Friday, June 20 Hour 1

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with
me today is by Friday Guy, Chicken Sauce. I'm here,
Chicken sauce. Nice haircut, thank you.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
I get whenevery five weeks. Oh really? Oh that's right,
because you get a bullet and then you get it. Yeah,
and it grows fast. Yeah, not a bullet.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
If they didn't, if they didn't cost so much, I'd
do it even shorter, short than four weeks. But it
used to be six. But it's I don't know what
it is. Maybe as I'm getting older, it's growing faster.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
And my boy, Ray, you call me Ray, just don't
call me late for dinner. Yeah, what's up? Ray? That's up?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Ject I do good Friday Friday take it is a
quick week, I thought, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Maybe Well I told you, man, I forgot I was
supposed to be here. I'll found out because I saw
it on Twitter.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Your your hair isn't growing fast because you're older. You're
just older and forgetting crap.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
I'm sitting on my desk and I said, I'm going
through Twitter and I'm like, there's the there's the show graphic.
I'm like, holy crap, I'm supposed to be at the
show in half an hour.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
You're like yourself, I need to be somewhere.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
I need to be Yeah, the car. But I will
say sometimes you asked me to help with guests on Friday,
and you didn't decay. You went and got some guests,
and I had no idea what the hell was going on?
And then I sudden I realized I had to get
get ready to get over here.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, so we're here, you're here, we're here, We're here.
A different show today, kind of a sports show. Obviously,
did you watch baseball? Did you watch baseball?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
The other night we talked about Discovery Baseball College World Series. Yes,
what a crazy Bunker's college Baseball is great.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
That's what makes it was fair and he's gotten so
much better because they've also brought on the the the
time limit rules, you know, the pictures time limit rules,
so those games aren't four hours anymore and stuff like that,
unless they're you know, long you know, like an extrating
game or whatever. But college baseball is crazy great and
and it's fun to watch, you know. I like the
pace of it. Now you don't feel like you've got

(02:13):
to commit a whole day to a game. And then
these games in the College Woral Series has been incredible, Yeah,
all of them.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
We had RAG on yesterday and with Dave Silver and
he talked about teams aren't actually winning games, that they're losing.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
They're losing games, and then it happened it that's what. Yeah,
we talked about that, Arizona did that. A few of them.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
They have three errors in the in that eighth inning
or something like that, at least two, yeah, two or three,
but or maybe two, a couple of airs and then
a bonehead play or something, and.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Just how they got there in the first place.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Right, same thing, same thing, you know, and again, you know,
just the littlest things, you know, the bad breaks, the
little loopy bass hits and those kinds of things, and
you know, it's but it's it's it's I I still
like the college baseball game. I mean, I'm a bigger
fan obviously of because I'm a big fan of the Dodgers,
but I've always loved College base.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
So I think Michael, did you tell me yesterday he
hit a poll? Yeah, maybe go back to the poll.
So the poll was, did you know this, who are
you pulling for? Tucson Coastal Carolina or j I know?
You know, so who you pulling for? You're bitter, but
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm not. Here's it and here's the deal.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
I I okay, do I am. I still kind of
unhappy with how Ja Johnson left because I know he
was interviewing for this job during the course. Yes, one
of the things, and again goes it goes to when
you think you know but you don't know. One of
the things is I always thought that he didn't even
come home with the team. Okay, okay, he did. He did,
he did. And you know this. I know this because

(03:37):
my son was on the plane and he's and and
and he went, you know, he was part of the
staff that went on the trip.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
He said, they came home.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Jay got off the plane first, and he shook the
hand of everybody who got off the plane and said
thank you.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
All right, but then he left. So, yeah, it was right, It.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Wasn't as it wasn't as gross as it has been
made out to be. And and you know, and I
don't blame him for going to l C any more
than I blame Jedfish for going to for going to
to Washington, you know, but it's still a little distasteful
knowing that while he was trying to get his team
to focus on the World Series, he was out.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Of interviewing for the job.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
That part of it, you know, if you Jay Johnson,
you got to say, guys, let let me finish. And
if they say, well, we're gonna go get somebody else,
and you say, well.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Then go get somebody. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
But you know, because if that's the kind of program
you are, that's going to make me take my full
attention away from the college war say.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
I don't want to work for it.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
You know what, And I bet you, I'll bet you
my windowar two year five that they wanted him and
they would wait.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
And they would wait. That's it. And that's the point.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
But the other stuff that we made assumptions about, you know,
he cared about the program. He came home and but
and then but then he meets It's kind of like.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
It's like the borderline story, right, Yeah, everybody was pissed
until they until they realized the real story, Yeah, the
real story behind it.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
So I'm I think it's an incredible storyline that he's
playing the team that beat him in the College World series,
you know, back when he was it air.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
I think it's an unbelievable storyline.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
If he wins it, great, I'll kind of root against
him just because they're LSU, not because of Jay Johnson.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
I never root for LSU for anything. All Right, What's
what's the story there?

Speaker 6 (05:21):
If they play Alabama?

Speaker 4 (05:24):
When that happens, I just kind of wish the field
would just suck itself into the ground and take everybody
with them. That part of the have you ever seen
have you ever seen the end of Poultergeist? The original
poultry Guys, when the house gets sucked into the ground.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Tell what the choices? What are the choices?

