Hour 1- September 19, Jim Rosborough

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball
here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, and
today was my Friday guy wearing his lucky and Lucky
Dodgers uniform.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'm all geared up for Raye, dude, because the Dodgers
and the Giants are playing tonight.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
I think Fernando goes tonight.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
All geared up. The only thing that's not Dodger is
my socks, my shortness and my I didn't have Dodger
toony because I feel bad if I like marked them.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Up, they probably they probably have a little snipe.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I got a little street up.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
That's the longest streaking.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I don't mark up my Dodgers. I did used to
have some Dodger ankle socks that won't finally wore out.
I will, are you twelve, I'm sixty six years old.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Steve actually like, yeah, I love the passion.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, you got yours up from the Giants,
I got I got some Lucky ones, Lucky.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
There's your baseball covers Friday. You woke up to Friday
as better know as Dominations Day.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
It's yeah, shoot, man, you know what, I'm already I'm
already ready to quit on the football season. I was like,
you know what, I'm sending the money back, the pool
is over. It's just I don't want to do this anymore.
I suck at this. I'm getting my ass kicked by
Ray by Steve. What the hell?

Speaker 4 (01:40):
We got to continue?

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Two?

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Perfect?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
You know I've not congratulations on that. Give me some
props on that. I mean, that's here's here's the sad part.
Here's the definitely sad part. Okay, so you know you,
you do you, and I do me, and I like
what we do. Obviously had I just put a little
scratch on it. Fifty bucks, Yeah, every week until I
lose all my money. I have like two and a
half thousand dollars five team or twenty five to one.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, fifty bucks, yep, twenty half thousand for two weekends.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
But no, but.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
No, you'll allows these sixty bucks for it.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, but which is fine. But you know what I'm saying.
If I had any colhonus, I'd be okay, crazy.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I mean, you're you're you're you're wrong. I mean two
five for five, two out of three weeks. That's that's hard.
It's really hard to do. We once calculated because somebody went,
somebody had perfect two weeks in a row, So we
once calculated what did the odds of going like three
in a row? And it's in the billions? Really, yeah,
that many because you multiplier, because you multiply, you know,

(02:43):
like each one is a fifty to fifty propositions, and
so you multiply that fifteen times, and maybe it's not
in the billions, but certainly in the millions. Yeah, and
it's it's an incredible odd three someone two people have
done it in this pool. To go three weeks in
a row, fifteen fifteen wins in a row against the spread.
That's not easy to do. But only you and one

(03:04):
other guy have gone to them so far in the
first three weeks.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
So far, so good. Don't don't change me.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm absolutely trying to.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Picked my wallet. I'm ready to go.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
I don't trying trying to jinx you because I'm getting
killed now.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I have to pay attention to the rest of the
way and hopefully I don't screw up, okay, and raised ones.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
That's helping me out. Man, give me a little couragement,
Steve Corso.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Steve Corso, the hell ray it's.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Because Okay, So you know I saw I.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Remember when you did the tuition this semester, followed me.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
I mean, I saw what Lee did on his last
day out. You know, what do you do? Picked the
right team for the first He had six games that
they picked, you know, in the in the and he
got all six of them. Right, That's what I saw. Yeah,
he got all He was six for six on his
last day to go out on game day. Okay, so
that's why he called you that. I got the I
got the joke. I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
I didn't, but okay, I thought I just old something.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I got some every now and then.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
You do you do know you just gotta put it
in your leads.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
You saw the content of my text. Right, So when
he calls me, and that's how I answered the phone
when you called me, and I answered you called me
yeah yah yea, yeah, yeah yeah yeah those are those
are the first two words out of my mouth when
I answered.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes, okay, well the friend of course, who was that
just Steve.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
That makes sense, does he does he? Is he killing
you again?

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah? Yeah, Hey, we got a good show today, a
different show we have uh uh coach Ross. First hour,
you know you and I with him go back a
long time. Uh, he's with Peman now. But we'll you know,
talk a little about you a what he's up to.
He's he I won't talk, just more about what's going
on with him because he's an older guy now. Still
help me out still in basketball. And then at the
second hour, I don't know, have you met Sarah Morva.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
We've talked to her. We had her on the sho
once before, I think we did.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
But she's back again because of what they're doing with
the with the Arizona Fall League, right, and she's in
charge of the facility.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Around the facility, which which is great. It sounds like
it's in good hands.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's in great hands and there and we talk about
this a lot with Blake and I think we do
Jay that there's a lot of good things going on
in the city.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Whether there is.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
We're not a major league city, but we are what
we are and they're making a lot of efforts to
be better at what we are. Right, does that make sense,
makes a ton of sense. Absolutely, Yeah, and you're a
part of it, you know, given what you're doing outside
of this show, doing what you do with with sugar
skulls and things like that, and what you had been doing.
So we'll talk about all that in the four o'clock hour.
I Metaphor, I think I met if. I met her

(05:44):
physically for the first time yesterday. A great woman, smart woman,
Ashu grad. Sorry, I can't have everything.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, I mean, what you what can I say? You know,
there's a few of those around, Anthony, there's a few
of those around that are no longer working in the
fast food business.

