Friday, June 20, Hour 2

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Streaming live on the Ihearts Radio Wive. This is I
on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen
fifty eight.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera, your Jenagansaus. Now
we have Ray with breaking news.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
This is Eye on the Ball, Breaking news on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty eighth.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Right, great Friday, Great Friday. It feels good. End of
the week, does feel good?

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Man, starting off with some track in field news right now.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
This is a tough name.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Jathaiah Mohammad finished second in the women's pull vault at
the Under twenty Championship with a height of four zero
point thirty meters.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
From a ran. Yes. Yeah, we had Fred Harvey on yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
He tweeted that I think yesterday, yeah, saying congratulations. She
may be under him in terms of you know, summer
programs or whatever she coming back to UA. Do we
know she says softball right or what? What did you say?

Speaker 4 (01:04):
She's nineteen, so yeah, she's yeah, she's under twenty. It
doesn't say if she's coming back, but the the social
media it's got.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
Going into the draft, well, yeah, who knows.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Anymore, right, Yeah, another kind of housekeeping stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
A former Arizona outfielder Kaya Altemeyer is transferring to Texas,
had a great year softball. Yes, there's a long list
of them. Yeah, there's a few. There's also a few
signings as well. I don't know, I don't know if
you guys have talked about it before already, but Janee Barry,
Serenity Trice, Addison Duke and tell Tela Jennings.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
The I guess we're posting on the roster this week.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
There was also a bunch of kind of signings from
people that had already committed, but just like formerly, like
to to come to a yes, to.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
Come to a there's a lot of comings and goings
over there.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
Yeah, it's crazy, isn't I think about to hear about
signings for college, college and sports?

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Right? No, And it was interesting too. I was watching.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
The Pat McFee show had the interview with Calipari yesterday
and he he got asked with like what he thinks
worse is n I l or or the transferportal? He
says the transferportal. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like
that's true too, because it's like, I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well, Jay, You've been a long time fan, and I
talked to you about this long time. You go because
you cheer for the school, right, not so much the player,
although the players involved.

Speaker 6 (02:38):
Yeah, but you you even though you were cheering for
the school, you still wanted you cheered for the players
because you got to know them well.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
And you don't see him long enough anymore.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Right right, right back in the day, right right, you
know they're.

Speaker 6 (02:51):
Not here long enough, you know, I mean for a
long time, you know, with the with the basketball team
in particular, you know all the one and Doune, you
don't even feel like like, you know, DeAndre and Josh Green.
You know, all those guys that came through during that
period of time with Sean Miller, Who the hell are they?

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, you wouldn't acquish you on them, wouldn't.

Speaker 6 (03:07):
And there wasn't a single one of those guys that
you thought was in it for Arizona, right, Yeah. They
were here to get theirs and and and and you know,
get themselves into the draft and get the hell out,
you know, all the way back to guys like Jared
Bayless and you know all those.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Kinds of guys and.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
Uh, you know, and and so that that part of
it sucks, but it is what it is now, and
so you have to That's why I feel like, you know,
since we don't have a pro team, you know, in
tisson To to cheer for, I'll just cheer for Arizona
and I want Arizona to win. And whoever the guys
are this particular year, then that's great. And then the
guys who do stick around, you kind of get a

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little more of a you know, you like them more.
You know, the no Fafida who was stuck around and
other guys who stay you gay, Okay, now that guy
got kind of a special place you know for that guy.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, you look at even with Seawn's guys. Not to
hit hit on this, but how many come back? How
many do we know come back?

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah? Yeah, because you know exactly.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
So Ray here TJ may be the most endearing guy
of all of them under Sean right, and he was here,
he comes around and anybody else, I.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Don't know, you know, all the other guys that come
back are all guys from the loot year.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
Yeah right, I mean, you know, we don't see Nick Johnson,
we don't see DeAndre, and we don't see you know,
and Josh Green's and those guys, you know, they they
don't come back here.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Uh you know the guy.

Speaker 6 (04:32):
Now understand that the guys who are coming back more
often are guys who are out of basketball now. The
Richard Jefferson Channing Fry, you know, those guys who they're
not busy with basketball anymore.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
But there aren't too many and Shawn's guys that are
yeah really or not.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
So it's you know, it's it's everybody just has to
adjust how they take in their sports, right I did
did did you wonder how to call me today about this?
That he said that the most interesting rivalry that's going
to really tell how nil and revenue sharing and all

(05:09):
that stuff is the impacting things will be the Arizona
Asu rivalry because of how they're made up. Because you
need to read the story and it's hard for me
to explain in a short period of time, but it's basically,
how you got a su sitting in a metropolitan, big
metropolitan area, got all these pro teams around it, and
how things are going to go for them, Where are

(05:29):
the money, where money is going to get spent on them?
Then you got Arizona who doesn't have any of that,
but yet they're not in a big giant you know,
where there's a bunch of corporate headquarters and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Where is the money going to come for them?

