Hour 2 - August 4, Lamont Lovett

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hey, welcome back to Mind the Ball, you know fock
Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, James Silver with me
and now we have Ray with breaking news.

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

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh right, coming back from the weekend.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Uh, we're in officially the month of the start of
college football. Got some preseason games this month too, so
it's always good some something to look forward tom starting
off with some local stuff though. This is reported by
Andy Morales, your guy from All Sports. Twenty twenty five
Student Athlete of the Year was named and it is

(00:52):
Kendall Frediinger from Empire. She was a softball player, was
on that Empire team that one state I believe this
year and went twenty one and one from the circle.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh well, she's we interviewed her coach. I always hear
that day. Okay, and what is she? Is she back
or is she going somewhere? She is, well, she's committed
to Weaver State. Oh, I think and I'm pretty sure
she was a senior this year. Okay, so that's yeah,
didn't he mention her.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yeah, man, is a really good team and I like,
like seven senior. I mean they were really top heavy
with experience and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's all coming back to me now, Dave. It eventually
does not tomorrow when I say, oh, yeah, that's what
Dave meant.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, I watched her called one of her games she
had I think she had like thirteen yes, yeah, yeah,
it was.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
It's pretty wild giving a going though.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
T mac and Randy Robbins have been announced as additions
to the Ring of Honor.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Does it say whai what the criteria was for them?

Speaker 5 (01:57):
It doesn't say the criteria they met.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
It just says the induction ceremony is gonna be in
that game, in that first game against Hawaii.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Okay, so that's strange. Uh maybe t BAC it was
gonna come in for that and get out, come in
and get out.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
Yeah maybe maybe, just.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
As far as I know. We'll try to have Randy
Robbins on this week. But he was last time you
he used the ad at in cos I mean we
talked about two generations. I mean, we're going back to
when I started in Tucson.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Randy was on that eighty three team with Ricky Hunley
and you know, Vance Johnson and stuff like that. So
he was a star here and goes on to play
for the Broncos for a number of years. So I know,
he's in a couple of Super Bowls for them. He's
in the Arizona Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
You know, well they it was like Arizona North in Denver.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, Ricky in Advance and h Randy and Randy at
the same time. But I mean, Randy's been in the
U of A Sports All Fame since nineteen ninety so
it's thirty five years. So good that he's finally getting
on the on the ring. He played for the Patriots
pay for the Broncos.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
I wonder what the deal was. I mean t Mac
because he's all American, probably.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Leading receiver in school history.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah I think American.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, Okay, and then Randy.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, you said, it's been a while, so how did
he get I wonder why it's taken right? Good for
him keeping it going.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
This was coming from Michael lev Outfielder chi J Adams
and first baseman Tony Lera have withdrawn their names from
the transfer Portal and will be joining the Wildcats.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
For fallball baseball.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
Yep ye, getting getting a jump on it.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
More national stuff, the Coaches Bowl came out, uh I
think today, yes, for football, and it had Texas and
Ohio State one and two.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
So that means that that week one game, wait to say,
who's first Texas, Texas and then Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Means a lot.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, yeah, So that that week one game, it's I
think it's the first uh one versus two?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, Plus it's probably one of the biggest first games
of the history of laws football. I can it's be
wild I can't remember yesterday, so I can't remember this,
that's the case.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
Yeah, so I guess.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Dabo Sweeney came out, the Clemson coach, saying that they
he thinks that they're going to be college football's first
sixteen to no team, uh sixteen or no sixteen or no.
He says they're not losing this year Clemson Clemson.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay, you can hold him to it. Yeah, once they lose,
guess what's gonna happen the first fifteen to one.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
Uh March Madness, it was said, is not going to
be expanding this year at least.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Looking looking to next year to continue those.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
You know where the final four us. I don't know,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
I know the women's is in Phoenix. I'm pretty oh
yeah it is, but yeah, so I don't know. I
still don't like that they're thinking about expanding it. It's
not it's not a favorite of mine. This is coming
from the field at sixty eight.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Now.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Uh they say that twelve teams they gave like a
list of twelve teams that could win, you know, the tournament.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
Arizona was not one of them.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Really yeah, yeah, no, Dave, I am sorry, no.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Just throwing it. Let me say this something to talk
about it. I was, I was gonna say it's a
good friend of mine from the New Mexico came in
over the weekend to see his son, who's U a student,
and so they peppered me, pepper me, well, the Sun
does at least because he's a student, and my friend
knows not to pepper me because I don't give a crap. Yes,
he asked me. So Arizona's going to be very good, right,

(05:52):
They're going to be he says, they're not even I
think maybe pre season eighteen, about about eighteen Pete and
he says, what are you talking about. They're gonna be really,
really good. They had the best freshman class that I'm thinking. Okay,
I mean, okay, but they don't understand that there's other
programs in the country. You know, we're here, so this
is what we know, right, But there's country all over

(06:13):
the place, Kansas to Houston's the Saints just in our conference. Yes, yes,
And I had to explain that to them, and he says, well,
they're still gonna be good. So then I sent him
something from ESPN. Arizona was not mentioned at all in
the two thousand word document and that was the top twenty.
So eventually they're gonna be good, right, But but to win,

(06:35):
say they're gonna win it, that's that's a huge step exactly.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
I mean, they're basically obviously just taking some of the
teams from last year or last season.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
See who do they have dukes?