Speaker 6 (06:02):
The same It's the same thing with Dodgers fans.

Speaker 7 (06:07):
I'll take the.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Double okay, so cool. Cool a weekend, no no football
for you, So you must be home just with a.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Remote, yeah, you know, yeah, I'll just have the remote
in my hand watching games. I mean I did that
last week.

Speaker 8 (06:19):
You know.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
It was great.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
You know, you know, we got home late later Friday night,
you know, right, and then you know, got up Saturday morning.
I thought, this is cool that, you know, you know,
just just watching games all day and to the point
where by the end of the day I was tired
of football, and I'd watched the last couple of games.
You didn't do it. Well, there was that, but you know, normally,
like on a Saturday night like that, I'll you know,

(06:40):
when I hit the sack, there's always a Hawaii game
on or something like that, and I'll turn I went
to bed and didn't turn on any any more football.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
Cool. We got a call. Hello, you're on the ear
and nine on the ball.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Who's this?

Speaker 7 (06:50):
It's Rick?

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Rick? Oh, we're even, We're even, We're even.

Speaker 9 (06:54):
Yep, I know I'm calling to eat a little crow
here actually, giving the way the Browns played a lot
of crow and I don't think it'll be betting on
them much.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Smart, Well, you still got your four quarterbacks are still around?

Speaker 9 (07:15):
Yeah, well they're probably there longer than the coach, given
the way things are going. Yeah, but it's uh. And
then there Green Bay. I was surprised it's only seven
and a half. They're only giving seven and a half
against the Browns, And I'm thinking, who's on drugs?

Speaker 7 (07:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, but here's the key. Here's the key.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Would you take the Green Bay against your against your Browns? Oh?

Speaker 9 (07:44):
Absolutely? Okay? All right, Well, you know what I may
be old, but I'm not totally stupid.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
You know, well, thanks for listening to us.

Speaker 9 (07:57):
And by the way, Steve, maybe I know it's gonna
break your heart and break your attitude adjustment, but maybe
we can start realizing baseball is a reality in this
in the sports world.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
We gotta go already. Hey, I said, I've said most
of the week that as a playoffs start, we'll start getting.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
To more and more.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Then well, it's heating up. When people start to get well,
then things are heating up. You know, it's the last
week of the regular season next week, and paint and
races are alive, and so we start paying attention now,
I mean, but I mean, you.

Speaker 9 (08:34):
Look at these players and they playing one hundred and
sixty two games, or if they're hurt, maybe less. But
I mean, that is a long season, long and you're
watching the Koream rise to the top about now, and
it's gonna be very fun to watch. The Milwaukee's looking good.
Of course, my Yankees they're coming around finally Boston, which

(08:58):
I'm not a fan of, but I thought they were
going to be playing a lot better than they are.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Take off your Yankee hat for a second. Who do
you give the al MVP to Aaron Judge or cal Raley.

Speaker 9 (09:13):
You know what, I've got to go with cal Raley
to tell you why. It's when you switch hit the
way he has and when you have to catch the
way he's had.

Speaker 8 (09:27):
I mean, and no.

Speaker 9 (09:28):
Disrespect Aaron Judge, but I mean cal Raley he is
he just he's earned it this year. And you put
away all the you know, the different ways we rate
players and baseball, but at the end of the day,
and it's called the most valuable player for a reason,

(09:51):
and cal Raleigh is probably I hate to say it
this way, but more valuable to seeattle mentality than Aaron
Judge is. Yeah, I think everybody just takes Aaron Judge
for granted. And Kyle Rally, I mean, I gotta tip
my hat to the young man. He's just playing on me.
And I think I think Aaron Judge would say, you

(10:13):
know what, I'd give it to you give it to him.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I hope they do.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
I really, really really hope that they do, you know,
because yeah, you're right, who's been more valuable to their team?

Speaker 9 (10:25):
That's and and to you know what, and to the
whole community as a whole. Everybody takes Aaron Judge. Now
we could have a Willie Stargo Keith Hernandez nineteen seventy
nine again where they were actually two, right, and that
wouldn't hurt my feelings.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
No, you're right.

Speaker 9 (10:42):
But at the end of the day, I think I'll
tip my hat to mister Raleigh and I love baseball
and that's what it's all about. The most valuable player.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
So I know you, you sneaky guy.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
You you called specifically for that reason to talk baseball,
and that concludes our portion of the baseball season.