Speaker 7 (05:38):
So the choices for that poll that Michael lev had
put up a couple days ago was Coastal Carolina and
that one's I guess a lot of people are rooting
for him sixty two percent, and then LSU was eight percent,
and then an asteroid hitting was twenty nine.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
That's me.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
I'm just I'm just not you know, I just don't
like anything that else.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
You just stand. I'll watch it. I'll watch it.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
I'll watch the game because it's it's fascinating stuff. But
I you know, whoever wins is fine with me. I
don't have a problem with either one.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, okay, but you know what, we'll Closer Carolina is
really good. Yeah they are. I mean who would have
thought that when Arizona played them.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
I mean people are making the assumption that because they're
not a power for power five school, that they're really good.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think baseball is one of those equalizers. Yeah, you know,
you can say who what? And they turned out to
be just good baseball.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
I think what we'll find out, what we'll know at
the end is that because it's best two out of three,
the better team is going to win, sure, right. And
you can't even even if Closer Carolina beats them two
out of three, you can't say, well, LSU was better.
You can't. Whoever wins this game, whoever wins this series
is the better team and deserves to be the national champion.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
I think the same could be said for softball. We
thought we had Ryan Rodkey on yesterday and he's he
does this right, all right? Game, and I told him,
I said, I thought Texas Tech was one pitch away
from winning the whole thing. And it was the it
was the pitch outside that they didn't pitch outside, and
they hit the ball and they won the game and
they couldn't sustained blah blah blah. But you know, sometimes
the better team, at least in your eyes, doesn't win.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
In one game. Yeah, right, but that's why you play
a series.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
And I've always liked this this format two you know,
the best two out at the end, get get through
your bracket, and then go in the best two out
of three.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, okay, So that's this weekend. There was one that's
pretty much done with right everything. Everything's done academically and athletically.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Everything's done.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
Signings and recruits right now what I can see.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
And uh and your guy is off to Switzerland here
pretty soon, Tommy Lloyd.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, to see what he does up there. Recrreans do. Okay.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Uh, So this today, we're gonna have the first hour,
We're gonna have a sugar, but we're gonna.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Have two San Suarrow guy. Uh, you pushed the name,
Tell me real.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Quick, Mike, Mike whaling and he's now filled the first
basement with the team.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
There are three time champs.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, we had him, we had him on a couple
of couple weeks.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
I don't know we had Mike on, but we've had Mike,
We've had somebody from I think we had the manager
of the team on.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
We want to have him on next week. So yeah,
they're pretty good. I have a chance to play at
one hundred and five.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Degree with Steve, even even though I'm not going golfing
this weekend. Would you go?

Speaker 4 (08:08):
You didn't last weekend? It wasn't bad. You know that
it was one it was one o five, but it
didn't seem.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
But I'll tell you what. It was a three of
the morning.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
No, No, we played it. We played at ten o'clock
and and it was a tuc Sound country club, so
there was nice chests of water every other hole. We
got to the end. We looked at the back of
our golf cart. There must have been twenty five water
bogging empty water bottles between my son and I but
not But you know, it was fine. But I went

(08:40):
and played nine holes, just walk nine holes at El
Dorado on Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
I think on Tuesday, I nearly died.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
I got home and I had the shakes, and it
was nine holes at five o'clock in the afternoon.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
But you know, there was.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
More shade and stuff like that, and I got home
and I had the shakes.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah, that's like the ending of the hot time. Yeah,
but then it starts to Yeah, so but we're not
we're not. We're not playing this week.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
So we're gonna have Mike Whaling here did about ten
five minutes whatever it is, and then we're gonna have
Q Baker yep at four seventeen. He's the offensive linemen
for an offensive linemen for the Sugar Skulls.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, they're doing pretty well.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
How about the Sugar Skulls. Two of their four wins
are against the Rattlers. Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
I'm surprised they haven't disbanded from them.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
They or that Kevin hasn't taken their best players and
said you come over.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Here and play for me in season trade. We'll joke
about that.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, that's fine, big but yeah, but you know, whether
they're four and six, I think they're still in the playoff.
They got a bunch of games laught, but you know,
they got to turn it on a little bit.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, okay, uh should be should be good, just you know,
off the off the radar type of show today with
you here.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, first of all, you're wearing Giants colors, so that's
great colors.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
I'm upset. What is the orange orange?

Speaker 8 (09:58):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Secondly to out of three Dodgers beating two out of three,
you thought you guys were all that when you won
the first one in the couldn't do it again?

Speaker 6 (10:06):
You know, we got raffe Now how that goes later?

Speaker 5 (10:09):
Later?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, what's that?

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Well that was last night. That was I loved it.
You know, there's always video and stuff like that. So
somebody posted a video and because this was between the managers,
it started between the managers. There were a bunch of
guys got hit and so uh, Bernando Tatis got hit.
I get it. It's like they've played the Dodgers seven

(10:35):
times and they've hit him five times. Okay, I can
understand why they feel like, yeah, now, this particular one
wasn't on purpose. The picture the Dodgers pitcher was a
guy who just came up from the miners. His first
game in the majors. He was wild the whole time
he was in there. Okay, he's he's a minor leader.
They're not going to have him throw it. Fernando Tatis.