Speaker 6 (05:40):
And to watch how these two teams evolve, or these
two programs evolve in this era of revenue sharing, nil
transfer portal and all the other you know, all the
the relocate realignment and stuff. Watching how those two programs
survive and come out of this and the contrast between

(06:00):
the two, it's gonna be real agree. I totally agree,
because he said, like USC and u c l A,
they're kind of the same thing, right you know, uh so,
just yeah, Oregon or Oregon and Oregon State aren't in
the same conference anymore, neither of Washington Washington State, and
and then you know they talk about a lot of
these things. But Arizona and a s U they're in
the same conference, kind of playing for the same things,

(06:22):
but they have very different makeups of their program.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, we talked about this when this first came out, Jay,
if you remember, would you have rather? Would you rather
be a student athlete at a college town where people
love you and jury or go to a big city
where probably no one even cares, but it's a bigger
city with more, more.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
With more.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
So there's a you know that's that's ultimately you know
things because you know he's talking about how what players
are going to go play at a s U and
players can go play at Arizona.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
You know, it's very a really interesting article. You need
to go look at it. Well, that sounds like an
interesting one. It is, it is, it was.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
It was in the Star, you know, because his Willner's
columns in the Star. I think I saw yesterday. Okay,
big story of last night. Obviously, the Pacers tied up
the series against the Thunder three to three.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Game seven on Sunday. It's gonna be a good one.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
I was an ass kicking last night. Yeah yeah, I
don't think. Okay, she carried to be there. It's tough
to win on the road. We'll see what happens.

Speaker 6 (07:20):
Man, you can't you can't take a chance though that.
You know, you got to show up. Man, you can't
take a chance that. Well, we'll get him at home.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
I didn't watch the game, you like, never know, you go,
why so how did Halliburton play Halliburton?

Speaker 3 (07:31):
He did? I did pretty good. I saw pieces or
he seemed like he was playing pretty well.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, I mean he I think they were trying to
take care of him a little bit. TJ actually played
a minute more than him, So I think.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Well, if there's a dude who's made a lot of
he's already signed the contract, but notoriety is TJ.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
He said some sort of record. Did you see that?

Speaker 6 (07:51):
All time all time combined points, assists and off the bench.
I think off the bench rebounds, off the bench in
a final series.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Little old TJ sean, do you think he'll play in
the pros? Yeah, I think he's got to get in
the world thinking, what the hell are you thinking? He's
been ten years?

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, ye, no, And it's yeah, I mean, it was
a good game.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
And I think one of the biggest things that go ahead, no, please,
one of the biggest.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Things that really just like sticks out. That stuck out
to me.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
It was like the bench whenever whenever the Pacers win,
it's usually the bench has a.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
Ya and he's in Mathrine and and somebody.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
So I'm gonna ask you, I'm gonna put you on
the spots and all because last year we were talking
about Caleb right and and and Mathine Mathrine, and you
went with Caleb and if you remember this, and I
was saying, what the hell you're gonna pick Caleb Love
over over Mathern better?

Speaker 5 (08:43):
So do you think what do you think his situation is? Now?
No one has him on the list?

Speaker 2 (08:48):
I asked him, but Sewan and Sean got Tommy and
he got on me for asking the question.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Whatever, I don't see anybody. I don't see it.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
He'll be He'll be playing professionally somewhere. I just don't
see him.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
Problem with with Caleb is that there's a lot of
guys like him right, size wise, uh, consistent, more consistent,
why you know, shooting wise, there's a lot, there's a
lot of Caleb loves Ben. Ben Mathern's got something different, right,
He's you know, there's something different about him, and I
don't know what it is.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
And you know, if you ask me.

Speaker 6 (09:18):
Who's no doubt Ben Matherings better?

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Better, better? Prouh.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
Well, I was trying to show Caleb some love, man,
but you know, I hate you said, and I hope
he's not listening.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Caleb loves are a diamond dozen yeah, right? And he
was your domina, he wasn't.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
He for Caleb Love to really have appeal in the NBA.
He's got to be an extraordinary shooter. And he's not
an extraordinary shooter. He extraordinarily shoots a lot, but he's
not a he's not an extraordinary shooter. He's not a
forty five to fifty you know, long range shooter. And and uh,

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that's what he for, for who he is and what
he the other things that he brings to the table.
He needs to be an extraordinary shooter and he, unfortunately
is not. He can make he can make a living
at pro basketball.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
But it's unlikely that he'll make that living in the NBA.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
Unfortunate, and who knows, maybe he'll surprise.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
And well again you know who was thought that, TJ McConnell.
But what what TJ McConnell had. And then you know,
Caleb had a good work ethic, it seemed like. But
but TJ. McConnell was a bulldog, all right. He wasn't
going to let anybody tell him he wasn't good.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
He was the driving force of those tests. All those
teams have got the lea he was.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
He was.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
I still remember him wanting to beat the hell out
of Stanley Johnson on the court at the Maui Classic.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
Right.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I don't know if it was, but his turn.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
Wasn't haw wife, And then he's yelling at Stanley Johnson
because he's being a turn.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well, you saw the story that Doug Heller wrote, you know,
it was a fantastic story about when when t J
came into the ring of butter and he and this
is the type of leader he was. Stanley was the
freshman blah blah blahah and he saw him flor.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
You can't do this. You're not going to do this
to this team.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
You're not going to be a jerk and become whatever
we know with your future.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
But don't you It's not.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Going to do it here. And that's what I'm talking about.
The dude you need.