Speaker 8 (11:04):
I know.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
We next time you see Rick on the line, we'll
pass that way. We'll pass that one. Thanks Rick, so soon.
Then thanks, let's go. Let's go already twelve after thirteen,
after yeah, after left and after Okay.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
We got a minute. But you know, look, I know
the tendency is, you know, big market guy, give you know,
give Aaron Judge the thing. He's the one everybody knows.
But I mean, Calibra, the guy's gonna hit sixty homers.
He's a catcher, he can't play every day, he's a
switch hitter, and it's it's just unbelievable what he's done.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Give me an estimate both of you guys who knew
of this guy at All Star Break? Who then he
had this fantastic all Steve. I have him on my
fantasy baseball team.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
And you didn't wreck his career.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
I didn't know who he was when I drafted him, right.
Nobody did, though, But it came time. You know, I'm drafting.
You know, he was drafting my team, and I'm like, okay,
I better get a catcher this round. And he was
the top catcher on the on the list. I can,
I can look it up. I don't even not early.
I can tell you that nobody thought that and I

(12:10):
and I grabbed him just because he was the you know,
the ESPN ranks the players, and he was the top
catcher when I needed to draft a catchers, so I
took him. I'd never heard of him, and lo and behold,
you didn't screw and I didn't screw up his career.
He won, and I mean, and then he won the
home run derby. That didn't mess him up. I mean
all those things. You know, we're working against him, and

(12:31):
yet he's done what he's done. I mean, I you know,
I get I give him m VP of the entire league.
You know of all of Major League Baseball, not just
the American League.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, and I think he passed like Mickey Mantle.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
For Mickey Mantle for most most homers by switch hitter.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Yeah, fifty something.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
He's high. It was like, but if he, if he
gets he'll be he'll be the first catcher to ever
hit sixty homers if he can get to sixty. I
hope he does.

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Yeah, there's only like a week left, Yeah, tonight and
the next week.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
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Speaker 2 (17:33):
Hey, welcome back to why in the ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera're jakins Aus. We
ready at the control. We're waiting for coach Roz. Hopefully
he's okay. Try to reach out a couple of times
since we're going to talk basketball. So tell me about
media day the other day. Well, we had you went
with us. We had three guys. We had Anthony dolorso

(17:55):
we had yeah, that one good. And who was the
oh was the transfer from Harvard who was played at
South Point? You know Nelson?

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, so it was it
was good.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
We had were scheduled talk to Crevius, but he was
ruining late, so we get him.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
You know, I heard I heard Anthony's pronounceing dellars Is
protounce some away.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, well you had seen him. We had we saw
him maybe two months ago. He yeah, yeah, he talked
about that maybe twenty five pounds. We'll see what it
comes comes from. Because Jay, we've talked about this. If
you're not used to mixing it up, yeah, it doesn't
much how it doesn't care how much what you have, right,
But let's see, how about the shot.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, you're still waiting for it? Yeah, I'm still waiting
for it.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Well, you know part of that.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
With him too, is going to depend on how they
decide to use him. Right, he shouldn't be starting, right.
He's the guy that you bring off the bench, hit
a couple of threes, go sit down, come back to
a couple of threes, go down, you know, because he defensively,
he's he's a liability. So you're thinking that they got
to get somebody out there who can play some defense regularly.
But you know, every great team has a guy they

(19:00):
comes off the bench and and sparks and gets you
some three pointers when you need it.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
In Arizona, in your time, recently, in mark time, there
hasn't been one. There hasn't been one. When we had
Selim here for the the old some thing, and and
in the introducing to them, I said, there's been Steve
Kerr and Selim Sodomyre.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
And that's it.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
Give me another guy.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, that's it. That's all you got.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
There was supposed to be Gabe York.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
You saw it.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
The one good game came up senior year.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
You're not lying.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Last senior year, I think Ted Selene's record for like
in a game.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
I think Ye was saying the same. They had that
shooter guy, they would have been And they've.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Had a bunch of guys who were supposed to be
that guy, and none of them have turned out to
be that guy. And and what I don't understand is that,
you know, again I've said it before, all these hyphenated
schools that come in with a guy that shoots the
lights out like that, and you wonder, how why is
he there not here?

Speaker 4 (20:00):
And that's all you need.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
So you need okay, if you well, Delorso is you
know whatever on defense, and if you get that.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Guy, we don't care. He's gonna light it up for
twenty five, right, you know.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
And then you've got a guy kind of but he's
not he's not that guy in love, yeah, because he's
more of a volume shooter.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yeah. Yeah, he gets his points because he shoots so much.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, but I you know, I don't know. Look if
if if if they're in a position where del Orso
doesn't need to start, yeah, and he's a weapon off
the bench. That tells me that this team can be
really good. And I think that's going to be the case.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
And we'll see, because he's the veteran guy, right, but
they used that because of the kid who went to
San Antonio. I know, I'm with my names, you know, forgetting,
but it just he didn't feel comfortable for starting. It's
not early, yeah, Carter Bryan, Yeah, that.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Guy, you know.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
And by that time Tommy had his lineup right, didn't
want to mess with it, and he went with it.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Look and yeah, and so I I just you know,
that's gonna that's gonna be the thing. And can he
in improving his you know, getting stronger and stuff like that,
did he get maybe just a little quicker so that,
you know, maybe a little quicker first step on defense
than he had He's I to me, I thought a
lot of why we saw what we saw out of
him last year. I think he was just wide eyed.