(10:56):
He just threw an inside pitch and got Tatis in
the hand. But the powders were pissed because he's been
hit a bunch I think he got They played four games,
he got hit in three of them this week, so
they got pissed. So the manager comes out and he's yelling,
and he's yelling at Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts comes out
and pushes him, and it's on.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
You know, it's on.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
But in in in all the heat of it, somebody's
got there there. I guess maybe their phone on Dave
Roberts and he's saying, I'll kick your ass.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
I'll kick your ass. Who's the manager?

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Uh, still some old guy who even before I saw
any that I'm texting with my son. I'm saying, Dave
Roberts will kill this guy. If they fight, Dave Roberts
is gonna kill him.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
It was kind of like the Zimmer thing with yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
But but but they mix it up last and then
so then after that, Now on this one, they didn't
throw the pitcher.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Out or anything like that.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
The umpire made a judgment that it was you know,
he's a young guy out there, and he threw an
inside pitch and he him on the hand. Well, Otani
gets hit and it was like right at him, right,
So they threw that picture out. So then the man well,
both managers have gotten kicked out right after the fight,
so now the uh, you know, a new manager is appointed.

(12:16):
So then they issued a warning to both teams. So
then they hit Otani in the back. So then the
new manager got kicked out as well as the picture
and it was on again and they were all it
was crazy. I love it, you know. I let's tell
him my son. The padres are like that that annoying. Well,

(12:36):
they're stupid, they're not any good. They're idiots, and you
just want to beat the crap.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Up that's coming from a dog. Am I right, right,
come on, Uh you're a giants.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Wait till he wait till you leave Monday. Those giants.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Tell me I'm lying. That's what they're like. They think
they're good and they're not.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
They they got some good players, they can't.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Beat the Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
They're just kind of yipping around and you just want
to smash the Giants. The Giants are just Giants are
a legitimate rival of the Dodgers.

Speaker 9 (13:12):
I think that because I remember they did the rivalry
weekend or whatever, and I didn't really like that because
it didn't I don't think it was a good representation
of the actual rivalry and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Who do they play?

Speaker 7 (13:24):
The Giants played the A's, But I remember like even
the Yankees and the Dodgers played, the Dodgers played the Angels.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
Those aren't rivals opposite exactly, the rival the Dodgers rivalry
with the Giants. And and then if you want to
say doing American League rivalry, its obviously the Yankees, Yankees
and the Red Sox man so so not even the
Red Sox so much with the Dodgers, but yeah, the
Red Sox. But if you if you're going to pick
an American League team that the Dodgers rivals with it,

(13:49):
it's the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
The Angels. You're saying, the Yankees and the Boston.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah Yankees, but you know the Dodger and and even now,
uh ray, the Dodgers Giants rival isn't as big as
you When I was a kid man, you just it
was blood.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
Yeah, well, I mean I think what really like makes
it stand out is like they they moved together. Yeah,
they were both in New York and they moved together.
It's like that's that's I mean deep seated, right, And
they both came out and put their flags out here. Yeah,
and then they wouldn't add it from then on.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Yeah. There's a lot of moments in time, you know,
in that rivalry that make it a rivalry.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
The Dodgers and the Padres are not rivals.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
The Padre again, the Padres are that little kid that
you just want to kick in the ass and tell
me that they get the hell away from you.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
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Speaker 2 (19:43):
Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in with
you today's Jaginsauce got ready behind the scene. Here now
on the phone, we have Mike Willing from the Tucson Souorrows.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Mike, how are you.

Speaker 16 (19:54):
I'm doing great, Thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Guys, Josh, of course you're doing great, and so is
the team team and four what the heck's going on
with you guys.

Speaker 16 (20:03):
Yeah, we're off to a great start this year. It's
really exciting stuff. Right out of spring training. Came out
of the gates really hot, and you could tell right
away that this was going to be a great group
we had. We had a really talented group show up
and a collective group of guys show up in Pecos,
Texas for our spring training and we've just we've just
hit the ground run and we're playing great ball right

(20:24):
now and excited for uh, keep keep keep going forward
with it.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Let me ask you, because I know kind of the
Santa Fe League I throw in front from, but does
the team Tucson team go to Pecos?

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Does everybody go to Pecos?

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Uh?

Speaker 16 (20:39):
Yeah, we were out there to start the season in
Santa Fe and then we made our way to Pekos eventually,
so the whole team was out there and that was
our way series and then we we made our way
back to back to Tucson for our.

Speaker 5 (20:55):
For our home series.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Oh so, so what I meant though, was because you
said at the beginning, I was thinking that, like everybody
went to peck Us for training and then but you
already had your team, You started your team.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
More or less.

Speaker 16 (21:07):
Yeah, we we had a spring training right before the
season started. And the way that works is that our manager, Sean,
he recruits guys from all over the country, guys from
all different backgrounds to show up and kind of showcase
themselves over the course of about a week, give or take.
And then from there we're able to, yeah, to break

(21:28):
that roster down and get ourselves a team and then
start our season up right away. And yet, like I said,
our first our opening series was out in Santa Fe
and we did a bit of traveling before making our
way back to Tucson. And now we're a good like
three weeks into the season. I think you said like
fourteen or fifteen and maybe.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Sixteen four oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so we're it goes.

