much. So this is this is freedom.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
This is the way it should be.

Speaker 7 (14:47):
And the kids are so much more aware nowadays than
they were twenty thirty, forty years ago. They're coached, they
know how to handle the media, they know how to
handle their money. They're far more mature than we were.
And you know, they're just they got to going on, man,
And this is.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
Where it should be right now. You do a long
list of there.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
I was gonna say two out of five is a
bad but sure, I'm not sure. Uh, free wheeling probably more.
There's so many the things you said that I won't
argue with you because it's not a point, but I
understand what you're saying, and I.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Kind of agree.

Speaker 8 (15:21):
Yeah, just let it go.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Let's be free.

Speaker 7 (15:24):
Let's be free the best we can.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Free, love baby, Okay, I'm sixty nine all over.

Speaker 7 (15:27):
Ready to get rich, free to get very very rich.

Speaker 8 (15:30):
Yes, okay, but wait, free to free, to.

Speaker 7 (15:33):
Practice democracy, to make sure we keep that intact.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yes, Okay, thank you guys, thank you for calling. Hey,
keep emailing me, keep emailing. He's a regular email. He's
in New Mexico, Oklahoma.

Speaker 9 (15:44):
Guy.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, he's a he's a he's a good guy like Richard.
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Down all the xs at ohs. This is I on
the ball with Steve Rivera on Bomb Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball Hero on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me
today is Dave Silver. Now one Pune, we have UA
Vin's tennis coach, Clancy Shields.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
How are you doing, Clancy? I'm Dreick Delli.

Speaker 11 (21:13):
Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yes, of course. Uh can we pove him up, Henry?

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Henry? Can we get his voice up more? A little more? Coach?

Speaker 2 (21:20):
So good to hear of you. All you do is win,
which is fantastic.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
How does that? How did this year feel?

Speaker 2 (21:25):
It's funny, I've always raved about you over the last
couple of years that we had you on, and you
continue to kind of outdo yourself every year.

Speaker 12 (21:35):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 16 (21:35):
I mean this year has been interesting, It's been every
year is different. You know, we had six new players
on our team. Almost fifty percent of our roster was
brand new. We had basically the best college player in
the country who was off for half the season, winning
professional tournaments. I mean, everything that got thrown at me
this year was crazy and wild. And you know, we're

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ten country, we're conference champions and now We're ready to
go dance.

Speaker 11 (22:03):
In the NCAA tournament.

Speaker 16 (22:05):
You know, for most teams who are the elite programs
in the country, this is all they think about is
the season starts. Sure once the tournament starts, and I'm
hoping that's our mentality as well.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
How is the transition then, going into the Big twelve
after all these years in the Pac twelve.

Speaker 16 (22:22):
Yeah, it's it's exciting for me, just because when you've
done something for eight years, it just kind of gets
the same old, same old, you know, going to the
same locations, playing the same teams, same coaches, and so
now this new challenge of going into this conference, you know,
against the defending national champions TCU, who's two in the country,

(22:43):
who got us.

Speaker 11 (22:44):
Earlier this year. Yeah, it's a great challenge.

Speaker 16 (22:47):
And you know, if you had told me at the
beginning of the year we would have won the conference,
I'd have said that an amazing season. And now that
I'm looking at it, kind of the work that everyone's
put in, I just feel like, you know, this was
supposed to happen.

Speaker 11 (22:58):
I think the team worked hard, I think we have
all the right.

Speaker 16 (23:00):
Pieces and I'm just happy that, you know, something that
one of the goals that we set for ourselves we
were able to cross off.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
So, Dave, I don't know if you know who.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
David Davis a former TV guy, longtime TV guy in
this town. Me a former longtime sports writer. Now I
do this, and I joked with you last year. You
kind of laughed when I was with Jay talking about,
in my opinion, you're the best coach on campus, given
what you've done to the program. And just before you
came on, maybe an hour ago, he said, we rarely
talked about tennis.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
We didn't, and now we're.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Talking about tennis, which makes that you guys have done
a great job, and the women too.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Just what do you do to make this team go?

Speaker 12 (23:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (23:39):
I just think we got the competitive, most competitive people
in the world on our team, and the most competitive
coaching staff, and and just a bunch of gritty guys,
and I just I just know, I just want to
be around people who are competitive, who are going to
push me every each and every day. And I think
that just kind of starts rubbing off on everybody around here.
Do I think we have the most talent in our

(23:59):
comfort and know? Do I think we have the most
talent in the country. No, we have six freshmen. Half
of them don't know how to put the right shoe
on the right foot, you know, And that's not a joke.
The amount of things I saw this year from freshmen
gave me so many headaches.