(21:21):
It was like it's like like he thought he was
in over his head.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Well, it's funny you say that, because what's that my touch?
And everyone has a planet til you get touched in
the mouth. I think that may have happened early and
he never rea he never recovered.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
He recovered because I don't think you know, there were
times that he didn't get a shot off. There were
times when defensively, he was just bad because you know,
guys are guys were just so much quicker than him,
and and I, you know, instead of a justin trying
to figure out ways to play defense against those guys,
that was just hopeless.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Well, I told him, I said, I hope this weight
doesn't keep you from finding your one. Your good shot
is underneath the back door cut. Yeah, he's always starting
with the back door cut. Then you wouldn't see him
for a while.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah. Yeah, so you know it's interesting. Well anyway, so
but I you know, when you told me that, at thought,
Tim he was going to speak at it and stuffing like.
That's why I went looking for a video today and
didn't find anything. It's just the guys coming through and
starting the media and stuff.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
And it's already two weeks away from Red Blue.

Speaker 8 (22:19):
I know that.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, well, are you working it as far as I know?
Don't unbelievable that this is it's already coming around. Yeah,
it's quick. Nothing yet, nothing yet. I'm hoping he's okay,
So we'll we'll get to that point. Uh, and the
other other kids were great. Nelson, he knows his situation. Uh,

(22:40):
he's gonna do really well. Smart wise. I think he'll
maybe nine to ten guys. Yeah, bring the average GPA.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
You said that I did not.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
What you know? You remember the.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
God he was the shoot He was a shooter from Phoenix,
Hispanic kid and never materialized he was but was that him?
And he brought his friend with him?

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Okay? Who walked on? Okay? Who was supposed to be
really smart under under mill? Right, Yeah, it was supposed
to be really smart. And then the kid came. The
walk on kid came, and his job was to get
good grades to bring up the g p A. And
he flunked out of school. Yeah, he was ineligible in
the whole bit. Who is the kids?

Speaker 2 (23:26):
It was with the be he went to.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Had was and his and he brought his buddy with it,
and the kid had like a D A D D
g p A And did you get the hell out
of here?

Speaker 2 (23:38):
You're not only are you not any good, you're not
even smart.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Get out of here.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
I'm like, what are we doing?

Speaker 7 (23:45):
You know?

Speaker 4 (23:45):
How come you can't remember that? And then you remember that.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Steve, you know what?

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Who was that?

Speaker 3 (23:52):
There was a Somebody had a question for me the
other day about something and it was the same thing
my wife.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Come on, you don't know our anniversary, but you know
about this.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
I've never forgotten her anniversary.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
But yeah, that's why you were still very you know.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
It's like, you know, yes, yesterday, all right, I went
to the grocery store. I was gonna get some pork
shops for me and a piece of salmon for her,
some veggies, and that was our dinner. And I went
to the store and I got everything, but the salmon's.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
All about you.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
I forgot her main course, So did you go back?

Speaker 3 (24:29):
She was on her way home, so she had to
stop and pick it up. I forgot the main main course.
Like it's like you go to the steakhouse and don't
get the steak. Yeah, you know, stupid.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
I got an extra room out, but you can take
care of the door.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
She's in love with me, you know. We're talking about
her thirty fifth anniversary coming up, and I'll kind have
you that lately. Yeah, she said, yeah, yeah, but I
do things right, you know.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
Yeah, you forget the.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
You know, I cooked pretty much like every other night,
to help with the dish and do the issues.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
You know, Yeah, I have a room open. I need
something like that.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
I am not going to be your wife. Okay, I see,
I see what you do with your wives.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
I'm not going to be Yeah the last long I'm
okay with that. I'm okay with that.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Ray, don't listen to him, Listen to me.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Don't listen to him, Ray, listen to me. You'll be happier.

Speaker 7 (25:22):
You know.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
The thing is, I can't tell who's the devil and
the angel.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Gotta have both sides of Well, there's a little both
devil like me too, Ray, Just you know, just say
you know.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
But so okay, Well, look, you know, two weeks away
from basketball, I'm I'm you know, starting to get fired out.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Are you going to know you're going to be the
week but later You're not going to Vegas for Florida?

Speaker 3 (25:43):
No, no, no, We're going to Vegas the week that
Arizona plays U see l A in LA will be
in that week. Okay. Yeah, but you know, the non
conference schedule came out, and with all due respect to
everybody at Michaale, well it's a great non offering schedule.
From this standpoint, of all these great games that Arizona has,