Speaker 4 (06:47):
They are gonna be good, of course, too bad they
lost like three first round draft picks.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Still and not to poo pooh Tommy Lloyd and the guys,
because they're gonna be very good, but so are other teams.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
It was a surprising to me that they had, like
you know, Houston expected out of the mid twelve, but
they had Tech, they had Texas Tech and b y
U two who.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Can get because the BAYU has the best freshman coming
into that pot and they had a pretty pretty good year.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, he was on that team and the Tommy coach
right the b YU but you know what's his name,
Cole Pete was on there was on that team as well.
Some pretty good players on.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
That But there's no denying Arizona's going to finish second
or third maybe whatever luck maybe first, who knows, but
you're asking a lot. That's all heck of a lot
to say.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, and you know it's still months away from the
season starting, so it's it's one of those tough things
to call.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Keeping it going though.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
The padres uh are going to be here in Phoenix.
I believe playing the Diamondbacks is forty. Yeah, tonight games
at six forty, diving Backs were favored to win.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
Didn't expect that.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Part any good.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
Now that they've everybody, yeah, they kind of, they kind
of got.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
One of their best pictures is pitching the night for
the d Backs. Brendan fought. Okay, he's ten and seven.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
I mean are you. You didn't answer my question probat
hear my question? You would Padre the Padres. I mean,
I know, I mean I went to college there a
long time ago.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Not watching them, I'm more of a giants fulk thank Yeah,
they're up right now, Dave, Right now they're playing.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, they're playing the Pirates, keeping going though. I'm sure
Ijuanta like this. Uh Spurs and Dearn. Fox reached a
four year, two hundred and twenty nine million max extension.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
I need to get my calculator out for that one.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
It's a lot of money for.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
So he should, you know, be there until well for
the twenty twenty nine twenty thirty season, and you know,
they got it.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
I feel like they got a pretty good team coming up.
They got Wemby dearon Fox. Obviously, they got Carter and
then they got the other guy from Dealing, Harper.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, so glad you you can come up with names.
I used to be you a long time ago.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
Hey, you know, the snaps help though, they do. The
snaps and the snaps help.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
And I got when you got married and you had kids, Dave,
that's when all stuff went to hell. Kind of exciting,
Jimmy John and Hope. What your son's names Joel and
Scott Joel Scott Scott Joel.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
You know you start get the names wrong, right, Uh
So I thought this was kind of interesting.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
So the Marlins swept the Yankees. I guess it was
their first time sweeping the Yankees. They I'm pretty sure.
I saw sat yesterday on like a graphic I think
from CBS Sports that said they're the They They're the
only team that has a positive record against the Yankees,
like all time.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Florida.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, I mean I found it surprising. Dodgers I think
were second. They were like behind by like four or
five games, but.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
After all these years.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
Yeah, but I don't know. I thought it was did
you get see?

Speaker 2 (09:58):
And I missed it yesterday the game in Tennessee. I
missed it as well. I saw the highlight. I tried
to see his Friday night before the word was it Saturday? Saturday?
Rain out? Yeah, rained out and waited for a while,
and then I missed it yesterday afternoon. Ninety one thousand?
Was it? Tickets? Ninety one thousand. While it's just cool
how they made that stadium into it and put it
in I don't know.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah, I'm sure they'll that's you know, they'll think of
another one. I'm sure it's not the first.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
It worked.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
They gotta you know, they got to come to High
Corvitt do the do the big The was the movie.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Was the movie Major League.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
They got to do the I mean they did the
they did the Field of Dreams game, you know what
I mean, might as well do like a little you.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Know, yeah, Major you were there, I was there, I
was there.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
No, I mean I've been watching a lot of those games. Like,
you know, the Diamondbacks just spent the weekend in Sacramento
playing the Athletics, you know, you know that minor league park. Yeah,
and then the Yankees are I'm not sure who. Yeah,
I think the Yankees were playing somebody knows. The Dodgers
are playing Tampa in their minor league park, and it's
like watching spring training.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
It really is. It's like watching games in in March.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
So the what ten thousand people? Yeah, you know, it's
a small stadium. The fans are sitting out on the
grass and the hotfield. It looks like you're watching the game.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
The Cactus League or the grape Fruit League, they're getting
good crowds.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, I would Sacramento, right, Sacramento. It's hot there, It's
it's deceivingly hot.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
It was, you know, they were yes, the day games
for sure, the night game on Saturday, at least the
announcers were saying it was beautiful, you know, only one
hundred and two.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, better than it was kind of like here last night.
Last night, here was one hundred, one hundred and nine
whatever it was in that night, yeah, one hundred and two.
But it's nice.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
Well it's like the air still warm, you know, it's.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
A slow bake bay. That pool of water warm. Yes,
this is the time of year.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
Uh. Yeah. So going back to the NBA Celtics, my
minority owner to buy the Sun and move the team
to Boston. So the Sun w NBA team, not the
not the Phoenix Suns.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
So we bought it for three hundred and twenty five million,
and yeah, plans to move to Boston.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
Pretty cool stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
That's that's about it for me, Okay for eleven. You know,
it's the.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Worst about summer is that if you don't have a pool,
you can't escape it because even if you only turn
the cold water on in the shower, it still comes
out hot, and that just doesn't make sense to me.