Speaker 11 (24:13):
I'm balding. I'm going gray hair everywhere.

Speaker 16 (24:16):
But what I'll say is, I think the secret sauce
and the ingredient is just how competitive this group is.

Speaker 11 (24:22):
And it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
I don't even think.

Speaker 16 (24:24):
We're that competitive, but then we just meet our opposition
and we're just a lot more competitive than them. And
I think that's a testament to just nine years of
guys going at each other, just beating each other in
their heads in every day and getting tougher. It's almost
like our practices are tougher than our matches, because you know,
the guys are getting after each other so much harder
than what we see on game day. And I think

(24:45):
that really primes us for you know, the teams that
we play.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
One of my friends was over at Indian Wells I
guess what, a couple of months ago, and he was
texting me, goes, who is this u of a guy playing?
Maybe tell us a little bit about Colton and what
he means to you into this program. He's obviously he's
already kind of making his mark at the professional tournament level.

Speaker 16 (25:09):
Yeah, what Colton's done this year, I don't know if
people understand it in the tennis role will be understanding.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Yeah, but the kids currently ranked.

Speaker 11 (25:17):
One hundred and fifty eight in the world.

Speaker 16 (25:20):
The day after our season, he's going to go play
the French Open in Paris. A few weeks later, he's
gonna play Wimbledon. A few weeks after that, he's going
to play US Open. The kid is already I mean
by the betting markets is they have him as the
forty eighth best player in the world.

Speaker 11 (25:35):
And I'm not.

Speaker 16 (25:35):
Talking juniors, I'm not talking college. I'm talking about the
professional ranks. They have him as the forty eighth best
player in the world. And it's because of what he's
done in these pro events and the fact that he
still wants to finish his time here and his life
toy at the University of Arizona with his brothers on
the team. I mean, we are so lucky to have
this guy. And you know, it was so fun for me.
I was at Indian Wells, Indian wells. Basically for the

(25:57):
people who don't know tennis, it's the fifth grade and slam, right,
and Colton was playing on the court and I remember
his playing his first match.

Speaker 11 (26:06):
It was a packed house.

Speaker 16 (26:07):
You couldn't no one could get into the stadium, and
so fans started climbing the five other stadiums around his
court to get a glimpse of what was happening out there.
There were u of a chants going on, and I
think that was the beauty of it all. It was
Colton wasn't just like this journeyman pro. He was the
college kid who was beating up on the pro guys.
And everybody loved that story. And you know, I definitely
know we gained a few fans for Arizona.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
So we were having this debate because we don't know,
so how does that work pro and being here?

Speaker 16 (26:36):
Yeah, So, I mean, anyone can play a pro event.
It's basically on you know, every tournament you play, you
get a certain amount of points and you kind of
move up. So like Red Fu, the singer, if anyone knows,
he played a professional event in Africa like a month ago,
and the guys, you know, a recreational player. So anybody
can play professional tennis. Now the level of professional tennis

(26:57):
is based on your ranking, and so it's really you know,
a lot like I don't know, want to say golf,
but you can go out and play individual tournaments while
you're playing in the collegiate season. And you know, I
think for us, Colton probably missed ten matches this year.
And the fact that our team is still ranked in
the top ten in the country without our best player

(27:18):
one sixth of our roster, who's the best player in
the country, and we were still able to do what
we did was it was incredible.

Speaker 11 (27:24):
But I think you know, last night, we gave out.

Speaker 16 (27:26):
Our team awards for our banquet, and you know, the
guys voted for Colton to be our most inspirational player.
And I think everything that he did this year away
from the U of A inspired our team to be
great and and we all just kind of knew that, hey,
we better get our act together because when this kid
comes back, we better be awesome. We don't want to
we don't want to be wasting this time that he's

(27:48):
bringing to come back and play for us.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
So does he turn pro, then as soon as your
season's over and begins these.

Speaker 16 (27:55):
Yeah, the day after the NCAA tournaments over, he's turning
pro and he's going to cut off and and go
play all the professionals out in Europe.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
So you had him every year, you had him every year.