Speaker 16 (21:48):
By quickly, and yeah, we're about three weeks in now
and playing some great balls. So it's been exciting.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Mike.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Who are the guys that are on the team? You know,
you know, where are they coming from? You know what
kind of you guys are all in it for the
same thing. So how does that, you know, help build
a team?

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Right?

Speaker 4 (22:04):
What's that like? And what's what's the approach? I guess
is what I would ask.

Speaker 16 (22:09):
Yeah, it's it's a makeup of guys of all different backgrounds,
which is really cool. Like you said, generally the common
denominators that we all have that common goal of wanting
to continue our careers in some capacity of professional baseball
and getting a chance to play out here is a
lot of fun. But amongst us, there's there's guys that
have been playing for for a few years now in

(22:31):
the professional scene, and then there's guys that are fresh
out of college, you know, like Like I said, our
manager Sean McNeil, he recruits guys from all different types
of backgrounds. We have a good dose of returning guys
too that were on the club last year or even
have been here for a few years. And just a
lot of talent. Yeah, a lot of guys that come
in fresh out of it, fresh out of college, so

(22:52):
this is their intro to Pro Bowl and they had,
you know, coming off great, great careers at all different levels,
so Division one, two, Division III level and then the
NAI level as well. So it's it's a really cool
makeup when you get them in a clubhouse with the
guys that are from tons of different backgrounds. Everybody has
their own unique stories, and then when you bring them
all under you know, one one team and we all

(23:15):
have sort of one common goal. It's it's cool because
you get a really different and like diverse blend of
baseball players.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
So what's your what's your background? Is this your first
year or second year? And how has it been tusuns
only one hundred and twenty degrees.

Speaker 16 (23:30):
Yeah, yeah, which is actually it's that's pretty Uh, that's
kind of a shock to me because I'm a Northeast
guy originally, so being down here in the Southwest, I
definitely have to get acclimated to the weather.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
But no, this is my this is my second year here.

Speaker 16 (23:44):
Last year twenty twenty four was my first full season
as a two Sons Suguara and it was my first
year in Independent Pro Bowl. So I was excited to
come back out here and play again. But yeah, like
I said, initially, I'm.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
From upstate New York, so a few hours north of.

Speaker 16 (23:59):
The of the city where I went to, Sunny Albany.
Sunie is the state University of New York Albany, and
I played played my college ball out there. Then after
after playing college, I just kind of wanted to sort
of immerse myself in the, uh like the professional scene
and see see if I could push my career a

(24:19):
bit further. And I was fortunate enough to come across
with with Sean McNeil, and yeah, here we are.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
You know, we uh we've got to to son Shires
calls here And it's sort of a similar thing, right,
Guys trying to you know, continue their careers, get an opportunity, uh,
those kinds of things. How much do you think about
that in terms of things that you've got to do
to get, you know, to get that opportunity to get
somebody to see you, get somebody to look at you,

(24:46):
or is it are you able to just go out
and play and kind of hope for the best.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
How do you approach that?

Speaker 16 (24:53):
Yeah, I would say it's kind of a combination of both.
When you want to play, when you're you know, maybe
you played in college and things of that nature, and
when you want to continue your career beyond that, you
definitely have to do some digging on your own and
and get yourself in front of the right eyes, you know,
whether that's going to whether that's going to workouts and

(25:15):
tryouts and things like that, or just getting in touch with,
you know, coaches and and trying to reach out maybe
through all different types of networking that you can do
and things like that, or you just have coaches reach
out to you. There's a lot of different ways that
can work. I guess the right answer is that there
is no singular path. There's like I said earlier, there's
tons of there's tons of guys that come from all

(25:36):
different sorts of backgrounds. But yeah, you definitely have to
you definitely have to do a lot of work on
your own on your own part where you're reaching out
to people and you're trying to really immersify yourself in
the whole process because it's so competitive nowadays in the
professional scene, even at like the independent level and like

(25:57):
the lower independent level where we're we're not affiliated with
Major League baseball.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
Of course we're not like minor league players, right, but
it's still.

Speaker 16 (26:05):
Such competitive baseball because there's so many guys out there
that are looking to continue their careers, right and you know,
really want to keep playing baseball and see how much
they can get out of their careers. So you got
to you got to really work hard to make sure
that you can get in front of the right eyes.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
And then hopefully make that happen.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
You know, Steve and I both covered minor league baseball
here in Tucson, and they were Triple A guys, so
you know, guys who are on the cusp of are
on the way up or on the way down from
the major leagues. But I know about ust, but you know,
I'm not going to lie that there there were a
lot of guys that you know, we talked to and
we met or winning and losing didn't really matter to
them all. They wanted to do was to play well

(26:43):
and get somebody's attention. But it seems like, you know,
you guys as a team. It just sounded what you
sound like that it does matter to you guys, even
though guys are trying to get the opportunity.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
But you still want to win.

Speaker 16 (26:55):
Games, right of course, Yeah, I mean inherently as a
competitor and anything you want to win, you know, that's
part of your your foundation, or at least it should
be in my opinion, you should always want to win,
no matter where.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
You are, no matter what.