Speaker 6 (12:21):
Rough.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Sorry, I was.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Thinking about that like before, because like, you know, try
not tuesday see too much. So I don't, like, you know,
just run up my electric bill.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
And are you not just gonna stay in the pool
for five hours?

Speaker 5 (12:32):
If I get a chance to stay in the pool
for five hours, I would.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Still not refreshing.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Really this time of year, it's okay, but yeah, you
get out and it's one hundred grees when.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
You pop out. Yeah, and then they get that little
breeze and I guess it's cold for a while, then
it's hot again. Yeah, okay for twelve ish. Yeah, let's
take a break and then come back with our guy.

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Streamy Live on the iHeartRadio WIB. This is I on
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Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hey, welcome back to you. I on the Ball hero
Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera. Getting with me
today is mister Dave Silver and with Ray and we're
waiting for the phone and we're waiting for Lamont to
get ahold of Us is gonna have to run some laps?
Maybe he's out of practice. No, because this morning this
is over. Yeah, they did it early. Do it early

(17:45):
in the morning.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
Let's getting the extra reps.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, but I'm gonna ask you. I can't remember how
many years it's been about twenty five years at least
since he's played. You got a call Lamon?

Speaker 11 (17:56):
Is this you.

Speaker 14 (17:58):
Thank me?

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Should we have you run laps?

Speaker 14 (18:01):
I don't know why. It's weird it rain, You're.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
You're like me. I don't have it on stunt, so
I don't know what the hell that means. So you're
kind of breaking up or you're playing in the background.
I don't I don't know what's going on. I can't
hear you very well.

Speaker 14 (18:16):
You can't hear me.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
No, not as good.

Speaker 14 (18:21):
Try again.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
It's the same. It's so the same, but we can
hear you. We'll just kind of figure it out. Have
you been to any practices so far?

Speaker 14 (18:34):
Yeah, I've been to one.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
And what did you think? What did you see?

Speaker 14 (18:40):
Improvement? Definitely? Yeah, absolutely, it look at a lot better
on the offensive side of the well.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
So we were talking about this Dave and I because
we go to practice back in the day, uh many
years ago, at the TV and newspapers and stuff like that,
and you know, what the hell, we're just kind of
there because we have to be looking at things. What
are you looking at specifically?

Speaker 14 (19:04):
And I look at the skill players. I always try
to see if I see, you know, some some good traits.
I always look for speed. I look to see how
competitive these guys are, how well they're competing, are either
dominated or are they dominating out there. I like to
go and watch defensive line. I like to see if

(19:26):
I see those guys getting pressure or if I see
them looking out at the point of attack.

Speaker 6 (19:32):
Same for the offensive line.

Speaker 14 (19:33):
Those are the things that definitely look at. I look
for the linebackers and see how well those guys, you know,
if they show medicine, if they show you know, toughness,
that they look like they're you know, like they're actually
it's effective. Those are the things I'm always just evaluating
that way. I don't necessarily just say, oh, they really

(19:55):
definite or whatever, you know. I'm always just trying to
look trying to use of the game just what I see.
But I always look at the line of scrimmage to
try to see there. I'm looking to see if if
I see guys getting beat on every play, that's just
not a good education. So I'm those are the things
I'm always like looking at.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
So it looks like you're on the Titanic. You're coming in,
eat it out of the water. In hell, You're good
in some parts, in some parts not go ahead, I
was gonna say.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Coach Brennan was saying, this is, you know, maybe one
of the most interesting offseasons he's had with all these
new players coming in. You know, how do you think
that's going to play out? I mean, I think there's
something like fifty or sixty new guys to the roster.

Speaker 14 (20:36):
Yeah, it's just a new that's the new normal.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Right.

Speaker 14 (20:41):
With the transfer portal and the way that you know,
teams can can swoop in with a lot of money
and take your best player. You almost have to be
really good getting bringing a whole brand new group of
guys in and helping those guys gel the quick is
that's really the name of the game now, and making

(21:02):
those guys, you know, make the team come together and
really quickly. With a bunch of guys that hadn't been there.
We almost have to treat it like free agency in
the NFL and really really work hard and getting that
chemistry and getting those guys to pick the persistence really
quickly and look like the football team.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Well, as I say, it's funny too, because you know,
back in the day, you know, you'd come in as
a freshman and they you know, kind of get you
into the system. And now you know, they're bringing in
guys who've already been freshmen, have already been into systems,
and they've got to learn something new. So I would
imagine for coaches it's going to be just an interesting
challenge to get everything put together in one.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Piece, or a better challenge because you don't have to
worry about them learning. Yeah.