Speaker 6 (11:25):
It's an intangible that that TJ has that comes out
every time he steps on the court, right right, he's
out there and even though he's like he's the shortest,
he's the whitest, he can't jump, he can't he is
in charge. But they respect that when he's out there,

(11:46):
and the guys respect that.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
And that's where they play hard for he's in charge.
Steve Kerr, come on there, you go okay, yeah, keeping
it moving. Uh, Diamondbacks are starting a series against the Rockies.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Diamondbacks in Colorado. Yes, uh, back at five hundred. Zach
Gallon's pitching the night. That's that's promising. Rocky's been looking
good though.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
What's up mean?

Speaker 4 (12:10):
It means that they won the almost the twenty.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Wins Man.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Days when I take a shower and I look, okay,
that's right, and that's just for your comparatively.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
Yeah, you look what you dressed up today? Shower?

Speaker 4 (12:26):
He well that you know, their manager said, don't let
him get hot, so watch out.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah, okay, keeping it going.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Baseball College World Series Finals tomorrow starts tomorrow for should
be four Mountain time or local time. Obviously Coastal Carolina
l is here. It's gonna be Uh, it's gonna be good.
And I'm excited. That's gonna be a good game or series.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
Yeah, it should be.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
Suspensions also came out for the kind of scuff up
between the Padres and the Dodgers. On the Padres pitcher
who Drilledo Tawny, Robert Suarez received a three game suspension.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
He's trying to appeal.

Speaker 6 (13:07):
That, and I'll tell you what at least they didn't
send him to the minors, so he should be happy
that the three game suspension.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
Right, right, And then both both managers, Mike Schildt and
Dave Roberts have received a one game suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Speaker 6 (13:22):
I'd love to see him throw And that just would
have been so much fun. Too old guys out there
just just going at it. That would have been so
much fun. We would have talked about that for Yeah.
You know, my wife got home last night, so we're
watching the game and she goes, what's he doing.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Dave Roberts. I'm like, he's he's fighting. He's too old.
Come on, yeah, I said, come on, she's good. Come on,
I go back here. I'm like, yeah, this is great,
this is good stuff.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Wrapping it up for today, Wisconsin sues a sman Miami
for tampering with a football transfer.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
A lawsuit.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yes, and they think that's going to continue to happen.
I mean last week softball they were talking about just
how they can deal with the money stop, but they
can't deal with just don't tamper. And it's wink wink,
you know, because everyone's.

Speaker 6 (14:13):
Everyone doesn't apparently, I mean, you're gonna tell me Wisconsin
doesn't ever tamper with anybody, so it.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Just affected them because they didn't. But they didn't allow
him to get into the portal. They said, no, you can't.
So he just quit school and decided to get transferred.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Wow. Yeah, interesting stuff.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Yeah, I guess if we want to talk about this
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They're like me, that was good. That was a good series.

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Speaker 1 (19:25):
Breaking down all they says it, ohs, this is I
on the ball with Steve Rivera on Box sportsporteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Hey, welcome back to Why in the Ball General Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in today Jay Gonzalez
and I've got ready behind the scene here now on
the phone, we have Q Baker from the Sugar Skulls. Q.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
How you doing?

Speaker 14 (19:47):
I'm good man.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
How are you? We're doing fine. That's a cool first name.
Thank you, by the way, Hey, and welcome back, welcome
home kind of right. You're from Mesa? I am yeah,
how's it?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
And Tucson.

Speaker 15 (20:02):
It's it's different. It's a little ways from home, but
I'm glad. I'm enjoying my time out here.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
So cute.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
Tell us a little bit about what for tellus about
yourself and how you how you you know, kind of
your path to the Sugar Skulls, What do you know?

Speaker 3 (20:15):
What have you been doing?

Speaker 6 (20:15):
Where'd you play? All those kinds of things. Would love
to hear a little bit about your background.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
Thank you.

Speaker 14 (20:21):
So this is uh, this is actually my first year
with the Sugar Souls.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
This year.

Speaker 15 (20:26):
I've been actually been out of football for a little bit.
I graduated almost two years ago now at this point,
sitting in psychology up and an Au I was able
to find uh someone to get picked up for the Rallers,
and I started with the Rattlers for a bit at
the beginning of the season, and I believe after like
three or four games, I was sent to Tucson the

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week that we played.

Speaker 14 (20:51):
Them play out of seven and uh that was my
first week, first week in Tucson.

Speaker 15 (20:58):
It's definitely been a little bit of a journey since then.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Well, you must have been fantastically related when you guys
beat them.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
You guys have beat them twice.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Now, right, absolutely.