Speaker 16 (27:07):
Level you're at, and like, of course, like yeah, there's
there's like the underlying sense of I want to keep
playing and maybe if I'm lucky enough, I could get
promoted to uh, you know, a higher league and somebody
can get because there's always there's always that next level.

Speaker 15 (27:21):
Right.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
But at the end of the day, no matter.

Speaker 16 (27:23):
Where you are, that's if you're in high school, college, professional,
even all the way up to the very top, you
should want to you should want to win baseball games.
And and I think that that'll there's there's no reason
that the two can't be correlated.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
Right where you care about.

Speaker 16 (27:38):
Your your how well you play individually and also how
well your team does. Those two things should there should
be a lot of parallels there because if you if
you do want to do well, the best way you
can do well is think of, you know, how how
can I help this team win? Because if you're going
to perform well, that's look, that's all the more likely
that that's going to help the outcome and and of

(28:01):
the of the game.

Speaker 5 (28:01):
So, yeah, we all want to win.

Speaker 16 (28:04):
It's it's also helps that we've we've melded really well
early on this year and and we have a great
group of competitors that all are sort of on the
same page in that sense where we're playing good ball
and we want to we want to stick to that
going forward.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
So so, Mike, I mean, you've you've been talking about
you guys kind of all having like this really good
connection and like, uh gelling together very well. What are
you guys doing like just off the field, like in
the locker room, when you're hanging out like on days off.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Well, even even tell them your situation. That's a great
question because it's more about because I think three dudes,
three dudes lived together with my friend. That's kind of
how it got connected to me. Yeah, you're I mean,
there's more than just baseball here, right right, Mike.

Speaker 16 (28:46):
Yeah, absolutely, it's the playing in this league in and
of itself is a great experience for all those reasons.
And part of what's so cool is we get to
see parts of the country that you wouldn't otherwise really see.
I guess at least in my experience. I said, I'm
from New York originally, so I can't really imagine myself
out in certain parts of you know, New Mexico or

(29:06):
West Texas. So we we get to go to all
sorts of cool places places like that. We spend a
lot of time together on the road and in road trips,
so by nature, yeah, you're gonna you're gonna find guys
that you get along with. And we all get along
together so well with throughout we're just seeing each other
so much because it's a you know, it's a two
two and a half month season depending on how far

(29:28):
are you going to the playoffs, so it's a lot
of games and.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
A short amount of time.

Speaker 16 (29:32):
So we're around each other every single day, a lot.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
Of turnaround with some of the travel, and so we
we all.

Speaker 16 (29:38):
We all get along so well. And you know, whether
it's just after the games and we go grab a
bite to eat, sit down or before games. You know,
we we have time where we can you know, kind
of do some recreational stuff. Obviously, like you guys said too,
it's it's super hot out so there's not a there's
not a whole lot you're doing as far.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
As going out, going out during the.

Speaker 16 (29:59):
Yeah, exactly, hanging out by of the pool. Yeah, no,
do things like, well, we work out together, try to
try to you know, push one another in that regard.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
But yeah, it's just all the all the.

Speaker 16 (30:10):
Good camaraderie definitely showcases itself just in the because of
how much we're spending time with one another. So yeah,
it's it's been great.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
I'm curious what you studied in New York. You sound
like a very bright guy. I say this because you
use words like correlated in parallel and I'm googling that.
I'm googling those words, so what the hell?

Speaker 16 (30:31):
Yeah, yeah, no, I don't I don't mean to, I
don't mean whatever.

Speaker 12 (30:35):
But you.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
We're just sports dudes.

Speaker 16 (30:40):
That's probably just because I was one of the I
was one of those those college student athletes that I
ended up having.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
Like a six year college career.

Speaker 16 (30:48):
So I was in college forever just because I played
through the COVID years and everything like that. And I
had a red shirt ear on top of that. So
I was in college for a long time. And yeah,
I got my degree in communication and then I got
a UH. I did like a graduate program in UH
in communications as well for my last year of college eligibility.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
So cool. You might have to have you as a
co host one of these days when you're not doing it.

Speaker 16 (31:13):
Maybe yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
So let me ask you.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
I know you played the outfield, I know you played
first base. Does that that must help you in terms
of being noticed because you can play a couple of positions.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
Yeah, having the versatility is great.

Speaker 16 (31:26):
Being able to do that, And I think a lot
of guys try to do that thing. Whatever your your
tool is, you want to showcase it. Whether it's if
you're a really good base runner or your good power,
if you're on the mound and you got you can
throw a good velocity, or you got really good stuff,
really good pitch, like a mix of pitches. You want
to showcase whatever that is. So and and part of
that is just adding things to your.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
Your tool set.

Speaker 16 (31:47):
Right, like you want to if it means trying to
pick up a new position, just doing anything to sort
of showcase that you're trying to really indulge yourself as
a baseball player and continuously grow, continuously get better. I
think that that's a big part of of maybe earning
an opportunity at.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
The higher level eventually, is.