Speaker 14 (21:44):
Yeah, and that's that's really what If you talk to
coach Brnnan and they were saying that was really their
their game plan in the transferport of this year.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
They wanted to get guys that had a lot of reps.

Speaker 14 (21:55):
That that that guys that you know, had experience and
a lot of times when you have that Really at
that point, how you doing is trying to get those
guys to pick up your scheme, but not having to
try to teach you guys how to be an offensive.

Speaker 6 (22:09):
Linem petition, I got how to be a defensive line?

Speaker 14 (22:12):
Or are getting a guy that hasn't been an awaiting
for three years? You know, young guys better better. I
don't have that experience. Have you know that work ethic already?
And really that you could just kind of you know,
incorporate the guys into your system. And you know that's
that's the really the balancing act that every coach is
that in this country pretty much has to do in

(22:34):
this new moment.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
So when was the last time you suit it up?
How many years ago?

Speaker 14 (22:42):
That's enough, It was in the nineties, probably ninety three?

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Sorry, sorry to say about three two years ago. Would
you have loved to have played in this era or no?

Speaker 14 (22:55):
No, I think I would have done well in those
types of systems because we're played you know, there was
no we didn't have all these teams and there's a
running back where spread out in the whole field spread
out and a great clear one level and then we
were in hoping field long so we saw like eight,
eight and nine man trucks to stop the run, and
it was it was just a lot different.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
And what about the what about the circumstances of the
transfer and the money.

Speaker 14 (23:22):
Yeah, that that was that's totally different because we were
all starting so we loved to have from when offers
any money outside of our little scholarships.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Because it was could you what'd you imagine?

Speaker 4 (23:34):
I mean, think about that, like in the nineties, you
and you know, and you and your brother and everybody
looking back home, looking back at home, looking like USC,
like what they would have been able to offer in
those years.

Speaker 14 (23:46):
Yeah, it's it's it's different, for sure.

Speaker 10 (23:49):
You know.

Speaker 14 (23:50):
I got recruated a little bit by the USC, but
I was I was like, I wasn't their top priority.
I was kind of there, you know, kind of their
second second tier guy. There was one coach on the staff,
made coach Bernardi, who really liked to me a lot
and was trying to convince Larry Smith and those guys
that you know, I should be there, and and then

(24:12):
the rest of the guys were like, man and so
Bernardi really was pushing for me. But at the end
of the day I came to Arizona, it was my
recruitment was over.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
I was like, I just loved it out here, like
the environment, everything.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
We were both good. Yeah, David knows coach Bernardi he
was on staff here, he was on the Larry Smith
staff here. Yeah, and went with him to the US
and yeah, yeah, no question. So have you have you
liked every one of us have looked at have you
looked at the schedule and kind of said, okay, win here,
lost here, win here.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
I've gone through it.

Speaker 14 (24:51):
A few times. I don't really. I mean, it's it's
just because of how things are, because of the transport
total becomes, because of HOWI King can get a brand
new team every single year. If you leave a couple
of two players, it just it's hard for me to
say that this is this is not because last year
about Casey was you know, gonna walk walk walk still

(25:12):
our conference and everyone about b why you was gonna
be no good and by you, you know, towards the
end of the season was leaving the conference. And then
maybe the conference was up the grounds a lot last year.
So I don't know. I can give you a better
indication after I watch a few games, But it's just
it's just too hard to because I mean, every years, honestly,

(25:32):
like the NFL. You know a lot of times the
NFL actually has more continuity than probably college footballs. Right
at least NFL you got their veterans coming back and
you kind of know what you're going to get there.
But you know, college football, I mean you're talking to
sixty even players on the roster and you can predict
what that's going to look like. You know that is
it's almost I think a lot of the coach are

(25:53):
really impossible h situation, But that's that's that's what normal
is right now, and they just have to figure out
how navigated And.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
What was the Big twelve experience like for you guys
last year? Traveling to these new places.

Speaker 14 (26:11):
You know, the venues were awesome. I mean the crowds
were you know, we played at full stadiums. Wow, very
football crazy fans. I probably say in some of the
environments were definitely you know, we played King State and
that place field to the brim and that was awesome.
But I would say, you know, because we weren't very

(26:31):
good last year, that.

Speaker 6 (26:32):
That kind of put a damper on it.

Speaker 14 (26:33):
But as far as the environments were, it was, it
was you know, I really loved it. The new experience
is cool. I will say that I'm very mind still
going up to Seattle Galile, so you know, going to
all these playing from getting Evil Toovey and all that stuff.

Speaker 6 (26:52):
I love those trips.