(26:03):
there's nothing only one of them is at home. Yeah,
and that's the Auburn game. The rest of the schedule
just is it's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
It's fantastic. Arkans back to Loot's time. Yeah, Sean, they've
got great games. Yeah, No, it's going to be fun.
I'm not going to UCLA, but I'm going to Florida
and it's going to be fun even if they lose.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
Yeah, you find out who you are, right, that's the.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Opener, Right, that's a that's a regular season opener.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
Find out who you are and let's get it ready
for months Later.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
I answered, I think it's a great uh, you know,
great thing that that Tommy has done with his schedule.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Well, let me let me ask you this, uh, and
you could say whatever you want to say. Well, you're
going to say whatever you want to say. So last year,
that year, there was a pretty tough schedule. Yes, did
it get it ready for March? Here's could be a
trick question, because whatever you say, I have the other counter.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
I thought I thought it did. I mean I thought
they went because what we saw in March was not
You didn't walk away thinking they weren't tough enough, they
weren't prepared, they didn't know that level of competition. They
just got beat by Duke, who was really damn good.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
They also were saved by a guy in a parachute
in love. Yeah, because he had had it not been
for his last three weeks of play. You're thinking, what
the hell? Yeah, and then he just came out to
be love, do you know?

Speaker 13 (27:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (27:17):
So I know because remember the year before, we thought
they just got beat up. They weren't tough. They were
there are all these things that they were not. I
didn't think that this time around. I thought, you know,
they they ran into Duke, who was just a better
team up by a lot with the number one NBA
draft pick, and they got beat but they didn't go down,

(27:38):
you know, in flames, and you didn't. And you in
that game, you didn't think that they weren't tough enough
for anything. They just got beat.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Hello, you're on the air nine the ball?

Speaker 7 (27:47):
Who Jim calling first?

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Steve Jim Ross? Did we wake you up?

Speaker 7 (27:53):
Sir?

Speaker 4 (27:54):
We know we love you.

Speaker 7 (27:57):
I wouldn't say that exactly that. I'm about seven minutes.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Sorry, we won't make you run laps, but we'll cane
feel a little while lower.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
Good to hear you. I'm here with the with Ja Gonzalez.
So okay, perfect Okay, So how's it going.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
And you already started practice with the with the girls
at Pima Women at one PMA, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (28:16):
Stephen, Jay uh. Actually when they come in in August
for some sort of organized weightlifting and so on in
the mornings at six o'clock, which is a dandy time.
But we have been on the court now for about
a month and in two weeks we've got our jamboree,
in fact, two weeks from tomorrow jamboree. So yeah, we're

(28:37):
well into practice and got a good group. Some good
returners probably want to talk about. But we've got a
good group, and yes, we are practicing, Jim.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
When you're a two year when you're a two year
school like this, so there's you know, more turnover than
generally at a four year school. Can you tell early
on we're good, we've got holes?

Speaker 2 (28:58):
What can you know?

Speaker 3 (28:59):
What do you know about your team going into the
going into the year. You know, again understanding that you
know there's more turnover at a at a at this level.

Speaker 7 (29:09):
That's really a pretty good question. That the problem that
really the biggest problem is like a jump from college
to the NBA. It's tough to jump from a high
school to a two year school. You just don't know
how tough the kids are and they're adjusting and they're
away from home and so on and so forth. What
I look for is athleticism, toughness. Can they get on

(29:33):
the glass? Are they nasty? Are they kind of snitty
little people? I mean, I hate to say that, but
are are they tough? And that's that's the biggest thing
you find because we'll play a lot of teams that
we have some returneys, which is good to have the sophomores,
but we'll play some teams that have a lot of
sophomores coming back in that year of experiences. It's just immeasurable.

(29:55):
So you know, look for toughness, look for people who
can make baskets. And it's interesting. I mean, you say,
well everybody can make baskets. Well, everybody can't make baskets,
you know, so you want to find those people that
are good shooters consistently and so on, because you both know,
we play in a pretty tough league and you know,
when you're playing Mason some of these other schools, you

(30:17):
better have some some really pretty good players. So that's
it's a tough adjustment that you got to got to
make some choices pretty quickly because we'll after next two
weeks from now, then the schedule gets pretty full in October.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
So you've been with Todd for how long now? More
than ten years?

Speaker 7 (30:34):
Probably eleven, This is eleven, this is twelfth year.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Twelve year, So are you out recruiting some of the
big women that you talk about? Now?

Speaker 7 (30:42):
Pete, Pete Fajardo does all the recruiting and he's done
that for several years for Todd. Todd goes out every
once in a while. I'll go out, but not very often.
And Pete does all our recruiting, and he goes out
in the summer, goes to some of these big camps
like you know a lot of people do, and find

(31:03):
those kids that are probably not going to get a
D one offer, maybe not even going to get a
D two, but still are good enough. And he's been
around both at the high school level here and out
with Todd for a good long time, so he knows
what kind of person you have to have, and so
he's done a really good job of bringing in good people.

(31:24):
We've never had a sniff of any major problems. So
Pete does all the recruiting Steve Well.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Tell us about some of your girls that that are
coming back. You know who you're depending on, and what
you see from these girls after yeah, yeah, yeah, after
a huge season like you had last year.

Speaker 7 (31:43):
Well, now it was not a pretty good season last year.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Gentlemen.

Speaker 7 (31:47):
Second in the country. Yes, And I tell I kiddingly
tell Peabody every time I see him brand where'd you
guys finish? Well? You know, they had a half every
year last year and they went out and lost one
game and finished third.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
And so on and so forth.