Speaker 16 (32:06):
That you showcase the fact that you can still improve
and as opposed to just sort of plateauing and remain
remaining stagnant as a player. So anytime you're able to
do things like that, I think, I think it's helpful.
So I just want to be well rounded, want to contribute,
like I said, to winning the best best.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
Way you can. So yeah, it's it's good. It's good.

Speaker 16 (32:28):
I played college or in college, I played primarily just
the outfield, and then when I got back out when
I got out here, we had last year, and then
this year too, we have there's we've come across, especially
at the professional level, some some really really really good athletes,
uh in in the outfield. So I not not to
say that I'm not a good athlete myself, but I
whenever it's like, you know, if you can find ways

(32:50):
to stay out on the field and maybe pick up
a corner infield spot where you don't have to run,
you know, all over the field, and just make sure
you can stay in the lineup.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
You know.

Speaker 16 (32:58):
That's that's a good way to.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Do if you're reading a dictionary in the dugout. So sir,
go ahead, go.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
Ahead, Okay, So tell us a little bit bit about
your upcoming schedule. If people on a common and see
you play, uh, how you know how when?

Speaker 5 (33:13):
Where?

Speaker 16 (33:15):
Yeah, we played. We play at Keno Veteran Memorials Stadium,
which is a great venue. Like I can't say enough
good things about it. It's such a it's such a
fortunate opportunity to be able to play there. In my
you know, probably slightly biased opinion, it's the best place
to play in this league by far. It's it's a
great venue. Our are the staff there does a great job.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
So we we play there.

Speaker 16 (33:41):
Our schedule is pretty consistent and so usually it's Thursday
through Sunday or any mixture of those three days will
have three game series at home. So usually Thursday, Friday,
Saturday or Sunday, any combination of like those three days.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
Will be will be at home and then we hit
the road for some.

Speaker 16 (33:58):
Series uh in places like like Roswell Roswell, New Mexico,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Pecos, Texas, Alpine, Texas. But yeah,
when we're home, we play over at Keno Veterans Morales
Stadium seven pm. We've actually had some really good turnouts
so far. It's been a lot of fun we do.
You can follow us on all our social media, which

(34:19):
is like two San Saguaro's handles, and the social media
team is doing a great job this year of putting
out a lot of our promotions. Will each each night,
each game night has like themes to it, so we'll
do like an eighties night or like you know, things
like things of that nature. Stuff like promotion for like
some of the kids and that they can come out
and have fun, they get to they get to run

(34:40):
the bases. We'll do we'll do fun seventh inning stretch activities.
So we we like to keep it, keep it lively,
keep the games interesting. We've had some great crowds this year,
so yeah, you can follow along with that on all
of our social medias.

Speaker 5 (34:54):
We have.

Speaker 16 (34:54):
Facebook, Instagram are the two main places where.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
We're actual Tickets are all general admission tickets are ten bucks,
right cool, you.

Speaker 16 (35:02):
Know, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got concessions, we got some,
we got some. We got a team store there, I believe,
with some some good apparel, and so yeah, it's.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
A lot of fun. Great. We've been pretty pretty good
at home.

Speaker 16 (35:16):
So far this year too.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
I think only one.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Loss at home if I'm not nice.

Speaker 16 (35:20):
And so yeah, we had an awesome walk off win
last night in a really exciting game. Shout out to
Marquise Woods had a big, big rb I too rb.

Speaker 5 (35:31):
I double to win it for us in the bottom
of the ninth.

Speaker 16 (35:33):
Which was our first walk off this year. Offense has
been swinging, swinging.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
A great this year.

Speaker 16 (35:38):
Got a ton of talent out of the out of
the bullpen, and all of our starters are off to
great starts too, so it's well, we're firing on all cylinders.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Well, Mike, we appreciate your time. Tell Quinn to get
you some nice fish when he comes back, and we
likes likes to grill.

Speaker 5 (35:53):
He cooked me up a.

Speaker 16 (35:54):
Delicious steak the other night. It was on Father's Day.
It was it might have been that thirty two ounce steak.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
And it was.

Speaker 16 (36:02):
It was delicious. It is the best best meal I've
had since coming since coming back out to Tucsons. So
they really fortunate to be.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Out here with these guys, right right, Well, we'll see
you soon. Appreciate your time. Thanks, sounds good, Thanks so much.

Speaker 16 (36:14):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Those tags, yeah, Mike, Mike whaling from the Sorrows. It's
very cool. Yeah, yeah, well spoken obviously.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
Yeah, and you know, I mean those guys they love
the game, right yeah. Yeah, it's like like again like
the Sugars, cause the guys who love the game still
looking for an opportunity. I feel like they've got a
little something that that can attract some attention.

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Yeah. I'd love to have been maybe the Savage. I
guarantee you if you would have given the opportunity, yeah,
I would have. Yeah, I would have to. Yeah. Okay,
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Speaker 3 (40:33):
That was a lot of fun. That was fun. He
was fun. Smart guy. Smart guy, yeah, way smarter than
either one of us. Yes, yes, So what do you
get rewarded for hitting a guy hitting hitting? He gets
sent to the miners.