Speaker 14 (26:53):
That's just, you know, just because it's just a great
there's a great tricks to be But as far as
football environments, I think it was prett It's pretty competitive.
I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
So I'm sure you've had a chance to listen to
Brennan a few times, one at the Big Twelve and
then maybe here and maybe some of the stories. You
can kind of sense that last year was a difficult
one from him, not since you already know that it was,
but just and how he says it, because of how
he had to be with the kids or the players,
because because he was a new coach, you know, I

(27:25):
had to kind of kiss us the first year, and
you can kind of sense that that ain't gonna happen again.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (27:33):
Yeah, he's definitely playing on his own terms now and
he doesn't have to you know that that part of
it is probably gone now. And specifically I know they're
recruiting now. A big part of what they're looking for
is to say one guy don't want to be here,
that guy that have one foot in and one foot.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
Out searching around and shopping around.

Speaker 14 (27:54):
You're telling guys like that, you know what, maybe you
shouldn't be here. The one guy better. They are all
bought into what they're.

Speaker 6 (28:01):
Trying to do.

Speaker 14 (28:02):
And then when you have guys that are bought in
and you can coach apartment, you know, we've got guys
that trust you, you can and you treat them. They
know that they're getting a fair shot, but they also
know that you know that they're not here just to
just bringing guys, you know, just to fill up a scholarship.
They're trying to get guys that want to compete. You know,
I think the environment it's a little bit different, and

(28:24):
so they're they're kind of trying to they're doing their
best to try to read those guys out that there
really don't want to be here. And you can really see,
I mean, the feeling around the program is that there's
a lot more body in it and definitely very competitive
from what I've seen in practice, which gives.

Speaker 6 (28:39):
Me, you know, it gives me some more confidence.

Speaker 14 (28:43):
You know, you guys aren't just you know, just here.
You know, they're they're really trying to get them there.
So I'm interested to see what what this final result
looks for. I'm very impressive both sides of the ball
from what I've seen thus far.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
Yeah, so if you're a fan, and I would suggest,
you know, buying a program before the game, because it's
gonna be hard to identify a lot of these new guys.
It might take a game or two, but you know,
eventually they're gonna have a you know, three deep I
guess on each side of.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
The ball, and let's just see how it plays out.

Speaker 14 (29:10):
Yes, yeah, that's the goal, you know, that's the ultimate goal,
is to be able to try to accumulate some death.
But yeah, you're right. Every year for me, the struggle
in my hand, watch some practice and then the guys
who were on the team from last year they all
switch numbers.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
So it's like Jesus, Yeah, no, this is when you
make your money, man, this is when you make your money.

Speaker 14 (29:36):
That's right, that's right. We're gonna earn it, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah. Well thanks for joining us. Well, how do you
get back to you later this year? Maybe before the
first game? Uh and maybe your phone will or in
our connection will be better' sorry about that. That's okay,
that's okay. Well, thanks so much for joining us. Appreciate you.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
Always a pleasure.

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Speaker 1 (34:05):
Box Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Hey, welcome back to play on the ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, your Dave Silver.
You've got Ray handling the calls or call or no call,
take whatever you got. What's the number again? Five? Two
oh four, one six, seventy four forty. I would love
to hear from you quick. It's gone by really fast. Yeah,

(34:30):
these shows that you know have great guess goes by
real fast. So here's your chance. Tomorrow. We're gonna have
a Blake Eager on Tomorrow. We're gonna talk a little
about some things going on in the city, some big
things going on in the city. So it's more of
like a what's going on in Tucson centric centric type
of show with a lot of things coming back down
in the fall. You know. Two sounds pretty cool. You know,

(34:52):
I haven't left you, you stayment left? Uh my boy
here is here from somewhere else. Maybe he stays. Maybe
gotta find it job. How soon are we going to
be getting at Mexican Baseball? Well, if he has to
comes and then we have the Winter Baseball in October, Yeah,
in October. In October Mexican Fiesta is like late September,

(35:15):
Stember September. There's a lot of stuff going on.

Speaker 6 (35:19):
You know.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
It was really surprising when Brie was here, Bree Lopez,
they talked about the weightlifting thing, and I was like, dude,
where was that?

Speaker 12 (35:28):
Like?

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Where was like?

Speaker 5 (35:29):
The ads are like fire?

Speaker 2 (35:30):
So that's one of the problems there, Senor Ray, that
there's not enough publicity for these things that come in
and co you know, and maybe we're looking at the
wrong places. Yeah, but yeah, well, look in three weeks day,
we're going to try to do the story or the
show from the IFL championship that they have that that
Sunday or Saturday. We're gonna do the show on that

(35:51):
Friday because you're gonna be with me, I think, from downtown.
So we're trying to figure out how to do that.
I mean, and they haven't really had a whole lot
of they haven't done a lot.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Of I think I saw something. I mean very little,
very little. Who are they marketing this to the Sugar
Skult fans?

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Good question, good question if you're you and me. And
now Jay's got to be in charge of it now
because he's then he came in so late. He's got
to do exactly that. You throw a blanket on the
city for those who aren't going to be coming from
out of town.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
She just put flyers at high school football games.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Well, be in the same night. Yeah, Well that's going
to be a know, it's gonna be in a Saturday Sunday.
Football might be on a Sunday because media Day is
that Friday, so we'll be at that and then it's
going to be on TV. But you get to ask
a lot of cheerleading groups and little kids stuff and
just to feel that that stadium. You want to make

(36:44):
it look good, right for sure?