Speaker 11 (28:08):
This is his fourth season, which yep, from start to finish.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
So did you see this kid four years ago?

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Sing?

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Or did you see this in him four years ago?

Speaker 11 (28:17):
I think I'll be remembered.

Speaker 16 (28:19):
I would be lying if I said to be doing
this at this moment in his career, I would say
a little bit yes.

Speaker 11 (28:26):
But then when I went.

Speaker 16 (28:27):
Out and I traveled with him and I saw him
in the environment, I'm not surprised at all. And I
think it's one of the true things I got to
learn about this kid is he adapts to his environment
better than anyone I've ever been around. And he just
kind of took some mental notes. Okay, at this level,
you have to do this, and so he changed made
those changes in his game. And the college level is

(28:47):
a lot different too. You know, when you come back
to the college game, you have to readjust your game
to win in the college ranks. I think it's the
same thing when players, you know, see the NBA guys
like there's a pro style NBA player and then there's
a you know call style game, and you know, you
see that in March Madness. You see these guys from
you know what was it like Oakland, you know, university

(29:07):
last year and the guys who are great college players
but might not make it at the pro level. And
I think it's the same thing in tennis. You have
to adjust your game to win at both levels.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
How do you think he'll do? I mean, do you
think he'll be able to get through a round or
two in some of these majors.

Speaker 16 (29:24):
I think he's gonna be top ten in the world.
I think he's gonna be a household name. I think
I think we're all gonna be watching him on TV.
I Coul's always take the first year is a little transition,
but I think you know, he played the number ten
player in the world a couple of weeks ago in
Houston on Clay and Tommy Palm, and I'm watching the match.

Speaker 11 (29:44):
I was there.

Speaker 16 (29:45):
I flew out. He lost the first set. He was
a little nervous, and then he started figuring the guy out,
and I just felt, if he can get this second
set I think he can beat the guy in the
third and that guy's ten in the world, and so
far I was able to kind of see it firsthand,
and I just think this guy's the limit for this kid,
and it's something that.

Speaker 11 (30:01):
All of us are going to be really proud of.
And I can say this one hundred percent for a fact.

Speaker 16 (30:06):
There's nobody that loves the University of Arizona more than
this kid, and he's going to be a tremendous ambassador
for our program moving forward.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
You talk about the competitiveness of this team. You have
a number of international players. Does that kind of help
fuel this competitiveness?

Speaker 16 (30:21):
Oh, no way, they're the most uncompetitive because it's not
college tenants. It's loud, it's in your face. It's not
like Wimbledon where it's these golf collaps. You know, you
get here and there's noise and there's there's just so
much commotion.

Speaker 11 (30:35):
And what we talk about is thriving in the chaos.

Speaker 16 (30:38):
And so when our practices, we're yelling, we're screaming, we're
making noise, we're doing chance And it's the ability to
kind of lock in and thrive when so much is
going on, and the ability to stay in that moment
and perform. And I think that's one of the beauties
of this and it's one of the reasons why some
of these freshmen who come in here struggles because the
game is it's like playing Davis Cup.

Speaker 11 (30:58):
It's like playing the labor Cup up.

Speaker 16 (31:00):
It's you know, you've got fans are chanting, you've got
your teammates chanting. Everybody is making noise on six different courts,
and it's really kind of distracting, to be honest. I mean,
I would love to go take this to golf where
we go out with and we just fans are yelling
and screaming, almost like Happy Gilmour right where everyone's yelling
and screaming, and then you have to perform under it.

Speaker 11 (31:19):
That's kind of college us.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Was that the sixteenth hole in Phoenix or was it
who told is that Phoenix sixteen sixteen?

Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (31:26):
Right, it doesn't live try to do that a little
bit that they got the music playing, I think, but yeah,
it doesn't.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
It's hard to watch that.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Do you like your chances? Tell me about your chances
this year. Given the fact that you've you've made a
couple of runs over the last couple of years.

Speaker 16 (31:41):
Yeah, Well, you know, we've been there the Sweet sixteen
three times, and I just think this team's hungry for more,
and we've been we've we've fallen short a few times
last year four to three to Columbia on the road,
and I think the team has learned a lot from that,
and it's like, how are we going to take this
one step further?

Speaker 11 (31:58):
Now? The problem if.