Speaker 15 (40:45):
Man.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
He started a big huha last night. And again, like
I said, not because he was trying to hit for
Nando Tattios. He was all over the places. As a joke,
if you had been trying to hit for Nando Tatis,
he never would to hit him because he wasn't throwing
it anywhere he wanted to. Last night, Uh, he was wild,
and he looked he looked spooped, right wide eyed.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
It was his first time in the majors. He looked.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
Intimidated by the by the whole deal. And then he
didn't pitch well and so they his name is something little. Uh,
but they already sent him to the miners today, so
that's what he calls man. You know, hey, look he's
got his cup of coffee. He was, you know, he
was what's his name, Uh, the bull Durham guy, Crash Davis.

(41:30):
He had his moment up in the majors. If look,
if he's good enough, he'll be back, be back. Jack
Little is the guy's name. He'll even They brought up
a guy named Will Klein. So Dodger's pitching. Man, it's
just a mess, but they're still the best they've had.
They've used the most different starting pitchers of anybody in
the league.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
And I want still the first place. How many games over?

Speaker 4 (41:52):
Uh not a ton not as much as you would expect,
but you know, but they're still a first place the division.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
He pitched later tomorrow. Who Tony for?

Speaker 4 (42:02):
He threw on Tuesday?

Speaker 6 (42:04):
I think they said Sunday.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
Yeah, and he only threw an inning, So you know,
they could bring him back. You know, they're obviously going
to be very careful with them. I'm not sure when
he'll when he'll throw again. Let me see, Well he's
not throwing today, and he's not throwing Saturday, so maybe
they'll use him on somebody.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
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news for the Last Nights game and Sunday's game.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
I'll leave it atone, Okay, anything else, Jane, No, you know,
I mean that's that's the way it goes.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
You probably know how many weeks before football starts.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
It's under seventy five days, because I know somebody posted
seventy five days to football just a few days ago.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
Okay, we're getting close to seventy days, so that's quick.
That's what ten weeks? Yeah, that's ten ten weeks.

Speaker 6 (42:47):
Yeah, it was like thirty until they play Hawaii or
not thirty. I mean they play on the thirtieth.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
Yeah, I think it's probably ten weeks until there.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
In the first game, I was kind of starting to
gear up for our pool, Steve, you know, starting to
get things, you know, get things put together, checking out
the schedule, you know what games look like. Because the
first weekend of college football actually starts the second to
the last weekend of August. There's like four games on
like the twenty fourth, and then the full first week

(43:15):
of games. I think that's Saturday is August thirtieth. Yeah,
Labor Day weekend late August thirtieth, is that Saturday. But
there's some games on the twenty eighth and the twenty ninth.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Yeah, and so is there was on a Friday or Saturday. Saturday.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
Their can't their game with Kansas State here the third
week of the season is a Friday night game, which
makes me very unhappy because you lose the tailgate day.
You know, you don't really tailgate on Friday. I mean
some people will, the super super diehards will. We're kind
of semi diehards anymore.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Yeah, but we won't. I'm sure we won't tailgate on
that Friday. We'll just kind of show up at the
game and do whatever we do. What are you hoping
you know, we haven't talked it three in a while
to see because you go, you go and you sit
in the stands, and what are you hoping to see?
For improvements? Well? One, I obviously hope the team is better, right.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
Okay, Yeah, but the fan experience, they've got to do
something first of all.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
First, and I don't know when they'll ever have the
money to do, they got to fix that sound system,
without question, without question.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
That really takes away from the experience of the game,
I would have sound system.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
I would have never known that had I not gone
with our guy Bill. You invited me and I went,
I'm thinking, God, that's muffled. You can't hear it.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
And and you know when we've experienced it on both
endscause when when when they put up that sound system,
we were on the south end of the stadium and
it was blaring.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
Isn't that what it's from? From the south end?

Speaker 4 (44:47):
The speaker system is attached to the scoreboard right on
the south end. So we're there and we couldn't hear
because we could make it because it was too loud, right,
And then we also didn't feel like we had a
good view of the big, new, big giant, you know, scoreboards.
So we moved to the north end. We are now
the third section in from the north end from on

(45:10):
the on the west side. Okay, we still can't make
out what they're what they're saying. I was with him
and I just want you can't it's it's terrible. And
I'm told that when that sound system got designed, it
wasn't designed by somebody who knows how to design that.
There's just somebody who said I know how to do this,

(45:32):
and they said, go do it and it was terrible
and it's still.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
Yeah. You know, well Greg Byrne was still here when
they put up.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
That scoreboard ten years so, so that's the first thing,
because it takes it takes away from the experience if
you can't I mean, you can make out the play
by play guy, you know, Jeff Deane, you can hear
what he says, but anything else like the videos and
the the the on field.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
Promo, you cannot make out total. So that's that's the thing.
Number one. I never would have known that had an
okay number two. Number two is food. Although they made
some improvement.

Speaker 4 (46:13):
I'm okay with the food, partly because I don't eat
a lot there now. I mean I do wish i'd
go back to the old nachos where you get nachos
in a bowl, and but I don't like the little
cup that you get on the side.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
But that it's not enough for me.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
The food is not enough for me to complain about
because we stuff our faces at our tailgate and by
the time we get to to the game. You know,
if I get a hot dog, it's a surprise. I
might get some nachos. But that's it. So I'm not
and you know it's expensive, but I don't spend a
lot of money on it. Okay, to me, A lot

(46:46):
of it is we need something something more clever with
the with the promo and the games and stuff like that.
They're annoying. A lot of them are annoying.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Are you saying that because you're older or because they're
just annoying?