Speaker 5 (36:46):
I mean you're hosting it for two years after that?

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Sure you don't want to Okay, why don't we pick
this town?

Speaker 5 (36:52):
Yeah, no one's here?

Speaker 2 (36:53):
And Ray, how long have you been here?

Speaker 5 (36:56):
Almost three years?

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Really? Yeah? Okay, So what have you noticed about this?

Speaker 5 (37:01):
Well, yeah, you don't see a lot of ads for stuff.
That's really what I've known. Well, it's like, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
I thought about that weightlifting thing because like I was
doing like the I was putting it up on like
the podcast stuff, and I was like, man, I where
are the flyers at at the gyms?

Speaker 5 (37:13):
You know what I mean? Like, that's a meathead thing.
Why don't you put it in a meathead place?

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Right right? Right?

Speaker 5 (37:19):
But yeah, I mean I don't know. That's just what
I feel like.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Well, to Dave, this is one of these things for
the media that you were gonna go there, go ahead,
go ahead, you say, because there's so so many, so
few outlets. Now, well, the same outfits with no time, right,
how do you best use it? Although everyone's their own
publicity agent, you would.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Be surprised at how if you had an effective public
relations plan, how effective that would be. I swear, especially
in the summertime, if I would get a release about, Hey,
you know, we're doing the National Fencing Championships at the
Tucson Convention Center.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
We're there, yeah, I mean, it's like, just give us
the information you said it. I mean, some of the
best stories have come in the summers because you have
nothing else to do but cover these these stories, and
that's when they arrived. And so you know, hopefully they
understand that.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
But you're right, the media is so splintered in terms
of numbers of people who can even go out and
cover stuff. The newspaper staff is smaller, there's no citizen
you know, there's the websites and.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
You know some talk radio. Right. Well, it's funny, Dave,
I just not what I explained it. Give me an
eight x ten sheet of paper and that was the
full thing thirty years ago, right, ten years ago, you
could slice it in half. Ten years ago you slice
it again and then you have this sliver of media
left because either you're you're telling your own story and

(38:37):
who's depends who's watching your Facebook, Instagram blah blah blah.
So you're limiting your audience.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
Well, you know, I don't know, maybe even like El Tour,
I know you're involved with them, you know, maybe you
have to put together an l to our YouTube channel,
you know, and then get your news out that way.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Yeah, no, we do it. We do well on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.
I'm sure you have a lot of people. I do
ugly as many as TV. Yeah, I do it as
often as I can. We do it, you know, every
day now pretty much post nothing. But you're right, senor,
I mean you have to come out there. And that's
why kind of eager Blake is doing what he can
for the local community.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
But there's if there's nobody to approach media wise, it
doesn't matter, you know. Well, you know that's that channel's
only got one sports person and what are the chances
they're gonna actually.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Come out and do something.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
Yeah, No, your time is they only can't they can't
work every day but the times.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yesterday and this is no knock on anything yesterday on
the weekend would kill you past? Uh what on Channel
Pour Jennifer Jennifery, God, thank you for being here. She
was doing the weather. It was a two person thing.
She was doing the weather, and they had uh the
uh the young woman doing.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
The news, and it's you know, your your fractured that
you just don't go to those places anymore. I mean,
you know you can, of course, you don't necessarily go
like you would. Hey, at six twenty eight day for sports,
you know, you knew.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
He's gonna be on.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
He's gonna have something on the Wildcats or something on Kelly.
I mean that would be terrible.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yeah, but that's just the way the world is now now.
Mostly people are trying to generate their own news. But
to your point, it's hard to find.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
Well, I don't know, maybe like this is probably a
bad thing to say, but it's like why not just
put a poster of like just a bunch of sports
bars too, you know what I mean. It's like another
place that it's like it makes sense that those people
would want to go. You know, maybe nothing's on that
day and it's like, yeah, why not.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Sure for discount tickets to whatever?

Speaker 4 (40:34):
I mean that's it's been the way of the world
forever's eyeballs trying to get that story to somebody to
go react, and well.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
You know exactly for the u A. I mean, look
at these deadlines. Have you heard what's going on with
the newspaper? Yeah, a little bit deadline. So now, and
this is no fault of the people writing the stories
and putting things together. Now, the paper from Phoenix and
Tucson is going to be printed in Las Vegas, so
the deadlines are going to be probably pushed back to whatever.