Speaker 15 (21:09):
I got some pictures from some of our great photographers
and you.

Speaker 14 (21:12):
Could definitely see the motion of my face.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
Well, tell me, so, you said you want your ode
of football for a while. What made you get back in.

Speaker 15 (21:22):
I just felt that I wasn't done with what I
could do on the field. I played a Division III
football for the first four years.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Of my life.

Speaker 15 (21:30):
I transferred up to SCS my last and I personally
just felt like I could have I could have did
better for my time in college. But it's granted. Seeing
how one of the things laid out, I just wanted
to give myself the opportunity to prove that I could
play at a higher level of football.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Where did you go with D three?

Speaker 14 (21:50):
My first school at Central College and Iowa.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Okay, so those four years and then and you how'd
that go? Because they're kind of an up and coming program.
I mean, you mentioned any you're.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Gonna you're gonna say I know you're gonna say it.

Speaker 5 (22:04):
You're going to say it, and then you'll beat a
resulta not too long ago.

Speaker 15 (22:08):
Absolutely, yeah, And he's definitely been a program that's been
on the rise. They've had like a couple of issues
in terms of like stats and some of the players recently,
but in terms of like the last couple of years
and even the last season, they did pretty well. So
I'm glad to see and uh and and I'm hoping
to see them continue to in the future.

Speaker 6 (22:30):
What what do you hope to find out about yourself
playing for the Sugar Skulls. And I mean, I mean,
obviously you'd like to have an opportunity to you know,
to move up to a higher league or whatever.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
But what do you want to see happen here?

Speaker 5 (22:41):
What?

Speaker 3 (22:41):
What will what will make you happy that you that
you came back to play?

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Uh?

Speaker 15 (22:48):
Making me happy with see this team go to the
playoffs and continue with success that we've had, you know,
like even kind of going from where we were at
that point when we first played the Rattlers. We hadn't
beat them at that time, and we had still been
kind of seen as like the little brother to that team,

(23:08):
is because we did have a lot of traded people
from that team.

Speaker 14 (23:13):
So it's the fact that like we're starting to gain
a respect and.

Speaker 15 (23:18):
And doing these uh, these large comebacks that a lot
of people wouldn't be able to do themselves, or wouldn't
even believe that believe they would do, or like see
them coming. So like the fact that we're putting ourselves
out there and showing that we're definitely a team that deserves.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
To be on the field.

Speaker 14 (23:34):
I'm just I definitely would like to see us go
to the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
Yeah, no question, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
So you know, just talking about the Rattlers, you guys,
uh beat them on Saturday in triple ot what kind
of you know, what's going through your mind? Like, you know,
how much do you like rely on those like practice
those like those practices before the season starts, you know,
the camaraderie between your teammates to just kind of you know,
band together and uh, you know, kind of will that one.

Speaker 15 (23:59):
Out, you know, and those moments when you're in triple
overtime and the only thing you really can focus on
yourself yourself at that point, and the biggest thing is
like knowing that as a team we were able to
collectively without really needing to say anything to each other
through every overtime, like every every time we got to

(24:23):
a different like opportunity where we needed to work together
to overcome a hurdle to score. Those are those moments
when you are worried that you need to say something
to every single one of your teammates. But continuing like
the Camarado, what we've had and just building with this
team we've had the fact that we were able to

(24:43):
continue to work without really spearing what the outcome was
because we trusted in each other so much.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
So, just to let you know, Jay here was the
former was the former president of these sugar schools a
couple three years back work. Uh, let me say, if
you beat Kevin one more time, they might cancel the season.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Did you go to give him a big hug after
you beat him again?

Speaker 15 (25:14):
You remember me, he had a big old grand.

Speaker 16 (25:19):
After I don't know that he would take the joke
very well, you know, absolutely, so any surprises for you, K,
You're playing your first season, you come from you your
where you came from Division three and a U and
then you're playing in this league.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
Any surprises to you, How cool it has it been, whatever.

Speaker 14 (25:39):
It has been.

Speaker 15 (25:40):
This is my first time playing center, and so I've
had to transition to a new position.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
So just learning a.

Speaker 15 (25:46):
Different part of the game I didn't have before, and
just my introduction to arena ball. Like I've always known
about it, but I've never really paid too too much attention.

Speaker 14 (25:54):
The fact that, like there are so many people.

Speaker 15 (25:57):
That support it, like really across the country, and the
fact that there are three teams in Arizona. It's like,
it really is cool to see the sport thrive, and
the fact that there's so many fans and people interested
in the fact that there's so many communities that do
get reached by it's very.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
Cool to be a part of How much of an
adjustment was it for you, you know, from the outdoor
game to the indoor game. Kind I always ask this
of guys who are just you know, getting into it
and trying to understand what is it really really different
or is it basically the same game.