Speaker 3 (46:58):
You're just dumb? Do you go to football games?

Speaker 6 (47:00):
Yeah, I'm usually the box with Brian though.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Oh that's right, I am just dumb. Yeah, there need
to be more clever. They need to be a little
more clever or you know, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
I mean, my brother hates the fact that the band
doesn't get to play enough, and I'm like, I don't
of mind with that too because I don't like the band.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
Right.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Well, we had the band director, right, and you weren't
here that day, but you asked me the questions and
I did one of them, and you said he.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Didn't answer the question. He didn't he didn't aswer the question. Well,
what he said was you know that that they can't
do an entrance because the tunnel is too small. Well,
that's a bunch of crap. And I'll stand by that
because if you watch, if you watch the tunnel that
the Ohouse State Band comes out of, it's two people wide,
and they have a great entrance.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
They have the best entrance in all of college football.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
And they've got a tunnel that you and I could
barely walk by it, walk through it side by side.
It's your pregame food that so, so don't tell me
that you can't generate some sort of a great band entrance.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
That that would be a up in my up in
my uh things that they need.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
And you've been you've been to a number and we
covered the you know, we covered the team many many
years ago, but you've been to other places where.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
You say, God, that's pretty good. Can't we do that?
Can't we do that? Right? Right? Give me a give
me a place, Well, well, I state you were a state. No,
I've never been know how to Wisconsin?

Speaker 5 (48:20):
All right?

Speaker 4 (48:20):
That jump around that they think things they do between
the third and fourth quarter, all right, And now to
know that's something that has to organically happen. You can't say,
you know, Jed Fish tried to force some stuff and
it just did not just his music, Yeah, it just didn't.
Somebody's got to come up with something, right, and I
don't know what. It's not the wave or the rock
whatever they do, you know, it's it's something.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
And I don't know what it is. And they've tried
a bunch of things.

Speaker 4 (48:45):
And I give him a lot of credit for you know,
the guy who does the drum at the beginning of
the game and from where we said, he's in the
far corner of the stadium, so we can't hear that,
you know, we don't hear it.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
So I don't know what you do. You wish.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
Arizona had something like that, but those things have to happen.
As I said, you can't create those things.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
Right.

Speaker 5 (49:06):
Something.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
You wish Arizona had something like that and not not
a lot of schools have that.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
You know.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
You you see the you see the.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Entrance that Virginia Tech does, you know with enter Sandman.
I watched it on video and I get tingles.

Speaker 7 (49:21):
Yeah, dude, right, yeah, I mean I remember there was
a video probably a couple like a couple a couple
of months ago.

Speaker 6 (49:27):
It was Metallica playing in that stadium.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
It was rocky.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
I'm surprised to still because they went you know, they
went crazy because Metallica came in and played their entrance
in a concert in the stadium, you know, and it
would be like if you sent different end it's coming
played airs on the stadium.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
You know.

Speaker 4 (49:51):
There's things like that, Stephen, and it's it's hard for
me as a fan. It's one of those things where
I'll know it if I see it, right, I can't
think of it if I but I'll know it if
I see it.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
And I'm gonna throw this at you.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
The fact that Arizona's not a football school and it's
not known for being I think that has something to do.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
Sure, you know, but I like the DJ. I don't
like the DJ. Yeah, I don't like any yelled at
by a DJ at a football game.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
Is it because of your age?

Speaker 15 (50:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Probably yea.

Speaker 21 (50:19):
And that's why I asked you. But you're there kind
of different capacity. Well he's not, yeah, And he's not
there to entertain us. He's and he's there to entertain you,
right you, and and and and and then and people
in the you know, in the zone of zoans.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
That's how I get the U A basketball because it's
the same type of thing. It's the music's not for
the people that intended.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
We're not the we're not the demographic. It's the people
that are playing it.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
So I don't know what it is, but but I
will say, start with that damn sound sah with I'll
fix the sound system and it'll fix a lot of things.
It'll make you won't be cringing when somebody starts yelling
into the into the microphone.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Well here's the thing, because because Desiri has these uh questionnaires,
right or whatever.

Speaker 20 (50:58):
Yeah, we'll see, yeah, we'll I respond to those all
the time. And this is what you putt Yeah, you know,
it would be sweet. They put in misters, like like
how they have that like shopping malls and stuff. They
just like put in misters. That would be That would
be awesome.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Like like those lines that they have the camera on
maybe one of those that kind of revolves and goes back.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
I'm in the shade. I don't care you guys, that's
too bad for you.

Speaker 7 (51:21):
And the sun hit oh yeah, like I see it
from the box and the sun on zone and like, man,
they are cooking right now.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
You know, hey, look, we all we all did our
time there. Okay, we all did our time.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
We sit where we sit because of like in the
day in the day game, we're the first ones in
the shade because the press box shadow comes over us.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
That makes sense. Yeah, like you said, you've paid your dues,
so I don't care about anybody else.

Speaker 5 (51:50):
You gotta go.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
We Gotta go was a quick segment. We'll come back
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