Speaker 7 (32:01):
We got a big girl, Kylie Sowers Miller. She's about
sixty three and she's she's big.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
She was an All.

Speaker 7 (32:09):
American last year, really good hands, can run the floor.
She's got neat problems a little bit, and right now
that's kind of a concern, but we're getting a brace
for But she she is good and we've never had
a big girl like her before. And this is one
that you can pound the ball down inside to and
and she's tough. I'm gonna get a shot off. So

(32:31):
she's good. And then the other person who's really really good,
probably a high level D two, maybe close to a
D one player, is Malisia Nelson She's from a window
Rock up North and is really really a good player.
She's a point guard for us and was again. She

(32:51):
made the AL tournament team last year, I believe, and
she's a good player. And the other one who's today,
I mean, I'm telling.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
You right now.

Speaker 7 (32:58):
I asked her to pull her jersey up and see
if on an undershirt she had number twenty three on there,
not being Michael Jordan. Gentlemen, Lucy Land. She's from California.
She's really really blossomed. She's just exactly what we need.
She's a tough, tough, tough player, works hard every single possession.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
She's there.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
Ada Chie is back, Cassy Coolidge is back. So that's
our sophomore bunch. I think we have six or seven
sophomore six sophomores, and they do a good job. They
know the system, they know what we've done last year,
and we're pretty organized. I mean, you guys have been
around what we expect and like, and they're they're very good.

(33:41):
So we've got three or four retorneys that are going
to fit right in, and then we need to find
four or so of the freshmen that are going to
be able to play and give us minutes and do
what we have to do for sure, defensively, you know,
to be successful again.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
So let me ask you, hope of a question that
you appreciate. So you've a under elute. You went to
a three final fours, one a national title, and this
town loves everybody, every bit of it, and you know,
fawns over each other, blah blah blah. But when you
went to the title game here, was there a different
appreciation from you? Because no one really talks about it,

(34:18):
no one. You know, it's not the same fanfare, but
you see the probably the glee that the women have
and just the excitement of things going on. Could you
talk about that maybe the change or the difference.

Speaker 7 (34:29):
I mean you're talking about how it is with the
with the girls.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Yes, well, and just the program because it's ones at
a JC level. Here's another one like where the city
follows you everywhere.

Speaker 7 (34:40):
Yeah, it's I'll tell you getting well. First of all,
you and I think the eleven years here to qualify
for the Turnament, we've had to beat Mesa maybe ten
of those eleven times. It's it's a big rivalry. I
would say. In the community college level around the country,
there aren't too any more, big rid that are there

(35:01):
every year, well coached, you're going to have to go
to their place, or if you win enough games, they
come to your place. And that's who's been our nemesis
for I think probably all eleven years, maybe one year
or not. So first of all, you got to beat
MESA to qualify, and when that happens, the place explodes.

(35:21):
Now we beat them on their floor. Last year, we
had all kinds of parents, relatives, fans, a couple of
dead people were even in the crowd. And uh that's
a joke, jokes, and it's it's thrilling as anything. And
it's great for the girls. I mean you can just see,
you know, just see that glee and joy and and

(35:44):
you know we we work hard, we work them hard.
Uh So it's a great reward for them. First of
all to qualify. And then you get to the Nationals.
You fly into Hickory, North Carolina, Florid, Raleigh, and you
fly into place in Michigan. We've been to Kansas City,
we been all over the place for the national tournaments.
And that's a great, great thrill and you know, eat

(36:08):
nothing more than the games. There's plenty for it to
be thrilling for the girls. So you know, I'll tell
you one quick little thing, how thrilling it was. Last
year we played a team from out east, is you
typically good? They might have been the defending champion, I'm
not sure. So they had a girl on their team.
She was a girl who had been a Division one
recruit and then dropped out and came back for one

(36:30):
more year community college level. And we told our best,
our best defensive guard. I can't mention her name because
she hates me to say this, and we said to
this girl, if you hold that girl under fifty four,
we're going to win. You know what she got on
us fifty three. There wasn't a whole lot of glee

(36:51):
there fifty but we we did win in an overtime.
One of the best games I've been associated with. So
it's it's great fun, it's great for the girls. Their
image is terrific. And the other one just real, real quickly.
In twenty ten, I was there, a guy named Jeremy Harden.
We had a good team. Carl Pirawey was the head
coach and I was was their assistant. Carl, and we

(37:13):
had just a bunch of rum tum guys here that
were pretty good players, adopted what we wanted to do quickly,
and the ended up finishing I think fifth in the country.
And you should have seen the next day after our
last game on Saturday, they're flying home with their jerseys on,
their medals around their neck, their game shorts on over
their blue jeans. I mean, the pride. It's exactly what

(37:36):
you guys think, what you're looking for. It's it's just unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah, well, that's that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
You play.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
You play on a team, and you play to win championships.
And then when you do that or you know, get
as far as you yeah, at whatever level and whatever
sport it is, you know, that's that's the big deal.
And there you know, whether you're in the final four
of the NCAA tournament or the JC tournament or a
high school tournament or whatever, you win a championship and

(38:02):
that's why you play. And I think those of us
who have played any sport you know, feel that.