Speaker 16 (32:00):
That is, you know, seniors graduate and then you bring
these young kids and they don't really know what it's like.
And so we're hoping that our leaders on the team,
our coaching staff can really get these kids ready to go.
But you know, I'll never make a promise about anything.
I think our team's dangerous enough to be anybody in
the country, and I know if we don't show.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
Up, we also can lose anybody.

Speaker 11 (32:20):
And that's sports for you.

Speaker 16 (32:21):
But I will tell you what our coaching staff, our
captains on the team, I think we all have the
most clear vision that we've ever had since I've been
here about trying to make a deep run. And everybody's
focused on, you know, taking it one round at a time.
But if you told me, hey, put your team up
against the number one team in the country. Can you win,
I would say yes, absolutely. We have the best player
in college tennis, our number two players rank five in

(32:43):
the country. I mean up and down our roster. We
have a lot of really good spots and that makes
our team really dangerous.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
So you talked about this, and I say this all
the time about just competing against each other. I think
one of the things that you get better at is
when you play against better competition. And you said you
have that in your on your team. So each play
each other and they get better by getting beat up
by the better player.

Speaker 7 (33:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (33:07):
Well, look, I was the youngest of five kids, and
you just when you're on this you have this big family,
you get beat up all the time.

Speaker 11 (33:13):
And I think it's that.

Speaker 16 (33:15):
It's what I learned as a kid is you know,
my siblings are beat up on me, and it just
made me want to be better. And then I just
come on, one more, Let's play one more. You know,
you're playing a game of basketball. Come on, let's play
one more. Let's play one more. And I think that's
what I started to see in this rosters. Guys will
beat up, beat on each other, and the person who
losts that, come on, let's play another one, you know,
And I think that's what I've tried to create here

(33:36):
a little bit with these guys, is that, hey, if
you lose that you want to play another one because
you want to be winning.

Speaker 11 (33:42):
And I think, you know, as a coach, you.

Speaker 16 (33:44):
Kind of let a few things slide in your practices
to allow the guys, not to necessarily make it personal,
but to make it personal enough that the guys are
going to find a way to level up and bring
their you know, bring their best game each and every day.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (33:59):
Are you going to continue with the international look of
this program going forward? You got so many good so
many good players from all over the world here.

Speaker 16 (34:06):
Yeah, we're just trying to find the best players we can.
You know, everyone, you know our number one players is
from Tanaino, Washington, a little dot in the middle of Washington.
We've got the number one player from up in Phoenix
who's just coming back from a knee injury.

Speaker 11 (34:21):
That that kid's tremendous.

Speaker 16 (34:22):
And the reality is is I tell this to a
lot of people. If you if I took you to Europe,
you go on these little villages and you see a
big you see a big, beautiful tennis facility, because tennis
is woven into that community of it's not just about
playing tennis, it's the social outlet. It is where people
come together, and it's just so much more. I think
tennis is the second or biggest sport in many of

(34:44):
these countries, and tennis is like the eighth or ninth
biggest sport in the in the US. And so there's
just a lot of talent away from the States. And also,
you know, hey, we're going to be in every recruiting
battle we can with some Americans, but certainly, you know,
the the top twenty Americans, fifteen of those kids go
to IVY League caliber programs, and so that just kind

(35:05):
of takes away a lot of.

Speaker 11 (35:06):
The good players.

Speaker 16 (35:07):
And we just have to get creative and find the
kids that can come in here and make a difference.
And you know, Tommy and I have a lot of
conversations about how many different countries is it, And you know,
we talked quite a bit about different countries, and certainly
seeing what they've done over there and weaving those international
guys in the team is really cool.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
I'm sure when you first got here or when you
took the job here, a number of years ago, did
you see the potential in this place being a tennis
a big time tennis And I'll say that because you've
established that, but the answer public easy, yes, But did
you see the potential?

Speaker 11 (35:45):
I saw the potential.

Speaker 16 (35:49):
To be doing what we're doing, though, if I'm being candid,
I didn't think we'd be doing what we'd be doing.
I thought we'd be a top twenty five team and
dip in and out of there. I mean, there's some
challenges that we have to go through. But now that
I see the culture that we have and our motto
in our program, culture wins, And I think every person
who comes in we wear wristbands. It's written in our

(36:09):
locker rooms, and everybody starts to buy into the thing
that's gonna win us matches, that's gonna make our team
a perennial powerhouse is not one individual. It's not one person.
It's going to be the culture that we create each
and every day. And if you get a pretty good
team who has a great culture, you can do exactly
what we're doing here. And it's something that you know,

(36:29):
I hope the other teams on campus can kind of
look over and say, Hey, what's men's tennis doing and
I promise you it's not having the most talented kids
on our roster. It's just having a really great culture
that each and every day that we you know, we
take care of and that we don't have any slippage
in and you know it starting from the top. I
mean having Colton to be a part of our program
and seeing what a pro looks like each and every day.