(41:04):
They're already bad now four o'clock. So you're getting kind
of old news, although that's just how today's world is.
So now those papers are going to be printed in
Vegas and and ship back in a car or a
van or whatever. Uh So now I have to be
printed earlier to get them down here. So you're gonna
get four o'clock news here tomorrow. Whatever.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
And what's the point of that. It's not gonna playing
football game. It'll never it'll never make it. It'll never
make It'll be on the Monday newspaper.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
It'll be on the Monday newspaper. Right, you get the
you get the two days. It's kind of like the
citizen and we would go to the games on Sunday
or Saturday. You'd get you have to get a different perspective,
that's for sure, because you couldn't look back that we'd
have to kind of spin it ahead. Yeah, and that
was our role, right because that was kind of what
we did even in TV.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
Yeah, two days we could show but you know even
the next day we're you know, we're always we didn't
need to show the highlights.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Again.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
People have seen the highlights, right, But that's where we
have to come up with those kind of second stories.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Well, that's the whole thing now. So I would assuming
now with so many changes that you have a in
house and they're shorthanded with the sids and the just
the publicity department that they're trying to are going to.
This was what I would do if far were them,
produce your old stories because there's not enough of us
to produce them or give us more access to prduce them.

(42:23):
Does that makes sense right?

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Well, I mean they've kind of gone that way anyway, really,
don't they They still put maybe not stories, but they'll
put like the whole news conferences on and things like that.
So you can see you know, the head coach spiel
for you know, thirty minutes. But you know, as far
as it's being creative or.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Well, that's the thing. You you asked your questions at
the press conference, and you get what you needed for
your story. Right, So now all of us have that story, yep.
And now it's going to be who do you want
who do you want to read to tell you that story,
because maybe they'll make a call somewhere else and get
another call, you know, and then you have two minutes
or a minute to tell that story.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
Well, definitely, you know when things went online so much,
you know, in the last say twenty years or so,
I mean, that was something we would have to fight,
like gosh, you know, U of A's doing all these
great little features. And they did do things early when
when the internet was young and people were you know
hiring you know, reporters right out of school, and they
would do these you know, cool little stories on you know,
the track team or something that we could never get to.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
But they're still not doing as much.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
Sure it could do like I said jokingly, you know
like OL tours should do do your own features.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Yeah, and we do and draw people to the websites. Yeah,
and that's what we do every week, at least once
once a week. I tell stories of people who've been
in the tour and why they do it and who
they're writing for, whether it's cancer or weight loss or
trying to honor somebody who rode a bike yesterday. I'm
doing a story later this week or next week on

(43:49):
a guy who probably was written the most tours since
it started. He's a doctor. Actually, I didn't even know
he wrote. He's a friend of mine. He's written in
thirty eight and there's there's been forty one. Was there
he was reveal his name? Uh you did you probably
know him? Maybe we'll talk about you off the air

(44:10):
because to me, it's it'll be my braking story, okay
when I do it. And he's a great guy. He's uh,
and I didn't know I've known him for a while now.
I didn't know that someone else had to tell him
that he's been cycling for all that time. And he
was telling me how it was when he first started
and now he and he's still doing it now. Wow. Yeah,
seventy one years old. And that's someone is kind of

(44:30):
right in our wheelhouse because they ride till they're eighty five.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
We have those people too. Well, tour is fantastics, we
have ten thousand people. So we were talking to the director.
I was on a couple of weeks ago when he
was on.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Yeah, so and you know that you're gonna have, uh,
you're gonna have all these new things starting up the Well,
look at how far the result ball has come. Yep,
look at other things coming, Like you say, they're trying
to bring things like that here. Yeah. FC two Son
probably still has a long way to go.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
And and these the roadrunners, right, and then you know
with the new complex that we're building up, the freeway
of the mosaic course, what that, what that's going to bring,
and the velodrome that they're putting together for the cycling.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
So let me ask you, you don't have to peel
anybody if you don't want. And maybe I lost this
story because he's from somewhere else in California. Uh, when
you first got here, it was Dusty Tucson. I'm assuming
eighty three Dusty ISHU there was a Dusty Ish but
there was a lot going on. That's kind of what
attracted me here. So sports, where you came from, where
you came from right, true, So how would you describe

(45:35):
it now?

Speaker 4 (45:39):
I would say it's it's it's still lacking in major
it's newsy kind of story. But besides the u of a,
you know, really we've we lost pro golf, we lost
Spring Training, we've lost our Triple A team.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Those were things that were, you know, part of the
fabric of sports. So you know, it's it's kind of sad,
But it wasn't dusty. Then you're saying it was it
to me, it was it wasn't dusty.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
We didn't have like, you know, High Corbett was basically
the palace of baseball. We didn't have Kenot Stadium yet
or whatever it was called later. You know, the arena,
TCC Arena was okay, Michale was fine. High Corbett was
basically it's San set Field. I mean, it was if
he was saying dusty, dusty.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
And in terms of the old Pueblo, we don't hear
that phrase much any but but it's still kind of
has I think the people who grew up here and
you didn't and I didn't and didn't. How it's still
kind of that. It's not Mayberry, but it's maybe Raleigh.