Speaker 15 (26:30):
It's a it's a different game, for sure. Everything is
a lot quicker, I know for me, especially at center,
I generally say, like with the outdoor game, you wouldn't
deal with a zero tech too often unless you were
dealing with like a certain kind of defense. But with
the indoor game, you don't have as many landmen to
rely on. Like I was a tackle while I play

(26:53):
on the outdoor game, so I was used to being
able to slow play the outside because of my space.
I could run them outside or I could trust my
guard if I had to go inside. But seeing that
we don't have as much space, everything is a lot
more quicker, and like you have to be on your
game a lot more quicker.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
Yeah, no question, Do you like it?

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yeah? I mean do you like the differences? I guess
the better question.

Speaker 14 (27:18):
I enjoy it?

Speaker 15 (27:19):
Yes, I do enjoy the differences that there that there
is from outdoor football. I was kind of catching myself
one time watching an Ah just of the fact that
again it being so different, the fact that there are
so many people that have like come together to watch

(27:40):
a different version of the game that we all love
it shows how much really everyone of the like truly
does love football and supports football, especially being one of
the states that doesn't have to me of the bigger
or just college programs in general that we want to
ways to get some football here.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
You must be about twenty three four if that right, yes,
say twenty three twenty three. So what do you think
if this is what you do, how long do you
think you can do it?

Speaker 5 (28:09):
If you wanted to prove yourself.

Speaker 15 (28:12):
God given, I believe I could given my age and
my status. Hopefully within these next couple of years, I
can prove that I deserve to play on a bigger field,
just kind of like I've had to prove myself and pilots.
I didn't really start with any offers and I didn't
really have too many people calling. So when I didn't

(28:34):
have my opportunity, I just kind of put my head
down and worked and showed that I deserve to play
at at a higher stage. And I definitely believe I
can do this if I play my cards right with
this opportunity. So I believe hopefully with the next couple
of years I can I can get that done. So
before my body starts beating up.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
On me too.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
Bad Jane, that's yet. No, you have to think about
that for sure.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
So what do you what do you what did you
get you to in what do you hope to do
beyond football?

Speaker 15 (29:03):
I got my degree in psychology, and before I had transferred,
I had a minor and art. I definitely would like
to pursue tattooing, and we're working in my hand. I'm
kind of entrepreneuring my.

Speaker 14 (29:18):
Spare time.

Speaker 15 (29:19):
I have actually, funny enough, been trusted to tattoo a
couple of my teammates. I've been growing my art, trying
to grow myself as a person. I have an Instagram
page dedicated to my tattoos if you wanted to check
it out, and Q bears tattoos que Bears tattoos on

(29:43):
Instagram and over my journey with that, I started that
in college and just getting to the point where I
am with that, I'm very satisfied and seeing my growth
and almost in awesome times of some of the professions
I've town that have been more mentally challenging and very

(30:03):
time consuming, and just trying to do what I can.
Like I said as a young twenty thre year old,
to do everything I can while I'm here you know
what I mean. I have a lot of passions in
terms of probably coaching or teaching children, especially with kind
of the disconnect we have with a lot of the
older generation today.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
So given given.

Speaker 15 (30:24):
Some good opportunities, I definitely like to set myself up
to either be some kind of guidance counselor a mentor
and someone who could use art to help people in
a therapy.

Speaker 14 (30:39):
Kind of way, people who can't really.

Speaker 15 (30:40):
Do things a certain way or the same way as
everyone else can.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
So you know, talking about tattooing, and I'm a big
I love getting tattooed, looking at like tattoo shows and
stuff like that. You know, used to have a subscription
to InCD. What do you what would you say like
kind of spark that interest? Obviously your big art guy,
but also how do you think that you know your mentor?
You know, while you're trying to get into maybe a
shop or something has like maybe influenced you on wanting

(31:08):
to be a mentor too.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Like you were just talking.

Speaker 15 (31:09):
About, I definitely pulled from a lot of the coaches
and the mentoring I've had throughout my lifetime. So with
the art thing I've I come from a very geez,
I'm sorry. I come from a group of very talented individuals.
My eldest brother was an artist like myself, and my

(31:31):
mom was also one that didn't really shy away from
expression of her house. She had tattoos and the different
hair colors, and so I was able to kind of
express myself a little early in terms of that. And
I also saw that tattoos are expensive, so I thought
I could do that myself, and just being pushed by
a lot of different people. I played three sports in

(31:53):
high school.

Speaker 14 (31:55):
And again went my way to college without.

Speaker 15 (31:58):
The without scholarships offers.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
So I've definitely just been pushed.

Speaker 15 (32:02):
By people who have seen potential, seeing the focus that
I've had in different sports and kind of push uh,
pushed me sometimes when I do want to push myself
and just knowing how valuable and important that is, especially
the the time of my life I was at. I
definitely would like to be a kind of person who
can be there for for people who don't always have

(32:25):
someone to tell them what to do or a certain
way to go.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Very cool, very cool, congratulations, that's uh, that's uh inspiring.
I think because you're twenty three years old, you don't
get that.