(36:51):
I mean practice starts at two o'clock. At one o'clock,
he's in there getting his body ready. You know, the
guys out hitting extra serves and then you you know,
doing work on his own. And when you have guys
that just go above and beyond and that's a part
of your culture, then everybody, the new guys don't know
any better. They're like, oh, this is what we do here.
We practice four hours a day. You know, we go

(37:11):
out and hit on our own extra you know, any
opportunity that we can go play tournaments on our own,
we're doing it. And I think that's one of the
if there's one thing I'm most proud of in my
time here is building that and I want to keep
it going as long as we can.

Speaker 11 (37:24):
And you know, it's gonna. It's a it's a daily effort.

Speaker 5 (37:27):
So this this weekend, you learn where you're going for
the first round. Tell me about the tournament itself, is
it how many teams are even in it? And where
are the sites where you could be playing?

Speaker 16 (37:39):
So that the tournament has sixty four teams, the first
two rounds are hosted by the top sixteen teams in
the country. So we'll host the first two rounds possibly
the super Regional. If we're able to get through, we
would have to be in the top eight. So we're
kind of close to that. We're going to be maybe
nine next week.

Speaker 11 (37:57):
And so yeah, and.

Speaker 16 (37:59):
Then and then if you get by the super Regional,
you go to the final site a lot like Omaha
for baseball or you know, Oklahoma City for softball, and
then it's the final eight teams and it's anyone's ballgame.
And I we found this a couple of years ago
when we made the final site. It was they had
sixteen teams at that time. Anybody can be anybody on
a neutral site. And I just love our team and

(38:20):
our culture up against anybody when it's when it's.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
Just us versus them.

Speaker 16 (38:24):
Neutral site, no one's home court. No one's advantage, and
I think our team really thrives in that. Well, coach
you Yeah, that week Friday Saturday, we'll be at home
hosting the first two rounds. On Monday selection show, we'll
find out who's coming to Tucson, and then we'll just
kind of put our heads down and go to work.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Nice grinds it out.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Okay, coach, thanks so much for joining us on. Congrats
and continued success as we move forward.

Speaker 11 (38:49):
Thank you appreciate you having me on BARDA.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Tiny shields up what a I think it is a
fantastic This doesn't happen by accident.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
No, no, you know, and it's funny. You know, we
kind of didn't even get into it. Went about going
international with Tommy the same kind of success. I mean,
he's really built this team with a bunch of international
players and his best players.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
From the state of Washington. I was surprised when he said, no,
they're not competitive, they're not. Oh they're not, but that
makes sense, I guess. I mean they a cool what's up? Yeah,
tennis players. Yeah, the tennis players. That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (39:17):
I mean really, they're like there were a handful of
players over my years that we would cover and go
do a feature story on But we didn't have teams
that had successful.

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Speaker 2 (44:13):
Yeah, I think that's what he had said too, that
he was going to be back in Dallas and be
prepared tomorrow.

Speaker 11 (44:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (44:21):
I mean Janah really was prolific at the U of A.
I mean he barely missed a game or anything. He
played three different positions, so that's good. He's pretty versatile.
But he's so big. I mean he's like six three,
three thirty five something like that, so I would expect
him to be probably a tackle for yeah, for Tua
whoever's playing quarterback down there.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
Yeah, big guy. Yeah, Yeah, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
I'll just keep your eye on the phone, Henry, just
in case we get a call or two this weekend.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
Some games. What else?

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Is there a game? A couple of games tonight, right?
Baseball softball?

Speaker 3 (44:54):
You said, uh yeah, the baseball plays Texas Tech Softball
plays ss.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
So there's that. As we wind out, you have two
more weeks of school, yep, and then your history and
then me just kind of recommending people. YouTube people who says,
but Henry, what Henry doing there?

Speaker 4 (45:14):
Exactly?