Speaker 4 (46:37):
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, it got swallowed up
by Phoenix, no question what they've done there, all over
the Scopa County.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
So I mean, you know, Tucson can't really compete with that, no,
But I mean it's just a shame that.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
You know, we can talk more about with Blake and
maybe what the plans are, what the thoughts are of
the county and in the state. But you know, it's
always been a shame what happened here with these teams
leaving right right.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
I think when we talked about this with Blake a
while back, maybe a month ago, how they're trying the
new the new regime there, all these the Blake's, the
younger group coming in and try to make it happening again.
It would be nice. It would be nice if Phoenix
and Maricopa would buy into it too. I think, you know, hey, welcome.
I maybe maybe Morana does deserve a Triple A team

(47:26):
or a minor league team, you know, I don't know.
I think we're gonna get news on something coming up
here pretty soon. Baseball wise. I think they've been teasing
us for a while until they finally tell us what's
going on. You mean, like a like not a Mexican
League team or something. Yeah, that's it's gonna happen. They
just need to let us know so we don't. I
don't want to say anything that screw up the story.
I'd be exciting.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
You know again, forty years ago, look what we had,
well you've been It was a big difference.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
It was a big difference.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
And just in terms of the amount of things to cover,
you would have to battle to get coverage sometimes because
there's so much going on, especially in in the February
March months with spring training and U of A.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
And did you guys worry uh with the you're at
nine thirteen with Kevin and Dan and all that worry
about what they covered, or you just said, what the hell?
It's more.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
I was more worried about we covered, honestly. I mean
there would be times where I wouldn't even I wouldn't
even really know, and I'd walk back in after doing
our thing and they go, oh, well, you know Channel
Forward did a story about this, and I go, why
did a story about this?

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
We didn't really go too much on the competition. We
basically kind of had the same things.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Yeah, the big events probably, Yeah, I mean there was.

Speaker 4 (48:31):
It was fun when like golf tournaments, we'd all be
out there at the same time, and you know, we
do our little.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Thing and then we go, you know, get some dinner.
I was just say, eat the peanuts and have the
sodas and then go eat dinner. It was a blast. Yeah.
Oh no, it was pretty good. That's great. You're about
thirty years too late in this business.

Speaker 5 (48:46):
It's okay.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Oh man, talk about the food. You'd get it like
PGA tournaments. Well you're yeah, well, don't forget that. Tell
me how the lunch they actually fed us. And it
was so it was pretty good. Yeah. We used to
call it lootslasagna. Yeahless days and then don't we have
like pineapple stuff from Hawaii from Dick Tomy's first Yeah,
you know those kind of concoctions or whatever.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
It was.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
It was pretty good. They treated as well.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
It wasn't you know. It wasn't always stadium food.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
No, no, no, it was it was like student humian food.
But it was pretty good, okay. And then then the
budget crisis hit about twenty some years ago.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
And all that sudden they stopped stop man, but no,
well they get me started on like the perks of
like the PGA tour and even LPGAs the food they
would because all these media is coming in from all
over the world, and you know they want, you know,
good Mexican food.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
They want some Tucson flavors. Right. I think that's amazing.
So Charles Charro was guest. Yes, Now they do a
lot of that too, I think for some of the events.
But yeah, get it. Yeah, we talked to Ray about that.

(49:58):
I should have him here. Well, well, taste, have some
items in the in studio, invite me in for that.

Speaker 5 (50:03):
One ever, be fun, having fun. We could go to
what was that new Mexican place that Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Pokeo moms, yeah, pokeo moms. Ye. I should do that.

Speaker 5 (50:12):
How you fun?

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Okay, I guess I'm not gonna get any calls, No
calls up, come in right now. I've got about two
minutes stuffed. Yeah, good show today. Outside of this last conversation,
we can talk. It's interesting how we can just continue on. Yeah, right,
So again, just point some people to the Kelly Pierce
go fund me.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
Just just just really just google her name and fund me.
Do it to see where we're at right now. I
think it was just over thirty thousand. Still thirty thousand
and three sixty.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Okay, it's a couple hundred dollars more sance unless we
looked at it so good. That will help hold her
kids us is legacy nurturing her sons. It's called.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
Yeah, it's really cool that people, you know, kind of
show out for that here.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
That's one thing about Tuson that I really like is
like it you know, kind of compared to like Phoenix.
I think it's like, it's very it feels a lot
more like a community than just a city or a town.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
You're spot on, You're spot on. I didn't even ask
you about your thoughts on Tucson because we've been Jame's
been here forty two. I've been here thirty eight this
month for you three in September. How does it feel, though,
how does it feel this town.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Like sports wise, just as a town as a town,
it I mean, it feels a lot like like a
transplant transplant town, even though Arizonas aren't really fond of that.
But yeah, it's just like a place where people you know,
you're one, Yeah, they like come here and then they
find out that they like it.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
It's never like, oh, like you know what I mean,
Like they'll visit here once and be like, dang, that
was a cool spot.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Well you're one and I'm one, and I chose not
to leave because it's it's all pretty good. Yeah, well
we don't made it pretty good? Is the university right?
Because that's what that's kind of why we stayed. That's
why we stayed. Ever so, if they were not good
and basketball doing this, you're very very correct. We got
to go. Thanks for coming in, Dave, but I see
you later this week. I'm not sure it went. Thank you, Ray,

(52:08):
and we'll talk to you everyone tomorrow. I