Speaker 7 (38:09):
So that's exactly right. I'll say. One of the real
quick things Steve to the other thing that I really
like about being out there with Todd. I like Todd.
Todd does a good coaching job. But I can almost
guarantee you now in eleven years how many players that
would be. And before I got there too. The kids
that come out of PEMA, you know, the one thing
they want they want to be able to come back

(38:30):
for more, which means we've done a good.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Job with them.

Speaker 7 (38:33):
It's been fun, it's been hard work. They've had a
chance to be successful. They're well coached, they know what
foot to put up, they know how to screen out,
and they all want to come back for more time
with us. So that, to me is really one of
the biggest compliments we get out of our work.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Final question for me, Jim, every time I see the
Raiders play, now I see Pete Carroll, I'm thinky, that's Jim.
That's Jim rob And I can't remember how old you are,
but how many more years you have left coaching?

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Because the kids, oh, really, yeah, this is it this year?

Speaker 7 (39:04):
Yeah, this is it this year?

Speaker 2 (39:05):
Now?

Speaker 7 (39:06):
Really the one that they've been saying lately, and I
say this kiddingly. Now they say, wow, you look a
out like Robert Redford. Well, I've always no, I couldn't.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
I give you that. I'll give you that.

Speaker 4 (39:19):
Unfortunately, the older Robert Redford, but not the younger one.

Speaker 7 (39:25):
This will be my last year. I think fifty seven
or fifty eight years, so this will be it. But
that's that's fine.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Had a good run, Jim, A lot of run, Yeah,
a lot of wins, a lot of respect.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
Thank you, Jim.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Appreciate it, Jim. Good luck you guys.

Speaker 7 (39:40):
We'll talk you talk soon.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yes.

Speaker 9 (39:42):
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Speaker 3 (44:18):
It should be fun.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
Yeah, I'm going to talk to Jim he uh. I
think he's like seventy eight.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Yeah, about fifty seven years he said, coaching.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
Yeah, I mean not, it's just that's a long time. Yeah,
we'll be doing that because it takes so much. It's
it's hard work, a lot of hours, it takes so
much energy, a lot of stress, particularly when you you
know you're at the n C double A level. There's
a lot of people that you know you're dealing you're
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(44:49):
and and it's just you know, the the the uncertainty
of it all year to year, right, are we going
to be good?

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Are we not? In the worst measure, get good. That's
how I measured the one. I think the one positive.
If if there's more, I'm sure there is.

Speaker 6 (45:02):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
It makes you feel young being around the young people.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Yeah, and you know, and coaches like you know, they
when they see their kids go off into the world
and do things and be good people or whatever, then
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that as a reward. That's why I think so many
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because they want to feel good about what they've done.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Right, what they've done, and uh not that they purposely
do it for feeling appreciated, but when you are it's
like your kids they go away and he says, you know,
want that the time you yelled at me or tough
on me. I understand. Yeah, I get it now, Yeah, yeah, no,
that's what you want.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
You you want whether you know, whether the kid goes
on to play professional basketball or whatever, or just goes
into the world and gets a good job and has
a good family, And those are the things that those
are the things that make you keep doing it. It
matter to you. And we've heard so many coaches say that,
yeah you know, yeah, you got three draft picks and YadA, YadA, YadA.

(45:56):
But what about this guy who was a walk on
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great family.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Those things are his rewardings? A well, let me ask
you because we had them on the show at the
Holley hust Honey Huddle last week. Uh, Chuck seesaw. Okay,
so here's this dude, Buck forty. He was he was
on the show, Buck forty went, Uh nobody knew walk on?

Speaker 13 (46:22):
Right?

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Okay, you were here here during that time. Do you
remember those days when he was like just this dude
and then all of a sudden, tell me he was
He was.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
That blue collar guy that that you love because you
you thought, I know a lot of guys like him.
Sure you haven't been able to do what he's doing.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Well, you know a lot of people here.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Yeah, I mean we're gonna call okay, hold on, hello,
you're on the air and Eye of the ball.

Speaker 6 (46:49):
Robert appreciate your guys show as always A comment to
make about you're talking about coaching. It's time for the
Dbacks to cut I'm sorry the guy blew that game.
He ends up du Castile who strips out about eighty
percent of the time and bargains hitting the ball, or
he should have just letting the cat hit. If they
lose that, the big the wild card spot. If Hayn

(47:12):
doesn't fire him, Hayen needs to get fired.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
Robert Roberts, you come like three or four times when
sall it's okay.

Speaker 6 (47:21):
I mean, I'm happy with the Cats are winning. We'll
go beat Iowa State next weekend. But I mean this
garbage with a vellow you know, is he gonna get
fired or now if they don't fire him, they're never
gonna go anywhere with that guy. I mean, I can
manage that team better than he's.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Done well, even even in this little streak that they Robert, Okay,
we're gonna get your resume and send it North.