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Yeah? Yeah, then the real world, Henry good like this
shark from Jaws, It's coming.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
It's good, right right? Okay? Cool?

Speaker 2 (45:29):
So anybody want to call five to two O four
one six. I'm sorry, five to four one six, seventy
four forty. I saw that the Tommy Lloyd's been all
over the place this week going to a concert tonight,
Midland traveling the Traveling show promoting this Midland concert tonight.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
He might get it. I heard.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
He might get on the stage sing a lullaby or two.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
You know that? Okay, I think I'm right with this.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
Yes, wis track Michael is it Michael Weisstrack from Midland
The two songs some one is the brother event ye
Alex Flanagan.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Right, yeah, yeah, because he talked about some oil a lot,
you know, having grown up there. She's no longer in TV.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
You know that.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
You knew that, right. She's an agent, she's with she
really yeah, huh. She helps with the agencies in California.
I haven't seen Kevin in forever. I try to get
him a time or two. Uh, he's hard to reach,
Kevin Flanagan. She came to town.

Speaker 5 (46:25):
Just as Arizona was about to get in trouble. They
did a big to do with a big fundraising event.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
I guess whatever.

Speaker 5 (46:32):
It was November or October of that year, twenty seventeen. No,
just a couple of years ago. When the Financial News
Focus came out. She came out and she was like
the MC or did some interviews on stage. I might
have interviewed Gronkowski who was also there. But anyway, she
came to town for that and she was kind of
talking about how great the u of A was.

Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Yeah, There's been some pretty good alums from this area,
especially in the media. Now she's one of them. Now
Richard's gonna making this move. Richard's making his move.

Speaker 5 (46:59):
Richard's to be on the main broadcast right for the finals,
the NBA Finals.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Okay, we got a call. Cool, hell, you're on the
air nine on the ball.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
Who's this?

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Yeah, Nicole, I've been wondering about you, man, I've been
wondering about you in a good way.

Speaker 20 (47:13):
Hey, Man, I got work, man, I gotta girl for
it do double whamby.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
But in a good way. That's okay. What's up? What
are you doing work wise?

Speaker 20 (47:23):
If you can say, Man, let's just say I work
at Amazon.

Speaker 4 (47:27):
Okay, No, cool, cool, Okay.

Speaker 20 (47:29):
But I was man, I want to congratulate all the
Cats that got picked.

Speaker 11 (47:33):
Man.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 20 (47:35):
Think t Mac his career might die in Carolina.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
But that's all right, that's true.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Money could Yeah, no, but he I think he'll be
fine and he'll he'll what hold is he twenty twenty one?

Speaker 4 (47:44):
Something like that.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
No, he'll be fantastic. No, no him?

Speaker 4 (47:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
We'll see what happens, man, right, right, So what do
you think about the basketball program?

Speaker 4 (47:55):
What's happening there Arizona basketball?

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Yeah, with all the guys, was a couple of I
was leaving. Now the guy guy's coming in.

Speaker 20 (48:03):
I don't know. They'll be all right. They got co Pete,
they got that other five star. I'm sure, tell me
it'll figure it out.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (48:10):
I wish they would have still had Vesa.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
But yeah, no, me too.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
He would have been a huge puzzle to keep a
piece of the puzzle to keep for sure, because I
don't know how Crevis is going to do.

Speaker 20 (48:19):
I don't know. I don't know if Crevis has the
speed that Henry Head to be honest.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
No, no, that he does not. He's just a big
body near the basket. He's gonna have to improve all
that stuff.

Speaker 20 (48:30):
Man, you think Bolo gets drafted.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
To No, no, no, he'll play, he'll play overseas, he'll
get he'll play in a summer league team in Vegas,
and then he'll have to play somewhere that's not NBA.

Speaker 20 (48:43):
All right on, man, Well, good talk. I gotta go
watch the draft. They get scattered.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
Yeah that's right.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, let us know. Thank you man, Thank you, Nico.
Good to hear from you. Yeah, Nico, Nico and Gabe.
I miss those guys, Fat mic Is your regulars. These
are bar castic characters.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
Had to have those guys who were paying attention, like
to call Rick calls all the time.

Speaker 5 (49:03):
I was never a richer caller of a sports talk show.
I don't know ever did me either, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
I never did like Jay Stiller for a long time.
Isn't it first time? Collar?

Speaker 11 (49:13):
Who?