Speaker 6 (32:38):
Yeah, just you know, just your your ability to kind
of think this stuff right right right, and and and
and set you know, those kinds of goals for yourself.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
And you know that wasn't me.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
So he was picked up. What country club he was
going to go play? Yeah, you know, good for you,
Good for you. We'll see what happens with you the
rest of the way.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
You guys are at home this week, right, uh Northern
Arizona who you guys handled them.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
Earlier in the year.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
You're home for the next two weeks, right, Uh, yes, sir,
I believe all right, yeah, okay, back to back, but.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
No, good to hear from you.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
We'll be talking to you guys more often as the
summer progresses. Thanks c absolutely, thank you for having me people.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
That was fun. Cool.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
I'm thinking I'd never get a tattoo, sorry, because I'm
too too much of a whim pack.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Yeah, it doesn't know that bad?

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Well that bad. You know what's starting right now? Nothing
because nothing happen.

Speaker 6 (33:38):
Actually, I actually had this conversation with one of my daughters,
like if I got a tattoo, what do you think
it should be?

Speaker 3 (33:45):
And they had nothing.

Speaker 5 (33:46):
Dodgers Dodgers log.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, Dodgers log or you of a low.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
It doesn't hurt that bad right now I'm going through.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
It just feels like a scratch.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
And sometimes you know because like you know, I've had
a couple of tattoos where I've had to go like
like give it a couple of sessions. So you go
in one week like with Saturday or something, and you
give it a week. Then you come back and the
thing is like your tattoo will get really itchy. And
so like that second session when they're just like when
like the needles on you, it feels so good.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
It just feels like it's scratching like an inch that
you can do that.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
I'll take suggestions for a tattoo.

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This is I on the Wall on Fox Sports fourteenth fifty.
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Speaker 3 (37:35):
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Speaker 1 (37:35):
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seventy four to forty.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Hey, welcome back to Ye on the ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, You're.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
Jay, you got Ray.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
You've got about ten twelve minutes for you guys to
call five two zero four one six seventy four to
forty what's on your mind? Talk about whatever you want
to talk about. We'll take your call. We'll put you on.
Just don't cuss.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
I got a button. Good luck with that.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
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speaking Spanish.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Get Jeff HAMMERSHM on the phone.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Yeah, there's been a few, Yeah, a few, Yeah, a few.
I have have you hed one once? I think I
did not too long to subject. I've wanted a lot.

Speaker 6 (38:21):
Yeah, I wanted to today pretty much every day.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
What else? Is this the dog day summers?

Speaker 6 (38:27):
But it is, you know it is. I'm watching a
lot of golf baseball every night. Scotti Scheffer. Of course,
he's tied for the lead with Justin Thomas Well, Thomas
conn Yeah, Thomas Connon. It's funny today. JJ Spahn, Right,
guy wins the US Open last week. I don't think
he made the cut. He was six over at one
point today. But you know they there were a bunch

(38:48):
of guys that went way low yesterday. I mean Scotti
Scheffer looked like he was going to shoot fifty nine. Yes,
he ended up shooting a sixty two eight under part right.
But today the conditions completely changed. Today there was a
howling win. They're in Connecticut, a howling win. So JJ

(39:08):
Spahn US Open champ from last week puts from off
the green, rolls it up by the hole. But it's
like at the top of a hill. The ball stops
before he can get up there to market. The wind
blows it off the green. It blew it a little bit,
and it hit the front, the false front, and it
rolled back off the green, and like that. That's what

(39:30):
they were dealing with it. So the scores weren't very
low today. Like Scheffer, he was one of the leaders
at eight under going into the day. He's now nine under,
but he's still tied for the lead. Crazy stuff. So
that and then baseball. I'm watching, you know, Dodgers every night. Okay,
here's something I would understand. I don't know other people

(39:51):
have experiences. We're in the Diamondbacks territory, right, Diamondbacks are
up the road. We're in the Diamondbacks television territory. We're
also in the Padres television territory. So when the Dodgers
are playing the Padres, they're blacked out here in Tucson.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
I'm like, what the hell?

Speaker 5 (40:08):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
I don't know how.

Speaker 6 (40:13):
How is Tucson, Arizona in two different television markets.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Why isn't it just one? I think it's that way
with the Cowboys two, right, is it? No?

Speaker 6 (40:22):
No, just the Cardinals. It's just the Cardinals. But it
makes no sense to me. So so you know, I
get them. I have the MLB TV thing helps you
and I, but I can't watch No, I can't watch
Dodgers Padres games because we're in we're in the black?

Speaker 3 (40:40):
Or did it was on the MLB channel?

Speaker 6 (40:42):
The last three of the three of the four of
those four games were on the MLB channel.

Speaker 5 (40:46):
Show when was the last time you watched the Dodgers
in Phoenix? Basically? What's two years ago?

Speaker 3 (40:55):
We didn't go last year?