Speaker 7 (47:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (47:43):
I mean, I played little league ball and did enough.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
You're qualified playing well.

Speaker 6 (47:50):
I don't man remember Lavello playing major league ball.

Speaker 7 (47:52):
They said he did, but I don't remember he did
win it.

Speaker 9 (47:55):
It's funny.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
I'm sorry he came through here.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
In college. Shot he played at U c l A.

Speaker 6 (48:00):
Okay, you know what's funny, though, a lot of these
guys that were mediocre hitters or mediocre pitchers, they're hitting coaches.

Speaker 7 (48:06):
And pitching coaches. Now, yeah, and I don't.

Speaker 6 (48:09):
Understand that's get a lot of guys that were mediocre
ball players like Veelo.

Speaker 9 (48:13):
I mean, yeah, some good guys.

Speaker 6 (48:14):
Like Francona Managee and some other guys. But Novel cannot
manage a game. He cannot manage a pitching staff. And
they keep saying, oh, he's good buddies with Mike Hazy.
Will fire Hazen too. It's like, well, you got to
give the fans a winning team one of these years,
I mean, something to hope for. They got the money passed.
I gets to redo the stadium, you know, the repair

(48:37):
whatever repairs need to be made. I guess they got
a bond pass or something. I mean, it's it's gonna
be the same thing with Nobella's next ye would.

Speaker 7 (48:45):
Be his tenth year here.

Speaker 4 (48:46):
Okay, Robert, thank you, appreciate.

Speaker 6 (48:49):
You guys, show us, thank you.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
What are just j call is gonna come to fruies
years ago?

Speaker 3 (48:57):
I'm a Robert I appre I I appreciate your your
honesty with this and how you feel about it. But
like we were talking about Dad Bosweeney, right, he wasn't
the World Series just two years ago because I was
there when they eliminated the Dodgers. But his high was
very high. But he's had a lot more lows, and

(49:18):
so I can see why people are frustrated with him.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Let's go back real quick, because we got about three
minutes four minutes with the topic I want to talk
about with with Chuck. So, do you remember the first
time you said who was this little kid?

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Book?

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Fifty?

Speaker 4 (49:32):
About fifty probably and not the whole, not the long return.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
No, it was the eighty five season and that he
first surfaced, right, he played where he was playing a lot,
and you did. You looked at there and you said,
who the hell is that guy? Because you know, but
he was mean and and and he hit and he
just seemed like an average kind of guy. But you
saw him. You noticed him in nineteen eighty five and

(49:58):
that would have been his sophomore year, and and you know,
and he was a red shirt too, right, So I
mean that that's when the first time you really saw
him and you just Remember, this is the kind of
player that Arizona has and has to have because they
don't get David Fulcher or Kenny Easley, you know, some

(50:21):
of these two of the great safeties that you know
from the old pack ten days, you know, you get
Chuck Cecil. But then then in eighty six was where
he became the quote unquote the heat and seeking missile
and the guy who just killed people out there and
and there word clip after clip after clip of this
guy who looked like he weighed about one hundred and

(50:42):
sixty pounds just throwing his body at Yeah, you know,
and then eighty seven, you know, he was an All American,
So you know you appreciated that guy for the fact
that he made himself.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
I remember, and I never covered him.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
You didn't cover him because one year the eighty seven okay,
because you and I over in eighty eight, I think
it was. Yeah, And I remember they had a game
in Oregon, Oregon State, if you remember, he probably remember
better than me, and I did a story and I
remember them the players talking about I'm just glad number
six is in a round anymore. Yeah, And I didn't
you know, I knew of it, but I didn't know how.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Yeah, my, my, my one experience with him that that
has always stuck with me. H. It was the eighty
seventh season and they they had gone to U c.

Speaker 17 (51:25):
L A.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Troy Aikman, you know, the quarterback, and they played I
think it was twenty four to twenty one. It was
a close game at the Rose Bowl. But in the game,
Bobby Waters broke his thumb. And that was when Ronaldville
what you were talking about eighty seven Okay, Dick's first year, okay,
and Ronaldville, Ronald Vial has to come in, true freshman,
come in and play, you know at the Roseblay you see,

(51:47):
and they and they stuck with him. And Bobby Waters,
who he had come from SMU, you know, one of
the one of the guys who came from the you
know when they shut down the program, and and he
broke something. Well, Bobby Waters in Chuck's heesel were roommates.
Bobby Waters broke his thumb in the game. I remember
walking into the locker room and I didn't really realize
the seriousness of this. And I walk in, I see

(52:09):
Chuck by his locker and he's got this grimace on
his face and I go, you look pissed. We just
effing lost, and he was just angry, and I'm like,
I didn't even if I should ask him another question.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
I was scared of him, I really was. Yeah, that
makes sense. Hey, we got to go take a break.
Come back with breaking news.