Speaker 4 (49:13):
Damn collar? I've never been to an indoor game, that's
true that I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
You'll go to your girlfriend, your wife or whatever you have? Now, gofriend,
what do you you go?

Speaker 4 (49:24):
Friend? Can I get tickets? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (49:26):
I just could get We'll get on the call, trow, Yeah,
call true. Right, he'll be you'll be already giving away seven.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
You'll be that's right though, you'll be eight and nine. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
Drew Dixon, Yeah that's cool. Yeah, Okay, that's next week,
not this week in San Diego.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
He's not gonna be playing this week. That's too bad.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
It was good to talk to him. I'd never really
talked to to Drew Dixon.

Speaker 5 (49:49):
Hey, some guy named Sanders just got that's not the
same family. Oh just got drafted t J. Sanders number.
We're going into number forty two.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Oh so they passed who got forty? Because there was
a thirty three and forty were the two things. So
he might continue to fall No, maybe maybe Henry was
he any good?

Speaker 4 (50:12):
I'd like to think so, but maybe did you see
him a time or two? Yeah, I'd watch a decent
amount of his games. I thought was he good?

Speaker 9 (50:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (50:19):
I thought he was pretty good?

Speaker 2 (50:21):
So maybe, well, it's time and circumstances. Like you guys said,
you know, I don't think it's so. It was an
overall week quarterback class, so I definitely thought he was
a top three prospect.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
Pittsburgh didn't take a meantime, they're drafting who's isn't the
guy from Louisville?

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Yeah, the Louisville quarterback got draft? Oh really? But just now? Yeah,
pick forty okay.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Oh that's the next quarterback to whom New Orleans Okay.

Speaker 5 (50:47):
And that was one of the places they were talking
about him going. But forty nine ers are coming up.
All the Jets are coming up now, so that's next
and then the forty nine ers.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
I think all the factors that you guys talked about,
just maybe attitude, talent, uh, the Dion factor all played
a part.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Do you really want to be part of that mess?

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Now?

Speaker 5 (51:06):
But quarterbacks are funny too, because I mean, look at
Tom Brady got draft in the sixth round and Brock
Purdy was the last pick in the draft, and these
guys all made it. So I think a lot of
it's just like I said, circumstance and coaches and who
somebody gets injured ahead of you, you might have opportunities
opportunity to you. Just gotta get get on a team
and get going.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Yeah, we'll probably talk more about this on Monday, obviously
to wrap it up because today they have the thing,
and then Saturday all day because they go through like
five more seven I think seven rounds.

Speaker 5 (51:35):
Right, seven and something like that. It goes quickly on
on the weekends. There's like one minute between picks. Right,
it was pretty fast.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Right, this is your Well, I'm not gonna you know,
I'm not gonna be Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I'm not gonna
be in so I won't see you Friday, and then
I might be gone two weeks later too, So it's
gonna be slim pickings.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
I'm gonna be me too. History.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Oh you're gonna be gone to Okay, I might not
see you next week because you're usually might be Tuesday. Yeah, okay,
because one day I got to somebody in Tuesday, you'll
be in Tuesday, and then Wednesday, I'm out Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
and then the same for the week after as we
move forward, and we're good to go. Yep, but about
a minute, we're good at okay, No, okay, good, thank

(52:16):
you Henry for coming on in. Uh, this maybe the
last time I see you.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
Henry. I'll let you know, maybe come in before I'll
try to come in. Yeah, okay, you and your guys,
yeah exactly.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
Okay, graduating, which is when May May sixteenth, So I'm okay, yeah,
yeah after that, okay, okay, you're going to be in
the big ceremony at the stadium.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
Yeah, okay, you already take those pictures. Everybody's taking those pictures.

Speaker 11 (52:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
I didn't do those. I had.

Speaker 5 (52:43):
I told you that I had a couple of years
of experience of announcing names really, which was really good.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
Yeah, it really fun get those names.

Speaker 5 (52:51):
They'd literally hand you the name like and have like
one second to look at the name and try to
read it out.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
And you can imagine there was some time it was
kind of like the WBC. It was I was prepared.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
It was easier to do the WBC than it was
to do some Arizona names, but it was It was
really fun. I did the stadium and I did Centennial
Hall a couple of times, so it was a real blast.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
Cool. I'd butcher those names and everyone knows that. Let's go.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Thanks to Dave for coming in, thank your heading for
coming in, and thanks for the callers.