Speaker 5 (40:56):
What's the make up? What's the Oh.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
You go to you go to a dot, you go
to a Dodger It's it's half Dodger fans.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
It's I mean, there's blue all over there.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
I went to the Dodgers. I went to the Padres
Diamondbacks for the weekend. I really couldn't tell. There was
a lot of Padres, but not not that many.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (41:12):
No, we went to uh two years ago, went to
again fifty fifty and yeah, it's it's it's it's fifty
to fifty.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
There's a lot of a lot of Dodger fans go
to those games.

Speaker 5 (41:21):
That's kind of how phoenixes anyway.

Speaker 6 (41:22):
With Cardinals like Cargo, Yeah, you know, you go to
a Cardinals game, and if it's if it's any of
the West Coast teams, or if it's the Broncos, the Bears,
the Packers, when when Peyton Manning was playing.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
With it was the Colts Giants, Yeah, Giants.

Speaker 6 (41:41):
You know it's there's a there's a over the Cowboys
over fifty, forty nine ers over fifty. I went to Uh,
I went to a Colts game there and it was
when Peyton Manning was playing and there were just a
ton of Colts fans there.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
Yeah, you know, so now it's I mean, that's just
where it is.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
You know, you've been, Yeah, I've been.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
I've been to a Diamondbacks game and a nine Cardinals games.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
Same thing.

Speaker 6 (42:05):
Now, we'll say we went to two years ago, went
to the playoff game. Yeah, Dodgers, uh, Diamondbacks playoff game,
and that was mostly Diamondbacks fans. They got the tickets, right,
I mean, there were still a lot of Dodger fans,
but it was more Diamondback fans than Dodger fans because
they went to the game. But you know, no, you
got you go to that, but you any any but

(42:26):
any one of the Dodgers play its like that, though.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
You go see them, you go see them in San Diego.
There's a ton of dog, a ton of dog.

Speaker 5 (42:33):
Hello, you're on the air nine of the ball. Who's this? Ye, Nico?
What's up?

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Then?

Speaker 21 (42:39):
Why are you trashing my Cardinals?

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Man?

Speaker 6 (42:42):
Because they're easy to trash.

Speaker 21 (42:45):
Hey man? When they're playing a home game the Red.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
Sea, is it forty Cardinals?

Speaker 21 (42:55):
Nobody wants to talk about the forty nine. They're gonna
be trash this year anyway, you're forty nine ers, man,
Kyler Murray's winning m v P.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
I'm counting m v PO. Nico. You got somebody that's
good stuff going, don't you?

Speaker 21 (43:14):
Hey man? I might be enjoying some referra you.

Speaker 6 (43:18):
Got you, you got a new suppliers what you got,
and he's bringing bringing the good stuff he did.

Speaker 21 (43:24):
Though, I will agree with you, man, the Dodgers Powdres
aren't a rivalry.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
They're not.

Speaker 21 (43:29):
They're not now the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers, that is
a very bitter rivalry.

Speaker 6 (43:34):
Well, ever since the dog, ever since the Dodgers jumped in.

Speaker 21 (43:37):
Their pool, I know that pool hasn't been the same.
I need to sue the Dodgers for like a million.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
Dollars, billion dollars nothing anymore.

Speaker 8 (43:46):
How you been, Nico, I've been all right?

Speaker 5 (43:48):
So tell me who I asked you?

Speaker 6 (43:50):
This?

Speaker 2 (43:50):
About the stadium experience?

Speaker 5 (43:52):
You and your dad? Go, what do you want?

Speaker 21 (43:55):
Man? I don't care. I didn't renew my season ticket.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
You didn't do whatever the hell they want?

Speaker 5 (43:59):
Okay, Yeah about Nico? For what reason, I don't know.

Speaker 21 (44:05):
Just became too much, got tired of tail, getting got
tired of just leaving at halftime after spending two hundred
bucks on beer.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
Beer prices are hot.

Speaker 5 (44:18):
Well that's a part of is.

Speaker 6 (44:20):
You can't buy a small beer there, right, everything's a
big fat tall boy?

Speaker 21 (44:24):
Why did just buy two of those tall boys at
a time? That's the limit?

Speaker 5 (44:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (44:30):
I can barely drink one of those.

Speaker 5 (44:32):
You're not twenty seven years.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Old, and I know, I know.

Speaker 21 (44:35):
Hey man, you gotta get a little hair on your
going at.

Speaker 5 (44:40):
Thank you man with that before you get fired here?
Thank you, my boy? Nico?

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Was that your first time with Nico's called before?

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Always got that Joe Boy's a cool guy. He sounds
like cool guys.

Speaker 16 (44:52):
Well four years ago, Nico, he's spent like forty days
and forty nights in the desert one time.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
Nothing.

Speaker 6 (45:06):
Yeah, you know, getting back to that, Steve, I don't
know what the answer is, which you know, for the
Arizona you know, for stadium, I don't know what the
answer is.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
It needs to be obviously, winning has to help.

Speaker 6 (45:17):
But there's gout, you know, there's I'll admit, there's not
a there's not an atmosphere that gets you. It gets
you going right now, and I don't know how you
create that. But there are little things that you can
do to kind of that you hope lead to other things,
right And one of them, as we said, is if
the band could you know, get the crowd fired up

(45:38):
at the start of the game with a great band entrance.
And then if this I mean like the video comes on,
you know, there's the band video, then there's a team video.
The team video comes on and there's somebody narrating. You
can't tell what they're saying, so it doesn't mean anything.
You see that, you see the images and you assume
somebody is saying something about those images.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
Really you can't, but I can't hear what they're saying.
Oh yeah, that's not right, it's not again, my my
hearing is bad. You know, I I blew up a
firework in my right ear and I got bees buzzing
in there all the time.

Speaker 6 (46:12):
But you know, the sound, admittedly, everybody knows, and you
talk to people at the UF, they know that it's
a horrible sound.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
It's got to be better. Well if we have her
on anytime. So I'll see what's going on. But they
gotta do some fan engagement stuff.

Speaker 6 (46:27):
I know they're going to do a meet the Team
thing coming up and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
But you know, the fans got to get more excited too.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Did you hear our interview with Brennan a lot of
months I did. He came off fantastic. Yeah, I mean,
and that's who he is. It was kind of like
everything has just kind of been let go.

Speaker 6 (46:45):
And yeah, well remember not too long ago that I
think the big twelve coaches came out and they put
him at the bottom of, you know, among the listed coach.
I'm like, we don't know how good a coach he
is yet because of how bad things were last year.
I think, you know, a lot of those things were
bad because of you know, his the hires he made.
They didn't have a good offensive coordinator, they didn't have
a good defensive cordarator, they had a terrible offense, they

(47:07):
weren't competitive in a lot of their games, and there
were a lot of circumstances, injuries and stuff like that.
I just don't think, you know, I this year will
tell us a whole lot more with a with an
innovative offensive coordinator, a new defensive coordinator who's maybe gonna
do some different things as well, you know, a third
a third year starter at quarterback. Let's see what happens

(47:28):
this year. Clearly he's not the mild mannered guy that
everybody thinks he is, right you know, on the sideline
and stuff like that, because one he's lighting his coach's coach.
He's not like he's not like Jed Fish was in
the middle of the you know, calling plays and all
that kind of shu. So it's gonna I'm waiting to
see what it looks like.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
Are you gonna give.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Him more than one more than one one year?

Speaker 5 (47:54):
Because yeah, okay, so no more than this.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think he's a terrible coach.

Speaker 6 (48:00):
I think I truly believe they'll have some improvement just
because they're going to be doing different things. You know
when when you sat there and thought about it at
the end of the year, why were they so bad?
And one probably the seventy five percent reason why they
were so bad was because of that offense they were running.
It wasn't built for the guys they had. You know,

(48:21):
everything was built around dropping back and throwing the ball
to t Mac and nothing else.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
There was nothing else going on.

Speaker 6 (48:29):
They you know, they had hint injuries at running back,
but they couldn't run the ball anyways.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
You know, I don't know how much of the if
you how much of.

Speaker 6 (48:38):
The uh that spring thing that they had, you know,
watching the plays, but it looked a lot to me
like what you used to see in the Riche Rotis
where he had just like five receivers that would all
go out and somebody was always open.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Yeah, you see, And that's what I'm hoping to see.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
I we'll see, uh.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
I mean, no superstars, right, but just a bunch of guys.
You send enough guys out there in some sort of
a scheme and it's up to know where to find
somebody open.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
And I think he's that kind of a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Well, this will be the year that they have you know,
the whole drop back pro type of offense that they
ran last year just didn't.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
Work, No, didn't. And people wanted him.

Speaker 6 (49:22):
To know that, right, and you know what and he heard, yeah,
right heard, and so let's see what happens.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Well. I enjoyed the conversation. I'll be talking to him
again later for you just about who he is and
would make some ticks.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
Yeah, and I think people still don't know enough about it.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
No, they don't.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
They just don't.

Speaker 6 (49:41):
They think he's this guy who you know, he wears
the the leys and and they don't see him jumping
up and down and Mike stoops on the sidelines and
you don't want that, and you don't want that, but
you know, but he looks he looks semi uninvolved, right,
But it's because he's letting coach his coach and he's
that kind of a coach.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
They've told me had the same issue, right.

Speaker 6 (50:05):
You know, there were a lot of times people say,
what does he do on the sidelines, where does the
cat backwards and walks around?

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Well, because he was letting he believed in his coaches.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Yeah, so we'll see what happens here in a few months. Yeah, Okay,
I'm excited.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
I just like, yeah, it's a good Saturday, it's a
good time, good Friday night.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
I want to see what happens.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
Okay, we've got to get some band and they uh.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Speakers, the speakers, and I got speakers in my car
that are better than that. Maybe some shape, yeah, and
a mister. It's just it's the weather man for me.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Okay, yeah, you don't even you're not even involved with that.
You're out in the cozy booth. Yeah, but I mean, yeah,
sure you're thinking about your brothers, people, my peers, people
go oh my god.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
Okay, let's go. We gotta go. Thanks everybody. Talk to
you guys next week.